S. Davis

Publication List Details

Period

1978 - 2008

Number

66

Co-Authors

Evaluation of an agar-gradient minimum-inhibitory-concentration method (the Etest) as a rapid and direct measure of antimicrobial susceptibility in Gram-negative bacteraemia (2008)

Darton, T., Partridge, D., Davis, S., Townsend, R.

BACKGROUND The selection of appropriate antibiotics to treat Gram-negative bacteraemia may be life-saving. Rapid methods of antimicrobial susceptibility testing have sought to guide early antibiotic...

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S. Davis, Darwin G. Caldwell, S. Davis, Darwin G. Caldwell

Within braided pneumatic Muscle Actuators (pMA) the braid structure is vital to the actuator’s performance, preventing over-inflation, converting radial expansion into axial contraction and setting...

Meniscal tear and increased tibial plateau bone area in healthy post-menopausal women (2008)

Davis-Tuck, ML, Martel-Pelletier, J, Wluka, AE, Pelletier, JP, Ding, C, Jones, G, ...

Meniscal tears detected using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) have been identified as a risk factor for the development and progression of Osteoarthritis, however the prevalence and significance of...

Meniscal tear and increased tibial plateau bone area in healthy post-menopausal women (2008)

Davis-Tuck, ML, Martel-Pelletier, J, Wluka, AE, Pelletier, JP, Ding, C, Jones, G, ...

Meniscal tears detected using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) have been identified as a risk factor for the development and progression of Osteoarthritis, however the prevalence and significance of...

Integrated care improves risk-factor modification after stroke: initial results of the Integrated Care for the Reduction of Secondary Stroke model. (2008)

Joubert, Jacques, Reid, C, Barton, D, Cumming, T, McLean, Allan, Joubert, Lynette, ...

Objective: Despite evidence demonstrating that risk-factor management is effective in reducing recurrent cerebrovascular disease, there are very few structured care programmes for stroke survivors....

Parallel Algorithms for Image Enhancement and Segmentation by Region Growing with an Experimental Study (Extended Abstract) (2007)

Ijbt David, Harwoodt Larry, S. Davis

This paper presents eficient and portable implementa-tions of a useful image enhancement process, the Symmet-ric Neighborhood Filter (SNF), and an image segmentation technique which makes use of the...

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Yaser Yacoob, S. Davis

We propose an approach for modeling, measurement and tracking of rigid and articulated motion as viewed from a stationary or moving camera. We first propose an approach for learning temporalflow...

Factors affecting progression of knee cartilage defects in normal subjects over 2 years (2006)

Wang, Y, Ding, C, Wluka, AE, Davis, S, Ebeling, PR, Jones, G, ...

Objectives. Cartilage defects are present in subjects with knee osteoarthritis (OA). Although they are often present in healthy subjects, there is little data on the natural history of cartilage...

Factors affecting progression of knee cartilage defects in normal subjects over 2 years (2006)

Wang, Y, Ding, C, Wluka, AE, Davis, S, Ebeling, PR, Jones, G, ...

Objectives. Cartilage defects are present in subjects with knee osteoarthritis (OA). Although they are often present in healthy subjects, there is little data on the natural history of cartilage...

Childhood leukaemia in Belarus, Russia, and Ukraine following the Chernobyl power station accident: results from an international collaborative population-based case-control study (2006)

Davis, S, Day, RW, Kopecky, KJ, Mahoney, MC, McCarthy, PL, ...

Background There is little evidence regarding the risk of leukaemia in children following exposure to radionuclides from the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant explosion on April 26, 1986. Methods This...

Factors affecting progression of knee cartilage defects in normal subjects over 2 years (2006)

Wang, Y., Ding, C., Wluka, A. E., Davis, S., Ebeling, P. R., Jones, G., ...

Objectives. Cartilage defects are present in subjects with knee osteoarthritis (OA). Although they are often present in healthy subjects, there is little data on the natural history of cartilage...

BioMart and Bioconductor: a powerful link between biological databases and microarray data analysis (2005)

Kasprzyk, A, Davis, S, Brazma, A, ...

biomaRt is a new Bioconductor package that integrates BioMart data resources with data analysis software in Bioconductor. It can annotate a wide range of gene or gene product identifiers (e.g....

A systematic review and economic evaluation of alendronate, etidronate, risedronate, raloxifene and teriparatide for the prevention and treatment of postmenopausal osteoporosis (2005)

Stevenson, M., Lloyd Jones, M., De Nigris, E., Brewer, N., Davis, S., Oakley, J.

Objectives: To establish the clinical effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of selective oestrogen receptor modulators, bisphosphonates and parathyroid hormone (subject to licensing) for the...

Towards developing effective fact extractors (2005)

Chase, G., Das, J., Davis, S.

The Australian Defence Intelligence Community (ADIC) has access to large volumes of unstructured text that require processing. The quantity of text far exceeds their capacity to process this...

Refining the perfusion-diffusion mismatch hypothesis (2005)

Butcher, K. S., Parsons, M., MacGregor, L., Barber, P. A., Chalk, J., Bladin, C., ...

