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Conference Paper (published)

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


Book Chapter

Cahusac P (2008) Glutamate Signalling in the Skin. In: Paley BF & Warfield TE (eds.) Amino Acid Receptor Research. New York: Nova Science Publishers, pp. 119-131. https://www.novapublishers.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=6810


Book Chapter

Caldwell CA (2008) Experimental approaches to the study of culture in primates. In: Roska-Hardy LS & Neumann-Held EM (eds.) Learning from Animals?: Examining the Nature of Human Uniqueness. Hove, East Sussex: Taylor & Francis (Psychology Press UK), pp. 173-187. http://www.psypress.com/9781841697079


Authored Book

Kuhl H, Maisels F, Ancrenaz M & Williamson EA (2008) Best Practice Guidelines for Surveys and Monitoring of Great Ape Populations [Lignes directrices pour de meilleures pratiques en matière d’inventaire et de suivi des populations de grands singes]. Occasional Paper of the IUCN Species Survival Commission, 36. Gland, Switzerland: IUCN/SSC Primate Specialist Group. http://www.primate-sg.org/BP.surveys.htm


Article

Markova I & Jovchelovitch S (2008) Introduction. Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, 38 (4), pp. 327-333. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-5914.2008.00384.x


Conference Paper (published)

Morgan M, Martin CJ, McGee-Lennon M, Clark J, Hine N, Wolters M & Arnott J (2008) Requirements Gathering with Diverse User Groups and Stakeholders. In: Proceeding: CHI '08 extended abstracts on Human factors in computing systems. CHI 2008 Workshop on Distributed Participatory Design, Florence, Italy, 05.04.2008-10.04.2008. New York, USA: ACM, pp. 2597-2600. http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=1358628.1358720; https://doi.org/10.1145/1358628.1358720


Book Chapter

Saxton TK, Little A & Roberts SC (2008) Ecological validity in the study of human pheromones. In: Hurst J, Beynon R, Roberts S & Wyatt T (eds.) Chemical Signals In Vertebrates 11. Berlin Heidelberg: Springer, pp. 111-120. http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-0-387-73945-8_10; https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-73945-8_10


Website Content

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

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


Website Content

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


Book Chapter

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


Conference Paper (published)

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


Book Chapter

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


Conference Paper (published)

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


Conference Paper (published)

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

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


Technical Report

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 Abstract

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


Conference Abstract

Zhao C, Hancock PJB & Bednar JA (2008) Modelling face adaptation aftereffects. 31st European Conference on Visual Perception, Utrecht, 24/08/2008 - 28/08/2008. Perception, 37 (Supplement), pp. 158-158. http://www.perceptionweb.com/abstract.cgi?id=v080567


Conference Abstract

Pintea L, Kuehl H, Laporte N, Maisels F & Williamson EA (2008) The Great Apes Mapper: developing an online global geo-database and visualization tool for monitoring great ape populations. 22nd Congress of the International Primatatological Society, 2008, Edinburgh, Uk, 03/08/2008 - 08/08/2008. Primate Eye, 96, p. 314. http://ips.conference-services.net/programme.asp?conferenceID=1080&action=prog_presenters


Book Chapter

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


Book Chapter

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


Conference Paper (published)

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)

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

Matias L, Garcia D & Zamora R (2008) Efectos escala-dependientes de la abundancia de semillas y la estructura del hábitat en la depredación post-dispersiva de dos especies de matorral mediterráneo. In: Maestre F, Escudero A & Bonet A (eds.) Introducción al análisis espacial de datos en Ecología y Ciencias Ambientales: Métodos y aplicaciones. CC Experimentales. Madrid: Dykinson, pp. 591-604. http://www.dykinson.com/libros/introduccion-al-analisis-espacial-de-datos-en-ecologia-y-ciencias-ambientales/9788498493085/


Conference Paper (published)

Frowd CD, Park J, McIntyre AH, Bruce V, Pitchford M, Fields S, Kenirons M & Hancock PJB (2008) Effecting an improvement to the fitness function. How to evolve a more identifiable face. In: Proceedings BLISS 2008 - 2008 ECSIS Symposium on Bio-inspired, Learning, and Intelligent Systems for Security. BLISS '08. ECSIS Symposium on Bio-inspired Learning and Intelligent Systems for Security, 2008, Edinburgh, 04.08.2008-06.08.2008. Los Alamitos, CA, USA: IEEE Computer Science Society Press, pp. 3-10. http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/freeabs_all.jsp?arnumber=4595787&abstractAccess=no&userType=inst; https://doi.org/10.1109/BLISS.2008.28


Book Chapter

Penuelas J, Jump A, Sardans J, Filella I, Estiarte M, Ogaya R, Llusia J, Owen SM & Lloret F (2008) From phosphorus and VOCs to biodiversity: some studies on the effects of global change inspired by Margalef's legacy. In: Valladares L, CAmacho A, Elosegi A, Gracia C, Estrada M, Senar J & Gili J (eds.) Unity in Diversity: Reflections on Ecology after the Legacy of Ramon Margalef. Bilboa, Spain: Fundacion BBVS, pp. 83-94. http://www.fbbva.es/TLFU/tlfu/ing/areas/medioamb/publicaciones/libros/fichalibro/index.jsp?codigo=266


Book Chapter

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


Conference Paper (published)

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

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


Research Report

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.


Book Chapter

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


Book Chapter

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

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


Book Chapter

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

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

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