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Article

Mitchard ETA, Saatchi SS, White L, Abernethy K, Jeffery KJ, Lewis SL, Collins M, Lefsky MA, Leal ME, Woodhouse IH & Meir P (2012) Mapping tropical forest biomass with radar and spaceborne LiDAR in Lope National Park, Gabon: overcoming problems of high biomass and persistent cloud. Biogeosciences, 9 (1), pp. 179-191. https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-9-179-2012


Article

Engone Obiang N, Ngomanda A, White L, Jeffery KJ, Chezeaux E & Picard N (2012) A growth model for azobe, Lophira alata, in Gabon [Un modèle de croissance pour l’azobé, Lophira alata, au Gabon]. Bois et Forets des Tropiques, 66 (314), pp. 65-72. http://bft.cirad.fr/en/sommaires/2012.html


Book Chapter

Brownlee A, McCall J & Shakya SK (2012) The Markov network fitness model. In: Shakya S & Santana R (eds.) Markov Networks in Evolutionary Computation. Adaptation, Learning, and Optimization, 14. Berlin Heidelberg: Springer, pp. 125-140. http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-28900-2_8#; https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-28900-2_8


Conference Paper (published)

Brownlee A, McCall J & Pelikan M (2012) Influence of selection on structure learning in markov network EDAs: An empirical study. In: Soule T & Moore J (eds.) GECCO'12 - Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation. GECCO '12: 14th annual conference on Genetic and evolutionary computation, Philadelphia, USA, 07.07.2012-11.07.2012. New York, NY: ACM, pp. 249-256. http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2330200


Technical Report

Maldonado O, Aveling C, Cox D, Nixon S, Nishuli R, Merlo D, Pintea L & Williamson EA (2012) Gorilles de Grauer et Chimpanzés de l’Est de la République Démocratique du Congo (Paysage de Kahuzi-Biega, Maiko, Tayna et Itombwe) Plan d’action pour la conservation 2012-2022 [Grauer’s Gorillas and Chimpanzees in Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (Kahuzi-Biega, Maiko, Tayna and Itombwe Landscape): Conservation Action Plan 2012–2022]. International Union for Conservation of Nature. International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources. http://www.primate-sg.org/storage/pdf/Eastern_RDC_CAP.pdf


Book Chapter

Van Vliet N, Nasi R, Abernethy K, Fargeot C, Kuempel N, Ndong Obiang AM & Ringuet S (2012) Le rôle de la faune dans le cadre de la sécurité alimentaire en Afrique centrale: Une menace pour la Biodiversité? [The role of wildlife for food security in Central Africa: a threat to biodiversity?]. In: de Wasseige C, de Marcken P, Bayol N, Hiol F, Mayaux P, Desclée B B, Nasi R, Billand A, Defourny P P & Eba’a R (eds.) L’Etat des Forêts 2010. Luxembourg: Office des publications de l’Union Européenne, pp. 123-135. http://www.observatoire-comifac.net/docs/edf2010/FR/Etat-des-forets_2010.pdf


Book Chapter

Simpson I (2012) Micromorphological analyses of samples from Context 577. In: Sveinbjarnardόttir G (ed.) Reykholt: Archaeological Investigations at a High Status Farm in Western Iceland. Publications of the National Museum of Iceland, 29. Reykjavik: National Museum of Iceland, pp. 254-256.


Book Chapter

Barrett JH, Farr LR, Redhouse D, Richer S, Zimmermann J, Sharpe L, Ovenden S, Moore J, Poller T, Milek K, Simpson I, Smith M, Gourley B & O'Connor T (2012) Quoygrew and its landscape context. In: Barrett J (ed.) Being an Islander: Production and Identity at Quoygrew, Orkney, AD 900-1600. Cambridge: McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, pp. 25-46. http://www2.mcdonald.cam.ac.uk/publications/monographs/new-titles/


Presentation / Talk

Abernethy K, Coad LM, Starkey M, Wilkie DS, Hymas O, White L, Ndong Obiang AM, Ndong K, Nsame Effa E, Noungou A, Mbazonga M, Van Vliet N, Milner-Gulland EJ, Kuempel N & Maisels F (2012) Bushmeat hunting: Extent and consequences. Climate change, deforestation and the future of African forests, Oxford, UK, 04.01.2012-06.01.2012. http://www.eci.ox.ac.uk/events/africa/downloads/session63.pdf


