Accounting: socially responsible and socially relevant

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Accounting: socially responsible and socially relevant
Richard G. J Vangermeersch
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Managing Finance: A Socially Responsible Approach
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Managing Finance is developed from tried and tested materials that are easy to read and work is written from a managerial perspective for general managers on executive or MBA courses. The text focuses on accounting from the viewpoint of the needs of managers for financial information and understanding. Scenarios and examples are included that demonstrate a socially responsible approach.

Business Scenarios are presented at the opening of each chapter and this is then used to explore the topics covered given at the start of the chapter. This approach is very appealing to people with business experience

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Socially Responsible Accounting

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Socially Responsible Accounting
M. R. Mathews
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Banking on Social Responsibility.(Brief Article): An article from: Bank Marketing

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Elinor Dumont
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Do Good and Prosper.(socially responsible investing ): An article from: CMA Management
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"Green" charitable contributions.: An article from: The Tax Adviser

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"Green" charitable contributions.: An article from: The Tax Adviser
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This digital document is an article from The Tax Adviser, published by American Institute of CPA's on September 1, 2003. The length of the article is 1490 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.

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Publication: The Tax Adviser (Magazine/Journal)
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Setting investment priorities in education.: An article from: Finance & Development

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Setting investment priorities in education.: An article from: Finance & Development
Nicholas Burnett , Kari Marble , and Harry Anthony Patrinos
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This digital document is an article from Finance & Development, published by International Monetary Fund on December 1, 1995. The length of the article is 2622 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 supplier: Many countries have come to acknowledge the importance of investing in human capital. Such investment is viewed as a crucial part of efforts to raise incomes and achieve sustained economic growth. Investment in education, in particular, raises per capital GNP, reduces poverty, improves health, lowers fertility rates and supports the expansion of knowledge. Unfortunately, efforts to improve educational systems have generally been disappointing. To meet the challenges of improving access, equity and quality of education, governments must implement six important reforms in education finance and management. These measures are giving education a higher priority, paying greater attention to outcomes, emphasizing investment in basic education, working to improve equity, increasing household involvement by providing real choices, and expanding schools' autonomy.

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Socially responsible investment firms ask for GRI standard reports.(New and noteworthy information you can use): An article from: CMA Management

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Accounting: socially responsible and socially relevant

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Accounting: socially responsible and socially relevant
Richard G. J Vangermeersch
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Justice in the Workplace: From theory To Practice, Volume 2 (Applied Psychology Series)

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Justice in the Workplace acts as a central reference point for application of organizational justice and helps human resource managers relate the importance of justice to their work environments.

Forming much of this book's content, outcomes, processes, and interpersonal treatment are three powerful tools for building and maintaining workplace justice. In Part I these books are discussed at a theoretical level. Part II applies these theories to several issues important to both human resource management and society. And Part III looks at organizational justice in the years ahead.

Compared to the first volume, this book will appeal to practitioners and researchers in such applied areas as human resource management, industrial organizational psychology, and management.

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The language of medicine, its evolution, structure, and dynamics
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Dense Molecular Gas around Protostars and in Galactic Nuclei: European Workshop on Astronomical Molecules 2004

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The phenomena observed in young stellar objects (YSO), circumstellar regions and extra-galactic nuclei show some similarity in their morphology, dynamical and physical processes, though they may differ in scale and energy. The European Workshop on Astronomical Molecules 2004 gave astronomers a unique opportunity to discuss the links among the observational results and to generate common interpretations of the phenomena in stars and galaxies, using the available diagnostic tools such as masers and dense molecular gas. Their theoretical understanding involves physics, numerical simulations and chemistry. Including a dozen introductory reviews, topics of papers in this book also cover: maser and dense gas diagnostics and related phenomena, evolution of circumstellar regions around protostars, evolution of circumnuclear regions of active galaxies, diagnostics of the circumnuclear gas in stars and galactic nuclei. This book summarizes our present knowledge in these topics, highlights major problems to be addressed, and finally proposes future work.

