Corrigendum: “Could René Descrates have known this?”

Could René Descartes Have Known This?

Below we discuss the partition of the space of real univariate polynomials according to the number of positive and negative roots and signs of the coefficients. We present several series of non-realizable combinations of signs together with the numbers of positive and negative roots. We provide a detailed information about possible non-realizable combinations up to degree 8 as well as a general...

"This Sucker Could Go Down"

"Chaos," "disarray," "unprecedented political wrangling," Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson on bended knee pleading for a lifeline, and President George W. Bush warning, "if money isn't loosened up, this sucker could go down [2]." These were the dramatic scenes in Washington yesterday where the historic $700 billion bailout plan now looks very much in doubt, The New York Times, Wall Street Journ...

Could Morality Have

The Global Fund Secretariat's suspension of funding to Uganda: how could this have been avoided?

In August 2005, the Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (the Global Fund) Secretariat suspended its five grants to Uganda following a PricewaterhouseCoopers audit report that exposed gross mismanagement in the Project Management Unit. How could this have been avoided? How can other countries avoid a similar pitfall? We argue that if a legitimate and fair decision-making process ...

Have You Seen This?

There are considerable barriers to creative and innovative adoption of ICT, and especially module websites, in undergraduate geography teaching. For academics, some bar riers are related to the learning curves demanded by webpage design programmes and testing software (even commercial products such as Blackboard), while others seem to be a product of lack of knowledge about the possibilities at...