The ability to judge a nation’s scientific standing is vital for the governments, businesses and trusts that must decide scientific priorities and funding. In this paper I analyse the output and outcomes from research investment over the past decade, to measure the quality of research on national scales and to set it in an international context. There are many ways to evaluate the quality of sc...

New upper and lower bounds are presented for a multi-dimensional generalization of bin pa king alled box pa king. Several variants of this problem, in luding bounded spa e box pa king, square pa king, variable sized box pa king and resour e augmented box pa king are also studied. The main results, stated for d = 2, are as follows: A new upper bound of 2.66013 for online box pa king, a new 14=9 ...

Results from Chandra observations of the two nearest, powerful radio galaxies are summarised.

King was born on 4 June 1921 in New York City, New York. When his mother died in childbirth, an aunt raised King in Ridgefield Park, New Jersey. He studied at Fordham University [11] in Bronx, New York, where he earned his BS in 1943. Following graduation, King served as a US Army instructor in the Army Medical Technicians School [12] at the Lawson General Hospital [13] in Atlanta, Georgia. Whi...

1 Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, St. John’s University, No. 499, Section 4, Tam King Road, Tamsui District, New Taipei City, 25135, Taiwan 2 Graduate Institute of Computer and Communication Engineering, National Taipei University of Technology, No. 1, Section 3, Chung-hsiao E. Road, Taipei 10608, Taiwan 3 Department of Marketing and Logistics Management, St. John’s ...