Search Results - "Robertson, David"
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Detecting fake news on Facebook: The role of emotional intelligence
Published in PloS one (11-03-2021)“…The proliferation of fake news on social media is now a matter of considerable public and governmental concern. In 2016, the UK EU referendum and the US…”
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SARS-CoV-2 variants, spike mutations and immune escape
Published in Nature reviews. Microbiology (01-07-2021)“…Although most mutations in the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) genome are expected to be either deleterious and swiftly purged or…”
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Natural selection in the evolution of SARS-CoV-2 in bats created a generalist virus and highly capable human pathogen
Published in PLoS biology (12-03-2021)“…Virus host shifts are generally associated with novel adaptations to exploit the cells of the new host species optimally. Surprisingly, Severe Acute…”
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The animal origin of SARS-CoV-2
Published in Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) (27-08-2021)“…Trading of animals susceptible to bat coronaviruses is the likely cause of the COVID-19 pandemic Although first detected in December 2019, COVID-19 was…”
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Face Recognition by Metropolitan Police Super-Recognisers
Published in PloS one (26-02-2016)“…Face recognition is used to prove identity across a wide variety of settings. Despite this, research consistently shows that people are typically rather poor…”
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The Evolution and Biology of SARS-CoV-2 Variants
Published in Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in biology (01-05-2022)“…Our understanding of the still unfolding severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic would have been extremely limited without the…”
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Predicting host taxonomic information from viral genomes: A comparison of feature representations
Published in PLoS computational biology (26-05-2020)“…The rise in metagenomics has led to an exponential growth in virus discovery. However, the majority of these new virus sequences have no assigned host. Current…”
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Enabling fast charging – A battery technology gap assessment
Published in Journal of power sources (01-11-2017)“…The battery technology literature is reviewed, with an emphasis on key elements that limit extreme fast charging. Key gaps in existing elements of the…”
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SARS-CoV-2 variant biology: immune escape, transmission and fitness
Published in Nature reviews. Microbiology (01-03-2023)“…In late 2020, after circulating for almost a year in the human population, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) exhibited a major step…”
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Global FDR control across multiple RNAseq experiments
Published in Bioinformatics (Oxford, England) (01-01-2023)“…Abstract Motivation While classical approaches for controlling the false discovery rate (FDR) of RNA sequencing (RNAseq) experiments have been well described,…”
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Evolutionary origins of the SARS-CoV-2 sarbecovirus lineage responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic
Published in Nature microbiology (01-11-2020)“…There are outstanding evolutionary questions on the recent emergence of human coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 including the role of reservoir species, the role of…”
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Fraudulent ID using face morphs: Experiments on human and automatic recognition
Published in PloS one (22-03-2017)“…Matching unfamiliar faces is known to be difficult, and this can give an opportunity to those engaged in identity fraud. Here we examine a relatively new form…”
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The origins of SARS-CoV-2: A critical review
Published in Cell (16-09-2021)“…Since the first reports of a novel severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS)-like coronavirus in December 2019 in Wuhan, China, there has been intense interest…”
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Face pareidolia in products: The effect of emotional content on attentional capture, eagerness to explore, and likelihood to purchase
Published in Applied cognitive psychology (01-09-2023)“…Abstract Face‐like configurations can be perceived in everyday products. This perceptual phenomenon is known as face pareidolia . However, few studies have…”
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SARS-CoV-2 variant evasion of monoclonal antibodies based on in vitro studies
Published in Nature reviews. Microbiology (01-02-2023)“…Monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) offer a treatment option for individuals with severe COVID-19 and are especially important in high-risk individuals where…”
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Ancestry of the AUTS2 family-A novel group of polycomb-complex proteins involved in human neurological disease
Published in PloS one (11-12-2020)“…Autism susceptibility candidate 2 (AUTS2) is a neurodevelopmental regulator associated with an autosomal dominant intellectual disability syndrome, AUTS2…”
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Effect of Nanoparticle Surface Charge at the Plasma Membrane and Beyond
Published in Nano letters (14-07-2010)“…Herein, we demonstrate that the surface charge of gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) plays a critical role in modulating membrane potential of different malignant and…”
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Recent changes to virus taxonomy ratified by the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (2022)
Published in Archives of virology (01-11-2022)“…This article reports the changes to virus taxonomy approved and ratified by the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) in March 2022. The entire…”
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How Suitable is Quantile Mapping For Postprocessing GCM Precipitation Forecasts?
Published in Journal of climate (01-05-2017)“…GCMs are used by many national weather services to produce seasonal outlooks of atmospheric and oceanic conditions and fluxes. Postprocessing is often a…”
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Higgs boson mass in the standard model at two-loop order and beyond
Published in Physical review. D, Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology (23-10-2014)“…We calculate the mass of the Higgs boson in the standard model in terms of the underlying Lagrangian parameters at complete 2-loop order with leading 3-loop…”
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