J. Wright

c ○ 2006 Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics ACTIVE SET IDENTIFICATION IN NONLINEAR PROGRAMMING ∗ (2009)

Christina Oberlin, J. Wright

Abstract. Techniques that identify the active constraints at a solution of a nonlinear programming problem from a point near the solution can be a useful adjunct to nonlinear programming algorithms....

ADAPTING C2 FOR THE 21ST CENTURY PROBABILISTIC ONTOLOGIES: THE NEXT STEP FOR NET-CENTRIC OPERATIONS Suggested Tracks: Track 8 – C2 Technologies and Systems (2009)

Cesar G. Costa, Blackmond Laskey, J. Laskey, ...

The author's affiliation with The MITRE Corporation is provided for identification purposes only, and is not intended to convey or imply MITRE's concurrence with, or support for, the...

New measurements of the EMC effect in very light nuclei (2009)

Seely, J., Daniel, A., Gaskell, D., Arrington, J., Fomin, N., Solvignon, P., ...

New Jefferson Lab data are presented on the nuclear dependence of the inclusive cross section from 2H, 3He, 4He, 9Be and 12C for 0.3

Extending a Standards-based IP and Computer Telephony Platform to Support Multi-modal Services (2008)

G. Di Fabbrizio, C. Kamm, P. Ruscitti, S. Narayanan, B. Buntschuh, A. Abella, ...

Despite recent advances in Computer Telephony (CT) and IP Telephony (IPT) standards at defining flexible architectures to support new technologies, the current CT paradigm does not adequately support...

Mobile call termination (2008)

Armstrong, M., Wright, J.

We analyse charges levied by mobile telephone networks to deliver calls. We integrate two literatures: one analysing calls from the fixed network, where predicted unregulated termination charges are...

Reframing quality and impact: the place of theory in education research (2008)

Wright, J.

The various research assessment exercises in UK, New Zealand and now Australia have motivated discussions around the nature of 'quality' and the purpose of educational research. To a certain extent...

An Action Plan to Promote the Adoption of Organic Farming in Jordan (2008)

Al-Oun, M., Browne, A. W., Harris, P. J. C., Barrett, H. R., Olabiyi, T. I., Wright, J.

For organic farming to be adopted it should be simple, understandable in its concept and easy to practise. In this research, results show that the adoption of organic farming in Jordan is perceived...

Narrative Assessment: Identity and equity for disabled students (2008)

Molloy, S., Morton, M., Davis, K., Wright, J., Moore, G.

Narrative assessment is learner centred, credit based, and illustrates learning and achievement within authentic contexts. It offers new insights into the way in which ability and disability are...

Reframing quality and impact: the place of theory in education research (2008)

Wright, J.

The various research assessment exercises in UK, New Zealand and now Australia have motivated discussions around the nature of 'quality' and the purpose of educational research. To a certain extent...

An Action Plan to Promote the Adoption of Organic Farming in Jordan (2008)

Al-Oun, M., Browne, A. W., Harris, P. J. C., Barrett, H. R., Olabiyi, T. I., Wright, J.

For organic farming to be adopted it should be simple, understandable in its concept and easy to practise. In this research, results show that the adoption of organic farming in Jordan is perceived...

Prediction of compliance and completion of orthodontic treatment: are quality of life measures important? (2008)

Mandall, N. A., Matthew, S., Fox, D., Wright, J., Conboy, F. M., O'Brien, K. D.

The main aim of the present investigation was to evaluate whether there is an association between completion of orthodontic treatment and quality of life measures, i.e. age, gender, socio-economic...

A balancing act: problematising prescriptions about food and weight in school health texts (2007)

Wright, J., Dean, R.

School health syllabuses, health and physical education textbooks and most recently website resources targeting young people's health are one of the main sources of knowledge in schools about how...

LANGUAGE UNDERSTANDING (2007)

R. C. Rose, H. Yao, G. Riccardi, J. Wright

Methods for utterance verification (UV) and their integration into statistical language modeling and spoken language understanding formalisms for a large vocabulary spoken understanding system are...

A social semiotic analysis of knowledge construction and games centred approaches to teaching (2007)

Wright, J., Forrest, G.

Games centred approaches (GCA) such as TGfU, Game Sense, Tactical Games are widely promoted as alternatives to traditional forms of teaching games within physical education. Despite a growing body of...

