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Clinical and biological roles of Kelch-like family member 7 in breast cancer: a marker of poor prognosis (2018)
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Kurozumi, S., Joseph, C., Sonbul, S., Gorringe, K. L., Pigera, M., Aleskandarany, M. A., …Rakha, E. A. (in press). Clinical and biological roles of Kelch-like family member 7 in breast cancer: a marker of poor prognosis. Breast Cancer Research and Treatment, 170(3), https://doi.org/10.1007/s10549-018-4777-z

Background: The functions of many proteins are tightly regulated with a complex array of cellular functions including ubiquitination. In cancer cells, aberrant ubiquitination may promote the activity of oncogenic pathways with subsequent tumour progr... Read More about Clinical and biological roles of Kelch-like family member 7 in breast cancer: a marker of poor prognosis.

Five years of monitoring for the emergence of oseltamivir resistance in patients with influenza A infections in the Influenza Resistance Information Study (IRIS) (2018)
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Lina, B., Boucher, C., Osterhaus, A., Monto, A. S., Schutten, M., Whitley, R. J., & Nguyen-Van-Tam, J. S. (2018). Five years of monitoring for the emergence of oseltamivir resistance in patients with influenza A infections in the Influenza Resistance Information Study (IRIS). Influenza and Other Respiratory Viruses, 12(2), 267-278. https://doi.org/10.1111/irv.12534

High nuclear MSK1 is associated with longer survival in breast cancer patients (2018)
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Pu, X., Storr, S. J., Ahmad, N., Rakha, E., Green, A. R., Ellis, I. O., & Martin, S. G. (2018). High nuclear MSK1 is associated with longer survival in breast cancer patients. Journal of Cancer Research and Clinical Oncology, 144(3), https://doi.org/10.1007/s00432-018-2579-7

Purpose: Mitogen- and stress- activated kinases (MSKs) are important substrates of the mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK)-activated protein kinase family. MSK1 and MSK2 are both nuclear serine/threonine protein kinases, with MSK1 being suggested... Read More about High nuclear MSK1 is associated with longer survival in breast cancer patients.

IL-6 and IL-10 are associated with good prognosis in early stage invasive breast cancer patients (2017)
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Ahmad, N., Ammar, A., Storr, S. J., Green, A. R., Rakha, E., Ellis, I., & Martin, S. G. (2018). IL-6 and IL-10 are associated with good prognosis in early stage invasive breast cancer patients. Cancer Immunology, Immunotherapy, 67(4), https://doi.org/10.1007/s00262-017-2106-8

Macrophage-associated cytokines play an important role in cancer metastasis however the functions of Interleukins (IL) 6 and 10 in breast cancer (BC) progression and metastasis are not clear. In this study the roles of IL-6/IL-10 in regulating vascul... Read More about IL-6 and IL-10 are associated with good prognosis in early stage invasive breast cancer patients.

Disappointment aversion and social comparisons in a real-effort competition (2017)
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Gaechter, S., Huang, L., & Sefton, M. (2018). Disappointment aversion and social comparisons in a real-effort competition. Economic Inquiry, 56(3), https://doi.org/10.1111/ecin.12498

We present an experiment to investigate the source of disappointment aversion in a sequential real-effort competition. Specifically, we study the contribution of social comparison effects to the disappointment aversion previously identified in a two-... Read More about Disappointment aversion and social comparisons in a real-effort competition.

Team incentives and leadership (2017)
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Drouvelis, M., Nosenzo, D., & Sefton, M. (in press). Team incentives and leadership. Journal of Economic Psychology, 62, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joep.2017.07.002

We study, experimentally, how two alternative incentive mechanisms affect team performance and how a team chooses between alternative mechanisms. We study a group incentive mechanism (team output is shared equally among team members) and a hierarchic... Read More about Team incentives and leadership.

