NIBCO, Inc., a mid-sized manufacturer of valves and pipe fittings headquartered in the U.S. with $460 million annual revenues, implemented SAP R/3 across its 10 plants and 4 new distribution centers with a Big Bang approach in December 1997. NIBCO management agreed with the Boston Consulting Group recommendation to "cut loose" from its existing legacy systems and replace them with common, integ...

In this paper we discuss the initial state of universe at Big Bang. By using ideas Freedman in proof disk embedding theorem for 4-manifolds, describe corresponding spacetime as gravitational instanton. The spatial space is a fractal (wild embedded 3-sphere). Then construct quantum from space. This part string algebra Ocneanu. There link to Jones polynomial and Witten's topological field theory....

disease by 30%," which sits uneasily with the report's own acceptance that the Medical Research Council's hypertension trial found "no significant effect on heart disease" from the reduction of mild to moderate hypertension. To have maximum impact such reports should surely offer no unprotected flanks to their critics and should concentrate on limited and attainable targets for which unimpeacha...

I review standard big bang nucleosynthesis and some versions of nonstandard BBN. The abundances of the primordial isotopes D, He-3, and Li-7 produced in standard BBN can be calculated as a function of the baryon density with an accuracy of about 10%. For He-4 the accuracy is better than 1%. The calculated abundances agree fairly well with observations, but the baryon density of the universe can...

The first theoretical evidence for the Big Bang came from Alexander Friedmann in 1922, when he showed that Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity predicted that the universe was either expanding or contracting. Einstein was so upset with this result that he introduced a cosmological constant into his theory which would make the universe static. Later he said that this was his biggest bl...

The light element abundances probe the baryon density of the universe within a few minutes of the Big Bang. Of these relics from the earliest universe, deuterium is the baryometer of choice. By comparing its primordial abundance inferred from observations with that predicted by Big Bang Nucleosynthesis (BBN), the early universe baryon density is derived. This is then compared to independent est...