Growth and gas exchange measurements are used in conjunction with a carbon balance model to describe the millet (Pennisetum typhoides) - witchweed (Striga hermonthica) host-parasite association. Striga hermonthica reduces the growth of millet by 28% and radically alters the architecture of...

In Chapter 10, Josh Lepawsky concentrates on the formation of the Multi-Media Super Corridor (MSC) in Malaysia to examine the political role of clusters. The author also points to the interplay through strategic-coupling to global production networks alongside the fine-grained activities in...

This study arose from a project funded by the London Development Agency Secondment into Knowledge Programme, which tested the ideas that path dependence and lock in were affecting a firm's relationships with their buyers (a private security guarding firm and a local authority). A gap in the...

This pilot-study used new methods to identify specific areas of weakness in students' writing, in the Mathematics Statistics and Operational Research (MSOR) subject areas. The results produced clear recommendations for specific content for reusable learning objects (RLOs) to improve students'...

This paper aims to identify path dependency and quot;lock inquot; effects in the contact between a local authority and a private security firm and, if so, to identify impacts on the firm, in particular its ability to win new business.Martin and Sunley (2006, p.395) and Pierson (2000 p.252)...