Faculty of Natural Sciences

See full faculty overview

Outputs related to Faculty of Natural Sciences

Showing 5701 to 5800 of 13193

Authored Book

African Elephant Status Report 2016: An update from the African Elephant Database

Thouless CR, Dublin HT, Blanc JJ, Skinner DP, Daniel TE, Taylor RD, Maisels F, Frederick HL & Bouche P (2016) African Elephant Status Report 2016: An update from the African Elephant Database. African Elephant Status Report (AESR), 5. Gland, Switzerland: IUCN. https://www.iucn.org/news/poaching-behind-worst-african-elephant-losses-25-years-%E2%80%93-iucn-report

Book Chapter

Human colour discrimination based on a non-parvocellular pathway

Troscianko T, Davidoff J, Humphreys G, Landis T, Fahle M, Greenlee M, Brugger P & Phillips W (2016) Human colour discrimination based on a non-parvocellular pathway. In: Humphreys G & Riddoch J (eds.) A Reader in Visual Agnosia. Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 277-293. https://www.routledge.com/A-Reader-in-Visual-Agnosia/Humphreys-Riddoch/p/book/9781138951006; https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315668444

Article

The effects of increasing dietary levels of soy protein concentrate (SPC) on the immune responses and disease resistance (furunculosis) of vaccinated and non-vaccinated Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar L.) parr

Metochis C, Spanos I, Auchinachie N, Crampton V, Adams A & Thompson KD (2016) The effects of increasing dietary levels of soy protein concentrate (SPC) on the immune responses and disease resistance (furunculosis) of vaccinated and non-vaccinated Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar L.) parr. Fish and Shellfish Immunology, 59, pp. 83-94. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fsi.2016.10.016

Conference Paper (published)

Client-driven network-level QoE fairness for encrypted 'DASH-S'

Chen J, Ammar M, Fayed M & Fonseca R (2016) Client-driven network-level QoE fairness for encrypted 'DASH-S'. In: Internet-QoE 2016 - Proceedings of the 2016 ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on QoE-Based Analysis and Management of Data Communication Networks, Part of SIGCOMM 2016. Internet-QoE '16: 2016 workshop on QoE-based Analysis and Management of Data Communication Networks, Florianopolis, Brazil, 22.08.2016-26.08.2016. New York: ACM, pp. 55-60. https://doi.org/10.1145/2940136.2940144

Article

Implementation intention and planning interventions in Health Psychology: Recommendations from the Synergy Expert Group for research and practice

Hagger MS, Luszczynska A, de Wit J, Benyamini Y, Burkert S, Chamberland P, Chater A, Dombrowski SU, van Dongen A, French DP, Gauchet A, Hankonen N, Karekla M, Kinney AY & Kwasnicka D (2016) Implementation intention and planning interventions in Health Psychology: Recommendations from the Synergy Expert Group for research and practice. Psychology and Health, 31 (7), pp. 814-839. https://doi.org/10.1080/08870446.2016.1146719

Conference Paper (published)

Variable Neighbourhood Search: A Case Study for a Highly-Constrained Workforce Scheduling Problem

Reid KN, Li J, Swan J, McCormick A & Owusu G (2016) Variable Neighbourhood Search: A Case Study for a Highly-Constrained Workforce Scheduling Problem. In: 2016 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI). IEEE SSCI 2016: IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence, Athens, Greece, 06.12.2016-09.12.2016. Piscataway, NJ, USA: IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/SSCI.2016.7850087

Book Chapter

Deglacial landform assemblage records fast ice-flow and retreat, Inner Hebrides, Scotland

Dove D, Finlayson A, Bradwell T, Howe JA & Arosio R (2016) Deglacial landform assemblage records fast ice-flow and retreat, Inner Hebrides, Scotland. In: Dowdeswell J, Canals M, Jakobsson M, Todd B, Dowdeswell E & Hogan K (eds.) Atlas of Submarine Glacial Landforms: Modern, Quaternary and Ancient. Geological Society Memoir, 46. London: Geological Society of London, pp. 135-138. http://mem.lyellcollection.org/content/46/1/135; https://doi.org/10.1144/M46.144

