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Attitudes towards advance care planning amongst community-based older people in England (2024)
Journal Article

Background
Advance care planning has been advocated as a way for people to have their wishes recorded and respected in relation to types of treatment and place of care. However, uptake in England remains low.

Aims
To examine the views of older,... Read More about Attitudes towards advance care planning amongst community-based older people in England.

Re-establishing historic ecosystem links through targeted species reintroduction: Beaver-mediated wetlands support increased bat activity (2024)
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Despite the global significance of wetlands, conservation strategies often fall short in preserving these ecosystems due to failures in incorporating processes that sustain the ecosystem functioning, hydrological dynamics, ecological processes, and b... Read More about Re-establishing historic ecosystem links through targeted species reintroduction: Beaver-mediated wetlands support increased bat activity.

Trends in transport injuries burden and risk factors among children under 14 years old in China: 1990–2019 (2024)
Journal Article

Background
Transport injuries (TI) remains one of leading causes of death in children in China. This study aimed to analyze the temporal trend of disease burden and associated risk factors of TI among children aged 0–14 years in China, utilizing dat... Read More about Trends in transport injuries burden and risk factors among children under 14 years old in China: 1990–2019.

Attitudes towards advance care planning amongst community-based older people in England (2024)
Journal Article

Background: Advance care planning has been advocated as a way for people to have their wishes recorded and respected in relation to types of treatment and place of care. However, uptake in England remains low. Aims: To examine the views of older, wel... Read More about Attitudes towards advance care planning amongst community-based older people in England.

Reading slowly together: Facilitated climate literature book clubs and their potential for engaging young people with climate crisis (2024)
Journal Article

Engaging young people with the effects and potential future impacts of climate crisis is essential for facilitating the changes required. These topics and their consequences can be overwhelming, and the emotional responses equally diverse, from anxie... Read More about Reading slowly together: Facilitated climate literature book clubs and their potential for engaging young people with climate crisis.

An exploration of the impact of different peer learning activities utilised to develop student employability (2024)
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Assumptions about fostering human capital for national competitiveness underpin higher education policy drivers regarding employability. Departing from this focus on human capital development, research has highlighted the importance of relationality... Read More about An exploration of the impact of different peer learning activities utilised to develop student employability.

Neurons as autoencoders (2024)
Journal Article

This letter presents the idea that neural backpropagation is exploiting dendritic processing to enable individual neurons to perform autoencoding. Using a very simple connection weight search heuristic and artificial neural network model, the effects... Read More about Neurons as autoencoders.

National audit of patient reported experience of radical cystectomy for bladder cancer pathways (2024)
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Objective: The objective of this study was to measure and describe the national patient experience of radical cystectomy (RC) pathways in the UK using the validated Cystectomy‐Pathway Assessment Tool (C‐PAT). Patients and Methods: A cohort of 1081 pa... Read More about National audit of patient reported experience of radical cystectomy for bladder cancer pathways.

Micro-electrode array recording of extracellular electrical potentials of liquid static surface fermented Hericium erinaceus (2024)
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Hericium erinaceus is a basidiomycetes fungus with previously uncharacterised extracellular electrophysiology. Here, we present results of recordings of the electrical potentials of fungal biofilms of this species using microelectrode arrays (MEAs).... Read More about Micro-electrode array recording of extracellular electrical potentials of liquid static surface fermented Hericium erinaceus.

Deletions in the MAL gene result in loss of Mal protein, defining the rare inherited AnWj-negative blood group phenotype (2024)
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The genetic background of the high prevalence red blood cell antigen AnWj has remained unresolved since its identification in 1972, despite reported associations with both CD44 and Smyd1 histone methyltransferase. Development of anti-AnWj, which may... Read More about Deletions in the MAL gene result in loss of Mal protein, defining the rare inherited AnWj-negative blood group phenotype.

Socially assistive walker for daily living assistance in older adults (2024)
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Introduction: This paper addresses the growing healthcare needs of an ageing population and the lack of advanced technologies with social capabilities that are cost effective, user friendly, and readily adopted. In response to this motivation, a soci... Read More about Socially assistive walker for daily living assistance in older adults.

Supporting Black African students to engage more in physical activity: A qualitative study of lived experiences in the Midlands, UK (2024)
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Aim. To explore how Black African international students adjust to their new university environment and gain insight into how they feel supported to engage in physical activity (PA). Background. People from ethnic minority backgrounds have poor physi... Read More about Supporting Black African students to engage more in physical activity: A qualitative study of lived experiences in the Midlands, UK.

Electrical signaling beyond neurons (2024)
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Neural action potentials (APs) are difficult to interpret as signal encoders and/or computational primitives. Their relationships with stimuli and behaviors are obscured by the staggering complexity of nervous systems themselves. We can reduce this c... Read More about Electrical signaling beyond neurons.

Kombucha-chlorella-proteinoid biosynthetic classifiers of audio signals (2024)
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This paper describes the development of a bioinspired composite material capable of audio classification applications. Hydrogel matrices produced by microorganisms combined with synthetic biology elements, allow for the development of adaptable bioel... Read More about Kombucha-chlorella-proteinoid biosynthetic classifiers of audio signals.

Across landscapes and lifetimes: Perceptions of gender-based violence from survivors of violence against women and girls (VAWG) (2024)
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Violence Against Women and Girls in public spaces has become a focus for violence prevention policy since the murder of Sarah Everard but is this how survivors experience VAWG? This study listened to survivors as part of Safer Spaces funded research.... Read More about Across landscapes and lifetimes: Perceptions of gender-based violence from survivors of violence against women and girls (VAWG).

From a candle to content creation (2024)
Journal Article

This article gives a short tour through the changing faces of science communication, including dissemination, public understanding of science and public engagement with science and technology to engaged research.

Drag reduction of lift-type vertical axis wind turbine with slit modified gurney flap (2024)
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This study examines aerodynamic performance enhancement of Vertical Axis Wind Turbine (VAWT) blades with Gurney flap (GF) modified by slits. A quasi-3D computational fluid dynamics solution based on Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes model is employed t... Read More about Drag reduction of lift-type vertical axis wind turbine with slit modified gurney flap.

Preliminary findings on the experiences of care for women who suffered early pregnancy losses during the COVID-19 pandemic: A qualitative study (2024)
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Background: Women who suffer an early pregnancy loss require specific clinical care, aftercare, and ongoing support. In the UK, the clinical management of early pregnancy complications, including loss is provided mainly through specialist Early Pregn... Read More about Preliminary findings on the experiences of care for women who suffered early pregnancy losses during the COVID-19 pandemic: A qualitative study.

A survey on emerging blockchain technology platforms for securing the Internet of Things (2024)
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The adoption of blockchain platforms to bolster the security of Internet of Things (IoT) systems has attracted significant attention in recent years. Currently, there is a lack of comprehensive and systematic survey papers in the literature addressin... Read More about A survey on emerging blockchain technology platforms for securing the Internet of Things.

Personality-sensitive pedagogies: A study of small group interactive behaviours among 9- to 10-year-olds (2024)
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The learning and social development benefits associated with pupils collaborating in small groups have been well documented over recent decades; however, research exploring personality as a mediating factor in small group learning is sparse. In this... Read More about Personality-sensitive pedagogies: A study of small group interactive behaviours among 9- to 10-year-olds.