Comparison of codes assessing galactic cosmic radiation exposure of aircraft crew (2009)
Bottollier-Depois, J. F., Beck, P., Bennett, B., Bennett, L., Bütikofer, R., Clairand, I., ...
The assessment of the exposure to cosmic radiation onboard aircraft is one of the preoccupations of bodies responsible for radiation protection. Cosmic particle flux is significantly higher onboard...
UK utility data integration: overcoming schematic heterogeneity (2008)
Beck, A.R., Cohn, A.G., Bennett, B., Fu, G., Ramage, S., Sanderson, M., ...
In this paper we discuss syntactic, semantic and schematic issues which inhibit the integration of utility data in the UK. We then focus on the techniques employed within the VISTA project to...
Combining logic and probability in tracking and scene interpretation (2008)
The paper gives a high-level overview of some ways in which logical representations and reasoning can be used in computer vision applications, such as tracking and scene interpretation. The...
Bennett, B., Magee, D.R., Cohn, A.G., Hogg, D.C.
A framework for the logical and statistical analysis and annotation of dynamic scenes containing occlusion and other uncertainties is presented. This framework consists of three elements; an object...
An Ontology for Grounding Vague Geographic Terms (2008)
Bennett, B., Mallenby, D., Third, A.
Many geographic terms, such as “river” and “lake”, are vague, with no clear boundaries of application. In particular, the spatial extent of such features is often vaguely carved out of a...
Cognitive context and arguments from ontologies for learning (2008)
The deployment of learning resources on the web by different experts has resulted in the accessibility of multiple viewpoints about the same topics. In this work we assume that learning resources are...
To appear in the Journal of Applied Non-Classical Logics. (2007)
D. Vakarelov, G. Dimov, B. Bennett
www.cosc.brocku.ca A proximity approach to some regionsbased theories of space by
Applying spatial reasoning to topographical data with a grounded geographical ontology (2007)
Grounding an ontology upon geographical data has been pro- posed as a method of handling the vagueness in the domain more effectively. In order to do this, we require methods of reasoning about the...
Architecture for a grounded ontology of geographic information (2007)
Third, A., Bennett, B., Mallenby, D.
A major problem with encoding an ontology of geographic information in a formal language is how to cope with the issues of vagueness, ambiguity and multiple, possibly conflicting, perspectives on the...
A framework for utility data integration in the UK (2007)
Beck, A.R., Fu, G., Cohn, A.G., Bennett, B., Stell, J.G.
In this paper we investigate various factors which prevent utility knowledge from being fully exploited and suggest that integration techniques can be applied to improve the quality of utility...
Semantic categories underlying the meaning of ‘place’ (2007)
This paper analyses the semantics of natural language expressions that are associated with the intuitive notion of ‘place’. We note that the nature of such terms is highly contested, and suggest...
Wooller, M.J., Zazula, G.D., Edwards, M.E., Froese, D.G., Boone, R.D., Parker, C., ...
The nature of vegetation cover present in Beringia during the last glaciation remains unclear. Uncertainty rests partly with the limitations of conventional paleoecological methods. A lack of...
Wooller, M.J, Zazula, G.D, Edwards, M.E, Froese, D.G, Boone, R.D, Parker, C., ...
The nature of vegetation cover present in Beringia during the last glaciation remains unclear. Uncertainty rests partly with the limitations of conventional paleoecological methods. A lack of...
The metallo-beta-lactamase GOB is a mono-Zn(II) enzyme with a novel active site (2007)
Moran-Barrio, J., Gonzalez, J. M., Lisa, M. N., Costello, A. L., Dal Peraro, M., Carloni, P., ...
Metallo-beta-lactamases (MbetaLs) are zinc-dependent enzymes able to hydrolyze and inactivate most beta-lactam antibiotics. The large diversity of active site structures and metal content among...
Knowledge and Data Integration for Utility Assets: Progress from the MTU and VISTA projects (2007)
Beck, A.R., Bennett, B., Boukhelifa, N., Cohn, A.G., Duke, D, Fu, G., ...
DEVELOPMENT OF LAMINATED SOLID PROPELLANTS. (2005)
Rudnick,A., King,R. W., Harp,J., Fisher,D. H., Bennett,B.
