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Cross-cultural self-assertion and cultural politics: African migrants' writing in German since the late 1990s (2010)
Journal Article
Göttsche, D. (2010). Cross-cultural self-assertion and cultural politics: African migrants' writing in German since the late 1990s. German Life and Letters, 63(1), https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0483.2009.01482.x

Since the 1980s African migrants’ writing in German has seen significant development, establishing itself as one of the few examples of a German postcolonial literature in the literal sense, undercutting traditional notions of national literatures, a... Read More about Cross-cultural self-assertion and cultural politics: African migrants' writing in German since the late 1990s.

Multiscale modeling of colonic crypts and early colorectal cancer (2010)
Book Chapter
Fletcher, A. G., Mirams, G. R., Murray, P. J., Walter, A., Kang, J. W., Cho, K. H., …Byrne, H. M. (2010). Multiscale modeling of colonic crypts and early colorectal cancer. In T. S. Deisboeck, & G. Stamatakos (Eds.), Multiscale Cancer Modeling (111-131). CRC Press. https://doi.org/10.1201/b10407

© 2011 by Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. Colorectal cancer accounts for 13% of all cancers in the United Kingdom, with around 35,300 new diagnoses and 16,000 deaths occurring each year (http://info.cancerresearchuk.org). Colorectal cancer is predomin... Read More about Multiscale modeling of colonic crypts and early colorectal cancer.

CMOS sensors for imaging blood flow (2010)
Journal Article
Morgan, S., Hayes-Gill, B., & Crowe, J. (2010). CMOS sensors for imaging blood flow. Optics and Photonics News, 21(1), 32-37. https://doi.org/10.1364/OPN.21.1.000032

Smart CMOS sensors can extract parameters of interest from incoming signals at the sensor and therefore overcome the data bottleneck between sensor and processor. This enables full-field laser Doppler blood flow imaging to be obtained at a frame rate... Read More about CMOS sensors for imaging blood flow.

Staging criminality and colonial authority: the execution of thug criminals in British India (2010)
Journal Article
ní Fhlathúin, M. (2010). Staging criminality and colonial authority: the execution of thug criminals in British India. Nineteenth Century Theatre and Film, 37(1), https://doi.org/10.7227/NCTF.37.1.5

This essay examines the spectacular and stage-managed mass executions carried out during the East India Company administration’s campaign against thug criminals during the 1830s. Drawing on Foucault’s concept of the execution as an occasion for the d... Read More about Staging criminality and colonial authority: the execution of thug criminals in British India.

Soldier photography of detainee abuse in Iraq: digital technology, human rights and the death of Baha Mousa (2010)
Journal Article
Whitty, N. (2010). Soldier photography of detainee abuse in Iraq: digital technology, human rights and the death of Baha Mousa. Human Rights Law Review, 10(4), https://doi.org/10.1093/hrlr/ngq041

Digital media technologies provide new opportunities for the recording and publicising of human rights violations. In recent years, soldier photography during military conflicts has become one of the most controversial sources of images of abuse, esp... Read More about Soldier photography of detainee abuse in Iraq: digital technology, human rights and the death of Baha Mousa.

International law, the United Kingdom and decisions to deploy troops abroad (2010)
Journal Article
White, N. D. (2010). International law, the United Kingdom and decisions to deploy troops abroad. International and Comparative Law Quarterly, 59(3), https://doi.org/10.1017/S0020589310000321

Examines the role that international law plays in UK institutions of government when considering the deployment of armed forces to conflict and post-conflict zones. This is put into the context of the debate in the UK about the introduction of a War... Read More about International law, the United Kingdom and decisions to deploy troops abroad.

Real-world transfer of evolved artificial immune system behaviours between small and large scale robotic platforms (2010)
Journal Article
Whitbrook, A., Aickelin, U., & Garibaldi, J. (2010). Real-world transfer of evolved artificial immune system behaviours between small and large scale robotic platforms. Evolutionary Intelligence, 3(3-4), https://doi.org/10.1007/s12065-010-0039-7

In mobile robotics, a solid test for adaptation is the ability of a control system to function not only in a diverse number of physical environments, but also on a number of different robotic platforms. This paper demonstrates that a set of behavi... Read More about Real-world transfer of evolved artificial immune system behaviours between small and large scale robotic platforms.

Da literatura abscondita? ou apontamento liminar sobre Baralha de sonhos: António Gil Hernández leitor de Amado L. Caeiro (2010)
Journal Article
Vidal Bouzon, Á. J. (2010). Da literatura abscondita? ou apontamento liminar sobre Baralha de sonhos: António Gil Hernández leitor de Amado L. Caeiro

Confronting the fact that Amado L. Caeiro’s poetry collection Baralha de sonhos comes framed by the interpretations provided through the accompanying texts authoredb by António Gil Hernández (legal name who fabricated Amado’s as his otherbproper name... Read More about Da literatura abscondita? ou apontamento liminar sobre Baralha de sonhos: António Gil Hernández leitor de Amado L. Caeiro.

