The Academic Council voted 30-19 against a proposal that would have restored the opportunity for evening exams. The result of this decision, reached during a closed meeting yesterday afternoon in the C.C.E., means a continuation of the current policy of the 8-9:30 a.m. Tuesday-Thursday exam period. The Council rejected the pro­ posal though the results of a Student Government survey, com­ plete...

Last year, two Australian companies (BHP and Brambles) used a dual-listed company (DLC) structure to facilitate their international expansion. They joined CRA, which had entered into a similar arrangement with RTZ to form Rio Tinto in the mid 1990s. DLC structures remain quite unusual in the international context, with only a few in existence in the major countries today. They involve a company...

We have studied the preference judgement of pictorial images with two types of population: image experts and naive observers. We used eight images of indoor and outdoor scenes. The images were first presented to image experts working in pre-press companies. We asked them to improve the images the way they preferred and to comment on their manipulations. They saved the intermediate enhanced vers...

When a great profession and the forces of capitalism interact, drama is likely to result. This has certainly been the case where the profession of medicine and the pharmaceutical industry are concerned. On display in the relationship between doctors and drug companies are the grandeur and weaknesses of the medical profession — its noble aspirations and its continuing inability to fulfill them. ...

Considering the enormous harm tobacco products cause among their most loyal consumers, it is astounding and repugnant that tobacco product manufacturers continue to operate as fabulously profitable enterprises. These companies have used layer upon layer of defense and counter-offense to protect profits from effective public health measures for more than a generation (1 -3). Slowly, however, pro...

1 Abstract This paper builds on the author's earlier work (Kelly, 2005a, Kelly, 2005b) by adding two more business strategy patterns that describe common strategies used by technology companies; specifically software companies but the strategies should be extensible to other technology sectors. These patterns are:

Rodin’s statue The Thinker depicts a solitary ponderer – an iconic image of the individual scientist. Historically, this has been a fitting icon for scientific research in cognitive science domains including philosophy and psychology. However, this ideal is increasingly difficult to achieve in many academic disciplines, and particularly in the field of cognitive neuroscience where the mastery o...