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Monocyte chemoattractant protein-induced protein 1 impairs adipogenesis in 3T3-L1 cells (2014)
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Lipert, B., Wegrzyn, P., Sell, H., Eckel, J., Winiarski, M., Budzynski, A., Matlok, M., Kotlinowski, J., Ramage, L., Malecki, M., Wilk, W., Mitus, J., & Jura, J. (2014). Monocyte chemoattractant protein-induced protein 1 impairs adipogenesis in 3T3-L1 cells. BBA - Molecular Cell Research, 1843(4), 780-788. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbamcr.2014.01.001

Monocyte chemoattractant protein-induced protein 1 (MCPIP1) encoded by the ZC3H12a gene (also known as Regnase-1) is involved in the regulation of degradation of mRNA of inflammatory modulators and for processing of pre-miRNA. These functions depend... Read More about Monocyte chemoattractant protein-induced protein 1 impairs adipogenesis in 3T3-L1 cells.

Investigation of transformer turns ratio between feed and slot of aperture coupled slot antenna by using s11 parameter. (2013)
Journal Article
Liu, L., Ghassemlooy, Z., Sambell, A., Danaher, S., & Smith, D. (2013). Investigation of transformer turns ratio between feed and slot of aperture coupled slot antenna by using s11 parameter. IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, 61, 5785-5787. https://doi.org/10.1109/TAP.2013.2275745

This communication presents a simplified design approach to obtain the turns ratio nf which models the coupling between the microstrip feed and slot line of an aperture coupled slot antenna by using the S11 parameter. Equations are derived using S11... Read More about Investigation of transformer turns ratio between feed and slot of aperture coupled slot antenna by using s11 parameter..

Investigation of the equivalent circuit parameters and design of a dual polarised dual frequency aperture coupled microstrip antenna. (2013)
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Liu, L., Korolkiewicz, E., Ghassemlooy, Z., Sambell, A., Danaher, S., & Busawon, K. (2013). Investigation of the equivalent circuit parameters and design of a dual polarised dual frequency aperture coupled microstrip antenna. IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, 61, 2304-2308. https://doi.org/10.1109/TAP.2013.2241716

This communication presents a simplified approach to the design of a single feed dual polarised, dual frequency (1.9 and 2.4 GHz) aperture coupled microstrip antenna. Using simulation and practical investigation, the coupling between the microstrip f... Read More about Investigation of the equivalent circuit parameters and design of a dual polarised dual frequency aperture coupled microstrip antenna..

Social media: challenges and opportunities for education in modern society. (2013)
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Social media: challenges and opportunities for education in modern society

‘Novice Teachers’ Views of an Introductory Workshop about Teaching in the Biosciences. (2013)
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Gartland, K. M. A., Perkins, J., Shearer, M. C., Tierney, A., & Wilson, J. J. (2013). ‘Novice Teachers’ Views of an Introductory Workshop about Teaching in the Biosciences. Bioscience Education, 21, 42-53

Seven regional networking events, aimed at supporting and developing ‘early stage’ novice university bioscience teachers were held across the UK. These workshops allowed 230 participants to reflect on teaching styles, learn about Higher Education Aca... Read More about ‘Novice Teachers’ Views of an Introductory Workshop about Teaching in the Biosciences..

Lean goes back to school. (2013)
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Yorkstone, S. (2013). Lean goes back to school. Lean Management Journal, 24-27

Stephen Yorkstone...discusses the implementation of lean in universities and how higher education can improve by applying its principles.

Approaching the Internet of things (IoT): a modelling, analysis and abstraction framework (2013)
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Ikram, A., Anjum, A., Hill, R., Antonopoulos, N., Liu, L., & Sotiriadis, S. (2015). Approaching the Internet of things (IoT): a modelling, analysis and abstraction framework. Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, 27(8), 1966-1984. https://doi.org/10.1002/cpe.3131

Summary
The evolution of communication protocols, sensory hardware, mobile and pervasive devices, alongside social and cyber‐physical networks, has made the Internet of things (IoT) an interesting concept with inherent complexities as it is realised... Read More about Approaching the Internet of things (IoT): a modelling, analysis and abstraction framework.

