Mark Brown

Visualization of the Interaction of Multiple Sclerosis Lesions with Adjacent White Matter Fibers Using Streamtubes and Streamsurfaces (2009)

Song Zhang, David Laidlaw, Jack Simon, Mark Brown, David Miller

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic disease of the central nervous system that predominantly affects young adults during their most productive years. Pathologically, MS is characterized by the...

Winning ways: Immediate and long-term effects of sponsorship on perceptions of brand quality and corporate image (2009)

Pope, Nigel, Voges, Kevin E., Brown, Mark

Sponsorship is believed to influence consumer perceptions of a brand. The authors identify conditions under which sponsorship information spills over to affect attitudes toward brands and the image...

Collecting & Verifying RAE Output (2008)

Carr, Leslie, White, Wendy, Brown, Mark

This was the final talk in a set of three Case Studies at a meeting Beyond the RAE 2008: Bibliometrics, League Tables and the REF at Kings College, London in April 2008. This talk focused on the...

Brown & Muchira: Investigating the Relationship between Internet Privacy Concerns and Online Purchase Behavior INVESTIGATING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN INTERNET PRIVACY CONCERNS AND ONLINE PURCHASE BEHAVIOR. (2008)

Mark Brown, Rose Muchira

Many organizations now emphasize the use of technology that can help them get closer to consumers and build ongoing relationships with them. The ability to compile consumer data profiles has been...

The Mercury User's Guide - Version rotd-2003-07-02 (2008)

Fergus Henderson, Thomas Conway, Zoltan Somogyi, Peter Ross, Tyson Dowd, Mark Brown

This document describes the compilation environment of Mercury. It describes how to use `mmc', the Mercury compiler; how to use `mmake', the \Mercury make" program, a tool built on top...

Toward a new economy of suspended rights: sex offenders and post-sentence confinement and control (2008)

Brown, Mark

Giorgio Agamben has recently described the state of exception as a new ‘paradigm of government’ while Judith Butler writes of ‘the new war prison’ in which terror suspects and other...

Toward a new economy of suspended rights: sex offenders and post-sentence confinement and control (2008)

Brown, Mark

Giorgio Agamben has recently described the state of exception as a new ‘paradigm of government’ while Judith Butler writes of ‘the new war prison’ in which terror suspects and other...

The Mercury User's Guide (2007)

Fergus Henderson, Thomas Conway, Zoltan Somogyi, Peter Ross, Tyson Dowd, ...

This document describes the compilation environment of Mercury. It describes how to use `mmc', the Mercury compiler; how to use `mmake', the \Mercury make" program, a tool built on top...

The Mercury User's Guide - Version 0.11.0 (2007)

Fergus Henderson, Thomas Conway, Zoltan Somogyi, Peter Ross, Tyson Dowd, Mark Brown

This document describes the compilation environment of Mercury. It describes how to use `mmc', the Mercury compiler; how to use `mmake', the \Mercury make" program, a tool built on top...

The Impact of M-Bullying on Self-Esteem and Subjective Well Being (2007)

Drennan, Judy, Brown, Mark, Mort, Gillian Maree

The mobile phone has become a symbol of membership and exclusion, providing opportunities for connection with friends and a means to establish identity and difference with social networks. However,...

The Impact of M-Bullying on Self-Esteem and Subjective Well Being (2007)

Drennan, Judy, Brown, Mark, Mort, Gillian Maree

The mobile phone has become a symbol of membership and exclusion, providing opportunities for connection with friends and a means to establish identity and difference with social networks. However,...

The Impact of M-Bullying on Self-Esteem and Subjective Well Being (2007)

Drennan, Judy, Brown, Mark, Mort, Gillian Maree

The mobile phone has become a symbol of membership and exclusion, providing opportunities for connection with friends and a means to establish identity and difference with social networks. However,...

The comparative biodiversity of seven globally important wetlands: a synthesis (2006)

Junk, Wolfgang J., Brown, Mark, Campbell, Ian C., Finlayson, Max, Gopal, Brij, Ramberg, Lars, ...

The species diversity data of seven globally important wetlands (Canadian peatlands, Florida Everglades, Pantanal, Okavango Delta, Sundarban, Tonle Sap, and Kakadu National Park) were compared. The...

Simulations for thermodynamic analyses of transcritical carbon dioxide refrigeration cycle and reheat dehumidification air conditioning cycle [electronic resource] / (2006)

Brown, Mark.

ABSTRACT: Carbon dioxide is a natural refrigerant that has been considered for certain refrigeration and air conditioning applications. The coefficient of performance (COP) of carbon dioxide cycles...

Design of the Primary Prevention Parameters Evaluation (PREPARE) trial of implantable cardioverter defibrillators to reduce patient morbidity [NCT00279279]. (2006)

Wilkoff, Bruce L, Stern, Richard, Williamson, Brian, Wathen, Mark, Holloman, Keith, Fieberg, Ann, ...

BACKGROUND: Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator (ICD) therapy has been proven to be beneficial and efficacious for the treatment of serious ventricular tachyarrhythmias in primary prevention...

Contents (2006)

Mark Brown, Chuck Davis, William Dy, Paul Ionescu, Jeff Richardson, Kurt Taylor, ...

A comprehensive reference for a quick transition Presents a task-based grouping of differences between the operating system environments Additional content about how to optimize Linux on IBM Eserver...

The impact of host starvation on parasite development and population dynamics in an intestinal trypanosome parasite of bumble bees (2005)

BROWN, MARK, RUIZ-GONZALEZ, MARIO XAVIER

Host nutrition plays an important role in determining the development and success of parasitic infections. While studies of vertebrate hosts are accumulating, little is known about how host nutrition...

