Integration of Field Experimentation and Computer Simulation, (9999)
The purpose of this paper is to present an example of the integration of the results of field experimentation and predictive computer models. The example is drawn from an on-going United States...
SELECTED PAGES FROM WWW--- (2009)
Instructors Edward, A. Fox, Robert M. Akscyn
Participants are encouraged from those working in fields like computing, library science, information science, multimedia, and publishing. Those with little background on digital libraries are...
Wilson, D. J., Gabriel, E., Leatherbarrow, A. J. H., Cheesbrough, J., Gee, S., Bolton, E., ...
Responsible for the majority of bacterial gastroenteritis in the developed world, Campylobacter jejuni is a pervasive pathogen of humans and animals, but its evolution is obscure. In this paper, we...
Fox, A., Williams, M., Richardson, A.D., Cameron, D., Gove, J.H., Quaife, T., ...
We describe a model-data fusion (MDF) inter-comparison project (REFLEX), which compared various algorithms for estimating carbon (C) model parameters consistent with both measured carbon fluxes and...
Adult and Community Learning (2008)
Dr Tricia, A. Fox, Senior Lecturer
Adult learners are being attracted to university programs based on the granting of either academic credit or the recognition of prior learning (RPL). Typically, this attraction is being aligned to...
The Effectiveness of Automatically Structured Queries in Digital Libraries ABSTRACT (2008)
Marcos André, Gonçalves Edward, A. Fox, Aaron Krowne, Pável Calado, ...
Structured or fielded metadata is the basis for many digital library services, including searching and browsing. Yet, little is known about the impact of using structure on the effectiveness of such...
The Effectiveness of Automatically Structured Queries in Digital Libraries ABSTRACT (2008)
Marcos André, Gonçalves Edward, A. Fox, Aaron Krowne, Pável Calado, ...
Structured or fielded metadata is the basis for many digital library services, including searching and browsing. Yet, little is known about the impact of using structure on the effectiveness of such...
Impact of religious affiliation and religiosity on forgiveness (2008)
The aim of the present study was to investigate the link between religiosity and forgiveness among Christian, Muslim, Jewish and secular affiliations. Measures of forgiveness included attitudes...
This article charts the development of a networked learning community (NLC). NLCs were established by the National College for School Leadership in 2002 connecting groups of schools to further both...
Improving Learning How to Learn: Classrooms, Schools and Networks (2007)
James, M, McCormick, R, Black, P, Carmichael, P, Drummond, M, Fox, A, ...
Learning how to learn is an essential preparation for lifelong learning. Whilst this is widely acknowledged by teachers, they have lacked a rich professional knowledge base from which they can teach...
Fox, A, McCormick, R, Procter, R, Carmichael, P
As part of the Learning How to Learn in Classrooms, Schools and Networks Project, a mapping tool and associated interviews were devised to capture practitioners’ views of the networks associated...
Fox, A, McCormick, R, Procter, R, Carmichael, P
As part of the Learning How to Learn in classrooms, schools and networks project, a mapping tool and associated interviews were devised to capture practitioners’ views of the networks associated...
Practical Digital Library Generation into DSpace with the 5S Framework (2007)
Douglas Gorton, Douglas Gorton, Committee Chairman, A. Fox
In today’s ever-changing world of technology and information, a growing number of organizations and universities seek to store digital documents in an online, accessible manner. These digital...
Learning How to Learn: Tools for Schools (2006)
James, M, Black, P, Carmichael, P, Conner, C, Dudley, P, Fox, A, ...
Learning how to learn is an essential preparation for lifelong learning. Whist this is widely acknowledged by teachers, many lack the knowledge and skills they need to teach their pupils to learn how...
Learning How to Learn - in classrooms, schools and networks, TLRP Research Briefing 17 (2006)
James, M, McCormick, R, Marshall, B, Black, P, Carmichael, P, Drummond, M, ...
Research on assessment for learning has demonstrated that it can lead to improved learning and achievement. Less is known about how these results can be scaled up and sustained without intense...
Teachers' networks in and out of school (2006)
Carmichael, P, Fox, A, McCormick, R, Procter, R, Honour, L
A 'mapping task' was used to explore the networks available to head teachers, school coordinators and local authority staff. Beginning from an ego-centred perspective on networks, we illustrate a...
Teachers' learning through networks (2006)
Fox, A, McCormick, R, Carmichael, P, Procter, R
Networks provide ways of thinking about how teachers create and share knowledge about practice, which is at the core of experienced professionals’ learning. They have increasing importance as an...
