Corporate Governance and Labour Management: An International Comparison By Howard Gospel, Andrew Pendleton
2005 | 208 Pages | ISBN: 0199263671 | PDF | 3 MB
This book is about the relationship between corporate governance regimes and labor management. It examines how finance and governance influence employment relationships, work organization, and industrial relations by means of a comparative analysis of Anglo-American, European and Japanese economies. The starting point is the distinction widely found in the corporate governance, business systems, and political economy literature between countries dominated by 'shareholder value' conceptions of corporate governance and those characterized by 'stakeholder' regimes. By drawing on a wide range of countries, the book is able to demonstrate the complexities of corporate governance arrangements and to present a more precise and nuanced exploration of the linkages between governance and labor management. Each country-based chapter provides an analysis of the evolution and key characteristics of corporate governance and then links this to labor management institutions and practices. The chapters cover the United States, United Kingdom, Japan, Australia, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, and Spain, with each written by a leading academic expert in the field. By providing a historical review of the evolution of national systems, the contributors provide judicious evaluations of the current state and future directions of national governance and labor relations systems. Overall, the book goes beyond the 'complementaries' between governance and labor management systems identified in recent literature, and attempts to identify casual relationships between the two. It shows how labor management institutions and practices may influence finance and corporate governance systems, as well as vice versa. The contributions to this book illuminate current debates about the determinants of corporate governance, the convergence of national 'varieties of capitalism', and the impact of corporate governance on managerial behavior. The book highlights the complexities of corporate governance systems and refines the distinction between market/outsider and relational insider systems.
Z B Hill, "Core Workouts "
English | ISBN: 1422231577 | 2014 | 64 pages | PDF | 3 MB
You may have heard people talking about exercising their core. Your chest, back, and stomach muscles are your core. These muscles are some of the most important in your body. Keeping them in shape is a big part of staying in shape now and in the future. Learn how to stay safe while working out your core musclesand how to stick with an exercise plan. Discover the connection between core workouts and overall fitness!
Controversial New Religions By James R. Lewis, Jesper Aagaard Petersen
2005 | 496 Pages | ISBN: 019515682X | PDF | 6 MB
This book complements Lewis's xford Handbook of New Religious Movements. The former provides an overview of the state of the field. This volume collects papers on those specific New Religious Movements (NRMs) that have generated the most scholarly attention. With few exceptions, these organizations are also the controversial groups that have attracted the attention of the mass media, often because they have been involved in, or accused of, violent or anti-social activities. Among the movements to be profiled are such groups as the Branch Davidians, Heaven's Gate, Aum Shinrikyo, Solar Temple, Scientology, Falun Gong and many more. The book will function as a reference for scholars, as a text for courses in NRMs, and will also appeal to non-specialists including reporters, law enforcement, public policy makers, and others.
Rei Miyata, "Controlled Document Authoring in a Machine Translation Age "
English | ISBN: 0367500191 | 2020 | 236 pages | PDF | 10 MB
This book explains the concept, framework, implementation, and evaluation of controlled document authoring in this age of translation technologies. Machine translation (MT) is routinely used in many situations, by companies, governments, and individuals. Despite recent advances, MT tools are still known to be imperfect, sometimes producing critical errors. To enhance the performance of MT, researchers and language practitioners have developed controlled languages that impose restrictions on the form or length of the source-language text. However, a fundamental, persisting problem is that both current MT systems and controlled languages deal only with the sentence as the unit of processing. To be effective, controlled languages must be contextualised at the document level, consequently enabling MT to generate outputs appropriate for their functional context within the target document. With a specific focus on Japanese municipal documents, this book establishes a framework for controlled document authoring by integrating various research strands including document formalisation, controlled language, and terminology management. It then presents the development and evaluation of an authoring support system, MuTUAL, that is designed to help non-professional writers create well-organised documents that are both readable and translatable. The book provides useful insights for researchers and practitioners interested in translation technology, technical writing, and natural language processing applications.
