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The 'mouse organ' project: A learning approach to promote creativity and motivation (2002)
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Wilkinson, A. J., Miles, R. S., Bateson, A. D., Selke, K. K., & Holley, S. (2002). The 'mouse organ' project: A learning approach to promote creativity and motivation. International journal of electrical engineering education, 39(3), 278-283. https://doi.org/10.7227/IJEEE.39.3.12

This paper describes an approach to the teaching of the design and development of embedded computer systems. Traditional lectures in computer architecture and real time software are complemented by project-based learning with appropriate support sess... Read More about The 'mouse organ' project: A learning approach to promote creativity and motivation.

A Monte Carlo simulation scheme for nonideal dendrimers satisfying detailed balance (2002)
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Giupponi, G., & Buzza, D. M. A. (2002). A Monte Carlo simulation scheme for nonideal dendrimers satisfying detailed balance. Macromolecules, 35(26), 9799-9812. https://doi.org/10.1021/ma0203851

We present a configurational-biased lattice Monte Carlo scheme for simulating nonideal dendrimers that satisfies detailed balance. This corrects an important shortcoming in a previous lattice Monte Carlo scheme by Mansfield and Klushin: in a previous... Read More about A Monte Carlo simulation scheme for nonideal dendrimers satisfying detailed balance.

Recruitment patterns of six species of cyprinid fishes in the lower River Trent, England (2002)
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Nunn, A. D., Cowx, I. G., & Harvey, J. P. (2002). Recruitment patterns of six species of cyprinid fishes in the lower River Trent, England. Ecology of freshwater fish, 11(2), 74-84. https://doi.org/10.1034/j.1600-0633.2002.t01-1-00001.x

Fisheries data were collected for six species of 0-group cyprinid fishes from eight sites in the lower reaches of the River Trent, England, between May and October 1999 inclusive, using a micromesh seine net. Recruitment and growth patterns were obse... Read More about Recruitment patterns of six species of cyprinid fishes in the lower River Trent, England.

Towards a digital economy with Chinese characteristics? (2002)
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Dai, X. (2002). Towards a digital economy with Chinese characteristics?. New Media and Society, 4(2), 141-162. https://doi.org/10.1177/14614440222226316

There are two opposing views when considering economic development strategies in the digital age: some insist that the 'new economy' applies mainly to the industrialized countries and are doubtful that new information and communications technologies... Read More about Towards a digital economy with Chinese characteristics?.

'Negotiating the 'Modern Wilderness of Interests': Bernard Bosanquet on cultural diversity (2002)
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Tyler, C. (2002). 'Negotiating the 'Modern Wilderness of Interests': Bernard Bosanquet on cultural diversity. Contemporary Political Theory, 1(2), 157 - 180. https://doi.org/10.1057/palgrave.cpt.9300027

This article argues that, despite its reputation as a homogenising and authoritarian system, the political thought of Bernard Bosanquet contains resources with which to develop a robust and culturally sensitive model of liberal multiculturalism. Thro... Read More about 'Negotiating the 'Modern Wilderness of Interests': Bernard Bosanquet on cultural diversity.

TLM models of bending transients and their application to the deformation of thin walled ceramic shapes (2002)
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Newton, H. R., Pulko, S. H., & Wilkinson, A. J. (2002). TLM models of bending transients and their application to the deformation of thin walled ceramic shapes. International journal of numerical modelling, 15(3), 287-301. https://doi.org/10.1002/jnm.444

A transmission line matrix model of viscous bending under gravity is devised. This is initially extended to a two-component, parallel, dashpot-spring model corresponding to a Kelvin solid, and then to a three-component model comprising an initial ela... Read More about TLM models of bending transients and their application to the deformation of thin walled ceramic shapes.

Screening for postnatal depression in Bengali women: preliminary observations from using a translated version of the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS) (2002)
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Fuggle, P., Glover, L., Khan, F., & Haydon, K. (2002). Screening for postnatal depression in Bengali women: preliminary observations from using a translated version of the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS). Journal of reproductive and infant psychology, 20(2), 71-82. https://doi.org/10.1080/02646830220134603

Postnatal depression carries a significant health burden for mothers and their offspring. However, the majority of screening or treatment studies for postnatal depression have been carried out on white or European populations and clinicians have been... Read More about Screening for postnatal depression in Bengali women: preliminary observations from using a translated version of the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS).

Summation in autoshaping is affected by the similarity of the visual stimuli to the stimulation they replace. (2002)
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Pearce, J. M., Redhead, E. S., & George, D. N. (2002). Summation in autoshaping is affected by the similarity of the visual stimuli to the stimulation they replace. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 28(2), 175-189. https://doi.org/10.1037/0097-7403.28.2.175

Pigeons received autoshaping with 2 stimuli, A and B, presented in adjacent regions on a television screen. Conditioning with each stimulus was therefore accompanied by stimulation that was displaced from the screen whenever the other stimulus was pr... Read More about Summation in autoshaping is affected by the similarity of the visual stimuli to the stimulation they replace..

