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Qualitative analysis of complex modularized fault trees using binary decision diagrams (2006)
Journal Article

Fault tree analysis is commonly used in the reliability assessment of industrial systems. When complex systems are studied conventional methods can become computationally intensive and require the use of approximations. This leads to inaccuracies in... Read More about Qualitative analysis of complex modularized fault trees using binary decision diagrams.

The spatial character of sensor technology (2006)
Conference Proceeding

By considering the spatial character of sensor-based interactive systems, this paper investigates how discussions of seams and seamlessness in ubiquitous computing neglect the complex spatial character that is constructed as a side-effect of deployin... Read More about The spatial character of sensor technology.

The politics of emergency and the demise of the developing state: problems for humanitarian advocacy (2006)
Journal Article

This article discusses the dilemmas of humanitarian advocacy in the contemporary world. First the article considers the crisis of humanitarianism within the wider crisis of meaning in international politics which encouraged humanitarian advocacy. Hum... Read More about The politics of emergency and the demise of the developing state: problems for humanitarian advocacy.

Reconstructing post-conflict cultures: a case study of Bosnia (2006)
Book Chapter

Over the last decade tremendous interest has been expressed by international organisations such as UNESCO in the “deep cultural roots” of war. Cultural reform programmes are regarded today as a crucial component of international peace efforts. This c... Read More about Reconstructing post-conflict cultures: a case study of Bosnia.

Discriminating language rights and politics in the post-Yugoslav states (2006)
Journal Article

Pupavac examines the rise of linguistic human rights advocacy and its approach in a case study of language politics in the post-Yugolav states. A core concern of contemporary linguistic rights advocacy has been to tackle ethnically based discriminati... Read More about Discriminating language rights and politics in the post-Yugoslav states.

Biosecurity and insecurity: the interaction between policy and ritual during the foot and mouth crisis (2006)
Journal Article

In 2001 a highly infectious animal disease, foot and mouth disease, broke out in the UK and spread rapidly. In May, when the spread seemed to be slowing down, new disease hotspots appeared in previously little affected regions, such as North Yorkshir... Read More about Biosecurity and insecurity: the interaction between policy and ritual during the foot and mouth crisis.

The question of evil and feminist legal scholarship (2006)
Journal Article

In this article, we argue that feminist legal scholars should engage directly and explicitly with the question of evil. Part I summarises key facts surrounding the prosecution and life-long imprisonment of Myra Hindley, one of a tiny number of women... Read More about The question of evil and feminist legal scholarship.

A question of definition: feminist legal scholarship, socio-legal studies and debate about law and politics (2006)
Journal Article

In recent years, debate about the relationship between law and politics appears to have become a good deal more intense in the United Kingdom. As others have observed, one major catalyst for this has been the ascent of human rights in the popular ima... Read More about A question of definition: feminist legal scholarship, socio-legal studies and debate about law and politics.

A New Speciality of In-patient Psychiatry? (2006)
Journal Article

Capturing User Requirements in Medical Device Development: The Role of Ergonomics (2006)
Journal Article

Measuring and fulfilling user requirements during medical device development will result in successful products that improve patient safety, improve device effectiveness and reduce product recalls and modifications. Medical device users are an extre... Read More about Capturing User Requirements in Medical Device Development: The Role of Ergonomics.

The origins and essence of US social policy: on taxonomies, time and transfers (2006)
Journal Article

Internal mammary artery smooth muscle cells resist migration and possess high antioxidant capacity (2006)
Journal Article

Objective- This study investigated whether differences exist in atherogen-induced migratory behaviors and basal antioxidant enzyme capacity of vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMC) from human coronary (CA) and internal mammary (IMA) arteries. Methods-... Read More about Internal mammary artery smooth muscle cells resist migration and possess high antioxidant capacity.

Evaluating Invariances in Document Layout Functions (2006)
Conference Proceeding

With the development of variable-data-driven digital presses - where each document printed is potentially unique - there is a need for pre-press optimization to identify material that is invariant from document to document. In this way rasterisation... Read More about Evaluating Invariances in Document Layout Functions.

Organizational, systems and human issues in production planning, scheduling and control (2006)
Book Chapter

With global markets and global competition, pressures are placed on manufacturing organizations to compress order fulfillment times, meet delivery commitments consistently and also maintain efficiency in operations to address cost issues. This chapte... Read More about Organizational, systems and human issues in production planning, scheduling and control.

BOA for nurse scheduling (2006)
Book Chapter

Our research has shown that schedules can be built mimicking a human scheduler by using a set of rules that involve domain knowledge. This chapter presents a Bayesian Optimization Algorithm (BOA)for the nurse scheduling problem that chooses such suit... Read More about BOA for nurse scheduling.

The development of a mouse model to explore resistance and susceptibility to early Ascaris suum infection (2006)
Journal Article

Ascaris suum and Ascaris lumbricoides exhibit an over-dispersed frequency distribution in their host populations in both the adult and larval stages. The impact of host factors on this observed distribution is still poorly understood and difficult to... Read More about The development of a mouse model to explore resistance and susceptibility to early Ascaris suum infection.

Effort-reward imbalance and sedentary lifestyle: an observational study in a large occupational cohort (2006)
Journal Article

Objectives: To investigate the association between effort-reward imbalance (ERI) at work and sedentary lifestyle. Methods: Cross-sectional data from the ongoing Finnish Public Sector Study related to 30 433 women and 7718 men aged 17-64 were used (n... Read More about Effort-reward imbalance and sedentary lifestyle: an observational study in a large occupational cohort.

Helicase binding to DnaI exposes a cryptic DNA-binding site during helicase loading in Bacillus subtilis (2006)
Journal Article

The Bacillus subtilis DnaI, DnaB and DnaD proteins load the replicative ring helicase DnaC onto DNA during priming of DNA replication. Here we show that DnaI consists of a C-terminal domain (Cd) with ATPase and DNA-binding activities and an N-termina... Read More about Helicase binding to DnaI exposes a cryptic DNA-binding site during helicase loading in Bacillus subtilis.

Adaptivity and A Posteriori Error Estimation For DG Methods on Anisotropic Meshes (2006)
Conference Proceeding

Optimal Controller Designs for Rotating Machines - Penalising the Rate of Change of Control Forcing (2006)
Conference Proceeding

In the context of active control of rotating machines, standard optimal controller methods enable a trade-off to be made between (weighted) mean-square vibrations and (weighted) mean-square currents injected into magnetic bearings. One shortcoming of... Read More about Optimal Controller Designs for Rotating Machines - Penalising the Rate of Change of Control Forcing.