Conference Paper (published)

Predicting insulin resistance in children using a machine-learning-based clinical decision support system

Hall AJ, Hussain A & Shaikh MG (2016) Predicting insulin resistance in children using a machine-learning-based clinical decision support system. In: Liu C, Hussain A, Luo B, Tan K, Zeng Y & Zhang Z (eds.) Advances in Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems. BICS 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 10023. BICS 2016: 8th International Conference on Brain-Inspired Cognitive Systems, Beijing, China, 28.11.2016-30.11.2016. Cham, Switzerland: Springer, pp. 274-283. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49685-6_25

Conference Paper (published)

Visual attention model with a novel learning strategy and its application to target detection from SAR images

Gao F, Xue X, Wang J, Sun J, Hussain A & Yang E (2016) Visual attention model with a novel learning strategy and its application to target detection from SAR images. In: Liu C, Hussain A, Luo B, Tan K, Zeng Y & Zhang Z (eds.) Advances in Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems. BICS 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 10023. BICS 2016: 8th International Conference on Brain-Inspired Cognitive Systems, Beijing, China, 28.11.2016-30.11.2016. Cham, Switzerland: Springer, pp. 149-160. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49685-6_14

Conference Paper (published)

PerSent: A freely available Persian sentiment lexicon

Dashtipour K, Hussain A, Zhou Q, Gelbukh A, Hawalah AYA & Cambria E (2016) PerSent: A freely available Persian sentiment lexicon. In: Liu C, Hussain A, Luo B, Tan K, Zeng Y & Zhang Z (eds.) Advances in Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems. BICS 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 10023. BICS 2016: 8th International Conference on Brain-Inspired Cognitive Systems, Beijing, China, 28.11.2016-30.11.2016. Cham, Switzerland: Springer, pp. 310-320. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49685-6_28

Conference Paper (published)

A novel fully automated liver and HCC tumor segmentation system using morphological operations

Ali L, Hussain A, Li J, Howard N, Shah AA, Sudhakar U, Shah MA & Hussain ZU (2016) A novel fully automated liver and HCC tumor segmentation system using morphological operations. In: Liu C, Hussain A, Luo B, Tan K, Zeng Y & Zhang Z (eds.) Advances in Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems. BICS 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 10023. BICS 2016: 8th International Conference on Brain-Inspired Cognitive Systems, Beijing, China, 28.11.2016-30.11.2016. Cham, Switzerland: Springer, pp. 240-250. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49685-6_22

Conference Paper (published)

A new biologically-inspired analytical worm propagation model for mobile unstructured peer-to-peer networks

Alharbi H, Aloufi K & Hussain A (2016) A new biologically-inspired analytical worm propagation model for mobile unstructured peer-to-peer networks. In: Liu C, Hussain A, Luo B, Tan K, Zeng Y & Zhang Z (eds.) Advances in Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems: 8th International Conference, BICS 2016, Beijing, China, November 28-30, 2016, Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 10023. BICS 2016: Advances in Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems 8th International Conference, Beijing, China, 28.11.2016-30.11.2016. Cham, Switzerland: Springer, pp. 251-263. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49685-6_23

Book Chapter

Recessional moraines in nearshore waters, northern Scotland

Bradwell T & Stoker M (2016) Recessional moraines in nearshore waters, northern Scotland. In: Dowdeswell J, Canals M, Jakobsson M, Todd B, Dowdeswell E & Hogan K (eds.) Atlas of Submarine Glacial Landforms: Modern, Quaternary and Ancient. Geological Society Memoir, 46. London: Geological Society of London, pp. 63-64. http://mem.lyellcollection.org/content/46/1/63; https://doi.org/10.1144/M46.13

Book Chapter

Glacial sediment and landform record offshore NW Scotland: A fjord-shelf-slope transect through a Late Quaternary mid-latitude ice-stream system

