Research publications: Recent submissions
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Impact on clinical practice of the Joint British Societies' cardiovascular risk assessment tools
(2009)Objectives: The aim of this study was to evaluate the Joint British Societies' (JBS 2) Factfile, cardiovascular risk assessment paper charts and electronic risk calculator posted to health professionals in general practice. ... -
International Students’ Authorship
(2009)This report presents the findings of a University of Hertfordshire Learning and Teaching Institute funded project ‘Fostering Pride in International Students’ Authorship.’ The project ran October 2008-January 2009.The aims ... -
Rotational velocities for M dwarfs
(2009)We present spectroscopic rotation velocities (v sin i) for 56 M dwarf stars using high-resolution Hobby-Eberly Telescope High Resolution Spectrograph red spectroscopy. In addition, we have also determined photometric ... -
Shear-induced global thrombosis test of native blood: Pivotal role of ADP allows monitoring of P2Y12 antagonist therapy
(2009)Background: It is claimed that in shear-induced platelet function tests, shear-stress is the sole agonist causing platelet activation and resultant thrombosis. However, the fact that red blood cells (RBC) are essential to ... -
Developmental evolution of an edge detecting retina
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Hierarchical Classification with a Competitive Evolutionary Neural Tree
(1999)A new, dynamic, tree structured network, the Competitive Evolutionary Neural Tree (CENT) is introduced. The network is able to provide a hierarchical classification of unlabelled data sets. The main advantage that the CENT ... -
Connectionist modelling of skill development : object balancing in young children
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Image redundancy reduction for neural network classification using discrete cosine transforms
(2000)High information redundancy and strong correlations in face images result in inefficiencies when such images are used directly in recognition tasks. In this paper, discrete cosine transforms (DCT) are used to reduce image ... -
Design and use of neural network applications in telecommunications
(CRC Press, 2000)This chapter describes the use of neural networks in the analysis of software systems. The development of large software systems over long periods of time, and the software crisis that this has produced, provides a rich ... -
Towards Computational Neural Systems through Developmental Evolution
(2001)The capability of creating artificial neural networks with biologically-plausible characteristics, is becoming ever more attainable through the greater understanding of biological neural systems and the constant increases ... -
Evolving computational neural systems using synthetic developmental mechanisms
(Elsevier, 2003)Biological development is highly complex, beginning with an egg and resulting in a complete living organism (Purves and Lichtman, 1985). Development is essentially sequential, establishing a gross structure which becomes ... -
Optimising a Neural Tree Using Subtree Retraining
(2004)Subtree retraining applied to a Stochastic Competitive Evolutionary Neural Tree model (SCENT) is introduced. This subtree retraining process is designed to improve the performance of the original model which provides a ... -
Visualization of incomplete data using class information constraints
(Springer Nature Link, 2002)We analyse how the training algorithm for the Generative Topographic Mapping (GTM) can be modifed to use class information to improve results on incomplete data. The approach is based on an Expectation-Maximisation (EM) ... -
Using Simple Neural Networks to Correct Errors in Optical Data Transmission.
(De Montfort University, 2008)We have demonstrated the applicability of neural-network-based systems to the problem of reducing the effects of signal distortion, and shown that such a system has the potential to reduce the bit-error-rate in the ... -
Using neuroConstruct to develop and modify biologically detailed 3D neuronal network models in health and disease
(Academic Press, 2008)In this chapter, we describe neuroConstruct, a new software tool for developing, modifying and analyzing neural network models with biologically realistic properties in 3D space (Gleeson et al, 2007). Network models are ... -
I know what I did last summer: autobiographic memory in synthetic characters
(2007)According to traditional animators, the art of building believable characters resides in the ability to successfully portray a character’s behaviour as the result of its internal emotions, intentions and thoughts. Following ... -
Nietzsche, Zarathustra and the status of laughter
(1992)Laughter is not one of the phenomena most commonly associated with Friedrich Nietzsche. Indeed, numerous people to whom I have mentioned my interest in Nietzsche on laughter seem to have assumed that connecting the two was ... -
Illusion and satire in Kierkegaard's Postscript
(1999)This paper investigates Johannes Climacus''s infamous satire against Hegelianism in the Concluding Unscientific Postscript. In considering why Climacus aims to show speculative thought as comical rather than simply mistaken, ... -
Telling tales : Johannes Climacus and 'narrative unity'
(Walter de Gruyter, 2005)This article investigates the concept of 'narrative unity' as used by recent commentators such as John Davenport. I argue that it is unclear what this term means, and that the 'narrative unity' view faces a serious problem: ...