Management Accounting in Support of Manufacturing Excellence: Profiles of Shingo Prize-Winning Organizations

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Applied management accounting know-how and creative thinking make an unbeatable combination. Read the cases and see for yourself what elements helped these companies achieve the coveted Shingo Prize.

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Outstanding reference for any world-class organization.......1999-01-30

The format of this book is great. You can break down the case studies into very distinct parts and see exactly how companies moved towards world-class performance in the accounting field.

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The Color Bind is an excellent report on Proposition 209, passed by California voters in 1996 to prevent the state government from discriminating against or granting preferential treatment to people on the basis of their race. Although Berkeley journalism professor Lydia Chavez sympathizes with the liberal supporters of affirmative action, her reporting on the political campaign surrounding Proposition 209 is strikingly evenhanded. She reveals that the initiative's opponents often employed questionable tactics, such as when they paid David Duke to come to California in an attempt to link him with the effort to pass the law. She also makes clear that the authors of the initiative were inspired by good principles, even as cynical Republicans, including Bob Dole, tried to hijack the issue in the final weeks before the election. Anybody who has followed the political and legal issues swirling around Proposition 209--no matter what their political persuasion--will consider this a fascinating and useful book. --John J. Miller

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The Color Bind tells the story of how Glynn Custred and Thomas Wood, two unknown academics, decided to write Proposition 209 in 1992 and thereby set in motion a series of events, far beyond their control, destined to transform the legal, political, and everyday meaning of civil rights for the next generation. Going behind the mass media coverage of the initiative, Lydia Chávez narrates the complex underlying motivations and maneuvering of the people, organizations, and political parties involved in the campaign to end affirmative action in California.
For the first time, the role of University of California regent Ward Connerly in the campaign--one largely assigned to public relations--is put into perspective. In the course of the book Chávez also provides a rare behind-the-scenes journalistic account of the complex and fascinating workings of the initiative process. Chávez recreates the post-election climate of 1994, when the California Civil Rights Initiative (CCRI) appeared to be the right-time, right-place vehicle for Governor Pete Wilson and other Republican presidential prospects. President Clinton and the state Democratic Party thought the CCRI would splinter the party and jeopardize the upcoming presidential election. The Republicans, who saw the CCRI as a "wedge issue" to use against the Democrats, found to their surprise that the initiative was much more divisive in their own party.
Updating her text to include the most current material, Chávez deftly delineates the interplay of competing interests around the CCRI, and explains why the opposition was unsuccessful in its strategy to fight the initiative. Her analysis probes the momentous--and national--implications of this state initiative in shaping the future of affirmative action in this country.

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An even-handed first-rate account of Prop 209.......1998-11-16

Although many books have been written about the pros and cons of affirmative action, The Color Bind by Lydia Chávez is the first to trace a state initiative to do away with preferences in state hiring. Focusing on the bellwether state of California, Chávez follows Proposition 209 from its origins in the San Francisco Bay area--it was the brainchild of two obscure academics-- through the 1996 election.

The journey is filled with enough dramatic moments, setbacks, and unpredictable turn-of-events on both sides to make the book read like a fast-paced novel. Chávez, an assistant professor at University of California-Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism, interviewed hundreds of sources in California, Washington, D. C. and elsewhere. We are privy to strategy sessions, fund-raising meetings, and internal debates on both sides. On the pro-side, state political heavies seized the initiative for their own purposes-- Pete Wilson for an ill-advised run for the U.S. presidency, California Board of Regents member Ward Connerly for exposure and political advancement. Connerly, who is black, became the poster boy for the pro-209 camp. The irony was perfect: an up-by-the bootstraps African American Republican in favor of doing away with affirmative action.

The effort to construct a cogent opposition fell apart amid turf battles that pitted feminists against civil rights advocates, northern California against southern California.

In a brilliant strategic coup, the pro-209 camp was successful in controlling the wording of the initiative, which Chávez singles out as a key to their success. Dan Lungren, then Republican attorney general (now failed California gubernatorial candidate) was responsible for the title and wording that went on the ballot--the sum total of what most voters would read about the initiative.

