Paul Smith

Analysis of moment-preserving methods for charged particle transport (2009)

Smith, Paul

The simulation of electrons, protons, and other charged particles can be an expensive computation. On the one hand, the small mean free path of a charged particle makes direct simulations very...

Guidelines for Implementation of Model Quality Reports (2009)

Mats Bergdahl, Ole Black, Russell Bowater, Susan Full, David Holmes, Pär Lundqvist, ...

description of the methods for assessing the quality of surveys, with particular application in the context of business surveys, and then to apply these methods in some example surveys to evaluate...

Volume I Theory and Methods for Quality Evaluation Preface (2009)

Mats Bergdahl, Ole Black, Russell Bowater, Susan Full, David Holmes, Pär Lundqvist, ...

The Model Quality Report in Business Statistics project was set up to develop a detailed description of the methods for assessing the quality of surveys, with particular application in the context of...

Comparison of Variance Estimation Software and Methods Preface (2008)

Mats Bergdahl, Ole Black, Russell Bowater, Susan Full, David Holmes, Pär Lundqvist, ...

The Model Quality Report in Business Statistics project was set up to develop a detailed description of the methods for assessing the quality of surveys, with particular application in the context of...

And (2008)

Ryan Kilgore, Mark Chignell, Paul Smith

Audioconference participants often have difficulty identifying the voices of other conferees, especially in ad hoc groups of unfamiliar members. Simultaneous presentation of multiple voices through a...

TECHNICAL ARCHITECTURE OF THE RDN VIRTUAL TRAINING SUITE: A NATIONAL E-LEARNING RESOURCE FOR THE UK (2008)

Paul Smith, Emma Place, Kate Sharp, Simon Price

This paper describes the development of the technology and architecture behind the RDN Virtual Training Suite- a national e-learning resource in the UK, comprising over 50 Web based interactive...

An Intelligent and Adaptable Grid-based Flood Monitoring and Warning System (2008)

Danny Hughes, Phil Greenwood, Gordon Blair, Geoff Coulson, Paul Smith, Keith Beven

Flooding is a growing problem in the UK. It has a significant effect on residents, businesses and commuters in flood-prone areas. The cost of damage caused by flooding correlates closely with the...

An Experiment with Reflective Middleware to Support Grid-based Flood Monitoring (2008)

Danny Hughes, Phil Greenwood, Gordon Blair, Geoff Coulson, Paul Grace, Paul Smith, ...

Flooding is a growing problem, which affects more than 10 % of the UK population. The cost of damage caused by flooding correlates closely with the warning time given before a flood event, making...

Resolving Hand Over Face Occlusion (2008)

Paul Smith, Mubarak Shah

Abstract. This paper presents a method to segment the hand over complex backgrounds, such as the face. The similar colors and texture of the hand and face make the problem particularly challenging....

An Intelligent and Adaptable Grid-based Flood Monitoring and Warning System (DRAFT) (2008)

Danny Hughes, Phil Greenwood, Gordon Blair, Geoff Coulson, Paul Smith, Keith Beven

Flooding is a growing problem in the UK. It has a significant effect on residents, businesses and commuters in flood-prone areas. The cost of damage caused by flooding correlates closely with the...

An Adaptable WSN-based Flood Monitoring System (2008)

Danny Hughes, Gordon Blair, Geoff Coulson, Phil Greenwood, Barry Porter, Paul Smith, ...

Abstract. Flooding is a serious and increasing problem. As a result, there is a need to deploy more sophisticated sensor networks to detect and react to flooding. This paper outlines a demonstration...

A New Solution For A Difficult Problem (2008)

John Smith Paul, Paul Smith, Richard Moore, Mytown Mycountry

Many Internet service providers and online services require you to manually enter information, such as your user name and password, to establish a connection. With Scripting support for Dial-Up...

