David Fowler

Morphologic Characteristic of Coronary Artery Disease, with Emphasis on Thromboses, in Patients Younger Than 40 Years of Age (2010)

Fabio Tavora, Ling Li, Mary Ripple, David Fowler, Allen Burke

There are few pathologic descriptions of fatal coronary artery disease in the young. The morphologic characteristics of sudden coronary deaths in 47 hearts from patients younger than 40 years were...

Enhancing Grid Service Discovery with a Semantic Wiki and the Concept Matching Approach (2009)

Guan, Tao, Fowler, David, Bandara, Ayomi, Zaluska, Ed, De Roure, David, Crowder, Richard, ...

An important challenge of realizing the vision of Grid computing that heterogeneous resources are shared in dynamic and multi-institutional virtual organization is that users need to locate, find,...

Navigation Over a Large Ontology for Industrial Web Applications (2009)

Crowder, Richard, Wilson, Max L., Fowler, David, Shadbolt, Nigel, Wills, Gary, Wong, Sylvia

Ontologies for industrial semantic web applications are often very large. This is especially true in scientific and engineering applications where there exists a large pool of technical terminology...

A Semantic Matching Approach for Distributed RDF Data Query on a Knowledge Bus (2009)

Guan, Tao, Fowler, David, Crowder, Richard, Tao, Feng, Shadbolt, Nigel, Wills, Gary

During the past several years, semantic web technologies have been applied to facilitate the sharing of data in new and unexpected ways. Various heterogeneous data are assigned well-defined meaning...

A Semantic System for Rapid Information Search and Access (2009)

Guan, Tao, Fowler, David, Crowder, Richard, Shadbolt, Nigel, Tao, Feng, Wills, Gary

How to reuse existing data to support applications is an essential issue in various domains. This paper presents semantic approaches to search and access information rapidly in engineering design...

CleOn: Resolution of Lexically Incoherent Concepts in an Engineering Ontology ⋆ (2008)

Quentin Reul, Derek Sleeman, David Fowler

Abstract. Ontologies are vital for the achievement of the Semantic Web. Given their central role it is highly desirable that ontologies be evaluated and made consistent. Several evaluation approaches...

ARTICLE NO. HM982209 Square Root Approximations in Old Babylonian Mathematics: YBC 7289 in Context (2008)

David Fowler, Eleanor Robson

We consider several aspects of the role and evaluation of the four-sexagesimal-place approximation to �2 on the well-known Old Babylonian tablet YBC 7289. By referring to what is known about OB...

Abstract Strokes for Representing Univariate Vector Field Maps (2008)

David Fowler, Colin Ware

Particle systems make an excellent tool for creating tracks (which we call strokes) in vector fields. The question addressed in this paper is how such tracks should be made to vary in size and colour...

Measuring adherence in CBT for psychosis: a psychometric analysis of an adherence scale (2008)

Rollinson, Rebecca, Smith, Ben, Startup, Mike, Fowler, David, Steel, Craig, Jolley, Suzanne, ...

This paper reports the psychometric properties of a CBT for psychosis adherence scale, the Revised Cognitive Therapy for Psychosis Adherence Scale (R-CTPAS). The scale’s factor structure,...

A Web-Based Mathematica Application (2007)

David Fowler

This report describes a World-Wide Web-based Mathematica application for demonstrating a genetic algorithm. The application was installed on a server maintained by UN-L Information Services, with the...

Decision Network Semantics of Branching Constraint Satisfaction Problems (2007)

Ken Brown, Peter Lucas, David Fowler

Branching Constraint Satisfaction Problems (BCSPs) have been introduced to model dynamic resource allocation subject to constraints and uncertainty. We give BCSPs a formal probability semantics by...

Decision Network Semantics of Branching (2007)

K. Brown, P. Lucas, D. Fowler, Ken Brown, Peter Lucas, David Fowler

Branching Constraint Satisfaction Problems (BCSPs) have been introduced to model dynamic resource allocation subject to constraints and uncertainty. We give BCSPs a formal probability semantics by...

Cognitive, Emotional, and Social Processes in Psychosis: Refining Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Persistent Positive Symptoms (2006)

Kuipers, Elizabeth, Garety, Philippa, Fowler, David, Freeman, Daniel, Dunn, Graham, Bebbington, Paul

Psychosis used to be thought of as essentially a biological condition unamenable to psychological interventions. However, more recent research has shown that positive symptoms such as delusions and...