Two-sided markets, competitive bottlenecks and exclusive contracts (2007)

Armstrong, M., Wright, J.

We provide a framework for analyzing two-sided markets that allows for different degrees of product differentiation on each side of the market. When platforms are viewed as homogenous by sellers but...

Prescribing practices: shaping healthy children in schools (2007)

Burrows, L., Wright, J.

Current concerns in New Zealand and abroad about the health and well-being of young people have generated a raft of government-sponsored and educational policies and practices geared towards the...

Mobile call termination in the UK (2007)

Armstrong , M., Wright, J.

We discuss policy towards mobile call termination, illustrated by the 2002 Competition Commission enquiry into the UK mobile market. We present a model of the mobile market which includes both...

Social class, femininity and school sport (2007)

Wright, J., O'Flynn, G. H.

This paper examines the relationship between the discursive and material practices associated with school sport and physical education and the formation of particular classed and gendered...

Social class, femininity and school sport (2007)

Wright, J., O'Flynn, G. H.

This paper examines the relationship between the discursive and material practices associated with school sport and physical education and the formation of particular classed and gendered...

Party Internet Group www.apig.org.uk/current-activities/apig-inquiry-into-digital-rightsmanagement.html (2007)

J. Wright, Two-sided Markets, Louvain Belgium, Louvain Belgium

© Crown copyright 2007 This publication (excluding the OFT logo) may be reproduced free of charge in any format or medium provided that it is reproduced accurately and not used in a misleading...

Prescribing practices: shaping healthy children in schools (2007)

Burrows, L., Wright, J.

Current concerns in New Zealand and abroad about the health and well-being of young people have generated a raft of government-sponsored and educational policies and practices geared towards the...

Social class, femininity and school sport (2007)

Wright, J., O'Flynn, G. H.

This paper examines the relationship between the discursive and material practices associated with school sport and physical education and the formation of particular classed and gendered...

A balancing act: problematising prescriptions about food and weight in school health texts (2007)

Wright, J., Dean, R.

School health syllabuses, health and physical education textbooks and most recently website resources targeting young people's health are one of the main sources of knowledge in schools about how...

A social semiotic analysis of knowledge construction and games centred approaches to teaching (2007)

Wright, J., Forrest, G.

Games centred approaches (GCA) such as TGfU, Game Sense, Tactical Games are widely promoted as alternatives to traditional forms of teaching games within physical education. Despite a growing body of...

A phase II study of bortezomib in mantle cell lymphoma: the National Cancer Institute of Canada Clinical Trials Group trial IND.150 (2007)

Belch, A, Kouroukis, CT, Crump, M, Sehn, L, Gascoyne, RD, Klasa, R, ...

Background: We evaluated the activity and toxic effects of bortezomib in patients with mantle cell lymphoma. Patients and methods: Thirty patients, including 29 eligible patients, were enrolled; 13...

The protistan origins of animals and fungi (2006)

Steenkamp, E.T., Wright, J., Baldauf, S.L.

Recent molecular studies suggest that Opisthokonta, the eukaryotic supergroup including animals and fungi, should be expanded to include a diverse collection of primitively single-celled eukaryotes...

Re-conceiving ability in physical education: a social analysis (2006)

Wright, J., Burrows, L.

In this paper we explore how 'ability' is currently conceptualised in physical education and with what effects for different groups of young people. We interrogate approaches to theorizing ability in...

Being fit and looking healthy: Young women's and men's constructions of health and fitness (2006)

Wright, J., OFlynn, G., Macdonald, D.

We drew on Foucault's notion of 'practices of the self' to examine how young people take up, negotiate, and resist the imperatives of a public health discourse concerned with the relationships...

Active set identification in Nonlinear Programming (2006)

Christina Oberlin, J. Wright

Abstract. Techniques that identify the active constraints at a solution of a nonlinear programming problem from a point near the solution can be a useful adjunct to nonlinear programming algorithms....

Re-conceiving ability in physical education: a social analysis (2006)

Wright, J., Burrows, L.

In this paper we explore how 'ability' is currently conceptualised in physical education and with what effects for different groups of young people. We interrogate approaches to theorizing ability in...

A phase II study of bortezomib in mantle cell lymphoma: the National Cancer Institute of Canada Clinical Trials Group trial IND.150 (2006)

Belch, A., Kouroukis, C. T., Crump, M., Sehn, L., Gascoyne, R. D., Klasa, R., ...

