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Trust In Artificial Voices, Ilaria Torre, Jeremy Goslin, Laurence White, Debora Zanatto Apr 2018

Trust In Artificial Voices, Ilaria Torre, Jeremy Goslin, Laurence White, Debora Zanatto

School of Psychology

No abstract provided.


Do Pelagic Grazers Benefit From Sea Ice? Insights From The Antarctic Sea Ice Proxy Ipso25, Katrin Schmidt, Thomas Brown, Simon Belt, Louise Ireland, Kyle W.R. Taylor, Sally Thorpe, Peter Ward, Angus Atkinson Apr 2018

Do Pelagic Grazers Benefit From Sea Ice? Insights From The Antarctic Sea Ice Proxy Ipso25, Katrin Schmidt, Thomas Brown, Simon Belt, Louise Ireland, Kyle W.R. Taylor, Sally Thorpe, Peter Ward, Angus Atkinson

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

No abstract provided.


Social Enterprise And Community Resilience: Examining A Greek Response To Turbulent Times, N Apostolopoulos, R Newbery, M Gkartzios Apr 2018

Social Enterprise And Community Resilience: Examining A Greek Response To Turbulent Times, N Apostolopoulos, R Newbery, M Gkartzios

Plymouth Business School

Using community resilience and institutional entrepreneurship as conceptual lens, the paper explores whether support for social enterprises in non-metropolitan Greece has led to resilient social systems. Whilst drawing on narratives of enabling a bottom-up response to market failure, rather than radical or reformist adaptation, social enterprise may have produced a reluctant and state reliant response which may weaken the resilience of communities to survive continued austerity. The research selected and interviewed 30 social enterprises operating within non-metropolitan Greece during 2016. It contributes to knowledge through a novel framing, which clarifies that social enterprise in Greece remains a top-down governance process …


The Burnsian Palimpsest: Robert Burns In American Cultural Memory, C. 1840-1866, A Sood Apr 2018

The Burnsian Palimpsest: Robert Burns In American Cultural Memory, C. 1840-1866, A Sood

School of Law, Humanities and Social Sciences

Arguably more so than any other eighteenth-century literary figure, the political and popular legacy of Robert Burns has been continually contested, revised and appropriated to various ends. As recently as the 2015 UK General Election, the Scottish branch of the right-wing populist United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP) attempted to win the hearts (if not the minds) of Scottish voters by producing posters emblazoned with lines from Burns’s ‘The Dumfries Volunteers’; while, previously, the opposing Scottish Nationalist Party strategically launched an electoral campaign on the poet’s birthday (Tempest 2005). Contests were also waged over Burns’s presumed political leanings during the 2014 …


2d Recurrent Neural Networks: A High-Performance Tool For Robust Visual Tracking In Dynamic Scenes, G Masala, F Casu, B Golosio, E Grosso Apr 2018

2d Recurrent Neural Networks: A High-Performance Tool For Robust Visual Tracking In Dynamic Scenes, G Masala, F Casu, B Golosio, E Grosso

School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics

© 2017 The Natural Computing Applications Forum This paper proposes a novel method for robust visual tracking of arbitrary objects, based on the combination of image-based prediction and position refinement by weighted correlation. The effectiveness of the proposed approach is demonstrated on a challenging set of dynamic video sequences, extracted from the final of triple jump at the London 2012 Summer Olympics. A comparison is made against five baseline tracking systems. The novel system shows remarkable superior performances with respect to the other methods, in all considered cases characterized by changing background, and a large variety of articulated motions. The …


Impact Of Route And Adequacy Of Nutritional Intake On Outcomes Of Allogeneic Haematopoietic Cell Transplantation For Haematologic Malignancies., Julie Beckerson, Richard M. Szydlo, Mary Hickson, Catriona E. Mactier, Andrew J. Innes, Ian H. Gabriel, Renuka Palanicawandar, Edward J. Kanfer, Donald H. Macdonald, Dragana Milojkovic, Amin Rahemtulla, Aristeidis Chaidos, Anastasios Karadimitris, Eduardo Olavarria, Jane F. Apperley, Jiri Pavlu Mar 2018

