NERC corporate plan

Pension Plan Funding and Corporate Debt Ratings

This article empirically examines the relationship between the funding of defined benefit pension plans and corporate debt ratings. The evidence indicates that unfunded pension liabilities reduce debt ratings more than an equivalent amount of excess pension assets increase debt ratings. This asymmetric relationship is consistent with the view that unfunded pension liabilities are corporate liab...

Strategic Defense Initiative Organization Corporate Plan

The NERC DataGrid services.

This short paper outlines the key components of the NERC DataGrid: a discovery service, a vocabulary service and a software stack deployed both centrally to provide a data discovery portal, and at data providers to provide local portals and data and metadata services.

The Nerc Datagrid Prototype

The NDG project began in September 2002. The aim of the project is to utilise the promise of grid technologies to allow members of a virtual organisation (the NERC community) to share environmental data held in disparate institutions. The NDG virtual organisation will begin with elements of the oceanographic and atmospheric community, but aims to expand to support science requirements of data s...

Implementation of Croatian NERC System

In this paper a system for Named Entity Recognition and Classification in Croatian language is described. The system is composed of the module for sentence segmentation, inflectional lexicon of common words, inflectional lexicon of names and regular local grammars for automatic recognition of numerical and temporal expressions. After the first step (sentence segmentation), the system attaches t...