A. J. Smith

Publication List Details

Period

1918 - 2009

Number

66

Co-Authors

Preconditioning with 4-aminopyridine protects cerebellar granule neurons against excitotoxicity (2009)

Smith, A.J., Tauskela, J.S., Stone, T.W., Smith, R.A.

Preconditioning by excitatory stimuli such as N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) offers good neuroprotection against excitotoxic insults, but is potentially limited by the risk of damage associated with the...

Milagro Observations of Multi-TeV Emission from Galactic Sources in the Fermi Bright Source List (2009)

Abdo, A. A., Allen, B. T., Aune, T., Berley, D., Chen, C., Christopher, G. E., ...

We present the result of a search of the Milagro sky map for spatial correlations with sources from a subset of the recent Fermi Bright Source List (BSL). The BSL consists of the 205 most significant...

Application of multitemporal Landsat data to map and monitor land cover and land use change in the Chesapeake Bay watershed (2008)

S. J. Goetz, D. Varlyguin, A. J. Smith, R. K. Wright, S. D. Prince, M. E. Mazzacato, ...

We have developed approaches to map and monitor land cover and land use change across the Chesapeake Bay watershed, in the mid-Atlantic region of the United States, using multi-temporal, multi-scale...

GR/S97910/01 Final Report: Feasibility Study: High Temperature Micro-Manipulation System for Environmental Scanning Electron Microscope (ESEM) (2008)

S. Hainsworth (coi, T. Stevenson (coi, P. Samara-ratna, J. Sykes, A. J. Smith

Aim: To install a micromanipulator on the 1000°C heating stage in the Leicester ESEM in such a way that the micromanipulation system (which will incorporate heat sensitive piezoelectric crystals)...

The Large Scale Cosmic-Ray Anisotropy as Observed with Milagro (2008)

Abdo, A. A., Allen, B. T., Aune, T., Berley, D., Casanova, S., Chen, C., ...

Results are presented of a harmonic analysis of the large scale cosmic-ray anisotropy as observed by the Milagro observatory. We show a two-dimensional display of the sidereal anisotropy pro jections...

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W. W. Hsu, A. J. Smith, H. C. Young

production database workloads and the TPC benchmarks There has been very little empirical analysis of any real production database workloads.

Surface Proximity and Boron Concentration effects on End-of-Range Defect Formation During Nonmelt Laser Annealing (2008)

Sharp, J A, Smith, A J, Webb, R P, Kirkby, K J, Cowern, N E, Giubertoni, D, ...

The effects of surface proximity and B concentration on end-of-range defect formation during nonmelt laser annealing in preamorphized silicon have been studied. These effects were analyzed by...

A comparison of antidepressant use in Nova Scotia, Canada and Australia (2008)

Smith, A. J., Sketris, I., Cook, C., Gardner, D., Kisley, S., Tett, S. E.

The prevalence of major depression is reported as approximately 8% in Canada and 7.5% in Australia, the use of antidepressants is therefore common. However, questions remain about whether depression...

Automated Scheduling and Planning Group (2007)

E. K. Burke, A. J. Smith

Abstract- The thermal generator maintenance scheduling problem has been tackled by a variety of traditional optimisation techniques over the years. While these methods can give an optimal solution to...

Limits on the high-energy gamma and neutrino fluxes from the SGR 1806-20 giant flare of 27 December 2004 with the AMANDA-II detector (2006)

Ackermann, M, Adams, J, Ahrens, J, Andeen, K, Atlee, D W, ...

On 27 December 2004, a giant gamma flare from the Soft Gamma-Ray Repeater 1806-20 saturated many satellite gamma-ray detectors, being the brightest transient event ever observed in the Galaxy....

Highly conductive Sb-doped layers in strained Si (2006)

Bennett, N.S., Cowern, N.E.B., Smith, A.J., Gwilliam, R.M., Sealy, B.J., O'Reilly, Lisa, ...

The ability to create stable, highly conductive ultrashallow doped regions is a key requirement for future silicon-based devices. It is shown that biaxial tensile strain reduces the sheet resistance...

Highly conductive Sb-doped layers in strained Si (2006)

Bennett, N.S., Cowern, N.E.B., Smith, A.J., Gwilliam, R.M., Sealy, B.J., O'Reilly, Lisa, ...

The ability to create stable, highly conductive ultrashallow doped regions is a key requirement for future silicon-based devices. It is shown that biaxial tensile strain reduces the sheet resistance...

Fluorine-Vacancy Complexes in Ultrashallow B-Implanted Si (2006)

Abdulmalik, D A, Coleman, P G, Cowern, N E, Smith, A J, Sealy, B J, Lerch, W, ...

Shallow fluorine-vacancy (FV) complexes in Si have been directly observed using variable-energy positron annihilation spectroscopy and secondary ion mass spectrometry. The FV complexes, introduced to...

Highly Conductive Sb-doped Layers in Strained Si (2006)

Bennett, N S, Cowern, N E, Smith, A J, Gwilliam, R M, Sealy, B J, O'Reilly, L, ...

The ability to create stable, highly conductive ultrashallow doped regions is a key requirement for future silicon-based devices. It is shown that biaxial tensile strain reduces the sheet resistance...