The concept of reinforcement of a solid-propellant grain through use of combustible metal or plastic laminates is discussed. Procedures used for preparing test samples for mechanical-property studies...
Kirwan, J. R., Mitchell, K., Hewlett, S., Hehir, M., Pollock, J., Memel, D., ...
Background. Patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) are traditionally seen regularly as out‐patients, irrespective of whether it is appropriate or timely to see them. A randomized...
Kirwan, J. R., Mitchell, K., Hewlett, S., Hehir, M., Pollock, J., Memel, D., ...
Background. Patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) are traditionally seen regularly as out-patients, irrespective of whether it is appropriate or timely to see them. A randomized controlled trial...
Kirwan, J. R., Mitchell, K., Hewlett, S., Hehir, M., Pollock, J., Memel, D., ...
Background. Patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) are traditionally seen regularly as out-patients, irrespective of whether it is appropriate or timely to see them. A randomized controlled trial...
Jones, D. M., Watson, J. S., Meredith, W., Chen, M., Bennett, B.
A method is presented for the routine, rapid, and quantitative analysis of aliphatic and naphthenic acids in crude oils, based on their isolation using nonaqueous ion exchange solid-phase extraction...
Release of organic nitrogen compounds from Kerogen viacatalytic hydropyrolysis (2000)
High hydrogen pressure pyrolysis (hydropyrolysis) was performed on samples of solvent extracted Kimmeridge Clay Formation source rock with a maturity equivalent to ca. 0.35% vitrinite reflectance. We...
Polar non-hydrocarbon contaminants in reservoir core extracts (2000)
A geochemical investigation of oils in sandstone core plugs and drill stem test oils was carried out on samples from a North Sea reservoir. A sample of diesel used as a constituent of the drilling...
B Bennett, B Bowler, Prof. Stephen Richard Larter, B Moffatt
An understanding of the size of petroleum secondary migration systems is vital for successful exploration for petroleum reserves. Geochemists have suggested that compositional fractionation of...
Polar non-hydrocarbon contaminants in reservoir core extracts (2000)
B Bennett, Prof. Stephen Richard Larter
A geochemical investigation of oils in sandstone core plugs and drill stem test oils was carried out on samples from a North Sea reservoir. A sample of diesel used as a constituent of the drilling...
Kappler, U, Bennett, B, Rethmeier, J, Schwarz, G, Deutzmann, R, McEwan, AG, ...
Direct oxidation of sulfite to sulfate occurs in various photo- and chemotrophic sulfur oxidizing microorganisms as the final step in the oxidation of reduced sulfur compounds and is catalyzed by...
Sulfite: Cytochrome c oxidoreductase from Thiobacillus novellus (2000)
Kappler, U., Bennett, B., Reithmeier, J., Schwarz, G., Deutzmann, R., McEwan, A. G., ...
Direct oxidation of sulfite to sulfate occurs in various photo- and chemotrophic sulfur oxidizing microorganisms as the final step in the oxidation of reduced sulfur compounds and is catalyzed by...
Kappler, U, Bennett, B, Rethmeier, J, Schwarz, G, Deutzmann, R, McEwan, AG, ...
Direct oxidation of sulfite to sulfate occurs in various photo- and chemotrophic sulfur oxidizing microorganisms as the final step in the oxidation of reduced sulfur compounds and is catalyzed by...
Sulfite: Cytochrome c oxidoreductase from Thiobacillus novellus (2000)
Kappler, U., Bennett, B., Reithmeier, J., Schwarz, G., Deutzmann, R., McEwan, A. G., ...
Direct oxidation of sulfite to sulfate occurs in various photo- and chemotrophic sulfur oxidizing microorganisms as the final step in the oxidation of reduced sulfur compounds and is catalyzed by...
Spatial Locations via Morpho-Mereology (2000)
M. Cristani, A. G. Cohn, B. Bennett
We present a calculus for representing and reasoning about the location of rigid objects which may move within some region (we will speak of mobile parts). The calculus has both a mereological...
Hickie, I., Bennett, B., Lloyd, A., Heath, A., Martin, N.
