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Comparing the short and long term stability of biodegradable, ceramic and cation exchange membranes in microbial fuel cells (2013)
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The long and short-term stability of two porous dependent ion exchange materials; starch-based compostable bags (BioBag) and ceramic, were compared to commercially available cation exchange membrane (CEM) in microbial fuel cells. Using bi-directional... Read More about Comparing the short and long term stability of biodegradable, ceramic and cation exchange membranes in microbial fuel cells.

Up Frenchman's creek: A case study on managing commercial fishing in an English special area of conservation and its implications (2013)
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The Habitats Directive has matured over the years since it has been implemented. One of the last industries to feel its application is the commercial sea fishing industry: the industry which according to the Royal Commission on Environmental Poll... Read More about Up Frenchman's creek: A case study on managing commercial fishing in an English special area of conservation and its implications.

Designing complex dynamics in cellular automata with memory (2013)
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Since their inception at Macy conferences in later 1940s, complex systems have remained the most controversial topic of interdisciplinary sciences. The term "complex system" is the most vague and liberally used scientific term. Using elementary cellu... Read More about Designing complex dynamics in cellular automata with memory.

Rationalising risk: Grower strategies to manage plant disease in the UK wheat and potato sectors (2012)
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The threat that plant diseases and pests pose to food production and ecosystem services is neither well understood in the social sciences nor publicly debated, despite the fact that it is significant and growing. This paper presents findings from int... Read More about Rationalising risk: Grower strategies to manage plant disease in the UK wheat and potato sectors.

Towards temporal verification of swarm robotic systems (2012)
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A robot swarm is a collection of simple robots designed to work together to carry out some task. Such swarms rely on the simplicity of the individual robots; the fault tolerance inherent in having a large population of identical robots; and the self-... Read More about Towards temporal verification of swarm robotic systems.

The role of trust in the development of connectivities amongst rural elders in England and Wales (2012)
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Using Simmel's notion of sociation, the way in which rural elders in England and Wales relate to, or connect with, each other and others within their community, can be seen to be conflictual as well as consensual. As a vehicle for exploiting this rel... Read More about The role of trust in the development of connectivities amongst rural elders in England and Wales.

Clinical outcomes from bilateral versus unilateral stimulation of the pedunculopontine nucleus with and without concomitant caudal zona incerta region stimulation in Parkinson's disease (2012)
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Introduction. The Pedunculopontine nucleus is a novel target for deep brain stimulation and this may improve postural instability and gait dysfunction in Parkinson's disease. If unilateral Pedunculopontine nucleus stimulation is as efficacious as bil... Read More about Clinical outcomes from bilateral versus unilateral stimulation of the pedunculopontine nucleus with and without concomitant caudal zona incerta region stimulation in Parkinson's disease.

Sing together: Group choral singing improves quality of life and mood following stroke (2012)
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Innovative machine vision technique for 2D/3D complex and irregular surfaces modelling (2012)
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Abstract—This study propose and demonstrates a novel technique incorporating multilayer perceptron (MLP) neural networks for feature extraction with Photometric stereo based image capture techniques for the analysis of complex and irregular 2D profil... Read More about Innovative machine vision technique for 2D/3D complex and irregular surfaces modelling.

Learning video manifolds for content analysis of crowded scenes (2012)
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In this paper, we propose a new approach for recognizing group events and abnormality detection in a crowded scene. A manifold learning algorithm with temporal-constraints is proposed to embed a video of a crowded scene in a low-dimensional space. Ou... Read More about Learning video manifolds for content analysis of crowded scenes.

Underactuated fingers controlled by robust and adaptive trajectory following methods (2012)
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Choosing an appropriate control scheme to alleviate nonlinearities and uncertainties is not a trivial task, especially when models are not easily available and practical evaluation provides the only means for actual performance assessment. Various fa... Read More about Underactuated fingers controlled by robust and adaptive trajectory following methods.

Building visual memories of video streams (2012)
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A real-time method that automatically creates a visual memory of a scene using the growing neural gas (GNG) algorithm is described. The memory consists of a graph where nodes encode the visual information of a video stream as a limited set of represe... Read More about Building visual memories of video streams.

2050: Sustainable oceans in a changing climate Cabot Institute Position Paper (2012)
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The world’s oceans are a potentially hugely productive resource. Against a backdrop of climate change, ocean acidification, population growth and poor governance and regulation, it is vital that we change our management strategies to maximise marin... Read More about 2050: Sustainable oceans in a changing climate Cabot Institute Position Paper.

Sustainable rural development in England: Policy problems and equity consequences (2012)
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Spatial planning policies ensure a 'no development' ethic for rural areas in England, brought about by strong restrictive housing polices and an urban-centric view of sustainable development. Such an ethic is unlikely to be ameliorated by the Localis... Read More about Sustainable rural development in England: Policy problems and equity consequences.

To use or not to use? An empirical study of pre-trip public transport information for business and leisure trips and comparison with car travel (2012)
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This quantitative study provides more insight into the relative strength of various factors affecting the use and non-use of pre-trip Public Transport (PT) information for business and leisure trips. It also illuminates comparing car with public tran... Read More about To use or not to use? An empirical study of pre-trip public transport information for business and leisure trips and comparison with car travel.

Unsupervised sub-segmentation for pigmented skin lesions (2012)
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Background: Early identification of malignant melanoma with the surgical removal of thin lesions is the most effective treatment for skin cancers. A computer-aided diagnostic system assists to improve the diagnostic accuracy, where segmenting lesion... Read More about Unsupervised sub-segmentation for pigmented skin lesions.

Stability lobes prediction for corner radius end mill using nonlinear cutting force coefficients (2012)
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There are a vast number of different types of end mill tools used in the manufacturing industry, each type with a unique shape. These tool shapes have a direct influence on the cutting force it generates during machining. This article presents a more... Read More about Stability lobes prediction for corner radius end mill using nonlinear cutting force coefficients.

An architecture for integrated intelligence in urban management using cloud computing (2012)
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With the emergence of new methodologies and technologies it has now become possible to manage large amounts of environmental sensing data and apply new integrated computing models to acquire information intelligence. This paper advocates the applicat... Read More about An architecture for integrated intelligence in urban management using cloud computing.

Traction on the cervix in theatre before anterior repair: Does it tell us when to perform a concomitant hysterectomy? (2012)
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Objective: To evaluate the surgical outcome of uterine preservation during anterior colporrhaphy, in women with apparent uterine descent, after the application of validated cervical traction under anaesthesia. Study design: This study was conducted a... Read More about Traction on the cervix in theatre before anterior repair: Does it tell us when to perform a concomitant hysterectomy?.

The use of framing to highlight differences between transport-related CO2 amounts (2012)
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