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Hook, line and infection : a guide to culturing parasites, establishing infections and assessing immune responses in the three-spined stickleback (2017)
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Stewart, A., Jackson, J., Barber, I., Eizaguirre, C., Paterson, R., van West, P., …Cable, J. (2017). Hook, line and infection : a guide to culturing parasites, establishing infections and assessing immune responses in the three-spined stickleback. Advances in Parasitology, 98, 39-109. https://doi.org/10.1016/bs.apar.2017.07.001

The three-spined stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus) is a model organism with an extremely well-characterized ecology, evolutionary history, behavioural repertoire and parasitology that is coupled with published genomic data. These small temperate z... Read More about Hook, line and infection : a guide to culturing parasites, establishing infections and assessing immune responses in the three-spined stickleback.

Geographical variation in the high-duty cycle echolocation of the cryptic common mustached bat Pteronotus cf. rubiginosus (Mormoopidae) (2017)
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Lopez-Baucells, A., Torrent, L., Rocha, R., Pavan, A., Bobrowiec, P., & Meyer, C. (2017). Geographical variation in the high-duty cycle echolocation of the cryptic common mustached bat Pteronotus cf. rubiginosus (Mormoopidae). Bioacoustics, 27(4), 341-357. https://doi.org/10.1080/09524622.2017.1357145

The use of bioacoustics as a tool for bat research is rapidly increasing worldwide. There is substantial evidence that environmental factors such as weather conditions or habitat structure can affect echolocation call structure in bats and thus compr... Read More about Geographical variation in the high-duty cycle echolocation of the cryptic common mustached bat Pteronotus cf. rubiginosus (Mormoopidae).

Influence of Stefan blowing on nanofluid flow submerged in microorganisms with leading edge accretion or ablation (2017)
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Beg, O., Basir, M., Uddin, M., & Ismail, A. (2017). Influence of Stefan blowing on nanofluid flow submerged in microorganisms with leading edge accretion or ablation. Journal of the Brazilian Society of Mechanical Sciences and Engineering, 39(11), 4519-4532. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40430-017-0877-7

The unsteady forced convective boundary layer flow of viscous incompressible fluid containing both nanoparticles and gyrotactic microorganisms, from a flat surface with leading edge accretion (or ablation), is investigated theoretically. Utilizing ap... Read More about Influence of Stefan blowing on nanofluid flow submerged in microorganisms with leading edge accretion or ablation.

Mitochondrial mRNA transcripts predict overall survival, tumor recurrence and progression in serous ovarian cancer : companion diagnostics for cancer therapy (2017)
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Sotgia, F., & Lisanti, M. (2017). Mitochondrial mRNA transcripts predict overall survival, tumor recurrence and progression in serous ovarian cancer : companion diagnostics for cancer therapy. Oncotarget, 8(40), 66925-66939. https://doi.org/10.18632/oncotarget.19963

Here, we performed a systematic analysis to discover new biomarkers of overall survival and tumor progression in ovarian cancer patients. More specifically, we determined whether nuclear-encoded mitochondrial genes related to mitochondrial biogenesis... Read More about Mitochondrial mRNA transcripts predict overall survival, tumor recurrence and progression in serous ovarian cancer : companion diagnostics for cancer therapy.

Fenton reagent reduces the level of arsenic in paddy rice grain (2017)
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Qin, J., Li, Y., Feng, M., Li, H., & Lin, C. (2017). Fenton reagent reduces the level of arsenic in paddy rice grain. Geoderma, 307, 73-80. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoderma.2017.07.039

Hydroponic and pot experiments were conducted to examine the effects of Fenton reagent on paddy rice plant growing in arsenic-contaminated soils. Fenton reagent significantly reduced arsenic phytotoxicity, uptake by the plants and accumulation in ric... Read More about Fenton reagent reduces the level of arsenic in paddy rice grain.

Mitochondrial biomarkers predict tumor progression and poor overall survival in gastric cancers : companion diagnostics for personalized medicine. (2017)
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Sotgia, F., & Lisanti, M. (2017). Mitochondrial biomarkers predict tumor progression and poor overall survival in gastric cancers : companion diagnostics for personalized medicine. Oncotarget, 8(40), 67117-67128. https://doi.org/10.18632/oncotarget.19962

Here, we employed a bioinformatics approach to identify novel molecular determinants to predict tumor progression and overall survival in gastric cancer patients. In particular, we directly assessed whether nuclear-derived mRNA species encoding prote... Read More about Mitochondrial biomarkers predict tumor progression and poor overall survival in gastric cancers : companion diagnostics for personalized medicine..

