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Governance, networks and policy change: The case of Cannabis in the United Kingdom (2009)
Book Chapter
Acevedo, B., & Common, R. (2009). Governance, networks and policy change: The case of Cannabis in the United Kingdom. In S. P. Osborne (Ed.), The New Public Governance? Emerging Perspectives on the Theory and Practice of Public Governance. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203861684

The two coterminous concepts of governance and policy networks have been reasserted in public management studies in the wake of the recent decline in the popularity of the so-called New Public Management (NPM) movement. The concepts appear to be inte... Read More about Governance, networks and policy change: The case of Cannabis in the United Kingdom.

Economics and Human Geography (2009)
Book Chapter
Faulconbridge, J. R., & Hall, S. (2009). Economics and Human Geography. In R. Kitchin, & N. Thrift (Eds.), International Encyclopedia of Human Geography (332-337). Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-008044910-4.00279-0

© 2009 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. At first glance, economics and human geography seem to have much in common. However, the relationship between the two disciplines has been dynamic and contested over recent years as epistemologies and ontolog... Read More about Economics and Human Geography.

An improved version of volume dominance for multi-objective optimisation (2009)
Book Chapter
Le, K., Landa-Silva, D., & Li, H. (2009). An improved version of volume dominance for multi-objective optimisation. In Evolutionary Multi-Criterion Optimization: 5th International Conference, EMO 2009, Nantes, France, April 7-10, 2009. Proceedings (231-245). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-01020-0_21

This paper proposes an improved version of volume dominance to assign fitness to solutions in Pareto-based multi-objective optimisation. The impact of this revised volume dominance on the performance of multi-objective evolutionary algorithms is inve... Read More about An improved version of volume dominance for multi-objective optimisation.

John Freeman, 1969–71 (2009)
Book Chapter
Young, J. W. (2009). John Freeman, 1969–71. In M. F. Hopkins, S. Kelly, & J. W. Young (Eds.), The Washington Embassy: British Ambassadors to the United States, 1939–77 (169-188). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230234543_10

At less than two years duration, the ambassadorship of John Freeman was the second shortest covered by this book. It took place, too, in a singularly uneventful period in Anglo-American relations, between the dramas of 1967–68 — when the devaluation... Read More about John Freeman, 1969–71.

The future of tuberculosis vaccinology (2009)
Book Chapter
Thole, J., Griffin, R., & Young, D. (2009). The future of tuberculosis vaccinology. In M. C. Raviglione (Ed.), Tuberculosis: the essentials. (4th edition). Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press. https://doi.org/10.3109/9781420090239

© 2006 by Taylor and Francis Group, LLC. The outcome of infection with Mycobacterium tuberculosis is crucially dependent on the immune response of the host. Most individuals mount a response that is sufficient to prevent progression to disease but ma... Read More about The future of tuberculosis vaccinology.

Evolutionary non-linear great deluge for university course timetabling (2009)
Book Chapter
Landa-Silva, D., & Obit, J. H. (2009). Evolutionary non-linear great deluge for university course timetabling. In Hybrid Artificial Intelligence Systems: 4th International Conference, HAIS 2009, Salamanca, Spain, June 10-12, 2009. Proceedings (269-276). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02319-4_32

This paper presents a hybrid evolutionary algorithm to tackle university course timetabling problems. The proposed approach is an extension of a non-linear great deluge algorithm in which evolutionary operators are incorporated. First, we generate a... Read More about Evolutionary non-linear great deluge for university course timetabling.

Exploring feasible and infeasible regions in the vehicle routing problem with time windows using a multi-objective particle swarm optimization approach (2009)
Book Chapter
Castro, J. P., Landa-Silva, D., & Moreno Pérez, J. A. (2009). Exploring feasible and infeasible regions in the vehicle routing problem with time windows using a multi-objective particle swarm optimization approach. In Nature Inspired Cooperative Strategies for Optimization (NICSO 2008) (103-114). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-03211-0_9

This paper investigates the ability of a discrete particle swarm optimization algorithm (DPSO) to evolve solutions from infeasibility to feasibility for the Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows (VRPTW). The proposed algorithm incorporates some p... Read More about Exploring feasible and infeasible regions in the vehicle routing problem with time windows using a multi-objective particle swarm optimization approach.

