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    • Mackey functors and sharpness for fusion systems 

      Díaz, Antonio; Park, Sejong (International Press of Boston, 2015-01-01)
      We develop the fundamentals of Mackey functors in the setup of fusion systems including an acyclicity condition as well as a parametrization and an explicit description of simple Mackey functors. Using this machinery we ...

    • Macro-level age norms for the timing of sexual initiation and adolescents' early sexual initiation in 17 european countries 

      Madkour, Aubrey Spriggs; de Looze, Margaretha; Ma, Ping; Halpern, Carolyn Tucker; Farhat, Tilda; ter Bogt, Tom F.M.; Ehlinger, Virginie; Nic Gabhainn, Saoirse; Currie, Candace; Godeau, Emmanuelle (Elsevier BV, 2014-07-01)

    • Macromolecular crowding meets oxygen tension in human mesenchymal stem cell culture - a step closer to physiologically relevant in vitro organogenesis 

      Cigognini, Daniela; Gaspar, Diana; Kumar, Pramod; Satyam, Abhigyan; Alagesan, Senthilkumar; Sanz-Nogués, Clara; Griffin, Matthew; O’Brien, Timothy; Pandit, Abhay; Zeugolis, Dimitrios I. (Springer Nature, 2016-08-01)
      Modular tissue engineering is based on the cells' innate ability to create bottom-up supramolecular assemblies with efficiency and efficacy still unmatched by man-made devices. Although the regenerative potential of such ...

    • Macromolecularly crowded in vitro microenvironments accelerate the production of extracellular matrix-rich supramolecular assemblies 

      Kumar, Pramod; Satyam, Abhigyan; Fan, Xingliang; Collin, Estelle; Rochev, Yury; Rodriguez, Brian J.; Gorelov, Alexander; Dillon, Simon; Joshi, Lokesh; Raghunath, Michael; Pandit, Abhay; Zeugolis, Dimitrios I. (Springer Nature, 2015-03-04)
      Therapeutic strategies based on the principles of tissue engineering by self-assembly put forward the notion that functional regeneration can be achieved by utilising the inherent capacity of cells to create highly ...

    • Macrophages behavior on different nipam-based thermoresponsive substrates 

      Fan, Xingliang; Nosov, Mikhail; Carroll, William; Gorelov, Alexander; Elvira, Carlos; Rochev, Yury (Wiley-Blackwell, 2013-09-25)

    • Macrophages facilitate electrical conduction in the heart 

      Hulsmans, Maarten; Clauss, Sebastian; Xiao, Ling; Aguirre, Aaron D.; King, Kevin R.; Hanley, Alan; Hucker, William J.; Wülfers, Eike M.; Seemann, Gunnar; Courties, Gabriel; Iwamoto, Yoshiko; Sun, Yuan; Savol, Andrej J.; Sager, Hendrik B.; Lavine, Kory J.; Fishbein, Gregory A.; Capen, Diane E.; Da Silva, Nicolas; Miquerol, Lucile; Wakimoto, Hiroko; Seidman, Christine E.; Seidman, Jonathan G.; Sadreyev, Ruslan I.; Naxerova, Kamila; Mitchell, Richard N.; Brown, Dennis; Libby, Peter; Weissleder, Ralph; Swirski, Filip K.; Kohl, Peter; Vinegoni, Claudio; Milan, David J.; Ellinor, Patrick T.; Nahrendorf, Matthias (Elsevier BV, 2017-04-01)
      Organ-specific functions of tissue-resident macrophages in the steady-state heart are unknown. Here, we show that cardiac macrophages facilitate electrical conduction through the distal atrioventricular node, where conducting ...

    • Magnetic beads, a particularly effective novel method for extraction of ngs-ready dna from macroalgae 

      Fort, Antoine; Guiry, Michael D.; Sulpice, Ronan (Elsevier BV, 2018-06-01)
      Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) technologies allow for the generation of robust information on the genetic diversity of organisms at the individual, species and higher taxon levels. Indeed, the number of single nucleotide ...

    • Magnetic core-shell nanoparticles for drug delivery by nebulization 

      Verma, Navin Kumar; Crosbie-Staunton, Kieran; Satti, Amro; Gallagher, Shane; Ryan, Katie B; Doody, Timothy; McAtamney, Colm; MacLoughlin, Ronan; Galvin, Paul; Burke, Conor S; Volkov, Yuri; Gun’ko, Yurii K (Springer Nature, 2013-01-01)
      Background: Aerosolized therapeutics hold great potential for effective treatment of various diseases including lung cancer. In this context, there is an urgent need to develop novel nanocarriers suitable for drug delivery ...

    • Magnetism in metal–organic capsules 

      Atwood, Jerry L.; Brechin, Euan K.; Dalgarno, Scott J.; Inglis, Ross; Jones, Leigh F.; Mossine, Andrew; Paterson, Martin J.; Power, Nicholas P.; Teat, Simon J. (Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), 2010-01-01)
      Nickel and cobalt seamed metal-organic capsules have been isolated and studied using structural, magnetic and computational approaches. Antiferromagnetic exchange in the Ni capsule results from coordination environments ...

    • Magnetoelastic instabilities in soft laminates with ferromagnetic hyperelastic phases 

      Pathak, Parag; Arora, Nitesh; Rudykh, Stephan (Elsevier, 2021-10-30)
      We investigate the microscopic and macroscopic instabilities developing in magnetoactive elastomer (MAE) composites undergoing large deformations in the presence of an external magnetic field. In particular, we consider ...