SSAM : towards supervised sentiment and aspect modeling on different levels of labeling (2017)
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Zahedi, E., & Saraee, M. (2018). SSAM : towards supervised sentiment and aspect modeling on different levels of labeling. Soft Computing, 22(23), 7989-8000. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00500-017-2746-9

Abstract In recent years people want to express their opinion on every online service or product, and there are now a huge number of opinions on the social media, online stores and blogs. However, most of the opinions are presented in plain text and... Read More about SSAM : towards supervised sentiment and aspect modeling on different levels of labeling.

Congenital amusics use a secondary pitch mechanism to identify lexical tones (2017)
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Bones, O., & Wong, P. (2017). Congenital amusics use a secondary pitch mechanism to identify lexical tones. Neuropsychologia, 104, 48-53. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2017.08.004

Amusia is a pitch perception disorder associated with deficits in processing and production of both musical and lexical tones, which previous reports have suggested may be constrained to fine-grained pitch judgements. In the present study speakers of... Read More about Congenital amusics use a secondary pitch mechanism to identify lexical tones.

Stromal cyclin D1 promotes heterotypic immune signaling and breast cancer growth (2017)
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Pestell, T., Jiao, X., Kumar, M., Peck, A., Prisco, M., Deng, S., …Pestell, R. (2017). Stromal cyclin D1 promotes heterotypic immune signaling and breast cancer growth. Oncotarget, 8, 81754-81775. https://doi.org/10.18632/oncotarget.19953

The cyclin D1 gene encodes the regulatory subunit of a holoenzyme that drives cell autonomous cell cycle progression and proliferation. Herein we show cyclin D1 abundance is increased >30-fold in the stromal fibroblasts of patients with invasive brea... Read More about Stromal cyclin D1 promotes heterotypic immune signaling and breast cancer growth.

Near-Infrared and short-wavelength infrared photodiodes based on dye-perovskite composites (2017)
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Martinez Maestro, L., Qianqian, L., Wang, Y., Young, M., Patel, J., Milot, R., …Herz, L. (2017). Near-Infrared and short-wavelength infrared photodiodes based on dye-perovskite composites. Advanced functional materials, 27(38), https://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.201702485

Organohalide perovskites have emerged as promising light‐sensing materials because of their superior optoelectronic properties and low‐cost processing methods. Recently, perovskite‐based photodetectors have successfully been demonstrated as both broa... Read More about Near-Infrared and short-wavelength infrared photodiodes based on dye-perovskite composites.

Nanoethics, science communication, and a fourth model for public engagement (2017)
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Miah, A. (2017). Nanoethics, science communication, and a fourth model for public engagement. NanoEthics, 11(2), 139-152. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11569-017-0302-9

This paper develops a fourth model of public engagement with science, grounded in the principle of nurturing scientific agency through online participatory bioethics. It argues that social media is an effective device through which to enable such eng... Read More about Nanoethics, science communication, and a fourth model for public engagement.

Identification as a deterrent for security enhancement in cognitive radio networks (2017)
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Fakhrudeen, A., & Alani, O. (2017). Identification as a deterrent for security enhancement in cognitive radio networks. IET Networks, 6(6), 193-202. https://doi.org/10.1049/iet-net.2017.0036

Cognitive Radio Networks (CRNs) are prone to emerging coexistence security threats such as Primary User Emulation Attack (PUEA). Specifically, a malicious CRN may mimic licensees’ (Primary Users (PUs)) signal characteristics to force another CRN to v... Read More about Identification as a deterrent for security enhancement in cognitive radio networks.

The impact of occupants’ behaviours on building energy analysis : a research review (2017)
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Delzendeh, E., Wu, S., Lee, A., & Zhou, Y. (2017). The impact of occupants’ behaviours on building energy analysis : a research review. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 80, 1061-1071. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rser.2017.05.264

Over the past 15 years, the evaluation of energy demand and use in buildings has become increasingly acute due to growing scientific and political pressure around the world in response to climate change. The estimation of the use of energy in buildin... Read More about The impact of occupants’ behaviours on building energy analysis : a research review.

