J. Roberts

Publication List Details

Period

1902 - 2009

Number

73

Co-Authors

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H. G. Roe, C. Chen, J. Roberts, R. H. Brown, K. H. Baines

[1] Images from instruments on Cassini as well as from telescopes on the ground reveal the presence of sporadic small-scale cloud activity in the cold late-winter north polar region of Saturn’s...

It’s driving her mad: gender differences in the effects of commuting on psychological well-being (2009)

Roberts, J., Hodgson, R., Dolan, P.

In this paper, we seek to explore the effects of commuting time on the psychological well-being of men and women in the UK. We use annual data from the British Household Panel Survey in a fixed...

Roberts's Language Teacher Education promises (2009)

J. Roberts, M. J. Wallace

Titles, we assume, are significant, and while Jon

Repairing Managerial Knowledge-ability Over Distance (2009)

K Goodall, J Roberts, Cambridge Cb Ag, K Goodall, John Roberts, Cambridge Cambridge, ...

The papers are circulated for discussion purposes only and their contents should be considered preliminary. Not to be quoted without the author's permission.

Measures That Work A Guide for Executives and Managers (2009)

Da Filings, J. Roberts

reserves a royalty-free, nonexclusive, and irrevocable license to reproduce, publish, or otherwise use, and to authorize others to use, this book for Federal Government purposes. This document may be...

Amine- and carboxyl-quantum dots affect membrane integrity of bacterium Cupriavidus metallidurans CH34 (2009)

Slaveykova, VI, Startchev, K, Roberts, J

The present study examines the interaction of amine- and carboxyl- PEG core/shell quantum dots (QDs) with metal resistant bacterium Cupriavidus metallidurans CH34. The evolution of the number of QDs,...

Measures That Work A Guide for Executives and Managers (2008)

Da Filings, J. Roberts

reserves a royalty-free, nonexclusive, and irrevocable license to reproduce, publish, or otherwise use, and to authorize others to use, this book for Federal Government purposes. This document may be...

Lecture title: Using bioinformatics and genomics to find interesting new proteins (2008)

Presenter Richard, J. Roberts

molecular biology and to sequence tRNA. In 1972, Roberts moved to Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. There he began a systematic search for new restriction enzymes and to characterize the initiation and...

Part-time work and Health among Older Workers in Ireland and Britain (2008)

Gannon, B., Roberts, J.

Part-time work is viewed as a viable option for people who wish to have a gradual transition to retirement. From a policy viewpoint, this may help to alleviate some labour supply shortages,...

Early retirement and inequality in Britain and Germany: How important is health? (2008)

Roberts, J., Rice, N., Jones, A.M.

Both health and income inequalities have been shown to be much greater in Britain than in Germany. One of the main reasons seems to be the difference in the relative position of the retired, who, in...

FE teachers talking about students' learning (2008)

Salisbury, J, Jephcote, M, Roberts, J

The discussion of learning and teaching in this paper is based on data from a research project funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Teaching and Learning Research Programme...

FE teachers talking about students' learning (2008)

Salisbury, J, Jephcote, M, Roberts, J

The discussion of learning and teaching in this paper is based on data from a research project funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Teaching and Learning Research Programme...

D. Cologne (2008)

Politecnico Torino, France Telecom, P. Brown, S. Oueslati, J. Roberts, ...

Project full title: Design and Engineering of the Next Generation Internet, towards convergent multi-service networks. Type of contract: NETWORK OF EXCELLENCE. Contract N°.: 507613.

Fixed Wing UAV Navigation and Control through Integrated GNSS and Vision (2008)

Mr. Peter, J. Roberts, Dr Rodney, A. Walker

With the rapid deployment of Unmanned Airborne Vehicles (UAVs) into new applications, the pressure to extend the capabilities of current platforms is increasing. Increased capabilities, however,...

Reservation Wages, Labour Market Participation and Health (2008)

Brown, S., Roberts, J., Taylor, K.

The concept of the reservation wage has played an important role in labour market theory; particularly in models of job search, labour supply and labour market participation. Despite this core...

Electrical Properties of Geothermal Reservoir Rocks as Indicators of Porosity Distribution (2007)

Duba Roberts Bonner, A. Duba, J. Roberts, B. Bonner

Measurements of the electrical resistivity of metashales from borehole SB-15-D in The Geysers geothermal area at a variety of conditions in the laboratory provide information regarding the...

Changes in Human Capital and Wage Inequality in Mexico (2007)

Rice, N., Roberts, J., Jones, A.M.

We follow individuals as they retire using discrete-time hazard models applied to a stock sample from 12 waves of the British Household Panel Survey. Results confirm that health shocks are a...

