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The Protection of Age and Disability Rights in the Regulation of Digital Television in the European Union (2008)
Journal Article

This article questions the extent to which the regulatory framework for electronic communications in the European Union safeguards the rights of elderly people and disabled people in the digital television (DTV) sector and seeks to determine whether... Read More about The Protection of Age and Disability Rights in the Regulation of Digital Television in the European Union.

Disability Rights in the Communications Sector: An Examination of Digital Television Regulation in the United Kingdom (2008)
Journal Article

Effective access to information is crucial in facilitating the participation of citizens in civic society. While digital technology has brought significant benefits (e.g. an increased number of channels, superior quality of image and sound), techno... Read More about Disability Rights in the Communications Sector: An Examination of Digital Television Regulation in the United Kingdom.

Roots/Routes: Part II (2008)
Journal Article

This narrative acts as an articulation of a journey of many routes. Following Part I of the same research journey of rootedness/routedness, it debates the nature of transformation and transcendence beyond personal and political paradoxes informed by... Read More about Roots/Routes: Part II.

A component based heuristic search method with evolutionary eliminations for hospital personnel scheduling (2008)
Journal Article

Nurse rostering is a complex scheduling problem that affects hospital personnel on a daily basis all over the world. This paper presents a new component-based approach with evolutionary eliminations for a nurse scheduling problem arising at a major U... Read More about A component based heuristic search method with evolutionary eliminations for hospital personnel scheduling.

The evolution of conifolds (2008)
Journal Article

We simulate the gravitational dynamics of the conifold geometries (resolved and deformed) involved in the description of certain compact spacetimes. As the cycles of the conifold collapse towards a singular geometry we find that a horizon develops, s... Read More about The evolution of conifolds.

Functional Characterization of AasP, a Maturation Protease Autotransporter Protein of Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae (2008)
Journal Article

Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae is the etiological agent of porcine pleuropneumonia, a highly contagious respiratory infection in pigs. AasP, a putative subtilisin-like serine protease autotransporter, has recently been identified in A. pleuropneumon... Read More about Functional Characterization of AasP, a Maturation Protease Autotransporter Protein of Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae.

Genetic diversity analysis and single-nucleotide polymorphism marker development in cultivated bulb onion based on expressed sequence tag-simple sequence repeat markers (2008)
Journal Article

Bulb onion (Allium cepa L.) is a globally significant crop, but the structure of genetic variation within and among populations is poorly understood. We broadly surveyed genetic variation in a cultivated onion germplasm using simple sequence repeat (... Read More about Genetic diversity analysis and single-nucleotide polymorphism marker development in cultivated bulb onion based on expressed sequence tag-simple sequence repeat markers.

Do humans prefer altruistic mates? Testing a link between sexual selection and altruism towards non-relatives (2008)
Journal Article

Humans are often seen as unusual in displaying altruistic behaviour towards nonrelatives. Here we outline and test a hypothesis that human altruistic traits evolved as a result of sexual selection. We develop a psychometric scale to measure mate pref... Read More about Do humans prefer altruistic mates? Testing a link between sexual selection and altruism towards non-relatives.

Identifying need in care homes for people with dementia: The relationship between two standard assessment tools (2008)
Journal Article

Considerable effort has been invested in improving assessment processes for older people, some of the most vulnerable of whom live in care homes. The paper compares two well-known assessment tools used in care homes, the CANE and the Minimum Data Set... Read More about Identifying need in care homes for people with dementia: The relationship between two standard assessment tools.

Fusarium langsethiae pathogenicity and aggressiveness towards oats and wheat in wounded and unwounded in vitro detached leaf assays (2008)
Journal Article

In vitro detached leaf assays involving artificial inoculation of wounded and unwounded oat and wheat leaves were used to investigate the potential pathogenicity and aggressiveness of F. langsethiae, which was linked recently to the production of typ... Read More about Fusarium langsethiae pathogenicity and aggressiveness towards oats and wheat in wounded and unwounded in vitro detached leaf assays.