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Patient perceptions of glucocorticoids in anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibody-associated vasculitis (2017)
Journal Article

© 2017, The Author(s). Granulomatosis with polyangiitis (GPA), microscopic polyangiitis (MPA), and eosinophilic granulomatosis with polyangiitis (EGPA) are multisystem diseases of small blood vessels, collectively known as the anti-neutrophil cytopla... Read More about Patient perceptions of glucocorticoids in anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibody-associated vasculitis.

Biased compensation recursive least squares-based threshold algorithm for time-delay rational models via redundant rule (2017)
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© 2017, Springer Science+Business Media B.V., part of Springer Nature. This paper develops a biased compensation recursive least squares-based threshold algorithm for a time-delay rational model. The time-delay rational model is transformed into an a... Read More about Biased compensation recursive least squares-based threshold algorithm for time-delay rational models via redundant rule.

Book review of Reid, C. (2017) Bike boom: The unexpected resurgence of cycling (2017)
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Book review of Carlton Reid's book Bike boom: the unexpected resurgence of cycling

A novel 3D imaging system for strawberry phenotyping (2017)
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© 2017 The Author(s). Background: Accurate and quantitative phenotypic data in plant breeding programmes is vital in breeding to assess the performance of genotypes and to make selections. Traditional strawberry phenotyping relies on the human eye to... Read More about A novel 3D imaging system for strawberry phenotyping.

Natural selection: Empiricist discourse in the talk of broadcast journalists (2017)
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© 2017, © The Author(s) 2017. Journalists are frequently used as a source of information for those studying news production and practice and as a means of describing the ‘real’ world of news. However, these conversations between researcher and journa... Read More about Natural selection: Empiricist discourse in the talk of broadcast journalists.

Glycyrrhiza glabra extract and quercetin reverses cisplatin resistance in triple-negative MDA-MB-468 breast cancer cells via inhibition of cytochrome P450 1B1 enzyme (2017)
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© 2017 Elsevier Ltd The development of multi-drug resistance to existing anticancer drugs is one of the major challenges in cancer treatment. The over-expression of cytochrome P450 1B1 enzyme has been reported to cause resistance to cisplatin. With a... Read More about Glycyrrhiza glabra extract and quercetin reverses cisplatin resistance in triple-negative MDA-MB-468 breast cancer cells via inhibition of cytochrome P450 1B1 enzyme.

Political connectedness and formal finance in transition economies (2017)
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Although small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) represent more than 90% of all enterprises and play an important role in employment generation, they lack access to affordable formal finance. Conventionally, market failures and information imperfe... Read More about Political connectedness and formal finance in transition economies.

Working the break point: Maintenance, repair and failure in art (2017)
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This article draws on repair practices within the arts, media and academia. Taking Mierle Laderman Ukeles, MANIFESTO FOR MAINTENANCE ART 1969! as a starting point the paper discusses what Schulz (2017) has referred to as the ‘turn’ towards repair. Em... Read More about Working the break point: Maintenance, repair and failure in art.

Exploring the key drivers behind the adoption of mobile banking services (2017)
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This research examines the main drivers behind the adoption of mobile banking, a concept that has revolutionized the day-to-day activities of humans. A review of relevant literature on the topic, leads us toward testing the following key hypotheses:... Read More about Exploring the key drivers behind the adoption of mobile banking services.

Salvaging building materials in a circular economy: A BIM-based whole-life performance estimator (2017)
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© 2017 The Author(s) The aim of this study is to develop a BIM-based Whole-life Performance Estimator (BWPE) for appraising the salvage performance of structural components of buildings right from the design stage. A review of the extant literature w... Read More about Salvaging building materials in a circular economy: A BIM-based whole-life performance estimator.

