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Handbook of Physical Properties of Organic Chemicals

By: Philip H. Howard,The Syracuse Research Co

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Handbook of Physical Properties of Organic Chemicals

By: Philip H. Howard,The Syracuse Research Co

If your work requires that you understand environmentally important properties of chemicals, then this databook will make your job easier. By providing you with easily accessed information on the structure and physical/chemical properties of more than 13,000 environmentally important chemicals, Handbook of Physical Properties of Organic Chemicals simplifies the task of locating and analyzing common and obscure compounds alike. One best experimental value is selected or an estimated value provided for: Melting point Boiling point Water solubility Octanol/water partition coefficient (log) Vapor pressure Disassociation constant Henry's law constant. These physical properties were identified from Syracuse Research Corporation's Environmental Fate Database, particularly from the DATALOG and CHEMFATE files.

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1566702275

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Auditor Going Concern Reporting

A Review of Global Research and Future Research Opportunities

By: Marshall A. Geiger,Anna Gold,Philip Wallage

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Auditor Going Concern Reporting

A Review of Global Research and Future Research Opportunities

By: Marshall A. Geiger,Anna Gold,Philip Wallage

Auditor reporting on going-concern-related uncertainties remains one of the most challenging issues faced by external auditors. Business owners, market participants and audit regulators want an early warning of impending business failure. However, companies typically do not welcome audit opinions indicating uncertainty regarding their future viability. Thus, the auditor’s decision to issue a "going concern opinion" (GCO) is a complex and multi-layered one, facing a great deal of tension. Given such a rich context, academic researchers have examined many facets related to an auditor’s decision to issue a GCO. This monograph reviews and synthesizes 182 recent GCO studies that have appeared since the last significant review published in 2013 through the end of 2019. The authors categorize studies into the three broad areas of GCO: (1) determinants, (2) accuracy and (3) consequences. As an integral part of their synthesis, they summarize the details of each study in several user-friendly tables. After discussing and synthesizing the research, they present a discussion of opportunities for future research, including issues created or exacerbated as a result of the global COVID-19 pandemic. This monograph will be of assistance to researchers interested in exploring this area of auditor responsibility. It will also be of interest to auditing firms and individual practitioners wanting to learn what academic research has examined and found regarding this challenging aspect of audit practice. Auditing standard-setters and regulators will find it of interest as the authors review numerous studies examining issues related to audit policy and regulation, and their effects on GCO decisions. The examination of GCO research is extremely timely given the financial and business disruption caused by the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic. This unprecedented global event has caused companies, auditors and professional bodies to revisit and reassess their approach to going concern, and to think even more deeply about this fundamental business imperative.

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Routledge

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1000392031

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9781000392036

Taking Technical Risks

How Innovators, Managers, and Investors Manage Risk in High-Tech Innovations

By: Lewis M. Branscomb,Philip E. Auerswald

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Taking Technical Risks

How Innovators, Managers, and Investors Manage Risk in High-Tech Innovations

By: Lewis M. Branscomb,Philip E. Auerswald

Overcoming technical risks requires demonstrating the soundness of a technical concept in a controlled setting and readying the product technology for the market. Topics include the extent to which purely technical risk is separable from market risk, how industrial managers make decisions on funding early-stage, high-risk technology projects, and how the government can and should act to reduce the technical risks so that firms will invest in them.

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MIT Press

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0262524198

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9780262524193

Innovation, Entrepreneurship, Geography and Growth

By: Philip McCann,Les Oxley

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Innovation, Entrepreneurship, Geography and Growth

By: Philip McCann,Les Oxley

Innovation, Entrepreneurship, Geography and Growth provides a timely, accessible review of our understanding of the complex links between innovation, entrepreneurship, geography and growth. Expert contributions provide a thorough roadmap of the developments in research at the interface of these themes. A timely and accessible review of our understanding of the complex links between innovation, entrepreneurship, geography and growth A highly comprehensive roadmap of the range of issues addressed by research in these areas Discusses the most profitable ways forward for enhancing our understanding of arising issues Contributions from leading experts in the field take a variety of theoretical, empirical and institutional angles

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John Wiley & Sons

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1118427262

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The Art of The Boxtrolls

By: Philip Brotherton

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The Art of The Boxtrolls

By: Philip Brotherton

LAIKA, the studio behind the hit films Coraline and ParaNorman, introduces audiences to a new breed of family: the Boxtrolls, a community of quirky, mischievous creatures who have lovingly raised an orphaned human boy named Eggs in the amazing cavernous home they've built beneath the streets of Cheesebridge. When the town's villain, Archibald Snatcher, comes up with a plot to get rid of the Boxtrolls, Eggs decides to venture above ground where he meets and teams up with fabulously feisty Winnie to devise a daring plan to save Eggs' family. The Art of The Boxtrolls features the amazingly detailed artwork that went into this film's creation, including character sketches, puppets, textiles, set dressing, and 3-D printed facial models, alongside the story of the film's development.

