Several times in the BBC’s history, from 1928 to around 1963, the world of professional science has attempted to influence, and even control, the BBC’s practices regarding science coverage. The main scientific lobbyists of the BBC were the Royal Society, the British Association for the Advancement of Science, and the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, together with less prominent...

At the basic RF-channel level, DRM shares many characteristics with other modern systems such as DVB-T and DAB. It utilises Coded Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (COFDM) [1][2] to combat noise, narrowband fading and multipath. Broadcasts can be synchronized to support Single-Frequency Networks (SFNs) and Multi-Frequency Networks (MFNs). One DRM service normally occupies one AM channe...

For the first time in 2007, TRECVID considered structured evaluation of automated video summarization, utilizing BBC rushes video. This paper discusses in detail our approaches for producing the submitted summaries to TRECVID, including the two baseline methods. The cluster method performed well in terms of coverage, and adequately in terms of user satisfaction, but did take longer to review. W...

Author(s): He, L; Lipson, DA; Mazza Rodrigues, JL; Mayes, M; Bjork, RG; Glaser, B; Thornton, P; Xu, X | Abstract: Explicitly representing microbial processes has been recognized as a key improvement to Earth system models for the realistic projections of soil carbon (C) and climate dynamics. The CLM-Microbe model builds upon CLM4.5 explicitly represents two major groups, fungi bacteria. Based o...

For a graph G and its spanning tree T the backbone chromatic number, BBC(G,T ), is defined as the minimum k such that there exists a coloring c : V (G) → {1, 2, . . . , k} satisfying |c(u) − c(v)| ≥ 1 if uv ∈ E(G) and |c(u)− c(v)| ≥ 2 if uv ∈ E(T ). Broersma et al. [1] asked whether there exists a constant c such that for every triangle-free graphG with an arbitrary spanning tree T the inequali...

This article analyses BBC News Online’s reporting of the Bolivarian revolution in Venezuela, using a sample from a broader selection of 304 articles published on BBC News Online between 1998 and 2008. Against the BBC’s stated commitment to professional values, we find that the BBC’s organizational culture is underpinned by a liberal nationalist worldview, which limits its interpretive capacitie...

Bilharzial-related bladder carcinoma (BBC) is the most common malignant neoplasm in Egypt, also occurring with a high incidence in other regions of the Middle East and East Africa. The clinical and pathological features of BBC are different than those described for the conventional transitional cell carcinoma of the bladder, including the high incidence of squamous cell carcinoma reported in BB...