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Emergence of human-adapted Salmonella enterica is linked to the Neolithization process (2020)
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Key, F. M., Posth, C., Esquivel-Gomez, L. R., Hübler, R., Spyrou, M. A., Neumann, G. U., …Krause, J. (2020). Emergence of human-adapted Salmonella enterica is linked to the Neolithization process. Nature Ecology and Evolution, 4(3), 324-333. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-020-1106-9

It has been hypothesized that the Neolithic transition towards an agricultural and pastoralist economy facilitated the emergence of human-adapted pathogens. Here, we recovered eight Salmonella enterica subsp. enterica genomes from human skeletons of... Read More about Emergence of human-adapted Salmonella enterica is linked to the Neolithization process.

“The One Who Comes from the Sea”: Marine Crisis and the New Oceanic Weird in Rita Indiana’s La mucama de Omicunlé (2015) (2020)
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Oloff, K., & Deckard, S. (2020). “The One Who Comes from the Sea”: Marine Crisis and the New Oceanic Weird in Rita Indiana’s La mucama de Omicunlé (2015). Humanities, 9(3), Article 86. https://doi.org/10.3390/h9030086

Caribbean literature is permeated by submarine aesthetics registering the environmental histories of colonialism and capitalism. In this essay, we contribute to the emergent discipline of critical ocean studies by delineating the contours of the “Oce... Read More about “The One Who Comes from the Sea”: Marine Crisis and the New Oceanic Weird in Rita Indiana’s La mucama de Omicunlé (2015).

“I’m Not A Freshi”: Culture Shock, Puberty and Growing Up As British-Bangladeshi Girls (2020)
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Houghton, L. C., Troisi, R., Sommer, M., Katki, H. A., Booth, M., Choudhury, O. A., & Hampshire, K. R. (2020). “I’m Not A Freshi”: Culture Shock, Puberty and Growing Up As British-Bangladeshi Girls. Social Science & Medicine, 258, Article 113058. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2020.113058

Early puberty is a risk factor for adult diseases and biomedical and psychosocial research implicate growth (in height and weight) and stress as modifiable drivers of early puberty. Seldom have studies examined these drivers simultaneously or concurr... Read More about “I’m Not A Freshi”: Culture Shock, Puberty and Growing Up As British-Bangladeshi Girls.

The Admiral, the Virgin, and the Spectrometer: Observations on the Coëtivy Hours (Dublin, Chester Beatty Library, W082) (2020)
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Gameson, R., Nicholson, C., & Beeby, A. (2020). The Admiral, the Virgin, and the Spectrometer: Observations on the Coëtivy Hours (Dublin, Chester Beatty Library, W082). Gesta, 59(2), 203-231. https://doi.org/10.1086/710024

This article examines the nature and implications of the extensive Marian texts and imagery in the mid-fifteenth-century Parisian Coëtivy Hours (Dublin, Chester Beatty Library, MS W082), and reports the findings from scientific investigation of the i... Read More about The Admiral, the Virgin, and the Spectrometer: Observations on the Coëtivy Hours (Dublin, Chester Beatty Library, W082).

The ‘holy days’ of Queen Elizabeth I (2020)
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Mears, N., & Williamson, P. (2020). The ‘holy days’ of Queen Elizabeth I. History, 105(365), 201-228. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-229x.12971

The annual celebrations of the accession day and birthday of Queen Elizabeth I are a familiar subject in studies of her reign, yet their beginnings, status and purpose have remained uncertain. By examining revisions of the calendar of the Church of E... Read More about The ‘holy days’ of Queen Elizabeth I.

Freeform based hYperspectral imager for MOisture Sensing (FYMOS) (2021)
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Graham, C., Girkin, J. M., & Bourgenot, C. (2021). Freeform based hYperspectral imager for MOisture Sensing (FYMOS). Optics Express, 29(11), 16007-16018. https://doi.org/10.1364/oe.425660

We present FYMOS, an all-aluminum, robust, light weight, freeform based, near infrared hYperspectral imager for MOisture Sensing. FYMOS was designed and built to remotely measure moisture content using spectral features from 0.7-1.7µm integrating an... Read More about Freeform based hYperspectral imager for MOisture Sensing (FYMOS).

Sparse Metric-based Mesh Saliency (2020)
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Hu, S., Liang, X., Shum, H. P., Li, F. W., & Aslam, N. (2020). Sparse Metric-based Mesh Saliency. Neurocomputing, 400, 11-23. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neucom.2020.02.106

In this paper, we propose an accurate and robust approach to salient region detection for 3D polygonal surface meshes. The salient regions of a mesh are those that geometrically stand out from their contexts and therefore are semantically important f... Read More about Sparse Metric-based Mesh Saliency.

