E-science Infrastructures, M. Riedel, E. Laure, Th. Soddemann, L. Field, M. Litmaath, ...
Many production Grid and e-Science infrastructures have begun to offer services to endusers during the past several years with an increasing number of scientific applications that require access to a...
achievement in a poor rural economy. Journal of Human Resources 31 (1): 229–254. (2009)
J. Behrman, D. Ross, L. Haddad, J. Hoddinott, M. Rosenzweig
model of the household: Is it time to shift the burden of proof? World Bank Research Observer
Identifying and reducing errors with surgical simulation (2009)
Email Alerting, M P Fried, R Satava, S Weghorst, A G Gallagher, C Sasaki, ...
service
for decentralized health systems: experiences (2008)
Andrew Green, B. Ali, A. Naeem, D. Ross
allocation and budgetary mechanisms
New Methods in Celestial Mechanics and Mission Design (2008)
Jerrold E. Marsden, D. Ross, Katalin Grubits, Oliver Junge, Wang-sang Koon, ...
To Henri Poincaré on the 150th anniversary of his birth. Abstract. The title of this paper is inspired by the work of Poincaré [1890, 1892], who introduced many key dynamical systems methods during...
Has the HIV epidemic in rural Mwanza, Tanzania reached a plateau? (2008)
Mwita, W, Chilongani, J, White, R, Mshana, G, Changalucha, J, Mosha, F, ...
Data from studies in Mwanza Region in Tanzania suggest stabilising HIV prevalence. The objective was to determine the factors that may have contributed to the relatively stable pattern of the HIV...
Has the HIV epidemic in rural Mwanza, Tanzania reached a plateau? (2008)
Mwita, W., Chilongani, J., White, R., Mshana, G., Changalucha, J., Mosha, F., ...
Data from studies in Mwanza Region in Tanzania suggest stabilising HIV prevalence. The objective was to determine the factors that may have contributed to the relatively stable pattern of the HIV...
Dynamic social impact mechanisms in rumor propagation (2008)
DiFonzo, N., Bourgeois, M., Homan, Christopher, Suls, J., Brooks, B., Ross, D., ...
"Dynamic social impact mechanisms in rumor propagation," Proceedings of the 2008 Annual Conference of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology. Held in Albuquerque, NM: 7-9 February 2008
A Study of the Temperature Sensitivity of GaAs-(A1,Ga)As Multiple Quantum-Well GRINSCH Lasers (2007)
M. Dion, D. Ross, F. Chatenoud, R. L. Williams, S. Dick
Abstract--We have measured the temperature sensitivity, To, of GaAs--(AI,Ga)As, GRINSCH, multiple quantum-well (MQW) lasers with different numbers of quantum wells ranging from one to ten. Our data...
Rumor propagation: Modeling & testing dynamic social influence mechanisms (2007)
DiFonzo, N., Bordia, P., Bourgeois, M., Brooks, B., Ross, D., Homan, Christopher, ...
"Rumor Propagation: Modeling & Testing Dynamic Social Influence Mechanisms," Proceedings of the National Science Foundation Human and Social Dynamics 2007 Principal Investigators Meeting. Arlington,...
Regional assessment of N saturation using foliar and root delta N-15 (2006)
PARDO, LH, TEMPLER, PH, GOODALE, CL, DUKE, S, GROFFMAN, PM, ADAMS, MB, ...
A typology of groups at risk of HIV/STI in a gold mining community in north-western Tanzania (2005)
Desmond, N., Allen, C., Plummer, M., Justine, B., Mzugu, J., Watson-Jones, D., ...
Mining communities with migrant populations are high-risk locations for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)/sexually transmitted infection transmission in Sub-Saharan Africa. Interventions...
Experiences with Supporting Mass Storage for Multiple Communities (2005)
P Berrisford, D Corney, T Folkes, J Jensen, J Mencák, D Ross, ...
Access to reliable high capacity and high performance storage is becoming increasingly important to many scientific projects. Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL) runs a Petabyte-scale mass storage...
Pobreza y cajas de ahorros en Escocia a mediados del siglo XIX (2005)
No abstract available
Plummer, M., Ross, D., Wight, D., Changalucha, J., Mshana, G., Wamoyi, J., ...
Objective: To assess the validity of sexual behaviour data collected from African adolescents using five methods. Methods: 9280 Tanzanian adolescents participated in a biological marker and face to...
Plummer, M., Wight, D., Ross, D., Balira, R., Anemona, A., Todd, J., ...
To develop and test a sexual behaviour survey method for semi-literate populations, combining the privacy of a self-completion questionnaire (SCQ) with the clarity of a face-to-face questionnaire...
