This article examines structural and format changes in annual reports of U.K. listed companies from 1965 to 2004 with a particular focus on graph use. The article compares a new sample of 2004 annual reports with preexisting samples by Lee and by Beattie and Jones. Lee's identified trends...

Lean manufacturing has been widely adopted by many production companies. Apart from the operational difficulty associated with conversion from a traditional, functional based operation, adoption of Lean manufacturing involves significant organizational transformations. It requires formation of...

In this issue of the Policy Review Section, Martin Jones of the Department of Geography, University of Manchester, considers the policy implications of the summary report of the TEC Baseline Follow-up Studies. In a second paper, Jo Hutchinson, Paul Foley and Hulya Oztel of the Leicester Business...

We explore computational aspects of likelihood maximization for the generalized gamma (GG) distribution. We formulate a version of the score equations such that the equations involved are individually uniquely solvable. We observe that the resulting algorithm is well-behaved and competitive with...

Although three-phase open-end winding drives have been under investigation for two decades, there is hardly any work available related to multiphase (more than three phases) open-end winding drive structures. This paper extends one possible PWM technique, recently introduced in conjunction with...