About the Authors
- Michael Gormley
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* E-mail: m.gormley@hw.ac.uk
Affiliation School of Energy, Geoscience, Infrastructure and Society, Heriot-Watt University, Riccarton Campus, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
- Thomas J. Aspray
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Affiliation School of Energy, Geoscience, Infrastructure and Society, Heriot-Watt University, Riccarton Campus, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
- David A. Kelly
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Affiliation School of Energy, Geoscience, Infrastructure and Society, Heriot-Watt University, Riccarton Campus, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
- Cristina Rodriguez-Gil
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Affiliation School of Energy, Geoscience, Infrastructure and Society, Heriot-Watt University, Riccarton Campus, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Competing Interests
MG is a named inventor on a Patent for a defective trap identification system. MG received funding to do the research from Dyteqta Ltd. who played no role in study design, data collection, data analysis, data interpretation, or writing of the report. The corresponding author had final responsibility for the decision to submit for publication. TJA DAK and CR have declared that no competing interests exist. Patent details (Michael Gormley named inventor): Faulty Trap Identification system - Patent no. GB2441788 publication date 9th November 2011 and US 2010/0000298A1 - publication date Jan 7 2010. Patent owned by Heriot-Watt University and licensed to Dyteqta Ltd. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceptualization: MG TJA DAK. Data curation: MG TJA DAK CRG. Formal analysis: MG TJA DAK. Funding acquisition: MG. Investigation: MG TJA DAK CRG. Methodology: MG TJA DAK CRG. Project administration: MG. Resources: MG TJA DAK. Supervision: MG TJA. Validation: MG TJA DAK CRG. Writing – original draft: MG TJA DAK. Writing – review & editing: MG TJA DAK CRG.