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Biological mechanisms of fetal development relating to postnatal growth, efficiency and carcass characteristics in ruminants (2010)
Book Chapter
Brameld, J. M., Greenwood, P. L., & Bell, A. W. (2010). Biological mechanisms of fetal development relating to postnatal growth, efficiency and carcass characteristics in ruminants. In P. L. Greenwood, A. W. Bell, P. E. Vercoe, & G. J. Viljoen (Eds.), Managing the Prenatal Environment to Enhance Livestock Productivity (93-119). Springer Publishing Company. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-3135-8_4

Copyright © International Atomic Energy Agency 2010. All Rights Reserved. Over recent years there has been a lot of interest in the effects of prenatal environment on subsequent development of tissues and the postnatal consequences. In farm animal sp... Read More about Biological mechanisms of fetal development relating to postnatal growth, efficiency and carcass characteristics in ruminants.

Encouraging women's entrepreneurship in the sciences: Women in veterinary medicine (2010)
Book Chapter
Henry, C., Baillie, S., & Treanor, L. (2010). Encouraging women's entrepreneurship in the sciences: Women in veterinary medicine. In P. Wynarczyk, & S. Marlow (Eds.), Innovating Women: Contributions to Technological Advancement: Volume 1 (15-33). Emerald. https://doi.org/10.1108/s2040-7246%282010%290000001007

Purpose – The chapter aims to explore women's entrepreneurship in the sciences, specifically, veterinary medicine, and to highlight future potential. Methodology/approach – Following a review of the extant literature, the chapter employs a single... Read More about Encouraging women's entrepreneurship in the sciences: Women in veterinary medicine.

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.

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.

Reusable learning objects in healthcare education (2010)
Book Chapter
Windle, R., & Wharrad, H. (2010). Reusable learning objects in healthcare education. In A. Bromage, L. Clouder, J. Thistlethwaite, & F. Gordon (Eds.), Interprofessional e-learning and collaborative work: practices and technologies. IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-61520-889-0.ch020

This chapter will review the definition, development and characteristics of reusable learning objects (RLOs) and outline examples of how these resources are meeting the challenges of interprofessional learning. It will discuss the ways in which pedag... Read More about Reusable learning objects in healthcare education.

Case studies of creating reusable inter professional e-learning objects (2010)
Book Chapter
Wharrad, H., & Windle, R. (2010). Case studies of creating reusable inter professional e-learning objects. In A. Bromage, L. Clouder, J. Thistlethwaite, & F. Gordon (Eds.), Interprofessional e-learning and collaborative work: practices and technologies. IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-61520-889-0.ch021

Reusable learning objects can play an important part in enhancing interprofessional learning. They provide flexible support to students of health care and provide an opportunity during the creation process, for interprofessional educators to share kn... Read More about Case studies of creating reusable inter professional e-learning objects.

Building and sustaining collaboration in cross sector e-learning development (2010)
Book Chapter
Timmons, S., Wharrad, H., Vezyridis, P., Randle, J., Lymn, J., & Bath-Hextall, F. (2010). Building and sustaining collaboration in cross sector e-learning development. In A. Bromage, L. Clouder, J. Thistlethwaite, & F. Gordon (Eds.), Interprofessional e-learning and collaborative work: practices and technologies. IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-61520-889-0.ch014

This chapter will focus on the process of building and sustaining collaborative reusable e-learning object development across three educational sectors, Higher Education (HE), the UK National Health Service (NHS) and Further Education (FE) Colleges,... Read More about Building and sustaining collaboration in cross sector e-learning development.

Outcome measurement in cognitive neurorehabilitation (2010)
Book Chapter
Lincoln, N., & das Nair, R. (2010). Outcome measurement in cognitive neurorehabilitation. In D. T. Stuss, G. Winocur, & I. H. Robertson (Eds.), Cognitive neurorehabilitation : evidence and application. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781316529898.008

Introduction: The aim of this chapter is to consider the criteria for selecting outcome measures for evaluating the effects of cognitive neurorehabilitation. The International Classification of Function, Disability and Health (ICF) (World Health Orga... Read More about Outcome measurement in cognitive neurorehabilitation.

