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Whale Sharks Biology Ecology and Conservation

Whale Sharks Biology Ecology and Conservation

Whale sharks are the largest of all fishes fascinating for comparative studies of all manner of biological fields including functional anatomy growth metabolism movement ecology behavior and physiology. These gentle ocean giants have captured the interest of scientists and the imagination of the public yet their future is uncertain. The conservation status of whale sharks was upgraded to Endangered on the IUCN Red List and the species faces a range of intense threats from human activities. Can these iconic living animals who have survived for millions of years survive us? Written by the world’s leading experts in whale shark biology ecology and conservation Whale Sharks: Biology Ecology and Conservation is the first definitive volume about the world's biggest fish. Chapters include discussions of satellite-linked tags used to track whale shark movements; genetic sequencing to examine evolutionary adaptations; even the use of underwater ultrasound units to investigate the species’ reproduction. The editors hope that by collating what is known they can make it easier for future researchers conservationists and resource managers to fill some of the remaining knowledge gaps and provide the information they need to join the team. As you work your way through this book we hope that you will develop a sense of awe and marvel at all of our good fortune to share the ocean and the planet with this utterly extraordinary species. | Whale Sharks Biology Ecology and Conservation

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Capital Redefined A Commonist Value Theory for Liberating Life

Capital Redefined A Commonist Value Theory for Liberating Life

Capital Redefined presents a unique perspective on the nature of “capital ” departing from the prevailing reductionist accounts. Hosseini and Gills offer an expanded perspective on Marxian value theory by addressing its main limitations and building their own integrative value theory. They argue that the current understanding of “value” must be re-examined and liberated from its subservient ties to capital while acknowledging the ways in which capital appropriates value. This is achieved by differentiating between “fetish value” created by capital and “true value” generated through various commons-based forms of coexistence. The authors propose a defetishization of value by rejecting the commonly accepted idea of its objectivity. They introduce their “commonist value theory ” which redefines capital as both the product and process of perverting the fundamental commoning causes of true value into sources of fetish value. Capital is theorized through a “modular” framework where multiple intersecting processes constitute a comprehensive power structure a “value regime ” representing an unprecedented degree of the domination of capital over life. Their theory reconciles two apparently incompatible views on the notion of value. One view encompasses all inputs involved in capitalist value production and conflates intrinsic and commodity values. The other warns against this conflation as it treats capital as an entity tightly associated only with commodity production and wage labor. The authors believe that establishing alternative forms of value creation based on normative principles of living in commons is crucial as an analytical base for criticizing existing power structures and economic systems. The book offers a theoretical foundation for transforming our life worlds toward “post-capitalist” futures. It appeals to scholars and students in various fields such as political economy capitalism and post-capitalist studies economic and political sociology globalization development studies social ecology and ecological philosophy. The Open Access version of this book available at http://www. taylorfrancis. com has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4. 0 license. | Capital Redefined A Commonist Value Theory for Liberating Life

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Value First Then Price Building Value-Based Pricing Strategies

Value First Then Price Building Value-Based Pricing Strategies

Value-based pricing – pricing a product or service according to its value to the customer rather than its cost – is the most effective and profitable pricing strategy. Value First Then Price is an innovative collection that proposes a quantitative methodology to value pricing and road-tests this methodology through a wide variety of real-life industrial and B2B cases. This book offers a state-of-the art and best practice overview of how leading companies quantify and document value to customers. In doing so it provides students and researchers with a method by which to draw invaluable data-driven conclusions and gives sales and marketing managers the theories and best practices they need to quantify the value of their products and services to industrial and B2B purchasers. The 2nd edition of this highly-regarded text has been updated in line with current research and practice offering three new chapters covering new case studies and best practice examples of quantified value propositions the future of value quantification and value quantification for intangibles. With contributions from global industry experts this book combines cutting edge research on value quantification and value quantification capabilities with real-life practical examples. It is essential reading for postgraduate students in Sales and Marketing with an interest in Pricing Strategy sales and pricing specialists as well as business strategists in both research and practice. | Value First Then Price Building Value-Based Pricing Strategies

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Social Value in Construction

