Neil Smith

Tensor damping in metallic magnetic multilayers (2009)

Smith, Neil

The mechanism of spin-pumping, described by Tserkovnyak et al., is formally analyzed in the general case of a magnetic multilayer consisting of two or more metallic ferromagnetic (FM) films separated...

2004) “TellTable Spreadsheet Audit: from technical possibility to operating prototype (2009)

John Nash, Andy Adler, Neil Smith

At the 2003 EuSpRIG meeting, we presented a framework and software infrastructure to generate and analyse an audit trail for a spreadsheet file. This report describes the results of a pilot...

High-output CPP-GMR sensor with synthetic-ferrimagnet free layer and enhanced spin-torque critical currents (2008)

Carey, M. J., Smith, Neil, Maat, S., Childress, J. R.

It is shown that the maximum stable output of a CPP-GMR sensor is increased significantly by using a synthetic ferrimagnet free layer, provided the electron current flows from free layer to reference...

Co-resonant enhancement of spin-torque critical currents in spin-valves with synthetic-ferrimagnet free-layer (2008)

Smith, Neil, Maat, Stefan, Carey, Matthew J., Childress, Jeffrey R.

It is experimentally shown that the critical current for onset of spin-torque instability in current-perpendicular-to-plane spin-valves can be strongly enhanced using "synthetic ferrimagnet"...

Audit and Change Analysis of Spreadsheets (2008)

Nash, John C., Smith, Neil, Adler, Andy

Because spreadsheets have a large and growing importance in real-world work, their contents need to be controlled and validated. Generally spreadsheets have been difficult to verify, since data and...

Users and Developers: an Agent-Based Simulation of Open Source Software Evolution (2008)

Neil Smith, Juan Fernández-ramil

Abstract. We present an agent-based simulation model of open source software (OSS). To our knowledge, this is the first model of OSS evolution that includes four significant factors: productivity...

Tools for supporting the teaching and learning of data modelling (2008)

Pete Thomas, Kevin Waugh, Neil Smith

Abstract: This paper describes three software tools that have been developed to help students learn to produce entity-relationship diagrams (ERDs) in the context of data modelling. The primary tool,...

Introducing Formal Qualitative Reasoning Techniques to System Dynamics Modelling and Analysis (2008)

Neil Smith

System dynamics techniques, such as influence diagrams, are used to model poorly understood systems. Qualitative analysis of these models is often extremely vague. More rigorous analysis requires...

The Open University (2008)

Pete Thomas, Neil Smith, Kevin Waugh, Mk Aa, Dr N. Smith

Learning and automatically assessing graph-based diagrams To date there has been very little work on the machine understanding of imprecise diagrams – diagrams drawn by students in response to...

A Framework for the Automated Assessment of Consistency Between Code and Design (2008)

Alan Hayes, Pete Thomas, Neil Smith, Kevin Waugh

In this paper, we present an investigation into the development of a framework for the automatic grading (marking) of student submitted course work. We discuss this framework, its structure and its...

TOWARD THE AUTOMATED ASSESSMENT OF ENTITY-RELATIONSHIP DIAGRAMS (2008)

Kevin Waugh, Pete Thomas, Neil Smith

The need to interpret imprecise diagrams (those with malformed, missing or extraneous features) occurs in the automated assessment of diagrams. We outline our proposal for an architecture to enable...

TellTable Spreadsheet Audit: from Technical Possibility to Operating Prototype (2008)

Nash, John, Adler, Andy, Smith, Neil

At the 2003 EuSpRIG meeting, we presented a framework and software infrastructure to generate and analyse an audit trail for a spreadsheet file. This report describes the results of a pilot...

Training in dual diagnosis interventions (the COMO Study): Randomised controlled trial (2008)

Hughes, Elizabeth, Wanigaratne, Shamil, Gournay, Kevin, Johnson, Sonia, Thornicroft, Graham, Finch, Emily, ...

Abstract Background Despite the high prevalence of co-morbid substance use among mental health service users (dual diagnosis), very few mental health workers in the UK have had training and/or...

