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Emotion lateralization in a graduated emotional chimeric face task: An online study (2022)
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Smekal, V., Burt, D., Kentridge, R., & Hausmann, M. (2022). Emotion lateralization in a graduated emotional chimeric face task: An online study. Neuropsychology, 36(5), 443-455. https://doi.org/10.1037/neu0000804

Objective: To resolve inconsistencies in the literature regarding the dominance of the right cerebral hemisphere (RH) in emotional face perception, specifically investigating the role of the intensity of emotional expressions, different emotions, and... Read More about Emotion lateralization in a graduated emotional chimeric face task: An online study.

Dissensus and the Politics of Transnationalism in the Cinema of Želimir Žilnik: A Case Study of the Most Beautiful Country in the World (2021)
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Radunović, D. (2023). Dissensus and the Politics of Transnationalism in the Cinema of Želimir Žilnik: A Case Study of the Most Beautiful Country in the World. Studies in Eastern European Cinema, 14(2), 121-136. https://doi.org/10.1080/2040350x.2021.2014091

The paper takes as a starting point the concept of dissensus understood by the French philosopher Jacques Rancière as a gap in, or a redistribution of the right to speak, to see or to be seen. The paper further asserts that dissensus, thus understood... Read More about Dissensus and the Politics of Transnationalism in the Cinema of Želimir Žilnik: A Case Study of the Most Beautiful Country in the World.

The role of support groups in the management of Parkinson’s disease in Kenya: Sociality, information and legitimacy (2021)
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Fothergill-Misbah, N., Moffatt, S., Mwithiga, H., Hampshire, K., & Walker, R. (2022). The role of support groups in the management of Parkinson’s disease in Kenya: Sociality, information and legitimacy. Global Public Health, 17(8), 1773-1783. https://doi.org/10.1080/17441692.2021.1954227

Parkinson’s disease (PD) is the second most common neurodegenerative disease globally. It is a progressive neurological disorder which can lead to a decline in wellbeing and quality of life for people living with PD (PwP) and their families/caregiver... Read More about The role of support groups in the management of Parkinson’s disease in Kenya: Sociality, information and legitimacy.

Full spectrum fluorescence lifetime imaging with 0.5 nm spectral and 50 ps temporal resolution (2021)
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Williams, G. O., Williams, E., Finlayson, N., Erdogan, A. T., Wang, Q., Fernandes, S., …Bradley, M. (2021). Full spectrum fluorescence lifetime imaging with 0.5 nm spectral and 50 ps temporal resolution. Nature Communications, 12, Article 6616. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-26837-0

The use of optical techniques to interrogate wide ranging samples from semiconductors to biological tissue for rapid analysis and diagnostics has gained wide adoption over the past decades. The desire to collect ever more spatially, spectrally and te... Read More about Full spectrum fluorescence lifetime imaging with 0.5 nm spectral and 50 ps temporal resolution.

Revisiting the attentional bias in the split brain (2021)
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Hausmann, M., Corballis, M., & Fabri, M. (2021). Revisiting the attentional bias in the split brain. Neuropsychologia, 162, Article 108042. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2021.108042

Previous research has revealed a strong right bias in allocation of attention in split brain subjects, suggesting that a pathological attention bias occurs not only after unilateral (usually right-hemispheric) damage but also after functional disconn... Read More about Revisiting the attentional bias in the split brain.

Feature issue introduction: applications of adaptive optics (2021)
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Christou, J. C., Girkin, J., Kulcsár, C., & Young, L. K. (2021). Feature issue introduction: applications of adaptive optics. Optics Express, 29(8), 11533 - 11537. https://doi.org/10.1364/oe.418282

This feature issue of Optics Express follows the 2020 Imaging and Applied Optics Congress and comprises of articles on the development and use of adaptive optics across the broad range of domains in which the technique has been applied - including at... Read More about Feature issue introduction: applications of adaptive optics.

