M. Cross

Publication List Details

Period

1982 - 2008

Number

155

Co-Authors

Cord blood cell therapy alters LV remodeling and cytokine expression but does not improve heart function after Myocardial infarction in rats (2008)

Rabald, S., Marx, G., Mix, B., Stephani, C., Kamprad, M., Cross, M., ...

Objective: In this study the ability of unrestricted somatic stem cells (USSC) and mononuclear cord blood cells (MN-CBC) was tested to improve heart function and left ventricular (LV) remodeling...

Antibiotics and topical nasal steroid for treatment of acute maxillary sinusitis: a randomized controlled trial (2007)

Williamson, I.G., Little, P., Moore, M., Rumsby, K., Benge, S., Cross, M., ...

Context Acute sinusitis is a common clinical problem that usually results in a prescription for antibiotics but the role of antibiotics is debated. Anti-inflammatory drugs such as topical steroids...

Congruence in QTL for adventitious rooting in Pinus elliottii X Pinus caribaea hybrids resolves between and within-species effects (2006)

Shepherd, M, Huang, SW, Eggler, P, Cross, M, Dale, G, Dieters, M, ...

Targeting between-species effects for improvement in synthetic hybrid populations derived from outcrossing parental tree species may be one way to increase the efficacy and predictability of hybrid...

S100A8 chemotactic protein is abundantly increased, but only a minor contributor to LPS-induced, steroid resistant neutrophilic lung inflammation in vivo (2005)

Bozinovski, S., Cross, M., Vlahos, R., Jones, J. E., Hsuu, K., Tessier, P. A., ...

Neutrophilic lung inflammation is an essential component of host defense against diverse eukaryotic and prokaryotic pathogens, but in chronic inflammatory lung diseases, such as chronic obstructive...

Academic leadership under siege: possibilities and limits of executive deanship (2004)

Cross, M; University Of The Witwatersrand; Cross@educ.wits.ac.za

We argue in this article that translation of executive deanship into managerialism, a practice which is currently being uncritically embraced in many South African higher education institutions, is...

Multiphase Mesh Partitioning (2004)

C. Walshaw, M. Cross, K. Mcmanus

We consider the load-balancing problems which arise from parallel scientific codes containing multiple computational phases, or loops over subsets of the data, which are separated by global...

Parallel dynamic graph-partitioning for unstructured meshes C. Walshaw, M. Cross and M. G. Everett (2004)

C. Walshaw, M. Cross, M. G. Everett

A parallel method for the dynamic partitioning of unstructured meshes is described. The method introduces a new iterative optimisation technique known as relative gain optimisation which both...

Parallel Optimisation Algorithms for Multilevel Mesh Partitioning (2004)

C. Walshaw, M. Cross

Three parallel optimisation algorithms for use in the context of multilevel graph partitioning for unstructured meshes are described. The first, interface optimisation reduces the problem to a set of...

Multilevel Mesh Partitioning for Heterogeneous (2004)

C. Walshaw, M. Cross

Multilevel algorithms are a successful class of optimisation techniques which address the mesh partitioning problem for distributing unstructured meshes onto parallel computers. They usually combine...

Multilevel Mesh Partitioning for Optimising Domain Shape (2004)

C. Walshaw, M. Cross, R. Diekmann, F. Schlimbach

Multilevel algorithms are a successful class of optimisation techniques which address the mesh partitioning problem. They usually combine a graph contraction algorithm together with a local...

Dynamic Mesh Partitioning: A Unified Optimisation and Load-Balancing Algorithm (2004)

C. Walshaw, M. Cross, M. G. Everett

A parallel method for dynamic partitioning of unstructured meshes is described. The method employs a new unified iterative optimisation technique which both balances the workload and attempts to...

Mesh Partitioning: a Multilevel Balancing and Refinement Algorithm (2004)

C. Walshaw, M. Cross

Multilevel algorithms are a successful class of optimisation techniques which address the mesh partitioning problem.

A Parallelisable Algorithm for Optimising Unstructured Mesh Partitions (2004)

C. Walshaw, M. Cross, M. G. Everett

A new method is described for optimising graph partitions which arise in mapping unstructured mesh calculations to parallel computers. The method employs a combination of iterative techniques to both...