Comparison of AlGaN/GaN MSM Varactor Diodes Based on HFET and MOSHFET Layer Structures (2006)
Marso, M., Fox, A., Heidelberger, G., Kordos, P., Lueth, H.
This version is available at the following Publisher URL: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/Xplore/dynhome.jsp
Extended Hours: Causes, Effects and Responses (2006)
Peetz, David Robert, Townsend, K., Russell, Bob, Houghton, C., Fox, A., Allan, Cameron, ...
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Extended Hours: Causes, Effects and Responses (2006)
Peetz, David Robert, Townsend, K., Russell, Bob, Houghton, C., Fox, A., Allan, Cameron
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Extended Hours: Causes, Effects and Responses (2006)
Peetz, David Robert, Townsend, K., Russell, Bob, Houghton, C., Fox, A., Allan, Cameron
ETANA-CMV: A coordinated multiple view visual (2006)
Dr. Weiguo Fan, Committee Chair, A. Fox
browsing interface for ETANA-DL
DOI 10.1007/s00799-005-0124-1 REGULAR PAPER (2006)
Marcos André, Gonçalves Edward, A. Fox
Abstract Biodiversity Information Systems (BISs) involve all kinds of heterogeneous data, which include ecological and geographical features. However, available information systems offer very limited...
Extended Hours: Causes, Effects and Responses (2006)
Peetz, David Robert, Townsend, K., Russell, Bob, Houghton, C., Fox, A., Allan, Cameron
Fox, A, Procter, R, Honour, L, Carmichael, P, McCormick, R
As part of the ‘Learning How to Learn in Classrooms, Schools and Networks’ project, a mapping tool and associated interviews were devised to capture practitioners’ views of the networks...
Jacobs,T. E., Fox,A., Potter,F. J.
Reliability measurement, 2N2193 transistor; l. The most prevalent type of failure was the collector-to-emitter short, so far obtained exclusively on 1.6 watts. Moreover, subjection of the devices to...
FAILURE MECHANISMS IN SEMICONDUCTOR DIODES. (2005)
Herr, E. A., Fox, A., Poe, A., Roesch, A.
This is the second semi-annual report of a three year program to investigate the physical and chemical mechanisms which contribute to long term degradation of diode parameters. The program includes...
FAILURE MECHANISMS IN SEMICONDUCTOR DIODES. (2005)
Bair, B. L., Fox, A., Herr, E. A., Schenck, J. F.
The failure modes which have been identified are described in terms of the stress conditions required to induce them and the rates at which response may be observed. Typical values of the degraded...
Bodik, P., Friedman, G., Biewald, L., Levine, H., Candea, G., Patel, K., ...
Web applications suffer from software and configuration faults that lower their availability. Recovering from failure is dominated by the time interval between when these faults appear and when they...
School networks and networking are now seen as important within the education system, with considerable investment through the Networked Learning Communities of the National College of School...
Recovery-oriented computing: building multitier dependability (2004)
Candea, G., Brown, A. B., Fox, A., Patterson, D.
Building systems to recover fast may be more productive than aiming for systems that never fail. Because recovery is not immune to failure either, the authors advocate multiple lines of defense in...
Improving availability with recursive microreboots: a soft-state system case study (2004)
Candea, G., Cutler, J., Fox, A.
Even after decades of software engineering research, complex computer systems still fail. This paper makes the case for increasing research emphasis on dependability and, specifically, on improving...
OnCall: defeating spikes with a free-market application cluster (2004)
Norris, J., Coleman, K., Fox, A., Candea, G.
Even with reasonable overprovisioning, today's Internet application clusters are unable to handle major traffic spikes and flash crowds. As an alternative to fixed-size, dedicated clusters, we...
Prototyping Digital Libraries Handling Heterogeneous Data Sources - An ETANA-DL Case Study (2004)
Unnikrishnan Ravindranathan, Unnikrishnan Ravindranathan, Committee Chairman, A. Fox
Information systems used in archaeological research have several needs that can be summarized as follows: interoperability among diverse, heterogeneous systems, making information available without...
Automatic failure-path inference: a generic introspection technique for Internet applications (2003)
Candea, G., Delgado, M., Chen, M., Fox, A.
Automatic failure-path inference (AFPI) is an application-generic, automatic technique for dynamically discovering the failure dependency graphs of componentized Internet applications. AFPI's first...
