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IPR Policy Brief - The family-work project
The family-work project is a longitudinal study of the experience of lone mothers and their children, following a move into work supported by tax credits, after a period of time receiving out of work benefits. The aim was to...
Published by: University of Bath
IPR Policy Brief - The family-work project
The family-work project is a longitudinal study of the experience of lone mothers and their children, following a move into work supported by tax credits, after a period of time receiving out of work benefits. The aim was to...
Published by: University of Bath
Nanoparticle vesicle encoding for imaging and tracking cell populations.
Paul Rees, John W Wills, M Rowan Brown, James Tonkin, Mark D Holton, Nicole Hondow, Andrew P Brown, Rik Brydson, Val Millar, Anne E Carpenter, Huw D Summers
Aug 13, 2019
For phenotypic behavior to be understood in the context of cell lineage and local environment, properties of individual cells must be measured relative to population-wide traits. However, the inability to accurately identify...
Valproic acid disables the Nrf2 anti-oxidant response in acute myeloid leukaemia cells enhancing reactive oxygen species-mediated killing.
Yao Jiang, Andrew D Southam, Sandro Trova, Flavio Beke, Bader Alhazmi, Thomas Francis, Anshul Radotra, Alessandro di Maio, Mark T Drayson, Chris M Bunce, Farhat L Khanim
Jan 28, 2022
BACKGROUND: We previously demonstrated the in vitro killing of AML cells by the combination of the lipid-lowering agent bezafibrate (BEZ) and the contraceptive hormone medroxyprogesterone acetate (MPA). A phase II trial...
Structural neuroimaging correlates of allelic variation of the BDNF val66met polymorphism.
Natalie J Forde, Lisa Ronan, John Suckling, Cathy Scanlon, Simon Neary, Laurena Holleran, Alexander Leemans, Roger Tait, Catarina Rua, Paul C Fletcher, Ben Jeurissen, Chris M Dodds, Sam R Miller, Edward T Bullmore, Colm McDonald, Pradeep J Nathan, Dara M Cannon
Jun 21, 2018
BACKGROUND: The brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) val66met polymorphism is associated with altered activity dependent secretion of BDNF and a variable influence on brain morphology and cognition. Although a met-dose...
University-based Teacher Residencies in Texas
Teacher education residencies are an innovative but underutilized clinical teaching practice. Perhaps the reason that university-based teacher preparation programs (TPPs) do not employ residencies more broadly may be due to the...
Published by: Digital Commons @ Texas A&M University-San Antonio
University-based Teacher Residencies in Texas
Teacher education residencies are an innovative but underutilized clinical teaching practice. Perhaps the reason that university-based teacher preparation programs (TPPs) do not employ residencies more broadly may be due to the...
Published by: Digital Commons @ Texas A&M University-San Antonio
University-based Teacher Residencies in Texas
Teacher education residencies are an innovative but underutilized clinical teaching practice. Perhaps the reason that university-based teacher preparation programs (TPPs) do not employ residencies more broadly may be due to the...
Published by: Digital Commons @ Texas A&M University-San Antonio
Imaging-Based Screen Identifies Laminin 411 as a Physiologically Relevant Niche Factor with Importance for i-Hep Applications.
John Ong, Maria Paola Serra, Joe Segal, Ana-Maria Cujba, Soon Seng Ng, Richard Butler, Val Millar, Stephanie Hatch, Salman Zimri, Hiroyuki Koike, Karen Chan, Andrew Bonham, Michelle Walk, Ty Voss, Nigel Heaton, Ragai Mitry, Anil Dhawan, Daniel Ebner, Davide Danovi, Hiromitsu Nakauchi, S Tamir Rashid
Mar 17, 2020
Use of hepatocytes derived from induced pluripotent stem cells (i-Heps) is limited by their functional differences in comparison with primary cells. Extracellular niche factors likely play a critical role in bridging this gap....
Squaring the circle? Means testing and individualisation in the UK and Australia
Jane Millar
Jan 01, 0001
As means-tested benefits have come to occupy a more central place in the UK system of income transfers, so the goal of an individualised system seems to have receded. However, there is also a developing policy interest in the...
Squaring the circle? Means testing and individualisation in the UK and Australia
Jane Millar
Jan 01, 0001
As means-tested benefits have come to occupy a more central place in the UK system of income transfers, so the goal of an individualised system seems to have receded. However, there is also a developing policy interest in the...
The dynamics of poverty and employment
Jane Millar
Oct 01, 2007
In recent years there have been significant advances in our understanding of the dynamics of poverty, social exclusion and labour market transitions through the analysis of large-scale panel studies. This article examines the...
Germline and Somatic Genetic Variants in the p53 Pathway Interact to Affect Cancer Risk, Progression, and Drug Response.