TLM representation of the hyperbolic heat conduction equation (2002)
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Pulko, S. H., Wilkinson, A. J., & Saidane, A. (2002). TLM representation of the hyperbolic heat conduction equation. International journal of numerical modelling, 15(3), 303-315. https://doi.org/10.1002/jnm.445

Many heat transfer situations are adequately described by the parabolic thermal diffusion equation. However, in situations in which very rapid heating occurs or in slower heating regimes for particular materials, the hyperbolic heat conduction equati... Read More about TLM representation of the hyperbolic heat conduction equation.

Algorithms for accurate rapid prototyping replication of cancellous bone voxel maps (2002)
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Sisias, G., Phillips, R., Dobson, C., Fagan, M., & Langton, C. (2002). Algorithms for accurate rapid prototyping replication of cancellous bone voxel maps. Rapid Prototyping Journal, 8(1), 6-24. https://doi.org/10.1108/13552540210413266

A set of algorithms has been developed and evaluated for 3D and 21/2D rapid prototyping replication of 3D reconstructions of cancellous bone samples. The algorithms replicate a voxel map without any loss of fidelity, so as to increase the validity of... Read More about Algorithms for accurate rapid prototyping replication of cancellous bone voxel maps.

POSSUM and P-POSSUM overpredict mortality for carotid endarterectomy (2002)
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Kuhan, G., Abidia, A. F., Wijesinghe, L. D., Chetter, I. C., Johnson, B. F., Wilkinson, A. .., Renwick, P. M., & McCollum, P. T. (2002). POSSUM and P-POSSUM overpredict mortality for carotid endarterectomy. European journal of vascular and endovascular surgery : the official journal of the European Society for Vascular Surgery, 23(3), 209-211. https://doi.org/10.1053/ejvs.2001.1557

Objectives: the aim was to test the predictive accuracy of POSSUM and P-POSSUM on patients undergoing CEA. Design: retrospective and prospective study. Materials: 499 CEAs performed by four vascular surgeons from a single unit from 1992-99. The media... Read More about POSSUM and P-POSSUM overpredict mortality for carotid endarterectomy.

The role of boundaries in knowledge processes (2002)
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Merali, Y. (2002). The role of boundaries in knowledge processes. European Journal of Information Systems, 11(1), 47-60. https://doi.org/10.1057/palgrave/ejis/3000413

Advances in communications and information technology deliver an increasingly dynamic and interconnected competitive context. To survive and prosper in this environment, organisations must be innovative and adaptive. Intellectual and relational capit... Read More about The role of boundaries in knowledge processes.

Adrenomedullin and the microvasculature (2002)
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Nikitenko, L. L., Smith, D. M., Hague, S., Wilson, C. R., Bicknell, R., & Rees, M. C. (2002). Adrenomedullin and the microvasculature. Trends in Pharmacological Sciences, 23(3), 101-103. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0165-6147%2800%2901983-0

The peptide adrenomedullin shows a remarkable range of effects on the vasculature that include vasodilatation, regulation of vascular smooth muscle cell proliferation, inhibition of endothelial apoptosis and promotion of angiogenesis. It is becoming... Read More about Adrenomedullin and the microvasculature.

A multi-agent decision support system for stock trading (2002)
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Liu, K., Luo, Y., & Davis, D. N. (2002). A multi-agent decision support system for stock trading. IEEE Network, 16(1), 20-27. https://doi.org/10.1109/65.980541

A distributed problem solving system can be characterized as a group of individual cooperating agents running to solve common problems. As dynamic application domains continue to grow in scale and complexity, it becomes more difficult to control the... Read More about A multi-agent decision support system for stock trading.

Smoothing of pixelated finite element models of cancellous bone structures and the effect on the predicted structural properties of the bone (2002)
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Dobson, C. A., Sisias, G., Phillips, R., Langton, C. M., & Fagan, M. J. (2002). Smoothing of pixelated finite element models of cancellous bone structures and the effect on the predicted structural properties of the bone. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part H: Journal of Engineering in Medicine, 216(2), 145-149. https://doi.org/10.1243/0954411021536360

Many areas of biomedical engineering involve the modelling of biological systems, often using data from medical scanning techniques such as computed microtomography (μCT), and the prediction of the mechanical properties of these systems via finite el... Read More about Smoothing of pixelated finite element models of cancellous bone structures and the effect on the predicted structural properties of the bone.