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Wireless Interactive Sonification Of Large Water Waves To Demonstrate The Facilities Of A Large-Scale Research Wave Tank, Alexis Kirke, Samuel Freeman, Eduardo Reck Miranda Jan 2015

Wireless Interactive Sonification Of Large Water Waves To Demonstrate The Facilities Of A Large-Scale Research Wave Tank, Alexis Kirke, Samuel Freeman, Eduardo Reck Miranda

School of Art, Design and Architecture

Interactive sonification can provide a platform for demonstration and education as well as for monitoring and investigation. We present a system designed to demonstrate the facilities of the UK's most advanced large-scale research wave tank. The interactive sonification of water waves in the “ocean basin” wave tank at Plymouth University consisted of a number of elements: generation of ocean waves, acquisition and sonification of ocean-wave measurement data, and gesture-controlled pitch and amplitude of sonifications. The generated water waves were linked in real time to sonic features via depth monitors and motion tracking of a floating buoy. Types of water-wave patterns, …

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Automated Identification Of Neural Correlates Of Continuous Variables, Ian Daly, Faustina Hwang, Alexis Kirke, Asad Malik, James Weaver, Duncan Williams, Eduardo Miranda, Slawomir J. Nasuto Jan 2015

Automated Identification Of Neural Correlates Of Continuous Variables, Ian Daly, Faustina Hwang, Alexis Kirke, Asad Malik, James Weaver, Duncan Williams, Eduardo Miranda, Slawomir J. Nasuto

School of Art, Design and Architecture

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Music-Induced Emotions Can Be Predicted From A Combination Of Brain Activity And Acoustic Features, Ian Daly, Duncan Williams, James Hallowell, Faustina Hwang, Alexis Kirke, Asad Malik, James Weaver, Eduardo Miranda, Slawomir J. Nasuto Jan 2015

Music-Induced Emotions Can Be Predicted From A Combination Of Brain Activity And Acoustic Features, Ian Daly, Duncan Williams, James Hallowell, Faustina Hwang, Alexis Kirke, Asad Malik, James Weaver, Eduardo Miranda, Slawomir J. Nasuto

School of Art, Design and Architecture

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Developing Students’ Energy Literacy In Higher Education, D Cotton, W Miller, J Winter, I Bailey, S Sterling Jan 2015

Developing Students’ Energy Literacy In Higher Education, D Cotton, W Miller, J Winter, I Bailey, S Sterling

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

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Real-Time Hallucination Simulation And Sonification Through User-Led Development Of An Ipad Augmented Reality Performance, Alexis Kirke, Joel Eaton, Eduardo Miranda Jan 2015

Real-Time Hallucination Simulation And Sonification Through User-Led Development Of An Ipad Augmented Reality Performance, Alexis Kirke, Joel Eaton, Eduardo Miranda

School of Art, Design and Architecture

The simulation of visual hallucinations has multiple applications. The authors present a new approach to hallucination simulation, initially developed for a performance, that proved to have uses for individuals suffering from certain types of hallucinations. The system, originally developed with a focus on the visual symptoms of palinopsia experienced by the lead author, allows real-time visual expression using augmented reality via an iPad. It also allows the hallucinations to be converted into sound through visuals sonification. Although no formal experimentation was conducted, the authors report on a number of unsolicited informal responses to the simulator from palinopsia sufferers and the …

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Community Resilience And Land Degradation In Forest And Shrubland Socio-Ecological Systems: Evidence From Gorgoglione, Basilicata, Italy, Claire Kelly, Agostino Ferrara, Geoff A. Wilson, Francesco Ripullone, Angelo Nolè, Nichola Harmer, Luca Salvati Jan 2015

Community Resilience And Land Degradation In Forest And Shrubland Socio-Ecological Systems: Evidence From Gorgoglione, Basilicata, Italy, Claire Kelly, Agostino Ferrara, Geoff A. Wilson, Francesco Ripullone, Angelo Nolè, Nichola Harmer, Luca Salvati