UCL Working Papers in Linguistics 9 (1997) Checking features and split signs * (2007)

Annabel Cormack, Neil Smith

Serial and quasi-serial constructions pose an interesting problem for Checking Theory, as the inflectional morphology relating to Tense may appear on two verbal heads. We argue that a head may occur...

UCL Working Papers in Linguistics 8 (1996) Modules and quasi-modules: language and (2007)

Neil Smith, Neil Smith, Ianthi-maria Tsimpli, Ianthi-maria Tsimpli

In this paper we provide further evidence from the polyglot savant, Christopher, for the nature of Theory of Mind. In particular, we exploit a distinction between modules as classically defined...

Checking Theory: Features, Functional Heads, and Checking-Parameters (2007)

Keiko Fukuda, Teun Hoekstra, Fuyo Osawa, Annabel Cormack Neil, Annabel Cormack, ...

Structures with subordinating conjunction, covert or overt, provide evidence for checking theory, and offer an interesting testing ground for the theory of feature checking, and for theories of the...

Checking Theory: Features, Functional Heads, and Checking-Parameters (2007)

Fuyo Osawa, Annabel Cormack, Annabel Cormack, Neil Smith, Neil Smith

Structures with subordinating conjunction, covert or overt, provide evidence for checking theory, and offer an interesting testing ground for the theory of feature checking, and for theories of the...

Freely Redistributable Software across the Internet- Current practice and future directions to overcome the bandwidth crisis. (2007)

Neil Smith

The Internet offers what must be the best available medium to track, contribute to and distribute free software. Unfortunately, as soon as national boundaries are crossed, the Internet has never...

Qualitative Simulation of Software Evolution Processes (2007)

Neil Smith, Juan F. Ramil

Lehman's studies identified the software evolution phenomenon and led to a set of statements termed laws of software evolution [Leh85,Som92,Mdh02]. The term laws was used to highlight that they...

Gilbert and Landau-Lifshitz damping in the presense of spin-torque (2007)

Smith, Neil

A recent article by Stiles et al. (cond-mat/0702020) argued in favor of the Landau-Lifshitz damping term in the micromagnetic equations of motion over that of the more commonly accepted Gilbert...

Using patterns in the automatic marking of ER-Diagrams (2006)

Thomas, Pete, Waugh, Kevin, Smith, Neil

This paper illustrates how the notion of pattern can be used in the automatic analysis and synthesis of diagrams, applied particularly to the automatic marking of ER-diagrams. The paper describes how...

Nuevo globalismo, nuevo urbanismo (2006)

Smith, Neil

No es solamente el espacio el que está siendo reestructurado bajo los auspicios del nuevo globalismo, sino el conjunto de la estructura de las escalas espaciales, de lo global a lo local. En esta...

Geografías perdidas y globalizaciones fracasadas. De Versalles a Irak1 (2006)

Smith, Neil

El artículo analiza la actual etapa del imperialismo americano después del ataque al Pentágono y al World Trade Center en el marco de la historia de anteriores esfuerzos por el control global. Se...

Comment on "Fluctuation-dissipation considerations and damping models for ferromagnetic thin-films" (2006)

Smith, Neil

In a recent article (Phys. Rev. B 71, 224402 (2005)), Safonov and Bertram claim "inconsistent" results can occur when applying the "Callen-Welton fluctuation dissipation theorem" to magnetic systems...

Agent-based simulation of open source evolution (2006)

Neil Smith, Juan Fernández Ramil

We present an agent-based simulation model developed to study how size, complexity and effort relate to each other in the development of open source software (OSS). In the model, many developer...

A Study of Open Source Evolution Data using Qualitative Simulation (2005)

Smith, Neil, Capiluppi, Andrea, Ramil, Juan F.

Simulation modelling of growth trends and other empirical data from software systems can reveal the main drivers of software evolution and help improve understanding and management of the software...

A study of open source software evolution data using qualitative simulation (2005)

Smith, Neil, Capiluppi, Andrea, Ramil, Juan F.

Simulation modelling of growth trends and other empirical data from software systems can reveal the main drivers of software evolution and help improve understanding and management of the software...

Experiments in the automatic marking of ER-Diagrams (2005)

Thomas, Pete, Waugh, Kevin, Smith, Neil

In this paper we present an approach to the computer understanding of diagrams and show how it can be successfully applied to the automatic marking (grading) of student attempts at drawing...

