George Clarke Simpson—1878–1965

Roger Clarke

The search for viable eBusiness models continues. But important information is being overlooked. Discussions of open source software all too often focus on the limited context of Microsoft appearing to feel threatened by what it portrays as unbusinesslike competition from Linux and OpenOffice.org; whereas that debate is merely one small facet of the whole. Moreover, in addition to software, a g...

Cecil Clarke

Cecil Clarke was born in Bristol in 1885, the son 01 Leslie M. Clarke. After an education at the Warn1111 Grammar School he joined the Bristol Medical Schoolclinical appointments were done at the General H?bj There he gained the Henry Marshall Prize, the Clarke / lllkg( Scholarship, and the Martyn Memorial Scholarship 111 caIne and the Sanders Scholarship in 1909. In 1908 he > rSjty qualified, ...

Clarke, Modern Hospital

its neighbours, above and below. A good rule is that the space between any two pavilions should be about equal to 1^ times the height of such pavilions?thus if a pavilion be 75 feet high, the distance between it and its neighbour should be not less than 90 to 100 feet. The pavilions may be built radiating like the spokes of a wheel (like several of the Central Jails in India) or in form of a ho...

John Michell Clarke

The Clarke Tax Algorithm

The idea behind the Clarke Tax Algorithm is that a tax will be assessed to each individual. The amount of this tax depends on how the individual’s utilities affect the rest of the group. Since people do not want to pay taxes, a big assessment will decrease an individual’s overall utility. To get a better understanding of this statement, it is helpful to restrict the problem a bit. Formally, the...