Background: We evaluated the activity and toxic effects of bortezomib in patients with mantle cell lymphoma. Patients and methods: Thirty patients, including 29 eligible patients, were enrolled; 13...

A phase II study of bortezomib in mantle cell lymphoma: the National Cancer Institute of Canada Clinical Trials Group trial IND.150 (2006)

Belch, A., Kouroukis, C. T., Crump, M., Sehn, L., Gascoyne, R. D., Klasa, R., ...

Background: We evaluated the activity and toxic effects of bortezomib in patients with mantle cell lymphoma. Patients and methods: Thirty patients, including 29 eligible patients, were enrolled; 13...

Two sided markets, competitive bottlenecks and exclusive contracts (2005)

Armstrong, M., Wright, J.

We provide a framework for analyzing two-sided markets that allows for different degrees of product differentiation on each side of the market. When platforms are viewed as homogenous by sellers but...

Searching a biomedical bibliographic database from the Ukraine: the Panteleimon database (2005)

Kumar, A., Wright, J., Adams, C. E.

The Panteleimon database is available via the Internet and is a public access, database, capable of being searched in English, Russian and Ukrainian, covering medical, pharmaceutical, and chemical...

Evaluation of the implementation of the alert issued by the UK National Patient Safety Agency on the storage and handling of potassium chloride concentrate solution (2005)

Lankshear, A.J., Sheldon, T.A., Lowson, K.V., Watt, I.S., Wright, J.

OBJECTIVES: To assess the effectiveness of the response of NHS hospital trusts to an alert issued by the National Patient Safety Agency designed to limit the availability of concentrated potassium...

Overview of the Alcator C-Mod program (2005)

Greenwald, M., Andelin, D., Basse, N., Bernabei, S., Bonoli, P., Bose, B., ...

Research on the Alcator C-Mod tokamak has emphasized RF heating, self-generated flows, momentum transport, scrape-off layer (SOL) turbulence and transport and the physics of transport barrier...

What's the evidence that NICE guidance has been implemented? Results from a national evaluation using time series analysis, audit of patients' notes, and interviews (2004)

Sheldon, T.A., Cullum, N., Dawson, D., Lankshear, A., Lowson, K., Watt, I., ...

OBJECTIVES: To assess the extent and pattern of implementation of guidance issued by the National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE). DESIGN: Interrupted time series analysis, review of case...

What's the evidence that NICE guidance has been implemented? Results from a national evaluation using time series analysis, audit of patients' notes, and interviews (2004)

Sheldon, T.A., Cullum, N., Dawson, D., Lankshear, A., Lowson, K., Watt, I., ...

OBJECTIVES: To assess the extent and pattern of implementation of guidance issued by the National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE). DESIGN: Interrupted time series analysis, review of case...

"Being Healthy": The discursive construction of health in New Zealand children's responses to the National Education Monitoring Project (2004)

Wright, J., Burrows, L.

In this paper we examine the discursive resources which year 4 and year 8 students draw on to construct meanings for health. Drawing on students' responses to tasks in the New Zealand National...

Critical inquiry and problem-solving in physical education (2004)

Wright, J.

[Extract] Whether they agree that we are now in a period of postmodernity, late modernity or high modernity (Kirk 1997), social commentators do agree that we live in times characterised by profound...

Analysing sportsmedia texts: developing resistant reading positions (2004)

Wright, J.

[Extract] The American educator Darryl Siedentop includes in his definition of a physically educated person the capacity to be 'involved critically in the sport, fitness and leisure cultures of their...

Interactions of poly(amino acids) in aqueous solution with charged model surfaces - analysis by colloidal probe (2004)

Watson, Gregory Shaun, Watson, Jolanta Anna, Cahill, Colm, Nicolau, D. V., Pham, D.K., Wright, J., ...

Biomolecules in a confined solution environment may be subject to electrostatic forces with a range up to 100 nm, while van der Waals interaction will account for shorter-range forces. The response...

Interactions of poly(amino acids) in aqueous solution with charged model surfaces - analysis by colloidal probe (2004)

Watson, Gregory Shaun, Watson, Jolanta Anna, Cahill, Colm, Nicolau, D. V., Pham, D.K., Wright, J., ...

Biomolecules in a confined solution environment may be subject to electrostatic forces with a range up to 100 nm, while van der Waals interaction will account for shorter-range forces. The response...

