The book presents theoretical and empirical research on the integrated assessment of cartels’ effects on national economies. The empirical analysis is based on three cases in Lithuania, a country chosen because it corresponds to the features of a small economy with a developing culture of competition. An integrated assessment of a cartel’s impact by measuring the net economic effect created…
The North is changing at an unprecedented rate as industrial development and the climate crisis disrupt not only the environment but also long-standing relationships to the land and traditional means of livelihood. Memory and Landscape: Indigenous Responses to a Changing North explores the ways in which Indigenous peoples in the Arctic have adapted to challenging circumstances, including past c…
Business Process Management (BPM) has become one of the most widely used approaches for the design of modern organizational and information systems. The conscious treatment of business processes as significant corporate assets has facilitated substantial improvements in organizational performance but is also used to ensure the conformance of corporate activities. This Handbook presents in two v…
Business Process Management (BPM) has become one of the most widely used approaches for the design of modern organizational and information systems. The conscious treatment of business processes as significant corporate assets has facilitated substantial improvements in organizational performance but is also used to ensure the conformance of corporate activities. This Handbook presents in two v…
Bahwa setiap orang memiliki hak asasi manusia untuk menikmati manfaat dari kemajuan ilmu pengetahuan dan penerapannya mengejutkan banyak orang. Namun demikian, hak ini berkaitan dengan berbagai masalah di persimpangan sains dan masyarakat: akses terbuka; sains "penggunaan ganda"; akses ke kepemilikan dan penyebaran data, pengetahuan, metode dan kemampuan serta penerapannya; serta peran kerja sa…
Mengapa ada keberhasilan yang tidak merata dalam mengurangi polusi udara bahkan di wilayah yang sama dari waktu ke waktu?. Buku ini menawarkan teori inovatif tentang bagaimana insentif politik lokal dapat memengaruhi regulasi birokrasi. Dengan menggunakan bukti empiris, ia mengkaji dan membandingkan pengendalian berbagai polutan udara di China-sebuah otokrasi-dan, pada tingkat yang lebih rendah…
This book is an approachable introduction to calculus with applications to biology and environmental science. For example, one application in the book is determining the volume of earth moved in the 1959 earthquake that created Quake Lake. Another application uses differential equations to model various biological examples, including moose and wolf populations at Isle Royale National Park, rana…
Light from Ancient Campfires is the first book in twenty years to gather together a comprehensive prehistoric archaeological record of the Northern Plains First Nations. In this important examination of the region’s earliest inhabitants, author Trevor Peck reviews the many changes of interpretation that have occurred in relevant literature published during the last two decades. Beginning with…
This book represents the HELS (Helmholtz equation least squares) theory and its applications for visualizing acoustic radiation from an arbitrarily shaped vibrating structure in free or confined space. It culminates the most updated research work of the author and his graduate students since 1997. The book contains six chapters. The first serves as a review of the fundamentals in acoustics and …
Culminating in a suggested step-by-step guide to enable service organization’s managers to understand and implement the concepts of service innovation and manage its evolutionary processes effectively, this book will prove a valuable resource to a wide reaching audience including researchers, practitioners, managers, and students who aspire to create a deeper scientific foundation for service…