A. Evans

Publication List Details

Period

1971 - 2009

Number

98

Co-Authors

Changes in the red giant and dusty environment of the recurrent nova RS Ophiuchi following the 2006 eruption (2009)

Rushton, M. T., Kaminsky, B., Lynch, D. K., Pavlenko, Ya. V., Evans, A., Eyres, S. P. S., ...

We present near infrared spectroscopy of the recurrent nova RS Oph obtained on several occasions after its latest outburst in 2006 February. The 1-5 mircon spectra are dominated by the red giant, but...

The Expanding Nebular Remnant of the Recurrent Nova RS Ophiuchi (2006): II. Modeling of Combined Hubble Space Telescope Imaging and Ground-based Spectroscopy (2009)

Bode, M. F., Darnley, M. J., Harman, D. J., Newsam, A. M., O'Brien, T. J., ...

We report Hubble Space Telescope imaging, obtained 155 and 449 days after the 2006 outburst of the recurrent nova RS Ophiuchi, together with ground-based spectroscopic observations, obtained from the...

Increased attendances of people of Eastern European origin at sexual health services in London (2009)

Burns, F., Mercer, C., Evans, A., Gerry, C., Mole, R., Hart, G.

Objective: To describe the service use of migrants from eight central and eastern European (CEE) countries at two central London genitourinary medicine (GUM) clinics before and after accession to the...

Cancer Studies Unit, Queens Medical Centre, Nottingham, U.K. (2008)

C. J. Hall, R. A. Lewis, A. P. Hufton, S. Evans, D. R. Dance, F. Arfelli, ...

The purpose of this study was to explore the potential of refraction contrast X-ray imaging of biological systems. Images of a UK mammography test phantom, mouse lungs, heart, liver and legs, together

Improving subject knowledge and subject pedagogic knowledge in employment based secondary initial teacher training in England (2008)

Evans, A., Hawksley, F., Holland, M. R., Caillau, I.

Each year in England about 6,000 trainee teachers qualify by undertaking an employment-based initial teacher training route (EBITT), where training is mainly school based. Government inspectors have...

An Evaluation of Interpolation Techniques for Reconstructing Ionospheric TEC Maps (2008)

Foster, Matthew, Evans, A

Maps of the total electron content (TEC) of the ionosphere can be reconstructed using data extracted from GPS signals. For historic and other sparse data sets the reconstruction of TEC images is...

A dense disk of dust around the born-again Sakurai's object (2008)

Chesneau, Olivier, Clayton, G.C., Lykou, F., De Marco, O., Hummel, Ch., Kerber, F., ...

In 1996, Sakurai's object (V4334 Sgr) suddenly brightened in the centre of a faint Planetary Nebula (PN). This very rare event was interpreted as the reignition of a hot white dwarf that caused a...

A dense disk of dust around the born-again Sakurai's object (2008)

Chesneau, Olivier, Clayton, G.C., Lykou, F., De Marco, O., Hummel, Ch., Kerber, F., ...

In 1996, Sakurai's object (V4334 Sgr) suddenly brightened in the centre of a faint Planetary Nebula (PN). This very rare event was interpreted as the reignition of a hot white dwarf that caused a...

Predictors of high vancomycin MIC values among patients with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia (2008)

Lodise, T. P., Miller, C. D., Graves, J., Evans, A., Graffunder, E., Helmecke, M., ...

Background Recent evidence suggests that vancomycin demonstrates reduced activity against methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infections when vancomycin MIC values are at the high end...

A Method for Assessing Risk of Disclosure in Census Microdata and Tabular Data (2007)

O. Duke-Williams, S. Openshaw, P. Rees, A. Evans

The area of confidentiality in personal databases is one which is currently of considerable interest. This paper concentrates on current research relating to measuring the risk of disclosure of...

Abstract (2007)

A Evans, B Intro

duced DATR as a simple, non-monotonic language for representing natural language lexicons. Although a number of implemen-tations of DATR exist, the full language has until now lacked an explicit,...

Universit'e de Pau (2007)

R. B. France, Dpt Informatique, A. Evans

The need for precise semantics for the OMG standard object-oriented modeling language, Unified Modeling Language (UML), is widely-recognized in the software engineering community. In this paper we...

WASP-1b and WASP-2b: two new transiting exoplanets detected with SuperWASP and SOPHIE (2007)

Cameron, A Collier, Bouchy, F, Hébrard, G, Maxted, P, Pollacco, D, Pont, F, ...

