Systematic investigation of a potential epidemiological and genetic association between male androgenetic alopecia and COVID‐19 by S. K. Henne, L. M. Hochfeld, C. Maj, M. M. Nöthen, S. Heilmann‐Heimbach

“…Objectives We aimed to systematically investigate a potential association between AGA and COVID‐19 both on an epidemiological and a genetic level in a large single‐population cohort. Methods We performed regression, genetic correlation and polygenic risk score (PRS) analyses using data from the UK Biobank and published GWAS data on AGA and COVID‐19. …”
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Awareness of age-related changes in Norwegian individuals 50+. Short form questionnaire validation by Ingelin Testad, Ingelin Testad, Anastasia Ushakova, Jon Arild Aakre, Jon Arild Aakre, Serena Sabatini, Martha Therese Gjestsen

“…In addition, the relationship between cognitive variables and AARC was examined.MethodsCross-sectional analyses of data from 1,510 participants in the ongoing online PROTECT Norge study were used to explore and confirm the two-factor structure of AARC gains and AARC losses; reliability; measurement invariance across different population groups defined by sex, education level, employment, and in middle age, early old age, and advanced old age. …”
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Meeting the challenges of chemical and biological weapons: strengthening the chemical and biological disarmament and non-proliferation regimes by Edwards, Brett, Novossiolova, Tatyana, Crowley, Michael, Whitby, Simon, Dando, Malcolm, Shang, Lijun

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Gastrointestinal parasite infections in Nepalese Gurkha recruits arriving in the United Kingdom from 2012-2020. by William D Nevin, Jayne Jones, Donna Tupper, James A T Dunbar, Duncan Wilson, David Ross, Stephen Woolley, James Dodd, Jason Biswas, Lucy Lamb, Nicholas J Beeching, Matthew K O'Shea, Thomas E Fletcher

“…<h4>Conclusions/significance</h4>The level of potentially pathogenic GIP infection in young Nepalese men migrating to the UK is high (20.5%) and requires a combined diagnostic approach including serology and analysis of multiple stool samples incorporating specialised parasitological methods. …”
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The Maltese gift : tourist encounters with the self and the other in later life by Avellino, Marie

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LGBTI rights and NGOs in international relations: how NGOs use the international system to affect domestic policy-making in majority Catholic countries by West, Helen Karen

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Shocks and policy over time and space by Cumming, F

“…<p>This thesis aims to advance our understanding of the spatial and temporal propagation of economic shocks across the UK economy.…”

Physical activity and asthma symptom control in children during COVID-19 lockdown: A feasibility study by Xiaorong Ding, Maxine E Whelan, David A Clifton, Tingting Zhu

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Microbial indoles: key regulators of organ growth and metabolic function by Xing, Peter Yuli, Agrawal, Ruchi, Jayaraman, Anusha, Martin, Katherine Ann, Zhang, George Wei, Ngu, Ee Ling, Faylon, Llanto Elma, Kjelleberg, Staffan, Rice, Scott A., Wang, Yulan, Bello, Adesola T., Holmes, Elaine, Nicholson, Jeremy K., Whiley, Luke, Pettersson, Sven

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Digital natives: where is the evidence? by Helsper, E, Eynon, R

“…This paper provides evidence, through the analysis of a nationally representative survey in the UK, that generation is only one of the predictors of advanced interaction with the Internet. …”

Comparison of Illumina versus Nanopore 16S rRNA Gene Sequencing of the Human Nasal Microbiota by Astrid P. Heikema, Deborah Horst-Kreft, Stefan A. Boers, Rick Jansen, Saskia D. Hiltemann, Willem de Koning, Robert Kraaij, Maria A. J. de Ridder, Chantal B. van Houten, Louis J. Bont, Andrew P. Stubbs, John P. Hays