Cognitive, Emotional, and Social Processes in Psychosis: Refining Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Persistent Positive Symptoms (2006)

Kuipers, Elizabeth, Garety, Philippa, Fowler, David, Freeman, Daniel, Dunn, Graham, Bebbington, Paul

Psychosis used to be thought of as essentially a biological condition unamenable to psychological interventions. However, more recent research has shown that positive symptoms such as delusions and...

Nonlinearities in Source Receptor Relationships for Sulfur and Nitrogen Compounds (2005)

David Fowler, Jennifer Muller, Rognvald I. Smith, John Neil Cape, Jan Willem Erisman

The relationship between emissions and deposition of air pollutants, both spatially and in time forms an important focus for science and for policy makers. In practice, this relationship may become...

Acquisition and Maintenance of Constraints in Engineering Design (2005)

Ajit, Suraj, Sleeman, Derek, Fowler, David, Knott, Dave, Hui, Kit

The Designers’ Workbench is a system, developed by the Advanced Knowledge Technologies (AKT) consortium to support designers in large organizations, such as Rolls- Royce, by making sure that a...

Capture and Maintenance of Engineering Design Constraints (2005)

Ajit, Suraj, Sleeman, Derek, Fowler, David, Knott, Dave, Hui, Kit

The Designers’ Workbench is a system, developed by the Advanced Knowledge Technologies (AKT) consortium to support designers in large organizations, such as Rolls Royce, by making sure that the...

Sulfate deposition and temperature controls on methane emission and sulfur forms in peat (2005)

Gauci, Vincent, Fowler, David, Chapman, Stephen J., Dise, Nancy B.

Natural wetlands are the single most important contributors of methane (CH4) to the atmosphere. Recent research has shown that the deposition of sulfate (SO42-) can substantially reduce the emission...

Dedication (2004)

Jason Evelthon Charalambides, Katherine A. Liapi, Richard Tucker, Richard Swallow, Daene Mckinney, David Fowler

The Dissertation Committee for Jason Evelthon Charalambides certifies that this is the approved version of the following dissertation: `ljmrqbo=jbqela=clo=qeb=dbkbo^qflk=lc=qeb=...

Controls on suppression of methane flux from a peat bog subjected to simulated acid rain sulfate deposition (2002)

Gauci, Vincent, Dise, Nancy, Fowler, David

The effect of acid rain SO42− deposition on peatland CH4 emissions was examined by manipulating SO42− inputs to a pristine raised peat bog in northern Scotland. Weekly pulses of dissolved Na2SO4...

A study to compare the effectiveness of classroom astronomy and planetarium astronomy / (2002)

Fowler, David.

Compares the effectiveness of astronomy taught in the planetarium versus astronomy taught in the classroom.

Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Medication-Resistant Symptoms (2000)

Garety, Philippa A., Fowler, David, Kuipers, Elizabeth

Cognitive-behavioral therapy for psychosis is described. It draws on the cognitive models and therapy approach of Beck and colleagues, combined with an application of stress-vulnerability models of...

Acknowledgements (1997)

Co-sponsored Cko/ccb, Leon Janssen, Jos Olivier, Carolien Kroeze, Tim Simmons, Susan Subak, ...

Supporting material prepared for consideration by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. This supporting material has not been subject to formal IPCC review and approval process....

A neural network as an instrument of prediction (1991)

Fowler, David

This dissertation describes the construction of a Sparse Distributed Memory neural network and its application to the prediction of student success. The architecture of the network and the details of...

Comparison of Gas Exchange and Bioassay Determinations of the Ammonia Compensation Point in Luzula sylvatica (Huds.) Gaud.1

Hill, Paul W., Raven, John A., Loubet, Benjamin, Fowler, David, Sutton, Mark A.

Determinations of the NH3 compensation point for the understory plant of semi-natural woodlands Luzula sylvatica (Huds.) Gaud. were carried out by measurements of gas exchange and by calculation from...

