Strategic Policy Options for Bracing Nigeria for the Future of Trade by Gbadebo Odularu
English | PDF | 2020 | 243 Pages | ISBN : 3030345513 | 3.8 MB
As the fourth industrial era evolves, the role of blockchain technology, Artificial Intelligence (AI), and machine learning in transforming national commerce cannot be overemphasized, especially with the expansion of e-commerce in Africa. In other words, technological advancement and innovation are becoming essential to many aspects of Nigerian businesses, thereby considerably enhancing trade and productivity. This book provides a primer on the role that digital technology may play in Nigeria's trade flows, and the implications for enabling an economy-wide deployment of digitization in trade facilitation.

Strategic Management, Decision Theory, and Decision Science: Contributions to Policy Issues
English | 2021 | ISBN: 9811613672 | 282 Pages | PDF EPUB | 32 MB
This book contains international perspectives that unifies the themes of strategic management, decision theory, and data science. It contains thought-provoking presentations of case studies backed by adequate analysis adding significance to the discussions. Most of the decision-making models in use do take due advantage of collection and processing of relevant data using appropriate analytics oriented to provide inputs into effective decision-making. The book showcases applications in diverse fields including banking and insurance, portfolio management, inventory analysis, performance assessment of comparable economic agents, managing utilities in a health-care facility, reducing traffic snarls on highways, monitoring achievement of some of the sustainable development goals in a country or state, and similar other areas that showcase policy implications. It holds immense value for researchers as well as professionals responsible for organizational decisions.

Stories and Organization in the Anthropocene: A Critical Look at the Impossibility of Sustainability
English | 2021 | ISBN: 3030787397 | 113 Pages | PDF EPUB | 1.35 MB
This book is about the stories being told in the Anthropocene. Stories of irreparable damage being done to the global ecosystem, of sustainable growth, of dystopian collapse, of continued interspecies flourishing, of Gaia, and of accelerating capitalism's dynamics in order to discover its outside. Stories of change. Stories of hope. Against them all, this book seeks to braid together a particular thread of storying in order to speak to the emergence of the mall at the end of the world; a space where a new politics of "spectral capitalism" is played out. In doing so, we reflect that there never was any outside to Capital, that it can live forever, its performances and spectacles being preserved despite global ecological collapse. This book seeks to understand the nascence of the mall at the end of the world and the new people, thoughts, and dreams that come with it.

Standby Letters of Credit: A Comprehensive Guide by Jacob E. Sifri
English | PDF | 2008 | 251 Pages | ISBN : 0230212182 | 1.4 MB
This authoritative reference book gives thorough, practical guidance for anyone who needs to deal with standby letters of credit either professionally or academically. Augmented with examples of numerous real-life cases, the book addresses the exact procedures undertaken by global banks in handling letters of credit transactions whilst incisively providing an article by article interpretation of the ISP98. Furthermore, the book explains the credit operation cycle, the various parties to the credit transaction, types, uses -with special emphasis on tender and performance standby letters of credit- roles, responsibilities of the parties to the transaction, risk management and fraud prevention. The book literally provides all the tools needed to deal not only with routine problems but also with unforeseen difficulties whether at clerical, middle management or senior management level.

Standards for Preparing Teachers of Mathematics
English | 2020 | ISBN: 164113996X | 198 Pages | PDF | 5 MB
Also available in a color version AMTE, in the Standards for Preparing Teachers of Mathematics (SPTM), puts forward a national vision of initial preparation for all Pre-K-12 teachers who teach mathematics. SPTM contains critical messages for all who teach mathematics, including elementary school teachers teaching all disciplines, middle and high school mathematics teachers who may teach mathematics exclusively, special education teachers, teachers of emergent multilingual students, and other teaching professionals and administrators who have responsibility for students' mathematical learning. SPTM has broad implications for teacher preparation programs, in which stakeholders include faculty and administrators in both education and mathematics at the university level; teachers, principals, and district leaders in the schools with which preparation programs partner; and the communities in which preparation programs and their school partners are situated. SPTM is intended as a national guide that articulates a vision for mathematics teacher preparation and supports the continuous improvement of teacher preparation programs. Such continuous improvement includes changes to preparation program courses and structures, partnerships involving schools and universities and their leaders, the ongoing accreditation of such programs regionally and nationally, and the shaping of state and national mathematics teacher preparation policy. SPTM is also designed to inform assessment practices for mathematics teacher preparation programs, to influence policies related to preparation of teachers of mathematics, and to promote national dialogue around preparing teachers of mathematics. The vision articulated in SPTM is aspirational in that it describes a set of high expectations for developing a well-prepared beginning teacher of mathematics who can support meaningful student learning. The vision is research-based and establishes a set of goals for the continued development and refinement of a mathematics teacher preparation program and a research agenda for the study of the effects of such a program. SPTM contains detailed depictions of what a well-prepared beginning teacher knows and is able to do related to content, pedagogy, and disposition, and what a strong preparation program entails with respect to learning experiences, assessments, and partnerships. Stakeholders in mathematics teacher preparation will find messages related to their roles. Standards for Preparing Teachers of Mathematics includes standards and indicators for teacher candidates and for the design of teacher preparation programs. SPTM outlines assessment practices related to overall quality, program effectiveness, and candidate performance. SPTM describes specific focal practices by grade band and provides guidance to stakeholders regarding processes for productive change.