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Chronicle Books

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1452142998

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9781452142999

Our Better Nature

Environment and the Making of San Francisco

By: Philip J. Dreyfus

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Our Better Nature

Environment and the Making of San Francisco

By: Philip J. Dreyfus

Few cities are so dramatically identified with their environment as San Francisco—the landscape of hills, the expansive bay, the engulfing fog, and even the deadly fault line shifting below. Yet most residents think of the city itself as separate from the natural environment on which it depends. In Our Better Nature, Philip J. Dreyfus recounts the history of San Francisco from Indian village to world-class metropolis, focusing on the interactions between the city and the land and on the generations of people who have transformed them both. Dreyfus examines the ways that San Franciscans remade the landscape to fit their needs, and how their actions reflected and affected their ideas about nature, from the destruction of wetlands and forests to the creation of Golden Gate and Yosemite parks, the Sierra Club, and later, the birth of the modern environmental movement. Today, many San Franciscans seek to strengthen the ties between cities and nature by pursuing more sustainable and ecologically responsible ways of life. Consistent with that urge, Our Better Nature not only explores San Francisco’s past but also poses critical questions about its future. Dreyfus asks us to reassess our connection to the environment and to find ways to redefine ourselves and our cities within nature. Only with such an attitude will San Francisco retain the magic that has always charmed residents and visitors alike.

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University of Oklahoma Press

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0806184779

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Can International Technological Diffusion Substitute for Coordinated Global Policies to Mitigate Climate Change?

By: Mr. Philip Barrett

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Can International Technological Diffusion Substitute for Coordinated Global Policies to Mitigate Climate Change?

By: Mr. Philip Barrett

In short, yes. I use a multi-region integrated assessment model with fuel-specific endogenous technical change to examine the impact of Europe and China reducing emissions to zero by mid-century. Without international technological diffusion this is insufficient to avoid catastrophic climate change. But when innovation can diffuse overseas, long-run temperature increases are limited to 3 degrees. This occurs because policy not only encourages green innovations but also dissuades dirty innovations which would otherwise spread. The most effective policy package in emissions-reducing regions is a research subsidy funded by a carbon tax, driven in the short term by the direct effect of the carbon tax on the composition of energy, and later by innovation induced by research subsidies. Green production subsidies are ineffective because they undermine incentives for innovation.

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International Monetary Fund

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1513585762

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Multinationals and Economic Geography

Location, Technology and Innovation

By: Simona Iammarino,Philip McCann

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Multinationals and Economic Geography

Location, Technology and Innovation

By: Simona Iammarino,Philip McCann

The world economy is subject to a rapidly increasing globalization, and multinational enterprises are their major driving force. This brand new book on multinationals and economic geography by two world leading economic geographers is a landmark that provides an integrated and dynamic perspective on the economic geography of the multinational enterprise. To fully understand this process of globalization, the book explains forcefully and persuasively that one needs a dynamic perspective on multinational enterprises that brings together disparate literatures on economic geography, knowledge and innovation, global network cities, and international business and management. Embedding it in modern theory of innovation and geography, the book provides not only a state-of-the-art of theories and empirics on the location of multinationals, but goes far beyond that. This book is an absolute "must-read" for any scholar and any student that is interested in multinationals and their location.' – Ron Boschma, Utrecht University, The Netherlands and Lund University, Sweden 'Despite often playing second fiddle to clusters in the economic geography literature, multinationals are fundamental drivers of economic development. As generators and diffusers of knowledge they have played an essential role in shaping the new world economic order. No book captures this better than Simona Iammarino and Philip McCann's Multinationals and Economic Geography, a must read for anyone eager to fully understand the new economic geography of globalisation.' – Andrés Rodríguez-Pose, London School of Economics, UK After more than fifty years of systematic research on multinational enterprises (MNEs) what is apparent is that there is, as yet, no unified or dominant theory of the MNE. The objective of this book is to bring into focus one particular dimension of MNE behaviour and activity that has been relatively under-researched – namely the geography of the multinational enterprise – as understood through the lens of innovation and technological change. The authors clearly demonstrate that geography is becoming increasingly important for MNEs and, in turn, MNEs are becoming progressively more important for economic geography. The pivot on which this vital relationship turns is the creation, diffusion and management of new knowledge. This unique book will prove a fascinating read for academics, students and researchers across a broad range of areas including geography, economic geography, regional science, international business and management, innovation studies, economic development. Professionals such as corporate managers and policymakers in these fields would also find this book to be of great interest.

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Edward Elgar Publishing

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1781954798

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Usability Assessment

How to Measure the Usability of Products, Services, and Systems

By: Philip Kortum

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Usability Assessment

How to Measure the Usability of Products, Services, and Systems

By: Philip Kortum

Usability Assessment is a concise volume for anyone requiring knowledge and practice in assessing the usability of any type of product, tool, or system before it is launched. It provides a brief history and rationale for conducting usability assessments and examples of how usability assessment methods have been applied, takes readers step by step through the process, highlights challenges and special cases, and offers real-life examples. By the end of the book, readers will have the knowledge and skills they need to conduct their own usability assessments without requiring that they read textbooks or attend workshops. This book will be valuable for undergraduate and graduate students; practitioners; usability professionals; human-computer interaction professionals; researchers in fields such as industrial design, industrial/organizational psychology, and computer science; and those working in a wide range of content domains, such as health care, transportation, product design, aerospace, and manufacturing.

