The aim of this research was to investigate and evaluate how computerised assessment could be progressed using current advances in technology (1993-1996) such as the increased computing power and storage capacity, and multimedia capabilities. This research would be conducted with respect to a typical chemistry degree course. After a detailed literature survey it was concluded that the major com...

Objective: To determine the efficacy of a computerised decision aid in patients with atrial fibrillation making decisions on whether to take warfarin or aspirin therapy. Design: Two-armed open exploratory randomised controlled trial. Setting: Two research clinics deriving participants from general practices in Northeast England. Participants: 109 patients with atrial fibrillation aged over 60. ...

OBJECTIVE To determine the efficacy of a computerised decision aid in patients with atrial fibrillation making decisions on whether to take warfarin or aspirin therapy. DESIGN Two-armed open exploratory randomised controlled trial. SETTING Two research clinics deriving participants from general practices in Northeast England. PARTICIPANTS 109 patients with atrial fibrillation aged over 60...

OBJECTIVE To compare a self administered computerised assessment of neurotic psychiatric disorder (psychiatric morbidity) with an identical assessment administered by a human interviewer. In particular, to discover whether a computerised assessment overestimates or underestimates the prevalence of psychiatric morbidity in relation to a human interviewer. SETTING A health centre in south east ...

OBJECTIVE To assess the accuracy of computerised matching of postcode to enumeration district (ED) and to determine whether any mismatching reduces the validity of methods to distinguish socioeconomic differences in "small area" deprivation studies. DESIGN Computerised and manual matching of postcodes to EDs were compared and the census based Townsend deprivation score was compared with socio...

OBJECTIVES To describe the epidemiology of coronary heart disease (CHD) in England and the activity of primary healthcare teams in managing patients with CHD, and also to demonstrate the utility of computerised patient records in providing access to epidemiological data and data reflecting healthcare activity. DESIGN A descriptive survey of CHD and related clinical data, recorded using comput...

One quarter of children and young people (CYP) experience anxiety and/or depression before adulthood, but treatment is sometimes unavailable or inadequate. Self-help interventions may have a role in augmenting treatment and this work aimed to systematically review the evidence for computerised anxiety and depression interventions in CYP aged 5-25 years old. Databases were searched for randomise...

In recent years Thermochromic Liquid Crystals (TLCs) have been successfully used in non-intrusive heat transfer and fluid mechanics studies. Application of TLC tracers allows instantaneous measurement of the temperature and velocity fields for two-dimensional cross-section of flow. Here we present the review of the development of techniques for visualising and analysing flow images with TLC tra...

in this paper the control algorithm for controlled civil structures subjected to earthquake excitation is thoroughly investigated. the objective of this work is the control of structures by means of the pole placement algorithm, in order to improve their response against earthquake actions. successful application of the algorithm requires judicious placement of the closed-loop eigenvalues from ...