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Implementing logic operations in gold nanoparticles colloidal suspensions (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This work experimentally demonstrates the computational capabilities of gold nanoparticle colloidal suspensions. Here we implement Boolean logic gates in Au nanoparticle solutions by applying binary input signals through electrical stimulation and re... Read More about Implementing logic operations in gold nanoparticles colloidal suspensions.

Life-course influences of poverty on violence and homicide: 30-year Brazilian birth cohort study (2024)
Journal Article

Background: Homicide is the leading cause of death among young people in Latin America, one of the world's most violent regions. Poverty is widely considered a key cause of violence, but theories suggest different effects of poverty, depending on whe... Read More about Life-course influences of poverty on violence and homicide: 30-year Brazilian birth cohort study.

Exploring discrete space-time models for information transfer: Analogies from mycelial networks to the cosmic web (2024)
Journal Article

Fungal mycelium networks are large scale biological networks along which nutrients, metabolites flow. Recently, we discovered a rich spectrum of electrical activity in mycelium networks, including action-potential spikes and trains of spikes. Reasoni... Read More about Exploring discrete space-time models for information transfer: Analogies from mycelial networks to the cosmic web.

Computation implemented by the interaction of chemical reaction, clustering, and de-clustering of molecules (2024)
Journal Article

A chemical reaction and its reaction environment are intrinsically linked, especially within the confines of narrow cellular spaces. Traditional models of chemical reactions often use differential equations with concentration as the primary variable,... Read More about Computation implemented by the interaction of chemical reaction, clustering, and de-clustering of molecules.

Thermoelectric performance of n-type Bi2S3-alloyed Bi2Te2.7Se0.3 (2024)
Journal Article

The effect of isovalent sulfur substitution on the thermoelectric properties of n-type Bi2Te2.7Se0.3 alloy has been studied systematically. At low sulfur concentrations, where the samples are single phase, changes in defect chemistry and density of s... Read More about Thermoelectric performance of n-type Bi2S3-alloyed Bi2Te2.7Se0.3.

Time to first remission and survival in patients with acromegaly: Evidence from the UK Acromegaly Register Study (UKAR) (2024)
Journal Article

Objective: This study aimed to understand the effect of time to remission of acromegaly on survival in people living with acromegaly. Design, Patients and Measurement: This cross-sectional study used data from the UK Acromegaly Register. We considere... Read More about Time to first remission and survival in patients with acromegaly: Evidence from the UK Acromegaly Register Study (UKAR).

Cross-condition risk and protective factors for psychosocial distress in parents and carers of children and young people with appearance-affecting conditions and injuries (2024)
Journal Article

Alongside typical parenting challenges, initial condition-specific research suggests that parents of children with different visible differences may experience similar psychosocial difficulties. Despite this, large-scale cross-condition research to i... Read More about Cross-condition risk and protective factors for psychosocial distress in parents and carers of children and young people with appearance-affecting conditions and injuries.

Functionalizing the electrical properties of kombucha zoogleal mats for biosensing applications (2024)
Journal Article

Kombucha is a type of tea that is fermented using yeast and bacteria. During this process, a film made of cellulose is produced. This film has unique properties such as biodegradability, flexibility, shape conformability, and ability to self-grow, as... Read More about Functionalizing the electrical properties of kombucha zoogleal mats for biosensing applications.

Complete realization of energy landscapes and non-equilibrium trapping dynamics in small spin glass and optimization problems (2024)
Journal Article

Energy landscapes are high-dimensional surfaces underlie all physical systems, which determine crucially the energetic and behavioral dependence of the systems on variable configurations, but are difficult to be analyzed due to their high-dimensional... Read More about Complete realization of energy landscapes and non-equilibrium trapping dynamics in small spin glass and optimization problems.

Electrical signal transfer characteristics of mycelium-bound composites and fungal fruiting bodies (2024)
Journal Article

Mycelium-bound composites are normally made of discrete lignocellulosic substrate elements bound together by filamentous fungal hyphae. They can be formed into bespoke components of desired geometries by moulding or extrusion. Mycelium-bound composit... Read More about Electrical signal transfer characteristics of mycelium-bound composites and fungal fruiting bodies.

