P. Thompson

Publication List Details

Period

1938 - 2008

Number

150

Co-Authors

Spin-driven Phase Transitions in ZnCr$_2$Se$_4$ and ZnCr$_2$S$_4$ Probed by High Resolution Synchrotron X-ray and Neutron Powder Diffraction (2008)

Yokaichiya, F., Krimmel, A., Tsurkan, V., Margiolaki, I., Thompson, P., Bordallo, H. N., ...

The crystal and magnetic structures of the spinel compounds ZnCr$_2$S$_4$ and ZnCr$_2$Se$_4$ were investigated by high resolution powder synchrotron and neutron diffraction. ZnCr$_2$Se$_4$ exhibits a...

Profile of the U 5f magnetization in U/Fe multilayers (2007)

Brown, S. D., Bouchenoire, L., Thompson, P., Springell, R., Mirone, A., Stirling, W. G., ...

Recent calculations, concerning the magnetism of uranium in the U/Fe multilayer system have described the spatial dependence of the 5f polarization that might be expected. We have used the x-ray...

Neuroinflammation and Alzheimer's disease: implications of Aβ immunotherapy. [In: ISNI 2006 Abstracts] (2006)

Boche, D., Holmes, C., Perry, V.H., Vlachouli, C., Thompson, P., Nicoll, J.A.R.

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the commonest cause of dementia in ageing. Over the past decade many studies have focused on neuroinflammation as a harmful feature of AD, with the implication that...

Summary of the Heavy Flavours Working Group (2006)

Karshon, U., Schienbein, I., Thompson, P.

This is a summary of the contributions presented in the Heavy Flavours Working Group of the DIS2006 Workshop.

A review of the 1988 and 2002 phocine distemper virus epidemics in European harbour seals (2006)

Härkönen, L., Dietz, R., Reijnders, P.J.H., Teilmann, J., Harding, K., Hall, A., ...

We present new and revised data for the phocine distemper virus (PDV) epidemics that resulted in the deaths of more than 23 000 harbour seals Phoca vitulina in 1988 and 30 000 in 2002. On both...

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing: some comments on the indeterminacy of Graham Sewell (2006)

Thompson, P., Ackroyd, S.

Critiques of the over-optimistic claims of theories of the knowledge economy and management are increasing (Thompson et al., 2001; Brown and Hesketh, 2004; McKinlay, 2005) and it is always good to...

Mapping knowledge in work: Proxies or practices? (2006)

Warhurst, C., Thompson, P.

Governments and firms are exhorted, on pain of relegation to the lower divisions of (un)competitiveness, to embrace the idea of a knowledge economy (DTI, 1998; EC, 2004; Hamel and Prahalad, 1996;...

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing: some comments on the indeterminacy of Graham Sewell (2006)

Thompson, P., Ackroyd, S.

Critiques of the over-optimistic claims of theories of the knowledge economy and management are increasing (Thompson et al., 2001; Brown and Hesketh, 2004; McKinlay, 2005) and it is always good to...

Mapping knowledge in work: Proxies or practices? (2006)

Warhurst, C., Thompson, P.

Governments and firms are exhorted, on pain of relegation to the lower divisions of (un)competitiveness, to embrace the idea of a knowledge economy (DTI, 1998; EC, 2004; Hamel and Prahalad, 1996;...

GTF2IRD1 in craniofacial development of humans and mice (2005)

Tassabehji, M., Hammond, P., Karmiloff-Smith, A., Thompson, P., Thorgeirsson, S.S., Durkin, M.E., ...

Craniofacial abnormalities account for about one-third of all human congenital defects, but our understanding of the genetic mechanisms governing craniofacial development is incomplete. We show that...

Influence of molecular weight on the surface morphology of aligned, branched side-chain polyfluorene. (2005)

Knaapila, M., Lyons, B. P., Hase, T. P. A., Pearson, C., Petty, M. C., Bouchenoire, L., ...

