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Normal Form Backward Induction for Decision Trees with Coherent Lower Previsions (2012)
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Huntley, N., & Troffaes, M. C. (2012). Normal Form Backward Induction for Decision Trees with Coherent Lower Previsions. Annals of Operations Research, 195(1), 111-134. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10479-011-0968-2

We examine normal form solutions of decision trees under typical choice functions induced by lower previsions. For large trees, finding such solutions is hard as very many strategies must be considered. In an earlier paper, we extended backward induc... Read More about Normal Form Backward Induction for Decision Trees with Coherent Lower Previsions.

Species non-exchangeability in probabilistic ecotoxicological risk assessment (2012)
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Craig, P. S., Hickey, G. L., Luttik, R., & Hart, A. (2012). Species non-exchangeability in probabilistic ecotoxicological risk assessment. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A, 175(1), 243-262. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-985x.2011.00716.x

Current ecotoxicological risk assessment for chemical substances is based on the assumption that tolerances of all species in a specified ecological community are a priori exchangeable for each new substance. We demonstrate non-exchangeability by usi... Read More about Species non-exchangeability in probabilistic ecotoxicological risk assessment.

Simple Model for the Deformation-Induced Relaxation of Glassy Polymers (2012)
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Fielding, S., Larson, R., & Cates, M. (2012). Simple Model for the Deformation-Induced Relaxation of Glassy Polymers. Physical Review Letters, 108(4), Article 048301. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.108.048301

Glassy polymers show “strain hardening”: at constant extensional load, their flow first accelerates, then arrests. Recent experiments have found this to be accompanied by a striking and unexplained dip in the segmental relaxation time. Here we explai... Read More about Simple Model for the Deformation-Induced Relaxation of Glassy Polymers.

Splendid Isolation: International Humanitarian Law, Legal Theory and the International Legal Order (2012)
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O'Donoghue, A. (2012). Splendid Isolation: International Humanitarian Law, Legal Theory and the International Legal Order. Yearbook of International Humanitarian Law, 14(1), 107-131. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-6704-855-2_4

International humanitarian law (IHL) is one of the oldest and most distinctive sectors of the international legal order. IHL’s historical development has been unique; from one of the original focal points of international law it has since become a hi... Read More about Splendid Isolation: International Humanitarian Law, Legal Theory and the International Legal Order.

What is Touch? (2012)
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Ratcliffe, M. (2012). What is Touch?. Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 90(3), 413-432. https://doi.org/10.1080/00048402.2011.598173

This paper addresses the nature of touch or ‘tactual perception’. I argue that touch encompasses a wide range of perceptual achievements, that treating it as a number of separate senses will not work, and that the permissive conception we are left wi... Read More about What is Touch?.

Framing health inequalities for local intervention: comparative case studies (2012)
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Blackman, T., Harrington, B., Elliott, E., Greene, A., Hunter, D. J., Marks, L., …Williams, G. (2012). Framing health inequalities for local intervention: comparative case studies. Sociology of Health & Illness, 34(1), 49-63. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9566.2011.01362.x

This article explores how health inequalities are constructed as an object for policy intervention by considering four framings: politics, audit, evidence and treatment. A thematic analysis of 197 interviews conducted with local managers in England,... Read More about Framing health inequalities for local intervention: comparative case studies.

'Hong Kong’s Diaspora, Networks, and Family Business in the United Kingdom: A History of the Chinese “Food Chain” and the Case of W. Wing Yip Group' (2012)
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Cheung, G. C., & Gomez, E. T. (2012). 'Hong Kong’s Diaspora, Networks, and Family Business in the United Kingdom: A History of the Chinese “Food Chain” and the Case of W. Wing Yip Group'. China review, 12(1), 45-72

In this article, the authors assess how the Wing Yip group, the leading Chinese enterprise in Britain’s thriving Chinese food sector, has evolved. The key concern of this study is to analyze the nature of the ties between owners of companies in the C... Read More about 'Hong Kong’s Diaspora, Networks, and Family Business in the United Kingdom: A History of the Chinese “Food Chain” and the Case of W. Wing Yip Group'.

Condition Monitoring Power Module Solder Fatigue Using Inverter Harmonic Identification (2012)
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Xiang, D., Ran, L., Tavner, P., Yang, S., Bryant, A., & Mawby, P. (2012). Condition Monitoring Power Module Solder Fatigue Using Inverter Harmonic Identification. IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, 27(1), 235-247. https://doi.org/10.1109/tpel.2011.2160988

Condition monitoring power semiconductor devices can inform converter maintenance and reduce damage. This paper presents a method to monitor solder fatigue in a voltage source inverter insulated gate bipolar transistor power module by detecting the c... Read More about Condition Monitoring Power Module Solder Fatigue Using Inverter Harmonic Identification.

Budgeted Nature Reserve Selection with diversity feature loss and arbitrary split systems (2012)
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Bordewich, M., & Semple, C. (2012). Budgeted Nature Reserve Selection with diversity feature loss and arbitrary split systems. Journal of Mathematical Biology, 64(1), 69-85. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00285-011-0405-9

Arising in the context of biodiversity conservation, the Budgeted Nature Reserve Selection (BNRS) problem is to select, subject to budgetary constraints, a set of regions to conserve so that the phylogenetic diversity (PD) of the set of species conta... Read More about Budgeted Nature Reserve Selection with diversity feature loss and arbitrary split systems.

