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The strategic positioning of information systems in post-acquisition management (1993)
Journal Article
Merali, Y., & McKiernan, P. (1993). The strategic positioning of information systems in post-acquisition management. Journal of Strategic Information Systems, 2(2), 105-124. https://doi.org/10.1016/0963-8687%2893%2990003-S

Although corporate growth through acquisition continues to be a popular strategy for the 1990s, the failure rate of acquired companies remains high at 50 per cent. This paper focuses on post-acquisition integration of information systems (IS) and inf... Read More about The strategic positioning of information systems in post-acquisition management.

A Contextual View of Ethics (1993)
Journal Article
Midgley, G. (1993). A Contextual View of Ethics. The psychologist, 6(4), 175-178

Gerald Midgley examines the arguments presented by Jeffrey Gray, Peter Singer and Richard Ryder in our special issue on animal experimentation (May 1991). He proposes a contextual theory of moral choice to deal with the conflicting ethical principles... Read More about A Contextual View of Ethics.

Clinical evaluation of a range of autorefractors (1993)
Journal Article
McCaghrey, G. E., & Matthews, F. E. (1993). Clinical evaluation of a range of autorefractors. Ophthalmic and Physiological Optics, 13(2), 129-137. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-1313.1993.tb00441.x

A practice‐based study of nine autorefractors was undertaken lo assess reliability and validity. Various statistical methods were used to test aspects of validity of the machines compared with one another. In routine optometric practice the autorefra... Read More about Clinical evaluation of a range of autorefractors.

Rural population mixing and childhood leukaemia: Effects of the North Sea oil industry in Scotland, including the area near Dounreay nuclear site (1993)
Journal Article
Kinlen, L. J., O'Brien, F., Clarke, K., Balkwill, A., & Matthews, F. (1993). Rural population mixing and childhood leukaemia: Effects of the North Sea oil industry in Scotland, including the area near Dounreay nuclear site. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.306.6880.743

Objective - To determine if any excess of childhood leukaemia and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma was associated with certain striking examples of population mixing in rural Scotland produced by the North Sea oil industry. Design - Details were traced for ove... Read More about Rural population mixing and childhood leukaemia: Effects of the North Sea oil industry in Scotland, including the area near Dounreay nuclear site.

Nonlinear identification of the Pco2control system in man (1993)
Journal Article
Noshiro, M., Furuya, M., Linkens, D., & Goode, K. (1993). Nonlinear identification of the Pco2control system in man. Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine, 40(3), 189-202. https://doi.org/10.1016/0169-2607%2893%2990057-R

Two approaches to identification of the Pco 2 system in man are described. The first uses a nonlinear 'black box' NARMAX identification package, while the second method uses a structured two-compartment Belville model. The data were obtained from vol... Read More about Nonlinear identification of the Pco2control system in man.

Line generalisation by repeated elimination of points (1993)
Journal Article
Visvalingam, M., & Whyatt, J. D. (1993). Line generalisation by repeated elimination of points. The Cartographic journal, 30(1), 46-51. https://doi.org/10.1179/000870493786962263

This paper presents a new approach to line generalisation which uses the concept of ‘effective area’ for progressive simplification of a line by point elimination. Two coastlines are used to compare the performance of this, with that of the widely us... Read More about Line generalisation by repeated elimination of points.