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Facilities management outsourcing relationships in the higher education institutes (2015)
Journal Article
Lok, K., & Baldry, D. (2015). Facilities management outsourcing relationships in the higher education institutes. Facilities, 33(13/14), 819-848. https://doi.org/10.1108/F-05-2014-0043

Purpose – This paper aims to test the nine corollaries concerning the determinants of outsourcing relationship dimensions, strategic manoeuvres, clients’ and service providers’ evaluation regarding outsourcing category and outsourcing relationship ty... Read More about Facilities management outsourcing relationships in the higher education institutes.

High mitochondrial mass identifies a sub-population of stem-like cancer cells that are chemo-resistant (2015)
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Farnie, G., Sotgia, F., & Lisanti, M. (2015). High mitochondrial mass identifies a sub-population of stem-like cancer cells that are chemo-resistant. Oncotarget, 6(31), 30472-30486. https://doi.org/10.18632/oncotarget.5401

Chemo-resistance is a clinical barrier to more effective anti-cancer therapy. In this context, cancer stem-like cells (CSCs) are thought to be chemo-resistant, resulting in tumor recurrence and distant metastasis. Our hypothesis is that chemo-resista... Read More about High mitochondrial mass identifies a sub-population of stem-like cancer cells that are chemo-resistant.

Putting food banks out of business : final report (2015)
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Perry, B., Walsh, V., & Silver, D. (2015). Putting food banks out of business : final report. Working papers of the Communities and Culture Network+, 6,

This project was funded by the EPSRC Digital Economy Communities and Culture Plus Network and Mistra Urban Futures and involved collaboration between the University of Salford, the Biospheric Foundation and the Social Action and Research Foundation b... Read More about Putting food banks out of business : final report.

Assessing the structure of a Neotropical bat community using acoustic monitoring techniques (2015)
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Estrada-Villegas, S., Meyer, C., McGill, B., & Kalko, E. (2015). Assessing the structure of a Neotropical bat community using acoustic monitoring techniques. ˜The œJournal of the Acoustical Society of America (Online), 138(3), 1905. https://doi.org/10.1121/1.4933991

Determining the structure and composition of tropical communities is challenging because some species are rare or hard to detect. Within Neotropical bats, aerial insectivores have been systematically undersampled because they avoid mist nets, the tra... Read More about Assessing the structure of a Neotropical bat community using acoustic monitoring techniques.

Mitochondrial mass, a new metabolic biomarker for stem-like cancer cells : understanding WNT/FGF-driven anabolic signaling (2015)
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Lamb, R., Bonuccelli, G., Ozsvári, B., Peiris-Pagès, M., Fiorillo, M., Smith DL, D., …Lisanti, M. (2015). Mitochondrial mass, a new metabolic biomarker for stem-like cancer cells : understanding WNT/FGF-driven anabolic signaling. Oncotarget, 6(31), 30453-30471. https://doi.org/10.18632/oncotarget.5852

Here, we developed an isogenic cell model of “stemness” to facilitate protein biomarker discovery in breast cancer. For this purpose, we used knowledge gained previously from the study of the mouse mammary tumor virus (MMTV). MMTV initiates mammary t... Read More about Mitochondrial mass, a new metabolic biomarker for stem-like cancer cells : understanding WNT/FGF-driven anabolic signaling.

Predicting the valence of a scene from observers’ eye movements (2015)
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observers’ eye movements. PLoS ONE, 10(9), e0138198. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0138198

Multimedia analysis benefits from understanding the emotional content of a scene in a variety of tasks such as video genre classification and content-based image retrieval. Recently, there has been an increasing interest in applying human bio-signals... Read More about Predicting the valence of a scene from observers’ eye movements.

M0Droid : an android behavioral-based malware detection model (2015)
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Damshenas, M., Dehghantanha, A., Choo, K., & Mahmud, R. (2015). M0Droid : an android behavioral-based malware detection model. Journal of information privacy & security, 11(3), 141-157. https://doi.org/10.1080/15536548.2015.1073510

Anti-mobile malware has attracted the attention of the research and security community in recent years due to the increasing threat of mobile malware and the significant increase in the number of mobile devices. M0Droid, a novel Android behavioral-... Read More about M0Droid : an android behavioral-based malware detection model.

High prevalence of trypanosomes in European badgers detected using ITS-PCR (2015)
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Ideozu, E., Whiteoak, A., Tomlinson, A., Robertson, A., Delahay, R., & Hide, G. (2015). High prevalence of trypanosomes in European badgers detected using ITS-PCR. Parasites and Vectors, 8(480), https://doi.org/10.1186/s13071-015-1088-7

Background Wildlife can be important sources and reservoirs for pathogens. Trypanosome infections are common in many mammalian species, and are pathogenic in some. Molecular detection tools were used to measure trypanosome prevalence in a well-stud... Read More about High prevalence of trypanosomes in European badgers detected using ITS-PCR.

Flood-runoff in semi-arid and sub-humid regions, a case study : a simulation of jianghe watershed in Northern China (2015)
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study : a simulation of jianghe watershed in Northern China. Water, 7(9), 5155-5172. https://doi.org/10.3390/w7095155

This paper presents a modeling application of surface runoff using the Hydrologic Modelling System (HEC-HMS). A case study was carried out for the Jianghe watershed, a typical semi-arid and sub-humid geo-climatic region in northern China. Two modelin... Read More about Flood-runoff in semi-arid and sub-humid regions, a case study : a simulation of jianghe watershed in Northern China.

