• Twenty years and counting with SADIE: Spatial Analysis by Distance Indices software and review of its adoption and use 

  Winder, L.; Alexander, C.J.; Griffiths, G.; Holland, J.M.; Woolley, C.; Perry, J.N. (Pensoft, 2019-01-21)

  In this short paper we outline the use of SADIE (Spatial Analysis by Distance Indices), a technique to spatially quantify patterns in spatially-referenced count-based data. We also provide free access to the SADIE software ...

• Immunological homeostasis at the ovine placenta may reflect the degree of maternal fetal interaction 

  Wattegedera, S.; Doull, L.; Goncheva, M.I.; Wheelhouse, N.M.; Watson, D.M.; Pearce, J.; Benavides, J.; Palarea Albaladejo, J.; McInnes, C.J.; Ballingall, K.T.; Entrican, G. (Frontiers, 2019-01-09)

  Successful mammalian pregnancies are a result of complex physiological, endocrinological, and immunological processes that combine to create an environment where the mother is tolerant to the semi-allogeneic fetus. Our ...

• Large-scale risk screening of raw water quality in the context of drinking water catchments and integrated response strategies 

  Vorstius, C.; Rowan, J.S.; Brown, I.; Frogbrook, Z.; Palarea Albaladejo, J. (Elsevier, 2019-07-01)

  Water resources provide multiple services, one of the most important being the provision of drinking water, conventionally treated before public consumption as potable supplies. With increasing pressures through from land ...

• Modelling covariance matrices by the trigonometric separation strategy with application to hidden Markov models 

  Spezia, L. (2019-06-03)

  Bayesian inference on the covariance matrix is usually performed after placing an Inverse-Wishart or a multivariate Jeffreys as a prior density, but both of them, for different reasons, present some drawbacks. As an ...

• Considering appropriate replication in the design of animal social network studies 

  Smith, L.A.; Swain, D.L.; Innocent, G.T.; Nevison, I.M.; Hutchings, M.R. (Springer Nature, 2019-05-10)

  Social network analysis has increasingly been considered a useful tool to interpret the complexity of animal social relationships. However, group composition can affect the contact structure of the network resulting in ...

• Analysis of Spatiotemporal Properties of Stochastic Systems Using TSTL 

  Vissat, L.L.; Loreti, M.; Nenzi, L.; Hillston, J.; Marion, G. (ACM - Association for Computing Machinery, 2019-12-01)

  In this article, we present Three-Valued Spatiotemporal Logic (TSTL), which enriches the available spatiotemporal analysis of properties expressed in Signal Spatiotemporal Logic (SSTL), to give further insight into the ...

• Rhynchosporium leaf scald disease incidence: seed source and spatial pattern 

  Topp, C.; Hughes, G.; Nevison, I.M.; Butler, A.; Oxley, S.; Havis, N. (Wiley, 2019-08-01)

• The NoHoW protocol: A 2x2 factorial randomized controlled trial investigating an evidence-based digital toolkit for weight loss maintenance in European adults. 

  Scott, S.; Duarte, C.; Evans, E.H.; Harjumaa, M.; Heitmann, BL.; Horgan, G.W.; Larsen, S.; Marques, MM.; Mattila, E.; Matos, M.; Mikkelsen, M-L.; Palmeira, AL.; Pearson, B.; Ramsey, L.; Sainsbury, K.; Santos, I.; Sniehotta, FF.; Stalker, C.; Teixeira, PJ.; Stubbs, J. (2019-09-30)

• Duration of protection and humoral immunity induced by an adenovirus- vectored foot-and-mouth disease virus serotype A24 subunit vaccine in Holstein steers 

  Sitt, T.; Kenney, M.; Barrera, J.; Pandya, M.; Eckstrom, K.; Warner, M.; Pacheco, J.M.; LaRocco, M.; Palarea Albaladejo, J.; Brake, D.; Rieder, E.; Arzt, J.; Barlow, J.W.; Golde, W.T. (Elsevier, 2019-09-05)

  The importance of an efficacious, long acting foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) vaccine is critical to control FMD. The human replication deficient adenovirus 5 (Ad5) empty capsid FMD virus (FMDV) platform (AdtFMD), is a promising ...

• A Bayesian hierarchical model of postlarval delta smelt entrainment: integrating transport, length composition, and sampling efficiency in estimates of loss 

  Smith, W.; Newman, K; Mitchell, L. (Canadian Science Publishing, 2019-05-31)

  Hydrodynamic models have been used to estimate rates of ichthyoplankton transport across marine and estuarine environments and subsequent geographic isolation of a portion of the population, i.e., entrainment. Combining ...