We have detected low-amplitude radial-velocity variations in two stars, USNO-B1.0 1219-0005465 (GSC 02265-00107 = WASP-1) and USNO-B1.0 0964-0543604 (GSC 00522-01199 = WASP-2). Both stars were...

Adenoviral gene transfer into osteoarthritis synovial cells using the endogenous inhibitor IkappaBalpha reveals that most, but not all, inflammatory and destructive mediators are NFkappaB dependent (2006)

Amos, N., Lauder, Sarah Nicol, Evans, A., Feldmann, M., Bondeson, Jan

Objectives. Despite recent major advances in the understanding of the pathogenesis of rheumatoid arthritis, with tumour necrosis factor-alpha (TNF) established as a major therapeutic target,...

Altering perceived predation risk and food availability management prescriptions to benefit farmland birds on stubble fields (2006)

R Bradbury, Claire Devereux, A Evans, Mark Whittingham

1. European farmland bird populations have fallen dramatically and sympathetic management of key habitats is one crucial way to help boost these populations. Maximizing the value of habitats for...

The role of the Initial Teacher Training Coordinator in the school based element of partnership: to what extent does the Co-ordinator undertake supervision of aspects of quality assurance? (2006)

Evans, A., Holland, M. R., Wolstenholme, C. E., Willis, B., Hawksley, F.

Over the last 14 years, Universities and colleges have organised school placements and award qualifications whilst teachers, acting as mentors take the lead in guiding, supervising and assessing...

The Use of Whole Genome Amplification to Study Chromosomal Changes in Prostate Cancer: Insights into Genome-Wide Signature of Preneoplasia Associated with Cancer Progression (2006)

Hughes, S, Yoshimoto, M, Beheshti, B, Houlston, R S, Squire, J A, Evans, A

Background: Prostate cancer (CaP) is a disease with multifactorial etiology that includes both genetic and environmental components. The knowledge of the genetic basis of CaP has increased over the...

Adenoviral gene transfer into osteoarthritis synovial cells using the endogenous inhibitor I{kappa}B{alpha} reveals that most, but not all, inflammatory and destructive mediators are NF{kappa}B dependent (2006)

Amos, N., Lauder, S., Evans, A., Feldmann, M., Bondeson, J.

Objectives. Despite recent major advances in the understanding of the pathogenesis of rheumatoid arthritis, with tumour necrosis factor-alpha (TNFα) established as a major therapeutic target,...

Adenoviral gene transfer into osteoarthritis synovial cells using the endogenous inhibitor I{kappa}B{alpha} reveals that most, but not all, inflammatory and destructive mediators are NF{kappa}B dependent (2006)

Amos, N., Lauder, S., Evans, A., Feldmann, M., Bondeson, J.

Objectives. Despite recent major advances in the understanding of the pathogenesis of rheumatoid arthritis, with tumour necrosis factor-alpha (TNFα) established as a major therapeutic target,...

Adenoviral gene transfer into osteoarthritis synovial cells using the endogenous inhibitor I{kappa}B{alpha} reveals that most, but not all, inflammatory and destructive mediators are NF{kappa}B dependent (2006)

Amos, N., Lauder, S., Evans, A., Feldmann, M., Bondeson, J.

Objectives. Despite recent major advances in the understanding of the pathogenesis of rheumatoid arthritis, with tumour necrosis factor-alpha (TNFα) established as a major therapeutic target,...

First detections of the cataclysmic variable AE Aquarii in the near to far infrared with ISO and IRAS: Investigating the various possible thermal and non-thermal contributions (2005)

Abada-Simon, M., Casares, J., Evans, A., Eyres, S., Fender, R., Garrington, S., ...

We have used ISO to observe the Magnetic Cataclysmic Variable AE Aquarii in the previously unexplored range from 4.8 $\mu$m up to 170 $\mu$m in the framework of a coordinated multi-wavelength...

First detections of the cataclysmic variable AE Aquarii in the near to far infrared with ISO and IRAS: Investigating the various possible thermal and non-thermal contributions (2005)

Abada-Simon, M., Casares, J., Evans, A., Eyres, S., Fender, R., Garrington, S., ...

We have used ISO to observe the Magnetic Cataclysmic Variable AE Aquarii in the previously unexplored range from 4.8 $\mu$m up to 170 $\mu$m in the framework of a coordinated multi-wavelength...

First detections of the cataclysmic variable AE Aquarii in the near to far infrared with ISO and IRAS: Investigating the various possible thermal and non-thermal contributions (2005)

Abada-Simon, M., Casares, J., Evans, A., Eyres, S., Fender, R., Garrington, S., ...

