Sustainable rural tourism in Iran : a perspective from Hawraman village by Henderson, Joan C., Ghaderi, Zahed

“…Findings indicate that villagers are concerned about the use of local natural and cultural resources for tourism purposes, recognising negative consequences which seem to them to outweigh positive effects. Participation has been very limited in government rural tourism initiatives which are felt to yield few benefits for village inhabitants. …”
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Analysis of graphene TE surface plasmons in the terahertz regime by He, Xiao Yong, Tao, Jin, Meng, Bo

“…The influence of the external magnetic field, gate voltage and temperature as the tuning schemes of the SPs have been investigated. The results show that graphene TE modes can be realized by tuning the magnetic fields or gate voltage. …”
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Social computing in tourism websites by Chua, Alton Yeow Kuan

“…(2) In what ways have social computing tools been used? A total of 90 tourism-related websites was randomly drawn from Asia, American and Europe for analysis. …”
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Anisotropic behaviour of AZ31B sheet at high strain rates by Ahmad, Iram Raza, Shu, Dong Wei

“…The anisotropic effects on the mechanical response of AZ31B sheet at high strain rates have been analyzed. The experimental results indicate that the stress-strain behaviour of the alloy is highly anisotropic and rate sensitive. …”
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Hierarchically structured Pt/CNT@TiO2 nanocatalysts with ultrahigh stability for low-temperature fuel cells by Xia, Bao Yu, Ding, Shujiang, Wu, Hao Bin, Wang, Xin, Lou, David Xiong Wen

“…High-stability Pt electrocatalysts have been prepared using hierarchical CNT@TiO2 structures composed of TiO2 nanosheets grafted on the CNT backbone as the support. …”
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Nonlinear partial differential equations in neuroscience: from modelling to mathematical theory by Carrillo de la Plata, JA, Roux, P

“…Many systems of partial differential equations have been proposed as simplified representations of complex collective behaviours in large networks of neurons. …”

Identifying individuals in video by combining 'generative' and discriminative head models by Everingham, M, Zisserman, A

“…The objective of this work is automatic detection and identification of individuals in unconstrained consumer video, given a minimal number of labelled faces as training data. Whilst much work has been done on (mainly frontal) face detection and recognition, current methods are not sufficiently robust to deal with the wide variations in pose and appearance found in such video. …”

Understanding liver transplantation outcomes through the lens of its tissue-resident immunobiome by Prosser, AC, Klenerman, P, Lucas, M

“…The importance of donor- and recipient-derived TRLs after transplantation is becoming increasingly recognized, although it has not been examined in detail after liver transplantation. …”

Investigating human trafficking recruitment online: a study of fraudulent job offers on social media platforms by Moyo, TM, Gunes, O, Jirotka, M

“…However, limited research has been conducted on the recruitment methods for human trafficking on social media, particularly in developing countries. …”

Extending material cognition to primate tool use by Mosley, H, Haslam, M

“…The concept of extended or distributed cognition has been present in archaeology for some time, yet despite its inclusion of non-human hominin ancestors, it has remained distinctly anthropocentric in nature. …”

Single view reconstruction of curved surfaces by Prasad, M, Zisserman, A, Fitzgibbon, A

“…Recent advances in single-view reconstruction (SVR) have been in modelling power (curved 2.5D surfaces) and automation (automatic photo pop-up). …”

The Hierarchy of Victimhood: Prisons and States’ Responsibility to Protect Every Victim of Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking by Jovanović, M, Topp, V, Fluhr, F

“…In an environment where being a victim of a crime and human rights violation both matter less than the State’s interest in immigration and crime control, prisons will struggle to deliver on their commitment and international obligation to protect those inmates who have been or are at risk of being exploited.…”

Well-posedness and stability of a stochastic neural field in the form of a partial differential equation by Carrillo de la Plata, JA, Roux, P, Solem, S

“…The system was rigorously derived from a stochastic particle system and its noisedriven pattern-forming bifurcations have been characterised. However, due to its nonlinear and non-local nature, standard well-posedness theory for smooth time-dependent solutions of parabolic equations does not apply. …”

Automatic retrieval of visual continuity errors in movies by Pickup, L, Zisserman, A

“…We discover mistakes that have previously been missed in the listings for these movies on such websites as moviemistakes.com.…”

Safe POMDP online planning among dynamic agents via adaptive conformal prediction by Sheng, S, Yu, P, Parker, D, Kwiatkowska, M, Feng, L

“…Through experimental evaluation in various dynamic environments using real-world pedestrian trajectory data, the proposed approach has been shown to effectively maintain probabilistic safety guarantees while accommodating up to hundreds of dynamic agents.…”

Piecewise damage model for SiC/SiC composites with multilevel experimental validation by Shi, D, Wang, Z, Marrow, J, Liu, C, Wan, F, Yang, X

“…Using multiscale and multidimensional data from experiments and advanced microscopic characterisation, a piecewise damage model for SiC/SiC composite structures has been proposed. First, the geometric information of the microstructure was acquired using scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and X-ray computed tomography (X-CT). …”

The political-economic risks of AI by Carvalho, J-P

“…The political and economic risks of artificial intelligence have been over shadowed by fears of malicious superintelligence and killer robots. …”

Sacred rubble and humble shelters: German church building after the Second World War by Betts, PR

“…After the war, church-building resumed its leading historical role from before the Industrial Revolution as the avant-garde of innovative international architecture, although its comeback has been largely overlooked by architectural and cultural historians alike. …”

Stable transformation of pleomorphic bloodstream form Trypanosoma brucei by MacGregor, P, Rojas, F, Dean, S, Matthews, KR

“…However, most trypanosome studies are carried out on laboratory-adapted monomorphic cell lines, incapable of differentiating to stumpy-forms or completing the life cycle through the tsetse fly. Partly, this has been due to the inefficiency of transfection of pleomorphic strains which have retained the ability to generate stumpy-forms. …”

Identification of the meiotic life cycle stage of Trypanosoma brucei in the tsetse fly by Peacock, L, Ferris, V, Sharma, R, Sunter, J, Bailey, M, Carrington, M, Gibson, W

“…Genetic exchange occurs in the parasitic protists Trypanosoma brucei, T. cruzi, and Leishmania major, but the precise cellular mechanisms are unknown, because the process has not been observed directly. Here we exploit the identification of homologs of meiotic genes in the T. brucei genome and demonstrate that three functionally distinct, meiosis-specific proteins are expressed in the nucleus of a single specific cell type, defining a previously undescribed developmental stage occurring within the tsetse fly salivary gland. …”