Global cropland and greenhouse gas impacts of UK food supply are increasingly located overseas

Date of Acceptance: 04/12/2016 © 2016 The Author(s). This work was supported by a University of Aberdeen Environment and Food Security Theme/the James Hutton Institute PhD studentship, and contributes to the Scottish Food Security Alliance-Crops and the Belmont Forum supported DEVIL project (NERC fund UK contribution: NE/M021327/1). J.M. and R.B.M. acknowledge funding from the Rural and Environment Science and Analytical Services, Scottish Government. T.K. acknowledges funding from the European Research Council Grant ERC-263522 (LUISE).

Multilevel structural equation models for longitudinal data where predictors are measured more frequently than outcomes : an application to the effects of stress on the cognitive function of nurses

Funded by Chief Scientist Office, Scotland. Grant Number: CZH/4/394 Economic and Social Research Council grant as part of the National Centre for Research Methods. Grant Number: RES-576-25-0032

Re-examination of the rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) immune response to flagellin : Yersinia ruckeri flagellin is a potent activator of acute phase proteins, anti-microbial peptides and pro-inflammatory cytokines in vitro

Copyright © 2015. Published by Elsevier Ltd. E.W. was supported by a PhD studentship from the Ministry of Science and Technology of Thailand and Mahasarakham University. T.W. received funding from the MASTS pooling initiative (The Marine Alliance for Science and Technology for Scotland), that is funded by the Scottish Funding Council (grant reference HR09011). This research was also funded by the European Commission under the 7th Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development (FP7) of the European Union (grant agreement No. 311993 TARGETFISH).

Is Pairing with a Relative Heritable? : Estimating Female and Male Genetic Contributions to the Degree of Biparental Inbreeding in Song Sparrows (Melospiza melodia)

We thank the Tsawout and Tseycum First Nation bands for access to Mandarte, everyone who contributed to the long-term data collection, and the European Research Council and Royal Society for funding. We thank J.D. Hadfield, P. Bijma, E. Postma, and L.F. Keller for illuminatingdiscussions. Also, L.E.B. Kruuk, R. Bonduriansky, and an anonymous reviewer provided insightful comments that improved the manuscript.

Parametric, Optimization-Based Study on the Feasibility of a Multisegment Antisolvent Crystallizer for in Situ Fines Removal and Matching of Target Size Distribution

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Biophysical and economic limits to negative CO2 emissions

The views expressed herein are those of the authors, and do not represent those of a particular governmental agency or interagency body. This analysis was initiated at a Global Carbon Project meeting on NETs in Laxenburg, Austria, in April 2013 and contributes to the MaGNET program (http://www.cger.nies.go.jp/gcp/magnet.html). G.P.P. was supported by the Norwegian Research Council (236296). C.D.J. was supported by the Joint UK DECC/Defra Met Office Hadley Centre Climate Programme (GA01101). J.G.C. acknowledges support from the Australian Climate Change Science Program. E.Ka. and Y.Y. were supported by the ERTDF (S-10) from the Ministry of the Environment, Japan.

Data Resource Profile : Aberdeen Maternity and Neonatal Databank (AMND)

Conflict of interest: None of the authors have any conflict of interest.

Comparative study of CXC chemokines modulation in brown trout (Salmo trutta) following infection with a bacterial or viral pathogen

We would like to acknowledge Richard Paley, Tom Hill and Georgina Rimmer for their collaboration during brown trout infection challenges in CEFAS-Weymouth biosecurity facilities. Bartolomeo Gorgoglione, Stephen W. Feist and Nick G. H. Taylor were supported by a DEFRA grant (F1198).

The effects of mobile real-time information on rural passengers

The research described here is supported by the award made by the RCUK Digital Economy programme to the dot.rural Digital Economy Research Hub; award reference: EP/G066051/1/.

Households without Houses : Mobility and Moorings on the Eurasian Steppe

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Macrophage migration inhibitory factor (MIF) family in arthropods : cloning and expression analysis of two MIF and one D-dopachrome tautomerase (DDT) homologues in Mud crabs, Scylla paramamosain

5. Acknowledgements This research was supported by grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 31172438 and U1205123), the Natural Science Foundation of Fujian Province (No. 2012J06008 and 201311180002) and the projects-sponsored by SRF. TW received funding from the MASTS pooling initiative (The Marine Alliance for Science and Technology for Scotland) funded by the Scottish Funding Council (grant reference HR09011) and contributing institutions.

Longitudinal diffusion tensor imaging in dementia with Lewy bodies and Alzheimer's disease

Copyright © 2016 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Acknowledgements The study was supported by the NIHR Biomedical Research Unit in Dementia and the Biomedical Research Centre awarded to Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and the University of Cambridge, and the NIHR Biomedical Research Unit in Dementia and the Biomedical Research Centre awarded to Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and Newcastle University. Elijah Mak was in receipt of a Gates Cambridge PhD studentship.

Cortical and Subcortical Changes in Alzheimer’s Disease : A Longitudinal and Quantitative MRI Study

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Cerebral correlates of cognitive reserve

Crown Copyright © 2015. Published by Elsevier Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved. Acknowledgements The Aberdeen birth Cohort Studies were established with grants to Lawrence Whalley by the Henry Smith Charity, the UK Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council and a Professorial Clinical Fellowship Award from the Wellcome Trust. The imaging studies reported here were supported by grants to all three authors by the Chief Scientist Organisation of the Scottish Health Department and Alzheimer Research UK. We are grateful to the volunteers in the Aberdeen 1921 and 1936 Birth Cohort Studies and to our research colleagues in the Aberdeen biomedical Imaging Centre (Drs. Ahearn, Waiter, and Mustafa) and our long-term collaborators in the University of Edinburgh (Professors Deary and Starr at www.ccace.ed.ac.uk).

Childhood intelligence predicts premature mortality : Results from a 40-year population-based longitudinal study

Acknowledgements This study was supported by a grant from the Luxembourg Fonds National de la Recherche (VIVRE FNR/06/09/18) and a PhD scholarship awarded to the first author by the Fonds National de la Recherche.