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Song characteristics vary clinally across an active colonization zone in Eurasian Nuthatches Sitta europaea (2012)
Journal Article
White, P. J. C. (2012). Song characteristics vary clinally across an active colonization zone in Eurasian Nuthatches Sitta europaea. Bird Study, 59(3), 296-302. https://doi.org/10.1080/00063657.2012.672399

Capsule Eurasian Nuthatches have experienced a northward range expansion in Britain. Younger, more isolated, populations have smaller song meme-pool size, diversity and individual repertoires.

Relationships between glide efficiency and swimmers’ size and shape characteristics (2012)
Journal Article
Naemi, R., Psycharakis, S., McCabe, C., Connaboy, C., & Sanders, R. (2012). Relationships between glide efficiency and swimmers’ size and shape characteristics. Journal of Applied Biomechanics, 28, 400-411

Glide efficiency, the ability of a body to minimise deceleration over the glide, can vary with variations in the body's size and shape. The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationships between glide efficiency and the size and shape cha... Read More about Relationships between glide efficiency and swimmers’ size and shape characteristics.

Lost in Space: Optimising search space in EvoFIT (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Skelton, F., Frowd, C., & Greenwood, L. (2012, August). Lost in Space: Optimising search space in EvoFIT. Paper presented at British Psychological Society Cognitive Section annual conference, University of Glasgow

Nectar Theft and Floral Ant-Repellence: A Link between Nectar Volume and Ant-Repellent Traits? (2012)
Journal Article
Ballantyne, G., & Willmer, P. (2012). Nectar Theft and Floral Ant-Repellence: A Link between Nectar Volume and Ant-Repellent Traits?. PLOS ONE, 7(8), Article e43869. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0043869

As flower visitors, ants rarely benefit a plant. They are poor pollinators, and can also disrupt pollination by deterring other flower visitors, or by stealing nectar. Some plant species therefore possess floral ant-repelling traits. But why do parti... Read More about Nectar Theft and Floral Ant-Repellence: A Link between Nectar Volume and Ant-Repellent Traits?.

A role for vimentin in Crohn disease (2012)
Journal Article
Henderson, P., Wilson, D. C., Satsangi, J., & Stevens, C. (2012). A role for vimentin in Crohn disease. Autophagy, 8(11), 1695-1696. https://doi.org/10.4161/auto.21690

Crohn disease (CD), one of the major chronic inflammatory bowel diseases, occurs anywhere in the gastrointestinal tract with discontinuous transmural inflammation. A number of studies have now demonstrated that genetic predisposition, environmental... Read More about A role for vimentin in Crohn disease.

Circulating hormone and cytokine response to low-load resistance training with blood flow restriction in older men (2012)
Journal Article
Patterson, S. D., Leggate, M., Nimmo, M. A., & Ferguson, R. A. (2013). Circulating hormone and cytokine response to low-load resistance training with blood flow restriction in older men. European Journal of Applied Physiology, 113(3), 713-719. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00421-012-2479-5

It has been suggested that circulating hormones and cytokines are important in the adaptive response to low-load resistance training (LLRT) with blood flow restriction (BFR); however, their response following this type of training in older men is unc... Read More about Circulating hormone and cytokine response to low-load resistance training with blood flow restriction in older men.

Size-assortative pairing and discrimination of potential mates by humpback whales in the Hawaiian breeding grounds (2012)
Journal Article
Pack, A. A., Herman, L. M., Spitz, S. S., Craig, A. S., Hakala, S., Deakos, M. H., Herman, E. Y., Milette, A. J., Carroll, E., Levitt, S., & Lowe, C. (2012). Size-assortative pairing and discrimination of potential mates by humpback whales in the Hawaiian breeding grounds. Animal Behaviour, 84(4), 983-993. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2012.07.024

Assortative pairing, and its relation to mate choice, has rarely been documented in mammals. Using data collected from 1998-2007, we investigated size-assortative pairing as it relates to discrimination amongst potential mates in humpback whale (Mega... Read More about Size-assortative pairing and discrimination of potential mates by humpback whales in the Hawaiian breeding grounds.

Examining the ecological validity of the Talent Development Environment Questionnaire (2012)
Journal Article
Martindale, R. J., Collins, D., Douglas, C., & Whike, A. (2013). Examining the ecological validity of the Talent Development Environment Questionnaire. Journal of Sports Sciences, 31(1), 41-47. https://doi.org/10.1080/02640414.2012.718443

It is clear that high class expertise and effective practice exists within many talent development environments across the world. However, there is also a general consensus that widespread evidence-based policy and practice is lacking. As such, it is... Read More about Examining the ecological validity of the Talent Development Environment Questionnaire.

Investigating the specificity of experimentally induced expectations in motion perception (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Gekas, N., Seitz, A., & Seriès, P. Investigating the specificity of experimentally induced expectations in motion perception. Presented at VSS 2012

Our perceptions are fundamentally altered by our expectations, a.k.a. "priors" about the world. In previous statistical learning experiments (Chalk et al, 2010), we investigated how such priors are formed by presenting subjects with low contrast movi... Read More about Investigating the specificity of experimentally induced expectations in motion perception.

The Role of Autophagy in Crohn’s Disease (2012)
Journal Article
Henderson, P., & Stevens, C. (2012). The Role of Autophagy in Crohn’s Disease. Cells, 1(3), 492-519. https://doi.org/10.3390/cells1030492

(Macro)-autophagy is a homeostatic process by which eukaryotic cells dispose of protein aggregates and damaged organelles. Autophagy is also used to degrade micro-organisms that invade intracellularly in a process termed xenophagy. Genome-wide associ... Read More about The Role of Autophagy in Crohn’s Disease.