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Strengthening grassroots organisations for forest management: the case of induced forest-based grassroots groups in Quang Tri Province, Vietnam
(Queen Mary University of London, 2012)
Academic and public policy interest in the role of local resource users in the management of
forests has grown in recent decades. While much attention has focused on the self-organisation
of user groups, with autonomy ...
SOCIAL INFORMATION USE IN SOCIAL INSECTS
(Queen Mary University of London, 07/11/2014)
Social learning plays a valuable role in the lives of many animal taxa, sometimes
allowing individuals to bypass the costs of personal exploration. The ubiquity of this
behaviour may arise from the fact that learning from ...
Celebrity privacy and the development of the judicial concept of proportionality: How English law has balanced the rights to protection and interference
(Queen Mary University of London, 10/11/2014)
This thesis examines how English law has, and has not, balanced celebrities’ legal expectations of informational and seclusional privacy against the press and media’s rights to inform and publish. Much of the litigation ...
Investigations into effects of 12-lipoxygenase and NADPH oxidase on platelet activity, and influences of dietary dark chocolate
(Queen Mary University of London, 2012)
Platelets play a pivotal role in both normal hemostasis and pathological bleeding and importantly also contribute to the development of atherothrombosis. Even though platelet function tests traditionally are utilised mainly ...
Bayesian Networks for Evidence Based Clinical Decision Support.
(Queen Mary University of London, 2013)
Evidence based medicine (EBM) is defined as the use of best available evidence for decision making, and it has been the predominant paradigm in clinical decision making for the last 20 years. EBM requires evidence from ...
Measurement of the production cross section of a W boson with a single charm quark using the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider.
(Queen Mary University of London, 2014)
This thesis presents the measurement of the production cross section of a W boson with a single charm quark in 7 TeV proton-proton collisions using the ATLAS
detector at the Large Hadron Collider. The data analysed ...
The Subcellular Localisation of HAX1 Isoforms and Their Roles in Cancer Cell Migration, Autophagy and Apoptosis.
(Queen Mary University of London, 2013-02)
It has been reported that HAX1 is a multi-functional protein which protects cells from apoptosis, modulates autophagy, regulates membrane protein trafficking and promotes cell migration. Many studies have shown it has many ...
Structure and Function Analysis of the Mammalian ATP-Binding Cassette Transporters, ABCB1 and ABCB4.
(Queen Mary University of London, 2012-09)
Mammalian ABC (ATP-binding cassette) transporters are integral membrane proteins that translocate allocrites across biological membranes using ATP as a substrate.
ABCB1 is a polyspecific efflux pump which can confer ...
Investigating the functional significance of an FGFR2 intronic SNP in Breast Cancer
(Queen Mary University of London, 2013-05)
Single nucleotide polymorphisms present in the second intron of the fibroblast growth factor receptor 2 (FGFR2) gene have been linked with increased risk of breast cancer in several genome wide association studies. The ...
Targeting the Unfolded Protein Response as a Novel Therapeutic Approach in Haematological Malignancies
(Queen Mary University of London, 2012-04)
The unfolded protein response (UPR) is a complex signalling pathway activated in response
to endoplasmic reticulum stress. In recent years, the UPR has been implicated in cancer and
chemosensitivity, particularly in solid ...
