M. Baker

Publication List Details

Period

1960 - 2009

Number

81

Co-Authors

Magnetic Yang-Mills Theory as an Effective Field Theory of the Gluon Plasma (2009)

Baker, M.

We propose magnetic SU(N) pure gauge theory as an effective field theory describing the long distance nonperturbative magnetic response of the deconfined phase of Yang-Mills theory. The magnetic...

Multiwavelength Observations of Markarian 421 in 2005 - 2006 (2009)

Horan, D., Acciari, V. A., Bradbury, S. M., Buckley, J. H., Bugaev, V., Byrum, K. L., ...

Since September 2005, the Whipple 10m Gamma-ray Telescope has been operated primarily as a blazar monitor. The five Northern Hemisphere blazars that have already been detected at the Whipple...

Synthesis and characterisation of (Alkoxybenzimidazolin-2-ylidene) palladium complexes: the effect of ancillary ligands on the behaviour of precatalysts (2009)

Baker, M., Brown, David, Simpson, P., Skelton, B., White, A.

A series of new N-heterocyclic carbene (NHC)-palladium(II) complexes bearing electron-rich benzimidazolin-2-ylidene ligands are described and structurally and spectroscopically characterised. These...

Palladium complexes of o-xylyl-linked alkoxybenzimidazolin-2-ylidenes: interesting structural conformations and application as pre-catalysts (2009)

Baker, M., Brown, David, Simpson, P., Skelton, B., White, A.

New PdBr2-bis(N-heterocyclic carbene) complexes derived from 4,7-dibutoxybenzimidazole and5,6-dibutoxybenzimidazole have been synthesized and structurally and spectroscopically characterized.The...

Silver(I) and mercury(II) complexes of meta- and para-xylyl linked bis(imidazol-2-ylidenes) (2009)

Baker, M., Brown, David, Haque, R., Skelton, B., White, A.

Mononuclear silver and mercury complexes bearing bis-N-heterocyclic carbene (NHC) ligands withlinear coordination modes have been prepared and structurally characterised. The complexes form...

The preparation of poly(2-hydroxyethyl methacrylate) and poly{(2-hydroxyethyl methacrylate)-co-[poly(ethylene glycol) methyl ether methacrylate]} by photoinitiated polymerisation-induced phase separation in water (2009)

Baker, M., Brown, David, Casadio, Y., Chirila, T.

This paper describes the application of a photoinitiated polymerisation-induced phase separationmethod to the preparation of PHEMA and P[HEMA-co-(MeO-PEGMA)] hydrogels. PHEMA sponges having a...

Home BRI (2008)

D. Tang, M. Baker, Hui Zhang, Luc Aurelien Andriantiatsaholiniaina, Milan Nikolic, ...

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INTEGRATION: Overview of Simulation Features (2008)

M. Van Aerde, B. Hellinga, M. Baker, H. Rakha, M. Van Aerde, B. Hellinga, ...

The INTEGRATION model first attempted to provide a single model that could consider both freeways and arterials, and which also could consider both traffic assignment and simulation. This ability was...

iTrench: a study of user reactions to the use of information technology in field archaeology (2008)

Warwick, C., Fisher, C., Terras, M., Baker, M., Clarke, A., Fulford, M., ...

This paper describes work undertaken by the VERA project to investigate how archaeologists work with information technology (IT) on excavation sites. We used a diary study to research the usual...

Azolium-Linked Cyclophanes: Effects of Structure, Solvent, and Counteranions on Solution Conformation Behavior (2008)

Baker, M., Brown, David, Heath, C., Skelton, B., White, A., Williams, C.

This paper describes the synthesis, structural characterization, and solution behavior of some xylyllinked imidazolium and benzimidazolium cyclophanes decorated with alkyl or alkoxy groups. The...

Azolium-Linked Cyclophanes: Effects of Structure, Solvent, and Counteranions on Solution Conformation Behavior (2008)

Baker, M., Brown, David H., Heath, C., Skelton, B., White, A., Williams, C.

This paper describes the synthesis, structural characterization, and solution behavior of some xylyllinked imidazolium and benzimidazolium cyclophanes decorated with alkyl or alkoxy groups. The...

Understanding Confinement From Deconfinement (2007)

Baker, M.

We use effective magnetic SU(N) pure gauge theory with cutoff M and fixed gauge coupling g_m to calculate non-perturbative magnetic properties of the deconfined phase of SU(N) Yang-Mills theory. We...

Inlnlersed: Virtually-Embedded, Boundary Slopes. (2007)

M. Baker, D. Cooper

For the figure eight knot, we show that slopes with even numerator are slopes of immersed surfaces covered by incompressible, boundary-incompressible embedclings in some finite cover. I

Multi-channel Digital Fringe Calibration for Structured Light Profilometers using Neural Networks (2007)

Baker, M., Xi, J., Chicharo, J.