Background. Although there is considerable support for adverse relationships between states of psychological and somatic distress and immune response, there is little evidence in humans of the...
Hickie, I., Bennett, B., Lloyd, A., Heath, A., Martin, N.
Background. Although there is considerable support for adverse relationships between states of psychological and somatic distress and immune response, there is little evidence in humans of the...
MECHANISM OF WATER ABSORPTION IN GLASS-REINFORCED PLASTICS (1998)
MCNEIL,D.W., BENNETT,B., LEININGER,R.I.
The objective of this program is to determine the mechanism of water absorption by glassreinforced structures, specifically, filamentwound laminates. Elucidation of this mechanism will be of material...
MECHANISM OF WATER ABSORPTION IN GLASS-REIN-FORCED PLASTICS (1998)
MCNEIL,D.W., BENNETT,B., LEININGER,R.I.
A detailed description of an interferometric method for measuring diffusivity is described. Preliminary data obtained from this device are presented and briefly compared with the results of long-term...
Exploiting Temporal Continuity in Qualitative Spatial Calculi (1998)
This Reginald, G. Golledge, A. G. Cohn, N. M. Gotts, Z. Cui, D. A. Randell, ...
It is argued that rigorous formal theories are a necessity if proper use is to be made of computers' ability to store and manipulate spatial and spatiotemporal information. A qualitative spatial...
B. Bennett, Et Al, Allan D. Jepson, Jacob Feldman
rns theories under the influence of new information. In contrast an observer is concerned with only one of these aspects, namely how a fixed theory is applied. The distinction between theorist and...
A Comparison Of Structures In Spatial And Temporal Logics (1994)
The Cognitive Sciences, R. Casati, G. White (eds, A G Cohn, J M Gooday, B Bennett
this paper we examine some of the similarities between Allen's temporal reasoning formalism and the spatial systems of Randell, Cui and Cohn (1992). An efficient method for generating the...
Round Table Discussion - Statistics of Human Exposure to Ionising Radiation (1991)
Mahaffey, J., Wall, B., Osborne, R., Bennett, B., Lochard, J., Estéve, J., ...
Familial Antithrombin III Deficiency (1982)
WINTER, J. H., FENECH, A., RIDLEY, W., BENNETT, B., CUMMING, A. M., MACKIE, M., ...
Antithrombin III is the major physiological inhibitor of the coagulation mechanism and a deficiency of this protein results in a marked predisposition to venous thromboembolic disease. Three...
Behling, C A, Bennett, B, Takayama, K, Hunter, R L
Trehalose 6,6'-dimycolate (TDM) is a glycolipid of mycobacteria that displays an unusual toxicity and has been reported to be a virulence factor for Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Lack of understanding...
Effect of local exercise and vessel occlusion on fibrinolytic activity.
Rennie, J A, Bennett, B, Ogston, D
Arterial occlusion of the upper limb did not affect the fibrinolytic activity in the venous blood of that limb; venous occlusion associated with venous distension resulted in a marked rise in...
The fibrinolytic enzyme system in hypertension
Bennett, B., Ogston, D., Crawford, G. P. M., Douglas, A. S.
Fibrinogen, fibrinogen-related antigen (FR-antigen), and components of the fibrinolytic enzyme system were measured in patients with essential hypertension, renal disease with and without...
Distribution of plasminogen activator inhibitor (PAI-1) in tissues.
Simpson, A J, Booth, N A, Moore, N R, Bennett, B
Extracts of human tissue were analysed for plasminogen activator inhibitor (PAI-1) antigen and activity. PAI-1 was localised in tissues by an immunochemical method, using monoclonal antibodies. PAI-1...
Winter, J H, Fenech, A, Bennett, B, Douglas, A S
The presence or absence of venous thrombosis was determined by the technique of autologous 111indium-labelled platelets in 64 patients following reduction and fixation of fractures of the neck of...
Booth, N A, Anderson, J A, Bennett, B
Plasma samples from patients with alcoholic cirrhosis were analysed for plasminogen activators and for inhibitors of the fibrinolytic system. Plasminogen activator activity was considerably increased...
Platelet release protein which inhibits plasminogen activators.