Using errors by guard honeybees (Apis mellifera) to gain new insights into nestmate recognition signals (2015)
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gain new insights into nestmate recognition signals. Chemical Senses, 40(9), 649-653. https://doi.org/10.1093/chemse/bjv053

Although the honeybee (Apis mellifera) is one of the world most studied insects, the chemical compounds used in nestmate recognition, remains an open question. By exploiting the error prone recognition system of the honeybee, coupled with genotypin... Read More about Using errors by guard honeybees (Apis mellifera) to gain new insights into nestmate recognition signals.

The expanded p53 interactome as a predictive model for cancer therapy (2015)
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Hussain, M., Tian, K., Mutti, L., Krstic-Demonacos, M., & Schwartz, J. (2015). The expanded p53 interactome as a predictive model for cancer therapy. Genomics and computational biology, 1(1), e20. https://doi.org/10.18547/gcb.2015.vol1.iss1.e20

The tumour suppressor gene TP53 is implicated in the majority of all human cancers, thus pivotal to genomic integrity. Even though over 72,000 PubMed publications are linked with the keyword p53 and this number is continuously increasing, due to... Read More about The expanded p53 interactome as a predictive model for cancer therapy.

Dichotomising compulsory land acquisition and land contamination valuations (2015)
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Akujuru, V., & Ruddock, L. (2015). Dichotomising compulsory land acquisition and land contamination valuations. International Journal of Disaster Resilience in the Built Environment, 6(3), 268-288. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJDRBE-11-2013-0040

Purpose – This study aims at identifying the consequences of adopting statutory rather than market basis in assessing damages due to contamination to land. Most valuations undertaken to assess compensation for damages due to contamination on land are... Read More about Dichotomising compulsory land acquisition and land contamination valuations.

Aggregation of group fuzzy risk information in the railway risk decision making process (2015)
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An, M., Qin, Y., Jia, L., & Chen, Y. (2016). Aggregation of group fuzzy risk information in the railway risk decision making process. Safety Science, 82, 18-28. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssci.2015.08.011

Railway risk assessment is a hierarchical process where risk information obtained at lower levels may be used for risk assessment at higher levels. Fuzzy analytical hierarchy process (FAHP) is widely used in risk decision making process to solve impr... Read More about Aggregation of group fuzzy risk information in the railway risk decision making process.

Three-Dimensional Imaging of Magnetic Domains with Neutron Grating Interferometry (2015)
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Manke, I., Kardjilov, N., Schäfer, R., Hilger, A., Grothausmann, R., Strobl, M., …Banhart, J. (2015). Three-Dimensional Imaging of Magnetic Domains with Neutron Grating Interferometry. Physics Procedia, 69, 404-412. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.phpro.2015.07.057

This paper gives a brief overview on3D imaging of magnetic domains with shearing grating neutron tomography. We investigated the three-dimensional distribution of magnetic domain walls in the bulk of a wedge-shaped FeSi single crystal. The width of t... Read More about Three-Dimensional Imaging of Magnetic Domains with Neutron Grating Interferometry.

Trophic flexibility and opportunism in pikeEsox lucius (2015)
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Pedreschi, D., Mariani, S., Coughlan, J., Voigt, C., O'Grady, M., Caffrey, J., & Kelly-Quinn, M. (2015). Trophic flexibility and opportunism in pikeEsox lucius. Journal of Fish Biology, 87(4), 876-894. https://doi.org/10.1111/jfb.12755

The first comprehensive investigation of pike Esox lucius trophic ecology in a region (Ireland) where they have long been thought to be a non-native species is presented. Diet was investigated across habitat types (lake, river and canal) through the... Read More about Trophic flexibility and opportunism in pikeEsox lucius.

Ratiometric oxygen sensing using lanthanide luminescent emitting interfaces (2015)
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Lehr, J., Tropiano, M., Beer, P., Faulkner, S., & Davis, J. (2015). Ratiometric oxygen sensing using lanthanide luminescent emitting interfaces. Chemical Communications, 51(88), 15944-15947. https://doi.org/10.1039/c5cc05738h

Herein we describe the first example of a ratiometric lanthanide luminescent oxygen sensing interface. Immobilisation of terbium and europium cyclen complexes on glass substrates was achieved by a novel aryl nitrene photografting approach. The result... Read More about Ratiometric oxygen sensing using lanthanide luminescent emitting interfaces.

Early detection surveillance for an emerging plant pathogen : a rule of thumb to predict prevalence at first discovery (2015)
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Parnell, S., Gottwald, T., Cunniffe, N., Alonso Chavez, V., & van den Bosch, F. (2015). Early detection surveillance for an emerging plant pathogen : a rule of thumb to predict prevalence at first discovery. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 282(1814), 20151478. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2015.1478

Emerging plant pathogens are a significant problem for conservation and food security. Surveillance is often instigated in an attempt to detect an invading epidemic before it gets out of control. Yet in practice many epidemics are not discovered unti... Read More about Early detection surveillance for an emerging plant pathogen : a rule of thumb to predict prevalence at first discovery.

Using generating functions to convert an implicit (3,3) finite difference method to an explicit form on diffusion equation with different boundary conditions (2015)
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Kazem, S., Chadwick, E., Hatam, A., & Deghan, M. (2015). Using generating functions to convert an implicit (3,3) finite difference method to an explicit form on diffusion equation with different boundary conditions. Numerical Algorithms, 71(4), 827-854. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11075-015-0026-2

In this article, our main goal is to develop an idea to convert an implicit (3,3) Ø-scheme finite difference method to an explicit form for both linear and nonlinear diffusion equations and also for nonlinear advection-diffusion equation with differe... Read More about Using generating functions to convert an implicit (3,3) finite difference method to an explicit form on diffusion equation with different boundary conditions.