Impact Of Route And Adequacy Of Nutritional Intake On Outcomes Of Allogeneic Haematopoietic Cell Transplantation For Haematologic Malignancies., Julie Beckerson, Richard M. Szydlo, Mary Hickson, Catriona E. Mactier, Andrew J. Innes, Ian H. Gabriel, Renuka Palanicawandar, Edward J. Kanfer, Donald H. Macdonald, Dragana Milojkovic, Amin Rahemtulla, Aristeidis Chaidos, Anastasios Karadimitris, Eduardo Olavarria, Jane F. Apperley, Jiri Pavlu

School of Health Professions

BACKGROUND: Allogeneic haematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT) is often associated with poor oral intake due to painful mucositis and gastrointestinal sequalae that occur following a preparative regimen of intensive chemotherapy and/or total body radiation. Although attractive to assume that optimal nutrition improves HCT outcomes, there are limited data to support this. It is also unclear whether artificial nutrition support should be provided as enteral tube feeding or parenteral nutrition (PN). METHODS: We analysed day-100 non-relapse mortality (NRM), incidence of acute graft-versus-host disease (GvHD), acute gastrointestinal GvHD, 5-year survival and GvHD-free/relapse-free survival (GRFS) according to both route and adequacy of nutritional intake …


Structural And Functional Properties Of A Probabilistic Model Of Neuronal Connectivity In A Simple Locomotor Network., A Ferrario, R Merrison-Hort, Sr Soffe, R Borisyuk Mar 2018

Structural And Functional Properties Of A Probabilistic Model Of Neuronal Connectivity In A Simple Locomotor Network., A Ferrario, R Merrison-Hort, Sr Soffe, R Borisyuk

School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics

Although, in most animals, brain connectivity varies between individuals, behaviour is often similar across a species. What fundamental structural properties are shared across individual networks that define this behaviour? We describe a probabilistic model of connectivity in the hatchling Xenopus tadpole spinal cord which, when combined with a spiking model, reliably produces rhythmic activity corresponding to swimming. The probabilistic model allows calculation of structural characteristics that reflect common network properties, independent of individual network realisations. We use the structural characteristics to study examples of neuronal dynamics, in the complete network and various sub-networks, and this allows us to explain the …


Micro-Habitat Distribution Drives Patch Quality For Sub-Tropical Rocky Plateau Amphibians In The Northern Western Ghats, India., Christopher J. Thorpe, Todd R. Lewis, Siddharth Kulkarni, Aparna Watve, Nikhil Gaitonde, David Pryce, Lewis Davies, David T. Bilton, Mairi E. Knight Mar 2018

Micro-Habitat Distribution Drives Patch Quality For Sub-Tropical Rocky Plateau Amphibians In The Northern Western Ghats, India., Christopher J. Thorpe, Todd R. Lewis, Siddharth Kulkarni, Aparna Watve, Nikhil Gaitonde, David Pryce, Lewis Davies, David T. Bilton, Mairi E. Knight

School of Biological and Marine Sciences

The importance of patch quality for amphibians is frequently overlooked in distribution models. Here we demonstrate that it is highly important for the persistence of endemic and endangered amphibians found in the threatened and fragile ecosystems that are the rocky plateaus in Western Maharashtra, India. These plateaus are ferricretes of laterite and characterise the northern section of the Western Ghats/Sri Lanka Biodiversity Hotspot, the eighth most important global hotspot and one of the three most threatened by population growth. We present statistically supported habitat associations for endangered and datadeficient Indian amphibians, demonstrating significant relationships between individual species and their microhabitats. …


The Role Of External Inputs And Internal Cycling In Shaping The Global Ocean Cobalt Distribution: Insights From The First Cobalt Biogeochemical Model, Alessandro Tagliabue, Nicholas J. Hawco, Randelle M. Bundy, William M. Landing, Angela Milne, Peter L. Morton, Mak A. Saito Mar 2018

