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Defensive realism and the Concert of Europe (2006)
Journal Article
Rendall, M. (2006). Defensive realism and the Concert of Europe. Review of International Studies, 32(3), https://doi.org/10.1017/S0260210506007145

Why do great powers expand? Offensive realist John Mearsheimer claims that states wage an eternal struggle for power, and that those strong enough to seek regional hegemony nearly always do. Mearsheimer's evidence, however, displays a selection bias.... Read More about Defensive realism and the Concert of Europe.

Qualitative analysis of complex modularized fault trees using binary decision diagrams (2006)
Journal Article
Remenyte-Prescott, R., & Andrews, J. (2006). Qualitative analysis of complex modularized fault trees using binary decision diagrams. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part O: Journal of Risk and Reliability, 220(1), https://doi.org/10.1243/1748006XJRR10

Fault tree analysis is commonly used in the reliability assessment of industrial systems. When complex systems are studied conventional methods can become computationally intensive and require the use of approximations. This leads to inaccuracies in... Read More about Qualitative analysis of complex modularized fault trees using binary decision diagrams.

The spatial character of sensor technology (2006)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Reeves, S., Pridmore, T., Crabtree, A., Green, J., Benford, S., & O'Malley, C. (2006). The spatial character of sensor technology.

By considering the spatial character of sensor-based interactive systems, this paper investigates how discussions of seams and seamlessness in ubiquitous computing neglect the complex spatial character that is constructed as a side-effect of deployin... Read More about The spatial character of sensor technology.

The politics of emergency and the demise of the developing state: problems for humanitarian advocacy (2006)
Journal Article
Pupavac, V. (2006). The politics of emergency and the demise of the developing state: problems for humanitarian advocacy. Development in Practice, 16(3),

This article discusses the dilemmas of humanitarian advocacy in the contemporary world. First the article considers the crisis of humanitarianism within the wider crisis of meaning in international politics which encouraged humanitarian advocacy. Hum... Read More about The politics of emergency and the demise of the developing state: problems for humanitarian advocacy.

Reconstructing post-conflict cultures: a case study of Bosnia (2006)
Book Chapter
Pupavac, V. (2006). Reconstructing post-conflict cultures: a case study of Bosnia. In Post-conflict cultures: rituals of representation. Zoilus Press

Over the last decade tremendous interest has been expressed by international organisations such as UNESCO in the “deep cultural roots” of war. Cultural reform programmes are regarded today as a crucial component of international peace efforts. This c... Read More about Reconstructing post-conflict cultures: a case study of Bosnia.

Discriminating language rights and politics in the post-Yugoslav states (2006)
Journal Article
Pupavac, V. (2006). Discriminating language rights and politics in the post-Yugoslav states. Patterns of Prejudice, 40(2), https://doi.org/10.1080/00313220600634261

Pupavac examines the rise of linguistic human rights advocacy and its approach in a case study of language politics in the post-Yugolav states. A core concern of contemporary linguistic rights advocacy has been to tackle ethnically based discriminati... Read More about Discriminating language rights and politics in the post-Yugoslav states.

Biosecurity and insecurity: the interaction between policy and ritual during the foot and mouth crisis (2006)
Journal Article
Nerlich, B., & Wright, N. (2006). Biosecurity and insecurity: the interaction between policy and ritual during the foot and mouth crisis. Environmental Values, 15(4), https://doi.org/10.3197/096327106779116168

In 2001 a highly infectious animal disease, foot and mouth disease, broke out in the UK and spread rapidly. In May, when the spread seemed to be slowing down, new disease hotspots appeared in previously little affected regions, such as North Yorkshir... Read More about Biosecurity and insecurity: the interaction between policy and ritual during the foot and mouth crisis.

The question of evil and feminist legal scholarship (2006)
Journal Article
Murphy, T., & Whitty, N. (2006). The question of evil and feminist legal scholarship. Feminist Legal Studies, 14(1), https://doi.org/10.1007/s10691-006-9012-3

In this article, we argue that feminist legal scholars should engage directly and explicitly with the question of evil. Part I summarises key facts surrounding the prosecution and life-long imprisonment of Myra Hindley, one of a tiny number of women... Read More about The question of evil and feminist legal scholarship.

A question of definition: feminist legal scholarship, socio-legal studies and debate about law and politics (2006)
Journal Article
Murphy, T., & Whitty, N. (2006). A question of definition: feminist legal scholarship, socio-legal studies and debate about law and politics. Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly, 57(3),

In recent years, debate about the relationship between law and politics appears to have become a good deal more intense in the United Kingdom. As others have observed, one major catalyst for this has been the ascent of human rights in the popular ima... Read More about A question of definition: feminist legal scholarship, socio-legal studies and debate about law and politics.

