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The following articles have been written by SIR users from around the world and
show the great diversity of applications and organisations which use this software.
- (1) HELPING OUR BABIES
IHAP/NYC Dept of Health is a public agency considered a pioneer in the investigation of "at risk" babies. Their research helped discover and thus respond to the crack/cocaine epidemic.
REFEREE: Lorraine Chun, Director IHAP/NYC Dept of Health,
Box 37, 125 Worth Street, New York, New York USA
- (2) THE HEALING OF HEARTS
Thanks to the rigor of
the research at the San Francisco Heart Institute, specialists know more today about prolonging and enriching the lives of people afflicted with heart problems
REFEREE: Ms Jean Chan, M A, San Francisco Heart Institute,
1900 Sullivan Avenue, Daly City, California 94015 USA
- (3) WINNING THE FIESTA BOWL
As the football season opens - both collegiate and professional - fans everywhere await the
season's exceptional plays. SIR talked with two researchers at the University of Louisville
about their involvement with tracking "the exceptional college football player."
REFEREE: Dr Roger A Bell, University of Louisville, School of Medicine,
Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Science, Louisville, KY 40292 USA
- (4) BETTER MENTAL HEALTH
The Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) in South Australia
is working towards improving the mental health of our children and adolescents.
REFEREE: Jenny Clarke, Research Officer, Evaluation Unit,
Adelaide Childrens Hospital, Adelaide SA 5000 AUSTRALIA
- (5) CARE OF BABY BABIES
The Children's Nutritional Center of Texas Children's Hospital in United States of
America where the care and developement of premature babies is a major research project
REFEREE: Ken Fraley, Systems Programmer, Children's Nutritional Research Center,
1100 Bates St, Houston , TX 77030 USA
- (6) SEEING THE WOOD FOR THE TREES
Jerold Hahn, Principal Mensurationist at the North Central Forest Experiment
Station(NCFES) explains how SIR can be used to help forests.
REFEREE: Jerold Hahn, North Central Forest, Experimental Station,
1992 Folwell Ave, St Paul, MN 55108 USA
- (7) DSS MASTERS SURVEYS
Stuart Mitchenall, Computing Services Manager of Department of Social Security, describes the skills his Department has developed with complex survey analysis and the essential role of SIR.
REFEREE: Stuart Mitchenall Computing Services Manager, Department of Social Security,
Adelphi Building, 1-11 John Adam Street, London WC2N 6HT UK
- (8) SIR CONTINUES TO CARE
The Forvus developed Rehabilitation and Continuing Care Services System (RCCS) for the use of Mental Health Services Unit of Leicestershire Health Authority in UK.
REFEREE: Janet Dyson, Senior Consultant, Forvus,
53 Clapham Common South Side, London SW4 9BX UK
- (9) WHAT FORESTRY RESOURCES YIELD
The Victorian Government's Department of Conservation and Natural Resources
(CNR) and their system, Forest Resources Information and Yield Regulation (FRIYR) tell how SIR is helping the environment.
REFEREE: Ian Wild, Manager, Forest Systems Section, Forest Management Branch,
Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, 10/49 Spring Street,
Melbourne VIC 3000 AUSTRALIA
- (10) CRASHING INTO TRAFFIC SAFETY
The Roads and Traffic Authority (RTA) of New South Wales and their SIR
developed, Traffic Accident storage and analysis system known as PC CRASH.
REFEREE: Heather Goldsmith, SIR PTY LTD,
1/10-18 Cliff Street, Milsons Point, NSW 2061 AUSTRALIA
- (11) SOFTWARE MONITORING SOFTWARE
John Lemon, Senior Computing Adviser at University of Aberdeen, finds a novel way of using SIR to help manage the software budget within the University Computing Centre.
REFEREE: John Lemon, Senior Computing Advisor,
Aberdeen University Computing Centre, Aberdeen SCOTLAND
- (12) EDUCATED IN THE CASELESS CASE
Niels Veldhuijzen, Statistician at Cito, Arnhem, The Netherlands, uses SIR for the National
Assessment Project. He explains why he prefers the caseless, or relational, SIR structure to
the traditional hierarchical or case structure.
REFEREE: Niels Veldhuijzen, Cito, Measurement & Research Dept,
PO Box 1034 NL-6801 MG Arhem The Netherlands
- (13) RECORDING THE NEXT GENERATION
Dr Campbell describes the use of SIR in one of the longest running continuous databases
known, which is the "Aberdeen Maternity and Neonatal Databank".
