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J-domain protein molecular chaperones in inherited cerebellar ataxia: cellular dysfunction and altered metabolism associated with loss of DNAJC29/sacsin and DNAJC3
Proteins containing a J-domain, (known as DnaJ proteins) act to recruit the Hsp70 molecular chaperone machinery to multiple cellular processes. Mutations in several J-domain proteins cause neurological disorders, that are ... -
Jacques Lacan and an encounter with fashion
(2010)This thesis is a psychoanalytic engagement with fashion. It follows from established work in literature, film and visual art, and deploys psychoanalysis, particularly the work of Jacques Lacan, as a critical theory in ... -
The Jewish Kulturbund in Bavaria, 1934-1938: Art and Jewish Self-Representation under National Socialism
(Queen Mary University of London, 2015-08-04)This thesis has two foci: the development of a National Socialist anti- Jewish cultural policy and the processes of internal Jewish community cultural self-representations. At the most basic level it is an organisational ... -
Jews and gender in British literature 1815-1865.
(Queen Mary University of London, 1996)This thesis examines the variety of relationships between Jews and gender in early to mid-nineteenth century British literature, focussing particularly on representations of and by Jewish women. It reconstructs the social, ... -
Jimmy Carter and Latin America
(Queen Mary University of London, 2023)This thesis examines the Latin American foreign policy of the administration of Jimmy Carter (1977-1981). During his presidency, Carter attempted to move away from the Cold War concerns that had dominated American foreign ... -
The Joint Intelligence Committee and the German Question, 1947-61
(2009)This thesis analyses the contribution that the Joint Intelligence Committee (JIQ made to British policy concerning Germany (both West and East) during the early Cold War. The question of control over war-ravaged, but ... -
Joint Neural Networks for One-shot Object Recognition and Detection.
(Queen Mary University of London., 2021-02-09)This thesis presents a study of techniques for one-shot recognition and detec- tion of objects. In computer vision, the one-shot object recognition task aims to categorize matches and mismatches between patterns from ... -
Joint Scheduling and Duty Cycle Control Framework for Hierarchical Machine-to-Machine Communication Networks.
(Queen Mary University of London, 2016-02-01)This thesis presents a novel distributed optimisation framework for machine-tomachine (M2M) communication networks with dynamic traffic generation, heterogeneous applications and different device capabilities. The aim ... -
Joint Spatial and Spectrum Cooperation in Wireless Network.
(Queen Mary University of London, 2015-03)The sky-rocketing growth of multimedia infotainment applications and broadband-hungry mobile devices exacerbate the stringent demand for ultra high data rate and more spectrum resources. Along with it, the unbalanced ... -
Joseph Priestley and the intellectual culture of rational dissent, 1752-1796
(2009)Recent scholarship on the eighteenth-century polymath Joseph Priestley (1733-1804) has focused on his work as a pioneering scientist, a controversial Unitarian polemicist, and a radical political theorist. This thesis ... -
The journées of Prairial: the role of the faubourg Antoine reconsidered
(2022)Following extensive archival research the thesis re-examines in depth the journées of 1-4 Prairial 1795, which are considered by some to be a significant turning point of the French Revolution. The traditional narrative ... -
Jurisdiction to tax in the digital economy - Revisiting the benefit principle
The benefit principle constitutes one of the main justifications for states to exercise their tax jurisdiction at the international level. Nevertheless, despite it being a robust part of both residence and source jurisdictional ... -
Jurisdictional limits of the Energy Charter Treaty and its interplay with related treaties and arbitration rules: the notion of investor
(Queen Mary University of London, 2011)The boom of bilateral investment treaties and trade agreements came with an increasing number of disputes between investors and states related to actions and omissions of states in respect of the protection of investors ... -
Just Joking: Speech, Performance and Ethics
(Queen Mary University of London, 2017-04-07)Why do people go into rooms to watch other people speak? What is it that is taking place when a performer walks onto a stage, or steps up to a microphone, and, in the silence that has fallen, begins to speak? This thesis ... -
Justice and Trust: The European Arrest Warrant and Human Rights.
(Queen Mary University of London, 2013)This thesis considers the relationship between human rights and the principle of mutual recognition as applied in criminal matters. It examines the impact of the European Arrest Warrant (EAW) on human rights and highlights ... -
The Justice of Balance: Understanding Intellectual Property from Chinese Historical and Philosophical Perspectives
(2007)In today's world, intellectual property is widely viewed as a threat to the public interest in using knowledge. As many scholars have argued, a theoretical reason accounting for this phenomenon is that traditional ... -
K-theory for étale groupoid C*-algebras via groupoid correspondences and spectral sequences
(2022)We develop techniques that allow us to convert isomorphisms in the homology of ample groupoids into isomorphisms in the K-theory of their associated C*-algebras. We apply this to prove an "orbit-stabiliser" K-theory formula ... -
“Keep our markets open”: Remaking Urban Marketplaces and Everyday Financial Practices in Nairobi in the Time of COVID-19
This research engages with geographical scholarship to better understand the role of crisis and its narratives in shaping socioeconomic and financial development. Previous research on crisis narratives has focused on the ... -
Keeping Europe in Order Conservative International Political Thought in Victorian Britain, 1854-1880
(Queen Mary University of London, 2014-09-24)Conservative international thought in Victorian Britain is a prominent landmark in the landscape of international thought which has up to now gone unmapped. In illuminating this body of thought, the thesis addresses ... -
Keratin Dynamics and the Role of Lipids on Keratinocyte Differentiation and mRNA Stability
(Queen Mary University of London, 04/12/2019)Keratin K2 is a 66 kDa type II intermediate filament protein expressed in differentiating keratinocytes of the epidermis with a very low-level expression in normal oral mucosa. In the epidermis it is expressed in the upper ...