S. Brown

Details der Publikationsliste

Zeitraum

1996 - 2009

Anzahl

53

Co-Autoren

in World Wide Web Journal v 2 no 3 (Summer 1997) pp 241–257 (2009)

A Abulafia, S Brown, S Abramovich-bar, A Acquisti, A Friedman, R Telang

[9] EN Adams, ‘‘Optimising preventive maintenance of software products’’, lBM Journal of Research and Development, v 28 no 1 (1984) pp 2–14 [10] J Adams, ‘Risk’, University College...

Ocean water vapor and cloud liquid water trends from 1992 to 2005 TOPEX Microwave Radiometer data (2009)

Keihm, S., Brown, S., Teixeira, J., Desai, S., Lu, W., Fetzer, E., ...

The continuous 1992–2005 data set of the TOPEX Microwave Radiometer (TMR) has been reprocessed to provide global, zonal, and regional scale histories of overocean integrated water vapor (IWV) and...

Modelling Charitable Donations to an Unexpected Natural Disaster: Evidence from the U.S. Panel Study of Income Dynamics (2009)

Brown, S., Harris, M.N., Taylor, K.

Using household-level data, we explore the relationship between donations to the victims of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami disaster and other charitable donations. The empirical evidence suggests that...

Extreme alpha-clustering in the 18O nucleus (2009)

Johnson, E. D., Rogachev, G. V., Goldberg, V. Z., Brown, S., Robson, D., Crisp, A. M., ...

The structure of the 18O nucleus at excitation energies above the alpha decay threshold was studied using 14C+alpha resonance elastic scattering. A number of states with large alpha reduced widths...

Following in Your Parents' Footsteps? Empirical Analysis of Matched Parent-Offspring Test Scores (2009)

Brown, S., McIntosh, S., Taylor, K.

In this paper, we explore whether an intergenerational relationship exists between the reading and mathematics test scores, taken at ages 7, 11 and 16, of a cohort of individuals born in 1958 and the...

Reservation Wages, Expected wages and the duration of Unemployment: evidence from British Panel data (2009)

Brown, S., Taylor, K.

In this paper we analyse the role of wage expectations in an empirical model of incomplete spells of unemployment and reservation wages. To be specific, we model the duration of unemployment,...

Modelling the Incidence of Self-Employment: Individual and Employment Type Heterogeneity (2008)

Brown, S., Farrell, L., Harris, M.N.

Modelling the incidence of self-employment has traditionally proved problematic. Whilst the individual supply side characteristics of the self-employed are well documented, we argue that the...

Reservation Wages, Expected Wages and Labour Market Outcomes: Analysis of Individual Level Panel Data (2008)

Brown, S., Taylor, K.

Using individual level panel data, we analyse the divergence between an unemployed individual´s reservation wage, as well as their expected wage, and their predicted market wage, focusing upon how...

Labour Turnover and Firm Performance (2008)

Brown, S., Garino, G., Martin, C.

We explore the impact of labour turnover on firm performance by analysing the predictions of an extension of the efficiency wage model of Salop (1979) developed by Garino and Martin (2007), which...

Expectations, reservation wages and employment: Evidence from British panel data (2008)

Brown, S., Taylor, K.

In this paper, we explore the relationship between expectations and reservation wages for a sample of unemployed individuals using panel data drawn from the British Household Panel Survey, 1996 to...

Debt and Risk Preference: A Household Level Analysis (2008)

Brown, S., Garino, G., Simmons, P., Taylor, K.

We explore the relationship between risk preference and the level of unsecured debt at the household level within the context of a two period theoretical framework, which predicts that debt is a...

Reservation Wages, Labour Market Participation and Health (2008)

Brown, S., Roberts, J., Taylor, K.

The concept of the reservation wage has played an important role in labour market theory; particularly in models of job search, labour supply and labour market participation. Despite this core...