Article

Ramirez Suarez JC, Martinez-Palacios CA, Pacheco Aguilar R, Ross L, Arreguin Sanchez F, Campos-Mendoza A, Diaz Pardo E, Fonseca-Madrigal J, Gutierrez Hernandez A, Rios-Duran MG, Rueda Jasso R, Toledo Cuevas M, Salas Razo G & Shimada A (2012) Bagres invasores ¿Amenaza u oportunidad?. INFOPESCA Internacional, (50), pp. 25-28. http://www.infopesca.org/node/716


Book Chapter

Hedges S, Maisels F & Blake S (2012) Estimating Absolute Densities of Elephant Populations Using Dung Counts Along Line Transects: Field Methods. In: Hedges S (ed.) Monitoring elephant populations and assessing threats: a manual for researchers, managers and conservationists. Himayatnagar, Hyderabad, India: Universities Press, pp. 172-213. http://www.fws.gov/international/pdf/Monitoring_Elephant_Populations_and_Assessing_Threats_to_press_version.pdf


Research Report

Douglas-Hamilton I, Maisels F, Stiles D & Wittemyer G (2012) Comments on the final report by Martin et al. “Decision-making mechanisms and necessary conditions for a future trade in African elephant ivory. 30 August 2012. International Union for Conservation of Nature. https://cmsdata.iucn.org/downloads/afesg_comments_finalreport_30august2012.pdf


Book Chapter

Weidmann M & Hufert FT (2012) Rapid diagnostics for resource-poor settings. In: Kappas M, Gross U & Kelleher D (eds.) Global Health: A challenge for interdisciplinary research. Göttingen, Germany: Universitätsverlag Göttingen, pp. 233-243. http://www.oapen.org/search?identifier=441522


Conference Paper (published)

Daolio F, Verel S, Ochoa G & Tomassini M (2012) Local optima networks and the performance of iterated local search. In: GECCO'12 - Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation. GECCO '12 - Fourteenth international conference on Genetic and evolutionary computation, Philadelphia, PA, USA, 07.07.2012-11.07.2012. New York, NY, USA: ACM, pp. 369-376. http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2330217; https://doi.org/10.1145/2330163.2330217


Book Chapter

Gutlich P & Schröder C (2012) Mössbauer Spectroscopy. In: Schäfer R & Schmidt P (eds.) Methods in Physical Chemistry. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH, pp. 351-389. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/9783527636839.ch11/summary


Book Chapter

Gomez JM, Abdelaziz Mohamed M, Fernandez-Carmona J, Munoz-Pajares AJ & Perfectti F (2012) Biología de la polinización de erysimum endémicos de la alta montaña de sierra nevada: introgresión y extinción silenciosa. In: Ramírez L & Asensio B (eds.) Proyectos de investigación en parques nacionales: 2008-2011. Barcelona: Ministerio de Medio Ambiente, y Medio Rural y Marino, p. 26. http://tienda.boe.es/detail.html?id=9788480148344


Conference Paper (unpublished)

Greenwood S, Chen T, Chen J & Jump A (2012) Causes and consequences of rapid shifts in species distributions above the closed forest zone in the Central Mountain Range, Taiwan. Vulnerable Isalnds in the Sky: Science and Management of Tropical Island Alpine and Sub-Alpine Ecosystems - Tropical Mountain Conference 2012, Hilo, HI, USA, 04.08.2012-08.08.2012.


Conference Paper (published)

Mark D, van Oordt T, Strohmeier O, Roth G, Drexler J, Eberhard M, Niedrig M, Patel P, Zgaga-Griesz A, Bessler WG, Weidmann M, Hufert FT, Zengerle R & von Stetten F (2012) Automated and miniaturized detection of biological threats with a centrifugal microfluidic system. In: Cullum B & McLamore E (eds.) Smart Biomedical and Physiological Sensor Technology IX. Proceedings of SPIE, 8367. Smart Biomedical and Physiological Sensor Technology IX, Baltimore, MD, USA, 23.04.2012-23.04.2012. SPIE, p. 83670E. http://spie.org/x648.html?product_id=902831; https://doi.org/10.1117/12.919933