Performance evaluation and simulation of peer-to-peer protocols for Massively Multiplayer Online Games (2013)
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Liu, L., Jones, A., Antonopoulos, N., Ding, Z., & Zhan, Y. (2015). Performance evaluation and simulation of peer-to-peer protocols for Massively Multiplayer Online Games. Multimedia Tools and Applications, 74(8), 2763-2780. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-013-1662-y

Massively Multiplayer Online Games are networked games that allow a large number of people to play together. Classically MMOG worlds are hosted on many powerful servers and players that move around the world are passed from server to server as they p... Read More about Performance evaluation and simulation of peer-to-peer protocols for Massively Multiplayer Online Games.

An Investigation of Security Trends in Personal Wireless Networks (2013)
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Liu, L., Stimpson, T., Antonopoulos, N., Ding, Z., & Zhan, Y. (2014). An Investigation of Security Trends in Personal Wireless Networks. Wireless Personal Communications, 75(3), 1669-1687. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-013-1386-3

Wireless networks are an integral part of day-to-day life for many people, with businesses and home users relying on them for connectivity and communication. This paper examines the problems relating to the topic of wireless security and the backgrou... Read More about An Investigation of Security Trends in Personal Wireless Networks.

Leaning Universities Old and New: A comparative case study on the implementation of Lean Thinking in Universities Ancient and Modern, from the perspective of a practitioner (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Yorkstone, S. (2013, June). Leaning Universities Old and New: A comparative case study on the implementation of Lean Thinking in Universities Ancient and Modern, from the perspective of a practitioner. Paper presented at First international conference on Lean Six Sigma for Higher Education, Glasgow, Scotland

Purpose
Scottish Universities have experience applying lean Higher Education, in both Ancient and Modern contexts. This paper aims to capture the experience of a practitioner having moved through both these contexts, in order to provide material for... Read More about Leaning Universities Old and New: A comparative case study on the implementation of Lean Thinking in Universities Ancient and Modern, from the perspective of a practitioner.

Achieving green IT using VDI in cyber physical society. (2013)
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Liu, L., DaSilva, D.-A., Antonopoulos, N., Ding, Z., & Zhan, Y. (2013). Achieving green IT using VDI in cyber physical society. Journal of Internet Technology, 14(3), 413-424

With rapid advances in Internet technologies and increasing popularity of cyber social networks, the physical world and cyber world are gradually merging to form a new cyber-socio-physical society known as the Cyber Physical Society (CPS). In contras... Read More about Achieving green IT using VDI in cyber physical society..

Federated broker system for pervasive context provisioning (2012)
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Kiani, S. L., Anjum, A., Knappmeyer, M., Bessis, N., & Antonopoulos, N. (2013). Federated broker system for pervasive context provisioning. Journal of Systems and Software, 86(4), 1107-1123. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jss.2012.11.050

Software systems that provide context-awareness related functions in pervasive computing environments are gaining momentum due to emerging applications, architectures and business models. In most context-aware systems, a central broker performs the f... Read More about Federated broker system for pervasive context provisioning.

The BioGRID interaction database: 2013 update (2012)
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Chatr-aryamontri, A., Breitkreutz, B.-J., Heinicke, S., Boucher, L., Winter, A., Stark, C., Nixon, J., Ramage, L., Kolas, N., O'Donnell, L., Reguly, T., Breitkreutz, A., Sellam, A., Chen, D., Chang, C., Rust, J., Livstone, M., Oughtred, R., Dolinski, K., & Tyers, M. (2013). The BioGRID interaction database: 2013 update. Nucleic Acids Research, 41(D1), D816-D823. https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gks1158

The Biological General Repository for Interaction Datasets (BioGRID: http//thebiogrid.org) is an open access archive of genetic and protein interactions that are curated from the primary biomedical literature for all major model organism species. As... Read More about The BioGRID interaction database: 2013 update.

