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Site selection and carrying capacities for inland and coastal aquaculture: FAO/Institute of Aquaculture, University of Stirling, Expert Workshop, 6–8 December 2010, Stirling, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Ross L, Telfer T, Falconer L, Soto D & Aguilar-Manjarrez J (eds.) (2013) Site selection and carrying capacities for inland and coastal aquaculture: FAO/Institute of Aquaculture, University of Stirling, Expert Workshop, 6–8 December 2010, Stirling, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. FAO Fisheries and Aquaculture Proceedings, 21. FAO/Institute of Aquaculture, University of Stirling, Expert Workshop, Stirling, Scotland, 06.12.2010-08.12.2010. Rome, Italy: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

Book Chapter

Mediterranean hotspot: climate change impacts on forests at the edge. In: Climate extremes and the carbon cycle

Zavala MA, Madrigal-Gonzalez J, Ruiz-Benito P, Sanchez-Salguero R & Navarro-Cerrillo RM (2013) Mediterranean hotspot: climate change impacts on forests at the edge. In: Climate extremes and the carbon cycle. In: Reichstein M, Frank D, Mahecha M & Smith P (eds.) Climate Extremes and the carbon cycle: CARBO-Extreme: The Terrestrial Carbon Cycle under Climate Variability and Extremes - a Pan-European Synthesis. Brussels, Belgium: European Commission, pp. 30-31. http://www.carbo-extreme.eu/uploads/Main/News/C-Extreme_bro_med.pdf

Book Chapter

Aplicación de modelos ecológicos para el análisis de la estructura y dinámica de bosques Ibéricos en respuesta al cambio climático

Ruiz-Benito P, Benito-Garzón M, Garcia-Valdes R, Gomez-Aparicio L & Zavala MA (2013) Aplicación de modelos ecológicos para el análisis de la estructura y dinámica de bosques Ibéricos en respuesta al cambio climático. In: Blanco J (ed.) Aplicaciones de modelos ecológicos a la gestion de recursos naturales. Barcelona: Omnia Publisher SL, pp. 77-107. http://omniascience.com/monographs/index.php/monograficos/article/view/60

Conference Paper (published)

Search methodologies in real-world software engineering

Ochoa G (2013) Search methodologies in real-world software engineering. In: GECCO '13 Companion: Proceeding of the fifteenth annual conference on Genetic and evolutionary computation conference companion. GECCO '13 Fifteenth annual conference on Genetic and evolutionary computation, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 06.07.2013-10.07.2013. New York, NY, USA: ACM, pp. 1085-1087. http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2482687; https://doi.org/10.1145/2464576.2482687

Conference Paper (published)

Local Optima Networks of the Permutation flow-shop Problem

Daolio F, Verel S, Ochoa G & Tomassini M (2013) Local Optima Networks of the Permutation flow-shop Problem. In: Legrand P, Corsini M, Hao J, Monmarche N, Collet P, Lutton E & Schoenauer M (eds.) Articial Evolution 2013 (Evolution Articielle 2013): 11th Biennal International Conference on Articial Evolution Proceedings. Articial Evolution 2013 (Evolution Articielle 2013): 11th Biennal International Conference on Articial Evolution, Bordeaux, France, 21.10.2013-23.10.2013, pp. 200-212. http://ea2013.inria.fr//proceedings.pdf

Book Chapter

The environmental context of Black Spout

Tipping R (2013) The environmental context of Black Spout. In: Strachan D (ed.) Excavations at the Black Spout, Pitlochry and the Iron Age Monumental Roundhouses of North West Perthshire. Perth: Perth and Kinross Heritage Trust, pp. 57-61. http://www.pkht.org.uk/books.php?s=excavations-at-the-black-spout-pitlochry--new-publication

Book Chapter

Assistive technology for cognition: Enabling activities of daily living

Best C, O'Neill B & Gillespie A (2013) Assistive technology for cognition: Enabling activities of daily living. In: Cruz-Cunha M, Miranda I & Goncalves P (eds.) Handbook of Research on ICTs for Human-Centered Healthcare and Social Care Services. Hershey, Pennsylvania, USA: IGI Global, pp. 112-129. http://www.igi-global.com/chapter/assistive-technology-cognition/77139; https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-3986-7.ch006

Conference Paper (published)

Survival vs. Revenue: Modelling and Reasoning on Population Dynamics

Bracciali A, Caravagna G & Ullah A (2013) Survival vs. Revenue: Modelling and Reasoning on Population Dynamics. In: Wainer G, Mosterman P, Barros F & Zacharewicz G (eds.) DEVS 13 Proceedings of the Symposium on Theory of Modeling & Simulation - DEVS Integrative M&S Symposium. Symposium on Theory of Modeling and Simulation (TMS 2013), San Diego, CA, USA, 07.04.2013-10.04.2013. San Diego, CA, USA: Society for Computer Simulation International. http://www.tms-devs.org/

Conference Paper (published)