Detecting anomalous process behaviour using second generation Artificial Immune Systems (2010)
Journal Article
Twycross, J., Aickelin, U., & Whitbrook, A. (2010). Detecting anomalous process behaviour using second generation Artificial Immune Systems. International Journal of Unconventional Computing, 6(3-4),

Artificial Immune Systems have been successfully applied to a number of problem domains including fault tolerance and data mining, but have been shown to scale poorly when applied to computer intrusion detection despite the fact that the biological i... Read More about Detecting anomalous process behaviour using second generation Artificial Immune Systems.

Bidirectional relighting for 3D-aided 2D face recognition (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Toderici, G., Passalis, G., Zafeiriou, S., Tzimiropoulos, G., Petrou, M., Theoharis, T., & Kakadiaris, I. A. (2010). Bidirectional relighting for 3D-aided 2D face recognition.

In this paper, we present a new method for bidirectional relighting for 3D-aided 2D face recognition under large pose and illumination changes. During subject enrollment, we build subject-specific 3D annotated models by using the subjects' raw 3D dat... Read More about Bidirectional relighting for 3D-aided 2D face recognition.

Understanding cardiac alternans: a piecewise linear modeling framework (2010)
Journal Article
Thul, R., & Coombes, S. (2010). Understanding cardiac alternans: a piecewise linear modeling framework. Chaos, 20, https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3518362

Cardiac alternans is a beat-to-beat alternation in action potential duration (APD) and intracellular calcium (Ca²⁺) cycling seen in cardiac myocytes under rapid pacing that is believed to be a precursor to fibrillation. The cellular mechanisms of the... Read More about Understanding cardiac alternans: a piecewise linear modeling framework.

A combined oxygen and silicon diatom isotope record of Late Quaternary change in Lake El'gygytgyn, North East Siberia (2010)
Journal Article
Swann, G. E., Leng, M. J., Juschus, O., Melles, M., Brigham-Grette, J., & Sloane, H. J. (2010). A combined oxygen and silicon diatom isotope record of Late Quaternary change in Lake El'gygytgyn, North East Siberia. Quaternary Science Reviews, 29(5-6), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2009.11.024

Determining the response of sites within the Arctic Circle to long-term climatic change remains an essential pre-requisite for assessing the susceptibility of these regions to future global warming and Arctic amplification. To date, existing records... Read More about A combined oxygen and silicon diatom isotope record of Late Quaternary change in Lake El'gygytgyn, North East Siberia.

Salinity changes in the North West Pacific Ocean during the late Pliocene/early Quaternary from 2.73 Ma to 2.52 Ma (2010)
Journal Article
Swann, G. E. (2010). Salinity changes in the North West Pacific Ocean during the late Pliocene/early Quaternary from 2.73 Ma to 2.52 Ma. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 297(1-2), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2010.06.035

Recent research has increasingly advocated a role for the North Pacific Ocean in modulating global climatic changes over both the last glacial cycle and further back into the geological record. Here a diatom δ18O record is presented from Ocean Drilli... Read More about Salinity changes in the North West Pacific Ocean during the late Pliocene/early Quaternary from 2.73 Ma to 2.52 Ma.

A comparison of the Si/Al and Si/time wet-alkaline digestion methods for measurement of biogenic silica in lake sediments (2010)
Journal Article
Swann, G. E. (2010). A comparison of the Si/Al and Si/time wet-alkaline digestion methods for measurement of biogenic silica in lake sediments. Journal of Paleolimnology, 44(2), https://doi.org/10.1007/s10933-009-9308-9

Existing techniques for measuring sediment Biogenic Silica (BSi) concentrations rely largely on conventional (Si-only) wet-alkaline digestion methods. Although results have provided detailed palaeoenvironmental information, potential errors can arise... Read More about A comparison of the Si/Al and Si/time wet-alkaline digestion methods for measurement of biogenic silica in lake sediments.

A new penalty term for the BIC with respect to speaker diarization (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Stafylakis, T., Tzimiropoulos, G., Katsouros, V., & Carayannis, G. (2010). A new penalty term for the BIC with respect to speaker diarization.

In this paper we examine a new penalty term for the Bayesian Information Criterion (BIC) that is suited to the problem of speaker diarization. Based on our previous approach of penalizing each cluster only with its effective sample size - an approach... Read More about A new penalty term for the BIC with respect to speaker diarization.

Public perceptions of energy choices: the influence of beliefs about climate change and the environment (2010)
Journal Article
Spence, A., Poortinga, W., Pidgeon, N., & Lorenzoni, I. (2010). Public perceptions of energy choices: the influence of beliefs about climate change and the environment. Energy and Environment, 21(5), https://doi.org/10.1260/0958-305X.21.5.385

Past research has documented high levels of public concern for risks relating to nuclear power, with opposition to nuclear energy particularly being linked with general environmental concern. However recent UK energy policy, and other debates worldwi... Read More about Public perceptions of energy choices: the influence of beliefs about climate change and the environment.

Framing and communicating climate change: the effects of distance and outcome frame manipulations (2010)
Journal Article
Spence, A., & Pidgeon, N. (2010). Framing and communicating climate change: the effects of distance and outcome frame manipulations. Global Environmental Change, 20(4), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2010.07.002

Communications regarding climate change are increasingly being utilised in order to encourage sustainable behaviour and the way that these are framed can significantly alter the impact that they have on the recipient. This experimental study seeks t... Read More about Framing and communicating climate change: the effects of distance and outcome frame manipulations.