Advanced Television Systems Committee, Inc (2009)
Book Chapter
Varney, E. (2009). Advanced Television Systems Committee, Inc. In C. Tietje, & A. Brouder (Eds.), Handbook of Transnational Economic Governance Regimes. Brill Academic Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1163/ej.9789004163300.i-1081.418

Non-governmental organizations, transnational business associations, private standard-setting bodies, public-private partnerships, and institutionalized incentive schemes now occupy a central place in the regulation and governance of transnational ec... Read More about Advanced Television Systems Committee, Inc.

Supporting the design of network-spanning applications (2009)
Book Chapter
Rennick Egglestone, S., Boucher, A., Rodden, T., Law, A., Humble, J., Greenhalgh, C., & Greenberg, S. (2009). Supporting the design of network-spanning applications. In D. R. Olsen, K. Hinckley, M. R. Morris, & S. Hudson (Eds.), CHI EA '09: proceedings of the 27th international conference extended abstracts on human factors in computing systems. ACM Press

In this case study, we describe our use of ECT, a tool intended to simplify the design and development of network-spanning applications. We have used ECT throughout the course of a two-year collaboration, which has involved individuals with exper... Read More about Supporting the design of network-spanning applications.

Gap Junctions and Emergent Rhythms (2009)
Book Chapter
Coombes, S., & Zachariou, M. (2009). Gap Junctions and Emergent Rhythms. In J. Rubin, K. Josic, M. Matias, & R. Romo (Eds.), Coherent Behavior in Neuronal Networks. Springer

Gap junction coupling is ubiquitous in the brain, particularly between the dendritic trees of inhibitory interneurons. Such direct non-synaptic interaction allows for direct electrical communication between cells. Unlike spike-time driven synaptic ne... Read More about Gap Junctions and Emergent Rhythms.

Model based analysis of fMRI-data: Applying the sSoTS framework to the neural basic of preview search. (2009)
Book Chapter
Mavritsaki, E., Allen, H. A., & Humphreys, G. W. (2009). Model based analysis of fMRI-data: Applying the sSoTS framework to the neural basic of preview search. In L. Paletta, & J. K. Tsotsos (Eds.), Attention in Cognitive Systems : 5th International Workshop on Attention in Cognitive Systems, WAPCV 2008, Fira, Santorini, Greece, May 12, 2008 : revised selected papers. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-00582-4_10

The current work aims to unveil the neural circuits under- lying visual search over time and space by using a model-based analysis of behavioural and fMRI data. It has been suggested by Watson and Humphreys [31] that the prioritization of new stimuli... Read More about Model based analysis of fMRI-data: Applying the sSoTS framework to the neural basic of preview search..

Parcellation of fMRI datasets with ICA and PLS: a data driven approach (2009)
Book Chapter
Ji, Y., Hervé, P.-Y., Aickelin, U., & Pitiot, A. (2009). Parcellation of fMRI datasets with ICA and PLS: a data driven approach. In G.-Z. Yang (Ed.), Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention - MICCAI 2009: 12th International Conference, London, UK, September 20-24, 2009: proceedings. Part 1. Springer

Inter-subject parcellation of functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) data based on a standard General Linear Model (GLM) and spectral clustering was recently proposed as a means to alleviate the issues associated with spatial normalization in... Read More about Parcellation of fMRI datasets with ICA and PLS: a data driven approach.

Exploration of the dendritic cell algorithm with the duration calculus (2009)
Book Chapter
Gu, F., Greensmith, J., & Aickelin, U. (2009). Exploration of the dendritic cell algorithm with the duration calculus. In P. S. Andrews, J. Timmis, N. D. Owens, U. Aickelin, E. Hart, A. Hone, & A. M. Tyrrell (Eds.), Artificial immune systems: 8th international conference, ICARIS 2009, York, UK, August 9-12, 2009: proceedings. Springer

As one of the newest members in Articial Immune Systems (AIS), the Dendritic Cell Algorithm (DCA) has been applied to a range of problems. These applications mainly belong to the eld of anomaly detection. However, real-time detection, a new challeng... Read More about Exploration of the dendritic cell algorithm with the duration calculus.