The Role Of External Inputs And Internal Cycling In Shaping The Global Ocean Cobalt Distribution: Insights From The First Cobalt Biogeochemical Model, Alessandro Tagliabue, Nicholas J. Hawco, Randelle M. Bundy, William M. Landing, Angela Milne, Peter L. Morton, Mak A. Saito

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

©2018. The Authors. Cobalt is an important micronutrient for ocean microbes as it is present in vitamin B 12 and is a co-factor in various metalloenzymes that catalyze cellular processes. Moreover, when seawater availability of cobalt is compared to biological demands, cobalt emerges as being depleted in seawater, pointing to a potentially important limiting role. To properly account for the potential biological role for cobalt, there is therefore a need to understand the processes driving the biogeochemical cycling of cobalt and, in particular, the balance between external inputs and internal cycling. To do so, we developed the first cobalt model …


A Single Fungal Map Kinase Controls Plant Cell-To-Cell Invasion By The Rice Blast Fungus, Wasin Sakulkoo, Miriam Osés-Ruiz, Garcia E Oliveira, Darren M. Soanes, George R. Littlejohn, Christian Hacker, Ana Correia, Barbara Valent, Nicholas J. Talbot Mar 2018

A Single Fungal Map Kinase Controls Plant Cell-To-Cell Invasion By The Rice Blast Fungus, Wasin Sakulkoo, Miriam Osés-Ruiz, Garcia E Oliveira, Darren M. Soanes, George R. Littlejohn, Christian Hacker, Ana Correia, Barbara Valent, Nicholas J. Talbot

School of Biological and Marine Sciences

When the rice blast fungus enters a rice cell, the plasma membrane stays intact, so the rice cell remains viable. The fungus then moves to adjacent cells via plasmodesmata, the plant’s intercellular channels. Sakulkoo et al. used a chemical genetic approach to selectively inhibit a single MAP (mitogen-activated protein) kinase, Pmk1, in the blast fungus. Inhibition of Pmk1 trapped the fungus within a rice cell. Pmk1 regulated the expression of a suite of effector genes involved in suppression of host immunity, allowing the fungus to manipulate plasmodesmal conductance. At the same time, Pmk1 regulated the fungus’s hyphal constriction, which allows …


Thermal Strategies Vary With Life History Stage., Manuela Truebano, Phillip Fenner, Oliver Tills, Simon D. Rundle, Enrico L. Rezende Mar 2018

Thermal Strategies Vary With Life History Stage., Manuela Truebano, Phillip Fenner, Oliver Tills, Simon D. Rundle, Enrico L. Rezende

School of Biological and Marine Sciences

With both global surface temperatures and the incidence and intensity of extreme temperature events projected to increase, the assessment of species' sensitivity to chronic and acute changes in temperature has become crucial. Sensitivity predictions are based predominantly on adult responses, despite the fact that early life stages may be more vulnerable to thermal challenge. Here, we compared the sensitivity of different life history stages of the intertidal gastropod Littorina obtusata using thermal death time curves, which incorporate the intensity and duration of heat stress, and used these to calculate upper critical thermal limits (CTmax) and sensitivity to temperature change (z). …


Restoring Water Quality In The Polluted Turag-Tongi-Balu River System, Dhaka: Modelling Nutrient And Total Coliform Intervention Strategies, Sdw Comber, P Whitehead, G Bussi, Ma Hossain, Et Al Mar 2018

Restoring Water Quality In The Polluted Turag-Tongi-Balu River System, Dhaka: Modelling Nutrient And Total Coliform Intervention Strategies, Sdw Comber, P Whitehead, G Bussi, Ma Hossain, Et Al

