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Intraspecific phenotypic differentiation by habitat depth in deep demersal fish species Open

Natasha Steeds, Zulqurnain Zulqurnain, Thomas Régnier, Fiona M. Gibb, David Stirling , et al. · 2024

Introduction Ocean habitat characteristics change with depth. This is due to physical properties such as light, temperature and hydrostatic pressure, but also species community. In some cases, this generates a boundary (e.g. when light is …

A Semantic Hybrid Temporal Approach for Detecting Driver Mental Fatigue Open

Shahzeb Ansari, Haiping Du, Fazel Naghdy, Ayaz Ahmed Hoshu, David Stirling · 2024

Driver mental fatigue is considered a major factor affecting driver behavior that may result in fatal accidents. Several approaches are addressed in the literature to detect fatigue behavior in a timely manner through either physiological …

Systematic Review of Tumor Segmentation Strategies for Bone Metastases Open

Iromi R. Paranavithana, David Stirling, Montserrat Ros, Matthew Field · 2023

Purpose: To investigate the segmentation approaches for bone metastases in differentiating benign from malignant bone lesions and characterizing malignant bone lesions. Method: The literature search was conducted in Scopus, PubMed, IEEE an…

Population and seascape genomics of a critically endangered benthic elasmobranch, the blue skate <i>Dipturus batis</i> Open

Aurélien Delaval, Michelle Frost, Victoria Bendall, Stuart Hetherington, David Stirling , et al. · 2021

The blue skate ( Dipturus batis ) has a patchy distribution across the North‐East Atlantic Ocean, largely restricted to occidental seas around the British Isles following fisheries‐induced population declines and extirpations. The viabilit…

A policy-based framework for the determination of management options to protect vulnerable marine ecosystems under the EU deep-sea access regulations Open

P. Daniël van Denderen, Helen Holah, Laura M. Robson, Jan Geert Hiddink, Lénàïck Menot , et al. · 2021

Vulnerable marine ecosystems (VMEs) are particularly susceptible to bottom-fishing activity as they are easily disturbed and slow to recover. A data-driven approach was developed to provide management options for the protection of VMEs und…

North Atlantic Basin-Scale Multi-Criteria Assessment Database to Inform Effective Management and Protection of Vulnerable Marine Ecosystems Open

Telmo Morato, Christopher K. Pham, Laurence Fauconnet, Gerald H. Taranto, Giovanni Chimienti , et al. · 2021

The identification of areas that fit the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) criteria to define what constitutes a Vulnerable Marine Ecosystem (VME) has been the main policy driver for the protection of deep-sea e…

North Atlantic basin-scale multi-criteria assessment database to inform management recommendations to protect Vulnerable Marine Ecosystems Open

Telmo Morato, Christopher K. Pham, Laurence Fauconnet, Gerald H. Taranto, Giovanni Chimienti , et al. · 2020

We applied the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES) multi criteria assessment (MCA) method for identifying VMEs in the North-East Atlantic (ICES, 2016a,b; Morato et al., 2018) from ATLAS VME database to provide the f…

North Atlantic basin-scale multi-criteria assessment database to inform management recommendations to protect Vulnerable Marine Ecosystems Open

Telmo Morato, Christopher K. Pham, Laurence Fauconnet, Gerald H. Taranto, Giovanni Chimienti , et al. · 2020

We applied the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES) multi criteria assessment (MCA) method for identifying VMEs in the North-East Atlantic (ICES, 2016a,b; Morato et al., 2018) from ATLAS VME database to provide the f…

Distribution and thermal niche of the common skate species complex in the north-east Atlantic Open

Matthew Frost, FC Neat, David Stirling, Victoria Bendall, Leslie R. Noble , et al. · 2020

Temperature is one of the most significant variables affecting the geographic distribution and physiology of elasmobranchs. Differing thermal gradients across a species’ range can lead to adaptive divergence and differing developmental tim…

Assessing the environmental status of selected North Atlantic deep-sea ecosystems Open

Georgios Kazanidis, Covadonga Orejas, Ángel Borja, Ellen Kenchington, Lea‐Anne Henry , et al. · 2020

Climate‐induced changes in the suitable habitat of cold‐water corals and commercially important deep‐sea fishes in the North Atlantic Open

Telmo Morato, José Manuel González‐Irusta, Carlos Dominguez‐Carrió, Chih‐Lin Wei, Andrew J. Davies , et al. · 2020

The deep sea plays a critical role in global climate regulation through uptake and storage of heat and carbon dioxide. However, this regulating service causes warming, acidification and deoxygenation of deep waters, leading to decreased fo…

Use of species distribution modeling in the deep sea Open

Ellen Kenchington, Oisín Callery, Fiona Davidson, Anthony Grehan, Telmo Morato , et al. · 2019

