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    • An evaluation of the five rights antibiotic safety before and during COVID-19 at an NHS Foundation Trust in the United Kingdom 

      Elshenawy, Rasha Abdelsalam; Umaru, Nkiruka; Aslanpour, Zoe (2024-03-01)
      Introduction Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) poses a significant global health threat, with AMR-related deaths projected to reach 10 million annually by 2050. The COVID-19 pandemic has further exacerbated this crisis. This ...

    • The effect of age and sex on peak oxygen uptake during upper and lower body exercise: A systematic review 

      Price, Michael; Smith, Paul; Bottoms, Lindsay; Hill, Matthew (2024-06-01)
      Background Large scale population norms for peak oxygen uptake (VO2peak) during cycle ergometry (CE) have been published for men and women across a wide range of ages. Although upper body functional capacity has an important ...

    • What happens to University of Hertfordshire DClinPsy research? A survey exploring community dissemination & barriers that prevent this 

      Williams, Emily; Scott, Jacqui (2023-07-30)
      Historically, the dissemination of research findings across many disciplines has been limited to peer reviewed journals. More recently, dissemination practices are broadening to include sharing with wider audiences, such ...

    • Racial equity and decolonisation within the DClinPsy: How far have we come and where are we going? Trainee clinical psychologists’ perspectives of the curriculum and research practices 

      Francis, Danielle; Scott, Jacqui (2023-07-30)
      Introduction: Clinical Psychology has long been criticised as a profession that is rooted in coloniality, that preserves whiteness as the norm through its practices. Arguably, this has led to many racial disparities in the ...

    • Secure Energy-Efficient Multi-RIS-aided SWIPT Networks 

      Nwufo, Chukwuemeka; Sun, Yichuang; Simpson, Oluyomi (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2023-11-30)
      This paper considers a SWIPT network in which an access point (AP) serves multiple information decoding receivers(IDRs) and energy harvesting receivers (EHRs) assisted by several dynamically controlled reconfigurable ...

    • All-sky Guide Star Catalog for CSST 

      Feng, Hui-Mei; Cao, Zi-Huang; Lam, Man I; Li, Ran; Tian, Hao; Yin, Da-Yi; Yang, Yuan-Yu; Zhang, Xin; Fan, Dong-Wei; Dong, Yi-Qiao; Li, Xin-Feng; Wang, Wei; Li, Long; Jones, Hugh R. A.; Tao, Yi-Han; Nie, Jia-Lu; Wang, Pei-Pei; Liu, Mao-Yuan; Yang, He-jun; Liu, Chao (2024-03-26)
      The China Space Station Telescope (CSST) is a two-meter space telescope with multiple back-end instruments. The Fine Guidance Sensor (FGS) is an essential subsystem of the CSST Precision Image Stability System to ensure ...

    • A novel Bayesian approach for decomposing the radio emission of quasars: I. Modelling the radio excess in red quasars 

      Yue, B -H; Best, P N; Duncan, K J; Calistro-Rivera, G; Morabito, L K; Petley, J W; Prandoni, I; Rottgering, H. J. A.; Smith, D J B (2024-03-12)
      Studies show that both radio jets from the active galactic nuclei (AGNs) and the star formation (SF) activity in quasar host galaxies contribute to the quasar radio emission; yet their relative contributions across the ...

    • Comparing emission- and absorption-based gas-phase metallicities in GRB host galaxies at z = 2−4 using JWST 

      Schady, P; Yates, R M; Christensen, L; De Cia, A; Rossi, A; D’Elia, V; Heintz, K E; Jakobsson, P; Laskar, T; Levan, A; Salvaterra, R; Starling, R L C; Tanvir, N R; Thöne, C C; Vergani, S; Wiersema, K; Arabsalmani, M; Chen, H -W; De Pasquale, M; Fruchter, A; Fynbo, J P U; García-Benito, R; Gompertz, B; Hartmann, D; Kouveliotou, C; Milvang-Jensen, B; Palazzi, E; Perley, D.A.; Piranomonte, S; Pugliese, G; Savaglio, S; Sbarufatti, B; Schulze, S; Tagliaferri, G; Postigo, A de Ugarte; Watson, D; Wiseman, P (2024-04-15)
      Much of what is known of the chemical composition of the universe is based on emission line spectra from star-forming galaxies. Emission-based inferences are, nevertheless, model-dependent and they are dominated by light ...

    • Assembling a high-precision abundance catalogue of solar twins in GALAH for phylogenetic studies 

      Walsen, Kurt; Jofré, Paula; Buder, Sven; Yaxley, Keaghan; Das, Payel; Yates, Robert M; Hua, Xia; Signor, Theosamuele; Eldridge, Camilla; Rojas-Arriagada, Alvaro; Tissera, Patricia B; Johnston, Evelyn; Aguilera-Gómez, Claudia; Zoccali, Manuela; Gilmore, Gerry; Foley, Robert (2024-04-15)
      Stellar chemical abundances have proved themselves a key source of information for understanding the evolution of the Milky Way, and the scale of major stellar surveys such as GALAH have massively increased the amount of ...

    • Beware the recent past: a bias in spectral energy distribution modelling due to bursty star formation 

      Haskell, P.; Das, S.; Smith, D. J. B.; Cochrane, R. K.; Hayward, Christopher C.; Anglés-Alcázar, Daniel (2024-03-19)
      We investigate how the recovery of galaxy star formation rates (SFRs) using energy-balance spectral energy distribution (SED) fitting codes depends on their recent star formation histories (SFHs). We use the Magphys and ...

