The preceding chapters in this section have examined the notion of virtual organization in a number of respects. However, the predominant view is that of support for this concept. It therefore also seems appropriate to step back and take a critical perspective. Is the virtual organization the model for future corporate life or is it merely another management fad? This must be a substantive ques...

Chapter 1 Introduction Erythromelalgia (EM) is a rare disorder characterized by red, warm and painful extremities. In what superficially appears to be the antithesis of Raynaud's disease, victims of EM seek relief by cooling of the affected extremity. Over the years terms such as erythermalgia [1], and erythralgia [2] have also been used for the condition. Graves [3] reported the first case of ...

Stable isotopes in teeth are providing important correlations between ancient people and the geographical location of their childhood homes. In an exciting new application, the authors measured the varying signatures of strontium, oxygen and carbon isotopes in the teeth of a sequence of people buried in Thailand during the period of the introduction and intensification of agriculture. Prelimina...

Mathematics and gesture. An odd couple: the supreme form of abstract thinking and its crude antithesis, physically expressed feeling. If mathematical symbols engender thought which exceeds that available to speech, gesture seems an atavistic return to a time before speech, allied to simian calls and grunts. Mathematics is everywhere in contemporary digitized culture, gesture is marginal, confin...

The idea of the (“perfect”) cosmological principle (CP), viz. that the Universe presents the same aspect from any place at any time, is traced to the ancient Greek philosophers, who also suggested how such a cosmic order might work. The antithesis of this view, i.e. the Aristotelian-Ptolemaic world-picture, was to become the hallmark of the Dark Ages. The Copernican revolution constitutes the f...

Although the initial versions of the functional matrix hypothesis (FMH) theoretically posited the ontogenetic primacy of "function," it is only in recent years that advances in the morphogenetic, engineering, and computer sciences provided an integrated experimental and numerical data base that permitted recent significant revisions of the FMH--revisions that strongly support the primary role o...

The negative income tax represents one of the fundamental ideas of modern welfare policy. Based on a simple application of elementary price theory, it has a powerful lesson for work incentives in welfare programs. The academic literature on the negative income tax has raised two difficulties with it, one concerning work disincentives arising from an increase in the eligibility point, and the ot...

The negative income tax represents one of the fundamental ideas of modern welfare policy. Based on a simple application of elementary price theory, it has a powerful lesson for work incentives in welfare programs. The academic literature on the negative income tax has raised two difficulties with it, one concerning work disincentives arising from an increase in the eligibility point, and the ot...