Building Large Area CZT Imaging Detectors for a Wide-Field Hard X-ray Telescope - ProtoEXIST1 (2009)
Hong, J., Allen, B., Grindlay, J., Chammas, N., Barthelemy, S., Baker, R., ...
We have constructed a moderately large area (32 cm2), fine pixel (2.5 mm pixel, 5 mm thick) CZT imaging detector which constitutes the first section of a detector module (256 cm2) developed for a...
James A. D’arcy, Msci David, J. Collins, Minstp Anwar R, Msci John Suckling, ...
Magnetic Resonance Imaging Workbench (MRIW) allows analysis of T1- and T2*-weighted dynamic contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging data sets to extract tissue permeability and perfusion...
Oceans. Europe 2005 An Acoustically-Linked Deep-Ocean Observatory (2008)
D. Frye, J. Ware, M. Grund, J. Partan, P. Koski, S. Sin H, ...
A6slmei- A buoy-based observatory that uses acoustic communication to retrieve data from water column and seafloor instruments has been developed and deployed in 2362 m of water offshore Vancouver...
CREATION OF A BIOETHICS COURSE FOR THE UNDERGRADUATE BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING CURRICULUM (2008)
E. Mowry, J. Collins, S. Brophy
“Engineering programs must demonstrate that their graduates have…an understanding of professional and ethical responsibility…. 1 ” To address this need, we are creating an undergraduate...
Gruber, G., Cole, B. F., Castiglione-Gertsch, M., Holmberg, S. B., Lindtner, J., Golouh, R., ...
Background: Extracapsular tumor spread (ECS) has been identified as a possible risk factor for breast cancer recurrence, but controversy exists regarding its role in decision making for regional...
Keshaviah, A, Dellapasqua, S, Rotmensz, N, Lindtner, J, Crivellari, D, Collins, J, ...
Background: We evaluated the ability of CA15-3 and alkaline phosphatase (ALP) to predict breast cancer recurrence. Patients and methods: Data from seven International Breast Cancer Study Group trials...
An asymmetric Arzela-Ascoli theorem (2007)
An Arzela-Ascoli theorem for asymmetric metric spaces (sometimes called quasi-metric spaces) is proved. One genuinely asymmetric condition is introduced, and it is shown that several classic...
Small x Phenomenology: summary of the 3rd Lund Small x Workshop in 2004 (2006)
Andersen, J R, Baranov, S, Bartels, J, Barnafoldi, G G, Chachamis, G, Collins, J, ...
A third workshop on small-x physics, within the Small-x Collaboration, was held in Hamburg in May 2004 with the aim of overviewing recent theoretical progress in this area and summarizing the...
Buttar, C, Dittmaier, S, Drollinger, V, Frixione, Stefano, Nikitenko, A, Abdullin, S W S, ...
This Report summarises the activities of the "SM and Higgs" working group for the Workshop "Physics at TeV Colliders", Les Houches, France, 2-20 May, 2005. On the one hand, we performed a variety of...
Pestalozzi, B. C., Zahrieh, D., Price, K. N., Holmberg, S. B., Lindtner, J., Collins, J., ...
Background: We sought to determine whether a high-risk group could be defined among patients with operable breast cancer in whom a search of occult central nervous system (CNS) metastases was...
Kolibianakis, E.M., Collins, J., Tarlatzis, B.C., Devroey, P., Diedrich, K., Griesinger, G.
This systematic review and meta-analysis aimed to answer the following clinical question: among patients treated for IVF with gonadotrophins and GnRH analogues, is the probability of live birth per...
Linezolid resistance in coagulase-negative staphylococci1 (2006)
Kelly, S., Collins, J., Davin, M., Gowing, C., Murphy, P. G.
Pestalozzi, B. C., Zahrieh, D., Price, K. N., Holmberg, S. B., Lindtner, J., Collins, J., ...
Background: We sought to determine whether a high-risk group could be defined among patients with operable breast cancer in whom a search of occult central nervous system (CNS) metastases was...
Linezolid resistance in coagulase-negative staphylococci (2006)
Kelly, S., Collins, J., Davin, M., Gowing, C., Murphy, P. G.
Kolibianakis, E.M., Collins, J., Tarlatzis, B., Papanikolaou, E., Devroey, P.