Conference Paper (published)

van Oordt T, Strohmeier O, Mark D, Zengerle R, Eberhard M, Drexler J, Patel P, Weidmann M, Zgaga-Griesz A, Bessler WG & von Stetten F (2012) The Lab Disk - A Fully Automated Centrifugal Lab-on-a-Chip System for the Detection of Biological Threats. In: Aschenbruck N, Martini P, Meier M & Tolle J (eds.) Future Security: 7th Security Research Conference, Future Security 2012, Bonn, Germany, September 4-6, 2012. Proceedings. Communications in Computer and Information Science, 318. 7th Security Research Conference, Future Security 2012, Bonn, Germany, 04.09.2012-06.09.2012. Berlin Heidelberg: Springer, pp. 220-223. http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-642-33161-9_33; https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-33161-9_33


Article

Matias L (2012) Cambios en los límites de distribución de especies arbóreas como consecuencia de las variaciones climáticas [Changes in the distribution limits of tree species as a consequence of climate variations]. Ecosistemas, 21 (3), pp. 91-96. http://www.revistaecosistemas.net/index.php/ecosistemas/article/view/703; https://doi.org/10.7818/ECOS.2012.21-3.12


Article

Crook SM, Bednar JA, Berger S, Cannon R, Davison AP, Djurfeldt M, Eppler J, Kriener B, Furber S, Graham B, Plesser HE, Schwabe L, Smith L, Steuber V & van Albada S (2012) Creating, documenting and sharing network models. Network: Computation in Neural Systems, 23 (4), pp. 131-149. http://informahealthcare.com/doi/abs/10.3109/0954898X.2012.722743; https://doi.org/10.3109/0954898X.2012.722743


Conference Paper (published)

Guo L, Yang Z, Graham B & Zhang D (2012) Characterisation of information flow in an Izhikevich network. In: Huang T, Zeng Z, Li C & Leung C (eds.) Neural Information Processing: 19th International Conference, ICONIP 2012, Doha, Qatar, November 12-15, 2012, Proceedings, Part I. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 7663. 19th International Conference on Neural Information Processing, ICONIP 2012, Doha, Qatar, 12.11.2012-15.11.2012. Berlin Heidelberg: Springer, pp. 392-400. http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-34475-6_47#


Book Chapter

Zakir U, Usman A & Hussain A (2012) A novel road traffic sign detection and recognition approach by introducing CCM and LESH. In: Huang T, Zeng Z, Li C & Leung C (eds.) Neural Information Processing: 19th International Conference, ICONIP 2012, Doha, Qatar, November 12-15, 2012, Proceedings, Part III. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 7665. Berlin Heidelberg: Springer, pp. 629-636. http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-34487-9_76#; https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-34487-9_76


Book Chapter

Farooq K, Hussain A, Leslie S, Eckl C, MacRae C & Slack W (2012) An ontology driven and Bayesian Network based cardiovascular decision support framework. In: Zhang H, Hussain A, Liu D & Wang Z (eds.) Advances in Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems: 5th International Conference, BICS 2012, Shenyang, China, July 11-14, 2012. Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 7366. Berlin Heidelberg: Springer, pp. 31-41. http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-31561-9_4#


Book Chapter

Abdullah A, Hussain A & Barnawi A (2012) Analysis of pesticide application practices using an intelligent Agriculture Decision Support System (ADSS). In: Zhang H, Hussain A, Liu D & Wang Z (eds.) Advances in Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems: 5th International Conference, BICS 2012, Shenyang, China, July 11-14, 2012. Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 7366. Berlin Heidelberg: Springer, pp. 382-391. http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-31561-9_43#


Book Chapter

Hussain A, Abdullah R, Yang E & Gurney K (2012) An intelligent multiple-controller framework for the integrated control of autonomous vehicles. In: Zhang H, Hussain A, Liu D & Wang Z (eds.) Advances in Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems: 5th International Conference, BICS 2012, Shenyang, China, July 11-14, 2012. Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 7366. Berlin Heidelberg: Springer, pp. 92-101. http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-31561-9_10#


Authored Book

Cambria E & Hussain A (2012) Sentic Computing: Techniques, Tools, and Applications. SpringerBriefs in Cognitive Computation, 2. Dordrecht: Springer. http://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-94-007-5070-8/page/1#