In the last two decades the use of species distribution modeling (SDM) for the study and management of marine species has increased dramatically. The availability of predictor variables on a global scale and the ease of use of SDM techniqu…

Assessment of frailty: a survey of quantitative and clinical methods Open

Yasmeen Naz Panhwar, Fazel Naghdy, Golshah Naghdy, David Stirling, Janette Potter · 2019

Frailty is a multi-dimensional phenomenon that is defined by various domains; physical, social, psychological and environmental. The physical domain has proven to be essential in the objective determination of the degree of frailty in olde…

Rockall and Hatton: Resolving a Super Wicked Marine Governance Problem in the High Seas of the Northeast Atlantic Ocean Open

David E. Johnson, Christopher R. S. Barrio Froján, Francis Neat, Dick van Oevelen, David Stirling , et al. · 2019

The Hatton-Rockall plateau in the northeast Atlantic Ocean has long been the subject of interest for fishers, prospectors, conservationists, managers, planners, and politicians. As a feature that straddles national and international waters…

Quantitative and non-invasive measurement of exercise-induced fatigue Open

Sina Ameli, Fazel Naghdy, David Stirling, Golshah Naghdy, Morteza Aghmesheh · 2018

Prolonged exercise-induced muscular fatigue adversely affects physical performance. The fatigue increases the risk of sport injuries, whereas early fatigue detection and assessment can prevent injuries. An assessment of the most crucial im…

The role of deep learning and radiomic feature extraction in cancer-specific predictive modelling: a review Open

Alanna Vial, David Stirling, Matthew Field, Montserrat Ros, Christian Ritz , et al. · 2018

This paper reviews objective methods for prognostic modelling of cancer tumours located within radiology images, a process known as radiomics. Radiomics is a novel feature transformation method for detecting clinically relevant features fr…

Identifying the larva of the fan mussel, Atrina fragilis (Pennant, 1777) (Pinnidae) Open

David Stirling, Philip Boulcott, M. Bidault, Karim Gharbi, Beth E. Scott , et al. · 2018

This work was funded by the Scottish Government project SP004 and a MSS PhD studentship to DS. Many thanks are due to the Crews of the MV Alba na Mara (MSS), RV Sir John Murray (SEPA) and the MV Lochnevis (Caledonian Macbrayne) for facilit…

The effect of imputing missing clinical attribute values on training lung cancer survival prediction model performance Open

Mohamed Samir Barakat, Matthew Field, Aditya Ghose, David Stirling, Lois Holloway , et al. · 2017

An Event Group Based Classification Framework for Multi-variate Sequential Data Open

Chao Sun, David Stirling · 2017

Decision tree algorithms were not traditionally considered for sequential data classification, mostly because feature generation needs to be integrated with the modelling procedure in order to avoid a localisation problem. This paper prese…

Oral Presentations Open

Nancy Lewis, Dianne Hussey, Julia Nevinson, S. Atkinson, Xue Xue , et al. · 2017

Background Image guided brachytherapy is well-established for the treatment of gynaecological cancers.ICRU Report 89 recommends delineating the target volume on MR to utilise the superior tumour visualisation.At our centre, a para-axial T2…

Cyclist 360° Alert: Validation of an Instrumented Bicycle Trajectory Reconstruction Mechanism Using Satellite and Inertial Navigation Systems Open

E. Milonidis, Shahjahan Miah, Ioannis Kaparias, David Stirling, N. Karcanias · 2017

Cycling is an increasingly popular mode of travel in cities owing to the great advantages that it offers in terms of space consumption, health and environmental sustainability. However, the number of recent accidents between cyclists and h…

Using verified species distribution models to inform the conservation of a rare marine species Open

David Stirling, Philip Boulcott, Beth E. Scott, Peter J. Wright · 2016

Aim Given the paucity of data on the distribution of habitats and species for most marine species, particularly those that are rare and in need of protection, there is a need to model species distributions. Using the fan mussel, Atrina fra…

Measurement of Ultra Wideband Channel Sounding Using a Vector Network Analyzer Open

Ahmed Alshabo, Peter James Vial, Montserrat Ros, David Stirling, Muhammad Abu Bakar Sidik · 2015

In this paper, we analyze the measurement of ultra wideband (UWB) noise channels in different indoor environments. All measurements are done using a vector network analyzer (VNA) which allows us to measure the noise channel transfer functi…

Flow category landslide susceptibility modelling of the Sydney Basin Open

Darshika Palamakumbure, Phil Flentje, David Stirling · 2015

University of Wollongong Landslide Research Team has completed a GIS-based Landslide Susceptibility model for the entire Sydney Basin region. According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics and the 2011 Census data, the population within …

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