The primary clocks CS1, CS2 and CS3 of the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB) have contributed to the realization of International Atomic Time, TAI (Temps Atomique International), throughout 1999. Their operation, their performance and the uncertainty with which they realized the International System of Units (SI) second are described in some detail, together with the results and assoc...

This research examines a chronic problem in academic settings – inappropriate copying or misuse of source materials–i.e., plagiarism. We conduct a computer-based writing experiment to examine the effects of psychological and situational characteristics on subjects’ propensity to misappropriate text. Specifically, we examine to what extent such misappropriations may be explained by available tec...

This paper discusses two important desiderata for developing creativity support tools, namely ideation and empowerment. We then use them to guide us in designing a new individual creativity support tool codenamed Creative-Pad. Creative-Pad is designed to assist individual advertising creative to develop creative ideas for advertisements. For ideation, Creative-Pad searches and filters informati...

We may not be able to make you love reading, but adobe creative suite 2 workflow integrating the tools increasing your productivity will lead you to love reading starting from now. Book is the window to open the new world. The world that you want is in the better stage and level. World will always guide you to even the prestige stage of the life. You know, this is some of how reading will give ...

Using 3.3 pb of data collected with the CMD-2 detector in the 720 – 840 MeV c.m. energy range, the branching fraction of the conversion decay ω → πee has been measured: B(ω → πee) = (8.19 ± 0.71± 0.62) · 10. The upper limits for the branching fractions of the following conversion decays have been obtained at the 90% confidence level: B(ρ → πee) < 1.6 · 10, B(ρ → ηee) < 0.7 · 10 and B(ω → ηee) <...

While stakeholder models of corporate governance support long-term employment, recent reforms have promoted shareholder-oriented corporate governance worldwide. Will reform cause employment to converge on a market system? This paper presents a comparison of the linkages between corporate governance and employment patterns in 22 countries using the QCA method (Qualitative Comparative Analysis). ...

We examine impact of natural disasters on annual output and output growth in Vietnam. Using provincial data for primary and secondary industries in Vietnam, we employ the Blundell-Bond System GMM procedure to estimate the impact of disasters on the macroeconomy. Results show that more lethal disasters result in lower output growth but that more costly disasters (in terms of destroyed capital) a...

The prevailing narrative over the decades within much of postgraduate training is to just ‘get on with it’ and to lace problems with maxims like ‘publish or perish’ – which according to a quick search on PubMed has 91 articles explicitly mentioning it – the oldest back in 1962! Such thinking is unlikely to lead to the innovative solutions required for the problems presented by the ‘perfect stor...

78 This paper considers the ethical aspects of co-producing visual representations of communities experiencing economic deprivation. It focuses on one of five case studies that are part of a UK-wide research project that is funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. The research broadly aims to explore how arts-based approaches can enable communities to express health and wellbeing iss...