AN EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF CONCURRENT METHODS FOR ADAPTIVELY CONTROLLING VERTICAL TAIL BUFFET IN HIGH PERFORMANCE AIRCRAFT Approved by: (2007)

J. Roberts, Dr. S. Hanagud, Committee Chair, Dr. S. Hanagud Advisor, Dr. J. Craig, Dr. E. Johnson

The dedication of my thesis is to my parents, Jim and Patricia Roberts, my wife, Felicia, my daughter, Nicole and my son, Derek, for their continued support in completing my doctorate. iii...

Supercontinent cycles, true polar wander, and very long-wavelength mantle convection (2007)

Zhong, S., Zhang, N., Li, Zheng-Xiang, Roberts, J.

We show in this paper that mobile-lid mantle convection in a three-dimensional spherical shell with observationally constrained mantle viscosity structure, and realistic convective vigor and internal...

Incapacity Benefit: A Health or Labour Market Phenomenon? (2006)

Peasgood, T., Roberts, J., Tsuchiya, A.

The number of people claiming Incapacity Benefit has remained fairly constant in recent years at around 2.7 million (7% of the working age population), although the numbers have trebled since the...

Carboniferous to Lower Permian stratigraphy of the southern Tamworth Belt, southern New England Orogen, Australia: boundary sequences of the Werrie and Rouchel blocks (2006)

Roberts, J., Offler, R., Fanning, M.

Carboniferous to Lower Permian successions along the western border of the Tamworth Belt between Wallabadah and Muswellbrook were remapped to clarify the stratigraphy and establish a boundary between...

Carboniferous to Lower Permian stratigraphy of the southern Tamworth Belt, southern New England Orogen, Australia: boundary sequences of the Werrie and Rouchel blocks (2006)

Roberts, J., Offler, R., Fanning, M.

Carboniferous to Lower Permian successions along the western border of the Tamworth Belt between Wallabadah and Muswellbrook were remapped to clarify the stratigraphy and establish a boundary between...

Generic approach for modelling earthquake hazard (2006)

Lam, Nelson T. K., Venkatesan, Srikanth, Wilson, John L., Asten, Michael, Roberts, J., Chandler, Adrian M., ...

The earthquake attenuation behaviour is a critical part of seismic hazard modelling for regions of low and moderate seismicity. This paper presents a new approach for attenuation modelling, which...

Testing models of stochastic choice in health state valuation data (2005)

Dolan, P., Oluboyede, O., Roberts, J.

Expected Utility (EU) theory is the standard economic model of individual preferences under uncertainty. However, observed violations of the axioms of EU have generated interest in the incorporation...

Trace-element correlation of Carboniferous ignimbrites, southern New England Orogen, Australia, by factor and discrimination analysis (2005)

Wang, X, Flood, R, Roberts, J

Factor and discrimination analysis of trace-element abundances in Carboniferous (Visean to possibly Westphalian) ignimbrites and minor lavas from a forearc basin succession of the southern New...

Aids and Economic Growth: A Human Capital Approach (2004)

McDonald, S., Roberts, J.

It is estimated that by 2001 20 million people had died from AIDS, which is now the world´s fourth biggest cause of death. While the highest prevalence and death rates and number of infected persons...

Moving Five-Branes and Membrane Instantons in Low Energy Heterotic M-Theory (2004)

De Carlos, B, Roberts, J, Schmohe, Y

We study cosmological solutions in the context of 4-dimensional low energy Heterotic M-theory with moving bulk branes. In particular we present non-trivial, analytic axion solutions generated by new...

Bilateral corticospinal projections arise from each motor cortex in the macaque monkey: A quantitative study (2004)

Lacroix, S, Havton, L A, McKay, H, Yang, H, Brant, A, Roberts, J, ...

The corticospinal projection is considered to influence fine motor function through nearly exclusively contralateral projections from the cortex in primates. However, unilateral lesions to this...

Upper Carboniferous to Lower Permian volcanic successions of the Carroll-Nandewar region, northern Tamworth Belt, southern New England Orogen, Australia (2004)

Roberts, J., Offler, R., Fanning, M.

Geological mapping in the Carroll-Nandewar region near the northwestern margin of the Tamworth Belt has identified an Upper Carboniferous to Lower Permian succession, the Willuri Formation,...

Computational aspects of balanced fairness (2003)

T. Bonald, A. Proutière, J. Roberts, J. Virtamo

Flow level behaviour of data networks depends on the allocation of link capacities between competing flows. It has been recently shown that there exist allocations with the property that the...

Ministry of Finance and Economy Republic of Korea (2002)

Bee Yan Aw, Sukkyun Chung, Mark J. Roberts, Bee Yan, Aw Sukkyun, Chung Mark, ...

Industry cost and demand conditions can vary across countries leading to differences in industry market structure, including the distribution of output and productivity across firms and the magnitude...

Fibrinolytic variables in patients with recurrent venous thrombosis: a prospective cohort study (2001)

Crowther, MA, Roberts, J, Roberts, R, Johnston, M, Stevens, P, Skingley, P, ...

