Publications by authors named "A D Elliot"

Individuals embody various social identities that can impact how they interface with the social environment. Stigma theories suggest that members of low-status or marginalized groups possess devalued social identities, and therefore, experience more stress. While social identities can lead to increased stress, individuals' appraisals of their identities are not necessarily perceived as harmful/demanding.

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During winter months, there is increased pressure on health care systems in temperature climates due to seasonal increases in respiratory illnesses. Providing real-time short-term forecasts of the demand for health care services helps managers plan their services. During the Winter of 2022-23 we piloted a new forecasting pipeline, using existing surveillance indicators which are sensitive to increases in respiratory syncytial virus (RSV).

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Hand, foot and mouth disease (HFMD) is a contagious communicable disease, with a high incidence in children aged under 10 years. It is a mainly self-limiting disease but can also cause serious neurological or cardiopulmonary complications in some cases, which can lead to death. Little is known about the burden of HMFD on primary care health care services in the UK.

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  • The study focuses on detecting multijet signatures from proton-proton collisions at a high energy of 13 TeV, analyzing a dataset totaling 128 fb^{-1}.
  • A special data scouting method is utilized to pick out events with low combined momentum in jets.
  • This research is pioneering in its investigation of electroweak particle production in R-parity violating supersymmetric models, particularly examining hadronically decaying mass-degenerate higgsinos, and it broadens the limits on the existence of R-parity violating top squarks and gluinos.
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  • - Malaria, caused by the Plasmodium parasite, faces challenges due to drug resistance, prompting the need for new treatments targeting both symptomatic and asymptomatic liver stages; a cost-effective luciferase detection method for liver stage screening has been developed using common lab reagents.
  • - The study optimized a protocol for testing liver stage parasites, validating it with 28 existing anti-malarials to ensure reliable signal data, enabling the screening of the Global Health Priority Box (GHPB) for potential drug candidates.
  • - Results showed that the optimized screening method produced a more stable luciferase signal with lower cell density, identifying 9 promising hits with selective activity against the P. berghei liver stages.
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