We have used ISO to observe the Magnetic Cataclysmic Variable AE Aquarii in the previously unexplored range from 4.8 $\mu$m up to 170 $\mu$m in the framework of a coordinated multi-wavelength...

Education, socioeconomic and lifestyle factors, and risk of coronary heart disease: the PRIME Study (2005)

Yarnell, J, Yu, S, McCrum, E, Arveiler, D, Hass, B, Dallongeville, J, ...

Background Socioeconomic differentials have been described in the risk of coronary heart disease (CHD) but the extent to which these differentials are explained by lifestyle factors has been examined...

Modelling knowledge based systems using the executable modelling framework (XMF) (2004)

Abdullah, M.S., Evans, A., Benest, I., Paige, R.F., Kimble, C.

There is no standardised approach to modelling knowledge-based systems; where modelling is adopted, the techniques used are those from the software engineering domain. These tend to be used in an ad...

Education, socioeconomic and lifestyle factors, and risk of coronary heart disease: the PRIME Study (2004)

Yarnell, J., Yu, S., McCrum, E., Arveiler, D., Haas, B., Dallongeville, J., ...

Background Socioeconomic differentials have been described in the risk of coronary heart disease (CHD) but the extent to which these differentials are explained by lifestyle factors has been examined...

The genetics of coronary heart disease: the contribution of twin studies (2003)

Evans, A., Van Baal, C. M., McCarron, P., DeLange, M., Soerensen, T. I. A., ...

Despite the decline in coronary heart disease in many European countries, the disease remains an enormous public health problem. Although we know a great deal about environmental risk factors for...

Retrospective evaluation of inter-subject brain registration (2003)

P. Hellier, C. Barillot, I. Corouge, B. Gibaud, G. Le Goualher, L. Collins, ...

Abstract. Although numerous methods to register brains of different individuals have been proposed, few work has been done to evaluate the performances of different registration methods on the same...

Are the Framingham and PROCAM coronary heart disease risk functions applicable to different European populations?: The PRIME Study (2003)

Empana, J.P, Ducimetière, P, Arveiler, D, Ferrières, J, Evans, A, Ruidavets, J.B, ...

Aims To assess whether the Framingham and PROCAM risk functions were applicable to men in Belfast and France. Methods and results We performed an external validation study within the PRIME...

Trends in cigarette smoking in 36 populations from the early 1980s to the mid-1990s: Findings from the WHO MONICA Project (2001)

Molarius, A, Parsons, RW, Dobson, AJ, Evans, A, Fortmann, SP, Jamrozik, K, ...

Objectives. This report analyzes cigarette smoking over 10 years in populations in the World Health Organization (WHO) MONICA Project (to monitor trends and determinants of cardiovascular disease)....

Retrospective Evaluation of Inter-subject Brain Registration (2001)

P. Hellier, C. Barillot, I. Corouge, B. Gibaud, G. Le Goualher, L. Collins, ...

Although numerous methods to register brains of different individuals have been proposed, no work has been done, as far as we know, to evaluate and compare objectively the performances of different...

Estimation of contribution of changes in classic risk factors to trends in coronary-event rates across the WHO MONICA Project populations (2000)

Kuulasmaa, K., Tunstall-Pedoe, H., Dobson, A., Fortmann, S, Sans, S., Tolonen, H., ...

Background From the mid-1980s to mid-1990s, the WHO MONICA Project monitored coronary events and classic risk factors for coronary heart disease (CHD) in 38 populations from 21 countries. We assessed...

Structured Axiomatic Semantics for UML Models (2000)

K. Lano, A. Evans, J. Bicarregui

In this paper we provide a systematic formal interpretation for most elements of the UML notation. This interpretation, in a structured temporal logic, enables precise analysis of the properties of...

Structured Axiomatic Semantics for UML Models (2000)

K. Lano, J. Bicarregui, A. Evans

. In this paper we provide a systematic formal interpretation for most elements of the UML notation. This interpretation, in a structured temporal logic, enables precise analysis of the properties of...

The continuing saga of Sakurai's object (V4334 Sgr): dust production and helium line emission (2000)

Tyne, V.H., Eyres, S.P.S., Geballe, T.R., Evans, A., Smalley, B., Duerbeck, H.W., ...

We report further UKIRT spectroscopic observations of Sakurai's object (V4334 Sgr) made in 1999 April/May in the 1-4.75 µm range, and find that the emission is dominated by amorphous carbon at...