Determination of dosimetric perturbations caused by aneurysm clip in stereotactic radiosurgery using gel phantoms and EBT-Gafchromic films (2008)

Geso, M, Ackerly, T, Brown, S, Chua, Z, He, C, Wong, C, ...

Some radiotherapy patients are treated with titanium surgical aneurysm clips in the radiation field. This is of particular importance for stereotactic radiosurgery brain treatments, where the length...

Untangling supply and demand in occupational choice (2008)

Fry, T, Harris, M, Brown, S

In this paper we present an econometric framework for modeling occupational choice that allows us to separately, and simultaneously, model supply-side and demand-side influences whilst allowing for...

Firm Performance, Worker Commitment and Loyalty (2007)

Brown, S., McNabb, R., Taylor, K.

Using matched employer-employee level data drawn from the UK Workplace and Employee Relations Survey, we explore the influence of worker commitment and loyalty on firm level labour productivity and...

Self-Employment and Risk Preference (2007)

Brown, S., Dietrich, M., Ortiz, A., Taylor, K.

We explore the relationship between self-employment and attitudes towards financial risk using individual level data drawn from the U.S. Survey of Consumer Finances (SCF) and the U.S. Panel Study of...

A Study on Data Aggregation and Reliability in Managing Wireless Sensor Networks (2007)

Brown, S., Sreenan, C.J.

Using data aggregation to reduce power consumption is a well studied area. In this paper we show a new result: data aggregation can also be used to increase reliability. In scenarios where status is...

Returns to Education and Risky Financial Investment (2006)

Brown, S., Garino, G., Taylor, K.

The aim of this paper is to explore the relationship between wages, human capital and investment in financial assets with risky returns at the individual level. To explore this relationship from an...

Social Interaction and Intergenerational Skill Transfer (2006)

Brown, S., Taylor, K.

We explore the relationship between educational attainment and social interaction using individual level data from the British National Child Development Study. To be specific, we analyze whether an...

Financial Expectations, Consumption and Saving: A Microeconomic Analysis (2006)

Brown, S., Taylor, K.

We explore the determinants of individuals´ financial expectations using data from the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) 1991-2001. Our findings suggest that individuals´ financial predictions...

CD4 memory T cells survive and proliferate but fail to differentiate in the absence of CD40 (2006)

Kwakkenbos, MJ, Brown, S, Stockinger, B, Schepers, K, ...

The Journal of Experimental Medicine Secondary T cell responses are enhanced because of an expansion in numbers of antigen-specific (memory) cells. Using major histocompatibility complex class II...

Educational Attainment and Risk Preference (2006)

Brown, S., Ortiz, A., Taylor, K.

We explore the relationship between risk preference and educational attainment for a sample of adults drawn from the 1996 U.S. Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID). Using a sequence of questions...

Phase I trial of UCN-01 in combination with topotecan in patients with advanced solid cancers: a Princess Margaret Hospital Phase II Consortium study (2006)

Hotte, S. J., Oza, A., Winquist, E. W., Moore, M., Chen, E. X., Brown, S., ...

Background: 7-Hydroxystaurosporine (UCN-01) inhibits serine–threonine kinases including the Ca2+ and phospholipid-dependent protein kinase C (PKC), CDKs 2, 4, 6, Chk-1 and PDK1. UCN-01...

Bullying, Education and Labour Market Outcomes: Evidence from the National Child Development Study (2005)

Brown, S., Taylor, K.

We explore the effect of bullying at school on the educational attainment of a sample of individuals drawn from the British National Child Development Study (NCDS). Our empirical findings suggest...

A ballistic model of choice response time (2005)

Brown, S., Heathcote, A.

Almost all models of response time (RT) use a stochastic accumulation process. To account for the benchmark RT phenomena, researchers have found it necessary to include between-trial variability in...

Practice increases the efficiency of evidence accumulation in perceptual choice (2005)

Brown, S., Heathcote, A.

Most models of choice response time base decisions on evidence accumulated over time. A fundamental distinction among these models concerns whether each piece of evidence is equally weighted...