On effect of chloroform on electrical activity of proteinoids (2024)
Journal Article

Proteinoids, or thermal proteins, produce hollow microspheres in aqueous solutions. Ensembles of the microspheres produce endogenous spikes of electrical activity, similar to that of neurons. To make the first step toward the evaluation of the mechan... Read More about On effect of chloroform on electrical activity of proteinoids.

Why reinforcement learning? (2024)
Journal Article

The term Artificial Intelligence (AI) has come to be one of the most frequently expressed keywords around the globe. Machine learning (ML) continues to gain popularity in the provision of solutions to both industrial and everyday problems, and advanc... Read More about Why reinforcement learning?.

The ballad of the bots: Sonification using cognitive metaphor to support immersed teleoperation of robot teams (2024)
Journal Article

As an embodied and spatial medium, virtual reality is proving an attractive proposition for robot teleoperation in hazardous environments. This paper examines a nuclear decommissioning scenario in which a simulated team of semi-autonomous robots are... Read More about The ballad of the bots: Sonification using cognitive metaphor to support immersed teleoperation of robot teams.

On transducing properties of kombucha−proteinoid complexes (2024)
Journal Article

We investigate the information processing capacities of kombucha−proteinoid proto−brains, focusing on the transducing properties through accommodation spiking, tonic bursting spiking, and optical and acoustic stimulation. We explore self-organization... Read More about On transducing properties of kombucha−proteinoid complexes.

Understanding women’s decision making for and against oncoplastic breast conserving surgery as an alternative to mastectomy in early breast cancer: UK ANTHEM qualitative study (2024)
Journal Article

ABSTRACT

Background: Oncoplastic breast conserving surgery (OPBCS) may allow women with early breast cancer to avoid mastectomy, but many women choose more extensive surgery even when breast conserving options are offered. Reasons for this are un... Read More about Understanding women’s decision making for and against oncoplastic breast conserving surgery as an alternative to mastectomy in early breast cancer: UK ANTHEM qualitative study.

Data augmentation for predictive maintenance: Synthesising aircraft landing gear datasets (2024)
Journal Article

In the aviation industry, predictive maintenance is vital to minimise Unscheduled faults and maintain the operational availability of aircraft. However, the amount of open data available for research is limited due to the proprietary nature of aircra... Read More about Data augmentation for predictive maintenance: Synthesising aircraft landing gear datasets.

Use of emerging technologies in healthcare 4.0 (2024)
Book Chapter

Since its launch, Healthcare 4.0 has made it possible to create and enhance the quality of healthcare services by integrating cutting-edge technologies. We have focused this study on a few of the cutting-edge studies that have the potential to signif... Read More about Use of emerging technologies in healthcare 4.0.

IoT Smart healthcare security challenges and solutions (2024)
Book Chapter

The primary objective of this chapter is to examine the security concerns of people in their smart homes and focus on the healthcare equipment that comes packaged with future homes that are vulnerable to cyber-attacks, resulting in data breaches. Pat... Read More about IoT Smart healthcare security challenges and solutions.

Spike trains in PANI-proteinoid nanomaterials with different light pulse rates (2024)
Journal Article

Bio-inspired computing emulates the brain's information processing power in artificial architectures. We investigate the modification of emergent spike train dynamics in hybrid networks of polyaniline (PANI) nanomaterials hybridised with proteinoids... Read More about Spike trains in PANI-proteinoid nanomaterials with different light pulse rates.

Thermosensory spiking activity of proteinoid microspheres cross-linked by actin filaments (2024)
Journal Article

Actin, found in all eukaryotic cells as globular (G) or filamentous (F) actin, undergoes polymerization, with G-actin units changing shape to become F-actin. Thermal proteins, or proteinoids, are created by heating amino acids (160-200 °C), forming p... Read More about Thermosensory spiking activity of proteinoid microspheres cross-linked by actin filaments.