D. Ross

Publication List Details

Period

1971 - 2009

Number

69

Co-Authors

SUMMARY (2009)

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

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,...

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...

'A bit more truthful': The validity of adolescent sexual behaviour data collected in rurual northern Tanzania using five methods (2004)

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...

Asking semi-literate adolescents about sexual behaviour: The validity of assisted self-completion questionnaire (ASCQ) data in rural Tanzania (2004)

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...

Industrial and commercial finance in the interwar years (2004)

Ross, D.

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...

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...

Cross-over between first-order and critical wetting at the liquid-vapour interface of n-alkane/methanol mixtures: Tricritical wetting and critical prewetting (2003)

Ross, D, Bonn, D, Meunier, J

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)

Ross, D.

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...

Syphilis in pregnancy in Tanzania. II. The effectiveness of antenatal syphilis screening and single-dose benzathine penicillin treatment for the prevention of adverse pregnancy outcomes (2002)

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...

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...

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...

Diurnal variation in uterine artery blood flow in post-menopausal women on oestrogen hormone replacement therapy (1999)

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...

Compartmental Modeling of Rat Macular Primary Afferents From Three-Dimensional Reconstructions of Electron Micrographs of Serial Sections (1994)

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...

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...

Variations of HIV and STI prevalences within communities neighbouring new goldmines in Tanzania: importance for intervention design

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...

Stepwise health surveillance for bronchial irritability syndrome in workers at risk of occupational respiratory disease

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...

"A bit more truthful": the validity of adolescent sexual behaviour data collected in rural northern Tanzania using five methods

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.

Moral fictionalism, preference moralization and anti-conservatism: why metaethical error theory doesn’t imply policy quietism

D.Ross

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...

Resource allocation and budgetary mechanisms for decentralized health systems: experiences from Balochistan, Pakistan.

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...

Ethnic variation in the prevalence of a common NAD(P)H quinone oxidoreductase polymorphism and its implications for anti-cancer chemotherapy.

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

Kepa, J K, Ross, D

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...