Some current accounting issues

Some Current Issues in Banking

As supervisor of the banks, the Reserve Bank has been likened to the shepherd tending his flock. Keeping the flock intact over the past decade, after the regulatory fences came down, has had its moments. A couple have wandered off, and a couple have lost more than their tails. But no carcasses litter the landscape. Indeed, the flock today is looking stronger and healthier than it has for some t...

Some Current Issues in Galaxy Formation

I describe recent challenges in hierarchical galaxy formation theory, including the formation of disk galaxies and of ellipticals. Problems with cold dark matter are summarized, and possible solutions are presented. I conclude with a description of the prospects for observing one of the most important ingredients in galaxy formation theory, namely cold dark matter. 1 Challenges of galaxy format...

Some Current Issues, Concerns and Prospects

Rupert Maclean (Australia) Director, Section for Secondary Education at UNESCO, Paris, since April 2000, prior to which he was Chief of the Asia-Pacific Centre of Educational Innovation for Development (ACEID), UNESCO PROAP, Bangkok. Before joining UNESCO in 1992 he was for two years the UNESCO Chief Technical Advisor in Myanmar for a UNDP-funded project to strengthen and upgrade teacher educat...

Some Current Issues in Haptics Research

This is a survey of research issues for haptic and locomotion interfaces. A key issue is the workspace and dexterity of haptic devices. In the simulation of real environments, interactive geometric computations on complex models are a fundamental problem. Haptic rendering of forces of contact are increasingly based on measurements on real environments. Scientific visualization is another promis...

Ideology and Criminal Justice Policy: Some Current Issues