Quantitation of DNA methylation by melt curve analysis (2009)
Smith, Eric, Jones, Michael E, Drew, Paul A
Abstract Background Methylation of DNA is a common mechanism for silencing genes, and aberrant methylation is increasingly being implicated in many diseases such as cancer. There is a need for...
AMI observations of northern supernova remnants at 14-18 GHz (2009)
Hurley-Walker, Natasha, Scaife, A. M. M., Green, D. A., Davies, Matthew L., Grainge, Keith, Hobson, Michael P., ...
We present observations between 14.2 and 17.9 GHz of 12 reported supernova remnants (SNRs) made with the Arcminute Microkelvin Imager Small Array (AMI SA). In conjunction with data from the...
Quantitation of DNA methylation by melt curve analysis (2009)
Smith, Eric, Jones, Michael E., Drew, Paul Anthony
© 2009 Smith et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0),...
Quantitation of DNA methylation by melt curve analysis (2009)
Smith, Eric, Jones, Michael E., Drew, Paul Anthony
© 2009 Smith et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0),...
Hafez, Yaser A., Davies, Rod D., Davis, Richard J., Dickinson, Clive, Battistelli, Elia S., Blanco, Francisco, ...
Accurate calibration of data is essential for the current generation of cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiments. Using data from the Very Small Array (VSA), we describe procedures which will...
Radio source calibration for the VSA and other CMB instruments at around 30 GHz (2008)
Hafez, Yaser A., Davies, Rod D., Davis, Richard J., Dickinson, Clive, Battistelli, Elia S., Blanco, Francisco, ...
Accurate calibration of data is essential for the current generation of CMB experiments. Using data from the Very Small Array (VSA), we describe procedures which will lead to an accuracy of 1 percent...
Detection of a CMB decrement towards the (2007)
Quasar Pair Pc, Michael E. Jones, Richard Saunders, Joanne C. Baker, Garret Cotter, Alastair Edge, ...
In a 15-GHz Ryle-Telescope observation of PC1643+4631 A & B, a pair of quasars at redshifts z = 3:79 and 3.83 separated by 198 00 on the sky, we find a decrement in the cosmic microwave...
Detection of a CMB decrement towards the (2007)
Quasar Pair, Michael E. Jones, Richard Saunders, Joanne C. Baker, Garret Cotter, Alastair Edge, ...
In a 15-GHz Ryle-Telescope observation of PC1643+4631 A & B, a pair of quasars at redshifts z = 3:79 and 3.83 separated by 198 00 on the sky, we find a decrement in the cosmic microwave...
A 6-12 GHz Analogue Lag-Correlator for Radio Interferometry (2007)
Holler, Christian M., Kaneko, Tak, Jones, Michael E., Grainge, Keith, Scott, Paul
Aims: We describe a 6-12 GHz analogue correlator that has been developed for use in radio interferometers. Methods: We use a lag-correlator technique to synthesis eight complex spectral channels. Two...
Non-Gaussianity in the Very Small Array CMB maps with Smooth-Goodness-of-fit tests (2006)
Rubino-Martin, Jose Alberto, Aliaga, Antonio M., Barreiro, R. B., Battye, Richard A., Carreira, Pedro, Cleary, Kieran, ...
(Abridged) We have used the Rayner & Best (1989) smooth tests of goodness-of-fit to study the Gaussianity of the Very Small Array (VSA) data. Out of the 41 published VSA individual pointings...
A VSA search for the extended Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect in the Corona Borealis Supercluster (2005)
Genova-Santos, Ricardo, Rubino-Martin, Jose Alberto, Rebolo, Rafael, Cleary, Kieran, Davies, Rod D., Davis, Richard J., ...
We present interferometric imaging at 33 GHz of the Corona Borealis supercluster, using the extended configuration of the Very Small Array. A total area of 24 deg^2 has been imaged, with an angular...
Jones, Michael E.; Department Of Education Policy, Indiana University, Bloomington, USA ; Mejones@indiana.edu, Hunter, Joshua; Department Of International Comparative Education, Indiana University, Bloomington, USA ; Jehunter@indiana.edu
Whether to pursue international legal measures to extend intellectual property rights to cover indigenous knowledge or to treat it as a public good is the subject of debate. This paper makes the case...
