Innovating to amplify the voices of young people from marginalized ethnic migrant backgrounds.

The meaningful participation of young people from marginalized ethnic backgrounds in civic processes is central to the social cohesion of increasingly diverse liberal democracies, but their participation is compromised by a range of barriers resulting in decision-making that is disconnected from their lives. To address participation barriers, a group of young people from marginalized ethnic migrant backgrounds joined a team of researchers, social innovators, and community leaders to co-design and pilot an innovation to increase youth participation in policymaking. Delivered in phases over an 18-month period, the project followed an approach that combined social innovation and evaluation methods.

Effect of Dynamic and Preferential Decoration of Pt Catalyst Surfaces by WO on Hydrodeoxygenation Reactions.

Catalysts containing Pt nanoparticles and reducible transition-metal oxides (WO, NbO, TiO) exhibit remarkable selectivity to aromatic products in hydrodeoxygenation (HDO) reactions for biomass valorization, contrasting the undesired aromatic hydrogenation typically observed for metal catalysts. However, the active site(s) responsible for the high selectivity remains elusive. Here, theoretical and experimental analyses are combined to explain the observed HDO reactivity by interrogating the organization of reduced WO domains on Pt surfaces at sub-monolayer coverage.

Bond Selective Photochemistry at Metal Nanoparticle Surfaces: CO Desorption from Pt and Pd.

The use of visible photon fluxes to influence catalytic reactions on metal nanoparticle surfaces has attracted attention based on observations of reaction mechanisms and selectivity not observed under equilibrium heating. These observations suggest that photon fluxes can selectively impact the rates of certain elementary steps, creating nonequilibrium energy distributions among various reaction pathways. However, quantitative studies validating these hypotheses on metal nanoparticle surfaces are lacking.

Predicted genetic burden and frequency of phenotype-associated variants in the horse.

Disease-causing variants have been identified for less than 20% of suspected equine genetic diseases. Whole genome sequencing (WGS) allows rapid identification of rare disease causal variants. However, interpreting the clinical variant consequence is confounded by the number of predicted deleterious variants that healthy individuals carry (predicted genetic burden).