Some properties of regularization and penalization schemes for MPECs (2004)

Daniel Ralph, J. Wright

Abstract. Some properties of regularized and penalized nonlinear programming formulations of mathematical programs with equilibrium constraints (MPECs) are described. The focus is on the properties...

A mechanistic approach to tip-induced nano-lithography of polymer surfaces (2004)

Watson, Jolanta Anna, Watson, Gregory Shaun, Brown, Chris, Pham, D.K., Wright, J., Nicolau, D. V., ...

Tip-induced lithography based on local probe methods is a contender for next-generation technologies that require spatially differentiated topographical and/or chemical manipulation of polymer...

Interactions of poly(amino acids) in aqueous solution with charged model surfaces - analysis by colloidal probe (2004)

Watson, Gregory Shaun, Watson, Jolanta Anna, Cahill, Colm, Nicolau, D. V., Pham, D.K., Wright, J., ...

Biomolecules in a confined solution environment may be subject to electrostatic forces with a range up to 100 nm, while van der Waals interaction will account for shorter-range forces. The response...

“Being Healthy”: The discursive construction of health in New Zealand children’s responses to the National Education Monitoring Project (2004)

Wright, J., Burrows, L.

In this paper we examine the discursive resources which year 4 and year 8 students draw on to construct meanings for health. Drawing on students' responses to tasks in the New Zealand National...

Critical inquiry and problem-solving in physical education (2004)

Wright, J.

[Extract] Whether they agree that we are now in a period of postmodernity, late modernity or high modernity (Kirk 1997), social commentators do agree that we live in times characterised by profound...

Analysing sportsmedia texts: developing resistant reading positions (2004)

Wright, J.

[Extract] The American educator Darryl Siedentop includes in his definition of a physically educated person the capacity to be 'involved critically in the sport, fitness and leisure cultures of their...

Usefulness of Blalock-Taussig shunt Doppler flow velocity profiles in the assessment of pulmonary artery pressure and flow (2004)

Chaudhari, M., Balmer, C., Heng, J.T., Wright, J., Stümper, O.

Aim: To assess the utility of continuous wave Doppler evaluation of velocity profiles across a Blalock–Taussig (BT) shunt in the evaluation of pulmonary artery pressure and pulmonary blood flow....

Poststructural methodologies - The body, schooling and health (2003)

Wright, J.

Postmodernism and poststructuralism often appear to be used interchangeably in educational writing and research, with the term postmodernism more likely to be used in North America and...

Ion cyclotron range of frequencies mode conversion electron heating in deuterium-hydrogen plasmas in the Alcator C-Mod tokamak (2003)

Lin, Y., Wukitch, S. J., Bonoli, P. T., Marmar, E., Mossessian, D., Nelson-Melby, E., ...

Localized direct electron heating (EH) by mode-converted (MC) ion cyclotron range of frequencies (ICRF) waves in D(H) tokamak plasmas has been clearly observed for the first time in Alcator C-Mod....

Physical activity and young people: Beyond participation (2003)

Wright, J, Macdonald, D, Groom, L

The quantitative literature on physical activity participation patterns leaves many questions about the place and significance of physical activity in the lives of young people unanswered. This paper...

Poststructural methodologies - The body, schooling and health (2003)

Wright, J.

Postmodernism and poststructuralism often appear to be used interchangeably in educational writing and research, with the term postmodernism more likely to be used in North America and...

An international network to monitor the structure, composition and dynamics of Amazonian forests (RAINFOR) (2002)

Malhi, Y., Phillips, O.L., Lloyd, J., Baker, T., Wright, J., Almeida, S., ...

The Amazon basin is likely to be increasingly affected by environmental changes: higher temperatures, changes in precipitation, CO2 fertilization and habitat fragmentation. To examine the important...

Physical activity in the lives of young women and men: embodied identies (2002)

Wright, J., O'Flynn, G., Macdonald, D.

The purpose of this paper is to explore the complex and diverse positions particular young women and men take up in relation to the moral imperatives of the healthism discourse. We do this through a...

"Measure your belly": New Zealand children's constructions of health and fitness (2002)

Burrows, L., Wright, J., Jungersen-Smith, J.

The expansion of health as a concept, repeated expressions of nation-wide concerns about young people's health and the accompanying information explosion about health and fitness have worked together...

