The paper sets out to describe the work carried out on what was a first-generation computer delivered in 1958. The paper provides a historical account of events that demonstrate what could be achieved on equipment now regarded as primitive. This was one of the earliest large scale applications of computers to deal with business data processing in the UK. The application described is that carrie...

A Final Word page 7 D espite the robust growth of the U.S. economy in the late 1990s, uncertainties in the global marketplace and changes in the economic and competitive environment have forced companies everywhere to reevaluate their current ways of doing business. Who could have predicted the rapid impact of e-technology on business? Who would have anticipated the effects of regional financia...

Craig Knight, Asia-Pacific Digital Business and Customer Services Manager of Eastman Chemical Company, was given a mandate to sell Eastman’s philosophy for an integrated electronic supply chain, otherwise known as the Integrated System Solution (ISS), to its business partners in the region, and to encourage adoption. Having invested in a state-of-the-art technical architecture that would suppor...

Classically, allergy depends on IgE antibodies and on high-affinity IgE receptors expressed by mast cells and basophils. This long accepted IgE/FcεRI/mast cell paradigm, on which the definition of immediate hypersensitivity was based in the Gell and Coomb's classification, appears too reductionist. Recently accumulated evidence indeed requires that not only IgE but also IgG antibodies, that not...

This atlas offers a detailed and systematic approach to the post-mortem examination of farmed poultry. The first chapter, describes the organs from the skin to the nervous system, presents a simple post-mortem technique, which explains how to examine each organ and body system, and illustrates what they look like when healthy. The second chapter describes the avian diseases that are usually enc...

In a 1982 paper in the journal Glossa, Pullum outlined a set of arguments for treating English infinitival to as a defective auxiliary verb. Twenty years later, in his entry on infinitival constructions in The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language (CGEL, 2002), Huddleston argues that several distributional facts about auxiliaries fit poorly with this hypothesis. He proposes, on the basis of...