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Trace Elements In Fragments Of Fishing Net And Other Filamentous Plastic Litter From Two Beaches In Sw England, Andrew Turner Jan 2017

Trace Elements In Fragments Of Fishing Net And Other Filamentous Plastic Litter From Two Beaches In Sw England, Andrew Turner

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

No abstract provided.


In Situ Determination Of Trace Elements In Fucus Spp. By Field-Portable-Xrf, Andrew Turner, Hiu Poon, Alex Taylor, Murray T. Brown Jan 2017

In Situ Determination Of Trace Elements In Fucus Spp. By Field-Portable-Xrf, Andrew Turner, Hiu Poon, Alex Taylor, Murray T. Brown

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

No abstract provided.


Identification Of The Direct Regulon Of Ntca During Early Acclimation To Nitrogen Starvation In The Cyanobacterium Synechocystis Sp. Pcc 6803., Joaquín Giner-Lamia, Rocío Robles-Rengel, Miguel A. Hernández-Prieto, Mi Muro-Pastor, Francisco J. Florencio, Matthias E. Futschik Jan 2017

Identification Of The Direct Regulon Of Ntca During Early Acclimation To Nitrogen Starvation In The Cyanobacterium Synechocystis Sp. Pcc 6803., Joaquín Giner-Lamia, Rocío Robles-Rengel, Miguel A. Hernández-Prieto, Mi Muro-Pastor, Francisco J. Florencio, Matthias E. Futschik

School of Biomedical Sciences

In cyanobacteria, nitrogen homeostasis is maintained by an intricate regulatory network around transcription factor NtcA. Although mechanisms controlling NtcA activity appear to be well understood, its regulon remains poorly defined. To determine the NtcA regulon during the early stages of nitrogen starvation for the model cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803, we performed chromatin immunoprecipitation, followed by sequencing (ChIP-seq), in parallel with transcriptome analysis (RNA-seq). Through combining these methods, we determined 51 genes activated and 28 repressed directly by NtcA. In addition to genes associated with nitrogen and carbon metabolism, a considerable number of genes without current functional annotation were among …


Life Cycle Assessment Of The Environmental Performance Of Conventional And Organic Methods Of Open Field Pepper Cultivation System, Efthalia Chatzisymeon, Spyros Foteinis, Alistair G.L. Borthwick Jan 2017

Life Cycle Assessment Of The Environmental Performance Of Conventional And Organic Methods Of Open Field Pepper Cultivation System, Efthalia Chatzisymeon, Spyros Foteinis, Alistair G.L. Borthwick

School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics

No abstract provided.


Environmental Impact Assessments Of The Xiaolangdi Reservoir On The Most Hyperconcentrated Laden River, Yellow River, China, Dongxian Kong, Chiyuan Miao, Jingwen Wu, Alistair G.L. Borthwick, Qingyun Duan, Xiaoming Zhang Jan 2017

Environmental Impact Assessments Of The Xiaolangdi Reservoir On The Most Hyperconcentrated Laden River, Yellow River, China, Dongxian Kong, Chiyuan Miao, Jingwen Wu, Alistair G.L. Borthwick, Qingyun Duan, Xiaoming Zhang

School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics

No abstract provided.


Electrochemical Oxidation Of Thallium (I) In Groundwater By Employing Single-Chamber Microbial Fuel Cells As Renewable Power Sources, Caixing Tian, Baogang Zhang, Alistair G.L. Borthwick, Yunlong Li, Wen Liu Jan 2017

Electrochemical Oxidation Of Thallium (I) In Groundwater By Employing Single-Chamber Microbial Fuel Cells As Renewable Power Sources, Caixing Tian, Baogang Zhang, Alistair G.L. Borthwick, Yunlong Li, Wen Liu

School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics

No abstract provided.


Nutritional Aspects Of Commercially Prepared Infant Foods In Developed Countries: A Narrative Review, Kate Maslin, Carina Venter Jan 2017

Nutritional Aspects Of Commercially Prepared Infant Foods In Developed Countries: A Narrative Review, Kate Maslin, Carina Venter

School of Nursing and Midwifery

AbstractNutritional intake during infancy is a critical aspect of child development and health that is of significant public health concern. Although there is extensive research on breast-feeding and timing of solid food introduction, there is less evidence on types of solid foods fed to infants, specifically commercially prepared infant foods. The consumption of commercially prepared infant foods is very prevalent in many developed countries, exceeding the consumption of homemade foods in some situations. Although these food products may have practical advantages, there are concerns about their nutritional composition, sweet taste, bioavailability of micronutrients, diversity of ingredients and long-term health effects. …


