Our procurement of a system for the 80s brought us into contact with some of the harsh realities of the file systems of the time particularly so as the decision was to go for the then rather new VM/CMS. This led to a second in-house system known rather unimaginatively as the Leeds Filestore, and used at the universities of Reading and Warwick in the UK, and also University College, Dublin, and ...

We conduct a field experiment to test whether (and how) emotional intelligence can be taught effectively in a short course. We randomly assign MBA students to an emotional intelligence course, a resiliency course, and a “placebo” course. We compare their emotional intelligences, as measured by the MSCEIT, before and after the sixteen-hour course. We find that students in the emotional intellige...

Pairwise and network meta-analysis (NMA) are traditionally used retrospectively to assess existing evidence. However, the current evidence often undergoes several updates as new studies become available. In each update recommendations about the conclusiveness of the evidence and the need of future studies need to be made. In the context of prospective meta-analysis future studies are planned as...

The main concepts of ZimOO are illustrated by a small case study, a speciication of a protected cooker. ZimOO is an extended subset of Object-Z and allows descriptions of discrete and continuous features of systems in a common formalism.

Recent studies of mammalian transcriptomes have identified numerous RNA transcripts that do not code for proteins; their identity, however, is largely unknown. Here we explore an approach based on sequence randomness patterns to discern different RNA classes. The relative z-score we use helps identify the known ncRNA class from the genome, intergene and intron classes. This leads us to a fracti...