Statements of Financial Accounting Concepts, 2002-2003: Accounting Standards As of June 1, 2002

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The FASB Statements of Financial Accounting Concepts contains the full text of the seven Statements of Financial Accounting Concepts issued to date. The existing concepts are intended to serve the public interest by setting the objectives, qualitative characteristics, and other concepts that guide selection of economic events to be recognized and measured for financial reporting. Unlike a Statement of Financial Accounting Standards, a Statement of Financial Accounting Concepts does not establish Generally Accepted Accounting Principles.

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The Constitution for Accounting.......2002-10-27

This book is the outline for all FASB,SFASs.
Any new SFAS is judged to be within the limits of the SFAC.
The "C" stands for "Concepts" I say it stands for "Constitution".
It is good to know the core of what you are applying in your every day professional life.

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The ABCs of e-Learning is your hands-on guide for finding the right e-learning path for you and your organization. Written by Brooke Broadbent-an international expert in the field of e-learning-the book is created to be an easy-to-use and flexible tool. The ABCs of e-Learning offers the background information needed to solve a wide variety of e-learning problems. It compares the four basic types of e-learning: leader-led, self-paced, performance support tools, and informal learning. It also includes answers to common problems and will get you started on your road to e-learning.

ABCs of e-Learning: Reaping the Benefits and Avoiding the Pitfalls. (Book Reviews).: An article from: Technical Communication

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ABCs of e-Learning: Reaping the Benefits and Avoiding the Pitfalls. (Book Reviews).: An article from: Technical Communication
Lynnette R. Porter
Manufacturer: Society for Technical Communication
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Binding: Digital

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This digital document is an article from Technical Communication, published by Society for Technical Communication on May 1, 2003. The length of the article is 581 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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Title: ABCs of e-Learning: Reaping the Benefits and Avoiding the Pitfalls. (Book Reviews).
Author: Lynnette R. Porter
Publication: Technical Communication (Refereed)
Date: May 1, 2003
Publisher: Society for Technical Communication
Volume: 50 Issue: 2 Page: 273(3)

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You could say that interest in collecting vintage farm tractors is plowing ahead, but that would be an understatement. Interest is actually racing forward! You could say these tractors are a ton of fun, but they are actually "tons" of iron-giant fun. Vintage tractors, once viewed as useless relics of days gone by, are now looked upon in a different light. Collectors and historians alike are buying these "iron horses" to restore them to their original pride and power. This exhaustive reference work offers histories of more than 900 different tractor makers: Case, John Deere, Allis-Chalmers, Ford, plus hundreds of obscure tractor companies. Historians, collectors and those who just love old farm tractors will love this book.

-Standard Catalog format means the most comprehensive guide on the subject.
-More than 700 photos.
-Values for the most popular tractors.
-Growing collector area.

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Over the past decade, the United States' nuclear-detection system and spy satellites have registered 250 atomic-bomb-sized detonations on and about our planet. Why were we not told? Well, we were, now and again, when someone felt like mentioning it, and when the world's media, starved of other news, could be bothered to run the story. Why were these explosions not newsworthy? Because they come not from the arsenals of hostile states, but from comets and asteroids impacting with the Earth's atmosphere.

We assume these events are rare. They are not. Their time-averaged death toll equals that of earthquakes and major floods. We assume these impacts rarely affect our lives. Author Austen Atkinson convincingly demonstrates that meteor and asteroid strikes have, and will again, skew human history in spectacular and terrible ways.

Impacts from objects no bigger than a baseball can, under the right conditions, wipe out cities. There is nothing we can do about them, as such objects are too small to be detected. On the other hand, bigger objects--the planet killers of films like Deep Impact and Armageddon--can be detected, and diverted, with existing technology but only if there is the global will to act accordingly. Impact Earth is a call to political arms as well as a work of popular science. It is deliberately sensationalist, and entirely serious. Atkinson, like many of the distinguished observers and scientists he quotes, is attempting to put cosmic debris strikes on the world political agenda. He is entitled to be loud. --Simon Ings, Amazon.co.uk

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Idiosyncratic but fascinating work.......2002-07-25