Evaluating a city exploration dialogue system combining question-answering and pedestrian navigation

Janarthanam S, Lemon O, Bartie P, Dalmas T, Dickinson A, Liu X, Mackaness W & Webber B (2013) Evaluating a city exploration dialogue system combining question-answering and pedestrian navigation. In: Proceedings of the 51st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Volume 1. ACL 2013: 51st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Sofia, Bulgaria, 04.08.2013-09.08.2013. Stroudsburg, PA, USA: The Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), pp. 1660-1668. https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/P/P13/P13-1000.pdf

Conference Paper (published)

Guiding Evolutionary Learning by Searching for Regularities in Behavioral Trajectories: A Case for Representation Agnosticism

Krawiec K & Swan J (2013) Guiding Evolutionary Learning by Searching for Regularities in Behavioral Trajectories: A Case for Representation Agnosticism. In: AAAI Fall Symposium 2013: How Should Intelligence be Abstracted in AI Research. AAAI Technical Report, FS-13-02. AAAI Fall Symposium 2013: How Should Intelligence be Abstracted in AI Research, Arlington, VA, USA, 15.11.2013-17.11.2013. Association for the Advancement of Artificial, pp. 41-46. http://www.aaai.org/ocs/index.php/FSS/FSS13/paper/viewFile/7590/7506

Conference Paper (published)

Pattern-guided Genetic Programming

Krawiec K & Swan J (2013) Pattern-guided Genetic Programming. In: GECCO '13 Proceedings of the 15th annual conference on Genetic and evolutionary computation. GECCO '13. GECCO '13: Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 06.07.2013-10.07.2013. New York, NY, USA: ACM, pp. 949-956. http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2463496; https://doi.org/10.1145/2463372.2463496

Book Chapter

Sentic Computing for Social Media Analysis, Representation, and Retrieval

Cambria E, Grassi M, Poria S & Hussain A (2013) Sentic Computing for Social Media Analysis, Representation, and Retrieval. In: Ramzan N, van Zwol R, Lee J, Cluver K & Hua X (eds.) Social Media Retrieval. Computer Communications and Networks. London: Springer, pp. 191-215. http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-1-4471-4555-4_9

Book Chapter

The coordination of probabilistic inference in neural systems

Phillips W (2013) The coordination of probabilistic inference in neural systems. In: Dodig-Crnkovic G & Giovagnoli R (eds.) Computing Nature: Turing Centenary Perspective. Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Ethics, 7. Berlin Heidelberg: Springer, pp. 61-70. http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-642-37225-4_3; https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-37225-4_3

Conference Paper (published)

Automated design of probability distributions as mutation operators for evolutionary programming using genetic programming

Hong L, Woodward J, Li J & Ozcan E (2013) Automated design of probability distributions as mutation operators for evolutionary programming using genetic programming. In: Krawiec K, Moraglio A, Hu T, Etaner-Uyar A & Hu B (eds.) Genetic Programming: 16th European Conference, EuroGP 2013, Vienna, Austria, April 3-5, 2013. Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 7831. 16th European Conference, EuroGP 2013, Vienna, Austria, 03.04.2013-05.04.2013. Berlin Heidelberg: Springer, pp. 85-96. http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-37207-0_8#; https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39479-9

Conference Paper (published)

A comparison of approaches to stepwise regression for global sensitivity analysis used with evolutionary optimization

Wang M, Wright JA, Buswell R & Brownlee A (2013) A comparison of approaches to stepwise regression for global sensitivity analysis used with evolutionary optimization. In: Proceedings of BS2013: 13th Conference of International Building Performance Simulation Association, Chambéry, France, August 26-28. BS2013: 13th Conference of International Building Performance Simulation Association, Chambéry, France, 26.08.2013-28.08.2013. London: International Building Performance Simulation Association, pp. 2551-2558. http://www.ibpsa.org/proceedings/BS2013/p_1047.pdf

Article

Contrasting vulnerability and resilience to drought-induced decline of densely planted vs. natural rear-edge Pinus nigra forests

Sanchez-Salguero R, Camarero JJ, Dobbertin M, Fernandez-Cancio A, Vilà-Cabrera A, Manzanedo RD, Zavala MA & Navarro-Cerrillo RM (2013) Contrasting vulnerability and resilience to drought-induced decline of densely planted vs. natural rear-edge Pinus nigra forests. Forest Ecology and Management, 310, pp. 956-967. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2013.09.050

Article

An operational model for forecasting ragweed pollen release and dispersion in Europe

Prank M, Chapman DS, Bullock JM, Belmonte J, Berger U, Dahl A, Jäger S, Kovtunenko I, Magyar D, Niemelä S, Rantio-Lehtimäki A, Rodinkova V, Sauliene I, Severova E, Sikoparija B & Sofiev M (2013) An operational model for forecasting ragweed pollen release and dispersion in Europe. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 182-183, pp. 43-53. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agrformet.2013.08.003