Tamoxifen Treatment for Breast Cancer and Risk of Endometrial Cancer: A CaseControl Study (2005)
Swerdlow, Anthony J., Jones, Michael E.
Background: Tamoxifen treatment of breast cancer is associated with an increased risk of endometrial cancer, but tamoxifen-related risks of endometrial cancer are unclear in premenopausal women, in...
Source subtraction for the extended Very Small Array and 33-GHz source count estimates (2004)
Cleary, Kieran A., Taylor, Angela C., Waldram, Elizabeth, Battye, Richard A., Dickinson, Clive, Davies, Rod D., ...
We describe the source subtraction strategy and observations for the extended Very Small Array, a CMB interferometer operating at 33 GHz. A total of 453 sources were monitored at 33 GHz using a...
High sensitivity measurements of the CMB power spectrum with the extended Very Small Array (2004)
Dickinson, Clive, Battye, Richard A., Cleary, Kieran, Davies, Rod D., Davis, Richard J., Genova-Santos, Ricardo, ...
We present deep Ka-band ($\nu \approx 33$ GHz) observations of the CMB made with the extended Very Small Array (VSA). This configuration produces a naturally weighted synthesized FWHM beamwidth of...
Cosmological parameter estimation using Very Small Array data out to l=1500 (2004)
Rebolo, Rafael, Battye, Richard A., Carreira, Pedro, Cleary, Kieran, Davies, Rod D., Davis, Richard J., ...
We estimate cosmological parameters using data obtained by the Very Small Array (VSA) in its extended configuration, in conjunction with a variety of other CMB data and external priors. Within the...
Estimating the bispectrum of the Very Small Array data (2004)
Smith, Sarah, Rocha, Graca, Challinor, Anthony, Battye, Richard A., Carreira, Pedro, Cleary, Kieran, ...
We estimate the bispectrum of the Very Small Array data from the compact and extended configuration observations released in December 2002, and compare our results to those obtained from Gaussian...
Cosmological parameter estimation using Very Small Array data out to l? = 1500 (2004)
Rebolo, Rafael, Battye, Richard A., Carreira, Pedro, Cleary, Kieran, Davies, Rod D., Davis, Richard J., ...
Searching for non-Gaussianity in the VSA data (2003)
Savage, Richard, Battye, Richard A., Carreira, Pedro, Cleary, Kieran, Davies, Rod D., Davis, Richard J., ...
We have tested Very Small Array (VSA) observations of three regions of sky for the presence of non-Gaussianity, using high-order cumulants, Minkowski functionals, a wavelet-based test and a Bayesian...
9C: A Survey of Radio Sources at 15 GHz with the Ryle Telescope (2003)
Waldram, Elizabeth M., Pooley, Guy G., Grainge, Keith J. B., Jones, Michael E., Saunders, Richard D. E., Scott, Paul F., ...
The fields chosen for the first observations of the cosmic microwave background with the Very Small Array have been surveyed with the Ryle Telescope at 15 GHz. We have covered three regions around RA...
Filomena Malveiro, Michael E. Jones, Anthony J. Swerdlow
dos Santos Silva, I., Malveiro, F., Jones, M. E. and Swerdlow, A. J. Mortality after Radiological Investigation with Radioactive Thorotrast: A Follow-up Study of up to Fifty Years in Portugal....
Jones, Michael E., Hunter, Joshua
From pages 23-24: "It is reasonable to expect that there will be those New Zealand nationals who oppose the idea of a Maori Nation and supporting the integration of Maori indigenous knowledge into...
The CMB power spectrum out to l=1400 measured by the VSA (2002)
Grainge, Keith, Carreira, Pedro, Cleary, Kieran, Davies, Rod D., Davis, Richard J., Dickinson, Clive, ...
We have observed the cosmic microwave background (CMB) in three regions of sky using the Very Small Array (VSA) in an extended configuration with antennas of beamwidth 2 degrees at 34 GHz. Combined...
Cosmological parameter estimation and Bayesian model comparison using VSA data (2002)
Slosar, Anze, Carreira, Pedro, Cleary, Kieran, Davies, Rod D., Davis, Richard J., Dickinson, Clive, ...
We constrain the basic comological parameters using the first observations by the Very Small Array (VSA) in its extended configuration, together with existing cosmic microwave background data and...