Governance and the geography of authority: modalities of authorisation and the transnational governing of climate change (2012)
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Bulkeley, H. (2012). Governance and the geography of authority: modalities of authorisation and the transnational governing of climate change. Environment and Planning A, 44(10), 2428-2444. https://doi.org/10.1068/a44678

Within debates about the emergence and nature of governance, it has become commonplace to debate the whereabouts and possibilities of authority. Traditionally, authority is conceived as a property of some actor or institution and is regarded as divis... Read More about Governance and the geography of authority: modalities of authorisation and the transnational governing of climate change.

Eruptive hummocks : building blocks of the upper ocean crust (2012)
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Yeo, I., Searle, R. C., Achenbach, K. L., Le Bas, T. P., & Murton, B. J. (2012). Eruptive hummocks : building blocks of the upper ocean crust. Geology, 40(1), 91-94. https://doi.org/10.1130/g31892.1

The spreading axis at many slow-spreading mid-ocean ridges is marked by an axial volcanic ridge. In this study, we use a combination of high-resolution remote sensing methods to elucidate the detailed nature of volcanoes in such a ridge. We find that... Read More about Eruptive hummocks : building blocks of the upper ocean crust.

Long time stability of a classical efficient scheme for two-dimensional Navier-Stokes equations (2012)
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Gottlieb, S., Tone, F., Wang, C., Wang, X., & Wirosoetisno, D. (2012). Long time stability of a classical efficient scheme for two-dimensional Navier-Stokes equations. SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis, 50(1), 126-150. https://doi.org/10.1137/110834901

This paper considers the long-time stability property of a popular semi-implicit scheme for the two-dimensional incompressible Navier–Stokes equations in a periodic box that treats the viscous term implicitly and the nonlinear advection term explicit... Read More about Long time stability of a classical efficient scheme for two-dimensional Navier-Stokes equations.

Variability-selected low-luminosity active galactic nuclei in the 4 Ms Chandra Deep Field-South (2012)
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Young, M., Brandt, W., Xue, Y., Paolillo, M., Alexander, D., Bauer, F., …Vignali, C. (2012). Variability-selected low-luminosity active galactic nuclei in the 4 Ms Chandra Deep Field-South. Astrophysical Journal, 748(2), Article 124. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637x/748/2/124

The 4 Ms Chandra Deep Field-South (CDF-S) and other deep X-ray surveys have been highly effective at selecting active galactic nuclei (AGNs). However, cosmologically distant low-luminosity AGNs (LLAGNs) have remained a challenge to identify due to si... Read More about Variability-selected low-luminosity active galactic nuclei in the 4 Ms Chandra Deep Field-South.

A glacial geomorphological map of the Seno Skyring-Seno Otway-Strait of Magellan region, southernmost Patagonia (2012)
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Lovell, H., Stokes, C., & Bentley, M. (2012). A glacial geomorphological map of the Seno Skyring-Seno Otway-Strait of Magellan region, southernmost Patagonia. Journal of Maps, 7(1), 318-339. https://doi.org/10.4113/jom.2011.1156

This paper presents a detailed glacial geomorphological map covering over 16,000 km of the Seno Skyring-Seno Otway-Strait of Magellan region in southernmost Patagonia. It builds on previously published maps produced at a variety of scales and is re-m... Read More about A glacial geomorphological map of the Seno Skyring-Seno Otway-Strait of Magellan region, southernmost Patagonia.

Réformisme et historiographie révolutionnaire. Georges Renard et Eugène Fournière, historiens du XIXe siècle (2012)
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Wright, J. (2012). Réformisme et historiographie révolutionnaire. Georges Renard et Eugène Fournière, historiens du XIXe siècle

Georges Renard and Eugène Fournière, disciples of Benoit Malon, were concerned to find a way of bringing greater intellectual cohesion to the story of French socialism. As opponents of the Marxist current in France, they reflected on the way in which... Read More about Réformisme et historiographie révolutionnaire. Georges Renard et Eugène Fournière, historiens du XIXe siècle.

Relative sea-level response to Little Ice Age ice mass change in south central Alaska: Reconciling model predictions and geological evidence (2012)
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Barlow, N., Shennan, I., & Long, A. (2012). Relative sea-level response to Little Ice Age ice mass change in south central Alaska: Reconciling model predictions and geological evidence. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 315-316, 62-75. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2011.09.048

Integration of geological data and glacio-isostatic adjustment (GIA) modelling shows that it is possible to decouple complex mechanisms of relative sea-level (RSL) change in a tectonically active glacial environment. We model a simplest solution in w... Read More about Relative sea-level response to Little Ice Age ice mass change in south central Alaska: Reconciling model predictions and geological evidence.

Critical Political Economy and Material Transformation (2012)
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Hudson, R. (2012). Critical Political Economy and Material Transformation. New Political Economy, 17(4), 373-397. https://doi.org/10.1080/13563467.2011.578736

The starting point for this paper is that critical political economy needs to take up the challenge that originates in Marx's seminal contributions of conceptualising the economy as both processes of value creation and processes of material transform... Read More about Critical Political Economy and Material Transformation.

Observations of a small sample of adolescents experiencing an At-Risk Mental State (ARMS) for psychosis (2012)
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Welsh, P., & Tiffin, P. (2012). Observations of a small sample of adolescents experiencing an At-Risk Mental State (ARMS) for psychosis. Schizophrenia Bulletin: The Journal of Psychoses and Related Disorders, 38(2), 215-218. https://doi.org/10.1093/schbul/sbr139

Some commentaries express concern that the At-Risk Mental State (ARMS) designation can be stigmatizing and induce a lasting sense of personal fragility. However, no studies have actually explored the personal perspectives of those so categorized. The... Read More about Observations of a small sample of adolescents experiencing an At-Risk Mental State (ARMS) for psychosis.