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High wintertime particulate matter pollution over an offshore island (Kinmen) off southeastern China: an overview (2010)
Journal Article
Hsu, S. C., Liu, S. C., Tsai, F., Engling, G., Lin, I. I., Chou, C. K. C., Kao, S. J., Lung, S. C. C., Chan, C. Y., Lin, S. C., Huang, J. C., Chi, K. H., Chen, W. N., Lin, F. J., Huang, C. H., Kuo, C. L., Wu, T. C., & Huang, Y. T. (2010). High wintertime particulate matter pollution over an offshore island (Kinmen) off southeastern China: an overview. Journal of Geophysical Research, 115(D17), https://doi.org/10.1029/2009JD013641

Both the Yangtze River Delta (YRD) and the Pearl River Delta (PRD), the two most rapidly developing areas in eastern China, have suffered from serious air pollution, and thus, numerous investigations were devoted to studying these problems. Other are... Read More about High wintertime particulate matter pollution over an offshore island (Kinmen) off southeastern China: an overview.

Improved dynamic lexicographic ordering for multi-objective optimisation (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Castro-Gutierrez, J., Landa-Silva, D., & Moreno-Perez, J. A. Improved dynamic lexicographic ordering for multi-objective optimisation. Presented at Parallel Problem Solving from Nature - PPSN XI, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 6239

There is a variety of methods for ranking objectives in multiobjective optimization and some are difficult to define because they require information a priori (e.g. establishing weights in a weighted approach or setting the ordering in a lexicographi... Read More about Improved dynamic lexicographic ordering for multi-objective optimisation.

TNF and IFN  Synergistically Enhance Transcriptional Activation of CXCL10 in Human Airway Smooth Muscle Cells via STAT-1, NF- B, and the Transcriptional Coactivator CREB-binding Protein (2010)
Journal Article
Clarke, D. L., Clifford, R. L., Jindarat, S., Proud, D., Pang, L., Belvisi, M., & Knox, A. J. (2010). TNF and IFN  Synergistically Enhance Transcriptional Activation of CXCL10 in Human Airway Smooth Muscle Cells via STAT-1, NF- B, and the Transcriptional Coactivator CREB-binding Protein. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 285(38), 29101-29110. https://doi.org/10.1074/jbc.m109.0999952

Asthmatic airway smooth muscle (ASM) expresses interferon-γ-inducible protein-10 (CXCL10), a chemokine known to mediate mast cell migration into ASM bundles that has been reported in the airways of asthmatic patients. CXCL10 is elevated in patients s... Read More about TNF and IFN  Synergistically Enhance Transcriptional Activation of CXCL10 in Human Airway Smooth Muscle Cells via STAT-1, NF- B, and the Transcriptional Coactivator CREB-binding Protein.

CODEA : an agent based multi-objective optimization framework (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Castro-Gutierrez, J., Landa-Silva, D., & Moreno-Perez, J. CODEA : an agent based multi-objective optimization framework. Presented at VII Congreso Espaol sobre Metaheursticas, Algoritmos Evolutivos y Bioinspirados (MAEB 2010)

This work presents CODEA, a COoperative DEcentralized Architecture for Multiobjective Optimization. CODEA is an objectoriented framework that aims at the creation of groups of agents to tackle complex problems by cooperative search. This cooperation... Read More about CODEA : an agent based multi-objective optimization framework.

On the relevance of the mathematics curriculum to young people (2010)
Journal Article
Sealey, P., & Noyes, A. (2010). On the relevance of the mathematics curriculum to young people. Curriculum Journal, 21(3), https://doi.org/10.1080/09585176.2010.504573

In this paper we draw upon focus group data from a large study of learner trajectories through 14-19 mathematics education to think about the notion of relevance in the mathematics curriculum. Drawing on data from three socially distanced sites we e... Read More about On the relevance of the mathematics curriculum to young people.

Modelling office energy consumption: an agent based approach (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Zhang, T., Siebers, P.-O., & Aickelin, U. Modelling office energy consumption: an agent based approach. Presented at 3rd World Congress on Social Simulation (WCSS2010)

In this paper, we develop an agent-based model which integrates four important elements, i.e. organisational energy management policies/regulations, energy management technologies, electric appliances and equipment, and human behaviour, based on a ca... Read More about Modelling office energy consumption: an agent based approach.

Hormone transport (2010)
Book Chapter
Kerr, I. D., Carrier, D. J., & Twycross, J. (2010). Hormone transport. In The Plant Plasma Membrane (379-397). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-13431-9_17

Hormone transport in plants is a fundamental process governing all aspects of plant development. Identification and functional analysis of plasma membrane proteins, which regulate the import and export of plant hormones, is a requirement if we are to... Read More about Hormone transport.

Discrete-event simulation is dead, long live agent-based simulation! (2010)
Journal Article
Siebers, P.-O., Macal, C. M., Garnett, J., Buxton, D., & Pidd, M. (2010). Discrete-event simulation is dead, long live agent-based simulation!. Journal of Simulation, 4(3), 204-210

There has been much discussion about why agent-based simulation (ABS) is not as widely used as discrete-event simulation in Operational Research (OR) as it is in neighbouring disciplines such as Computer Science, the Social Sciences or Economics. To... Read More about Discrete-event simulation is dead, long live agent-based simulation!.