Dynamic Load-Balancing for Parallel Adaptive (2004)

C. Walshaw, M. Cross, M. G. Everett

A parallel method for dynamic partitioning of unstructured meshes is described.

Use Of Complementary Medicines For Osteoarthritis - a Prospective Study (2004)

Zochling, J., March, L. M., Lapsley, H., Cross, M., Tribe, K., Brooks, P.

Background: Patients with osteoarthritis commonly use complementary and alternative medicines (CAM),either as an adjunct to or in place of conventional analgesics. Objectives: To undertake a...

Use Of Complementary Medicines For Osteoarthritis - a Prospective Study (2004)

Zochling, J., March, L. M., Lapsley, H., Cross, M., Tribe, K., Brooks, P.

Background: Patients with osteoarthritis commonly use complementary and alternative medicines (CAM),either as an adjunct to or in place of conventional analgesics. Objectives: To undertake a...

The 'intelligent listener' in collaborative planning (2004)

Cross, M., Estival, D.

Collaborative planning in command and control contexts is carried out primarily by talk in the form of `round table planning’. The talk is focused towards a variety of pragmatic goals such as...

‘Intelligent listener’: experimentation in a live headquarters (2004)

Estival, D., Cross, M., Hashemi-Sakhtsari, A.

In this paper we report on a feasibility experiment we conducted during EX TENDI WALK at HQAST. The purpose of the experiment was to assess the potential use of current speech recognition technology...

Use Of Complementary Medicines For Osteoarthritis - a Prospective Study (2004)

Zochling, J., March, L. M., Lapsley, H., Cross, M., Tribe, K., Brooks, P.

Background: Patients with osteoarthritis commonly use complementary and alternative medicines (CAM),either as an adjunct to or in place of conventional analgesics. Objectives: To undertake a...

Two knees or not two knees? Patient costs and outcomes following bilateral and unilateral total knee joint replacement surgery for OA (2004)

March, LM, Cross, M, Tribe, KL, Lapsley, HM, Courtenay, BG, Cross, MJ, ...

Aims: This study aims to address medical and non-medical direct costs and health outcomes of bilateral and unilateral total knee replacement from the patients' perspective during the first year...

Genetics of physical wood properties and early growth in a tropical pine hybrid (2003)

Shepherd, M, Cross, M, Dieters, MJ, Harding, K, Kain, D, Henry, R

Quantitative trait locus (QTL) detection was carried out for physical wood properties and early growth traits in an interspecific hybrid between Pinus elliottii var. elliottii Engelm. and Pinus...

Multilevel Mesh Partitioning for Aspect Ratio (2002)

C. Walshaw, M. Cross, R. Diekmann, F. Schlimbach

Multilevel algorithms are a successful class of optimisation techniques which address the mesh partitioning problem. They usually combine a graph contraction algorithm together with a local...

Multiphase Mesh Partitioning for Parallel Computational Mechanics Codes (2002)

C. Walshaw, M. Cross, K. Mcmanus

We consider the load-balancing problems which arise from parallel scienti c codes containing multiple computational phases, or loops over subsets of the data, which are separated by global...

Virtual Manufacturing and Design in the Real World (2002)

K Mcmanus, M Cross, C Walshaw, S Johnson, C Bailey, K Pericleous, ...

This paper describes one attempt to address the parallel issues associated with a multi-physics simulation approach based upon a range of compatible procedures operating on one mesh using a single...

Multiphase Mesh Partitioning (2002)

C. Walshaw, M. Cross, K. Mcmanus

We consider the load-balancing problems which arise from parallel scientific codes containing multiple computational phases, or loops over subsets of the data, which are separated by global...

Multilevel Mesh Partitioning for Heterogeneous Communication Networks (2002)

C. Walshaw, M. Cross

Multilevel algorithms are a successful class of optimisation techniques which address the mesh partitioning problem for distributing unstructured meshes onto parallel computers. They usually combine...

Transpecific microsatellites for hard pines M. Shepherd, M. Cross, T. Maguire, M. Dieters, C. Williams, R. Henry (2002)

Shepherd, M., Cross, M., Maguire, T. L., Dieters, MJ, Williams, C. G., Henry, R. J.