Angular Dependence of Spin-Torque Critical Currents in CPP-GMR Read Heads (2005)

Smith, Neil, Katine, J. . A., Childress, Jeffrey R., Carey, Matthew J.

This paper derives expressions for the critical current at the onset of spin-transfer-torque (STT) instability in CPP-GMR read heads, as a function of the relative angle (theta) between the free and...

Toward the automated assessment of entity-relationship diagrams (2004)

Waugh, Kevin, Thomas, Pete, Smith, Neil

The need to interpret imprecise diagrams (those with malformed, missing or extraneous features) occurs in the automated assessment of diagrams. We outline our proposal for an architecture to enable...

Basic considerations for magnetization dynamics in the combined presence of spin-transfer torques and thermal fluctuations (2004)

Smith, Neil

This article reviews basic theoretical features of Gilbert magnetization dynamics of a single domain magnetic film in the presence of Slonczewski spin-transfer torques, with and without thermal...

Interpreting imprecise diagrams (2004)

Waugh, Kevin, Thomas, Pete, Smith, Neil

Imprecise diagrams (those with malformed, missing, or extraneous features) occur in many situations. We propose a five-stage architecture for interpreting such diagrams and have implemented a tool,...

Interpreting imprecise diagrams (2004)

Smith, Neil, Thomas, Pete, Waugh, Kevin

Imprecise diagrams occur in many situations. We propose a five-stage architecture for interpreting such diagrams, and have implemented this approach in an automatic grading tool for answers to...

Geografías perdidas y globalizaciones fracasadas: de Versalles a Irak (2004)

Smith, Neil

El artículo analiza la actual etapa del imperialismo americano despés del ataque al Pentágono y al World Trade Center en el marco de la historia de anteriores esfuerzos por el control global. Se...

in presentation services (2004)

Neil Smith, Seb Schmoller, Nicky Ferguson, Nicky Ferguson, Nicky Ferguson, Seb Schmoller, ...

(JISC), included a literature review, interviews, three regional workshops and an email questionnaire which received responses from several European countries, Australia and the USA. The report...

Antenatal screening for HIV; are those who refuse testing at higher risk than those who accept testing? (2004)

Boxall, Elizabeth H., Smith, Neil

Background The UK Department of Health recommends that all pregnant women are offered screening for infection with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and had encouraged maternity units to achieve...

Qualitative Simulation of Models of Software Evolution (2002)

Ramil, Juan F., Smith, Neil

Lehman's laws and the quantitative models based on them seek to encapsulate empirical generalizations about E-type program evolution. Such modelling is hampered by insufficient knowledge about the...

Qualitative Simulation of Models of Software Evolution (2002)

Juan F Ramil, Neil Smith

Lehman’s laws and the quantitative models related to them seek to encapsulate empirical generalisations about E-type program evolution. Such modelling is hampered by insufficient knowledge about...

Compositionality, copy theory, and control (2002)

Annabel Cormack, Neil Smith

Our ultimate concern is the mapping between representations in the Language of Thought (in the sense of Fodor 1975) and representations at LF in some version of the Minimalist Program (Chomsky 1995)....

Chomsky : ideas e ideales (2001)

Smith, Neil

Traducción de: Chomsky: Ideas and Ideals

Chomsky : ideas e ideales / Neil Smith (2001)

Smith, Neil

Traducción de: Chomsky : ideas and ideals

Nuevo globalismo, nuevo urbanismo (2001)

Smith, Neil

Nuevo globalismo, nuevo urbanismo. Documents dAnálisi Geográfica, 2001, núm. 38, p. 15-32, 14 re£ No es solamente el espacio el que está siendo reestructurado bajo los auspicios del nuevo...

Marxism and Geography in the Anglophone World (2001)

Smith, Neil

Content: Activism: The Origins of Marxism in English-language Geography After the Revolution: Critique, Institutionalization and Backlash Marxist Geography Today: Scale, Labour Geography, Activism...

Marxism and Geography in the Anglophone World (2001)

Smith, Neil

Content: Activism: The Origins of Marxism in English-language Geography After the Revolution: Critique, Institutionalization and Backlash Marxist Geography Today: Scale, Labour Geography, Activism...

