S. Murray

Publication List Details

Period

1906 - 2009

Number

200

Co-Authors

High Resolution X-ray Observations of the Pulsar Wind Nebula Associated with the Gamma-ray Source HESS$ $J1640-465 (2009)

Lemiere, A., Slane, P., Gaensler, B. M., Murray, S.

We present a Chandra X-ray observation of the very high energy $\gamma$-ray source HESS$ $J1640-465. We identify a point source surrounded by a diffuse emission that fills the extended object...

The growth and evolution of super massive black holes (2009)

Murray, S., Gilli, R., Tozzi, P., Paolillo, M., Brandt, N., Tagliaferri, G., ...

We discuss the central role played by X-ray studies to reconstruct the past history of formation and evolution of supermassive Black Holes (BHs), and the role they played in shaping the properties of...

X-ray Cluster Cosmology (2009)

Vikhlinin, A., Murray, S., Gilli, R., Tozzi, P., Paolillo, M., Brandt, N., ...

Sensitive, wide-area X-ray surveys which would be possible with the WFXT will detect huge samples of virialized objects spanning the mass range from sub-groups to the most massive clusters, and...

Galaxy clusters and the cosmic cycle of baryons across cosmic times (2009)

Giacconi, R., Borgani, S., Rosati, P., Tozzi, P., Gilli, R., Murray, S., ...

We discuss the central role played by the X-ray study of hot baryons within galaxy clusters to reconstruct the assembly of cosmic structures and to trace the past history of star formation and...

The Very Local Universe in X-rays (2009)

Ptak, A., Feigelson, E., Kuntz, K., Zezas, A., Snowden, S., ...

While the exceptional sensitivity of Chandra and XMM-Newton has resulted in revolutionary studies of the Galactic neighborhood in the soft ( 100 sq. deg.) X-ray surveys.

Consumer testing of the preliminary Paediatric Food-Based Dietary Guidelines (PFBDG) among mothers with infants younger than 6 months in selected urban and rural areas in the Western Cape (2009)

Murray, S, Tredoux, S, Viljoen, L, Herselman, MG, Marais , D

Aim: To determine the comprehensibility of the preliminary paediatric food-based dietary guidelines (PFBDG) for infants younger than 6 months in South Africa. Methods: This qualitative study used...

Vulnerability and access to care for South Asian Sikh and Muslim patients with life limiting illness in Scotland: prospective longitudinal qualitative study (2009)

Bhopal, R., Worth, A., Irshad, T., Brown, D., Lawton, J., Grant, E., ...

Objectives To examine the care experiences of South Asian Sikh and Muslim patients in Scotland with life limiting illness and their families and to understand the reasons for any difficulties with...

Stopping power of Nd, Pm and Sm ions in Cd determined with gamma-ray lineshape analysis (2009)

Lieder, E.O., Pasternak, A.A., Lieder, R.M., Bark, R.A., Lawrie, E.A., Lawrie, J.J., ...

A semi-thick target has been used to measure the stopping power for recoils, produced in heavy ion induced reactions, by gamma-rayline shape analysis.The target thickness has been chosen such that...

Somewhere safe to call home: violence against women during homelessness (2009)

Murray, S

This report is based on face-to-face interviews with 29 Victorian women aged from 19 to 54 years who had recently experienced homelessness. The majority of the women had experienced long-term or...

Adapting a remote laboratory architecture to support collaboration and supervision (2009)

Lowe, D., Berry, C., Murray, S., Lindsey, Euan

Interest in, and use of, remote laboratories has been rapidly growing. These laboratories provide remote access, via the internet, to real laboratory equipment. Under appropriate circumstances they...

Establishment reality vs maintenance reality: how real is real enough? (2009)

Lindsey, Euan, Murray, S., Liu, D., Lowe, D., Bright, Chris

Remote and virtual laboratories are increasingly prevalent alternatives to the face-to-face laboratory experience; however, the question of their learning outcomes is yet to be fully investigated....

122 Review TRENDS in Neurosciences Vol.24 No.2 February 2001 (2008)

S. Murray, S. Murray Sherman

Tonic and burst firing: dual modes of thalamocortical relay

The views of patients with advanced cancer regarding participation in serial interviewing. (2008)

Shipman, C., Hotopf, M., Richardson, A., Murray, S., Koffman, J., Harding, R., ...

Longitudinal research helps to clarify changing needs and the timing of treatments and referral but is hampered by poor recruitment and retention of participants. We explored, using semi-structured...

Testing the limits of optimistic bias: event and person moderators in a multilevel framework (2008)

Harris, P.R., Griffin, D.W., Murray, S.

N. D. Weinstein (1980) established that optimistic bias, the tendency to see others as more vulnerable to risks than the self, varies across types of event. Subsequently, researchers have documented...

A Uniform XML-Based Approach to Manage Data Acquisition Hardware Devices (2008)

V. Brigljevic, G. Bruno, E. Cano, S. Cittolin, S. Erhan, D. Gigi, ...

Abstract-- A comprehensive model based on XML technologies to interface data acquisition hardware devices for configuration and control purposes is presented. The model builds upon the use of a...

The Mid-Infrared Properties of X-ray Sources (2008)

Gorjian, V., Brodwin, M., Kochanek, C. S., Murray, S., Stern, D., Brand, K., ...

We combine the results of the Spitzer IRAC Shallow Survey and the Chandra XBootes Survey of the 8.5 square degrees Bootes field of the NOAO Deep Wide- Field Survey to produce the largest comparison...

The Effectiveness of “Two-Week” Referrals for Suspected Bone and Soft Tissue Sarcoma (2008)

A. Malik, L. Wigney, S. Murray, C. H. Gerrand

The two-week “wait” target introduced in 2000 requires that patients with suspected cancer referred by general practitioners should be seen within two weeks. We reviewed patients...

