College of Life and Environmental Sciences
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Recent Submissions
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Cross-national CCTV footage shows low victimization risk for bystander interveners in public conflicts
(American Psychological Association, 1 June 2020)Objective: Accumulating evidence shows that bystanders witnessing public disputes frequently intervene to help. However, little is known regarding the risks entailed for those bystanders who enter the fray to stop conflicts. ... -
Consolation in the aftermath of robberies resembles post-aggression consolation in chimpanzees
(Public Library of Science, 31 May 2017)Post-aggression consolation is assumed to occur in humans as well as in chimpanzees. While consolation following peer aggression has been observed in children, systematic evidence of consolation in human adults is rare. ... -
More than sweat equity: Young people as volunteers in conservation work
(Elsevier BV, 1 December 2020)This paper examines how young people come to be enrolled and engaged in programmes of unpaid environmental conservation in rural areas. Set within a theoretical debate regarding the nature of unpaid work and its relationship ... -
Advances in the in vivo molecular imaging of invasive pulmonary aspergillosis
(MDPI, 2021)Invasive pulmonary aspergillosis (IPA) is a life-threatening infection of immunocompromised patients with Aspergillus fumigatus, a ubiquitous environmental mould. While there are numerous functioning antifungal therapies, ... -
A new method for isolating and analysing coccospheres within sediment
(Nature Research, 26 November 2020)Size is a fundamental cellular trait that is important in determining phytoplankton physiological and ecological processes. Fossil coccospheres, the external calcite structure produced by the excretion of interlocking ...