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Some Famous Mathematical Constants
A table of 120 known constants in math, such as Pi, e, sqrt(2), parking constant, Feigenbaum constant, etc. each of them is
with references, and up to 1024 digits when possible can be found at the Centre for Experimental and Constructive
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Competing in the digital age: How the internet will transform global business
Key findings
Competing in the digital age: How the Internet will transform global business
is a hard-hitting and practical research report on the impact of the Internet on
corporate strategy and organisation. It provides pragmatic analysis, insightful
commentary, informed advice and case study evidence of what works and why.
It will help you to:
respond to the challenges of the Internet with new strategies
appropriate to your business
prepare your business for e-commerce and the associated
changes in organisational structure
leverage Internet technology to create new service capabilities that
improve customer satisfaction
reduce costs through supply chain efficiency and process
consolidation
reinvent your company at every level, restructuring the supply
chain and institutionalising knowledge management >compete on a
global basis against established opponents and "brands from
nowhere"
This authoritative study will demonstrate what the Internet is doing to
the international business landscape and why things will never be the
same again in the globalised 24x7 world economy. Most importantly, it
will equip you with the insight, understanding and practical knowledge
you need to overhaul your corporate strategy to become a digital
corporation.
Competing in the digital age is based on an exhaustive global
programme of qualitative and quantitative research conducted jointly by
the Economist Intelligence Unit and Booz·Allen & Hamilton, a leading
international consulting firm. The programme consisted of a survey of
525 senior executives from companies around the world; face-to-face
interviews with senior executives in more than 50 leading companies
across Europe, the Americas and Asia; and structured group
discussions with over 40 top executives at Thought Leadership Panels
held in London and New York.
Leading companies who participated in the report
Adecco, Asea Brown Boveri, Asian Airlines, BankBoston , Bates
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Bridgestone, British Petroleum, British Telecom, Cable & Wireless,
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Wellcome, Hewlett-Packard, Jewel Companies, Johnson & Johnson,
LEGO, Lucent Technologies, Mitsubishi, Nomura Research
International, Olivetti, Pearson, Phillips Defense & Aviation Group,
Pinault-Printemps-ReDoute, Ralston-Purina, Reuters New Media,
Rothschild, Schweppes, Sony, State Street Global Advisors, Texaco,
Thomas Cook, TIAA-CREF, Virgin Atlantic, Wachovia, Warner
Lambert, West Merchant Bank
Global Internet trends: A corporate benchmarking database
The full statistical findings are available on diskette and can be
purchased separately or as part of a special offer with the report. This
invaluable resource includes the responses from 525 senior executives
to almost 40 questions, with detailed breakdowns by industry, region,
company size and more. It allows you to benchmark your organisation
against peers in your industry or Internet leaders across industries.
Price: US$695
ISBN: 0 86 218 1135
Research report number: N439
Publication date: August 1999
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For immediate release
Country Risk: Key vulnerability
Current-account instability (23): Myanmar, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bolivia, Chile, Dominican
Republic, Guatemala, Trinidad & Tobago, Uruguay, Gabon, Senegal, Uganda, Zambia, Saudi
Arabia, Yemen, Bulgaria, Croatia, Estonia, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Moldova, Poland, Slovenia
Political instability (16): Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Taiwan, Colombia, Côte d'Ivoire,
Namibia, Nigeria, Tanzania, Zimbabwe, Algeria, Israel, Sudan, Syria, Macedonia, Cyprus
Fiscal policy (13): Brazil, Costa Rica, Panama, Cameroon, Ghana, Kenya, Kuwait, Lebanon,
Oman, Hungary, Lithuania, Greece, Turkey
Political efficacy (9): Philippines, Ecuador, El Salvador, Venezuela, Angola, Mauritius, Iran,
Russia, Ukraine
Growth/savings (9): Hong Kong, Honduras, South Africa, Bahrain, Jordan, Libya, Azerbaijan,
Czech Republic, Romania
Financial structure (7): China, Malaysia, South Korea, Thailand, Mexico, Paraguay, Slovakia
Exchange-rate policy (4): Jamaica, Malawi, Egypt, Uzbekistan
Trade policy (4): Cuba, Botswana, Morocco, Tunisia
Debt structure (3): Argentina, Nicaragua, Peru
Regulatory policy (2): Vietnam, UAE
Liquidity (2): Papua New Guinea, Qatar
Global climate (1): Singapore
Monetary policy (0): none
Current-account instability is the key vulnerability in eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union
Of the five regions surveyed Latin America, eastern Europe, Middle East, Africa and Emerging Asia
eastern Europe was the most susceptible to current-account instability. In eight of the 18 countries
(Bulgaria, Croatia, Estonia, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Moldova, Poland, Slovenia) surveyed in this region,
current-account instability was identified as the key vulnerability. The size and persistence of these
deficits, and the belief that they are mostly a result of uncompetitive export sectors and poorly
reformed economies, raises the possibility that austerity measures or currency adjustment will be
required at some point. Large current-account deficits also leave the region vulnerable to shifts in
foreign investor sentiment and international contagion.
