Creditable behaviour? The intra-firm management of trade credit

Purpose: This paper aims to explore the reasons for the apparent failure of many UK firms to achieve the competitive advantages indicated in largely positivist literature through the management of their trade credit positions

Review of \u3ci\u3eONE HUNDRED YEARS OF INQUIRY AND INNOVATION: AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN DAIRY SCIENCE ASSOCIATION\u3c/i\u3e, edited by Coleen M. Jones

In recognition of its centennial, the American Dairy Science Association (founded in July 1906) has produced this large (8 1/2 x 11) coffee-table book, chronicling the Association’s first 100 years. The book is richly illustrated with both black and white, and color photographs, gleaned from many academic dairy science programs, individual association members, and well-known dairy industry publications. Beginning with information on dairying prior to 1906 and the founding of the ADSA, the arrangement is then divided into 25-year intervals. Each of the four sections leads with a short overview of dairying, followed by line graphs of the number of milk cows, milk production, and consumption for the time period. A year-by-year summary of developments and significant events in the industry, and/or the Association, completes the information. The images throughout complement and reinforce the text, illustrating production and industry practices, research, changes in mechanization and technology, and consumer public relations. The volume ends with the ADSA Vision and Mission statements, lists of past-presidents and executive leadership, and an epilogue by a member of the Centennial Planning Committee

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Interferometric Evidence for Resolved Warm Dust in the DQ Tau System

We report on near-infrared (IR) interferometric observations of the double-lined pre-main sequence (PMS) binary system DQ Tau. We model these data with a visual orbit for DQ Tau supported by the spectroscopic orbit & analysis of \citet{Mathieu1997}. Further, DQ Tau exhibits significant near-IR excess; modeling our data requires inclusion of near-IR light from an 'excess' source. Remarkably the excess source is resolved in our data, similar in scale to the binary itself ($\sim$ 0.2 AU at apastron), rather than the larger circumbinary disk ($\sim$ 0.4 AU radius). Our observations support the \citet{Mathieu1997} and \citet{Carr2001} inference of significant warm material near the DQ Tau binary.Comment: 14 pgs, 3 figures, ApJL in pres