Phase I trial of UCN-01 in combination with topotecan in patients with advanced solid cancers: a Princess Margaret Hospital Phase II Consortium study (2005)

Hotte, S. J., Oza, A., Winquist, E. W., Moore, M., Chen, E. X., Brown, S., ...

Background: 7-Hydroxystaurosporine (UCN-01) inhibits serine-threonine kinases including the Ca2+ and phospholipid-dependent protein kinase C (PKC), CDKs 2, 4, 6, Chk-1 and PDK1. UCN-01 mediates...

An overview of APSIM, a model designed for farming systems simulation (2003)

Keating, B.A., Carberry, P.S., Hammer, G.L., Probert, M.E., Robertson, M.J., Holzworth, D., ...

The Agricultural Production Systems Simulator (APSIM) is a modular modelling framework that has been developed by the Agricultural Production Systems Research Unit in Australia. APSIM was developed...

The genome sequence of Schizosaccharomyces pombe (2002)

Gwilliam, R, Rajandream, M-A, Lyne, M, Lyne, R, Stewart, A, ...

We have sequenced and annotated the genome of fission yeast (Schizosaccharomyces pombe), which contains the smallest number of protein-coding genes yet recorded for a eukaryote: 4,824. The...

Long-term assessment and serial evaluation of cardiorespiratory exercise performance and cardiac function in patients with atrial switch operation for complete transposition (2001)

Brown, S, Eyskens, B, Gewillig, M

BACKGROUND: At present, a considerable number of patients survive who underwent an atrial switch operation for correction of complete transposition. Our study aimed to assess their long-term exercise...

Insulin lispro and regular insulin in pregnancy (2001)

Bhattacharyya, A., Brown, S., Hughes, S., Vice, P.A.

We assessed the safety of insulin lispro in gestational, type 1 and type 2 diabetes mellitus, analysing 635 pregnancies over a period of 7 years. We also evaluated patient satisfaction, sending an...

Limits of the photon model in cavity QED and quantum optics (2000)

Dalton, B. J., Brown, S.

Summary form only given. The photon model of the quantum electromagnetic (EM) field has recently been developed further for the areas of cavity QED and quantum optics in dielectric media. The basic...

Brief communication. First evaluation of nuclear DNA content in Setaria genus by flow cytometry (1998)

Panaud, O, Brown, S, Siljak-Yakovlev, S, Sarr, A

The Setaria complex encompasses crop, wild, and weed species with contrasting breeding systems and life cycles. Nuclear DNA content, base composition, and ploidy levels were determined in 14 Setaria...

Genome Size Variation and Basic Chromosome Number in Pearl Millet and Fourteen Related Pennisetum Species (1997)

Martel, E., De Nay, D., Siljak-Yakoviev, S., Brown, S., Sarr, A.

A systematic analysis of Pennisetum species has shown their cytological variability for basic chromosome number (x = 5, 7, 8, and 9), ploidy level, and chromosome size. We have identified the...

Inhibition of Human Plasma and Serum Butyrylcholinesterase (EC 3.1.1.8) by {alpha}-Chaconine and {alpha}-Solanine (1996)

NIGG, H. N., RAMOS, L. E., GRAHAM, E. M., STERLING, J., BROWN, S., CORNELL, J. A.

The purpose of these experiments was to determine the reversibility of α-chaconine and α-solanine inhibition of human plasma butyrylcholinesterase (BuChE). For the substrate α-naphthylacetate,...

Therapeutic ratio of photodynamic therapy in the treatment of superficial tumours of skin and subcutaneous tissues in man.

Gilson, D., Ash, D., Driver, I., Feather, J. W., Brown, S.

Six patients with a total of 34 assessible subcutaneous or cutaneous lesions were treated with photodynamic therapy using 1.0, 1.5 or 2.0 mg kg-1 of photofrin II and 25-100 J cm-2 of red light (630...