• Assessment of a large number of empirical plant species niche models by elicitation of knowledge from two national experts 

  Smart, S.; Jarvis, S.; Mizunuma, T.; Herrero-Jauregui, C.; Fang, Z.; Butler, A.; Marrs, R.H. (Wiley, 2019-10-25)

  Quantitative models play an increasing role in exploring the impact of global change on biodiversity but to win credibility and trust they need validating. We show how expert knowledge can be used to evaluate a large number ...

• Cultivar differences and impact of plant-plant competition on temporal patterns of nitrogen and biomass accumulation 

  Schofield, E.J.; Rowntree, J.; Paterson, E.; Brewer, M.J.; Price, E.; Brearley, F.; Brooker, R.W. (2019-02-25)

  <p>Current niche models cannot explain multi-species plant coexistence in complex ecosystems. One overlooked explanatory factor is within-growing season temporal dynamism of resource capture by plants. However, the timing ...

• Posterior-based proposals for speeding up Markov chain Monte Carlo 

  Pooley, C.; Bishop, S.C.; Doeschl-Wilson, A.B.; Marion, G. (Royal Society Publshing, 2019-11-20)

  Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) is widely used for Bayesian inference in models of complex systems. Performance, however, is often unsatisfactory in models with many latent variables due to so-called poor mixing, necessitating ...

• Improved models of the effects of winter chilling on blackcurrant (Ribes nigrum L.) show cultivar specific sensitivity to warm winters 

  Preedy, K.; Brennan, R.M.; Jones, H G.; Gordon, S. (Elsevier, 2019-10-12)

  Controlled temperature experiments were used to calibrate 3 proposed models of chilling accumulation requirements for a number of commercial blackcurrant cultivars. The first model assumed a linear relationship between bud ...

• Association between hours worked in paid employment and diet quality, frequency of eating out and consuming takeaways in the UK. 

  Sam, L.; Craig, T.; Horgan, G.W.; Macdiarmid, J. (2019-12-02)

• Myocardial and Systemic Inflammation in Acute Stress-Induced (Takotsubo) Cardiomyopathy 

  Scally, C.; Abbas, H.; Ahearn, TS.; Srivanasan, J.; Rudd, A.; Mezincescu, AM.; Spath, N.; Yucel-Finn, A.; Yuecel, R.; Dospinescu, C.; Horgan, G.W.; Broadhurst, P.; Henning, A.; Newby, DE.; Semple, S.; Wilson, HM.; Dawson, D. (2019-03-26)

  Background: Acute stress induced (takotsubo) cardiomyopathy can result in a heart failure phenotype with a prognosis comparable to myocardial infarction. In this study, we hypothesized that inflammation is central to the ...

• Healthy and sustainable diets that meet GHGE reduction targets and are affordable for different income groups in the UK. 

  Reynolds, C.; Horgan, G.W.; Whybrow, S.; Macdiarmid, J. (2019-06-07)

  Major change is required to shift the population to diets that meet dietary recommendations for health and have lower greenhouse gas emissions (GHGE). These changes may have implications for the cost of the diet and therefore ...

• An agent-based model to simulate meat consumption behaviour of consumers in Britain 

  Scalco, A.; Macdiarmid, J.; Craig, T.; Whybrow, S.; Horgan, G.W. (2019-10-30)

  Background. The current rate of production and consumption of meat poses a problem both to peoples' health and to the environment. This work aims to develop a simulation of peoples' meat consumption behaviour in Britain ...

• When to kill a cull: factors affecting the success of culling wildlife for disease control 

  Prentice, J.C.; Fox, N.J.; Hutchings, M.R.; White, P.C.L.; Davidson, R.S.; Marion, G. (Royal Society Publshing, 2019-03-06)

  Culling wildlife to control disease can lead to both decreases and increases in disease levels, with apparently conflicting responses observed, even for the same wildlife-disease system. There is therefore a pressing need ...

• Using imperfect data in predictive mapping of vectors: a regional example of Ixodes ricinus distribution 

  Ribeiro, R.; Eze, J; Gilbert, L.; WINT, GRW.; Gunn, G. J.; Macrae, A.I.; MEDLOCK, JM.; Auty, H. (BMC, 2019-12-14)

  Background: Knowledge of Ixodes ricinus tick distribution is critical for surveillance and risk management of trans- missible tick-borne diseases such as Lyme borreliosis. However, as the ecology of I. ricinus is complex, ...

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