Social Value in Construction

While the concept of social value is not new recent interest in social value in construction has grown because of new social procurement legislation around the world and an increasing acceptance of the need to ensure construction projects provide social value rather than simply economic value. Despite this growing recognition literature and professional guidance on the subject is hard to find. This is the first book looking at social value in construction and it sets the agenda by asking and answering important questions like: How is the construction industry developing and supporting social enterprise and social value and for who? How and when is the industry recording and measuring social value and its effect? Which organisations are doing things well and what can we learn from their experiences? What can industry players do together to consolidate efforts and drive improvements? What are the key challenges in the field and what does the future look like? Drawing on a variety of professional and academic experiences and disciplines the authors present global perspectives and lay the foundations for creating social value in the construction industry. This timely book makes use of real-life case studies and examples of best practice to demonstrate how innovative companies can utilise contemporary research to create social value through their projects. It is time the construction industry viewed community involvement and corporate social responsibility as an opportunity rather than a risk and this is the book that shows the industry how. This is essential reading for all professionals in the construction engineering architecture and built environment sector. In particular project managers clients contract managers quantity surveyors CSR and HR personnel will gain a lot from reading this book.

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Demystifying AI for the Enterprise A Playbook for Business Value and Digital Transformation

Demystifying AI for the Enterprise A Playbook for Business Value and Digital Transformation

Artificial intelligence (AI) in its various forms –– machine learning chatbots robots agents etc. –– is increasingly being seen as a core component of enterprise business workflow and information management systems. The current promise and hype around AI are being driven by software vendors academic research projects and startups. However we posit that the greatest promise and potential for AI lies in the enterprise with its applications touching all organizational facets. With increasing business process and workflow maturity coupled with recent trends in cloud computing datafication IoT cybersecurity and advanced analytics there is an understanding that the challenges of tomorrow cannot be solely addressed by today’s people processes and products. There is still considerable mystery hype and fear about AI in today’s world. A considerable amount of current discourse focuses on a dystopian future that could adversely affect humanity. Such opinions with understandable fear of the unknown don’t consider the history of human innovation the current state of business and technology or the primarily augmentative nature of tomorrow’s AI. This book demystifies AI for the enterprise. It takes readers from the basics (definitions state-of-the-art etc. ) to a multi-industry journey and concludes with expert advice on everything an organization must do to succeed. Along the way we debunk myths provide practical pointers and include best practices with applicable vignettes. AI brings to enterprise the capabilities that promise new ways by which professionals can address both mundane and interesting challenges more efficiently effectively and collaboratively (with humans). The opportunity for tomorrow’s enterprise is to augment existing teams and resources with the power of AI in order to gain competitive advantage discover new business models establish or optimize new revenues and achieve better customer and user satisfaction. | Demystifying AI for the Enterprise A Playbook for Business Value and Digital Transformation

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Program Evaluation A Primer for Effectiveness Quality and Value

Program Evaluation A Primer for Effectiveness Quality and Value

This timely unique and insightful book provides students and practitioners with the tools and skills needed to evaluate social and policy programs across a range of disciplines—from public health to social work to education—enabling the allocation of scarce human and financial resources to advance the health and well-being of individuals and populations. The chapters are organized according to the main tasks involved in conducting an evaluation to produce unbiased evidence of program effectiveness quality and value. The chapters include methods for selecting and justifying evaluation questions or hypotheses designing evaluations sampling participants selecting information sources and ensuring reliable and valid measurement. The final section of the book is focused around managing and analyzing data and transparently reporting the results in written and oral form. The book features international case studies throughout covers quantitative qualitative and mixed-method approaches and is also informed by new online methods developed during the COVID-19 pandemic. Among the book’s unique features is a focus on international standards for conducting ethical evaluations and avoiding research misconduct. Also featuring checklists example forms and summaries of the key ideas and topics this very practical book is essential reading for students in the social behavioral and health sciences and will be a key resource for professionals in the field. | Program Evaluation A Primer for Effectiveness Quality and Value

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Social Value in Practice

Social Value in Practice

Social Value in Practice offers the reader a simple accessible guide for considering creating and delivering social value in projects and within their organisation. The book connects social value to the global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and presents an insight into the many and different practical ways in which individuals and organisations can make a positive impact towards resolving the ‘people planet and prosperity’ agenda: 'Good work' – good practice in managing people including working conditions and equality diversity and inclusion Education skills and employment including apprenticeships and enhancing the industry image Social procurement and circular supply chains Strategic partnerships and social enterprises Community development regeneration and placemaking Construction consultancy Architecture design and construction Assessing and measuring social value. Reflective practitioners can pick it up turn to a chapter and learn something they can use right away. Through numerous practical examples and think pieces this book can help readers learn how to create social value how to improve and build upon current practice and how to co-create social value in partnership with clients and the supply chain. The authors aim to empower and inspire stakeholders to engage with new ideas and create more value for those using the built environment. This book is a must read for all those involved in procuring tendering planning designing developing funding building working in and managing the built environment.