Ping Zhang, Isaac Kitchen-Smith, Lingyun Xiong, Giovanni Stracquadanio, Katherine Brown, Philipp H Richter, Marsha D Wallace, Elisabeth Bond, Natasha Sahgal, Samantha Moore, Svanhild Nornes, Sarah De Val, Mirvat Surakhy, David Sims, Xuting Wang, Douglas A Bell, Jorge Zeron-Medina, Yanyan Jiang, Anderson J Ryan, Joanna L Selfe, Janet Shipley, Siddhartha Kar, Paul D Pharoah, Chey Loveday, Rick Jansen, Lukasz F Grochola, Claire Palles, Andrew Protheroe, Val Millar, Daniel V Ebner, Meghana Pagadala, Sarah P Blagden, Timothy S Maughan, Enric Domingo, Ian Tomlinson, Clare Turnbull, Hannah Carter, Gareth L Bond
Jan 26, 2021
Animals Antineoplastic Agents Biomarkers Pharmacological Carcinogenesis Case-Control Studies Cell Line Tumor Disease Progression Drug Resistance Neoplasm Female Genetic Predisposition to Disease Genome-Wide Association Study Germ-Line Mutation Humans Male Mice Mice Inbred BALB C Mice Nude Mutation Missense Neoplasms Polymorphism Single Nucleotide Prognosis Risk Factors Signal Transduction Treatment Outcome Tumor Suppressor Protein p53
Global optimisation approach for designing high-efficiency piezoelectric beam-based energy harvesting devices
Daniil Yurchenko, Lucas Queiroz Machado, Junlei Wang, Chris Bowen, Suleiman Sharkh, Mohamed Moshrefi-Torbati, Dimitri V. Val
Mar 31, 2022
The paper proposes a novel methodology for developing high-power energy harvesting gravity-based devices using an array of piezoelectric beams for wind energy applications. The methodology incorporates a global...
Energy harvesting Free vibrations LiNbO Optimisation Piezoelectric Polyvinylidene fluoride beams Rectification circuit /dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/2100/2105 name=Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment /dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/2500/2500 name=General Materials Science /dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/2200/2208 name=Electrical and Electronic Engineering /dk/atira/pure/sustainabledevelopmentgoals/affordable_and_clean_energy name=SDG 7 - Affordable and Clean Energy
The dynamics of poverty and employment
Jane Millar
Oct 01, 2007
In recent years there have been significant advances in our understanding of the dynamics of poverty, social exclusion and labour market transitions through the analysis of large-scale panel studies. This article examines the...
Making work pay, making tax credits work
Jane Millar
Apr 01, 2008
This article examines the origins, aims, and design of tax credits in the United Kingdom, and discusses the extent to which tax credits represent a new approach in social security policy. It then focuses on the role that these...
Making work pay, making tax credits work
Jane Millar
Apr 01, 2008
This article examines the origins, aims, and design of tax credits in the United Kingdom, and discusses the extent to which tax credits represent a new approach in social security policy. It then focuses on the role that these...
Following families
Analysis of poverty dynamics based on large-scale survey data shows that there is limited mobility across the income distribution for most individuals and families. This includes lone parents, who are one of the groups most...
Electrostatic Tuning of the Ligand Binding Mechanism by Glu27 in Nitrophorin 7.
Stefania Abbruzzetti, Alessandro Allegri, Axel Bidon-Chanal, Hideaki Ogata, Giancarlo Soavi, Giulio Cerullo, Stefano Bruno, Chiara Montali, F Javier Luque, Cristiano Viappiani
Nov 21, 2018
Nitrophorins (NP) 1-7 are NO-carrying heme proteins found in the saliva of the blood-sucking insect Rhodnius prolixus. The isoform NP7 displays peculiar properties, such as an abnormally high isoelectric point, the ability to...
Tax credits
Jane Millar
Jan 01, 0001
Tax credits were introduced in 2003 as the main instrument to deliver the Labour government’s commitments to increase work incentives, to make work pay, and to reduce poverty levels among working families. This article uses a...
Social security, women and equality in the UK
Jane Millar
Jan 01, 0001
Policies to promote equal treatment between men and women have been an important part of getting the needs of women recognised in social security provisions. However, the unequal situations of men and women in the labour market...
Families, work and care
Jane Millar
Oct 31, 2021
Qualitative longitudinal research can make a distinctive contribution to policy discussions and to the assessment of outcomes. This article draws on research with lone-parent families over fifteen years to illustrate how...
Gender, poverty and social exclusion
Jane Millar
Jan 01, 0001
This article discusses some of the problems involved in trying to develop gendersensitive ways of measuring poverty. It argues that what is needed is a way of placing individuals within households and measuring both their...
Gender, poverty and social exclusion
Jane Millar
Jan 01, 0001
This article discusses some of the problems involved in trying to develop gendersensitive ways of measuring poverty. It argues that what is needed is a way of placing individuals within households and measuring both their...
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