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The most successful ngo in the world: transparency international and the rise of ‘anticorruptionism’

Presented at conference on NGO studies and anthropology, panel on elite NGOs and NGO elites. Abstract. The anticorruption NGO Transparency International was founded in 1993 by a former World Bank official and his network of ex-diplomats, lawyers, development consultants and businessmen. With headquarters in Berlin and affiliate organizations in 90 countries, it is truly one of the most successful

Propagation of transient electromagnetic waves in inhomogeneous and dispersive waveguides

Transient wave propagation in a waveguide filled with an inhomogeneous dispersive medium is analyzed. The waveguide is inhomogeneous in the longitudinal direction, but is homogeneously filled in the transverse directions. The analysis is performed in the time domain and is based upon a wave splitting technique and the method of propagators. The propagator maps the exciting field from one position

How to gain synchronization between business processes and enterprise resource planning systems : a SOA bases perspective on ERP implementation

A major question in organizations is how to support Business Processes (BPs) by an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system. In this paper we present thoughts on designing implementation processes of ERPs using a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) based perspective: The starting point is based on the idea of decomposing an ERP from a SOA based perspective and thereby supporting automation of imp

A Study of Instrument Reuse and Retargeting in P1687

Modern chips may contain a large number of embedded test, debug, configuration, and monitoring features, called instruments. An instrument and its instrument data, instrument access procedures, may be pre-developed and reused and instruments may be accessed in different ways through the life-time of the chip, which requires retargeting. To address instruments reuse and retargeting, IEEE P1678 spec

On the impossibility of a fixed point proof of the fundamental theorem of algebra. Seminar on mathematical analysis

The author shows that the proofs of \n B. H. Arnold\en [Amer. Math. Monthly 56 (1949), 465--466; MR0031725 (11,195h)] and \n I. Niven\en [ibid. 57 (1950), 246--248; MR0035738 (12,4c)] of the fundamental theorem of algebra, based on the Brouwer fixed point theorem, are incomplete. Both Arnold and Niven recognized that the proofs are invalid, and they remarked that no easy remedy seems to save their

Electromagnetic fields in boreholes-measurements and theory in three dimensions

A comparison between experimental measurements of the electromagnetic field in boreholes and a mathematical model is made. The transmitting antenna is a rectangular wire loop on the ground and the three orthogonal components of the magnetic field are measured below the ground in the borehole. In the mathematical model the ground is assumed to be a stratified half space with a rectangular wire ante