The aim of this systematic review was to evaluate, among women with normal ovulation or World Health Organization (WHO) II oligoanovulation who undergo ovarian stimulation for IVF using GnRH...
Kolibianakis, E.M., Collins, J., Tarlatzis, B.C., Devroey, P., Diedrich, K., Griesinger, G.
This systematic review and meta-analysis aimed to answer the following clinical question: among patients treated for IVF with gonadotrophins and GnRH analogues, is the probability of live birth per...
Pestalozzi, B. C., Zahrieh, D., Price, K. N., Holmberg, S. B., Lindtner, J., Collins, J., ...
Background: We sought to determine whether a high-risk group could be defined among patients with operable breast cancer in whom a search of occult central nervous system (CNS) metastases was...
Space of multilingualism (2005)
Blommaert, J, Collins, J, Slembrouck, S
This paper draws upon arguments about scale and spatial analysis in order to rethink multilingualism in an urban, diasporic-globalized context. Introducing space and scale allows us to re-examine two...
ABE, O, ABE, R, ENOMOTO, K, KIKUCHI, K, KOYAMA, H, MASUDA, H, ...
ABE, O, ABE, R, ENOMOTO, K, KIKUCHI, K, KOYAMA, H, MASUDA, H, ...
Noise tolerant variants of the perceptron algorithm (2005)
Roni Khardon, Gabriel Wachman, J. Collins
A large number of variants of the Perceptron algorithm have been proposed and partially evaluated in recent work. One type of algorithm aims for noise tolerance by replacing the last hypothesis of...
Eagar, K., Brewer, C., Collins, J., Fildes, D., Findlay, C., Green, J., ...
Victorian children enjoy, by both national and international standards, a high level of health and wellbeing. Nevertheless, there are important opportunities for improvement. To this end, the...
Colleoni, M., Li, S., Gelber, R. D., Coates, A. S., Castiglione-Gertsch, M., Price, K. N., ...
Background:: Controversy persists about whether chemotherapy benefits all breast cancer patients. Patients and methods:: In the International Breast Cancer Study Group (IBCSG) trial VII, 1212...
Nyboe Andersen, A., Collins, J.
The validity, importance and relevance of randomized controlled trials depend on identifying an appropriate target population, ensuring adequate power, careful attention to the details of...
Quality of care for women presenting with benign breast conditions (2005)
Livingston, Patricia, Hirst, S, Pitcher, M, Mann, G, Collins, J, Hayman, J
The aim of the study was to investigate the management of women with benign breast problems. A consecutive sample of women (n = 194) was assessed who presented to public or private sector providers....
The use of syntactic structure in relationship extraction (2004)
This thesis describes a method of relationship extraction that uses surface and syntactic features of text along with entity detection information to perform sentence-level relationship extraction...
Towards less confusing terminology in reproductive medicine: a proposal (2004)
Habbema, J.D.F., Collins, J., Leridon, H., Evers, J.L.H., Lunenfeld, B., TeVelde, E.R.
This lead debate article is published simultaneously in this journal and in Fertility and Sterility with the aim of achieving the broadest possible response. Professor Habbema and co‐authors,...
Berclaz, G., Li, S., Price, K. N., Coates, A. S., Castiglione-Gertsch, M., ...
Background: Current information on the prognostic importance of body mass index (BMI) for patients with early breast cancer is based on a variety of equivocal reports. Few have data on BMI in...
Skol, A.D., Young, K.A., Tsuang, D.W., Faraone, S.V., Haverstock, S.L., Bingham, S., ...
Wei and Hemmings [2000: Nat Genet 25:376–377], using 80 British parent–offspring trios, identified a number of NOTCH4 variants and haplotypes that showed statistically significant evidence of...
Ovulation suppression for endometriosis (2003)
BACKGROUND: Endometriosis is the finding of endometrial glands or stroma in sites other than the uterine cavity. Endometriosis appears to be an estrogen dependent condition. This hormonal dependency...
Ethnographies of Hegemony: an Introduction (2003)
Blommaert, Jan, COLLINS, J, HELLER, M, RAMPTON, B, Slembrouck, Stefaan, VERSCHUEREN, J
Access to dialysis in New Zealand renal services (2003)
An open access copy of this article is available and complies with the copyright holder/publisher conditions.
