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Following the self‐equilibrating stress systems developed for the single‐cell fuselage, further stress systems are given for the fuselage with a double‐cell cross‐section. These allow for the direct stress carrying ability of the floor. Wing‐fuselage interaction redundancies are discussed in detail and suitable self‐equilibrating load systems presented. The formation of the associated stress systems in the cover is described with reference to their generation inside the computer. Chapter IV concludes with a brief account of fin attachment loads which serves to introduce two further interaction redundancies to take account of skin attachment. The opening section of Chapter V relates the detailed frame loads to the overall fuselage loading preparatory to the analysis of the closed frames. Matrix equations for the calculation of the statically equivalent wing reactions and of the fuselage moment diagrams are given.

Introduction Recent changes in subscriptions to the Northern Regional Library System, together with certain alterations in the constitution, have led academic libraries to consider alternatives. We investigated two main factors: the cost of borrowing through the region as opposed to directly from the British Library, and the quality of service of each. No attempt has been made to estimate possible rises in postal or BLLD form charges. No administrative costs have been guessed for such things as notifying the NRLB of acquisitions and withdrawals. We have not forecast how Boston Spa would cope with extra business. Our efforts have been directed to a relatively unsophisticated comparison.

The paper deals with a problem of control of a mixed, discrete‐continuous dynamic process. The set of input data for such a process is finite. Control of such a process is very difficult due to the non‐polynomial computational complexity of the used algorithm. The paper suggests a formulation of the optimization problem as well as a method for its solution. The described method is applied to an industrial process, and particularly to the system conditioned by time for which the set of control operations changes according to the realization of the production process.

Much attention has recently been directed toward the relationship between the performance of firms and compensation received by their respective CEOs. We assess this relationship for commercial banks, as regulatory and other industry‐specific conditions can cause the performance‐compensation linkage in the banking industry to differ from that of industrial firms. We find that the accumulated human capital of CEOs and the bank size are positively related to the total compensation (including salary, bonus, and stock options) levels of bank CEOs. We also find a positive significant relationship between bank accounting performance proxies and CEO compensation level for all time horizons. Finally, we find a positive significant relationship between market‐based performance proxy and bank compensation.

Outlines the findings of a study into the secondary destination choices of tourists visiting the Philippines. Defines the tourist mega‐system. Looks at the framework and methodology used and attempts to link these with the holistic approach of Jafari regarding tourism structure and stages which the tourists go through.

The objective of this study is to present a successful strategy to promote Korea as the logistics hub of Northeast Asia. Firstly, we introduce the necessity of a logistic hub strategy for Korea. In order to develop a successful strategy, we consider the 'free trade zone' model of the Netherlands and China. We develop a realistic and suitable model for Korea based on this Jree trade zone' model. Our proposal for a successful logistic hub strategy for Korea is the fulfillment of the following six objectives: 1) security of market accessibility, 2) improvement of the logistic system, 3) improvement of the education system, 4) improvement of the tax system, 5) assurance of labor market flexibility, and 6) development of an appealing living environment for foreigners.

To provide water utilities operating under rationing conditions with some insight into issues related to managing non‐revenue water (NRW).

Reviews general theories associated with pressure, surges and water leakage, and compares them with real data in a rationed water distribution system.

In water networks there is a strong relationship between rationing hours and rationing surge pressures and NRW levels. These relationships mean that traditional ways of benchmarking NRW are not useful in rationed systems.

This paper identifies key NRW issues for utilities operating under rationing and gives them help in identifying options for their NRW strategies.

In a village of Eastern Yucatan, Mexico, cargo or kuuch sponsors compare their ritual tasks to “buying life” from crosses, Catholic saints, and Mayan deities or “owners.” The local notion of compromiso, engagement, or commitment, helps these festival participants express the condition of possibility to successfully perform such exchanges. Decisive for these life renewals, promises, and compromisos depend upon empathy to authorize ritualists and subsume social and natural phenomena under exchange paradigms. By defining, critiquing and using the concept of “disposition” as an inherently self-other stance through which economy transforms into religiosity and vice versa, this chapter analyzes this particular regime of engagement and the temporalities it implies. Through a commitment to the past and the practice of promissory exchange, sponsors develop a new perceptual scheme in which the ritual cultivation of discipline, awareness, expectation, and responsibility are expressed.