Bradwell T & Stoker M (2016) Glacial sediment and landform record offshore NW Scotland: A fjord-shelf-slope transect through a Late Quaternary mid-latitude ice-stream system. In: Dowdeswell J, Canals M, Jakobsson M, Todd B, Dowdeswell E & Hogan K (eds.) Atlas of Submarine Glacial Landforms: Modern, Quaternary and Ancient. Geological Society Memoir, 46. London: Geological Society of London, pp. 421-428. http://mem.lyellcollection.org/content/46/1/421; https://doi.org/10.1144/M46.152

Conference Paper (published)

Deep and sparse learning in speech and language processing: An overview

Wang D, Zhou Q & Hussain A (2016) Deep and sparse learning in speech and language processing: An overview. In: Liu C, Hussain A, Luo B, Tan K, Zeng Y & Zhang Z (eds.) Advances in Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems. BICS 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 10023. BICS 2016: 8th International Conference on Brain-Inspired Cognitive Systems, Beijing, China, 28.11.2016-30.11.2016. Cham, Switzerland: Springer, pp. 171-183. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49685-6_16

Conference Paper (published)

An investigation of machine learning and neural computation paradigms in the design of clinical decision support systems (CDSSs)

Wajid S, Hussain A, Luo B & Huang K (2016) An investigation of machine learning and neural computation paradigms in the design of clinical decision support systems (CDSSs). In: Liu C, Hussain A, Luo B, Tan K, Zeng Y & Zhang Z (eds.) Advances in Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems. BICS 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 10023. BICS2016: 8th International Conference on Brain-Inspired Cognitive Systems, Beijing, China, 28.11.2016-30.11.2016. Cham, Switzerland: Springer, pp. 58-67. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49685-6_6

Conference Paper (published)

Continuous time recurrent neural network model of recurrent collaterals in the hippocampus CA3 region

Shiva AS & Hussain A (2016) Continuous time recurrent neural network model of recurrent collaterals in the hippocampus CA3 region. In: Liu C, Hussain A, Luo B, Tan K, Zeng Y & Zhang Z (eds.) Advances in Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems. BICS 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 10023. BICS2016: 8th International Conference on Brain-Inspired Cognitive System, Beijing, China, 28.11.2016-30.11.2016. Cham, Switzerland: Springer, pp. 343-354. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49685-6_31

Conference Paper (published)

Modified cat swarm optimization for clustering

Razzaq S, Maqbool F & Hussain A (2016) Modified cat swarm optimization for clustering. In: Liu C, Hussain A, Luo B, Tan K, Zeng Y & Zhang Z (eds.) Advances in Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems. BICS 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 10023. BICS 2016: 8th International Conference on Brain-Inspired Cognitive Systems, Beijing, China, 28.11.2016-30.11.2016. Cham, Switzerland: Springer, pp. 161-170. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49685-6_15

Article

International trade in endangered species: the challenges and successes of the 17th conference of parties to the convention on international trade in endangered species of wild fauna and flora (CITES)

Pambo AFK, Carroll T, Lelanchon L, Ehi-Ebewele E, Sonko A & White L (2016) International trade in endangered species: the challenges and successes of the 17th conference of parties to the convention on international trade in endangered species of wild fauna and flora (CITES). African Journal of Ecology, 54 (4), pp. 399-401. https://doi.org/10.1111/aje.12394

Conference Paper (published)

Coarse-Grained Barrier Trees of Fitness Landscapes

Herrmann S, Ochoa G & Rothlauf F (2016) Coarse-Grained Barrier Trees of Fitness Landscapes. In: Handl J, Hart E, Lewis P, LopezIbanez M, Ochoa G & Paechter B (eds.) Parallel Problem Solving from Nature – PPSN XIV. PPSN 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 9921. PPSN2016: 14th International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving from Nature, Edinburgh, 17.09.2016-21.09.2016. Cham: Springer, pp. 901-910. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-45823-6_84

Conference Paper (published)

