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The apologetic and pastoral intentions of Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya's polemic against Jews and Christians (2010)
Journal Article

The Mongol destruction of Baghdad in 1258 and subsequent Mongol incursions into Syria through the early 1300s ushered in a period of great political and religious anxiety in the Near East. The Mongol Ilkhanid rulers of Persia and Iraq corralled the C... Read More about The apologetic and pastoral intentions of Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya's polemic against Jews and Christians.

Comparative transcriptional profiling of the limbal epithelial crypt demonstrates its putative stem cell niche characteristics (2010)
Journal Article

Background: The Limbal epithelial crypt (LEC) is a solid cord of cells, approximately 120 microns long. It arises from the undersurface of interpalisade rete ridges of the limbal palisades of Vogt and extends deeper into the limbal stroma parallel or... Read More about Comparative transcriptional profiling of the limbal epithelial crypt demonstrates its putative stem cell niche characteristics.

Catecholaminergic depletion within the prelimbic medial prefrontal cortex enhances latent inhibition (2010)
Journal Article

Latent inhibition (LI) refers to the reduction in conditioning to a stimulus that has received repeated non-reinforced pre-exposure. Investigations into the neural substrates of LI have focused on the nucleus accumbens (NAc) and its inputs from the h... Read More about Catecholaminergic depletion within the prelimbic medial prefrontal cortex enhances latent inhibition.

Protease sensing with nanoparticle based platforms (2010)
Journal Article

Nanoparticulate systems in various unique configurations are highly effective at detecting protease activity both in vivo and in vitro. In this article, we have summarised the conventional modern methods for monitoring protease activity, and critical... Read More about Protease sensing with nanoparticle based platforms.

Changing patterns of care coordination within old-age services in England (2010)
Journal Article

There has been a focus internationally in recent years on policies and strategies to divert the long-term care of frail older people away from residential and nursing home care and enhance provision of community-based care by improving care coordinat... Read More about Changing patterns of care coordination within old-age services in England.

Human antibody responses to the meningococcal factor H binding protein (LP2086) during invasive disease, colonization and carriage (2010)
Journal Article

Recombinant forms of Neisseria meningitidis factor H binding protein (fHBP) are undergoing clinical trials in candidate vaccines against serogroup B meningococcal disease. Little is known, however, about the host response to fHBP during natural carri... Read More about Human antibody responses to the meningococcal factor H binding protein (LP2086) during invasive disease, colonization and carriage.

Protein restriction in the pregnant mouse modifies fetal growth and pulmonary development: Role of fetal exposure to ?-hydroxybutyrate (2010)
Journal Article

Maternal undernutrition during sensitive periods of pregnancy results in offspring predisposed towards the development of a number of diseases of adulthood, including hypertension and diabetes. In order to determine the nature of any gross alteration... Read More about Protein restriction in the pregnant mouse modifies fetal growth and pulmonary development: Role of fetal exposure to ?-hydroxybutyrate.

High wintertime particulate matter pollution over an offshore island (Kinmen) off southeastern China: an overview (2010)
Journal Article

Both the Yangtze River Delta (YRD) and the Pearl River Delta (PRD), the two most rapidly developing areas in eastern China, have suffered from serious air pollution, and thus, numerous investigations were devoted to studying these problems. Other are... Read More about High wintertime particulate matter pollution over an offshore island (Kinmen) off southeastern China: an overview.

Improved dynamic lexicographic ordering for multi-objective optimisation (2010)
Conference Proceeding

There is a variety of methods for ranking objectives in multiobjective optimization and some are difficult to define because they require information a priori (e.g. establishing weights in a weighted approach or setting the ordering in a lexicographi... Read More about Improved dynamic lexicographic ordering for multi-objective optimisation.

