The Manager's Concise Guide to Risk

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The Manager's Concise Guide to Risk is intended to serve as a quick reference that can assist you in recognizing and correctly identifying risk, and in distinguishing between the numerous types and varieties of risk that are likely to arise in the course of business and economic activity.

It explains and illustrates with simple numerical examples how some key risk concepts can be quantified and measured. It will generate much "added value" by expanding the scope of your risk knowledge from those few risk concepts made familiar through frequent encounter in a specific industry, line of business, division of a firm, or type of transaction, to a much broader and more comprehensive risk framework. In such a framework, you may find that other, unfamiliar or seemingly irrelevant types of risk are in fact related to or could occur concomitantly with the more familiar types, and that those risks - previously unfamiliar or presumed irrelevant - must not therefore be left out of the manager's analysis and decision-making process.

Executive Coaching: A Guide for the HR Professional
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Executive Coaching: A Guide for the HR Professional
Anna Marie Valerio , and Robert J. Lee
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Executive Coaching is a “consumer’s guide” for HR professionals and executives who want to be good clients and savvy consumers of coaching services. Step by step, the book defines what coaching is, who uses it, when, and why. In this comprehensive resource the authors outline the entire coaching process, include key points on the readiness for coaching, and clients’ first-hand accounts of their coaching experiences. Valerio and Lee describe the roles of the HR professional, the client, the boss, and the coach and how all work together in order to achieve a successful coaching engagement.

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Executive Coaching is a consumer¿s guide for HR professionals and executives who want to be good clients and savvy consumers of coaching services. Step by step, the book defines what coaching is, who uses it, when, and why. In this comprehensive resource the authors outline the entire coaching process, include key points on the readiness for coaching, and clients¿ first-hand accounts of their coaching experiences. Valerio and Lee describe the roles of the HR professional, the client, the boss, and the coach and how all work together in order to achieve a successful coaching engagement.

New York Search and Seizure for Law Enforcement Officers, 4th Edition
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New York Search and Seizure for Law Enforcement Officers, 4th Edition

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ASIN: 1422401928

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Barry Kamins examines the issues law enforcement officers face when dealing with Search Warrants, Search of Premises, Law of Arrest, Stop and Frisk, Auto Searches, Plain Touch, Probable Cause, Searches Without Warrants, Street Encounters, Consent Searches, Open Fields, and Open Containers. The book also includes Constitutional issues and New York and U.S. Supreme Court cases as they apply to the everyday working needs of law enforcement officers. New York Search & Seizure for Law Enforcement Officers is a useful and convenient means for law enforcement officials to know the legalities of search and seizure law.

New York Search and Seizure for Law Enforcement Officers

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New York Search and Seizure for Law Enforcement Officers
Barry Kamins
Manufacturer: Gould Publications, Inc.
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ASIN: 0875264301

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Includes: Search Warrants, Search of Premises, Law of Arrest, Stop and Frisk, Auto Searches, Plain Touch, Probable Cause, Searches Without Warrants, Street Encounters, Consent Searches, Open Fields, and Open Containers. Also includes Constitutional issues and New York and U.S. Supreme Court cases as they apply to the everyday working needs of on-the-job law enforcement officers.

Search and Seizure For N.Y.S. Law Enforcement Officers

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John J Sullivan , and John J. Sullivan
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A guide to the laws of search & seizure for New York state law enforcement officers

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John J Sullivan
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Great reference source -- highly recommended.......2002-04-25

I own this book as well as its companion canon on lunar eclipses. I find them both to be convenient and valuable references whenever I need to find information about past or present eclipses (which I do a lot more often than you might imagine).

What I find most useful are the maps of individual eclipses over a 50-year span and the maps of all total and annular eclipses worldwide over the much longer period of 1901-2100.

It's not called a Canon for nothing........1999-11-27

This is the definitive book to take to eclipses. Espenak is the eclipse expert for NASA and has all the math and software to generate the tables which make up this canon.

Everything else one hears or reads about where and when the eclipse will be, is just third through twelfth hand recounting and mis-recounting of the information in this book. It is not fun reading - it is a book of tables of numbers.

