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Financial management in the Scottish Executive proposals for further refinement
At face value these recent press headlines are a cause for concern. The alleged ÂŁ400 million under funding amounts to 1.9% of the Executiveâs total discretionary spend and, if accurate, would indicate yet more pressure on Scotlandâs already tight finances. However, the drive for efficiency savings announced in 2004 is testament to the Executiveâs desire to free up scarce resources and get better value for money for every pound spent in the public sector. What then do we make of the potential for added pressures implied by these two headlines
A Comparison of Student Academic Growth Between Indiana Charter Schools and Traditional Public Schools
Compares the characteristics and academic growth of the state's charter school students and those of traditional public school students. Compares costs and benefits with districts matched for poor and minority students and annual expenditures per student
Injury Management: The Development and Implementation of Innovative Software in an Elite Sporting Club
This paper explores the business processes of injury tracking and the adoption of the term âinjury managementâ in the context of elite athletes. It does this through a study of the development and implementation of innovative software which captures and manages critical knowledge concerning injuries and their management in an elite sporting club. Key findings indicate that injury management is a much broader concept than previously considered in the health and medical literature. Understanding the broader context for injury management provides an opportunity to use technology for competitive advantage, thus influencing the way elite sporting clubs and their business processes are perceived
The Milky Way's stellar halo - lumpy or triaxial?
We present minimum chi-squared fits of power law and Hernquist density
profiles to F-turnoff stars in eight 2.5 deg wide stripes of SDSS data: five in
the North Galactic Cap and three in the South Galactic cap. Portions of the
stellar Galactic halo that are known to contain large streams of tidal debris
or other lumpy structure, or that may include significant contamination from
the thick disk, are avoided. The data strongly favor a model that is not
symmetric about the Galaxy's axis of rotation. If included as a free parameter,
the best fit to the center of the spheroid is surprisingly approx 3 kpc from
the Galactic center in the direction of the Sun's motion. The model fits favor
a low value of the density of halo stars at the solar position. The alternative
to a non-axisymmetric stellar distribution is that our fits are contaminated by
previously unidentified lumpy substructure.Comment: 10 pages, 10 figs, to appear in proceedings of conference "Physics at
the end of the Galactic Cosmic Ray Spectrum", Journal of Physics: Conf.
series, eds. G. Thomson and P. Sokolsk
Requirements Engineering During Global Software Development: Some Impediments to the Requirements Engineering Process - A Case Study
Requirements engineering is not straightforward for any software development team. Developing software when team members are located in widely distributed geographic locations poses many challenges for developers, particularly during the requirements engineering phase. This paper reports on a case study concerning a large software development project that was completed in just seven months between users located in the UK and software developers from an international software house based in New Zealand. The case indicates that while âtrueâ global requirements engineering may be desirable in achieving economy of resources, a âhybridâ structure of requirements engineering processes is more realistic so that lasting relationships with clients may be formed, and requirements engineering activities achieved. The main impediment to the process of requirements engineering during global software development, as recounted by the team members in this case, is communication. Communication issues may be further described in terms of four categories: distribution of the clients and the development team, distribution of the development team, cultural differences between the clients and the development team and cultural differences among the development tea
'I am pleased to shop somewhere that is fighting the supermarkets a little bit' : A cultural political economy of alternative food networks
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Rings and Radial Waves in the Disk of the Milky Way
We show that in the anticenter region, between Galactic longitudes of
, there is an oscillating asymmetry in the main sequence
star counts on either side of the Galactic plane using data from the Sloan
Digital Sky Survey. This asymmetry oscillates from more stars in the north at
distances of about 2 kpc from the Sun to more stars in the south at 4-6 kpc
from the Sun to more stars in the north at distances of 8-10 kpc from the Sun.
We also see evidence that there are more stars in the south at distances of
12-16 kpc from the Sun. The three more distant asymmetries form roughly
concentric rings around the Galactic center, opening in the direction of the
Milky Way's spiral arms. The northern ring, 9 kpc from the Sun, is easily
identified with the previously discovered Monoceros Ring. Parts of the southern
ring at 14 kpc from the Sun (which we call the TriAnd Ring) have previously
been identified as related to the Monoceros Ring and others have been called
the Triangulum Andromeda Overdensity. The two nearer oscillations are
approximated by a toy model in which the disk plane is offset by of the order
100 pc up and then down at different radii. We also show that the disk is not
azimuthally symmetric around the Galactic anticenter and that there could be a
correspondence between our observed oscillations and the spiral structure of
the Galaxy. Our observations suggest that the TriAnd and Monoceros Rings (which
extend to at least 25 kpc from the Galactic center) are primarily the result of
disk oscillations.Comment: 19figures, 2tables, ApJ accepte
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