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One brick at a time: a survey of inductive constructions in rigidity theory
We present a survey of results concerning the use of inductive constructions
to study the rigidity of frameworks. By inductive constructions we mean simple
graph moves which can be shown to preserve the rigidity of the corresponding
framework. We describe a number of cases in which characterisations of rigidity
were proved by inductive constructions. That is, by identifying recursive
operations that preserved rigidity and proving that these operations were
sufficient to generate all such frameworks. We also outline the use of
inductive constructions in some recent areas of particularly active interest,
namely symmetric and periodic frameworks, frameworks on surfaces, and body-bar
frameworks. We summarize the key outstanding open problems related to
inductions.Comment: 24 pages, 12 figures, final versio
Imminent Prospects for Additional Finance: What Might Be Done Now or Soon and Under What Conditions
foreign aid, taxation, subsidies, revenue, international economic order
Visual Importance-Biased Image Synthesis Animation
Present ray tracing algorithms are computationally intensive, requiring hours of computing time for complex scenes. Our previous work has dealt with the development of an overall approach to the application of visual attention to progressive and adaptive ray-tracing techniques. The approach facilitates large computational savings by modulating the supersampling rates in an image by the visual importance of the region being rendered. This paper extends the approach by incorporating temporal changes into the models and techniques developed, as it is expected that further efficiency savings can be reaped for animated scenes. Applications for this approach include entertainment, visualisation and simulation
Political Economy of Additional Development Finance
The paper considers the political obstacles and supports for additional development finance and a number of possible devices through which advantage may be taken of the supports and the obstacles circumvented. It emphasizes the need for effective negotiating alliances among developing-country governments that will draw on support from outside their own ranks. It gives particular attention to the 'innovative' methods by which funds might be mobilized by transnational activity for global disposal within a strategy for the progressive reduction of poverty. In order to eliminate one difficulty it outlines a possible arrangement through which funds so raised might be allocated.development finance, aid, Tobin Tax, global governance
Designing the Last Mile of the Supply Chain in Africa: Firm Expansion and Managerial Inferences from a Grocer Model of Location Decisions
The recent interest in the expansion of retail food chains and the perceived problems resulting from competition between these new, sophisticated supply chains and the most basic of food distribution networks in emerging economies have been greatly debated in the literature. This paper is a seminal approach to examining South-South food firm (grocer) foreign direct investment by incorporating data on the informal market into a facility location decision model. There are unique environmental complexities that developing/transitioning economies present. The unique finding of this model is that informal employment patterns, in both Agricultural and non-Agricultural sectors, influence the firm’s location. Given the absence of data, South-South foreign direct investment managers perceive avid market transactions as indicators of demand and potential supply availability in formal and informal sectors. For example, Pick n’ Pay’s CEO stated recently that their growth in the Southern Africa supermarket business is a direct result of the informal market converting to the formal market.Supply Chain, Africa, Informal Markets, Facility Location Model, Demand and Price Analysis, Marketing, Q10,
Dark matter, the CMSSM and lattice QCD
Recent lattice measurements have given accurate estimates of the light and
strange quark condensates in the proton. We use these new results to
significantly improve the dark matter predictions in a set of benchmark models
that represent different scenarios in the constrained minimal supersymmetric
standard model (CMSSM). Because the predicted cross sections are at least an
order of magnitude smaller than previously suggested, our results have
significant consequences for dark matter searches.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figure
This is not an exit : some perspective on George Bataille's "General Economy" in the Age of Consumer Capitalism
Bibliography: leaves 65-69.In the past decade, the writings of George Bataille have become increasingly influential in spheres such as literary criticism, philosophy and economic theory. One particular strain of his work which has gained influence in recent times, is his theory of excess, which he calls the "general economy". In this dissertation, I wish to apply certain aspects of this concept to consumer Capitalism. In particular, I wish to examine Bataille's notion of "heterogeneity" and its relevance in contemporary Western society
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