Capturing User Requirements in Medical Device Development: The Role of Ergonomics (2006)
Journal Article
Martin, J. L., Murphy, E., Crowe, J. A., & Norris, B. J. (2006). Capturing User Requirements in Medical Device Development: The Role of Ergonomics. Physiological Measurement, 27(8), Article R49-R62

Measuring and fulfilling user requirements during medical device development will result in successful products that improve patient safety, improve device effectiveness and reduce product recalls and modifications. Medical device users are an extre... Read More about Capturing User Requirements in Medical Device Development: The Role of Ergonomics.

Internal mammary artery smooth muscle cells resist migration and possess high antioxidant capacity (2006)
Journal Article
Mahadevan, V., Campbell, M., McKeown, P., & Bayraktutan, U. (2006). Internal mammary artery smooth muscle cells resist migration and possess high antioxidant capacity. Cardiovascular Research, 72,

Objective- This study investigated whether differences exist in atherogen-induced migratory behaviors and basal antioxidant enzyme capacity of vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMC)
from human coronary (CA) and internal mammary (IMA) arteries.
Methods-... Read More about Internal mammary artery smooth muscle cells resist migration and possess high antioxidant capacity.

Evaluating Invariances in Document Layout Functions (2006)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Macdonald, A. J., Brailsford, D. F., & Lumley, J. Evaluating Invariances in Document Layout Functions. Presented at 2006 ACM Symposium on Document Engineering

With the development of variable-data-driven digital presses - where each document printed is potentially unique - there is a need for pre-press optimization to identify material that is invariant from document to document. In this way rasterisation... Read More about Evaluating Invariances in Document Layout Functions.

Organizational, systems and human issues in production planning, scheduling and control (2006)
Book Chapter
MacCarthy, B. L. (2006). Organizational, systems and human issues in production planning, scheduling and control. In J. W. Herrmann (Ed.), Handbook of Production Scheduling. Springer

With global markets and global competition, pressures are placed on manufacturing organizations to compress order fulfillment times, meet delivery commitments consistently and also maintain efficiency in operations to address cost issues. This chapte... Read More about Organizational, systems and human issues in production planning, scheduling and control.

BOA for nurse scheduling (2006)
Book Chapter
Li, J., & Aickelin, U. (2006). BOA for nurse scheduling. In M. Pelikan, K. Sastry, & E. Cantú-Paz (Eds.), Scalable optimization via probabilistic modeling: from algorithms to applications. Springer

Our research has shown that schedules can be built mimicking a human scheduler by using a set of rules that involve domain knowledge. This chapter presents a Bayesian Optimization Algorithm (BOA)for the nurse scheduling problem that chooses such suit... Read More about BOA for nurse scheduling.

The development of a mouse model to explore resistance and susceptibility to early Ascaris suum infection (2006)
Journal Article
Lewis, R., Behnke, J. M., Stafford, P., & Holland, C. V. (2006). The development of a mouse model to explore resistance and susceptibility to early Ascaris suum infection. Parasitology, 132(2), https://doi.org/10.1017/S0031182005008978

Ascaris suum and Ascaris lumbricoides exhibit an over-dispersed frequency distribution in their host populations in both the adult and larval stages. The impact of host factors on this observed distribution is still poorly understood and difficult to... Read More about The development of a mouse model to explore resistance and susceptibility to early Ascaris suum infection.

Effort-reward imbalance and sedentary lifestyle: an observational study in a large occupational cohort (2006)
Journal Article
Kouvonen, A., Kivimäki, M., Elovainio, M., Pentti, J., Linna, A., Virtanen, M., & Vahtera, J. (2006). Effort-reward imbalance and sedentary lifestyle: an observational study in a large occupational cohort. Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 63, https://doi.org/10.1136/oem.2005.020974

Objectives: To investigate the association between effort-reward imbalance (ERI) at work and sedentary lifestyle.
Methods: Cross-sectional data from the ongoing Finnish Public Sector Study related to 30 433 women and 7718 men aged 17-64 were used (n... Read More about Effort-reward imbalance and sedentary lifestyle: an observational study in a large occupational cohort.

Helicase binding to DnaI exposes a cryptic DNA-binding site during helicase loading in Bacillus subtilis (2006)
Journal Article
Ioannou, C., Schaeffer, P. M., Dixon, N. E., & Soultanas, P. (2006). Helicase binding to DnaI exposes a cryptic DNA-binding site during helicase loading in Bacillus subtilis. Nucleic Acids Research, 34(18), https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkl690

The Bacillus subtilis DnaI, DnaB and DnaD proteins load the replicative ring helicase DnaC onto DNA during priming of DNA replication. Here we show that DnaI consists of a C-terminal domain (Cd) with ATPase and DNA-binding activities and an N-termina... Read More about Helicase binding to DnaI exposes a cryptic DNA-binding site during helicase loading in Bacillus subtilis.