M. King

Publication List Details

Period

1979 - 2009

Number

71

Co-Authors

Study protocol for the development of a European measure of best practice for people with long term mental health problems in institutional care (DEMoBinc) (2009)

Killaspy, H., King, M., Wright, C., White, S., McCrone, P., Kallert, T., ...

Background: This study aims to build a measure for assessing and reviewing the living conditions, care and human rights of people with longer term mental health problems in psychiatric and social...

Continuity of care in patients with cancer: development and evaluation of a complex intervention. (2009)

King, M., Jones, L., McCarthy, O., Rogers, M., Richardson, A., Williams, R., ...

High experienced continuity of care in patients with cancer is associated with lower needs for care, better quality of life and better psychological outcomes. We developed and evaluated an...

Perceived concepts of continuity of care in people with colorectal and breast cancer - a qualitative case study analysis (2008)

Nazareth, I., Jones, L., Richardson, A., King, M.

We aimed to develop ideas on continuity of cancer care. In-depth qualitative interviews were conducted with 28 people. Seven had cancer. Each person with cancer nominated a close person and a primary...

Hepatitis C action plan for Scotland: Phase II (May 2008 - March 2011) (2008)

Goldberg, D.J., Brown, G., Hutchinson, S.J., Dillon, J., Taylor, A., Howie, G., ...

In 2004, the Scottish Government recognised that “Hepatitis C is one of the most serious and significant public health risks of our generation” [1] . By December 2006, Health Protection Scotland...

Nguyen van Tuong (2008)

Thi Trung Chien, Trong Hieu, M. King, ...

Acknowledgements Funding for the study described in this report was provided by the Buffett Foundation and Family Health International. The views expressed in this report are those of the authors and...

The risk for depression conferred by stressful life events is modified by variation at the serotonin transporter 5HTTLPR genotype: evidence from the Spanish PREDICT-Gene cohort (2007)

Cervilla, J.A., Molina, E., Torres-González, F., Bellón, J.A., Moreno, B., Luna, J.D., ...

We report results from the PREDICT-Gene case-control study nested in a prospective cohort designed to identify predictors of the onset of depression among adult primary-care attendees. We tested the...

Reducing emotional distress in people caring for patients receiving specialist palliative care: randomised trial (2007)

Walsh, K., Jones, L., Tookman, A., Mason, C., McLoughlin, J., Blizard, R., ...

Background: Caring for relatives with advanced cancer may cause psychological and physical ill health. Aims: To evaluate the effectiveness of increased support for distressed, informal carers of...

Approved: (2007)

Prof Berk Sunar, Prof William, J. Martin, Prof Fred, J. Looft, Prof Mark, ...

For my parents. Cryptographic hardware has found many uses in ubiquitous and pervasive security de-vices with a small form factor, e.g. SIM cards, smart cards, electronic security tokens, and soon...

The REACT study: randomised evaluation of assertive community treatment in north London (2006)

Killaspy, H., Bebbington, P., Blizard, R., Johnson, S., Nolan, F., Pilling, S., ...

Objective:To compare outcomes of care from assertive community treatment teams with care by community mental health teams for people with serious mental illnesses. Design: Non-blind randomised...

The REACT study: randomised evaluation of assertive community treatment in north London (2006)

Killaspy, H., Bebbington, P., Blizard, R., Johnson, S., Nolan, F., Pilling, S., ...

Objective:To compare outcomes of care from assertive community treatment teams with care by community mental health teams for people with serious mental illnesses. Design: Non-blind randomised...

The REACT study: randomised evaluation of assertive community treatment in north London (2006)

Killaspy, H., Bebbington, P., Blizard, R., Johnson, S., Nolan, F., Pilling, S., ...

Objective:To compare outcomes of care from assertive community treatment teams with care by community mental health teams for people with serious mental illnesses. Design: Non-blind randomised...

Precision Electroweak Measurements on the Z Resonance (2006)

Schael, S, Abbiendi, G, Ainsley, C, Åkesson, P F, Alexander, G, Allison, J, ...

We report on the final electroweak measurements performed with data taken at the Z resonance by the experiments operating at the electron-positron colliders SLC and LEP. The data consist of 17...

Assessing the worldwide comparison of cadastral systems (2006)

Rajabifard, A., Williamson, I. P., Steudler, D., Binns, A., King, M.

There is growing interest internationally in land administration and cadastral systems and especially in their role as part of a national Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI). The important role the...

Assessing the worldwide comparison of cadastral systems (2006)

Rajabifard, A., Williamson, I. P., Steudler, D., Binns, A., King, M.

There is growing interest internationally in land administration and cadastral systems and especially in their role as part of a national Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI). The important role the...

Assessing the worldwide comparison of cadastral systems (2006)

Rajabifard, A., Williamson, I. P., Steudler, D., Binns, A., King, M.