To determine whether fibrinolytic testing predicts recurrent venous thrombosis, we have performed a prospective cohort study in which 303 patients with a first episode of venous thromboembolism...

Spin Asymmetries $A_1$ of the Proton and the Deuteron in the Low $x$ and Low $Q^2$ Region from Polarized High Energy Muon Scattering (1999)

Adeva, B, Arik, E, Arvidson, A, Badelek, B, Baum, G, Berglund, P, ...

We present the results of the spin asymmetries $A_1$ of the proton and the deuteron in the kinematic region extending down to $x=6\cdot 10^{-5}$ and $Q^2=0.01$ GeV$^2$. The data were taken with a...

Arguments in favour of admission control for TCP flows (1999)

J. Roberts

We advocate the use of admission control to limit the number of TCP flows on a network link to ensure that each has a minimal acceptable throughput. We demonstrate that, in the absence of such a...

Bandwidth Sharing: Objectives and Algorithms (1999)

L. Massoulié, J. Roberts

This paper concerns the design of distributed algorithms for sharing network bandwidth resources among contending flows. The classical fairness notion is the so-called max-min fairness; F. Kelly [8]...

The inverse EEG and MEG problems: The adjoint state approach I: The continuous case (1999)

O. Faugeras, F. Clément, R. Deriche, R. Keriven, T. Papadopoulo, J. Roberts, ...

In this report, we study the problem of the three-dimensional reconstruction of the electrical activity of the brain from electroencephalography (EEG) and magnetoencephalography (MEG). We use a...

Arguments in favour of admission control for TCP flows (1999)

L. Massoulié, J. Roberts

this paper we argue to the contrary that admission control is essential to preserving the efficiency of the network and the quality of service offered to users. There is a minimum acceptable...

Trickster (1999)

Roberts, J

'Trickster' looks at the work of the English artist Rod Dickinson. Since the early 1990s Dickinson with various collaborators has been involved in the making of crop-circles in Wiltshire and...

A next-to-leading order QCD analysis of the spin structure function $g_1$ (1998)

Adeva, B, Akdogan, T, Arik, E, Badelek, B, Bardin, G, Baum, G, ...

We present a next-to-leading order QCD analysis of the presently available data on the spin structure function $g_1$ including the final data from the Spin Muon Collaboration (SMC). We present resu...

Spin Asymmetries $A_1$ and Structure Functions $g_1$ of the Proton and the Deuteron from Polarized High Energy Muon Scattering (1998)

Adeva, B, Akdogan, T, Arik, E, Arvidson, A, Badelek, B, Bardin, G, ...

We present the final results of the spin asymmetries $A_1$ and the spin structure functions $g_1$ of the proton and the deuteron in the kinematic range $0.0008

Polarised quark distributions in the nucleon from semi-inclusive spin asymmetries (1997)

Adeva, B, Akdogan, T, Arik, E, Arvidson, A, Badelek, B, Bardin, G, ...

We present a measurement of semi-inclusive spin asymmetries for positively and negatively charged hadrons from deep inelastic scattering of polarised muons on polarised protons and deuterons in the...

Heavy Traffic Analysis of a Storage Model with Long Range Dependent On/Off Sources. (1996)

F. Brichet, J. Roberts, A. Simonian, D. Veitch

this paper, we analyze a fluid or storage queueing system with LRD input. Fluid systems have been used before (e.g. Bensaou et al. [2], Guibert [7]) to model bursty traffic fed into ATM multiplexer...

Abnormal Platelet Function and Ultrastructure in Fulminant Hepatic Failure (1977)

RUBIN, M. H., WESTON, M. J., BULLOCK, G., ROBERTS, J., LANGLEY, P. G., WHITE, Y. S., ...

Evidence in favour of an acquired platelet defect in fulminant hepatic failure has been provided by studies of in vitro platelet aggregation with adenosine diphosphate (ADP). Platelets from six...

An Examination of the Differences in Dry Matter Production shown by Some Progenies of Pinus sylvestris L. (1975)

ROBERTS, J., WAREING, P. F.

A study was carried out to determine the extent of the variation in growth rate between several selected progenies of Scots pine {Pinus sylvestris L.) and the physiological characteristics underlying...

A Study of the Growth of Four Provenances of Pinus contorta Dougl (1975)

ROBERTS, J., WAREING, P. F.

A study was carried out on the growth of third- and fourth-year seedlings of four provenances of Pinus contorta, two of which were from high elevations and two from coastal sites. Marked differences...

Influence of reduced concentration of L-glutamine on growth and viability of cells in monolayer, in spheroids, and in experimental tumours.

Tannock, I. F., Steele, D., Roberts, J.

L-Glutamine is a requirement for many cells in tissue culture, an intermediate in many metabolic pathways, and an alternative substrate to glucose for energy metabolism. These properties suggest that...