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University of Edinburgh
Recent research
- Health & Medicine
Total elbow replacement (TER) is an established treatment for end-stage elbow pathology; however, long-term outcome data remain limited due to relatively low procedural volumes. The Discovery Elbow system is widely used, but long-term clinical outcomes are not well described. Thi...
- Health & Medicine
The PARIS algorithm is used to classify posterior malleolar fractures (PMF) and guide fixation planning based on plain radiographs, with reassessment following pre-operative computed tomography (CT). This study aimed to validate and optimise the PARIS algorithm to determine which...
- Materials & EnergyOpen access
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...
- Climate & EnvironmentOpen access
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...
- Society & EconomicsOpen access
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-...
- Climate & EnvironmentOpen access
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...
- Society & EconomicsOpen access
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...
- BiologyOpen access
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,...
- BiologyOpen access
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...
- Society & EconomicsOpen access
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...
- Climate & EnvironmentOpen access
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...
- Health & MedicineOpen access
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...
- Engineering & TechnologyOpen access
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...
- Physics & SpaceOpen access
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...
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A Accelerators Spectrometers Detectors and Associated Equipment2026-10-050 citationsDOI - Health & MedicineOpen access
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...
- AI & ComputingOpen access
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...
- Health & MedicineOpen access
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...
- Health & Medicine
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...
- Climate & Environment
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....
- Physics & SpaceOpen access
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...