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The performance pf sparsley-connected 2D associative memory models with non-random images
(World Scientific Publishing, 2009)A sparsely connected associative memory model is built with small-world connectivity, and trained on both random, and real-world image sets. It is found that pattern recall using real-world images can vary significantly ... -
Performance, Characteristics, and Error Rates of Cursor Control Devices for Aircraft Cockpit Interaction
(2018-01-01)This paper provides a comparative performance analysis of a hands-on-throttle-and-stick (HOTAS) cursor control device (CCD) with other suitable CCDs for an aircraft cockpit: an isotonic thumbstick, a trackpad, a trackball, ... -
Performative Space and the Construction of Place
(2016-04-07)For the purpose of this research project, I have undertaken a series of practice-based approaches to examine how concepts of place may be created using film and performance. Through filmed excerpts of dance and movement ... -
The Performed Image
(2013)This is a series of short films and animations in loop that deal with the presentation of the "performed image", meaning that a static image, such as a photo or video still, is used as a type of requisite and is performed ... -
Performing discipline in UK primary school classrooms. Challenging essentialist beliefs about teacher gender.
(Routledge, 2022-07-29)Essentialist gendered paradigms argue that there are differences between the traits women and men possess, caused naturally by biological sex. Such principles are often inaccurate and have led to discriminatory attitudes, ... -
Performing public credit at the eighteenth-century Bank of England
(2019-03-27)Much is known about the negotiation of personal credit relationships during the eighteenth century. It has been noted how direct contact and observation allowed individuals to assess the creditworthiness of those with whom ... -
Perfusion CT assessment of the colon and rectum : Feasibility of quantification of bowel wall perfusion and vascularization
(2012)The aim was to determine the feasibility of vascular quantification of the bowel wall for different anatomical segments of the colorectum. Following institutional ethical approval and informed consent, 39 patients with ... -
The peri-electrode space is a significant element of the electrode-brain interface in deep brain stimulation : a computational study
(2007-10-19)Deep brain stimulation (DBS) is an increasingly used clinical treatment for various neurological disorders, particularly movement disorders such as Parkinson's disease. However, the mechanism by which these high frequency ... -
Period and Place: : Collingwood and Wittgenstein on Understanding Others
(2016-01-01)What it takes to understand radically different others lies at the heart of the philosophies developed by Collingwood and Wittgenstein at roughly the same time. Their approaches contain three differences of focus that are ... -
Periodic variability of spotted M dwarfs in WTS
(EDP Sciences, 2013)We present an analysis of the photometric variability of M dwarfs in the WFCAM Transit Survey, selected from spectral types inferred by their WTS and SDSS colours, with periods detected using a Lomb-Scargle Periodogram ... -
Periodicity and gradients in dispersal of Alternaria linicola in linseed crops
(1995-11)Conidia of Alternaria linicola produced on infected linseed crops were mainly dispersed by wind. The numbers of conidia in the air above linseed crops collected by a Burkard spore sampler were greatest between 12:00 h and ... -
Peripheral financialisation and monopoly capitalism in Nigeria: the case of the Dangote Business Group
(2022-09-14)This article examines financialisation of non-financial corporations (NFCs) in developing countries using the example of the Dangote Business Group in Nigeria, the largest conglomerate on the Nigeria Stock Exchange (NSE). ... -
Peripheralising Patriarchy Gender and Identity in Post Soviet Art. A View from the West
(2004)The exhibition catalogue, After the Wall (Stockholm-Berlin1999) asserted that body-based art has been a major means for representing the identity crises invoked in central and Eastern Europe by the geo-political changes ... -
The permeability of human eyelid skin to topically applied lidocaine
(2020-02-01)This work investigated the permeability of lidocaine across human eyelid skin and compared this with published data for abdominal skin to understand the characteristics of this type of skin and whether topical anaesthesia ... -
A Pernicious panacea: a critical evaluation of business re-engineering
(1998-09)This article investigates the practicalities of implementing business process re-engineering (BPR) through two case studies, DefCo and ServiCo in the public sector. It demonstrates the destructive and insidious nature of ... -
Peroxynitrite induced formation of the neurotoxins 5-S-cysteinyl-dopamine and DHBT-1 : implications for Parkinson's disease and protection by polyphenols
(2008-08-15)Mechanisms of nigral cell injury in Parkinson's disease remain unclear, although a combination of increased oxidative stress, the formation of catecholamine-quinones and the subsequent formation of neurotoxic cysteinyl-c ... -
Perseveration and Shifting in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder as a Function of Uncertainty, Punishment, and Serotonergic Medication
(2024-01-16)Background The nature of cognitive flexibility deficits in obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), which historically have been tested with probabilistic reversal learning tasks, remains elusive. Here, a novel deterministic ... -
The Person in Communication
(Churchill Livingstone, 2003)