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Acetyl-CoA carboxylase and stearoyl-CoA desaturase protein expression in subcutaneous adipose tissue is reduced in pigs selected for decreased backfat thickness at constant intramuscular fat content (2009)
Journal Article

The objectives of this study were 1) to determine whether selection toward less subcutaneous fat thickness at constant intramuscular fat content in pigs is related to tissue-specific changes in the expression of lipogenic enzymes acetyl-CoA carboxyla... Read More about Acetyl-CoA carboxylase and stearoyl-CoA desaturase protein expression in subcutaneous adipose tissue is reduced in pigs selected for decreased backfat thickness at constant intramuscular fat content.

Symbionts of societies that fission: Mites as guests or parasites of army ants (2009)
Journal Article

Recently, Hughes et al. (Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 23, 672-677, 2008) have theorised that symbionts of large, long-lived, homeostatic, and well defended social insect colonies should mostly be of low virulence. If the symbionts are rare, i.e. fe... Read More about Symbionts of societies that fission: Mites as guests or parasites of army ants.

Division of labour in ant colonies in terms of attractive fields (2009)
Journal Article

In nature there exist many mechanisms giving rise to self-regulation. One such mechanism is the division of labour in insect societies. Within this work we propose a mathematical model for the allocation of tasks in ant colonies, where each of the ta... Read More about Division of labour in ant colonies in terms of attractive fields.

The triangle-bisection illusion (2009)
Journal Article

In the triangle-bisection illusion, a dot is inscribed exactly halfway up the height of an equilateral triangle, but it looks apparently far more than halfway up. The illusion is found for second-order triangles defined by stereo depth and by equilum... Read More about The triangle-bisection illusion.

Reaction-diffusion controllers for robots (2009)
Book Chapter

Excitable systems, particularly spatially extended media, exhibit a wide variety of travelling patterns and different modes of interaction. The Belousov-Zhabo-tinsky [1] (BZ) reaction is the most well known and extensively studied example of non-line... Read More about Reaction-diffusion controllers for robots.

Utilizing waste recycled glass as sand/cement replacement in concrete (2009)
Journal Article

The potential use of waste recycled glass in concrete as recycled glass sand (RGS) and pozzolanic glass powder (PGP) was examined in this study. No major difference was found in compressive strength of concrete with the presence of RGS as sand replac... Read More about Utilizing waste recycled glass as sand/cement replacement in concrete.

Toward a typology of civil society: Understanding non-government public action (2009)
Journal Article

An interview with Anne Buttimer: An autobiographical window on geographical thought and practice 1965-2005 (2009)
Journal Article

Anne Buttimer's 40 years of geographical publications have been influential and international in scope. She has also played an important institutional role within the International Geographical Union, culminating in her presidency 2000-2004. The rela... Read More about An interview with Anne Buttimer: An autobiographical window on geographical thought and practice 1965-2005.

Land use planning and health and well-being (2009)
Journal Article

This paper is concerned with the relationship between the planning of settlements and health. It gives a brief introduction to the issues before summarising the evidence in relation to a range of topics, concluding with some more speculative thoughts... Read More about Land use planning and health and well-being.

The marine bill: An overview and some thoughts (2009)
Journal Article

This paper examines the Marine and Coastal Access Bill as it was tabled on 8th December 2008. It explores the failure of the Bill to include marine protection of over 3,000,000 km2 of the waters associated with overseas territories and Crown dependen... Read More about The marine bill: An overview and some thoughts.

Measuring retinal vessel tortuosity in 10-year-old children: Validation of the computer-assisted image analysis of the retina (caiar) program (2009)
Journal Article

PURPOSE: To examine the agreement of a novel computer pro- gram measuring retinal vessel tortuosity with subjective assess-he morphologic characteristics of vessels of the retina have been associated with cardiovascular and coronary diseasement of to... Read More about Measuring retinal vessel tortuosity in 10-year-old children: Validation of the computer-assisted image analysis of the retina (caiar) program.

The impact of global economic crisis on remittances in the commonwealth of independent states (2009)
Journal Article

Two European geographers and an economist analyze the impact of the 2008-2009 global economic recession on remittances in the Commonwealth of Independent States. Drawing on balance-of-payments data as well as information on money transfers to and fro... Read More about The impact of global economic crisis on remittances in the commonwealth of independent states.

Expressing properties of coalitional ability under resource bounds (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

We introduce Coalition Logic for Resource Games (CLRG) which extends Coalition Logic by allowing explicit reasoning about resource endowments of coalitions of agents and resource bounds on strategies. We show how to express interesting properties of... Read More about Expressing properties of coalitional ability under resource bounds.

Synthetic training data generation for activity monitoring and behavior analysis (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper describes a data generator that produces synthetic data to simulate observations from an array of environment monitoring sensors. The overall goal of our work is to monitor the well-being of one occupant in a home. Sensors are embedded in... Read More about Synthetic training data generation for activity monitoring and behavior analysis.

Often overlooked: formative evaluation in the development of ScienceComics (2009)
Journal Article

Formative evaluation should play a key role in the development of a science communication project or initiative. Such research is vital to understanding the needs and interests of the audience or participants; meeting these needs and interests helps... Read More about Often overlooked: formative evaluation in the development of ScienceComics.

The crisis of "social democratic" unionism: The "opening up" of civil society and the prospects for union renewal in the United Kingdom, France, and Germany (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This article defines and explores the crisis of social democratic trade unionism in three countries in western Europe. The authors contend that a particularized form of postwar trade union orientation was socially constructed in Britain, Germany, and... Read More about The crisis of "social democratic" unionism: The "opening up" of civil society and the prospects for union renewal in the United Kingdom, France, and Germany.

Feminine boundaries: Adolesence, witchcraft and the supernatural in new gothic cinema and television (2009)
Book Chapter

The 'new gothic' film and television text addressed to a largely female audience such as Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Twilight and True Blood, has become an important genre for the staging and testing out of ideas about adolesent femininity, sexuality... Read More about Feminine boundaries: Adolesence, witchcraft and the supernatural in new gothic cinema and television.

Pre-hospital resuscitation using the iGEL (2009)
Journal Article

We report our findings on the use of the iGEL (Intersurgical: Wokingham, UK) as an airway device during pre-hospital resuscitation.

Research leading to social marketing solutions to encourage breastfeeding amongst teenage mothers in hard to reach communities: report prepared for Bristol PCT, September 2009 (2009)
Report

An investigation of the aerodynamic admittances and aerodynamic weighting functions of trains (2009)
Journal Article

Increasing train speeds combined with the predicted reduction in the weight of new trains ensure that the effect of crosswinds on train stability is of continued interest to the rail industry. Changes in the approaching wind velocity can in turn lead... Read More about An investigation of the aerodynamic admittances and aerodynamic weighting functions of trains.