Still Life, A Mirror: Phasic Memory and Re-encounters with Artworks (2020)
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Mac Cumhaill, C. (2020). Still Life, A Mirror: Phasic Memory and Re-encounters with Artworks. Review of Philosophy and Psychology, 11(2), 423-446. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13164-020-00472-y

Re-encountering certain kinds of artworks in the present (re-listening to music, re-reading novels) can often occasion a kind of recollection akin to episodic recollection, but which may be better cast as ‘phasic’, at least insofar as one can be said... Read More about Still Life, A Mirror: Phasic Memory and Re-encounters with Artworks.

Theatres of Closure: Process and Performance in Inhumation Burial Rites in Early Medieval Britain (2020)
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Harrington, S., Brookes, S., Semple, S., & Millard, A. (2020). Theatres of Closure: Process and Performance in Inhumation Burial Rites in Early Medieval Britain. Cambridge Archaeological Journal, 30(3), 389-412. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0959774320000050

Inhumation burials are recorded in Britain and Europe during excavations in a standardized way, especially graves of early medieval date. Just a limited number of attributes are usually foregrounded and these mainly concern skeletal identification, t... Read More about Theatres of Closure: Process and Performance in Inhumation Burial Rites in Early Medieval Britain.

Versatile method for quantifying and analyzing morphological differences in experimentally obtained images (2019)
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Bagdassarian, K., Connor, K., Jermyn, I., & Etchells, J. (2020). Versatile method for quantifying and analyzing morphological differences in experimentally obtained images. Plant Signaling & Behavior, 15(1), Article 1693092. https://doi.org/10.1080/15592324.2019.1693092

Analyzing high-resolution images to gain insight into anatomical properties is an essential tool for investigation in many scientific fields. In plant biology, studying plant phenotypes from micrographs is often used to build hypotheses on gene funct... Read More about Versatile method for quantifying and analyzing morphological differences in experimentally obtained images.

The Aesthetics Of Imperfection Re-Conceived: Improvisations, Compositions And Mistakes (2020)
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Hamilton, A. (2020). The Aesthetics Of Imperfection Re-Conceived: Improvisations, Compositions And Mistakes. The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 78(3), 289-302. https://doi.org/10.1111/jaac.12749

Ted Gioia associated the “aesthetics of imperfection” with improvised music. In an earlier article, I extended it to all musical performance. This article reconceives my discussion, offering more precise analyses: (1) The aesthetics of imperfection i... Read More about The Aesthetics Of Imperfection Re-Conceived: Improvisations, Compositions And Mistakes.

Macular hole morphology and measurement using an automated three dimensional image segmentation algorithm (2020)
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Chen, Y., Nasrulloh, A., Wilson, I., Caspar, G., Maged, H., Obara, B., & Steel, D. (2020). Macular hole morphology and measurement using an automated three dimensional image segmentation algorithm. BMJ Open Ophthalmology, 5(1), Article e000404. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjophth-2019-000404

Objective: Full-thickness macular holes (MH) are classified principally by size, which is one of the strongest predictors of anatomical and visual success. Using a three-dimensional (3D) automated image processing algorithm, we analysed optical coher... Read More about Macular hole morphology and measurement using an automated three dimensional image segmentation algorithm.

The Middle Euphrates and its Transformation from the 3rd to the 7th c.: The case of Dibsi Faraj (2020)
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Leone, A., & Sarantis, A. (2020). The Middle Euphrates and its Transformation from the 3rd to the 7th c.: The case of Dibsi Faraj. Journal of Late Antiquity, 13(2), 308-351

Dibsi Faraj is a fortified citadel situated on the middle reaches of the Euphrates River in modern Syria which was occupied until the ninth century, when it was abandoned and then reoccupied in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. This article exami... Read More about The Middle Euphrates and its Transformation from the 3rd to the 7th c.: The case of Dibsi Faraj.

Who decides? Urban councils and consensus in the late Middle Ages (2021)
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Liddy, C. D. (2021). Who decides? Urban councils and consensus in the late Middle Ages. Social History, 46(4), 406-434. https://doi.org/10.1080/03071022.2021.1967640

The prosaic records of town council meetings are an essential, if problematic, source for historians of late medieval European towns. They are a window on to the concerns, fears and ambitions of urban authorities, yet they have proved especially intr... Read More about Who decides? Urban councils and consensus in the late Middle Ages.

Convolutional networks for appearance based recommendation and visualisation of mascara products (2020)
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Holder, C., Ricketts, S., & Obara, B. (2020). Convolutional networks for appearance based recommendation and visualisation of mascara products. Machine Vision and Applications, 31, Article 5. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00138-019-01053-5

In this work, we explore the problems of recommending and visualising makeup products based on images of customers. Focusing on mascara, we propose a two-stage approach that first recommends products to a new customer based on the preferences of othe... Read More about Convolutional networks for appearance based recommendation and visualisation of mascara products.

Allegories of the Heart (2018)
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Robertson, F. (2018). Allegories of the Heart. Studies in Scottish literature, 44(2), 133-141

"Allegories of the Heart" uses allegory (or "telling otherwise") as a means of investigating Scott’s presence in literary works which do not specifically adapt or rework his texts, arguing that this is an underexplored area of imaginative and figurat... Read More about Allegories of the Heart.