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Sensitivity To Near-Future Co₂ Conditions In Marine Crabs Depends On Their Compensatory Capacities For Salinity Change, Nia M. Whiteley, Coleen C. Suckling, Benjamin J. Ciotti, James Brown, Ian D. Mccarthy, D. Ian, Luis Gimenez, Luis, Chris Hauton, Chris Oct 2018

Sensitivity To Near-Future Co₂ Conditions In Marine Crabs Depends On Their Compensatory Capacities For Salinity Change, Nia M. Whiteley, Coleen C. Suckling, Benjamin J. Ciotti, James Brown, Ian D. Mccarthy, D. Ian, Luis Gimenez, Luis, Chris Hauton, Chris

School of Biological and Marine Sciences

Marine crabs inhabit shallow coastal/estuarine habitats particularly sensitive to climate change, and yet we know very little about the diversity of their responses to environmental change. We report the effects of a rarely studied, but increasingly prevalent, combination of environmental factors, that of near-future pCO2 (~1000 µatm) and a physiologically relevant 20% reduction in salinity. We focused on two crab species with differing abilities to cope with natural salinity change, and revealed via physiological and molecular studies that salinity had an overriding effect on ion exchange in the osmoregulating shore crab, Carcinus maenas. This species was unaffected by elevated CO2, …

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Complete Rhd Next-Generation Sequencing: Establishment Of Reference Rhd Alleles., Wajnat A. Tounsi, Tracey E. Madgett, Neil D. Avent Oct 2018

Complete Rhd Next-Generation Sequencing: Establishment Of Reference Rhd Alleles., Wajnat A. Tounsi, Tracey E. Madgett, Neil D. Avent

School of Biomedical Sciences

The Rh blood group system (ISBT004) is the second most important blood group after ABO and is the most polymorphic one, with 55 antigens encoded by 2 genes, RHD and RHCE This research uses next-generation sequencing (NGS) to sequence the complete RHD gene by amplifying the whole gene using overlapping long-range polymerase chain reaction (LR-PCR) amplicons. The aim was to study different RHD alleles present in the population to establish reference RHD allele sequences by using the analysis of intronic single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and their correlation to a specific Rh haplotype. Genomic DNA samples (n = 69) from blood donors …

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Depth Estimation Based On Pyramid Normalized Cross-Correlation Algorithm For Vergence Control, A Mohamed, Pf Culverhouse, A Cangelosi, C Yang Oct 2018

Depth Estimation Based On Pyramid Normalized Cross-Correlation Algorithm For Vergence Control, A Mohamed, Pf Culverhouse, A Cangelosi, C Yang

School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics

OAPA A depth estimation algorithm based on vergence vision using a mechanical joint attached to two cameras is proposed. A Gaussian pyramid template-matching approach is used to align the view of the slave camera to the fixation point of the master camera. The master camera uses an object detection algorithm to find the target’s centroid and centers it relative to the image coordinates. Then, vergence movement of the slave camera is performed using a pyramid normalized cross-correlation algorithm. Simple geometric triangulation is employed to compute the depth of that target. This proposed method was implemented using an active binocular vision …

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Sherpa: A New Model For Clinical Decision Making In Patients With Multimorbidity, Edmund Jack, Neal Maskrey, Richard Byng Oct 2018

Sherpa: A New Model For Clinical Decision Making In Patients With Multimorbidity, Edmund Jack, Neal Maskrey, Richard Byng

Peninsula Medical School

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Limited Congruence Exhibited Across Microbial, Meiofaunal And Macrofaunal Benthic Assemblages In A Heterogeneous Coastal Environment, Sorcha Cronin-O’Reilly, Joe D. Taylor, Ian Jermyn, A. Louise Allcock, Michael Cunliffe, Mark P. Johnson Oct 2018

Limited Congruence Exhibited Across Microbial, Meiofaunal And Macrofaunal Benthic Assemblages In A Heterogeneous Coastal Environment, Sorcha Cronin-O’Reilly, Joe D. Taylor, Ian Jermyn, A. Louise Allcock, Michael Cunliffe, Mark P. Johnson

School of Biological and Marine Sciences

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Development Of Epibenthic Assemblages On Artificial Habitat Associated With Marine Renewable Infrastructure, E. V. Sheehan, A. Y. Cartwright, M. J. Witt, M. J. Attrill, M. Vural, L. A. Holmes Oct 2018

Development Of Epibenthic Assemblages On Artificial Habitat Associated With Marine Renewable Infrastructure, E. V. Sheehan, A. Y. Cartwright, M. J. Witt, M. J. Attrill, M. Vural, L. A. Holmes

School of Biological and Marine Sciences

No abstract provided.

