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Visions For The North Sea: The Societal Dilemma Behind Specifying Good Environmental Status, Alison J. Gilbert, Abigail Mcquatters-Gollop, Olivia Langmead, Laurence Mee, Jan Vermaat

School of Biological and Marine Sciences

No abstract provided.

Calcification Is Not The Achilles' Heel Of Cold-Water Corals In An Acidifying Ocean., Riccardo Rodolfo-Metalpa, Paolo Montagna, Stefano Aliani, Mireno Borghini, Simonepietro Canese, Jason M. Hall-Spencer, Andy Foggo, Marco Milazzo, Marco Taviani, Fanny Houlbrèque

School of Biological and Marine Sciences

Ocean acidification is thought to be a major threat to coral reefs: laboratory evidence and CO2 seep research has shown adverse effects on many coral species, although a few are resilient. There are concerns that cold-water corals are even more vulnerable as they live in areas where aragonite saturation (Ωara ) is lower than in the tropics and is falling rapidly due to CO2 emissions. Here, we provide laboratory evidence that net (gross calcification minus dissolution) and gross calcification rates of three common cold-water corals, Caryophyllia smithii, Dendrophyllia cornigera, and Desmophyllum dianthus, are not affected by pCO2 levels expected for …

Oxygen-Limited Thermal Tolerance Is Seen In A Plastron-Breathing Insect And Can Be Induced In A Bimodal Gas Exchanger., Wilco C.E.P. Verberk, David T. Bilton

School of Biological and Marine Sciences

Thermal tolerance has been hypothesized to result from a mismatch between oxygen supply and demand. However, the generality of this hypothesis has been challenged by studies on various animal groups, including air-breathing adult insects. Recently, comparisons across taxa have suggested that differences in gas exchange mechanisms could reconcile the discrepancies found in previous studies. Here, we test this suggestion by comparing the behaviour of related insect taxa with different gas exchange mechanisms, with and without access to air. We demonstrate oxygen-limited thermal tolerance in air-breathing adults of the plastron-exchanging water bug Aphelocheirus aestivalis. Ilyocoris cimicoides, a related, bimodal gas exchanger, …

Expression Of Multiple Horizontally Acquired Genes Is A Hallmark Of Both Vertebrate And Invertebrate Genomes, Alastair Crisp, Chiara Boschetti, Malcolm Perry, Alan Tunnacliffe, Gos Micklem

School of Biological and Marine Sciences

No abstract provided.

Not So Fast: Swimming Behavior Of Sailfish During Predator–Prey Interactions Using High-Speed Video And Accelerometry, Stefano Marras, Takuji Noda, John F. Steffensen, Morten B.S. Svendsen, Jens Krause, Alexander D.M. Wilson, Ralf H.J.M. Kurvers, James Herbert-Read, Kevin M. Boswell, Paolo Domenici

School of Biological and Marine Sciences

No abstract provided.

Social Networks In Changing Environments, A. D.M. Wilson, S Krause, I. W. Ramnarine, K. K. Borner, R. J.G. Clément, R. H.J.M. Kurvers, J Krause

School of Biological and Marine Sciences

No abstract provided.

Treatment Of Progressive Multiple Sclerosis: What Works, What Does Not, And What Is Needed., Anthony Feinstein, Jenny Freeman, Albert C. Lo

School of Health Professions

Disease-modifying drugs have mostly failed as treatments for progressive multiple sclerosis. Management of the disease therefore solely aims to minimise symptoms and, if possible, improve function. The degree to which this approach is based on empirical data derived from studies of progressive disease or whether treatment decisions are based on what is known about relapsing-remitting disease remains unclear. Symptoms rated as important by patients with multiple sclerosis include balance and mobility impairments, weakness, reduced cardiovascular fitness, ataxia, fatigue, bladder dysfunction, spasticity, pain, cognitive deficits, depression, and pseudobulbar affect; a comprehensive literature search shows a notable paucity of studies devoted solely …

Integrating Network Analysis, Sensor Tags, And Observation To Understand Shark Ecology And Behavior, Alexander D.M. Wilson, Jacob W. Brownscombe, J Krause, S Krause, Lee F.G. Gutowsky, Edward J. Brooks, Steven J. Cooke

School of Biological and Marine Sciences

No abstract provided.