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

Assessing the resilience of communities is assuming greater importance at a time of global economic upheaval, climatic and socio-demographic changes. The past 10–15 years have seen a significant increase in the number of studies addressing resilience issues at community level from a variety of perspectives,and although the resilience of communities in dealing with disturbance feature strongly in these studies, less work appears to have been undertaken at the interface between community resilience and land degradation. In addition, little attention has been paid to land degradation, desertification risk and community resilience at the forest–community interface, despite the fact that forest ecosystems …

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A Multi-Agent Emotional Society Whose Melodies Represent Its Emergent Social Hierarchy And Are Generated By Agent Communications, Alexis Kirke, Eduardo Miranda Jan 2015

A Multi-Agent Emotional Society Whose Melodies Represent Its Emergent Social Hierarchy And Are Generated By Agent Communications, Alexis Kirke, Eduardo Miranda

School of Art, Design and Architecture

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Foraminifera Of The Fal Estuary (Cornwall), Including Taxa Associated With Maerl Beds, Mb Hart, K Cartwright, B Fisk, Cw Smart, C Consolaro, Jm Hall-Spencer Jan 2015

Foraminifera Of The Fal Estuary (Cornwall), Including Taxa Associated With Maerl Beds, Mb Hart, K Cartwright, B Fisk, Cw Smart, C Consolaro, Jm Hall-Spencer

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

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Artificial Intelligence InOrganised Sound, Eduardo R. Miranda, Duncan Williams Jan 2015

Artificial Intelligence InOrganised Sound, Eduardo R. Miranda, Duncan Williams

School of Art, Design and Architecture

Artificial Intelligence is a rich and still-developing field with a number of musical applications. This paper surveys the use of Artificial Intelligence in music in the pages ofOrganised Sound, from the first issue to the latest, at the time of writing. Traditionally, Artificial Intelligence systems for music have been designed with note-based composition in mind, but the research we present here finds that Artificial Intelligence has also had a significant impact in electroacoustic music, with contributions in the fields of sound analysis, real-time sonic interaction and interactive performance-driven composition, to cite but three. Two distinct categories emerged in theOrganised Soundpapers: …

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Soils And Interventions, Linus Lancaster Jan 2015

Soils And Interventions, Linus Lancaster

School of Art, Design and Architecture Theses

Linus Lancaster Soils and Interventions Dissertation Abstract The problem that I have identified during my research for this dissertation is the quantifiable depletion and exhaustion of large percentages of the world's soils through human activity in agriculture and other industrial practices. In the course of researching this problem I have looked closely at some of the primary causes, and a range of proposed and applied solutions in the field of ecology. The primary focus of the research has been in looking at how artists have responded to ecological issues and have engaged in environmental activism in their practices. Integral to …

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Reflections On The Authorship Of Space Technology, J Griffin Jan 2015

Reflections On The Authorship Of Space Technology, J Griffin

School of Art, Design and Architecture

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Time-Lapse Thermography For Building Defect Detection, Matthew Fox, David Coley, Steve Goodhew, Wilde P De Jan 2015

Time-Lapse Thermography For Building Defect Detection, Matthew Fox, David Coley, Steve Goodhew, Wilde P De

School of Art, Design and Architecture

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Icts And Technical Agency: A Case Study Of A Rural Brazilian Community, Lorena Melgaço, Katharine S. Willis Jan 2015

Icts And Technical Agency: A Case Study Of A Rural Brazilian Community, Lorena Melgaço, Katharine S. Willis

School of Art, Design and Architecture

This paper explores the role of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in rural, marginalised communities. We explore Feenberg's concept of technical agency in order to understand the ways in which technological capacity might contribute to community development. We discuss three conditions of technical agency as outlined by Feenberg: power, knowledge and appropriate occasion. We consider how this framework might enable an approach to understanding the role of ICTS in the particular socio-spatial contexts in marginalised communities. In order to test Feenberg's approach, we discuss a case study of a village in rural Brazil: Noiva do Cordeiro. The community is recognised …

