Queen's University Belfast

Introducing HUM19

Abstract This report introduces the HUM19 corpus of 19th century British and Irish novels and describes its construction. We characterise the HUM19 corpus as a specialised reference corpus that can be used both as a comparator against which other corpora or texts may be compared...

Interpersonal Predictors of Youth Internalizing Symptom Trajectories During the COVID‐19 Pandemic

INTRODUCTION: The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted youths' interpersonal relationships, posing risks for internalizing distress. Yet, evidence remains limited beyond the early pandemic waves and with changing interpersonal contexts. This study examined trajectories of youth internaliz...

Detailed study of non-equilibrium characteristics of quasi-neutral TNSA plasmas

In an experiment performed in November 2022 at the petawatt (PW) laser facility at Vega III located in Salamanca-Spain, we have studied the successful production of several radioisotopes using protons accelerated by the Target Normal Sheath Acceleration (TNSA) mechanism (Rodrigue...

Bullying Victimisation and Mental Health: The Mediating Role of Peer and Family Social Support

ABSTRACT Introduction Adverse childhood experiences have been consistently linked to a range of mental health related difficulties in adulthood. One such experience is bullying, which has been shown to predict psychotic symptoms. This study aimed to explore whether bullying victi...

Colonisation and temperature-driven variation in life-history traits of the West Nile virus vector Culex pipiens at its Northern European limit

Abstract Background Mosquito-borne diseases (MBDs) are increasing worldwide driven by factors such as travel, land-use change, global trade, and climate warming. In Europe, Culex pipiens sensu lato (s.l.)—the primary vector of West Nile and Usutu viruses—is widespread and an incr...