    • The Lost Mother's project : Imprisoned pregnant women undergoing mandatory separation from their newborn babies experience compounded punishments and a uniquely painful prison experience 

      Avlonitis, Natalie; Abbott, Laura (2024-03-14)
      Title: Lost Mothers Project – Preliminary Findings Background In the UK, the numbers of pregnant women in prison are not routinely collated, but estimations suggest that 6-7% of the female prison population are at varying ...

    • Shear strength recovery of sand with self-healing polymeric capsules 

      Qi, Rui; Chen, Ke; Lin, Hongjie; Kanellopoulos, Antonios; Deyun, Liu; Leung, Anthony Kwan; Lourenço, Sérgio D. N. (2024-03-23)
      Self-healing approaches are increasingly being explored in various fields as a potential method to recover damaged material properties. By self-recovering without external intervention, self-healing techniques emerge as a ...

    • Use of Hydrogen Peroxide Vapour for Microbiological Disinfection in Hospital Environments: A Review 

      Ayub, Aaqib; Cheong, Yuen Ki; Castro, Jesus Calvo; Cumberlege, Oliver; Chrysanthou, Andreas (2024-02-22)
      Disinfection of nosocomial pathogens in hospitals is crucial to combat healthcare-acquired infections, which can be acquired by patients, visitors and healthcare workers. However, the presence of a wide range of pathogens ...

    • The 2022–2023 accretion outburst of the young star V1741 Sgr 

      Kuhn, Michael; Hillenbrand, Lynnee A.; Connelley, Michael S.; Rich, R. Michael; Staels, Bart; Carvalho, Adolfo S.; Lucas, Philip; Fremling, Christoffer; Karambelkar, Viraj R.; Lee, Ellen; Ahumada, Tomás; Ishida, Emille E.~O.; De, Kishalay; de Souza, Rafael S.; Kasliwal, Mansi M. (2024-04-01)
      V1741 Sgr (= SPICY 71482/Gaia22dtk) is a Classical T Tauri star on the outskirts of the Lagoon Nebula. After at least a decade of stability, in mid-2022, the optical source brightened by ∼3 mag over 2 months, remained ...

    • A Folklorist Looks at Ice Cream Vans 

      Davies, Owen (2024-03-14)
      Of all the commercial road vehicles that have toured the streets and tourist spots of Britain, Ireland, America, and Australia over nearly a century, none elicit more popular reminiscence and sentiment than ice cream vans. ...

    • The globular cluster VVV CL002 falling down to the hazardous Galactic centre 

      Minniti, Dante; Matsunaga, Noriyuki; Fernández-Trincado, José G.; Otsubo, Shogo; Sarugaku, Yuki; Takeuchi, Tomomi; Katoh, Haruki; Hamano, Satoshi; Ikeda, Yuji; Kawakita, Hideyo; Lucas, Philip W.; Smith, Leigh C.; Petralia, Ilaria; Rita Garro, Elisa; Saito, Roberto K.; Alonso-García, Javier; Gómez, Matías; Gabriela Navarro, María (2024-03-15)
      Context. The Galactic centre is hazardous for stellar clusters because of the strong tidal force in action there. It is believed that many clusters were destroyed there and contributed stars to the crowded stellar field ...

    • Is the digital rectal exam any good as a prostate cancer screening test? 

      Kirby, Mike; Merriel, Sam; Olajide, Oluwabunmi; Norman, Alexander; Vasdev, Nikhil; Hanchanale, Vishwanath; Cain, Michelle; Wilkinson, Malcom; Stephens, Harley; Victor, Debbie; Kinnaird, William; Tree, Alison; Challapalli, Amarnath; Rylance, Amy (2024-02-29)
      There is no shortage of references in popular culture to the prostate examination, with many a laugh built on the punchline of the finger up the bum. Interestingly, while cervical, breast, or bowel screening share barriers ...

    • LOFAR HBA observations of the Euclid Deep Field North (EDFN) 

      Bondi, M.; Scaramella, R.; Zamorani, G.; Ciliegi, P.; Vitello, F.; Arias, M.; Best, P.N.; Bonato, M.; Botteon, A.; Brienza, M.; Brunetti, G.; Hardcastle, M. J.; Magliocchetti, M.; Massaro, F.; Morabito, L. K; Pentericci, L.; Prandoni, I.; Röttgering, H. J. A.; Shimwell, T. W.; Tasse, C.; Weeren, R. J. van; White, G. J. (2024-03-18)
      We present the first deep (72 h of observations) radio image of the Euclid Deep Field North (EDFN) obtained with the LOw-Frequency ARray (LOFAR) High Band Antenna (HBA) at 144 MHz. The EDFN is the latest addition to the ...

    • High energy gamma-ray sources in the VVV survey - II. The AGN counterparts 

      Donoso, Laura G; Pichel, Ana; Baravalle, Laura D; Alonso, M Victoria; Schmidt, Eduardo O; Minniti, Dante; Masetti, Nicola; Smith, Leigh C; Lucas, Philip W; Villalon, Carolina; Rovero, Adrián C; Coldwell, Georgina (2024-03-09)
      We identified Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) candidates as counterparts to unidentified gamma-ray sources (UGS) from the Fermi-LAT Fourth Source Catalogue at lower Galactic latitudes. Our methodology is based on the use of ...

    • Echeia - assisted resonance in Roman Theatres; Companion to the Reception of Vitruvius 

      Godman, Robert (Brill Academic Publishers, 2024-03-11)
      The author has been asked to write an 8000 word chapter on the subject of Echia (the resonating vessels placed in Roman Theatres according to Vitruvius). The request has come from Prof. Ingrid Rowland. Prof. Rowland is ...