I can understand why Impact Earth triggers a powerful response - it's the sort of topic that polarises people's opinions. Either you are open minded or you reject the idea of asteroid and comet impact. I was a sceptic about the so called impact threat, but recent news articles pushed me to learn more. Austin Atkinson's book sets out to remind us that life is precious. A worthy goal. More than that it succeeds in offering a number of leading scientists a chance to voice their concerns and feelings about how the impact threat may be averted. That done, the author proceeds to paint a picture of how destructive an impact might be and uses the computer modelling carried out by the shock physics laboratory at Sandia National Laboratory (they who model the effects of nuclear war for the US government) to reinforce his point.

In the second half of the book Atkinson uses the facts he's outlined to create a fictional scenario - to allow readers to understand how it would feel to live through such an impact. It's very effective. I started out a sceptic, but Impact Earth changed my mind.

Cryptoscience at best........2002-03-13

There is something more than vaguely disconcerting about those who marshall armies of fact, then, having done so, proceed to put a highly speculative, "must be a conspiracy somewhere, somehow" twist on it all. This book would have been a lot better without Nostradamus, Genesis, and all that conspiracy glop. As it is, I wasted my money. Stick to the facts, and maybe, just maybe, someone will believe you.

Terrifyingly authentic popular science makes great impact.......1999-11-02

Author Austen Atkinson has revolutionised popular science with this book. He has taken the improbable-sounding possibility of a major meteorite impact and animated it in such a way as to make the reader seriously consider the prospect and seriously ponder about how best to lobby government to protect us. It is a book blessed with great wit, intelligence and authority.

A chilling and captivating book.......1999-06-25

Impact Earth, Asteroids, Comets, and Meteoroids, The Growing Threat

Besides being a captivating subject I was impressed by the way Austen Atkinson researched the subject so thoroughly and gave a chillingly detailed and logical treatment of the risk of Earth impacting with comets, asteroids and other bodies in space.

This book is a call to action on a par with Rachel Carlson's Silent Spring, in my opinion. It should be required reading for every legislator, teacher and anyone under the age of 30 with hopes of seeing middle and later life. Austen Atkinson did something very unique in Impact Earth. He added a second book to the end, a fictional account of what it might be like to experience a major impact. If the first book does not get attention, the second surely will. It adds a human element that is missing from other more technical books on this subject. Both parts of Impact Earth are expertly done and written for the lay person in a manner that makes the impact risk clear and obvious to anyone able to read. Austen is a great writer. His style is easy reading and his development is extremely logical and captivating. This is one for every middle school library and a great gift item for the skeptic on your list.

Larry Robinson Sunflower Observatory Kansas

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Pioneered by the pharmaceutical industry and adapted for the purposes of materials science and engineering, the combinatorial method is now widely considered a watershed in the accelerated discovery, development, and optimization of new materials. Combinatorial Materials Synthesis reveals the gears behind combinatorial materials chemistry and thin-film technology, and discusses the prime techniques involved in synthesis and property determination for experimentation with a variety of materials. Funneling historic innovations into one source, the book explores core approaches to synthesis and rapid characterization techniques for work with combinatorial materials libraries.

Experimental Design for Combinatorial and High Throughput Materials Development

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Experimental Design for Combinatorial and High Throughput Materials Development

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ASIN: 0471203432

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In the past decade, combinatorial and high throughput experimental methods have revolutionized the pharmaceutical industry, allowing researchers to conduct more experiments in a week than was previously possible in a year. Now high throughput experimentation is rapidly spreading from its origins in the pharmaceutical world to larger industrial research establishments such as GE and DuPont, and even to smaller companies and universities. Consequently, researchers need to know the kinds of problems, desired outcomes, and appropriate patterns for these new strategies. Editor James Cawse’s far-reaching study identifies and applies, with specific examples, these important new principles and techniques.

