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Kilpatrick, Stewart: transcript of an audio interview (23-May-2000)
No full textInterview with Professor Stewart Kilpatrick, conducted by Dr Andy Ness, for the History of Twentieth Century Medicine Research Group, UCL, 23 May 2000. Transcribed by Mrs Jaqui Carter, and edited by Professor Tilli Tansey and Dr Hugh Thomas. Professor Stewart Kilpatrick OBE FRCP (1925-2013) was Registrar at the Pneumoconiosis Research Unit in South Wales from 1952 to 1955. He followed Archie Cochrane as David Davies Professor of Tuberculosis and Chest Diseases at the University of Wales College of Medicine, Cardiff, from 1971, and was Dean of Clinical Studies and later Vice-Provost from 1987 until his retirement in 1990, and Consultant Physician for the South Glamorgan Area Health Authority from 1963 to 1990.The History of Modern Biomedicine Research Group is funded by the Wellcome Trust, which is a registered charity (no. 210183). The current interview was funded by a Wellcome Trust grant (059533; 1999-2001; awarded to Professor G Davey-Smith, Dr A R Ness and Dr E M Tansey), and its publication by a Wellcome Trust Strategic Award entitled “Makers of modern biomedicine: testimonies and legacy” (2012-2017; awarded to Professor Tilli Tansey)
No depleted uranium in cruise missiles or Apache helicopter munitions - Comment on an article by Durante and Pugliese
No full textMining e-mail content for author identification forensics
No full textWe describe an investigation into e-mail content mining for author identification, or authorship attribution, for the purpose of forensic investigation. We focus our discussion on the ability to discriminate between authors for the case of both aggregated e-mail topics as well as across different email topics. An extended set of e-mail document features including structural characteristics and linguistic patterns were derived and, together with a Support Vector Machine learning algorithm, were used for mining the e-mail content. Experiments using a number of e-mail documents generated by different authors on a set of topics gave promising results for both aggregated and multi-topic author categorisation
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
No full textWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
"Reflections on the subject of Emigration from Europe with a view to Settlement in the United States" By M. Carey.
No full text"Reflections on the subject of Emigration from Europe with a view to Settlement in the United States: containing bried sketches of the moral and political character of those states.
By M. Carey, member of the American philosophical, and of the American Antiquarian Society, and author of The Olive Branch, Cindiciae Hibernicae, essays on banking, on political economy, and on internal improvement.
To which are now added the English editor's comments on the subject; together with Important Advice to Emigrants, and Cautions Against Impositions Practiced in the Outports
Author, publisher and bookseller : a tripartite synergy in Nigerian book industry
No full textThis work is about the roles of Author, Publisher and Bookseller in Book development in
Nigeria. The paper started by delving into the history of Book Publishing in Nigeria after
which it proceeded by defining who an author, a publisher, and a bookseller is and
expatiated on the indispensable roles of these key actors in Nigerian Book Industry and in
the emerging Information Society. Furthermore, the various constraints to book
development were identified while the paper advised on how the Book Industry can be
further promoted in Nigeria. However, the paper concluded and made recommendations
on how the Book sector can help in enhancing scholarship in the country
Discussion of "experimental response and code models of GFRP RC beams in bending," by M. Pecce, G. Manfredi, and E. Cosenza
No full textAccelerating Code on Multi-cores with FastFlow
No full textFastFlow is a programming framework specifically target-
ing cache-coherent shared-memory multi-cores. It is implemented as a
stack of C++ template libraries built on top of lock-free (and mem-
ory fence free) synchronization mechanisms. Its philosophy is to combine
programmability with performance. In this paper a new FastFlow pro-
gramming methodology aimed at supporting parallelization of existing
sequential code via offloading onto a dynamically created software accel-
erator is presented. The new methodology has been validated using a set
of simple micro-benchmarks and some real applications
The potential of irradiation and induced polyploidy for improving St. Augustinegrass Stenotaphrum secundatum (Walt.) Kuntze
No full textSt. Augustinegrass, Stenotaphrum secundatum is a warm-season perennial species of the tribe Paniceae. The species is classified as a sod-forming grass and is characterized by its stoloniferous growth habit and absence of rhizomes. Compared to turf species in common use it represents an extreme in texture due to its coarseness, but it is widely used and produces one of the more attractive lawns. Accessions presently used for turf purposes are propagated vegetatively and extensive areas are quite uniform. This may account for widespread incidence of the disease and insect problems with this species. The present study was undertaken to evaluate the potential value of irradiation and induced polyploidy as possible methods to use in a breeding program for S. secundatum. Seed obtained from common St. Augustinegrass lawns were irradiated with gamma rays and fission neutrons. Smears of pollen mother cells of representative M��� plants revealed translocations and the resulting multivalent associations. Data obtained from studies of M��� plants (progeny from M���) included leaf length and width, internode length and diameter, quality estimations, and weekly measurements of growth. Leaf length and width and stem characters were highly correlated. However, irradiation had no apparent effect on relationships of these characters. Germinating seedlings and actively growing stolons were used in studying methods of inducing polyploidy. The common diploid accession, three triploids and one tetraploid were utilized in this study. No new ploidy levels were recovered from the treated material. It is assumed that this species is quite tolerant to colchicine treatments. The polyploid accessions and two diploid accessions were used in a study of environmental response. Of the characters evaluated, maximum leaf length was the only one which exhibited a significantly different response to environment. However, the small number of polyploid entries restricts the scope of the inferences one may draw from the data. Studies leading to the development of technique which, at present, appears suitable for screening S. secundatum seedlings for tolerance to infection by Rhizoctonia solani are included. The technique included use of potato-dextrose agar cultures of the fungus which were diluted with water and macerated into a slurry. The seed were placed on the slurry and the seedlings were evaluated after two weeks in an environment suitable for seedling and fungus growth. The condition of the root was the basis of selection. Using this technique, approximately 17,000 seedlings were screened and 99 selected as being conspicuously superior in root development. Overall implications of the data and possible alternative approaches are discussed
A holographic system for subsea recording and analysis of plankton and other marine particles (HOLOMAR)
No full textWe report here details of the design, development, initial testing and field-deployment of the HOLOMAR system for in-situ subsea holography and analysis of marine plankton and nonliving particles. HOLOMAR comprises a submersible holographic camera ("HoloCam") able to record in-line and off-axis holograms at depths down to 100 m, together with specialised reconstruction hardware ("HoloScan") linked to custom image processing and classification software. The HoloCam consists of a laser and power supply, holographic recording optics and holographic plate holders, a water-tight housing and a support frame. It utilises two basic holographic geometries, in-line and off-axis such that a wide range of species, sizes and concentrations can be recorded. After holograms have been recorded and processed they are reconstructed in full three-dimensional detail in air in a dedicated replay facility. A computer-controlled microscope, using video cameras to record the image at a given depth, is used to digitise the scene. Specially written software extracts a binarised image of an object in its true focal plane and is classified using a neural network. The HoloCam was deployed on two separate cruises in a Scottish sea loch (Loch Etive) to a depth of 100 m and over 300 holograms were recorded
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