JAGR: an autonomous self-recovering application server (2003)
Candea, G., Kiciman, E., Zhang, S., Keyani, P., Fox, A.
This paper demonstrates that the dependability of generic, evolving J2EE applications can be enhanced through a combination of a few recovery-oriented techniques. Our goal is to reduce downtime by...
The Web-DL environment for building digital libraries from the Web (2003)
Pável P. Calado, Marcos A. Gonçalves, Ý Edward, A. Fox, ...
The Web contains a huge volume of unstructured data, which is difficult to manage. In digital libraries, on the other hand, information is explicitly organized, described, and managed....
Reducing recovery time in a small recursively restartable system (2002)
Candea, G., Cutler, J., Fox, A., Doshi, R., Garg, P., Gowda, R.
We present ideas on how to structure software systems for high availability by considering MTTR/MTTF characteristics of components in addition to the traditional criteria, such as functionality or...
Recursive restartability: turning the reboot sledgehammer into a scalpel (2001)
Even after decades of software engineering research, complex computer systems still fail, primarily due to nondeterministic bugs that are typically resolved by rebooting. Conceding that Heisenbugs...
Roger P. Bodnar, A. Fox, Beth Rosson, Roger P. Bodnar, ...
A methodology, based on a language’s properties, for the selection and validation of a suite of software metrics. by
A. Fox, Hussein Suleman, Devika Madalli, Lillian Cassel
(to be published by CRC Press)
THE INFRARED DETECTION OF $HOSi^{+}$ AND $DOSi^{+}$ (1989)
Warner, H. E., Amano, T., Fox, A., Bohme, D., Moazzen-Ahmadi, N., McKellar, A. R. W.
$^{1}$ P. Botschwina and P. Rosmus. J. Chem. Phys. 82,1420 (1985).
Fox, A, Fox, K, Christensson, B, Harrelson, D, Krahmer, M
This is the first report of a study employing the state-of-the-art technique of gas chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry for absolute identification of muramic acid (a marker for peptidoglycan) at...
Although it is clear that muramyl peptides are involved in sleep associated with bacterial infection, their role in normal physiological sleep is less certain. It has been speculated that "natural"...
Fox, A, Rogers, J C, Gilbart, J, Morgan, S, Davis, C H, Knight, S, ...
By using the powerful separation technique of capillary gas chromatography combined with the selectivity of mass spectrometric detection, muramic acid was not detectable in purified elementary bodies...
Elimination of group A streptococcal cell walls from mammalian tissues.
The precise levels in mammalian tissues of rhamnose (a constituent of the group-specific polysaccharide) and muramic acid (a constituent of peptidoglycan) at various times after systemic...
Degradation of muramyl dipeptide by mammalian serum.
Muramyl dipeptide, N-acetylmuramyl-L-alanine-D-isoglutamine (MDP), is the minimal biologically active subunit of bacterial peptidoglycan and elicits an acute inflammation in vivo. We now report that...
The biochemical characteristics and the isolation rates of the two Lancefield group C streptococcal species (S. equisimilis and S. anginosus) from patients with pharyngitis and asymptomatic controls...
Turner, J C, Fox, A, Fox, K, Addy, C, Garrison, C Z, Herron, B, ...
All Lancefield group C beta-hemolytic streptococci isolated over 12 months from college students with clinical pharyngitis and age-matched healthy controls were identified. Clinical features of upper...
Fox, A, Black, G E, Fox, K, Rostovtseva, S
Bacillus anthracis and Bacillus cereus are closely related pathogenic organisms that are difficult to differentiate phenotypically or genotypically. It is well known that vegetative and spore forms...
Matthews, R C, Burnie, J P, Fox, A, Woods, M, Tabaqchali, S
The serological response to Trichosporon sp. was examined by the immunoblot technique. Antibodies to a range of antigens (200 to 16 kilodaltons) were detectable in three patients with invasive...
Fox, A, Rogers, J C, Fox, K F, Schnitzer, G, Morgan, S L, Brown, A, ...
Legionellae have been differentiated previously by analyzing their carbohydrate contents by gas chromatography with flame ionization detection. In the present study, total ion mode gas...
Fox, A, Lau, P Y, Brown, A, Morgan, S L, Zhu, Z T, Lema, M, ...
Legionella pneumophila, the causative agent of Legionnaires disease, and related organisms have previously been characterized primarily by conventional bacteriological methods, DNA-DNA hybridization,...