An Investigation of Land Cover Change in Mafungabusi Forest, Zimbabwe, Using GIS and Participatory Mapping (2002)

Mapedza, E., Wright, J., Fawcett, R.

"This paper investigates the processes governing land cover change in and around the Mafungabusi Forest Reserve in Zimbabwe. Land cover change was analysed using aerial photography from 1976-1996...

Increased non-transferrin bound iron in plasma-depleted SAG-M red blood cell units. (2002)

Marwah, S.S., Blann, A.D., Harrison, P., Lumley, M.A., Wright, J., McDowell, J., ...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Non-transferrin bound iron (NTBI) is associated with increased morbidity in a number of transfusion-dependent disease states such as the severe haemoglobinopathies. We...

"Measure your belly": New Zealand children's constructions of health and fitness (2002)

Burrows, L., Wright, J., Jungersen-Smith, J.

The expansion of health as a concept, repeated expressions of nation-wide concerns about young people's health and the accompanying information explosion about health and fitness have worked together...

Physical activity in the lives of young women and men: embodied identies (2002)

Wright, J., O'Flynn, G., Macdonald, D.

The purpose of this paper is to explore the complex and diverse positions particular young women and men take up in relation to the moral imperatives of the healthism discourse. We do this through a...

The evolution of parental and alloparental effort in cooperatively breeding groups: when should helpers pay to stay? (2002)

Kokko, Hanna, Johnstone, Rufus A., Wright, J.

We used a reproductive skew framework to consider the evolution of parental and alloparental effort in cooperatively breeding groups. The model provides the first theoretical treatment of rent...

The development of an integrated modelling system to support decisions on organic farms (2002)

Julian, C., Smith, N, Oglethorpe, David, Wright, J

This paper was presented at the UK Organic Research 2002 Conference of the Colloquium of Organic Researchers (COR). An Integrated Decision Support System (IDSS) is developed which synthesises current...

Vitamin E correlates inversely with non-transferrin-bound iron in sickle cell disease. (2001)

Marwah, S.S., Wheelwright, D., Blann, A.D., Rea, C., Beresford, R., Phillips, Jonathan D., ...

Decreased serum vitamin E levels are found in homozygous sickle cell disease (SCD). Excessive transfusions may lead high non-transferrin-bound iron (NTBI). Hypothesizing a relationship between the...

Disciplining the body: power, knowledge and subjectivity in a physical education lesson (2000)

Wright, J.

Extract: In recent years there has been a move in feminist and social theory towards an interest tin the body as a social and cultural site. The dominant discourses in Western society have...

Unifying Conversational Multimedia Interfaces For Accessing Network Services Across Communication Devices (2000)

G. Di Fabbrizio, S. Narayanan, P. Ruscitti, C. Kamm, B. Buntschuh, J. Hubbell, ...

This paper investigates architecture and interface design issues in engineering conversational multimedia interfaces for accessing network-based services. In particular, we focus on the problem of...

Effects of dialog initiative and multimodal presentation strategies on large directory information access (2000)

S. Narayanan, G. Di Fabbrizio, C. Kamm, J. Hubbell, B. Buntschuh, P. Ruscitti, ...

This paper compares the effects of three different dialog initiative strategies (system initiative, mixed initiative and user initiative) on system performance and user acceptance on a large...

Disciplining the body: power, knowledge and subjectivity in a physical education lesson (2000)

Wright, J.

Extract: In recent years there has been a move in feminist and social theory towards an interest tin the body as a social and cultural site. The dominant discourses in Western society have...

Promoting effective practice in secondary care (2000)

Melvin, K, Wright, J, Connelly, J, Harrison, SR, Robinson, M, Rhys Williams, DR

Background.This qualitative study aimed to explore the views of key stakeholders regarding the role that public health professionals have or should have in the provision of effective health care...

How do firms choose their lenders? An empirical investigation (2000)

Cantillo, M, Wright, J

This article investigates which companies finance themselves through intermediaries and which borrow directly from arm's length investors. Our empirical results show that large companies with...

Minority groups, autonomy, and self-determination (1999)

Wright, J

Although this decade has seen a growing focus on the issue of minority rights at both political and legal levels, accompanied by states' accession to a range of international instruments, the...

Sleep apnoea and its impact on public health (1998)

Wright, J., Sheldon, T.A.