Experimental Design for Combinatorial and High Throughput Materials Development progresses from methods that are now standard, such as gradient arrays, to mathematical developments that are breaking new ground. The former will be particularly useful to researchers entering the field, while the latter should inspire and challenge advanced practitioners. The book’s contents are contributed by leading researchers in their respective fields. Chapters include:

-High Throughput Synthetic Approaches for the Investigation of Inorganic Phase Space
-Combinatorial Mapping of Polymer Blends Phase Behavior
-Split-Plot Designs
-Artificial Neural Networks in Catalyst Development
-The Monte Carlo Approach to Library Design and Redesign

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At long last, the mechanism-based and application-oriented handbook of combinatorial chemistry.

Since its very beginning, research in this field has continued to develop at a rapid rate. Increasingly elegant methods are being invented and an even wider range of possible applications is still being discovered, such that combinatorial chemistry is now an integral part of industrial and academic research.

The high-class editorial team - K. C. Nicolaou of The Scripps Institute and UCSD, and R. Hanko and W. Hartwig from Bayer - ensure comprehensive coverage and top quality contributions. This two-volume work deals with synthetic chemistry in all its forms, applications from life sciences, chemistry and
material sciences, all there is to know about compound library design and synthesis, and, of course, the general basics - making it an indispensable reference for synthetic, organic and medicinal chemists, chemical biologists as well as material scientists.

Combinatorial Materials Development (Acs Symposium Series)

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Combinatorial Materials Development (Acs Symposium Series)

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This text examines the four main areas of combinatorial approaches as applied to materials development - parallel synthesis, high-throughput screening, robotics, and informatics. In light of recent successes in applying combinatorial approaches to the development of new optical and magnetic materials this book will be an important resource in this field.

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Combinatorial Materials Synthesis
Xiao Dong Xiang
Manufacturer: MARCEL DEKKER INC
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000N639H2

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What is calculus really for? This book is a highly readable introduction to applications of calculus, from Newton's time to the present day. These often involve questions of dynamics, i.e. of how - and why - things change with time. Problems of this kind lie at the heart of much of applied mathematics, physics, and engineering. From Calculus to Chaos takes a fresh approach to the subject as a whole, by moving from first steps to the frontiers, and by highlighting only the most important and interesting ideas, which can get lost amid a snowstorm of detail in conventional texts. The book is aimed at a wide readership, and assumes only some knowledge of elementary calculus. There are exercises (with full solutions) and simple but powerful computer programs which are suitable even for readers with no previous computing experience. David Acheson's book will inspire new students by providing a foretaste of more advanced mathematics and showing just how interesting the subject can be.

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Recommended.......1999-10-30

The author manages to express in an easily understandable form many of the more interesting applications of calculus, from planetary motion to the Indian Rope Trick (almost). This book is ideally suited for first year undergraduates and sixth-formers with a strong interest in Mechanics. All those doing maths at Oxford University MUST buy this book (the author spends most of the lectures making references to it and to not buy the book would be to not understand the mechanics course).

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This biography is a first-hand account of the most important events leading up to the period of Chinese occupation.

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These pages are filled with true stories of wild escapades, death-defying leaps of faith, unexpected accidents, embarrassing moments, crazy antics, uncommon knowledge, unusual people, and enlightening experiences all blended together in a way to give you cause to laugh and cry and wonder about the serendipity nature of life.

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Serendipity.......2001-12-10

In this book, his story described love, happiness, and determination. He discussed personal experiences that scarred him for life, but serendipity played a role and helped him find his loving wife and discover his career as a dentist. He discussed his life as he struggled through dental school with his wife and two children. There were stories about working as the staff dentist at a community clinic and proceeding on to open his own practice. He discussed the transition and made it clear that it isn't easy to just start your own practice. Dr. Shinn spent some time substituting at the Seattle/King County Jail as a dentist. His practice started slow, he split up the day to incorporate a variety of patients. He was able to see children, patients in need of general dentistry, and oral surgery. He also offered inducements to people to come into his practice. Later on, Dr. Shinn discussed how he was able to find his happiness by providing healthcare, supplies and disease prevention education to remote areas of the world where there is little or no access to it, such as orphanages and refugee camps.
I found this book to be inspirational. I'm in the process of applying to dental school in order to hopefully be able to help community in the future. However, after reading this book my eyes have been opened to possibility of being able to help others who are less fortunate outside of community yet still practice dentistry and not be limited to the local office.

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