Though both sides agreed the initiative would end most of the state's affirmative action programs, the words "affirmative action" did not appear in the title or summary. Despite a law suit, Lungren prevailed, and the mom-and-apple-pie version made it illegal to "discriminate against, or grant preferential treatment to, any individual or group on the basis of race, sex, color, ethnicity, or national origin in the operation of public employment, public education, or public contracting." Who could be against that?

The stealth wording confused voters. Grass roots workers in the wasteland of South Central Los Angeles found, to their dismay, that minorities in the area supported the initiative, until it was explained to them.

The Color Bind contains ample lessons for both sides of Prop 209--and not just about affirmative action, because, in the final analysis, the subject of the book is politics. In the 1998 midterm election, the Republicans, who ran ads reminding voters of Monica Lewinsky, would have done well to heed the mistake the Democrats made in the last days of the Prop 209 television advertising campaign. Though all polling indicated that voters responded to a more centrist, "mend it don't end it" strategy, the Democrats ran racial scare ads featuring Klu Klux Klanman David Duke. Voters were not swayed, and Prop 209 passed with 54.9 percent of the vote.

This even-handed account of the California initiative should appeal to people on both sides of the debate, as well as anyone who is fascinated by how individual personalities, in-fighting, and turf battles play out in the drama that is politics. Chávez understands that politics is people. That, ultimately, is what makes the book such a good read.

A unique and superbly written campaign book.......1998-11-12

Although there have been a ton of campaign books since Theodore White's Making of the President 1960, few have reached White's standard (even White's sequels grew tiresome) and none dealt with the referendum or initiative campaigns. Chavez' book does both. She has an eye and an ear for both the personalities and the drama of political campaigns. Not only is the book an entertaining read, it is also highly educational, an excellent study of the pitfalls of American "direct democracy." I highly recommend the book for the classroom or people who want to read the best of what American journalism has to offer.

Very informative and eye-opening.......1998-10-01

I used this book as a research tool for a report on Prop.209 and compare it to Washington states's Initiative 200. It had everything I was looking for. A great book.

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Three key aspects of quantum gravity are considered in this book: phenomenology, potential experimental aspects and foundational theory. The phenomenology is the treatment of metric quantum fluctuations as torsional curves that deviate from classical expectations. This leads to possible experimental configurations that may detect such fluctuations. Most of these proposed experiments are quantum optical measurements of subtle quantum gravity effects in the interaction of photons and atoms. The foundational discussions attempt to find an substratum to string theories, which are motivated by the phenomenological treatment. Quantum gravity is not the quantization of general relativity, but is instead the embedding of quantum theory and gravitation into a more fundamental field theoretic framework.

The Universe of Fluctuations: The Architecture of Spacetime and the Universe (Fundamental Theories of Physics)

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The Universe of Fluctuations: The Architecture of Spacetime and the Universe (Fundamental Theories of Physics)
B.G. Sidharth
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The failure of all attempts to unify gravitation with other fundamental interactions has lead to an abandonment of point particles and differentiable spacetime of General Relativity and Quantum Theory, including Quantum Field Theory. While Quantum Superstrings (or M-Theory) and other Quantum Gravity approaches work with a lattice like structure or extended objects, several unanswered questions remain.

The book describes another approach in which oscillators at the Planck scale from a background Quantum Vacuum are fundamental. We describe how this leads to the formation of the elementary particles, and also a cosmology that correctly predicted an accelerating Universe with a small cosmological constant, apart from other things.

In this context the nature of spacetime and gravitation are reexamined. While it is argued that spacetime has a chaotic underpinning on the one hand, gravitation has a distributional character on the other. It is shown how all these considerations are not only consistent but also explain several, otherwise unanswered features. Finally experimental tests for the near future are also discussed.

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Molecular Electronics and Molecular Electronic Devices is a book that provides a comprehensive review of current problems and information regarding aspects of molecular electronics and molecular electronic devices. Experimental and theoretical aspects of molecular electronics and molecular electronic devices are reviewed by distinguished researchers working in chemistry, physics, computer science, and various areas of biology. These books will be an excellent reference for physicists, chemists, electronics engineers and researchers interested in molecular electronics and molecular electronic devices.

