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An audit of rubella IgG antibody status in antenatal women in a NHS Trust over 5 years (2005–2009) (2010)
Journal Article
Matthews, L. M., Lawrance, L., Gray, D., & Gray, S. (2011). An audit of rubella IgG antibody status in antenatal women in a NHS Trust over 5 years (2005–2009). Epidemiology and Infection, 139(11), 1720-1726. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0950268810002748

Rubella, a vaccine-preventable infection. This study examined the antibody status of 11 987 pregnant women during 2005–2009. Results showed a non-significant decrease in those with antibody levels of

SPECT/CT: A clinical testament (2010)
Presentation / Conference
King, S. (2010, December). SPECT/CT: A clinical testament. Presented at Hybrid Imaging Knowledge Exchange Event, UWE, Bristol, UK

Muddying the waters or clearing the stream? Open Science as a communication medium (2010)
Presentation / Conference
Grand, A., Bultitude, K., Wilkinson, C., & Winfield, A. F. (2010, December). Muddying the waters or clearing the stream? Open Science as a communication medium. Paper presented at Public Communication of Science and Technology, New Delhi, India

Open Science is an approach to the conduct of science in which the whole of an ongoing scientific investigation – data, ideas, questions, plans, results and more – is made available online. Open Science began as a way to facilitate the workings of mu... Read More about Muddying the waters or clearing the stream? Open Science as a communication medium.

New frontiers in science communication: Researchers’ experiences of coming out of the lab (2010)
Presentation / Conference
Rocks, C., & Bultitude, K. (2010, December). New frontiers in science communication: Researchers’ experiences of coming out of the lab. Paper presented at The 11th International Conference on Public Communication of Science & Technology (PCST-2010), New Delhi, India

Researchers are increasingly playing a key role in the public communication of science. This makes understanding researchers’ motivations, and the benefits and barriers they perceive, an important step to ensuring successful direct interactions betwe... Read More about New frontiers in science communication: Researchers’ experiences of coming out of the lab.

Climate justice: The global climate negotiations (2010)
Presentation / Conference
Bell, K. (2010, December). Climate justice: The global climate negotiations. Presented at UK National Latin America Conference 2010, Congress House, London, England

A discussion of the role of Bolivia in the climate negotiations, seeking a maximum 1.5 degrees of warming, while others accept 2 degrees.

Representing 'things to come': Feeling the visions of future technologies (2010)
Journal Article
Kinsley, S. (2010). Representing 'things to come': Feeling the visions of future technologies. Environment and Planning A, 42(11), 2771-2790. https://doi.org/10.1068/a42371

Visions of the future pervade the development of computing technologies. This paper addresses the production of embodied anticipation inherent to video representations of technological futures. The focus of inquiry is videos produced by HP Labs and M... Read More about Representing 'things to come': Feeling the visions of future technologies.

Future orientation of cities project (2010)
Presentation / Conference
Ludlow, D. (2010, December). Future orientation of cities project. Paper presented at Evidence and Opportunities for Strategic Spatial Planning in the UK, Manchester University, 2-3 December, 2010, Manchester University, Manchester, UK

Swarms of metaheuristic agents: A model for collective intelligence (2010)
Conference Proceeding
Aydin, M. E., Wu, J., & Zhang, L. (2010). Swarms of metaheuristic agents: A model for collective intelligence. In 2010 International Conference on P2P, Parallel, Grid, Cloud and Internet Computing (296-301). https://doi.org/10.1109/3PGCIC.2010.49

Swarm intelligence algorithms are created to build collective intelligence based on inherent properties of populations. However, this sort of problem solving approaches use collective evolution of solutions, which make up the population relied on. Th... Read More about Swarms of metaheuristic agents: A model for collective intelligence.

Grounding motivation in energy autonomy: A study of artificial metabolism constrained robot dynamics (2010)
Conference Proceeding
Lowe, R., Montebelli, A., Ieropoulos, I., Greenman, J., Melhuish, C., & Ziemke, T. (2010). Grounding motivation in energy autonomy: A study of artificial metabolism constrained robot dynamics. In H. Fellermann, M. Hanczyc, & M. Dorr (Eds.), Artificial Life XII: Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems. , (725-732)

We present an evolutionary robotics investigation into the metabolism constrained homeostatic dynamics of a simulated robot. Unlike existing research that has focused on either energy or motivation autonomy the robot described here is considered in t... Read More about Grounding motivation in energy autonomy: A study of artificial metabolism constrained robot dynamics.

Microbial fuel cell driven behavioral dynamics in robot simulations (2010)
Conference Proceeding
Montebelli, A., Lowe, R., Ieropoulos, I., Melhuish, C., Greenman, J., & Ziemke, T. (2010). Microbial fuel cell driven behavioral dynamics in robot simulations. In M. Hanczyc, M. Dorr, & H. Fellermann (Eds.), Artificial Life XII: Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems. , (749-756)

With the present study we report the first application of a recently proposed model for realistic microbial fuel cells (MFCs) energy generation dynamics, suitable for robotic simulations with minimal and extremely limited computational overhead. A si... Read More about Microbial fuel cell driven behavioral dynamics in robot simulations.