Article

Virus, protozoa and organic compounds decay in depurated oysters

Souza DSM, Piazza RS, Pilotto MR, Nascimento MdAd, Moresco V, Taniguchi S, Leal DAG, Schmidt ÉC, Cargin-Ferreira E, Bícego MC, Sasaki ST, Montone RC, de Araujo RA, Franco RMB, Bouzon ZL, Bainy ACD & Barardi CRM (2013) Virus, protozoa and organic compounds decay in depurated oysters. International Journal of Food Microbiology, 167 (3), pp. 337-345. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijfoodmicro.2013.09.019

Article

Primitive neuroectodermal tumour in a striped dolphin (Stenella coeruleoalba) with features of ependymoma and neural tube differentiation (Medulloepithelioma)

Baily J, Morrison LR, Patterson IA, Underwood C & Dagleish MP (2013) Primitive neuroectodermal tumour in a striped dolphin (Stenella coeruleoalba) with features of ependymoma and neural tube differentiation (Medulloepithelioma). Journal of Comparative Pathology, 149 (4), pp. 514-519. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcpa.2013.06.003

Article

Differential characterization of emerging skin diseases of rainbow trout - a standardized approach to capturing disease characteristics and development of case definitions

Oidtmann B, LaPatra SE, Verner-Jeffreys DW, Pond M, Peeler EJ, Noguera PA, Bruno DW, St-Hilaire S, Schubiger CB, Snekvik K, Crumlish M, Green D, Metselaar M, Rodger HD, Schmidt-Posthaus H, Galeotti M & Feist SW (2013) Differential characterization of emerging skin diseases of rainbow trout - a standardized approach to capturing disease characteristics and development of case definitions. Journal of Fish Diseases, 36 (11), pp. 921-937. https://doi.org/10.1111/jfd.12086

Article

Development of a rapid method of analysing whole blood omega-3 levels using a fingertip blood sample and measuring breast milk omega-3 levels using automated methods

Bell JG, Gilhooly T, Mackinlay E, Younger I, McLellan R & Dick JR (2013) Development of a rapid method of analysing whole blood omega-3 levels using a fingertip blood sample and measuring breast milk omega-3 levels using automated methods. Lipid Technology, 25 (11), pp. 255-257. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/lite.201300301/abstract; https://doi.org/10.1002/lite.201300301

Conference Paper (published)

Performance Evaluation of EpiChord Under High Churn

Chowdhury F & Kolberg M (2013) Performance Evaluation of EpiChord Under High Churn. In: Proceedings of the 8th ACM Workshop on Performance Monitoring and Measurement of Heterogeneous Wireless and Wired Networks. PM2HW2N '13: 8th ACM workshop on Performance monitoring and measurement of heterogeneous wireless and wired networks, Barcelona, Spain, 03.11.2013-08.11.2013. New York, NY, USA: ACM, pp. 29-36. http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2512840.2512845; https://doi.org/10.1145/2512840.2512845

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Clinical components and associated behavioural aspects of a complex healthcare intervention: Multi-methods study of selective decontamination of the digestive tract in critical care

Dombrowski SU, Prior ME, Duncan EM, Cuthbertson BH, Bellingan G, Campbell MK, Rose L, Binning AR, Gordon AC, Wilson P, Shulman R & Francis JJ (2013) Clinical components and associated behavioural aspects of a complex healthcare intervention: Multi-methods study of selective decontamination of the digestive tract in critical care. Australian Critical Care, 26 (4), pp. 173-179. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aucc.2013.04.002

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Functional characterisation of a Fads2 fatty acyl desaturase with delta6/delta8 activity and an Elovl5 with C16, C18 and C20 elongase activity in the anadromous teleost meagre (Argyrosomus regius)

Monroig O, Tocher DR, Hontoria F & Navarro JC (2013) Functional characterisation of a Fads2 fatty acyl desaturase with delta6/delta8 activity and an Elovl5 with C16, C18 and C20 elongase activity in the anadromous teleost meagre (Argyrosomus regius). Aquaculture, 412-413, pp. 14-22. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aquaculture.2013.06.032

Article

Special issue on image feature detection and description

Pang Y, Cao X, Zhang L & Hussain A (2013) Special issue on image feature detection and description. Neurocomputing, 120, pp. 1-3. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?partnerID=yv4JPVwI&eid=2-s2.0-84874595196&md5=933a2facfdf28c95d596ed1edf560969; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neucom.2013.02.036

Article

Alzheimer’s Disease Susceptibility Genes APOE and TOMM40, and Hippocampal Volumes in the Lothian Birth Cohort 1936

Lyall DM, Royle NA, Harris SE, Bastin ME, Maniega SM, Murray C, Lutz MW, Saunders AM, Roses AD, del Valdés Hernández MC, Starr JM, Porteous DJ, Wardlaw JM & Deary IJ (2013) Alzheimer’s Disease Susceptibility Genes APOE and TOMM40, and Hippocampal Volumes in the Lothian Birth Cohort 1936. PLoS ONE, 8 (11), p. e80513. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0080513