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Characterization of the Campylobacter jejuni Heptosyltransferase II Gene, waaF, Provides Genetic Evidence that Extracellular Polysaccharide Is Lipid A Core Independent (2002)
Journal Article

Campylobacter jejuni produces both lipooligosaccharide (LOS) and a higher-molecular-weight polysaccharide that is believed to form a capsule. The role of these surface polysaccharides in C jejuni-mediated enteric disease is unclear; however, epitopes... Read More about Characterization of the Campylobacter jejuni Heptosyltransferase II Gene, waaF, Provides Genetic Evidence that Extracellular Polysaccharide Is Lipid A Core Independent.

Design of an electromechanical pump system for training in beating heart cardiac surgery (2002)
Conference Proceeding

Heart surgeons and trainees benefit greatly from continuous practice of bypass surgery and other cardiac operations. This is true of beating heart surgery where, unlike traditional methods, the heart is not arrested during the operation. At the Dept.... Read More about Design of an electromechanical pump system for training in beating heart cardiac surgery.

The interleukin-10 – 1082 G/A polymorphism: allele frequency in different populations and functional significance (2002)
Journal Article

Genotypic variation in the human interleukin-10 (IL-10) promoter may account for marked inter-individual variation in IL-10 production and may influence susceptibility to autoimmune diseases. The G/A polymorphism at position -1082 has been linked to... Read More about The interleukin-10 – 1082 G/A polymorphism: allele frequency in different populations and functional significance.

Randomised controlled trial of short bursts of a potent topical corticosteroid versus prolonged use of a mild preparation for children with mild or moderate atopic eczema (2002)
Journal Article

Objective To determine whether a three day burst of a potent corticosteroid is more effective than a mild preparation used for seven days in children with mild or moderate atopic eczema. Design Randomised, double blind, parallel group study of 1... Read More about Randomised controlled trial of short bursts of a potent topical corticosteroid versus prolonged use of a mild preparation for children with mild or moderate atopic eczema.

Applications of temporal links: recording and replaying virtual environments (2002)
Conference Proceeding

Temporal links allow recordings of multi-user sessions to be dynamically inserted into current virtual worlds in a flexible and principled way. We explore key applications of temporal links, showing how they can add new content to virtual worlds, sup... Read More about Applications of temporal links: recording and replaying virtual environments.

Failure to infect laboratory rodent hosts with human isolates of Rodentolepis(= Hymenolepis) nana (2002)
Journal Article

Confusion exists over the species status and host-specificity of the tapeworm Rodentolepis (= Hymenolepis) nana. It has been described as one species, R. nana, found in both humans and rodents. Others have identified a subspecies; R. nana var. frater... Read More about Failure to infect laboratory rodent hosts with human isolates of Rodentolepis(= Hymenolepis) nana.

Indices of heart rate variability and performance during a response-conflict task are differently associated with ADHD and autism (2002)
Journal Article

Objective. We investigated autonomic arousal, attention and response conflict, in ADHD and autism. Method. Heart rate variability (HRV), and behavioural and electrophysiological indices of performance, were recorded during a task with low and hig... Read More about Indices of heart rate variability and performance during a response-conflict task are differently associated with ADHD and autism.

Predicting arsenic solubility in contaminated soils using isotopic dilution techniques (2002)
Journal Article

An isotopic dilution assay was developed to measure radiolabile As concentration in a diverse range of soils (pH 3.30-7.62; % C = 1.00-6.55). Soils amended with 50 mg of As kg-1 (as Na2HAsO4·7H2O) were incubated for over 800 d in an aerated "microcos... Read More about Predicting arsenic solubility in contaminated soils using isotopic dilution techniques.

Combination and control: Cultural politics in the management of friendly societies in nineteenth-century Essex and Suffolk (2002)
Journal Article

The records concerning nineteenth-century friendly societies contain such an immense volume of detailed and often intimate information that the unsuspecting researcher could easily be overwhelmed by the sheer weight of evidence. This is particularly... Read More about Combination and control: Cultural politics in the management of friendly societies in nineteenth-century Essex and Suffolk.