Macrophage-derived interleukin-1beta promotes human breast cancer cell migration and lymphatic adhesion in vitro (2017)
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Storr, S. J., Safuan, S., Ahmad, N., El-Refaee, M., Jackson, A. M., & Martin, S. G. (2017). Macrophage-derived interleukin-1beta promotes human breast cancer cell migration and lymphatic adhesion in vitro. Cancer Immunology, Immunotherapy, 66(10), 1287-1294. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00262-017-2020-0

Lymphovascular invasion (LVI), encompassing blood and lymphatic vessel invasion, is an important event in tumourigenesis. Macrophages within the tumour microenvironment are linked to the presence of LVI and angiogenesis. This study investigates the r... Read More about Macrophage-derived interleukin-1beta promotes human breast cancer cell migration and lymphatic adhesion in vitro.

Antecedents of green supplier championing and greenwashing: An empirical study on leadership and ethical incentives (2017)
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Blome, C., Foerstl, K., & Schleper, M. C. (2017). Antecedents of green supplier championing and greenwashing: An empirical study on leadership and ethical incentives. Journal of Cleaner Production, 152, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2017.03.052

Buying firms are increasingly confronted with compliance scandals in their upstream supply chain, for which they are held accountable by their stakeholders. Purely symbolic practices, typically referred to as greenwashing, as well as substantive prac... Read More about Antecedents of green supplier championing and greenwashing: An empirical study on leadership and ethical incentives.

Extending the supply chain visibility boundary: utilizing stakeholders for identifying supply chain sustainability risks (2017)
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Busse, C., Schleper, M. C., Weilenmann, J., & Wagner, S. M. (2017). Extending the supply chain visibility boundary: utilizing stakeholders for identifying supply chain sustainability risks. International Journal of Physical Distribution and Logistics Management, 47(1), https://doi.org/10.1108/IJPDLM-02-2015-0043

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate how buying firms facing low supply chain visibility can utilize their stakeholder network to identify salient supply chain sustainability risks (SCSR). Design/methodology/approach – The study empl... Read More about Extending the supply chain visibility boundary: utilizing stakeholders for identifying supply chain sustainability risks.

RORγt+ innate lymphoid cells promote lymph node metastasis of breast cancers (2017)
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Irshad, S., Flores-Borja, F., Lawler, K., Monypenny, J., Evans, R., Male, V., …Martin, S. G. (2017). RORγt+ innate lymphoid cells promote lymph node metastasis of breast cancers. Cancer Research, 77(5), 1083-1096. https://doi.org/10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-16-0598

Cancer cells tend to metastasize first to tumor-draining lymph nodes, but the mechanisms mediating cancer cell invasion into the lymphatic vasculature remain little understood. Here, we show that in the human breast tumor microenvironment (TME), the... Read More about RORγt+ innate lymphoid cells promote lymph node metastasis of breast cancers.

A comparison between London and Baghdad surface urban heat islands and possible engineering mitigation solutions (2016)
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Ali, J. M., Marsh, S., & Smith, M. J. (2017). A comparison between London and Baghdad surface urban heat islands and possible engineering mitigation solutions. Sustainable Cities and Society, 29, 159-168. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scs.2016.12.010

This study adopts remote sensing techniques to compare the Surface urban Heat Island (SUHI) in Bagh-dad and London as they represent different climatic conditions, natural environments and levels of urbandevelopment. It tests the reported correlation... Read More about A comparison between London and Baghdad surface urban heat islands and possible engineering mitigation solutions.

Computational evaluation of the impact of incorporated nitrogen and oxygen heteroatoms on the affinity of polyaromatic ligands for carbon dioxide and methane in metal–organic frameworks (2016)
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Henley, A., Lennox, M. J., Easun, T. L., Moreau, F., Schröder, M., & Besley, E. (2016). Computational evaluation of the impact of incorporated nitrogen and oxygen heteroatoms on the affinity of polyaromatic ligands for carbon dioxide and methane in metal–organic frameworks. Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 48(120), 27342-27348. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.6b08767

Density functional theory is employed to explore the binding of carbon dioxide and methane in a series of isoreticular metal–organic frameworks, with particular emphasis on understanding the impact of directly incorporated nitrogen and oxygen heteroa... Read More about Computational evaluation of the impact of incorporated nitrogen and oxygen heteroatoms on the affinity of polyaromatic ligands for carbon dioxide and methane in metal–organic frameworks.

