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University of Liverpool
Recent research
- Materials & EnergyOpen access
Abstract The widespread use of Sudan IV dye as an adulterant in palm oil poses significant public health risks. This nonfood-grade dye, linked to carcinogenic effects, has prompted a pressing need for efficient, rapid, and reliable field-portable detection methods. This study inv...
- Health & MedicineOpen access
Background: Universal Credit (UC) is the UK’s largest recent welfare reform intended to streamline the benefits system and improve work incentives. However, UC features, including sanctions and work-related conditionality, may undermine financial security and harm mental health....
- Health & MedicineOpen access
Objective This article aims to (1) translate the Sheffield Care Environment Assessment Matrix (SCEAM) into Chinese and adapt a Chinese version of SCEAM (C-SCEAM), and (2) evaluate the validity and reliability of C-SCEAM. Background While the number of elderly care facilities in C...
- Engineering & Technology
Reliable damage identification is paramount to structural integrity and operational safety of infrastructure. However, conventional structural health monitoring (SHM) methods often encounter implementation bottlenecks, primarily constrained by data labeling and the inherent discr...
- Society & EconomicsOpen access
This paper examines the valuation of a life insurance contract combining a Guaranteed Minimum Income Benefit (GMIB), a surrender benefit, and a death benefit under stochastic mortality and financial risks. Building on the established QP-rule valuation approach and a hybrid financ...
- Health & MedicineOpen access
Partner alcohol use and women’s access to healthcare services in India
Despite policy efforts to improve women’s health in India, many women continue to face barriers in accessing healthcare. While structural and socio-cultural determinants have been widely studied, behavioural factors, particularly those related to male partner characteristics, rem...
- Materials & EnergyOpen access
Observation of relativistic bond weakening in seaborgium hexacarbonyl
Abstract The seventh row of the periodic table of the elements has been completed with the discovery of the five heaviest elements from flerovium (Fl, Z = 114) through oganesson (Og, Z = 118) 1 . Chemical properties of the superheavy elements (SHE, Z ≥ 104) are unique owing to th...
- Climate & EnvironmentOpen access
Detectability and coverage under restricted access: linear-Gaussian pilots of the blind set
This record contains the technical note and complete reproducibility package for two linear-Gaussian pilot studies of the “blind set” in physical-state inference. The blind set is defined here as errors that are simultaneously not exposed by the inference system’s available groun...
- Engineering & TechnologyOpen access
Ethynyl Substituents as Rheostatic Triggers in Single‐Molecule Junctions
ABSTRACT Miniaturised mechanoresistive devices, where charge transport efficiency is modulated by mechanical displacement, are an important class of electromechanical systems that promise unique sensing accuracy and sensitivity. Single‐molecule junctions have emerged recently as...
- 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...
- AI & ComputingOpen access
From impact to legitimacy: Communicative responsibility and the governance of research impact
Universities face growing pressure to make clearer the public value of research, yet documented impact does not automatically translate into public recognition or legitimacy. This paper develops the concept of Communicative Responsibility, the institutional and ethical obligation...
- Engineering & TechnologyOpen access
Microgrid rolling energy management often follows a decoupled forecast-then-optimize workflow, where forecasts are trained separately from downstream rolling model predictive control (MPC) scheduling. However, lower statistical forecasting errors do not necessarily reduce operati...
- Materials & EnergyOpen access
ABSTRACT The selective separation of enantiomers is important for industrial technologies such as pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, and agrochemicals. Chiral porous materials have been used as the stationary phase for the chromatographic separation of enantiomers; however, they lac...
- Health & Medicine
The British Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons (BAOMS) funded Maxillofacial Academic Practice (MAP) study aims to define the current state of research and academic training within UK Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery (OMFS). Phase One of the study, the OMFS Trainee Resea...
- Climate & EnvironmentOpen access
Data-driven methods are widely used in landslide susceptibility mapping (LSM) because they can effectively model the complex relationships between landslides and geo-environmental conditions. Existing data-driven approaches generally follow two types of data representations. Pixe...
- BiologyOpen access
The construction of the Farey tessellation in the hyperbolic plane starts with a finitely generated group of symmetries of an ideal triangle, that is, a triangle with all vertices on the boundary. It induces a remarkable fractal structure on the boundary of the hyperbolic plane,...
- Engineering & TechnologyOpen access
Light‐Synergistic Enhanced Synaptic Devices Toward Superadditive In‐Sensor Computing
ABSTRACT Conventional neuromorphic devices face challenges in achieving efficient integration of light sensing and synaptic computation because of structural and material limitations. In this work, we developed an indium‐tin‐zinc oxide/transparent gelatin electrolyte synaptic tra...
- Health & MedicineOpen access
Abstract Background Severe mental illnesses (SMIs), including schizophrenia spectrum disorders, bipolar disorders, and severe major depressive disorder (MDD), contribute substantially to disability and premature mortality worldwide. Evidence from the Middle East, North Africa, an...
- Health & MedicineOpen access
Abstract Purpose Prandial insulin intensification in Type 2 Diabetes (T2D) improves glycaemia but increases regimen complexity, weight gain, and hypoglycaemia risk. Our aim was to evaluate if Incretin-based injectable strategies offer a lower-burden alternative across intensifica...
- Health & MedicineOpen access
Abstract Purpose Anxiety symptoms are highly prevalent during the postpartum period; however, validated instruments to measure postpartum-specific anxiety in Brazil are lacking. This study aimed to evaluate the psychometric properties of the Brazilian Portuguese version of the Po...