MFCs and algae (2010)
Journal Article
Ieropoulos, I. A., Greenman, J., & Sauer, M. (2010). MFCs and algae. ECS Transactions, 28(9), 23-30. https://doi.org/10.1149/1.3492223

Algae and photosynthetic bacteria may be integrated or associated with Microbial Fuel Cells MFCs in a number of different ways including: (1) use of whole (intact) or lipid-extracted lyzed cells as the primary carbon-energy source for anodic microbia... Read More about MFCs and algae.

Influences of history, geography, and religion on genetic structure: The Maronites in Lebanon (2010)
Journal Article
Zalloua, P. A., Soria-Hernanz, D. F., Youhanna, S. C., Badro, D. A., Platt, D. E., Haber, M., …Zalloua, P. A. (2011). Influences of history, geography, and religion on genetic structure: The Maronites in Lebanon. European Journal of Human Genetics, 19(3), 334-340. https://doi.org/10.1038/ejhg.2010.177

Cultural expansions, including of religions, frequently leave genetic traces of differentiation and in-migration. These expansions may be driven by complex doctrinal differentiation, together with major population migrations and gene flow. The aim of... Read More about Influences of history, geography, and religion on genetic structure: The Maronites in Lebanon.

In-cylinder studies of hybrid combustion in a direct injection single-cylinder optical engine (2010)
Journal Article
Zhao, H., & Yang, C. (2010). In-cylinder studies of hybrid combustion in a direct injection single-cylinder optical engine. International Journal of Engine Research, 11(6), 515-531. https://doi.org/10.1243/14680874JER519

Over the last decade, controlled autoignition (CAI) combustion, or homogeneous charge compression ignition (HCCI), has been the subject of numerous studies and has shown its potential to reduce fuel consumption and NO x emissions simultaneously from... Read More about In-cylinder studies of hybrid combustion in a direct injection single-cylinder optical engine.

Injecting practices and knowledge of the associated risk among 1619-year-old injecting drug users in Plymouth, UK (2010)
Journal Article
Trudgeon, H., & Evans, D. (2010). Injecting practices and knowledge of the associated risk among 1619-year-old injecting drug users in Plymouth, UK. Drugs: Education, Prevention, and Policy, 17(6), 808-820. https://doi.org/10.3109/09687630902769707

There has been significant research into the harms associated with injecting drugs and about the use of needle exchange programmes (NEPs) by adult injecting drug users (IDUs) in the United Kingdom. However, very limited research has been conducted in... Read More about Injecting practices and knowledge of the associated risk among 1619-year-old injecting drug users in Plymouth, UK.

Identifying trade entry and exit timing using mathematical technical indicators in XCS (2010)
Journal Article
Preen, R. (2010). Identifying trade entry and exit timing using mathematical technical indicators in XCS. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, 6471 LNAI, 166-184. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-17508-4_11

This paper extends current LCS research into financial time series forecasting by analysing the performance of agents utilising mathematical technical indicators for both environment classification and in selecting actions to be executed. It compares... Read More about Identifying trade entry and exit timing using mathematical technical indicators in XCS.

Councils, consultations and community: Rethinking the spaces for children and young people's participation (2010)
Journal Article
Percy-Smith, B. (2010). Councils, consultations and community: Rethinking the spaces for children and young people's participation. Children's Geographies, 8(2), 107-122. https://doi.org/10.1080/14733281003691368

The participation of children and young people in decisions that affect them is now mainstream in social and public policy in the UK. Yet for many young people formal participation opportunities are abstracted from everyday lives and concerns. Childr... Read More about Councils, consultations and community: Rethinking the spaces for children and young people's participation.

Training in SMEs and its relationship to profitability (2010)
Journal Article
O'Regan, N., Stainer, L., & Sims, M. (2010). Training in SMEs and its relationship to profitability. International Journal of Human Resources Development and Management, 10(2), 166-181. https://doi.org/10.1504/IJHRDM.2010.031442

The continuous development of employee potential is dependent on training at every level to acquire improved skills. While attention has been devoted to its contribution within organisations, there is a dearth of research on its effectiveness within... Read More about Training in SMEs and its relationship to profitability.

A novel hydrogen sulfide donor causes stomatal opening and reduces nitric oxide accumulation (2010)
Journal Article
Lisjak, M., Srivastava, N., Teklic, T., Civale, L., Lewandowski, K., Wilson, I. D., …Hancock, J. T. (2010). A novel hydrogen sulfide donor causes stomatal opening and reduces nitric oxide accumulation. Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, 48(12), 931-935. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.plaphy.2010.09.016

Effects of hydrogen sulfide (H2S) on plant physiology have been previously studied, but such studies have relied on the use of NaSH as a method for supplying H2S to tissues. Now new compounds which give a less severe H2S shock and a more prolonged ex... Read More about A novel hydrogen sulfide donor causes stomatal opening and reduces nitric oxide accumulation.