Content-Based Image Classification: Efficient Machine Learning Using Robust Feature Extraction Techniques
by Rik Das
English | 2021 | ISBN: 036737160X | 197 Pages | PDF | 22 MB
Contemporary Novelists Edition 7. By Josh Lauer, Neil Schlager
2000 | 1167 Pages | ISBN: 1558624082 | PDF | 12 MB
This 7th edition of Contemporary Novelists includes biographies, bibliographies and critical essays on approximately 650 contemporary writers, 100 new to this edition. Includes nationality and title indexes.
Consumer Society: Critical Issues & Environmental Consequences by Barry Smart
English | Mar. 25, 2010 | ISBN: 1847870503 | 265 Pages | PDF | 3 MB
Has consumer culture got out of hand? Are the costs of universal access and pollution too great to bear? This comprehensive, lively and informative book will quickly be recognized as a benchmark in the field. It brings together a huge set of resources for thinking about consumer culture and examining its origins and consequences within a global context. Adept in handling a complex range of theories, Consumer Society scrupulously uses examples throughout to inform and enhance understanding. Smart writes with verve and feeling and has produced a book that simultaneously covers and enlarges our understanding of consumer culture. Clear, engaging and original, this book will be important reading for all those interested in our global culture of consumption including students of sociology, social geography and cultural studies.
Construction and Physical Application Of The Fractional Calculus by Good Library
English | 2020 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B08NGMV266 | 192 pages | Rar (PDF, AZW3) | 1.16 Mb
This book covers the following topics about Fractional Calculus: Elementary preliminaries, Grunwald's construction, The Riemann-Liouville construction, Abel's solution of the tautochrone problem, Heaviside's solution of the diffusion equation, Application to the differention of fractal curves, Charge density on a needle, Eigenfunctions of derivative operators of integral/fractional order.
Confronting Capitalism: Real Solutions for a Troubled Economic System by Philip Kotler
English | 2015 | ISBN: 0814436455 | 256 pages | EPUB | 0.8 MB
With the fall of the Berlin Wall, one economic model emerged triumphant. Capitalism - spanning a spectrum from laissez faire to authoritarian - shapes the market economies of all the wealthiest and fastest-growing nations. But trouble is cracking its shiny veneer. In the U.S., Europe, and Japan, economic growth has slowed down. Wealth is concentrated in the hands of a few; natural resources are exploited for short-term profit; and good jobs are hard to find. With piercing clarity, Philip Kotler explains 14 major problems undermining capitalism, including persistent poverty, job creation in the face of automation, high debt burdens, the disproportionate influence of the wealthy on public policy, steep environmental costs, boom-bust economic cycles, and more. Amidst its dire assessment of what's ailing us, Confronting Capitalism delivers a heartening message: We can turn things around. Movements toward shared prosperity and a higher purpose are reinvigorating companies large and small, while proposals abound on government policies that offer protections without stagnation. Kotler identifies the best ideas, linking private and public initiatives into a force for positive change. Combining economic history, expert insight, business lessons, and recent data, this landmark book elucidates today's critical dilemmas and suggests solutions for returning to a healthier, more sustainable Capitalism - that works for all.
Julien Yvonnet, "Computational Homogenization of Heterogeneous Materials with Finite Elements"
English | 2019 | ISBN: 3030183823 | PDF | pages: 231 | 9.7 mb
This monograph provides a concise overview of the main theoretical and numerical tools to solve homogenization problems in solids with finite elements. Starting from simple cases (linear thermal case) the problems are progressively complexified to finish with nonlinear problems. The book is not an overview of current research in that field, but a course book, and summarizes established knowledge in this area such that students or researchers who would like to start working on this subject will acquire the basics without any preliminary knowledge about homogenization. More specifically, the book is written with the objective of practical implementation of the methodologies in simple programs such as Matlab. The presentation is kept at a level where no deep mathematics are required.