Wells, A F, Hightower, J A, Parks, C, Kufoy, E, Fox, A
The perpetuation of inflammatory changes within joints elicited by persisting, poorly biodegradable group A streptococcal cell walls (peptidoglycan-polysaccharide complexes [PG-PS]) is well...
Eisenberg, R, Fox, A, Greenblatt, J J, Anderle, S K, Cromartie, W J, Schwab, J H
We have developed sensitive and specific solid-phase radioimmunoassays to quantitate the distribution and persistence of bacterial antigen in rats developing arthritis in response to a single...
Burnie, J P, Matthews, R C, Fox, A, Tabaqchali, S
Western blotting was applied to the analysis of Candida albicans in the yeast and mycelial phases in an attempt to recognise mycelial specific antigens which might be of serodiagnostic value. The...
Immunoblot analysis of serological responses in invasive aspergillosis.
Matthews, R, Burnie, J P, Fox, A, Tabaqchali, S
The serological response to Aspergillus fumigatus was investigated in patients with pulmonary aspergillosis using the immunoblot technique. Antibody was detected against nine components of the...
Curry, A, Bryden, A, Morgan-Capner, P, Fox, A, Guiver, M, Martin, L, ...
The aim of this project was to produce guidance for a rationalised virological electron microscopy specimen testing policy for PHLS North West, to facilitate centralisation of a groupwide diagnostic...
Muramic acid detection in mammalian tissues by gas-liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry.
Fox, A, Schwab, J H, Cochran, T
Muramic acid is a component of the peptidoglycan moiety of cell walls of all bacteria and blue-green algae and is not found elsewhere in nature. A gas-liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry assay...
Fox, A, Fox, K, Christensson, B, Harrelson, D, Krahmer, M
This is the first report of a study employing the state-of-the-art technique of gas chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry for absolute identification of muramic acid (a marker for peptidoglycan) at...
Although it is clear that muramyl peptides are involved in sleep associated with bacterial infection, their role in normal physiological sleep is less certain. It has been speculated that "natural"...
Fox, A, Rogers, J C, Gilbart, J, Morgan, S, Davis, C H, Knight, S, ...
By using the powerful separation technique of capillary gas chromatography combined with the selectivity of mass spectrometric detection, muramic acid was not detectable in purified elementary bodies...
Elimination of group A streptococcal cell walls from mammalian tissues.
The precise levels in mammalian tissues of rhamnose (a constituent of the group-specific polysaccharide) and muramic acid (a constituent of peptidoglycan) at various times after systemic...
Degradation of muramyl dipeptide by mammalian serum.
Muramyl dipeptide, N-acetylmuramyl-L-alanine-D-isoglutamine (MDP), is the minimal biologically active subunit of bacterial peptidoglycan and elicits an acute inflammation in vivo. We now report that...
The biochemical characteristics and the isolation rates of the two Lancefield group C streptococcal species (S. equisimilis and S. anginosus) from patients with pharyngitis and asymptomatic controls...
Turner, J C, Fox, A, Fox, K, Addy, C, Garrison, C Z, Herron, B, ...
All Lancefield group C beta-hemolytic streptococci isolated over 12 months from college students with clinical pharyngitis and age-matched healthy controls were identified. Clinical features of upper...
Fox, A, Black, G E, Fox, K, Rostovtseva, S
Bacillus anthracis and Bacillus cereus are closely related pathogenic organisms that are difficult to differentiate phenotypically or genotypically. It is well known that vegetative and spore forms...
Matthews, R C, Burnie, J P, Fox, A, Woods, M, Tabaqchali, S
The serological response to Trichosporon sp. was examined by the immunoblot technique. Antibodies to a range of antigens (200 to 16 kilodaltons) were detectable in three patients with invasive...
Fox, A, Rogers, J C, Fox, K F, Schnitzer, G, Morgan, S L, Brown, A, ...
Legionellae have been differentiated previously by analyzing their carbohydrate contents by gas chromatography with flame ionization detection. In the present study, total ion mode gas...
Fox, A, Lau, P Y, Brown, A, Morgan, S L, Zhu, Z T, Lema, M, ...
Legionella pneumophila, the causative agent of Legionnaires disease, and related organisms have previously been characterized primarily by conventional bacteriological methods, DNA-DNA hybridization,...
Wells, A F, Hightower, J A, Parks, C, Kufoy, E, Fox, A
The perpetuation of inflammatory changes within joints elicited by persisting, poorly biodegradable group A streptococcal cell walls (peptidoglycan-polysaccharide complexes [PG-PS]) is well...
