This study theoretically develops the exploratory findings from Hansen and Van der Stede (2004), regarding alternative reasons to budget (RtB) in firms. Four operational RtB’s are proposed, which are developed from the ...

Tbe aim of this study was to asse~ the expressed preferences of general practitioners (GPs)for alternative organisational models to for-profit GP corporatisation. A review of the findings of six feasibility studies that ...

To date, classical mass renormalization has been invoked in all tube-based self-force calculations, thus following the method introduced in Dirac's 1938 calculation of the electromagnetic self-force for the classical ...

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The Energy Charter Treaty (ECT) was initially promulgated as a European Union (EU) initiative designed to encourage economic development in Former Soviet Union (FSU) states through Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in the ...

An urgent need for creative, sustainable approaches, which minimise the environmental impact of conventional Portland Cement (PC) -based construction materials, is recognised throughout the world. In recent years intensive ...

Despite Au, Al and Cu being individually very well-known elements, their ternary phase diagram has not been studied in as much detail as those of many other Au-containing ternaries. Here we review what is known, and consider ...

Coupled climate-carbon cycle models suggest that Amazon forests are vulnerable to both long- and short-term droughts, but satellite observations showed a large-scale photosynthetic green-up in intact evergreen forests of ...

In 1995, the Disorderly Houses Amendment Act 1995 (NSW) abolished the common law offence of keeping a brothel, making brothels a legitimate commercial land use regulated under the Environmental Planning and Assessment ...

In his article "Ambiguity Now" Martin Harrison focuses on the pivotal place which modernist critical theory ascribed to ambiguity in the definition of meaning and structure in poetry. In particular, Harrison considers ...