Metabolic And Reproductive Plasticity Of Core And Marginal Populations Of The Eurythermic Saline Water Bug Sigara Selecta (Hemiptera: Corixidae) In A Climate Change Context, J. A. Carbonell, D. T. Bilton, P. Calosi, A. Millán, A. Stewart, J. Velasco Jan 2017

Metabolic And Reproductive Plasticity Of Core And Marginal Populations Of The Eurythermic Saline Water Bug Sigara Selecta (Hemiptera: Corixidae) In A Climate Change Context, J. A. Carbonell, D. T. Bilton, P. Calosi, A. Millán, A. Stewart, J. Velasco

School of Biological and Marine Sciences

No abstract provided.


A Sense Of The Cycling Environment: Felt Experiences Of Infrastructure And Atmospheres, Paul Simpson Jan 2017

A Sense Of The Cycling Environment: Felt Experiences Of Infrastructure And Atmospheres, Paul Simpson

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

This paper explores how cyclists gain a sense of the environments they move through by considering their felt experiences of the affective atmospheres that emerge in and through their movements. More specifically, the focus falls upon how various forms of transport infrastructure choreograph bodies in their movements through the city and so contributes towards the co-production of various affective atmospheres between differently mobile bodies. Drawing on video interviews with 24 commuter cyclists in Plymouth, UK, the roles that such infrastructures and atmospheres play in shaping the experience of cycling through shared forms of transport space are considered. Based on this, …


Innovative Tidal Notch Detection Using Tls And Fuzzy Logic: Implications For Palaeo-Shorelines From Compressional (Crete) And Extensional (Gulf Of Corinth) Tectonic Settings, S. Schneiderwind, S. J. Boulton, I. Papanikolaou, K. Reicherter Jan 2017

Innovative Tidal Notch Detection Using Tls And Fuzzy Logic: Implications For Palaeo-Shorelines From Compressional (Crete) And Extensional (Gulf Of Corinth) Tectonic Settings, S. Schneiderwind, S. J. Boulton, I. Papanikolaou, K. Reicherter

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

No abstract provided.


Sea-Ice Dynamics In An Arctic Coastal Polynya During The Past 6500 Years, J Knies, I Pathirana, P Cabedo-Sanz, A Banica, K Fabian, Tl Rasmussen, M Forwick, St Belt Jan 2017

Sea-Ice Dynamics In An Arctic Coastal Polynya During The Past 6500 Years, J Knies, I Pathirana, P Cabedo-Sanz, A Banica, K Fabian, Tl Rasmussen, M Forwick, St Belt

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

The production of high-salinity brines during sea-ice freezing in circum-arctic coastal polynyas is thought to be part of northern deep water formation as it supplies additional dense waters to the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation system. To better predict the effect of possible future summer ice-free conditions in the Arctic Ocean on global climate, it is important to improve our understanding of how climate change has affected sea-ice and brine formation, and thus finally dense water formation during the past. Here, we show temporal coherence between sea-ice conditions in a key Arctic polynya (Storfjorden, Svalbard) and patterns of deep water convection …


The Effect Of Wastewater Effluent Derived Ligands On Copper And Zinc Complexation, C. Constantino, S. D.W. Comber, M. D. Scrimshaw Jan 2017

The Effect Of Wastewater Effluent Derived Ligands On Copper And Zinc Complexation, C. Constantino, S. D.W. Comber, M. D. Scrimshaw

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

No abstract provided.


Numerical Modeling Of Tidal Notch Sequences On Rocky Coasts Of The Mediterranean Basin, S. Schneiderwind, S. J. Boulton, I. Papanikolaou, M. Kázmér, K. Reicherter Jan 2017

Numerical Modeling Of Tidal Notch Sequences On Rocky Coasts Of The Mediterranean Basin, S. Schneiderwind, S. J. Boulton, I. Papanikolaou, M. Kázmér, K. Reicherter