A New Solution For A Difficult Problem (2008)

John Smith Paul, Paul Smith, Richard Moore, Mytown Mycountry, Mysecondtown Mycountry

Many Internet service providers and online services require you to manually enter information, such as your user name and password, to establish a connection. With Scripting support for Dial-Up...

linboxing Kernel-level access to LinBox exact linear algebra routines Version 0.5.1 (2008)

Paul Smith, Paul Smith

Copyright c ○ 2007-2008 Paul Smith, National University of Ireland, Galway The linboxing package is released under the GNU General Public License (GPL). This file is part of the linboxing package,...

EMAGE Edinburgh Mouse Atlas of Gene Expression: 2008 update (2008)

Venkataraman, Shanmugasundaram, Stevenson, Peter, Yang, Yiya, Richardson, Lorna, Burton, Nicholas, Perry, Thomas P., ...

EMAGE (http://genex.hgu.mrc.ac.uk/Emage/database) is a database of in situ gene expression patterns in the developing mouse embryo. Domains of expression from raw data images are spatially integrated...

Component selection for heterogeneous active networking (2007)

Steven Simpson, Mark Banfield, Paul Smith, David Hutchison

Abstract. Active Networking (AN) involves the processing of programs in heterogeneous networking environments. There are several AN solutions, exposing di#erent APIs and using di#erent languages, and...

Comparison of Variance Estimation Software and Methods Preface (2007)

Mats Bergdahl, Ole Black, Russell Bowater, Susan Full, David Holmes, Pär Lundqvist, ...

The Model Quality Report in Business Statistics project was set up to develop a detailed description of the methods for assessing the quality of surveys, with particular application in the context of...

Motion Analysis of Video Sequences (2007)

Paul Smith, Cambridge Cb Pz

With the increasing availability of both cheap computing power and cheap digital video cameras there is a growing interest in the analysis of video sequences. The work described in this report looks...

The Changing Economic Status of U.S. Disabled Men: Trends and Their Determinants, 1982–1991 (2007)

Robert Haveman, Karen Holden, Barbara Wolfe, Paul Smith, Kathryn Wilson

represent those of the authors alone and not of the funding agency. The authors gratefully acknowledge the help of John Wolf and Dawn Duren. IRP publications (discussion papers, special reports, and...

LITERATURE AND ART (2007)

Smith, Paul

This special issue of French Studies examines a body of narratives featuring French art and artists published at representative periods during the nineteenth century (in both French and English)....

Modeling the optical interaction between a carbon nanotube and a plasmon resonant sphere (2007)

Hanson, George W, Smith, Paul

A model is presented for the electromagnetic interaction between a carbon nanotube and an electrically-small sphere, such as a plasmonic metal particle. The sphere is characterized by its dipole...

BMC Systems Biology Poster presentation (2007)

Imtiaz Khan, Janet Fisher, Nuria Marquez, Paul Smith, Rachel Errington, Biomed Central

A bioinformatics approach for the interrogation of molecular events in single cells: transforming fluorescent time-lapse microscopy images into numbers

Myocardial Infarction Mortality Risk After Treatment for Hodgkin Disease: A Collaborative British Cohort Study (2007)

Swerdlow, Anthony J., Higgins, Craig D., Smith, Paul, Cunningham, David, Hancock, Barry W., Horwich, Alan, ...

Background Myocardial infarction is a major cause of excess long-term mortality in survivors of Hodgkin disease, but limited information exists on the effects of specific chemotherapy regimens used...

Locating Resources in a Programmable Networking Environment. (2006)

Smith, Paul;, Simpson , Steven;, Hutchison, David

Programmable networking is a technology that has been demonstrated to enable the rapid deployment of novel network services. This is achieved through the use of open interfaces that can be used to...

Discharge dependent pollutant dispersion in rivers : estimation of aggregated dead zone parameters with surrogate data. (2006)

Smith, Paul, Beven, Keith, Tawn, Jonathan, Blazkova, Sarka, Merta, Ladislav

Much has been done to mitigate the effects of intermittent discharges of pollutants; however, pollution incidents still occur, and the downstream transport and dispersion of pollutants must be...

Abstract Integrating multiple levels of zoom to enable activity analysis (2006)

Paul Smith, Mubarak Shah

In this paper, we present a multi-zoom framework for activity analysis in situations requiring combinations of both detailed and coarse views of the scene. The epipolar geometry is employed in...