Domestic monetary policy and the banking system in Britain 1945-1971 (2004)
No abstract available
Industrial and commercial finance in the interwar years (2004)
The relationship between industry and the financial system in the interwar years has been extensively discussed, almost always with a perspective of seeking to allocate some kind of blame for poor...
La politique monétaire nationale et le système bancaire en Grande-Bretagne, 1945-1971 (2003)
No abstract available
Overview of JET results (2003)
Pamela, J., Solano, E. R., Adams, J. M., Agarici, G., Agarici, M., Akhter, H., ...
Scientific and technical activities on JET focus on the issues likely to affect the ITER design and operation. Our understanding of the ITER reference mode of operation, the ELMy H-mode, has...
A simple mean- field theory is presented which describes the basic observations of recent experiments revealing rich wetting behaviour of n - alkane/ methanol mixtures at the liquid- vapour...
'Penny banks' in Glasgow, 1850-1914 (2002)
This paper explores the extent and nature of ‘Penny bank’ saving in Glasgow during the second half of the nineteenth century. Penny banks existed as part of the network of philanthropic...
Syphilis in pregnancy in Tanzania. I. Impact of maternal syphilis on outcome of pregnancy (2002)
Watson-Jones, D., Changalucha, J., Gumodoka, B., Weiss, H., Rusizoka, M., Ndeki, L., ...
To measure the impact of maternal syphilis on pregnancy outcome in the Mwanza Region of Tanzania, 380 previously unscreened pregnant women were recruited into a retrospective cohort at delivery and...
Watson-Jones, D., Gumodoka, B., Weiss, H., Changalucha, J., Todd, J., Mugeye, K., ...
Treatment for maternal syphilis with single-dose benzathine penicillin (2.4 million units intramuscularly) is being implemented in many parts of sub-Saharan Africa. To examine the effectiveness of...
Clubs and consortia: European banking groups as strategic alliances (2002)
No abstract available
Gluon Contributions to Parity-Violating Asymmetries in Polarized Proton-Proton Scattering (2001)
Ellis, Jonathan Richard, Moretti, S, Ross, D
We report on a calculation of one-loop weak corrections to polarized quark-gluon scattering and the corresponding crossed channels. Such contributions are suppressed formally by one power of alpha_s...
Sexual health-related traditional beliefs among young people in Northwestern Tanzania (2001)
Mshana, G., Wamoyi, J., Plummer, M., Wight, D., Ross, D.
No abstract available.
Sexual acts among young people in Northwestern Tanzania (2001)
Wamoyi, J., Mshana, G., Plummer, M., Wight, D., Ross, D.
No abstract available.
Kerr Spatiotemporal Self-Focusing in a Planar Glass Waveguide (2001)
Bar-Ad, S., Eisenberg, H. S., Morandotti, R., Ross, D., Silberberg, Y.
No abstract available
A light Higgs Boson would invite Supersymmmetry (2000)
Ellis, Jonathan Richard, Ross, D
If the Higgs boson weighs about 115 GeV, the effective potential of the Standard Model becomes unstable above a scale of about 10^6 GeV. This instability may be rectified only by new bosonic...
Jurkovic, D., Ross, D., Aslam, N., Whitehead, M.
Doppler ultrasound was used to investigate circadian variations in uterine artery blood flow in 20 post-menopausal women in the oestrogen-only phase of combined oestrogen hormone replacement therapy...
Theory of Cortical Plasticity in Vision (1998)
Prof Jonathan, A. Marshall, D. Ross, Prof Oleg, V. Favorov, ...
A theory of postnatal activity-dependent neural plasticity based on synaptic weight modification is presented. Synaptic weight modifications are governed by simple variants of a Hebbian rule for...
Interacción de la radiación electromagnética (1998)
Ruiz Altisent, Margarita, Barreiro Elorza, Pilar, Kennedy, D., Glasbey, C., Ross, D.
Design and performance of the SLD vertex detector, a 307 Mpixel tracking system (1997)
Abe, K, Arodzero, A, Baltay, C, Brau, J E, Breidenbach, M, Burrows, P N, ...
Initial impact parameter resolution of the new SLD vertex detector (1997)
Sinev, NB, Brau, JE, Abe, K, Arodzero, AA, Baltay, C, Breidenbach, M, ...
VXD3: the SLD vertex detector upgrade based on a 307 Mpixel CCD system (1995)
Hedges, S J, Allen, N, Dervan, P J, McKemey, A K, Watts, S, Harton, J, ...
Thomas C. Chimento, David G. Doshay, D. Ross
vestibular macula for transmission electron microscopic (TEM) examination, computer-assisted three-dimensional (3-D) reconstruction, and compartmental modeling. The ultrastructural research showed...