The performance of structured light profilometers is significantly hindered by the generation of distorted sinusoid fringe images, particularly, for multi-channel applications. In this paper we...

Physical controls on orographic cirrus inhomogeneity (2007)

Kay, J. E., Baker, M., Hegg, D.

Optical depth distributions (P(?)) are a useful measure of radiatively important cirrus (Ci) inhomogeneity. Using a parcel model with binned ice microphysics and kinematic trajectories from a...

Physical controls on orographic cirrus inhomogeneity (2007)

Kay, J. E., Baker, M., Hegg, D.

Optical depth distributions (P(?)) are a useful measure of radiatively important cirrus (Ci) inhomogeneity. Yet, the relationship between P(?) and underlying cloud physical processes remains unclear....

Physical controls on orographic cirrus inhomogeneity (2007)

Kay, J. E., Baker, M., Hegg, D.

Optical depth distributions (P(?)) are a useful measure of radiatively important cirrus (Ci) inhomogeneity. Using a parcel model with binned ice microphysics and kinematic trajectories from a...

Physical controls on orographic cirrus inhomogeneity (2007)

Kay, J. E., Baker, M., Hegg, D.

Optical depth distributions (P(?)) are a useful measure of radiatively important cirrus (Ci) inhomogeneity. Yet, the relationship between P(?) and underlying cloud physical processes remains unclear....

Physical controls on orographic cirrus inhomogeneity (2007)

J. E. Kay, M. Baker, D. Hegg

Optical depth distributions (P(σ)) are a useful measure of radiatively important cirrus (Ci) inhomogeneity. Yet, the relationship between P(σ) and underlying cloud physical processes remains...

Multi-channel Digital Fringe Calibration for Structured Light Profilometers using Neural Networks (2007)

Baker, M., Xi, J., Chicharo, J.

The performance of structured light profilometers is significantly hindered by the generation of distorted sinusoid fringe images, particularly, for multi-channel applications. In this paper we...

Physical controls on orographic cirrus inhomogeneity (2007)

J. E. Kay, M. Baker, D. Hegg

Optical depth distributions (P(σ)) are a useful measure of radiatively important cirrus (Ci) inhomogeneity. Using a parcel model with binned ice microphysics and kinematic trajectories from a...

A descriptive epidemiology of giardiasis in New Zealand and gaps in surveillance data (2004)

Hoque, M.E., Hope, V.T., Scragg, R., Baker, M., Shrestha, R.

An open access copy of this article is available and complies with the copyright holder/publisher conditions.

A descriptive epidemiology of giardiasis in New Zealand and gaps in surveillance data (2004)

Hoque, M.E., Hope, V.T., Scragg, R., Baker, M., Shrestha, R.

An open access copy of this article is available and complies with the copyright holder/publisher conditions.

Frontotemporal dementia with Pick-type histology associated with Q336R mutation in the tau gene (2004)

Pickering-Brown, S. M., Baker, M., Nonaka, T., Ikeda, K., Sharma, S., Mackenzie, J., ...

In this report, we describe the clinical and neuropathological features of a case of familial frontotemporal dementia (FTD), with onset at 58 years of age and disease duration of 10 years, associated...

Frontotemporal dementia with Pick-type histology associated with Q336R mutation in the tau gene (2004)

Pickering-Brown, S. M., Baker, M., Nonaka, T., Ikeda, K., Sharma, S., Mackenzie, J., ...

In this report, we describe the clinical and neuropathological features of a case of familial frontotemporal dementia (FTD), with onset at 58 years of age and disease duration of 10 years, associated...

Frontotemporal dementia with Pick-type histology associated with Q336R mutation in the tau gene (2004)

Pickering-Brown, S. M., Baker, M., Nonaka, T., Ikeda, K., Sharma, S., Mackenzie, J., ...

In this report, we describe the clinical and neuropathological features of a case of familial frontotemporal dementia (FTD), with onset at 58 years of age and disease duration of 10 years, associated...

Comment on evidence for surface-initiated homogenous nucleation (2003)

Kay, J. E., Tsemekhman, V., Larson, B., Baker, M., Swanson, B.

We investigate theoretical, laboratory, and atmospheric evidence for a recently proposed hypothesis: homogenous ice nucleation occurs at the surface, not in the volume, of supercooled water drops....

Charging of ice-vapor interfaces (2003)

Nelson, J., Baker, M.

The time resolved chemical composition of aerosol particles, formed by the oxidation of alpha-pinene has been investigated by liquid chromatography/mass spectrometry (LC-MS) using negative and...