First results from the Very Small Array -- IV. Cosmological parameter estimation (2002)
Rubino-Martin, Jose Alberto, Rebolo, Rafael, Carreira, Pedro, Cleary, Kieran, Davies, Rod D., Davis, Richard J., ...
We investigate the constraints on basic cosmological parameters set by the first compact-configuration observations of the Very Small Array (VSA), and other cosmological data sets, in the standard...
First results from the Very Small Array -- I. Observational methods (2002)
Watson, Robert A., Carreira, Pedro, Cleary, Kieran, Davies, Rod D., Davis, Richard J., Dickinson, Clive, ...
The Very Small Array (VSA) is a synthesis telescope designed to image faint structures in the cosmic microwave background on degree and sub-degree angular scales. The VSA has key differences from...
First results from the Very Small Array -- III. The CMB power spectrum (2002)
Scott, Paul F., Carreira, Pedro, Cleary, Kieran, Davies, Rod D., Davis, Richard, Dickinson, Clive, ...
We present the power spectrum of the fluctuations in the cosmic microwave background detected by the Very Small Array (VSA) in its first season of observations in its compact configuration. We find...
First results from the Very Small Array -- II. Observations of the CMB (2002)
Taylor, Angela C., Carreira, Pedro, Cleary, Kieran, Davies, Rod D., Davis, Richard J., Dickinson, Clive, ...
We have observed the cosmic microwave background temperature fluctuations in eight fields covering three separated areas of sky with the Very Small Array at 34 GHz. A total area of 101 square degrees...
Detection of a CMB decrement towards a cluster of mJy radiosources (2001)
Cotter, Garret, Buttery, Helen J., Rawlings, Steve, Croft, Steve, Hill, Gary J., Gay, Pamela, ...
We present the results of radio, optical and near-infrared observations of the field of TOC J0233.3+3021, a cluster of milliJansky radiosources from the TexOx Cluster survey. In an observation of...
SZ surveys with the Arcminute MicroKelvin Imager (2001)
The Arcminute MicroKelvin Imager (AMI) is an instrument currently under construction in Cambridge designed to produce a survey of galaxy clusters via the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect. It consists of two...
Kneissl, Ruediger, Jones, Michael E., Saunders, Richard, Eke, Vincent R., Lasenby, Anthony N., Grainge, Keith, ...
We discuss prospects for cluster detection via the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect in a blank field survey with the proposed interferometer array, the Arcminute MicroKelvin Imager (AMI). Clusters of...
H0 from an orientation-unbiased sample of SZ and X-ray clusters (2001)
Jones, Michael E., Edge, Alastair C., Grainge, Keith, Grainger, William F., Kneissl, Ruediger, Pooley, G. G., ...
We have observed the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect in a sample of five moderate-redshift clusters with the Ryle Telescope, and used them in conjunction with X-ray imaging and spectral data from ROSAT and...
Grainger, William F., Das, Rhiju, Grainge, Keith, Jones, Michael E., Kneissl, Ruediger, Pooley, G. G., ...
We describe a maximum-likelihood technique for the removal of contaminating radio sources from interferometric observations of the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect. This technique, based on a...
The radio source counts at 15 GHz and their implications for cm-wave CMB imaging (2001)
Taylor, Angela C., Grainge, Keith, Jones, Michael E., Pooley, G. G., Saunders, Richard, Waldram, E. M.
We present the preliminary results of a new survey of radio sources using the Ryle telescope at 15.2 GHz. This is the highest frequency at which a survey has been done that is relevant to the issue...
Completeness and confusion in the identification of Lyman-break galaxies (1999)
Cotter, Garret, Haynes, Toby, Baker, Joanne C., Jones, Michael E., Saunders, Richard
We have carried out a study to simulate distant clusters of galaxies in deep ground-based optical images. We find that when model galaxies are added to deep images obtained with the William Herschel...
Baker, Joanne C., Grainge, Keith, Hobson, M. P., Jones, Michael E., Kneissl, R., Lasenby, A. N., ...
We describe observations at frequencies near 15 GHz of the second 2x2 degree field imaged with the Cambridge Cosmic Anisotropy Telescope (CAT). After the removal of discrete radio sources, structure...
