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The effectiveness of union-management safety and health committees

Prælectiones juris civilis

Mobilisasi massa

On mass mobilization and sociopolitical conditions related to the destruction of churches in Situbondo, 1996.

How To Think Like a Neandertal

There have been many books, movies, and even TV commercials featuring Neandertals--some serious, some comical. But what was it really like to be a Neandertal? How were their lives similar to or different from ours? In How to Think Like a Neandertal, archaeologist Thomas Wynn and psychologist Frederick L. Coolidge team up to provide a brilliant account of the mental life of Neandertals, drawing on the most recent fossil and archaeological remains. Indeed, some Neandertal remains are not fossilized, allowing scientists to recover samples of their genes--one specimen had the gene for red hair and, more provocatively, all had a gene called FOXP2, which is thought to be related to speech. Given the differences between their faces and ours, their voices probably sounded a bit different, and the range of consonants and vowels they could generate might have been different. But they could talk, and they had a large (perhaps huge) vocabulary--words for places, routes, techniques, individuals, and emotions. Extensive archaeological remains of stone tools and living sites (and, yes, they did often live in caves) indicate that Neandertals relied on complex technical procedures and spent most of their lives in small family groups. The authors sift the evidence that Neandertals had a symbolic culture--looking at their treatment of corpses, the use of fire, and possible body coloring--and conclude that they probably did not have a sense of the supernatural. The book explores the brutal nature of their lives, especially in northwestern Europe, where men and women with spears hunted together for mammoths and wooly rhinoceroses. They were pain tolerant, very likely taciturn, and not easy to excite. Wynn and Coolidge offer here an eye-opening portrait of Neandertals, painting a remarkable picture of these long-vanished people and providing insight, as they go along, into our own minds and culture.

Distributions of Correlation Coefficients

An important problem in personnel psychology, namely, the psychometric problem known as "validity generalization" is addressed in this volume. From a statistical point of view, the problem is how to make statements about a population correlation coefficient based on inferences from a collection of sample correlation coefficients. The first part of the book examines the largely ad hoc procedures which have been used to determine validity generalization. The second part develops a new model formulated from the perspective of finite mixture theory and, in addition, illustrates its use in several applications.

Capital budgeting

Performance-based Budgeting for North Carolina Public Transportation Systems

Budgeting and Cost Management for Medical Groups

Identification of potential areas of conflict between academic freedom and the implementation of planning-programming-budgeting systems (PPBS) in higher education

Harness the Power of Big Data The IBM Big Data Platform

Boost your Big Data IQ! Gain insight into how to govern and consume IBM’s unique in-motion and at-rest Big Data analytic capabilities Big Data represents a new era of computing—an inflection point of opportunity where data in any format may be explored and utilized for breakthrough insights—whether that data is in-place, in-motion, or at-rest. IBM is uniquely positioned to help clients navigate this transformation. This book reveals how IBM is infusing open source Big Data technologies with IBM innovation that manifest in a platform capable of "changing the game." The four defining characteristics of Big Data—volume, variety, velocity, and veracity—are discussed. You’ll understand how IBM is fully committed to Hadoop and integrating it into the enterprise. Hear about how organizations are taking inventories of their existing Big Data assets, with search capabilities that help organizations discover what they could already know, and extend their reach into new data territories for unprecedented model accuracy and discovery. In this book you will also learn not just about the technologies that make up the IBM Big Data platform, but when to leverage its purpose-built engines for analytics on data in-motion and data at-rest. And you’ll gain an understanding of how and when to govern Big Data, and how IBM’s industry-leading InfoSphere integration and governance portfolio helps you understand, govern, and effectively utilize Big Data. Industry use cases are also included in this practical guide.

