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    • Evolving robot controllers in PDL using genetic programming 

      Shannon, P.; Nehaniv, C.L. (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2011)
      We demonstrate how autonomous agents can be evolved whose controllers are programs in the dynamical systems-oriented, behaviour-based PDL language introduced by Luc Steels. Controllers evolved using a physics simulator ...

    • Aberrant driving behaviours amongst New Zealand truck drivers 

      Sullman, M.J.M.; Pajo, K.B.; Meadows, M.L. (2002-01-01)
      Research using the driver behaviour questionnaire (DBQ) has found that aberrant driving behaviours can be categorised into: errors, lapses and violations (and aggressive violations, depending on the version of the DBQ ...

    • Spanish drivers and their aberrant driving behaviours 

      Gras, M E; Sullman, M J M; Cunill, M; Planes, M; Aymerich, M; Font-Mayolas, S (2006-03)
      One of the most commonly used frameworks for investigating the relationship between self-reported driving behaviour and crash involvement is the Manchester Driver Behaviour Questionnaire (DBQ). However, in spite of the ...

    • Driving anger in Spain 

      Sullman, Mark J. M.; Gras, M. Eugenia; Cunill, Monica; Planes, Monserrat; Font-Mayolas, Silvia (2007-03)
      The present study examined the types of situations that cause Spanish drivers to become angry. The 33-item version of the Driver Anger Scale (Deffenbacher, Oetting, & Lynch, 1994) was used to investigate driver anger amongst ...

    • Anger amongst New Zealand drivers 

      Sullman, M J M (2006-05)
      This research investigated the types of situations that cause drivers to become angry while driving. The Driver Anger Scale [Deffenbacher, J. L., Oetting, E. R., & Lynch, R. S. (1994). Development of a driver anger scale. ...

    • Mobile phone use while driving in a sample of Spanish university workers 

      Gras, M. Eugenia; Cunill, Monica; Sullman, Mark J. M.; Planes, Montserrat; Ayrnerich, Maria; Font-Mayolas, Silvia (2007-03)
      A number of epidemiological studies have reported drivers who use a mobile phone while driving have an elevated risk of being involved in a crash. This is particularly concerning as a survey of drivers in the Spanish region ...

    • Motivation for change and the pros and cons of smoking in a Spanish population 

      Font-Mayolas, Silvia; Planes, Montserrat; Gras, Ma Eugenia; Sullman, Mark J. M. (2007-01)
      Decisional balance and the stage of change have been used to understand the motivation for giving up the habit of smoking. The objective of this study was to find out whether the associations between the pros and the cons ...

    • An investigation of factors reducing seat belt use amongst Spanish drivers and passengers on urban roads 

      Cunill, M; Gras, M E; Planes, M; Oliveras, C; Sullman, M J M (2004-05)
      Seat belt use on Spain's highways is more than 80%, while on the urban roads this figure is around 50%. As there was little information available to explain the difference in seat belt use rates, the main aim of this study ...

    • Predictors of seat belt use amongst Spanish drivers 

      Eugenia Gras, M.; Cunill, Monica; Sullman, Mark J. M.; Planes, Monserrat; Font-Mayolas, Silvia (2007-05)
      Seat belt use on Spanish urban roads is very low. Surprisingly, there is very little information to explain this low level. A number of perceptions and expectancies about seat belt use were investigated to identify factors ...

    • Increasing safety-belt use in Spanish drivers a field test of personal prompts 

      Gras, M E; Cunill, M; Planes, M; Sullman, M J M; Oliveras, C (2003)
      A variation of the ABAB experimental design was used to assess the impact of a verbal prompt on safety-belt use for those traveling by urban roads and highways in Spain. The personal prompt resulted in an increase (29.6%) ...

    • Mobile phone use amongst New Zealand drivers 

      Sullman, M J M; Baas, P H (2004-03)
      Research has shown that using a mobile phone whilst driving may increase the risk of being crash involved by as much as nine times. As around 65% of New Zealand's population own mobile phones, this represents a potentially ...

    • A flexible VLSI parallel processing system for block-matching motion estimation in low bit-rate video coding applications 

      Xu, D L; Sotudeh, R (Springer Nature, 1999)
      In this paper, we design a flexible VLSI-based parallel processing system for an improved three-step search (ITSS) motion estimation algorithm that is superior to the existing three-step search (TSS) algorithm in all cases ...

    • Alignment of atmospheric dust observed by high-sensitivity optical polarimetry 

      Ulanowski, Zbigniew (Springer Nature, 2007)
      Optical polarimetry observations on La Palma, Canary Islands, during a Saharan dust episode showed dichroic extinction, indicating the presence of vertically aligned particles in the atmosphere. It is postulated that the ...

    • Application of global optimisation to particle identification using light scattering 

      Zakovic, S.; Ulanowski, Zbigniew; Bartholomew-Biggs, Michael (1998)
      Numerical methods of solving the inverse light scattering problem for spheres are presented. The methods are based on two stochastic global optimization techniques: Deep's random search and the multilevel single-linkage ...

    • Hypermobility and the hypermobility syndrome 

      Simmonds, Jane; Keer, Rosemary J. (2007-11)
      Hypermobile joints by definition display a range of movement that is considered excessive, taking into consideration the age, gender and ethnic background of the individual. Joint hypermobility, when associated with symptoms ...

    • Osteoporosis : A teenage perspective 

      Gurney, Sally; Simmonds, Jane (2007-12)
      Objectives: To assess the knowledge and health beliefs, on osteoporosis, of 16-18 year olds in full-time education in the UK. This is believed to be an age where peak bone mass, a significant factor in osteoporosis and ...

    • The effects of client violence on child protection networks 

      Littlechild, Brian (2002)
      This article examines the literature and research evidence concerning the impact of threatened and actual violence on social workers' well-being, assessments, and interventions in child-protection work. It is proposed that ...

    • Modelling human memory in robotic companions for personalisation and long-term adaptation in HRI 

      Ho, W.C.; Dautenhahn, K.; Lim, M.Y.; Du Casse, K. (IOS Press, 2010)
      This paper investigates issues of robot's personalization and long-term adaptation in human-robot interaction (HRI). It demonstrates the design and first technical implementation of a HRI showcase in the Robot House at ...

    • New results on long secondary periods in red giants 

      Nicholls, C.P.; Wood, P.R.; Cioni, M-R.L.; Soszynski, I. (2009)
      Approximately 30% of variable red giants have light curves which show a Long Secondary Period (LSP) in addition to their primary oscillation. No model has been proposed that can satisfactorily explain the LSPs. Here we ...

    • Molecules and Dust Grains in AGB Stars in Nearby Galaxies—the Influence of Metallicities 

      Matsuura, M.; Zijlstra, A.A.; Wood, P.R.; Sloan, G.C.; Groenewegen, M.A.T.; Lagadec, E.; van Loon, J.T.; Whitelock, P.A.; Bernard-Salas, J.; Menzies, J.W.; Cioni, M-R.L.; Feast, M.W.; Harris, G.J. (American Institute of Physics (AIP), 2007)
      We have obtained infrared spectra of carbon stars in four nearby galaxies—the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds, the Sagittarius dwarf spheroidal galaxy, and the Fornax dwarf spheroidal galaxy. Our primary aim is to ...