Getting the Message: supporting students’ transition from Higher National to degree level study and the role of mobile technologies. (2012)
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Fotheringham, J., & Alder, E. (2012). Getting the Message: supporting students’ transition from Higher National to degree level study and the role of mobile technologies. Electronic Journal of eLearning, 10, 331-341

In this paper, we explore roles that mobile technologies can play in supporting students’ transition to second and third year of university degree study, specifically along articulation routes from completing a Higher National Certificate (HNC) or Hi... Read More about Getting the Message: supporting students’ transition from Higher National to degree level study and the role of mobile technologies..

Energy Performance Assessment of Virtualization Technologies Using Small Environmental Monitoring Sensors (2012)
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Liu, L., Masfary, O., & Antonopoulos, N. (2012). Energy Performance Assessment of Virtualization Technologies Using Small Environmental Monitoring Sensors. Sensors, 12(5), 6610-6628. https://doi.org/10.3390/s120506610

The increasing trends of electrical consumption within data centres are a growing concern for business owners as they are quickly becoming a large fraction of the total cost of ownership. Ultra small sensors could be deployed within a data centre to... Read More about Energy Performance Assessment of Virtualization Technologies Using Small Environmental Monitoring Sensors.

Context-aware service utilisation in the clouds and energy conservation (2012)
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Kiani, S. L., Anjum, A., Antonopoulos, N., & Knappmeyer, M. (2014). Context-aware service utilisation in the clouds and energy conservation. Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing, 5(1), 111-131. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12652-012-0131-1

Ubiquitous computing environments are characterised by smart, interconnected artefacts embedded in our physical world that provide useful services to human inhabitants unobtrusively. Mobile devices are becoming the primary tools for human interaction... Read More about Context-aware service utilisation in the clouds and energy conservation.

Dot-base62x: building a compact and user-friendly text representation scheme of ipv6 addresses for cloud computing (2012)
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Liu, Z., Liu, L., Hardy, J., Anjum, A., Hill, R., & Antonopoulos, N. (2012). Dot-base62x: building a compact and user-friendly text representation scheme of ipv6 addresses for cloud computing. Journal of cloud computing: advances, systems and applications, 1(1), 3. https://doi.org/10.1186/2192-113X-1-3

Cloud computing has dramatically reshaped the whole IT industry in recent years. With the transition from IPv4 to IPv6, services running in Cloud computing will face problems associated with IPv6 addressing: the notation is too long (39 bytes), there... Read More about Dot-base62x: building a compact and user-friendly text representation scheme of ipv6 addresses for cloud computing.

Adaptive service discovery on service-oriented and spontaneous sensor systems (2012)
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Liu, L., Xu, J., Antonopoulos, N., Li, J., & Wu, K. (2012). Adaptive service discovery on service-oriented and spontaneous sensor systems. Adhoc and Sensor Wireless Networks, 14(1-2), 107-132

Natural and man-made disasters can significantly impact both people and environments. Enhanced effect can be achieved through dynamic networking of people, systems and procedures and seamless integration of them to fulfil mission objectives with serv... Read More about Adaptive service discovery on service-oriented and spontaneous sensor systems.

Using social media in education: for tutors in Centres (2011)
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Fotheringham, J., & Smyth, K. (2011). Using social media in education: for tutors in Centres. CIPD Website,

Integrins and extracellular matrix in mechanotransduction (2011)
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Ramage, L. (2011). Integrins and extracellular matrix in mechanotransduction. Cell Health and Cytoskeleton, 2012(4), 1-9. https://doi.org/10.2147/chc.s21829

Integrins are a family of cell surface receptors which mediate cell–matrix and cell–cell adhesions. Among other functions they provide an important mechanical link between the cells external and intracellular environments while the adhesions that the... Read More about Integrins and extracellular matrix in mechanotransduction.