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0945289499

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Resolving the Climate Change Crisis

The Ecological Economics of Climate Change

By: Philip Lawn

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Resolving the Climate Change Crisis

The Ecological Economics of Climate Change

By: Philip Lawn

This book explains why the climate change crisis is a symptom of a much larger underlying problem – namely, humankind’s predilection with continuous GDP-growth. Given this starting point, the world’s high-income nations must begin the transition to a qualitatively-improving steady-state economy and low-income nations must follow suit at some stage over the next 20-40 years. Unless they do, a well-designed emissions protocol will be as useless as the paper it is written on. Adopting an ecological economic approach, this book sets out why we must abandon the goal of continuous growth; how we can do so in a way that improves human well-being; what constitutes a safe atmospheric concentration of greenhouse gases; and what type of emissions protocol and emissions-trading framework is likely to achieve a desirable climate change outcome. Failure of the world’s leaders to achieve these goals will not only put future human well-being at risk, it will threaten freedom in the liberal-democratic tradition and international peace.

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Springer

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9401775028

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HCI Beyond the GUI

Design for Haptic, Speech, Olfactory, and Other Nontraditional Interfaces

By: Philip Kortum

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HCI Beyond the GUI

Design for Haptic, Speech, Olfactory, and Other Nontraditional Interfaces

By: Philip Kortum

As technology expands and evolves, one-dimensional, graphical user interface (GUI) design becomes increasingly limiting and simplistic. Designers must meet the challenge of developing new and creative interfaces that adapt to meet human needs and technological trends. HCI Beyond the GUI provides designers with this know how by exploring new ways to reach users that involve all of the human senses. Dr. Kortum gathers contributions from leading human factors designers to present a single reference for professionals, researchers, and students. - Explores the human factors involved in the design and implementation of the nontraditional interfaces, detailing design strategies, testing methodologies, and implementation techniques - Provides an invaluable resource for practitioners who design interfaces for children, gamers and users with accessibility needs - Offers extensive case studies, examples and design guidelines

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0080558348

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HCI Beyond the GUI

Design for Haptic, Speech, Olfactory, and Other Nontraditional Interfaces

By: Philip Kortum

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Design for Haptic, Speech, Olfactory, and Other Nontraditional Interfaces

By: Philip Kortum

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Advances in Surgical Pathology

Lung Cancer

By: Philip T. Cagle,Timothy Allen

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Advances in Surgical Pathology

Lung Cancer

By: Philip T. Cagle,Timothy Allen

Advances in Surgical Pathology: Lung Cancer, a volume in the Advances in Surgical Pathology series, features chapters on current and impending changes in the field of lung cancer that directly affect pathologists. This includes the 2004 updates of the WHO Classification of Tumors of the Lung; the ongoing new classification of neuroendocrine carcinomas of the lung by the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer; the ongoing revision of the pathologic and clinical staging of lung cancer by the AJCC; molecular diagnostics in the diagnosis of lung cancer; the role of the pathologist in the new molecular targeted therapies for lung cancer; and the new use of image-guided, multimodality theranostics for the diagnosis and treatment of lung cancer. Other current topics discussed include new understanding of the premalignant and preinvasive lesions and the controversies and revisions of the diagnosis of bronchioloalveolar carcinoma.

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Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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1451148178

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New Issues in Financial and Credit Markets

By: Franco Fiordelisi,Philip Molyneux,Daniele Previati

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New Issues in Financial and Credit Markets

By: Franco Fiordelisi,Philip Molyneux,Daniele Previati

This collection of conference papers presents a contemporary insight into key trends impacting on the global financial sector post crisis and highlights new policy and research areas affecting banks and other financial institutions. The four main themes are: financial crises, credit activity, capital markets and risk management.

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0230302181

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Book's by Philip Kortum

Handbook of Physical Properties of Organic Chemicals

Handbook of Physical Properties of Organic Chemicals

Auditor Going Concern Reporting

Auditor Going Concern Reporting

Taking Technical Risks

Taking Technical Risks

Innovation, Entrepreneurship, Geography and Growth

Innovation, Entrepreneurship, Geography and Growth

The Art of The Boxtrolls

The Art of The Boxtrolls

Our Better Nature

Our Better Nature

Can International Technological Diffusion Substitute for Coordinated Global Policies to Mitigate Climate Change?

Can International Technological Diffusion Substitute for Coordinated Global Policies to Mitigate Climate Change?

Multinationals and Economic Geography

Multinationals and Economic Geography

Usability Assessment

Usability Assessment

Resolving the Climate Change Crisis

Resolving the Climate Change Crisis

HCI Beyond the GUI

HCI Beyond the GUI

HCI Beyond the GUI

HCI Beyond the GUI

Advances in Surgical Pathology

Advances in Surgical Pathology

New Issues in Financial and Credit Markets

New Issues in Financial and Credit Markets

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