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The Artist’S Book As Vehicle For Knowledge, Sm Black Jan 2015

The Artist’S Book As Vehicle For Knowledge, Sm Black

School of Art, Design and Architecture

This paper will propose that that the artists’s book is capable of carrying an academic argument in a demonstrative and experiential manner, and will explore some of the benefits and pitfalls for the practitioner-researcher arising from this. The rationale for this topic’s contemporary relevance lies in the shift within universities towards digital submissions for research outputs and access to scholarship through digital repositories. Against this backdrop of stringent regulations and layout requirements that do not embrace the possibilities offered by digital submissions, I shall be arguing for the continued opportunity to embrace the strengths of digital outputs within physical forms. …

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Accountability Practices Of Islamic Banks: A Stakeholders' Perspective, Sherif Ismail Jan 2015

Accountability Practices Of Islamic Banks: A Stakeholders' Perspective, Sherif Ismail

Plymouth Business School Theses

This study explores the concept of accountability in Islamic Banks (IB), which may achieve through disclosure. It aims to measuring the bank’s disclosure levels which contains Sharia, Social and Financial (SSF) as well as determinants and consequences of this disclosure. It moreover aims to identify the gap between Islamic banks’ board and stakeholders concerned with the accountabilities priorities of IBs. To achieve these objectives the researcher conducted six empirical studies. The first three empirical studies uses content analysis to measuring compliance level with Accounting and Auditing Organization for Islamic Financial Institutions (AAOIFI) standards as well as measuring the and sharia, …

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Informativeness Of Unaudited Forward-Looking Financial Disclosure: Evidence From Uk Narrative Reporting, Ahmed Hassanein Jan 2015

Informativeness Of Unaudited Forward-Looking Financial Disclosure: Evidence From Uk Narrative Reporting, Ahmed Hassanein

Plymouth Business School Theses

Forward-looking financial disclosure (FLFD) is potentially uninformative if it does not change from the previous year, especially after a significant change in firm performance. This study uses a sample of UK narrative statements of the annual reports over the period from 2005 to 2011. It employed the automated content analysis technique to measure change in FLFD over years to answer three research questions. First, to what extent does change in firms’ earnings performance drive managers to change FLFD over years? Second, what are the other drivers of the change of FLFD from year to year? Third, do investors use information …

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A Time Series Analysis Of Private And Public Investment In Iraq’S Economic Growth Process (1970 – 2010), Jwan Hussein Jan 2015

A Time Series Analysis Of Private And Public Investment In Iraq’S Economic Growth Process (1970 – 2010), Jwan Hussein

Plymouth Business School Theses

Abstract: Since the 1980s, there has been growing recognition among developing countries that an essential foundation for sustainable growth is capital investment, both public and private. While Iraq is an oil-rich country, with substantial oil revenue, only a small proportion of it has been allocated to importing the capital that is most needed, while the rest has mainly been used for consumption purposes. The effects of the oil-driven state development, conflicts, sanctions, high unemployment and delayed reforms have significantly shaped Iraq’s economy and limited the potential for private-sector-led growth over the past 40 years. This conclusion is worrying for a …

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Determinants Of Capital Structure: The Case Of Mena Countries, Mansour Saleh Albarrak Jan 2015

Determinants Of Capital Structure: The Case Of Mena Countries, Mansour Saleh Albarrak

Plymouth Business School Theses

This thesis examines the determinants of capital structure in the MENA coun- tries. The main interest is to investigate both financial firms specially banks and non-financial firms. This study test the main theories of capital structure, namely: trade off theory and pecking order theory. The countries included in this thesis are Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates (Include both Abo-Dhabi and Dubai stock indexes), Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait, Oman, Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia, Palestine and Jor- dan. The characteristics it covers as suggested by previous literature are tangibility, profitability, risk, debt tax shield, growth, dividends,size, cash flow and liquidity. It will also investigate …

