A diverse labechiid stromatoporoid assemblage that includes 16 species in 8 genera was found in the Upper Ordovician Xiazhen Formation (mid-late Katian) at Zhuzhai, Jiangxi Province of South China. The assemblage is characterized by a combination of: a) North China provincial species succeeding from their origination in the Darriwilian, including Pseudostylodictyon poshanense Ozaki, 1938, Labechia shanhsiensis Yabe and Sugiyama, 1930, Lb. variabilis Yabe and Sugiyama, 1930 and Labechiella regularis (Yabe and Sugiyama, 1930), and b)...

Supplementary files for article The effect of COVID rehabilitation for ongoing symptoms post hospitalisation with COVID-19 (PHOSP-R): protocol for a randomised parallel group controlled trial on behalf of the PHOSP consortium Introduction: Many adults hospitalised with COVID-19 have persistent symptoms such as fatigue, breathlessness and brain fog that limit day-to-day activities. These symptoms can last over 2 years. Whilst there is limited controlled studies on interventions that can support those with ongoing symptoms, there has...

These are the raw data for the publication: Idowu MI and Szameitat AJ (2023) Executive function abilities in cognitively healthy young and older adults—A cross-sectional study. Front. Aging Neurosci. 15:976915. doi: 10.3389/fnagi.2023.976915

Embodied conversational agents are required to be socially and culturally aware to bring about trust and form a
relationship with users. This is fundamentally important during the first few seconds of the user-agent interaction.
Previous research has not accounted for culture in communication style but has rather focused on the look of the
agent. Similarly, research has predominately focused on unimodal or bimodal channels of communication which
render the human-agent interaction unnatural. The first aim...

Fish are an important model for the pharmacological and toxicological characterization of human pharmaceuticals in drug discovery, drug safety assessment and environmental toxicology. However, do fish respond to pharmaceuticals as humans do? To address this question, we provide a novel quantitative cross-species extrapolation approach (qCSE) based on the hypothesis that similar plasma concentrations of pharmaceuticals cause comparable target-mediated effects in both humans and fish at similar level of biological organization (Read-Across Hypothesis). To validate this...

Users require conversational virtual characters to be socially and culturally aware in order to develop trust and relationship(s). This is dependent on the goal and setting of the interaction. In previous research It has been suggested that cultures that require high context (increased use of nonverbal signals) and low context (more direct verbal communication) during communication differ in their use of nonverbal displays. The aim of this paper is to investigate the following: 1) whether...

The dataset provided is in conjunction with the manuscript submitted to Sedimentology provided by the same authors. The dataset contains the list of 3823 measured delta channel widths of 66 global river deltas along with their names, catchment sizes, and climate regions.

Embodied conversational agents are required to be socially and culturally aware to bring about trust and form a
relationship with users. This is fundamentally important during the first few seconds of the user-agent interaction.
Previous research has not accounted for culture in communication style but has rather focused on the look of the
agent. Similarly, research has predominately focused on unimodal or bimodal channels of communication which
render the human-agent interaction unnatural. The first aim...

The majority of ecotoxicological studies are performed under stable and optimal conditions, whereas in reality the complexity of the natural environment faces organisms with multiple stressors of different type and origin, which can activate pathways of response often difficult to interpret. In particular, aquatic organisms living in estuarine zones already impacted by metal contamination can be exposed to more severe salinity variations under a forecasted scenario of global change. In this context, the present study...

We currently face significant, anthropogenic, global environmental challenges and therole of ecologists in mitigating these challenges is arguably more important than ever. Consequently there is an urgent need to recruit and train future generations of ecologists, both those whose main area is ecology, but also those involved in the geological, biological and environmental sciences. Here we present the results of a horizon scanning exercise that identified current and future challenges facing the teaching of ecology,...

The dataset provided is in conjunction with the manuscript submitted to Sedimentology provided by the same authors. The dataset contains the list of 3823 measured delta channel widths of 66 global river deltas along with their names, catchment sizes, and climate regions.

Users require conversational virtual characters to be socially and culturally aware in order to develop trust and relationship(s). This is dependent on the goal and setting of the interaction. In previous research It has been suggested that cultures that require high context (increased use of nonverbal signals) and low context (more direct verbal communication) during communication differ in their use of nonverbal displays. The aim of this paper is to investigate the following: 1) whether...

The dataset provided is in conjunction with the manuscript submitted to an international journal provided by the same authors. The dataset contains the list of 4459 measured delta channel widths of 114 global river deltas along with their names, types and climate regions.

Objectives: The primary objective of this cluster randomised controlled trial was to compare the effectiveness of the three experimental continence promotion interventions against a control intervention on urinary symptom improvement in older women with untreated incontinence recruited from community organisations. Setting: 71 community organisations across the United Kingdom Participants: 259 women aged 60 years and older with untreated incontinence entered the trial; 88% completed the 3-month follow-up. Interventions: The three active interventions consisted of a...

Users require conversational virtual characters to be socially and culturally aware in order to develop trust and relationship(s). This is dependent on the goal and setting of the interaction. In previous research It has been suggested that cultures that require high context (increased use of nonverbal signals) and low context (more direct verbal communication) during communication differ in their use of nonverbal displays. The aim of this paper is to investigate the following: 1) whether...

Animals use color both to conceal and signal their presence, with patterns that match the background, disrupt shape recognition, or highlight features important for communication. The forms that these color patterns take are responses to the visual systems that observe them and the environments within which they are viewed. Increasingly, however, these environments are being affected by human activity. We studied how pattern characteristics and habitat change may affect the detectability of three frog color...

The dataset provided is in conjunction with the manuscript submitted to an international journal provided by the same authors. The dataset contains the list of 4459 measured delta channel widths of 114 global river deltas along with their names, types and climate regions.

The dataset provided is in conjunction with the manuscript submitted to an international journal provided by the same authors. The dataset contains the list of 4459 measured delta channel widths of 114 global river deltas along with their names, types and climate regions.

Healthcare teams can feel under pressure and individuals may feel that they have less autonomy. This is particularly evident following crisis events. Where teams are experiencing substantial and multiple pressures with low team social support, there is evidence of increases in depression, anxiety, compassion fatigue and ultimately problems with staff retention and patient care. To address this issue, we co-designed and piloted an arts therapies based brief team development programme. Medical Research Council (MRC) guidance...

The dataset provided is in conjunction with the manuscript submitted to Sedimentology provided by the same authors. The dataset contains the list of 3789 measured delta channel widths of 65 global river deltas along with their names, catchment sizes, and climate regions.

The dataset provided is in conjunction with the manuscript submitted to an international journal provided by the same authors. The dataset contains the list of 4459 measured delta channel widths of 114 global river deltas along with their names, types and climate regions.

These are the raw data for the publication: Idowu MI and Szameitat AJ (2023) Executive function abilities in cognitively healthy young and older adults—A cross-sectional study. Front. Aging Neurosci. 15:976915. doi: 10.3389/fnagi.2023.976915

Supplementary files for article The effect of COVID rehabilitation for ongoing symptoms post hospitalisation with COVID-19 (PHOSP-R): protocol for a randomised parallel group controlled trial on behalf of the PHOSP consortium Introduction: Many adults hospitalised with COVID-19 have persistent symptoms such as fatigue, breathlessness and brain fog that limit day-to-day activities. These symptoms can last over 2 years. Whilst there is limited controlled studies on interventions that can support those with ongoing symptoms, there has...