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An alternative test to check the validity of convergence results (2009)
Journal Article
Webber, D. J., & White, P. (2009). An alternative test to check the validity of convergence results. Applied Economics Letters, 16(18), 1825-1829. https://doi.org/10.1080/13504850701719579

This article presents a simple method for identifying distributional dynamic properties of economies using the ideas of concordance and discordance. It can be employed to examine the strength and validity of the results of other methods. The method h... Read More about An alternative test to check the validity of convergence results.

Miniprint No.24 (2009)
Exhibition / Performance
Webb, R. Miniprint No.24. 1 December 2009 - 1 January 2010. (Unpublished)

Children in a rail-based developed area of Japan: Travel patterns, independence, and exercise (2009)
Journal Article
Waygood, E. O. D., & Kitamura, R. (2009). Children in a rail-based developed area of Japan: Travel patterns, independence, and exercise. Transportation Research Record, 2125(2125), 36-43. https://doi.org/10.3141/2125-05

This paper examines measures of travel behavior and exercise for children in four different levels of population density in the Osaka metropolitan areas of Japan. This area's built environment reflects principles of transitoriented development with n... Read More about Children in a rail-based developed area of Japan: Travel patterns, independence, and exercise.

A novel in vitro flat-bed perfusion biofilm model for determining the potential antimicrobial efficacy of topical wound treatments (2009)
Journal Article
Thorn, R., & Greenman, J. (2009). A novel in vitro flat-bed perfusion biofilm model for determining the potential antimicrobial efficacy of topical wound treatments. Journal of Applied Microbiology, 107(6), 2070-2079. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2672.2009.04398.x

Aims: To develop an in vitro flat-bed perfusion biofilm model that could be used to determine the antimicrobial efficacy of topically applied treatments. Methods and Results: Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Staphylococcus aureus biofilms were grown within... Read More about A novel in vitro flat-bed perfusion biofilm model for determining the potential antimicrobial efficacy of topical wound treatments.

Individual carbon dioxide emissions and potential for reduction in the Netherlands and the United Kingdom (2009)
Journal Article
Susilo, Y. O., & Stead, D. (2009). Individual carbon dioxide emissions and potential for reduction in the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. Transportation Research Record, 2139(2139), 142-152. https://doi.org/10.3141/2139-17

Using National Travel Survey (NTS) data from the Netherlands and the United Kingdom, this paper examines how passenger transport emissions are divided across society and how similar this distribution is across these two countries. By looking across a... Read More about Individual carbon dioxide emissions and potential for reduction in the Netherlands and the United Kingdom.

How far is too far?: Travel time ratios for activity participation in the Netherlands (2009)
Journal Article
Susilo, Y. O., & Dijst, M. (2009). How far is too far?: Travel time ratios for activity participation in the Netherlands. Transportation Research Record, 2134(2134), 89-98. https://doi.org/10.3141/2134-11

It is widely believed that providing activity locations close to residential locations reduces the travel time of residents. However, it has not been clear how close to one another activity locations and residential locations should be. The Dutch Nat... Read More about How far is too far?: Travel time ratios for activity participation in the Netherlands.

The natural history of speech impairment of 8-year-old children in the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children: Error rates at 2 and 5 years (2009)
Journal Article
Peters, T. J., Miller, L. L., Roulstone, S., & Wren, Y. (2009). The natural history of speech impairment of 8-year-old children in the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children: Error rates at 2 and 5 years. International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 11(5), 381-391. https://doi.org/10.1080/17549500903125111

This prospective longitudinal population study observed the speech of 741 children at the ages of 2, 5 and 8 years. At the age of 8, 132 children were categorized as speech impaired. There was strong evidence of differences between the case and contr... Read More about The natural history of speech impairment of 8-year-old children in the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children: Error rates at 2 and 5 years.

A good night out: Alcohol-related behaviours in young adults (2009)
Journal Article
Ritchie, C., Ritchie, F., & Ward, R. (2009). A good night out: Alcohol-related behaviours in young adults. Worldwide Hospitality and Tourism Themes, 1(2), 169-193. https://doi.org/10.1108/17554210910962549

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to investigate drinking patterns; attitudes towards alcohol consumption and alcohol-related behaviours amongst differing groups of young adults. A further aim is to investigate whether the drinking behaviours of... Read More about A good night out: Alcohol-related behaviours in young adults.

Grid infrastructures for computational neuroscience: The neuGRID example (2009)
Journal Article
Spenger, C., Barkhof, F., Redolfi, A., McClatchey, R., Anjum, A., Zijdenbos, A., …Frisoni, G. B. (2009). Grid infrastructures for computational neuroscience: The neuGRID example. Future Neurology, 4(6), 703-722. https://doi.org/10.2217/fnl.09.53

Neuroscience is increasingly making use of statistical and mathematical tools to extract information from images of biological tissues. Computational neuroimaging tools require substantial computational resources and the increasing availability of la... Read More about Grid infrastructures for computational neuroscience: The neuGRID example.

Urban World Heritage Sites and the problem of authenticity (2009)
Journal Article
Pendlebury, J., Short, M., & While, A. (2009). Urban World Heritage Sites and the problem of authenticity. Cities, 26(6), 349-358. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2009.09.003

The number of designated World Heritage Sites (WHS) has proliferated across the world over the last two decades. Often associated with relatively self-contained sites of historic or architectural importance and their immediate surroundings, an increa... Read More about Urban World Heritage Sites and the problem of authenticity.

