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Importance of Baseline Specification in Evaluating Conservation Interventions and Achieving No Net Loss of Biodiversity by BULL, J. W, GORDON, A, LAW, E. A, SUTTLE, K. B, MILNER‐GULLAND, E. J

“…There is an urgent need to improve the evaluation of conservation interventions. This requires specifying an objective and a frame of reference from which to…”
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Comparing biodiversity offset calculation methods with a case study in Uzbekistan by Bull, J.W., Milner-Gulland, E.J., Suttle, K.B., Singh, N.J.

“…•We apply various existing biodiversity offset methodologies to a common case study.•We use data from 40years of natural gas extraction and impact in NW…”
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CHANGES IN THE UNITED KINGDOM HARDWOOD IMPORTING SOURCES FROM 1853 TO 2015 by Bull, JW

“…This paper identifies changes in the United Kingdom (UK) hardwood importing sources between 1853 and 1992 and changes in UK sawn hardwood sources between 1999…”
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Schrödinger’s microbe: implications of coercing a living organism into a coherent quantum mechanical state by Bull, J. W., Gordon, A.

“…Consideration of the experimental activities carried out in one discipline, through the lens of another, can lead to novel insights. Here, we comment from a…”
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How humans drive speciation as well as extinction by Bull, J. W., Maron, M.

“…A central topic for conservation science is evaluating how human activities influence global species diversity. Humanity exacerbates extinction rates. But by…”
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Categories of flexibility in biodiversity offsetting, and their implications for conservation by Bull, J.W., Hardy, M.J., Moilanen, A., Gordon, A.

“…Biodiversity offsets (‘offsets’) are an increasingly widespread conservation tool. Often, offset policies have a like-for-like requirement, whereby permitted…”
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Nature-positive goals for an organization's food consumption by Taylor, I, Bull, J W, Ashton, B, Biggs, E, Clark, M, Gray, N, Grub, H M J, Stewart, C, Milner-Gulland, E J

“…Organizations are increasingly committing to biodiversity protection targets with focus on 'nature-positive' outcomes, yet examples of how to feasibly achieve…”
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Reverse adaptivity-a new evolutionary tool for structural optimization by Reynolds, D., McConnachie, J., Bettess, P., Christie, W. C., Bull, J. W.

“…This paper presents a new method, Reverse Adaptivity, for automatically generating solutions to initial design and redesign problems. The method is based on a…”
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Fatigue life of subgrade in the cone of disturbance following an underground explosion by Bull, J.W., Woodford, C.H.

“…This paper considers the fatigue life of the subgrade beneath a cement concrete runway when an explosive has detonated at a number of depths in the subgrade…”
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Typical versus atypical presentation of obturator hernia by Schmidt, P H, Bull, W J, Jeffery, K M, Martindale, R G

“…Although it is a rare occurrence among all pelvic hernias diagnosed the obturator hernia continues to be a diagnostic challenge for surgeons today. These…”
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Camouflets and their effect on runway support by Bull, J.W., Woodford, C.H.

“…A numerical simulation of the effect of the detonation of a chemical explosive in a subgrade, such that a camouflet is formed beneath an apparently undisturbed…”
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The effect of large subgrade voids on the fatigue life of runways by Bull, J.W, Woodford, C.H

“…This paper assumes that an explosion under a runway causes a large void, a camouflet, to be formed. It considers the effects of a single wheel load moving…”
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Evolutionary material translation: a tool for the automatic design of low weight, low stress structures by Reynolds, D., Christie, W. C., Bettess, P., McConnachie, J., Bull, J. W.

“…EMERGE is a fully automatic and highly flexible program for producing low‐weight, low‐stress structures, developed by the self‐designing structures project at…”
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Behavior of Prestressed Beam Strengthened with External Tendons by Miyamoto, Ayaho, Tei, Katsuji, Nakamura, Hideaki, Bull, John W

“…The prestressing technique using external tendons can be considered an effective method of strengthening bridges deteriorating due to increasing overloading…”
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The low stress design of welded plates using the self-designing structures approach by Bull, J.W, Woodford, C.H, Christie, W.C, Neau, E, James, M.N

“…For cover plates welded to base plates, we show that by linking together finite element adaptive techniques, error estimators and stress trajectories, together…”
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Adaptive mesh refinement for shells with modified Ahmad elements by Bond, T.J., Li, L.Y., Bettess, P., Bull, J.W., Applegarth, I.

“…This paper presents a simple scheme for the generation of a quadrilateral element mesh for shells with arbitrary three-dimensional geometry. The present mesh…”
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Self-designing structures: a practical approach by Christie, W.C., Bettess, P., Bull, J.W.

“…Demonstrates the simple but effective application of a standard finite element program (PAFEC), and the associated geometric modelling code (PIGS), to the…”
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How humans drive speciation as well as extinction by Bull, J. W., Maron, M.

“…A central topic for conservation science is evaluating how human activities influence global species diversity. Humanity exacerbates extinction rates. But by…”
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Subgrade fatigue life effects due to a pressurized void by Bull, J. W., Woodford, C. H.

“…The effect on the fatigue life of a subgrade beneath a uniformly loaded cement concrete runway, when detonation gases have formed a void in the subgrade is…”
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Adaptive analysis of stiffened structures using stiffened plate bending elements by Li, L.-Y., Applegarth, I., Bull, J.W., Bettess, P., Bond, T.J.

“…In this paper we describe an adaptive mesh refinement procedure. The procedure is used in the static analysis of stiffened plate structures using 8-noded…”
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