Comment on evidence for surface-initiated homogeneous nucleation (2003)

Kay, J. E., Tsemekhman, V., Larson, B., Baker, M., Swanson, B.

We investigate theoretical, laboratory, and atmospheric evidence for a recently proposed hypothesis: homogeneous ice nucleation initiates at the surface, not in the volume, of supercooled water...

Charging of ice-vapor interfaces: applications to thunderstorms (2003)

Nelson, J., Baker, M.

The build-up of intrinsic Bjerrum and ionic defects at ice-vapor interfaces electrically charges ice surfaces and thus gives rise to many phenomena including thermoelectricity, ferroelectric ice...

Comment on evidence for surface-initiated homogenous nucleation (2003)

Kay, J. E., Tsemekhman, V., Larson, B., Baker, M., Swanson, B.

We investigate theoretical, laboratory, and atmospheric evidence for a recently proposed hypothesis: homogenous ice nucleation occurs at the surface, not in the volume, of supercooled water drops....

Charging of ice-vapor interfaces (2003)

Nelson, J., Baker, M.

The time resolved chemical composition of aerosol particles, formed by the oxidation of alpha-pinene has been investigated by liquid chromatography/mass spectrometry (LC-MS) using negative and...

Comment on evidence for surface-initiated homogeneous nucleation (2003)

Kay, J. E., Tsemekhman, V., Larson, B., Baker, M., Swanson, B.

We investigate theoretical, laboratory, and atmospheric evidence for a recently proposed hypothesis: homogeneous ice nucleation initiates at the surface, not in the volume, of supercooled water...

Charging of ice-vapor interfaces: applications to thunderstorms (2003)

Nelson, J., Baker, M.

The build-up of intrinsic Bjerrum and ionic defects at ice-vapor interfaces electrically charges ice surfaces and thus gives rise to many phenomena including thermoelectricity, ferroelectric ice...

Comment on evidence for surface-initiated homogenous nucleation (2003)

J. E. Kay, V. Tsemekhman, B. Larson, M. Baker, B. Swanson

We investigate theoretical, laboratory, and atmospheric evidence for a recently proposed hypothesis: homogenous ice nucleation occurs at the surface, not in the volume, of supercooled water drops....

Inherited frontotemporal dementia in 9 British families associated with intronic mutations in the tau gene. (2002)

Pickering-Brown, S. M., Richardson, A. M. T., Snowden, J. S., McDonagh, A., Burns, A., Braudie, W., ...

Genetic screening of 171 patients with frontotemporal lobar degeneration disclosed 14 patients, across nine pedigrees, with mutations in the intron to exon 10 in the tau gene, a region regulating the...

Tropical cirrus and water vapor: an effective Earth infrared iris feedback? (2002)

Fu, Q., Baker, M., Hartmann, D. L.

We revisit a model of feedback processes proposed by Lindzen et al. (2001), in which an assumed 22% reduction in the area of tropical high clouds per degree increase in sea surface temperature...

Tropical cirrus and water vapor: an effective Earth infrared iris feedback? (2002)

Fu, Q., Baker, M., Hartmann, D. L.

We revisit a model of feedback processes proposed by Lindzen et al. (2001), in which an assumed 22% reduction in the area of tropical high clouds per degree increase in sea surface temperature...

Inherited frontotemporal dementia in nine British families associated with intronic mutations in the tau gene (2002)

Pickering-Brown, S. M., Richardson, A. M. T., Snowden, J. S., McDonagh, A. M, Burns, A., Braude, W., ...

Genetic screening of 171 patients with frontotemporal lobar degeneration disclosed 14 patients, across nine pedigrees, with mutations in the intron to exon 10 in the tau gene, a region regulating the...

Tropical cirrus and water vapor: an effective Earth infrared iris feedback? (2001)

Fu, Q., Baker, M., Hartmann, D. L.

We revisit a model of feedback processes proposed by Lindzen et al. (2001), in which an assumed 22% reduction in the area of tropical high clouds per degree of sea surface temperature increase...

Tropical cirrus and water vapor: an effective Earth infrared iris feedback? (2001)

Fu, Q., Baker, M., Hartmann, D. L.

We revisit a model of feedback processes proposed by Lindzen et al. (2001), in which an assumed 22% reduction in the area of tropical high clouds per degree of sea surface temperature increase...

Tropical cirrus and water vapor: an effective Earth infrared iris feedback? (2001)

Q. Fu, M. Baker, D. L. Hartmann

We revisit a model of feedback processes proposed by Lindzen et al. (2001), in which an assumed 22% reduction in the area of tropical high clouds per degree of sea surface temperature increase...

Reproductive biology, sexual dimorphism, and population structure of the deep sea hydrothermal vent scale-worm, Branchiplynoee seepensis (Polychaeta : Polynoidae) (2000)

JOLLIVET, D, EMPIS, A, BAKER, M, HOURDEZ, S, COMTET, T, JOUIN-TOULMOND, C, ...

