University of Birmingham

Review article: Mountain flash floods: from hazard formation to disaster risk reduction pathways

Abstract. Flash floods in mountainous regions are becoming more frequent and destructive under climate warming, yet cross-regional understanding of their triggering mechanisms, cascading impacts, and governance remains fragmented. This review synthesises 1,967 studies published d...

Front-line decision-making: a thematic analysis of interviews with hospital staff on referrals, admissions, and care for people with multiple long-term conditions

BACKGROUND: Multiple long-term conditions (MLTC) are increasingly common and present challenges for hospital healthcare professionals (HCPs) making decisions about admissions, referrals, and care management in the context of a single-organ oriented health system. This qualitative...

Best subset selection meets resampling: tackling selection instability at very low numbers of events per variable

Abstract Trust is a basic necessity for translating machine learning models from bench to bedside. To foster clinicians’ trust in predictive models, these models should be interpretable or explainable. A major prerequisite for interpretability or explainability is that feature su...

Proteomics insight into phosphate limitation response in Burkholderia phytopathogens

Inorganic phosphate (Pi) limitation is a pervasive environmental constraint that shapes microbial behaviour in soil and plant-associated niches. To determine how Pi scarcity influences the pathogenic potential of rice-infecting Burkholderia species, we performed comparative prote...

Net carbon emission accounts, drivers, and mitigation measures in China, 1980–2020

Mitigating net CO 2 emissions under socioeconomic development and climate variability is essential for climate action and sustainable development goals. Here, focusing on anthropogenic emissions and terrestrial ecosystem sinks, we construct a national-scale account of China's net...

Functional trait space overlaps reveal ecological resilience of bird communities in Atlantic Forest fragments

While fragmentation is known to affect species diversity, the degree to which functional structure is retained relative to primary forests and the factors driving this retention remain poorly understood. Here, we applied the concept of ecological resilience to forest fragmentatio...

Nutrients and Their Role in Autophagy Regulation

Abstract Autophagy is a fundamental catabolic pathway that maintains cellular homeostasis through the degradation and recycling of intracellular components in response to nutrient limitation and metabolic stress. Increasing evidence indicates that autophagy is tightly regulated b...

Trends in Methylidyne Radical Reactions at Temperatures Relevant to the Interstellar Medium

The methylidyne radical, CH, can react rapidly with an unusually broad range of molecules under temperatures relevant to cold molecular clouds, making CH an important driver of molecular complexity in the interstellar medium. This review focuses on reactions of CH with polyatomic...

Doctoral Thesis Review – Anmeldelse av doktoravhandling

On 13 March 2026, Linnea Saltin defended her thesis entitled Ektopic: A Phenomenology of Domestic VR usage in Sweden. The central purpose of this work is to explore how Virtual Reality (VR) affects...

Perceived Value and Organic Food Purchase Intention for Sustainable Agricultural Development: An Extended Theory of Planned Behavior in Shandong, China

Understanding consumer demand for organic food is important for the development of sustainable agricultural markets and the broader transition toward more sustainable food systems. This study examines how health, safety, environmental, social, and hedonic values, together with su...

Molecular mechanisms underlying the effectiveness of triiodothyroacetic acid (Triac) in patients with resistance to thyroid hormone β (RTHβ): a multicentre, international, retrospective cohort study

Background Disease features in resistance to thyroid hormone beta (RTHβ), caused by THRB mutations, arise from insensitivity to thyroid hormone in tissues expressing thyroid hormone receptor (TR)β and from lifelong thyrotoxic effects in TRα1-expressing tissues, posing substantial...

Fast, Strong Capillary Liquid Metal Muscles

Harnessing liquid surface tension to perform mechanical work is widespread in nature and underpins many bioinspired technologies. However, fully exploiting liquid surface energy requires rapid, reversible, and wide‐range tuning of surface tension—capabilities lacking in conventio...

Non-thermal effects and temperature disparities in uniform supersonic flows

Abstract Over the last 40 years, low-temperature reaction rate coefficients in astrochemical databases have largely come from CRESU ( Cinétique de Réaction en Ecoulement Supersonique Uniforme ) experiments, where the flow is described by a single temperature under an assumption o...

Steel plant-level technology innovations could diffuse cascading carbon emission reduction: Taking an iron and steel enterprise in Northwest China as a case study

Deep decarbonization of the iron and steel sector is essential to achieving national net-zero targets. However, national and sectoral roadmaps provide limited guidance for individual plants with diverse operating conditions and technical configurations. This study develops a plan...

Putting place first: towards a new vision for UK industrial strategy

This paper challenges the longstanding dominance of agglomeration theory in shaping the UK’s approach to industrial and regional strategy. While agglomeration thinking, rooted in urban economics, has played an influential role in government policy for two decades, persistent spat...

Coordinated transformations of the labyrinth and occiput during the dinosaur–bird transition

Evolutionary shape changes of the vertebrate semicircular canals (SCCs) are often ascribed to evolutionary transitions in locomotion, including the origin of flight during the dinosaur–bird transition. However, the potential for transformations of braincase architecture to influe...

Robust and replicable effects of ageing on resting-state brain electrophysiology measured with MEG

Abstract Non-invasive recordings using brain electrophysiology provide credible insights into decline in neuronal functioning with age. New approaches are required to translate these results into compelling clinical metrics and meet the global challenge of preserving brain health...

The Mediterranean Extreme Events Experiment and storm Harry in January 2026

Abstract The Global Observing System (GOS) includes drifting buoys with barometers whose surface pressure observations are essential for estimating the current state of the atmosphere and ocean for Numerical Weather Prediction. The Global Drifter Program, a scientific project bas...

Super Warm Early Eocene Simulations With HadGEM3‐GC31‐LL

Abstract The early Eocene Climatic Optimum (EECO; 53.3–49.1 million years ago) represents the period of greatest sustained warmth in the Cenozoic (last 66 million years), with proxy‐data indicating global‐mean temperatures 10–16°C above preindustrial and atmospheric concentration...

Dosimetry foil characterisation of a new lithium-target fast neutron source

Accelerator-based lithium-target neutron sources produce fast neutron spectra ideal for nuclear data studies, but simulations of these neutron spectra are not always reliable. Methods for characterising neutron spectra with dosimetry foils have been developed for a new compact fa...