Structure-function analysis of Plasmodium RNA triphosphatase and description of a triphosphate tunnel metalloenzyme superfamily that includes Cet1-like RNA triphosphatases and CYTH proteins (2006)

Gong, Chunling, Smith, Paul, Shuman, Stewart

RNA triphosphatase catalyzes the first step in mRNA capping. The RNA triphosphatases of fungi and protozoa are structurally and mechanistically unrelated to the analogous mammalian enzyme, a...

Structure-function analysis of Plasmodium RNA triphosphatase and description of a triphosphate tunnel metalloenzyme superfamily that includes Cet1-like RNA triphosphatases and CYTH proteins (2006)

Gong, Chunling, Smith, Paul, Shuman, Stewart

RNA triphosphatase catalyzes the first step in mRNA capping. The RNA triphosphatases of fungi and protozoa are structurally and mechanistically unrelated to the analogous mammalian enzyme, a...

Structure-function analysis of Plasmodium RNA triphosphatase and description of a triphosphate tunnel metalloenzyme superfamily that includes Cet1-like RNA triphosphatases and CYTH proteins (2006)

Gong, Chunling, Smith, Paul, Shuman, Stewart

RNA triphosphatase catalyzes the first step in mRNA capping. The RNA triphosphatases of fungi and protozoa are structurally and mechanistically unrelated to the analogous mammalian enzyme, a...

Towards Low-Power On-chip Auditory Processing (2005)

Sourabh Ravindran, Paul Smith, David Graham, Varinthira Duangudom, David V. Anderson, Paul Hasler

Machine perception is a difficult problem both from a practical or implementation point of view as well as from a theoretical or algorithm point of view. Machine perception systems based on...

Fall Term (2005)

Paul Smith, Major Professors, Mubarak Shah

In this thesis we present a system for detection of events in video. First we propose a multiview approach to automatically detect, track, and consistently label heads, hands, and other objects...

Temporalboost for event recognition (2005)

Paul Smith, Mubarak Shah

This paper contributes a new boosting paradigm to achieve detection of events in video. Previous boosting paradigms in vision focus on single frame detection and do not scale to video events. Thus...

Integrating multiple levels of zoom to enable activity recognition. Computer Vision and Image Understanding (2005)

Paul Smith, Mubarak Shah

In this paper we present a multi-zoom framework for activity analysis in situations requiring combinations of both detailed and coarse views of the scene. The epipolar geometry is employed in several...

Use by koalas of reconstructed landscapes, key inputs for land managers (2005)

Woodward, William, Ellis, Bill, Carrick, Frank, Bowen, Dave, Smith, Paul

The characteristics of areas of natural vegetation that appeal to a species may be absent from reconstructed landscapes, either by design or due to elements beyond the control of the land manager. In...

Towards Low-Power On-chip Auditory Processing (2005)

Sourabh Ravindran, Paul Smith, David Graham, Varinthira Duangudom, David V. Anderson, Paul Hasler

Machine perception is a difficult problem both from a practical or implementation point of view as well as from a theoretical or algorithm point of view. Machine perception systems based on...

Vestibular loss causes hippocampal atrophy and impaired spatial memory in humans (2005)

Brandt, Thomas, Schautzer, Franz, Hamilton, Derek A., Brüning, Roland, Markowitsch, Hans J., Kalla, Roger, ...

The human hippocampal formation plays a crucial role in various aspects of memory processing. Most literature on the human hippocampus stresses its non-spatial memory functions, but older work in...

The two-domain hypothesis in Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome: autonomous imprinting of the telomeric domain of the distal chromosome 7 cluster (2005)

Cerrato, Flavia, Sparago, Angela, Matteo, Ines Di, Zou, Xiangang, Dean, Wendy, Sasaki, Hiroyuki, ...

A large cluster of imprinted genes is located on the mouse distal chromosome 7. This cluster is well conserved in humans and its dysregulation results in the overgrowth- and tumour-associated...

Effects of a stress-management program on injury and stress of competitive gymnasts (2004)

Kolt, Gregory S., Hume, Patria A., Smith, Paul, Williams, Maynard M.

