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A framework for understanding Information Technology as ecology (2008)
Book Chapter
Basden, A. (2008). A framework for understanding Information Technology as ecology. In A. Basden (Ed.), Philosophical Frameworks for Understanding Information Systems (309-337). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-59904-036-3.ch008

Information technology (IT) deeply influences the way we live, our assumptions, aspirations, expectations, habits -- our very life-and-world-views (LWVs). It has become an environment in which we live and work, a kind of ecology in which modern life... Read More about A framework for understanding Information Technology as ecology.

A framework for understanding Information Technology as ecology (2008)
Book Chapter
Basden, A. (2008). A framework for understanding Information Technology as ecology. In A. Basden (Ed.), Philosophical Frameworks for Understanding Information Systems (309-337). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-59904-036-3.ch008

Information technology (IT) deeply influences the way we live, our assumptions, aspirations, expectations, habits -- our very life-and-world-views (LWVs). It has become an environment in which we live and work, a kind of ecology in which modern life... Read More about A framework for understanding Information Technology as ecology.

Cycle of conflict: A decade of strife in English professional rugby (2008)
Journal Article
Williams, P. (2008). Cycle of conflict: A decade of strife in English professional rugby. International Journal of the History of Sport, 25(4), 65-81. https://doi.org/10.1080/09523360701701689

Rugby union was the last major international sport to embrace open professionalism. In the years leading up to the abandonment of the amateur principle by the sport’s world governing body, the (English) Rugby Football Union’s rearguard action on both... Read More about Cycle of conflict: A decade of strife in English professional rugby.

An order-statistics-based method for constructing multivariate distributions with fixed marginals (2008)
Journal Article
Baker, R. (2008). An order-statistics-based method for constructing multivariate distributions with fixed marginals. Journal of Multivariate Analysis, 99(10), 2312-2327. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmva.2008.02.019

A new system of multivariate distributions with fixed marginal distributions is introduced via the consideration of random variates that are randomly chosen pairs of order statistics of the marginal distributions. The distributions allow arbitrary po... Read More about An order-statistics-based method for constructing multivariate distributions with fixed marginals.

Probabilistic applications of the Schlomilch transformation (2008)
Journal Article
Baker, R. (2008). Probabilistic applications of the Schlomilch transformation. Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods, 37(14), 2162-2176. https://doi.org/10.1080/03610920801892014

The Schlömilch transformation, long used by mathematicians for integral evaluation, allows probability mass to be redistributed, thus transforming old distributions to new ones. The transformation is used to introduce some new families of distributio... Read More about Probabilistic applications of the Schlomilch transformation.

A new approach to outliers in meta-analysis (2008)
Journal Article
Baker, R., & Jackson, D. (2008). A new approach to outliers in meta-analysis. Health Care Management Science, 11(2), 121-131. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10729-007-9041-8

The synthesis of evidence from trials and medical studies using meta-analysis is essential for Evidence Based Medicine. However, problematical outlying results often occur even under the random-effects model. We propose a model that allows a long-tai... Read More about A new approach to outliers in meta-analysis.

Enabling healthy choices: Is ICT the highway to health improvement? (2008)
Journal Article
Lindsay, S., Bellaby, P., Smith, S., & Baker, R. (2008). Enabling healthy choices: Is ICT the highway to health improvement?. Health, 12(3), 313-331. https://doi.org/10.1177/1363459308090051

The White Paper Choosing health acknowledges that there is no lack of information in the system about healthy lifestyles, but the manner of communication of risk and the level of support for lifestyle change need improvement. Action also has to be ta... Read More about Enabling healthy choices: Is ICT the highway to health improvement?.

Menstrual variation of breast volume and T2 relaxation times in cyclical mastalgia (2008)
Journal Article
Hussain, Z., Brooks, J., & Percy, D. (2008). Menstrual variation of breast volume and T2 relaxation times in cyclical mastalgia. Radiography, 14(1), 8-16. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.radi.2006.07.003

Purpose

Hormonal activity causes breast volume to change during the menstrual cycle. One possible cause of this volume change is thought to be due to water retention or oedema within the tissues. We used magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to study t... Read More about Menstrual variation of breast volume and T2 relaxation times in cyclical mastalgia.

On the development of decision rules for bar quiz handicapping (2008)
Journal Article
Percy, D., & Scarf, P. (2008). On the development of decision rules for bar quiz handicapping. Journal of the Operational Research Society, 59(10), 1406-1414. https://doi.org/10.1057/palgrave.jors.2602487

Purpose - To present decision rules for 'pub quiz' handicapping where teams comprise different numbers of players.

Design/methodology/approach - Discusses handicapping in several sports. Argues that 'pub quiz' teams with fewer players are disadvan... Read More about On the development of decision rules for bar quiz handicapping.