The research at University College London School of Medicine (UCLSM) is supported by the Wellcome Trust, Action Research, the Special Trustees of University College Hospital, and the Muscular Dystrophy Group of Great Britain. The studies have been carried out with the assistance of Dr. P. S. Tofts, Mr. D. Delpy and Mr. A. Chu of the Department of Medical Physics (UCLSM), and Mr. N.Taylor of Kin...

System-initiated digressive proposals may be used to introduce new and unexpected information into automated telephone services. These digressions may be viewed as particularly pronounced forms of unsolicited interruptions as they contain information not directly related to the caller’s intended activity. In human–human conversation, interruptions are considered to be speech acts which intrinsi...

This paper uses the framework of an OLG economy for an analysis of the dynamic interaction between the precision of information about individual skills, investment in education, human capital accumulation and social welfare. The human capital of an individual depends on both his (subjectively) random ability and his investment in education. Individual investment in education is financed through...

Sustainability is a wide concept that contains other concepts such as social responsibility and has been investigated with concepts such as competition sustainability, reporting sustainability, and social sustainability. The present study aims to investigate the role of social interest rate risk management (SIRRM) in the relationship between sustainability performance and investment ef...

We develop a tractable two-country overlapping generations model and show analytically that the cross-country differences in financial development help explain three recent empirical facts characterizing international capital flows: financial capital flows from relatively poor to relatively rich countries while FDI flows in the opposite direction; net capital flows are from poor to rich countri...

In 1981, Paris and Wilkie [28] indicated it was an open question whether IΣ0 would satisfy the Second Incompleteness Theorem for Herbrand deduction. We will show that some specially formulated axiomizations for IΣ0 can evade the Herbrandized version of the Second Incompleteness Theorem.