The TPC/27 detector and the PEP machine have been upgraded for highluminosity running. We describe the performance of the new configuration during a test run in fall 1988. Prospects for progress in 7 physics, based on a large data sample to be recorded by the TPC/Zy detector, are reviewed.

Recent research has demonstrated the existence of a positive relationship between IT investment and productivity in the context of large firms. However, the validity of such relationship for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) has not yet been established. The issue is of critical importance for SMEs, which suffer a constant struggle for survival due to the absence of slack resources and high c...

Triple product correlations (TPC’s) involving strange quark spin are elucidated in b → uūs process within the standard model. They arise when light quark masses are nonzero. As the momenta and spins of constituent quarks are related to that of the parent hadron, the quark masses are, however small, important and relevant in TPC studies. At this level the TPC’s of interest are of the form ~ss · ...

Flight and research experience to date indicates that teams of robots and humans will provide significantly greater productivity and capabilities than either system working alone. This paper details research developments in the University of Maryland Space Systems Laboratory on three different approaches to human/robotic interaction in the space environment. In each of these, the human performi...

time is indissolubly linked to activities that occur in concrete times and places and, indeed, actually depends on current rather than historical levels of productivity -a criterion that is often linked to uneven development and the displacement of the cuttingedge centres of innovation and productivity. This said, as Wilson also notes, ‘exchange values tend to prioritize time over space while u...

Construction planners on every project are faced with a unique task of spatially organizing site activities with effective space utilization. This is a crucial planning exercise that if effectively rehearsed then can attribute to increased workers productivity, minimized construction accidents, improved delivery of project on time. One of the major issues in traditional project management tools...

We present a method for mapping the content of a text collection. This method uses linguistic analysis to relate terms extracted from the texts and clusters them into thematic topics mapped onto a 2D space. While the graphic display of domain topics is useful for several information-driven tasks, the focus of the paper is more on the comparison of journal ranking by productivity (number of publ...

Cities are physical structures, but the modern literature on urban economic development rarely acknowledges that fact. The elasticity of housing supply helps determine the extent to which increases in productivity will create bigger cities or just higher paid workers and more expensive homes. In this paper, we present a simple model that provides a framework for doing empirical work that integr...

OBJECTIVE Township hospitals (THs) are important components of the three-tier rural healthcare system of China. However, the efficiency and productivity of THs have been questioned since the healthcare reform was implemented in 2009. The objective of this study is to analyse the efficiency and productivity changes in THs before and after the reform process. SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS A total of...