Rigorous Development in UML (1999)

A. Evans

The Unified Modelling Language (UML) is becoming the de facto industry standard notation for object-oriented analysis and design. In this paper we propose a development process using UML and other...

Strong helium 10830Å absorption in Sakurai's object (V4334 Sgr) (1999)

Eyres, S.P.S., Smalley, B., Geballe, T.R., Evans, A., Asplund, Martin, Tyne, V.H.

We report the appearance and evolution during 1998 of strong neutral helium ^3S-^3P^o absorption at ~10830Å in Sakurai's Object (V4334 Sgr), which is believed to be a planetary nebula nucleus (PNN)...

Changes in estimated coronary risk in the 1980s: data from 38 populations in the WHO MONICA Project (1998)

Dobson, A. ., Evans, A., Ferrario, M., Kuulasmaa, K. A., Moltchanov, V. A., Sans, S., ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) MONICA Project is a 10-year study monitoring trends and determinants of cardiovascular disease in geographically defined populations. Data were collected from over...

Changes in cigarette smoking among adults in 35 populations in the mid-1980s (1998)

Dobson, A. J., Kuulasmaa, K., Moltchanov, V., Evans, A., Fortmann, S. P., Jamrozik, K., ...

Objective-To examine changes in the prevalence of cigarette smoking in 35 study populations of the World Health Organisation's MONICA Project. Design-Data from two independent, community-based...

Developing the UML as a formal modelling notation (1998)

A. Evans, R. France, K. Lano, B. Rumpe

The Unified Modeling Language (UML) is rapidly emerging as a de-facto standard for modelling OO systems. Given this role, it is imperative that the UML have a welldefined, fully explored semantics....

Making UML Precise (1998)

A. Evans, J-m. Bruel, R. France, K. Lano, B. Rumpe

This paper aims to briefly present some of the issues its members have considered with regards to making UML precise and to describe progress that has been made over the last 12 months. 2...

A Method for Assessing Risk of Disclosure in Census Microdata and Tabular Data (1998)

O. Duke-Williams, S. Openshaw, P. Rees, A. Evans

The area of con#dentiality in personal databases is one which is currently of considerable interest. This paper concentrates on current research relating to measuring the risk of disclosure of...

Developing the UML as a Formal Modelling Notation (1998)

A. Evans, R. France, K. Lano, B. Rumpe

The Unified Modeling Language (UML) is rapidly emerging as a de-facto standard for modelling OO systems. Given this role, it is imperative that the UML have a welldefined, fully explored semantics....

Defining Semantics for Rigorous Development in UML (1998)

Lano Bicarregui, K. Lano, J. Bicarregui, A. Evans

The Unified Modelling Language (UML) is becoming the de facto industry standard notation for object-oriented analysis and design. In this paper we outline a semantic framework for UML which would...

Making UML Precise (1998)

A. Evans, J-m. Bruel, R. France, K. Lano, B. Rumpe

This paper aims to briefly present some of the issues its members have considered with regards to making UML precise and to describe progress that has been made over the last 12 months. 2...

Making UML Precise (1998)

A. Evans, J-m. Bruel, R. France, K. Lano, B. Rumpe

This paper aims to briefly present some of the issues its members have considered with regards to making UML precise and to describe progress that has been made over the last1fi months

Morphometric analysis of the temporal lobe in temporal lobe epilepsy (1998)

Lee, J.W., Andermann, F, Dubeau, F, Bernasconi, A, MacDonald, D, Evans, A, ...

Summary: Purpose: Using high-resolution magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), we examined the temporal neocortex and the underlying white matter in patients with unilateral temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE)...

The UML as a Formal Modeling Notation (1997)

R. France, A. Evans, K. Lano, B. Rumpe

Syntax The first step in formalizing the meaning of a classifier is to describe its abstract syntax. First, it is assumed that there are the given sets: [ClassifierName; AttributeName] from which the...

The UML as a Formal Modeling Notation (1997)

R. France, A. Evans, K. Lano, B. Rumpe

Syntax Thefi rst step in formalizing the meaning of a classifiis to describe its abstract syntax.

Incorporating Prior Knowledge Into Image Registration. (1997)

J. Ashburner, P. Neelin, D.L. Collins, A. Evans, K. Friston

The first step in the spatial normalization of brain images, is usually to determine the affine transformation that best maps the image to a template image in a standard space. We have developed a...

A double-blind, cross-over comparison of the effects of a loop diuretic and a dopamine receptor agonist as first line therapy in patients with mild congestive heart failure (1997)

Andrews, R., Charlesworth, A., Evans, A., Cowley, A. J.