The Late Prosperity, and the Present Adversity of the Country, Explained; the Proper Remedies Considered, and the Comparative Merits of the English and Scottish Systems of Banking Discussed, in a Correspondence Between Sir John Sinclair and Mr. Thomas Attwood

Der Zoll-Trainer

Strategic Management and Business Policy

For senior-level and introductory graduate-level courses in Strategic Management and Business Policy. This comprehensive text offers an engaging look into new and traditional strategic management topics. Its thorough coverage helps students develop an understanding of the wide range of theories and research available in this field-from competitive strategy and industry analysis to environmental trends and ethics. Integration of international issues throughout provides an essential understanding of global economics and its impact on business activities in any location.* NEW-Updated and revised content in every chapter. * Gives students access to the latest information on the topics discussed. * NEW-Updated illustrative examples. * Encourages students to read and clearly understand the texts content on their own. * Numerous corporate cases-Of real companies at all stages of development. * Gives students a chance to apply concepts, skills, and techniques to real-world corporate situations. * The strategic audit. * Teaches students a way of operationalizing the strategic decision-making process, and serves not only in evaluation and control, but also as a checklist in case analysis. *

Strategic Management of Global Manufacturing Networks

The preceding process of globalization and the continuously rising competitive pressure on manufacturing companies in more developed economies unveiled the limits of classical site-focused optimization approaches. The focus of network optimization shifts ever more towards an integrative view of manufacturing networks, striving for a harmonization of the strategy-, configuration- and coordination levels. This book presents such an integrative approach to the strategic management of manufacturing networks. Besides strategic network requirements, this book discusses the derivation of an optimal global footprint and the optimization of network coordination activities. Special attention is paid to the site roles concept, especially to the concept of 'lead factory'. A large number of up-to-date cases from the producing industry enrich the book and provide the reader with vivid examples for the application of the presented concepts. Hence, this book is a must-read for both practitioners and academic researchers.

Neopopulism As Counterculture

In the postmodern age there is no such thing as rule-by-objective-truth. The modern, scientific republic has lost its modern philosophical foundations. If all human thought and action is tradition-bound we must construct a more democratic approach to government while understanding that democracy itself is a tradition with metaphysical underpinnings. In Neopopulism as Counterculture Tom Dahlberg and Erick Kaardal construct the democratic countercultural artifacts which will be required to deconstruct the modern, liberal, managerial state (a mythological scientific republic) which can no longer legitimately monopolize the means of cultural production including education, the courts, and policy-making science. In the postmodern age democratic counterculture will inevitably deconstruct most if not all of what liberalism has constructed including its completely relative account of reason.

The Plymouth Guide

How to Make Successful Appointments

Developed from a one-day training course, this pocket book offers readers the chance to positively enhance their performance and achieve greater business success. It is filled with practical tips and advice on how to get sales appointments.

Perpajakan Indonesia

On taxation and its implementation according to Indonesian laws and legislations.

One Minute Asthma

This easy-to-read guide will help people with asthma stay out of the emergency room, out of the hospital and as active as everyone else. It is an ideal guide for parents, patients and anyone who needs a quick asthma reference book. Accurate, clear, and illustrated with line drawings and charts, One Minute Asthma covers the basics of asthma and the medicines used to treat it. Readers will learn how to recognize symptoms, monitor the progress of an episode and communicate clearly with health professionals.

Marketing im strategischen Unternehmensnetzwerk

In vielen Branchen bewirkt der starke Wettbewerbsdruck eine Ausdifferenzierung der Wertschöpfungskette. Resultat ist der Zusammenschluss zahlreicher Unternehmen vor-, nach- und gleichgelagerter Wertschöpfungsstufen, gleicher und fremder Branchen, nationaler und internationaler Prägung zu strategischen Unternehmensnetzwerken. In Wissenschaft und Praxis gilt das Marketing als treibende Kraft bei der Entstehung, Evolution und fortlaufenden Gestaltung strategischer Unternehmensnetzwerke. Thomas Köhne analysiert das Phänomen strategischer Unternehmensnetzwerke und die sich dadurch verändernde Rolle des Marketings als solches. Er entwickelt ein branchenunabhängiges Erklärungsmodell des Netzwerkmarketings, das als Grundlage für eine versicherungsspezifische Untersuchung dient.