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Accounting for war
(2008-12)
This paper examines the ways in which accounting has helped to rationalize and normalize violence and how this has contributed to the acceleration and expansion of war. It is argued that accounting is a product of the ...
Labour Unionism in the Financial Services Sector : Fighting for Rights and Representation
(Ashgate Publishing, 2008-12-01)
In recent years, there has been an acute crisis of worker representation in the finance sector in Britain. Labour union and staff association membership and density has fallen, collective organisation has experienced ...
The Effect of Phenyl Substituents on C-13 NMR Shifts and Metal Ions Binding to 4-Phenyl-2,4-Dioxobutanoic Acid Derivatives
(2008-12)
Butanoic moiety of 4-aryl-2,4-dioxobutanoic acids is involved in interactions with metal ions within HIV-1 integrase active site. Sixteen congeneric 4-phenyl-2,4-dioxobutanoic acid derivatives with different substitution ...
The wrong side of the law
(2008-12-01)
Identification of Bacillus cereus Group Species Associated with Food Poisoning Outbreaks in British Columbia, Canada
(2008-12)
Food poisoning laboratories identify Bacillus cereus using routine methods that may not differentiate all Bacillus cereus group species. We recharacterized Bacillus food-poisoning strains from 39 outbreaks and identified ...
An empirical approach to river bed degradation.
(2008-12)
Degradation in a homogeneous alluvial channel due to complete stoppage of sediment downstream of a high capacity reservoir has been studied empirically. Based on dimensional analysis, a method has been established for ...
An investigation into the influence of binary drug solutions upon diffusion and partition processes in model membranes
(2008-12)
Few studies have assessed the impact of binary systems on the fundamental mathematical models that describe drug permeation. The aim of this work was to determine the influence of varying the proportions of prilocaine and ...
An experimental study of stratified flow in enclosures
(2008-12)
This paper presents all experimental investigation of flow scenarios that lead to stratification within the ventilated enclosures. The effect of supply terminal and extract terminal at various airflow rates on the flow ...
A framework for proving correctness of adjoint message-passing programs
(Springer Nature, 2008-11-26)
We propose a technique for proving correctness of adjoint message passing programs that relies on data dependences in partitioned global address space. As an example we discuss asynchronous unbuffered send/receive using MPI.
Contemporary Financial Globalisation in Historical Perspective: Dimensions, Preconditions and Consequences of the Recent and Unprecedented Surge in Global Financial Activity
(2008-11-25)
The subject of this thesis is financial globalisation in historical perspective, and its key
contribution is to demonstrate the J-curve as an alternative depiction of financial
globalisation since the classical Gold ...