The surface structure of uniaxially aligned poly(9,9-bis(ethylhexyl)-fluorene-2,7-diyl) films on rubbed polyimide has been studied as a function of molecular weight (Mn = 3-150 kg mol-1,...

Foundation and empire: a critique of Hardt and Negri (2005)

Thompson, P.

In this article, Thompson complements recent critiques of Hardt and Negri's Empire (see Finn Bowring in Capital and Class, no. 83) using the tools of labour process theory to critique the political...

Impact of voluntary folate fortification on plasma homocysteine and serum folate in Australia from 1995 to 2001: a population based cohort study (2005)

Hickling, S, Hung, J, Knuiman, M, Jamrozik, K, McQuillan, B, Beilby, J, ...

Study objective: To investigate the effect of the voluntary folate fortification policy in Australia on serum folate and total plasma homocysteine (tHcy) concentrations. Design: Population based...

Foundation and empire: a critique of Hardt and Negri (2005)

Thompson, P.

In this article, Thompson complements recent critiques of Hardt and Negri's Empire (see Finn Bowring in Capital and Class, no. 83) using the tools of labour process theory to critique the political...

Magnetism of U/Fe multilayers (2004)

Thomas, M.F., Beesley, A.M., Bouchenoire, L., Brown, S.D., Thompson, P., Herring, A.D.F., ...

Magnetic multilayers are known to have behaviour shaped by the intrinsic magnetic properties of their constituents and of their interactions. Multilayers composed of Uranium (5f electrons) and...

Teams without teamwork: Explaining the call centre paradox (2004)

Thompson, P., Callaghan, G.

Call centres are evidently an inhospitable environment for teams given a work design based on individualized, largely routine work regulated heavily by technology and managerial scripts. The article...

Breaking the mould : solar water pumping - the challenges and the reality. (2003)

Short, T. D., Thompson, P.

Solar (photovoltaic) powered water pumping has the potential to bring sustainable supplies of potable water to millions of people in developing countries. Unfortunately, in many cases the application...

Lock-in transitions in ErNi2B2C and TbNi2B2C (2003)

Detlefs, C., Song, C., Brown, S., Thompson, P., Kreyssig, A., Bud'ko, S. L., ...

High resolution x-ray magnetic scattering has been used to determine the variation with temperature of the magnetic modulation vector, tau, in ErNi2B2C and TbNi2B2C to study the interplay between the...

Animal magic: Nigel Nicholson and evolutionary psychology (2003)

Thompson, P.

Review of Nicholson, N. (2000). Managing the Human Animal: Why People Behave the Way They Do in Corporate Settings, Texere Publishing, 316pp. ISBN 1587990318. Evolutionary psychology (EP) has had...

Fantasy island: a labour process critique of the 'age of surveillance' (2003)

Thompson, P.

While surveillance has long been recognised as part of the armoury of managerial practices in the workplace, there has been increasing claims that electronic or panoptic surveillance is a new and...

Disconnected capitalism: or why employers can't keep their side of the bargain (2003)

Thompson, P.

Those who ply their trade by purveying ideas – academics, policy entrepreneurs, consultants and the like – have a vested interest in proclaiming the new. It is much harder to make a reputation or...

Dynamics of Gray Matter Loss in Alzheimer's Disease (2003)

Thompson, P., Hayashi, K., DeZubicaray, G. I, Janke, A. L., Rose, S. E., Semple, J., ...

We detected and mapped a dynamically spreading wave of gray matter loss in the brains of patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD). The loss pattern was visualized in four dimensions as it spread over...

Disconnected capitalism: or why employers can't keep their side of the bargain (2003)

Thompson, P.

Those who ply their trade by purveying ideas - academics, policy entrepreneurs, consultants and the like - have a vested interest in proclaiming the new. It is much harder to make a reputation or a...

Fantasy island: a labour process critique of the 'age of surveillance' (2003)

Thompson, P.

