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Platelet-Rich Plasma (Prp) For The Treatment Of Muscle Injury / Mohamad Shariff A Hamid, A Hamid Mohamad Shariff Jan 2014

Platelet-Rich Plasma (Prp) For The Treatment Of Muscle Injury / Mohamad Shariff A Hamid, A Hamid Mohamad Shariff

Student Works (2010-2019)

Muscle injury particularly the hamstring group is the most common type of sports related injury among athletes. Despite its frequent occurrence, the best treatment for hamstring injury is not known. Athletes affected by muscle injury often need considerable amount of time to recover. Recently autologous biological products are being used for treatment of soft tissue injury including that of muscles. Off recent, an autologous platelet-rich plasma (PRP) therapy is one of the ‘hot topics’ discussed in literatures. A systematic review of the available literatures on PRP therapy showed evidences to support PRP use for rotator cuff injury, lateral epicondylitis (tennis …

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A Lightweight Heterogeneous Hybrid Mobile Cloud Computing Framework For Compute-Intensive Mobile Applications / Zohreh Sanaei Moghaddam, Zohreh Sanaei Moghaddam Jan 2014

A Lightweight Heterogeneous Hybrid Mobile Cloud Computing Framework For Compute-Intensive Mobile Applications / Zohreh Sanaei Moghaddam, Zohreh Sanaei Moghaddam

Student Works (2010-2019)

The state-of-the-art Mobile Cloud Computing (MCC) paradigm has gained a momentous ground to mitigate mobile devices’ shortcomings (i.e., computing and energy) by outsourcing resource-intensivemobile tasks to the cloud. Researchers have proposed solutions for compute-intensive mobile applications by leveraging varied types of cloud-based resources, particularly coarse, medium, and fine granular cloud resources. Coarse-grained cloud resources feature high scalability and low locality that originates communication latency, fine-grained resources offer low scalability and high locality that leads to computation latency, and medium-grained resources provide medium scalability and locality breeding communication and computing latency. Such communication and computation latencies negatively impact on energy efficiency …

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Induction Of Labour: Facilitation Of Labour Onset, Prediction Of Success And Improving The Induction Process / Tan Peng Chiong, Peng Chiong Tan Jan 2014

Induction Of Labour: Facilitation Of Labour Onset, Prediction Of Success And Improving The Induction Process / Tan Peng Chiong, Peng Chiong Tan

Student Works (2010-2019)

Labour is induced in about 25% of pregnancies demonstrating its importance in contemporary obstetric practice. The papers forming the thesis are grouped as follows surrounding the central theme of inducing labour: 1) Coitus as a home remedy and membrane sweeping as an office procedure to facilitate onset of labour The works on coitus provide important lessons about human studies. The initial promise from an observational study demonstrating an association of coitus with earlier labour onset was not supported by the findings of two subsequent clinical trials on coitus as an intervention. The secondary data analysis of the first trial also …

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Factors Influencing General Music Teachers’ Attitudes And Practices Regarding Multicultural Music Education / Wong Kwan Yie, Kwan Yie Wong Jan 2014

Factors Influencing General Music Teachers’ Attitudes And Practices Regarding Multicultural Music Education / Wong Kwan Yie, Kwan Yie Wong

Student Works (2010-2019)

This study has two fold purposes to examine 1) the level of multiculturalism in terms of life experience, personal attitudes, personal behaviour, and professional behaviour amongst the general music teachers; and 2) the utilization of multicultural music education by the teachers in curriculum and activities. More specifically, this study also intends to explore the relationship between the general music teacher’s behaviour and their efforts in developing and implementing multicultural music education in music classes. The simple random sampling procedure was used in this study. The subjects included the primary schools’ general music teachers (N=456) in the Klang Valley, Malaysia. To …

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Differential Effects Of Corrective Feedback On The Esl Learners’ Accuracy Of Linguistic Forms / Asiah Binti Kassim, Asiah Kassim Jan 2014

Differential Effects Of Corrective Feedback On The Esl Learners’ Accuracy Of Linguistic Forms / Asiah Binti Kassim, Asiah Kassim

Student Works (2010-2019)

This mixed-method study investigated the extent of focused and unfocused indirect corrective feedback efficacy in improving learners’ linguistic accuracy in written work over a period of time. The quantitative inquiry that involved two treatment groups (n = 30 for focused indirect corrections and n = 30 for unfocused indirect corrections) and a control group (n = 30), compared the differential effects of focused indirect with the unfocused indirect corrective feedback on the uptake and retention of the accurate use of subject-verb agreement, prepositions and articles as measured from the pretest, immediate and delayed posttests. The participants in the treatment groups …