An Evolutionary Hyper-heuristic for the Software Project Scheduling Problem

Wu X, Consoli P, Minku L, Ochoa G & Yao X (2016) An Evolutionary Hyper-heuristic for the Software Project Scheduling Problem. In: Handl J, Hart E, Lewis P, Lopez-Ibanez M, Ochoa G & Paechter B (eds.) Parallel Problem Solving from Nature - PPSN XIV. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 9921. International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving from Nature 2016: PPSN XIV, Edinburgh, 17.09.2016-21.09.2017. Cham, Switzerland: Springer Verlag, pp. 37-47. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-45823-6_4

Conference Paper (published)

The REAL corpus: A crowd-sourced Corpus of human generated and evaluated spatial references to real-world urban scenes

Bartie P, Mackaness W, Gkatzia D & Rieser V (2016) The REAL corpus: A crowd-sourced Corpus of human generated and evaluated spatial references to real-world urban scenes. In: Calzolari N, Choukri K, Mazo H, Moreno A, Declerck T T, Goggi S, Grobelnik M, Odijk J, Piperidis S, Maegaard B & Mariani J (eds.) Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2016. 10th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2016, Portoroz, Slovenia, 23.05.2016-28.05.2016. Paris: European Language Resources Association (ELRA), pp. 2153-2155. http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2016/pdf/1035_Paper.pdf

Article

Reinvestigation of Kuumbi Cave, Zanzibar, reveals Later Stone Age coastal habitation, early Holocene abandonment and Iron Age reoccupation

Shipton C, Crowther A, Kourampas N, Prendergast ME, Horton M, Douka K, Schwenninger J, Faulkner P, Quintana-Morales EM, Langley MC, Tibesasa R, Picornell-Gelabert L, Wilmsen EN, Doherty C & Veall M (2016) Reinvestigation of Kuumbi Cave, Zanzibar, reveals Later Stone Age coastal habitation, early Holocene abandonment and Iron Age reoccupation. Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa, 51 (2), pp. 197-233. https://doi.org/10.1080/0067270X.2016.1173308

Article

TargetFish - Targeted disease prophylaxis in European fish farming

Wiegertjes GF, Lorenzen N, Secombes CJ, Collet B, Fischer U, Tafalla C, Parra D, Scapigliati G, Boudinot P, Evensen O, Adams A, Toffan A, Buchmann K, Vesely T & David L (2016) TargetFish - Targeted disease prophylaxis in European fish farming. Bulletin of the European Association of Fish Pathologists, 36 (1), pp. 52-56. http://eafp.org/bulletin-archive/

Conference Paper (published)

Implementing Real-Time Transport Services over an Ossified Network

McQuistin S, Perkins C & Fayed M (2016) Implementing Real-Time Transport Services over an Ossified Network. In: ANRW '16 Proceedings of the 2016 Applied Networking Research Workshop. ANRW '16 - Applied Networking Research Workshop 2016, Berlin, Germany, 16.07.2016-16.07.2016. New York: ACM, pp. 81-87. https://doi.org/10.1145/2959424.2959443

Article

Multi-female group in the southernmost species of Nomascus: field observations in Eastern Cambodia reveal multiple breeding females in a single group of Southern Yellow-Cheeked Crested Gibbon Nomascus gabriellae

Barca B, Vincent C, Soeung K, Nuttall M & Hobson K (2016) Multi-female group in the southernmost species of Nomascus: field observations in Eastern Cambodia reveal multiple breeding females in a single group of Southern Yellow-Cheeked Crested Gibbon Nomascus gabriellae. Asian Primates Journal, 6 (1), pp. 15-19. http://bit.ly/2y89xyk

Commentary

Does arousal enhance apical amplification and disamplification?