Determining the Hubble Constant from Ryle Telescope observations (1999)
Grainge, Keith, Jones, Michael E., Pooley, Guy, Saunders, Richard, Edge, Alastair, Kneissl, Rudiger
We describe our algorithm for measuring the Hubble constant from Ryle Telescope (RT) interferometric observations of the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect from a galaxy cluster and observation of the...
A measurement of H_0 from Ryle Telescope, ASCA and ROSAT observations of Abell 773 (1999)
Saunders, Richard, Kneissl, Ruediger, Grainge, Keith, Grainger, William F., Jones, Michael E., Maggi, Alessia, ...
We present new Ryle Telescope (RT) observations of the Sunyaev Zel'dovich (SZ) decrement from the cluster Abell 773. The field contains a number of faint radio sources that required careful...
Haynes, Toby, Cotter, Garret, Baker, Joanne C., Eales, Steve, Jones, Michael E., Rawlings, Steve, ...
We present deep optical images of the PC1643+4631 field obtained at the WHT. This field contains two quasars at redshifts z=3.79 & 3.83 and a cosmic microwave background (CMB) decrement detected with...
Cotter, Garret, Haynes, Toby, Baker, Joanne C., Jones, Michael E., Saunders, Richard
In an investigation of the cause of the cosmic microwave background decrement in the field of the z = 3.8 quasar pair PC1643+4631, we have carried out a study to photometrically estimate the...
Magnetic Insulation in Coaxial Transmission Lines with an External Magnetic Field (1998)
Mostrom, Michael A., Jones, Michael E., Thode, Lester E.
A relativistic Brillouin flow equilibrium model is assumed for the plasma sheath and a cylindrical analytic solution including a uniform external magnetic field is obtained. A free parameter...
Intense Annular Relativistic Electron Beam Generation in Foilless Diodes (1998)
Jones, Michael E., Thode, Lester E.
The generation of intense annular electron beams in cylindrical foilless diodes is analyzed. A beam equilibrium model is used to determine the diode current. At low voltage the current is very nearly...
The Diocotron Instability in Annular Relativistic Electron Beams (1998)
Jones, Michael E., Mostrom, Michael A.
The instability is shown to have a finite k bandwidth with the fastest growing mode in the lab frame shifted to nonzero k. The thin beam dispersion relation, the appearance of several new parameters,...
The Very Small Array - status report (1998)
Jones, Michael E., Scott, P. F.
We are contructing an interferometric telescope, the Very Small Array, to study the cosmic microwave background on angular scales 0.2--4.5 degrees. The physical layout and electronic design of the...
Jones, Michael E., Swerdlow, Anthony J.
Cohort studies often compare the observed number of cases arising in a group under investigation with the number expected to occur on the basis of general population rates. The general population is...
Jones, Michael E, Swerdlow, Anthony J, Gill, Leicester E, Goldacre, Michael J
Background Using data from the Oxford Record Linkage Study (ORLS) we conducted a case- control study to examine pre-natal and early life risk factors for childhood and adolescent onset diabetes...
Results from CAT and prospects for the VSA (1996)
We have produced an image of the microwave sky with 30' resolution in a 2 degree field using the Cosmic Anisotropy Telescope (CAT). Analysis of data taken at three frequencies near 15 GHz indicates...
Detection of a CMB decrement towards the z = 3.8 quasar pair PC1643+4631A&B (1996)
Jones, Michael E., Saunders, Richard, Baker, Joanne C., Cotter, Garret, Edge, Alastair, Grainge, Keith, ...
In a 15-GHz Ryle-Telescope observation of PC1643+4631 A & B, a pair of quasars at redshifts z = 3.79 and 3.83 separated by 198 arcsec on the sky, we find a decrement in the cosmic microwave...
Optical and infrared investigation towards the z=3.8 quasar pair PC1643+4631A&B (1996)
Saunders, Richard, Baker, Joanne C., Bremer, Malcolm N., Bunker, Andrew J., Cotter, Garret, Eales, Steve, ...
In a companion paper (Paper I: Jones et al. 1996) we report the discovery of a cosmic microwave background decrement, indicative of a distant cluster with mass ~10^{15} solar masses, towards the...
Jones, Michael E., Swerdlow, Anthony J.
Case-control studies of prenatal risk factors for disease in later life often ascertain cases from within a defined area, trace the birth records of those cases bom within the area, and select...