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Investigating SME resilience and their adaptive capacities to extreme weather events: A literature review and synthesis (2008)
Presentation / Conference
Ingirige, B., Jones, K., & Proverbs, D. (2008, January). Investigating SME resilience and their adaptive capacities to extreme weather events: A literature review and synthesis. Presented at Building Resilience BEAR 2008, Kandalama, Sri Lanka

In the UK, extreme weather events (EWEs) such as floods, heat waves and storms are increasing in frequency and severity. The ability of local communities to cope with the immediate impact and recover from the aftermath is critical to the continued we... Read More about Investigating SME resilience and their adaptive capacities to extreme weather events: A literature review and synthesis.

Novel therapeutic strategies by regulatory T cells in allergy (2008)
Book Chapter

Natural CD4+CD25+FoxP3+ regulatory T cells (Treg) actively suppress physiological and pathological responses, therefore playing a critical role in controlling peripheral tolerance to self antigens and maintaining immune homeostasis. In normal individ... Read More about Novel therapeutic strategies by regulatory T cells in allergy.

Clinical and immunologic results of a phase II trial of sequential imiquimod and photodynamic therapy for vulval intraepithelial neoplasia (2008)
Journal Article
Winters, U., Daayana, S., Lear, J., Tomlinson, A., Elkord, E., Stern, P., & Kitchener, H. (2008). Clinical and immunologic results of a phase II trial of sequential imiquimod and photodynamic therapy for vulval intraepithelial neoplasia. Clinical Cancer Research, 14(16), 5292-5299. https://doi.org/10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-07-4760

PURPOSE: High-risk human papillomavirus (HPV)-associated vulval intraepithelial neoplasia (VIN) is difficult to treat by excision or ablation because of high recurrence rates. Small studies of photodynamic therapy (PDT) and imiquimod treatments have... Read More about Clinical and immunologic results of a phase II trial of sequential imiquimod and photodynamic therapy for vulval intraepithelial neoplasia.

Immunotherapy for gastrointestinal cancer: current status and strategies for improving efficacy (2008)
Journal Article
Elkord, E., Hawkins, R., & Stern, P. (2008). Immunotherapy for gastrointestinal cancer: current status and strategies for improving efficacy. Expert Opinion on Biological Therapy, 8(4), 385-395. https://doi.org/10.1517/14712598.8.4.385

BACKGROUND: Despite improvement in conventional strategies for treating gastrointestinal (GI) carcinoma, large numbers of patients still suffer from incurable or progressive disease.

OBJECTIVE: Here we consider the prospects for circumventing limi... Read More about Immunotherapy for gastrointestinal cancer: current status and strategies for improving efficacy.

CD4+ T-cell recognition of human 5T4 oncofoetal antigen: implications for initial depletion of CD25+ T cells (2008)
Journal Article
Elkord, E., Burt, D., Drijfhout, J., Hawkins, R., & Stern, P. (2008). CD4+ T-cell recognition of human 5T4 oncofoetal antigen: implications for initial depletion of CD25+ T cells. Cancer Immunology, Immunotherapy, 57(6), 833-847. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00262-007-0419-8

BACKGROUND: The human 5T4 (h5T4) oncofoetal antigen is expressed by a wide variety of human carcinomas including colorectal, ovarian, gastric and renal, but rarely on normal tissues. Its restricted expression on tumour tissues as well as its associat... Read More about CD4+ T-cell recognition of human 5T4 oncofoetal antigen: implications for initial depletion of CD25+ T cells.

Adoptive transfer of T(reg) depleted autologous T cells in advanced renal cell carcinoma (2008)
Journal Article

PURPOSE: CD4(+)CD25(+) regulatory T (T(reg)) cells are present in increased numbers in patients with advanced cancer and CD25(+) T cell depletion potentiates tumour immunity in animal models. The aim of this study was to assess the feasibility and sa... Read More about Adoptive transfer of T(reg) depleted autologous T cells in advanced renal cell carcinoma.

Development of the code for sustainable homes in the UK (2008)
Journal Article
Todd, S. (2008). Development of the code for sustainable homes in the UK. Acta systemica, 1, 37-43

Genome-wide efficient attribute selection for purely epistatic models via Shannon entropy (2008)
Journal Article
Manzourolajdad, A., Saraee, M., Mirlohi, A., & Javan, A. (2008). Genome-wide efficient attribute selection for purely epistatic models via Shannon entropy. International Journal of Business Intelligence and Data Mining, 3(4), 390. https://doi.org/10.1504/IJBIDM.2008.022736

Epistasis plays an important role in the genetic architecture of common human diseases. Most complex diseases are believed to have multiple contributing loci that often have subtle patterns which make them fairly difficult to find in large data sets.... Read More about Genome-wide efficient attribute selection for purely epistatic models via Shannon entropy.