But careful reading and interpolation with an accurate map (or a GPS) and an accurate watch will get you the exact local time of second and third contacts and the actual location of centerline.

That doesn't seem like such a big deal until one is actually on the ground the day before the eclipse. One had been unconsciously expecting that somebody locally would have all the information, and then you find out that they had been assuming that you, the rich, educated foreigner, would know.

The actual real information is to be found only in this book. Don't leave home for an eclipse without it.

Fifty year canon of solar eclipses, 1986-2035 (SuDoc NAS 1.15:89346)
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Polyolefins are the most widely used commercial polymers and their functionalization has been a long standing scientific challenge and an industrially important area. In recent decades significant progress has been made in the area, with exciting results reported in many journals.

Functionalization of Polyolefins is the first book to summarize the significant experimental results on the functionalization of polyolefins and classify them into several chemical methods (shown in each chapter of this book). The book also provides an update on the functional polyolefin materials available today.

The two key subject categories covered are:
*Chemical approaches in the functionalization of polyolefins
*New available polyolefin materials and their potential applications

The book includes:
*The historic development and future prospects for polyolefins
*Functionalization chemistry, classified into four general approaches
*Chemical approaches with experimental results
*Functionalization approaches

The book provides an invaluable reference for researchers in industry and academia interested in functionalization chemistry and polymers. It has been developed through Professor Chung's own teaching experience, both at Pennsylvania State University and on short courses. It is therefore ideally suited as a core text for advanced polymer chemistry and courses on polyolefins and polymers, as well as being a useful supplementary reference for introductory courses on polyolefin chemistry and materials.

T.C. Mike Chung is Professor of Polymer Science in the Materials Science and Engineering Department, Pennsylvania State University, USA. He is one of the most experienced people in the field of polyolefin functionalization, with a wide-ranging knowledge gained through many years of experience both in academia and industry.

Shows the available functionalisation approaches with a discussion of their scope and limitations
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A factorial design applied to polypropylene functionalization with maleic anhydride.: An article from: Polymer Engineering and Science

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A factorial design applied to polypropylene functionalization with maleic anhydride.: An article from: Polymer Engineering and Science
S.M.B. Nachtigall , R. Baumhardt Neto , and R.S. Mauler
Manufacturer: Society of Plastics Engineers, Inc.
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This digital document is an article from Polymer Engineering and Science, published by Society of Plastics Engineers, Inc. on April 1, 1999. The length of the article is 2337 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the author: Maleic anhydride functionalized PP was prepared in a melt-mixer according to a factorial design. Two levels of maleic anhydride concentration (MA), dicumyl peroxide concentration (DCP), reaction time, and temperature were employed. The isolated and interaction effects of these variables on the degree of functionalization and molecular weights were analyzed. The products were characterized by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), gel permeation chromatography (GPC), titration, and torque measures. The reaction time showed no appreciable effect within the studied range (10 to 20 minutes); however, the other three factors showed significant main effects. MA and temperature presented an important interaction effect on the degree of functionalization and molecular weights. The highest degrees of functionalization were found to be related to the smallest molecular weights.

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Title: A factorial design applied to polypropylene functionalization with maleic anhydride.
Author: S.M.B. Nachtigall
Publication: Polymer Engineering and Science (Refereed)
Date: April 1, 1999
Publisher: Society of Plastics Engineers, Inc.
Volume: 39 Issue: 4 Page: 630(8)

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Radiation grafting functionalization of poly(vinylidene fluoride) to compatibilize its blends with polyolefin ionomers.: An article from: Polymer Engineering and Science

