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    • Print Grimoires and the Democratization of Learned Magic in the Later Early Modern Period: Bricolage Tradition and the Cross-Cultural Transmission of Knowledge 

      Davies, Owen (2023-04-14)
      The relationship between print and manuscript in the entanglement of 'western learned magic' provides valuable insights regarding the complexity of cultural transmission across societies and social strata. Through exploring ...

    • ‘For All of Your Protection Needs’: Tracing the witch-bottle from the Early Modern Period to TikTok 

      Houlbrook, Ceri; Phillips, Julia (2023-03-30)
      In the Early Modern Period, witch-bottles were a magical-medical remedy for bewitchment, prescribed by cunning-folk. Filled with pins, nails, and the victim’s urine, the bottles were then heated or buried, counteracting ...

    • Resilient Multi-range Radar Detection System for Autonomous Vehicles: A New Statistical Method 

      Enayati, Javad; Asef, Pedram; Wilson, Peter (2024-01-10)
      Critical issues with current detection systems are their susceptibility to adverse weather conditions and constraint on the vertical field view of the radars limiting the ability of such systems to accurately detect the ...

    • Sustainability trade-offs in Climate Change Geographies in England 

      Sturzaker, John; Catulli, Dr. Maurizio; Kubitz, Beate (2024-01-09)
      The evidence that climate change is the result of human actions is becoming increasingly stronger, as is the need to take action to limit the worst effects of climate change on the planet. However, politicians continue to ...

    • Molecular and biological characterization of a partitivirus from Paecilomyces variotii. 

      Hassan, Sidra; Syun-Ichi, Urayama; Shabeer, Saba; Wu, Chien-Fu; Moriyama, Hiromitsu; Coutts, Robert H A; Kotta-Loizou, Ioly; Jamal, Atif (2023-11-28)
      Paeciliomyces variotii is a thermo-tolerant, ubiquitous fungus commonly found in food products, indoor environments, soil and clinical samples. It is a well-known biocontrol agent used against phytopathogenic fungi and its ...

    • Personalised care packages for people with rheumatoid arthritis: a mixed-methods study 

      Dey, Mrinalini; Busby, Amanda; Isaacs, John; Pratt, Arthur; Ndosi, Mwidimi; Young, Adam; Lempp, Heidi; Nikiphorou, Elena (2024-01-08)
      Objectives Disease management in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) requires holistic assessment. We aimed to design personalised care packages suitable for people with RA. Methods This study was conducted using a mixed-methods ...

    • Autophagy in spinal muscular atrophy: from pathogenic mechanisms to therapeutic approaches 

      Rashid, Saman; Dimitriadi, Maria (2024-01-08)
      Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is a devastating neuromuscular disorder caused by the depletion of the ubiquitously expressed survival motor neuron (SMN) protein. While the genetic cause of SMA has been well documented, the ...

    • Molecular and ionized gas in tidal dwarf galaxies: the spatially resolved star formation relation 

      Kovakkuni, Navyasree; Lelli, Federico; Duc, Pierre-alain; Boquien, Médéric; Braine, Jonathan; Brinks, Elias; Charmandaris, Vassilis; Combes, Francoise; Fensch, Jeremy; Lisenfeld, Ute; McGaugh, Stacy; Mihos, J. Chris; Pawlowski, Marcel S.; Revaz, Yves; Weilbacher, Peter M. (2023-12-31)
      Tidal dwarf galaxies (TDGs) are low-mass objects that form within tidal and/or collisional debris ejected from more massive interacting galaxies. We use CO($1-0$) observations from ALMA and integral-field spectroscopy from ...

    • Microstructural insight into inhalation powder blends through correlative multi-scale X-ray Computed Tomography 

      Gajjar, Parmesh; Styliari, Ioanna Danai; Legh-Land, Victoria; Bale, Hrishikesh; Tordoff, Benjamin; Withers, Philip; Murnane, Darragh (2023-10-30)
      Dry powder inhalers (DPI) are important for topical drug delivery to the lungs, but characterising the pre-aerosolised powder microstructure is a key initial step in understanding the post-aerosolised blend performance. ...

