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Improving the MXFT Scheduling Algorithm for a Cloud Computing Context
(2019-08-09)In this paper, the Max-Min Fast Track (MXFT) scheduling algorithm is improved and compared against a selection of popular algorithms. The improved versions of MXFT are called Min-Min Max-Min Fast Track (MMMXFT) and Clustering ... -
Improving the Precision of Fowler's Definitions of Bad Smells
(2009)Current approaches to detecting bad smells in code are mainly based on software metrics. We suggest that these methods lack precision in detecting bad smells, and we propose a code pattern-based approach to detecting bad ... -
Improving the usability of a virtual assembly environment with the integration of multi-sensory feedback
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2006)Virtual assembly environment (VAE) technology has the great potential for benefiting the manufacturing applications in industry. Usability is an important aspect of VAE. This paper presents the evaluation of the usability ... -
Improving treatment of stroke through nanotechnology
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Improving well-being in Higher Education: Adopting a compassionate approach
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'Improving' access to psychological therapies : It's the end of the world as we know it (and I feel fine)
(2009-02-01)In this paper I outline four concerns about the way in which the clinical psychology profession seems to be responding to the Improving Access to Psychological Therapies agenda: adapting the medical model in clinical ... -
Impulsive acceleration of strongly magnetized relativistic flows
(2011)The strong variability of magnetic central engines of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) and gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) may result in highly intermittent strongly magnetized relativistic outflows. We find a new magnetic acceleration ... -
Imre Lakatos
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In 1-methyl-4-phenyl-1,2,3,6-tetrahydropyridine-treated primates, the selective 5-hydroxytryptamine 1a agonist (R)-(+)-8-OHDPAT inhibits levodopa-induced dyskinesia but only with\increased motor disability
(2006-12)5-Hydroxytryptamine 1a (5-HT1a) receptor agonists, such as sarizotan and tandospirone, are reported to reduce levodopainduced dyskinesia in 1-methyl-4-phenyl-1,2,3,6-tetrahydropyridine (MPTP)-treated macaques and in ... -
In and out of exactitude: Jonathan Harvey's 'Tombeau de Messiaen'
(2013-12)Philip Mead commissioned and first performed 'Tombeau de Messiaen' in 1994. It has since come to be recognised as a classic example of 'musique mixte', being performed by many pianists around the world. This paper explores ... -
'In and Out of The Whirlpool of War'
(2001-12)Cherry Kearton filmed a number of newsreels about the First World War, but only 4 survive in the BFI National Film and Television Archive. Based on extensive research, this article offers the first analysis of his surviving ... -
In Another Instant: Focus and Interaction in Creative Arts Learning
(2015-10-29)This paper will look at several aspects of the use of social media within contemporary Higher Education. It will consider projects and attitudes initiated by staff from the School of Creative Arts at the University of ... -
In conversation with Michael Symmons Roberts
(2011-05)Michael Symmons Roberts was born in Preston, Lancashire, in 1963. He has published five collectionsof poetry: Soft Keys (1993), Raising Sparks (1999), Burning Babylon (2001), Corpus (2004), which won the Whitbread Award, ... -
In defence of generalized Darwinism
(2008)Darwin himself suggested the idea of generalizing the core Darwinian principles to cover the evolution of social entities. Also in the nineteenth century, influential social scientists proposed their extension to political ... -
In defence of narrative
(2009)Over the last few decades, a number of influential philosophers, psychologists and others (including Alasdair MacIntyre, Charles Taylor and Paul Ricoeur) have invoked the notion of narrative as having a central role to ... -
In defense of phenomenological approaches to social cognition : Interacting with the critics
(2012)I clarify recently developed phenomenological approaches to social cognition. These are approaches that, drawing on developmental science, social neuroscience, and dynamic systems theory, emphasize the involvement of ... -
In good company? : Perception of movement synchrony of a non-anthropomorphic robot
(2015-05-22)Recent technological developments like cheap sensors and the decreasing costs of computational power have brought the possibility of robotic home companions within reach. In order to be accepted it is vital for these robots ... -
In labor or in limbo? : The experiences of women undergoing induction of labor in hospital: findings of a qualitative study
(2018-03-01)Background: Induction of labor currently accounts for around 25% of all births in high-resource countries, yet despite much research into medical aspects, little is known about how women experience this process. This study ...