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Modelling the bilateral symmetry of caries incidence (2008)
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Burnside, G., Pine, C., & Williamson, P. (2008). Modelling the bilateral symmetry of caries incidence. Caries Research, 42(4), 291-296. https://doi.org/10.1159/000148161

Background/Aims: Past caries experience has been shown to be the best predictor of the development of caries in the future, and clinical observations suggest that caries develops symmetrically in similar teeth on each side of the mouth. This study in... Read More about Modelling the bilateral symmetry of caries incidence.

Ethics for things (2008)
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Adam, A. (2008). Ethics for things. Ethics and Information Technology, 10(2-3), 149-154. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10676-008-9169-3

This paper considers the ways that Information Ethics (IE) treats things. A number of critics have focused on IE’s move away from anthropocentrism to include non-humans on an equal basis in moral thinking. I enlist Actor Network Theory, Dennett’s v... Read More about Ethics for things.

Lullabies, laments, and ragtime cowboys : yodeling at the turn of the twentieth century (2008)
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Wise, T. (2008). Lullabies, laments, and ragtime cowboys : yodeling at the turn of the twentieth century. American Music, 26(1), 13-36

This empirically-based musicological study deals with yodeling in U. S. American popular music at the turn of the twentieth century as documented in phonograph recordings and, in contrast to previous discussions of yodeling in this context, in printe... Read More about Lullabies, laments, and ragtime cowboys : yodeling at the turn of the twentieth century.

Enabling healthy choices: Is ICT the highway to health improvement? (2008)
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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?.

A new approach to outliers in meta-analysis (2008)
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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.

Probabilistic applications of the Schlomilch transformation (2008)
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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.

An order-statistics-based method for constructing multivariate distributions with fixed marginals (2008)
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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.

Background exposure rates of terrestrial wildlife in England and Wales (2008)
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Beresford, N., Barnett, C., Jones, D., Wood, M., Appleton, J., Breward, N., & Copplestone, D. (2008). Background exposure rates of terrestrial wildlife in England and Wales. Journal of Environmental Radioactivity, 99(9), 1430-1439. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvrad.2008.03.003

It has been suggested that, when assessing radiation impacts on non-human biota, estimated dose rates due to anthropogenically released radionuclides should be put in context by comparison to dose rates from natural background radiation. In order t... Read More about Background exposure rates of terrestrial wildlife in England and Wales.

Menu-Safe: a business viewpoint from the hospitality manager at Blackpool’s Pleasure Beach, UK (2008)
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Blackpool’s Pleasure Beach, UK. International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management, 20(5), https://doi.org/10.1108/09596110810881481

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present the viewpoint of the hospitality manager of a large amusement park using Menu-Safe, the new method for HACCP for the Hospitality industry. It is the eighth article in the second Worldwide Hospitalit... Read More about Menu-Safe: a business viewpoint from the hospitality manager at Blackpool’s Pleasure Beach, UK.

Menu-Safe: a business viewpoint from the manager and head chef at the Isis Restaurant, Salford, UK (2008)
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at the Isis Restaurant, Salford, UK. International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management, 20(5), https://doi.org/10.1108/09596110810881490

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present the viewpoints of a manager and head chef from a small restaurant using Menu-Safe, a new method of HACCP in the Hospitality industry. It is the seventh article in the second Worldwide Hospitality an... Read More about Menu-Safe: a business viewpoint from the manager and head chef at the Isis Restaurant, Salford, UK.

Environmental regulation and innovation driving ecological design in the UK automotive industry (2008)
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ecological design in the UK automotive industry. Business Strategy and the Environment, 17, https://doi.org/10.1002/bse.550

The theory of ecological modernization asserts that economic and environmental goals can be integrated within a framework of industrial modernity. Its central tenet is that environmental regulation can stimulate the application of ‘clean’ technolog... Read More about Environmental regulation and innovation driving ecological design in the UK automotive industry.

Regenerating communities: Women's experiences of urban regeneration (2008)
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Gosling, V. (2008). Regenerating communities: Women's experiences of urban regeneration. Urban Studies, 45(3), 607-626. https://doi.org/10.1177/0042098007087337

In the UK, New Labour has placed great emphasis on community-based urban regeneration as part of its strategy to combat social exclusion. However, there is little understanding of the ways in which regeneration policies impact on the lives and com... Read More about Regenerating communities: Women's experiences of urban regeneration.