While surveillance has long been recognised as part of the armoury of managerial practices in the workplace, there has been increasing claims that electronic or panoptic surveillance is a new and...

Animal magic: Nigel Nicholson and evolutionary psychology (2003)

Thompson, P.

Review of Nicholson, N. (2000). Managing the Human Animal: Why People Behave the Way They Do in Corporate Settings, Texere Publishing, 316pp. ISBN 1587990318. Evolutionary psychology (EP) has had...

Skill formation in call centres (2002)

Thompson, P., Callaghan, G.

About the book: Call centres are a new type of service work that stand at the interface between corporations and consumers. They exemplify more general tendencies present within service work. They...

We recruit attitude: the selection and shaping of call centre labour (2002)

Callaghan, G., Thompson, P.

Call centres are growing rapidly and are receiving attention from politicians, policy makers and academics. While most of the latter focus on work relations, notably patterns of control and...

Long-term effectiveness and safety of pravastatin in 9014 patients with coronary heart6 disease and average cholesterol concentrations: the LIPID trial follow-up P Thompson, M West, H White (2002)

Simes, R. J., Hunt, D., Kirby, A., Tonkin, A., Keech, A., Aylward, P., ...

Background The Long-term Intervention with Pravastatin in Ischaemic Disease (LIPID) study showed that pravastatin therapy over 6 years reduced mortality and cardiovascular events in patients with...

We recruit attitude: the selection and shaping of call centre labour (2002)

Callaghan, G., Thompson, P.

Call centres are growing rapidly and are receiving attention from politicians, policy makers and academics. While most of the latter focus on work relations, notably patterns of control and...

A study of RHIC crystal collimation (2001)

Trbojevic, D., Biryukov, V. M., Harrison, M., Parker, B., Thompson, P., Stevens, A., ...

The Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) will experience increasing longitudinal and transverse heavy ion emittances, mostly due to intra-beam scattering (IBS). The experiments in RHIC are expected...

Ignorant theories and knowledgeable workers: interrogating the connections between knowledge, skills and services (2001)

Thompson, P., Warhurst, C., Callaghan, G.

This article builds on recent critiques of the knowledge economy to argue that key growth areas in future employment will be in low level service jobs rather than knowledge work as currently...

Sexual harassment as an exercise of power (2001)

Wilson, F., Thompson, P.

This article argues that the key to the explanation as to why sexual harassment is a feature of organizational life lies in the issue of power. Yet there has been little attempt to link sexual...

Edwards revisited: Technical control in call centres (2001)

Callaghan, G., Thompson, P.

Call centres represent a new strategy by capital to reduce unit labour costs. While this strategy has been applied to many different types of work, it is particularly successful in cutting costs in...

Long-term risk stratification for survivors of acute coronary syndromes - Results from the long-term intervention with pravastatin in ischemic disease (LIPID) study (2001)

Marschner, IC, Colquhoun, D, Simes, RJ, Glasziou, P, Harris, P, Singh, BB, ...

OBJECTIVES We developed a prognostic strategy for quantifying the long-term risk of coronary heart disease (CHD) events in survivors of acute coronary syndromes (ACS). BACKGROUND Strategies for...

Ignorant theories and knowledgeable workers: interrogating the connections between knowledge, skills and services (2001)

Thompson, P., Warhurst, C., Callaghan, G.

This article builds on recent critiques of the knowledge economy to argue that key growth areas in future employment will be in low level service jobs rather than knowledge work as currently...

Sexual harassment as an exercise of power (2001)

Wilson, F., Thompson, P.

This article argues that the key to the explanation as to why sexual harassment is a feature of organizational life lies in the issue of power. Yet there has been little attempt to link sexual...

Edwards revisited: Technical control in call centres (2001)

Callaghan, G., Thompson, P.

Call centres represent a new strategy by capital to reduce unit labour costs. While this strategy has been applied to many different types of work, it is particularly successful in cutting costs in...

