Turner Foundation

We acknowledge support of this work by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research under contract 83-0372, the National Science Foundation under grant CHE 82-06976 and the donors of the Petroleum Research Fund administered by the American Chemical Society under grant 15163-AC3. We acknowledge many useful conversations with Dr. Martyn Poliakoff and Prof. J. J. Turner and thank NATO for a travel grant which facilitated these conversations. We also thank our coworkers in the field for their useful suggestions and comments. 

Brinco s board of directors today includes Mark Turner, the chairman of Rio Tinto Zinc, former member of the RIIA Council Edmund de Rothschild, the president of N. M. Rothschild and Sons and Sam Harris, the New York lawyer who is a director of Rio Tinto Zinc and whose law firm represents RTZ as well as the Kaplan Foundation, a funder of environmentalist groups. In court papers filed by the Westinghouse Corporation, Harris was named a conspirator in a plan to raise artificially the price of the world s uranium 800 percent during the 1970s. 

Steed, J.W., Turner, D.R. and Wallace, K. (2007) Core Concepts in Supramolecular Chemistry and Nanochemistry, John Wiley Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK. Fundamentals of the frontier research fields of supramolecular chemistry and nanochemistry are covered in a fairly concise manner, explaining the evolution of the fields from more basic foundations suitable for students who want a clear and accessible introduction to these areas. 

W.Blaekstoek for diseussions J.V. Turner for editorial assistanee The Welleome Trust, Gatsby Foundation and BBSRC for support. 

Pells, P. J. N. and R. M. Turner. 1980. End Bearing on Rock with Particular Reference to Sandstone, Structural Foundations on Rock, Proc. International Conference On Structural Foundations on Rock, Sydney, Vol. 1, May 7-9, pp. 181-190. 

IT infrastructure flexibility refers to the extent to which systems (i.e. hardware, software, communication technologies, and database) are easily reconfigurable to support different business applications and services. IT infrastructure comprises information and communication technologies as well as shared technical platforms and databases (Ross et al. 1996 Weill et al. 1996 Bharadwaj 2000). The primary constituents of IT infrastructure are computing platform (hardware and operating systems), communications network, critical shared database, and core applications (Byrd and Turner 2000). IT infrastructure is the foundation of IT assets (i.e., technical and human assets) and services shared across a firm (Piccoli and Ives 2005). As a result, IT infrastructure provides shared foundation for the delivery of business applications and services (Broadbent and Weill 1997). 

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