Ocean urea fertilization for carbon credits poses high ecological risks (2008)

Glibert, P.M., Azanza, R., Burford, M., Furuya, K., Abal, E., Al-Azri, A., ...

The proposed plan for enrichment of the Sulu Sea, Philippines, a region of rich marine biodiversity, with thousands of tonnes of urea in order to stimulate algal blooms and sequester carbon is...

Ocean urea fertilization for carbon credits poses high ecological risks (2008)

Glibert, P.M., Azanza, R., Burford, M., Furuya, K., Abal, E., Al-Azri, A., ...

The proposed plan for enrichment of the Sulu Sea, Philippines, a region of rich marine biodiversity, with thousands of tonnes of urea in order to stimulate algal blooms and sequester carbon is...

Ocean urea fertilization for carbon credits poses high ecological risks (2008)

Glibert, PM, Azanza, R, Burford, M, Furuya, K, Abal, E, Al-Azri, A, ...

The proposed plan for enrichment of the Sulu Sea, Philippines, a region of rich marine biodiversity, with thousands of tonnes of urea in order to stimulate algal blooms and sequester carbon is flawed...

Building a life story: Providing records and support to former residents of children's homes (2008)

Murray, S, Malone, J, Glare, J

Approximately 500,000 children were institutionalised in Australian orphanages and other forms of children's Homes over the course of the 20th century. However, growing up in care is not just a part...

Improving the capacity to respond: Examining the experiences of short-term tsunami relief staff (2008)

Murray, S, Clarke, M

This paper reports the experiences of staff from one international NGO who undertook short-term deployments to tsunami-affected areas in 2005. This qualitative analysis finds three major issues that...

The Run Control and Monitoring System of the CMS Experiment (2007)

Petrucci, A, Boyer, V, Branson, J, Brett, A, Cano, E, Carboni, A, ...

The CMS experiment at the LHC at CERN will start taking data in 2008. To configure, control and monitor the experiment during data-taking the Run Control and Monitoring System (RCMS) was developed....

Detector Construction Management and Quality Control: Establishing and Using a CRISTAL System (2007)

G. Chevenier, A. Bazan, T. Le Flour, S. Lieunard, S. Murray, ...

The CRISTAL (Cooperating Repositories and an Information System for Tracking Assembly Lifecycles) project is delivering a software system to facilitate the management of the engineering data...

From Design to Production Control Through the Integration of Engineering Data Management and Workflow Management Systems (2007)

G. Chevenier, A Bazan, T. Le Flour, S. Lieunard, S. Murray, ...

At a time when many companies are under pressure to reduce "times-to-market " the management of product information from the early stages of design through assembly to manufacture...

PTPσ binds and dephosphorylates neurotrophin receptors and can suppress NGF-dependent neurite outgrowth from sensory neurons (2007)

Faux, C., Hawadle, M., Nixon, J., Wallace, A., Lee, S., Murray, S., ...

Neurotrophin receptors of the Trk family play a vital role in the survival of developing neurons and the process of axonogenesis. The Trk family are receptor protein tyrosine kinases (RTKs) and their...

Flexible custom designs for CMS DAQ (2007)

Arcidiacono, R, Bauer, G, Boyer, V, Brett, A, Cano, E, Carboni, A, ...

The CMS central DAQ system is built using commercial hardware (PCs and networking equipment), except for two components: the Front-end Readout Link (FRL) and the Fast Merger Module (FMM). The FRL...

Laser assisted modification of surface microstructure for localised corrosion resistance of magnesium alloys (2007)

Raman, R. K. Singh, Murray, S., Brandt, Milan

Poor corrosion resistance is a major obstacle in widespread application of Mg alloys. In the present study, cast Mg alloys, AZ61 and AZ91 were subjected to laser treatments with a view to modifying...

Phylogenetic study of Gymnodinium dorsalisulcum comb. nov. from tropical Australian coastal waters (Dinophyceae) (2007)

Murray, S, De Salas, MF, Luong-Van, J, Hallegraeff, GM

A new species of the dinoflagellate genus Gymnodinium Stein, previously considered a member of Katodinium Fott, is characterized from two marine benthic habitats in tropical northern Australia....

Laser assisted modification of surface microstructure for localised corrosion resistance of magnesium alloys (2007)

Raman, R. K. Singh, Murray, S., Brandt, Milan

Poor corrosion resistance is a major obstacle in widespread application of Mg alloys. In the present study, cast Mg alloys, AZ61 and AZ91 were subjected to laser treatments with a view to modifying...

Laser assisted modification of surface microstructure for localised corrosion resistance of magnesium alloys (2007)

Raman, R. K. Singh, Murray, S., Brandt, Milan

Poor corrosion resistance is a major obstacle in widespread application of Mg alloys. In the present study, cast Mg alloys, AZ61 and AZ91 were subjected to laser treatments with a view to modifying...

Phylogenetic study of Gymnodinium dorsalisulcum comb. nov. from tropical Australian coastal waters (Dinophyceae) (2007)

Murray, S, De Salas, MF, Luong-Van, J, Hallegraeff, GM

A new species of the dinoflagellate genus Gymnodinium Stein, previously considered a member of Katodinium Fott, is characterized from two marine benthic habitats in tropical northern Australia....

Laser assisted modification of surface microstructure for localised corrosion resistance of magnesium alloys (2007)

Raman, R. K. Singh, Murray, S., Brandt, Milan

Poor corrosion resistance is a major obstacle in widespread application of Mg alloys. In the present study, cast Mg alloys, AZ61 and AZ91 were subjected to laser treatments with a view to modifying...

