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Minimising exclusion by design (2002)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Clarkson, P. J., Keates, S., & Langdon, P. (2002). Minimising exclusion by design. In T. Shahin (Ed.), Computer-Based Design: Engineering Design Conference 2002 (507-516)

No abstract available.

Evolution in Britain's Civil Services (2002)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
McMillan, J., Rhodes, R., Carmichael, P., & Massey, A. (2002, August). Evolution in Britain's Civil Services. Paper presented at American Political Studies Association Annual Conference

Neonatal alloimmune thrombocytopenia in Scotland: a national HPA-1 epidemiological study involving 26,506 pregnant women. (2002)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Bessos, H., Fagge, T., Wilson, D., Harkness, M., Rentoul, F., Ahya, R., …Turner, M. (2002). Neonatal alloimmune thrombocytopenia in Scotland: a national HPA-1 epidemiological study involving 26,506 pregnant women

Objective: Severe neonatal alloimmune thrombocytopenia
(NAITP) in the Caucasian population is mainly due to a mismatch in the HPA-I epitope between mother and fetus. In August 1999 we began a 2 year study of HPA-I NAITP in pregnant women in Scotland... Read More about Neonatal alloimmune thrombocytopenia in Scotland: a national HPA-1 epidemiological study involving 26,506 pregnant women..

Sex-specific foraging behaviour in a monomorphic seabird (2002)
Journal Article
Lewis, S., Benvenuti, S., Dall–Antonia, L., Griffiths, R., Money, L., Sherratt, T. N., Wanless, S., & Hamer, K. C. (2002). Sex-specific foraging behaviour in a monomorphic seabird. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 269(1501), 1687-1693. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2002.2083

Sexual differences in the foraging behaviour of parents have been observed in a number of sexually size- dimorphic birds, particularly seabirds, and the usual inference has been that these sex-specific differences are mediated primarily by difference... Read More about Sex-specific foraging behaviour in a monomorphic seabird.

No attraction in strategic thinking. (2002)
Journal Article
Watson, S., & McCracken, M. (2002). No attraction in strategic thinking. International Journal of Tourism Research, 4(5), 367-378. https://doi.org/10.1002/jtr.386

This paper presents the findings from an exploratory study into managerial skill requirements in the Scottish visitor attraction sector. It provides an insight into the range, diversity and perceived importance of current and future skills. The main... Read More about No attraction in strategic thinking..

Stochastic resonance and finite resolution in a network of leaky integrate-and-fire neurons (2002)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Mtetwa, N., Smith, L., & Hussain, A. (2002). Stochastic resonance and finite resolution in a network of leaky integrate-and-fire neurons. In Artificial Neural Networks — ICANN 2002 (117-122). https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-46084-5_20

This paper discusses the effect of stochastic resonance in a network of leaky integrate-and-fire (LIF) neurons and investigates its realisation on a Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA). We report in this study that stochastic resonance which is main... Read More about Stochastic resonance and finite resolution in a network of leaky integrate-and-fire neurons.

Load transfer mechanisms in punched metal -plate connected timber structures (2002)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Abdulrahman, A., & Kermani, A. (2002, August). Load transfer mechanisms in punched metal -plate connected timber structures. Presented at 7th World Conference on Timber Engineering

load transfer mechanisms in punched metal -plate connected timber structures.

Mining, migration and mobility: towards an understanding of the relationship between migration and occupation in the context of the UK mining industry. (2002)
Journal Article
Hollywood, E. (2002). Mining, migration and mobility: towards an understanding of the relationship between migration and occupation in the context of the UK mining industry. International Journal of Population Geography, 8, 297-314. https://doi.org/10.1002/ijpg.264

The large-scale decline of the UK mining industry in recent years has led to significant job losses, unemployment and inactivity throughout the coalfields. This paper aims to examine the role of migration as a response to these closures during the la... Read More about Mining, migration and mobility: towards an understanding of the relationship between migration and occupation in the context of the UK mining industry..

A review of the literature on HIV infection and schizophrenia: Implications for research, policy and clinical practice (2002)
Journal Article
Gray, R., Brewin, E., Noak, J., Wyke-Joseph, J., & Sonik, B. (2002). A review of the literature on HIV infection and schizophrenia: Implications for research, policy and clinical practice. https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-2850.2002.00511.x

AIDS represents one of the major public health problems of the 21st century. Men having sex with men, injecting drug use and having multiple sexual partners are well-established risk behaviours for transmitting the HIV virus. People with schizophreni... Read More about A review of the literature on HIV infection and schizophrenia: Implications for research, policy and clinical practice.

