An introduction is given to the Engineering Design Centre at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, along with a brief explanation of the main focus towards large made-to-order products. Three key areas of research at the Centre, which have evolved as a result of collaboration with industrial partners from various sectors of industry, are identified as (1) decision support and optimisation, (2)...

Question: How is tundra vegetation related to climatic, soil chemical, geological variables and grazing across a very large section of the Eurasian arctic area? We were particularly interested in broad-scale vegetation-environment relationships and how well do the patterns conform to climate-vegetation schemes. Material and Methods: We sampled vegetation in 1132 plots from 16 sites from differe...

We summarize the experimental signatures and searches for exotic mesons, based on theoretical prejudices of the ux tube model. Speciic examples are given for the f 1 (1285) and b 1 (1235) systems.

* The views expressed in this paper are personal. Most outsiders tend to base their analysis of the future of the Eurosystem on the shape of the Federal Reserve System in the US. This paper argues that the US model is inappropriate. It suggests that the Eurosystem is pursuing a different arrangement, where the balance of power in the national central banks rather than in the centre may continue...

Phillip J. Finley, PhD –#Corresponding Author 3 Rhy Norton, MS 4 Cindy Austin, MS 5 Amber Mitchell 6 Sara Zank, FNP 7 Paul Durham, PhD 8 9 10 1 Mercy Hospital Springfield 11 Division of Trauma & Burn Research 12 1235 E Cherokee, 7H 13 Springfield, MO 65804 14 15 16 2 Jordan Valley Innovation Center 17 Center for Biomedical and Life Sciences 18 524 N. Booneville Ave. 19 Springfield, MO 65806 20 ...

In this paper a tuple space based co-ordination language, and a run-time system which supports it is described. The co-ordination language is called WCL, and it is designed to support agent co-ordination over the Internet between agents which are geographically distributed. WCL uses tuple spaces as used in Linda. WCL provides a richer set of primitives that traditional tuple space based systems...

Knowledge, managed or co-ordinated as a strategic resource, can help to internalise uncertainty or volatility and play an important role in generating and sustaining competitive advantage. One potentially important determinant of knowledge coordination between firms is the relative strength of the knowledge bases of the two partner companies. In the context of the local supply chain this paper ...

The NHS and Social Care in England are facing one of the biggest financial challenges for a generation. Commissioners and providers need to work on collaborative schemes to manage the increasing demand on health and social care within a period of financial constraint. Different forms of care co-ordination have been developed at different levels across the world. In the north-west of England, th...