Stakeholders and Scientists: Achieving Implementable Solutions to Energy and Environmental Issues by Joanna Burger
English | PDF | 2011 | 468 Pages | ISBN : 1441988122 | 14 MB
Nation and the World must move forward with development of a range of energy sources and savings, all with attendant environmental problems. Solving these problems, and those remaining from past energy-related activities, will require iteration, inclusion, and collaboration with a wide range of stakeholders, including U.S., State and local governmental agencies, Tribal Nations, scientists, environmentalists, public policy makers, and the general public.

Spanish Made Fun and Easy for Preschoolers: Maximize your child's learning potential with easy, natural lessons that give fast results to build confidence
By Sharon King
English | 2021 | ASIN : B09DK628C7 | 55 pages | PDF, EPUB | 4.2 MB

South-Western Federal Taxation 2022: Essentials of Taxation: Individuals and Business Entities 25th Edition
English | 2022 | ISBN: 0357519434 | 1000 Pages | PDF True | 18 MB
Master today's tax concepts and current tax law with SOUTH-WESTERN FEDERAL TAXATION 2022: ESSENTIALS OF TAXATION: INDIVIDUALS AND BUSINESS ENTITIES, 25E and accompanying professional tax software. This concise guide focuses on the most recent tax laws impacting individuals, corporations, partnerships, estates, trusts and financial statements. Updates emphasize the latest tax changes and 2021 developments, including coverage of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 with guidance from the treasury department. Recent examples, updated summaries and tax scenarios clarify concepts and sharpen critical-thinking, writing and research skills, while sample questions from Becker C.P.A. Review assist in study. Each new book includes access to Intuit ProConnect tax software, Checkpoint (Student Edition) from Thomson Reuters and CengageNOWv2 online homework tools. Use these resources to prepare for professional exams or to begin study for a career in tax accounting, financial reporting or auditing.

Solving the Giving Pledge Bottleneck:
How to Finance Social and Environmental Challenges Using Venture Philanthropy at Scale
English | 2021 | ISBN: 3030788644 | 140 Pages | PDF EPUB | 7 MB

Soil Carbon Stabilization to Mitigate Climate Change
English | 2021 | ISBN: 9813367644 | 336 Pages | PDF | 10 MB
Carbon stabilization involves to capturing carbon from the atmosphere and fix it in the forms soil organic carbon stock for a long period of time, it will be present to escape as a greenhouse gas in the form of carbon dioxide. Soil carbon storage is an important ecosystem service, resulting from interactions of several ecological processes. This process is primarily mediated by plants through photosynthesis, with carbon stored in the form of soil organic carbon. Soil carbon levels have reduced over decades of conversion of pristine ecosystems into agriculture landscape, which now offers the opportunity to store carbon from air into the soil. Carbon stabilization into the agricultural soils is a novel approach of research and offers promising reduction in the atmospheric carbon dioxide levels. This book brings together all aspects of soil carbon sequestration and stabilization, with a special focus on diversity of microorganisms and management practices of soil in agricultural systems. It discusses the role of ecosystem functioning, recent and future prospects, soil microbial ecological studies, rhizosphere microflora, and organic matter in soil carbon stabilization. It also explores carbon transformation in soil, biological management and its genetics, microbial transformation of soil carbon, plant growth promoting rhizobacteria (PGPRs), and their role in sustainable agriculture. The book offers a spectrum of ideas of new technological inventions and fundamentals of soil sustainability. It will be suitable for teachers, researchers, and policymakers, undergraduate and graduate students of soil science, soil microbiology, agronomy, ecology, and environmental sciences