From Soul To Mind: A History Of An Idea, Michael Punt

School of Art, Design and Architecture

No abstract provided.

Isotopic Analysis Of Jurassic (Callovian) Mollusks From The Christian Malford Lagerstatte (Uk): Implications For Ocean Water Temperature Estimates Based On Belemnoids, Gregory D. Price, Malcolm B. Hart, Philip R. Wilby, Kevin N. Page

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

No abstract provided.

Adverse Outcome Pathways Can Drive Non‐Animal Approaches For Safety Assessment, N Burden, F Sewell, Me Andersen, A Boobis, Jk Chipman, Mtd Cronin, Th Hutchinson, I Kimber, M Whelan

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

AbstractAdverse Outcome Pathways (AOPs) provide an opportunity to develop new and more accurate safety assessment processes for drugs and other chemicals, and may ultimately play an important role in regulatory decision making. Not only can the development and application of AOPs pave the way for the development of improved evidence‐based approaches for hazard and risk assessment, there is also the promise of a significant impact on animal welfare, with a reduced reliance on animal‐based methods. The establishment of a useable and coherent knowledge framework under which AOPs will be developed and applied has been a first critical step towards realizing …

Europeana Sounds And Copyrights: The Need For And Challenges In Licensing Archival Materials, S Schroff

School of Law, Humanities and Social Sciences

No abstract provided.

'Christians, Out Here?' Encountering Street-Pastors In The Post-Secular Spaces Of The Uk's Night-Time Economy, Jennie Middleton, Richard Yarwood

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

No abstract provided.

Lost And Hound: The More-Than-Human Networks Of Rural Policing, Richard Yarwood

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

No abstract provided.

Ocean Acidification Through The Lens Of Ecological Theory, Brian Gaylord, Kristy J. Kroeker, Jennifer M. Sunday, Kathryn M. Anderson, James P. Barry, Norah E. Brown, Sean D. Connell, Sam Dupont, Katharina E. Fabricius, Jason M. Hall-Spencer, Terrie Klinger, Marco Milazzo, Philip L. Munday, Bayden D. Russell, Eric Sanford, Sebastian J. Schreiber, Vengatesen Thiyagarajan, Megan L.H. Vaughan, Steven Widdicombe, Christopher D.G. Harley

School of Biological and Marine Sciences

No abstract provided.

Herbivore Diversity Improves Benthic Community Resilience To Ocean Acidification, Cecilia Baggini, Yannis Issaris, Maria Salomidi, Jason Hall-Spencer

School of Biological and Marine Sciences

No abstract provided.

Much More Medicine For The Oldest Old: Trends In Uk Electronic Clinical Records, D Melzer, B Tavakoly, Re Winder, Jah Masoli, Et Al

School of Health Professions

BACKGROUND: the oldest old (85+) pose complex medical challenges. Both underdiagnosis and overdiagnosis are claimed in this group. OBJECTIVE: to estimate diagnosis, prescribing and hospital admission prevalence from 2003/4 to 2011/12, to monitor trends in medicalisation. DESIGN AND SETTING: observational study of Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD) electronic medical records from general practice populations (eligible; n = 27,109) with oversampling of the oldest old. METHODS: we identified 18 common diseases and five geriatric syndromes (dizziness, incontinence, skin ulcers, falls and fractures) from Read codes. We counted medications prescribed ≥1 time in all quarters of studied years. RESULTS: there were major …

Parasites And Personality In Periwinkles (Littorina Littorea): Infection Status Is Associated With Mean-Level Boldness But Not Repeatability., Ben Seaman, Mark Briffa

School of Biological and Marine Sciences

We demonstrate the presence of animal personality in an inter-tidal gastropod, Littorina littorea, both in a sample of individuals infected by the trematode Cryptocotyle lingua and in an uninfected sample. On average infected individuals behaved more cautiously than individuals free of infection, but the parasite did not affect repeatability. Although the parasite is not associated with greater diversity of behaviour amongst infected individuals, infection might be associated with state-dependent personality differences between infected and non-infected individuals.