'Eastern splendour beaming bright': representations of India in women's poetry of the 1830s (2002)
Journal Article

Inductive Theorem Proving and Computer Algebra in the Mathweb Software Bus (2002)
Conference Proceeding

Reasoning systems have reached a high degree of maturity in the last decade. However, even the most successful systems are usually not general purpose problem solvers but are typically specialised on problems in a certain domain. The MathWeb SOftwa... Read More about Inductive Theorem Proving and Computer Algebra in the Mathweb Software Bus.

The monolingualism of identity or aporias from the end of the world: (indicial notes on Fogo cruzado) (2002)
Journal Article

In 1989 the collection of drawings and short-stories in Galizan-Portuguese Fogo cruzado was published with an untitled and introductory non-literary text prepared by its authors. The process of its creation, publishing and reception was an extreme ex... Read More about The monolingualism of identity or aporias from the end of the world: (indicial notes on Fogo cruzado).

Being more certain about random assignment in social policy evaluations (2002)
Journal Article

Social experiments have been widely utilised in evaluations of social programmes in the US to identify ‘what works’, whilst in the UK their use is more controversial. This paper explores the paradigmatic, technical and practical issues evaluators co... Read More about Being more certain about random assignment in social policy evaluations.

Pathologizing populations and colonizing minds: internatioinal psychosocial programmes in Kosovo (2002)
Journal Article

Through a case study of international responses in Kosovo, this article critically analyses how the international therapeutic model constructs war-affected populations as traumatised and subject to psychosocial dysfunctionalism. The international the... Read More about Pathologizing populations and colonizing minds: internatioinal psychosocial programmes in Kosovo.

Case-Based Reasoning as a Heuristic Selector in a Hyper-Heuristic for Course Timetabling Problems (2002)
Book Chapter

This paper studies Knowledge Discovery (KD) using Tabu Search and Hill Climbing within Case-Based Reasoning (CBR) as a hyper-heuristic method for course timetabling problems. The aim of the hyper-heuristic is to choose the best heuristic(s) for given... Read More about Case-Based Reasoning as a Heuristic Selector in a Hyper-Heuristic for Course Timetabling Problems.

Hash-Tree Anti-Tampering Schemes (2002)
Conference Proceeding

Procedures that provide detection, location and correction of tampering in documents are known as anti-tampering schemes. In this paper we describe how to construct an anti-tampering scheme using a pre-computed tree of hashes. The main problems of co... Read More about Hash-Tree Anti-Tampering Schemes.

'An Artificial Immune System as a Recommender System for Web Sites' (2002)
Conference Proceeding

Artificial Immune Systems have been used successfully to build recommender systems for film databases. In this research, an attempt is made to extend this idea to web site recommendation. A collection of more than 1000 individuals' web profiles (alte... Read More about 'An Artificial Immune System as a Recommender System for Web Sites'.

Using Needs Assessment to Understand Continuing Disability in Patients with Enduring Mental Illness. Implications for Considerations of Service Development (2002)
Journal Article

Particular strengths of the MRC Needs for Care Assessment Schedule have been used to investigate the treatment status of patients with persistent psychiatric disability in ways that other needs assessment tools are unable to. One hundred and seventy-... Read More about Using Needs Assessment to Understand Continuing Disability in Patients with Enduring Mental Illness. Implications for Considerations of Service Development.

Mapping and Displaying Structural Transformations between XML and PDF (2002)
Conference Proceeding

Documents are often marked up in XML-based tagsets to delineate major structural components such as headings, paragraphs, figure captions and so on, without much regard to their eventual displayed appearance. And yet these same abstract documents, af... Read More about Mapping and Displaying Structural Transformations between XML and PDF.

Pharmacogenetics, pharmacogenomics and airway disease (2002)
Journal Article

The availability of a draft sequence for the human genome will revolutionise research into airway disease. This review deals with two of the most important areas impinging on the treatment of patients: pharmacogenetics and pharmacogenomics. Considera... Read More about Pharmacogenetics, pharmacogenomics and airway disease.