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Edited Book

Chemical Signals in Vertebrates 11

Hurst J, Beynon R, Roberts SC & Wyatt TD (eds.) (2008) Chemical Signals in Vertebrates 11. Chemical Signals in Vertebrates. New York: Springer. http://www.springer.com/life+sciences/behavioural/book/978-0-387-73944-1

Book Chapter

Communication of Mate Quality in Humans

Roberts SC (2008) Communication of Mate Quality in Humans. In: d'Ettorre P & Hughes D (eds.) Sociobiology of Communication: An interdisciplinary perspective. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 157-170. http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780199216833.do

Book Chapter

A metaheuristic approach to aircraft departure scheduling at London Heathrow airport

Atkin JAD, Burke E, Greenwood JS & Reeson D (2008) A metaheuristic approach to aircraft departure scheduling at London Heathrow airport. In: Hickman M, Mirchandani P & Voss S (eds.) Computer-aided Systems in Public Transport, Part III. Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems, 600. Berlin Heidelberg: Springer, pp. 235-252. http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-540-73312-6_12; https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-73312-6_12

Conference Paper (published)

Metaheuristics for the bi-objective ring star problem

Liefooghe A, Jourdan L, Basseur M, Talbi E & Burke E (2008) Metaheuristics for the bi-objective ring star problem. In: van Hemert J & Cotta C (eds.) Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimization: 8th European Conference, EvoCOP 2008, Naples, Italy, March 26-28, 2008. Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 4972. 8th European Conference, EvoCOP 2008: » Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimization, Naples, Italy, 26.03.2008-28.03.2008. Berlin Heidelberg: Springer, pp. 206-217. http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-540-78604-7_18; https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-78604-7_18

Research Report

Innovation in aquaculture teaching and learning

Bostock J, Steingrimsson SO, Pirhonen J, Fernandez-Borras J, Ronsholdt B, Dhont J, de Lara Rey J, Moulton MK, Kiessling A & Ueberschaer B (2008) Innovation in aquaculture teaching and learning. Aqua-Tnet. Aqua-Tnet. https://docs.google.com/document/d/13FHnQXTmdfRtm1UAugxPW50gtkjAd7xmwbGi7ZsPvBs/pub

Conference Paper (published)

Abduction and Legal Reasoning

Maggenti G, Bracciali A & Mancarella P (2008) Abduction and Legal Reasoning. In: e-Forensics '08 Proceedings of the 1st international conference on Forensic applications and techniques in telecommunications, information, and multimedia and workshop, volume Article No. 33. e-Forensics 2008: 1st international conference on Forensic applications and techniques in telecommunications, information, and multimedia and workshop, Adelaide, Australia, 21.01.2008-23.01.2008. Brussels, Belgium: ICST (Institute for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering). http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1363260

Book Chapter

Comparison of calcite crystallographic texture in the shells of the Rhynchonelliform brachiopod, Terebratulina retusa and the bivalve mollusc, Mytilus edulis

Cusack M, Pérez-Huerta A, Dalbeck P, Chung P & Lee MR (2008) Comparison of calcite crystallographic texture in the shells of the Rhynchonelliform brachiopod, Terebratulina retusa and the bivalve mollusc, Mytilus edulis. In: Rollett A (ed.) Applications of Texture Analysis. Ceramic Transactions, 201. Hoboken, NJ, USA: John Wiley & Sons, pp. 587-593. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/9780470444214.ch64/summary; https://doi.org/10.1002/9780470444214.ch64

Book Chapter

Oxygen isotope composition, magnesium distribution and crystallography of Terebratulina retusa

Cusack M, England J, Parkinson D, Dalbeck P, Lee MR, Curry GB & Fallick AE (2008) Oxygen isotope composition, magnesium distribution and crystallography of Terebratulina retusa. In: Harper D, Long S & Nielsen C (eds.) Brachiopoda: Fossil and Recent. Fossils and strata monograph series, 54. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 259-267. http://eu.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-140518664X.html

Book Chapter

Sanctuaries and reintroduction: a role in gorilla conservation?

