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2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Will S. Drysdale ◽  
Adam R. Vaughan ◽  
Freya A. Squires ◽  
Sam J. Cliff ◽  
Stefan Metzger ◽  
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Abstract. During March–June 2017 emissions of nitrogen oxides were measured via eddy covariance at the British Telecom Tower in central London, UK. Through the use of a footprint model the expected emissions were simulated from the spatially resolved National Atmospheric Emissions Inventory for 2017, and compared with the measured emissions. These simulated emissions were shown to underestimate measured emissions during the day time by a factor of 1.48, but they agreed well overnight. Furthermore, underestimations were spatially mapped and the areas around the measurement site responsible for differences in measured and simulated emissions inferred. It was observed that areas of higher traffic, such as major roads near national rail stations, showed the greatest underestimation by the simulated emissions. These discrepancies are partially attributed to a combination of the inventory not fully capturing traffic conditions in central London, and both spatial and temporal resolution of the inventory not fully describing the high heterogeneity of the urban centre. Understanding of this underestimation may further improved with longer measurement time series ,to better understand temporal variation, and improved temporal scaling factors, to better simulate sub-annual emissions.


2021 ◽  
pp. 225-232
Author(s):  
Laszlo Solymar

The end of the Second World War saw the company AT&T in a dominant position in the US. They had the local monopoly, the long-distance monopoly, and the manufacturing monopoly. They were under constant attack by the Justice Department who sought to stop their monopoly position by applying the Anti-Trust laws. In 1984 they succeeded, and the AT&T empire was dissolved. Seven independent, so-called Baby Bells, were set up. Bell Telephone Laboratories, the world’s greatest research laboratory, was split up. In the UK at about the same time the Post Office lost its monopoly position, although British Telecom, set up in its stead, was allowed to keep a monopoly position but had to accept regulation. France Telecom was also privatized.


Futures ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 173-191
Author(s):  
Jacob Ward

This chapter explores science fiction, computer simulation, and Thatcherism in the long-range and business planning departments of the British Post Office’s Telecommunications Division and its successor, British Telecom, as Margaret Thatcher’s Conservative government transferred telecommunications from public monopoly, run by the Post Office, to liberalized corporation, run by British Telecom. Ward charts the negotiations between simulated and literary utopias and dystopias, analysing managerial representations of information technology’s transformative power. Managers understood computer simulations as interactive futures, bringing techno-moral changes of predictive markets and emancipatory electronics from the future to the present. They dismissed the dystopias of H. G. Wells and George Orwell as outdated, in contrast to the computer’s predictive power, but in doing so, these managers tacitly accepted the ‘hypersurveillant’ power of computer simulation, where customers could be simulated and surveilled ahead of time. Ward thus highlights digital utopianism’s contradictory values of deregulation, personal freedom, and technological planning.


2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 63-70
Author(s):  
Мельник А.О. ◽  
Соловйова Т. М.

У даній статті розглядається реінжиніринг бізнес-процесів, як один із методів інноваційного розвитку підприємств. Сьогодні реінжиніринг бізнес-процесів інтенсивно впроваджують та застосовують у багатьох вітчизняних підприємствах, з метою підвищення ефективності ведення підприємницької діяльності та формування конкурентоспроможного підприємства у сучасних ринкових умовах. Проаналізовано різноманітні трактування вітчизняними та іноземними науковцями сутності категорії «реінжиніринг бізнес-процесів» та описано еволюцію даного поняття. Досліджено дотичне поняття “реструктуризація підприємства”, яке є важливим для даного дослідження, оскільки являє собою принципову зміну всіх видів діяльності на підприємстві. Окреслено передумови, які слугують для втілення реінжинірингу бізнес процесів до інноваційної діяльності підприємств. Охарактеризовано процес розробки аргументів, котрий надає додаткові переваги підприємству, з метою переконання співробітників для застосування реінжинірингу. Виокремлено перелік проблем, з якими стикаються компанії у процесі своєї діяльності, та котрі може вирішити реінжиніринг бізнес процесів. Визначено основні переваги та недоліки від впровадження реінжинірингу бізнес-процесів на підприємствах. Надано перелік відомих світових компаній, такі як: Tech Mahindra, General Motors Corporation, Dell, Ford Motor Company, British Telecom та інші компанії, які застосовували реінжиніринг як інструмент для управління своїми бізнес-процесами, та котрий позитивно вплинув на ефективність функціонування даних підприємств. Наведено наочний приклад застосування реінжинірингу бізнес-процесів в діяльності американської страхової компанії Mutual Benefit Insurance, котрий ефективно позначився на діяльності даної компанії. Реінжиніринг бізнес процесів розглядається як система корінних перетворень бізнес-процесів на підприємстві, котрі сприяють виходу підприємств з кризової ситуації, та прискоренню адаптації даного підприємства до сучасних ринкових умов, а також його фінансового оздоровлення та системного оновлення.