Iatrogenic proximal urethral obstruction after inadvertent prostatectomy during bilateral perineal herniorrhaphy in a dog

Sereda, Colin, Fowler, David, Shmon, Cindy

Proximal urethral obstruction was diagnosed 2 days after bilateral perineal herniorrhaphy in a 12-year-old male Pomeranian-cross dog. The obstruction was caused by ligation of the proximal urethra...

Segmental aplasia of the caudal vena cava in a dog

Harder, Maureen A., Fowler, David, Pharr, John W., Tryon, Kimberly A., Shmon, Cindy

Ultrasonography, angiography, magnetic resonance imaging, and exploratory laparotomy of a 2-year-old wheaten terrier with lethargy, exercise intolerance, and ascites revealed segmental aplasia of the...

A comparison of the analgesic effects of butorphanol with those of meloxicam after elective ovariohysterectomy in dogs

Caulkett, Nigel, Read, Matt, Fowler, David, Waldner, Cheryl

This study was designed to compare the analgesic effects of butorphanol with those of meloxicam following ovariohysterectomy. Fifteen dogs were premedicated with 0.05 mg/kg body weight (BW) of...

An evaluation of the analgesic effects of meloxicam in addition to epidural morphine/mepivacaine in dogs undergoing cranial cruciate ligament repair

Fowler, David, Isakow, Kevin, Caulkett, Nigel, Waldner, Cheryl

The analgesic efficacy of an epidural morphine/mepivacaine combination alone versus epidural morphine/mepivacaine in combination with meloxicam administered prior to the onset of anesthesia was...

Comparison of Gas Exchange and Bioassay Determinations of the Ammonia Compensation Point in Luzula sylvatica (Huds.) Gaud.1

Hill, Paul W., Raven, John A., Loubet, Benjamin, Fowler, David, Sutton, Mark A.

Determinations of the NH3 compensation point for the understory plant of semi-natural woodlands Luzula sylvatica (Huds.) Gaud. were carried out by measurements of gas exchange and by calculation from...

Iatrogenic proximal urethral obstruction after inadvertent prostatectomy during bilateral perineal herniorrhaphy in a dog

Sereda, Colin, Fowler, David, Shmon, Cindy

Proximal urethral obstruction was diagnosed 2 days after bilateral perineal herniorrhaphy in a 12-year-old male Pomeranian-cross dog. The obstruction was caused by ligation of the proximal urethra...

Segmental aplasia of the caudal vena cava in a dog

Harder, Maureen A., Fowler, David, Pharr, John W., Tryon, Kimberly A., Shmon, Cindy

Ultrasonography, angiography, magnetic resonance imaging, and exploratory laparotomy of a 2-year-old wheaten terrier with lethargy, exercise intolerance, and ascites revealed segmental aplasia of the...

A comparison of the analgesic effects of butorphanol with those of meloxicam after elective ovariohysterectomy in dogs

Caulkett, Nigel, Read, Matt, Fowler, David, Waldner, Cheryl

This study was designed to compare the analgesic effects of butorphanol with those of meloxicam following ovariohysterectomy. Fifteen dogs were premedicated with 0.05 mg/kg body weight (BW) of...

An evaluation of the analgesic effects of meloxicam in addition to epidural morphine/mepivacaine in dogs undergoing cranial cruciate ligament repair

Fowler, David, Isakow, Kevin, Caulkett, Nigel, Waldner, Cheryl

The analgesic efficacy of an epidural morphine/mepivacaine combination alone versus epidural morphine/mepivacaine in combination with meloxicam administered prior to the onset of anesthesia was...

A Neural Network as an Instrument of Prediction

Howell, Robert M., Fowler, David

The authors developed a prototype neural network to predict academic success or failure for dental college students from pre-admissions data. The report contains a description of the network...

Cognitive, Emotional, and Social Processes in Psychosis: Refining Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Persistent Positive Symptoms

Kuipers, Elizabeth, Garety, Philippa, Fowler, David, Freeman, Daniel, Dunn, Graham, Bebbington, Paul

Psychosis used to be thought of as essentially a biological condition unamenable to psychological interventions. However, more recent research has shown that positive symptoms such as delusions and...

Routes to psychotic symptoms: Trauma, anxiety and psychosis-like experiences

Freeman, Daniel, Fowler, David

A social factor that has gained recent attention in understanding psychosis is trauma. In the current study the association of a history of trauma with persecutory ideation and verbal hallucinations...