Housing of pregnant sows is currently being revolutionised around the world. Group housing enhances opportunities for improved sow health and welfare through enabling exercise and social interactions. However, because it enables social interactions, group housing can also be detrimental to welfare and production, particularly if sow aggression occurs. Detrimental effects of adverse interactions...

Carbon–carbon bond formation is the core of organic synthesis, in which organometallic reagents play key role forms 1,2-nucleophilic additions, conjugate and transition-metal catalyzed cross-couplings. These reactions have enabled production a wide range molecules our society. Despite enormous power chemical they inherent drawbacks eyes future sustainability. This account summarizes efforts ove...

We consider the impact that can be made on our understanding of parton distributions (PDFs) and QCD from early measurements at the LHCb experiment. The high rapidity values make the experiment uniquely suited to a detailed study of small-x parton distributions and hence will make a significant contribution towards the clarification of both experimental and theoretical uncertainties on PDFs and ...

Humanoid robots are more suited to being generalists rather than specialists. Hence when designing a speech interface, we need to retain that generality. But speech recognition is most successful in strongly circumscribed domains. We examine whether some useful properties of infantdirected speech can be evoked by a robot, and how the robot’s vocabulary can be adapted.