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

River water quality in rapidly urbanising Asian cities threatens to damage the resource base on which human health, economic growth and poverty reduction all depend. Dhaka reflects the challenges and opportunities for balancing these dynamic and complex trade-offs which goals can be achieved through effective policy interventions. There is a serious problem of water pollution in central Dhaka, in the Turag-Tongi-Balu River system in Bangladesh with the river system being one of the most polluted in the world at the moment. A baseline survey of water chemistry and total coliforms has been undertaken and shows dissolved oxygen close to zero …


First Records Of The Fish Abudefduf Sexfasciatus (Lacepède, 1801) And Acanthurus Sohal (Forsskål, 1775) In The Mediterranean Sea, I Giovos, G Bernardi, G Romanidis-Kyriakidis, D Marmara, P Kleitou Mar 2018

First Records Of The Fish Abudefduf Sexfasciatus (Lacepède, 1801) And Acanthurus Sohal (Forsskål, 1775) In The Mediterranean Sea, I Giovos, G Bernardi, G Romanidis-Kyriakidis, D Marmara, P Kleitou

School of Biological and Marine Sciences

To date, the Mediterranean Sea has been subjected to numerous non-indigenous species’ introductions raising the attention of scientists, managers, and media. Several introduction pathways contribute to these introduction, including Lessepsian migration via the Suez Canal, accounting for approximately 100 fish species, and intentional or non-intentional aquarium releases, accounting for at least 18 species introductions. In the context of the citizen science project of iSea “Is it alien to you?… Share it”, several citizens are engaged and regularly report observations of alien, rare or unknown marine species. The project aims to monitor the establishment and expansion of alien species in Greece. …


Cooperation Between Nmda-Type Glutamate And P2 Receptors For Neuroprotection During Stroke: Combining Astrocyte And Neuronal Protection, P Vermehren, M Trotman-Lucas, B Hechler, C Gachet, R Evans, C Gibson, R Fern Mar 2018

Cooperation Between Nmda-Type Glutamate And P2 Receptors For Neuroprotection During Stroke: Combining Astrocyte And Neuronal Protection, P Vermehren, M Trotman-Lucas, B Hechler, C Gachet, R Evans, C Gibson, R Fern

More Faculty of Health Research

Excitotoxicity is the principle mechanism of acute injury during stroke. It is defined as the unregulated accumulation of excitatory neurotransmitters such as glutamate within the extracellular space, leading to over-activation of receptors, ionic disruption, cell swelling, cytotoxic Ca2+ elevation and a feed-forward loop where membrane depolarisation evokes further neurotransmitter release. Glutamate-mediated excitotoxicity is well documented in neurons and oligodendrocytes but drugs targeting glutamate excitotoxicity have failed clinically which may be due to their inability to protect astrocytes. Astrocytes make up ~50% of the brain volume and express high levels of P2 adenosine triphosphate (ATP)-receptors which have excitotoxic potential, suggesting that …


Complexity Measures For Quantifying Changes In Electroencephalogram In Alzheimer's Disease, Ali H.Husseen Al-Nuaimi, Emmanuel Jammeh, Lingfen Sun, Emmanuel Ifeachor Mar 2018

Complexity Measures For Quantifying Changes In Electroencephalogram In Alzheimer's Disease, Ali H.Husseen Al-Nuaimi, Emmanuel Jammeh, Lingfen Sun, Emmanuel Ifeachor

School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics

No abstract provided.


Mycobacterium Tuberculosis Infection And Innate Responses In A New Model Of Lung Alveolar Macrophages, Minjeong Woo, Connor Wood, Doyoon Kwon, Kyu Ho Paul Park, György Fejer, Vincent Delorme Mar 2018

Mycobacterium Tuberculosis Infection And Innate Responses In A New Model Of Lung Alveolar Macrophages, Minjeong Woo, Connor Wood, Doyoon Kwon, Kyu Ho Paul Park, György Fejer, Vincent Delorme

School of Biomedical Sciences

No abstract provided.


