Robert Staruch is a Military Foundation Year 2 Doctor, The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham; Steven Jeffery is a Consultant Burns and Plastic Surgeon, Royal Centre for Defence Medicine, The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham. This paper was originally submitted in October, 2010 The role of topical negative pressure (TNP) in the closure of acute wounds has become a new and dynamic area of ...

There are many models in literature and practice that analyse user behaviour based on user navigation data and use clustering algorithms to characterize their access patterns. The navigation patterns identified are expected to capture the user’s interests. In this paper, we model user behaviour as a vector of the time the user spends at each URL, and further classify a given new user access pat...

The Flaw Hypothesis Method has been widely used in the security community to ‘stress’ test system security. However, the approach of flaw generation to date only identifies threats that are already known for the domain. Deviational techniques are one approach to improve the process of the flaw hypothesis generation. The approach systematically perturbs elements of the system. In this paper we e...

We prove a finiteness theorem for the class of complete finite volume Riemannian manifolds with pinched negative sectional curvature, fixed fundamental group, and of dimension ≥ 3. One of the key ingredients is that the fundamental group of such a manifold does not admit a small nontrivial action on an R -tree.

The objective of this paper is to present a technique for order preference by similarity to ideal solution (TOPSIS) algorithm to linear fractional bi-level multi-objective decision-making problem. TOPSIS is used to yield most appropriate alternative from a finite set of alternatives based upon simultaneous shortest distance from positive ideal solution (PIS) and furthest distance from negative ...

We present a deviational Monte Carlo method for solving the Boltzmann equation for phonon transport subject to the linearized ab initio 3-phonon scattering operator. Phonon dispersion relations and transition rates are obtained from density functional theory calculations. The ab initio scattering operator replaces the commonly used relaxation-time approximation, which is known to neglect, among...