We compared the effects of the orally active dopamine agonist ibopamine with the loop diuretic frusemide as first-line therapy in patients with mild congestive heart failure. Fourteen patients with...

PK11195 binding to the peripheral benzodiazepine receptor as a marker of microglia activation in multiple sclerosis and experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (1997)

Vowinckel, E, Reutens, D, Becher, B, Verge, G, Evans, A, Owens, T, ...

Activated glial cells are implicated in regulating and effecting the immune response that occurs within the CNS as part of multiple sclerosis (MS) and its animal model experimental autoimmune...

Cerebral [O-15]water clearance in humans determined by PET .1. Theory and normal values (1996)

Ohta, S, Meyer, E, Fujita, H, Reutens, DC, Evans, A, Gjedde, A

When used to measure blood flow in the brain, water leaves a residue in the vascular bed that influences the estimation of blood flow by current methods. To assess the magnitude of this influence, we...

A multiwavelength study of the classical nova v4169 sagittarii (1995)

Duerbeck, Hw, Evans, A, Chen, Al, Demartino, D, Hjellming, R, ...

We present multiwavelength observations of V4169 Sgr (Nova Sgr 92#2) from 1000 Angstrom to 2 cm for the first year following visual maximum. V4169 Sgr was an 'Fe II' type nova, and evolved from...

Medical treatment of myocardial infarction in France and Northern Ireland: Results from the ECTIM study (1995)

MARQUES-VIDAL, P., EVANS, A., ARVEILER, D., LUC, G., BINGHAM, A., ...

As part of the ECTIM Study, the medical treatment given to male patients (25–64 years) 3 to 9 months after myocardial infarction (MI) were analysed in France and Northern Ireland. On univariate...

Angiotensin I converting enzyme gene polymorphism and coronary heart disease (1995)

Cambien, F., Evans, A.

Genetic variations in the renin-angiotensin and kallikrein-kinin systems could prove to be significant pathophysiological mechanisms affecting coronary heart disease (CHD), particularly given the...

ON THE MECHANICS OF FAILURE IN CERAMIC/METAL BONDED SYSTEMS (1985)

Evans, A., Rühle, M., Turwitt, M.

Stress concentrations that develop in metal/ceramic bonded systems have been evaluated and shown to encourage crack propagation at, or near, the edge of bonded interfaces. Experimental indentation...

ON THE MECHANICS OF FAILURE IN CERAMIC/METAL BONDED SYSTEMS (1985)

Evans, A., Rühle, M., Turwitt, M.

Stress concentrations that develop in metal/ceramic bonded systems have been evaluated and shown to encourage crack propagation at, or near, the edge of bonded interfaces. Experimental indentation...

Relationship between Vancomycin MIC and Failure among Patients with Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Bacteremia Treated with Vancomycin▿

Lodise, T. P., Graves, J., Evans, A., Graffunder, E., Helmecke, M., Lomaestro, B. M., ...

There is growing concern that vancomycin has diminished activity for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infections, with vancomycin MICs at the high end of the CLSI susceptibility...

Melanoma incidence and mortality in Scotland 1979–2003

MacKie, R M, Bray, C, Vestey, J, Doherty, V, Evans, A, Thomson, D, ...

We studied 12 450 cases of invasive melanoma diagnosed in Scotland in 1979–2003, by thickness, pathological type, and body site at ages under 40, 40–59, and 60 years and over. Melanoma...

Randomised controlled trial of mammographic screening in women from age 40: results of screening in the first 10 years

Moss, S, Thomas, I, Evans, A, Thomas, B, Johns, L

Debate continues over the effectiveness of screening by mammography in women below age 50. We report here on results of screening in the first 10 years of a randomised trial to study the effect on...

p73 is over-expressed in vulval cancer principally as the Δ2 isoform

O'Nions, J, Brooks, L A, Sullivan, A, Bell, A, Dunne, B, Rozycka, M, ...

p73 was studied in squamous cancers and precursor lesions of the vulva. Over-expression of p73 occurred commonly in both human papillomavirus (HPV)-positive and -negative squamous cell cancers (SCC)...

Routine breast screening for women aged 65–69: results from evaluation of the demonstration sites

Moss, S M, Brown, J, Garvican, L, Coleman, D A, Johns, L E, Blanks, R G, ...

Routine programme data and specially designed surveys from 3 demonstration sites were analysed to determine the implications of extending the NHS Breast Screening Programme (NHSBSP), to include...