20 competitive gymnasts (17 girls, 3 boys; mean age, 14.4 +/- 3.4 yr.) were recruited from two clubs in Auckland, New Zealand. Gymnasts, who had competed at a national or international level, were...

Integrating and employing multiple levels of zoom for activity recognition (2004)

Paul Smith, Mubarak Shah

To facilitate activity recognition, analysis of the scene at multiple levels of detail is necessary. Required prerequisites for our activity recognition are tracking objects across frames and...

Effects of a stress-management program on injury and stress of competitive gymnasts (2004)

Kolt, Gregory S., Hume, Patria A., Smith, Paul, Williams, Maynard M.

20 competitive gymnasts (17 girls, 3 boys; mean age, 14.4 +/- 3.4 yr.) were recruited from two clubs in Auckland, New Zealand. Gymnasts, who had competed at a national or international level, were...

Determining Driver Visual Attention with One Camera (2003)

Paul Smith, Student Member, Mubarak Shah

This paper presents a system for analyzing human driver visual attention. The system relies on estimation of global motion and color statistics to robustly track a person's head and facial...

Determining Driver Visual Attention with One Camera (2003)

Paul Smith, Student Member, Mubarak Shah

This paper presents a system for analyzing human driver visual attention. The system relies on estimation of global motion and color statistics to robustly track a person's head and facial...

The NetWorkPlaceTM? phenomenon: Connecting the space of place and the space of flows (2003)

Smith, Paul

This paper presents an issue related to interior architectural environments, which is currently being investigated through an empirical research program entitled the NetWorkPlaceTM© study. It is...

The NetWorkPlaceTM? phenomenon: Connecting the space of place and the space of flows (2003)

Smith, Paul

This paper presents an issue related to interior architectural environments, which is currently being investigated through an empirical research program entitled the NetWorkPlaceTM© study. It is...

The NetWorkPlaceTM? phenomenon: Connecting the space of place and the space of flows (2003)

Smith, Paul

This paper presents an issue related to interior architectural environments, which is currently being investigated through an empirical research program entitled the NetWorkPlaceTM© study. It is...

The NetWorkPlaceTM? phenomenon: Connecting the space of place and the space of flows (2003)

Smith, Paul

This paper presents an issue related to interior architectural environments, which is currently being investigated through an empirical research program entitled the NetWorkPlaceTM© study. It is...

Peer-to-Peer Networking for Discovering Programmable Resources (2002)

Paul Smith

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Principal Components Representation of the (2002)

Eric Slud, Maureen Stone, Paul Smith, Moise Goldstein

This paper uses principal components (PC) analysis to represent coronal tongue contours for the eleven vowels of English in two consonant contexts (/s/, /l/), based upon five replicated measurements...

A floating-gate vector-quantizer (2002)

Paul Hasler, Paul Smith, Chris Duffy, Christal Gordon, Jeff Dugger, David Anderson

We present a floating-gate based system for computing vector quantization (VQ), which is typically used for data compression and classification of signals to symbols. We present an architecture and...

ALM and ProgNets for v4-to-v6 Multicast Transition (2001)

Paul Smith, Laurent Mathy, Roberto Canonico, David Hutchison

Current efforts in the area of IP transitioning have largely considered unicast communications.

A pharmacy discharge plan for hospitalized elderly patients--a randomized controlled trial (2001)

Nazareth, Irwin, Burton, Ann, Shulman, Sally, Smith, Paul, Haines, Andy, Timberall, Heather

Objectives: to investigate the effectiveness of a pharmacy discharge plan in elderly hospitalized patients. Design: randomized controlled trial. Subjects and settings: we randomized patients...

Segmentation of Multiple Motions by Edge Tracking between Two Frames (2000)

Paul Smith, Tom Drummond, Roberto Cipolla

This paper presents a method for segmenting multiple motions using edges. Recent work in this field has been constrained to the case of two motions, and this paper demonstrates that the approach can...

