Faculty of Science: Recent submissions
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Death anxiety in the time of COVID-19: theoretical explanations and clinical implications
Published 2020The recent COVID-19 pandemic has triggered a surge in anxiety across the globe. Much of the public's behavioural and emotional response to the virus can be understood through the framework of terror management theory, which ...Article -
Cluster-based dual evolution for multivariate time series: Analyzing COVID-19
Published 2020"This paper proposes a cluster-based method to analyze the evolution of multivariate time series and applies this to the COVID-19 pandemic. On each day, we partition countries into clusters according to both their cases ...Article -
Identification of 2019-nCoV related coronaviruses in Malayan pangolins in southern China
Published 2020The ongoing outbreak of viral pneumonia in China and beyond is associated with a novel coronavirus, provisionally termed 2019-nCoV. This outbreak has been tentatively associated with a seafood market in Wuhan, China, where ...Preprint -
Synthesis of polymers and nanoparticles bearing polystyrene sulfonate brushes for chemokine binding
Published 2016-03-23The movement of leukocytes to the site of inflammation in response to injury or infection is orchestrated by chemokines binding and signaling through cognate receptors. The interaction between sulfated tyrosine residues ...Open AccessArticle -
Tyrosine sulfation modulates activity of tick-derived thrombin inhibitors
Published 2017-03-20Madanin-1 and chimadanin are two small cysteine-free thrombin inhibitors that facilitate blood feeding in the tick Haemaphysalis longicornis. Here, we report a post-translational modification—tyrosine sulfation—of these ...Open AccessArticle