54 Result(s)

Article

W(h)ither expert systems? — A view from outside

The paper questions the expert system paradigm, both in terms of its range of application, and as a significant contribution to the understanding of artificial intelligence. The viewpoint is that of the system...

Ian White in AI & SOCIETY (1988)

Chapter

Parameter Identification in a Soil with Constant Diffusivity

We consider infiltration into a soil that is assumed to have hydraulic conductivity of the form K = K _Se^αh and water content of the form θ = (βK − θ _r. Here h denotes capillary pressure head while K_S,...

David Zachmann, Ian White in Mathematical Modeling for Flow and Transpo… (1991)

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Parameter identification in a soil with constant diffusivity

We consider infiltration into a soil that is assumed to have hydraulic conductivity of the form K = K = K_se^αh and water content of the form θ = βK − θ_r. Here h denotes capillary pressure head while K_s, α, β and θ

David Zachmann, Ian White in Transport in Porous Media (1991)

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Editorial

Ian White in Optical and Quantum Electronics (1993)

Article

Plagiarism or protecting public health?

Is milk produced using recombinant bovine growth hormone hazardous to animal health? Despite wide publicity, the controversy remains unresolved. Rapid publication of all available data is essential if progress...

Erik Millstone, Eric Brunner, Ian White in Nature (1994)

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Introduction

Our aim here is to do two things. First of all to give a brief outline of the papers that go into this book to enable readers to see, fairly quickly, which pieces they might be particularly interested in. Seco...

Zenon Bankowski, Ian White, Ulrike Hahn in Informatics and the Foundations of Legal R… (1995)

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Diagnostic value of the DSM and ICD categories of psychosis: an evidence-based approach

Background: It is generally assumed that the distinction between affective and non-affective psychosis occasioned by modern diagnostic criteria provides a useful symptomatic contrast. Me...

J. van Os, C. Gilvarry, R. Bale, E. van Horn… in Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemio… (2000)

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The Development of a Simulation Model of Primary Prevention Strategies for Coronary Heart Disease

This paper describes the present state of development of a discrete-event micro-simulation model for coronary heart disease prevention. The model is intended to support health policy makers in assessing the im...

Hannah Babad, Colin Sanderson, Bhash Naidoo, Ian White… in Health Care Management Science (2002)

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HORNET: A Packet Switched WDM Metropolitan Network

HORNET is a metro network designed to better face the challenges offered by next generation metropolitan area networks. HORNET uses a packet-over-WDM transport on a bi-directional ring network. Fast-tunable pa...

Kapil Shrikhande, Ian White, Matt Rogge… in Emerging Optical Network Technologies (2005)

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Safe Water for People in Low, Small Island Pacific Nations: The rural–urban dilemma

The issue of ensuring that growing communities in small island countries have access to safe water and adequate sanitation is examined in Kiribati, whose islands are spread over three million square kilometres...

Ian White, Tony Falkland, Taboia Metutera, Mourongo Katatia… in Development (2008)

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Laparoscopic splenectomy for solitary splenic tumors

Solitary splenic masses are a rare entity. There is a paucity of data in the literature on the evaluation and laparoscopic treatment for splenic masses. To further elucidate the evaluation and laparoscopic man...

Vadim Makrin, Shmuel Avital, Ian White, Boaz Sagie, Amir Szold in Surgical Endoscopy (2008)

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Treatment of drainage from acidic canelands using a constructed wetland

This paper describes trials of a constructed freshwater wetland to treat highly acidic drainage from acid Sulfate soil in a sugarcane farm. A constructed freshwater wetland was used to treat acidic discharge f...

Robert Quirk, Mike Melville, Andrew Kinsela, Jason Reynolds, Tim Zwemer… in Sugar Tech (2009)

Chapter and Conference Paper

Integration of Capillary Ring Resonator Biosensor with PDMS Microfluidics for Label-Free Biosensing

In this work, we integrate a capillary ring resonator (CRR) biosensor with microfluidics based on polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) with soft-lithography. The CRR performs refractive index detection for chemical or ...

Farnoosh Farahi, Ian White in 26th Southern Biomedical Engineering Confe… (2010)