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Learning To Become A Primary Care Professional: Insights From Threshold Concept Theory., Hilary Neve Oct 2018

Learning To Become A Primary Care Professional: Insights From Threshold Concept Theory., Hilary Neve

Peninsula Medical School

Threshold Concepts are fundamental ideas within a discipline which are transformative, integrative, irreversible and usually troublesome. This article describes the threshold concept framework and discusses how it can offer new insights into how we focus teaching and facilitate learning around these concepts, such as uncertainty. Relevant research from a range of health disciplines are explored to consider which concepts may be critical to thinking and practising effectively in primary care. In addition, it is proposed that threshold concepts may have relevance to the GP recruitment crisis.

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Time-Dependent Effects Of Orientation, Heterogeneity And Composition Determines Benthic Biological Community Recruitment Patterns On Subtidal Artificial Structures, N Hanlon, L Firth, Am Knights Oct 2018

Time-Dependent Effects Of Orientation, Heterogeneity And Composition Determines Benthic Biological Community Recruitment Patterns On Subtidal Artificial Structures, N Hanlon, L Firth, Am Knights

School of Biological and Marine Sciences

Worldwide, coastlines are becoming increasingly hardened by infrastructure in response to population growth, need for space, and coastal protection. Coastal and marine infrastructure (CMI) supports fewer species and lower abundance and diversity than analogous natural rocky habitats, which can alter community composition and ecosystem functioning. Efforts to develop ecological engineering solutions that offset these negative consequences on biodiversity while retaining engineering function abound, but to date few studies have investigated the role of multiple factors simultaneously driving patterns of biotic colonisation. Here, the role of surface heterogeneity, chemical composition and surface orientation was evaluated over a 6-month period. An increase …

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Tick-Borne Pathogens In Ticks And Blood Samples Collected From Camels In Riyadh Province, Saudi Arabia, Abdullah Daria Alanazi, Swaid Abdullah, Chris Helps, Richard Wall, Robert Puschendorf, Samir Abdelkreem Alharbi, Sobhy Abdel-Shafy, Raafat Mohamed Shaapan Oct 2018

Tick-Borne Pathogens In Ticks And Blood Samples Collected From Camels In Riyadh Province, Saudi Arabia, Abdullah Daria Alanazi, Swaid Abdullah, Chris Helps, Richard Wall, Robert Puschendorf, Samir Abdelkreem Alharbi, Sobhy Abdel-Shafy, Raafat Mohamed Shaapan

School of Biological and Marine Sciences

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Dissolution: The Achilles' Heel Of The Triton Shell In An Acidifying Ocean, Ben P. Harvey, Sylvain Agostini, Shigeki Wada, Kazuo Inaba, Jason M. Hall-Spencer Oct 2018

Dissolution: The Achilles' Heel Of The Triton Shell In An Acidifying Ocean, Ben P. Harvey, Sylvain Agostini, Shigeki Wada, Kazuo Inaba, Jason M. Hall-Spencer

School of Biological and Marine Sciences

© 2018 Harvey, Agostini, Wada, Inaba and Hall-Spencer. Ocean acidification is expected to negatively impact many calcifying marine organisms by impairing their ability to build their protective shells and skeletons, and by causing dissolution and erosion. Here we investigated the large predatory "triton shell" gastropod Charonia lampas in acidified conditions near CO2 seeps off Shikine-jima (Japan) and compared them with individuals from an adjacent bay with seawater pH at present-day levels (outside the influence of the CO2 seep). By using computed tomography we show that acidification negatively impacts their thickness, density, and shell structure, causing visible deterioration to the shell …