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Polymers in Particulate Systems: Properties and Applications (Surfactant Science)

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Surfactant - Based Separation Processes (Surfactant Science)

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Focuses on novel techniques and reviews established methods for surfactant-based separation processes that can be widely applied in industry. Describes new extraction techniques, micellar-enhanced ultrafiltration and admicellar chromatography, protein extraction using reverse micelles, surfactant-en

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Biobjective control of emulsion polymerizations: control of the polymer composition and the concentration of monomer in the polymer particles [An article from: Chemical Engineering Journal]

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Biobjective control of emulsion polymerizations: control of the polymer composition and the concentration of monomer in the polymer particles [An article from: Chemical Engineering Journal]
N.S. Othman , G. Fevotte , and T.F. McKenna
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A decoupled control law is proposed to control the concentration of monomer in the polymer particles in emulsion homopolymerization, copolymerization and terpolymerization processes and simultaneously to insure the production of a homogeneous polymer composition. Nonlinear geometric controllers are used to calculate the monomer flow rates that accomplish this purpose. The controllers are based on the estimation of the residual number of moles of free monomer that is obtained by calorimetry and using nonlinear high gain observers in this work. The technique is experimentally validated using the butyl acrylate, methyl methacrylate and vinyl acetate monomers.

Removal Of VOCs From Surfactant-Flushed Groundwater By A Novel Hollow Fiber Membrane-Based Pervaporation Process

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Good 3-D vision book with emphasis on applications

A Poor Rewrite of the book: Multiple View Geometry, by Hartley & Zisserman

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An Invitation to 3-D Vision
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Genetic Programming Theory and Practice IV (Genetic and Evolutionary Computation)

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This book gives senior undergraduate and beginning graduate students and researchers in computer vision, applied mathematics, computer graphics, and robotics a self-contained introduction to the geometry of 3D vision; that is the reconstruction of 3D models of objects from a collection of 2D images. Following a brief introduction, Part I provides background materials for the rest of the book. The two fundamental transformations, namely rigid body motion and perspective projection are introduced and image formation and feature extraction discussed. Part II covers the classic theory of two view geometry based on the so-called epipolar constraint. Part III shows that a more proper tool for studying the geometry of multiple views is the so- called rank considtion on the multiple view matrix. Part IV develops practical reconstruction algorithms step by step as well as discusses possible extensions of the theory. Exercises are provided at the end of each chapter. Software for examples and algorithms are available on the author's website.

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Good 3-D vision book with emphasis on applications.......2005-12-10

I really liked this book. However, I use it for vision issues as they relate to robotics rather than as an introductory text on 3D vision. If a general or introductory textbook on 3D computer vision is what you desire, then you might be better off with "Multiple View Geometry in Computer Vision" by Hartley or my personal favorite, "Introductory Techniques for 3-D Computer Vision" by Trucco and Verri. For individuals studying robotic vision, many parts of this book are useful not only for characterizing vision, but for putting together algorithms and equations that are useful for describing robotic motion in general. For example, chapter two of the book collects equations and algorithms that are very useful in describing forward kinematics. Chapters five through ten cover all of the considerations and algorithms needed to produce a 3D image from a collection of images taken from different viewpoints. Chapter eleven applies this knowledge with sequential instructions on building a 3D image from a group of images. Chapter twelve has a second application that shows how to perform autonomous control of a moving vehicle via video feedback. The appendices have some very good information on linear algebra as it relates to computer vision as well as details on the Kalman filter, which is also of great interest to those of us who are interested in computational robotics. Algorithms are blocked out and explained in logical steps throughout the book, and it also has very good exercises at the end of each chapter as well as short examples throughout each chapter, although the notation can sometimes be a little confusing. I would therefore recommend this book especially to those readers who are interested in merging their knowledge of robotics with their knowledge of basic computer vision into creating sophisticated applications. However, this book is by no means an introduction to computer vision. The table of contents is as follows:
Ch 1 - Introduction
Ch 2 - Representation of a 3D Moving Scene
Ch 3 - Image Formation
Ch 4 - Image Primitives and Correspondence
Ch 5 - Reconstruction from Two Calibrated Views
Ch 6 - Reconstruction from Two Uncalibrated Views
Ch 7 - Segmentation of Multiple Moving Objects from Two Views
Ch 8 - Multiple View Geometry of Points and Lines
Ch 9 - Extension to General Incidence Relations
Ch 10- Geometry and Reconstruction From Symmetry
Ch 11- Step by Step Building of a 3D Model from Images
Ch 12- Visual Feedback

A Poor Rewrite of the book: Multiple View Geometry, by Hartley & Zisserman.......2005-09-28

This is a poor rewrite of a much better book, Multiple View Geometry in Computer Vision, by Hartley & Zisserman. It fails to clarify any of the more difficult concepts presented by Hartley & Zisserman and is far less complete in the treatment of the subject matter. I can not recommend this book when a better written, more thorough treatment is already available from Hartley & Zisserman.

