Beddoes lectured on chemistry at Oxford in the years that included the French Revolution, the Terror, and the outbreak of war with France, as well as the success in France of the chemical revolution. The very public dispute between Edmund Burke and Joseph Priestley meant that the latter's study of different kinds of air was politically tainted. Beddoes's democratic beliefs and his support for t...

In the past, IT was only marginally affected by regulatory matters. Today, however, IT is in the middle of a whirlwind of corporate governance reforms. New standards for internal controls are affecting almost every aspect of IT work. These, in turn, have significant implications on how IT is managed and on IT costs and productivity. For example, many IT organizations have been so involved in de...

We briefly discuss the Hamiltonian formalism of Kantowski-Sachs space-times with vacuum, anisotropic fluid and two cross-streaming radiation field sources. For these models a cosmological time is introduced. New constraints are found in which the fluid momenta are separated from the rest of the variables. In consequence their Poisson brackets give an Abelian algebra.

Economic Transition and the Exchange-Rate Regime Author(s): Jeffrey D. Sachs Reviewed work(s): Source: The American Economic Review, Vol. 86, No. 2, Papers and Proceedings of the Hundredth and Eighth Annual Meeting of the American Economic Association San Francisco, CA, January 5-7, 1996 (May, 1996), pp. 147-152 Published by: American Economic Association Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable...

Throughout the modern history of biology, DNA has been given a front-row seat. Many biology textbooks and courses present the RNA molecule as an accessory to the DNA molecule. Although we take the roles of RNA for granted, its history is not as well known as that of DNA. Perhaps it was long overdue for a stellar RNA researcher such as James Darnell to undertake such a challenge. The book he has...

A domain independent model is proposed for the automated interpretation of nominal compounds in English. This model is meant to account for productive rules of interpretation which are inferred from the morpho-syntact ic and semantic characteristics of the nominal constituents. In particular, we make extensive use of Pustejovsky's principles concerning the predicative information associated wit...

Dr Robert William Magill Strain was born on 12 April 1907 at 3 University Square, Belfast. His father was David Strain, manager of the Ulster Bank in Donegall Place, and his mother was Helen Louise Magill in 1906. His mother's sister Florence had married Dr Robert James Johnstone, later SirR J Johnstone, Professor ofGynaecology at Queen's University and University MP in the Stormont Parliament....

A crowded trade problem emerges when speculators’ positions are large relative to the liquidity of the asset, thereby making exit difficult. We study this problem, which has been a point of concern in the Dodd Frank Financial Reforms regarding systemic risk, through the lens of short-selling. We show in a simple model that days to cover (DTC), the ratio of short interest to trading volume, meas...