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Challenging the Norm? The 'EthoPolitics' of Low Cost Homeownership in Scotland
(2011-12) - Journal articleInfluenced by Nikolas Rose’s concept of ‘ethopolitics’ this paper explores attitudes to home and tenure amongst low-cost homeowners in Scotland. In doing so, it seeks to highlight the contested nature of contemporary ... -
Challenging the sensitivity limits of paleomagnetism : magnetostratigraphy of weakly magnetized Guadalupian-Lopingian (Permian) limestone from Kyushu, Japan
(2015-01-15) - Journal articleDespite their utility for bio- and chemostratigraphy, many carbonate platform sequences have been difficult to analyze using paleomagnetic techniques due to their extraordinarily weak natural remanent magnetizations (NRMs). ... -
Change and continuity after the Arab Uprising : the consequences of state formation in Arab North African states
(2015-01-02) - Journal articleThis article provides a comparative macro-level overview of political development in Morocco, Tunisia and Egypt. It examines their evolution from the colonial period through several distinct phases, showing how differences ... -
Change and continuity in the rural church : Norfolk, 1760 - 1840
(University of St Andrews, 1977) - ThesisTwo historiographical traditions have influenced our understanding of church and society in Georgian England: on the one hand the church has been subject to a severe, judgemental treatment which has discouraged impartial ... -
Change blindness in proximity-aware mobile interfaces
(ACM, 2018-04-21) - Conference itemInterface designs on both small and large displays can encourage people to alter their physical distance to the display. Mobile devices support this form of interaction naturally, as the user can move the device closer or ... -
Change in Northumbria : was Aldfrith of Northumbria's reign a period of innovation or did it merely reflect the development of processes already underway in the late seventh century?
(University of St Andrews, 2015-11-30) - ThesisThis thesis looks at a period of Northumbrian history when the king was a part Irish, Iona trained scholar. Some have suggested that Aldfrith was assisted to the kingship by the northern victors of the battle of Nechtansmere. ... -
The change of the name of the Russian language in Russian from Rossiiskii to Russkii : did politics have anything to do with it?
(2012) - Journal articleDuring the 1830s and 1840s the official Russian name of the Russian language changed from Rossiiskii to Russkii. Prior to this the names of the country and of its language were directly related (Rossiia – Rossiiskii), while ... -
Change point analysis of travel routes reveals novel insights into foraging strategies and cognitive maps of wild baboons
(2014-05) - Journal articleEfficient space use is a critical challenge for animals relying on stationary resources. It is often difficult with purely observational methods to gain unambiguous insight into any ability of primates to manage and process ... -
A changepoint analysis of spatio-temporal point processes
(2015) - Journal articleThis work introduces a Bayesian approach to detecting multiple unknown changepoints over time in the inhomogeneous intensity of a spatio-temporal point process with spatial and temporal dependence within segments. We propose ... -
Changes and continuities in a Mediterranean landscape : a new interdisciplinary approach to understanding historic character in western Catalonia
(2017-11-13) - Journal articleTo understand why historic landscapes changed in the past researchers need to identify when and where changes took place, but in rural landscapes, the origins and development of many historic elements including field ... -
Changes in child exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (CHETS) study after implementation of smoke-free legislation in Scotland: national cross sectional survey
(2007-09-13) - Journal articleObjective To detect any change in exposure to secondhand smoke among primary schoolchildren after implementation of smoke-free legislation in Scotland in March 2006. Design Comparison of nationally representative, cross ... -
Changes in dive behaviour during naval sonar exposure in killer whales, long-finned pilot whales, and sperm whales.
(2012-10-11) - Journal articleAnthropogenic underwater sound in the environment might potentially affect the behavior of marine mammals enough to have an impact on their reproduction and survival. Diving behavior of four killer whales (Orcinus orca), ... -
Changes in gene expression, lipid class and fatty acid composition associated with diapause in the marine copepod Calanus finmarchicus from Loch Etive, Scotland.
(University of St Andrews, 2009-11-30) - ThesisZooplankton are the major primary consumers in pelagic ecosystems, providing the principal pathway for energy transfer from primary production to higher trophic levels. The marine copepod Calanus finmarchicus is an important ... -
Changes in intranuclear mobility of mature snRNPs provide a mechanism for splicing defects in spinal muscular atrophy
(2012-06-01) - Journal articleIt is becoming increasingly clear that defects in RNA metabolism can lead to disease. Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), a leading genetic cause of infant mortality, results from insufficient amounts of survival motor neuron ... -
Changes in localisation and dynamics of splicing and alternative splicing factors in human lens epithelial cells of myotonic dystrophy type 1 patients
(University of St Andrews, 2013) - ThesisLens growth and development is a life-long process in which epithelial cells from the perimeter of the lens migrate towards the centre of the lens and follow a dynamic programme of differentiation and structured DNA and ... -
Changes in selective pressures associated with human population expansion may explain metabolic and immune related pathways enriched for signatures of positive selection
(2016-07-21) - Journal articleBackground: The study of local adaptation processes is a very important research topic in the field of population genomics. There is a particular interest in the study of human populations because they underwent a process ... -
Changes in the geographies of work and home : the ERC WORKANDHOME project
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Changes in Timor Strait hydrology and thermocline structure during the past 130 ka
(2016-11-15) - Journal articlePaleostudies of the Indonesian Throughflow (ITF) are largely based on temperature and salinity reconstructions of its near surface component, whereas the variability of its lower thermocline flow has rarely been investigated. ... -
Changes in VED–modelling
(Sustainable Development Commission, 2005-09) - ReportThe aim of the modelling exercise is to help gain an understanding of whether increases in differential between VED bands would help the UK achieve its: 1) two targets relating to lower carbon cars 2) commitment to a 20% ... -
Changes in women's facial skin color over the ovulatory cycle are not detectable by the human visual system
(2015-07-02) - Journal articleHuman ovulation is not advertised, as it is in several primate species, by conspicuous sexual swellings. However, there is increasing evidence that the attractiveness of women's body odor, voice, and facial appearance peak ...