Book Chapter

Mahmud M, Travalin D & Hussain A (2012) Decoding network activity from LFPS: A computational approach. In: Huang T, Zeng Z, Li C & Leung C (eds.) Neural Information Processing: 19th International Conference, ICONIP 2012, Doha, Qatar, November 12-15, 2012, Proceedings, Part I. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 7663. Berlin Heidelberg: Springer, pp. 584-591. http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-34475-6_70#; https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-34475-6_70


Book Chapter

Chandra P, Cambria E & Hussain A (2012) Clustering social networks using interaction semantics and sentics. In: Wang J, Yen G & Polycarpou M (eds.) Advances in Neural Networks – ISNN 2012: 9th International Symposium on Neural Networks, Shenyang, China, July 11-14, 2012. Proceedings, Part I. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 7367. Berlin Heidelberg: Springer, pp. 379-385. http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-31346-2_43#


Book Chapter

Yang E, Hussain A & Gurney K (2012) Neurobiologically-inspired soft switching control of autonomous vehicles. In: Zhang H, Hussain A, Liu D & Wang Z (eds.) Advances in Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems: 5th International Conference, BICS 2012, Shenyang, China, July 11-14, 2012. Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 7366. Berlin Heidelberg: Springer, pp. 82-91. http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-31561-9_9#; https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31561-9_9


Conference Paper (published)

Poria S, Gelbukh A, Cambria E, Yang P, Hussain A & Durrani T (2012) Merging SenticNet and WordNet-Affect emotion lists for sentiment analysis. In: International Conference on Signal Processing Proceedings, ICSP. 2. 2012 IEEE 11th International Conference on Signal Processing (ICSP), Beijing, China, 21.10.2012-25.10.2012. Piscataway, NJ: IEEE, pp. 1251-1255. http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/freeabs_all.jsp?arnumber=6491803&abstractAccess=no&userType=inst; https://doi.org/10.1109/ICoSP.2012.6491803


Book Chapter

Mahmud M, Travalin D, Hussain A, Girardi S, Maschietto M, Felderer F & Vassanelli S (2012) Single LFP sorting for high-resolution brain-chip interfacing. In: Zhang H, Hussain A, Liu D & Wang Z (eds.) Advances in Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems: 5th International Conference, BICS 2012, Shenyang, China, July 11-14, 2012. Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 7366. Berlin Heidelberg: Springer, pp. 329-337. http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-31561-9_37#


Book Chapter

Cambria E, Livingstone AG & Hussain A (2012) The hourglass of emotions. In: Esposito A, Esposito A, Vinciarelli A, Hoffmann R & Muller V (eds.) Cognitive Behavioural Systems: COST 2102 International Training School, Dresden, Germany, February 21-26, 2011, Revised Selected Papers. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 7403. Berlin Heidelberg: Springer, pp. 144-157. http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-34584-5_11#


Book Chapter

Hussain A, Cambria E, Mazzocco T, Grassi M, Wang Q & Durrani T (2012) Towards IMACA: Intelligent multimodal affective conversational agent. In: Huang T, Zeng Z, Li C & Leung C (eds.) Neural Information Processing: 19th International Conference, ICONIP 2012, Doha, Qatar, November 12-15, 2012, Proceedings, Part I. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 7663. Berlin Heidelberg: Springer, pp. 656-663. http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-34475-6_79#


Book Chapter

Cambria E, Hussain A, Durrani T & Zhang J (2012) Towards a Chinese common and common sense knowledge base for sentiment analysis. In: Jiang H, Ding W W, Ali M & Wu X (eds.) Advanced Research in Applied Artificial Intelligence: 25th International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Other Applications of Applied Intelligent Systems, IEA/AIE 2012, Dalian, China, June 9-12, 2012. Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 7345. Berlin Heidelberg: Springer, pp. 437-446. http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-31087-4_46#


Book Chapter

Mazzocco T, Cambria E, Hussain A & Wang Q (2012) Sentic neural networks: A novel cognitive model for affective common sense reasoning. In: Zhang H, Hussain A, Liu D & Wang Z (eds.) Advances in Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems: 5th International Conference, BICS 2012, Shenyang, China, July 11-14, 2012. Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 7366. Berlin Heidelberg: Springer, pp. 12-21. http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-31561-9_2#


Conference Paper (published)

