Ian Roberts

Publication List Details

Period

1968 - 2009

Number

72

Co-Authors

Intracranial bleeding in patients with traumatic brain injury: A prognostic study (2009)

Perel, Pablo, Roberts, Ian, Bouamra, Omar, Woodford, Maralyn, Mooney, Jane, Lecky, Fiona

Abstract Background Intracranial bleeding (IB) is a common and serious consequence of traumatic brain injury (TBI). IB can be classified according to the location into: epidural haemorrhage (EDH)...

Anti-fibrinolytic agents in post partum haemorrhage: a systematic review (2009)

Ferrer, Pili, Roberts, Ian, Sydenham, Emma, Blackhall, Karen, Shakur, Haleema

Abstract Background Post partum haemorrhage is a leading cause of maternal death worldwide. It also contributes to maternal morbidity as women may require a hysterectomy to control bleeding, or may...

ABSTRACT Large-scale, Parallel Automatic Patent Annotation (2009)

Milan Agatonovic, Niraj Aswani, Kalina Bontcheva, Hamish Cunningham, Yaoyong Li, Ian Roberts, ...

When researching new product ideas or filing new patents, inventors need to retrieve all relevant pre-existing know-how and/or to exploit and enforce patents in their technological domain. However,...

Patient outcome after traumatic brain injury in high-, middle- and low-income countries: analysis of data on 8927 patients in 46 countries (2009)

De Silva, Mary J, Roberts, Ian, Perel, Pablo, Edwards, Phil, Kenward, Michael G, Fernandes, Janice, ...

Background Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is one of the leading causes of death and disability worldwide. The burden of TBI is greatest in low- and middle-income countries (LAMIC), yet little is known...

Population adiposity and climate change (2009)

Edwards, Phil, Roberts, Ian

Background The increasing global prevalence of overweight and obesity has serious implications for the environment, as well as for health. We estimate the impact on greenhouse gas emissions of...

Interpreting Neural Network Loyalty Models. (2008)

Thomas R Osborn, Greg N Taylor, Ian Roberts

This paper has four threads which tie together the business of delivering the findings of loyalty studies to commercial clients. The threads emerged from a loyalty survey for which traditional...

USING ICT AND WEB-BASED MATERIALS FOR LEARNING & TEACHING AND DATA HANDLING ACROSS THE CURRICULUM IN SCHOOLS (2008)

Neville Davies, Ian Roberts, Trevor Cole

A common concern in the professional development of teachers is to provide them with appropriate technical support and training in the use of information and communication technology (ICT). The need...

Acquisition of High-Level Chromosomal Instability Is Associated with Integration of Human Papillomavirus Type 16 in Cervical Keratinocytes (2008)

Mark R. Pett, Ian Roberts, Sally Dowen, David I. Smith, Margaret A. Stanley, ...

Whereas two key steps in cervical carcinogenesis are integration of high-risk human papillomavirus (HR-HPV) and acquisition of an unstable host genome, the temporal association between these events...

Use of the Oxford Handicap Scale at hospital discharge to predict Glasgow Outcome Scale at 6 months in patients with traumatic brain injury (2008)

Perel, Pablo, Edwards, Phil, Shakur, Haleema, Roberts, Ian

Abstract Background Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is an important cause of acquired disability. In evaluating the effectiveness of clinical interventions for TBI it is important to measure disability...

Ian Roberts and Anders Holmberg 1 On the role of parameters in Universal Grammar: a reply to Newmeyer (2008)

Ian Roberts, Anders Holmberg

Newmeyer (2004) argues that the notion of parameter of Universal Grammar has no role to play in accounting for cross-linguistic differences in syntax, and that, instead, “language-particular...

Subjects, Tense and Verb-Movement in Germanic and Romance (2008)

Theresa Biberauer, Ian Roberts

Abstract: This paper takes a closer look at the attraction properties of T. It highlights an empirically attested distinction between rich agreement inflection, exhibited by null-subject languages,...

Predicting Outcome after Traumatic Brain Injury: Development and International Validation of Prognostic Scores Based on Admission Characteristics (2008)

Ewout W. Steyerberg, Nino Mushkudiani, Pablo Perel, Isabella Butcher, Juan Lu, Gillian S. McHugh, ...

BackgroundTraumatic brain injury (TBI) is a leading cause of death and disability. A reliable prediction of outcome on admission is of great clinical relevance. We aimed to develop prognostic models...

Critical evaluation of HPV16 gene copy number quantification by SYBR green PCR (2008)

Roberts, Ian, Ng, Grace, Foster, Nicola, Stanley, Margaret, Herdman, Michael T, Pett, Mark R, ...

Abstract Background Human papilloma virus (HPV) load and physical status are considered useful parameters for clinical evaluation of cervical squamous cell neoplasia. However, the errors implicit in...

BMC Medical Research Methodology 2008, 8:72 doi:10.1186/1471-2288-8-72 (2008)

Pablo Perel, Phil Edwards, Haleema Shakur, Ian Roberts, Pablo Perel, Phil Edwards, ...

