For over 10 years research has been conducted by the Design School at Loughborough University in United Kingdom (UK) into accessibility of products, services and environments with a particular focus on needs older disabled people. As part this computer based tool called HADRIAN developed to encourage empathy between designers, planners people who are or may have some form impairment. In additio...

In this note, we investigate the relationship between the finite and infinite frequency structure of a regular polynomial matrix and that of a particular linearization, called the generalised companion matrix. A special resolvent decomposition of the regular polynomial matrix is proposed which is based on the Weierstrass canonical form of this generalised companion matrix and the solution of a ...

This qualitative study aimed to investigate work demands experienced by healthcare workers in an adult eating disorders inpatient service. It also aimed to investigate the use of social support and job satisfaction in this setting. Twelve healthcare workers from an eating disorders inpatient ward, including nurses, healthcare support workers and occupational therapists, participated in semi-str...

ISIS Facility, STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, Chilton, Oxfordshire OX11 0QX, England, Department of Earth Sciences, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, England, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, England, and Spallation Neutron Source, 8600 Spallation Dr, Oak Ridge, TN ...

In this note, we investigate the relationship between the finite and infinite frequency structure of a regular polynomial matrix and that of a particular linearization, called the generalised companion matrix. A special resolvent decomposition of the regular polynomial matrix is proposed which is based on the Weierstrass canonical form of this generalised companion matrix and the solution of a ...

In keeping with the theme of this year's e-Science All Hands Meeting--past, present and future--we consider the motivation for, the current status of, and the future directions for, the technologies developed within the GIMI (Generic Infrastructure for Medical Informatics) project. This analysis provides insights into how some key problems in data federation may be addressed. GIMI was funded by...

national conference with the theme 'Pastoral care and counselling'. The conference, organised by the NAMH, was held at the University of Technology, Loughborough. Under the chairmanship of Sir William Hart, chairman of Northampton New Town Development Corporation and former Clerk to the Greater London Council, 88 professionals assembled from different statutory and voluntary bodies and from the...

This paper presents a generalization of the chain-scattering representation to the case of general plants. Through the notion of input-output consistency, the conditions under which the generalised chain-scattering representation (GCSR) and the dual generalised chain-scattering representation (DGCSR) exist are proposed. The generalised chainscattering matrices are formulated into a general para...