TNF and IFN  Synergistically Enhance Transcriptional Activation of CXCL10 in Human Airway Smooth Muscle Cells via STAT-1, NF- B, and the Transcriptional Coactivator CREB-binding Protein (2010)
Journal Article

Asthmatic airway smooth muscle (ASM) expresses interferon-?-inducible protein-10 (CXCL10), a chemokine known to mediate mast cell migration into ASM bundles that has been reported in the airways of asthmatic patients. CXCL10 is elevated in patients s... Read More about TNF and IFN  Synergistically Enhance Transcriptional Activation of CXCL10 in Human Airway Smooth Muscle Cells via STAT-1, NF- B, and the Transcriptional Coactivator CREB-binding Protein.

CODEA : an agent based multi-objective optimization framework (2010)
Conference Proceeding

This work presents CODEA, a COoperative DEcentralized Architecture for Multiobjective Optimization. CODEA is an objectoriented framework that aims at the creation of groups of agents to tackle complex problems by cooperative search. This cooperation... Read More about CODEA : an agent based multi-objective optimization framework.

On the relevance of the mathematics curriculum to young people (2010)
Journal Article

In this paper we draw upon focus group data from a large study of learner trajectories through 14-19 mathematics education to think about the notion of relevance in the mathematics curriculum. Drawing on data from three socially distanced sites we e... Read More about On the relevance of the mathematics curriculum to young people.

Modelling office energy consumption: an agent based approach (2010)
Conference Proceeding

In this paper, we develop an agent-based model which integrates four important elements, i.e. organisational energy management policies/regulations, energy management technologies, electric appliances and equipment, and human behaviour, based on a ca... Read More about Modelling office energy consumption: an agent based approach.

Hormone transport (2010)
Book Chapter

Hormone transport in plants is a fundamental process governing all aspects of plant development. Identification and functional analysis of plasma membrane proteins, which regulate the import and export of plant hormones, is a requirement if we are to... Read More about Hormone transport.

Discrete-event simulation is dead, long live agent-based simulation! (2010)
Journal Article

There has been much discussion about why agent-based simulation (ABS) is not as widely used as discrete-event simulation in Operational Research (OR) as it is in neighbouring disciplines such as Computer Science, the Social Sciences or Economics. To... Read More about Discrete-event simulation is dead, long live agent-based simulation!.

Paper mulberry (Broussonetia papyrifera) as a commensal model for human mobility in Oceania: anthropological, botanical and genetic considerations (2010)
Journal Article

Paper mulberry (Broussonetia papyrifera (L.) Vent.) was one of the most widely distributed crop species in prehistoric Oceania, occurring from continental East Asia to the Polynesian islands. Its broad distribution is largely due to human-mediated di... Read More about Paper mulberry (Broussonetia papyrifera) as a commensal model for human mobility in Oceania: anthropological, botanical and genetic considerations.

Localization and Gene Expression of Human β-Defensin 9 at the Human Ocular Surface Epithelium (2010)
Journal Article

Purpose: Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) are multifunctional host defense molecules. Human β-defensin 9 (HBD9) has previously been shown to be downregulated during ocular surface (OS) infection or inflammation. Here, the authors aimed to study localiz... Read More about Localization and Gene Expression of Human β-Defensin 9 at the Human Ocular Surface Epithelium.

Programmed repression of tubular 11?-HSD2-a novel form of AME? (2010)
Journal Article

Optimized reprocessing of documents using stored processor state (2010)
Conference Proceeding

Variable Data Printing (VDP) allows customised versions of material such as advertising flyers to be readily produced. However, VDP is often extremely demanding of computing resources because, even when much of the material stays invariant from one d... Read More about Optimized reprocessing of documents using stored processor state.

Computational study of non-linear great deluge for university course timetabling (2010)
Book Chapter

The great deluge algorithm explores neighbouring solutions which are accepted if they are better than the best solution so far or if the detriment in quality is no larger than the current water level. In the original great deluge method, the water le... Read More about Computational study of non-linear great deluge for university course timetabling.