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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

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

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)

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/

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

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

Article

Impact of an invasive alien ant, Wasmannia auropunctata Roger., on a specialised plant-ant mutualism, Barteria fistulosa Mast. and Tetraponera aethiops F. Smith., in a Gabon forest

Mikissa J, Jeffery KJ, Fresneau D & Mercier JL (2013) Impact of an invasive alien ant, Wasmannia auropunctata Roger., on a specialised plant-ant mutualism, Barteria fistulosa Mast. and Tetraponera aethiops F. Smith., in a Gabon forest. Ecological Entomology, 38 (6), pp. 580-584. https://doi.org/10.1111/een.12057

Article

Changuinola Virus Serogroup, New Genomes within the Genus Orbivirus (Family Reoviridae) Isolated in the Brazilian Amazon Region

Silva SP, Dilcher M, Weidmann M, Carvalho VL, Casseb AR, Silva EVP, Nunes KNB, Chiang JO, Martins LC, Vasconcelos PFC & Nunes MRT (2013) Changuinola Virus Serogroup, New Genomes within the Genus Orbivirus (Family Reoviridae) Isolated in the Brazilian Amazon Region. Genome Announcements, 1 (6), Art. No.: e00940-13. https://doi.org/10.1128/genomeA.00940-13

Book Chapter

Mandrillus Sphinx Mandrill

Abernethy K & White L (2013) Mandrillus Sphinx Mandrill [Mandrills]. In: Butynski T, Kingdon J & Kalina J (eds.) Mammals of Africa, Volume II: Primates. London: Bloomsbury, pp. 192-196. http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/mammals-of-africa-9781408122570/

Article

Nutritional evaluation of autoclaved Salicornia bigelovii Torr. seed meal supplemented with varying levels of cholesterol on growth, nutrient utilization and survival of the Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus)

Rios-Duran MG, Valencia IR, Ross L & Martinez-Palacios CA (2013) Nutritional evaluation of autoclaved Salicornia bigelovii Torr. seed meal supplemented with varying levels of cholesterol on growth, nutrient utilization and survival of the Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus). Aquaculture International, 21 (6), pp. 1355-1371. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10499-013-9638-5

Article

A response-surface analysis of the relative importance of the temperature, salinity and body weight on the respiratory metabolism of the white shrimp Litopenaeus vannamei (Boone, 1931)

Ponce-Palafox JT, Ruiz-Luna A, Garcia-Ulloa Gomez M, Esparza-Leal HM, Arredondo-Figueroa JL, Martinez-Palacios CA & Ross L (2013) A response-surface analysis of the relative importance of the temperature, salinity and body weight on the respiratory metabolism of the white shrimp Litopenaeus vannamei (Boone, 1931). Marine and Freshwater Behaviour and Physiology, 46 (6), pp. 399-417. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84887984026&partnerID=40&md5=51704b7b1289ec5649fa304b92e76163; https://doi.org/10.1080/10236244.2013.849058

Book Chapter

Sediments, soils and livelihood in a late Neolithic village on the Iranian Plateau: Tepe Sialk

Kourampas N, Simpson I, Nashli HF, Manuel M & Coningham R (2013) Sediments, soils and livelihood in a late Neolithic village on the Iranian Plateau: Tepe Sialk. In: Mathews R & Nashli H (eds.) The Neolithisation of Iran: The Formation of New Societies. British Association for Near Eastern Archaeology. Oxford: Oxbow, pp. 189-200. http://www.oxbowbooks.com/dbbc/neolithisation-of-iran.html

Article

Combining animal personalities with transcriptomics resolves individual variation within a wild-type zebrafish population and identifies underpinning molecular differences in brain function

Rey S, Boltana S, Vargas R, Roher N & MacKenzie S (2013) Combining animal personalities with transcriptomics resolves individual variation within a wild-type zebrafish population and identifies underpinning molecular differences in brain function. Molecular Ecology, 22 (24), pp. 6100-6115. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.12556

Edited Proceedings

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.

Conference Paper (published)

Sparse reconstruction of correlated multichannel activity

Peelman S, Van der Herten J, De Vos M, Lee W, Van Huffel S & Cuyt A (2013) Sparse reconstruction of correlated multichannel activity. In: 2013 35th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC). 35th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC 2013), Osaka, Japan, 03.07.2013-07.07.2013. Piscataway, NJ, USA: IEEE, pp. 3897-3900. https://doi.org/10.1109/EMBC.2013.6610396

Conference Paper (published)

Towards a configurable framework for iterative signing of distributed graph data

Kasten A & Scherp A (2013) Towards a configurable framework for iterative signing of distributed graph data. In: Decker S, Hendler J & Kirrane S (eds.) Proceedings of the Workshop on Society, Privacy and the Semantic Web - Policy and Technology (PrivOn2013) co-located with the 12th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2013), volume 1121. CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 1121. Privacy Online 2013: Society, Privacy and the Semantic Web - Policy and Technology, Sydney, Australia, 21.10.2013-22.10.2013. Aachen, Germany: CEUR Workshop Proceedings.