Monitoring, reporting and regulating medicine quality: tensions between theory and practice in Tanzania (2021)
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Hamill, H., David-Barrett, E., Mwanga, J. R., Mshana, G., & Hampshire, K. (2021). Monitoring, reporting and regulating medicine quality: tensions between theory and practice in Tanzania. BMJ Global Health, 6(Supplement 3), Article e003043. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2020-003043

In 2012, the WHO launched its Global Surveillance and Monitoring System (GSMS) for substandard and falsified medicines, with the aim of improving the quality of reporting and using the data to inform post-market surveillance and build regulatory capa... Read More about Monitoring, reporting and regulating medicine quality: tensions between theory and practice in Tanzania.

Sex/gender differences in the brain are not trivial - a commentary on Eliot et al. (2021) (2021)
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Hirnstein, M., & Hausmann, M. (2021). Sex/gender differences in the brain are not trivial - a commentary on Eliot et al. (2021). Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 130, 408-409. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2021.09.012

In this commentary to the comprehensive review by Eliot et al. (2021), we fully comply with rejecting the ‘sexual dimorphism’ concept in its extreme, binary form. However, we criticise the authors’ extreme position and argue that sex/gender differenc... Read More about Sex/gender differences in the brain are not trivial - a commentary on Eliot et al. (2021).

Ancient genomes reveal structural shifts after the arrival of Steppe-related ancestry in the Italian Peninsula (2021)
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Saupe, T., Montinaro, F., Scaggion, C., Carrara, N., Kivisild, T., D’Atanasio, E., …Scheib, C. L. (2021). Ancient genomes reveal structural shifts after the arrival of Steppe-related ancestry in the Italian Peninsula. Current Biology, 31(12), 2576-2591. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2021.04.022

Across Europe, the genetics of the Chalcolithic/Bronze Age transition is increasingly characterized in terms of an influx of Steppe-related ancestry. The effect of this major shift on the genetic structure of populations in the Italian Peninsula rema... Read More about Ancient genomes reveal structural shifts after the arrival of Steppe-related ancestry in the Italian Peninsula.

“Old people problems”, uncertainty and legitimacy: Challenges with diagnosing Parkinson's disease in Kenya (2021)
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Fothergill-Misbah, N., Walker, R., Kwasa, J., Hooker, J., & Hampshire, K. (2021). “Old people problems”, uncertainty and legitimacy: Challenges with diagnosing Parkinson's disease in Kenya. Social Science & Medicine, 282, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2021.114148

Very little is known about the experience of people living with Parkinson's disease (PD) in low- and middle-income countries, such as those in sub-Saharan Africa. The number of specialists in the region is low and awareness is limited among the popul... Read More about “Old people problems”, uncertainty and legitimacy: Challenges with diagnosing Parkinson's disease in Kenya.

A history of high-power laser research and development in the United Kingdom (2021)
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Danson, C. N., White, M., Barr, J. R., Bett, T., Blyth, P., Bowley, D., …Winstone, T. (2021). A history of high-power laser research and development in the United Kingdom. High Power Laser Science and Engineering, 9, Article e18. https://doi.org/10.1017/hpl.2021.5

The first demonstration of laser action in ruby was made in 1960 by T. H. Maiman of Hughes Research Laboratories, USA. Many laboratories worldwide began the search for lasers using different materials, operating at different wavelengths. In the UK, a... Read More about A history of high-power laser research and development in the United Kingdom.

Mobile phone use and the welfare of community health nurses in Ghana: An analysis of unintended costs (2021)
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Abane, A. M., Mariwah, S., Owusu, S. A., Kasim, A., Robson, E., & Hampshire, K. (2021). Mobile phone use and the welfare of community health nurses in Ghana: An analysis of unintended costs. World Development Perspectives, 23, Article 100317. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wdp.2021.100317

The use of mobile phones is fast transforming the healthcare delivery landscape in Ghana. A substantial number of health facilities are now dependent on mobile phones to facilitate their work. Evidence of the use of mobile phones in Ghana’s healthcar... Read More about Mobile phone use and the welfare of community health nurses in Ghana: An analysis of unintended costs.