Access to dialysis in New Zealand renal services (2003)
An open access copy of this article is available and complies with the copyright holder/publisher conditions.
Delay in seeking medical care for self-detected breast symptoms in New Zealand women (2002)
Collins, J., Petrie, K.J., Meechan, G.
An open access copy of this article is available and complies with the copyright holder/publisher conditions.
Heikes, B., O'Sullivan, D., Lee, M., Eisele, F., Mauldin, L., Chen, G., ...
Reported are the results from a comparison of OH,H 2 O 2 CH 3 OOH, and O 3 observationswithmodel predictions based on current HO x –CH 4 reaction mechanisms. The field observations are...
Discourse and critique: Part one - Introduction (2001)
Blommaert, J, Collins, J, Heller, M, Rampton, B, Slembrouck, S, Verschueren, Jasmin; U0038045
Discourse and critique: Part one - Introduction (2001)
Blommaert, Jan, COLLINS, J, HELLER, M, RAMPTON, B, Slembrouck, Stefaan, VERSCHUEREN, J
Clomiphene citrate for unexplained subfertility in women (2000)
BACKGROUND: The effectiveness of clomiphene citrate has been clearly demonstrated in the treatment of sub-fertility associated with oligo-ovulation. The multiple pregnancy rate associated with...
BACKGROUND: The risks of multiple pregnancy and ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome (OHSS) are increased in women with clomiphene resistance WHO group 2 dysfunction undergoing ovulation induction as...
BACKGROUND: Elevation of endogenous LH levels may result in premature luteinization. This may also be associated with the increased rate of spontaneous abortion. Gonadotropin releasing hormone...
Clomiphene citrate for ovulation induction in women with oligo-amenorrhoea (2000)
BACKGROUND: The administration of clomiphene citrate is followed by an enhanced release of pituitary gonadotropins resulting in follicular recruitment. After the drug is stopped, there is continuing...
Bromocriptine for unexplained subfertility in women (2000)
BACKGROUND: Bromocriptine improves hyperprolactinemic amenorrhea and so could also be helpful in the treatment of unexplained subfertility in women. OBJECTIVES: To assess the effects of bromocriptine...
Farley, TMM, Meirik, O, Collins, J
Cardiovascular risks have been a concern since combined oral contraceptives (OCs) were first introduced. In the past four years new, mostly reassuring information on the safety of modern, low...
International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education (1998), 9, 159-177. (1998)
Supporting Peer Help, J. Greer, G. Mccalla, J. Collins, V. Kumar, P. Meagher, ...
Increasingly, organizations are geographically distributed with activities coordinated and integrated through the use of information technology. Such organizations face constant change and the...
Germline transcription and recombination of a murine VDJmudeltagamma1 transgene (1998)
Cunningham, K, Ackerly, H, Claflin, L, Collins, J, Wu, P, Ford, C, ...
Goldhirsch, A., Gelber, R. D., Castiglione, M., O'Neill, A., Thürlimann, B., ...
Purpose It has been postulated that breast cancer surgery performed during the follicular phase of the menstrual cycle is associated with poorer outcome. Patients and methods We tested this...
Accelerated titration designs for phase I clinical trials in oncology (1997)
Simon, R, Freidlin, B, Rubinstein, L, Arbuck, SG, Collins, J, Christian, MC
Analogical User Modelling: A Case Study in Individualized Information Filtering (1996)
G. Mccalla, F. Searwar, J. Thomson, J. Collins, Y. Sun, B. Zhou
In this paper we propose an approach to user modelling based on analogy. This approach is applied to the problem of retrieving documents relevant to an individual user. In this approach, the user...
Marini, G., Murray, S., Goldhirsch, A., Gelber, R. D., Castiglione-Gertsch, M., Price, K. N., ...
Background: The addition of low-dose prednisone (p) to the adjuvant regimen of cyclophosphamide, methotrexate, 5-fluorouracil (CMF) allowed patients to receive a larger dose of cytotoxics when...
Gong, W, Emanuel, BS, Collins, J, Kim, DH, Wang, Z, Chen, F, ...
Routine tests during follow-up of patients after primary treatment for operable breast cancer (1995)
Crivellari, D., Price, K. N., Hagen, M., Goldhirsch, A., Gelber, R. D., Castiglione, M., ...