In 1997 we published a systematic review on the health effects of obstructive sleep apnoea and the effectiveness of treatment with CPAP. This generated much controversy and considerable...

The construction of gendered contects in single sex and coeducational education lessons (1997)

Wright, J.

With the 'linguistic turn' in contemporary social theory there has been an increased interest in looking more closely at pedagogical practices in physical education as they construct social...

Integrating multiple knowledge sources for utterance verification in a large vocabulary speech understanding system (1997)

R. C. Rose, J. Wright

Abstract- A set of techniques have been developed for utterance verification as applied to a large vocabulary speech understanding system in a telecommunications application. The novel aspect of the...

Superlinear Convergence Of An Interior-Point Method Despite Dependent Constraints (1997)

Daniel Ralph, J. Wright

. We show that an interior-point method for monotone variational inequalities exhibits superlinear convergence provided that all the standard assumptions hold except for the well-known assumption...

Superlinear Convergence Of An Interior-Point Method Despite Dependent Constraints (1997)

Daniel Ralph And, Daniel Ralph, J. Wright

We show that an interior-point method for monotone variational inequalities exhibits superlinear convergence provided that all the standard assumptions hold except for the well-known assumption that...

The construction of gendered contects in single sex and coeducational education lessons (1997)

Wright, J.

With the 'linguistic turn' in contemporary social theory there has been an increased interest in looking more closely at pedagogical practices in physical education as they construct social...

Superlinear convergence of an interior-point method despite dependent constraints (1996)

Daniel Ralph, J. Wright

Abstract. We show that an interior-point method for monotone variational inequalities exhibits superlinear convergence provided that all the standard assumptions hold except for the well-known...

Superlinear convergence of an interior-point method despite dependent constraints (1996)

Daniel Ralph, J. Wright

Abstract. We describe an infeasible-interior-point algorithm for monotone variational inequality problems and prove that it converges globally and superlinearly under standard conditions plus a...

Superlinear convergence of an interior-point method despite dependent constraints (1996)

Daniel Ralph, J. Wright

Abstract. We show that an interior-point method for monotone variational inequalities exhibits superlinear convergence provided that all the standard assumptions hold except for the well-known...

A Decision Support System for Real-Time Snow and Ice Control (1995)

Miedema, H., Wright, J.

Effective real-time snow and ice control operations require a timely initial call-out. A timely initial call-out is one that mobilizes the workforce slightly prior to the onset of hazardous road...

A Measurement of Stimulated Emission From 83m-Kr(m) (1995)

Hersman, F.W., Gelinas, L.J., Distlebrink, J.H.J., Wright, J., Leuschner, M.B., Szymanski, J.J., ...

This research was sponsored by the National Science Foundation Grant NSF PHY-9314783

Statement inversion and strongest postcondition (1993)

J. Wright

A notion of inverse commands is de ned for a language with a weakest precondition semantics, permitting both demonic and angelic nondeterminism as well as miracles and nontermination. Every...

Mechanising some Advanced Refinement Concepts (1993)

J. Von Wright, J. Wright, J. Hekanaho, P. Luostarinen, T. Långbacka

We describe how proof rules for three advanced refinement features are mechanically verified using the HOL theorem prover. These features are data refinement, backwards data refinement and...

EFFECT OF H2-RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST PRETREATMENT ON VECURONIUM- AND ATRACURIUM-INDUCED NEUROMUSCULAR BLOCK (1991)

MCCARTHY, G., MIRAKHUR, R. K., ELLIOTT, P., WRIGHT, J.

Seventy-two patients were studied in a double-blind randomized controlled design to assess the effects of oral administration of cimetidine 400 mg, ranitidine 150 mg or placebo 90 min before...

Laboratory Intercomparison of Methods Used for the Assessments of Systemic Burdens of Plutonium (1990)

Ramsden, D., Birchall, A., Bull, R.K., Foster, P.P., Gibson, J.A.B., Strong, R., ...

An interlaboratory comparison exercise for estimating systemic uptakes of plutonium is described. Six laboratories participated and four different cases were compared. The data were restricted to...

Refinement Calculus, Part I: Sequential Nondeterministic Programs (1989)

J. Von Wright, J. Wright

A lattice theoretic framework for the calculus of program refinement is presented. Specifications and program statements are combined into a single (infinitary) language of commands which permits...

