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Evaluating alternative gait strategies using evolutionary robotics (2004)
Journal Article

Evolutionary robitics is a branch of artificial intelligence concerned with the automatic generation of autonomous robots. Usually the form of the robit is predefined an various computational techniques are used to control the machine's behaviour.... Read More about Evaluating alternative gait strategies using evolutionary robotics.

Lasting lessons about intentional communitites (2004)
Book Chapter

This chapter considers lasting lessons about intentional communities drawn from a survey of over 60 utopian communities in New Zealand.

War on the couch: the emotionology of the new international security paradigm (2004)
Journal Article

The emotional state of war-affected populations has become a central concern for international policy-makers over the last decade. Growing interest in war trauma is influenced by contemporary Anglo-American emotionology, or emotional norms, which ten... Read More about War on the couch: the emotionology of the new international security paradigm.

Psychosocial interventions and the demoralisation of humanitarianism (2004)
Journal Article

Summary: This paper critically analyses from a political sociology standpoint the international conceptualization of war-affected populations as traumatized and in need of therapeutic interventions. It argues for the importance of looking beyond the... Read More about Psychosocial interventions and the demoralisation of humanitarianism.

eLib in Retrospect: A National Strategy for Digital Library Development in the 1990s (2004)
Book Chapter

Self-archiving publications (2004)
Book Chapter

This chapter discusses the historical development, current practice and future prospects of the self-archiving of research papers in open-access repositories (so-called 'e-print archives'). It describes how the development of interoperable e-print re... Read More about Self-archiving publications.

'The mistakes of the past'? Visual narratives of urban decline and regeneration (2004)
Journal Article

Anticipatory Accounts (2004)
Journal Article

C. Wright Mills called for a truly sociological analysis of actors’ “motive talk,” which decouples the commonsense link between the reasons actors give for their actions and their mental state prior to those actions. Subsequent theoretical and empiri... Read More about Anticipatory Accounts.

Correlation of electrical and structural properties of Au contacts to KOH treated n-GaN (2004)
Book Chapter

A correlated current-voltage (I-V), electron beam induced conductivity (EBIC) and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) study of Au contacts to KOH treated n-type GaN is presented. A strong degradation of I-V characteristics occurs following the KO... Read More about Correlation of electrical and structural properties of Au contacts to KOH treated n-GaN.

Scanning electron microscopy of biomaterials (2004)
Book Chapter

A comparison of conventional high vacuum scanning electron microscopy (HVSEM), environmental SEM (ESEM) and confocal laser scanning microscopy (CLSM) in the assessment of cell-material interactions is made. The processing of cells cultured for conven... Read More about Scanning electron microscopy of biomaterials.

Density-dependent effects on the survival and growth of the rodent stomach worm Protospirura muricola in laboratory mice (2004)
Journal Article

The spirurid nematode, Protospirura muricola, is of intrinsic interest as a rodent model of gastric nematode infections. Since worm burdens can be very heavy in nature, density dependent processes may constrain parasite growth. Laboratory mice (BKW)... Read More about Density-dependent effects on the survival and growth of the rodent stomach worm Protospirura muricola in laboratory mice.

'The application of Bayesian Optimization and Classifier Systems in Nurse Scheduling' (2004)
Conference Proceeding

Abstract. Two ideas taken from Bayesian optimization and classifier systems are presented for personnel scheduling based on choosing a suitable scheduling rule from a set for each person's assignment. Unlike our previous work of using genetic algorit... Read More about 'The application of Bayesian Optimization and Classifier Systems in Nurse Scheduling'.

A culture of enquiry: research evidence and the therapeutic community (2004)
Journal Article

The application of tripod polishing and focused ion beam milling to the TEM specimen preparation of HVOF thermally sprayed coatings (2004)
Book Chapter

The microstructure of high velocity oxy fuel thermally sprayed coatings is highly anisotropic and inhomogeneous. Tripod polishing has enabled the preparation of samples with up to 0.5mm diameter electron transparent areas, where a statistically signi... Read More about The application of tripod polishing and focused ion beam milling to the TEM specimen preparation of HVOF thermally sprayed coatings.

Characterisation of dispersions within annealed HVOLF thermally sprayed AlSnCu coatings (2004)
Book Chapter

High velocity oxy-liquid fuel (HVOLF) AlSnCu coatings are characterised following annealing for up to 5 hours at 300°C. A combination of statistical analysis of BSE images and TEM observations demonstrate the decrease in the number of sub-micron and... Read More about Characterisation of dispersions within annealed HVOLF thermally sprayed AlSnCu coatings.

Copro-antigen capture ELISA for the detection of Teladorsagia (Ostertagia) circumcincta in sheep: improvement of specificity by heat treatment (2004)
Journal Article

A copro-antigen capture ELISA for the detection of Teladorsagia circumcincta infection in sheep was developed and evaluated. Experiments with faeces from worm-free sheep, that had been spiked with known concentrations of excretory-secretory (E–S) ant... Read More about Copro-antigen capture ELISA for the detection of Teladorsagia (Ostertagia) circumcincta in sheep: improvement of specificity by heat treatment.

Compiling Exceptions Correctly (2004)
Conference Proceeding

Exceptions are an important feature of modern programming languages, but their compilation has traditionally been viewed as an advanced topic. In this article we show that the basic method of compiling exceptions using stack unwinding can be explain... Read More about Compiling Exceptions Correctly.

Perpetual creativity in the perfection of God: Ibn Taymiyya's Hadith commentary on God's creation of this world (2004)
Journal Article

The course of the Islamic debate over the origin of the world through Ibn Rushd (d. 595/1198) is well known. Kalam theologians and al-Ghazali seek to prove the temporal origination of the world, while philosophers such as Ibn Sina argue for the world... Read More about Perpetual creativity in the perfection of God: Ibn Taymiyya's Hadith commentary on God's creation of this world.

Ageing in a non-heterosexual context. (2004)
Journal Article

There is increasing recognition of the importance of social and cultural differences in shaping the diversity of the ageing experience in contemporary Britain. Various social and cultural factors, such as those associated with class, ethnicity, gend... Read More about Ageing in a non-heterosexual context..

Textkritische Überlegungen zur späten Lyrik Ingeborg Bachmanns (2004)
Book Chapter