Farmer KH & Courage A (2008) Sanctuaries and reintroduction: a role in gorilla conservation?. In: Stoinski T, Steklis H & Mehlman P (eds.) Conservation in the 21st Century: Gorillas as a Case Study. Developments in Primatology: Progress and Prospects. New York: Springer, p. 362. http://www.springer.com/us/book/9780387707204

Conference Paper (published)

M-Psychiatry: Sensor Networks for Psychiatric Health Monitoring

Blum JM & Magill E (2008) M-Psychiatry: Sensor Networks for Psychiatric Health Monitoring. In: Proceedings of PGNET 2008: The 9th Annual Postgraduate Symposium on The Convergence of Telecommunications, Networking and Broadcasting. PGNET 2008: The 9th Annual Postgraduate Symposium on The Convergence of Telecommunications, Networking and Broadcasting, Liverpool, 23.06.2008-24.06.2008. Liverpool: PGNET. http://www.cms.livjm.ac.uk/pgnet2008/Proceeedings/

Conference Paper (published)

A study of NK landscapes' basins and local optima networks

Ochoa G, Tomassini M, Verel S & Darabos C (2008) A study of NK landscapes' basins and local optima networks. In: GECCO'08: Proceedings of the 10th Annual Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation 2008. GECCO '08 - 10th annual conference on Genetic and evolutionary computation, Atlanta, GA, USA, 12.07.2008-16.07.2008. New York, NY, USA: ACM, pp. 555-562. http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1389204; https://doi.org/10.1145/1389095.1389204

Book Chapter

Sexual selection, mate choice, and primate preferences

Little A & Griffey JAF (2008) Sexual selection, mate choice, and primate preferences. In: Weber E & Krause L (eds.) Animal Behaviour: New Research. New York, NY: Nova Science, pp. 1-33. https://www.novapublishers.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=20227

Website Content

Gorilla beringei ssp. beringei

Robbins MM, Gray M, Kuempel N, Lanjouw A, Maisels F, Mugisha A, Spelman L & Williamson EA (2008) Gorilla beringei ssp. beringei. IUCN Red List [IUCN Red List Assessment web page] 2008. http://www.iucnredlist.org/apps/redlist/details/39999/0

Website Content

Pan troglodytes ssp. troglodytes

Tutin CEG, Baillie J, Dupain J, Gatti S, Maisels F, Stokes E, Morgan D & Walsh PD (2008) Pan troglodytes ssp. troglodytes. IUCN Red List [IUCN Red List Assessment web page] 2008. http://www.iucnredlist.org/details/15936/0

Book Chapter

Chapter 8: Standardised reporting

Maisels F (2008) Chapter 8: Standardised reporting. In: Kuhl H, Maisels F, Ancrenaz M & Williamson E (eds.) Best Practice Guidelines for Surveys and Monitoring of Great Ape Populations. Occasional Paper of the IUCN Species Survival Commission, 36. Gland, Switzerland: IUCN Ape Species Specialist Group. http://apes.eva.mpg.de/eng/pdf/guidelines/IUCN_SGA_Monitoring_Section_8_Trip_report_format-English_For_web.pdf

Book Chapter

Section 3: Survey design

Maisels F & Aba'a R (2008) Section 3: Survey design. In: Kuehl H, Maisels F, Ancrenaz M & Williamson E (eds.) Best Practice Guidelines for Surveys and Monitoring of Great Ape Populations. Occasional Paper of the IUCN Species Survival Commission, 36. Gland, Switzerland: IUCN Ape Species Specialist Group. http://apesportal.eva.mpg.de/database/surveyGuidelines

Website Content

Gorilla gorilla ssp. gorilla

Walsh PD, Tutin CEG, Baillie J, Maisels F, Stokes E & Gatti S (2008) Gorilla gorilla ssp. gorilla [Series T1 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2]. IUCN Red List [IUCN Red List Assessment web page] 2008. http://www.iucnredlist.org/details/9406/0

Website Content

Pan troglodytes

Oates JF, Tutin CEG, Humle T, Wilson ML, Baillie J, Balmforth Z, Blom A, Boesch C, Cox D, Davenport T, Dunn A, Dupain J, Duvall C, Maisels F & Morgan BJ (2008) Pan troglodytes. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species [IUCN website] 2008. https://doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-2.RLTS.T15933A17964454.en

Book Chapter

Laboratory Diagnosis of Filovirus Disease

Hufert FT & Weidmann M (2008) Laboratory Diagnosis of Filovirus Disease. In: Kuhn J & Calisher C (eds.) Filoviruses - A Compendium of 40 Years of Epidemiological, Clinical, and Laboratory Studies. Archives of Virology Supplement, 20. Wien and New York: Springer, pp. 265-277. http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-211-69495-4_9