Booth, N A, Anderson, J A, Bennett, B
An inhibitor of plasminogen activator has been identified in human platelets by the technique of sodium dodecyl sulphate polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis and zymography. The inhibitor has a...
Fertility in young men and women after treatment for lymphoma: a study of a population.
King, D J, Ratcliffe, M A, Dawson, A A, Bennett, B, Macgregor, J E, Klopper, A I
All young patients in the Grampian area attending the lymphoma review clinic who had received first line treatment for Hodgkin's disease and had attained complete remission without subsequent relapse...
Leiper, K, Croll, A, Booth, N A, Moore, N R, Sinclair, T, Bennett, B
AIMS--To identify the relative contribution of plasminogen activators, particularly tissue plasminogen activator (t-PA) and specific plasminogen activator inhibitors (PAI-1, PAI-2), to the...
Fitch, P, Bennett, B, Booth, N A, Croll, A, Ewen, S W
AIMS--To examine the distribution of PAI-1 antigen in normal and cirrhotic liver and liver with metastases. METHODS--Sections of normal and cirrhotic liver and liver with metastases were stained...
Sears, H J, Bennett, B, Spiro, S, Thomson, A J, Richardson, D J
EPR spectroscopy has been successfully used to detect signals due to molybdenum (V) and ferric iron in intact cells of aerobically grown Paracoccus denitrificans. The signals are ascribed to the...
Green, J, Bennett, B, Jordan, P, Ralph, E T, Thomson, A J, Guest, J R
The FNR protein of Escherichia coli is a redox-responsive transcription regulator that activates and represses a family of genes required for anaerobic and aerobic metabolism. Reconstitution of...
Bennett, B, Charnock, J M, Sears, H J, Berks, B C, Thomson, A J, Ferguson, S J, ...
The molybdenum centre of the periplasmic respiratory nitrate reductase from the denitrifying bacterium Thiosphaera pantotropha has been probed using molybdenum K-edge X-ray absorption spectroscopy....
Haemoglobin concentration and linear cardiac output, peripheral resistance, and oxygen transport.
Daniel, M K, Bennett, B, Dawson, A A, Rawles, J M
Increasing the haemoglobin concentration results in increased oxygen transport at the cost of increased blood viscosity. This suggested the concept of an optimum packed cell volume for maximising...
Diagnosis of deep vein thrombosis using autologous indium-III-labelled platelets.
Fenech, A, Hussey, J K, Smith, F W, Dendy, P P, Bennett, B, Douglas, A S
Forty-eight patients who had undergone surgical reduction of a fractured neck of femur or in whom deep vein thrombosis was suspected clinically were studied by ascending phlebography and imaging...
Diagnosis of aortic aneurysm using autologous platelets labelled with indium-111.
Fenech, A, Hussey, J K, Smith, F W, Dendy, P P, Bennett, B, Douglas, A S
Indium-111 labelled platelets in diagnosis of leg-vein thrombosis: preliminary findings.
Fenech, A, Dendy, P P, Hussey, J K, Bennett, B, Douglas, A S
Platelets from eight patients thought clinically to have deep venous thrombosis were labbelled with indium-111 and reinjected. Subsequent scanning of the patients with a wholebody scanner and imaging...
Familial thrombosis: inherited deficiency of antithrombin III.
Mackie, M, Bennett, B, Ogston, D, Douglas, A S
Several members of a family living on the west coast of Scotland and on one of the islands off the coast had serious thrombotic disease. The plasma antithrombin III (ATIII) concentrations were...
Outcome in colorectal adenocarcinoma: two seven-year studies of a population.
Gordon, N L, Dawson, A A, Bennett, B, Innes, G, Eremin, O, Jones, P F
OBJECTIVE--To record every patient with proved colorectal adenocarcinoma presenting from a defined population over two years in 1968-9 and during 1980-2, and to compare treatment and outcome over...
Behling, C A, Bennett, B, Takayama, K, Hunter, R L
Trehalose 6,6'-dimycolate (TDM) is a glycolipid of mycobacteria that displays an unusual toxicity and has been reported to be a virulence factor for Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Lack of understanding...
Effect of local exercise and vessel occlusion on fibrinolytic activity.
