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Environmental pollution of marine ecosystems in the Niger Delta: Sea sponges as novel tools for environmental biomonitoring (2025)
Thesis

This study investigates the concentrations and toxicity of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and mercury, focusing on the ecological risk related to frequent oil spills, artisanal refining, and industrial discharge in the Niger Delta region, Nigeria.... Read More about Environmental pollution of marine ecosystems in the Niger Delta: Sea sponges as novel tools for environmental biomonitoring.

Application of a fully 3D printed carbon electrode for the double potential step Chronoamperometric determination of 2,4-dinitrophenol in environmental water samples (2025)
Journal Article

Introduction: The detection of nitrophenolic compounds in environmental water sources is critical due to their toxicity and persistence. This study presents the first reported application of a fully 3D printed carbon nanofiber-graphite-polystyrene wo... Read More about Application of a fully 3D printed carbon electrode for the double potential step Chronoamperometric determination of 2,4-dinitrophenol in environmental water samples.

The impact of acoustic and informational noise on AI-generated clinical summaries authors names and positions (2025)
Journal Article

Objectives: To investigate the effect of introducing environmental noise, microphone identity & position, and informational noise on the accuracy of a commercial Clinical AI Scribe (CAIS).

Methods and analysis: Consultations on five medical condit... Read More about The impact of acoustic and informational noise on AI-generated clinical summaries authors names and positions.

Land-use carbon changes and monitoring (2025)
Book Chapter

About 40% of global habitable land area is used for agricultural-related activities. As farming practices can influence soil carbon stocks and the ability of the land to sequester carbon, there has been a growing interest in monitoring carbon fluxes... Read More about Land-use carbon changes and monitoring.

A high resolution spatial modelling framework for landscape-level, strategic conservation planning (2025)
Journal Article

Development is needed to improve living standards globally but poses a threat to many species through habitat loss and fragmentation. There is often a legal requirement to ensure new development does not negatively impact protected species and the ha... Read More about A high resolution spatial modelling framework for landscape-level, strategic conservation planning.

Molecular hydrogen treatments in food supplies: Enhanced growth, better yields, and prolonged postharvest storage? (2025)
Book Chapter

Food security is an issue which will only get more prominent as the human population continues to expand across the globe, and therefore new and innovative approaches to improve crops production and storage need to be tried. The application of molecu... Read More about Molecular hydrogen treatments in food supplies: Enhanced growth, better yields, and prolonged postharvest storage?.

Editorial: Deciphering signaling pathway interactions in tissue homeostasis (2025)
Journal Article

Cells, tissues and organisms need to maintain levels and balances of metabolites and functional systems whilst constantly being under the influence of external pressures, a process known as homeostasis. Cells need to achieve this to survive and prosp... Read More about Editorial: Deciphering signaling pathway interactions in tissue homeostasis.

The protein homeostasis of SPATULA coordinates seed thermoinhibition response in Arabidopsis thaliana (2025)
Journal Article

Supraoptimal temperature (SOT) suppresses the completion of seed germination (termed thermoinhibition) to ensure seedling establishment under favorable environmental conditions. SOMNUS (SOM) plays a crucial role in suppressing seed germination comple... Read More about The protein homeostasis of SPATULA coordinates seed thermoinhibition response in Arabidopsis thaliana.

Comparison of soil organic carbon measurement methods (2025)
Journal Article

To enhance agricultural soil health and soil organic carbon (SOC) sequestration, it is important to accurately measure SOC. The aim of this study was to compare common methods for measuring SOC in soils in order to determine the most effective approa... Read More about Comparison of soil organic carbon measurement methods.

Effectiveness and acceptance of assistive technologies for people with tetraplegia: A systematic review (2025)
Journal Article

Individuals with tetraplegia rely on assistive devices to perform Activities of Daily Living (ADLs) and enhance independence. This review evaluates their effectiveness and user acceptance for supporting independence. A systematic literature search wa... Read More about Effectiveness and acceptance of assistive technologies for people with tetraplegia: A systematic review.