“…Further, when using default settings in the EPI2ME workflow, almost all sequence reads that seem to belong to the bacterial genus <i>Dolosigranulum</i> and a considerable part to the genus <i>Haemophilus</i> were only identified at family level. Nanopore sequencing of single species cultures demonstrated at least 88% accurate identification of the species at genus and species level for 4/5 strains tested, including improvements in accurate sequence read identification when the basecaller Guppy and Albacore, and when flowcell versions R9.4 (Oxford Nanopore Technologies—ONT, Oxford, UK) and R9.2 (Oxford Nanopore Technologies—ONT, Oxford, UK) were compared. …”
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Associations of adiponectin and leptin with stage and grade of PSA-detected prostate cancer: the ProtecT study. by Burton, A, Martin, R, Holly, J, Lane, J, Donovan, J, Hamdy, F, Neal, D, Tilling, K

“…METHODS: We conducted a nested case-control study comparing 311 men with mainly locally advanced (≥T3, N1, or M1 cases) vs. 413 men with localized (T ≤2 and NX-0 and M0 controls) PSA-detected prostate cancer, recruited 2001-2009 from 9 UK regions to the ProtecT study. …”

Toward understanding the communication in sperm whales by Jacob Andreas, Gašper Beguš, Michael M. Bronstein, Roee Diamant, Denley Delaney, Shane Gero, Shafi Goldwasser, David F. Gruber, Sarah de Haas, Peter Malkin, Nikolay Pavlov, Roger Payne, Giovanni Petri, Daniela Rus, Pratyusha Sharma, Dan Tchernov, Pernille Tønnesen, Antonio Torralba, Daniel Vogt, Robert J. Wood

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Management of glioblastoma in elderly patients: A review of the literature by Nektarios K. Mazarakis, Stephen D. Robinson, Priyank Sinha, Christos Koutsarnakis, Spyridon Komaitis, George Stranjalis, Susan C. Short, Paul Chumas, Georgios Giamas

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Self-assessment of cochlear health by cochlear implant recipients by Faizah Mushtaq, Faizah Mushtaq, Faizah Mushtaq, Andrew Soulby, Patrick Boyle, Terry Nunn, Douglas E. H. Hartley, Douglas E. H. Hartley, Douglas E. H. Hartley, Douglas E. H. Hartley

“…Recent technological advances in cochlear implant (CI) telemetry have enabled, for the first time, CI users to perform cochlear health (CH) measurements through self-assessment for prolonged periods of time. …”
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Educational effectiveness research (EER): a state-of-the-art review by Sammons, P, Reynolds, D, De Fraine, B, Van Damme, J, Townsend, T, Teddlie, C, Stringfield, S

“…Issues include its history, methodological and theoretical advances, scientific properties of school effects, processes at school and classroom level behind these effects, the somewhat limited translation of findings into policy and practice across the world, and future directions for research and practice in EER and for all of the discipline more generally. …”

Reducing unplanned hospital admissions from care homes: a systematic review by Duncan Chambers, Anna Cantrell, Louise Preston, Carl Marincowitz, Lynne Wright, Simon Conroy, Adam Lee Gordon

“…Research to evaluate interventions to reduce unplanned admissions from assisted living settings in the UK is required, bearing in mind the lower levels of both resident need and on-site services. …”
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ARCHITECTS OF INTELLIGENCE : THE TRUTH ABOUT AI FROM THE PEOPLE BUILDING IT / by Ford, Martin (Martin R.), author interviewer 633965

Need and baseline for harmonising nursing education in respiratory care: preliminary results of a global survey by Andreja Šajnic´, Carol Kelly, Sheree Smith, Karen Heslop-Marshall, Malin Axelsson, José Miguel Padilha, Nicola Roberts, Carmen Hernández, Bridget Murray, Betty Poot, Georgia Narsavage

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Causal linkage of tobacco smoking with ageing: Mendelian randomization analysis towards telomere attrition and sarcopenia by Sehoon Park, Seong Geun Kim, Soojin Lee, Yaerim Kim, Semin Cho, Kwangsoo Kim, Yong Chul Kim, Seung Seok Han, Hajeong Lee, Jung Pyo Lee, Kwon Wook Joo, Chun Soo Lim, Yon Su Kim, Dong Ki Kim

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