King's College London

Gender Bias in Clinical Diagnosis of Borderline Personality Disorder and Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Retrospective Cohort Study

Background: Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and borderline personality disorder (BPD) share overlapping clinical features including social cognitive differences, interpersonal difficulties, emotional dysregulation, and alexithymia. The two conditions show different gender prevalen...

Beyond Surface Catalysis: Dynamic Cation‐Regulated Interfacial Water Gating for Aqueous Polysulfide Electrochemistry

ABSTRACT Aqueous sulfur electrochemistry holds great promise for high‐energy density storage but is currently constrained by sluggish redox kinetics and severe polarization. Despite extensive efforts in catalyst design to enhance polysulfide adsorption, kinetic improvements have...

Universal modular properties of generalized Gibbs ensembles and chiral deformations

A bstract We study modular properties of conformal field theories perturbed by holomorphic fields. We prove an asymptotic formula for the modular S-transform of a generalized partition function that includes zero modes of higher spin holomorphic currents. The derivation makes use...

Dosimetry and immunohistochemistry study to establish radiolabelled prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA) as a potential theranostic target in high-grade glioma treatment

Abstract Prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA) is upregulated in high-grade glioma (HGG). This study aimed, firstly, to establish dosimetry for the radionuclide [68Ga]-PSMA-11 in HGG patients; secondly, to determine theoretical tumour doses for [177Lu]-PSMA, a potential thera...

Inclusive designs that allow the inclusion of a broader population in randomized controlled trials: An evaluation of randomization ratio and analysis strategy

In most multi-arm randomized controlled trials, all participants need to be eligible to be randomized to all the arms. This means some participants are excluded from participating in multi-arm studies. We propose to relax this by considering a 'differential randomization' approac...

Reducing Emotional Burden Carried by Neurodivergent Students in School: Perspectives From Students and School Staff

Abstract Purpose Compared to neurotypical peers, neurodivergent students experience increased exposure and more intense responses to commonly upsetting events (emotional burden), contributing to poor mental health. Student and staff perspectives offer insights into sources of emo...

EFAU-Net: efficient feature-enhanced U-Net for early pregnancy ultrasound segmentation

Early-pregnancy ultrasound images often contain gestational sac, yolk sac, and embryo regions with blurred boundaries, variable shapes, and small target sizes, which makes accurate segmentation difficult. In addition, many existing segmentation networks have high computational co...

Selective Neuronal Vulnerability to Alpha-Synuclein Pathology in Parkinson’s Disease: A Critical Review of Mechanistic Rationale and Biomarker Stratification

Background: Parkinson’s disease (PD) exhibits remarkable clinical heterogeneity, with substantial variability in motor progression, cognitive decline, and the development of non-motor manifestations. Although the propagation of pathological alpha-synuclein is considered a central...

Labeling of PET and PP nanoplastic test materials with non-leachable π-conjugated fluorescent polymers

<title>Abstract</title> Micro- and nanoplastic (MNP) particles are widely present in nature, mainly due to the extensive overuse of single-use plastics combined with poor waste management. Despite the diversity in the environment, many experimental studies still rely almost exclu...

Earthquakes and divergent economic recovery: case studies of Chile and New Zealand

Abstract The consequences of natural disasters, such as earthquakes, are evident: death, coordination problems, destruction of infrastructure, and displacement of the population. However, according to empirical research, the impact of a natural disaster on economic activity is mi...

Strain-Specific Reduction of Ndel1 Enzymatic Activity During Early Zika Virus Infection in the Neonatal Brain

Zika virus (ZIKV) infection during early development is associated with severe neurodevelopmental impairment, including congenital microcephaly, yet the molecular mechanisms linking viral exposure to neuronal dysfunction remain incompletely understood. Ndel1 (nudE neurodevelopmen...

From everyday encounters to geopolitical relations: the Tibetan diaspora in India

This article examines how Tibetan exile identity in India is shaped through the interplay of local social relations and broader geopolitical forces. It argues that Tibetan-Indian interactions have both everyday and geopolitical significance, influencing place-making, perceptions...

The long view: in conversation with the former editors of Journal of Cyber Policy

On 29 June 2026, the Editor-in-Chief, Tim Stevens, sat down with the Journal’s former editors, Emily Taylor and Joyce Hakmeh, to discuss the past, present and future of the Journal. Emily has been ...

Group sequential designs and a sample size reestimation approach for partially nested trials

Abstract Background Randomized controlled trials are the gold standard for evaluating interventions. For individually randomized trials, clustering can exist in the intervention arm but not the control arm when the intervention is delivered by study personnels and/or in a group s...

Long-term outcomes of first episode affective psychosis in postpartum women

BACKGROUND: Outcomes of first episode postpartum psychosis and their distinction from outcomes of non-postpartum psychosis are poorly characterised. AIMS: To characterise the disease course and outcomes of first episode postpartum psychosis, compared with first episode non-postpa...

Hyperactivity in context: comparing actigraphy and informant ratings across the school week

Background Hyperactivity is a core symptom of childhood attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), yet no population‐based studies have compared objective and subjective hyperactivity measures across the school day. Methods This study used data from N = 6,518 seven‐year‐old...

A process evaluation of a randomized clinical trial of selective decontamination of the digestive tract in ventilated adults admitted to intensive care: the SuDDICU PE study

The SuDDICU trial evaluated the effectiveness of selective digestive decontamination (SDD), a prophylactic antibiotic regimen comprising oral, gastric and intravenous (IV) components in ventilated adults admitted to intensive care. The trial recruited 9289 participants in 26 clus...

Accelerating charging dynamics of electric double-layer capacitors

Electric double-layer capacitors (EDLCs), consisting of an ionic fluid between two metallic electrodes, are electrochemical energy storage devices complementary to batteries, allowing for a faster charge/discharge. The charging dynamics in response to a voltage step features a va...

Algorithmic imaginaries: Definition and critical questions

Algorithmic systems play an increasingly central role across a variety of social domains. Over the last few years, various concepts have been developed in the interdisciplinary field of algorithm studies to understand how people make sense of these systems and interact with them...

Fundamental principles: purity and neutrality

Abstract I offer a new position in debates about the Purity Principle, roughly, whether the fundamental truths/facts may have nonfundamental constituents. Purity is intuitively compelling and plays an important role in many debates. Nevertheless, there are also reasons to doubt P...