2026-07-072026-07-07http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/49470I discuss the resummation of soft gluon contributions to direct photon and W + jet production and I present some results for the next-to-next-to-leading order expansions of the resummed cross sections for these processes near threshold.3 pages LaTeX, 1 eps figure, presented at the EPS-HEP99 Conference, Tampere, Finland, July 15-21, 1999, to appear in the proceedingsHigh Energy Physics - Phenomenologytext