Implication Of Major Adverse Postoperative Events And Myocardial Injury On Disability And Survival: A Planned Subanalysis Of The Enigma-Ii Trial., Ws Beattie, Et Al Mar 2018

Implication Of Major Adverse Postoperative Events And Myocardial Injury On Disability And Survival: A Planned Subanalysis Of The Enigma-Ii Trial., Ws Beattie, Et Al

Peninsula Medical School

BACKGROUND: Globally, >300 million patients have surgery annually, and =20% experience adverse postoperative events. We studied the impact of both cardiac and noncardiac adverse events on 1-year disability-free survival after noncardiac surgery. METHODS: We used the study cohort from the Evaluation of Nitrous oxide in Gas Mixture of Anesthesia (ENIGMA-II) trial, an international randomized trial of 6992 noncardiac surgical patients. All were =45 years of age and had moderate to high cardiac risk. The primary outcome was mortality within 1 postoperative year. We defined 4 separate types of postoperative adverse events. Major adverse cardiac events (MACEs) included myocardial infarction (MI), …


Using Agent-Based Models To Understand The Role Of Individuals In The Song Evolution Of Humpback Whales ( Megaptera Novaeangliae ), Michael Mcloughlin, Luca Lamoni, Ellen C. Garland, Simon Ingram, Alexis Kirke, Michael J. Noad, Luke Rendell, Eduardo Miranda Mar 2018

Using Agent-Based Models To Understand The Role Of Individuals In The Song Evolution Of Humpback Whales ( Megaptera Novaeangliae ), Michael Mcloughlin, Luca Lamoni, Ellen C. Garland, Simon Ingram, Alexis Kirke, Michael J. Noad, Luke Rendell, Eduardo Miranda

School of Biological and Marine Sciences

Male humpback whales produce hierarchically structured songs, primarily during the breeding season. These songsgradually change over the course of the breeding season, and are generally population specific. However, instances havebeen recorded of more rapid song changes where the song of a population can be replaced by the song of an adjacentpopulation. The mechanisms that drive these changes are not currently understood, and difficulties in tracking individualwhales over long migratory routes mean field studies to understand these mechanisms are not feasible. In order to helpunderstand the mechanisms that drive these song changes, we present here a spatially explicit agent-based model inspiredby …


Zaha Hadid's Penthouse: Gender, Creativity And "Biopolitics" In The Neoliberal Workplace, I Troiani Mar 2018

Zaha Hadid's Penthouse: Gender, Creativity And "Biopolitics" In The Neoliberal Workplace, I Troiani

School of Art, Design and Architecture

This chapter studies and critically examines the practice space inside and outside Zaha Hadid’s penthouse apartment and discusses how her gender, the marketing of her creativity, and her designs can affect architecture’s starchitect “biopolitic.” It presents the story of Hadid’s penthouse in the context of Margaret Thatcher’s neoliberalism and refers to writings on the impact of neoliberalism generally, by Michel Foucault and Wendy Brown, to discuss how architectural production, at the corporate level, ties the body of the architect to an incessant drive for increased marketization through the concept of homo oeconomicus. The chapter argues that the economic man architects …


Lung Macrophage Scavenger Receptor Sr-A6 (Marco) Is An Adenovirus Type-Specific Virus Entry Receptor, Nicole Stichling, Maarit Suomalainen, Justin W. Flatt, Markus Schmid, Martin Pacesa, Silvio Hemmi, Wolfgang Jungraithmayr, Mareike D. Maler, Marina A. Freudenberg, Andreas Plückthun, Tobias May, Mario Köster, György Fejer, Urs F. Greber Mar 2018

Lung Macrophage Scavenger Receptor Sr-A6 (Marco) Is An Adenovirus Type-Specific Virus Entry Receptor, Nicole Stichling, Maarit Suomalainen, Justin W. Flatt, Markus Schmid, Martin Pacesa, Silvio Hemmi, Wolfgang Jungraithmayr, Mareike D. Maler, Marina A. Freudenberg, Andreas Plückthun, Tobias May, Mario Köster, György Fejer, Urs F. Greber

School of Biomedical Sciences

No abstract provided.