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The Use Of Alginate As A Potential Chondrogenic Differentiation Promoter Of Mesenchymal Stromal Cells And Its Application / Havva Dashtdar, Dashtdar Havva Jan 2014

The Use Of Alginate As A Potential Chondrogenic Differentiation Promoter Of Mesenchymal Stromal Cells And Its Application / Havva Dashtdar, Dashtdar Havva

Student Works (2010-2019)

Alginate culture system offers an ideal 3-Dimensional microenvironment for the re-differentiation of chondrocytes following its isolation from its environment and 2D culture expansion. It has also been shown that this material supports chondrogenesis for mesenchymal stromal cells in vitro. Bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stromal cells (MSCs) have been considered a potential cell source for cartilage repair. However, successful translation of such stem cell therapy into clinical trials using alginate as a carrier requires better understanding of the complex processes involved in the differentiation of MSCs. Changes in chondrogenic microenvironment may induce different outcomes during chondrogenesis, i.e. either stable chondrocyte-like phenotype or …

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Performance Of Bioclimatic Design Strategies At Residential College Buildings In University Of Malaya / Adi Ainurzaman Bin Jamaludin, Adi Ainurzaman Jamaludin Jan 2014

Performance Of Bioclimatic Design Strategies At Residential College Buildings In University Of Malaya / Adi Ainurzaman Bin Jamaludin, Adi Ainurzaman Jamaludin

Student Works (2010-2019)

Preliminary studies of twelve residential colleges located in the University of Malaya campus, Kuala Lumpur were conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of their current implementation of bioclimatic design strategies, as well as their performance in terms of electricity usage. It was found that residential college buildings designed with an internal courtyard and balconies for each room achieve the most efficient electricity use, within a range of between 24 to 33 kWh/m2/year, while other residential college buildings recorded annual electricity use of between 40 to 125 kWh/m2/year. One of them, 5th residential college (5th RC) was selected for the case study …

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Aktiviti Pemulihan Bacaan Di Sebuah Sekolah Rendah: Satu Kajian Kes / Nor Laila Bt Kuslan, Nor Laila Kuslan Jan 2014

Aktiviti Pemulihan Bacaan Di Sebuah Sekolah Rendah: Satu Kajian Kes / Nor Laila Bt Kuslan, Nor Laila Kuslan

Student Works (2010-2019)

The purpose of this study is to examine the operational activities of the remedial reading in a selected national primary school in Shah Alam, Selangor. Specifically, its main purpose is to explore how the teaching and learning process of the remedial reading is conducted and what are the factors that support or hinder the success of the activities. The respondents of the study consisted of 27 Year 1 remedial pupils, school administrators (Head Mistress and Academic Senior Assistant), the Remedial Teacher, Bahasa Melayu subject teachers of those remedial pupils, School Counsellors, Media Teacher, remedial pupils’ parents and Ministry Officials who …

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Content-Based Recommender System For An Academic Social Network / Vala Ali Rohani, Rohani Vala Ali Jan 2014

Content-Based Recommender System For An Academic Social Network / Vala Ali Rohani, Rohani Vala Ali

Student Works (2010-2019)

The rapid growth of Web 2.0 applications, such as blogs and social networks creates rich online information and provides various new sources of knowledge. The situation, however, leads to a great challenge in terms of information overload among social network users. Recommender systems (RSs) alleviate this problem with a technique that suggests relevant information from the abundance of Web data by considering the user’s previous preference. Collaborative and content-based are the recommendation techniques typically used in existing RSs. The content-based method is employed more widely though. Similar to the collaborative, the content-based technique suffers from the cold-start dilemma that is …

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Prescribed Fire And Oak Sapling Physiology, Demography And Folivore Damage In An Ozark Woodland, D. Alexander Wait, Doug P. Aubrey Jan 2014

Prescribed Fire And Oak Sapling Physiology, Demography And Folivore Damage In An Ozark Woodland, D. Alexander Wait, Doug P. Aubrey

Biology: Faculty Publications

Proceedings from the 2014 Central Hardwood Forest Conference in Carbondale, IL. The published proceedings include 27 papers and 47 abstracts pertaining to research conducted on biofuels and bioenergy, forest biometrics, forest ecology and physiology, forest economics, forest health including invasive species, forest soils and hydrology, geographic information systems, harvesting and utilization, silviculture, and wildlife management.