Discovering beneficial cooperative structures for the automated construction of heuristics (2010)
Book Chapter
Terrazas, G., Landa-Silva, D., & Krasnogor, N. (2010). Discovering beneficial cooperative structures for the automated construction of heuristics. In Nature inspired cooperative strategies for optimization (NICSO 2010) (89-100). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-12538-6_8

The current research trends on hyper-heuristics design have sprung up in two different flavours: heuristics that choose heuristics and heuristics that generate heuristics. In the latter, the goal is to develop a problem-domain independent strategy to... Read More about Discovering beneficial cooperative structures for the automated construction of heuristics.

From poster to PhD: The evolution of a literature review (2010)
Book Chapter
Dixon, K., & Janks, H. (2010). From poster to PhD: The evolution of a literature review. In M. Walker, & P. Thomson (Eds.), The Routledge Doctoral Supervisor's Companion: Supporting Effective Research in Education and the Social Sciences. Routledge

A literature review evolves. At first the literature constitutes the research, then it is constituted by it. The story of the evolution of the literature review for Kerryn’s research is intertwined with the story of her evolving relationship with Hila... Read More about From poster to PhD: The evolution of a literature review.

The PAVE study (Physical Activity Virtual Education): development of reusable learning objects (RLOs) to enhance nursing students' knowledge and understanding of physical activity (2010)
Book Chapter
Blake, H., & Wharrad, H. (2010). The PAVE study (Physical Activity Virtual Education): development of reusable learning objects (RLOs) to enhance nursing students' knowledge and understanding of physical activity. In G. Baker, J. Falk-Whynes, & A. Sidorovitch (Eds.), Teaching for integrative learning. University of Nottingham. Centre for Integrative Learning

The aim of this project was to design, build and test two sustainable reusable learning objects (RLOs) for physical activity (PA) and provide opportunities to assess changes in knowledge and self-reported behaviour following exposure. The RLOs develo... Read More about The PAVE study (Physical Activity Virtual Education): development of reusable learning objects (RLOs) to enhance nursing students' knowledge and understanding of physical activity.

Behavioural correlation for detecting P2P bots (2010)
Book Chapter
Al-Hammadi, Y., & Aickelin, U. (2010). Behavioural correlation for detecting P2P bots. In Second International Conference on Future Networks, 2010: ICFN '10. IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICFN.2010.72

In the past few years, IRC bots, malicious programs which are remotely controlled by the attacker through IRC servers, have become a major threat to the Internet and users. These bots can be used in different malicious ways such as issuing distri... Read More about Behavioural correlation for detecting P2P bots.

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.

The history of the text of Aristophanes (2010)
Book Chapter
Sommerstein, A. H. (2010). The history of the text of Aristophanes. In G. W. Dobrov (Ed.), Brill's companion to the study of Greek comedy. Brill

An account of the transmission of Aristophanes' text from his own time to the present day.

Scenario analysis, decision trees and simulation for cost benefit analysis of the cargo screening process (2010)
Book Chapter
Sherman, G., Siebers, P., Aickelin, U., & Menachof, D. (2010). Scenario analysis, decision trees and simulation for cost benefit analysis of the cargo screening process. In A. G. Bruzzone, L. Landau, G. G. Cunha, & S. Saetta (Eds.), The International Workshop on Applied Modelling and Simulation: WAMS, Buizos, 2010. COPPE/UFRJ

In this paper we present our ideas for conducting a cost benefit analysis by using three different methods: scenario analysis, decision trees and simulation. Then we introduce our case study and examine these methods in a real world situation. We sh... Read More about Scenario analysis, decision trees and simulation for cost benefit analysis of the cargo screening process.

ExoBuilding: breathing Life into architecture (2010)
Book Chapter
Schnädelbach, H., Glover, K., & Irune, A. A. (2010). ExoBuilding: breathing Life into architecture. In E. Þ. Hvannberg, M. K. Lárusdóttir, A. Blandford, & J. Gulliksen (Eds.), NordiCHI 2010: proceedings of the 6th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, October 16-20, 2010, Reykjavik, Iceland. Reykjavik, Iceland: ACM Press. https://doi.org/10.1145/1868914.1868965

ExoBuilding explores the novel design space that emerges when an individual‟s physiological data and the fabric of building architecture are linked. In its current form ExoBuilding is a tent-like structure that externalises a person‟s physiological d... Read More about ExoBuilding: breathing Life into architecture.