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Increased conservation marketing effort has major fundraising benefits for even the least popular species by Veríssimo, Diogo, Vaughan, Greg, Ridout, Martin, Waterman, Carly, MacMillan, Douglas, Smith, Robert J.

“…Conservationists often complain that their study species are ignored by donors. However, marketing theory could help understand and increase the profile and…”
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The power of monitoring: optimizing survey designs to detect occupancy changes in a rare amphibian population by Barata, Izabela M., Griffiths, Richard A., Ridout, Martin S.

“…Biodiversity conservation requires reliable species assessments and rigorously designed surveys. However, determining the survey effort required to reliably…”
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Computational aspects of N‐mixture models by Dennis, Emily B, Morgan, Byron J.T, Ridout, Martin S

“…The N‐mixture model is widely used to estimate the abundance of a population in the presence of unknown detection probability from only a set of counts subject…”
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Efficient occupancy model-fitting for extensive citizen-science data by Dennis, Emily B, Morgan, Byron J T, Freeman, Stephen N, Ridout, Martin S, Brereton, Tom M, Fox, Richard, Powney, Gary D, Roy, David B

“…Appropriate large-scale citizen-science data present important new opportunities for biodiversity modelling, due in part to the wide spatial coverage of…”
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An Improved Threshold Approximation for Local Vote Decision Fusion by Ridout, M. S.

“…Local vote decision fusion is a recently proposed method of target detection for a wireless sensor network in which individual sensors combine their decisions…”
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Identification of sequence changes in myosin II that adjust muscle contraction velocity by Johnson, Chloe A, McGreig, Jake E, Jeanfavre, Sarah T, Walklate, Jonathan, Vera, Carlos D, Farré, Marta, Mulvihill, Daniel P, Baines, Anthony J, Ridout, Martin, Leinwand, Leslie A, Wass, Mark N, Geeves, Michael A

“…The speed of muscle contraction is related to body size; muscles in larger species contract at slower rates. Since contraction speed is a property of the…”
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Number and Transmission of [PSI+] Prion Seeds (Propagons) in the Yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae by Byrne, Lee J, Cole, Diana J, Cox, Brian S, Ridout, Martin S, Morgan, Byron J.T, Tuite, Mick F

“…Background: Yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) prions are efficiently propagated and the on-going generation and transmission of prion seeds (propagons) to…”
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Species Occupancy Modeling for Detection Data Collected Along a Transect by Guillera-Arroita, Gurutzeta, Morgan, Byron J.T., Ridout, Martin S., Linkie, Matthew

“…The proportion of sampling sites occupied by a species is a concept of interest in ecology and biodiversity conservation. Occupancy surveys based on collecting…”
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Statistical Applications of the Complex-Step Method of Numerical Differentiation by Ridout, Martin S.

“…The complex-step method is a clever way of obtaining a numerical approximation to the first derivative of a function, avoiding the round-off error that plagues…”
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Two-Stage Bayesian Study Design for Species Occupancy Estimation by Guillera-Arroita, Gurutzeta, Ridout, Martin S, Morgan, Byron J. T

“…A problem of interest for ecology and conservation is that of determining the best allocation of survey effort in studies aimed at estimating the proportion of…”
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Computational methods for yeast prion curing curves by Ridout, Martin S.

“…If the chemical guanidine hydrochloride is added to a dividing culture of yeast cells in which some of the protein Sup35p is in its prion form, the proportion…”
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Cell Division Is Essential for Elimination of the Yeast [PSI⁺] Prion by Guanidine Hydrochloride by Byrne, Lee J., Cox, Brian S., Cole, Diana J., Ridout, Martin S., Morgan, Byron J. T., Tuite, Mick F.

“…Guanidine hydrochloride (Gdn·HCl) blocks the propagation of yeast prions by inhibiting Hsp104, a molecular chaperone that is absolutely required for yeast…”
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Models for species‐detection data collected along transects in the presence of abundance‐induced heterogeneity and clustering in the detection process by Guillera‐Arroita, Gurutzeta, Ridout, Martin S., Morgan, Byron J. T., Linkie, Matthew

“…Summary 1. Models have been devised previously that allow the estimation of abundance from detection data of unmarked individuals while accounting for…”
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Estimating Intraclass Correlation for Binary Data by Ridout, Martin S., Demétrio, Clarice G. B., Firth, David

“…This paper reviews many different estimators of intraclass correlation that have been proposed for binary data and compares them in an extensive simulation…”
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An empirical model for underdispersed count data by Ridout, Martin S, Besbeas, Panagiotis

“…We present a novel distribution for modelling count data that are underdispersed relative to the Poisson distribution. The distribution is a form of weighted…”
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Modelling cell generation times by using the tempered stable distribution by Palmer, Karen J., Ridout, Martin S., Morgan, Byron J. T.

“…We show that the family of tempered stable distributions has considerable potential for modelling cell generation time data. Several real examples illustrate…”
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Short-term responses of king penguins Aptenodytes patagonicus to helicopter disturbance at South Georgia by Hughes, Kevin A., Waluda, Claire M., Stone, Richard E., Ridout, Martin S., Shears, John R.

“…The short-term behavioural effects of helicopter overflights on breeding king penguins Aptenodytes patagonicus at South Georgia were examined. Seventeen…”
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Erratum to: Species Occupancy Modeling for Detection Data Collected Along a Transect by Guillera-Arroita, Gurutzeta, Morgan, Byron J. T., Ridout, Martin S., Linkie, Matthew

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Modelling the effects of repellent chemicals on foraging bees by Ridout, Martin S., Faddy, Malcolm J., Solomon, Michael G.

“…Many pesticide sprays that are used for crop protection are harmful to honey-bees. It can therefore be beneficial to add to the spray chemical compounds that…”
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Modified Glasgow Prognostic Score (mGPS) for Prognostication of Adult Oncology Patients With Palliative Intent in a Regional Victorian Hospital, Australia by Lojanapiwat, Nuttaradee, Islam, Md Rafiqul, Ridout, Martin, Subramaniam, Sivakumar

“…Background: Accurate prognostication is essential in caring for palliative patients. Various prognostication tools have been validated in many settings in the…”
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