Preface, Richard Pemberton, John Summerscales, Jasper Graham-Jones Mar 2018

Preface, Richard Pemberton, John Summerscales, Jasper Graham-Jones

School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics

The marine environment is challenging for traditional engineering materials due to the corrosion of metals or the bio-deterioration of natural materials. Consequently, the use of fiber-reinforced polymer matrix composites in the seas and oceans has grown in diversity of components, the size of structures and production numbers. Composites consistently demonstrate good performance, with many technologies and developments only realized because of their use. This chapter introduces the book, signposts to the topics covered, and briefly considers some of the recent innovations not otherwise included in the text.


Establishment And Long-Term Maintenance Of Primary Intestinal Epithelial Cells Cultured From The Rainbow Trout,Oncorhynchus Mykiss., Laura M. Langan, Stewart F. Owen, Awadhesh N. Jha Mar 2018

Establishment And Long-Term Maintenance Of Primary Intestinal Epithelial Cells Cultured From The Rainbow Trout,Oncorhynchus Mykiss., Laura M. Langan, Stewart F. Owen, Awadhesh N. Jha

School of Biological and Marine Sciences

A novel method for the establishment and long-term maintenance ofex vivocultures from intestinal regions of the rainbow trout,Oncorhynchus mykiss(Walbaum), is reported. Adherence of cells was observed within hours, epithelial island formation recorded at 48 h and rapid proliferation with confluence achieved between 9-14 days. In addition to metabolic characterisation, basic morphology of growing cells was characterised using histology, immunofluorescence, transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and transepithelial electrical resistance (TEER). Regional differences in intestinal ethoxyresorufin-O-deethylase (EROD) and 7-ethoxycoumarin-O-deethylation (ECOD) activities in these primary grown enterocytes were compared following exposure to model inducers [i.e.α-NF,β-NF, B(a)P] which demonstrated significant differences. Regional differences in dietary …


Submesoscale Rossby Waves On The Antarctic Circumpolar Current, John R. Taylor, Scott Bachman, Megan Stamper, Phil Hosegood, Katherine Adams, Jean Baptiste Sallee, Ricardo Torres Mar 2018

Submesoscale Rossby Waves On The Antarctic Circumpolar Current, John R. Taylor, Scott Bachman, Megan Stamper, Phil Hosegood, Katherine Adams, Jean Baptiste Sallee, Ricardo Torres

School of Biological and Marine Sciences

No abstract provided.


Lonb Protease Is A Novel Regulator Of Carotenogenesis Controlling Degradation Of Phytoene Synthase In Haloferax Volcanii, M Cerletti, R Paggi, C Troetschel, Mc Ferrari, Et Al Mar 2018

Lonb Protease Is A Novel Regulator Of Carotenogenesis Controlling Degradation Of Phytoene Synthase In Haloferax Volcanii, M Cerletti, R Paggi, C Troetschel, Mc Ferrari, Et Al

School of Biomedical Sciences

The membrane protease LonB is an essential protein in the archaeon Haloferax volcanii and globally impacts its physiology. However, natural substrates of the archaeal Lon protease have not been identified. The whole proteome turnover was examined in a H. volcanii LonB mutant under reduced and physiological protease levels. LC–MS/MS combined with stable isotope labeling was applied for the identification/quantitation of membrane and cytoplasm proteins. Differential synthesis and degradation rates were evidenced for 414 proteins in response to Lon expression. A total of 58 proteins involved in diverse cellular processes showed a degradation pattern (none/very little degradation in the absence of …


Haloferax Volcanii Proteome Response To Deletion Of A Rhomboid Protease Gene, Mi Costa, M Cerletti, Ra Paggi, C Trötschel, Et Al Mar 2018

Haloferax Volcanii Proteome Response To Deletion Of A Rhomboid Protease Gene, Mi Costa, M Cerletti, Ra Paggi, C Trötschel, Et Al