Rennie, J A, Bennett, B, Ogston, D
Arterial occlusion of the upper limb did not affect the fibrinolytic activity in the venous blood of that limb; venous occlusion associated with venous distension resulted in a marked rise in...
The fibrinolytic enzyme system in hypertension
Bennett, B., Ogston, D., Crawford, G. P. M., Douglas, A. S.
Fibrinogen, fibrinogen-related antigen (FR-antigen), and components of the fibrinolytic enzyme system were measured in patients with essential hypertension, renal disease with and without...
Distribution of plasminogen activator inhibitor (PAI-1) in tissues.
Simpson, A J, Booth, N A, Moore, N R, Bennett, B
Extracts of human tissue were analysed for plasminogen activator inhibitor (PAI-1) antigen and activity. PAI-1 was localised in tissues by an immunochemical method, using monoclonal antibodies. PAI-1...
Winter, J H, Fenech, A, Bennett, B, Douglas, A S
The presence or absence of venous thrombosis was determined by the technique of autologous 111indium-labelled platelets in 64 patients following reduction and fixation of fractures of the neck of...
Booth, N A, Anderson, J A, Bennett, B
Plasma samples from patients with alcoholic cirrhosis were analysed for plasminogen activators and for inhibitors of the fibrinolytic system. Plasminogen activator activity was considerably increased...
Platelet release protein which inhibits plasminogen activators.
Booth, N A, Anderson, J A, Bennett, B
An inhibitor of plasminogen activator has been identified in human platelets by the technique of sodium dodecyl sulphate polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis and zymography. The inhibitor has a...
Fertility in young men and women after treatment for lymphoma: a study of a population.
King, D J, Ratcliffe, M A, Dawson, A A, Bennett, B, Macgregor, J E, Klopper, A I
All young patients in the Grampian area attending the lymphoma review clinic who had received first line treatment for Hodgkin's disease and had attained complete remission without subsequent relapse...
Leiper, K, Croll, A, Booth, N A, Moore, N R, Sinclair, T, Bennett, B
AIMS--To identify the relative contribution of plasminogen activators, particularly tissue plasminogen activator (t-PA) and specific plasminogen activator inhibitors (PAI-1, PAI-2), to the...
Fitch, P, Bennett, B, Booth, N A, Croll, A, Ewen, S W
AIMS--To examine the distribution of PAI-1 antigen in normal and cirrhotic liver and liver with metastases. METHODS--Sections of normal and cirrhotic liver and liver with metastases were stained...
Sears, H J, Bennett, B, Spiro, S, Thomson, A J, Richardson, D J
EPR spectroscopy has been successfully used to detect signals due to molybdenum (V) and ferric iron in intact cells of aerobically grown Paracoccus denitrificans. The signals are ascribed to the...
Green, J, Bennett, B, Jordan, P, Ralph, E T, Thomson, A J, Guest, J R
The FNR protein of Escherichia coli is a redox-responsive transcription regulator that activates and represses a family of genes required for anaerobic and aerobic metabolism. Reconstitution of...
Bennett, B, Charnock, J M, Sears, H J, Berks, B C, Thomson, A J, Ferguson, S J, ...
The molybdenum centre of the periplasmic respiratory nitrate reductase from the denitrifying bacterium Thiosphaera pantotropha has been probed using molybdenum K-edge X-ray absorption spectroscopy....
Haemoglobin concentration and linear cardiac output, peripheral resistance, and oxygen transport.
Daniel, M K, Bennett, B, Dawson, A A, Rawles, J M
Increasing the haemoglobin concentration results in increased oxygen transport at the cost of increased blood viscosity. This suggested the concept of an optimum packed cell volume for maximising...
Diagnosis of deep vein thrombosis using autologous indium-III-labelled platelets.
Fenech, A, Hussey, J K, Smith, F W, Dendy, P P, Bennett, B, Douglas, A S
Forty-eight patients who had undergone surgical reduction of a fractured neck of femur or in whom deep vein thrombosis was suspected clinically were studied by ascending phlebography and imaging...
Diagnosis of aortic aneurysm using autologous platelets labelled with indium-111.