Microsatellites are difficult to recover from large plant genomes so cross-specific utilisation is an important source of markers. Fifty micro satellites were tested for cross-specific amplification...

Cost of joint replacement surgery for osteoarthritis: The patients' perspective (2002)

March, L, Cross, M, Tribe, K, Lapsley, H, Courtenay, B, Brooks, P

Objective. To address costs of total joint replacement surgery from the patients' perspective by determining patient out-of-pocket costs during the first year following joint replacement, and to...

Branch architecture QTL for Pinus elliottii var. elliottii x Pinus caribaea var. hondurensis hybrids (2002)

Shepherd, M, Cross, M, Dieters, MJ, Henry, R

Putative quantitative trait loci (QTL) of moderate, additive effect were identified for branch diameter, average number of branches per whorl per tree, average whorl spacing and regularity of whorl...

Removal of a cysteine ligand from rubredoxin: assembly of Fe2S2 and Fe(S-Cys)(3)(OH) centres (2002)

Cross, M, Xiao, ZG, Maes, EM, Czernuszewicz, RS, Drew, SC, Pilbrow, JR, ...

The electron transfer protein rubredoxin from Clostridium pasteurianum contains an Fe(S-Cys)(4) active site. Mutant proteins C9G, C9A, C42G and C42A, in which cysteine ligands are replaced by...

Multilevel Mesh Partitioning For Optimizing Domain Shape (2001)

C. Walshaw, M. Cross, R. Diekmann, F. Schlimbach

this paper, the authors modify the multilevel algorithms to optimize a cost function based on the aspect ratio. Several variants of the algorithms are tested and shown to provide excellent results

Computing Applications Mesh Partitioning For Domain Shape Multilevel Mesh Partitioning For Optimizing Domain Shape (2001)

C. Walshaw, M. Cross, R. Diekmann, F. Schlimbach

this paper, the authors modify the multilevel algorithms to optimize a cost function based on the aspect ratio. Several variants of the algorithms are tested and shown to provide excellent results

Mesh Partitioning: A Multilevel Balancing And Refinement Algorithm (2001)

C. Walshaw, M. Cross

Multilevel algorithms are a successful class of optimization techniques which addresses the mesh partitioning problem. They usually combine a graph contraction algorithm together with a local...

Parallel Mesh Partitioning on Distributed Memory Systems (2000)

C. Walshaw, M. Cross

We discuss the problem of deriving parallel mesh partitioning algorithms for mapping unstructured meshes to parallel computers. In itself this raises a paradox -- we seek to find a high quality...

Dynamic Mesh Partitioning & Load-Balancing for Parallel Computational Mechanics Codes (2000)

C. Walshaw, M. Cross

We discuss the load-balancing issues arising in parallel mesh based computational mechanics codes for which the processor loading changes during the run. We briefly touch on geometric repartitioning...

Unknown (2000)

C. Walshaw, M. Cross, K. Mcmanus

We consider the load-balancing problems which arise from parallel scientific codes containing multiple computational phases, or loops over subsets of the data, which are separated by global...

Virtual Manufacturing and Design in the Real World (2000)

K Mcmanus, M Cross, C Walshaw, S Johnson, C Bailey, K Pericleous, ...

This paper describes one attempt to address the parallel issues associated with a multi-physics simulation approach based upon a range of compatible procedures operating on one mesh using a single...

Parallel Optimisation Algorithms for Multilevel Mesh Partitioning (2000)

C. Walshaw, M. Cross

Three parallel optimisation algorithms, for use in the context of multilevel graph partitioning of unstructured meshes, are described. The first, interface optimisation, reduces the computation to a...

A Combined Evolutionary Search and Multilevel Optimisation Approach to Graph Partitioning (2000)

A. J. Soper, C. Walshaw, M. Cross

Graph partitioning divides a graph into several pieces by cutting edges. The graph partitioning problem is to divide so that the number of vertices in each piece is the same within some defined...

Virtual Manufacturing and Design in the Real World - Implementation And Scalability on HPPC Systems (2000)

K Mcmanus, M Cross, C Walshaw, S Johnson, C Bailey, K Pericleous, ...

This paper describes one attempt to address the parallel issues associated with a multi-physics simulation approach based upon a range of compatible procedures operating on one mesh using a single...