Remote Laboratories in Engineering Education: Trends in Students' Perceptions (2007)

Lidsay, Euan, Liu, D., Murray, S., Lowe, D.

Remotely accessible laboratories are an increasingly popular innovation in engineering education. Since 2001, The University of Technology, Sydney has implemented a number of remotely accessible...

Workshop on Remote Laboratories: Sharing Expertise, Sharing Resources (2007)

Murray, S., Lowe, D., Lindsay, Euan, Liu, D.

Laboratories are an integral element of Engineering courses within Australia. The Engineers Australia accreditation criteria includes "proficiency in appropriate laboratory procedures; the use of...

Remote Laboratories in Engineering Education: Trends in Students' Perceptions (2007)

Lidsay, Euan, Liu, D., Murray, S., Lowe, D.

Remotely accessible laboratories are an increasingly popular innovation in engineering education. Since 2001, The University of Technology, Sydney has implemented a number of remotely accessible...

Workshop on Remote Laboratories: Sharing Expertise, Sharing Resources (2007)

Murray, S., Lowe, D., Lindsay, Euan, Liu, D.

Laboratories are an integral element of Engineering courses within Australia. The Engineers Australia accreditation criteria includes "proficiency in appropriate laboratory procedures; the use of...

Why doesn't she just leave?: Belonging, disruption and domestic violence (2007)

Murray, S

From the 1970s, a feminist response to domestic violence in Australia was to assist women to leave their homes to escape domestic violence. In doing so, women's (and their children's) lives and their...

Phylogenetic study of Gymnodinium dorsalisulcum comb. nov. from tropical Australian coastal waters (Dinophyceae) (2007)

Murray, S, De Salas, MF, Luong-Van, J, Hallegraeff, GM

A new species of the dinoflagellate genus Gymnodinium Stein, previously considered a member of Katodinium Fott, is characterized from two marine benthic habitats in tropical northern Australia....

Laser assisted modification of surface microstructure for localised corrosion resistance of magnesium alloys (2007)

Raman, R. K. Singh, Murray, S., Brandt, Milan

Poor corrosion resistance is a major obstacle in widespread application of Mg alloys. In the present study, cast Mg alloys, AZ61 and AZ91 were subjected to laser treatments with a view to modifying...

The Effectiveness of “Two-Week” Referrals for Suspected Bone and Soft Tissue Sarcoma (2007)

A. Malik, L. Wigney, S. Murray, C. H. Gerrand

The two-week “wait” target introduced in 2000 requires that patients with suspected cancer referred by general practitioners should be seen within two weeks. We reviewed patients who had been...

Consumer reactions to different health claim formats on food labels (2006)

Singer, L., Williams, P. G., Ridges, L., Murray, S., McMahon, A.

Health claims on foods act as health messages and have a role in communicating and educating the consumer about diet-disease related issues. Previous studies have suggested that different formats of...

Consumer reactions to different health claim formats on food labels (2006)

Singer, L., Williams, P. G., Ridges, L., Murray, S., McMahon, A.

Health claims on foods act as health messages and have a role in communicating and educating the consumer about diet-disease related issues. Previous studies have suggested that different formats of...

Magnitude and distribution of linkage disequilibrium in population isolates and implications for genome-wide association studies (2006)

Service, S., DeYoung, J., Karayiorgou, M., Roos, J.L., Pretorious, H., Bedoya, G., ...

The genome-wide distribution of linkage disequilibrium (LD) determines the strategy for selecting markers for association studies, but it varies between populations. We assayed LD in large samples...

Consumer reactions to different health claim formats on food labels (2006)

Singer, L., Williams, P. G., Ridges, L., Murray, S., McMahon, A.

Health claims on foods act as health messages and have a role in communicating and educating the consumer about diet-disease related issues. Previous studies have suggested that different formats of...

Suppressor of cytokine signaling 3 limits protection of leukemia inhibitory factor receptor signaling against central demyelination (2006)

Emery, B., Cate, H. S., Marriottt, M., Merson, T., Binder, M. D., Snell, C., ...

Enhancement of oligodendrocyte survival through activation of leukemia inhibitory factor receptor (LIFR) signaling is a candidate therapeutic strategy for demyelinating disease. However, in other...

Suppressor of cytokine signaling 3 limits protection of leukemia inhibitory factor receptor signaling against central demyelination (2006)

Emery, B., Cate, H. S., Marriottt, M., Merson, T., Binder, M. D., Snell, C., ...

Enhancement of oligodendrocyte survival through activation of leukemia inhibitory factor receptor (LIFR) signaling is a candidate therapeutic strategy for demyelinating disease. However, in other...

Consumer reactions to different health claim formats on food labels (2006)

Singer, L., Williams, P. G., Ridges, L., Murray, S., McMahon, A.

Health claims on foods act as health messages and have a role in communicating and educating the consumer about diet-disease related issues. Previous studies have suggested that different formats of...

Consumer reactions to different health claim formats on food labels. (2006)

Singer, L, Williams, P, Ridges, L, Murray, S, McMahon, A

Previous studies suggest that different formats of health claims communicate differently with consumers. This study investigated whether splitting of a claim (a brief claim at the front of a package...

Using XDAQ in Application Scenarios of the CMS Experiment (2005)

Berti, L, Brigljevic, V, Bruno, G, Cano, E, Csilling, A, Cittolin, Sergio, ...

XDAQ is a generic data acquisition software environment that emerged from a rich set of of use-cases encountered in the CMS experiment. They cover not the deployment for multiple sub-detectors and...

Postpartum maternal morbidity requiring hospital admission in Lusaka, Zambia – a descriptive study (2005)

Vallely, L., Ahmed, Y., Murray, S.

Information on the extent of postpartum maternal morbidity in developing countries is extremely limited. In many settings, data from hospital-based studies is hard to interpret because of the small...