Fenech, A, Hussey, J K, Smith, F W, Dendy, P P, Bennett, B, Douglas, A S
Indium-111 labelled platelets in diagnosis of leg-vein thrombosis: preliminary findings.
Fenech, A, Dendy, P P, Hussey, J K, Bennett, B, Douglas, A S
Platelets from eight patients thought clinically to have deep venous thrombosis were labbelled with indium-111 and reinjected. Subsequent scanning of the patients with a wholebody scanner and imaging...
Familial thrombosis: inherited deficiency of antithrombin III.
Mackie, M, Bennett, B, Ogston, D, Douglas, A S
Several members of a family living on the west coast of Scotland and on one of the islands off the coast had serious thrombotic disease. The plasma antithrombin III (ATIII) concentrations were...
Outcome in colorectal adenocarcinoma: two seven-year studies of a population.
Gordon, N L, Dawson, A A, Bennett, B, Innes, G, Eremin, O, Jones, P F
OBJECTIVE--To record every patient with proved colorectal adenocarcinoma presenting from a defined population over two years in 1968-9 and during 1980-2, and to compare treatment and outcome over...
Kappler, U, Bennett, B, Rethmeier, J, Schwarz, G, Deutzmann, R, McEwan, AG, ...
Direct oxidation of sulfite to sulfate occurs in various photo- and chemotrophic sulfur oxidizing microorganisms as the final step in the oxidation of reduced sulfur compounds and is catalyzed by...
Occupationally related angiosarcoma of the liver in the United Kingdom 1972-1994.
Lee, F I, Smith, P M, Bennett, B, Williams, D M
BACKGROUND: Angiosarcoma of the liver (ASL) has been described in vinyl chloride workers worldwide. AIM: To describe the UK experience of occupationally related ASL. PATIENTS: Twenty patients who...
Defective antigen processing associated with familial disseminated mycobacteriosis
D'SOUZA, S, LEVIN, M, FAITH, A, YSSEL, H, BENNETT, B, LAKE, R A, ...
To gain insights into a possible immune defect predisposing to disseminated mycobacteria infection, we studied three of six surviving children with disseminated Mycobacterium avium complex infection,...
Frequency of venous thrombosis in patients with an exacerbation of chronic obstructive lung disease.
Winter, J H, Buckler, P W, Bautista, A P, Smith, F W, Sharp, P F, Bennett, B, ...
The presence or absence of venous thrombosis was determined in 29 patients with an acute exacerbation of chronic obstructive lung disease by the technique of autologous platelet labelling with...
Epidemiological study of respiratory disease in workers exposed to polyvinylchloride dust.
Soutar, C A, Copland, L H, Thornley, P E, Hurley, J F, Ottery, J, Adams, W G, ...
The respiratory health of workers exposed to polyvinylchloride (PVC) dust has been investigated in 818 men sampled from the work force of a factory manufacturing PVC. In a cross-sectional survey, the...
Exposure to vinyl chloride and angiosarcoma of the liver: a report of the register of cases.
Forman, D, Bennett, B, Stafford, J, Doll, R
The Association of Plastic Manufacturers in Europe maintains a register of all cases of angiosarcoma of the liver (ASL) resulting from exposure to vinyl chloride monomer (VCM). This register has...
Dupuytren's contracture in manual workers.
The incidence of Dupuytren's contracture in a polyvinyl chloride (PVC) manufacturing plant, where a great deal of bagging and packing took place by hand, was higher than in another plant in which...
Winter, J., Bennett, B., Donald, D., Douglas, A. S.
The case is described of a young man with probable familial antithrombin III deficiency, a disorder associated with a marked predisposition to venous thrombo-embolic events. In addition to a history...
A critical care helicopter system in trauma.
Civilian helicopters and emergency medical services in the United States have been in existence for approximately 15 years. The rapid growth of this type of health care delivery coupled with an...
p53 mutation and expression in lymphoma.
Adamson, D. J., Thompson, W. D., Dawson, A. A., Bennett, B., Haites, N. E.
Mutation and abnormal expression of p53 was studied in 38 lymphomas [five Hodgkin's disease and 33 non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL)]. CM1 polyclonal antibody was used to detect overexpression of p53....