'I've always managed, that's what we do': Social capital and women's experiences of social exclusion (2008)
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Gosling, V. (2008). 'I've always managed, that's what we do': Social capital and women's experiences of social exclusion. Sociological Research Online, 13(1), https://doi.org/10.5153/sro.1613

It is evident that the concept of 'social capital' has recently come to the forefront of many governmental strategies aimed at combating social exclusion. In particular the interpretation of social capital used by many authors and agencies is one tha... Read More about 'I've always managed, that's what we do': Social capital and women's experiences of social exclusion.

Analogies and mental simulations in learning for really new products: The role of visual attention (2008)
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products: The role of visual attention

Really new products (RNPs) create new product categories or at least significantly expand existing ones. The development of RNPs is a strategic priority for most companies. However, 40% to 90% of new products fail, often due to consumers’ lack of... Read More about Analogies and mental simulations in learning for really new products: The role of visual attention.

Relative importance of Ixodes ricinus and Ixodes trianguliceps as vectors for Anaplasma phagocytophilum and Babesia microti in field vole (Microtus agrestis) populations (2008)
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Bown, K., Lambin, X., Telford, G., Ogden, N., Telfer, S., Woldehiwet, Z., & Birtles, R. (2008). Relative importance of Ixodes ricinus and Ixodes trianguliceps as vectors for Anaplasma phagocytophilum and Babesia microti in field vole (Microtus agrestis) populations. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 74(23), 7118-7125. https://doi.org/10.1128/AEM.00625-08

The importance of Ixodes ricinus in the transmission of tick-borne pathogens is well recognized in the United Kingdom and across Europe. However, the role of coexisting Ixodes species, such as the widely distributed species Ixodes trianguliceps, as... Read More about Relative importance of Ixodes ricinus and Ixodes trianguliceps as vectors for Anaplasma phagocytophilum and Babesia microti in field vole (Microtus agrestis) populations.

Mining the archival formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded tissue proteome: opportunities and challenges (2008)
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Nirmalan, N., Harnden, P., Selby, P., & Banks, R. (2008). Mining the archival formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded tissue proteome: opportunities and challenges. Molecular BioSystems, 4(7), 712-720. https://doi.org/10.1039/b800098k

The significant potential of tissue-based proteomic biomarker studies can be restricted by difficulties in accessing samples in optimal fresh-frozen form. While archival formalinfixed tissue collections with attached clinical and outcome data repre... Read More about Mining the archival formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded tissue proteome: opportunities and challenges.

Comparing ANNs and genetic programming for voice quality assessment post-treatment (2008)
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Ritchings, T., Berry, C., & Sheta, W. (2008). Comparing ANNs and genetic programming for voice quality assessment post-treatment. Applied Artificial Intelligence, 22(3), 198-207. https://doi.org/10.1080/08839510701734343

In the U.K., the rehabilitation of a patient's voice following treatment for cancer of the larynx is managed by Speech and Language Therapists (SALT), who listen to a patient's stylized speech and then use their experience and domain knowledge to mak... Read More about Comparing ANNs and genetic programming for voice quality assessment post-treatment.

The Australian public and politics on-line: Reinforcing or reinventing representation? (2008)
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Gibson, R., Lusoli, W., & Ward, S. (2008). The Australian public and politics on-line: Reinforcing or reinventing representation?. Australian Journal of Political Science, 43(1), 111-131. https://doi.org/10.1080/10361140701842607

Fears for the health of representative politics in advanced industrial democracies have gained prominence in recent years with observers pointing to a growing body of evidence that citizens are disengaging from formal politics. One of the solution... Read More about The Australian public and politics on-line: Reinforcing or reinventing representation?.

Mobilisation of sediment-associated metals from historical Pb working sites on the River Sheaf, Sheffield, UK (2008)
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Hutchinson, S., & Rothwell, J. (2008). Mobilisation of sediment-associated metals from historical Pb working sites on the River Sheaf, Sheffield, UK. Environmental Pollution, 155(1), 61-71. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2007.10.033

Spatial and temporal patterns of metal mobilisation from former water-powered, Pb working sites in a suburban area of Sheffield (UK) were investigated. Twelve time-integrated mass flux samplers were strategically deployed over two contrasting campai... Read More about Mobilisation of sediment-associated metals from historical Pb working sites on the River Sheaf, Sheffield, UK.