Background and Purpose-The Echoplanar Imaging Thrombolysis Evaluation Trial ( EPITHET) tests the hypothesis that perfusion-weighted imaging (PWI)-diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) mismatch predicts...

Towards developing effective fact extractors (2005)

Chase, G., Das, J., Davis, S.

The Australian Defence Intelligence Community (ADIC) has access to large volumes of unstructured text that require processing. The quantity of text far exceeds their capacity to process this...

Refining the perfusion-diffusion mismatch hypothesis (2005)

Butcher, K. S., Parsons, M., Tress, B., Donnan, G., Davis, S., Macgregor, L., ...

Background and Purpose-: The Echoplanar Imaging Thrombolysis Evaluation Trial (EPITHET) tests the hypothesis that perfusion-weighted imaging (PWI)-diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) mismatch predicts...

Towards developing effective fact extractors (2005)

Chase, G., Das, J., Davis, S.

The Australian Defence Intelligence Community (ADIC) has access to large volumes of unstructured text that require processing. The quantity of text far exceeds their capacity to process this...

Dietary Determinants of One-Carbon Metabolism and the Risk of Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma: NCI-SEER Case-Control Study, 1998-2000 (2005)

Lim, U., Schenk, M., Kelemen, L. E., Davis, S., Cozen, W., Hartge, P., ...

The role of dietary one-carbon determinants remains largely unexplored for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL). In a population-based case-control study of non-African-American adult (aged 20-74 years)...

Factors affecting progression of knee cartilage defects in normal subjects over 2 years (2005)

Wang, Y., Ding, C., Wluka, A. E., Davis, S., Ebeling, P. R., Jones, G., ...

Objectives. Cartilage defects are present in subjects with knee osteoarthritis (OA). Although they are often present in healthy subjects, there is little data on the natural history of cartilage...

Childhood leukaemia in Belarus, Russia, and Ukraine following the Chernobyl power station accident: results from an international collaborative population-based case-control study (2005)

Davis, S., Day, R. W., Kopecky, K. J., Mahoney, M. C., McCarthy, P. L., ...

Background There is little evidence regarding the risk of leukaemia in children following exposure to radionuclides from the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant explosion on April 26, 1986. Methods This...

Dietary Determinants of One-Carbon Metabolism and the Risk of Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma: NCI-SEER Case-Control Study, 1998-2000 (2005)

Lim, U., Schenk, M., Kelemen, L. E., Davis, S., Cozen, W., Hartge, P., ...

The role of dietary one-carbon determinants remains largely unexplored for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL). In a population-based case-control study of non-African-American adult (aged 20–74 years)...

Dietary Determinants of One-Carbon Metabolism and the Risk of Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma: NCI-SEER Case-Control Study, 1998-2000 (2005)

Lim, U., Schenk, M., Kelemen, L. E., Davis, S., Cozen, W., Hartge, P., ...

The role of dietary one-carbon determinants remains largely unexplored for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL). In a population-based case-control study of non-African-American adult (aged 20-74 years)...

Discriminative MR image feature analysis for automatic schizophrenia and alzheimer’s disease classification (2004)

Y. Liu, L. Teverovskiy, O. Carmichael, R. Kikinis, M. Shenton, V. A. Stenger, ...

Schizophrenia (SZ) is a severe, chronic and persistent mental disorder with onset in late adolescence or early adulthood resulting in lifelong mental, social and occupational disability....

Case Reports: Granulomatous lymphadenitis and splenitis associated with Monocillium indicum infection in a dog (2004)

Mackie, J. T., Padhye, A. A., Sutherland, R. J., Lamb, W. A., Davis, S.

This report describes severe generalized granulomatous lymphadenitis and splenitis in a 5-year-old, spayed female, Rottweiler dog with anorexia and diarrhea. There was replacement or effacement of...

Relationship between the area of cartilage shown on the magnetic resonance imaging middle-slice image of the medial and lateral tibial cartilages with cartilage volume and grade of osteoarthritis time (2004)

Dashti, M, Geso, M, Wulker, A, Davis, S, Cicuttini, F

OBJECTIVE - Knee cartilage volume measurement requires significant time and training. Simplifying the measurement may improve feasibility. We investigated whether the area of cartilage shown on the...

Association between knee cartilage volume and bone mineral density in older adults without osteoarthritis (2004)

Cicuttini, F., Wluka, A., Davis, S., Strauss, B. J. G., Yeung, S., Ebeling, P. R.

Objectives. Studies have suggested an inverse association between osteoarthritis (OA) and osteoporosis, based on the presence of osteophytes rather than joint space narrowing (JSN), an indirect...

Association between knee cartilage volume and bone mineral density in older adults without osteoarthritis (2004)

Cicuttini, F., Wluka, A., Davis, S., Strauss, B. J. G., Yeung, S., Ebeling, P. R.

Objectives. Studies have suggested an inverse association between osteoarthritis (OA) and osteoporosis, based on the presence of osteophytes rather than joint space narrowing (JSN), an indirect...

Association between knee cartilage volume and bone mineral density in older adults without osteoarthritis (2004)

Cicuttini, F., Wluka, A., Davis, S., Strauss, B. J. G., Yeung, S., Ebeling, P. R.

