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• Cruise Deals: eCruises 'Science Under The Stars' Cruise Deal Offers Interaction With Distinguished Scientists, Free Cruise Protection

  - 2008-09-22

  Cruise and science enthusiasts alike can discover the eCruises.com ( http://www.eCruises.com ) Science Under The Stars cruise deals program on select transatlantic cruises , with cruise bargains starting at $944 with eCruises.com. Science lovers can enjoy six-night cruise deals exploring a...

  Tags: England, HARDWARE, Nanotechnology, Rose, Semiconductors, theory, University of Oxford

• Superconductors have no need to be negative.(Brief Article)

  - 2005-05-11

  May 11, 2005 (New Scientist - ABIX via COMTEX) A new theory about superconductors proposes that protons can also move unobstructed through metal. Superconductivity has been studied in certain metals at low temperatures where electrons form pairs which can move through the metallic lattice....

  Tags: lattice, theory, University of Oxford

• Advances and challenges in innovation studies

  - 2005-03-01

  The study of innovation is a relatively young and fast-growing branch of social science. Mainly inspired by the work of Joseph Schumpeter and by other research traditions outside the economics mainstream, it has developed as an interdisciplinary field studying the relationships among economic, technological, organizational, and institutional changes. In his...

  Tags: analysis, innovation, knowledge, Leadership, Learning, Nelson, Richard, scholar, Strategy, Technologies, technology, theory, Unemployment, University of Oxford, Winter

• Policy change and discourse in Europe: can the EU make a 'square meal out of a stew of paradox'?

  - 2004-03-01

  'Discursive institutionalism' provides a potentially fruitful means of overcoming the tendential structuralism of much new institutionalist scholarship. In particular, it focuses attention on the interplay of structure and agency and raises important questions about how far we should expect policy--and indeed the polity--to be coherent. Radaelli and Schmidt's drawing together...

  Tags: agency, analysis, Europe, European Commission, integration, MARKETING, theory, University of Oxford

• Theory of Machines and Mechanisms. Third Edition.(ME Bookshelf)(Book Review)

  - 2003-09-01

  Theory of Machines and Mechanisms. Third Edition. John K. Uicker Jr., Gordon R. Pennock, and Joseph E. Shigley. Oxford University Press, 198 Madison Ave., New York, NY 10016. 734 pp. 2003. ISBN O-19-515598-X. $99.95. This book provides the foundation for the study of displacements,...

  Tags: acceleration, CAD, linkage, notation, SOFTWARE, theory, University of Oxford, velocity

• The New Imperialism

  - 2003-04-01

  THE NEW IMPERIALISM. By DAVID HARVEY. ix and 253 pp.; notes, bibliog., index. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, 2003. $22 cloth, ISBN 0199264317. The title of this book, and the dust-jacket photograph of George W. Bush strutting along a red-carpeted, neoclassical corridor of power, might lead you to...

  Tags: Iraq, theory, U.S., University of Oxford

• A new era for the Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory. (Editorials).(Editorial)

  - 2003-01-01

  Publication of the January 2003 issue of the Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory marks several important changes. First, JPART is now published by Oxford University Press and joins the impressive collection of books and journals published by Oxford. Our affiliation with Oxford...

  Tags: administration, theory, University of Oxford

• Economic development: survey of course outlines in North American universities

  - 2002-03-22

  The survey is undertaken in response to feedback received from readers on earlier surveys conducted by the author in different areas of economics. The present survey of economic development intends to enhance the quality of teaching and will enable instructors to update their reading lists. Students might find the information...

  Tags: FINANCE, G., income, M., MARKETING, Peterson, Poverty, Studies, survey, theory, University of Oxford, World Bank

• Godel Meets Einstein: Time Travel in the Godel Universe.(Book Review) (book review)

  - 2002-01-01

  By PALLE YOURGRAU. Chicago: Open Court, 1999. Pp. xiv, 253. In 1949, Kurt Godel (1949) found a solution to the field equations of general relativity that described a spacetime with some unusual properties. This "Godel universe" permitted "closed timelike curves," hence a kind of...

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• BOOKS RECEIVED.(Bibliography)

  - 2001-01-01

  Le Cause della Malattia: Un' Analisi Storica e Concettuale. By Evandro Agazzi and Carlos Viesca, eds. Genoa: Erga Edizioni, 1999. Pp. 259. Kant and the Fate of Autonomy. Modern European Philosophy. By Karl Ameriks. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. xiii, 351. ...

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