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Screen Conference 2025 - Video Essay Curation Discussion
No full textThe curators of a video essay selection for the 2025 Screen Conference at University of Glasgow discuss their choices. The conference theme is "returns' and each curator has picked two video essays related to that theme. The curators are Ariel Avissar, Cormac Donnelly, Ian Garwood, Evelyn Kreutzer and Kathleen Loock
Doctoral Stress Among Different Cultural Groups: A Creative Qualitative Investigation in Scotland
Get PDFData‐driven urban digital twins and critical infrastructure under climate change: a review of frameworks and applications
Get PDFUrban Digital Twins (UDTs) are rapidly emerging as a transformative tool for enhancing the resilience and sustainability of critical infrastructure (CI) in smart cities, particularly in the face of climate‐induced risks. They have gained significant attention in both research and real‐world applications. By integrating real‐time data, advanced simulations, and predictive analytics, UDTs facilitate data‐driven decision‐making and optimise urban systems. Given the complexity of urban environments and dynamics, addressing interdependency, interoperability, and inclusiveness is crucial for their effective implementation. This article examines the role of UDTs in managing CI, summarising key risks, technological advancements, and applications. A conceptual framework is proposed in this study to outline the resources required and the potential of UDTs in addressing climate challenges. Despite their promise, the implementation of UDTs faces multidimensional challenges: This article also explores these barriers and future directions for overcoming them through interdisciplinary collaboration, standardisation efforts, and inclusive governance frameworks. As UDTs continue to evolve, sustained innovation and equitable resource distribution will be essential to maximising their impact on the future of urban infrastructure and climate resilience
Post-pandemic changes in population immunity have reduced the likelihood of emergence of zoonotic coronaviruses
Get PDFInfections caused by endemic viruses, and the vaccines used to control them, often provide cross-protection against related viruses. This cross-protection has the potential to alter the transmission dynamics and likelihood of emergence of novel zoonotic viruses with pandemic potential. Here, we investigate how changes in population immunity after the COVID-19 pandemic have impacted the likelihood of emergence of a novel sarbecovirus, termed SARS-CoV-X. We show that sera from patients with different COVID-19 immunological histories possess cross-neutralising antibodies against the spike (S) protein of multiple zoonotic sarbecoviruses. Mathematical simulations using these viruses show a significant reduction in their likelihood of emergence in populations with current levels of SARS-CoV-2 natural and vaccine-derived immunity, with the outcome determined by the extent of cross-protection and the R0 of the novel virus. We also show that preventative vaccination programs against SARS-CoV-X using currently available COVID-19 vaccines can help resist emergence even in the presence of co-circulating SARS-CoV-2. However, it was possible for a theoretical vaccine with very high specificity to SARS-CoV-2 (i.e., one which elicits very low cross-protection against SARS-CoV-X) to increase the likelihood of SARS-CoV-X emergence, due to its effects on SARS-CoV-2 prevalence and, by extension, the levels of naturally-derived cross-protection in the human population. Overall, our findings show that SARS-CoV-2 circulation and COVID-19 vaccination have generated widespread population immunity against antigenically related sarbecoviruses, and this new immunological barrier is likely to be a strong determinant of the ability of novel sarbecoviruses to emerge in humans
Randomized Clinical Trial Comparing Doses of Colostral IgG to Maximize Transfer of Passive Immunity in Calves
No full textThe Energy That Made Modern Scotland
No full textHistorian Dr Ewan Gibbs and Sociologist and Writer Dr Dominic Hinde bring alive the story of North Sea energy through archive clips, expert interviews and academic analysis
Why do people with heart failure die? Rationale and design of the RHYTHM ‐ HF study
No full textAims:
The aim of RHYTHM‐HF is to provide novel insights into the causes and mechanisms of death in near‐consecutive patients discharged following a heart failure hospitalization using data from insertable cardiac monitors (ICMs) and autopsy examinations.
Methods:
RHYTHM‐HF enrolled an unselected, prospective, near‐consecutive, observational cohort of 257 patients admitted to hospital with a primary diagnosis of decompensated heart failure over a 2‐year period. Potential participants were screened using N‐terminal pro‐B‐type natriuretic peptide and echocardiography. All enrolled participants received a subcutaneously implanted ICM (which provides long‐term cardiac rhythm recordings) before hospital discharge. An optional sub‐study invited participants to consent prospectively to autopsy in the event of death. Following hospital discharge, there was no physical follow‐up, with longitudinal ICM data obtained by remote upload. Participants were followed for up to 4 years. Data permitting determination of the cause, mode and mechanism of death were collected, including ICM‐derived terminal cardiac rhythm and pathological findings at autopsy. Rigorous stepwise clinical adjudication processes were employed in the study (step 1 using clinical data alone, step 2 using additional post‐mortem data, and step 3 using additional terminal rhythm data).
Conclusions:
The RHYTHM‐HF study is a contemporary natural history study which investigated causes and mechanisms of death in patients with heart failure. It is the largest study to report terminal rhythm data in patients with heart failure, the largest contemporary prospective autopsy study in heart failure, and the only study to describe the interaction between terminal rhythm and pathological cause of death using modern adjudication standards. We anticipate new mechanistic insights into the cause and mode of death in heart failure. These findings will generate hypotheses for future clinical research into reducing death in heart failure
Time and Space in Student Transnational Migration and Family Social Reproduction
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Islamic international humanitarian law and the war against ISIS in Iraq: competing interpretations and legal applications
No full textThis note examines the practical applicability of Islamic legal and ethical principles to the armed conflict with the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) by offering a comparative analysis of their interpretation and deployment by opposing Islamic actors. It first explores how ISIS mobilised a radicalised doctrinal framework, centred on takfīr (act of declaring a Muslim to be a non-believer) and selective citations of Qurʾānic verses and prophetic traditions, to justify mass atrocities, including systematic violence against Shi’i Muslims and religious minorities. In stark contrast, the note analyses the response of the leading Shi’i religious authority, Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Ali al-Sistani, who issued a sufficiency-based fatwa and a set of humanitarian directives aimed at constraining the conduct of war through a normative framework grounded in Islamic jurisprudence. The note argues that al-Sistani’s intervention offered an ethical alternative to both the doctrinal extremism of ISIS and the limitations of existing international humanitarian law (IHL), particularly in the context of non-international armed conflicts (NIACs). Through this lens, the note contributes to broader discussions on the potential for Islamic law to complement and even advance humanitarian protections in contemporary conflicts
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