Aerofoil design for unmanned high-altitude aft-swept flying wings (2017)
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Alsahlani, A., & Rahulan, T. (2017). Aerofoil design for unmanned high-altitude aft-swept flying wings. Journal of Aerospace Technology and Management (Impresso), 9(3), 335-345. https://doi.org/10.5028/jatm.v9i3.838

In this paper, 12 new aerofoils with varying thicknesses for an aft-swept flying wing unmanned air vehicle have been designed using a MATLAB tool which has been developed in-house. The tool consists of 2 parts in addition to the aerodynamic solver XF... Read More about Aerofoil design for unmanned high-altitude aft-swept flying wings.

Numerical study of non-Newtonian polymeric boundary layer flow and heat transfer from a permeable horizontal isothermal cylinder (2017)
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Rao, A., Prasad, V., Rajendra, P., Sasikala, M., & Beg, O. (2017). Numerical study of non-Newtonian polymeric boundary layer flow and heat transfer from a permeable horizontal isothermal cylinder. Frontiers in heat and mass transfer, 9(2), https://doi.org/10.5098/hmt.9.2

In this article, we investigate the nonlinear steady state boundary layer flow and heat transfer of an incompressible Jeffery non-Newtonian fluid from a permeable horizontal isothermal cylinder. The transformed conservation equations are solved numer... Read More about Numerical study of non-Newtonian polymeric boundary layer flow and heat transfer from a permeable horizontal isothermal cylinder.

The effect of gas flare on the health of schoolchildren in the Niger delta area of Nigeria (2017)
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Ogbonda, U., & Ji, Y. (2017). The effect of gas flare on the health of schoolchildren in the Niger delta area of Nigeria. International journal of humanities and social science research (Delhi), 3, 10-15

The proximity of schools to gas flaring sites and the use of simple ventilation systems in school buildings with currently no regulation or laid down blueprint during design and construction in an environment prone to adverse environmental hazards ca... Read More about The effect of gas flare on the health of schoolchildren in the Niger delta area of Nigeria.

CloudMe forensics : a case of big-data investigation (2017)
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Teing, Y., Dehghantanha, A., & Raymond Choo, K. (2017). CloudMe forensics : a case of big-data investigation. Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, 30(5), https://doi.org/10.1002/cpe.4277

The significant increase in the volume, variety and velocity of data complicates cloud forensic efforts, as such big data will, at some point, become computationally expensive to be fully extracted and analyzed in a timely manner. Thus, it is importa... Read More about CloudMe forensics : a case of big-data investigation.

Mitochondrial markers predict survival and progression in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients : use as companion diagnostics (2017)
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Sotgia, F., & Lisanti, M. (2017). Mitochondrial markers predict survival and progression in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients : use as companion diagnostics. Oncotarget, 8(40), 68095-68107. https://doi.org/10.18632/oncotarget.19677

Here, we used an informatics-based approach to identify novel biomarkers of overall survival and tumor progression in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients. We determined whether nuclear-encoded genes associated with mitochondrial biogenesis an... Read More about Mitochondrial markers predict survival and progression in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients : use as companion diagnostics.

Novel RNA virus genome discovered in Ghost ants (Tapinoma melanocephalum) from Hawaii (2017)
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Brettell, L., Mordecai, G., Pachori, P., & Martin, S. (2017). Novel RNA virus genome discovered in Ghost ants (Tapinoma melanocephalum) from Hawaii. Genome Announcements, 5(30), https://doi.org/10.1128/genomeA.00669-17

Here we report the full genome sequence of Milolii virus, a novel single stranded (positive sense) RNA virus discovered from Tapinoma melanocephalum ants in Hawaii. The genome is 10,475 nucleotides long encoding a polyprotein of 3304 amino acids.

Mitochondrial markers predict recurrence, metastasis and Tamoxifen-resistance in breast cancer patients : early detection of treatment failure with companion diagnostics (2017)
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Sotgia, F., Fiorillo, M., & Lisanti, M. (2017). Mitochondrial markers predict recurrence, metastasis and Tamoxifen-resistance in breast cancer patients : early detection of treatment failure with companion diagnostics. Oncotarget, 2017(8), 68730-68745. https://doi.org/10.18632/oncotarget.19612

Here, we used a data-mining and informatics approach to discover new biomarkers of resistance to hormonal therapy in breast cancer. More specifically, we investigated whether nuclear-encoded genes associated with mitochondrial biogenesis can be used... Read More about Mitochondrial markers predict recurrence, metastasis and Tamoxifen-resistance in breast cancer patients : early detection of treatment failure with companion diagnostics.