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Methodology and theory evaluation of overall equipment effectiveness based on market
(2010)Purpose – Continuous manufacturing systems used within the steel industry involve different machines and processes that are arranged in a sequence of operations in order to manufacture the products. The steel industry is ... -
Training novices to make expert, occupationally focused, community mental health referral decisions
(2011)Introduction: Currently, British health policy requires services to be prioritised according to an individual's level of need. This is particularly necessary for community mental health services, where referral demand far ... -
In memory of Manny Lehman, 'Father of Software Evolution'
(2011)The importance and pervasiveness of software systems makes software engineering a driver of the progress of humanity. Prof. Manny Lehman, with his constant, competent and passionate work, laid the foundation for an ... -
An index of fatal toxicity for drugs of misuse
(2010)Objective : To determine the lethal toxicity of five commonly-used illicit substances by relating the number of associated deaths to their availability. Methods : An index of toxicity was calculated for each of five drugs ... -
Decoupling effects - a novel method for composites characterization
(2011)The practice of mechanical characterization of composite materials demonstrates that there are at least two characteristics being very difficult to be determinate by experiments: in-plane shear modulus G(12) and F-12 ... -
'Naughty' or 'nice' tax avoidance : What is the difference?
(2011)This article deals mainly about the difference between unacceptable ('naughty') and acceptable ('nice') tax avoidance, both of which are 'legal'; though for unnaceptable tax avoidance, the HMRC or the courts may deny the ... -
Continuous bioaerosol monitoring in a tropical environment using a UV fluorescence particle spectrometer
(2011)An instrument designed to continuously monitor ambient bioaerosol concentrations is presented. The instrument is a compact, relatively low-cost, UV aerosol spectrometer that monitors and classifies individual airborne ... -
The case for e-trust
(2010)Trust is generally understood as a relationship in which an agent (the trustor) decides to depend on another agent’s (the trustee) foreseeable behaviour in order to fulfil his expectations. It is a fundamental aspect of ... -
The effectiveness of using a robotics class to foster collaboration among groups of children with autism in an exploratory study
(2010)This article describes an exploratory study involving the design of an after-school robotics class for groups of children at the higher-functioning end of the autistic spectrum. The aim of the study was to foster collaboration ... -
Symbiotic expressions
(2011)We introduce symbiotic expressions, a method for algebraic simplification within a compiler, in lieu of an SMT solver, such as Yices or the Omega Calculator. Symbiotic expressions are compiler-generated expressions, ... -
A theoretical and empirical analysis of three slice-based metrics for cohesion
(2010)Sound empirical research suggests that we should analyze software metrics from a theoretical and practical perspective. This paper describes the result of an investigation into the respective merits of two cohesion-based ... -
Service user, patient, client, user or survivor : describing recipients of mental health services
(2010)Aims and method: To determine which terms receivers of mental health services wish to be known by (service user, patient, client, user, survivor) according to the professional consulted (psychiatrist, nurse, psychologist, ... -
Bio-inspired binary bees algorithm for a two-level distribution optimisation problem
(2010)Two uncoupleable distributions, assigning missions to robots and allocating robots to home stations, accompany the use of mobile service robots in hospitals. In the given problem, two workload-related objectives and five ... -
Bayesian estimation of the true prevalence of Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis infection in Cypriot dairy sheep and goat flocks
(2011)We estimated the prevalence of Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis (MAP) infected sheep and goats, older than 2 years, reared in the region effectively controlled by the Government of the Republic of Cyprus, in ... -
The contribution of musical theory to an ancient Chinese concept of the Universe
(2011)In early Chinese thought music and music-related concepts formed key elements to the way in which the cosmos was envisaged and written about. This paper unfolds how passages of late Zhou and early Han documents such as the ... -
Simultaneous localization and mapping : swarm robot mutual localization and sonar arc bidirectional carving mapping
(2011)This work primarily aims to study robot swarm global mapping in a static indoor environment. Due to the prerequisite estimation of the robots' own poses, it is upgraded to a simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) ... -
Concepts- not just yardsticks, but also heuristics : rebutting Hacker and Bennett
(2011)In their response to our article (), Hacker and Bennett charge us with failing to understand the project of their book Philosophical Foundations of Neuroscience (PFN; ) and do this by discussing foundationalism, linguistic ... -
Breaking the GPU programming barrier with the auto-parallelising SAC compiler
(ACM Press, 2011)Over recent years, the use of Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) for general-purpose computing has become increasingly popular. The main reasons for this development are the attractive performance/price and performance/power ... -
“FearNot!”: a computer-based anti-bullying-programme designed to foster peer intervention
(2010)Bullying is widespread in European schools, despite multiple intervention strategies having been proposed over the years. The present study investigates the effects of a novel virtual learning strategy (“FearNot!”) to ... -
Impaired endogenous thrombolysis in acute coronary syndrome patients predicts cardiovascular death and nonfatal myocardial infarction
(2010)Objectives: Our objective was to assess endogenous thrombolytic activity in acute coronary syndrome (ACS) patients and relate this to their likelihood of future adverse cardiovascular events. Background: Spontaneous lysis ...