Political instability is likely to be of most importance to risk assessment for the Middle East in
2000
Political instability, the second most widely identified vulnerability across the 93 emerging markets,
was prevalent across all the regions, but was most evident in the Middle East (Algeria, Israel, Sudan,
Syria) Africa (Côte d'Ivoire, Namibia, Nigeria, Tanzania, Zimbabwe), and parts of Asia, especially
Indonesia. Political instability factors are likely to be of most importance to risk assessment for the
Middle East in 2000, when the peace process will dominate the political agenda. Progress towards a
settlement between Israel and the Palestinians, and with Syria and Lebanon, would facilitate the
normalisation of Israel's relations with Arab countries, and could pave the way for the establishment
of a Palestinian state. A key risk to the successful completion of peace talks is the possible split in
the still fragile seven-party coalition government in Israel.
Fiscal indiscipline in Brazil, Turkey and Hungary leaves these countries vulnerable to currency
crises
Fiscal policy is the third most frequently identified underlying vulnerability for emerging markets.
Fiscal indiscipline in Brazil, Turkey and Hungary, three of the most dynamic emerging markets,
leaves these countries vulnerable to currency crises. In Brazil, Congress's reluctance to endorse
spending reforms in the civil service, pensions and social security system has left the overall fiscal
deficit high. Further setbacks to the government’s fiscal programme could lead to speculative
pressures on the Real, particularly at a time when there is a bulge of external debt repayments falling
due. In the case of Turkey, fiscal indiscipline has been caused by the government's inability to
sustain reforms and refrain from populist policies. Hungary's efforts at fiscal reform are hampered by
inadequate tax collection, endemic overshooting of deficit targets for social security funds and
pressure from the powerful agricultural lobby. All three countries are forced to maintain high real
interest rates to attract deficit finance, thereby undermining their underlying fiscal positions even
further.
The fragility of Emerging Asia's financial structure may prevent a full recovery in the region
Underpinning the risk assessment in Country risk: global prospects for 2000 are global and regional
and country-specific forecasts for 2000. The Economist Intelligence Unit expects slightly firmer
global GDP growth and faster world trade growth, led by stronger demand in Emerging Asia. The
boost to trade from Asia’s recuperation should help to lift commodities prices, particularly base
metals prices. However, the fragility of Emerging Asia's banking sector may serve to limit the extent
of the recovery in 2000. The health of the financial system is closely linked with corporate
restructuring, which is proceeding only slowly and is affecting the traditionally close relations
between banks and industry. As the region's economies recover, governments may ease up on bank
restructuring, delaying both a sharper rebound and the return to rapid non-inflationary growth.
for a more detailed description of how Country Risk: global prospects for 2000 can
help you assess key vulnerability in emerging markets go to.