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

AbstractTidal notches have had the potential to form at sea level from ~6.5 kyr B.P. in the Mediterranean Basin and preserve a symmetrical shape comparable to a quadric polynomial. Continuous erosion, predominantly by biological agents, affects a limestone cliff face from low‐ to high‐tide level at <1 mm/yr. Statically determined, the roots of a quadric polynomial are defined by the tidal range representing the limits of effective erosion. However, gradual variations of eustatic sea level rise (slow) and coseismic uplift/subsidence (fast) in tectonically active regions contribute to vertical shifts in the erosional base at coastlines. As a consequence, the cliff morphology gets modified through time resulting in widening, deepening, and separation of notches and possible overprinting of older features. In order to investigate successive modifications of coastal cliff morphology, we developed a numerical model that considers the erosion rate, the erosion zone relative to sea level, the regional sea level curve, and tectonic motion. The results show how slow and rapid sea level changes bias the modern cliff face and highlight that the present‐day notch sequence from top descending to sea level is not inevitably of decreasing age. Furthermore, the initiation of notch formation is not necessarily linked to the date of a certain seismic event. Especially in extensional tectonic settings where coseismic uplift is low and coastal morphological marks are not as distinct, knowledge about coastal evolution is beneficial for paleoseismological research.


Coupled Changes Between The H-Print Biomarker And Delta N-15 Indicates A Variable Sea Ice Carbon Contribution To The Diet Of Cumberland Sound Beluga Whales, T. A. Brown, E. Chrystal, S. H. Ferguson, D. J. Yurkowski, C. Watt, N. E. Hussey, T. C. Kelley, S. T. Belt Jan 2017

Coupled Changes Between The H-Print Biomarker And Delta N-15 Indicates A Variable Sea Ice Carbon Contribution To The Diet Of Cumberland Sound Beluga Whales, T. A. Brown, E. Chrystal, S. H. Ferguson, D. J. Yurkowski, C. Watt, N. E. Hussey, T. C. Kelley, S. T. Belt

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

No abstract provided.


Resolving Discrepancies Between Field And Modelled Relative Sea-Level Data: Lessons From Western Ireland, Robin Edwards, W. Roland Gehrels, Anthony Brooks, Ralph Fyfe, Katie Pullen, Joseph Kuchar, Kieran Craven Jan 2017

Resolving Discrepancies Between Field And Modelled Relative Sea-Level Data: Lessons From Western Ireland, Robin Edwards, W. Roland Gehrels, Anthony Brooks, Ralph Fyfe, Katie Pullen, Joseph Kuchar, Kieran Craven

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

No abstract provided.


Tropical Forest Light Regimes In A Human-Modified Landscape, Sophie Fauset, Manuel U. Gloor, Marcos P.M. Aidar, Helber C. Freitas, Nikolaos M. Fyllas, Mauro A. Marabesi, Andre L.C. Rochelle, Alexander Shenkin, Simone A. Vieira, Carlos A. Joly Jan 2017

Tropical Forest Light Regimes In A Human-Modified Landscape, Sophie Fauset, Manuel U. Gloor, Marcos P.M. Aidar, Helber C. Freitas, Nikolaos M. Fyllas, Mauro A. Marabesi, Andre L.C. Rochelle, Alexander Shenkin, Simone A. Vieira, Carlos A. Joly

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

No abstract provided.


Integrated Biological Responses And Tissue-Specific Expression Of P53 And Ras Genes In Marine Mussels Following Exposure To Benzo(Α)Pyrene And C 60 Fullerenes, Either Alone Or In Combination, Yanan Di, Yann Aminot, Declan C. Schroeder, James W. Readman, Awadhesh N. Jha Jan 2017

Integrated Biological Responses And Tissue-Specific Expression Of P53 And Ras Genes In Marine Mussels Following Exposure To Benzo(Α)Pyrene And C 60 Fullerenes, Either Alone Or In Combination, Yanan Di, Yann Aminot, Declan C. Schroeder, James W. Readman, Awadhesh N. Jha

School of Biological and Marine Sciences

No abstract provided.


Strandings Of Ne Atlantic Gorgonians, E. V. Sheehan, A. Rees, D. Bridger, T. Williams, J. M. Hall-Spencer Jan 2017

Strandings Of Ne Atlantic Gorgonians, E. V. Sheehan, A. Rees, D. Bridger, T. Williams, J. M. Hall-Spencer

School of Biological and Marine Sciences

No abstract provided.


On The Hindered Settling Of Sand-Mud Suspensions, J Spearman, Aj Manning Jan 2017

On The Hindered Settling Of Sand-Mud Suspensions, J Spearman, Aj Manning

School of Biological and Marine Sciences

No abstract provided.