Caspase-3 and caspase-8 expression in breast cancer: caspase-3 is associated with survival (2016)
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Xuan, P., Storr, S. J., Zhang, Y., Rakha, E., Green, A. R., Ellis, I. O., & Martin, S. G. (in press). Caspase-3 and caspase-8 expression in breast cancer: caspase-3 is associated with survival. Apoptosis, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10495-016-1323-5

Impaired apoptosis is one of the hallmarks of cancer. Caspase-3 and -8 are key regulators of the apoptotic response and have been shown to interact with the calpain family, a group of cysteine proteases, during tumorigenesis. The current study sought... Read More about Caspase-3 and caspase-8 expression in breast cancer: caspase-3 is associated with survival.

Modelling the spatiotemporal change of canopy urban heat islands (2016)
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Jasim M, A., Marsh, S., & Smith, M. J. (2016). Modelling the spatiotemporal change of canopy urban heat islands. Building and Environment, 107, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.buildenv.2016.07.010

This study models the spatiotemporal change of Birmingham’s urban heat island (UHI) using air temperature measurements made during the HiTemp project to study the atmospheric conditions over the city [1]. The study identifies the causative factors an... Read More about Modelling the spatiotemporal change of canopy urban heat islands.

Non-interpenetrated metal-organic frameworks based on copper(II) paddlewheel and oligoparaxylene-isophthalate linkers: synthesis, structure and gas adsorption (2016)
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Yan, Y., Juricek, M., Coudert, F., Vermeulan, N. A., Grunder, S., Dailly, A., …Schröder, M. (2016). Non-interpenetrated metal-organic frameworks based on copper(II) paddlewheel and oligoparaxylene-isophthalate linkers: synthesis, structure and gas adsorption. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 138(10), https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.5b12312

Two metal–organic framework materials, MFM-130 and MFM-131 (MFM = Manchester Framework Material), have been synthesized using two oligoparaxylene (OPX) tetracarboxylate linkers containing four and five aromatic rings, respectively. Both fof-type non-... Read More about Non-interpenetrated metal-organic frameworks based on copper(II) paddlewheel and oligoparaxylene-isophthalate linkers: synthesis, structure and gas adsorption.

How do risk attitudes affect measured confidence? (2016)
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Murad, Z., Sefton, M., & Starmer, C. (2016). How do risk attitudes affect measured confidence?. Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 52(1), https://doi.org/10.1007/s11166-016-9231-1

We examine the relationship between confidence in own absolute performance and risk attitudes using two confidence elicitation procedures: self-reported (non-incentivised) confidence and an incentivised procedure that elicits the certainty equivalent... Read More about How do risk attitudes affect measured confidence?.

Understanding the electromagnetic interaction of metal organic framework reactants in aqueous solution at microwave frequencies (2016)
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Laybourn, A., Katrib, J., Palade, P. A., Easun, T. L., Champness, N. R., Schröder, M., & Kingman, S. W. (2016). Understanding the electromagnetic interaction of metal organic framework reactants in aqueous solution at microwave frequencies. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 18(7), https://doi.org/10.1039/C5CP05426E

Preparation of metal organic frameworks (MOFs) via microwave heating is becoming increasingly popular due to reduced reaction times and enhanced control of MOF particle size. However, there is little understanding about the detailed interaction of th... Read More about Understanding the electromagnetic interaction of metal organic framework reactants in aqueous solution at microwave frequencies.

Physical model tests and numerical simulation for assessing the stability of brick-lined tunnels (2016)
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Chen, H., Yu, H., & Smith, M. J. (2016). Physical model tests and numerical simulation for assessing the stability of brick-lined tunnels. Tunnelling and Underground Space Technology, 53, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tust.2016.01.016

Nowadays, numerical modelling is increasingly used to assess the stability of tunnels and underground caverns. However, an analysis of the mechanical behaviour of existing brick-lined tunnels remains challenging due to the complex material component... Read More about Physical model tests and numerical simulation for assessing the stability of brick-lined tunnels.