Outputs (53)

A PIT-tag based method for measuring individual bait uptake in small mammals (2021)
Journal Article
Beatham, S., Goodwin, D., Coats, J., Stephens, P., & Massei, G. (2021). A PIT-tag based method for measuring individual bait uptake in small mammals. Ecological Solutions and Evidence, 2(2), Article e12081. https://doi.org/10.1002/2688-8319.12081

1. Rodents and other small mammals cause an increasing number of negative economic and environmental impacts worldwide. In the UK, the non-native grey squirrel has a significant impact on the forestry industry and has caused the decline of the native... Read More about A PIT-tag based method for measuring individual bait uptake in small mammals.

Durham University students’ experiences of asymptomatic COVID-19 testing: a qualitative study (2021)
Journal Article
Jones, L. F., Batteux, E., Bonfield, S., Bhogal, J. K., Taylor, J., Caiado, C., Ramagge, J., & Weston, D. (2021). Durham University students’ experiences of asymptomatic COVID-19 testing: a qualitative study. BMJ Open, 11(12), https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2021-055644

Objectives To evaluate the asymptomatic coronavirus testing programme at Durham University by exploring students’ barriers and facilitators to taking part and provide recommendations to improve the programme. Design Qualitative interviews. Setting On... Read More about Durham University students’ experiences of asymptomatic COVID-19 testing: a qualitative study.

AbacusHOD: a highly efficient extended multitracer HOD framework and its application to BOSS and eBOSS data (2021)
Journal Article
Yuan, S., Garrison, L. H., Hadzhiyska, B., Bose, S., & Eisenstein, D. J. (2022). AbacusHOD: a highly efficient extended multitracer HOD framework and its application to BOSS and eBOSS data. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 510(3), 3301-3320. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stab3355

We introduce the ABACUSHOD model and present two applications of ABACUSHOD and the ABACUSSUMMIT simulations to observations. ABACUSHOD is a Halo Occupation Distribution (HOD) framework written in PYTHON that is particle-based, multitracer, highly gen... Read More about AbacusHOD: a highly efficient extended multitracer HOD framework and its application to BOSS and eBOSS data.

Behaviour, temperature and terrain slope impact estimates of energy expenditure using oxygen and dynamic body acceleration (2021)
Journal Article
Dickinson, E., Stephens, P., Marks, N., Wilson, R., & Scantlebury, D. (2021). Behaviour, temperature and terrain slope impact estimates of energy expenditure using oxygen and dynamic body acceleration. Animal Biotelemetry, 9, https://doi.org/10.1186/s40317-021-00269-5

The energy used by animals is influenced by intrinsic (e.g. physiological) and extrinsic (e.g. environmental) factors. Accelerometers within biologging devices have proven useful for assessing energy expenditures and their behavioural context in free... Read More about Behaviour, temperature and terrain slope impact estimates of energy expenditure using oxygen and dynamic body acceleration.

The Significance of Bypass Transition on the Annual Energy Production of an Offshore Wind Turbine (2021)
Journal Article
Duffy, A., Ingram, G., & Hogg, S. (2022). The Significance of Bypass Transition on the Annual Energy Production of an Offshore Wind Turbine. Wind Energy, 25(4), 772-787. https://doi.org/10.1002/we.2697

Awareness of Leading-Edge Erosion (LEE) on wind turbine blades, and the impacts it can have on Annual Energy Production (AEP) have increased significantly over recent years. This is especially important in offshore environments, where a combination o... Read More about The Significance of Bypass Transition on the Annual Energy Production of an Offshore Wind Turbine.

The halo light cone catalogues of AbacusSummit (2021)
Journal Article
Hadzhiyska, B., Garrison, L. H., Eisenstein, D., & Bose, S. (2022). The halo light cone catalogues of AbacusSummit. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 509(2), 2194-2208. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stab3066

We describe a method for generating halo catalogues on the light-cone using the ABACUSSUMMIT suite of N-body simulations. The main application of these catalogues is the construction of realistic mock galaxy catalogues and weak lensing maps on the sk... Read More about The halo light cone catalogues of AbacusSummit.

compaso: A new halo finder for competitive assignment to spherical overdensities (2021)
Journal Article
Hadzhiyska, B., Eisenstein, D., Bose, S., Garrison, L. H., & Maksimova, N. (2022). compaso: A new halo finder for competitive assignment to spherical overdensities. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 509(1), 501-521. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stab2980

We describe a new method (COMPASO) for identifying groups of particles in cosmological N-body simulations. COMPASO builds upon existing spherical overdensity (SO) algorithms by taking into consideration the tidal radius around a smaller halo before c... Read More about compaso: A new halo finder for competitive assignment to spherical overdensities.

Where nothing stands still: quantifying nomadism in Australian arid-zone birds (2021)
Journal Article
Gibson, M. R., Runge, C. A., Stephens, P. A., Fuller, R. A., & Willis, S. G. (2022). Where nothing stands still: quantifying nomadism in Australian arid-zone birds. Landscape Ecology, 37(1), 191-208. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10980-021-01343-2

Context: Nomadism is a movement strategy in response to non-seasonal environmental variability. Knowledge of nomadic species movements is poor but is necessary to understand life histories and develop appropriate conservation strategies. Objectives:... Read More about Where nothing stands still: quantifying nomadism in Australian arid-zone birds.

Red deer exhibit spatial and temporal responses to hiking activity (2021)
Journal Article
Marion, S., Demšar, U., Davies, A., Stephens, P., Irvine, R., & Long, J. (2021). Red deer exhibit spatial and temporal responses to hiking activity. Wildlife Biology: A journal for wildlife science, 2021(3), https://doi.org/10.2981/wlb.00853

Outdoor recreation has the potential to impact the spatial and temporal distribution of animals. We explore interactions between red deer (Cervus elaphus) and hikers along a popular hiking path in the Scottish Highlands. We placed camera traps in tra... Read More about Red deer exhibit spatial and temporal responses to hiking activity.

A Generative Bayesian Graph Attention Network for Semi-supervised Classification on Scarce Data (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Sun, Z., Harit, A., Yu, J., Cristea, A., & Al Moubayed, N. (2021, July). A Generative Bayesian Graph Attention Network for Semi-supervised Classification on Scarce Data. Presented at IEEE International Joint Conference on Neural Network (IJCNN2021), Virtual

This research focuses on semi-supervised classification tasks, specifically for graph-structured data under datascarce situations. It is known that the performance of conventional supervised graph convolutional models is mediocre at classification ta... Read More about A Generative Bayesian Graph Attention Network for Semi-supervised Classification on Scarce Data.