Motion Segmentation by Tracking Edge Information over Multiple Frames (2000)

Paul Smith, Tom Drummond, Roberto Cipolla

. This paper presents a new Bayesian framework for layered motion segmentation, dividing the frames of an image sequence into foreground and background layers by tracking edges. The rst frame in the...

Monitoring Head/Eye Motion for Driver Alertness with One Camera (2000)

Paul Smith, Mubarak Shah

We describe a system for analyzing human driver alertness. It relies on optical flow and color predicates to robustly track a person's head and facial features. Our system classifies rotation in...

Glomic cells and blood vessels in the hyperplastic carotid bodies of spontaneously hypertensive rats (1984)

SMITH, PAUL, JAGO, ROSS, HEATH, DONALD

Carotid bodies from 21 normotensive Wistar albino rats were compared with those from 20 spontaneously hypertensive rats of the Okamoto strain. From serial histological sections the volume of the...

Static and Dynamic Fracture of Structural Steel. (1983)

Smith, Paul

The present study is concerned with the assessnent of structural steel fracture toughness, as close to real service loading conditions as practically possible in the laboratory, using small scale...

The vasculature of the carotid body (1983)

HEATH, DONALD, JAGO, ROSS, SMITH, PAUL

A histological and electron microscopical study was carried out on the vasculature of the carotid bodies in seven subjects coming to necropsy. None of these had suffered from chronic hypoxaemia or...

Capillary density and muscle fibre size in the hearts of rats subjected to simulated high altitude (1978)

CLARK, DONALD R., SMITH, PAUL

Six Wistar rats were subjected to a barometric pressure of 50.7 kPa (380 mmHg) for 34 days. These rats and six controls were killed and their myocardial capillaries perfused with India ink. Hypoxia...

Extensibility of the human carotid sinus (1974)

WINSON, MAX, HEATH, DONALD, SMITH, PAUL

AUTHORS' SYNOPSISThe carotid sinus is a baroreceptor. The anatomy and histology of the media of the human carotid sinus, when compared with the neighbouring common and internal carotid arteries, are...

Pulmonary arterial pressure and structure in the patas monkey after prolonged administration of aminorex fumarate (1973)

SMITH, PAUL, HEATH, DONALD, KAY, J. M., WRIGHT, J. S., MCKENDRICK, C. S.

AUTHORS' SYNOPSISAn anorexigen, aminorex fumarate, has been considered to be a cause of primary pulmonary hypertension in Switzerland, West Germany, and Austria. Daily oral doses of aminorex were...

100 years of the Census of Production in the UK

Paul Smith, Stephen Penneck

Traces the history of the Census of Production, focusing on the pressures which have caused it to develop in particular waysThe Census of Production Act 1906 paved the way for the first Census to be...

The Trajectory of Wealth in Retirement

David Love, Michael Palumbo, Paul Smith

In this paper, we develop a measure of household resources that converts total financial, nonfinancial, and annuitized assets into an expected annual amount of wealth per person in retirement. We use...

Chlorambucil versus observation after anti-Helicobacter therapy in gastric MALT lymphomas: results of the international randomised LY03 trial

Hancock, Barry W, Qian, Wendi, Linch, David, Delchier, Jean-Charles, Smith, Paul, Jakupovic, Ira, ...

Gastric mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue (MALT) lymphomas are uncommon tumours characterised by a tendency to remain localised for long periods. The aetiological association between MALT lymphomas...

Why Do Firms Offer Risky Defined Benefit Pension Plans?

David Love, Paul Smith, David Wilcox

Even risky pension sponsors could offer essentially riskless pension promises by contributing a sufficient level of resources to their pension trust funds and by investing those resources in...

Epstein-Barr Virus Latency in B Cells Leads to Epigenetic Repression and CpG Methylation of the Tumour Suppressor Gene Bim

Paschos, Kostas, Smith, Paul, Anderton, Emma, Middeldorp, Jaap M., White, Robert E., Allday, Martin J.

In human B cells infected with Epstein-Barr virus (EBV), latency-associated virus gene products inhibit expression of the pro-apoptotic Bcl-2-family member Bim and enhance cell survival. This...