Book Chapter

Section 5: Field Issues: Logistics and data collection protocols

Maisels F (2008) Section 5: Field Issues: Logistics and data collection protocols. In: Kuehl H, Maisels F, Ancrenaz M & Williamson E (eds.) Best Practice Guidelines for Surveys and Monitoring of Great Ape Populations. Occasional Paper of the IUCN Species Survival Commission, 36. Gland, Switzerladn: IUCN SSC Primate Specialist Group (PSG). http://apesportal.eva.mpg.de/database/surveyGuidelines

Book Chapter

Section 6: Training

Maisels F, Colom A & Inogwabini B (2008) Section 6: Training. In: Kuehl H, Maisels F, Ancrenaz M & Williamson E (eds.) Best Practice Guidelines for Surveys and Monitoring of Great Ape Populations.. Occasional Paper of the IUCN Species Survival Commission, 36. Gland, Switzerland: SSC Primate Specialist Group of the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources. http://apesportal.eva.mpg.de/database/surveyGuidelines

Conference Paper (published)

Approaches to selection and their effect on fitness modelling in an Estimation of Distribution Algorithm

Brownlee A, McCall J, Zhang Q & Brown DF (2008) Approaches to selection and their effect on fitness modelling in an Estimation of Distribution Algorithm. In: IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, 2008. CEC 2008. (IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence). IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, 2008. CEC 2008. (IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence), Hong Kong, 01.06.2008-06.06.2008. IEEE, pp. 2621-2628. http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/freeabs_all.jsp?arnumber=4631150&abstractAccess=no&userType=inst; https://doi.org/10.1109/CEC.2008.4631150

Book Chapter

The psychobiology of obesity: behavioral and psychophysiological mechanisms

Hamer M, Molloy G & Dombrowski SU (2008) The psychobiology of obesity: behavioral and psychophysiological mechanisms. In: Piccard L (ed.) Biological Psychology: New Research. New York: Nova Science Publishers, pp. 213-231. https://www.novapublishers.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=8447

Book Chapter

In situ and airborne gamma-ray spectrometry

Tyler A (2008) In situ and airborne gamma-ray spectrometry. In: Povinec P (ed.) Analysis of Environmental Radionuclides. Radioactivity in the Environment, 11. Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Elsevier, pp. 407-448. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1569486007110135

Book Chapter

Edinburgh before the burgh: the pre-medieval evolution of the Parliament site to c 1128

Carter S, Dennison EP & Tipping R (2008) Edinburgh before the burgh: the pre-medieval evolution of the Parliament site to c 1128. In: Holyrood Archaeology Project Team (ed.) Scotland’s Parliament Site and the Canongate: archaeology and history. Edinburgh: Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, pp. 9-16. http://www.socantscot.org/partnumber.asp?pnid=172532

Research Report

Field by Field. Historic Period Environmental Change on a Hill Farming Landscape at Ben Lawers - Final Report to the National Trust for Scotland, Scottish Natural Heritage, Historic Scotland and the Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland

Tipping R, McCulloch R & Tisdall E (2008) Field by Field. Historic Period Environmental Change on a Hill Farming Landscape at Ben Lawers - Final Report to the National Trust for Scotland, Scottish Natural Heritage, Historic Scotland and the Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland. The National Trust for Scotland; Scottish Natural Heritage; Historic Scotland; The Carnegie Trust. University of Stirling.

Conference Paper (published)

An application of a multivariate estimation of distribution algorithm to cancer chemotherapy

Brownlee A, Pelikan M, McCall J & Petrovski A (2008) An application of a multivariate estimation of distribution algorithm to cancer chemotherapy. In: Keijzer M (ed.) GECCO '08 Proceedings of the 10th annual conference on Genetic and evolutionary computation. GECCO '08: 10th annual conference on Genetic and evolutionary computation, Atlanta, GA, USA, 12.07.2008-16.07.2008. New York, NY: ACM, pp. 463-464. http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1389179; https://doi.org/10.1145/1389095.1389179

Conference Paper (published)

Combining Attribute with Geometry for Automated Generalization and Schematisation

