An entirely unelected Upper House looks, at first sight, to sit uneasily with a XXIst century democracy.In this context, the House of Lords has had to carve out its own role in the British constitutional settlement.Since fast key wire the reforms of the beginning of the XXIst century, its legitimacy and positions have shifted.This article focuses o
A method for measuring the thermal diffusivity of solid materials under combined boundary conditions in combination with the idea of inverse heat transfer problem is proposed.Based on the idea of the finite volume method and the alternating direction implicit method, MATLAB software is used to numerically solve the temperature field of the forward
Alison Pooler,1,2 Roger Beech21School of Nursing and Midwifery, Clinical Education Centre, University Hospital of North Staffordshire NHS Trust, Stoke-on-Trent, UK; 2Health Services Research, Research Institute of Primary Care and Health Sciences, Keele University, Keele, UK Objectives: Exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)
Many diseases, especially cancer, are caused by the abnormal expression of non-coding microRNAs (miRNAs), which regulate gene expression, leading to the development of miRNA-based therapeutics.Synthetic miRNA inhibitors have shown promising efficacy in blocking the activity of aberrant miRNAs that are upregulated in disease-specific pathologies.On