University of Southampton

The Supply chain Health INitiative Evaluation (SHINE) study protocol: evaluating health and wellbeing services delivered through the supply chain

Abstract Background While three-quarters of Small and Medium Sized Enterprises (SMEs) provide some form of health and safety training to their employees, more comprehensive health and wellbeing services (HWS), including health prevention and occupational health activities are not...

Iron-Catalyzed DealkenylativeBorylation of Alkenesvia Ozonolysis

Abstract Given the exceptional versatility of boronic esters as synthetic linchpins, strategies that directly transform naturally abundant motifs such as alkenes into boron-containing intermediates offer substantial value. Herein, we report the development of a dealkenylative bor...

eRASSU J043115.8-711730 The first pulsating symbiotic super-soft X-ray source in the Magellanic Bridge

Abstract The Magellanic Bridge stellar population is a relic of the tidal interaction between the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds. A comprehensive view of the evolution of the Bridge stellar population requires probing the compact remnants of stellar evolution, otherwise hidden...

STARSFLUX: an all-sky catalogue of absolute spectro-photometric calibrators from 0.3 to 30 μ m

Abstract Obtaining accurate fluxes of faint sources from the ground in near- and mid-infrared wavelengths is challenging because of the rapidly changing atmospheric absorption. A common limitation is the lack of a nearby spectro-photometric calibrator. We present the STellar Abso...

Efficacy of Antibiotic-Loaded Stimulan Beads Against Biofilms on Clinically Relevant Orthopedic Implant Surfaces

Background: Bacterial biofilms play a key role in causing periprosthetic joint infection (PJI). Current PJI management strategies commonly combine systemic antibiotic therapy with localized delivery such as antibiotic-loaded cement or beads to achieve effective tissue penetration...

Sustainable business models as a pathway to sustainable growth: reconciling economic, ecological and social value creation

The rapid expansion of renewable energy exposes a fundamental tension at the core of contemporary sustainability discourse: industries widely regarded as environmentally beneficial often remain embedded in linear, resource-intensive growth models that reproduce many of the ecolog...

The association between pain and health status during prosthetic adaptation after lower limb loss—A retrospective chart review

Background: Postamputation pain (PAP) is common and can disrupt the rehabilitation process. Obective: The current study’s purpose was to examine the associations among early PAP, general and perceived health, during adaptation to prosthetic use through analysis of existing clinic...

AIE: Adaptive Inter-Domain Ensemble for Boosting Cross-Domain Audio Adversarial Transferability

Deep neural networks are vulnerable and susceptible to adversarial attacks. Audio adversarial examples impose acoustically imperceptible perturbations to clean audio examples, fooling classification models into producing incorrect results. Transferability is a critical property o...

Participant attrition in a multi-regional population-based study in Africa: insights from the AWI-Gen study

Attrition in longitudinal studies, defined as the loss of participants over time, may threaten the validity of study results. This study examined patterns, magnitude, and risk factors for attrition in the AWI-Gen cohort. The study included 12,032 participants from six African sit...

ESG Uncertainty and Corporate Waste Management: Global Evidence

ABSTRACT Motivated by the growing concerns over environmental sustainability and the increasing relevance of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) metrics in corporate decision‐making, this study examines the impact of ESG‐related uncertainty on corporate waste management....

The Trauma-Informed Care Supportive Climate Scale for Forensic Services: Development and preliminary validation.

OBJECTIVE: Increasingly, secure hospitals (psychiatric hospitals with locked wards) are looking to incorporate trauma-informed approaches into their work or believe that they are already doing so. However, there are currently no psychometrically valid scales available to measure...

Sex differences in murine bone matrix maturation modulate osteoblast-endothelial interactions

Abstract Background Bone formation during skeletal growth and repair is divergently modulated by osteoblast-derived vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF), which contributes to the sexual dimorphism of the bone vasculature. While the extracellular matrix (ECM) provides structu...