Spectrum-based design of sinusoidal RBF neural networks (2002)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
András, P. (2002). Spectrum-based design of sinusoidal RBF neural networks. In Proceedings of the 2002 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN'02) (1421-1426). https://doi.org/10.1109/IJCNN.2002.1007725

This paper introduces and describes the spectrum-based design of radial basis function (RBF) neural networks. The RBF networks used in this paper work with damped sinusoidal nonlinear activation functions. The concept of the associated data spectrum... Read More about Spectrum-based design of sinusoidal RBF neural networks.

Exploiting agent mobility for large-scale network monitoring (2002)
Journal Article
Liotta, A., Pavlou, G., & Knight, G. (2002). Exploiting agent mobility for large-scale network monitoring. IEEE Network, 16(3), 7-15. https://doi.org/10.1109/MNET.2002.1002994

As networks become pervasive, the importance of efficient information gathering for purposes such as monitoring, fault diagnosis, and performance evaluation increases. Distributed monitoring systems based on either management protocols such as SNMP o... Read More about Exploiting agent mobility for large-scale network monitoring.

Applying a policy-based framework to manage quality of service requirements in the virtual home environment (2002)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Yew, A., Liotta, A., & Pavlou, G. (2002, April). Applying a policy-based framework to manage quality of service requirements in the virtual home environment. Presented at 2002 IEEE International Conference on Communications, New York, NY, USA

The deployment of the virtual home environment (VHE) concept in 3G mobile systems in the near future will place many demands on managing a user's personalised service environment. Key to the VHE concept is the performance of such services, resulting... Read More about Applying a policy-based framework to manage quality of service requirements in the virtual home environment.

A new neural network and pole placement based adaptive composite controller (2002)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hussain, A., Zayed, A. S., & Smith, L. (2001, December). A new neural network and pole placement based adaptive composite controller. Presented at Multi Topic, IEEE International Conference, Lahore, Pakistan

The paper describes a new composite control method combining a neural network estimator with a conventional pole-placement based adaptive controller. The neural network estimation technique presented by Hussain (2000) is particularly effective when t... Read More about A new neural network and pole placement based adaptive composite controller.

A Scalable and Robust Framework for Distributed Applications (2002)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Jelasity, M., Preuss, M., & Paechter, B. (2002). A Scalable and Robust Framework for Distributed Applications. In Proceedings of the 2002 Congress on Evolutionary Computation. CEC'02 (1540-1545). https://doi.org/10.1109/CEC.2002.1004471

This paper describes a novel tool for running distributed experiments on the Internet. The possible applications include simple load balancing, parallel evolutionary computation, agent-based simulation and artificial life. Our environment is based on... Read More about A Scalable and Robust Framework for Distributed Applications.

Two approaches to representing multiple overlapping classifications: a comparison [plant taxonomy] (2002)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Raguenaud, C., Graham, M., & Kennedy, J. (2001, July). Two approaches to representing multiple overlapping classifications: a comparison [plant taxonomy]. Presented at Thirteenth International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management. SSDBM 2001, Fairfax, VA, USA, USA

Plant taxonomy is the science of classification of plants. One of the tasks of plant taxonomy is the creation of classifications of organisms that allows the understanding of the evolutionary relationships between them. In this paper we describe two... Read More about Two approaches to representing multiple overlapping classifications: a comparison [plant taxonomy].

New knowledge and micro-level online organization: 'communities of practice' as a development framework (2002)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Davenport, E., & Hall, H. (2001, January). New knowledge and micro-level online organization: 'communities of practice' as a development framework. Presented at Proceedings of the 34th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

The role of communities of practice in knowledge creation is recognized in a number of contexts. The authors take a socio-technical perspective and identify four characteristics of such communities: situated learning, situated action, distributed cog... Read More about New knowledge and micro-level online organization: 'communities of practice' as a development framework.

Coded path routing: a new approach to broadcasting in 3-D meshes, Technical Report (2002)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Al-Dubai, A., & Ould-Khaoua, M. (2001, April). Coded path routing: a new approach to broadcasting in 3-D meshes, Technical Report. Presented at 20th IEEE International Performance, Computing, and Communications Conference, Phoenix, AZ, USA

Broadcast is an important collective communication operation required by many real-world parallel applications. This paper proposes the Coded Path Routing (or CPR for short) as a new approach for designing efficient broadcast algorithms for wormhole-... Read More about Coded path routing: a new approach to broadcasting in 3-D meshes, Technical Report.

An intelligent agent security intrusion system (2002)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Pikoulas, J., Buchanan, W., Mannion, M., & Triantafyllopoulos, K. (2002, April). An intelligent agent security intrusion system. Presented at Ninth Annual IEEE International Conference and Workshop on the Engineering of Computer-Based Systems, Lund, Sweden

Network security has now become one of the most important aspects in computer systems and the Internet. Apart from strong encryption, there is no definite method of truly securing network, thus they must be protected at different levels of the OSI mo... Read More about An intelligent agent security intrusion system.