Bone-Eating Osedax Worms Lived On Mesozoic Marine Reptile Deadfalls., S Danise, Nd Higgs

School of Biological and Marine Sciences

We report fossil traces of Osedax, a genus of siboglinid annelids that consume the skeletons of sunken vertebrates on the ocean floor, from early-Late Cretaceous (approx. 100 Myr) plesiosaur and sea turtle bones. Although plesiosaurs went extinct at the end-Cretaceous mass extinction (66 Myr), chelonioids survived the event and diversified, and thus provided sustenance for Osedax in the 20 Myr gap preceding the radiation of cetaceans, their main modern food source. This finding shows that marine reptile carcasses, before whales, played a key role in the evolution and dispersal of Osedax and confirms that its generalist ability of colonizing different …

On The Verge? Preferential Use Of Road-Facing Hedgerow Margins By Bumblebees In Agro-Ecosystems, Mick E. Hanley, Joshua P. Wilkins

School of Biological and Marine Sciences

The global pollinator decline is commonly linked to modern intensive farming practices, partly because excessive herbicide and fertilizer use is thought to reduce pollinator food plant availability. This effect is particularly obvious across crop-/non-crop boundaries, but no study has compared pollinator and food plant abundance on adjacent crop- and roadside margins. We compared bumblebee abundance along 30 hedgerows in SW England; bordered either side by roads and arable fields (cultivated with wheat, barley, oilseed rape, or beans). Total bumblebee abundance along roadsides was over twice that observed on adjacent crop-facing margins, irrespective of crop type and this general pattern was …

Predictive Habitat Suitability Models To Aid Conservation Of Elasmobranch Diversity In The Central Mediterranean Sea, V. Lauria, M. Gristina, M. J. Attrill, F. Fiorentino, G. Garofalo

School of Biological and Marine Sciences

No abstract provided.

Exaggerated Displays Do Not Improve Mounting Success In Male Seaweed Flies Fucellia Tergina (Diptera: Anthomyiidae), Ruth Memmott, Mark Briffa

School of Biological and Marine Sciences

No abstract provided.

Nutritional Interventions In Sarcopenia: A Critical Review, Mary Hickson

School of Health Professions

The aim of the present paper is to critically review the details of the published nutrition intervention trials, with and without exercise, targeting sarcopenia. Sarcopenia is the loss of muscle mass, strength and/or performance with age. Since amino acids and energy are required for muscle synthesis it is possible that nutritional intake influences sarcopenia. Nutritional studies are challenging to carry out because of the complexity of modulating dietary intake. It is very difficult to change one nutrient without influencing many others, which means that many of the published studies are problematic to interpret. The studies included evaluate whole protein, essential …

The Biology Of Fun: Do Birds Just Want To Have A Good Time?, Carley J. Langley, Jonathan R. Moore

UROP Posters

The intention of this research project was to delve into the ecological study of playfulness and what appears to be fun in a broad range of bird species. (1) Do all birds exhibit playfulness and use fun? And if so, (2) how have these behaviors contributed to their evolutionary success? Past research has already been underway to biological define what constitutes both “fun” and “play” in animal species. In the past the majority of all test subjects have been mammals, however in the past decade (and especially in the past five years) other vertebrate species such as birds are beginning …

Evidence For Distinct Coastal And Offshore Communities Of Bottlenose Dolphins In The North East Atlantic., Machiel G. Oudejans, Fleur Visser, Anneli Englund, Emer Rogan, Simon N. Ingram