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Radiation grafting functionalization of poly(vinylidene fluoride) to compatibilize its blends with polyolefin ionomers.: An article from: Polymer Engineering and Science
A. Valenza , G. Carianni , and L. Mascia
Manufacturer: Society of Plastics Engineers, Inc.
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This digital document is an article from Polymer Engineering and Science, published by Society of Plastics Engineers, Inc. on March 1, 1998. The length of the article is 4356 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the author: Blends of a crystalline vinylidene fluoride copolymer (PVDF) and a polyolefin ionomer were produced by melt mixing and characterized by a variety of techniques to examine the effect of increasing the level of salt formation on morphology. The PVDF component was also grafted with methacrylic acid by irradiating the polymer powder and subsequently treating it with an aqueous monomer solution. The effect of neutralizing the acid in both polymer components to produce the corresponding zinc salt was also investigated. Compatibilization was accomplished by the addition of zinc acetyl acetonate (ZnAcAc) to the mixture. This increased the viscosity of the polyolefin ionomer phase, comparable to that of the PVDF. The viscosity of the grafted PVDF component did not increase appreciably after neutralization with ZnAcAc. The grafted polymer precipitated and formed a particulate dispersion within a largely graft-free polymer matrix. The addition of ZnAcAc to the blend of grafted PVDF and polyolefin ionomer produced a large enhancement in compatibilization, giving rise to the formation of co-continuous phases that contained encapsulated particles of different size and in various locations.

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Title: Radiation grafting functionalization of poly(vinylidene fluoride) to compatibilize its blends with polyolefin ionomers.
Author: A. Valenza
Publication: Polymer Engineering and Science (Refereed)
Date: March 1, 1998
Publisher: Society of Plastics Engineers, Inc.
Volume: v38 Issue: n3 Page: p462(9)

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Functionalization of Polyolefins
T C Mike Chung
Manufacturer: ACADEMIC PRESS INC@
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Functionalization of Polyolefins
T. C./ Chung, T. C. Mike Chung
Manufacturer: Academic Pr 01/1//2002
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The new field of evolutionary developmental biology is one of the most exciting areas of contemporary biology. The fundamental principle of evolutionary developmental biology ("evo-devo") is that evolution acts through inherited changes in the development of the organism. "Evo-devo" is not merely a fusion of the fields of developmental and evolutionary biology, the grafting of a developmental perspective onto evolutionary biology, or the incorporation of an evolutionary perspective into developmental biology. Evo-devo strives for a unification of genomic, developmental, organismal, population, and natural selection approaches to evolutionary change. It draws from development, evolution, paleontology, ecology, and molecular and systematic biology, but has its own set of questions, approaches, and methods.

Keywords and Concepts in Evolutionary Developmental Biology is the first comprehensive reference work for this expanding field. Covering more than fifty central terms and concepts in entries written by leading experts, Keywords offers an overview of all that is embraced by this new subdiscipline of biology, providing the core insights and ideas that show how embryonic development relates to life-history evolution, adaptation, and responses to and integration with environmental factors.

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Keywords in Evolutionary Biology

Manufacturer: Harvard University Press
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ASIN: 0674503139

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In science, more than elsewhere, a word is expected to mean what it says, nothing more, nothing less. But scientific discourse is neither different nor separable from ordinary language--meanings are multiple, ambiguities ubiquitous. Keywords in Evolutionary Biology grapples with this problem in a field especially prone to the confusion engendered by semantic imprecision.

Written by historians, philosophers, and biologists--including, among others, Stephen Jay Gould, Diane Paul, John Beatty, Robert Richards, Richard Lewontin, David Sloan Wilson, Peter Bowler, and Richard Dawkins--these essays identify and explicate those terms in evolutionary biology which, though commonly used, are plagues by multiple concurrent and historically varying meanings. By clarifying these terms in their many guises, the editors Evelyn Fox Keller and Elisabeth Lloyd hope to focus attention on major scholarly problems in the field--problems sometimes obscured, sometimes reveals, and sometimes even created by the use of such equivocal words. "Competition," "adaptation," and "fitness," for instance, are among the terms whose multiple meaning have led to more than merely semantic debates in evolutionary biology.

Exploring the complexity of keywords and clarifying their role in prominent issues in the field, this book will prove invaluable to scientists and philosophers trying to come to terms with evolutionary theory; it will also serve as a useful guide to future research into the way in which scientific language works.

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KEYWORDS IN EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY
EVELYN FOX/ LLOYD, ELISABETH A. (EDT) KELLER
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Insightful, irreverent and fun best describe this collection of Dr. Joe Golden's essays. Golden educates and inspires through his poignant lessons on living. Have fun with Joe's keen wit and warm humor.

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