No association between androgen or vitamin D receptor gene polymorphisms and risk of breast cancer (1999)

Dunning, Alison M., McBride, Simon, Gregory, Jane, Durocher, Francine, Foster, Nicola A., Healey, Catherine S., ...

Endogenous hormone exposure is known to alter breast cancer susceptibility and genes responsive to such hormones are plausible candidates for predisposition genes. We have examined polymorphisms in...

Reply to Bates (1997)

Neil Smith, Ianthi-maria Tsimpli

We appreciate Elizabeth Bates ' (B hereinafter) lengthy and critical review of our book, and we are grateful for this opportunity to reply. Our response will be in part concessionary and in part...

Modules and Quasi-Modules: Language and Theory of Mind in a Polyglot Savant (1996)

Neil Smith, Neil Smith, Ianthi-Maria Tsimpli, Ianthi-maria Tsimpli

In this paper we provide further evidence from the polyglot savant, Christopher, for the nature of Theory of Mind. In particular, we exploit a distinction between modules as classically defined...

The UK National Web Cache A State of the Art Report (1996)

Neil Smith

Two years after its introduction at the First International World-Wide Web Conference at CERN, Geneva, the use of caching technology to improve the efficiency of network utilisation has become a hot...

An analysis of World-Wide Web Proxy Cache performance and its application to the modelling and simulation of network traffic. (1996)

David Barnes, Neil Smith, Kent Ct Nf

Previous studies of World-Wide Web traffic patterns have, quite necessarily, been limited in their scope. Without exception they have had to choose to represent either a client's [1] or a...

FITTING LAWS FOR ROTATIONAL EMERGY TRANSFER (1980)

Brunner, Timothy A., Smith, Neil, Pritchard, David E.

This work supported by Air Force Office of Scientific Research. $^{1}$. A. E. DePristo, S. D. Augustin, R. Rameswamy, And H. Rabitz, J. chem. Phys. 71, 850 (1979). $^{2}$. T. A. Brunner, N. Smith,...

VELOCITY DEPENDENCE OF ROTATIONAL ENERGY TRANSFER RATES IN $Na_{2}{^{*}}$-Xe (1980)

Smith, Neil, Brunner, Timothy A., Pritchard, David E.

This work supported by Air Force office of scientific Research. $^{1}$. W. D. Philips and D. E. Pritchard, phys. Rev. Lett. 33, 1254 (1974). $^{2}$. N. Smith, T. A. Bruner, and D. E. Pritchard, phys....

Functional Heterogeneity and High Frequencies of Cytomegalovirus-Specific CD8+ T Lymphocytes in Healthy Seropositive Donors

Gillespie, Geraldine M. A., Wills, Mark R., Appay, Victor, O'Callaghan, Chris, Murphy, Mike, Smith, Neil, ...

Human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) infection is largely asymptomatic in the immunocompetent host, but remains a major cause of morbidity in immunosuppressed individuals. Using the recently described...

Functional Heterogeneity and High Frequencies of Cytomegalovirus-Specific CD8+ T Lymphocytes in Healthy Seropositive Donors

Gillespie, Geraldine M. A., Wills, Mark R., Appay, Victor, O'Callaghan, Chris, Murphy, Mike, Smith, Neil, ...

Human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) infection is largely asymptomatic in the immunocompetent host, but remains a major cause of morbidity in immunosuppressed individuals. Using the recently described...

The Reassertion of Economics: 1990s Gentrification in the Lower East Side

Neil Smith

This article utilizes property tax arrears data to trace the contraction of gentrification at the end of the 1980s and its resurgence in the 1990s in New York City's Lower East Side. Contrary to the...

On 'The Eviction of Critical Perspectives'

NEIL SMITH

Critiques of gentrification and the highlighting of the resulting displacement and evictions have become quite unfashionable as an aging group of urban scholars, especially in the UK, is increasingly...

What happened to class?

Neil Smith

While the question of social class contributed centrally to the emergence of social theory in geography in the 1970s and 1980s, it has recently fallen out of favour as a lens for viewing the social...