Breaking and entering

Breaking and re-entering: British American Tobacco in China 1979-2000.

OBJECTIVES To analyse the strategy used by British American Tobacco (BAT) to re-enter the Chinese market from 1979 to 2000 after historically dominating the market before the 1950s. DESIGN Analysis of tobacco industry document files to date available only on-site at the Guildford Depository operated by BAT. An additional search of recent documents related to BAT, placed in the Minnesota Depos...

Entering and Leaving j-Facets

Let S be a set of n points in d-space, no i + 1 points on a common (i − 1)-flat for 1 ≤ i ≤ d. An oriented (d − 1)-simplex spanned by d points in S is called jfacet of S, if there are exactly j points from S on the positive side of its affine hull. We show: (*) For j ≤ n/2 − 2, the total number of (≤ j)-facets (i.e. the number of i-facets with 0 ≤ i ≤ j) in 3-space is maximized in convex positi...

Seed dormancy-breaking and germination requirements of

Dormancy breaking and germination requirements were investigated in seeds of Ferula ovina and Ferula gummosa. Seeds of rather species were collected from north and eastern-north rangelands of Iran. Seeds of each of the species were subjected to different treatments including various levels of GA3, chilling and combination of GA3 and chilling (GA-chilling). In contrast to treated seeds, non-trea...

Line breaking and page breaking

In their seminal paper of 1981, Knuth and Plass described how to apply the method of discrete dynamic programming to the problem of breaking a paragraph into lines. This paper outlines how the same method can be applied to the problem of page make up, or in other words breaking paragraphs into pages. One of the key ideas is that there must be interaction between the line breaking and page break...

Entering the Extranet Era