Sarah Ball

Nov 14, 2024 | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Sarah Ball

CONFLICT OF INTEREST STATEMENT The author declares no conflicts of interest. REFERENCES , & (2014). Can a nudge keep you warm? Using nudges to reduce excess winter deaths: Insight from the Keeping Warm in Later Life Project (KWILLT). Journal of Public Health, 36(1), 111–116. https://doi.org/10.1093/pubmed/fdt067 , & (2016). Guide to developing behavioural interventions for randomised controlled trials. Commonwealth of Australia. APS Integrity Taskforce. (2023).

Jun 20, 2024 | lesswrong.com | Nina Rimsky |Sarah Ball

This work was performed as part of SPARWe use activation steering (Turner et al., 2023; Rimsky et al., 2023) to investigate whether different types of jailbreaks operate via similar internal mechanisms. We find preliminary evidence that they may. Our analysis includes a wide range of jailbreaks such as harmful prompts developed in Wei et al. 2024, the universal jailbreak in Zou et al. (2023b), and the payload split jailbreak in Kang et al. (2023).

May 15, 2024 | jdsupra.com | Sarah Ball |Sarah Brehaut |Adam Cole

In England & Wales proceedings are subject to a series of "Pre-Action Protocols" which set out the steps a Court would expect parties to take prior to commencing proceedings. The Pre-Action Conduct and Protocols applies to certain proceedings (the "Protocol").

May 15, 2024 | jdsupra.com | Sarah Ball |Sarah Brehaut |Adam Cole

In our recent article covering litigation privilege and its reach to expert support (available here) we considered whether litigation privilege may be claimed over all the correspondence with a third party expert / a instructing party, concluding that it was not (for the reasons given in Kyla Shipping Co Ltd & Anor v Freight Trading Ltd & Ors [2022] EWHC 376 (Comm) (22 February 2022).

Oct 23, 2023 | biorxiv.org | Alexander J. Dear |Xiangyu Teng |Sarah Ball |Joshua Lewin

AbstractThe central hallmark of Parkinson's disease pathology is the aggregation of the α-synuclein protein, which, in its healthy form, is associated with lipid membranes. Purified monomeric α-synuclein is relatively stable in vitro, but its aggregation can be triggered by the presence of lipid vesicles. Despite this central importance of lipids in the context of α-synuclein aggregation, their mechanistic role in this process has not been established to date.