Continuing education program: Complementary medicine – part 2 (2005)

Murray, S

In the March 2005 edition of the Journal of the Dietitians Association of Australia we introduced the first part of our continuing education quiz on complementary medicine (CM). In this edition we...

Continuing education program: Complementary medicine – part 1 (2005)

Murray, S

Interest in complementary medicine (CM) has increased in the past decade, in parallel with the public’s demand for more autonomy and involvement in healthcare, plus the desire to optimise health...

Optical and X-ray observations of the neutron star soft X-ray transient XTE J1709-267 (2004)

Jonker, P. G., Galloway, D. K., McClintock, J. E., Buxton, M., Garcia, M., Murray, S.

We report on the discovery of the optical counterpart to the neutron star soft X-ray transient (SXT) XTE J1709-267 in outburst and quiescence. We further report the detection of type I bursts in RXTE...

The Cuala Press: Women, publishing, and the conflicted genealogies of 'feminist publishing' (2004)

Murray, S

The Cuala Press, a fine art press run by Elizabeth Yeats around Dublin during the first half of the twentieth century, has long been recognised amongst scholars of Irish literature and history. But...

A randomized comparison of alternative methods of information provision on the acceptability of elective single embryo transfer (2004)

Murray, S., Shetty, A., Rattray, A., Taylor, V., Bhattacharya, S.

BACKGROUND: The purpose of this study was to assess the effect of alternative ways of providing information about the risks of twins on couples’ perceptions about elective single embryo transfer...

A randomized comparison of alternative methods of information provision on the acceptability of elective single embryo transfer (2004)

Murray, S., Shetty, A., Rattray, A., Taylor, V., Bhattacharya, S.

BACKGROUND: The purpose of this study was to assess the effect of alternative ways of providing information about the risks of twins on couples’ perceptions about elective single embryo transfer...

FEDkit: A Design Reference for CMS Data Acquisition Inputs (2003)

Brigljevic, V, Bruno, G, Cano, E, Gigi, D, Glege, F, ...

CMS has adopted S-LINK64 (1) as the standard interface between the detector front end readout and the central Data Acquisition (DAQ) system. The S-LINK64 is a specification of a FIFO-like interface....

From Design to Production Control Through the Integration of Engineering Data Management and Workflow Management Systems (2003)

Le Goff, J M, Baker, N, Bityukov, S, Estrella, F, Kovács, Z, Le Flour, T, ...

At a time when many companies are under pressure to reduce "times-to-market" the management of product information from the early stages of design through assembly to manufacture and production has...

Direct constraints on the dark matter self-interaction cross-section from the merging galaxy cluster 1E0657-56 (2003)

Markevitch, M., Gonzalez, A. H., Clowe, D., Vikhlinin, A., David, L., Forman, W., ...

We compare new maps of the hot gas, dark matter, and galaxies for 1E0657-56, a cluster with a rare, high-velocity merger occurring nearly in the plane of the sky. The X-ray observations reveal a...

The CMS Event Builder (2003)

Brigljevic, V, Bruno, G, Cano, E, Cittolin, Sergio, Csilling, Akos, Gigi, D, ...

The data acquisition system of the CMS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider will employ an event builder which will combine data from about 500 data sources into full events at an aggregate...

Run Control and Monitor System for the CMS Experiment (2003)

Bellato, M, Berti, L, Brigljevic, V, Bruno, G, Cano, E, Cittolin, Sergio, ...

The Run Control and Monitor System (RCMS) of the CMS experiment is the set of hardware and software components responsible for controlling and monitoring the experiment during data-taking. It...

The CMS Event Builder (2003)

Brigljevic, V., Bruno, G., Cano, E., Cittolin, S., Csilling, A., Gigi, D., ...

The data acquisition system of the CMS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider will employ an event builder which will combine data from about 500 data sources into full events at an aggregate...

Run Control and Monitor System for the CMS Experiment (2003)

Bellato, M., Berti, L., Brigljevic, V., Bruno, G., Cano, E., Cittolin, S., ...

The Run Control and Monitor System (RCMS) of the CMS experiment is the set of hardware and software components responsible for controlling and monitoring the experiment during data-taking. It...

Djehuty, a Code for Modeling Stars in Three Dimensions (2003)

Bazan, G., Dearborn, D. S. P., Dossa, D. D., Eggleton, P. P., Taylor, A., Castor, J. I., ...

Current practice in stellar evolution is to employ one-dimensional calculations that quantitatively apply only to a minority of the observed stars (single non-rotating stars, or well detached...

Using XDAQ in Application Scenarios of the CMS Experiment (2003)

Berti, L., Brigljevic, V., Bruno, G., Cano, E., Csilling, A., Cittolin, S., ...

XDAQ is a generic data acquisition software environment that emerged from a rich set of of use-cases encountered in the CMS experiment. They cover not the deployment for multiple sub-detectors and...

A High Angular Resolution View of Hot Gas in Clusters, Groups, and Galaxies (2003)

Forman, W., Churazov, E., David, L., Durret, F., Jones, C., Markevitch, M., ...

We discuss two themes from Chandra and XMM-Newton observations of galaxies, groups, and clusters. First, we review observational aspects of cluster formation and evolution as matter accretes along...

Novel antisense oligonucleotides targeting TGF-β inhibit in vivo scarring and improve surgical outcome (2003)

Cordeiro, M.F., Mead, A., Ali, R.R., Alexander, A., Murray, S., Chen, C., ...

The scarring response is an important factor in many diseases throughout the body. In addition, it is a major problem in influencing results of surgery. In the eye, for example, post-operative...