Multilevel Mesh Partitioning for Heterogeneous Communication Networks (2000)

C. Walshaw, M. Cross

Multilevel algorithms are a successful class of optimisation techniques which address the mesh partitioning problem for distributing unstructured meshes onto parallel computers. They usually combine...

Multilevel Mesh Partitioning for Optimising Domain Shape (2000)

C. Walshaw, M. Cross, R. Diekmann

Multilevel algorithms are a successful class of optimisation techniques which address the mesh partitioning problem for mapping meshes onto parallel computers. They usually combine a graph...

Parallel Mesh Partitioning on Distributed Memory Systems (1999)

C. Walshaw, M. Cross

We discuss the problem of deriving parallel mesh partitioning algorithms for mapping unstructured meshes to parallel computers. In itself this raises a paradox -- we seek to find a high quality...

Dynamic Mesh Partitioning & Load-Balancing for Parallel Computational Mechanics Codes (1999)

C. Walshaw, M. Cross

We discuss the load-balancing issues arising in parallel mesh based computational mechanics codes for which the processor loading changes during the run. We briefly touch on geometric repartitioning...

Multiphase Mesh Partitioning (1999)

C. Walshaw, M. Cross, K. Mcmanus

We consider the load-balancing problems which arise from parallel scientific codes containing multiple computational phases, or loops over subsets of the data, which are separated by global...

Multiphase Mesh Partitioning (1999)

C. Walshaw, M. Cross, K. Mcmanus

We consider the load-balancing problems which arise from parallel scientific codes containing multiple computational phases, or loops over subsets of the data, which are separated by global...

Incorporating intelligent computer generated forces in a human-in-the-loop simulation: phase one - establishment of a research testbed (1999)

Clark, P., Pongracic, H., Cross, M., Morton, J., Fulton, J.

The Air Operations Division (AOD) of the Defence Science and Technology Organisation (DSTO) has developed a range of simulation tools whose capabilities include air combat modelling. The Air...

Multilevel Mesh Partitioning for Optimising Subdomain Aspect Ratio (1999)

C. Walshaw, M. Cross, R. Diekmann

Multilevel algorithms are a successful class of optimisation techniques which address the mesh partitioning problem for mapping meshes onto parallel computers. They usually combine a graph...

Parallel Optimisation Algorithms for Multilevel Mesh Partitioning (1999)

C. Walshaw, M. Cross

Three parallel optimisation algorithms for use in the context of multilevel graph partitioning for unstructured meshes are described. The first, interface optimisation reduces the problem to a set of...

Parallel Optimisation Algorithms (1999)

C. Walshaw, M. Cross

Three parallel optimisation algorithms for use in the context of multilevel graph partitioning for unstructured meshes are described. The first, interface optimisation reduces the problem to a set of...

Parallel Unstructured Mesh Partitioning (1998)

C. Walshaw, M. Cross, M. G. Everett

this paper we discuss the partition optimisation problem and its bearing on the graph partitioning problem

Dynamic Load Balancing of Distributed Memory Parallel Computational Mechanics using Unstructured Meshes for Multi-Physical Modelling (1998)

Multi-physical Modelling, V. Aravinthan, S. P. Johnson, K. Mcmanus, C. Walshaw, M. Cross

As the complexity of parallel applications increase, the performance limitations resulting from computational load imbalance become dominant. Mapping the problem space to the processors in a parallel...

Scalable Unstructured Mesh Decomposition (1998)

K Mcmanus, S P Johnson, C Walshaw, M Cross, P Chow

As the efficiency of parallel software increases it is becoming common to measure near linear speedup for many applications. For a problem size N on P processors then with software running at O(N=P )...

Multilevel Mesh Partitioning for Optimising Domain Shape (1998)

C. Walshaw, M. Cross, R. Diekmann

Multilevel algorithms are a successful class of optimisation techniques which address the mesh partitioning problem. They usually combine a graph contraction algorithm together with a local...

Multilevel Mesh Partitioning for Optimising Domain Shape (1998)

C. Walshaw, M. Cross, R. Diekmann

Multilevel algorithms are a successful class of optimisation techniques which address the mesh partitioning problem. They usually combine a graph contraction algorithm together with a local...