This Provisional PDF corresponds to the article as it appeared upon acceptance. Fully formatted PDF and full text (HTML) versions will be made available soon.

Glucuronylation in Escherichia coli for the bacterial synthesis of the carbohydrate moiety of nonsulfated HNK-1 (2008)

Yavuz, Elif, Drouillard, Sophie, Samain, Eric, Roberts, Ian, Priem, Bernard

We have previously reported the large-scale synthesis of neolactotetraose (Galβ-4GlcNAcβ-3Galβ-4Glc) from lactose in engineered Escherichia coli cells (Priem B, Gilbert M, Wakarchuk WW, Heyraud A...

Information Retrieval for Question Answering (2007)

Ian Roberts

The Sheffield Natural Lanuage Processing group has developed a system for automatic question answering, which has been used for the 1999, 2000 and 2002 Text REtrieval Conferences (TRECs). It is...

TREC 2002 Q&A System (2007)

Mark A. Greenwood, Ian Roberts, Robert Gaizauskas

The system entered by the University of Sheffield in the question answering track of TREC 2002 represents a significant development over the Sheffield system entered into TREC-8 [9] and TREC9 [15],...

Date Distribution (2007)

Kalina Bontcheva, Ian Roberts, Milan Agatonovic, Atos Origin, Sociedad Anonima Espanola

analysis and application of TAO methodology in data intensive applications

A Web Service for Biomedical Term Look-Up (2006)

Henk Harkema, Ian Roberts, Rob Gaizauskas, Mark Hepple

Recent years have seen a huge increase in the amount of biomedical information that is available in electronic format. Consequently, for biomedical researchers wishing to relate their experimental...

Trials BioMed Central (2006)

Alison M Mcdonald, Rosemary C Knight, Marion K Campbell, Vikki A Entwistle, Adrian M Grant, Jonathan A Cook, ...

What influences recruitment to randomised controlled trials? A review of trials funded by two UK funding agencies

Interferon-{beta} treatment of cervical keratinocytes naturally infected with human papillomavirus 16 episomes promotes rapid reduction in episome numbers and emergence of latent integrants (2006)

Herdman, M. Trent, Pett, Mark R., Roberts, Ian, Alazawi, William O. F., Teschendorff, Andrew E., Zhang, Xiao-Yin, ...

Following integration of human papillomavirus (HPV) into the host genome, overexpression of the viral oncogenes E6 and E7 requires loss of the transcriptional repressor functions of E2. A key step in...

Interferon-{beta} treatment of cervical keratinocytes naturally infected with human papillomavirus 16 episomes promotes rapid reduction in episome numbers and emergence of latent integrants (2006)

Herdman, M.Trent, Pett, Mark R., Roberts, Ian, Alazawi, William O.F., Teschendorff, Andrew E., Zhang, Xiao-Yin, ...

Following integration of human papillomavirus (HPV) into the host genome, overexpression of the viral oncogenes E6 and E7 requires loss of the transcriptional repressor functions of E2. A key step in...

A Web Service for Biomedical Term Look-Up (2005)

Henk Harkema, Ian Roberts, Rob Gaizauskas, Mark Hepple

Recent years have seen a huge increase in the amount of biomedical information that is available in electronic format. Consequently, for biomedical researchers wishing to relate their experimental...

Determining the cost effectiveness of a smoke alarm give-away program using data from a randomized controlled trial (2005)

Ginnelly, Laura, Sculpher, Mark, Bojke, Chris, Roberts, Ian, Wade, Angie, Diguiseppi, Carolyn

Background: In 2001, 486 deaths and 17 300 injuries occurred in domestic fires in the UK. Domestic fires represent a significant cost to the UK economy, with the value of property loss alone...

Perpetrators and Victims: Wolfdietrich Schnurre and the Bombenkrieg over Germany (2005)

Roberts, Ian

This article examines recent developments in the Vergangenheitsbewältigung debate, notably Jörg Friedrich's Der Brand (2002), which asserts German innocence in the bombing of German cities. A...

A Visual engagement of planning processes: An interactive web-based urban development plan (2004)

Pietsch, Susan Mary, O'Shea, Shannon Marie, Roberts, Ian, White, Deborah

This paper presents a pilot system for the presentation of development control information for Adelaide, a major Australian capital city. While many researchers have focused on participatory systems...

A Visual engagement of planning processes: An interactive web-based urban development plan (2004)

Pietsch, Susan Mary, O'Shea, Shannon Marie, Roberts, Ian, White, Deborah

This paper presents a pilot system for the presentation of development control information for Adelaide, a major Australian capital city. While many researchers have focused on participatory systems...

Evaluating Passage Retrieval Approaches for Question Answering (2003)

Ian Roberts, Robert Gaizauskas

Automatic open domain question answering (QA) has been the focus of much recent research, stimulated by the introduction of a QA track in TREC in 1999. Many QA systems have been developed and most...

The impact of the introduction of the GST on small business in Australia (2002)

Breen, John P, Bergin-Seers, Sue, Roberts, Ian, Sims, Robert

This study examines the impact of the introduction of the Goods and Services Tax (GST) on small business in Australia in the context of the experiences faced in similar countries overseas. Using a...

