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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/

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

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

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

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 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

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

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

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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

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

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

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.

Article

Towards Integration of Environmental and Health Impact Assessments for Wild Capture Fishing and Farmed Fish with Particular Reference to Public Health and Occupational Health Dimensions

Watterson A, Little DC, Young J, Boyd K, Azim E & Murray F (2008) Towards Integration of Environmental and Health Impact Assessments for Wild Capture Fishing and Farmed Fish with Particular Reference to Public Health and Occupational Health Dimensions. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 5 (4), pp. 258-277. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph5040258

Article

Hepatic transcriptomic profiles of European flounder (Platichthys flesus) from field sites and computational approaches to predict site from stress gene responses following exposure to model toxicants

Falciani F, Diab A, Sabine VS, Williams TD, Ortega F, George S & Chipman JK (2008) Hepatic transcriptomic profiles of European flounder (Platichthys flesus) from field sites and computational approaches to predict site from stress gene responses following exposure to model toxicants. Aquatic Toxicology, 90 (2), pp. 92-101. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aquatox.2008.07.020

Article

High levels of vegetable oils in plant protein-rich diets fed to gilthead sea bream (Sparus aurata L.): growth performance, muscle fatty acid profiles and histological alterations of target tissues

Benedito-Palos L, Navarro JC, Sitja-Bobadillo A, Bell JG, Kaushik S & Perez-Sanchez J (2008) High levels of vegetable oils in plant protein-rich diets fed to gilthead sea bream (Sparus aurata L.): growth performance, muscle fatty acid profiles and histological alterations of target tissues. British Journal of Nutrition, 100 (5), pp. 992-1003. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0007114508966071

Article

An international comparison of models and approaches for the estimation of the radiological exposure of non-human biota

Beresford NA, Balonov MI, Beaugelin-Seiller K, Brown J, Copplestone D, Hingston JL, Horyna J, Hosseini A, Howard BJ, Kamboj S, Nedveckaite T, Sazykina T, Vives i Batlle J, Yankovich TL, Yu C & Olyslaegers G (2008) An international comparison of models and approaches for the estimation of the radiological exposure of non-human biota. Applied Radiation and Isotopes, 66 (11), pp. 1745-1749. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apradiso.2008.04.009

Article

Inter-comparison of models to estimate radionuclide activity concentrations in non-human biota

Beresford NA, Barnett CL, Brown J, Cheng J, Copplestone D, Filistovic V, Hosseini A, Howard BJ, Jones SR, Kamboj S, Kryshev AI, Nedveckaite T, Saxen R, Sazykina T, Vives i Batlle J, Vives Lynch S, Yankovich TL, Yu C & Olyslaegers G (2008) Inter-comparison of models to estimate radionuclide activity concentrations in non-human biota. Radiation and Environmental Biophysics, 47 (4), pp. 491-514. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00411-008-0186-8

Article

Oak seedling survival and growth along resource gradients in Mediterranean forests: Implications for regeneration in current and future environmental scenarios

Gomez-Aparicio L, Perez-Ramos IM, Mendoza I, Matias L, Quero JL, Castro J, Zamora R & Maranon T (2008) Oak seedling survival and growth along resource gradients in Mediterranean forests: Implications for regeneration in current and future environmental scenarios. Oikos, 117 (11), pp. 1683-1699. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1600-0706.2008.16814.x

Conference Paper (unpublished)

A Syntactic Justification for Occam's Razor

Woodward J, Evans A & Dempster P (2008) A Syntactic Justification for Occam's Razor. 2008 Midwest New Kind of Science Conference, Bloomington, IN, USA, 31.10.2008-02.11.2008. http://www.cs.indiana.edu/~dgerman/2008midwestNKSconference/contributed_talks.html

Article

Preferences for variation in masculinity in real male faces change across the menstrual cycle: Women prefer more masculine faces when they are more fertile

Little A, Jones BC & DeBruine LM (2008) Preferences for variation in masculinity in real male faces change across the menstrual cycle: Women prefer more masculine faces when they are more fertile. Personality and Individual Differences, 46 (6), pp. 478-482. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/01918869; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2008.05.024

Article

Spatial variation in selection on corolla shape in a generalist plant is promoted by the preference patterns of its local pollinators

Gomez JM, Bosch J, Perfectti F, Fernandez JD, Abdelaziz Mohamed M & Camacho JPM (2008) Spatial variation in selection on corolla shape in a generalist plant is promoted by the preference patterns of its local pollinators. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 275 (1648), pp. 2241-2249. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2008.0512