    • Low-mass bursty galaxies in JADES efficiently produce ionizing photons and could represent the main drivers of reionization 

      Simmonds, C.; Tacchella, S.; Hainline, K.; Johnson, B. D.; McClymont, W.; Robertson, B.; Saxena, Aayush; Sun, Fengwu; Witten, C.; Baker, William M.; Bhatawdekar, R.; Boyett, K.; Bunker, A. J.; Charlot, S.; Curtis-Lake, E.; Egami, E.; Eisenstein, D. J.; Hausen, R.; Maiolino, R.; Maseda, M. V.; Scholtz, J.; Williams, C. C.; Willot, C.; Witstok, J. (2024-01-01)
      We use deep imaging from the JWST Advanced Deep Extragalactic Survey (JADES) to study the evolution of the ionizing photon production efficiency, ζion. We estimate ζion for a sample of 677 galaxies at z ∼4-9 using NIRCam ...

    • Jades: Probing interstellar medium conditions at z ∼ 5.5-9.5 with ultra-deep JWST/NIRSpec spectroscopy 

      Cameron, Alex J.; Saxena, Aayush; Bunker, Andrew J.; D'Eugenio, Francesco; Carniani, Stefano; Maiolino, Roberto; Curtis-Lake, Emma; Ferruit, Pierre; Jakobsen, Peter; Arribas, Santiago; Bonaventura, Nina; Charlot, Stephane; Chevallard, Jacopo; Curti, Mirko; Looser, Tobias J.; Maseda, Michael V.; Rawle, Tim; Pino, Bruno Rodríguez Del; Smit, Renske; Übler, Hannah; Willott, Chris; Witstok, Joris; Egami, Eiichi; Eisenstein, Daniel J.; Johnson, Benjamin D.; Hainline, Kevin; Rieke, Marcia; Robertson, Brant E.; Stark, Daniel P.; Tacchella, Sandro; Williams, Christina C.; Willmer, Christopher N. A.; Bhatawdekar, Rachana; Bowler, Rebecca; Boyett, Kristan; Circosta, Chiara; Helton, Jakob M.; Jones, Gareth C.; Kumari, Nimisha; Ji, Zhiyuan; Nelson, Erica; Parlanti, Eleonora; Sandles, Lester; Scholtz, Jan; Sun, Fengwu (2023-09-12)
      We present emission-line ratios from a sample of 27 Lyman-break galaxies from z∼ 5.5-9.5 with-17.0< M1500<-20.4, measured from ultra-deep JWST/NIRSpec multi-object spectroscopy from the JWST Advanced Deep Extragalactic ...

    • Jades: Discovery of extremely high equivalent width Lyman- α emission from a faint galaxy within an ionized bubble at z = 7.3 

      Saxena, Aayush; Robertson, Brant E.; Bunker, Andrew J.; Endsley, Ryan; Cameron, Alex J.; Charlot, Stephane; Simmonds, Charlotte; Tacchella, Sandro; Witstok, Joris; Willott, Chris; Carniani, Stefano; Curtis-Lake, Emma; Ferruit, Pierre; Jakobsen, Peter; Arribas, Santiago; Chevallard, Jacopo; Curti, Mirko; D'Eugenio, Francesco; Graaff, Anna De; Jones, Gareth C.; Looser, Tobias J.; Maseda, Michael V.; Rawle, Tim; Rix, Hans-Walter; Pino, Bruno Rodríguez Del; Smit, Renske; Übler, Hannah; Eisenstein, Daniel J.; Hainline, Kevin; Hausen, Ryan; Johnson, Benjamin D.; Rieke, Marcia; Williams, Christina C.; Willmer, Christopher N. A.; Baker, William M.; Bhatawdekar, Rachana; Bowler, Rebecca; Boyett, Kristan; Chen, Zuyi; Egami, Eiichi; Ji, Zhiyuan; Kumari, Nimisha; Nelson, Erica; Perna, Michele; Sandles, Lester; Scholtz, Jan; Shivaei, Irene (2023-10-05)
      We report the discovery of a remarkable Lyα emitting galaxy at z = 7.2782, JADES-GS+53.16746-27.7720 (shortened to JADES-GS-z7-LA), with rest-frame equivalent width, EW 0(Lyα) = 388.0 ± 88.8 Å and UV magnitude -17.0. The ...

    • In-ADC, Rank-Order Filter for Digital Pixel Sensors 

      Kłosowski, Miron; Sun, Yichuang; Jendernalik, Waldemar; Blakiewicz,, Grzegorz; Jakusz, Jacek; Szczepanski, Stanislaw (2023-12-21)
      This paper presents a new implementation of the rank-order filter, which is established on a parallel-operated array of single-slope (SS) analog-to-digital converters (ADCs). The SS ADCs use an “on-the-ramp processing” ...