There is growing interest internationally in land administration and cadastral systems and especially in their role as part of a national Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI). The important role the...

Impact of participant and physician intervention preferences on randomized trials: a systematic review (2005)

King, M., Nazareth, I., Lampe, F., Bower, P., Chandler, M., Morou, M., ...

Context: Allocation on the basis of randomization rather than patient choice is the gold standard of unbiased estimates of efficacy in clinical medicine. However, randomly allocating patients to...

Measuring spiritual belief: development and standardization of a beliefs and values scale (2005)

King, M., Jones, L., Barnes, K., Low, J., Walker, C., Wilkinson, S., ...

Background: Higher levels of religious involvement are modestly associated with better health, after taking account of other influences, such as age, sex and social support. However, little account...

Compact neutron generator development at LBNL (2003)

Reijonen, J., English, G., Firestone, R., Giquel, F., King, M., Leung, K-N., ...

A wide variety of applications ranging from medical (BNCT, Boron Neutron Capture Therapy) and basic science (neutron imaging, material studies) to homeland security (explosive detection and nuclear...

Meta-analysis of data on costs from trials of counselling in primary care: using individual patient data to overcome sample size limitations in economic analyses (2003)

Bower, P., Byford, S., Barber, J., Beecham, J., Simpson, S., Friedli, K., ...

Objective: To assess the feasibility of overcoming sample size limitations in economic analyses of clinical trials through meta-analysis of data on individual patients from multiple trials. Design:...

Spurious periodic horizontal signals in sub-daily GPS position estimates (2003)

King, M, Coleman, R, Nguyen, LN

Periodic horizontal signals have been identified in sub-daily estimates of position obtained from GPS data using batch least-squares solutions. The estimation of sub-daily position is commonly used...

High glucose and endothelial cell growth: novel effects independent of autocrine TGF-beta 1 and hyperosmolarity (2003)

McGinn, S., Poronnik, P., King, M., Gallery, E. D. M., Pollock, C. A.

Human endothelial cells were exposed to 5 mM glucose ( control), 25 mM ( high) glucose, or osmotic control for 72 h. TGF-beta1 production, cell growth, death, and cell cycle progression, and the...

Spurious periodic horizontal signals in sub-daily GPS position estimates (2003)

King, M, Coleman, R, Nguyen, LN

Periodic horizontal signals have been identified in sub-daily estimates of position obtained from GPS data using batch least-squares solutions. The estimation of sub-daily position is commonly used...

Spurious periodic horizontal signals in sub-daily GPS position estimates (2003)

King, M, Coleman, R, Nguyen, LN

Periodic horizontal signals have been identified in sub-daily estimates of position obtained from GPS data using batch least-squares solutions. The estimation of sub-daily position is commonly used...

Altered expression and allelic association of the hypervariable membrane mucin MUC1 in gastritis (2002)

Vinall, L.E., King, M., Novelli, M., Green, C.A., Daniels, G., Hilkens, J., ...

Background & Aims: Infection with Helicobacter pylori causes chronic gastritis, and this confers a risk of gastric cancer. Short alleles of the membrane-bound mucin MUC1, which has a large...

Spiritual beliefs may affect outcome of bereavement: prospective study (2002)

Walsh, K., King, M., Jones, L., Tookman, A., Blizard, R.

Objective: To explore the relation between spiritual beliefs and resolution of bereavement. Design: Prospective cohort study of people about to be bereaved with follow up continuing for 14 months...

Performance of a simple UV LED light source in the capillary electrophoresis of inorganic anions with indirect detection using a chromate background electrolyte (2002)

King, M, Paull, B, Haddad, PR, Macka, M

Light emitting diodes (LEDs) are known to be excellent light sources for detectors in liquid chromatography and capillary electromigration separation techniques, but to date only LEDs emitting in the...

Performance of a simple UV LED light source in the capillary electrophoresis of inorganic anions with indirect detection using a chromate background electrolyte (2002)

King, M, Paull, B, Haddad, PR, Macka, M

Light emitting diodes (LEDs) are known to be excellent light sources for detectors in liquid chromatography and capillary electromigration separation techniques, but to date only LEDs emitting in the...

Performance of a simple UV LED light source in the capillary electrophoresis of inorganic anions with indirect detection using a chromate background electrolyte (2002)

King, M, Paull, B, Haddad, PR, Macka, M

Light emitting diodes (LEDs) are known to be excellent light sources for detectors in liquid chromatography and capillary electromigration separation techniques, but to date only LEDs emitting in the...

Practical method for evaluation of linearity and effective pathlength of on-capillary photometric detectors in capillary electrophoresis (2001)

Johns, CA, Macka, M, Haddad, PR, King, M, Paull, B

The optical characteristics of on-capillary photometric detectors for capillary electrophoresis were evaluated and five commercial detectors were compared. Plots of sensitivity...