    • Magnetospherically driven optical and radio aurorae at the end of the stellar main sequence 

      Hallinan, G.; Littlefair, S. P.; Cotter, G.; Bourke, S.; Harding, L. K.; Pineda, J. S.; Butler, R. P.; Golden, A.; Basri, G.; Doyle, J. G.; Kao, M. M.; Berdyugina, S. V.; Kuznetsov, A.; Rupen, M. P.; Antonova, A. (Springer Nature, 2015-07-30)
      Aurorae are detected from all the magnetized planets in our Solar System, including Earth(1). They are powered by magnetospheric current systems that lead to the precipitation of energetic electrons into the high-latitude ...

    • Main results of the ouabain and adducin for specific intervention on sodium in hypertension trial (oasis-ht): a randomized placebo-controlled phase-2 dose-finding study of rostafuroxin 

      Staessen, Jan A; Thijs, Lutgarde; Stolarz-Skrzypek, Katarzyna; Bacchieri, Antonella; Barton, John; Espositi, Ezio degli; de Leeuw, Peter W; Dłużniewski, Mirosław; Glorioso, Nicola; Januszewicz, Andrzej; Manunta, Paolo; Milyagin, Viktor; Nikitin, Yuri; Souček, Miroslav; Lanzani, Chiara; Citterio, Lorena; Timio, Mario; Tykarski, Andrzej; Ferrari, Patrizia; Valentini, Giovanni; Kawecka-Jaszcz, Kalina; Bianchi, Giuseppe (Springer Nature, 2011-01-14)
      Background: The Ouabain and Adducin for Specific Intervention on Sodium in Hypertension (OASIS-HT) Trial was a phase-2 dose-finding study of rostafuroxin, a digitoxygenin derivative, which selectively antagonizes the effects ...

    • Maintaining breast cancer specimen integrity and individual or simultaneous extraction of quality dna, rna, and proteins from allprotect-stabilized and nonstabilized tissue samples 

      Mee, Blanaid C.; Carroll, Paul; Donatello, Simona; Connolly, Elizabeth; Griffin, Mairead; Dunne, Barbara; Burke, Louise; Flavin, Richard; Rizkalla, Hala; Ryan, Ciara; Hayes, Brian; D'Adhemar, Charles; Banville, Niamh; Faheem, Nazia; Muldoon, Cian; Gaffney, Eoin F. (Mary Ann Liebert Inc, 2011-12-01)
      The Saint James's Hospital Biobank was established in 2008, to develop a high-quality breast tissue BioResource, as a part of the breast cancer clinical care pathway. The aims of this work were: (1) to ascertain the quality ...

    • Major transitions in dinoflagellate evolution unveiled by phylotranscriptomics 

      Janouškovec, Jan; Gavelis, Gregory S.; Burki, Fabien; Dinh, Donna; Bachvaroff, Tsvetan R.; Gornik, Sebastian G.; Bright, Kelley J.; Imanian, Behzad; Strom, Suzanne L.; Delwiche, Charles F.; Waller, Ross F.; Fensome, Robert A.; Leander, Brian S.; Rohwer, Forest L.; Saldarriaga, Juan F. (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2016-12-27)
      Dinoflagellates are key species in marine environments, but they remain poorly understood in part because of their large, complex genomes, unique molecular biology, and unresolved in-group relationships. We created a ...

    • Making mathematics and science integration happen: key aspects of practice 

      Ríordáin, Máire Ní; Johnston, Jennifer; Walshe, Gráinne (Informa UK Limited, 2015-08-21)
      The integration of mathematics and science teaching and learning facilitates student learning, engagement, motivation, problem-solving, criticality and real-life application. However, the actual implementation of an ...

    • The making of Irish-speaking Ireland: The cultural politics of belonging, diversity and power 

      Warren, Simon (2012)
      This paper is about linguistic justice issues in the post-colonial context of an Irish-speaking region in the south-west of Ireland, drawing on a study of political mobilization around the Irish-medium education policy ...

    • Making randomised trials more efficient: report of the first meeting to discuss the trial forge platform 

      Treweek, Shaun; Altman, Doug G.; Bower, Peter; Campbell, Marion; Chalmers, Iain; Cotton, Seonaidh; Craig, Peter; Crosby, David; Davidson, Peter; Devane, Declan; Duley, Lelia; Dunn, Janet; Elbourne, Diana; Farrell, Barbara; Gamble, Carrol; Gillies, Katie; Hood, Kerry; Lang, Trudie; Littleford, Roberta; Loudon, Kirsty; McDonald, Alison; McPherson, Gladys; Nelson, Annmarie; Norrie, John; Ramsay, Craig; Sandercock, Peter; Shanahan, Daniel R; Summerskill, William; Sydes, Matt; Williamson, Paula; Clarke, Mike (Springer Nature, 2015-06-05)
      Randomised trials are at the heart of evidence-based healthcare, but the methods and infrastructure for conducting these sometimes complex studies are largely evidence free. Trial Forge (www.trialforge.org) is an initiative ...

    • Making sense of e-book usage data 

      Cox, John (The Acquisitions Librarian, 2007)
      This article provides an overview of the types of statistical data available for e-book usage and includes examples from specifc vendors, along with coverage of standards such as COUNTER (Counting Online Usage of Networked ...

    • Making the commons work: conservation and cooperation in ireland 

      Di Falco, S.; van Rensburg, T. M. (University of Wisconsin Press, 2008-09-12)
      Commonage represents land held under common property that incorporates a system of local cooperative arrangements and rides to conserve and manage the Irish uplands. We analyze the institutional and economic factors that ...

    • Malignant melanoma arising in red tattoo ink 

      Joyce, Cormac Weekes; Duff, Gerald; McKenna, Dermot; Regan, Padraic James (Korean Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons, 2015-01-01)
      We report the case of a 33-year-old male who presented with a malignant melanoma on his anterior chest wall. The lesion was only found in the red ink pigment of the tattoo, as were several in-transit dermal metastases. ...