School of Biomedical Sciences

Rhomboids are conserved intramembrane serine proteases involved in cell signaling processes. Their role in prokaryotes is scarcely known and remains to be investigated in Archaea. We previously constructed a rhomboid homologue deletion mutant (?rhoII) in Haloferax volcanii, which showed reduced motility, increased novobiocin sensitivity, and an N- glycosylation defect. To address the impact of rhoII deletion on H. volcanii physiology, the proteomes of mutant and parental strains were compared by shotgun proteomics. A total of 1847 proteins were identified (45.8% of H. volcanii predicted proteome), from which 103 differed in amount. Additionally, the mutant strain evidenced 99 proteins with altered …


Redefining ‘Clean’ Sand By Integrating Field And Laboratory Data On Mixed Sand–Clay–Eps Rippled-Bed Transport, J Baas, M Baker, J Malarkey, S Bass, A Manning, J Hope, J Peakall, I Lichtman, L Ye, A Davies Mar 2018

Redefining ‘Clean’ Sand By Integrating Field And Laboratory Data On Mixed Sand–Clay–Eps Rippled-Bed Transport, J Baas, M Baker, J Malarkey, S Bass, A Manning, J Hope, J Peakall, I Lichtman, L Ye, A Davies

School of Biological and Marine Sciences

No abstract provided.


A Reinforcement Sensitivity Theory Explanation Of Antisocial Behaviour, Alison M. Bacon, Philip J. Corr, Liam Paul Satchell Mar 2018

A Reinforcement Sensitivity Theory Explanation Of Antisocial Behaviour, Alison M. Bacon, Philip J. Corr, Liam Paul Satchell

School of Psychology

No abstract provided.


The Visual Influence Of Ostracism, M Golubickis, A Sahraie, Ar Hunt, Et Al Mar 2018

The Visual Influence Of Ostracism, M Golubickis, A Sahraie, Ar Hunt, Et Al

School of Psychology

Reflecting the fundamental human need to establish and maintain positive connections with others, it has been suggested that an Ostracism Detection System is sensitized to targets by which one has been ostracized. Evidence supporting the operation of this system has yet to be provided, however. Accordingly, using binocular rivalry to explore attentional processing, here, we considered the extent to which targets previously associated with ostracism dominate visual awareness. Participants initially performed a virtual ball-tossing game (i.e., Cyberball) in which they were “ostracized” or “included” by the other players. Afterwards, the faces of these players were presented together with houses in …


Ecophysiological And Metabolic Responses To Interactive Exposure To Nutrients And Copper Excess In The Brown Macroalga Cystoseira Tamariscifolia, P Celis-Pla, M Brown, A Santillan-Sarmiento, Fl Figueroa Mar 2018

Ecophysiological And Metabolic Responses To Interactive Exposure To Nutrients And Copper Excess In The Brown Macroalga Cystoseira Tamariscifolia, P Celis-Pla, M Brown, A Santillan-Sarmiento, Fl Figueroa

School of Biological and Marine Sciences

Global scenarios evidence that contamination due to anthropogenic activities occur at different spatial-temporal scales, being important stressors: eutrophication, due to increased nutrient inputs; and metal pollution, mostly derived from industrial activities. In this study, we investigated ecophysiological and metabolic responses to copper and nutrient excess in the brown macroalga Cystoseira tamariscifolia. Whole plants were incubated in an indoor system under control conditions, two levels of nominal copper (0.5 and 2.0 µM), and two levels of nutrient supply for two weeks. Maximal quantum yield (Fv/Fm) and maximal electron transport rate (ETRmax) increased under copper exposure. Photosynthetic pigments and phenolic compounds (PC) …


Culturing The Fruits Of The Forest: Realising The Multifunctional Potential Of Space And Place In The Context Of Woodland And/Or Forest Schools, Alun Morgan Mar 2018

Culturing The Fruits Of The Forest: Realising The Multifunctional Potential Of Space And Place In The Context Of Woodland And/Or Forest Schools, Alun Morgan

Plymouth Institute of Education

No abstract provided.