Eisenberg, R, Fox, A, Greenblatt, J J, Anderle, S K, Cromartie, W J, Schwab, J H
We have developed sensitive and specific solid-phase radioimmunoassays to quantitate the distribution and persistence of bacterial antigen in rats developing arthritis in response to a single...
Burnie, J P, Matthews, R C, Fox, A, Tabaqchali, S
Western blotting was applied to the analysis of Candida albicans in the yeast and mycelial phases in an attempt to recognise mycelial specific antigens which might be of serodiagnostic value. The...
Immunoblot analysis of serological responses in invasive aspergillosis.
Matthews, R, Burnie, J P, Fox, A, Tabaqchali, S
The serological response to Aspergillus fumigatus was investigated in patients with pulmonary aspergillosis using the immunoblot technique. Antibody was detected against nine components of the...
Curry, A, Bryden, A, Morgan-Capner, P, Fox, A, Guiver, M, Martin, L, ...
The aim of this project was to produce guidance for a rationalised virological electron microscopy specimen testing policy for PHLS North West, to facilitate centralisation of a groupwide diagnostic...
Muramic acid detection in mammalian tissues by gas-liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry.
Fox, A, Schwab, J H, Cochran, T
Muramic acid is a component of the peptidoglycan moiety of cell walls of all bacteria and blue-green algae and is not found elsewhere in nature. A gas-liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry assay...
Persistence of antigen in nonarthritic joints.
The presence of antigen, IgG and C3 was shown by radioautography and immunofluorescence in the collagenous tissues of the joints of animals injected intra-articularly with antigen after having been...
Is persisting antigen responsible for the chronicity of experimental allergic arthritis?
Animals were injected intra-articularly with antigen after prior immunization with that antigen in Freund's incomplete adjuvant in order to precipitate immune complexes in the surfaces of menisci,...
Hirschowitz, D, Fox, A, Glynn, L E
Rabbits were immunized with antigen in Freund's complete adjuvant. Several weeks later the granuloma which developed was excised one day before joint challenge with antigen. The subsequent...
Mycobacterium tuberculosis genome-wide screen exposes multiple CD8+ T cell epitopes
Hammond, A S, Klein, M R, Corrah, T, Fox, A, Jaye, A, McAdam, K P, ...
Mounting evidence suggests human leucocyte antigen (HLA) class I-restricted CD8+ T cells play a role in protective immunity against tuberculosis yet relatively few epitopes specific for the causative...
1. The relative contributions of two classes of 5-hydroxytryptamine (5-HT) receptor (5-HT2 and 5-HT3) to the contractile action of 5-HT, 2-methyl-5-hydroxytryptamine (2-methyl-5-HT) and...
Egan, J J, Barber, L, Lomax, J, Fox, A, Yonan, N, Rahman, A N, ...
BACKGROUND--New rapid diagnostic techniques offer the opportunity of early diagnosis of human cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection in immunocompromised patients at risk of developing CMV disease. The use...
Could nursery rhymes cause violent behaviour? A comparison with television viewing
Davies, P, Lee, L, Fox, A, Fox, E
Aims: To assess the rates of violence in nursery rhymes compared to pre-watershed television viewing.
Do "Shufflebottoms" bottom shuffle?
Aims: To investigate anecdotal evidence that the name "Shufflebottom" originates from the dominantly inherited characteristic of bottom shuffling.
FOXP3 gene expression in a tuberculosis case contact study
Burl, S, Hill, P C, Jeffries, D J, Holland, M J, Fox, A, Lugos, M D, ...
Regulatory T lymphocytes (Tregs) that express FOXP3 are involved in the beneficial attenuation of immunopathology, but are also implicated in down-regulation of protective responses to infection....
Adult small bowel Dieulafoy lesion
Fox, A, Ravi, K, Leeder, P, Britton, B, Warren, B
A 47 year old woman presented with melaena and haemodynamic instability. Preliminary investigations failed to locate the source of bleeding. At laparotomy an arteriovenous malformation was...
Case Series Study of Traveler's Diarrhea in U.S. Military Personnel at Incirlik Air Base, Turkey▿
Porter, C. K., El Mohammady, H., Baqar, S., Rockabrand, D. M., Putnam, S. D., Tribble, D. R., ...
Military personnel with traveler's diarrhea (n = 202) while deployed to Incirlik Air Base, Turkey, from June to September 2002 were evaluated for pathogen-specific immune responses. Serologic and...