Production of ... Mesons in DIS Diffractive Interactions at HERA (2000)

P. Thompson

This paper presents a measurement of dierential distributions which explore the dynamics of diractive charm production. Dierent theoretical approaches to diractive charm production exist and are...

End-to-End Management of Mixed Applications across Networks (1999)

Davies J Holyer, P Thompson, Neil Davies, Judy Holyer, Peter Thompson

Different applications travelling across networks have different requirements for loss and delay. In some applications all the traffic arrives very quickly and with very little loss. There are other...

Cage-Like Precursor Formation from Extensive Cyclization in Sol-Gel Inorganic Condensation Polymerization. (1998)

Ng, L. V., Thompson, P., Sanchez, J., McCormick, A. V.

In the sol-gel synthesis of silica by the acid catalyzed hydrolysis and condensation of tetraethyl orthosilicate (TEOS), the fractal dimension, density and homogeneity of the gel depends strongly on...

Cage-Like Precursor Formation From Extensive Cyclization in Sol-Gel Inorganic Condensation Polymerization. (1998)

Ng, L. V., Thompson, P., Sanchez, J., McCormick, A. V.

In the sol-gel synthesis of silica by the acid catalyzed hydrolysis and condensation of tetraethyl orthosilicate (TEOS), the fractal dimension, density and homogeneity of the gel depends strongly on...

Woodbridge Research Facility Remedial Investigation/Feasibility Study; Focused Feasibility Study for Operable Unit Three (1998)

Thompson, P., Huber, K., Hanson, K., Stowers, J., Wood, A.

Operable Unit 3 (OU3) at the Woodbridge Research Facility (WRF) has been defined as the Main Ditch (AREE 22) and the area between the northern boundary of the Main Compound and the Main Ditch...

Woodbridge Research Facility Remedial Investigation/Feasibility Study, Sampling and Analysis Plan. Volume 2. Quality Assurance Project Plan (1998)

Wisbeck, D., Thompson, P., McKown, G.

U.S. Army Woodbridge Research Facility (WRF) was used in the past as a major military communications center and a research and development laboratory where electromagnetic pulse energy was tested on...

Construction And Testing Of Arc Dipoles And Quadrupoles For The Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (rhic) At Bnl (1998)

P. Wanderer, E. Kelly, G. Morgan, A. Prodell, M. Rehak, W. Sampson, ...

This paper reports the construction and performance of these magnets. Novel features of design and test, introduced to enhance technical performance and control costs, are also discussed. Other...

Superconducting Sextupoles And Trim Quadrupoles For Rhic (1998)

P. Thompson, M. Anerella, G. Ganetis, A. Ghosh, A. Greene, R. Gupta, ...

RHIC requires 288 sextupole and 72 trim quadrupole magnets. These iron poletip superconducting magnets have been constructed by Everson Electric Co. Room temperature field measurements have been...

Field Quality Control Through The Production Phase Of Rhic Arc Dipoles (1998)

R. Gupta, A. Jain, S. Kahn, G. Morgan, P. Thompson, E. Willen

The field quality in the arc dipoles built thus far for the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) not only meets machine requirements 1 but is significantly better than that expected from scaling...

Refining the risk-benefit equation for thrombolysis: How to identity the low risk patient before administering thrombolytic therapy (1998)

Nidorf, M, Parsons, R, Thompson, P, Jamrozik, K, Hobbs, M

In view of the relative risk of intracranial haemorrhage and major bleeding with thrombolytic therapy, it is important ro identify as early as possible the low risk patient who may not have a net...

Woodbridge Research Facility Remedial Investigation/Feasibility Study. Sampling and Analysis Plan Vol 1: Field Sampling Plan Vol II: Quality Assurance Project Plan. Addendum 1, (1997)

Wisbeck, D., Thompson, P., Williams, T., Ehlers, M., Eliass, M.

U.S. Army Woodbridge Research Facility (WRF) was used in the past as a major military communications center and a research and development laboratory where electromagnetic pulse energy was tested on...