Practical method for evaluation of linearity and effective pathlength of on-capillary photometric detectors in capillary electrophoresis (2001)

Johns, CA, Macka, M, Haddad, PR, King, M, Paull, B

The optical characteristics of on-capillary photometric detectors for capillary electrophoresis were evaluated and five commercial detectors were compared. Plots of sensitivity...

Practical method for evaluation of linearity and effective pathlength of on-capillary photometric detectors in capillary electrophoresis (2001)

Johns, CA, Macka, M, Haddad, PR, King, M, Paull, B

The optical characteristics of on-capillary photometric detectors for capillary electrophoresis were evaluated and five commercial detectors were compared. Plots of sensitivity...

Estimating the responsiveness of an instrument using more than two repeated measures (2000)

King, M., Dobson, A.

The responsiveness of a measuring instrument is its ability to detect change over time. A commonly used index of responsiveness is the effect size for paired differences. This paper generalizes the...

Medication prescribing and administration in nursing homes (1998)

Roberts, MS, King, M, Stokes, JA, Lynne, TA, Bonner, CJ, McCarthy, S, ...

Objective: to examine the key determinants of pharmaco-epidemiology in Australian nursing homes. Design: a cross-sectional survey of medication use in 998 residents in 15 nursing homes in Southern...

Likelihood-based estimation of the regression model with scrambled responses (1998)

Strachan, R, King, M, Singh, S

A significant problem in the collection of responses to potentially sensitive questions, such as relating to illegal, immoral or embarrassing activities, is non-sampling error due to refusal to...

Local likelihood and local partial likelihood in hazard regression (1997)

King, M

In survival analysis, the relationship between a survival time and a covariate is conveniently modeled with the proportional hazards regression model. This model usually assumes that the covariate...

Exogenous surfactant enhances mucociliary clearance in the anaesthetized dog (1994)

R.P. Tomkiewicz, B.K. Rubin, S. Schürch, M. King

Therapy with exogenous surfactants is currently used for the treatment of respiratory distress syndrome of the newborn (RDS) and is under investigation for treatments related to adult RDS. However,...

Measurements of Z-boson resonance parameters in e+e- annihilation (1989)

Abrams, G. S., Adolphsen, C. E., Averill, D., Ballam, J., Barish, B. C., Barklow, T., ...

We have measured the mass of the Z boson to be 91.14±0.12 GeV/c^2, and its width to be 2.42-0.35+0.45 GeV. If we constrain the visible width to its standard-model value, we find the partial width to...

First measurements of hadronic decays of the Z boson (1989)

Abrams, G. S., Adolphsen, C. E., Aleksan, R., Alexander, J. P., Averill, D., Ballam, J., ...

We have observed hadronic final states produced in the decays of Z bosons. In order to study the parton structure of these events, we compare the distributions in sphericity, thurst, aplanarity, and...

Initial measurements of Z-boson resonance parameters in e+e- annihilation (1989)

Abrams, G. S., Adolphsen, C. E., Aleksan, R., Alexander, J. P., Allen, M. A., Atwood, W. B., ...

We have measured the mass of the Z boson to be 91.11±0.23 GeV/c^2, and its width to be 1.61-0.43+0.60 GeV. If we constrain the visible width to its standard-model value, we find the partial width to...

Experiences in applying a general modelling methodology

King, M, McAulay, L, Cragg, PB

During a four month consultancy project for a company with a complex multi-functional decision making problem different methodologies were used. The systems audit methodology and a five stage...

Experiments with experts developing simple expert systems

King, M

It has been suggested that current expert systems technology enables experts to develop their own small systems. This hypothesis is investigated by observing four experts in different fields as they...

Muscle fatigue examined at different temperatures in experiments on intact mammalian (rat) muscle fibers

Roots, H., Ball, G., Talbot-Ponsonby, J., King, M., McBeath, K., Ranatunga, K. W.

In experiments on small bundles of intact fibers from a rat fast muscle, in vitro, we examined the decline in force in repeated tetanic contractions; the aim was to characterize the effect of...

The relationship between patients' experiences of continuity of cancer care and health outcomes: a mixed methods study

King, M, Jones, L, Richardson, A, Murad, S, Irving, A, Aslett, H, ...

It is difficult to define continuity of care or study its impact on health outcomes. This study took place in three stages. In stage I we conducted qualitative research with patients, their close...

Non-obese diabetic–recombination activating gene-1 (NOD–Rag 1 null) interleukin (IL)-2 receptor common gamma chain (IL 2 rγnull) null mice: a radioresistant model for human lymphohaematopoietic engraftment

Pearson, T, Shultz, L D, Miller, D, King, M, Laning, J, Fodor, W, ...

Immunodeficient hosts engrafted with human lymphohaematopoietic cells hold great promise as a preclinical bridge for understanding human haematopoiesis and immunity. We now describe a new...