    • GA-NIFS: A massive black hole in a low-metallicity AGN at z ∼ 5.55 revealed by JWST/NIRSpec IFS 

      Übler, Hannah; Maiolino, Roberto; Curtis-Lake, Emma; Pérez-González, Pablo G.; Curti, Mirko; Perna, Michele; Arribas, Santiago; Charlot, Stéphane; Marshall, Madeline A.; D'Eugenio, Francesco; Scholtz, Jan; Bunker, Andrew; Carniani, Stefano; Ferruit, Pierre; Jakobsen, Peter; Rix, Hans-Walter; Pino, Bruno Rodríguez Del; Willott, Chris J.; Böker, Torsten; Cresci, Giovanni; Jones, Gareth C.; Kumari, Nimisha; Rawle, Tim (2023-09-18)
      We present rest-frame optical data of the compact z=5.55 galaxy GS_3073 obtained using the integral field spectroscopy mode of the Near-InfraRed Spectrograph on board the James Webb Space Telescope. The galaxybs prominent ...

    • GA-NIFS: Black hole and host galaxy properties of two z-6.8 quasars from the NIRSpec IFU 

      Marshall, Madeline A.; Perna, Michele; Willott, Chris J.; Maiolino, Roberto; Scholtz, Jan; Übler, Hannah; Carniani, Stefano; Arribas, Santiago; Lützgendorf, Nora; Bunker, Andrew J.; Charlot, Stephane; Ferruit, Pierre; Jakobsen, Peter; Rix, Hans-Walter; Pino, Bruno Rodríguez Del; Böker, Torsten; Cameron, Alex J.; Cresci, Giovanni; Curtis-Lake, Emma; Jones, Gareth C.; Kumari, Nimisha; Pérez-González, Pablo G.; Reed, Sophie L. (2023-10-20)
      Aims. Integral field spectroscopy (IFS) with JWST NIRSpec will significantly improve our understanding of the first quasars, by providing spatially resolved, infrared spectroscopic capabilities that cover key rest-frame ...

    • Access to help in intimate partner violence: systematic narrative review 

      Baikady, Rajendra; Przeperski, Jarosław; Scott, Rebecca; Taylor, Brian J. (2023-10-01)
      Intimate partner violence is a global problem experienced by all population groups, irrespective of socio-economic, religious and cultural background, and including both women and men. This systematic narrative review ...

    • A Trust-Based Approach for Data Sharing in the MQTT Environment 

      Chen, Liang; Vidalis, Stilianos; Yang, Su (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2023-11-22)
      Internet of Things (IoT) is considered as a giant network of connected devices who collect data and share them with each other. There has been extensive developments on IoT standards and protocols that enable IoT devices ...

    • The effect of time of day on Special Judo Fitness Test in active judokas: Evaluation in terms of chronotype 

      Eken, Ogzur; Ceylan, Halil; Kurtoglu, Ahmet; Simenko, Jozef (2023-12-21)
      The present cross-sectional study aims to examine the effect of time of day on the judo-specific performance in judokas, considering their chronotypes. Twenty-four male judokas participated in the study where the ...

    • Impact of COVID-19 on Patient Experience of Kidney Care: A Rapid Review 

      Mackintosh, Lucy; Ormandy, Paula; Busby, Amanda; Hawkins, Janine; Klare, Ranjit; Silver, Christina; Da Silva-Gane, Maria; Santhakumaran, Shalini; Bristow, Paul; Sharma, Shivani; Wellsted, David; Chilcot, Joseph; Sridharan, Sivakumar; Steinkamp, Retha; Harris, Tess; Muirhead, Susan; Lush, Vicky; Afuwape, Sarah; Farrington, Kenneth (2024-03-01)
      Introduction: In March 2020, a pandemic state was declared due to SARS-COV-2 (COVID-19). Patients with kidney disease, especially those on replacement therapies, proved more susceptible to severe infection. This rapid ...

    • Augmented action observation: Theory and practical applications in sensorimotor rehabilitation 

      Castro, Fabio; Schenke, Kimberley C. (2023-12-20)
      Sensory feedback is a fundamental aspect of effective motor learning in sport and clinical contexts. One way to provide this is through sensory augmentation, where extrinsic sensory information are associated with, and ...