Pleistocene Range Shifts, Refugia And The Origin Of Widespread Species In Western Palaearctic Water Beetles., David García-Vázquez, David T. Bilton, Garth N. Foster, I. Ribera Jan 2017

Pleistocene Range Shifts, Refugia And The Origin Of Widespread Species In Western Palaearctic Water Beetles., David García-Vázquez, David T. Bilton, Garth N. Foster, I. Ribera

School of Biological and Marine Sciences

Quaternary glacial cycles drove major shifts in both the extent and location of the geographical ranges of many organisms. During glacial maxima, large areas of central and northern Europe were inhospitable to temperate species, and these areas are generally assumed to have been recolonized during interglacials by range expansions from Mediterranean refugia. An alternative is that this recolonization was from non-Mediterranean refugia, in central Europe or western Asia, but data on the origin of widespread central and north European species remain fragmentary, especially for insects. We studied three widely distributed lineages of freshwater beetles (the Platambus maculatus complex, the Hydraena …


Sub-Lethal Effects Of Waterborne Exposure To Copper Nanoparticles Compared To Copper Sulphate On The Shore Crab ( Carcinus Maenas ), Lisa M. Rossbach, Benjamin J. Shaw, Dawid Piegza, William F. Vevers, Andrew J. Atfield, Richard D. Handy Jan 2017

Sub-Lethal Effects Of Waterborne Exposure To Copper Nanoparticles Compared To Copper Sulphate On The Shore Crab ( Carcinus Maenas ), Lisa M. Rossbach, Benjamin J. Shaw, Dawid Piegza, William F. Vevers, Andrew J. Atfield, Richard D. Handy

School of Biological and Marine Sciences

No abstract provided.


Does Capture Method Or The Presence Of Aquatic Protected Areas Influence The Selective Harvest Of Behavioural Types In Largemouth Bass?, Ell Cooke, Alexander D.M. Wilson, Chris K. Elvidge, Sj Cooke Jan 2017

Does Capture Method Or The Presence Of Aquatic Protected Areas Influence The Selective Harvest Of Behavioural Types In Largemouth Bass?, Ell Cooke, Alexander D.M. Wilson, Chris K. Elvidge, Sj Cooke

School of Biological and Marine Sciences

Selectively removing fish based on particular traits, such as body size, may shift trait abundance in the remaining population, resulting in a phenomenon called fisheries-induced evolution. Recently, there is growing interest in evaluating the effects of fisheries-induced evolution on fish behaviour. Aquatic protected areas (APAs) have been designated in some habitats in efforts to prohibit harvesting and maintain natural ranges of phenotypic variation for impacted species. Here, we attempted to test whether APAs that prohibit all forms of fishing have an evolutionary influence on adult largemouth bass (Micropterus salmoides) behaviour by investigating the relationship between capture method and behavioural type. …


Fishway Passage Success For Migratory Rainbow Smelt Osmerus Mordax Is Not Dictated By Behavioural Type, S. J. Landsman, A. D.M. Wilson, S. J. Cooke, Den Heuvel Mr Van Jan 2017

Fishway Passage Success For Migratory Rainbow Smelt Osmerus Mordax Is Not Dictated By Behavioural Type, S. J. Landsman, A. D.M. Wilson, S. J. Cooke, Den Heuvel Mr Van

School of Biological and Marine Sciences

No abstract provided.


Do Intracoelomic Telemetry Transmitters Alter The Post‐Release Behaviour Of Migratory Fish?, Alexander D.M. Wilson, Todd A. Hayden, Christopher S. Vandergoot, Richard T. Kraus, John M. Dettmers, Steven J. Cooke, Charles C. Krueger Jan 2017

Do Intracoelomic Telemetry Transmitters Alter The Post‐Release Behaviour Of Migratory Fish?, Alexander D.M. Wilson, Todd A. Hayden, Christopher S. Vandergoot, Richard T. Kraus, John M. Dettmers, Steven J. Cooke, Charles C. Krueger

School of Biological and Marine Sciences

AbstractElectronic tags have become a common tool in fish research, enhancing our understanding of how fish interact with their environment and move among different habitats, for estimating mortality and recording internal physiological states. An often‐untested assumption of electronic tagging studies is that tagged fish are representative of untagged conspecifics and thus show ‘normal’ behaviour (e.g. movement rates, swimming activity, feeding). Here, we use a unique data set for potamadromous walleye (Sander vitreus) in Lake Huron and Lake Erie tributaries to assess whether the lack of appropriate controls in electronic tagging could seriously affect behavioural data. We used fish tagged in …


Computerized Virtual Reality Simulation In Preclinical Dentistry: Can A Computerized Simulator Replace The Conventional Phantom Heads And Human Instruction?, A Plessas Jan 2017

Computerized Virtual Reality Simulation In Preclinical Dentistry: Can A Computerized Simulator Replace The Conventional Phantom Heads And Human Instruction?, A Plessas

Peninsula Dental School

No abstract provided.