Leibovici DG, Swan J, Anand S & Jackson M (2008) Combining Attribute with Geometry for Automated Generalization and Schematisation. In: International Research Symposium on Computer-based Cartography. (Auto Carto), Shepherdstown, West Virginia, USA. AutoCarto 2008, the 17th International Research Symposium on Computer-based Cartography, Shepherdstown, WV, USA, 08.09.2008-11.09.2008. Cartography and Geographic Information Society. http://www.cartogis.org/docs/proceedings/2008/leibovici.pdf

Article

Silicon neurons

Indiveri G, Douglas R & Smith L (2008) Silicon neurons. Scholarpedia, 3 (3), Art. No.: 1887. https://doi.org/10.4249/scholarpedia.1887

Conference Paper (published)

An update on MoonLITE

Gowen R, Smith A, Winter B, Theobald C, Rees K, Ball A, Hagermann A, Sherdian S, Brown P, Oddy T, Dougherty M, Church P, Gao Y, Jones A & Joy K (2008) An update on MoonLITE. In: International Astronautical Federation - 59th International Astronautical Congress 2008, IAC 2008. 7. 59th International Astronautical Congress, Glasgow, 29.09.2008-03.10.2008. International Astronautical Federation, pp. 4359-4369.

Technical Report

The DAMES Metadata Approach

Blum JM & Turner KJ (2008) The DAMES Metadata Approach. Economic and Social Research Council. Technical Report CSM-177, 177. Department of Computing Science and Mathematics, University of Stirling.

Conference Paper (published)

Fitness Directed Intervention Crossover Approaches Applied to Bio-Scheduling Problems

Godley PM, Cairns D, Cowie J & McCall J (2008) Fitness Directed Intervention Crossover Approaches Applied to Bio-Scheduling Problems. In: Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, 2008. CIBCB '08. 2008 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Sun Valley, Idaho, 15.09.2008-17.09.2008. Hoboken NJ: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), pp. 120-127. http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/mostRecentIssue.jsp?punumber=4669529; https://doi.org/10.1109/CIBCB.2008.4675768

Conference Paper (published)

Simulation of the research process

Niazi MAK, Hussain A, Baig AR & Bhatti S (2008) Simulation of the research process. In: Mason S, Hill R, Mönch L & Rose O (eds.) Winter Simulation Conference, 2008. WSC 2008. Winter Simulation Conference, WSC. Winter Simulation Conference, 2008, Miami, Florida, 07.12.2008-10.12.2008. Piscataway, NJ: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), pp. 1326-1334. https://doi.org/10.1109/WSC.2008.4736206

Conference Paper (published)

Bio-control in Mushroom Farming Using a Markov Network EDA

Wu Y, McCall J, Godley PM, Brownlee A & Cairns D (2008) Bio-control in Mushroom Farming Using a Markov Network EDA. In: IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, 2008. CEC 2008. (IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence). IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation 2008, CEC 2008, (IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence), Hong Kong, 01.06.2008-06.06.2008. Hoboken, NJ: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), pp. 2991-2996. https://doi.org/10.1109/CEC.2008.4631201

Conference Paper (published)

ASYMS-SERAT: A Side-Effect Risk Assessment Tool to Predict Chemotherapy Related Toxicity in Patients with Cancer Receiving Chemotherapy

Cowie J, Swingler K, Leadbetter C, Maguire R, McCall K & Kearney N (2008) ASYMS-SERAT: A Side-Effect Risk Assessment Tool to Predict Chemotherapy Related Toxicity in Patients with Cancer Receiving Chemotherapy. In: Azevedo L & Londral AR (eds.) Proceedings of the First International Conference on Health Informatics, HEALTHINF 2008, Funchal, Madeira, Portugal, January 28-31, 2008, Volume 2. HEALTHINF - International Conference on Health Informatics 2008, Madeira, Portugal, 28.01.2008-31.01.2008. Setubal, Portugal: INSTICC - Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Control and Communication, pp. 225-230. http://www.healthinf.biostec.org/Healthinf2008/

Conference Paper (published)

The Effects of Mutation and Directed Intervention Crossover When Applied to Scheduling Chemotherapy

Godley PM, Cairns D, Cowie J, McCall J & Swingler K (2008) The Effects of Mutation and Directed Intervention Crossover When Applied to Scheduling Chemotherapy. In: Keijzer M (ed.) Proceedings of the 10th annual conference on Genetic and evolutionary computation (GECCO). ACM Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO) 2008, Atlanta, Georgia, 12.07.2008-16.07.2008. New York, USA: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), pp. 1105-1106. http://portal.acm.org/toc.cfm?id=1389095&type=proceeding&coll=GUIDE&dl=GUIDE&CFID=47644191&CFTOKEN=12932833; https://doi.org/10.1145/1389095.1389300

