In addition to those who served in the Union Defence Forces there were many South Africans who were serving in the British or Commonwealth forces or who joined up where they were on the outbreak of war. Since their service records are not readily available it is not possible to compile a definitive article on this topic at this stage. Even the records of our own personnel seconded to the Britis...

in the early centuries, the land of persia was a scene of clashes, riots, revolutions – great and small – consisting of various political, religious, and social motivations. in the meantime, maybe the least known of all is the uprising of abū ‘īsā iṣfahānī, which, because he and his followers were jewish and as it was a resurgence in a country with a muslim population as well as due to the ambi...

In recent years, there has been a resurgence of interest in the value construct among both practitioners and marketing researchers. The purpose of this article is to introduce the reader to the different articles included in this special issue of Industrial Marketing Management on Customer Value in Business Markets. The issue takes a look at value from three different perspectives: value creati...

To advance the understanding of different diagrammatic reasoning architectures that reason directly with images, we examine the relationship between Anderson's Inter-Diagrammatic Reasoning (IDR) architecture and Furnas' BITPICT architecture using the technique of cross-implementation. Implementing substantial functionality of each in the other, and noting what is easy and what is difficult, yie...

Forms of convenience voting, including voting-by-mail (VBM), provide citizens the opportunity to cast ballots without being exposed to the information revealed in the final weeks leading up to Election Day. This creates the possibility that informational differences will cause VBM and polling place voters to vote differently. We test this hypothesis by looking at whether the increased use of VB...

The last decade has seen a resurgence of interest in the use of ortho-normalised parameterisations for system estimation applications. This has produced a large body of theoretical work that has sought to provide sound scientific underpinnings. The paper here has a different focus in that emphasis is placed on practical dividends associated with orthonormal parameterisations.

In recent years there has been a resurgence in interest in philosophical aspects of chemistry, dating from the early 1990s (1-3). It is gratifying to see that this development has not been confined to analytical philosophy but has frequently spilled over into issues concerning the history of chemistry. Giunta’s recent article (4) is therefore of great interest because it represents an example o...