Formalising ‘informal’ mHealth in Ghana: Opportunities and challenges for Universal Health Coverage (UHC) (2021)
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Mariwah, S., Machistey Abane, A., Asiedu Owusu, S., Kasim, A., Robson, E., Castelli, M., & Hampshire, K. (2022). Formalising ‘informal’ mHealth in Ghana: Opportunities and challenges for Universal Health Coverage (UHC). Global Public Health, 17(5), 768-781. https://doi.org/10.1080/17441692.2021.1874467

While mobile phones promise to be an important tool for bridging the healthcare gaps in resource-poor areas in developing countries, scalability and sustainability of mobile phones for health (mhealth) interventions still remain a major challenge. Me... Read More about Formalising ‘informal’ mHealth in Ghana: Opportunities and challenges for Universal Health Coverage (UHC).

Rethinking Collective Burial in Mediterranean Caves: Middle Bronze Age Grotta Regina Margherita, Central Italy (2021)
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Skeates, R., Beckett, J., Mancini, D., Cavazzuti, C., Silvestri, L., Hamilton, W. D., …Angle, M. (2021). Rethinking Collective Burial in Mediterranean Caves: Middle Bronze Age Grotta Regina Margherita, Central Italy. Journal of Field Archaeology, 46(6), 382-398. https://doi.org/10.1080/00934690.2021.1917137

Drawing on the results of new multi-method research in Grotta Regina Margherita—the largest known Middle Bronze Age mortuary cave in west-central Italy (ca. 1650–1450 b.c.)—this article helps to replace the generic idea of “collective burial” with a... Read More about Rethinking Collective Burial in Mediterranean Caves: Middle Bronze Age Grotta Regina Margherita, Central Italy.

A Bayesian multi-region radial composite reservoir model for deconvolution in well test analysis (2022)
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Botsas, T., Cumming, J., & Jermyn, I. (2022). A Bayesian multi-region radial composite reservoir model for deconvolution in well test analysis. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series C, 71(4), 951-968. https://doi.org/10.1111/rssc.12562

In petroleum well test analysis, deconvolution is used to obtain information about the reservoir system. This information is contained in the response function, which can be estimated by solving an inverse problem in the pressure and flow rate measur... Read More about A Bayesian multi-region radial composite reservoir model for deconvolution in well test analysis.

LightBox: a multiwell plate illumination system for photoactive molecule characterization (2021)
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Bounds, A., Bailey, R., Adams, C., Callaghan, D., & Girkin, J. (2021). LightBox: a multiwell plate illumination system for photoactive molecule characterization. Journal of Biophotonics, 14(5), Article e202000481. https://doi.org/10.1002/jbio.202000481

Multiwell plates (MWPs) are the workhorses of the life sciences. However, biophotonics research with MWPs is limited, in part due to the lack of equipment suitable for photo‐irradiation of photoactive molecules in a MWP‐suitable, high‐throughput mann... Read More about LightBox: a multiwell plate illumination system for photoactive molecule characterization.

Exploring the Benefits of Small Catchments on Rural Spatial Governance in Wuling Mountain Area, China (2021)
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Qiao, J., Crang, M., Hong, L., & Li, X. (2021). Exploring the Benefits of Small Catchments on Rural Spatial Governance in Wuling Mountain Area, China. Sustainability, 13(2), https://doi.org/10.3390/su13020760

China is facing an important period of rural governance innovation and restructuring of territorial spatial patterns. This paper selects catchments as the most closely related spatial units for rural industrial development and rural settlement activi... Read More about Exploring the Benefits of Small Catchments on Rural Spatial Governance in Wuling Mountain Area, China.