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RiverFlow 2004 is the Second International Conference on Fluvial Hydraulics, organized as speciality conferences under the auspices of the International Association of Hydraulic Engineering and Research (IAHR) within its Fluvial Hydraulics and Eco Hydraulics Sections. RiverFlow conferences are a significant forum of discussion for many researchers

This comprehensive volume covers the most recent advances in the field of spin physics, including the latest research in high energy and nuclear physics and the study of nuclear spin structure. The comprehensive coverage also includes polarized proton and electron acceleration and storage as well as polarized ion sources and targets. Many significant new results and achievements on the different topics considered at the symposium are presented in this book for the first time. Contents: Present Understanding of the Nucleon Spin Structure (A Metz)Understanding Transversity: Present and Future (V Barone)Results and Future Prospects for Muon (g - 2) (B L Roberts)First Results from RHIC Spin Program and Future Prospects (N Saito)Speculations in Hadron Spectroscopy (J M Richard)Nucleon Form Factors (K de Jager)Experimental Status of the GDH Sum Rule (H Arends)Polarized Structure Functions with Neutrino Beams (S Forte)Higher Twists Resummation in Inclusive and Semi-Inclusive Spin-Dependent DIS (O V Teryaev)A New Angular Momentum Sum Rule (E Leader)Single Spin Asymmetry Measurements for π0 Inclusive Productions in p + p↑ → π0 + X and π- + p↑ → π0+ X Reactions at 70 and 40 GeV Respectively (S B Nurushev)Polarisation in the eRHIC Electron (Positron) Ring (D P Barber)Polarisation Build Up in COMPASS 6LiD Target (J Koivuniemi)and other papers (a total of 170 contributions) Readership: Researchers and graduate students in spin physics, including experimental, theoretical and accelerator physics. Keywords:Spin;Fundamental Symmetries;QCD;Nuclear Physics;Hadronic Physics;Polarized Targerts;Polarized Beams;PolarimetryKey Features:

This report analyses MoD's annual report and accounts 2004-05 (published in October 2005 - later than planned - as HC 464, session 2005-06, ISBN 0102935424) which combines MoD's annual performance report and the consolidated departmental resource accounts. Overall MoD's performance against its seven Public Service Agreement (PSA) targets has been mixed: three were "met", two were "partly met", one was "on course" to be met, and one was "not yet assessed". On recruitment and retention (partly met) all three armed services are suffering from critical shortages in various specialist trades, including aircrew and medical personnel. Although MoD reported £400m of savings in the operating costs of the Defence Logistics Organisation, the Committee criticizes the fact that not all of them could be validated. On procurement, MoD did not meet the targets relating to project time slippage. Cost decreases of £699 million were reported on the top 20 major defence equipment projects, but much of this was a result of cuts in the numbers of equipment ordered or in the capability of equipment. Losses reported in MoD's Financial Accounts totalled some £400 million, a lower figure than the previous year but still a substantial sum. Reported losses on the Landing Ship Dock (Auxiliary) programme, which involves the procurement of four transport ships, were some £100 million and further losses might arise. Another loss totalling £147 million related to a building project at the Atomic Weapons Establishment at Aldermaston. The building was unable to meet the requirement and no other use could be found for it. It is another example of substantial waste which has to avoided in the future.

An independent evaluation of the World Bank's extensive support to developing countries on trade issues between 1987 and 2004. The study assesses the development effectiveness of World Bank trade-related advocacy, capacity-building, lending and research. It examines the extent to which the Bank's policies and assistance have met its stated objectives in the area of trade and makes recommendations to strengthen the effectiveness of future Bank trade assistance.

This book constitutes the joint refereed proceedings of five international workshops held in association with the Third International Conference on Grid and Cooperative Computing, GCC 2004, in Wuhan, China in October 2004. The 95 revised workshop papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 154 submissions. In accordance with the workshop titles, the papers are organized in topical sections on the information grid and knowledge grid; storage grid and technologies; information security and survivability for the grid; agents, autonomic computing, and grid enabled virtual organization; and visualization and visual steering.