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Deficiency Of Sphingosine-1-Phosphate Lyase Impairs Lysosomal Metabolism Of The Amyloid Precursor Protein, I Karaca, Iy Tamboli, K Glebov, J Richter, Lh Fell, Mo Grimm, Vj Haupenthal, T Hartmann, Mh Gräler, Echten-Deckert G Van, J Walter Jan 2014

Deficiency Of Sphingosine-1-Phosphate Lyase Impairs Lysosomal Metabolism Of The Amyloid Precursor Protein, I Karaca, Iy Tamboli, K Glebov, J Richter, Lh Fell, Mo Grimm, Vj Haupenthal, T Hartmann, Mh Gräler, Echten-Deckert G Van, J Walter

Peninsula Medical School

No abstract provided.

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Mechanisms Underlying Dual Effects Of Serotonin During Development Of Helisoma Trivolvis(Mollusca), K Glebov, Ee Voronezhskaya, My Khabarova, E Ivashkin, Lp Nezlin, Eg Ponimaskin Jan 2014

Mechanisms Underlying Dual Effects Of Serotonin During Development Of Helisoma Trivolvis(Mollusca), K Glebov, Ee Voronezhskaya, My Khabarova, E Ivashkin, Lp Nezlin, Eg Ponimaskin

Peninsula Medical School

No abstract provided.

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Do Muscle Synergies Reduce The Dimensionality Of Behavior?, N Kuppuswamy, Cm Harris Jan 2014

Do Muscle Synergies Reduce The Dimensionality Of Behavior?, N Kuppuswamy, Cm Harris

School of Psychology

The muscle synergy hypothesis is an archetype of the notion of Dimensionality Reduction (DR) occurring in the central nervous system due to modular organization. Toward validating this hypothesis, it is important to understand if muscle synergies can reduce the state-space dimensionality while maintaining task control. In this paper we present a scheme for investigating this reduction utilizing the temporal muscle synergy formulation. Our approach is based on the observation that constraining the control input to a weighted combination of temporal muscle synergies also constrains the dynamic behavior of a system in a trajectory-specific manner. We compute this constrained reformulation of …

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Non-Linear Model Predictive Control Strategies For Process Plants Using Soft Computing Approaches, Kayode Olayemi Owa Jan 2014

Non-Linear Model Predictive Control Strategies For Process Plants Using Soft Computing Approaches, Kayode Olayemi Owa

School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics Theses

The developments of advanced non-linear control strategies have attracted a considerable research interests over the past decades especially in process control. Rather than an absolute reliance on mathematical models of process plants which often brings discrepancies especially owing to design errors and equipment degradation, non-linear models are however required because they provide improved prediction capabilities but they are very difficult to derive. In addition, the derivation of the global optimal solution gets more difficult especially when multivariable and non-linear systems are involved. Hence, this research investigates soft computing techniques for the implementation of a novel real time constrained non-linear model …

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Non Invasive Investigation Of Sensorimotor Control For Future Development Of Brain-Machine-Interface (Bmi), Leo Tomasevic Jan 2014

Non Invasive Investigation Of Sensorimotor Control For Future Development Of Brain-Machine-Interface (Bmi), Leo Tomasevic

School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics Theses

My thesis focuses on describing novel functional connectivity properties of the sensorimotor system that are of potential interest in the field of brain-machine interface. In particular, I have investigated how the connectivity changes as a consequence of either pathologic conditions or spontaneous fluctuations of the brain's internal state. An ad-hoc electronic device has been developed to implement the appropriate experimental settings. First, the functional communication among sensorimotor primary nodes was investigated in multiple sclerosis patients afflicted by persistent fatigue. I selected this condition, for which there is no effective pharmacological treatment, since existing literature links this type of fatigue to …

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Modelling Learning To Count In Humanoid Robots, Marek Rucinski Jan 2014

Modelling Learning To Count In Humanoid Robots, Marek Rucinski

School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics Theses

This thesis concerns the formulation of novel developmental robotics models of embodied phenomena in number learning. Learning to count is believed to be of paramount importance for the acquisition of the remarkable fluency with which humans are able to manipulate numbers and other abstract concepts derived from them later in life. The ever-increasing amount of evidence for the embodied nature of human mathematical thinking suggests that the investigation of numerical cognition with the use of robotic cognitive models has a high potential of contributing toward the better understanding of the involved mechanisms. This thesis focuses on two particular groups of …