Vacancy-Engineering Implants for High Boron Activation in Silicon on Insulator (2006)

Smith, A J, Cowern, N E, Gwilliam, R, Sealy, B J, Colombeau, B, Collart, E J, ...

The formation of boron interstitial clusters is a key limiting factor for the fabrication of highly conductive ultrashallow doped regions in future silicon-based device technology. Optimized vacancy...

Antimicrobial susceptibility testing of Actinomyces species with 12 antimicrobial agents (2005)

Smith, A. J., Hall, V., Thakker, B., Gemmell, C. G.

Objective: This study was conducted to assess the susceptibility of human clinical isolates of Actinomyces species to 12 antimicrobial agents. Methods: Human clinical isolates of Actinomyces spp....

Antimicrobial susceptibility testing of Actinomyces species with 12 antimicrobial agents (2005)

Smith, A. J., Hall, V., Thakker, B., Gemmell, C. G.

Objective: This study was conducted to assess the susceptibility of human clinical isolates of Actinomyces species to 12 antimicrobial agents. Methods: Human clinical isolates of Actinomyces spp....

RNA polymerase mutants defective in the initiation of transcription-coupled DNA repair (2005)

Smith, A. J., Savery, N. J.

The bacterial Mfd protein is a transcription-repair coupling factor that performs two key functions during transcription-coupled DNA repair. The first is to remove RNA polymerase (RNAP) complexes...

Monitoring the plasmapause using geomagnetic field line resonances (2004)

Menk, F. W., Mann, I. R., Smith, A. J., Waters, C. L., Clilverd, M. A., Milling, D. K.

This paper discusses the use of ground magnetometer data to derive plasma mass density profiles of the dayside plasmapause region with spatial and temporal resolution in the range 0.15–0.4 RE and...

A DNA translocation motif in the bacterial transcription-repair coupling factor, Mfd (2003)

Chambers, A. L., Smith, A. J., Savery, N. J.

The bacterial transcription–repair coupling factor, Mfd, is a superfamily II helicase that releases transcription elongation complexes stalled by DNA damage or other obstacles. Transcription...

The RSA Security Inc - http://www.rsasecurity.com (1999)

E. K. Burke, A. J. Smith

The combination of local search operators, problem specific information and a genetic algorithm has provided very good results in certain scheduling problems, particularly in timetabling and...

A.J.: A memetic algorithm to schedule planned grid maintenance (1999)

E. K. Burke, A. J. Smith

Abstract. The combination of local search operators with a genetic algorithm has provided very good results in certain scheduling problems, particularly in timetabling and other maintenance...

A.J.: A memetic algorithm to schedule planned grid maintenance (1999)

E. K. Burke, A. J. Smith

Abstract. The combination of local search operators with a genetic algorithm has provided very good results in certain scheduling problems, particularly in timetabling and other maintenance...

Study of Active Galactic Nuclei at TeV Energies with Milagrito (1999)

S. Westerhoff, R. Atkins, W. Benbow, D. Berley, M. L. Chen, D. G. Coyne, ...

. The Milagro water Cherenkov detector near Los Alamos, New Mexico, is the #rst air shower detector capable of continuously monitoring the #-ray sky at energies between 250 GeV and 20 TeV. In...

Hybrid Evolutionary Techniques for the Maintenance Scheduling Problem (1999)

E. K. Burke, A. J. Smith

The incorporation of local search operators into a genetic algorithm has provided very good results in certain scheduling problems. The resulting algorithm from this hybrid approach has been termed a...

Evidence of more efficient whistler-mode transmission during periods of increased magnetic activity (1997)

Thomson, N. R., Clilverd, M. A., Smith, A. J.

In a previous study it was reported that whistler- mode signals received at Faraday, Antarctica (65°S,64°W) and Dunedin, New Zealand (46°S,171°E) with entry regions in Pacific longitudes...

Evidence of more efficient whistler-mode transmission during periods of increased magnetic activity (1997)

Thomson, N. R., Clilverd, M. A., Smith, A. J.

In a previous study it was reported that whistler- mode signals received at Faraday, Antarctica (65°S,64°W) and Dunedin, New Zealand (46°S,171°E) with entry regions in Pacific longitudes...

Construction, expression and characterisation of a single chain anti-tumour antibody (scFv)-EL-2 fusion protein (1995)

Boleti, E., Deonarain, M. P., Spooner, R. A., Smith, A. J., Epenetos, A. A., George, A. J. T.

We describe the production and preliminary characterisation of a fusion protein between interleukin-2 and a single-chain Fv version of the H17E2 anti-placental alkaline phosphatase (PLAP) antibody....

Inhibitory effect of the reversal agents V-104, GF120918 and Pluronic L61 on MDR1 Pgp-, MRP1- and MRP2-mediated transport

Evers, R, Kool, M, Smith, A J, Deemter, L Van, Haas, M De, Borst, P

The human multidrug transporter MDR1 P-glycoprotein and the multidrug resistance proteins MRP1 and MRP2 transport a range of cytotoxic drugs, resulting in multidrug resistance in tumour cells. To...