A STATUS REPORT ON THE SLD DATA ACQUISITION SYSTEM (1988)
SLD Collaboration, Breidenbach, M, Benvenuti, AC, Cormack, R, Johnson, AS, Orszak, J, ...
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Aston in Birmingham, 1982.
MAGNETIZATION PRECESSION IN SPINELS AND GARNETS (1971)
Craik, D., Kitto, A., Ross, D.
An extensive study of precession in pulsed fields has verified the expected dependence of the precessional frequency on the total effective field (involving applied fields, Ms and specimen shape) and...
Syphilitic aortic regurgitation. An appraisal of surgical treatment.
Grabau, W, Emanuel, R, Ross, D, Parker, J, Hegde, M
During the 10 years from 1964 to 1973, fifteen patients with severe syphilitic aortic regurgitation were treated surgically at the National Heart Hospital. In thirteen the valve was replaced and in...
Clift, S, Anemona, A, Watson-Jones, D, Kanga, Z, Ndeki, L, Changalucha, J, ...
Objectives: To measure the prevalence of HIV and other STIs in communities neighbouring new large scale gold mines in northern Tanzania in order to inform the design of a targeted HIV/STI...
Post, W. K., Venables, K. M., Ross, D., Cullinan, P., Heederik, D., Burdorf, A.
OBJECTIVES: Questionnaires, lung function tests, and peak flow measurements are widely used in occupational health care to screen for subjects with respiratory disease. However, the diagnostic...
The sexual health of pupils in years 4 to 6 of primary schools in rural Tanzania
Todd, J, Changalucha, J, Ross, D, Mosha, F, Obasi, A, Plummer, M, ...
Background/objectives: There is an urgent need for effective interventions to improve the sexual and reproductive health of adolescents. Reliable data on the sexual health of adolescents are needed...
Identifying and reducing errors with surgical simulation
Fried, M, Satava, R, Weghorst, S, Gallagher, A, Sasaki, C, Ross, D, ...
The major determinant of a patient's safety and outcome is the skill and judgment of the surgeon. While knowledge base and decision processing are evaluated during residency, technical skills—which...
Plummer, M, Ross, D, Wight, D, Changalucha, J, Mshana, G, Wamoyi, J, ...
Objective: To assess the validity of sexual behaviour data collected from African adolescents using five methods.
The evolutionary explanation of human dispositions to prosocial behaviour and to moralization of such behaviour undermines the moral realist's belief in objective moral facts that hold independently...
Improving the Quality versus Increasing the Quantity of Schooling.
Behrman, J.R., Ross, D., Sabot, R., Tropp, M.
education ; government policy
The Returns to endogenous Human Capital in Pakistan's Rural Wage Labour Market.
Behrman, J.R., Ross, D., Sabot, R., Alderman, H.
human capital ; wages ; labour market
Green, A., Ali, B., Naeem, A., Ross, D.
This paper identifies key political and technical issues involved in the development of an appropriate resource allocation and budgetary system for the public health sector, using experience gained...
N-methylformamide: antitumour activity and metabolism in mice.
Gescher, A., Gibson, N. W., Hickman, J. A., Langdon, S. P., Ross, D., Atassi, G.
The antitumour activities of N-methylformamide, N-ethylformamide and formamide against a number of murine tumours in vivo (Sarcoma 180, M5076 ovarian sarcoma and TLX5 lymphoma) have been estimated....
Characterization of a polymorphism in NAD(P)H: quinone oxidoreductase (DT-diaphorase).
Traver, R. D., Siegel, D., Beall, H. D., Phillips, R. M., Gibson, N. W., Franklin, W. A., ...
NAD(P)H:quinone oxidoreductase (NQO1, EC 1.6.99.2) is an obligate two-electron reductase that can either bioactivate or detoxify quinones and has been proposed to play an important role in...
Kelsey, K. T., Ross, D., Traver, R. D., Christiani, D. C., Zuo, Z. F., Spitz, M. R., ...
The NAD(P)H quinone oxidoreductase (NQO1:EC 1.6.99.2) is an important biotransformation enzyme system that is also known to metabolize important novel chemotherapeutic compounds. The gene that codes...
DT-diaphorase activity in NSCLC and SCLC cell lines: a role for fos/jun regulation
To assess the potential differential lung tumour expression of NAD(P)H:quinone reductase (NQO1), the human (h) NQO1 promoter was characterized in gene transfer studies. A deletion panel of 5′...
Immortalisation of a human diploid fibroblast cell strain: a DT-diaphorase paradox.
Kuehl, B. L., Brezden, C. B., Traver, R. D., Siegel, D., Ross, D., Renzing, J., ...
Transfection of a normal human diploid fibroblast cell strain, GM38, with a simian virus 40 (SV40) large T antigen containing plasmid, yielded an immortal cell line, G38-8X, which had a similar...