(E)-3-(3,4,5-Trimethoxyphenyl)-1-(pyridin-4-yl)prop-2-en-1-one, a heterocyclic chalcone is a potent and selective CYP1A1 inhibitor and cancer chemopreventive agent (2017)
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The overexpression of CYP1 family of enzymes is reported to be associated with development of human carcinomas. It has been well reported that CYP1A1 specific inhibitors prevents carcinogenesis. Herein, thirteen pyridine-4-yl series of chalcones were... Read More about (E)-3-(3,4,5-Trimethoxyphenyl)-1-(pyridin-4-yl)prop-2-en-1-one, a heterocyclic chalcone is a potent and selective CYP1A1 inhibitor and cancer chemopreventive agent.

Watershed services in the humid tropics: Opportunities from recent advances in ecohydrology (2017)
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In response to increasing pressures on water resources, watershed services management programs are implemented throughout the tropics. These programs aim to promote land management activities that enhance the quantity and quality of water available t... Read More about Watershed services in the humid tropics: Opportunities from recent advances in ecohydrology.

Learning a minority language through authentic conversation using an online social learning method (2017)
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© 2017 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. Advances in technology are currently helping to speed up the globalisation of ‘super’ languages. One can argue that at the same time technology might be used to help reverse the decline... Read More about Learning a minority language through authentic conversation using an online social learning method.

Learning groups: the effects of group diversity on the quality of group reflection (2017)
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© 2017 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This study explores the quality of reflection, and how group diversity affects group reflection by final-year accounting and finance undergraduates using Mezirow’s [(1991). Transformativ... Read More about Learning groups: the effects of group diversity on the quality of group reflection.

Editorial: Bisexualities and non-binary sexualities: Reflecting on invisibility, erasure and marginalisation (2017)
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Editorial: Bisexualities and non-binary sexualities: Reflecting on invisibility, erasure and marginalisation.

A new result on observer-based sliding mode control design for a class of uncertain Ito^ stochastic delay systems (2017)
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© 2017 The Franklin Institute This paper develops a new observer-based sliding mode control (SMC) scheme for a general class of Ito^ stochastic delay systems (SDS). The key merit of the presented scheme lies in its simplicity and integrity in design... Read More about A new result on observer-based sliding mode control design for a class of uncertain Ito^ stochastic delay systems.

The Form and Content of the Greek Crisis Legislation (2017)
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© 2017, The Author(s). This paper offers a dialectical analysis of the law relating to the Greek crisis. The form and content of the measures introduced in the Greek legal system to deal with the debt crisis is examined under the concept of ‘necessit... Read More about The Form and Content of the Greek Crisis Legislation.

Distribution of the branched-chain α-ketoacid dehydrogenase complex E1α subunit and glutamate dehydrogenase in the human brain and their role in neuro-metabolism (2017)
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© 2017 Glutamate is the major excitatory neurotransmitter of the central nervous system, with the branched-chain amino acids (BCAAs) acting as key nitrogen donors for de novo glutamate synthesis. Despite the importance of these major metabolites, the... Read More about Distribution of the branched-chain α-ketoacid dehydrogenase complex E1α subunit and glutamate dehydrogenase in the human brain and their role in neuro-metabolism.

Reasserting the primacy of human needs to reclaim the ‘lost half’ of sustainable development (2017)
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© 2017 Elsevier B.V. The concept of sustainable development evolved from growing awareness of the interdependence of social and economic progress with the limits of the supporting natural environment, becoming progressively integrated into global agr... Read More about Reasserting the primacy of human needs to reclaim the ‘lost half’ of sustainable development.

Development of a Parenting Support Program to Prevent Abuse of Adolescents in South Africa: Findings From a Pilot Pre-Post Study (2017)
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© 2016, © The Author(s) 2016. Purpose: Violence against children increases in adolescence, but there is a research and practice gap in research-supported child abuse prevention for the adolescent years. A pilot program for low-resource settings was d... Read More about Development of a Parenting Support Program to Prevent Abuse of Adolescents in South Africa: Findings From a Pilot Pre-Post Study.