ProteoSign: an end-user online differential proteomics statistical analysis platform by Efstathiou, G, Antonakis, AN, Pavlopoulos, GA, Theodosiou, T, Divanach, P, Trudgian, DC, Thomas, B, Papanikolaou, N, Aivaliotis, M, Acuto, O, Iliopoulos, I

“…Profiling of proteome dynamics is crucial for understanding cellular behavior in response to intrinsic and extrinsic stimuli and maintenance of homeostasis. Over the last 20 years, mass spectrometry (MS) has emerged as the most powerful tool for large-scale identification and characterization of proteins. …”

Mexico: positioning for a transformational upstream opening in 2015 by Sandrea, I, Taylor, R

“…Mexico’s proven base of resources is quite unique and within the top 10 on a world scale relative to other international emerging areas that have received high investment interest over the last five years, such as Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, and Morocco. …”

Conversion, ethnology, and law in the conquest of the Philippines by Cobo, NC

“…In place of the established problematic clean narrative of these early years, it instead advances a new interpretation of how the Spanish conquest happened, arguing that the invaders initially integrated into extant patterns of raiding and trading before a paradigmatic shift to conquest; and of the complex development of the colonial enterprise, examining the external and internal challenges it faced, demonstrating that it was far from secure, and exploring how these threats and the anxieties they generated fundamentally shaped how the colonial administration developed. …”

Processes of risk and blame in a police organisation by Farrow, K

“…<p>This thesis will concentrate on Stonecastle Police (a pseudonym) and the processes of risk and blame that take place within the organisation. Over recent years claims have been made that risk aversion permeates police practice, with the central focus of policing continuing to be the management and minimisation of risk (Heaton, Bryant, and Tong, 2019; Black and Lumsden, 2019). …”

Essays on commodities and international macroeconomic interactions by Kim, M

“…Chapter 1 sheds light on the fact that as trading in commodity derivatives tied to commodity prices has increased massively since the 2000s, they have begun to act as an asset class in recent years. It shows that financial intermediaries’ investments in commodities play an important role in the recent reduction in the impacts of commodity price shocks on the economy. …”

Phenotypes and subphenotypes of delirium: a review of current categorisations and suggestions for progression by Bowman, EML, Cunningham, EL, Page, VJ, McAuley, DF

“…Despite an exponential increase in delirium research in recent years, the pathophysiological mechanisms resulting in the clinical presentation of delirium are still hypotheses. …”

Back to basics with teacher recruitment: what do STEM undergraduates want? by Snell, RJS, Klassen, RM, Thompson-Lee, S, Wang, H

“…The recruitment of undergraduate students in England into teacher education is a recognised challenge with recruitment targets having been missed in nine of the last 10 years. The recruitment shortfalls are most acute within STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) subjects. …”

Simulating impacts of reducing subsidies to Kuwait’s electricity sector by Gelan, A

“…The government owns a vertically integrated monopoly – managing the entire supply chain from electricity generation to retail. In recent years, however, it has become increasingly clear that this welfare-oriented electricity production and distribution has had adverse economy-wide effects, specifically conflicting with other policy priorities such as environmental protection and appropriate resource allocation. …”

Young adolescents’ experiences and views on eating and food by Gilmour, A, Gill, S, Loudon, G

“…</p> <p><strong>Design/methodology/approach: </strong>In total, 42 11- to 13-years-old (24 men and 18 women) from three secondary schools in Wales participated in five focus group discussions. …”

DiffuSeg: domain-driven diffusion for medical image segmentation by Zhang, L, Wu, F, Bronik, K, Papiez, BW

“…In recent years, the deployment of supervised machine learning techniques for segmentation tasks has significantly increased. …”

Wind power load factor in the United Kingdom by Constable, J, Aoyama, H

“…Using this database we have extracted annual load factors for those operational wind farms for which a complete year’s generation data are available in 2006 and 2007. …”

Shattered nation: inequality and the geography of a failing state by Dorling, D

“…Before COVID, life expectancy had dropped as a result of poverty for the first time since the 1930s. <br> Fifty years ago the UK led the world in child health; today, twenty-two of the twenty-seven EU countries have better mortality rates for newborns. …”

CRISPR-DBA: a deep learning framework for uncertainty quantification of CRISPR off-target activities by Cao, X, Minary, P

“…In recent years, the application of the CRISPR/Cas system has enabled gene editing technology to flourish. …”

Legislating instability: Adam Smith, free banking, and the financial crisis of 1722 by Goodspeed, T

“…In particular, despite large speculative capital flows, a fixed exchange rate, and substantial external debt, Scotland’s highly decentralized banking sector effectively mitigated the effects of two severe balance of payments crises arising from exogenous political shocks during the Seven Years’ War. I further find that the introduction of regulations and legal restrictions into Scottish banking in 1765 was the result of aggressive political lobbying by the largest Scottish banks, and effectively raised barriers to entry and encouraged banking sector consolidation. …”

Violence-related skeletal trauma in the Epi-Jomon period: a case study from the Koboro cave site in Hokkaido, Japan by Braddick, I, Kubo, D, Matsumura, H, Schulting, RJ

“…Clear evidence of perimortem trauma was found on cranial (Koboro 1) and postcranial (Koboro 8) bones belonging to an adult male or males aged between 25–39 years old. Koboro 1 exhibits two injuries (one blunt force and one semi-sharp force) on its cranium, while two stone projectile points were found embedded in the right ilium and left eighth rib of Koboro 8. …”

Thermally activated delayed fluorophore and plasmonic structures integrated with perovskites for X-ray scintillation and imaging by Jana, A, Cho, S, Sasikumar, K, Ju, H, Im, H, Taylor, RA

“…This has spurred research into radioluminescence-enhancing mechanisms and solution-processable scintillating materials made from earth-abundant elements that have excellent optoelectronic properties, including high quantum yields and a low afterglow effect. In recent years, a range of metal halide perovskite (MHP) integrated with thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) materials have been developed, exhibiting excellent scintillation properties and a high spatial resolution. …”

Experimental investigation into load settlement characteristics of piled rafts in sand by Leong, Hazel Xueling.

“…To improve on this, Burland et al. (1977) first proposed the concept of adding piles to rafts about 30 years ago. Studies by many notable researchers in the years to come suggest that the most effective combinations of piles and raft happens when all the initial loading can be borne with the raft’s bearing capacity alone. …”
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Fabrication and characterization of the electrical properties of phase change materials by Lam, Rachel Wei Qin

“…The films were milled into nanowires by Focused Ion Beam and the resulting crystalline resistivity was comparable to that of the films, indicating reasonable physical scalability.…”
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Behaviour of precast concrete joints subject to a missing column scenerio by Wee Jun Yang.

“…The sub-assemblages include two-span beams with two column stubs and a middle beam-column joint. …”
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Characterization of harbor seal whisker by MAHESWARI BALAN.

“…In addition, a theoretical model based on elliptical conical beam, was developed to study the behaviour of the whiskers. …”
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