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Towards The Grounding Of Abstract Categories In Cognitive Robots, Francesca Stramandinoli Jan 2014

Towards The Grounding Of Abstract Categories In Cognitive Robots, Francesca Stramandinoli

School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics Theses

The grounding of language in humanoid robots is a fundamental problem, especially in social scenarios which involve the interaction of robots with human beings. Indeed, natural language represents the most natural interface for humans to interact and exchange information about concrete entities like KNIFE, HAMMER and abstract concepts such as MAKE, USE. This research domain is very important not only for the advances that it can produce in the design of human-robot communication systems, but also for the implication that it can have on cognitive science. Abstract words are used in daily conversations among people to describe events and situations …

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Student Perceptions Of Online Interactive Versus Traditional Lectures; Or How I Managed Not To Fall Asleep With My Eyes Open, John A. O'Rourke, Susan J. Main, Martin G. Cooper Jan 2014

Student Perceptions Of Online Interactive Versus Traditional Lectures; Or How I Managed Not To Fall Asleep With My Eyes Open, John A. O'Rourke, Susan J. Main, Martin G. Cooper

Research outputs 2014 to 2021

Universities are increasingly experimenting with the online domain to connect with busy and digital-savvy students and counter the decline in face-to-face lecture attendance More often than not universities are offering videoed lectures or PowerPoints with lecturer voice-overs as a way of delivering content. Evidence suggests that while these techniques may provide the flexibility required, some content needs more personalised delivery. In this article the authors explore the development and delivery of an online lecture format. Using a combination of video, text and interactive cell technology, this online offering was trialed in a unit focused on the education of students with …

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Influence Of Age And Sex On Pacing During Sprint, Olympic, Half-Ironman And Ironman Triathlons. Part B, Sam Shi Xuan Wu, Jeremiah J. Peiffer, Jeanick Brisswalter, Wing Y. Lau, Kazunori Nosaka, Christopher Abbiss Jan 2014

Influence Of Age And Sex On Pacing During Sprint, Olympic, Half-Ironman And Ironman Triathlons. Part B, Sam Shi Xuan Wu, Jeremiah J. Peiffer, Jeanick Brisswalter, Wing Y. Lau, Kazunori Nosaka, Christopher Abbiss

Research outputs 2014 to 2021

The aim of this study was to investigate the influence of biological sex and age on the pacing strategies adopted by non-drafting top triathletes during the cycle and run disciplines of a Sprint, Olympic, half-Ironman and Ironman triathlon. Split times of the top 20% non-elite males (n=468) and females (n=146) were determined using official race transponders and a video capture system for pre-determined sections of the cycle and run disciplines of four triathlon distances. Indices of pacing were calculated to compare between sexes and age-groups. Results of this study indicated that different pacing strategies were adopted between athletes of different …

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Educational Innovations And Pedagogical Beliefs: The Case Of A Professional Development Program For Indonesian Teachers, Cher Ping Lim, Jo Tondeur, Hendrati Nastiti, Jeremy E. Pagram Jan 2014

Educational Innovations And Pedagogical Beliefs: The Case Of A Professional Development Program For Indonesian Teachers, Cher Ping Lim, Jo Tondeur, Hendrati Nastiti, Jeremy E. Pagram

Research outputs 2014 to 2021

This study aimed to explore the impact of a professional development program on the teachers’ pedagogical beliefs and practices. More specifically, the program endeavoured to design a prototype for teacher professional development in Indonesia that was sustainable and scalable. This one-year program built upon the participating teachers’ existing practices, reinforced with the concept of reflection as a tool for ongoing inquiry of their own practices. The three major components of this program were: action research, peer-coaching and leadership support. By using a mixed method of quantitative and qualitative data collection, this study examined the changes in the participating teachers’ beliefs …

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Bastard Immigrants: Asylum Seekers Who Arrive By Boat And The Illegitimate Fear Of The Other, Lelia R. Green, Anne Aly Jan 2014

Bastard Immigrants: Asylum Seekers Who Arrive By Boat And The Illegitimate Fear Of The Other, Lelia R. Green, Anne Aly