Targeted pharmacological depletion of serum amyloid P component for treatment of human amyloidosis (2002)

Pepys, M.B., Herbert, J., Huchinson, W.L., Tennent, G.A., Lachmann, H.J., Gallimore, J.R., ...

The normal plasma protein serum amyloid P component (SAP) binds to fibrils in all types of amyloid deposits, and contributes to the pathogenesis of amyloidosis. In order to intervene in this process...

Targeted pharmacological depletion of serum amyloid P component for treatment of human amyloidosis (2002)

Pepys, M.B., Herbert, J., Hutchinson, W.L., Tennent, G.A., Lachmann, H.J., Gallimore, J.R., ...

The normal plasma protein serum amyloid P component (SAP) binds to fibrils in all types of amyloid deposits, and contributes to the pathogenesis of amyloidosis. In order to intervene in this process...

Targeted pharmacological depletion of serum amyloid P component for treatment of human amyloidosis (2002)

Pepys, M.B., Herbert, J., Hutchinson, W.L., Tennent, G.A., Lachmann, H.J., Gallimore, J.R., ...

The normal plasma protein serum amyloid P component (SAP) binds to fibrils in all types of amyloid deposits, and contributes to the pathogenesis of amyloidosis. In order to intervene in this process...

Using Self-Description to Handle Change in Systems (2002)

Estrella, F, Kovács, Z, Le Goff, J M, McClatchey, R, Murray, S

In the web age systems must be flexible, reconfigurable and adaptable in addition to being quick to develop. As a consequence, designing systems to cater for change is becoming not only desirable but...

Using Self-Description to Handle Change in Systems (2002)

Estrella, F, Kovács, Z, Le Goff, J M, McClatchey, R, Murray, S

In the web age systems must be flexible, reconfigurable and adaptable in addition to being quick to develop. As a consequence, designing systems to cater for change is becoming not only desirable but...

Chandra Observations of NGC 4636--an Elliptical Galaxy in Turmoil (2002)

Jones, C., Forman, W., Vikhlinin, A., Markevitch, M., David, L., Warmflash, A., ...

Chandra images show symmetric, 8 kpc long, armlike features in the X-ray halo surrounding NGC 4636. The leading edges of these features are sharp and are accompanied by temperature increases of...

Chandra Observations of NGC 4636--an Elliptical Galaxy in Turmoil (2002)

Jones, C., Forman, W., Vikhlinin, A., Markevitch, M., David, L., Warmflash, A., ...

Chandra images show symmetric, 8 kpc long, armlike features in the X-ray halo surrounding NGC 4636. The leading edges of these features are sharp and are accompanied by temperature increases of...

Chandra observations of clusters of galaxies (2002)

Forman, W., Donnelly, H., Markevitch, M., Kraft, R., Murray, S., Vikhlinin, A., ...

We discuss two themes from Chandra cluster observations. First, we describe the interaction of buoyant, radio emitting plasma bubbles with the hot intracluster gas. Second we summarize the Chandra...

Chandra Observations of NGC 4636--an Elliptical Galaxy in Turmoil (2002)

Jones, C., Forman, W., Vikhlinin, A., Markevitch, M., David, L., Warmflash, A., ...

Chandra images show symmetric, 8 kpc long, armlike features in the X-ray halo surrounding NGC 4636. The leading edges of these features are sharp and are accompanied by temperature increases of...

Chandra Observations of NGC 4636—an Elliptical Galaxy in Turmoil (2002)

Jones, C., Forman, W., Vikhlinin, A., Markevitch, M., David, L., Warmflash, A., ...

Chandra images show symmetric, 8 kpc long, armlike features in the X-ray halo surrounding NGC 4636. The leading edges of these features are sharp and are accompanied by temperature increases of...

A New Way to Detect Massive Black Holes in Galaxies: The Stellar Remnants of Tidal Disruption (2001)

Di Stefano, R., Greiner, J., Murray, S., Garcia, M.

We point out that the tidal disruption of a giant may leave a luminous (10^35-10^39 ergs/s), hot (10-100 eV) stellar core. The ``supersoft'' source detected by Chandra at the center of M31 may be...

Djehuty: A Code for Modeling Whole Stars in Three Dimensions (2001)

Turcotte, S., Bazan, G., Castor, J., Cavallo, R., Cohl, H., Cook, K., ...

The DJEHUTY project is an intensive effort at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) to produce a general purpose 3-D stellar structure and evolution code to study dynamic processes in...

A Textbook Example of a Bow Shock in the Merging Galaxy Cluster 1E0657-56 (2001)

Markevitch, M., Gonzalez, A. H., David, L., Vikhlinin, A., Murray, S., Forman, W., ...

The Chandra image of the merging, hot galaxy cluster 1E0657-56 reveals a bow shock propagating in front of a bullet-like gas cloud just exiting the disrupted cluster core. This is the first clear...

An Overview of the Performance and Scientific Results from the Chandra X-Ray Observatory (CXO) (2001)

Weisskopf, M. C., Brinkman, B., Canizares, C., Garmire, G., Murray, S., Van Speybroeck, L. P.

The Chandra X-Ray Observatory (CXO), the x-ray component of NASA's Great Observatories, was launched on 1999, July 23 by the Space Shuttle Columbia. After satellite systems activation, the first...

Chandra Observations of the Stellar Populations and Diffuse Gas in Nearby Galaxies (2001)

Zezas, A., Fabbiano, G., Prestwich, A., Ward, M., Murray, S.

We present Chandra observations of two star-forming galaxies (M82 and the Antennae) and three starburst/AGN composite galaxies (NGC1808, NGC6240, NGC7331). In both star-forming galaxies we detect a...

Chandra Observations of NGC 4636 - An Elliptical Galaxy in Turmoil (2001)

Jones, C., Forman, W., Vikhlinin, A., Markevitch, M., David, L., Warmflash, A., ...

