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Speed and scale up software re-engineering with abstraction patterns and rules. (2000)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Liu, X., Yang, H., Zedan, H., & Cau, A. (2000). Speed and scale up software re-engineering with abstraction patterns and rules. In International Symposium on Principles of Software Evolution, 2000. Proceedings (90). https://doi.org/10.1109/ISPSE.2000.913

Software reengineering is an essential part of software evolution. Two important issues faced by software reengineering techniques are the time involved and the ability to cope with the scale of software systems. Unless these two issues have been add... Read More about Speed and scale up software re-engineering with abstraction patterns and rules..

Future of urban transportation data. (2000)
Book Chapter
Limoges, E., Purvis, C. L., Turner, S., Wigan, M., & Wolf, J. (2000). Future of urban transportation data. In H. Paul (Ed.), Transportation in the new millenium: state of the art and future directions. London, UK: Transportation Research Board

Members of the Transportation Research Board's Committee on Urban Transportation Data and Information Systems (A1D08) lead the research community in many of the following areas: using census data in transportation planning, monitoring traffic and tra... Read More about Future of urban transportation data..

Designing non-speech sounds to support navigation in mobile phone menus. (2000)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
LePlâtre, G., & Brewster, S. A. (2000). Designing non-speech sounds to support navigation in mobile phone menus.

This paper describes a framework for integrating non-speech audio to hierarchical menu structures where the visual feedback is limited. In the first part of this paper, emphasis is put on how to extract sound design principles from actual navigation... Read More about Designing non-speech sounds to support navigation in mobile phone menus..

The evolution of skills development initiatives. (2000)
Book Chapter
Laybourn, P., Falchikov, N., Goldfinch, J., & Westwood, J. (1999). The evolution of skills development initiatives. In S. Fallows, & C. Steven (Eds.), Integrating Key Skills in Higher Education: Employability, Transferable Skills and Learning for Life, 47

Origins of Staphylococcus epidermidis and Streptococcus oralis causing bacteraemia in a bone marrow transplant patient. (2000)
Journal Article
Kennedy, H. F., Morrison, D., Kaufmann, M. E., Jackson, M. S., Bagg, J., Gibson, B. E., …Michie, J. R. (2000). Origins of Staphylococcus epidermidis and Streptococcus oralis causing bacteraemia in a bone marrow transplant patient. Journal of Medical Microbiology, 49, 367-370

Coagulase-negative staphylococcal bacteraemia in immunocompromised patients is often associated with the use of central venous catheters, while the proposed origin of viridans streptococci causing bacteraemia in this patient group is the oral cavity.... Read More about Origins of Staphylococcus epidermidis and Streptococcus oralis causing bacteraemia in a bone marrow transplant patient..

The 1999 employment action plan: interpretation of the entrepreneurship pillar in the UK (2000)
Book Chapter
Hollywood, E., Wallis, E., & Winterton, J. (2000). The 1999 employment action plan: interpretation of the entrepreneurship pillar in the UK. In Contested territory. Entrepreneurship in the European Employment Strategy. European Trade Union Institute

This project examined in detail the Entrepreneurship pillar of the European Employment Strategy. The project addressed the role of Entrepreneurship as a tool for job creation in the UK focusing on the relationship between entrepreneurship and SMEs an... Read More about The 1999 employment action plan: interpretation of the entrepreneurship pillar in the UK.

Enhancing the performance of a GA through visualisation. (2000)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hart, E., & Ross, P. (2000). Enhancing the performance of a GA through visualisation. In Proceedings of GECCO-2000

This article describes a new tool for visualising genetic algorithms, (GAs) which is designed in order to allow the implicit mechanisms of the GA | i.e. crossover and mutation | to be thoroughly analysed. This allows the user to determine whether th... Read More about Enhancing the performance of a GA through visualisation..

Can't talk, won't talk?: methodological issues in researching children. (2000)
Journal Article
Harden, J., Backett-Milburn, K., & Jackson, S. (2000). Can't talk, won't talk?: methodological issues in researching children. Sociological Research Online, 5,

In this paper we explore some current issues in, what has come to be called, the new sociology of childhood and how these relate to the process of researching children's lives in general, and to our own research in particular. We discuss the developm... Read More about Can't talk, won't talk?: methodological issues in researching children..

A comparison of set-based and graph-based visualisations of overlapping classification hierarchies. (2000)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Graham, M., Kennedy, J., & Hand, C. (2000). A comparison of set-based and graph-based visualisations of overlapping classification hierarchies. In V. Gesu, S. Levialdi, & L. Tarantino (Eds.), 5th Working Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI 2000)

The visualisation of hierarchical information sets has been a staple of Information Visualisation since the field came into being in the early 1990's. However, at present, support for visualising the correlations between multiple, overlapping sets of... Read More about A comparison of set-based and graph-based visualisations of overlapping classification hierarchies..

Social Entrepreneurship. (2000)
Book Chapter
Glancey, K. D., & McQuaid, R. W. (2000). Social Entrepreneurship. In J. Campling (Ed.), Entrepreneurial Economics. Macmillan

As with profit orientated entrepreneurs, social entrepreneurs apply new perspectives or innovations and change what things or services are produced, how they are produced and/or how their organisations operate. There have been many such social entrep... Read More about Social Entrepreneurship..

Entrepreneurial economics. (2000)
Book
Glancey, K. D., & McQuaid, R. W. (2000). Entrepreneurial economics. Palgrave MacMillan

Entrepreneurial Economics is concerned with the role of entrepreneurs and the nature and scope of entrepreneurship in the economy. It broadly covers a range of economic and non-economic theories of the characteristics and behavior of entrepreneurs. A... Read More about Entrepreneurial economics..

The effects of moderate alcohol consumption on female hormone levels and reproductive function. (2000)
Journal Article
Gill, J. S. (2000). The effects of moderate alcohol consumption on female hormone levels and reproductive function. Alcohol and alcoholism : international journal of the Medical Council on Alcoholism, 35, 417-423. https://doi.org/10.1093/alcalc/35.5.417

Studies that have investigated the effect of moderate alcohol consumption on the level of oestrogens and progesterone in both pre- and post-menopausal women are reviewed. It is concluded that several lines of evidence point to an alcohol-induced rise... Read More about The effects of moderate alcohol consumption on female hormone levels and reproductive function..

Solving CSPs with evolutionary algorithms using self-adaptive constraint weights. (2000)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Eiben, A. E., Jansen, B., Michalewicz, Z., & Paechter, B. (2000). Solving CSPs with evolutionary algorithms using self-adaptive constraint weights. In D. Whitley (Ed.), GECCO-2000 : proceedings of the genetic and evolutionary computation conference (128-1

This paper examines evolutionary algorithms (EAs) extended by various penalty-based approaches to solve constraint satisfaction problems (CSPs). In some approaches, the penalties are set in advance and they do not change during a run. In other appro... Read More about Solving CSPs with evolutionary algorithms using self-adaptive constraint weights..