Much research on automated market design has focused on auction mechanisms that require both a centralised auctioneer and strategic behaviour of individuals to achieve competitive outcomes. This new research investigates the performance of several market types in terms of global efficiency and individual trader outcomes in a continuous environment. It is argued that under these conditions a quo...

THE pioneer mobile cardiac ambulance designed by Drs Pantridge and Geddes, is centred on the cardiac unit of the Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast. The inpatient intensive care unit consists of eight single cubicles-situated in the centre of two communicating wards. Each cubicle is equipped for continuous monitoring of the patient, both at the bedside and also on an eight channel central monitor...

With the ever-increasing penetration of software-intensive systems into technical, business and social areas, not only the requirements on system functionality and features, but also the requirements on system quality and reliability are increasing. With the increasing requirements, the complexity of such software-intensive systems is growing – this combined with ever shortened development time...

5) With each spatial fix (within a product life cycle), new working-class formation and protest takes place in an increasingly competitive environment, making it more difficult to secure the resources needed to establish stable labor-capital accords and bring labor militancy under control. This thesis is consonant with the thesis that sees the semiperiphery (and increasingly the periphery) as a...