Chandra images show symmetric, 8 kpc long, arm-like features in the X-ray halo surrounding NGC 4636. The leading edges of these features are sharp and are accompanied by temperature increases of...

Chandra Observations of M31 and their Implications for its ISM (2000)

Primini, F., Garcia, M., Murray, S., Forman, W., Jones, C., McClintock, J.

We have been regularly observing the bulge and inner disk of M31 for nearly 1 year, using both the HRC-I and ACIS-I instruments on the Chandra X-Ray Observatory. We present results from our program...

Chandra study of an overdensity of X-ray sources around two distant (z~0.5) clusters (2000)

Cappi, M., Mazzotta, P., Elvis, M., Burke, D. J., Comastri, A., Fiore, F., ...

We present results from a Chandra X-ray Observatory study of the field X-ray source populations in 4 different observations: two high-redshift (z~0.5) clusters of galaxies 3C295 and...

Census Enumerators' Books for Downham, Cambridgeshire, 1851 and 1891 (2000)

Murray, S.

The aim of this project was to investigate the working population of Downham, an agricultural fen parish in north Cambridgeshire, using information derived from the census enumerators' books for 1851...

Predictors of an antibiotic prescription by GPs for respiratory tract infections: a pilot (2000)

Murray, S., Del Mar, C., O'Rourke, P. K.

Background. Antibiotics are over-prescribed for respiratory tract infections in Australia. Objectives. The aim of this study was to describe the clinical predictors of GPs' prescribing of...

Predictors of an antibiotic prescription by GPs for respiratory tract infections: a pilot (2000)

Murray, S., Del Mar, C., O'Rourke, P. K.

Background. Antibiotics are over-prescribed for respiratory tract infections in Australia. Objectives. The aim of this study was to describe the clinical predictors of GPs' prescribing of...

Detector Construction Management and Quality Control (1998)

Le Goff, J M, Baker, N, Bazan, A, Bityukov, S I, Chevenier, G, Estrella, F, ...

The CRISTAL (Cooperating Repositories and an Information System for Tracking Assembly Lifecycles) project is delivering a software system to facilitate the management of the engineering data...

Detector Construction Management and Quality Control: Establishing and Using a CRISTAL System (1998)

Le Goff, J M, Baker, N, Bazan, A, Bityukov, S I, Chevenier, G, Estrella, F, ...

The CRISTAL (Cooperating Repositories and an Information System for Tracking Assembly Lifecycles) project is delivering a software system to facilitate the management of the engineering data...

Detector Construction Management and Quality Control: Establishing and Using a CRISTAL System (1998)

Goff, J-M. Le, Chevenier, G., Bazan, A., Flour, T. Le, Lieunard, S., Murray, S., ...

The CRISTAL (Cooperating Repositories and an Information System for Tracking Assembly Lifecycles) project is delivering a software system to facilitate the management of the engineering data...

From Design to Production Control Through the Integration of Engineering Data Management and Workflow Management Systems (1998)

Le Goff, J M, Bityukov, S I, Organtini, G, McClatchey, R, Kovács, Z, Estrella, F, ...

At a time when many companies are under pressure to reduce "times-to-market" the management of product information from the early stages of design through assembly to manufacture and production has...

From Design to Production Control Through the Integration of Engineering Data Management and Workflow Management Systems (1998)

Goff, J-M. Le, Chevenier, G., Bazan, A., Flour, T. Le, Lieunard, S., Murray, S., ...

At a time when many companies are under pressure to reduce "times-to-market" the management of product information from the early stages of design through assembly to manufacture and production has...

The effect of adjuvant prednisone combined with CMF on patterns of relapse and occurrence of second malignancies in patients with breast cancer (1996)

Marini, G., Murray, S., Goldhirsch, A., Gelber, R. D., Castiglione-Gertsch, M., Price, K. N., ...

Background: The addition of low-dose prednisone (p) to the adjuvant regimen of cyclophosphamide, methotrexate, 5-fluorouracil (CMF) allowed patients to receive a larger dose of cytotoxics when...

Lower levels of urinary 2-amino-3,8-dimethylimidazo[4,5-f]-quinoxaline (MeIQx) in humans with higher CYP1A2 activity (1995)

Sinha, R., Rothman, N., Mark, S.D., Murray, S., Brown, E.D., Levander, O.A., ...

Heterocyclic aromatic amines (HAAs), such as 2-amino-3,8-dimethylimidazo[4,5-f]quinoxaline (MeIQx), are metabolically activated by cytochrome P4501A2 (CYP1A2) and N-acetyltransferase (NAT2). We...

Metabolism of the food derived mutagen and carcinogen 2-amino-1-methyl-6-phnylimidazo(4,5-b)pyridine (PhIP) by human liver microsomes (1994)

Zhao, K., Murray, S., Davies, D.S., Boobis, A.R., Gooderham, N.J.

Animal studies have shown that 2-amino-1-methyl-6-phenyl-imidazo(4,5-b)pyridine (PhIP) undergoes both activation to a genotoxic metabolite and detoxication, catalysed by CYP enzymes. In this study,...

Interstitial modification of rare-earth intermetallics (1993)

Skomski, Ralph, Murray, S., Brennan, S., Coey, J.M.D.

Interstitial modification of R2Fe17Zx is studied with R=Y, Sm, and Z=N, C, B, Si, and S. Equilibrium interstitial concentrations are calculated using a lattice gas model. For gas-solid reaction a low...

Molecular dosimetry of the food-borne carcinogen MeIQx using adducts of serum albumin (1993)

Lynch, A.M., Murray, S., Zhao, K., Gooderham, N.J., Boobis, A.R., Davies, D.S.

