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The Independent Director in Society

Our current crisis of governance and what to do about it

By: Gerry Brown,Andrew Kakabadse,Filipe Morais

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The Independent Director in Society

Our current crisis of governance and what to do about it

By: Gerry Brown,Andrew Kakabadse,Filipe Morais

Things will always go wrong in organisations. The question is how quickly will they get caught and put right? The problem facing every organisation today – our businesses, universities, health services, or the many other sporting and charitable institutions that shape our society – is that the relationship between their executive management and those whose job it is to oversee them (whether they are called non-executive or independent directors, trustees, or governors) has become unbalanced. The Independent Director in Society shows how to rebalance it. Based on original, in-depth research from Henley Business School, this is the first book to survey and analyse the governance crisis right across society rather than just focus upon the business sector. The authors show that – despite their many differences – all organisations have many issues, behaviours and problems in common. The same problems require, in many cases, the same solutions. Sometimes they don’t. The authors offer two answers. The first lies in the realm of policy. Not a need for more legislation, but a move to give the existing codes of practice back their teeth and make them fit for purpose. The second lies with independent directors themselves. Urgent improvement is needed in standards of thought and action as well as the calibre of these directors. Above all, directors need to develop an independent mindset that will enable them to make better, more accurate decisions. There are many elements to creating this culture, including selection, training and education for directors, and support from chairs and executive teams, but most of all directors themselves must recognise their responsibilities in a complex and volatile world.

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282

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Springer Nature

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ISBN 10

3030513033

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9783030513030

Salazar

A Political Biography

By: Filipe Ribeiro De Meneses

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Salazar

A Political Biography

By: Filipe Ribeiro De Meneses

The only complete political biography by a major Portuguese historian.

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658

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Enigma Books

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1929631901

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9781929631902

Efficient Predictive Algorithms for Image Compression

By: Luís Filipe Rosário Lucas,Eduardo Antônio Barros da Silva,Sérgio Manuel Maciel de Faria,Nuno Miguel Morais Rodrigues,Carla Liberal Pagliari

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Efficient Predictive Algorithms for Image Compression

By: Luís Filipe Rosário Lucas,Eduardo Antônio Barros da Silva,Sérgio Manuel Maciel de Faria,Nuno Miguel Morais Rodrigues,Carla Liberal Pagliari

This book discusses efficient prediction techniques for the current state-of-the-art High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) standard, focusing on the compression of a wide range of video signals, such as 3D video, Light Fields and natural images. The authors begin with a review of the state-of-the-art predictive coding methods and compression technologies for both 2D and 3D multimedia contents, which provides a good starting point for new researchers in the field of image and video compression. New prediction techniques that go beyond the standardized compression technologies are then presented and discussed. In the context of 3D video, the authors describe a new predictive algorithm for the compression of depth maps, which combines intra-directional prediction, with flexible block partitioning and linear residue fitting. New approaches are described for the compression of Light Field and still images, which enforce sparsity constraints on linear models. The Locally Linear Embedding-based prediction method is investigated for compression of Light Field images based on the HEVC technology. A new linear prediction method using sparse constraints is also described, enabling improved coding performance of the HEVC standard, particularly for images with complex textures based on repeated structures. Finally, the authors present a new, generalized intra-prediction framework for the HEVC standard, which unifies the directional prediction methods used in the current video compression standards, with linear prediction methods using sparse constraints. Experimental results for the compression of natural images are provided, demonstrating the advantage of the unified prediction framework over the traditional directional prediction modes used in HEVC standard.

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180

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Springer

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3319511807

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9783319511801

Advances in Numerical Modeling of Adhesive Joints

By: Lucas Filipe Martins da Silva,Raul D. S. G. Campilho

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Advances in Numerical Modeling of Adhesive Joints

By: Lucas Filipe Martins da Silva,Raul D. S. G. Campilho

This book deals with the most recent numerical modeling of adhesive joints. Advances in damage mechanics and extended finite element method are described in the context of the Finite Element method with examples of application. The book also introduces the classical continuum mechanics and fracture mechanics approach and discusses the boundary element method and the finite difference method with indication of the cases they are most adapted to. At the moment there a no numerical technique that can solve any problem and the analyst needs to be aware of the limitations involved in each case.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3642236081

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Portuguese Sociology

A History

By: Filipe Carreira da Silva

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Portuguese Sociology

A History

By: Filipe Carreira da Silva

Sociology in Portugal provides the first English-language account of the history of sociology in Portugal from 1945 to the present day. Banned by the fascist regime until 1974, the institutionalization of sociology as an academic discipline came relatively late. Understanding academic disciplines as institutionalized struggles over meaning, Filipe Carreira da Silva gives a genealogy of sociology in Portugal from its origins in the political-administrative interstices of a dictatorship, through the 'cyclopean moment' of the political revolution of April 1974, which brought about its swift institutionalization and subsequent consolidation in the new democratic regime, to the challenges posed by internationalization since the 1990s. Attempts to define Portugal itself, he demonstrates, have been at the heart of these struggles. Analyzing agents, institutions, contexts, instruments and ideas, Carreira da Silva shows in fascinating detail how the sociological understanding of Portugal evolved from that of a developing society in the 1960s, to that of a modernizing European social formation in the 1980s, to the post-colonial or post-imperial Portugal of today.

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