Oestrogen receptors and breast cancer. are we prepared to move forward? A critical review by Eraso, Yolanda

“…Around 70% of breast tumours are classified as oestrogen dependent, yet the mechanism of action of other hormones in breast cancer growth both independently and interacting with ER as well as their targeted therapies have yet to find a place in the clinic. In this article, I critically review the scientific literature for the period 1960-2016, examine the rise and persistence of the oestrogen hypothesis as well as the neglect of alternative hormonal explanations. …”
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Drawing for blind learners: assistive technology for graphical design by Ohene-Djan, James, Fernando, Sandra

“…This paper presents a set of grammar tools that can be used by blind people to find spatial orientation, as well as knowledge and representation of the interactive drawing environment, to improve the understanding of a concept or a subject matter. …”
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Developing a transfer point location problem considering normal demands distribution by Avakh Darestani, Soroush, Ammar, Mollaie, Dadd, Deneise

“…In the first model, all the points are considered in an area while in the second one the points are considered in several areas. The problem is to find out the best location for the transfer point so that the maximum expected weighted distance to all demand points through the transfer point is minimized. …”
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Pro-social attitudes towards ethno-religious out-groups during the COVID-19 pandemic: a survey experiment in five countries by Carol, Sarah, David, Lea, Malasevic, Sinisa, Uzelac, Gordana

“…The online survey experiment follows a 3 × 2 × 2 factorial design varying the ethno-religious origin of neighbours signalled by the name (Alexander vs Mohammed), the length of their residence (<1 year, 10 years, entire life), and if groceries, or groceries and beer need to be collected. We find that those of minority origin and those who have spent less than a year in a country are disadvantaged. …”
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Health and safety performance of UK universities and how to improve it by Kuzmina, Olga, Searle, Douglas

“…Health and Safety professionals in the universities may find it useful to reflect on these findings and the identified best practices in order to improve the H&S performance in their own organisations.…”
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Cluster-based energy-efficient routing protocol in next generation sensor networks by Kumar, Sunil, Shankar, Achyut

“…NGNs, composed of diverse intelligent nodes with varying battery power and computational capacity, find applications in IoT, agriculture, and commercial sectors. …”
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Designing bevel preparation tool using inventor for the preparation of angles in welding process by Nasir, Nasir, Abdullah, M. A., L., N. H

“…This study also involves Autodesk Inventor software to perform stress analysis in product evaluation of bevel preparation tool in the welding process. thus can find data on mises stress, 1st principal stress, 3rd principal stress, displacement, and safety factor. …”
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EEG signal classification for wheelchair control application by Abu Hassan, Rozi Roslinda

“…EEG signal were analyzed to find out the features by using Fast Fourier Transform (FFT). …”
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An update on the ornamental fish industry in Malaysia: Aeromonas hydrophila-associated disease and its treatment control by Anjur, Norashikin, Sabran, Siti Fatimah, Mohd Daud, Hassan, Othman, Nor Zalina

“…Further studies should be done to find new antibacterial agents from natural sources to combat bacterial fish diseases and reduce fish mortality rate in sustainable aquaculture farms. …”
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Steady flow of some non-newtonian fluids through a porous medium by using adomian decomposition method by Mansour Elniel Dalam, Fawzia

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The effect of the provision of financial information upon the construing of employees by Purdy, Derek Ernest.

“…As the intention was to find out what employees made of financial Information. …”
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A new study to suppress mutual-coupling between waveguide slot array antennas based on metasurface bulkhead for MIMO systems by Alibakhshikenari, Mohammad, Virdee, Bal Singh, Khalily, Mohsen, See, Chan, Abd-Alhameed, Raed, Falcone, Francisco, Limiti, Ernesto

“…The proposed method is should find application in MIMO systems where high isolation between neighbouring radiation elements is required to improve the antenna characteristics, and mimimise array phase errors, which is necessary to enhance the system performance.…”
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An optimised competency framework to prepare students for employment by Palmer-Brown, Dominic, Cai, Fang Fang, Patel, Preeti

“…In our study, it is the Personal Effectiveness competencies such as ‘self-management’ ‘adaptability’ and ‘integrity’ that feature prominently and it is this category of competencies that students find the most challenging to refine.…”
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Mean reversion, long memory and fractional integration in African stock market prices by Anoruo, Emmanuel, Gil-Alana, Luis A.

“…Our results can be summarized as follows: we cannot find evidence of mean reversion in any single market, and evidence of long memory returns (i.e., orders of integration above 1 in the logged stock prices) is obtained in the cases of Egypt and Nigeria, and, in a lesser extent in Tunisia, Morocco and Kenya. …”
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‘I didn’t know what strong was until it was required’: factors that promote retention among homeless students in higher education by Mulrenan, Patrick, Atkins, Julia, Cox, Simon

“…The study demonstrates considerable personal resilience among homeless students. These students find it hard to fully engage with other students, or with the wider university experience. …”
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Is the consumption-income ratio stationary? Evidence from linear and nonlinear panel unit root tests for OECD and non-OECD countries by Cerrato, Mario, Peretti, Christian de, Stewart, Chris

“…This extends evidence provided in the recent literature to consider both linear and nonlinear adjustment in panel unit root tests, to addresst he issue of cross-sectional dependence, and to substantially expand both time-series and cross sectional dimensions of the data analysed. We find that the majority (65%) of the series are nonstationary with slightly fewer OECD countries’ (61%) series exhibiting a unit root than non-OECD countries (68%).…”
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Structural Breaks and the Equilibrium Chinese Yuan/US Dollar Real Exchange Rate: A FEER Approach by You, Kefei, Sarantis, Nicholas

“…Third, we construct a unique set of quarterly data. We find structural breaks in all trade and the sustainable current account equations, with the break dates corresponding to important policy changes in China. …”
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Testing for convergence in stock markets : a non-linear factor approach by Caporale, Guglielmo Maria, Erdogan, Burcu, Kuzin, Vladimir

“…In the case of sectoral indices we find convergence in the middle of the sample period, followed by divergence, and detect four (two large and two small) clusters. …”
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Interest and exchange rate risk and stock returns : a multivariate GARCH-M modelling approach by Beirne, John, Caporale, Guglielmo Maria, Spagnolo, Nicola

“…The econometric framework is a four-variate GARCH-in-mean model, which incorporates long-and short-term interest rates in turn. We find in most cases a positive effect of stock market returns on mean returns in each sector; by contrast, interest rates and exchange rates have a significant effect only in a few cases, respectively negative and without a clear sign pattern. …”
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University ownership and information about the entrepreneurial opportunity in commercialisation: a systematic review and realist synthesis of the literature by Kalantaridis, Christos, Merle, Kuttim

“…In addressing this issue we adopt a theory-led realist synthesis approach to the conduct of a systematic literature review. Whilst we find empirical evidence supporting the conclusions of theoretical models, i.e. the strengthening role of technology transfer offices, we also point to their shortcomings. …”
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