University of Edinburgh

Young adults’ experiences of using FREED-Mobile, a smartphone friendly intervention designed to facilitate help-seeking for eating disorders

Abstract Background Early intervention increases the likelihood of eating disorder recovery, yet many young people delay seeking professional support for eating difficulties. We developed a smartphone-friendly, online intervention - FREED-Mobile [FREED-M] to encourage early help-...

The Dunning–Kruger effect does not account for Covid-scepticism or vaccine hesitancy

Abstract Vaccine-scepticism and vaccine hesitancy are sometimes explained using the Dunning–Kruger effect (DKE), which posits that individuals with low knowledge in relevant domains are overconfident in their understanding. However, prior evidence often relies on discrepancy-base...

Deciphering coccolith formation: advanced microscopy insights from the biomineralization of Gephyrocapsa huxleyi

Abstract Coccolithophores are unicellular marine phytoplankton that produce complex and intricately shaped mineralized scales called coccoliths. Coccoliths are produced in an intracellular vesicle where crystal nucleation occurs, from which several individual calcite units develo...

Bony labyrinth taxonomic identification and long-term evolution of livestock in the Southwest and Central Asia

Abstract Southwest and Central Asia were pivotal regions for the domestication and dispersal of domestic herbivores. Here we investigate long-term variation in bony labyrinth morphology of domestic bovids (sheep, goats and cattle) across the last 10 000 years. We focused on the o...

Spatiotemporal patterns of antimicrobial resistance in shared human-animal waterpoints in the Maasai Mara Ecosystem, Kenya

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) presents an existential One Health threat. The spread of AMR in arid and semi-arid landscapes is modulated by ecological interactions and exacerbated by endemicity of livestock diseases and poor sanitation in shared human-animal systems leading to m...

Choosing Not to Eat Meat: What Characterizes Independently Vegetarian Children?

A growing body of research has aimed to map the characteristics of extraordinary altruists-such as those who have donated a kidney to a stranger. However, this research has primarily focused on adults, and we know little about the development of extraordinary altruism. While chil...

‘Am I going to be forced to have an Irish passport?’: A qualitative study of Brexit and identity in Northern Ireland

Matters of identity in Northern Ireland are often premised on the idea of a neatly bipartite, constitutional division, yet academic scholarship reflects a more complex reality. Expressions of national and cultural affiliations have evolved, particularly in the decades since the B...

Simplified in vitro generation of human gastruloids for modelling early development

Abstract The purpose of this study was to optimize the efficiency and cost of human gastruloid formation by testing and adjusting individual parameters using as examples two distinct human pluripotent stem cell lines, both available from the UK Stem Cell Bank. For the first step,...

Establishing Stakeholder Priorities for Development of a Multi‐Arm Multi‐Stage Platform Trial in Crohn's Disease

ABSTRACT Background and Aims The expanding range of advanced therapies for Crohn's disease (CD) has increased complexity in treatment selection, particularly in refractory disease. Conventional randomised controlled trials are limited in evaluating multiple treatment strategies e...

Determinants of the continuum of maternal healthcare service utilization in Nigeria: Evidence from the 2024 Nigeria Demographic and Health Survey

Background Maternal mortality remains a major public health challenge, particularly in low- and middle-income countries, with Sub-Saharan Africa bearing a disproportionate burden. Nigeria accounts for over one-quarter of all maternal deaths worldwide. This reflects gaps in access...

Invertible fusion categories

Abstract A tensor category $$\mathcal C$$ C over a field $$\mathbb K$$ K is said to be invertible if there’s a tensor category $$\mathcal D$$ D such that $$\mathcal C \boxtimes \mathcal D$$ C ⊠ D is Morita equivalent to $$\textrm{Vec}_{\mathbb K}$$ Vec K . When $$\mathbb K$$ K is...

Elastically bendable chiral metal halide crystals

Metal halide single crystals exhibit superior optoelectronic properties, promising for applications in optics and energy. However, they are inherently brittle, which has posed a major challenge for use in flexible electronics. Here, we report the elastic bending in a family of ch...

Calibration and performance of proANUBIS: A proof-of-concept detector for the ANUBIS experiment

Long-lived particles with lifetimes τ > 10 ps are predicted by many extensions of the Standard Model with viable dark matter candidates. The ANUBIS experiment proposes to extend the experimental sensitivity to long-lived particles by instrumenting the ceiling of the ATLAS cavern...

Association of Chest Compression Depth, Rate, and Spring Resistance with “Quality CardioPulmonary Resuscitation” (QCPR) Scores in a Manikin Model

Training in high-quality chest compressions (CCs) is essential for effective resuscitation; however, it remains unclear how accurately real-time feedback systems, such as Laerdal Medical's (Stavanger, Norway) Quality CardioPulmonary Resuscitation (QCPR) scoring system, reflect gu...

Public knowledge, barriers and facilitators to UK dietary guideline adherence: a nationally representative survey

Abstract Aim Adherence to UK dietary guidelines is poor, yet no evidence exists regarding population-level knowledge of these guidelines, or the barriers and facilitators to adherence. This study aimed to characterise knowledge of UK dietary guidelines and perceived barriers and...

Activity-Guided Identification of Pro-inflammatory Neutrophils with Dual Enzyme- and Metabolite-Activatable Fluorescent Probes

Abstract Neutrophils are the most abundant circulating leukocytes in the innate immune system. Primary neutrophils comprise multiple distinct subtypes that regulate antimicrobial defense and inflammatory diseases. Current fluorescent probes for imaging neutrophils cannot distingu...

Solvent Selection and in Silico Process Design for the Development of Cost-Effective Yet Green Crystallization for Pregabalin Manufacturing

Abstract Developing crystallization processes for the production of pharmaceuticals that are both cost-effective and environmentally friendly is a highly complex challenge, since it is often the case that too many candidate systems exist for them to all be studied experimentally....

The DESI Y1 RR Lyrae Catalog. II. The Metallicity Dependency of Pulsational Properties, the Shape of the RR Lyrae Instability Strip, and Metal Rich RR Lyrae

Abstract RR Lyrae stars (RRLs) are valuable probes of both Milky Way assembly and stellar-evolution physics. Using a sample 6240 RRLs obtained in the first year of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) survey, we investigate the metallicity of RRLs and its correlation w...

The DESI Y1 RR Lyrae Catalog. I. Empirical Modeling of the Cyclic Variation of Spectroscopic Properties and a Chemodynamical Analysis of the Outer Halo

Abstract We present the catalog of RR Lyrae stars (RRLs) observed in the first year of operations of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) survey. This catalog contains 6240 RRLs out to ∼120 kpc from the Galactic center and over 12,000 individual epochs with homogeneous...

CEO Inherited Altruism, Firm Corporate Social Responsibility, and Shareholder Returns

Abstract We examine the impact of CEOs’ inherited altruistic inclination on firm corporate social responsibility (CSR) performance and shareholder returns. Specifically, we look at U.S. CEOs’ altruism as an inherited value of the CEOs’ ancestral cultural origin that shapes their...