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Once We Were Not Alone
Ian Tattersall
Homo sapiens is the only hominid that still walks the earth. Yet
over the past four million years, 20 or more types of creatures
similar to us and our ancestors may have existed, and often they
shared their territory with one another. Perhaps the reason we
are all that remains is on the tip of our tongues.
http://www.sciam.com/2000/0100issue/0100quicksummary.html
Lancelot of the Lake
REISSUE
Edited and translated by Corin Corley
Introduction by Elspeth Kennedy
Description
Readership: The general reader interested in Arthurian romance and fiction;
students of French and English medieval literature.
Translated for the first time into English, the Old French prose poem is a classic of
European literature and has influenced such diverse figures as Dante, T.H. White,
and the makers of the 1967 film Camelot.
http://www.oup.co.uk/isbn/0-19-283793-1
The book theorizes the role of culture in the prosecution of war, gives a
richly-textured historical account of contemporary responses to Britains Second
World War, and provides a substantial bibliographical resource for future research.
Contents/contributors
Introduction
1 Reconnaissance: Violence, Representation, and Britain's Second World
War
2 The Figure of the Airman
3 What targets for bombs: Spectacle, Reconstruction, and the London Blitz
4 Side Show or Second Front?: The Legibility of Battle in North Africa
5 War Aims and Outcomes
6 Were All Prisoners of War
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
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Mailsort is the latest stage of
an elaborate and bizarre practical joke played by the Post Office at
our expense. The first stage was postcoding, a vast and enormously
costly 15-year exercise (1959 to 1974) in which every British
address was allocated an alphanumeric postcode. The rest of the
world (except Canada) was content to assign simple numeric codes,
usually five digits, where the first one or two digits represented the
province or region, and the rest identified the city and locality.
http://www.newscientist.com/lastword/answers/lwa8gadgets.html
When a
beam of light is shone at the bar code, the light areas reflect the light
back to the reader while the dark areas absorb the light. (big issue galway 96,the kenndys wanted just a little roll for some big forigien exchange profeits ,let them eat messy cake)
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LOOK! NO PARACHU
LOOK! NO PARACHUTE What's shaped like a shuttlecock and should come down to
Earth at 50 kilometres per hour? A very unusual spacecraft. We take a look
at the new inflatable heat shield which could make parachutes a thing of the
past, save space and cut the cost of transporting cargoes into orbit.
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns2224178
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famous emeralds,
PRECIOUS MOMENTS Meanwhile, back on dry land, geochemists are putting
legends to the test. For a long time experts have suspected that some of the
world's most prized gemstones came from forgotten mines in Asia. Now, by
analysing oxygen levels in famous emeralds, Gaston Giuliani of the French
government's Centre for Petrography and Chemistry in Nancy is confirming old
fables with new facts.
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns2224194
BUSINESS
E-mail Addresses
How to find E-mail Addresses (
http://www.reading.ac.uk/CSC/Topic/Email/EmGAddr_02/).
BUSINESS
Boston's rebirth
Universities fuel Boston's high-tech rebirth
When Compaq Computer purchased Massachusetts-based Digital
Equipment Corporation in 1998, the once-great computer
sector in the Boston area appeared to have breathed its
last. National attention turned to new technology centres
like Seattle, home of Microsoft. The media blamed New
England stodginess and conservatism for the demise of its
high-technology industry...
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BUSINESS
BCE, Canada's la
BCE, Canada's largest telecommunications company, has
teamed up with Lycos, the US internet media group, to
launch a web portal that will allow the US company to
expand into Canada.The deal will provide BCE with Lycos'
technology and content, and is part of the Canadian
group's strategy to strengthen its online businesses...
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BUSINESS
head to head
ULSTER: Martin McGuinness, Sinn Féin's chief negotiator,
issued a stark warning to Ulster Unionists on Sunday "not
to go head to head with the IRA", in the clearest signal
yet that the republican terrorist organisation has no
intention of meeting demands for a start to
decommissioning...
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