"It's so much easier to go with what's easy": "Mindfulness" and the discourse between home and international students in the United Kingdom (2009)
Journal Article
Peacock, N., & Harrison, N. (2009). "It's so much easier to go with what's easy": "Mindfulness" and the discourse between home and international students in the United Kingdom. Journal of Studies in International Education, 13(4), 487-508. https://doi.org/10.1177/1028315308319508

A recent aspect of U.K. higher education has been the internationalisation of university campuses, driven by a rapid increase in student numbers from overseas and growing pressure to prepare all students for global careers. It is often assumed by pol... Read More about "It's so much easier to go with what's easy": "Mindfulness" and the discourse between home and international students in the United Kingdom.

Objective evidence for the use of polylactic acid implants in HIV-associated facial lipoatrophy using three-dimensional surface laser scanning and psychological assessment (2009)
Journal Article
Withey, S., Johnson, M. A., Ong, J., Clarke, A., White, P., & Butler, P. (2009). Objective evidence for the use of polylactic acid implants in HIV-associated facial lipoatrophy using three-dimensional surface laser scanning and psychological assessment. Journal of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery, 62(12), 1627-1635. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bjps.2008.07.046

The advent of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) has dramatically improved the life expectancy of people infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). Although patients often have excellent disease control with these combinations of ant... Read More about Objective evidence for the use of polylactic acid implants in HIV-associated facial lipoatrophy using three-dimensional surface laser scanning and psychological assessment.

Researching men: The politics and possibilities of a qualitative mixed-methods approach (2009)
Journal Article
Mcclymont, K., & Meth, P. (2009). Researching men: The politics and possibilities of a qualitative mixed-methods approach. Social and Cultural Geography, 10(8), 809. https://doi.org/10.1080/14649360903305775

Explicit consideration of the nature and workings of different qualitative methods for researching men are relatively uncommon within geography. Building on work which explores ethnographies, ethical concerns and questions about fieldwork, this paper... Read More about Researching men: The politics and possibilities of a qualitative mixed-methods approach.

Somatosensory conflicts in complex regional pain syndrome type 1 and fibromyalgia syndrome (2009)
Journal Article
Lewis, J., McCabe, C., Cohen, H., Hall, J., Rodham, K., & Harris, N. (2009). Somatosensory conflicts in complex regional pain syndrome type 1 and fibromyalgia syndrome. Current Rheumatology Reports, 11(6), 461-465. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11926-009-0067-4

The somatosensory system is an integral component of the motor control system that facilitates the recognition of location and experience of peripheral stimuli, as well as body part position and differentiation. In chronic pain, this system may be di... Read More about Somatosensory conflicts in complex regional pain syndrome type 1 and fibromyalgia syndrome.

A robust solution to multi-modal image registration by combining mutual information with multi-scale derivatives (2009)
Journal Article
Morgan, J. E., Rosin, P. L., Legg, P., & Marshall, D. (2009). A robust solution to multi-modal image registration by combining mutual information with multi-scale derivatives. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, 5761 LNCS(PART 1), 616-623. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04268-3_76

In this paper we present a novel method for performing image registration of different modalities. Mutual Information (MI) is an established method for performing such registration. However, it is recognised that standard MI is not without some probl... Read More about A robust solution to multi-modal image registration by combining mutual information with multi-scale derivatives.

Artificial life models in hardware (2009)
Book
Komosinski, M., Adamatzky, A., Ieropoulos, I., Greenman, J., Melhuish, C., & Horsfield, I. (2009). A. Adamatzky, & M. Komosinski (Eds.), Artificial life models in hardware. London: Spinger-Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84882-530-7

Hopping, climbing and swimming robots, nano-size neural networks, motorless walkers, slime mould and chemical brains - 'Artificial Life Models in Hardware' offers unique designs and prototypes of life-like creatures in conventional hardware and hybri... Read More about Artificial life models in hardware.

Upper bounds for α-domination parameters (2009)
Journal Article
Gagarin, A., Poghosyan, A., & Zverovich, V. (2009). Upper bounds for α-domination parameters. Graphs and Combinatorics, 25(4), 513-520. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00373-009-0864-6

We provide a new upper bound for the α-domination number in terms of a parameter α, 0 < α ≤ 1, and graph vertex degrees. This result generalises the well-known Caro-Roditty bound for the domination number of a graph. The same probabilistic constructi... Read More about Upper bounds for α-domination parameters.

Use of airborne remote sensing to detect riverside Brassica rapa to aid in risk assessment of transgenic crops (2009)
Journal Article
Elliott, L. M., Mason, D. C., Allainguillaume, J., & Wilkinson, M. J. (2009). Use of airborne remote sensing to detect riverside Brassica rapa to aid in risk assessment of transgenic crops. Journal of Applied Remote Sensing, 3(1), 033562. https://doi.org/10.1117/1.3269615

High resolution descriptions of plant distribution have utility for many ecological applications but are especially useful for predictive modeling of gene flow from transgenic crops. Difficulty lies in the extrapolation errors that occur when limited... Read More about Use of airborne remote sensing to detect riverside Brassica rapa to aid in risk assessment of transgenic crops.

A review of wave energy converter technology (2009)
Journal Article
Sahinkaya, M. N., Plummer, A. R., & Drew, B. (2009). A review of wave energy converter technology. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part A: Journal of Power and Energy, 223(8), 887-902. https://doi.org/10.1243/09576509JPE782

Ocean waves are a huge, largely untapped energy resource, and the potential for extracting energy from waves is considerable. Research in this area is driven by the need to meet renewable energy targets, but is relatively immature compared to other r... Read More about A review of wave energy converter technology.

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
Cánovas, A., Estany, J., Tor, M., Pena, R. N., & Doran, O. (2009). 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. Journal of Animal Science, 87(12), 3905-3914. https://doi.org/10.2527/jas.2009-2091

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.