Increasingly stringent discharge standards, increased water usage, variations in wastewater characteristics and climate change have resulted in increased difficulty in achieving cost effective wastewater treatment. The ...

Introduction: The Sodium Iodide Symporter (NIS) facilitates iodide accumulation in the thyroid and radioiodide imaging and treatment of thyroid disease. Studies have suggested that elevated levels of NIS expression in ...

microRNAs (miRNA) have been highlighted as potential circulating biomarkers and as therapeutic targets for breast cancer. Recent evidence suggests that miRNAs are transported in protective microvesicles called exosomes, ...

Exposure to respirable crystalline silica (RCS) can result in the development of a range of adverse health effects including silicosis and lung cancer. Although exposure to RCS has been characterised in many occupational ...

A pleural effusion is excess fluid that collects in the pleural cavity, the fluid-filled space that surrounds the lungs. Surplus amounts of such fluid can impair breathing by limiting the expansion of the lungs during ...

The principal aim of this research is to develop a greater understanding of how subsidiary power is constructed and enhanced within the Multinational Enterprise (MNE). The MNE as a federation is depicted as an internal ...

Although the idea that consumers form relationships with brands is widely accepted and is a topic of increasing importance in the marketing literature, a lack of understanding of the constructs informing consumer-brand ...

It is widely assumed that eukaryotes package their genomes in equivalent chromatin structures. To test whether divergent eukaryotes form equivalent nucleosomes we selected eight organisms with completely sequenced genomes ...

Heparan Sulphate (HS) is a highly charged glycosyaminoglycan (GAG) that is closely related to Heparin, a related GAG with a higher degree of sulphation. Heparin is used in the development of anticoagulant drugs. Currently, ...

Critical limb ischemia is a major clinical problem. Despite rigorous treatment regimes, there has been modest success in reducing the rate of amputations in these patients. Reduced level of blood flow and enhanced inflammation ...