Paper mulberry (Broussonetia papyrifera) as a commensal model for human mobility in Oceania: anthropological, botanical and genetic considerations (2010)
Journal Article
Seelenfreund, D., Clarke, A., Oyanedel, N., Piña, R., Lobos, S., Matisoo-Smith, E., & Seelenfreund, A. (2010). Paper mulberry (Broussonetia papyrifera) as a commensal model for human mobility in Oceania: anthropological, botanical and genetic considerations. New Zealand Journal of Botany, 48(3-4), 231-247. https://doi.org/10.1080/0028825X.2010.520323

Paper mulberry (Broussonetia papyrifera (L.) Vent.) was one of the most widely distributed crop species in prehistoric Oceania, occurring from continental East Asia to the Polynesian islands. Its broad distribution is largely due to human-mediated di... Read More about Paper mulberry (Broussonetia papyrifera) as a commensal model for human mobility in Oceania: anthropological, botanical and genetic considerations.

Localization and Gene Expression of Human β-Defensin 9 at the Human Ocular Surface Epithelium (2010)
Journal Article
Mohammed, I., Suleman, H., Otri, A. M., Kulkarni, B. B., Chen, P., Hopkinson, A., & Dua, H. S. (2010). Localization and Gene Expression of Human β-Defensin 9 at the Human Ocular Surface Epithelium. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science, 51(9), 4677-4682. https://doi.org/10.1167/iovs.10-5334

Purpose: Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) are multifunctional host defense molecules. Human β-defensin 9 (HBD9) has previously been shown to be downregulated during ocular surface (OS) infection or inflammation. Here, the authors aimed to study localiz... Read More about Localization and Gene Expression of Human β-Defensin 9 at the Human Ocular Surface Epithelium.

Optimized reprocessing of documents using stored processor state (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Ollis, J. A., Brailsford, D. F., & Bagley, S. R. Optimized reprocessing of documents using stored processor state. Presented at ACM Symposium on Document Engineering (DocEng '10)

Variable Data Printing (VDP) allows customised versions of material such as advertising flyers to be readily produced. However, VDP is often extremely demanding of computing resources because, even when much of the material stays invariant from one d... Read More about Optimized reprocessing of documents using stored processor state.

Computational study of non-linear great deluge for university course timetabling (2010)
Book Chapter
Obit, J. H., & Landa-Silva, D. (2010). Computational study of non-linear great deluge for university course timetabling. In V. Sgurev, M. Hadjiski, & J. Kacprzyk (Eds.), Intelligent systems: from theory to practice. Springer

The great deluge algorithm explores neighbouring solutions which are accepted if they are better than the best solution so far or if the detriment in quality is no larger than the current water level. In the original great deluge method, the water le... Read More about Computational study of non-linear great deluge for university course timetabling.

Transforming legal aid: access to criminal defence services (2010)
Book
Kemp, V. (2010). Transforming legal aid: access to criminal defence services. Ministry of Justice

With legal aid reform having the potential to change the organisation of criminal defence services a survey of users in the criminal justice system was undertaken. The findings helped to highlight potential barriers to legal advicea and further resea... Read More about Transforming legal aid: access to criminal defence services.

Compiling concurrency correctly: cutting out the middle man (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hu, L., & Hutton, G. Compiling concurrency correctly: cutting out the middle man. Presented at Symposium on Trends in Functional Programming (10th)

The standard approach to proving compiler correctness for concurrent languages requires the use of multiple translations into an intermediate process calculus. We present a simpler approach that avoids the need for such an intermediate language, usin... Read More about Compiling concurrency correctly: cutting out the middle man.

Learning pathway-based decision rules to classify microarray cancer samples (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Glaab, E., Garibaldi, J. M., & Krasnogor, N. Learning pathway-based decision rules to classify microarray cancer samples. Presented at 25th German Conference on Bioinformatics 2010

Despite recent advances in DNA chip technology current microarray gene expression studies are still affected by high noise levels, small sample sizes and large numbers of uninformative genes. Combining microarray data with cellular pathway data by us... Read More about Learning pathway-based decision rules to classify microarray cancer samples.

Self-access language learning in museums: a materials development project (2010)
Journal Article
Cooker, L., & Pemberton, R. (2010). Self-access language learning in museums: a materials development project. Studies in Self-Access Learning Journal, 1(2),

This paper reports on a project carried out at The University of Nottingham to create and evaluate English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) materials with the aim of exploiting the self-access language learning possibilities that museums offer.... Read More about Self-access language learning in museums: a materials development project.

Association between milk yield and serial locomotion score assessments in UK dairy cows (2010)
Journal Article
Archer, S. C., Green, M. J., & Huxley, J. (2010). Association between milk yield and serial locomotion score assessments in UK dairy cows. Journal of Dairy Science, 93(9), https://doi.org/10.3168/jds.2010-3062

This study investigated the effect of lameness, measured by serial locomotion scoring over a 12-mo period, on the milk yield of UK dairy cows. The data set consisted of 11,735 records of test-day yield and locomotion scores collected monthly from 1,4... Read More about Association between milk yield and serial locomotion score assessments in UK dairy cows.

Mathematical modelling of whole chromosome replication (2010)
Journal Article
de Moura, A. P., Retkute, R., Hawkins, M., & Nieduszynski, C. A. (2010). Mathematical modelling of whole chromosome replication. Nucleic Acids Research, 38(17), https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkq343

All chromosomes must be completely replicated prior to cell division, a requirement that demands the activation of a sufficient number of appropriately distributed DNA replication origins. Here we investigate how the activity of multiple origins on e... Read More about Mathematical modelling of whole chromosome replication.

Editorial – Using sexual identity labels to move beyond them (2010)
Journal Article
das Nair, R. (2010). Editorial – Using sexual identity labels to move beyond them. Psychology of Sexualities Section Review, 1(1),

This is the first issue of the Psychology of Sexualities Review. As mentioned in my previous Editorial, this change in name reflects the change made to the Section’s name, following a ballot of the Section’s membership. I trust that the papers in thi... Read More about Editorial – Using sexual identity labels to move beyond them.