Author(s):  
Ralph Morton ◽  
Hilary Nesi

This chapter discusses the creation of the British Telecom Correspondence Corpus (BTCC), a searchable database of letters taken from the public archives of British Telecom (BT) that were written by nearly 400 authors on a wide variety of topics between 1853 and 1982. It first discusses some experiences working on the New Connections project, funded by Jisc (formerly the Joint Information Systems Committee) and a collaboration between Coventry University, BT Heritage, and The National Archives, focusing particularly on the methodological issues encountered. The corpus was created to address a gap in existing corpus resources, and so that researchers (primarily linguists) could access and, crucially, engage with the language of the letters. Since the completion of the BTCC there have been efforts to expand the corpus to include correspondence written to and from the Post Office, an institution with many historical links to BT. This chapter addresses issues surrounding institutional collaboration in both phases of this ongoing research.


2019 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 424-446 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacob Ward

Abstract This article is a history of the privatization of British Telecom. BT's privatization occupies a central position in histories of Thatcherism as a pivotal moment in Thatcherism's ideological focus on popular capitalism. These histories, however, overlook the important intersection of financial institutions and information technology policy in shaping BT's privatization. Financial institutions in the City of London formed a lobbying group, the City Telecommunications Committee, that pressured for BT's privatization and secured preferential treatment for the City from BT, ending a decades-long policy of uniform telecommunications services across Britain. Margaret Thatcher's government positioned BT's privatization as central to the success of two of Britain's information industries, electronics manufacturing and the City of London. Her government also cast BT's privatization as essential to an ‘information revolution’ that, through personal, networked computing, would further personal freedom and free markets. BT's privatization thus performed two important and related functions. First, it oriented Britain's telecommunications network to the City of London's needs, and secondly, it enacted an ‘information revolution’ that was portrayed as essential to the success of the City of London and British electronics. I label this fusion of City finance, neoliberal politics, and British telecommunications the ‘London ideology’, and this ideology shaped the broadly-held assumption that privatizing telecommunications was essential to reaching the ‘information age’.


2018 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 178
Author(s):  
Abdul Manan ◽  
Windasari Rahmawati ◽  
Nasron Alfianto

<p><em>Fraud accounting a phenomenon that has not been detected by a public accountant as a party that checks its financial statements. Latest Fraud in the field of accounting re-occur in the giant company and not tracked by an external accountant (public accountant). The beginning of the first half of 2017 has emerged the issue of accounting fraud in British Telecom. On one of its subsidiaries in Italy. The public accounting firm doing the audit work on British Telecom is not a small public accounting firm but one of the bigfour, Price Waterhouse Coopers (PwC). The British Telecom accounting fraud mode in Italy is actually relatively simple and much discussed in the literature of auditing lectures yet many auditors fail to detect it. To know the existence of accounting fraud the auditor seeks to understand corporate governance and knowledge of forensic accounting is adequate. In this study, forensic accounting variables, internal control system, information asymmetry, compensation and religious control as variables used to detect and understand the presence or absence of accounting fraud in the company audited by the auditor.</em></p>


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