University of Reading

Inferring the historical patterns of biological evolution

Computer Simulation Using Particles

Computer experiments using particle models A one-dimensional plasma model The simulation program Time integration schemes The particle-mesh force calculation The solution of fie...

The Pareto archived evolution strategy: a new baseline algorithm for Pareto multiobjective optimisation

Most popular evolutionary algorithms for multiobjective optimisation maintain a population of solutions from which individuals are selected for reproduction. In this paper, we i...

The Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: from 25 years of inaction to a global transformation for public health

The Lancet Countdown tracks progress on health and climate change and provides an independent assessment of the health effects of climate change, the implementation of the Paris...

Reflexive methodology: new vistas for qualitative research

Reflexive methodology: new vistas for qualitative research by Mats Alvesson and Kaj Skoldberg, London, Sage, 2009 (second edition), 350 pp., £32.99 (paperback), ISBN 978-1-84860...

Properties of an adaptive archiving algorithm for storing nondominated vectors

Search algorithms for Pareto optimization are designed to obtain multiple solutions, each offering a different tradeoff of the problem objectives. To make the different solution...

Estimates of aerosol radiative forcing from the MACC re-analysis

Abstract. The European Centre for Medium-range Weather Forecast (ECMWF) provides an aerosol re-analysis starting from year 2003 for the Monitoring Atmospheric Composition and Cl...

Phylogenetic relationships of Rutaceae: a cladistic analysis of the subfamilies using evidence from RBC and ATP sequence variation

Sequence data for plastid rbcL and atpB from members of Anacardiaceae, Burseraceae, Cneoraceae, Meliaceae, Ptaeroxylaceae, Rutaceae, and Simaroubaceae were analyzed cladisticall...

Adolescent food choice: an application of the Theory of Planned Behaviour

There is consensus among recent studies that adolescents' diets are nutritionally far from ideal. In an effort to increase understanding of the factors affecting food choice dec...

Yams reclassified: a recircumscription of Dioscoreaceae and Dioscoreales

Abstract Analyses of morphological and molecular characters for Dioscoreales Hook. f. (Chase & al., 1995b; Caddick & al., 2000a; Caddick & al., 2002) have redefined ...