REFEREE: Dr D M Campbell, Dept of Obstetrics and Gynaecology,
Aberdeen Maternity Hospital, SCOTLAND
- (14) BACK TO SCHOOL FOR SIR
UK's Department for Education entrust their annual national Performance Tables to SIR and
are impressed with the result.
REFEREE: Kathy Brooks, Director, Forvus,
53 Clapham Common South Side, London SW4 9BX UK
- (15) SIR HEAL THYSELF
Head Office, in Sydney, Australia, use SIR's text retrieval application to record, monitor and fix their SPRs. The new releases suggest that it is working.
REFEREE: Heather Goldsmith, Director International Support, SIR Pty Ltd,
1/10-18 Cliff St, Milsons Point, NSW 2061 AUSTRALIA
- (16) FIRES ARE COUNTED NATIONWIDE
In 1992, Australia produced it's first set of national fire statistics. This was the result of the
combined effort of the seven metropolitan fire services and CSIRO with the use of a SIR
database.
REFEREE: Michael King, Manager, Fire Statistics Section, CSIRO DBCE,
P O Box 310 , Nth Ryde NSW 2113 AUSTRALIA
- (17) LABOUR FORCE SURVEY - CERTAINLY SIR
Mike Staley of the UK Office of Population Censuses and Surveys (OPCS) talks about SIR's
use in Labour Force Surveys.
REFEREE: Michael Staley, OPCS, St Catherine's House,
10 Kingsway, London WC2B 6JP UK
- (18) TESTING THE AIR PURITY TESTERS
Patrick Brown and Peter Ritchie of the Institute of Occupational Medicine, Edinburgh,
describe the importance for health and safety of proficiency testing for mineral fibre
measurement and the use of SIR in the Regular Interlaboratory Counting Exchanges (RICE)
scheme.
REFEREE: Peter Ritchie, Institute of Occupational Medicine
8 Roxburgh Place, Edinburgh EH8 9SU UK
- (19) LET'S MAKE A TRADE - IN UK DATA
Steve Flack of Forvus, UK, uses SIR to disseminate UK trade data obtained from HM
Customs and Excise and finds SIR's data replication facilities particularly useful.
REFEREE: Steve Flack, UK Trade Data Service Team, Forvus
Forvus House, 53 Clapham Common South Side, London SW4 9BX UK
- (20) SIR WORKS SWIMMINGLY WITH BIOMETRICS
Sydney's water purity authority, Sydney Water, posed the question of what effect the quality
of Sydney's beach water has on swimmers' health. Cameron Kirton, a Sydney based
statistical consultant used SIR to find the answer.
REFEREE: Cameron Kirton, Statistical Consultant
5 Carbeen Road, Westleigh NSW AUSTRALIA
- (21) IT MIGHT BE A QUESTION OF POLYOMINOES
SIR user Dave Doulton, who is Senior Computing Officer specialising in databases at
University of Southampton, has posed a squarish problem and used SIR to find the answer.
REFEREE: Dave Doulton, Computing Services, University of Southampton,
Highfield, Southampton, SO9 5NH UK
- (22) INSIGHT INTO VOCATIONAL TRAINING
'With 1.6 million apprentices and compulsory annual Federal statistics to produce, we
need a system like SIR to keep us going' said Rudolf Werner of the Federal Institute for
Vocational Training (BIBB), Germany.
REFEREE: Rudolf Werner, Bundesinstitut fuer Berufsbildung,Fehrbelliner Platz 3,
D 10702 Berlin Germany
- (23) THE FIGHT AGAINST CANCER
Sven-Erik Kofoed, a programmer at the Division of Cancer Epidemiology at the
Danish Cancer Society uses caseless SIR-databases as an administrative tool
for the Human Papilloma Virus project.
REFEREE: Sven-Erik Kofoed Programmer, Division of Cancer Epidemiology Danish Cancer Society Copenhagen Denmark
- (24) YOUR INTERNET DATABASE
David Baxter, Quality Assurance Manager at SIR Pty Ltd, explains the benefits
of combining the features of a SIR database and the Internet to provide company
wide or world wide access for your SIR database.
REFEREE: David Baxter, Quality Assurance Manager,
SIR Pty Ltd 1/10-18 Cliff St Milsons Point NSW Australia
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