Blood clots, covid vaccines & the contraceptive pill: are we heading for a repeat of the 1995 pill scare?
Rapid resolution of COVID-19 after faecal microbiota transplantation
Temperature equilibration due to charge state fluctuations in dense plasmas
The charge states of ions in dense plasmas fluctuate due to collisional ionization and recombination. Here we show how, by modifying the ion interaction potential, these fluctuations can mediate energy exchange between the plasma electrons and ions. Moreover, we develop a theory for this novel electron-ion energy transfer mechanism. Calculations us...
ResQbot 2.0: an improved design of a mobile rescue robot with an inflatable neck securing device for safe casualty extra...
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Despite the fact that a large number of research studies have been conducted in the field of search and rescue robotics, significantly little attention has been given to the development of rescue robots capable of performing physical rescue interventions, including loading and transporting victims to a safe zone—i.e. casualty extraction tasks. The ...
The signature kernel is the solution of a Goursat PDE
Recently, there has been an increased interest in the development of kernel methods for learning with sequential data. The signature kernel is a learning tool with potential to handle irregularly sampled, multivariate time series. In [1] the authors introduced a kernel trick for the truncated version of this kernel avoiding the exponential complexi...
Euglycaemic ketoacidosis in pregnant women with COVID-19: two case reports
Background: Euglycaemic ketoacidosis (EKA) is an infrequent but serious condition which usually follows a period of starvation, severe vomiting or illness in individuals with or without diabetes. Ketoacidosis is associated with materno-fetal morbidity and mortality necessitating prompt diagnosis and management. Physiological increases in insulin re...
Bench-top cooling of a microwave mode using an optically pumped spin refrigerator
We experimentally demonstrate the temporary removal of thermal photons from a microwave mode at 1.45 GHz through its interaction with the spin-polarized triplet states of photo-excited pentacene molecules doped within a p-terphenyl crystal at room temperature. The crystal functions electromagnetically as a narrow-band cryogenic load, removing photo...
How wise are crowds on crowdfunding platforms?
While firms have obtained outside financing from large numbers of investors on financial markets for centuries, online crowdfunding platforms have only emerged as a major source of funding for start-ups and new projects for a decade. The information available to backers on crowdfunding platforms is generally coarse. This paper surveys the existing ...
Molecular dynamics simulations of human FOXO3 reveal intrinsically disordered regions spread spatially by intramolecular...
The human transcription factor FOXO3 (a member of the ‘forkhead’ family of transcription factors) controls a variety of cellular functions that make it a highly relevant target for intervention in anti-cancer and anti-aging therapies. FOXO3 is a mostly intrinsically disordered protein (IDP). Absence of knowledge of its structural properties outside...
Risk oriented earthquake hazard assessment: influence of spatial discretisation and non-ergodic ground-motion models
Three important aspects of ground-motion modelling for regional or portfolio risk analyses are discussed. The first issue is the treatment of discretisation of continuous ground-motion fields for generating spatially correlated discrete fields. Shortcomings of the present approach in which correlation models based upon point estimates of ground mot...