Objectives. Studies have suggested an inverse association between osteoarthritis (OA) and osteoporosis, based on the presence of osteophytes rather than joint space narrowing (JSN), an indirect...

Iodine deficiency, radiation dose, and the risk of thyroid cancer among children and adolescents in the Bryansk region of Russia following the Chernobyl power station accident (2003)

Shakhtarin, VV, Tsyb, AF, Stepanenko, VF, Orlov, MY, Kopecky, KJ, Davis, S

Background Little is known about the joint effect of iodine deficiency and radiation exposure on the risk of thyroid cancer. No epidemiological studies have been published assessing the modifying...

M2tracker: A multi-view approach to segmenting and tracking people in a cluttered scene using region-based stereo (2002)

Anurag Mittal, S. Davis

Abstract. When occlusion is minimal, a single camera is generally sufficient to detect and track objects. However, when the density of objects is high, the resulting occlusion and lack of visibility...

Health providers' opinions on provider-client relations: results of a multi-country study to test Health Workers for Change (2001)

Fonn, S, Mtonga, AS, Nkoloma, HC, Bantebya Kyomuhendo, G, Dasilva, L, Kazilimani, E, ...

A multi-centre study in four African countries was undertaken to test the acceptability and effectiveness of Health Workers for Change, a methodology to explore provider–client relations within a...

Design of the blockade of the glycoprotein IIb/IIIa receptor to avoid vascular occlusion (BRAVO) trial (2000)

Easton, J D, Amarenco, P, Califf, R, Harrington, R, Graffagnino, C, ...

BACKGROUND: Platelets play a key role in the pathogenesis of atherosclerosis, thrombosis, and acute coronary and cerebrovascular syndromes. Inhibition of platelet function by acetylsalicylic acid...

La mise en scène des femmes dans la publicité (1998)

DAVIS, S.

What kind of an impact has commodity culture had on women's performance of gender and experience of subjectivity in their day to day lives? A model in an advertisement, posing seductively with the...

Meta-Meta is Better-Better! (1997)

Crawley Davis Indulska, S. Crawley, S. Davis, J. Indulska, S. Mcbride, K. Raymond

The increasing openness and heterogeneity of distributed computing systems requires the representation of meta-information in distributed environments. Most type management systems can only define...

Meta Information Management (1997)

Crawley Davis Indulska, S. Crawley, S. Davis, J. Indulska, S. Mcbride, K. Raymond

The increasing openness and heterogeneity of distributed computing systems requires the representation of meta-information in distributed environments. This paper presents a conceptual framework for...

Meta Information Management (1997)

Crawley Davis, S. Davis, J. Indulska, S. Mcbride, K. Raymond

The increasing openness and heterogeneity of distributed computing systems requires the representation of meta-information in distributed environments. This paper presents a conceptual framework for...

Meta-Meta is Better-Better! (1997)

S. Crawley, S. Davis, J. Indulska, S. McBride, K. Raymond

The increasing openness and heterogeneity of distributed computing systems requires the representation of meta-information in distributed environments. Most type management systems can only define...

Meta information management (1997)

S. Crawley, S. Davis, J. Indulska, S. Mcbride, K. Raymond

The increasing openness and heterogeneity of distributed computing systems requires the representation of meta-information in distributed environments. This paper presents a conceptual framework for...

Vacuum energy in gauged extended supergravity (1983)

Allen, Bruce, Davis, S.

The one loop vacuum energy in gauged extended supergravity is calculated in anti de Sitter space using zeta function regularisation. It vanishes for N greater-or-equal, slanted 5. The energy zeta...

Myeloid leukaemia following therapy for a first primary cancer.

Nandakumar, A., Davis, S., Moolgavkar, S., Witherspoon, R. P., Schwartz, S. M.

To evaluate the risk of second primary myeloid leukaemia due to radiotherapy and chemotherapy administered for a first primary cancer, we conducted a population-based case-control study consisting of...

Immunological and biochemical characteristics of acid citrate eluates from tumour cells: a major non-immunoglobulin component.

James, K., Davis, S., Merriman, J.

Using competitive double-antibody radioimmunoassays we have shown that immunoglobulin (especially IgA) can be recovered in pH 3.5, 0.12M acid citrate eluates of freshly excised CCH1 tumour-cell...

A phase III study of radiotherapy with and without continuous-infusion fluorouracil as palliation for non-small-cell lung cancer.

Ball, D., Smith, J., Bishop, J., Olver, I., Davis, S., O'Brien, P., ...

This study assesses the effect of adding continuous-infusion fluorouracil to palliative thoracic radiation therapy (RT) on the rate and duration of symptom relief in patients with advanced...

Antibiotic use and risk of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma: a population-based case–control study

Anderson, L A, Gridley, G, Engels, E A, Morton, L M, Cerhan, J R, Cozen, W, ...

Antibiotic use in 759 non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL) patients and 589 controls was compared. Neither total antibiotic use (odds ratio=0.7, 95% confidence interval=0.5–1.2), nor antibiotic use by...