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Physarum attraction: Why slime mold behaves as cats do? (2012)
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We discuss potential chemical substances responsible for attracting acellular slime mold Physarun polycephalum to valerian root. The contributes toward fundamental research into pheromones and chemo-attracts of primitive organisms such as slime molds... Read More about Physarum attraction: Why slime mold behaves as cats do?.

The Mohawk traditional council (2012)
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This work discusses environmental justice issues in Kahnawake, one of the eight communities that make up the Mohawk Nation. The traditional territory of the Mohawk extends through vast regions of what is currently referred to as Quebec, Ontario, and... Read More about The Mohawk traditional council.

A new procedure for multi-mode sequential flocking with application to multiple non-holonomic mobile robot motion control: Implementation and analysis (2012)
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This is the second of a two-part paper that investigates the multi-mode sequential flocking with application to multiple non-holonomic mobile robot motion control. In this part, a multiple mobile robot simulation system based on MuRoS is used to simu... Read More about A new procedure for multi-mode sequential flocking with application to multiple non-holonomic mobile robot motion control: Implementation and analysis.

A qualitative study of how mothers and teenage daughters negotiate sex-related risk and independence (2012)
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Concern across more economically developed nations has focused on the role of parental communication and monitoring in predicting risk-taking behaviour and health outcomes. However, explorations of how mothers and daughters negotiate risk remain unde... Read More about A qualitative study of how mothers and teenage daughters negotiate sex-related risk and independence.

Stable isotope switching (SIS): A new stable isotope probing (SIP) approach to determine carbon flow in the soil food web and dynamics in organic matter pools (2012)
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RATIONALE Recent advances in stable isotope probing (SIP) have allowed direct linkage of microbial population structure and function. This paper details a new development of SIP, Stable Isotope Switching (SIS), which allows the simultaneous assessmen... Read More about Stable isotope switching (SIS): A new stable isotope probing (SIP) approach to determine carbon flow in the soil food web and dynamics in organic matter pools.

A comparison of overload behaviour for some sub 2μm totally porous and sub 3μm shell particle columns with ionised solutes (2012)
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The overloading performance of some 2.7 μm shell and sub 2 μm totally porous columns, including one pair manufactured from similar materials with similar bonding chemistries, was compared using strongly acidic and basic probe compounds. In general, t... Read More about A comparison of overload behaviour for some sub 2μm totally porous and sub 3μm shell particle columns with ionised solutes.

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.

Advances in the Wilshire extrapolation technique-Full creep curve representation for the aerospace alloy Titanium 834 (2012)
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Structural alloys applied to aerospace and power generation applications are expected to operate at temperatures exceeding those originally envisaged during their design to meet the tightening regulations on emissions and also to improve the efficien... Read More about Advances in the Wilshire extrapolation technique-Full creep curve representation for the aerospace alloy Titanium 834.

The revolutionary effect of equality and human rights law on the UK armed forces (2012)
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The UK armed forces have undergone an incremental transformation through the impact of civilian law since the 1960s. Gerry Rubin in a 2002 article for this journal analysed the impact of this civilian law on Military Law and described a course of civ... Read More about The revolutionary effect of equality and human rights law on the UK armed forces.

Evaluation of the effects of venlafaxine and pregabalin on the carbon dioxide inhalation models of Generalised Anxiety Disorder and panic (2012)
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Previous studies have shown that subjective and objective symptoms of anxiety induced by 7.5% CO2 inhalation can be attenuated by anxiolytics such as lorazepam and, to a lesser extent, paroxetine. Venlafaxine and pregabalin, two other licensed treatm... Read More about Evaluation of the effects of venlafaxine and pregabalin on the carbon dioxide inhalation models of Generalised Anxiety Disorder and panic.

Evolution of supershapes for the generation of three-dimensional designs (2012)
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This paper explores the evolution of three-dimensional objects with a simple generative encoding, known as the Superformula. Evolving three-dimensional objects has long been of interest in a wide array of disciplines, from engineering (e.g., robotics... Read More about Evolution of supershapes for the generation of three-dimensional designs.

The effect of frequency and phonological neighbourhood density on the acquisition of past tense verbs by Finnish children (2012)
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The acquisition of the past tense has received substantial attention in the psycholinguistics literature, yet most studies report data from English or closely related Indo-European languages. We report on a past tense elicitation study on 136 4a-6-ye... Read More about The effect of frequency and phonological neighbourhood density on the acquisition of past tense verbs by Finnish children.

The development of the EU asylum policy: Venue-shopping in perspective (2012)
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The development of the EU asylum and migration policy is often explained as the result of ‘venue-shopping’, that is, the move by policy-makers to an EU policy venue in order to avoid national constraints. This article demonstrates that, contrary to w... Read More about The development of the EU asylum policy: Venue-shopping in perspective.

Analysis of factors affecting value for money in UK PFI projects (2012)
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This paper aims to report findings from a study on factors that made value for money (VFM) in private finance initiative (PFI) projects vulnerable to variations. It seeks to identify the top influencing factors, rank them according to the relative st... Read More about Analysis of factors affecting value for money in UK PFI projects.

Survey on latency issues of asynchronous MAC protocols in delay-sensitive wireless sensor networks (2012)
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Energy-efficiency is the main concern in most Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) applications. For this purpose, current WSN MAC (Medium Access Control) protocols use duty-cycling schemes, where they consciously switch a node's radio between active and sl... Read More about Survey on latency issues of asynchronous MAC protocols in delay-sensitive wireless sensor networks.

A consistent approach for the treatment of Fermi acceleration in time-dependent billiards (2012)
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The standard description of Fermi acceleration, developing in a class of time-dependent billiards, is given in terms of a diffusion process taking place in momentum space. Within this framework, the evolution of the probability density function (PDF)... Read More about A consistent approach for the treatment of Fermi acceleration in time-dependent billiards.

Combined pedunculopontine-subthalamic stimulation in Parkinson disease (2012)
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Objective: To assess the effect of deep brain stimulation (DBS) in the pedunculopontine nucleus (PPN) and caudal zona incerta (cZi)-both separately and in combination-on motor symptoms and regional cerebral blood flow (rCBF) in patients with Parkinso... Read More about Combined pedunculopontine-subthalamic stimulation in Parkinson disease.

Evaluating the travel, physical activity and carbon impacts of a 'natural experiment' in the provision of new walking and cycling infrastructure: Methods for the core module of the iConnect study (2012)
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Introduction: Improving infrastructure to support walking and cycling is often regarded as fundamental to encouraging their widespread uptake. However, there is little evidence that specific provision of this kind has led to a significant increase in... Read More about Evaluating the travel, physical activity and carbon impacts of a 'natural experiment' in the provision of new walking and cycling infrastructure: Methods for the core module of the iConnect study.

Racially biased juries in the criminal court (2012)
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This paper considers allegations of racial bias on juries in England and Wales. It argues that despite allegations of juror misconduct, juries in England and Wales are not racially biased towards black and ethnic minority defendants. Allegations of r... Read More about Racially biased juries in the criminal court.

Phenomenology as a resource for patients (2012)
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Patient support tools have drawn on a variety of disciplines, including psychotherapy, social psychology, and social care. One discipline that has not so far been used to support patients is philosophy. This paper proposes that a particular philosoph... Read More about Phenomenology as a resource for patients.