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BRCA awareness and testing experience in the UK Jewish population: a qualitative study
(BMJ Publishing Group, 04-04-2024)Background 1 in 40 UK Jewish individuals carry a pathogenic variant in BRCA1/BRCA2. Traditional testing criteria miss half of carriers, and so population genetic testing is being piloted for Jewish people in England. There ... -
Cardiovascular magnetic resonance reference ranges from the Healthy Hearts Consortium
(Elsevier, 10-04-2024)Background The absence of population-stratified cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) reference ranges from large cohorts is a major shortcoming for clinical care. Objectives This paper provides age-, sex-, and ... -
Financialisation, Shareholder Value Orientation, & the Decline of Trade Union Membership in the EU
(SAGE Publications, 10-04-2024)This paper shows that shareholder value orientation and non-financial corporate indebtedness are negatively associated with union density within the EU over the last 21 years. We argue that the financialisation of non-financial ... -
Explosive cooperation in social dilemmas on higher-order networks
(American Physical Society, 16-04-2024)Understanding how cooperative behaviors can emerge from competitive interactions is an open problem in biology and social sciences. While interactions are usually modeled as pairwise networks, the units of many real-world ... -
Danish study of Non-Invasive testing in Coronary Artery Disease 2 (Dan-NICAD 2): study design for a controlled study of diagnostic accuracy
(Elsevier, 19-05-01)Background: Coronary computed tomography angiography (CTA) is the preferred primary diagnostic modality when examining patients with low to intermediate pre-test probability of coronary artery disease (CAD). Only 20-30% ... -
Distribution Matching for Multi-Task Learning of Classification Tasks: a Large-Scale Study on Faces & Beyond
(Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 24-03-2024)Multi-Task Learning (MTL) is a framework, where multiple related tasks are learned jointly and benefit from a shared representation space, or parameter transfer. To provide sufficient learning support, modern MTL uses ... -
Development of a Pneumatically Actuated Quadruped Robot Using Soft-Rigid Hybrid Rotary Joints
(MDPI, 29-01-2024)Inspired by musculoskeletal systems in nature, this paper presents a pneumatically actuated quadruped robot which utilizes two soft–rigid hybrid rotary joints in each of the four two-degrees of freedom (DoF) planar legs. ... -
Rotary Jet Spinning of Polymer Fibres
(Queen Mary University of London, 01/02/2019)Polymeric nanofibres can be produced from a variety of methods such as electrospinning and melt blowing, with fibres being produced having applications in many sectors such as biomedicine, composites and filtration. Existing ... -
Social and Cultural Risk and Protective Factors for Mental Health in East London Adolescents
(Queen Mary University of London, 01/03/2010)Background There is substantial evidence of the protective influence of social support on psychological distress in adults. Yet, levels of social support and psychological distress vary by ethnicity. There is little research ... -
Role of HOXA7 in growth and differentiation of human keratinocytes
(Queen Mary University of London, 01/03/2018)HOXA7 belongs to a family of homeobox transcription factors that are master regulators of cell differentiation, morphogenesis during embryonic development and cell proliferation. Dysregulation and non-nuclear localization ... -
Carbon Hybrids Electrocatalysts for Oxygen Reduction Reaction in Fuel Cells
(Queen Mary University of London, 01/03/2019)The oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) is a key reaction in fuel cells and metal-air batteries. This process involves multi-electron transfer and is kinetically sluggish due to the high-energy barriers required to break the ... -
Experimental Study of Oxidation, Ignition and Combustion of Aluminum Based Nanomaterials
(Queen Mary University of London, 01/05/2014)Aluminum based reactive nanomaterials have extensive applications in many fields including solid propellants, pyrotechnics, and catalytic reactions. One recent example is the novel concept of using nanostructured energetic ... -
Reverse Monte Carlo Studies of Inorganic Functional Materials Based on Neutron Scattering
(Queen Mary University of London, 01/05/2019)In this thesis, the crystal structure and atomic dynamics of four inorganic functional materials were studied based on powder neutron total scattering data. The studies focused on the structural features that depend on the ... -
The Genetics of Familial Leukaemia and Myelodysplasia
(Queen Mary University of London, 01/05/2019)Background & Aim: While the majority of myelodysplasia and acute myeloid leukaemia (MDS/AML) cases are sporadic, rare familial predisposition syndromes have been delineated and are regarded a separate disease entity in the ... -
Pembrey, Marcus: transcript of a video interview (05-Feb-2016)
(01/06/2016)Interview with Professor Marcus Pembrey, conducted by Professor Tilli Tansey, for the History of Modern Biomedicine Research Group, 05 February 2016, in the School of History, Queen Mary University of London. Transcribed ... -
Rethinking migrants’ financial lives: the role of risk in the everyday financial practices of migrants
(Queen Mary University of London, 01/07/2014)The overall aim of this thesis is to provide an holistic assessment of the financial practices of migrants in advanced Western economies using the analytical lens of risk. More specifically, this research argues that a ... -
Investigating Clustering in Trisomy 18 and Trisomy 13
(Queen Mary University of London, 01/07/2014)Trisomies 18 and 13 are rare genetic conditions (occurring around 1 in 6,000 and 10,000 newborns respectively) which are caused by an extra copy of either chromosome 18 or 13, similar to trisomy 21 (Down syndrome). The ... -
The Role of miRNAs from the 14q32 Region in Acquired Resistance to Lapatinib
(Queen Mary University of London, 01/07/2019)HER2 is over-expressed in 20-25 % of breast cancers. Due to the increase in proliferation and survival signalling resulting from HER2 over-expression, this sub-type is associated with more aggressive tumour progression and ... -
Pentoxifylline in anaemia resistant to erythropoietin (PEAR) study A double blind placebo controlled randomised trial
(Queen Mary University of London, 01/08/2019)Background Hyporesponsiveness to erythropoiesis-stimulating agents (ESA) and its association with adverse cardiovascular outcomes remains a considerable problem in patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD) undergoing ...