Social Geology — Integrating Sustainability Concepts Into Earth Sciences, Iain S. Stewart, Joel C. Gill Jan 2017

Social Geology — Integrating Sustainability Concepts Into Earth Sciences, Iain S. Stewart, Joel C. Gill

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

Most geologists would argue that geoscientific knowledge, experience, and guidance is critical for addressing many of society's most acute environmental challenges, yet few geologists are directly engaged in current discourses around sustainable development. That is surprising given that several attributes make modern geoscience well placed to make critical contributions to contemporary sustainability thinking. Here, we argue that if geoscientists are to make our know-how relevant to sustainability science, two aspects seem clear. Firstly, the geoscience community needs to substantially broaden its constituency, not only forging interdisciplinary links with other environmental disciplines but also drawing from the human and behavioral sciences. …


Computational Molecular Networks And Network Pharmacology, K Ning, X Zhao, A Poetsch, W-H Chen, J Yang Jan 2017

Computational Molecular Networks And Network Pharmacology, K Ning, X Zhao, A Poetsch, W-H Chen, J Yang

School of Biomedical Sciences

No abstract provided.


Methodological Perspectives On The Application Of Compound-Specific Stable Isotope Fingerprinting For Sediment Source Apportionment, Hari R. Upadhayay, Samuel Bodé, Marco Griepentrog, Dries Huygens, Roshan M. Bajracharya, William H. Blake, Gerd Dercon, Lionel Mabit, Max Gibbs, Brice X. Semmens, Brian C. Stock, Wim Cornelis, Pascal Boeckx Jan 2017

Methodological Perspectives On The Application Of Compound-Specific Stable Isotope Fingerprinting For Sediment Source Apportionment, Hari R. Upadhayay, Samuel Bodé, Marco Griepentrog, Dries Huygens, Roshan M. Bajracharya, William H. Blake, Gerd Dercon, Lionel Mabit, Max Gibbs, Brice X. Semmens, Brian C. Stock, Wim Cornelis, Pascal Boeckx

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

No abstract provided.


Development And Validation Of An Oecd Reproductive Toxicity Test Guideline With The Mudsnail Potamopyrgus Antipodarum (Mollusca, Gastropoda), K Ruppert, C Geiß, C Askem, R Benstead, R Brown, M Coke, V Ducrot, P Egeler, H Holbech, Th Hutchinson, Kl Kinnberg, L Lagadic, Page G Le, A Macken, P Matthiessen, S Ostermann, A Schimera, C Schmitt, A Seeland-Fremer, Aj Smith, L Weltje, J Oehlmann Jan 2017

Development And Validation Of An Oecd Reproductive Toxicity Test Guideline With The Mudsnail Potamopyrgus Antipodarum (Mollusca, Gastropoda), K Ruppert, C Geiß, C Askem, R Benstead, R Brown, M Coke, V Ducrot, P Egeler, H Holbech, Th Hutchinson, Kl Kinnberg, L Lagadic, Page G Le, A Macken, P Matthiessen, S Ostermann, A Schimera, C Schmitt, A Seeland-Fremer, Aj Smith, L Weltje, J Oehlmann

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

Mollusks are known to be uniquely sensitive to a number of reproductive toxicants including some vertebrate endocrine disrupting chemicals. However, they have widely been ignored in environmental risk assessment procedures for chemicals. This study describes the validation of the Potamopyrgus antipodarum reproduction test within the OECD Conceptual Framework for Endocrine Disrupters Testing and Assessment. The number of embryos in the brood pouch and adult mortality serve as main endpoints. The experiments are conducted as static systems in beakers filled with artificial medium, which is aerated trough glass pipettes. The test chemical is dispersed into the medium, and adult snails are …


The Challenges And Opportunities Of Addressing Particle Size Effects In Sediment Source Fingerprinting: A Review, J. Patrick Laceby, Olivier Evrard, Hugh G. Smith, Will H. Blake, Jon M. Olley, Jean P.G. Minella, Philip N. Owens Jan 2017

The Challenges And Opportunities Of Addressing Particle Size Effects In Sediment Source Fingerprinting: A Review, J. Patrick Laceby, Olivier Evrard, Hugh G. Smith, Will H. Blake, Jon M. Olley, Jean P.G. Minella, Philip N. Owens

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

No abstract provided.