Mark D. F. Shirley

TL;DR: The outcomes were generally better for robotic than for laparoscopic surgery for major adverse events such as blood transfusion and organ injury rates and for rate of failure to remove the cancer (positive margin), although there was considerable uncertainty.

TL;DR: The interaction between the statistical properties of the network and the results of epidemic spread provides a useful tool for assessing the risk of disease spread in more realistic networks.

TL;DR: The need for the convergence of the experimental and theoretical approaches that are used to characterize and model the development of microbial communities in soils is advocated.

TL;DR: Analysis of the incidence of disease and changes in distribution of the two species in Cumbria, from 1993 to 2003 and the predictions of an individual-based (IB) spatially explicit disease model simulating the dynamics of both squirrel species and SQPV in the landscape show grey squirrels increased whilst red squirrels declined.

TL;DR: British red squirrels use “stepping stone” patches of habitat to move considerable distances through a fragmented habitat, which has resulted in substantial genetic mixing of Scottish and Cumbrian genes in squirrel populations up to 100 kilometers from the site of the new forest.