Larkum ME & Phillips W (2016) Does arousal enhance apical amplification and disamplification?. Commentary on: Mather, M., Clewett, D., Sakaki, M., & Harley, C. (2016). Norepinephrine ignites local hotspots of neuronal excitation: How arousal amplifies selectivity in perception and memory. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 39. doi:10.1017/S0140525X15000667. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 39, pp. 32-34, Art. No.: e215. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0140525x15001867

Article

The end of the world, or just 'goodbye to all that'? Contextualising the red deer heap from Links of Noltland, Westray, within late 3rd-millennium cal BC Orkney

Clarke DV, Sheridan A, Shepherd A, Sharples N, Armour-Chelu M, Hamlet L, Bronk Ramsey C, Dunbar E, Reimer PJ, Marshall P & Whittle A (2016) The end of the world, or just 'goodbye to all that'? Contextualising the red deer heap from Links of Noltland, Westray, within late 3rd-millennium cal BC Orkney. Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 146, pp. 57-89. https://doi.org/10.9750/PSAS.146.1226

Article

Deployment of the Institut Pasteur de Dakar team to Guinea in the Ebola virus Disease outbreak in West-Africa 2014-2016

Faye O, Fall G, Soropogui B, Koivogui L, Magassouba N, Weidmann M, Sall AA & Faye O (2016) Deployment of the Institut Pasteur de Dakar team to Guinea in the Ebola virus Disease outbreak in West-Africa 2014-2016. Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (CMID), 1 (4), pp. 1-4. https://www.oatext.com/deployment-of-the-institut-pasteur-de-dakar-team-to-guinea-in-the-ebola-virus-disease-outbreak-in-westafrica-20142016.php

Conference Paper (published)

Automatically Designing More General Mutation Operators of Evolutionary Programming for Groups of Function Classes Using a Hyper-Heuristic

Hong L, Drake J, Woodward J & Ozcan E (2016) Automatically Designing More General Mutation Operators of Evolutionary Programming for Groups of Function Classes Using a Hyper-Heuristic. In: GECCO '16 Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference 2016. GECCO '16: Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference 2016, Denver, CO, USA, 20.07.2016-24.07.2016. New York: ACM, pp. 725-732. https://doi.org/10.1145/2908812.2908958

Book Chapter

Aquaculture Technologies for Food Security

Little DC & Bunting SW (2016) Aquaculture Technologies for Food Security. In: Madramootoo C (ed.) Emerging Technologies for Promoting Food Security: Overcoming the World Food Crisis. Woodhead Publishing series in Food Science, Technology and Nutrition. Cambridge: Elsevier, pp. 93-113. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B9781782423355000056

Book Chapter

Tilapia genomic studies

McAndrew B, Penman D, Bekaert M & Wehner S (2016) Tilapia genomic studies. In: MacKenzie S & Jentoft S (eds.) Genomics in Aquaculture. London: Elsevier, pp. 105-130. http://store.elsevier.com/Genomics-in-Aquaculture/isbn-9780128014189/

Article

Coalescent community at Alsónyék: the timings and duration of Lengyel burials and settlement

Osztás A, Zalai-Gaál I, Bánffy E, Marton T, Nyerges ÉÁ, Köhler K, Somogyi K, Gallina Z, Bronk Ramsey C, Dunbar E, Kromer B, Bayliss A, Hamilton D, Marshall P & Whittle A (2016) Coalescent community at Alsónyék: the timings and duration of Lengyel burials and settlement. Bericht der Römisch-Germanischen Kommission, 94, pp. 179-282. https://doi.org/10.11588/berrgk.1938.0.37154

Article

Die Zeit der großen Gräben: Modelle zur Chronologie des Michelsberger Fundplatzes von Heilbronn-Klingenberg „Schlossberg“, Stadtkreis Heilbronn, Baden-Württemberg

Seidel U, Stephan E, Stika H, Dunbar E, Kromer B, Bayliss A, Beavan N, Healy F & Whittle A (2016) Die Zeit der großen Gräben: Modelle zur Chronologie des Michelsberger Fundplatzes von Heilbronn-Klingenberg „Schlossberg“, Stadtkreis Heilbronn, Baden-Württemberg. Praehistorische Zeitschrift, 91 (2), pp. 225-283. https://doi.org/10.1515/pz-2016-0022