Prevention of deaths and injuries caused by house fires: survey of local authority smoke alarm policies (2002)

Rowland, Diane, Afolabi, Elizabeth, Roberts, Ian

Background Despite an increased risk of fire in disadvantaged households, smoke alarm ownership is considerably lower than in the general population. The government currently recommends that local...

The impact of the introduction of the GST on small business in Australia (2002)

Breen, John P, Bergin-Seers, Sue, Roberts, Ian, Sims, Robert

This study examines the impact of the introduction of the Goods and Services Tax (GST) on small business in Australia in the context of the experiences faced in similar countries overseas. Using a...

Physical and psychological effects of injury: Data from the 1958 British birth cohort study (2001)

LI, LEAH, ROBERTS, IAN, POWER, CHRIS

Background: There Is only scant evidence for the long-term health effects of road traffic Injuries. We therefore assessed the extent to which motor vehicle driver Injuries influence limiting...

PREVENTING INJURIES THROUGH INTERVENTIONS FOR PROBLEM DRINKING: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW OF RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS (1999)

Dinh-Zarr, Tho, Diguiseppi, Carolyn, Heitman, Elizabeth, Roberts, Ian

To assess the effect of treatment of problem drinking on injury risk, we conducted a systematic review of randomized controlled trials by searching 12 computerized databases, cross-checking...

A minimalist theory of A-movement and control (1998)

Rita Manzini Anna, Guglielmo Cinque, Annabel Cormack, Caterina Donati, Ken Hale, Ursel Luhde, ...

In this article, we point out some problems in the theory of A-movement and control within Principles and Parameters models, and specifically within the minimalist approach of Chomsky (1995). In...

Trends in intentional injury deaths in children and teenagers (1980-1995) (1998)

Roberts, Ian, Li, Leah, Barker, Maggie

Background The aim of the study was to describe patterns and trends in intentional injury death rates in children and teenagers. Methods Analyses were carried out on data from the Office of National...

Reducing accident death rates in children and young adults - the contribution of hospital care. (1996)

Roberts, Ian, Campbell, Fiona, Hollis, Sally, Yates, David W.

Objective: To assess the contribution of trauma care to the recent decline in accident death rates among children and young people. Design: Logistic regression modelling of temporal trends in the...

Participation and Purpose: Boilermakers to Bankers (1991)

Roberts, Ian, Wilkinson, Adrian John

This paper focuses upon two divergent examples of employee participation in the 1980s in Britain. In contrasting the experiences of participation in the Co-op bank and shipbuilding group the paper...

Participation and Purpose: Boilermakers to Bankers (1991)

Roberts, Ian, Wilkinson, Adrian John

This paper focuses upon two divergent examples of employee participation in the 1980s in Britain. In contrasting the experiences of participation in the Co-op bank and shipbuilding group the paper...

Participation and Purpose: Boilermakers to Bankers (1991)

Roberts, Ian, Wilkinson, Adrian John

This paper focuses upon two divergent examples of employee participation in the 1980s in Britain. In contrasting the experiences of participation in the Co-op bank and shipbuilding group the paper...

Legal aspects involved in the development of anti-progesterones for fertility control (1988)

Roberts, Ian

The development of medical means of inducing abortion requires a detailed knowledge of the abortion legislation. It is vital that these compounds are developed and used within the legal constraints...

Collective Representations, Divided Memory and Patterns of Paradox: Mining and Shipbuilding

Ian Roberts

This paper seeks to examine the different relationship of two industries to their potential for representation and celebration in collective memory. Looking at case studies of mining and shipbuilding...

A Web Service for Biomedical Term Look-Up

Harkema, Henk, Roberts, Ian, Gaizauskas, Rob, Hepple, Mark

Recent years have seen a huge increase in the amount of biomedical information that is available in electronic format. Consequently, for biomedical researchers wishing to relate their experimental...

Predicting Outcome after Traumatic Brain Injury: Development and International Validation of Prognostic Scores Based on Admission Characteristics

Steyerberg, Ewout W, Mushkudiani, Nino, Perel, Pablo, Butcher, Isabella, Lu, Juan, McHugh, Gillian S, ...

Ewout Steyerberg and colleagues describe a prognostic model for the prediction of outcome of traumatic brain injury using data available on admission.

The CLEF Corpus: Semantic Annotation of Clinical Text

Roberts, Angus, Gaizauskas, Robert, Hepple, Mark, Davis, Neil, Demetriou, George, Guo, Yikun, ...

The Clinical E-Science Framework (CLEF) project is building a framework for the capture, integration and presentation of clinical information: for clinical research, evidence-based health care and...

Carbon cost of pragmatic randomised controlled trials: retrospective analysis of sample of trials

Lyle, Katy, Dent, Louise, Bailey, Sally, Kerridge, Lynn, Roberts, Ian, Milne, Ruairidh

Objective To calculate the global warming potential, in carbon dioxide (CO2) equivalent emissions, from a sample of pragmatic randomised controlled trials.