School of Biological and Marine Sciences

Bottlenose dolphin stock structure in the northeast Atlantic remains poorly understood. However, fine scale photo-id data have shown that populations can comprise multiple overlapping social communities. These social communities form structural elements of bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) [corrected] populations, reflecting specific ecological and behavioural adaptations to local habitats. We investigated the social structure of bottlenose dolphins in the waters of northwest Ireland and present evidence for distinct inshore and offshore social communities. Individuals of the inshore community had a coastal distribution restricted to waters within 3 km from shore. These animals exhibited a cohesive, fission-fusion social organisation, with repeated resightings …

First Successful Capture And Satellite Tracking Of A West Indian Manatee (Trichechus Manatus) In Panama: Feasibility Of Capture And Telemetry Techniques, Daniel Gonzalez-Socoloske, James P. Reid, Carlos Espinoza-Marin, Kherson E. Ruiz, Kenneth E. Glander, Leon David Olivera-Gomez

Faculty Publications

It is currently unknown how important the Central American countries south of Belize are as a link between manatee populations in the north (Belize and Mexico) and populations in South America. Therefore, apart from knowing where manatees are found, it is important to understand how manatees are using these habitats and if they are moving between countries or distinct population centers. Here we report the results of a multi-national and multiinstitutional collaboration resulting in the first successful capture and satellite tracking of a West Indian manatee in southern Central America.

Climate Change & The Public Trust Doctrine: An Analysis Of Atmospheric Trust Litigatin, Kassandra Castillo

San Diego Journal of Climate & Energy Law

As Professor Charles Wilkinson explains, “The public trust doctrine is rooted in the precept that some resources are so central to the well-being of the community that they must be protected by distinctive, judge-made principles.” Because a healthy and habitable atmosphere is essential to the survival of the human race, it is imperative that the public trust doctrine be interpreted in a way to include the atmosphere within its scope. Civil litigation is an effective legal mechanism to expand the public trust doctrine’s scope by way of the judiciary. Once a state judiciary can determine the applicability of the public …

"Green" Performance: The Future Of Performance-Based Executive Compensation?, Ben Schwefel

San Diego Journal of Climate & Energy Law

Although sustainability performance appears to be a logical extension of the traditional performance-based compensation model, the effect and result of such performance remains unclear and untested across the market. The adoption of broad-based sustainability performance measures may be dangerous because, often times, these measures are tailored to the corporation and may decrease total shareholder return in the short run. Regardless of whether or not the corporation decides to introduce these measures, their effect on total shareholder return and other corporate interests requires an individualized analysis.
Part II of this Comment discusses the current state of executive compensation, including the use …

Comparative Analysis Of The National And Communal Irrigation Systems’ Water Governance: The Philippines Case, Miriam R. Nguyen, Agnes C. Rola, Rosalie A. Hall, Corazon L. Abansi, Myra E. David

Journal of Public Affairs and Development

Using Saleth and Dinar’s water governance framework, the study characterized irrigators’ associations and examined how they operate and how they are managed. A total of 128 association presidents were surveyed in ten provinces in the Philippines and were asked about their knowledge and perception on the organization, natural resource policies, and water status in the locality.

The National Irrigation Systems (NIS) still has a formal structure as influenced by the National Irrigation Administration (NIA), but it is assuming the characteristics of the Communal Irrigation Systems (CIS) management because of the paradigm shift to participatory irrigation management. The CIS, on the …

Operational Policy Needs For Organic Agriculture Expansion In The Philippines: Focus On Vegetables, Agnes C. Rola, Blanquita R. Pantoja, Agnes R. Chupungco, Miriam R. Nguyen, Jaine C. Reyes, Guinevere T. Madlangbayan, Macrina G. Umali, Susan S. Guiaya, Eldy Z. Martinez, Gerdino G. Badayos

Journal of Public Affairs and Development

In 2010, the Philippines passed a law (Republic Act No. 10068) to support the expansion of organic agriculture (OA) in the country, with a goal of 5 percent of total production area being devoted to this technology. Available data show that in 2012, only about 0.7 percent of the agricultural land area in the country was devoted to OA production. While several other administrative orders supported the law, there seems to be a need to understand the processes to operationalize the said law.

This paper analyzed the production, marketing, and consumption issues surrounding the organic vegetable industry to come up …