Economic, industry and corporate trends A report from the Economist Intelligence Unit sponsored by Cisco Systems Foresight 2020 Economic, industry and corporate trends Contents Preface Executive summary Chapter 1: The world economy Chapter 2: Industries Automotive Consumer goods and retailing Energy Financial services Healthcare and pharmaceuticals Manufacturing Public sector Telecoms Chapter 3: The company Appendix I: Survey results 2 3 6 22 24 30 36 43 50 57 62 67 74 86 Appendix II: Methodology for
... An extended set of observables of the nuclear quasi-free (p, d + ) reaction including the triple differential cross-section for coincidence measurements, its analyzing power in case of polarized proton beams and, also, the parameters of the polarization of the excited recoil nucleus and the produced deuteron are considered in the framework of the distorted-wave impulse approximation using the reaction 16 O(p, d + )15 N at a proton energy of 650 MeV as an example. ...
... Coordination of economic policies and convergence of economic performance are fundamental to the integration of national economies in the Community. ... When U.S. President Barack Obama enters his White House meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on March 5 -- angling to dissuade Israel from attacking Iran's nuclear facilities -- there will be one seemingly mundane issue on his mind that he may be too uncomfortable to share with his guest: gasoline prices. ... 2004. ...
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PROCEEDINGS OF THE 31st ICRC, LODZ 2009 1 Preliminary Proton and Helium Spectra from the CREAM-III Flight Y. S. Yoon , H. S. Ahn , T. Anderson, L. Barbier?, ... Keywords: CREAM; energy spectra; protons and helium nuclei I . ... CREAM-III I N S T RU M E N T A N D F LIGHT The CREAM-III instrument consisted of a tungsten/scintillating fiber calorimeter, a dual layer Silicon Charge Detector (SCD), a Cherenkov Camera (CherCam), a Cherenkov Detector, and a Timing Charge Detector (TCD). ...
... The linguistic aspects of the model and the properties of the semantic dictionary ensuring the content analysis with compression of the text structure are considered. Our dictionary resources serve an instru- ment for building a multilevel textual semantic structure. ... Reason (A,B), where SemF(A) = SIT or a whole semantic formula; the same for SemF(B). ... Sem(SIT)R . ... Semantic Resources for Textual Content Compression // Fourth International Conference on Meaning-Text Theory (MTT'09). ...