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Government Export Promotion Programmes And Firms’ Export Behaviour: Exploring The Indirect Link. The Case Of Uk & Algerian Manufacturing Firms, Mohamed Yacine Haddoud Jan 2015

Government Export Promotion Programmes And Firms’ Export Behaviour: Exploring The Indirect Link. The Case Of Uk & Algerian Manufacturing Firms, Mohamed Yacine Haddoud

Plymouth Business School Theses

It has been recognised that exporting is an engine for growth at both country and firm levels. However, the challenging nature of international business often prevents companies from entering and surviving in international markets. In the Small and Medium-size Business context, lack of resource is normally the main reason behind the inability of firms to overcome export barriers. In recognition of the issue and for promoting exporting, the governments have been offering the so-called Government Export Promotion Programmes (GEPPs) to act as “resource supplements”. While there have been extensive practices, the mechanism and effectiveness of these programmes have not been …

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Effect Of Ownership Structure On Firm Stock Returns And Financial Performance:Evidence From The Egyptian Stock Market, Amal Elghouti Jan 2015

Effect Of Ownership Structure On Firm Stock Returns And Financial Performance:Evidence From The Egyptian Stock Market, Amal Elghouti

Plymouth Business School Theses

The effect of institutional ownership and ownership concentration on the firm’s stock returns and volatility and financial performance has long been an interesting issue in the international business literature. A lot of debate has been going on regarding the relationship between institutional ownership, ownership concentration, returns, volatility and financial performance. The objective of this thesis is to study the effect of institutional ownership and ownership concentration on firm stock returns and financial performance of the listed companies in the Egyptian Stock Exchange. For this purpose, panel data model is employed. The results from the analysis show that institutional ownership has …

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The Relational Geographies Of Policing And Security, Richard Yarwood, Till Paasche Jan 2015

The Relational Geographies Of Policing And Security, Richard Yarwood, Till Paasche

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

AbstractThis paper considers the roles of policing and security in the geographies of everyday public and semi‐public space. We contend that while security is concerned with territory, policing relates to place. We consider the relationship between security and territory before examining the relationship between policing and place. In the final section, we argue that a relational view of space is needed to understand how practices of policing and security shape space and, in turn, the lives of people using it.

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Uncoupling Protein-2 Attenuates Palmitoleate Protection Against The Cytotoxic Production Of Mitochondrial Reactive Oxygen Species In Ins-1e Insulinoma Cells., Jonathan Barlow, Jensen V Hirschberg, Charles Affourtit Jan 2015

Uncoupling Protein-2 Attenuates Palmitoleate Protection Against The Cytotoxic Production Of Mitochondrial Reactive Oxygen Species In Ins-1e Insulinoma Cells., Jonathan Barlow, Jensen V Hirschberg, Charles Affourtit

School of Biomedical Sciences

High glucose and fatty acid levels impair pancreatic beta cell function. We have recently shown that palmitate-induced loss of INS-1E insulinoma cells is related to increased reactive oxygen species (ROS) production as both toxic effects are prevented by palmitoleate. Here we show that palmitate-induced ROS are mostly mitochondrial: oxidation of MitoSOX, a mitochondria-targeted superoxide probe, is increased by palmitate, whilst oxidation of the equivalent non-targeted probe is unaffected. Moreover, mitochondrial respiratory inhibition with antimycin A stimulates palmitate-induced MitoSOX oxidation. We also show that palmitate does not change the level of mitochondrial uncoupling protein-2 (UCP2) and that UCP2 knockdown does not …

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Third-Generation Cephalosporin Resistance Conferred By A Chromosomally Encoded Blacmy-23 Gene In The Escherichia Coli St131 Reference Strain Ec958., Minh Duy Phan, Kate M. Peters, Sohinee Sarkar, Brian M. Forde, Alvin W. Lo, Mitchell Stanton-Cook, Leah W. Roberts, Mathew Upton, Scott A. Beatson, Mark A. Schembri Jan 2015