Incubation of mouse serum albumin with the food borne carcinogen [2-14C]-Amino-3,8,-dimethylimidazo[4,5-f]quinoxaline (14C-MeIQx) in the presence of mouse hepatic microsomes and an NADPH-regenerating...

The measurement of MeIQx adducts with mouse haemoglobin in vitro and in vivo: implications for human dosimetry (1991)

Lynch, A.M., Murray, S., Boobis, A.R., Davies, D.S., Gooderham, N.J.

We have investigated covalent binding of radiolabelled [14C] 2-amino-3,8-dimethylimidazo[4,5-f]quinoxaline (MeIQx) to mouse haemoglobin in vitro and in vivo. Furthermore, we report the development of...

Measurement of MeIQx and DiMeIQx in fried beef by capillary column gas chromatography electron capture negative ion chemical ionisation mass spectrometry (1988)

Murray, S., Gooderham, N.J., Boobis, A.R., Davies, D.S.

A gas chromatographic—mass spectrometric assay has been developed for the simultaneous measurement of 2-amino-3,8-dimethylimidazo[4,5-f]quinoxaline (MeIQx) and...

Trp-P-2 is not detectable in cooked meat and fish (1987)

Murray, S., Gooderham, N.J., Barnes, V.F., Boobis, A.R., Davies, D.S.

A gas chromatographic-mass spectrometric assay has been developed for the measurement of 3-amino-1-methyl-5H-pyrido[ 4,3-bindole (Trp-P-2) in cooked meat and fish. The method employs capillary column...

The effect of limited proteolysis on rabbit muscle creatine kinase.

Price, N C, Murray, S, Milner-White, E J

Creatine kinase from rabbit muscle is inactivated by limited proteolysis with proteinase K from Tritirachium album. Gel-filtration and cross-linking studies showed that the limited proteolysis did...

Arginine-specific mono(ADP-ribosyl)transferase activity on the surface of human polymorphonuclear neutrophil leucocytes.

Donnelly, L E, Rendell, N B, Murray, S, Allport, J R, Lo, G, Kefalas, P, ...

An Arg-specific mono(ADP-ribosyl)transferase activity on the surface of human polymorphonuclear neutrophil leucocytes (PMNs) was confirmed by the use of diethylamino-(benzylidineamino)guanidine...

Identification of a functionally conserved surface region of rat cytochromes P450IA.

Edwards, R J, Singleton, A M, Murray, B P, Murray, S, Boobis, A R, Davies, D S

A region of rat cytochrome P450IA1 at residues 294-301 (Gln-Asp-Arg-Arg-Leu-Asp-Glu-Asn), equivalent to a proinhibitory region of cytochrome P450IA2, was identified by sequence alignment....

Emergency medical admissions in Glasgow: general practices vary despite adjustment for age, sex, and deprivation.

Blatchford, O, Capewell, S, Murray, S, Blatchford, M

BACKGROUND: Emergency admission rates have been rising rapidly in Britain. Studies defining the underlying factors are needed. AIM: To determine the principal diagnoses, demographic, and...

Study of dietetic knowledge among members of the primary health care team.

Murray, S, Narayan, V, Mitchell, M, Witte, H

There is growing emphasis on health promotion in primary care. The success of this endeavour depends in part on the ability of members of the primary health care team to provide appropriate and...

Identification of a functionally conserved surface region of rat cytochromes P450IA.

Edwards, R J, Singleton, A M, Murray, B P, Murray, S, Boobis, A R, Davies, D S

A region of rat cytochrome P450IA1 at residues 294-301 (Gln-Asp-Arg-Arg-Leu-Asp-Glu-Asn), equivalent to a proinhibitory region of cytochrome P450IA2, was identified by sequence alignment....

The effect of limited proteolysis on rabbit muscle creatine kinase.

Price, N C, Murray, S, Milner-White, E J

Creatine kinase from rabbit muscle is inactivated by limited proteolysis with proteinase K from Tritirachium album. Gel-filtration and cross-linking studies showed that the limited proteolysis did...

Arginine-specific mono(ADP-ribosyl)transferase activity on the surface of human polymorphonuclear neutrophil leucocytes.

Donnelly, L E, Rendell, N B, Murray, S, Allport, J R, Lo, G, Kefalas, P, ...

An Arg-specific mono(ADP-ribosyl)transferase activity on the surface of human polymorphonuclear neutrophil leucocytes (PMNs) was confirmed by the use of diethylamino-(benzylidineamino)guanidine...

Emergency medical admissions in Glasgow: general practices vary despite adjustment for age, sex, and deprivation.

Blatchford, O, Capewell, S, Murray, S, Blatchford, M

BACKGROUND: Emergency admission rates have been rising rapidly in Britain. Studies defining the underlying factors are needed. AIM: To determine the principal diagnoses, demographic, and...

Study of dietetic knowledge among members of the primary health care team.

Murray, S, Narayan, V, Mitchell, M, Witte, H

There is growing emphasis on health promotion in primary care. The success of this endeavour depends in part on the ability of members of the primary health care team to provide appropriate and...

Spinal cord stimulation significantly decreases the need for acute hospital admission for chest pain in patients with refractory angina pectoris

Murray, S, Carson, K, Ewings, P, Collins, P, James, M

OBJECTIVE—To assess the impact of spinal cord stimulation (SCS) on the need for acute admissions for chest pain in patients with refractory angina pectoris.
DESIGN—Retrospective analysis of...

Effect of in vivo administration of anti-CTLA-4 monoclonal antibody and IL-12 on the induction of low-dose oral tolerance

Barone, K S, Herms, B, Karlosky, L, Murray, S, Qualls, J

Oral tolerance has been characterized as an immunological hyporesponsiveness to fed antigen. Previous studies have suggested that high-dose oral tolerance involves the preferential interaction of B7...

