Aim: This article builds upon recent evidence that centralisation of cash management activities, often advocated by enthusiast protagonists from the academic, corporate and consultancy world, has given way to decentralisation thereof. The aim is underpin idea such moves may be good. Research design: provides an historical overview on starting in 1980s, stagnating later reversing recently, not j...

In this paper, we examine the spectrum of choices between organisational centralisation and decentralisation in the presence of emerging trends in communications, information-processing, and sensor technologies. These technologies are important drivers in the current move towards Network Centric Warfare (NCW), and raise the question: should the new networks being developed be used to enable gre...

To cite: Kimpton J, Teh E, Cogswell L, et al. BMJ Case Rep Published online: [please include Day Month Year] doi:10.1136/bcr-2015211190 DESCRIPTION We present a case with a successful use of mixed silicone and saline implant expanders to achieve mediastinal repositioning facilitated by periprocedural bimodal assessment. A 63-year-old man with a large central tumour underwent right pneumonectomy...

We use a principal-agent framework to compare two types of organisational structures, centralisation and delegation. Moreover, we do so in a framework that allows for collusive possibilities among the agents. Under a centralised structure the principal directly contracts with all agents, whereas under delegation the principal contracts with only a few of the agents, giving them the right to ent...

The trend with organisational adoption of virtual learning environments (VLE) seems to be cyclical. Initially, a decentralised approach was adopted, wherein each department implemented different learning environments or mixtures of technology, often developed in-house. The last five years have seen an increased centralisation of learning environment implementation, with most universities adopti...

Changes in speech rate severely affect the performance of continuous speech recognition systems. In order to better understand the underlying effects of speech rate changes an analysis was carried out on the influence of duration on the spectral properties of vowels in a large German corpus of spontaneous speech. The results show a strong centralisation effect of the vowel formant frequencies d...