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Are associations between electronic media use and BMI different across levels of physical activity?
(2015-05-19) - Journal articleBackground The use of electronic media has been found to be a risk factor for higher BMI and for being overweight. Physical activity has been found to be associated with lower BMI and lower risk for being overweight. Little ... -
Are Central Europe, and East and Southeast Asia alike? The normative isomorphism of language, nation and state
(Joshibi University of Art and Design, 2016) - Book itemFollowing the Great War, ethnolinguistic nationalism became the basis of nation-state building and statehood legitimation in Central Europe. According to this paradigm, for the nation-state to be legitimate, it must house ... -
Are Clouds ready to accelerate ad hoc financial simulations?
(IEEE Computer Society, 2014-08-12) - Conference itemApplications employed in the financial services industry to capture and estimate a variety of risk metrics are underpinned by stochastic simulations which are data, memory and computationally intensive. Many of these ... -
Are health inequalities really not the smallest in the Nordic welfare states? : A comparison of mortality inequality in 37 countries
(2013) - Journal articleBackground: Research comparing mortality by socioeconomic status has found that inequalities are not the smallest in the Nordic countries. This is in contrast to expectations given these countries’ policy focus on equity. ... -
Are international fund flows related to exchange rate dynamics?
(2018-02) - Journal articleEmploying monthly data for 53 countries between 1996 and 2015, we investigate the relationship between international fund flows and exchange rate dynamics. We find strong co-movement between funds flows (as measured with ... -
Are inventory based and remotely sensed above-ground biomass estimates consistent?
(2013-09-19) - Journal articleCarbon emissions resulting from deforestation and forest degradation are poorly known at local, national and global scales. In part, this lack of knowledge results from uncertain above-ground biomass estimates. It is ... -
Are mixed-ethnic unions more likely to dissolve than co-ethnic unions? New evidence from Britain
(2012-05) - Journal articleThe increasing proportion of ethnic minorities in Britain has been paralleled by an increase in the occurrence of mixed-ethnic marriages between one White partner and an ethnic minority partner. Such marriages are thought ... -
Are retail outlets complying with national legislation to protect children from exposure to tobacco displays at point of sale? : Results from the first compliance study in the UK
(2016-03-28) - Journal articleBACKGROUND: From April 6th 2015, all small shops in the UK were required to cover up tobacco products at point of sale (POS) to protect children from exposure. As part of a larger 5-year study to measure the impact of the ... -
Are the sublimation thermodynamics of organic molecules predictable?
(2016-11-28) - Journal articleWe compare a range of computational methods for the prediction of sublimation thermodynamics (enthalpy, entropy and free energy of sublimation). These include a model from theoretical chemistry that utilizes crystal lattice ... -
Are thermophilic microorganisms active in cold environments?
(2015-07) - Journal articleThe mean air temperature of the Icelandic interior is below 10 °C. However, we have previously observed 16S rDNA sequences associated with thermophilic lineages in Icelandic basalts. Measurements of the temperatures of ... -
Are tornado-like magnetic structures able to support solar prominence plasma?
(2015-07-20) - Journal articleRecent high-resolution and high-cadence observations have surprisingly suggested that prominence barbs exhibit apparent rotating motions suggestive of a tornado-like structure. Additional evidence has been provided by ... -
Are toxins from harmful algae a factor involved in the decline of harbour seal populations in Scotland?
(University of St Andrews, 2015) - ThesisFirstly this study builds on the investigation initiated by Hall and Frame (2010), which found that Scottish harbour seals were exposed to domoic acid (DA), a potent natural neurotoxin produced by phytoplankton. Using ... -
Are we measuring up to sustainable development?
(Sustainable Development Commission, 2005-06-14) - ReportScotland is developing 'Choosing our future : Scotland's sustainable development strategy 'based on the UK 'The UK Government sustainable development strategy'. This seminar focused on what are the best ways for Scotland ... -
"Are you proud to be British?" Mobile film shows, local voices and the demise of the British Empire in Africa
(2016) - Journal articleThe Colonial Film Unit (CFU) (1939–1955) produced over 200 films, which were exhibited non-theatrically to African audiences through its fleet of mobile cinema vans. While the CFU closely monitored, and theorised on, its ... -
The Argos-CLS Kalman filter : error structures and state-space modelling relative to Fastloc GPS data
(2015-04-23) - Journal articleUnderstanding how an animal utilises its surroundings requires its movements through space to be described accurately. Satellite telemetry is the only means of acquiring movement data for many species however data are prone ... -
Arguing with law: strategic legal argumentation, US diplomacy and debates over the International Criminal Court
(2015-04) - Journal articleRecent studies have highlighted the instrumental use of language, wherein actors deploy claims to strategically pursue policy goals in the absence of persuasion or socialisation. Yet these accounts are insufficiently ... -
An argument for anti-perfectionism
(University of St Andrews, 2016-06-23) - ThesisIn political philosophy, perfectionism is the view that it is the job of the state to best enable its citizens to live good or flourishing lives. It claims that certain lives can be judged to be sound, and thus instructs ... -
ARID3B: a novel regulator of the Kaposi’s sarcoma-associated herpesvirus lytic cycle
(2016-10) - Journal articleKSHV is the causative agent of commonly fatal malignancies of immuno-compromised individuals, including primary effusion lymphoma (PEL) and Kaposi’s sarcoma (KS). A hallmark of all herpesviruses is their biphasic lifecycle ... -
Aristotle and Lukasiewicz on existential import
(2015) - Journal articleJan Lukasiewicz's treatise on Aristotle's Syllogistic, published in the 1950s, has been very influential in framing contemporary understanding of Aristotle's logical systems. However, Lukasiewicz's interpretation is based ... -
Aristotle on ethical ascription : a philosophical exercise in the interpretation of the role and significance of the hekousios/akousios distinction in Aristotle's Ethics
(University of St Andrews, 2010-09-22) - ThesisIn his ethical treatises Aristotle offers a rich account of those conditions that render people’s behaviour involuntary, and defines voluntariness on the basis of the absence of these conditions. This dissertation has two ...