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Discontinuous Shear Thickening in Biological Tissue Rheology (2024)
Journal Article
Hertaeg, M. J., Fielding, S. M., & Bi, D. (2024). Discontinuous Shear Thickening in Biological Tissue Rheology. Physical Review X, 14(1), Article 011027. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevx.14.011027

During embryonic morphogenesis, tissues undergo dramatic deformations in order to form functional organs. Similarly, in adult animals, living cells and tissues are continually subjected to forces and deformations. Therefore, the success of embryonic... Read More about Discontinuous Shear Thickening in Biological Tissue Rheology.

Testing the presence of cereal-type pollen grains in coastal pre-Elm Decline peat deposits: Fine-resolution palynology at Roudsea Wood, Cumbria, UK (2024)
Journal Article
Innes, J., Rutherford, M., Ryan, P., Rowley-Conwy, P., & Blackford, J. (2024). Testing the presence of cereal-type pollen grains in coastal pre-Elm Decline peat deposits: Fine-resolution palynology at Roudsea Wood, Cumbria, UK. Holocene, https://doi.org/10.1177/09596836231219461

By the time of the Mid-Holocene Ulmus pollen decline (UD) ca. 5100 14C bp (ca. 5900 cal. BP), the Neolithic was becoming well established in Britain and Ireland. The importance of cereal cultivation as part of the initial neolithization process in th... Read More about Testing the presence of cereal-type pollen grains in coastal pre-Elm Decline peat deposits: Fine-resolution palynology at Roudsea Wood, Cumbria, UK.

FLASH: Faint Lenses from Associated Selection with Herschel (2023)
Journal Article
Bakx, T. J. L. C., Gray, B. S., González-Nuevo, J., Bonavera, L., Amvrosiadis, A., Eales, S., …Serjeant, S. (2023). FLASH: Faint Lenses from Associated Selection with Herschel. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 527(3), 8865-8885. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stad3759

We report the ALMA Band 7 observations of 86 Herschel sources that likely contain gravitationally lensed galaxies. These sources are selected with relatively faint 500 μm flux densities between 15 and 85 mJy in an effort to characterize the effect of... Read More about FLASH: Faint Lenses from Associated Selection with Herschel.

Do academically selective school systems strengthen the link between students’ family backgrounds and the likelihood of higher education participation? (2024)
Journal Article
Lu, B., Dai, B., See, B. H., Shao, X., & Hu, X. (2024). Do academically selective school systems strengthen the link between students’ family backgrounds and the likelihood of higher education participation?. Educational Review, 1-21. https://doi.org/10.1080/00131911.2024.2302117

Proponents of academic selection argue that academic selection helps children from disadvantaged backgrounds have better lifelong outcomes. However, the evidence needs to be clarified since selections by performance could be a proxy for selection by... Read More about Do academically selective school systems strengthen the link between students’ family backgrounds and the likelihood of higher education participation?.

How does the radio enhancement of broad absorption line quasars relate to colour and accretion rate? (2024)
Journal Article
Petley, J. W., Morabito, L. K., Rankine, A. L., Richards, G. T., Thomas, N. L., Alexander, D. M., …Kolwa, S. (2024). How does the radio enhancement of broad absorption line quasars relate to colour and accretion rate?. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 529(3), 1995-2007. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stae626

The origin of radio emission in different populations of radio-quiet quasars is relatively unknown, but recent work has uncovered various drivers of increased radio-detection fraction. In this work, we pull together three known factors: optical colou... Read More about How does the radio enhancement of broad absorption line quasars relate to colour and accretion rate?.