Third-Generation Cephalosporin Resistance Conferred By A Chromosomally Encoded Blacmy-23 Gene In The Escherichia Coli St131 Reference Strain Ec958., Minh Duy Phan, Kate M. Peters, Sohinee Sarkar, Brian M. Forde, Alvin W. Lo, Mitchell Stanton-Cook, Leah W. Roberts, Mathew Upton, Scott A. Beatson, Mark A. Schembri

School of Biomedical Sciences

OBJECTIVES: Escherichia coli ST131 is a globally disseminated MDR clone originally identified due to its association with the blaCTX-M-15 gene encoding an ESBL. It is thus assumed that blaCTX-M-15 is the major determinant for resistance to β-lactam antibiotics in this clone. The complete sequence of EC958, a reference strain for E. coli ST131, revealed that it contains a chromosomally located blaCMY-23 gene with an upstream ISEcp1 element as well as several additional plasmid-encoded β-lactamase genes. Here, we examined the genetic context of the blaCMY-23 element in EC958 and other E. coli ST131 strains and investigated the contribution of blaCMY-23 to …

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Antibiotic-Resistant St38, St131 And St405 Strains Are The Leading Uropathogenic Escherichia Coli Clones In Riyadh, Saudi Arabia., Majed F. Alghoribi, Tarek M. Gibreel, Garry Farnham, Johani Sm Al, Hanan H. Balkhy, Mathew Upton Jan 2015

Antibiotic-Resistant St38, St131 And St405 Strains Are The Leading Uropathogenic Escherichia Coli Clones In Riyadh, Saudi Arabia., Majed F. Alghoribi, Tarek M. Gibreel, Garry Farnham, Johani Sm Al, Hanan H. Balkhy, Mathew Upton

School of Biomedical Sciences

OBJECTIVES: We investigated the molecular epidemiology of uropathogenic Escherichia coli (UPEC) from a tertiary care hospital in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, revealing, for the first time, the population structure of UPEC in the region. METHODS: A total of 202 UPEC isolates were recovered from hospital and community patients with urinary tract infection in December 2012 and January 2013. Strains were characterized by MLST, antibiotic susceptibility determination and virulence gene detection. RESULTS: The most common lineages were ST131 (17.3%), ST73 (11.4%), ST38 (7.4%), ST69 (7.4%), ST10 (6.4%), ST127 (5.9%), ST95 (5.4%), ST12 (3.5%), ST998 (3.5%) and ST405 (3%). ST131 and ST405 isolates …

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Molecular Characterization Of A Multidrug Resistance Incf Plasmid From The Globally Disseminated Escherichia Coli St131 Clone., Minh Duy Phan, Brian M. Forde, Kate M. Peters, Sohinee Sarkar, Steven Hancock, Mitchell Stanton-Cook, Zakour Nl Ben, Mathew Upton, Scott A. Beatson, Mark A. Schembri Jan 2015

Molecular Characterization Of A Multidrug Resistance Incf Plasmid From The Globally Disseminated Escherichia Coli St131 Clone., Minh Duy Phan, Brian M. Forde, Kate M. Peters, Sohinee Sarkar, Steven Hancock, Mitchell Stanton-Cook, Zakour Nl Ben, Mathew Upton, Scott A. Beatson, Mark A. Schembri

School of Biomedical Sciences

Escherichia coli sequence type 131 (E. coli ST131) is a recently emerged and globally disseminated multidrug resistant clone associated with urinary tract and bloodstream infections. Plasmids represent a major vehicle for the carriage of antibiotic resistance genes in E. coli ST131. In this study, we determined the complete sequence and performed a comprehensive annotation of pEC958, an IncF plasmid from the E. coli ST131 reference strain EC958. Plasmid pEC958 is 135.6 kb in size, harbours two replicons (RepFIA and RepFII) and contains 12 antibiotic resistance genes (including the blaCTX-M-15 gene). We also carried out hyper-saturated transposon mutagenesis and multiplexed transposon …

