Instead, said Sweeney, REF provided a means of validating the contribution of all research: "It's not about favouring one discipline over another". He presented REF not as a perfect measure of impact, but as a first step.
Having the above thoughts in mind, we discuss the details of an evaluation we carried out to validate the contribution of the service to the query construction process.
However, we did identify a consistent association of this gene with type 2 diabetes in our Chinese population, further validating the contribution of TCF7L2 on susceptibility to the disease.
In order to validate the contribution of MEK1/2 kinases in the positive regulation of CIP2A expression, AGS cells were treated with UO126, a more specific and potent MEK1/2 inhibitor than the previously used PD98059, and CIP2A protein expression was studied 48 hours post treatment.
To validate the contribution of COX-2 to shear-mediated regulation of histones, T/C-28a2 chondrocytes were transfected, prior to their exposure to high fluid shear, with a siRNA oligonucleotide sequence specific for L-PGDS, which is downstream of COX-2 and responsible for ROS production.
To validate the contribution of Rnd3 farnesylation to 14-3-3 14-3-3 14-3-3we used a farnesyltransferase interactionFTI).
Further investigation is needed to validate the contribution of alantolactone to tumor therapy in vivo.
Homology-based structure modeling and the biochemical analysis of laboratory-generated protein variants validated the contribution of the five positively selected sites to functional divergence of OryzaTPS1.
To validate the contribution of ERBB4 to the prosurvival PI3K-Akt pathway, we used short hairpin RNAs (shRNAs) for stable ERBB4 knockdown (kd).
To generalize these observations, we validated the contribution of STAMP2 to cell growth in an additional androgen-responsive PCa cell line, VCaP.