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The collision and non-linear interaction of plane waves in Einstein's general theory of relativity has received considerable attention in recent years. Initially, it was widely thought that such collisions inevitable produce curvature singularities. More recently, however, a surprisingly rich
structure of such space-times has been discovered. This volume presents a unified and comprehensive survey to the current research in this topic which will be suitable for graduate students and research workers whose research lies in general relativity. The first eight chapters present the
background to the subject, introduce the field equations, and include a discussion of some qualitative aspects of their solution. A detailed account is included of the Kahn-Penrose solution since it exhibits the general character of most colliding plane wave solutions. The latter half of the book is
devoted to a catalogue of further exact solutions describing the collision of both gravitational and electromagnetic plane waves. This includes a discussion of the significance of known solutions and a summary of topics of current research interest. As a result, the book will serve both as an
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Inverse Acoustic and Electromagnetic Scattering Theory (Applied Mathematical Sciences)

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David Colton , and Rainer Kress
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The inverse scattering problem is central to many areas of science and technology such as radar and sonar, medical imaging, geophysical exploration and nondestructive testing. This book is devoted to the mathematical and numerical analysis of the inverse scattering problem for acoustic and electromagnetic waves. To this second edition the authors have added new material on Newton's method for the inverse obstacle problem, a new elegant proof of uniqueness for the inverse medium problem, a discussion of the spectral theory of the far field operator and a presentation of a new method for determining the support of an inhomogeneous medium from far field data. In addition the text has been updated in various places.

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Acoustic and Electromagnetic Equations
Jean-Claude Nedelec
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This self-contained book is devoted to the study of the acoustic wave equations and the Maxwell system, the two most common waves equations that are encountered in physics or in engineering. It presents a detailed analysis of their mathematical and physical properties. In particular, the author focuses on the study of the harmonic exterior problems, building a mathematical framework which provides the existence and uniqueness of the solutions. This book will serve as a useful introduction to wave problems for graduate students in mathematics, physics, and engineering.

Mathematical & Numerical Aspects of Wave Propagation: Proceedings in Applied Mathematics (Siam Proceedings Series)

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Mathematical & Numerical Aspects of Wave Propagation: Proceedings in Applied Mathematics (Siam Proceedings Series)
Finland) International Conference on Mathematical and Numerical Aspects of Wave Propagation (6th : 2003 : Jyvaskyla
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Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Mathematical and Numerical Aspects of Wave Propagation (Siam Proceedings Series)

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Conference held in Santiago de Compostela, Spain, July 10-14, 2000.

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Uniform Stationary Phase Method (Ieee Electromagnetic Waves Series)

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Uniform Stationary Phase Method (Ieee Electromagnetic Waves Series)
V. A. Borovikov
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See, for example, section 2.4........2004-04-28

I haven't thoroughly read the text, but I take the following as error example (to the best of my knowledge).

p.49 :
lambda^(-(mu-1)) -> lambda^(-(mu+1)/2)
s=sqrt(2)*exp(4*pi*i/4)*g... -> sqrt(2)*exp(pi*i/4)*g

p.50:
lambda^(-mu-1/2) -> lambda^(-(mu+1)/2)

p.51:
The second recurrence formula of the parabolic cylinder function is not correct, and the recurrence formulas for A_(m+2) and B_(m+2) have sign errors.

p.52:
The second exponential function of Eq.(2.47a) has incorrect argument.

and so on...

Creative work, but full of errors..........2004-02-08

Containing so many expressional errors (including sign errors) and faulty formulas, with insufficient procedural explanations.
There need to be revised editions, if this book is to be readible.

Acoustic or electromagnetic scattering from the penetrable wedge (BER report)

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Acoustic or electromagnetic scattering from the penetrable wedge (BER report)
Robert W Scharstein
Manufacturer: University of Alabama, College of Engineering, Bureau of Engineering Research
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On absorbing boundary conditions for linearized Euler equations by a perfectly matched layer (SuDoc NAS 1.26:198244)

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On absorbing boundary conditions for linearized Euler equations by a perfectly matched layer (SuDoc NAS 1.26:198244)
Fang, Q. Hu
Manufacturer: Institute for Computer Applications in Science and Engineering, NASA Langley Research Center National Technical Information Service, distributor
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High-Sheriff Jim Turner : High Times of a Florida Lawman.......2000-03-16

A wonderful read... a combination Marjorie Kinan Rawlings and Carl Hiaasen that keeps you on the edge of your seat with its clear, crisp, Hemingwayesque prose.

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