A casemix analysis of hospital admissions in six specialties for Barking & Havering Health Authority.

To examine admission rates for Barking & Havering residents to six surgical specialties by first looking at elective, emergency and total workloads, then at the casemix of elective work using Healthcare Resource Groups. To compare findings to other London areas

Chiral Perturbation Theory for phi -> rho gamma gamma and phi -> omega gamma gamma

We predict differential decay distributions for phi->rho gamma gamma and phi -> omega gamma gamma using chiral perturbation theory. We also consider the isospin violating decay phi -> omega pi^0. Experimental information on these decays can be used to determine couplings in the heavy vector meson chiral Lagrangian.Comment: It was shown by P. Ko et al., hep-ph/9510205 (Phys. Lett. B366 (1996) 287), that there is a etaprime pole contribution that dominates over what we calculate

Paired Programming in a Clayton’s Capstone Project Course

In this paper the authors describe an Information Systems course where paired programming was trialled in the hope of improving both the assessment outcomes and the resourcing of an existing systems design course which incorporated a capstone project. The authors found that it did offer a significant improvement, but the improvements did not match the predicted outcomes, with a number of weaknesses to the model being highlighted. In particular, it was found that paired programming did not reduce teaching load when the group size was reduced