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Westernmost Record Of The Diamondback Puffer, Lagocephalus Guentheri (Tetraodontiformes: Tetraodontidae) In The Mediterranean Sea: First Record From Greek Waters, P Kleitou, I Giovos, F Tiralongo, N Doumpas, G Bernardi Oct 2018

Westernmost Record Of The Diamondback Puffer, Lagocephalus Guentheri (Tetraodontiformes: Tetraodontidae) In The Mediterranean Sea: First Record From Greek Waters, P Kleitou, I Giovos, F Tiralongo, N Doumpas, G Bernardi

School of Biological and Marine Sciences

On 5th November 2017, a puffer fish specimen was caught in the Aegean Sea. Morphological and molecular analysis identified it as Lagocephalus guentheri. This first record from Greek waters represents the westernmost observation of the species in the Mediterranean Sea. The expansion and establishment of pufferfish species in the basin are discussed, with particular emphasis on the importance of the additional use of molecular analysis for increasing the efficiency in understanding species spread and dynamics.

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Powerful Turbidity Currents Driven By Dense Basal Layers, Charles K. Paull, Peter J. Talling, Katherine L. Maier, Daniel Parsons, Jingping Xu, David W. Caress, Roberto Gwiazda, Eve M. Lundsten, Krystle Anderson, James P. Barry, Mark Chaffey, T O'Reilly, Kurt J. Rosenberger, Jenny A. Gales, Brian Kieft, Mary Mcgann, Steve M. Simmons, Mike Mccann, Esther J. Sumner, Michael A. Clare, Matthieu J. Cartigny Oct 2018

Powerful Turbidity Currents Driven By Dense Basal Layers, Charles K. Paull, Peter J. Talling, Katherine L. Maier, Daniel Parsons, Jingping Xu, David W. Caress, Roberto Gwiazda, Eve M. Lundsten, Krystle Anderson, James P. Barry, Mark Chaffey, T O'Reilly, Kurt J. Rosenberger, Jenny A. Gales, Brian Kieft, Mary Mcgann, Steve M. Simmons, Mike Mccann, Esther J. Sumner, Michael A. Clare, Matthieu J. Cartigny

School of Biological and Marine Sciences

Seafloor sediment flows (turbidity currents) are among the volumetrically most important yet least documented sediment transport processes on Earth. A scarcity of direct observations means that basic characteristics, such as whether flows are entirely dilute or driven by a dense basal layer, remain equivocal. Here we present the most detailed direct observations yet from oceanic turbidity currents. These powerful events in Monterey Canyon have frontal speeds of up to 7.2 m s−1, and carry heavy (800 kg) objects at speeds of ≥4 m s−1. We infer they consist of fast and dense near-bed layers, caused by remobilization of the seafloor, …

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Lesson Study: An Inter-Professional Collaboration Approach For Educational Psychologists To Improve Teaching And Learning, B Norwich, T Fujita, A Adlam, F Milton, A Edwards-Jones Oct 2018

Lesson Study: An Inter-Professional Collaboration Approach For Educational Psychologists To Improve Teaching And Learning, B Norwich, T Fujita, A Adlam, F Milton, A Edwards-Jones

School of Biological and Marine Sciences

This paper describes an innovative use of Lesson Study (LS), an internationally used collaborative approach in which teachers develop their teaching knowledge and practices. It aimed to evaluate how EPs join teachers in LS teams, using working memory and other knowledge to inform the teaching of pupils with learning difficulties. The study uses a case study methodology to evaluate LS teams (three teachers and EP) in a primary, secondary and special school. The findings show how working memory knowledge is used in reviewing and planning research lessons, how the teams interact, including the teachers’ perceived EP contribution to the Lesson …

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Composing With Biomemristors: Is Biocomputing The New Technology Of Computer Music?, Eduardo Reck Miranda, Edward Braund, Satvik Venkatesh Oct 2018

Composing With Biomemristors: Is Biocomputing The New Technology Of Computer Music?, Eduardo Reck Miranda, Edward Braund, Satvik Venkatesh