Architettura per l’emergenza:il peccato originale [Architecture for emergence: the original sin] (2008)
Journal Article

Case o citta? Abitare e amministrare il patrimonio architettonico. La “guida agli interventi sul Patrimonio” della Citta’ di Ivrea [Homes or city? Living and managing the built heritage. Guidelines for building regeneration on the Ivrea Heritage] (2008)
Book Chapter

Quaderni di ATC (2008)
Book

Quartieri che cambiano per una società che cambia: quali scenari per le future case popolari. [Changing neighborhood for a changing society: a future for the social housing] (2008)
Book Chapter

Vernacular architecture: identification, preservation and upgrading principles (2008)
Book Chapter

The growth of copper oxides on glass by flame assisted chemical vapour deposition (2008)
Journal Article
Yates, H., Brook, L., Sheel, D., Ditta, I., Steele, A., & Foster, H. (2008). The growth of copper oxides on glass by flame assisted chemical vapour deposition. Thin Solid Films, 517(2), 517-521. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tsf.2008.06.071

Flame assisted chemical vapour deposition is a low cost, relatively simple atmospheric pressure chemical
vapour deposition (CVD) technique that is compatible with both small volume, batch, and high volume
continuous coating processes. Use of this m... Read More about The growth of copper oxides on glass by flame assisted chemical vapour deposition.

Photoactive thin silver films by atmospheric pressure CVD (2008)
Journal Article
Yates, H., Brook, L., & Sheel, D. (2008). Photoactive thin silver films by atmospheric pressure CVD. International Journal of Photoenergy, 2008(870392), https://doi.org/10.1155/2008/870392

We report the visible and UV activity of thin silver films. The films are grown using a CVD process employing aqueous-based silver precursors, flame-assisted chemical vapour deposition. This approach overcomes many of the previously encountered limit... Read More about Photoactive thin silver films by atmospheric pressure CVD.

Biocidal silver and silver/titania composite films grown by chemical vapour deposition (2008)
Journal Article
chemical vapour deposition. International Journal of Photoenergy, 2008(168185), https://doi.org/10.1155/2008/168185

This paper describes the growth and testing of highly active biocidal films based on photocatalytically active films of TiO2, grownby
thermal CVD, functionally and structurallymodified by deposition of nanostructured silver via a novel flame assiste... Read More about Biocidal silver and silver/titania composite films grown by chemical vapour deposition.

Controlled nanostructured silver coated surfaces by atmospheric pressure chemical vapour deposition (2008)
Journal Article
by atmospheric pressure chemical vapour deposition. Chemical Vapor Deposition, 14(1-2), 14-24. https://doi.org/10.1002/cvde.200706654

Thin film silver has been widely reported for its interesting properties. In this paper we describe a route to produce controlled
nanostructured silver layers. A combination of Flame Assisted Chemical Vapour Deposition at atmospheric pressure, with... Read More about Controlled nanostructured silver coated surfaces by atmospheric pressure chemical vapour deposition.

Photocatalytic antimicrobial activity of thin surface films of TiO2, CuO and TiO2 /CuO dual layers on Escherichia coli and bacteriophage T4 (2008)
Journal Article

TiO2 coated surfaces are increasingly studied for their ability to inactivate microorganisms. The activity of glass coated with thin films of TiO2, CuO and hybrid CuO/TiO2 prepared by atmospheric Chemical Vapour Deposition (Ap-CVD) and TiO2 prepared... Read More about Photocatalytic antimicrobial activity of thin surface films of TiO2, CuO and TiO2 /CuO dual layers on Escherichia coli and bacteriophage T4.

Photo-induced self-cleaning and biocidal behaviour of titania and copper oxide multilayers (2008)
Journal Article
Yates, H., Brook, L., Ditta, I., Evans, P., Foster, H., Sheel, D., & Steele, A. (2008). Photo-induced self-cleaning and biocidal behaviour of titania and copper oxide multilayers. Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology A: Chemistry, 197, 197

This paper describes the deposition of films of titania and copper oxide by atmospheric pressure chemical vapour deposition (CVD). The films
were investigated as part of multilayer systems to assess their potential to offer the dual functionality of... Read More about Photo-induced self-cleaning and biocidal behaviour of titania and copper oxide multilayers.

A new linear appearance-based method in face recognition (2008)
Book Chapter
Hajiarbabi, M., Askari, J., Sadri, S., & Saraee, M. (2008). A new linear appearance-based method in face recognition. In Advances in Communication Systems and Electrical Engineering (579-587). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-74938-9_39

Human identification recognition has attracted scientists for many years. During these years, and due to increases in terrorism, the need for such systems has increased much more. The most important biometric systems that have been used during these... Read More about A new linear appearance-based method in face recognition.