Open Access for Researchers - Easy steps to deposit your outputs

A bookmark which describes the 3 easy steps that academics have to do, to add their research outputs to the Current Research Information System (CRIS) and the reasons for making your publications open access. Distributed at the REF Roadshows, October - December 201

The Borneo Company Limited:The Origins of a Nineteenth Century Networked Multinational

The origins of British-based trading companies are to be found in the international mercantile networks which linked together Britain's commercial centres with the rest of the world during the nineteenth century. One such network, drawing together participants with operations in Singapore and Sarawak, was formalized under the title of The Borneo Company Limited (BCL) between 1851 and 1856. To function effectively, these inter-personal networks of merchants required a high degree of trustworthiness among the participants in order to overcome principal/agent problems, since direct supervision from the headquarters in London was not feasible. However, in order to expand, it was necessary to widen the circle of network participants and to incorporate new types of competence. This contribution analyses the early history of BCL with a view to understanding the way in which the process of growth was managed, distinguishing between three different types of expansion: engaging in production as well as trade; extending the geographical scope of the organization; and diversifying into new markets

Independent review of variable fees and student finance arrangements: report to Minister for Employment and Learning

"The report is structured as follows: Section 1 Introduction and Background to the Review, Section 2 Current Arrangements, Section 3 Impact of the Introduction of Variable Student Fees, Section 4 Future Fee Scenarios for Northern Ireland, Section 5 Future Maintenance Grant Entitlement Options, Section 6 Recommendations" - page 9

Problems with the MSSM : mu & proton decay

This paper describes a set of discrete R symmetries which can be used to define the minimal supersymmetric standard model or singlet extensions of it.Comment: Contribution to KMI Inauguration Conference "Quest for the Origin of Particles and the Universe" (KMIIN), 24-26 Nov. 2011, KMI, Nagoya Universit