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Mercury Pollution in Minamata
This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. It overviews the poisoning which occurred in the 1950s and 1960s among the residents in Minamata who ate seafood contaminated with methylmercury discharged from the chemical factory, Chisso Corporation. It describes the history, symptoms pathogenesis and research on the causal agent, and discusses the responses of Chisso and the national …
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- 978-981-10-7392-2
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- IX, 67
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- SpringerBriefs in Environmental Science (BRIEFSENVIRONMENTAL)
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- 624 YOK m
Sustainable Business : Managing the Challenges of the 21st Century
This open access book is a compact guide to the development of sustainable business, which has become the central concept in discussions about the future development of humanity and planet earth. It provides basic terminology and concepts on sustainable business and offers insights into a new management paradigm that integrates social and environmental dimensions into business models, strategie…
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- 978-3-031-25397-3
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- XVIII, 142
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- SpringerBriefs in Business (BRIEFSBUSINESS)
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- 650 FIS s
The Socially Responsible Organization : Lessons from COVID
This book explores the nature of the socially responsible organization, specifically the role of crisis management in creating a socially responsible organization. It applies the Myers-Briggs Personality Typology (MBPTI) and the Thomas-Kilmann Conflict Framework to issues such as responses to the COVID-19 pandemic, regulation of tech companies, and infrastructure. Dr. Mitroff lists the major ar…
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- 978-3-030-99808-0
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- XI, 51
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- SpringerBriefs in Business (BRIEFSBUSINESS)
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- 658 MIT s
R&D Management Practices and Innovation: Evidence from a Firm Survey
This Open Access book provides a detailed account of firms’ research and development (R&D) management practices, and whether and how R&D management practices are associated with the success and the nature (explorative or exploitive) of innovation, using a unique survey of firms in Japan. While there is wide agreement that innovation is a key determinant for growth of firms, there are few stud…
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- 1
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- 978-981-16-9797-5
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- IX, 99
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- SpringerBriefs in Economics
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- 650 HAN r
Local Tax Benefits at a Distance : Japan's Hometown Tax Donation Payment
This book discusses the concepts, types, models, and patterns of Japan’s Hometown Tax Donation Payment system, to provide a clear picture of this newly developed unique and innovative fund-raising tool used by municipalities. It also sheds light on the influences that reciprocal gifts provided by each municipality to donors have on local economies by reviewing empirical works and surveys targ…
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- 978-981-16-5138-0
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- XV, 100
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- SpringerBriefs in Economics (BRIEFSECONOMICS)
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- 650 HOD l
Institutional Reform for Innovation and Entrepreneurship : An Agenda for Europe
This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. The authors of this book advise the economies of the European Union to become more entrepreneurial in promoting innovation and economic growth. The authors propose a reform strategy with respect to several aspects to achieve this goal. Starting with the rule of law and the protection of property rights; the tax system; the authors deal …
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- 978-3-319-55092-3
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- X, 102
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- SpringerBriefs in Economics (BRIEFSECONOMICS)
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- 338 ELE i
Agroecological Transitions: From Theory to Practice in Local Participatory De…
This Open Access book presents feedback from the ‘Territorial Agroecological Transition in Action’- TATA-BOX research project, which was devoted to these specific issues. The multidisciplinary and multi-organisation research team steered a four-year action-research process in two territories of France. It also presents: i) the key dimensions to be considered when dealing with agroecologi…
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- 1
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- 9783030019532
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- XVI, 335 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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Proceedings of the 10th Hydrogen Technology Convention, Volume 1: WHTC 2023, …
This open access book highlights the latest advances in fundamental research, technologies and applications of hydrogen energy and fuel cells. In recent years, energy conversion between electricity and hydrogen energy has attracted increasing attention as a way to adjust the load of the grid. This book discusses and exchanges cutting-edge findings and technological developments in fields such a…
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- 9789819986316
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- XI, 499
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Understanding Acoustics : An Experimentalist’s View of Sound and Vibration
This open access textbook, like Rayleigh’s classic Theory of Sound, focuses on experiments and on approximation techniques rather than mathematical rigor. The second edition has benefited from comments and corrections provided by many acousticians, in particular those who have used the first edition in undergraduate and graduate courses. For example, phasor notation has been added to clearly …
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- 978-3-030-44787-8
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- XLIII, 783
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- Graduate Texts in Physics (GTP)
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- 530 GAR u
A Decade of Research Activities at the Department of Industrial Engineering (…
This open access book celebrates the decennial of the Department of Industrial Engineering of Università di Napoli Federico II, Italy. It covers the main research achievements developed at the department in the fields of aerospace, marine, energy, statistical, mechanical and management engineering. Five pre-existing departments merged in 2013, and the research results are here summarized to ce…
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- 978-3-031-53397-6
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- XI, 161
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- Springer Aerospace Technology (SAT)
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- 620 DEC
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