Conference Paper (published)

A multi-way divergence metric for vector spaces

Moss R & Connor R (2013) A multi-way divergence metric for vector spaces. In: Brisaboa N, Pedreira O & Zezula P (eds.) Similarity Search and Applications 6th International Conference, SISAP 2013, A Coruña, Spain, October 2-4, 2013, Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 8199. Similarity Search and Applications. SISAP 2013, Coruna, Spain, 02.10.2013-04.10.2013. Berlin Heidelberg: Springer, pp. 169-174. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-41062-8_17

Conference Paper (published)

Evaluation of Jensen-Shannon distance over sparse data

Connor R, Cardillo FA, Moss R & Rabitti F (2013) Evaluation of Jensen-Shannon distance over sparse data. In: Brisaboa N, Pedreira O & Zezula P (eds.) Similarity Search and Applications: 6th International Conference, SISAP 2013, A Coruña, Spain, October 2-4, 2013, Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 8199. Similarity Search and Applications: 6th International Conference, SISAP 2013, Coruna, Spain, 02.10.2013-04.10.2013. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Verlag, pp. 163-168. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-41062-8_16

Conference Paper (unpublished)

Orientation effects on polarimetric SAR images of sea ice

Marino A & Hajnsek I (2013) Orientation effects on polarimetric SAR images of sea ice. 2013 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium - IGARSS, Melboune, Australia, 21.07.2013-26.07.2013. https://doi.org/10.1109/IGARSS.2013.6723615

Conference Paper (published)

Conceptual clustering of documents for automatic ontology generation

Krishnan R, Hussain A & Sherimon PC (2013) Conceptual clustering of documents for automatic ontology generation. In: Liu D, Alippi C, Zhao D & Hussain A (eds.) Advances in Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems: 6th International Conference, BICS 2013, Beijing, China, June 9-11, 2013. Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 7888. 6th International Conference on Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems, BICS 2013, Beijing, China, 09.06.2013-11.06.2013. Berlin Heidelberg: Springer, pp. 235-244. http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-38786-9_27#; https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-38786-9_27

Conference Paper (published)

A review of artificial intelligence and biologically inspired computational approaches to solving issues in narrative financial disclosure

Minhas S, Poria S, Hussain A & Hussainey K (2013) A review of artificial intelligence and biologically inspired computational approaches to solving issues in narrative financial disclosure. In: Liu D, Alippi C, Zhao D & Hussain A (eds.) Advances in Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems: 6th International Conference, BICS 2013, Beijing, China, June 9-11, 2013. Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 7888. 6th International Conference on Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems, BICS 2013, Beijing, China, 09.06.2013-11.06.2013. Berlin Heidelberg: Springer, pp. 317-327. http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-38786-9_36#; https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-38786-9_36

Conference Paper (published)

A novel clinical expert system for chest pain risk assessment

Farooq K, Hussain A, Atassi H, Leslie S, Eckl C, MacRae C & Slack W (2013) A novel clinical expert system for chest pain risk assessment. In: Liu D, Alippi C, Zhao D & Hussain A (eds.) Advances in Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems: 6th International Conference, BICS 2013, Beijing, China, June 9-11, 2013. Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 7888. 6th International Conference on Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems, BICS 2013, Beijing, China, 09.06.2012-11.06.2013. Berlin Heidelberg: Springer, pp. 296-307. http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-38786-9_34#; https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-38786-9_34

Conference Paper (published)

A basal ganglia inspired soft switching approach to the motion control of a car-like autonomous vehicle

Yang E, Hussain A & Gurney K (2013) A basal ganglia inspired soft switching approach to the motion control of a car-like autonomous vehicle. In: Liu D, Alippi C, Zhao D & Hussain A (eds.) Advances in Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems: 6th International Conference, BICS 2013, Beijing, China, June 9-11, 2013. Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Sci, 7888. 6th International Conference on Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems, BICS 2013, Beijing, China, 09.06.2013-11.06.2013. Berlin Heidelberg: Springer, pp. 245-254. http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-38786-9_28#; https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-38786-9_28

Edited Proceedings

Advances in Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems: 6th International Conference, BICS 2013, Beijing, China, June 9-11, 2013 Proceedings

Liu D, Alippi C, Zhao D & Hussain A (eds.) (2013) Advances in Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems: 6th International Conference, BICS 2013, Beijing, China, June 9-11, 2013 Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 7888. BICS 2013: 6th International Conference, Beijing, China, 09.06.2013-11.06.2013. Berlin Heidelberg: Springer. https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783642387852

Conference Paper (published)

Revisiting Planarity in Position-Based Routing for Wireless Networks

Cairns D, Fayed M & Mouftah HT (2013) Revisiting Planarity in Position-Based Routing for Wireless Networks. In: Zheng J, Mitton N, Li J & Lorenz P (eds.) Ad Hoc Networks: 4th International ICST Conference, ADHOCNETS 2012, Paris, France, October 16-17, 2012, Revised Selected Papers. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, 111. 4th International ICST Conference, ADHOCNETS 2012, Paris, France, 16.10.2012-17.10.2012. Berlin Heidelberg: Springer, pp. 87-102. http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-36958-2_7#; https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-36958-2_7

Conference Paper (published)

A Comparison of Acceptance Criteria for the Daily Car-Pooling Problem

Swan J, Drake J, Ozcan E, Goulding J & Woodward J (2013) A Comparison of Acceptance Criteria for the Daily Car-Pooling Problem. In: Gelenbe E & Lent R (eds.) Computer and Information Sciences III: 27th International Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences. 27th International Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences, Paris, France, 03.10.2012-04.10.2012. London: Springer, pp. 477-483. http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-1-4471-4594-3_49; https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-4594-3_49

Website Content

CARE Measure

Swingler K, Duncan E & Murray J (2013) CARE Measure. 2013. http://www.caremeasure.org/

Conference Paper (unpublished)

Comparison of ship detectors using polarimetric alos data: Tokyo Bay

Marino A, Sugimoto M, Nunziata F, Hajnsek I, Migliaccio M & Ouchi K (2013) Comparison of ship detectors using polarimetric alos data: Tokyo Bay. 2013 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium - IGARSS, Melbourne, Australia, 21.07.2013-26.07.2019. https://doi.org/10.1109/IGARSS.2013.6723289

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

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

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

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

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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

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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