a must-have book for computer vision students & researchers.......2004-03-30

The authors do an outstanding job of balancing theory and practice in this book. In particular, Ch. 11 (Step-by-Step Building of a 3-D Model from Images) is a gem. The new student of computer vision that finds Structure from Motion (SFM) daunting should read this chapter first to build motivation by means of seeing concrete examples.
What's most notable about this book is its thoroughness. The authors humbly get their hands dirty with crucial low-level matters like interest point detection and feature tracking. In Ch. 5 and 6 (calibrated and uncalibrated reconstruction) you'll get an excellent treatment of the necessary background in these areas, along with numerous new insights and `nuggets.' This is particularly true in their treatment of homographies. Ch. 2 has all the material on rigid body motion and the exponential map that students used to need to get from Murray, Li and Sastry, once again with substantial added value.
The exercises in all the chapters are very well thought out, and they -- together with the clearly written Algorithm Boxes -- greatly simplify the job of the instructor. (I am currently using this as the text for my graduate level class this quarter.) The appendices (especially the one on Linear Algebra) also help to make this a self-contained resource for SFM.
I haven't gotten into the material on multi-body motion and n>2 views, so I can't comment on those parts(...)In summary, this is a great book, well worth the money.

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Selected Writings and Speeches of Marcus Garvey (Dover Thrift Editions)
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A controversial figure in the history of race relations around the world, Marcus Garvey amazed his enemies as much as he dazzled his admirers. This anthology contains some of the African-American rights advocate's most noted writings and speeches, including "Declaration of the Rights of the Negro Peoples of the World" and "Africa for the Africans."

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Historically Fascinating Visions in Need of Getting Adjusted to the New Times.......2007-03-10

The title should have made clear that the selected speeches and writings of Marcus Garvey cover his years in the US only, from 1917-25. It is very rewarding, from a historical point of view, to read authentic words of that most important public figure, so much has been said, written, and filmed about. Especially, since Garvey remains very controversial and a lot has been misinterpreted to this day.

Maybe as a result of the limited time frame covered, some speeches and writings are lacking, which Garvey is most famous for. Among these are more direct references of Ethiopia and her coming King of kings; that Jesus was black-skinned; Garvey's stand on contemporary emerging africanist prophets in the Caribbean and the US. Considering that the introduction avers that Garvey in some twisted way made positive remarks towards Mussolini and Hitler, the corresponding proof of that is most definitely missing in this book, I might say. All these omissions are responsible for the subtraction of a star in my rating.

The still high rating has to be seen in providing authentic texts by Garvey himself, not necessarily that I share all the views of Garvey. This is not a book BY Garvey, but a compilation of his speeches/articles, made available to the public. To make that clear: I venerate Marcus Garvey for that what he pushed forward, for challenging the racist system, for following up his visions, for being a human of action, for organising incredible international work and for his martyrdom of the contemporary racist judicial system of the US.

Still, he is a product of his times and as RastafarI I am very much aware that both, lacking knowledge and the system's conditioning of all sorts of separation cannot be overcome on a single day or in fact, in a single generation. It is important to enter that path at all. Therefore, some of Garvey's visions and speeches are very much up to date, others are hilariously outdated. In fact, very racist. I am not talking about his vision of "black supremacy", because that is, what is usually said about him (and wrongly interpreted). I am talking about his belief in races, down to the point of actively and sort of forcibly thinking about preventing a "mixing of races", in fact by that agreeing with the KKK, with which he held a meeting (and elaborates on in this book). His vision of very literal repatriation of all the black-skinned to Africa has since been re-interpreted to a metaphorical return of the mind. His fighting for the use of that certain N-word instead of "Coloreds" is most certainly not top of the political correctness as of today, but in a way mirrors interestingly today's controversy of "Black" v "African American". Also, the use of extremely derogatory racist vocabulary hurled at his direct black civil rights rivals is most certainly unacceptable in today's world. In fact, Garvey makes it clear that he thinks of those rivals, such as W.E.B. DuBois as worse enemies than all the white supremacists imaginable. Which makes for a fascinating reading of that human condition to usually fight that the most, which is most close. In that, even though outdated by words, this makes for a thought provoking reading, representative of universal general mechanisms, as every minority harbors the challenging rebels and the system integrationists, fighting each other to the bones, much more than the common downpressor.

Selected Writings and Speeches of Marcus Garvey

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Bankruptcy Strategies for Lenders, 1995 Cumulative Supplement
Brooke E. Smith , John R. Blinn , and J. Michael Sutherland
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