Safety evaluation of meropenem in animals: studies on the kidney (1989)

Topham, J. C., Murgatroyd, L. B., Jones, D. V., Goonetilleke, U. R. P., Wright, J.

The effect of meropenem on animal kidneys has been assessed in rats (5 of each sex/group), rabbits (3 of each sex/group) and monkeys (3 of each sex/group) in comparative iv studies with ceftazidime,...

Direct Enhancement by Cigarette Smoke of Asbestos Fiber Penetration and Asbestos-Induced Epithelial Proliferation in Rat Tracheal Explants (1988)

Hobson, J., Gilks, B., Wright, J., Churg, A.

Tracheal explants from Sprague-Dawley rats were briefly exposed to cigarette smoke or air (control) and then to amosite asbestos. Asbestos fibers in or under the tracheal epithelium were counted and...

Ventricular septal rupture complicating myocardial infarction: is earlier surgery justified? (1987)

Norell, MS, Gershlick, AH, Pillai, R, Walesby, R, Magee, PG, Wright, J, ...

Fifty-five consecutive cases of ventricular septal rupture following myocardial infarction were reviewed in order to ascertain clinical and haemodynamic determinants of in-hospital mortality. Factors...

Use of Guar Gum to Prevent Alcohol Induced Reactive Hypoglycaemia: A preliminary study (1981)

TREDGER, JACKI, WRIGHT, J, MARKS, V

On two separate occasions six young healthy subjects consumed the equivalent of three double measures of gin and tonic (providing 50g alcohol) and eight small cheese scones, which on one occasion...

Laser spectroscopy of defect equilibria in fluorite materials (1980)

Wright, J.

A new method using laser spectroscopy has been developed and applied to the study of defects in alkaline earth fluoride crystals. The concentrations of all the defects have been determined as a...

Laser spectroscopy of defect equilibria in fluorite materials (1980)

Wright, J.

A new method using laser spectroscopy has been developed and applied to the study of defects in alkaline earth fluoride crystals. The concentrations of all the defects have been determined as a...

Survival and Growth of Hatchling Crocodylus porosus in Saltwater Without Access to Fresh Drinking Water (1980)

Grigg, G. C., Taplin, L. E., Harlow, P., Wright, J.

It has been suggested that C. porosus select nest sites which provide a source of freshwater for hatchlings during the dry season. From a mark-recapture study, we conclude that hatchling C. porosus...

Survival and Growth of Hatchling Crocodylus porosus in Saltwater Without Access to Fresh Drinking Water (1980)

Grigg, G. C., Taplin, L. E., Harlow, P., Wright, J.

It has been suggested that C. porosus select nest sites which provide a source of freshwater for hatchlings during the dry season. From a mark-recapture study, we conclude that hatchling C. porosus...

A SYSTEMATIC STUDY OF 2s2 2pk - 2s2pk+l - 2pk+2 TRANSITIONS IN MULTIPLY-CHARGED Cl IONS. (1979)

Forester, J., Pegg, D., Griffin, P., Alton, G., Elston, S., Hayden, H., ...

A systematic study has been made of the radiative lifetimes of the lowlying levels of Cl ions with from 3 to 9 bound electrons. The beam-foil time of flight method was used to make the measurements...

The use of jet-injectors in BCG vaccination*

Ten Dam, H. G., Fillastre, C., Conge, G., Orssaud, E., Gateff, C., Tanaka, A., ...

In mass vaccination programmes, the jet-injection of vaccine may have considerable operational advantages over the classical techniques. The technical performance of two models of jet-injector, the...

Patterns of survival in patients with advanced Hodgkin's disease (HD) treated in a single centre over 20 years.

Oza, A. M., Ganesan, T. S., Dorreen, M., Johnson, P. W., Waxman, J., Gregory, W., ...

A total of 164 consecutive adults with newly confirmed stage IIIB, IVA or IVB Hodgkin's disease (HD) commenced cyclical combination chemotherapy comprising mustine, vinblastine, prednisolone and...

High incidence of late effects found in Hodgkin's lymphoma survivors, following recall for breast cancer screening

Greenfield, D M, Wright, J, Brown, J E, Hancock, B W, Davies, H A, O'toole, L, ...

Assessment of late effects in a cohort of female Hodgkin's lymphoma patients treated with mantle radiotherapy, identified from the DoH breast cancer screening recall showed high mortality and...