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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
Thomas, K., Armstrong, S., Avery, A., Li Wan Po, A., O'Neill, C., Young, S., & Williams, H. (2002). 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. British medical journal, 324(7340),

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
Greenhalgh, C., Flintham, M., Purbrick, J., Benford, S., & Craven, M. (2002). Applications of temporal links: recording and replaying virtual environments. In Proceedings IEEE Virtual Reality 2002 (101-108). https://doi.org/10.1109/VR.2002.996512

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
MacNish, M., Morgan, U., Behnke, J. M., & Thompson, R. (2002). Failure to infect laboratory rodent hosts with human isolates of Rodentolepis(= Hymenolepis) nana. Journal of Helminthology, 76(1), https://doi.org/10.1079/JOH200198

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
Bellato, A., Arora, I., Kochhar, P., Hollis, C., & Groom, M. J. (2002). Indices of heart rate variability and performance during a response-conflict task are differently associated with ADHD and autism. Journal of Attention Disorders, 26(3), 434-446. https://doi.org/10.1177/1087054720972793

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
Tye, A. M., Young, S. D., Crout, N. M., Zhang, H., Preston, S., Bailey, E. H., …Kilham, K. (2002). Predicting arsenic solubility in contaminated soils using isotopic dilution techniques. Environmental Science and Technology, 36(5), 982-988. https://doi.org/10.1021/es0101633

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
Appleby, D. J. (2002). Combination and control: Cultural politics in the management of friendly societies in nineteenth-century Essex and Suffolk. Essex Archaeology and History : Transactions of the Essex Society for Archaeology and History, 3rd Series Vol. 33 (2002), 323-332

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.

Inductive Theorem Proving and Computer Algebra in the Mathweb Software Bus (2002)
Conference Proceeding
Zimmer, J., & Dennis, L. A. (2002). Inductive Theorem Proving and Computer Algebra in the Mathweb Software Bus. In J. Calmet, B. Belaid, O. Capriotti, L. Hencoque, & V. Sorge (Eds.),

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
Vidal Bouzon, Á. J. (2002). The monolingualism of identity or aporias from the end of the world: (indicial notes on Fogo cruzado). Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies, 3(2), https://doi.org/10.1080/1463620022000013983

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
Stafford, B. (2002). Being more certain about random assignment in social policy evaluations. Social Policy and Society, 1(4),

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
Pupavac, V. (2002). Pathologizing populations and colonizing minds: internatioinal psychosocial programmes in Kosovo. Alternatives, 27,

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
Petrovic, S., & Qu, R. (2002). Case-Based Reasoning as a Heuristic Selector in a Hyper-Heuristic for Course Timetabling Problems. In Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information Engineering Systems and Allied Technologies. IOS Press

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
Moss, B., & Ashman, H. (2002). Hash-Tree Anti-Tampering Schemes.

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
Morrison, T., & Aickelin, U. (2002). 'An Artificial Immune System as a Recommender System for Web Sites'.

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
Middleton, H., Adeniran, R., Brewin, C. R., Brady, C., Duggan, C., Hopkins, N., …Walton, M. (2002). Using Needs Assessment to Understand Continuing Disability in Patients with Enduring Mental Illness. Implications for Considerations of Service Development. Journal of Mental Health, 11,

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
Hardy, M. R. B., & Brailsford, D. F. (2002). Mapping and Displaying Structural Transformations between XML and PDF. In R. Furuta, J. Maletic, & E. Munson (Eds.),

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
Hall, I. P. (2002). Pharmacogenetics, pharmacogenomics and airway disease. Respiratory Research, 3(1),

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.

A Comparison of two Proof Critics: Power vs. Robustness (2002)
Conference Proceeding
Dennis, L. A., & Bundy, A. (2002). A Comparison of two Proof Critics: Power vs. Robustness. In V. A. Carreno, C. A. Munoz, & S. Tahar (Eds.),

Proof critics are a technology from the proof planning paradigm. They examine failed proof attempts in order to extract information which can be used to generate a patch which will allow the proof to go through. We consider the proof of the $quot;wh... Read More about A Comparison of two Proof Critics: Power vs. Robustness.