The polychaete family Polynoidae (scale-worms) is well-represented at deep sea hydrothermal vents. Most species are free-living in a wide range of habitats: from high-temperature hydrothermal...

Field Strength Correlators and Dual Effective Dynamics in QCD (1998)

Baker, M., Brambilla, N., Dosch, H. G., Vairo, A.

We establish a relation between the two-point field strength correlator in QCD and the dual field propagator of an effective dual Abelian Higgs model describing the infrared behaviour of QCD. We find...

Reconstruction of Smooth Surfaces With Arbitrary Topology Adaptive Splines (1998)

A. J. Stoddart, M. Baker

. We present a novel method for fitting a smooth G 1 continuous spline to point sets. It is based on an iterative conjugate gradient optimisation scheme. Unlike traditional tensor product based...

Interface studies in a Ti-6Al-4V/sigma fiber composite (1993)

Upadhyaya, D., Baker, M., Ward-Close, C., Tsakiropoulos, P., Froes, F.

The paper reports results from an on going study of the interfaces in diffusion bonded Ti-GAl-4V/Sigma composites. This paper concentrates on the analysis of a composite in the as-received condition...

Interface studies in a Ti-6Al-4V/sigma fiber composite (1993)

Upadhyaya, D., Baker, M., Ward-Close, C., Tsakiropoulos, P., Froes, F.

The paper reports results from an on going study of the interfaces in diffusion bonded Ti-GAl-4V/Sigma composites. This paper concentrates on the analysis of a composite in the as-received condition...

Changes in excitability and accommodation of human motor axons following brief periods of ischaemia. (1991)

Bostock, Hugh, Baker, M., Grafe, Peter, Reid, G.

1. The mechanism of post-ischaemic ectopic impulse generation in nerve is not known, and previous measurements of excitability changes in human motor axons have appeared to conflict. We have used...

A Prospective Study to Evaluate the Dose of Vitamin D Required to Correct Low 25-Hydroxyvitamin D Levels, Calcium, and Alkaline Phosphatase in Patients at Risk of Developing Antiepileptic Drug-Induced Osteomalacia (1991)

COLLINS, N, MAHER, J, COLE, M, BAKER, M, CALLAGHAN, N

The dose of vitamin D3 required to maintain normal serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels in epileptic patients was evaluated in a prospective study. Patients were divided into two groups, comprising 14...

Function and distribution of three types of rectifying channel in rat spinal root myelinated axons (1987)

Baker, M., Bostock, Hugh, Grafe, Peter, Martius, P.

1. The nature, distribution and function of rectifying channels in rat spinal root myelinated axons has been assessed with selective blocking agents and a variety of intracellular and extracellular...

A Comparative Study of the Relative Influence of Different Anticonvulsant Drugs, UV Exposure and Diet on Vitamin D and Calcium Metabolism in Out-Patients with Epilepsy (1986)

GOUGH, H., GOGGIN, T., BISSESSAR, A., BAKER, M., CROWLEY, M., CALLAGHAN, N.

The biochemical parameters associated with vitamin D metabolism, calcium, 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25OHD) and alkaline phosphatase levels were assessed in 226 out-patients with epilepsy. Patients were...

The giant Mt Tom Price iron ore train is made up of either 175 ore cars with two locos hauling or 200 cars with three locos hauling, Western Australia, October, 1966 [picture]. (1966)

Baker, M.

Inscription: "L57235".; Title devised by cataloguer based on accompanying information.; Also available in an electronic version via the internet at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-vn4588440.

An aerial picture of an ore carrier loading at the 880 yard, L shaped loading wharf at Dampier, north coast of Western Australia [picture]. (1960)

Baker, M.

Inscription: "L57236".; Title devised by cataloguer based on accompanying information.; Also available in an electronic version via the internet at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-vn4588441.

Tuberculosis in New Zealand, 1992–2001: a resurgence

Howie, S, Voss, L, Baker, M, Calder, L, Grimwood, K, Byrnes, C

Objective: To describe the recent epidemiology and clinical features of paediatric tuberculosis (TB) in New Zealand (NZ).

Planning for housing land in the English regions: a critique of household projections and Regional Planning Guidance mechanisms

M Baker, C Wong

In this paper the authors examine the technical assumptions and measureent errors involved in the population and household projections which constitute the basic ingredient of housing land...

Obscure ritual or administrative luxury? Integrating strategic planning and regional development

M Baker, I Deas, C Wong

Regional land-use planning and regionally based economic development have evolved to a large extent as parallel but separate entities, each occupying distinct policy domains. This absence of holism...