Research outputs 2014 to 2021

The human capacity to marginalise and discriminate against others on the basis of innate and constructed characteristics is evident from the long history of discrimination against people whose existence is ‘illegitimate’, defined as being outside the law. What is inside or outside the law depends upon the context under consideration. For example, in societies such as ancient Greece and the antebellum United States, where slavery was legal, people who were constructed as ‘slaves’ could legitimately be treated very differently from ‘citizens’: free people who benefit from a range of human rights (Northup). The discernment of what is legitimate from that …

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Principles Of Practice In Mental Health Assessment With Aboriginal Australians, Yolonda Adams, Neil M. Drew, Roz Walker Jan 2014

Principles Of Practice In Mental Health Assessment With Aboriginal Australians, Yolonda Adams, Neil M. Drew, Roz Walker

Research outputs 2014 to 2021

In this chapter, concepts and history of assessment and testing in the context of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander social and emotional wellbeing and mental health are discussed. Importantly, recently revised diagnostic guidelines and the National Practice Standards for the Mental Health Workforce 20131 and their appropriateness for meeting the distinctive needs of Aboriginal people are reviewed. Various assessment tools and measures that have been validated or proved appropriate for use with particular Aboriginal populations, i.e. youth, women and older people, are described. We conclude that practitioners need to be critically reflective in their role in assessment, and position themselves …

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Motherless Mothers: Maternally Bereaved Women In Their Everyday Roles As Mothers, Bethwyn Rowe, Bronwyn A. Harman Jan 2014

Motherless Mothers: Maternally Bereaved Women In Their Everyday Roles As Mothers, Bethwyn Rowe, Bronwyn A. Harman

Research outputs 2014 to 2021

Motherless mothers are women who lose their mothers to death prior to having their children, and therefore raise their children without the maternal support and guidance afforded to many women whose mothers are still alive (Edelman, 2006). A qualitative research design was used to gain an in-depth understanding of the everyday experiences faced by motherless mothers. Semi-structured, in-depth interviews were conducted with 10 motherless mothers. Four major themes emerged including grief, support, absence of knowledge, and changes to self following loss. Results provide insight into the ongoing influence a mother's death can have on a daughter's life and draw distinction …

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Identification Of Unknowns Within A Probabilistic System: The Diagnostic Value Of Attributes, D W. Goodall Jan 2014

Identification Of Unknowns Within A Probabilistic System: The Diagnostic Value Of Attributes, D W. Goodall

Research outputs 2014 to 2021

Using a data base underpinned by probability considerations in which a variety of attributes, some of which may be quantitative, are recorded for a number of “operational taxonomic units” (OTUs), a key system is described by which an unnamed specimen may quickly be identified. The concept of “diagnostic power” is introduced, by which each attribute is evaluated in terms of its potential contribution to identifying the unnamed specimen. Besides coverage of different types of attributes and the introduction of “diagnostic power”, the system has the advantages of incorporating multiple values of an attribute for each OTU and offering short-cuts to …

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Metals In Commonly Eaten Groceries In Western Australia: A Market Basket Survey And Dietary Assessment, Anna Callan, Andrea Hinwood, Amanda Devine Jan 2014

Metals In Commonly Eaten Groceries In Western Australia: A Market Basket Survey And Dietary Assessment, Anna Callan, Andrea Hinwood, Amanda Devine

Research outputs 2014 to 2021

Children’s dietary exposure to metals has received limited attention in Australia. This study undertook a market basket survey and analysed 253 food and beverages for metals. These data were used in conjunction with recent average diet data for children in Western Australia to model dietary metals exposure, with mean metals intakes calculated for boys and girls aged 8, 12, 13 and 16 years. Results show that for some metals, including cadmium, nickel and manganese, dietary intake guidelines have been exceeded in younger children. The mean modelled cadmium intake in children aged 8 years was almost 60% of the World Health …

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Mechanisms And Ecological Role Of Carbon Transfer Within Coastal Seascapes, Glenn A. Hyndes, Ivan Nagelkerken, Rebecca Mcleod, Rod Connolly, Paul S. Lavery, Mathew A. Vanderklift Jan 2014

Mechanisms And Ecological Role Of Carbon Transfer Within Coastal Seascapes, Glenn A. Hyndes, Ivan Nagelkerken, Rebecca Mcleod, Rod Connolly, Paul S. Lavery, Mathew A. Vanderklift