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How To Get Best Value From HR The Shared Services Option

How To Get Best Value From HR The Shared Services Option

An efficient and cost-effective HR function is essential to the successful running of any organization. And yet for many businesses it is impossible or costly to have HR staff in every office. This is particularly true for companies who have many branches such as banks and building societies. So what are they to do? Increasingly they are turning to shared services by creating a unit within the organization that typically undertakes personnel administration and basic operational support. This may be delivered to managers and employees through some combination of call centre personal contact or intranet. Creating a shared services centre enables the HR function to redefine its relationship with its stakeholders. It can become more of a strategic player and make a more business-focused contribution. This book explains what shared services are and what they look like for the HR function. It describes why organizations opt for shared services and what activities are included. It sets out the relationship between shared services and the other HR activities and between HR and line management. How To Get Best Value From HR outlines the process of introducing shared services from identifying customer needs through designing the structure to implementation and monitoring. It also outlines the likely pitfalls and importantly offers possible solutions. In particular the book highlights the big design issues including whether to outsource services where a shared services centre should be located how services should be delivered and organized including through the option of e-HR. Crucially it features an extended case study of the Royal Bank of Scotland's experience of introducing HR shared services providing a unique insight into the reality of this new way of working. | How To Get Best Value From HR The Shared Services Option

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A History of the Muslim World to 1750 The Making of a Civilization

A History of the Muslim World to 1750 The Making of a Civilization

A History of the Muslim World to 1750 traces the development of Islamic civilization from the career of the Prophet Muhammad to the mid-eighteenth century. Encompassing a wide range of significant events within the period its coverage includes the creation of the Dar al-Islam (the territory ruled by Muslims) the fragmentation of society into various religious and political groups including the Shi'ites and Sunnis the series of catastrophes in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries that threatened to destroy the civilization and the rise of the Ottoman Safavid and Mughal empires. Including the latest research from the last ten years this second edition has been updated and expanded to cover the fifteenth to eighteenth centuries. Fully refreshed and containing over sixty images to highlight the key visual aspects this book offers students a balanced coverage of the Muslim world from the Iberian Peninsula to South Asia and detailed accounts of all cultures. The use of maps primary sources timelines and a glossary further illuminates the fascinating yet complex world of the pre-modern Middle East. Covering art architecture religious institutions theological beliefs popular religious practice political institutions cuisine and much more A History of the Muslim World to 1750 is the perfect introduction for all students of the history of Islamic civilization and the Middle East. | A History of the Muslim World to 1750 The Making of a Civilization

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A History of the Muslim World since 1260 The Making of a Global Community

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A History of the Symphony The Grand Genre

A History of the Symphony The Grand Genre

A History of the Symphony: The Grand Genre identifies the underlying cultural factors that have shaped the symphony over the past three hundred years presenting a unified view of the entire history of the genre. The text goes beyond discussions of individual composers and the stylistic evolution of the genre to address what constitutes a symphony within each historical period describing how such works fit into the lives of composers and audiences of the time recognizing that they do not exist in a vacuum but rather as the products of numerous external forces spurring their creation. In three parts the text proceeds chronologically drawing connections between musical examples across regions and eras: The Classical Symphony The Romantic Symphony The Symphony in the Modern Era Within this broad chronology—from the earliest Italian symphonies of the 18th century to the most experimental works of the 20th century—discussion of the development of the genre often breaks down along national lines that outline divergent but parallel paths of stylistic growth. In consideration of what is and is not a symphony musical developments in other genres are presented as they relate to the symphony genres such as the serenade the tone poem and the concert overture. Suitable for a one-semester course as well as a full-year syllabus and with illustrative musical examples throughout A History of the Symphony places composers and works in sociological and musical contexts while confronting the fundamental question: What is a symphony? | A History of the Symphony The Grand Genre

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Extreme Value Modeling and Risk Analysis Methods and Applications