School of Art, Design and Architecture

Our research concerns the development of biocomputers using electronic components grown out of biological material. This article reports the development of a novel biological memristor and an approach to using such biomemristors to build interactive generative music systems. The memristor is an electronic component regarded as a resistor with memory. After an introduction to harnessing the Physarum polycephalum organism to implement biomemristors, the article presents PhyBox, a biocomputer that uses four biomemristors to generate music interactively. The resistance of a biomemristor varies as a function of the voltage that has passed through it. Music input is represented in terms of …

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Can Transplanting Enhance Mobile Marine Invertebrates In Ecologically Engineered Rock Pools?, Rl Morris, As Martinez, Lb Firth, Ra Coleman Oct 2018

Can Transplanting Enhance Mobile Marine Invertebrates In Ecologically Engineered Rock Pools?, Rl Morris, As Martinez, Lb Firth, Ra Coleman

School of Biological and Marine Sciences

© 2018 Elsevier Ltd The field of eco-engineering has burgeoned in recent years in response to the proliferation of artificial structures. Adding water-retaining features to seawalls has been successful in increasing biodiversity relative to the surrounding structure. Artificial rock pools may not, however, completely mimic natural rock pools. Here, we compared natural colonisation, through dispersal and recruitment, of intertidal mobile species to water-retaining flowerpots on seawalls with that into rock pools. This represents the more usual ‘passive’ approach to eco-engineering where features are built to enhance biodiversity and are allowed to colonise naturally, as opposed to seeding or transplanting organisms …

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Marine Plastics Threaten Giant Atlantic Marine Protected Areas, Dka Barnes, Sa Morley, J Bell, P Brewin, Et Al Oct 2018

Marine Plastics Threaten Giant Atlantic Marine Protected Areas, Dka Barnes, Sa Morley, J Bell, P Brewin, Et Al

School of Biological and Marine Sciences

There has been a recent shift in global perception of plastics in the environment, resulting in a call for greater action. Science and the popular media have highlighted plastic as an increasing stressor [1,2]. Efforts have been made to confer protected status to some remote locations, forming some of the world's largest Marine Protected Areas, including several UK overseas territories. We assessed plastic at these remote Atlantic Marine Protected Areas, surveying the shore, sea surface, water column and seabed, and found drastic changes from 2013-2018. Working from the RRS James Clark Ross at Ascension, St. Helena, Tristan da Cunha, Gough …

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Outstanding Challenges In The Transferability Of Ecological Models, Katherine L. Yates, Phil J. Bouchet, M. Julian Caley, Kerrie Mengersen, Christophe F. Randin, Stephen Parnell, Alan H. Fielding, Andrew J. Bamford, Stephen Ban, A. Márcia Barbosa, Carsten F. Dormann, Jane Elith, Clare B. Embling, Gary N. Ervin, Rebecca Fisher, Susan Gould, Roland F. Graf, Edward J. Gregr, Patrick N. Halpin, Risto K. Heikkinen, Stefan Heinänen, Alice R. Jones, Periyadan K. Krishnakumar, Valentina Lauria, Hector Lozano-Montes, Laura Mannocci, Camille Mellin, Mohsen B. Mesgaran, Elena Moreno-Amat, Sophie Mormede, Emilie Novaczek, Steffen Oppel, Crespo G Ortuño, A. Townsend Peterson, Giovanni Rapacciuolo, Jason J. Roberts, Rebecca E. Ross, Kylie L. Scales, David Schoeman, Paul Snelgrove, Göran Sundblad, Wilfried Thuiller, Leigh G. Torres, Heroen Verbruggen, Lifei Wang, Seth Wenger, Mark J. Whittingham, Yuri Zharikov, Damaris Zurell, Ana M.M. Sequeira Oct 2018