Cambria E, Havasi C & Hussain A (2012) SenticNet 2: A semantic and affective resource for opinion mining and sentiment analysis. In: Youngblood G & McCarthy P (eds.) Proceedings of the 25th International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference, FLAIRS-12. Twenty-Fifth International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference, FLAIRS 12, Marco Island, FL, USA, 23.05.2012-25.05.2012. Palo Alto, CA, USA: Association for the Advancement of Artificial, pp. 202-207. http://www.aaai.org/ocs/index.php/FLAIRS/FLAIRS12/paper/viewPDFInterstitial/4411/4794


Book Chapter

Hupont I, Cambria E, Cerezo E, Hussain A & Baldassarri S (2012) Sentic maxine: Multimodal affective fusion and emotional paths. In: Wang J, Yen G & Polycarpou M (eds.) Advances in Neural Networks – ISNN 2012: 9th International Symposium on Neural Networks, Shenyang, China, July 11-14, 2012. Proceedings, Part II. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 7368. Berlin Heidelberg: Springer, pp. 555-565. http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-31362-2_61#


Book Chapter

Farooq K, Hussain A, Leslie S, Eckl C, MacRae C & Slack W (2012) Semantically inspired electronic healthcare records. In: Zhang H, Hussain A, Liu D & Wang Z (eds.) Advances in Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems: 5th International Conference, BICS 2012, Shenyang, China, July 11-14, 2012. Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 7366. Berlin Heidelberg: Springer, pp. 42-51. http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-31561-9_5#


Book Chapter

Zakir U, Edirishinghe EA & Hussain A (2012) Road sign detection and recognition from video stream using HSV, contourlet transform and local energy based shape histogram. In: Zhang H, Hussain A, Liu D & Wang Z (eds.) Advances in Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems: 5th International Conference, BICS 2012, Shenyang, China, July 11-14, 2012. Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 7366. Berlin Heidelberg: Springer, pp. 411-419. http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-31561-9_46#


Book Chapter

Krishnan R, Hussain A & Sherimon PC (2012) Retrieval of semantic concepts based on analysis of texts for automatic construction of ontology. In: Huang T, Zeng Z, Li C & Leung C (eds.) Neural Information Processing: 19th International Conference, ICONIP 2012, Doha, Qatar, November 12-15, 2012, Proceedings, Part I. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 7663. Berlin Heidelberg: Springer, pp. 524-532. http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-34475-6_63#


Book Chapter

Alalshekmubarak A, Hussain A & Wang Q (2012) Off-line handwritten Arabic word recognition using SVMs with normalized poly kernel. In: Huang T, Zeng Z, Li C & Leung C (eds.) Neural Information Processing: 19th International Conference, ICONIP 2012, Doha, Qatar, November 12-15, 2012, Proceedings, Part II. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 7664. Berlin Heidelberg: Springer, pp. 85-91. http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-34481-7_11#


Edited Proceedings

Zhang H, Hussain A, Liu D & Wang Z (eds.) (2012) Advances in Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems: 5th International Conference, BICS 2012, Shenyang, China, July 11-14, 2012. Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 7366. BICS 2012: 5th International Conference, Shenyang, Liaoning, China, 11.07.2012-14.07.2012. Berlin Heidelberg: Springer. https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783642315602


Technical Report

Kleczkowski A, Breed AC, Matthews L, Thronicker D & de Vries F (2012) Characterising Livestock System Zoonoses Hotspots. Department for International Development (DFID). University of Stirling. http://www.dfid.gov.uk/r4d/Output/188950/Default.aspx


Conference Paper (published)

Dering B, Hoshino N & Thierry G (2012) N170 Modulation is expertise driven: Evidence from word-inversion effects in speakers of different languages. In: Ojima S, Otsu Y, Connolly J & Thierry G (eds.) Future Trends in the Biology of Language. CARLS Proceedings: Future Trends in the Biology of Language, 7. Future Trends in the Biology of Language 2011, Keio University, Japan, 09.03.2011-10.03.2011. Tokyo: Keio University. http://www.keio-up.co.jp/np/isbn/9784766419269/


Technical Report

Maldonado O, Aveling C, Cox D, Nixon S, Nishuli R, Merlo D, Pintea L & Williamson EA (2012) Grauer’s Gorillas and Chimpanzees in Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (Kahuzi-Biega, Maiko, Tayna and Itombwe Landscape): Conservation Action Plan 2012–2022. International Union for Conservation of Nature. International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources. http://www.primate-sg.org/storage/pdf/Eastern_DRC_CAP.pdf