Building the case for the use of essential oils as complementary therapies for bacterial and fungal infections of serious concern (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This presentation highlighted the role and potential that essential oils, a powerful resource from nature can play in managing the growing concern caused by antimicrobial resistant pathogens especially at a time where antibiotics and antifungals are... Read More about Building the case for the use of essential oils as complementary therapies for bacterial and fungal infections of serious concern.

Complete genome of five Acinetobacter baumannii phages (2025)
Journal Article

Acinetobacter baumannii tailed phages Bhz9, Bhz15, Bhz16, Bhz20, and Bhz21 were isolated from wastewater samples in Hamburg-Eppendorf (Germany). Their double-stranded DNA genomes range from 41,054 to 167,277 bp, encoding between 54 and 267 predicted... Read More about Complete genome of five Acinetobacter baumannii phages.

Comparing approaches to teaching patients how to use an app-based home spirometer: A randomised controlled trial (2025)
Journal Article

Background
Bluetooth enabled, app-based home spirometry has been validated for use in the diagnosis and monitoring of respiratory disease. Remote teaching (virtual or self-directed) offers the opportunity to deliver diagnostics safely and at scale.... Read More about Comparing approaches to teaching patients how to use an app-based home spirometer: A randomised controlled trial.

A sucrose‐utilisation gene cluster contributes to colonisation of horse chestnut by pseudomonas syringae pv. aesculi (2025)
Journal Article

Pseudomonas syringae pathovar aesculi (E‐Pae) causes bleeding canker disease in the woody tissue of European horse chestnut (HC). Comparative genomic analysis of E‐Pae with a related leaf‐infecting strain (I‐Pae) and other P. syringae strains identif... Read More about A sucrose‐utilisation gene cluster contributes to colonisation of horse chestnut by pseudomonas syringae pv. aesculi.

In vivo and in vitro investigations provide insights into maleidride biosynthesis in fungi (2025)
Journal Article

Maleidrides are a family of polyketide-derived natural products isolated from filamentous fungi, that can exhibit significant bioactivities. These compounds are classified according to the size of their central carbocyclic ring, to which one or more... Read More about In vivo and in vitro investigations provide insights into maleidride biosynthesis in fungi.

Eugenol@natural zeolite vs. citral@natural zeolite nanohybrids for gelatin-based edible-active packaging films (2025)
Journal Article

In this study, aligned with the principles of the circular economy and sustainability, novel eugenol@natural zeolite (EG@NZ) and citral@natural zeolite (CT@NZ) nanohybrids were developed. These nanohybrids were successfully incorporated into a pork g... Read More about Eugenol@natural zeolite vs. citral@natural zeolite nanohybrids for gelatin-based edible-active packaging films.

The potential role of 1,25(OH) 2 D 3 (Active vitamin D 3 ) in modulating macrophage function; implications for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) (2025)
Journal Article

Macrophages play an important role in tissue homeostasis, inflammation, and repair, displaying remarkable plasticity by polarising towards pro-inflammatory M1 or anti-inflammatory M2 phenotypes. In chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), this r... Read More about The potential role of 1,25(OH) 2 D 3 (Active vitamin D 3 ) in modulating macrophage function; implications for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).

HAPP: High-Accuracy Pipeline for Processing deep metabarcoding data (2025)
Preprint / Working Paper

We introduce HAPP, a high-accuracy pipeline for processing deep metabarcoding data, leveraging data richness to enhance the signal-to-noise-ratio. Starting with denoised amplicon sequence variants, the pipeline consists of four steps: (1) additional... Read More about HAPP: High-Accuracy Pipeline for Processing deep metabarcoding data.

Oxygen: Highlights from the journal to mid-2025 (2025)
Journal Article

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Application of machine learning to screen hyperspectral data of cacao plants to identify cacao swollen shoot virus (CSSV) (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The study aimed to adopt a non-invasive and non-destructive method to automatically detect cacao swollen shoot virus (CSSV) by using ultraviolet to shortwave infrared range (UV-SWIR) spectral information in real time. The hyperspectral data of cacao... Read More about Application of machine learning to screen hyperspectral data of cacao plants to identify cacao swollen shoot virus (CSSV).