Outstanding Challenges In The Transferability Of Ecological Models, Katherine L. Yates, Phil J. Bouchet, M. Julian Caley, Kerrie Mengersen, Christophe F. Randin, Stephen Parnell, Alan H. Fielding, Andrew J. Bamford, Stephen Ban, A. Márcia Barbosa, Carsten F. Dormann, Jane Elith, Clare B. Embling, Gary N. Ervin, Rebecca Fisher, Susan Gould, Roland F. Graf, Edward J. Gregr, Patrick N. Halpin, Risto K. Heikkinen, Stefan Heinänen, Alice R. Jones, Periyadan K. Krishnakumar, Valentina Lauria, Hector Lozano-Montes, Laura Mannocci, Camille Mellin, Mohsen B. Mesgaran, Elena Moreno-Amat, Sophie Mormede, Emilie Novaczek, Steffen Oppel, Crespo G Ortuño, A. Townsend Peterson, Giovanni Rapacciuolo, Jason J. Roberts, Rebecca E. Ross, Kylie L. Scales, David Schoeman, Paul Snelgrove, Göran Sundblad, Wilfried Thuiller, Leigh G. Torres, Heroen Verbruggen, Lifei Wang, Seth Wenger, Mark J. Whittingham, Yuri Zharikov, Damaris Zurell, Ana M.M. Sequeira

School of Biological and Marine Sciences

Predictive models are central to many scientific disciplines and vital for informing management in a rapidly changing world. However, limited understanding of the accuracy and precision of models transferred to novel conditions (their 'transferability') undermines confidence in their predictions. Here, 50 experts identified priority knowledge gaps which, if filled, will most improve model transfers. These are summarized into six technical and six fundamental challenges, which underlie the combined need to intensify research on the determinants of ecological predictability, including species traits and data quality, and develop best practices for transferring models. Of high importance is the identification of a widely …

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A Control Architecture With Online Predictive Planning For Position And Torque Controlled Walking Of Humanoid Robots, S Dafarra, G Nava, M Charbonneau, N Guedelha, Et Al Oct 2018

A Control Architecture With Online Predictive Planning For Position And Torque Controlled Walking Of Humanoid Robots, S Dafarra, G Nava, M Charbonneau, N Guedelha, Et Al

School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics

A common approach to the generation of walking patterns for humanoid robots consists in adopting a layered control architecture. This paper proposes an architecture composed of three nested control loops. The outer loop exploits a robot kinematic model to plan the footstep positions. In the mid layer, a predictive controller generates a Center of Mass trajectory according to the well-known table-cart model. Through a whole-body inverse kinematics algorithm, we can define joint references for position controlled walking. The outcomes of these two loops are then interpreted as inputs of a stack-of-task QP-based torque controller, which represents the inner loop of …

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Determination Of Kinetic Parameters And Metabolic Modes Using The Chemostat, R Boden, L Hutt Oct 2018

Determination Of Kinetic Parameters And Metabolic Modes Using The Chemostat, R Boden, L Hutt

School of Biological and Marine Sciences

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Anodised Tio2 Nanotubes As A Scaffold For Antibacterial Silver Nanoparticles On Titanium Implants, Uf Gunputh, H Le, Rd Handy, C Tredwin Oct 2018

Anodised Tio2 Nanotubes As A Scaffold For Antibacterial Silver Nanoparticles On Titanium Implants, Uf Gunputh, H Le, Rd Handy, C Tredwin

School of Biological and Marine Sciences

No abstract provided.

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The Role Of Alkalinity In Setting Water Quality Metrics: Phosphorus Standards In United Kingdom Rivers., Alan D. Tappin, Alba Navarro-Rodriguez, S. D.W. Comber, Paul J. Worsfold Oct 2018

The Role Of Alkalinity In Setting Water Quality Metrics: Phosphorus Standards In United Kingdom Rivers., Alan D. Tappin, Alba Navarro-Rodriguez, S. D.W. Comber, Paul J. Worsfold

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

UK implementation of the European Union Water Framework Directive (for the 2015-2021 cycle) Ecological Status (ES) classification for river phosphorus is based on the calculation of reference conditions for reactive phosphorus (RP) using river alkalinity measurements. Underpinning this approach is that the alkalinity is primarily from rock weathering and is free of anthropogenic influences. However, the potential contribution of anthropogenic alkalinity needs to be considered and, if possible, quantified. In the rural South West River Basin District of England, 38 river sites were examined with respect to river alkalinity loads in order to test this consideration. At river base flow …

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Representational Fluidity In Embodied (Artificial) Cognition, D Windridge, S Thill Oct 2018

Representational Fluidity In Embodied (Artificial) Cognition, D Windridge, S Thill