Research outputs 2013

Worldwide, coastal systems provide some of the most productive habitats, which potentially influence a range of marine and terrestrial ecosystems through the transfer of nutrients and energy. Several reviews have examined aspects of connectivity within coastal seascapes, but the scope of those reviews has been limited to single systems or single vectors. We use the transfer of carbon to examine the processes of connectivity through multiple vectors in multiple ecosystems using four coastal seascapes as case studies. We discuss and compare the main vectors of carbon connecting different ecosystems, and then the natural and human-induced factors that influence the magnitude …

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Remote Beehive Monitoring Using Acoustic Signals, Amro Qandour, Iftekhar Ahmad, Daryoush Habibi, Mark Leppard Jan 2014

Remote Beehive Monitoring Using Acoustic Signals, Amro Qandour, Iftekhar Ahmad, Daryoush Habibi, Mark Leppard

Research outputs 2014 to 2021

Recent developments in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) have led to their use in remote data acquisition and automatic data analysis applications, which have proven to be an invaluable tool in a diverse range of fields including biosecurity. Further indications have been found that honeybee health can be monitored and determined through the use of acoustic analysis. In this paper, we present a system that has the ability to remotely detect the presence of pest infestation on a colony of honeybees by comparing the acoustic fingerprint of a hive to a fingerprint of known status. This will aid the goals of …

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Regulation Of Human Pax6 Expression By Mir-7, M Needhamsen, Robert B. White, Keith M. Giles, Sarah A. Dunlop, Meghan G. Thomas Jan 2014

Regulation Of Human Pax6 Expression By Mir-7, M Needhamsen, Robert B. White, Keith M. Giles, Sarah A. Dunlop, Meghan G. Thomas

Research outputs 2014 to 2021

The paired box gene 6 (PAX6) is a powerful mediator of eye and brain organogenesis whose spatiotemporal expression is exquisitely controlled by multiple mechanisms, including post-transcriptional regulation by microRNAs (miRNAs). In the present study, we use bioinformatic predictions to identify three candidate microRNA-7 (miR-7) target sites in the human PAX6 3′ untranslated region (3′-UTR) and demonstrate that two of them are functionally active in a human cell line. Furthermore, transient transfection of cells with synthetic miR-7 inhibits PAX6 protein expression but does not alter levels of PAX6 mRNA, suggesting that miR-7 induces translational repression of PAX6. Finally, a comparison of …

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Setting Goals And Choosing Appropriate Reference Sites For Restoring Mine Pit Lakes As Aquatic Ecosystems: Case Study From South West Australia, Eddie J. Van Etten, C. D. Mccullough, Mark A. Lund Jan 2014

Setting Goals And Choosing Appropriate Reference Sites For Restoring Mine Pit Lakes As Aquatic Ecosystems: Case Study From South West Australia, Eddie J. Van Etten, C. D. Mccullough, Mark A. Lund

Research outputs 2014 to 2021

Pit lakes may form when open cut mining leaves a pit void behind that fills with ground and surface water. Often replacing terrestrial ecosystems that existed prior to mining, the pit lake may offer an alternative ecosystem with aquatic biodiversity values that can be realised through planned restoration. Restoration theory and mine closure regulatory requirements guides us toward restoring disturbed systems towards landscapes that are of regional value and relevance. However, how do we identify a restoration target for a novel aquatic habitat that did not exist prior to the new post-mining landscape? This paper presents a process of first …

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Overexpression Of Phospholipase A2 Group Iia In Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma And Association With Cyclooxygenase-2 Expression, Yan Chun Zhai, Bin Dong, Wen Qiang Wei, Yan He, Xin Qing Li, Robert T. Cormier, Wei Wang, Fen Liu Jan 2014

Overexpression Of Phospholipase A2 Group Iia In Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma And Association With Cyclooxygenase-2 Expression, Yan Chun Zhai, Bin Dong, Wen Qiang Wei, Yan He, Xin Qing Li, Robert T. Cormier, Wei Wang, Fen Liu

Research outputs 2014 to 2021

Background: Esophageal cancer is one of the most frequently occurring malignancies and the seventh leading cause of cancer-related deaths in the world. The esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC) is the most common histological type of esophageal cancer worldwide. Materials and Methods: Our goal in this study was to detect phospholipase A2 Group IIA (PLA2G2A) and cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2) immuno-expression in ESCC in a high-risk population in China. Results: Positive expression of PLA2G2A protein was observed in 57.2% (166/290) of the cases, while COX-2 was found in 257 of 290 samples (88.6%), both PLA2G2A and COX-2 being expressed in 153 cases (52.8%), …

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