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Symbionts of societies that fission: Mites as guests or parasites of army ants (2009)
Journal Article
Berghoff, S. M., Wurst, E., Ebermann, E., Sendova-Franks, A. B., Rettenmeyer, C. W., & Franks, N. R. (2009). Symbionts of societies that fission: Mites as guests or parasites of army ants. Ecological Entomology, 34(6), 684-695. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2311.2009.01125.x

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
Arcaute, E., Christensen, K., Sendova-Franks, A. B., Dahl, T., Espinosa, A., & Jensen, H. J. (2009). Division of labour in ant colonies in terms of attractive fields. Ecological Complexity, 6(4), 396-402. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecocom.2008.10.001

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.

Reaction-diffusion controllers for robots (2009)
Book Chapter
Adamatzky, A., de Lacy Costello, B., & Yokoi, H. (2009). Reaction-diffusion controllers for robots. In A. Adamatzky, & M. Komosinski (Eds.), Artificial Life Models in Hardware (233-264). London: Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84882-530-7_11

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
Taha, B., & Nounu, G. (2009). Utilizing waste recycled glass as sand/cement replacement in concrete. Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering, 21(12), 709-721. https://doi.org/10.1061/%28ASCE%290899-1561%282009%2921%3A12%28709%29

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.

An interview with Anne Buttimer: An autobiographical window on geographical thought and practice 1965-2005 (2009)
Journal Article
Maddrell, A. (2009). An interview with Anne Buttimer: An autobiographical window on geographical thought and practice 1965-2005. Gender, Place and Culture, 16(6), 741-765. https://doi.org/10.1080/09663690903279179

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
Barton, H. (2009). Land use planning and health and well-being. Land Use Policy, 26(SUPPL. 1), 115-123. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2009.09.008

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
Appleby, T. (2009). The marine bill: An overview and some thoughts. Liverpool Law Review, 30(2), 101-113. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10991-009-9058-9

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
Owen, C. G., Rudnicka, A. R., Mullen, R., Barman, S. A., Monekosso, D., Whincup, P. H., …Paterson, C. (2009). Measuring retinal vessel tortuosity in 10-year-old children: Validation of the computer-assisted image analysis of the retina (caiar) program. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science, 50(5), 2004-2010. https://doi.org/10.1167/iovs.08-3018

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
O'Hara, S., Ivlevs, A., & Gentile, M. (2009). The impact of global economic crisis on remittances in the commonwealth of independent states. Eurasian Geography and Economics, 50(4), 447-463. https://doi.org/10.2747/1539-7216.50.4.447

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)
Journal Article
Alechina, N., Logan, B., Nga, N. H., & Rakib, A. (2009). Expressing properties of coalitional ability under resource bounds. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, 5834 LNAI, 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04893-7_1

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)
Journal Article
Monekosso, D., & Remagnino, P. (2009). Synthetic training data generation for activity monitoring and behavior analysis. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, 5859 LNCS, 267-275. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-05408-2_31

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
Weitkamp, E., & Featherstone, H. (2009). Often overlooked: formative evaluation in the development of ScienceComics. JCOM: Journal of Science Communication, 8(4), A04

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)
Journal Article
Upchurch, M., Taylor, G., & Mathers, A. (2009). 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. Labor Studies Journal, 34(4), 519-542. https://doi.org/10.1177/0160449X08324739

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
Tincknell, E. (2009). Feminine boundaries: Adolesence, witchcraft and the supernatural in new gothic cinema and television. In I. Conrich (Ed.), Horror Zone: The Cultural Experience of Contemporary Horror Cinema. I.B.Tauris, Macmillan

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.

An investigation of the aerodynamic admittances and aerodynamic weighting functions of trains (2009)
Journal Article
Sterling, M., Baker, C., Bouferrouk, A., ONeil, H., Wood, S., & Crosbie, E. (2009). An investigation of the aerodynamic admittances and aerodynamic weighting functions of trains. Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics, 97(11-12), 512-522. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jweia.2009.07.009

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.