The evolutionary significance of long copulation duration in bumble bees (2005)

BROWN, MARK

Copulation duration – the time spent in copula – is of particular interest in social insects. Female social insects (or queens) generally only mate during a short, initial post-emergence period,...

Divide-and-query and subterm dependency tracking in the Mercury declarative debugger (2005)

Ian Maclarty, Zoltan Somogyi, Mark Brown

We have implemented a declarative debugger for Mercury that is capable of finding bugs in large, long-running programs. This debugger implements several search strategies. We discuss the...

Investigating the relationship between internet privacy concerns and online purchase behavior (2004)

Brown, Mark, Muchira, Rose

Many organizations now emphasize the use of technology that can help them get closer to consumers and build ongoing relationships with them. The ability to compile consumer data profiles has been...

Investigating the relationship between internet privacy concerns and online purchase behavior (2004)

Brown, Mark, Muchira, Rose

Many organizations now emphasize the use of technology that can help them get closer to consumers and build ongoing relationships with them. The ability to compile consumer data profiles has been...

Diuretic therapy in chronic heart failure : implications for heart failure nurse specialists (2003)

Davidson, Patricia, MacDonald, Peter, Paull, Glenn, Rees, David, Howes, Laurence, Cockburn, Jill, ...

Chronic heart failure (CHF) is a syndrome precipitated by inadequate cardiac output and neurohormonal activation, leading to sodium and water retention. With increasing prevalence of CHF, heart...

A rough cluster analysis of shopping orientation data. Paper presented at ANZMAC2003: Australian and New Zealand Marketing Academy Conference (2003)

Kevin Voges, Nigel Pope, Mark Brown

This paper describes the application of a new technique, rough clustering, to the problem of market segmentation. Rough clustering produces different solutions to k-means analysis because of the...

Buying or browsing? An exploration of shopping orientations and online purchase intention (2003)

Brown, Mark, Pope, Nigel Kenneth, Voges, Kevin

Consumer selection of retail patronage mode has been widely researched by marketing scholars. Several researchers have segmented consumers by shopping orientation. However, few have applied such...

Diuretic therapy in chronic heart failure : implications for heart failure nurse specialists (2003)

Davidson, Patricia, MacDonald, Peter, Paull, Glenn, Rees, David, Howes, Laurence, Cockburn, Jill, ...

Chronic heart failure (CHF) is a syndrome precipitated by inadequate cardiac output and neurohormonal activation, leading to sodium and water retention. With increasing prevalence of CHF, heart...

Crime, Governance and the Company Raj. The Discovery of Thuggee (2002)

Brown, Mark

In 1830 W. H. Sleeman, a servant of the East India Company, ‘discovered’ a religious cult of highway robbers. Victims were murdered at the scene of the crime by strangulation with a silk scarf....

and online purchase intention (2001)

Mark Brown, Nigel Pope, Kevin Voges

An exploration of shopping orientations

Inequalities for Rare Events in Time-Reversible Markov Chains II (1993)

David J. Aldous, Mark Brown

A previous paper discussed explicit bounds in the exponential approximation for the distribution of the waiting time until a stationary reversible Markov chain first enters a "rare" subset...

Inequalities for Rare Events in Time-Reversible Markov Chains I (1992)

David J Aldous, Mark Brown

The distribution of waiting time until a rare event is often approximated by the exponential distribution. In the context of first hitting times for stationary reversible chains, the error has a...

On the choice of variance for the log rank test (1984)

BROWN, MARK

The log rank test is widely used for comparison of survival curves. This paper examines various estimators for the variance of the log rank test statistic. These include the Mantel-Haenszel variance,...

Towards a Computational Treatment of Deontic Defeasibility

Artosi, Alberto, Governatori, Guido, Sartor, Giovanni, Brown, Mark, Carmo, Jose'

In this paper we describe an algorithmic framework for a multi-modal logic arising from the combination of the system of modal (epistemic) logic devised by Meyer and van der Hoek for dealing with...

Toxicological assessments of Gulf War veterans

Brown, Mark

Concerns about unexplained illnesses among veterans of the 1991 Gulf War appeared soon after that conflict ended. Many environmental causes have been suggested, including possible exposure to...

The case for small area microdata

Mark Tranmer, Andrew Pickles, Ed Fieldhouse, Mark Elliot, Angela Dale, Mark Brown, ...

Census data are available in aggregate form for local areas and, through the samples of anonymized records (SARs), as samples of microdata for households and individuals. In 1991 there were two SAR...

Renewing Canada's Manufacturing Economy: A Regional Comparison, 1973-1996

MARK BROWN

Regional economies are continually undergoing adjustment as their firm populations react to changing tastes, technologies, and the challenges of outside competition. Adjustment typically takes place...

Census fieldwork in the UK: the bedrock for a decade of social analysis

Ludi Simpson, Mark Brown

Interviews with fieldworkers from the UK 2001 Census give voice to a unique, grounded view of the operational quality of census-taking. While the overall response to the census has been estimated at...

The Effect Demographics Have On The Demand For Orange Juice

Davis, Andrew, Gunderson, Michael, Brown, Mark, House, Lisa

This paper investigates how the demand for orange juice is affected by the demographics of consumers. There are many variables in the orange juice demand equation and demographics are only one....

QUASI SEPARABILITY: A DIFFERENTIAL DEMAND SYSTEM APPROACH

Brown, Mark, Lee, Jonq-Ying

A differential demand system for quasi separability is developed, following the approach used by Theil et al. in developing the Working-PI time series model. The Slutsky codfficients vary with...