Debrisoquine oxidation phenotype and susceptibility to lung cancer.

Speirs, C J, Murray, S, Davies, D S, Biola Mabadeje, A F, Boobis, A R

1. It has been suggested that poor metabolisers of debrisoquine are at reduced risk of developing lung cancer from smoking cigarettes. This has been investigated in 82 patients with established...

Furafylline is a potent and selective inhibitor of cytochrome P450IA2 in man.

Sesardic, D, Boobis, A R, Murray, B P, Murray, S, Segura, J, ...

1. Furafylline (1,8-dimethyl-3-(2'-furfuryl)methylxanthine) is a methylxanthine derivative that was introduced as a long-acting replacement for theophylline in the treatment of asthma. Administration...

Phenacetin O-deethylase: an activity of a cytochrome P-450 showing genetic linkage with that catalysing the 4-hydroxylation of debrisoquine?

Kahn, G C, Boobis, A R, Brodie, M J, Toverud, E L, Murray, S, Davies, D S

Phenacetin O-deethylase activity was impaired, both in vivo and in vitro, in poor metabolisers of debrisoquine, consistent with the work of others. No impairment was observed in the oxidation of...

Quinidine and the identification of drugs whose elimination is impaired in subjects classified as poor metabolizers of debrisoquine.

Speirs, C J, Murray, S, Boobis, A R, Seddon, C E, Davies, D S

Quinidine and its diastereoisomer quinine were tested in vitro for their effect on the 4-hydroxylation of debrisoquine, the O-deethylation of phenacetin and the 1'-hydroxylation of bufuralol, by...

Comparison of the in vivo and in vitro rates of formation of the three main oxidative metabolites of antipyrine in man.

Boobis, A R, Brodie, M J, Kahn, G C, Toverud, E L, Blair, I A, Murray, S, ...

1 The metabolism of antipyrine to its three main oxidative metabolites, 4-hydroxyantipyrine, 3-hydroxymethylantipyrine and norphenazone was investigated in vivo and in vitro in separate groups of...

Assay and characterisation of debrisoquine 4-hydroxylase activity of microsomal fractions of human liver.

Kahn, G C, Boobis, A R, Murray, S, Brodie, M J, Davies, D S

1 A method for the assay of debrisoquine 4-hydroxylase activity in vitro by microsomal fractions of human liver is described. The assay utilises gas chromatography-mass spectrometry with...

Assessment of antipyrine kinetics by measurement in saliva.

Fraser, H S, Mucklow, J C, Murray, S, Davies, D S

The half-life of antipyrine has been estimated from saliva samples in ten subjects by a gas chromatographic method. Half-life, apparent volume of distribution and total body clearance estimated from...

Measurement of drug dosage intensity in MVPP therapy in Hodgkin's disease.

Green, J A, Dawson, A A, Fell, L F, Murray, S

The dose of combination chemotherapy in Hodgkin's disease is commonly calculated from a formula based on the body surface area. A method is described for measuring the intensity of combination...

Attempts to phenotype human liver samples in vitro for debrisoquine 4-hydroxylase activity.

Boobis, A R, Hampden, C E, Murray, S, Beaune, P, Davies, D S

Twenty-eight samples of human liver have been characterised for cytochrome P-450 content, aldrin epoxidase, debrisoquine 4-hydroxylase and bufuralol 1'-hydroxylase activities. Evidence is presented...

Reduction by inhibitors of mono(ADP-ribosyl)transferase of chemotaxis in human neutrophil leucocytes by inhibition of the assembly of filamentous actin.

Allport, J. R., Donnelly, L. E., Hayes, B. P., Murray, S., Rendell, N. B., Ray, K. P., ...

1. Chemotaxis of human neutrophils is mediated by numerous agents [e.g. N-formyl-methionyl-leucyl-phenylalanine (FMLP) and platelet activating factor (PAF)] whose receptors are coupled to...

The Effectiveness of “Two-Week” Referrals for Suspected Bone and Soft Tissue Sarcoma

Malik, A., Wigney, L., Murray, S., Gerrand, C. H.

The two-week “wait” target introduced in 2000 requires that patients with suspected cancer referred by general practitioners should be seen within two weeks. We reviewed patients who had been...

Radiological versus histological diagnosis in UIP and NSIP: survival implications

Flaherty, K, Thwaite, E, Kazerooni, E, Gross, B, Toews, G, Colby, T, ...

Background: High resolution computed tomography (HRCT) has an important diagnostic role in idiopathic interstitial pneumonia (IIP). We hypothesised that the HRCT appearance would have an impact on...

Head injuries in accident and emergency departments. How different are children from adults?

Brookes, M, MacMillan, R, Cully, S, Anderson, E, Murray, S, Mendelow, A D, ...

STUDY OBJECTIVE--The aim of the study was to examine the differences between child and adult patients attending accident and emergency departments after recent head injuries. DESIGN AND SETTING--A...

How evidence based is the management of two common sports injuries in a sports injury clinic?

Murray, I, Murray, S, MacKenzie, K, Coleman, S, Cullen, M

Objectives: To examine the diagnosis and management of adults attending a sports injury clinic, to establish to what extent the management of the two most common injuries treated at this clinic is...

‘Classical' but not ‘other' mutations of EGFR kinase domain are associated with clinical outcome in gefitinib-treated patients with non-small cell lung cancer

Pallis, A G, Voutsina, A, Kalikaki, Ar, Souglakos, J, Briasoulis, E, Murray, S, ...

‘Classical' mutations in the EGFR tyrosine kinase domain (exons 18, 19 and 21) have been associated with sensitivity to tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs) in patients with NSCLC. The aim of the...