In this paper we use a social practice approach to explore men's experience of Football Fans in Training (FFIT), a group-based weight management programme for men that harnesses men's symbolic attachment to professional football clubs to engage them in lifestyle change. FFIT is delivered by community coaches in clubs' stadia and is gender-sensitised in relation to context, content and style of ...

The underlying causes of the variation in waiting times observed here are not explained by the audit data, and we do not suggest that there are “across the board” implications for clinical outcome in the waiting times reported. Clearly, these are clinical issues and would vary with specific types of cancer. However, the focus on reducing unnecessary delays in cancer treatment stems from the bel...

We have proposed an information filtering system using index word selection from a document set based on the topics included in a set of documents. This method narrows down the particularly characteristic words in a document set and the topics are obtained by Sparse Non-negative Matrix Factorization. In information filtering, a document is often represented with the vector in which the elements...

This document summarizes the article published by Gallagerher et. al on “A Distributed Algorithm for Minimum-Weight Spanning Trees”. The asynchronous distributed algorithm determines a minimum-weight spanning tree for an undirected graph that has distinct finite weights for every edge.