Extreme Value Modeling and Risk Analysis Methods and Applications

Extreme Value Modeling and Risk Analysis: Methods and Applications presents a broad overview of statistical modeling of extreme events along with the most recent methodologies and various applications. The book brings together background material and advanced topics eliminating the need to sort through the massive amount of literature on the subject. After reviewing univariate extreme value analysis and multivariate extremes the book explains univariate extreme value mixture modeling threshold selection in extreme value analysis and threshold modeling of non-stationary extremes. It presents new results for block-maxima of vine copulas develops time series of extremes with applications from climatology describes max-autoregressive and moving maxima models for extremes and discusses spatial extremes and max-stable processes. The book then covers simulation and conditional simulation of max-stable processes; inference methodologies such as composite likelihood Bayesian inference and approximate Bayesian computation; and inferences about extreme quantiles and extreme dependence. It also explores novel applications of extreme value modeling including financial investments insurance and financial risk management weather and climate disasters clinical trials and sports statistics. Risk analyses related to extreme events require the combined expertise of statisticians and domain experts in climatology hydrology finance insurance sports and other fields. This book connects statistical/mathematical research with critical decision and risk assessment/management applications to stimulate more collaboration between these statisticians and specialists. | Extreme Value Modeling and Risk Analysis Methods and Applications

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The Space Industry of the Future Capitalism and Sustainability in Outer Space

The Space Industry of the Future Capitalism and Sustainability in Outer Space

The Space Industry of the Future consists of the first instance of guidance for the space industry on how value creation in space can occur for the greater benefit of humanity using principles of capitalism and sustainability. The timing of this book is ideal given (1) sustainability challenges facing humanity and (2) that the growth of the commercial space economy is now occurring at a rate never seen before. This book presents an opportune guide written for technical business and policy practitioners alike that frames how this industry growth should occur from an integrated values and commercial perspective. This perspective is presented in the context of the modern technical capabilities of space systems relative to the world’s greatest problems. The guidance contained in this book for the growing commercial space industry includes considerations beyond profit seeking alone. This guidance is founded on a bespoke value creation criteria to apply in the context of for-profit outer space activities that if used will result in the maximum value creation that a company is capable of. The criteria are developed and presented through a rigorous discussion on capitalism economics value theory the circular economy stakeholder management and ethics. The value creation criteria are then discussed at length in relation to the space industry. The primary audience for this book is practitioners within the space industry; this includes investors business managers policy makers engineers and scientists. The secondary audience includes students and researchers as well as a growing range of parties interested in space policy and entrepreneurship. | The Space Industry of the Future Capitalism and Sustainability in Outer Space

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A Dictionary of the History of Medicine

A Dictionary of the History of Medicine

This is a unique extensively illustrated dictionary of terms people events and dates spanning the entire history of medicine. It is a monumental work of scholarship totaling some 700 double-column pages with a large number of rare and exceptional illustrations from many original sources painstakingly compiled over years of far-searching inquiry involving more than 5 000 books and hundreds of journals. It is a major resource of hard-to-find information about notable medical figures instruments conditions procedures and dates and a storehouse of captivating anecdotes and background material. The book contains a wealth of material for concise historical introductions to a broad range of subjects and is the sine qua non authority on both well and little known facts of medical history. With this single volume-an unprecedented tour de force representing more than 7 000 hours of exhaustive research-clinicians and researchers from all fields of medicine can quickly and easily find authoritative detailed definitions and descriptions with dates of medical terms and of the people and events contributing to the development of medicine from earliest times to the present day. The entries range widely from such as abacterial pyuria to zygote including Latin and Greek origins of terms compact biographies with dates eponymic information of all kinds and rarely seen drawings and photographs of antique medical instruments and little-known conditions. | A Dictionary of the History of Medicine

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Engineering Writing by Design Creating Formal Documents of Lasting Value Second Edition

Engineering Writing by Design Creating Formal Documents of Lasting Value Second Edition

Engineering Writing by Design: Creating Formal Document of Lasting Value Second Edition shows how effective writing can be achieved by thinking like an engineer. Based on the authors’ combined experience as engineering educators the book presents a novel approach to technical writing positioning formal writing tasks as engineering design problems with requirements constraints protocols standards and customers (readers) to satisfy. Specially crafted for busy engineers and engineering students this quick-reading conversational text: Describes how to apply engineering design concepts to the writing process Explains how engineers fall into thinking traps and gives techniques for avoiding them Covers the essentials of grammar style and mathematical exposition Highlights topics in writing ethics including copyright plagiarism data presentation and persuasion Engineering Writing by Design: Creating Formal Documents of Lasting Value Second Edition addresses the specific combination of thinking and writing skills needed to succeed in modern engineering. Its mantra is: to write like an engineer you must think like an engineer. Featuring illustrative examples chapter summaries and exercises quick-reference tables and recommendations for further reading this book is packed with valuable tips and information practicing and aspiring engineers need to become effective writers. | Engineering Writing by Design Creating Formal Documents of Lasting Value Second Edition

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