School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics

Theories of embodied cognition agree that the body plays some role in human cognition, but disagree on the precise nature of this role. While it is (together with the environment) fundamentally engrained in the so-called 4E (or multi-E) cognition stance, there also exists interpretations wherein the body is merely an input/output interface for cognitive processes that are entirely computational. In the present paper, we show that even if one takes such a strong computationalist position, the role of the body must be more than an interface to the world. To achieve human cognition, the computational mechanisms of a cognitive agent …

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Antibiotics From Deep-Sea Microorganisms: Current Discoveries And Perspectives, Emiliana Tortorella, Pietro Tedesco, Esposito F Palma, Grant Garren January, Renato Fani, Marcel Jaspars, Pascale D De Sep 2018

Antibiotics From Deep-Sea Microorganisms: Current Discoveries And Perspectives, Emiliana Tortorella, Pietro Tedesco, Esposito F Palma, Grant Garren January, Renato Fani, Marcel Jaspars, Pascale D De

School of Biomedical Sciences

The increasing emergence of new forms of multidrug resistance among human pathogenic bacteria, coupled with the consequent increase of infectious diseases, urgently requires the discovery and development of novel antimicrobial drugs with new modes of action. Most of the antibiotics currently available on the market were obtained from terrestrial organisms or derived semisynthetically from fermentation products. The isolation of microorganisms from previously unexplored habitats may lead to the discovery of lead structures with antibiotic activity. The deep-sea environment is a unique habitat, and deep-sea microorganisms, because of their adaptation to this extreme environment, have the potential to produce novel secondary …

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A Controlled Study On The Characterisation Of Bioaerosols Emissions From Compost, Zaheer Ahmad Nasir, Catherine Rolph, Samuel Collins, David Stevenson, Toni L. Gladding, Enda Hayes, Ben Williams, Shagun Khera, Simon Jackson, Allan Bennett, Simon Parks, Robert P. Kinnersley, Kerry Walsh, Simon J.T. Pollard, Gillian Drew, Sonia Garcia Alcega, Frederic Coulon, Sean Tyrrel Sep 2018

A Controlled Study On The Characterisation Of Bioaerosols Emissions From Compost, Zaheer Ahmad Nasir, Catherine Rolph, Samuel Collins, David Stevenson, Toni L. Gladding, Enda Hayes, Ben Williams, Shagun Khera, Simon Jackson, Allan Bennett, Simon Parks, Robert P. Kinnersley, Kerry Walsh, Simon J.T. Pollard, Gillian Drew, Sonia Garcia Alcega, Frederic Coulon, Sean Tyrrel

School of Biomedical Sciences

Bioaerosol emissions arising from biowaste treatment are an issue of public concern. To better characterise the bioaerosols, and to assess a range of measurement methods, we aerosolised green waste compost under controlled conditions. Viable and non-viable Andersen samplers, cyclone samplers and a real time bioaerosol detection system (Spectral Intensity Bioaerosol Sensor (SIBS)) were deployed simultaneously. The number-weighted fraction of fluorescent particles was in the range 22–26% of all particles for low and high emission scenarios. Overall fluorescence spectral profiles seen by the SIBS exhibited several peaks across the 16 wavelength bands from 298 to 735 nm. The size-fractionated endotoxin profile …

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Public Health And Well-Being Innovation In The Natural Environment Sector: Lessons From The Uk And Finland, J Tredinnick-Rowe, T Taylor, A Tuohino Sep 2018

Public Health And Well-Being Innovation In The Natural Environment Sector: Lessons From The Uk And Finland, J Tredinnick-Rowe, T Taylor, A Tuohino

Peninsula Medical School

Thirty-one ethnographic interviews were conducted with health and well-being sector businesses to examine the dynamics of innovation in the UK (Cornwall) and across Finland. The Nordic countries are at the leading edge of these types of public health nature-based interventions, consequently, Finland was chosen as a comparator to the UK. We found that the construction of natural environment based services for health and well-being follows a five-step model: (1) Services are specifically designed for individuals’ needs; (2) These services are based around routine behaviours of that individual and their personal and social habits; (3) This creates a process of normalisation …

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North Devon Marine Pioneer, Links Between The Ecosystem And Ecosystem Services In The North Devon Marine Pioneer, S Rees, M Ashley, A Cameron Sep 2018

