Egovernment is being promoted by international agencies and G-8 nations as a means to obtain efficiency, accountability and transparency in the governance of developing countries. In particular, the model for good governance is the one advocated by New Public Management: the minimal, service-delivery state. The paper shows first through the case of Jordan, how e-government is difficult to imple...

let $r$ be a commutative ring with identity‎. ‎a proper ideal $p$ of $r$ is a $(n-1,n)$-$phi_m$-prime ($(n-1,n)$-weakly prime) ideal if $a_1,ldots,a_nin r$‎, ‎$a_1cdots a_nin pbackslash p^m$ ($a_1cdots a_nin pbackslash {0}$) implies $a_1cdots a_{i-1}a_{i+1}cdots a_nin p$‎, ‎for some $iin{1,ldots,n}$; ($m,ngeq 2$)‎. ‎in this paper several results concerning $(n-1,n)$-$phi_m$-prime and $(n-1,n)$-...

‎let $g$ be a finite group and $d_2(g)$ denotes the probability ‎that $[x,y,y]=1$ for randomly chosen elements $x,y$ of $g$‎. ‎we ‎will obtain lower and upper bounds for $d_2(g)$ in the case where ‎the sets $e_g(x)={yin g:[y,x,x]=1}$ are subgroups of $g$ for ‎all $xin g$‎. ‎also the given examples illustrate that all the ‎bounds are sharp.

AMULET1, developed in the OMI-MAP project, showed that complex asynchronous design is feasible. AMULET2e, developed in the OMI-DE project, is the next step in establishing self-timed processing as a commercially viable technology. It incorporates a new core, AMULET2, which is significantly faster than AMULET1, together with on-chip RAM which can be configured as a fixed block of RAM or as a cac...

The configuration of the C=N double bond of the title compound, C(7)H(6)BrNO, is E; the non-H atoms are approximately coplanar (r.m.s. deviation = 0.038 Å). In the crystal, pairs of mol-ecules are linked by a pair of O-H⋯N hydrogen bonds about a center of inversion, generating hydrogen-bonded dimers.

The asymmetric unit of the title compound, C9H8O2, contains two independent mol-ecules, both of which are essentially planar (r.m.s. deviations = 0.0294 and 0.0284 Å). The C=C double bond is in an E conformation and the vinyl-aldehyde groups adopt extended conformations. In the crystal, mol-ecules are linked by O-H⋯O hydrogen bonds, forming infinite chains parallel to [101].