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Universities and social progress in modernising societies: how educational expansion has replaced socialism as an instrument of political reform (2005)
Journal Article
Charlton, B. G., & Andras, P. (2005). Universities and social progress in modernising societies: how educational expansion has replaced socialism as an instrument of political reform. Critical Quarterly, 47(1-2), 30-39. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.0011-1562.2005.00612.x

University and higher education comprising a multi-disciplinary training in abstract, systematic reasoning has a vital role in modernizing societies. Such an education seems to have broadly favourable results both in terms of the individual and of so... Read More about Universities and social progress in modernising societies: how educational expansion has replaced socialism as an instrument of political reform.

Pattern computation in neural communication systems (2005)
Journal Article
Andras, P. (2005). Pattern computation in neural communication systems. Biological Cybernetics, 92, 452-460. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00422-005-0572-0

Biological data suggests that activity patterns emerging in small- and large-scale neural systems may play an important role in performing the functions of the neural system, and in particular, neural computations. It is proposed in this paper that n... Read More about Pattern computation in neural communication systems.

Modernizing UK health services:‘short-sharp-shock’reform, the NHS subsistence economy, and the spectre of health care famine (2005)
Journal Article
Charlton, B. G., & Andras, P. (2005). Modernizing UK health services:‘short-sharp-shock’reform, the NHS subsistence economy, and the spectre of health care famine. Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice, 11(2), 111-119. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2753.2005.00515.x

Modernization is the trend for societies to grow functionally more complex, efficient and productive. Modernization usually occurs by increased specialization of function (e.g. division of labour, such as the proliferation of specialists  in  medicin... Read More about Modernizing UK health services:‘short-sharp-shock’reform, the NHS subsistence economy, and the spectre of health care famine.

Medical research funding may have over-expanded and be due for collapse (2005)
Journal Article
Charlton, B., & Andras, P. (2005). Medical research funding may have over-expanded and be due for collapse. QJM: An International Journal of Medicine, 98(1), 53-55. https://doi.org/10.1093/qjmed/hci003

The continual and uninterrupted expansion of medical research funding is generally assumed to be a permanent feature of modern societies, but this expectation may turn out to be mistaken. Sciences tend to go through boom and bust phases. Twentieth ce... Read More about Medical research funding may have over-expanded and be due for collapse.

Management from the perspective of systems theory (2004)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Andras, P., & Charlton, B. G. (2004, July). Management from the perspective of systems theory. Presented at Practising Philosophy of Management, Oxford

Usual management theories focus on phenomenological aspects of organisations and management. Abstract communication systems theory offers a different approach, which can be used to analyze social systems, uncover their internal logic and structure, a... Read More about Management from the perspective of systems theory.

Neural activity pattern systems (2004)
Journal Article
Andras, P. (2005). Neural activity pattern systems. Neurocomputing, 65, 531-536. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neucom.2004.10.041

Understanding how neural systems work needs appropriate models. Here we propose a model that describes neural systems in terms of abstract communication systems. We indicate how to apply the proposed framework to the analysis of real neural systems.

Bacillus Subtilis protein interaction network analysis (2004)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Idowu, O. C., Lynden, S. J., Young, M. P., & Andras, P. (2004, August). Bacillus Subtilis protein interaction network analysis. Presented at 2004 IEEE Computational Systems Bioinformatics Conference, Stanford, CA, USA

Identifying functionally important proteins that are essential to the survival of a bacterial cell is of considerable interest in the development of new antimicrobial agents. Recent studies have shown that functionally important components in protein... Read More about Bacillus Subtilis protein interaction network analysis.

e-Science Tools for the Analysis of Complex Systems (2004)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Idowu, O., Lynden, S., & Andras, P. (2004, August). e-Science Tools for the Analysis of Complex Systems. Presented at UK e-Science All Hands Meeting 2004, Nottingham


Many real world complex systems (e.g., protein-protein interaction networks in living cells, the Internet) can be conceptualised as graphs of interacting components, where the components are the nodes and the interactions are the edges of the grap... Read More about e-Science Tools for the Analysis of Complex Systems.

Dealing with complex networks of process interactions: A security measure (2004)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Periorellis, P., Idowu, O. C., Lynden, S. J., Young, M. P., & András, P. (2004, April). Dealing with complex networks of process interactions: A security measure. Presented at Ninth IEEE International Conference on Engineering of Complex Computer Systems, Florence, Italy

The majority of faults and consequent errors and failures in computer systems stem from the complexity of the system itself according to B. Schneier (2000). Yet complexity as a non-functional property is largely disregarded from initial development p... Read More about Dealing with complex networks of process interactions: A security measure.

Method and apparatus for identifying components of a network having high importance for network integrity (2004)
Patent
Young, M. P., Andras, P. E., & O'Neill, M. A. (2004). Method and apparatus for identifying components of a network having high importance for network integrity. WO2004040497A3

A computer system (2) is provided which is arranged to receive network data (1) identifying nodes and links between nodes. The computer system (2) processes the input network data (1) to utilise the network topology to identify nodes and links having... Read More about Method and apparatus for identifying components of a network having high importance for network integrity.

Protein interaction network topology analysis for drug target discovery (2004)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Lynden, S., Idowu, O., Periorellis, P., Young, M., & Andras, P. (2004, May). Protein interaction network topology analysis for drug target discovery. Presented at Japan Human Proteomics 2004, Tokyo, Japan

The aim of our work is to accumulate protein interaction data and to develop computational techniques for analysing the topologies of protein interaction networks to reveal network vulnerabilities. We have developed a variety of network analysis algo... Read More about Protein interaction network topology analysis for drug target discovery.

Pattern languages: a new paradigm for neurocomputation (2004)
Journal Article
Andras, P. (2004). Pattern languages: a new paradigm for neurocomputation. Neurocomputing, 58-60, 223-228. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neucom.2004.01.047

Existing neurocomputation models do not describe very faithfully biological neural systems. Here we offer a new look at neural activity data, by introducing the paradigm of pattern languages. Biological examples are presented to provide the biologica... Read More about Pattern languages: a new paradigm for neurocomputation.

A model for emergent complex order in small neural networks (2003)
Journal Article
Andras, P. (2003). A model for emergent complex order in small neural networks. Journal of Integrative Neuroscience, 2(1), 55-69. https://doi.org/10.1142/S0219635203000172

A new neural network model is introduced in this paper. The aim of the proposed Sierpinski neural networks is to provide a simple and biologically plausible neural network architecture that produces emergent complex spatio-temporal patterns through t... Read More about A model for emergent complex order in small neural networks.