Background: Follow-up tests for patients after diagnosis and primary treatment of breast cancer are routinely performed. However, the usefulness of these follow-up parameters remains unclear. We...
The International (Ludwig) Breast Cancer Study Group Trials I-IV: 15 years follow-up (1994)
Castiglione-Gertsch, M., Johnsen, C., Goldhirsch, A., Gelber, R. D., Rudenstam, C. M., Collins, J., ...
Background Adjuvant systemic therapy prolongs disease-free and overall survival in both pre- and postmenopausal patients. Available data shown benefit from multi-agent chemotherapy, prolonged...
Nonlinear Beam Dynamics Experiments: CE-22 (1993)
Ball, M., Brabson, B., Budnick, J., Caussyn, D.D., Collins, J., Derenchuk, V., ...
This research was sponsored by the National Science Foundation Grant NSF PHY-9314783
The Beam Transfer Function Experiments: CE-37 (1993)
Ball, M., Budnick, J., Caussyn, D.D., Collins, J., Derenchuk, V., East, G., ...
This research was sponsored by the National Science Foundation Grant NSF PHY-9314783
Transverse and Longitudinal Nonlinear Beam Dynamics (1992)
Ball, M., Brabson, B., Budnick, J., Caussyn, D.D., Collins, J., Curtis, S., ...
This research was sponsored by the National Science Foundation Grant NSF PHY-9314783
Spataro, V., Price, K., Goldhirsch, A., Cavalli, F., Simoncini, E., Castiglione, M., ...
We retrospectively evaluated 401 selected patients who had estrogen receptor (ER) assays both at primary surgery and at relapse in an accessible site to determine the clinical relevance of the...
CE22: Nonlinear Beam Dynamics Experiments at the IUCF Cooler Ring (1991)
Ball, M., Brabson, B., Caussyn, D., Collins, J., Derenchuk, V., DuPlantis, D., ...
This research was sponsored by the National Science Foundation Grant NSF PHY-9314783
Cooler Intensity Limitations (1991)
Ellison, T., Ball, M., Caussyn, D.D., Collins, J., Derenchuk, V., Duplantis, D., ...
This research was sponsored by the National Science Foundation Grant NSF PHY-9314783
Rose, T. F., Ellis-Pegfer, R., Collins, J., Small, M.
Twenty-two (15 female and 7 male) patients with continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis (CAPD) associated peritonitis were entered into an open non-comparative evaluation of oral pefloxacin...
Rose, T. F., Bremner, D. A., Collins, J., Ellis-Pegler, R., Isaacs, R., Richardson, R., ...
Six patients with acute peritonitis undergoing continuous ambulatory pentoneal dialysis for end-stage renal failure received an 800mg loading dose of pefioxacin mesylate orally followed by 400 mg...
Measurement and Optimization of Cooler Ring Parameters (1989)
Collins, J., DuPlantis, D., Ellison, T., Friesel, D.L., Jones, W.P., Pei, A., ...
This research was sponsored by the National Science Foundation Grant NSF PHY-9314783
Zmudzka, B.Z., Fomace, A., Collins, J., Wilson, S.H.
DNA polymerase β (β-polymerase) is a housekeeping enzyme involved in DNA repair in vertebrate cells. We used a cDNA probe to study abundance of β-polymerase mRNA in cultured human cells. The mRNA...
FREE SUBGROUPS OF SMALL CANCELLATION GROUPS (1971)
A group is a small cancellation group if, roughly, it has a presentation 0 = (a,b,c,...; r=l{reR)) with the property that for any pair r, s of elements of R either r = s-1 or there is very little...
Gruber, G., Cole, B. F., Castiglione-Gertsch, M., Holmberg, S. B., Lindtner, J., Golouh, R., ...
Background: Extracapsular tumor spread (ECS) has been identified as a possible risk factor for breast cancer recurrence, but controversy exists regarding its role in decision making for regional...
Colleoni, M, Litman, H J, Castiglione-Gertsch, M, Sauerbrei, W, Gelber, R D, Bonetti, M, ...
Cyclophosphamide, methotrexate and fluorouracil adjuvant combination chemotherapy for breast cancer is currently used for the duration of six monthly courses. We performed a joint analysis of two...