North Devon Marine Pioneer, Links Between The Ecosystem And Ecosystem Services In The North Devon Marine Pioneer, S Rees, M Ashley, A Cameron

School of Biological and Marine Sciences

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Attitudes Toward Presidential Candidates In The 2012 And 2016 American Elections: Cognitive Ability And Support For Trump, Y Ganzach, Y Hanoch, B Choma Sep 2018

Attitudes Toward Presidential Candidates In The 2012 And 2016 American Elections: Cognitive Ability And Support For Trump, Y Ganzach, Y Hanoch, B Choma

School of Psychology

Using data from the American National Election Studies, we investigated the relationship between cognitive ability and attitudes toward and actual voting for presidential candidates in the 2012 and 2016 U.S. presidential elections (i.e., Romney, Obama, Trump, and Clinton). Isolating this relationship from competing relationships, results showed that verbal ability was a significant negative predictor of support and voting for Trump (but not Romney) and a positive predictor of support and voting for Obama and Clinton. By comparing within and across the election years, our analyses revealed the nature of support for Trump, including that support for Trump was better predicted …

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Ecological Priming Of Artificial Aquaculture Structures: Kelp Farms As An Example, Am Walls, Md Edwards, Lb Firth, Mp Johnson Sep 2018

Ecological Priming Of Artificial Aquaculture Structures: Kelp Farms As An Example, Am Walls, Md Edwards, Lb Firth, Mp Johnson

School of Biological and Marine Sciences

Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 2018. The continued development of the aquaculture industry is contributing to the proliferation of artificial structures in the marine environment. Observations of seaweed farms (infrastructure and biomass) suggest they act as a habitat for associated species. Seaweed farms differ from other forms of artificial infrastructure as the material deployed already has marine organisms (i.e. culture species) growing on it. This 'priming' of ropes with juvenile sporophytes may affect future development of communities by facilitating colonizing species or suppressing competitors. We call this process 'ecological priming': the provision of a biological platform …

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Sources Of Airborne Endotoxins In Ambient Air And Exposure Of Nearby Communities—A Review, Catherine A. Rolph, Ceri L. Gwyther, Sean F. Tyrrel, Zaheer A. Nasir, Gillian H. Drew, Simon K. Jackson, Shagun Khera, Enda T. Hayes, Ben Williams, Allan Bennett, Samuel Collins, Kerry Walsh, Rob Kinnersley, Toni L. Gladding Sep 2018

Sources Of Airborne Endotoxins In Ambient Air And Exposure Of Nearby Communities—A Review, Catherine A. Rolph, Ceri L. Gwyther, Sean F. Tyrrel, Zaheer A. Nasir, Gillian H. Drew, Simon K. Jackson, Shagun Khera, Enda T. Hayes, Ben Williams, Allan Bennett, Samuel Collins, Kerry Walsh, Rob Kinnersley, Toni L. Gladding

School of Biomedical Sciences

Endotoxin is a bioaerosol component that is known to cause respiratory effects in exposed populations. To date, most research focused on occupational exposure, whilst much less is known about the impact of emissions from industrial operations on downwind endotoxin concentrations. A review of the literature was undertaken, identifying studies that reported endotoxin concentrations in both ambient environments and around sources with high endotoxin emissions. Ambient endotoxin concentrations in both rural and urban areas are generally below 10 endotoxin units (EU) m−3; however, around significant sources such as compost facilities, farms, and wastewater treatment plants, endotoxin concentrations regularly exceeded 100 EU …

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Physiological And Behavioral Plasticity Of The Sea Cucumber Holothuria Forskali (Echinodermata, Holothuroidea) To Acidified Seawater, Xiutang Yuan, Sophie J. Mccoy, Yongfen Du, Stephen Widdicombe, Jason M. Hall-Spencer Sep 2018

Physiological And Behavioral Plasticity Of The Sea Cucumber Holothuria Forskali (Echinodermata, Holothuroidea) To Acidified Seawater, Xiutang Yuan, Sophie J. Mccoy, Yongfen Du, Stephen Widdicombe, Jason M. Hall-Spencer

School of Biological and Marine Sciences

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