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Doctors' thinking about the system as a threat to patient safety
Journal Article
Waring, J. Doctors' thinking about the system as a threat to patient safety. Health, 11(1), https://doi.org/10.1177/1363459307070801

‘Systems thinking’ is an important feature of the emerging ‘patient safety’ agenda. As a key component of a ‘safety culture’, it encourages clinicians to look past individual
error to recognise the latent factors that threaten safety. This paper inv... Read More about Doctors' thinking about the system as a threat to patient safety.

Motif detection inspired by immune memory
Journal Article
Wilson, W., Birkin, P., & Aickelin, U. Motif detection inspired by immune memory. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, 4628, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-73922-7_24

The search for patterns or motifs in data represents an area of key interest to many researchers. In this paper we present the Motif Tracking Algorithm, a novel immune inspired pattern identification tool that is able to identify variable length unkn... Read More about Motif detection inspired by immune memory.

Toward blueprints for network architecture, biophysical dynamics, and signal transduction
Journal Article
Coombes, S., Doiron, B., Josic, K., & Shea-Brown, E. (2006). Toward blueprints for network architecture, biophysical dynamics, and signal transduction

We review mathematical aspects of biophysical dynamics, signal transduction and network architecture that have been used to uncover functionally significant relations between the dynamics of single neurons and the networks they compose. We focus on... Read More about Toward blueprints for network architecture, biophysical dynamics, and signal transduction.

Conflicts of interest in dermatology
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Williams, H. C., Naldi, L., Paul, C., Vahlquist, A., Schroter, S., & Jobling, R. Conflicts of interest in dermatology. Acta Dermato-Venereologica, 86(6), https://doi.org/10.2340/00015555-0191

Conflicts of interest exist in dermatology when professional
judgement concerning a primary interest, such as
research validity, may be influenced by a secondary interest, such as financial gain from a for-profit organization. Conflict of interest... Read More about Conflicts of interest in dermatology.

Existence and wandering of bumps in a spiking neural network model
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Chow, C., & Coombes, S. (2006). Existence and wandering of bumps in a spiking neural network model

We study spatially localized states of a spiking neuronal network populated by a pulse coupled phase oscillator known as the lighthouse model. We show that in the limit of slow synaptic interactions in the continuum limit the dynamics reduce to tho... Read More about Existence and wandering of bumps in a spiking neural network model.

Discrete breathers in a two-dimensional Fermi-Pasta-Ulam lattice
Journal Article
Butt, I. A., & Wattis, J. A. Discrete breathers in a two-dimensional Fermi-Pasta-Ulam lattice. Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General, 39,

Using asymptotic methods, we investigate whether discrete
breathers are supported by a two-dimensional Fermi-Pasta-Ulam lattice. A scalar (one-component) two-dimensional
Fermi-Pasta-Ulam lattice is shown to model the charge stored
within an electr... Read More about Discrete breathers in a two-dimensional Fermi-Pasta-Ulam lattice.

Coarse-graining and renormalisation group methods for the elucidation of the kinetics of complex nucleation and growth processes
Journal Article
Coveney, P. V., & Wattis, J. A. Coarse-graining and renormalisation group methods for the elucidation of the kinetics of complex nucleation and growth processes. Molecular Physics, 104,

We review our work on generalisations of the Becker-Doring model of cluster-formation as applied to nucleation theory, polymer growth kinetics, and the formation of upramolecular structures in colloidal chemistry. One valuable tool in analysing math... Read More about Coarse-graining and renormalisation group methods for the elucidation of the kinetics of complex nucleation and growth processes.

Discontinuous Galerkin Methods for Advection-Diffusion-Reaction Problems on Anisotropically Refined Meshes
Journal Article
Georgoulis, E. H., Hall, E., & Houston, P. (2006). Discontinuous Galerkin Methods for Advection-Diffusion-Reaction Problems on Anisotropically Refined Meshes

In this paper we consider the a posteriori and a priori error analysis of discontinuous Galerkin interior penalty methods for second-order partial differential equations with nonnegative characteristic form on anisotropically refined computational me... Read More about Discontinuous Galerkin Methods for Advection-Diffusion-Reaction Problems on Anisotropically Refined Meshes.

Discontinuous Galerkin Methods on hp-Anisotropic Meshes I: A Priori Error Analysis
Journal Article
Georgoulis, E. H., Hall, E., & Houston, P. (2006). Discontinuous Galerkin Methods on hp-Anisotropic Meshes I: A Priori Error Analysis

We consider the a priori error analysis of hp-version interior penalty discontinuous Galerkin methods for second-order partial differential equations with nonnegative characteristic form under weak assumptions on the mesh design and the local finite... Read More about Discontinuous Galerkin Methods on hp-Anisotropic Meshes I: A Priori Error Analysis.

A Posteriori Error Analysis of hp-Version Discontinuous Galerkin Finite Element Methods for Second-Order Quasilinear Elliptic Problems
Journal Article
Houston, P., Suli, E., & Wihler, T. P. (2006). A Posteriori Error Analysis of hp-Version Discontinuous Galerkin Finite Element Methods for Second-Order Quasilinear Elliptic Problems

We develop the a-posteriori error analysis of hp-version interior-penalty discontinuous Galerkin finite element methods for a class of second-order quasilinear elliptic partial differential equations. Computable upper and lower bounds on the error ar... Read More about A Posteriori Error Analysis of hp-Version Discontinuous Galerkin Finite Element Methods for Second-Order Quasilinear Elliptic Problems.

A Component Based Heuristic Search Method with AdaptivePerturbations for Hospital Personnel Scheduling
Journal Article
Li, J., Aickelin, U., & Burke, E. A Component Based Heuristic Search Method with AdaptivePerturbations for Hospital Personnel Scheduling

Nurse rostering is a complex scheduling problem that affects hospital personnel on a daily basis all over the world. This paper presents a new component-based approach with adaptive perturbations, for a nurse scheduling problem arising at a major UK... Read More about A Component Based Heuristic Search Method with AdaptivePerturbations for Hospital Personnel Scheduling.

DNA charge neutralisation by linear polymers I: irreversible binding
Journal Article
Maltsev, E., Wattis, J. A., & Byrne, H. M. DNA charge neutralisation by linear polymers I: irreversible binding. Physical Review E, 74,

We develop a deterministic mathematical model to describe the way
in which polymers bind to DNA by considering the dynamics of the
gap distribution that forms when polymers bind to a DNA plasmid.
In so doing, we generalise existing theory to accou... Read More about DNA charge neutralisation by linear polymers I: irreversible binding.

DNA charge neutralisation by linear polymers II: reversible binding
Journal Article
Maltsev, E., Wattis, J. A., & Byrne, H. M. DNA charge neutralisation by linear polymers II: reversible binding. Physical Review E, 74,

We model the way in which polymers bind to DNA and neutralise
its charged backbone by analysing the dynamics of the distribution
of gaps along the DNA.
We generalise existing theory for irreversible binding to construct
new deterministic models... Read More about DNA charge neutralisation by linear polymers II: reversible binding.

New ethnicities online: reflexive racialisation and the internet
Journal Article
Parker, D., & Song, M. New ethnicities online: reflexive racialisation and the internet. Sociological Review, 54(3),

In this article we analyse the emergence of Internet activity addressing the experiences of young people in two British communities: South Asian and Chinese.We focus on two web sites: www.barficulture.com and www.britishbornchinese.org.uk, drawing on... Read More about New ethnicities online: reflexive racialisation and the internet.