Conference Paper (published)

Optimisation and Fitness Modelling of Bio-control in Mushroom Farming Using a Markov Network EDA

Brownlee A, Wu Y, McCall J, Godley PM, Cairns D & Cowie J (2008) Optimisation and Fitness Modelling of Bio-control in Mushroom Farming Using a Markov Network EDA. In: Keijzer M (ed.) Proceedings of the 10th annual conference on Genetic and evolutionary computation, (GECCO-2008). Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, GECCO-2008, Atlanta, Georgia, 12.07.2008-16.07.2008. New York: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), pp. 465-466. https://doi.org/10.1145/1389095.1389180

Conference Paper (published)

Policy Conflicts in Home Care Systems

Wang F & Turner KJ (2008) Policy Conflicts in Home Care Systems. In: Bousquet Ld & Richier J (eds.) Feature Interactions in Software and Communication Systems IX. ICFI 2007 - Ninth International Conference on Feature Interactions in Software and Communication Systems, Grenoble, France, 03.09.2007-05.09.2007. Amsterdam, The Netherlands: IOS Press, pp. 54-65. http://vasco.imag.fr/ICFI2007/

Conference Paper (published)

Policy Conflict Filtering for Call Control

Campbell GA & Turner KJ (2008) Policy Conflict Filtering for Call Control. In: Bousquet Ld & Richier J (eds.) Feature Interactions in Software and Communication Systems IX. ICFI 2007 - Ninth International Conference on Feature Interactions in Software and Communication Systems, Grenoble, France, 03.09.2007-05.09.2007. Amsterdam, The Netherlands: IOS Press, pp. 83-98. http://www.iospress.nl/loadtop/load.php?isbn=9781586038458

Conference Paper (published)

Rule Execution and Event Distribution Middleware for PROSEN-WSN

Fei X & Magill E (2008) Rule Execution and Event Distribution Middleware for PROSEN-WSN. In: Benveniste M, Braem B, Dini Cosmin-Nicu C, Fortino G, Karnapke R, Mauri JL & Monsi MSH (eds.) Sensor Technologies and Applications, 2008. SENSORCOMM '08. Sensor Technologies and Applications, 2008. SENSORCOMM '08: The Second International Conference on Sensor Technologies and Applications, Cap Esterel, France, 25.08.2008-31.08.2008. Piscataway, NJ: IEEE, pp. 580-585. http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/servlet/opac?punumber=4622620; https://doi.org/10.1109/SENSORCOMM.2008.127

Conference Paper (published)

Towards Personalised Home Care Systems

Wang F & Turner KJ (2008) Towards Personalised Home Care Systems. In: Maglogiannis I, Makedon F, Baillie L, Pantziou & Grammati (eds.) Proceedings of the 1st international conference on Pervasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments. ACM International Conference Proceeding Series, Vol. 282. PETRA 2008 - 1st International Conference on Pervasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments, Athens, 16.07.2008-18.07.2008. New York: Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/1389586.1389639

Book Chapter

On the Evolutionary Modification of Self-Incompatibility: Implications of Partial Clonality for Allelic Diversity and Genealogical Structure

Vallejo-Marín M & Uyenoyama MK (2008) On the Evolutionary Modification of Self-Incompatibility: Implications of Partial Clonality for Allelic Diversity and Genealogical Structure. In: Franklin-Tong VE (ed.) Self-Incompatibility in Flowering plants: Evolution, Diversity and Mechanisms. Berlin: Springer-Verlag, pp. 53-71. http://www.springer.com/life+sciences/plant+sciences/book/978-3-540-68485-5; https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-68486-2

Conference Abstract

Extracellular spike detection using Cepstrum of Bispectrum

Shahid S & Smith L (2008) Extracellular spike detection using Cepstrum of Bispectrum. Eighteenth Annual Computational Neuroscience Meeting: CNS*2009 , Berlin, Germany, 18/07/2009 - 23/07/2009. Journal of Neuroscience, pp. 1-1. http://www.cs.stir.ac.uk/~lss/recentpapers/sfn2008/SFNposter.pdf