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    Selected Abstracts

    Multi-scale modelling of two-phase,two-component processes in heterogeneous porous media

    NUMERICAL LINEAR ALGEBRA WITH APPLICATIONS, Issue 9 2006
    J. Niessner
    Abstract This work deals with flow and transport phenomena in porous media, which occur on different space and time scales. Additionally, the porous medium itself is heterogeneous where the heterogeneities occur on all spatial scales. We consider a large domain with randomly distributed heterogeneities where complex two-phase,two-component processes are relevant only in a small (local) subdomain. This subdomain needs fine resolution as the complex processes are governed by small-scale effects. For a comprehensive fine-scale model taking into account two-phase,two-component processes as well as heterogeneities in the whole (global) model domain, data collection is expensive and computational time is high. Therefore, we developed a multi-scale concept where on the one hand, the global flow field influences the local two-phase,two-component processes on the fine scale. On the other hand, a coarse-scale saturation equation is solved where the effects of the fine-scale two-phase,two-component processes in the subdomain are captured by source/sink terms and the effects of fine-scale heterogeneities by a macrodispersion term. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source]

    Alliance-Driven Governance: Applying a Global Commodity Chains Approach to the U.K. Biotechnology Industry

    ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY, Issue 1 2008
    Kean Birch
    Abstract As the economy has globalized, it has also regionalized, which has led to the integration of different spaces across different scales. A number of theories contend that the endogenous assets of these locations provide them with the means to compete in this globalizing economy, especially in relation to knowledge-based sectors like biotechnology. Among these theories, the cluster concept stands out. However, there is little support for the arguments that local linkages are the central contributors to innovation. Extralocal linkages have also been highlighted, suggesting that other theories that account for these linkages may prove useful in the discussion of knowledge-based sectors, in general, and biotechnology, in particular. One such theory is the concept of global commodity chains, which explicitly concerns the interconnections within and across different geographic scales. As yet it has seldom been applied to the biotechnology industry. This article uses the approach to explore the U.K. biotechnology industry. [source]

    THE COMMODIFICATION OF THE DANISH DEFENCE FORCES AND THE TROUBLED IDENTITIES OF ITS OFFICERS

    FINANCIAL ACCOUNTABILITY & MANAGEMENT, Issue 3 2007
    Peter Skærbæk
    The accounting literature has given much attention to the New Public Management and attempts at making the government's performances auditable while influencing the core working of the public sector. This paper contributes to this debate by demonstrating how particular accounting devices participate in the definition of the identities of the officers in the Danish Defence. It shows how the definition of the officers' identities is complex and dynamic and does not necessarily have outcomes of stability and closure. Applying Actor-Network Theory we demonstrate how their identities are caught up in processes of continual or never ending reconfigurations. The major implication is that the occupational identity of the Danish officers is subject to attempts of being defined as ,a manager' in the period 1989-2006. The paper demonstrates how accounting devices participated in defining a hybrid identity of the officers as ,warrior' and ,manager' and that officers in different spaces and times experienced problems with the hybrid identity. [source]

    Stories of Rural Accumulation in Africa: Trajectories and Transitions among Rural Capitalists in Senegal

    JOURNAL OF AGRARIAN CHANGE, Issue 4 2007
    CARLOS OYA
    This paper analyzes primary qualitative evidence from life histories of rural capitalists in contemporary Senegal. Various common themes in the declining literature on rural capitalism in Africa are discussed with reference to the specific individual trajectories of rural farm capitalists in Senegal. The themes include the emergence of rural capitalism in the context of protracted, uneven and gradual rural social differentiation and the various processes that have accompanied it; the condition of ,entrepreneurship' in such changing historical contexts; the symbiotic relationship between different spaces (loci) of accumulation, especially trade, transport and farming and the historical context in which they take place; the crucial but sometimes contradictory role of the state in spurring or constraining rural capitalist accumulation; and the variety of ,idioms of accumulation', which reflect transitions and synthesis between non-capitalist and capitalist forms of labour surplus appropriation at the level of individual capitalists, despite some uniformity in the general logic of capital and the spread of capitalist relations of production and exchange. The paper also discusses the methodological power and limitations of oral narratives as a method to gather evidence on long-term processes of agrarian change and accumulation in rural Africa. Finally, the life histories shed some light on the origins of rural capitalists and show that there is a combination of instances of ,capitalism from above' and ,from below' but that no dominant pattern can be clearly discerned at least in the space of one or two generations. [source]