Wayne Hall

TL;DR: The establishment of multi-disciplinary pain clinics in which patients are evaluated and treated by consultants from a variety of disciplines, such as anaesthesia, neurology, neurosurgery, orthopaedics, psychiatry, psychology and social work, has been a professional response to the problem posed by chronic pain.

TL;DR: In this paper, the application of wavelet texture analysis (WTA) to the task of automatically classifying the surface finish of Carbon Fibre Reinforced Plastic (CFRP) samples into two quality grades was described.

TL;DR: The desire to reduce urges to use drugs should not be employed to justify potentially harmful and ineffective treatments and the safety and effectiveness of emerging treatments should be assessed by well conducted randomized controlled clinical trials.

TL;DR: This paper investigated if parental disapproval of alcohol use accounts for differences in adolescent alcohol use across regional and urban communities, and found that adolescents in regional areas were more likely to use alcohol in the past 30 days (OR=183, 144 and 137 for Grades 7, 9, and 11, respectively, P<005), and their parents have a lower level of disapproval of their alcohol use (b=-012, -015 and -019 for the same age groups.