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Genetic Identification Of Cytomegaloviruses In A Rural Population Of Côte D’Ivoire, Augustin Etile Anoh, Chantal Akoua-Koffi, Emmanuel Couacy-Hymann, Maude Pauly, Grit Schubert, Arsène Mossoun, Sabrina Weiss, Saj Leendertz, Michael A. Jarvis, Fh Leendertz, Bernhard Ehlers Jan 2015

Genetic Identification Of Cytomegaloviruses In A Rural Population Of Côte D’Ivoire, Augustin Etile Anoh, Chantal Akoua-Koffi, Emmanuel Couacy-Hymann, Maude Pauly, Grit Schubert, Arsène Mossoun, Sabrina Weiss, Saj Leendertz, Michael A. Jarvis, Fh Leendertz, Bernhard Ehlers

School of Biomedical Sciences

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Hcv Treatment Rates And Sustained Viral Response Among People Who Inject Drugs In Seven Uk Sites: Real World Results And Modelling Of Treatment Impact, Natasha K. Martin, G. R. Foster, J. Vilar, S. Ryder, M. E. Cramp, F. Gordon, J. F. Dillon, N. Craine, H. Busse, A. Clements, S. J. Hutchinson, A. Ustianowski, M. Ramsay, D. J. Goldberg, W. Irving, V. Hope, Angelis D De, M. Lyons, P. Vickerman, M. Hickman Jan 2015

Hcv Treatment Rates And Sustained Viral Response Among People Who Inject Drugs In Seven Uk Sites: Real World Results And Modelling Of Treatment Impact, Natasha K. Martin, G. R. Foster, J. Vilar, S. Ryder, M. E. Cramp, F. Gordon, J. F. Dillon, N. Craine, H. Busse, A. Clements, S. J. Hutchinson, A. Ustianowski, M. Ramsay, D. J. Goldberg, W. Irving, V. Hope, Angelis D De, M. Lyons, P. Vickerman, M. Hickman

Peninsula Medical School

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The Inevitable Drift To Triple Therapy In Copd: An Analysis Of Prescribing Pathways In The Uk, D Price, G Brusselle, K Gruffydd-Jones, M Miravitlles, R Stewart, M Baldwin, D Keininger, R Jones Jan 2015

The Inevitable Drift To Triple Therapy In Copd: An Analysis Of Prescribing Pathways In The Uk, D Price, G Brusselle, K Gruffydd-Jones, M Miravitlles, R Stewart, M Baldwin, D Keininger, R Jones

Peninsula Medical School

No abstract provided.

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Predicting Frequent Copd Exacerbations Using Primary Care Data, D Price, M Kerkhof, D Freeman, R Jones, A Chisholm Jan 2015

Predicting Frequent Copd Exacerbations Using Primary Care Data, D Price, M Kerkhof, D Freeman, R Jones, A Chisholm

Peninsula Medical School

No abstract provided.

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The H50q Mutation Induces A 10-Fold Decrease In The Solubility Of Α-Synuclein, Riccardo Porcari, Christos Proukakis, Christopher A. Waudby, Benedetta Bolognesi, P. Patrizia Mangione, Jack F.S. Paton, Stephen Mullin, Lisa D. Cabrita, Amanda Penco, Annalisa Relini, Guglielmo Verona, Michele Vendruscolo, Monica Stoppini, Gian Gaetano Tartaglia, Carlo Camilloni, John Christodoulou, Anthony H.V. Schapira, Vittorio Bellotti Jan 2015

The H50q Mutation Induces A 10-Fold Decrease In The Solubility Of Α-Synuclein, Riccardo Porcari, Christos Proukakis, Christopher A. Waudby, Benedetta Bolognesi, P. Patrizia Mangione, Jack F.S. Paton, Stephen Mullin, Lisa D. Cabrita, Amanda Penco, Annalisa Relini, Guglielmo Verona, Michele Vendruscolo, Monica Stoppini, Gian Gaetano Tartaglia, Carlo Camilloni, John Christodoulou, Anthony H.V. Schapira, Vittorio Bellotti

Peninsula Medical School

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