Electrorheological fluids / D. Carlson, A.F. Sprecher, H. Conrad

• Record Nr.: UNINA990003969880403321
• Autore: Carlson, J.D.
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Lancaster : Technomic, 1989
• ISBN: 87762-739-8
• Descrizione fisica: XII,454 p. ; 23 cm
• Locazione: DINID
• Collocazione: 15 ID A/6-100
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia

Effective financial management [[electronic resource] ] : the cornerstone for success / / Geoff Turner

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910781690803321
• Autore: Turner Geoff
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: [New York, N.Y.] (222 East 46th Street, New York, NY 10017), : Business Expert Press, 2011
• ISBN: 1-283-89290-1; 1-60649-234-9
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (166 p.)
• Collana: Financial accounting collection, , 2152-7121
• Disciplina: 658.15
• Soggetti: Business enterprises - Finance
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 145-146) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Part I. Where are we now -- 1. In the beginning -- Part II. Where do we want to be -- 2. Planning to get there -- 3. Understanding the business -- 4. Understanding the risks -- Part III. How do we get there -- 5. Finding the money -- 6. Is this the right ; idea -- Part IV. How do we know that we've arrived -- 7. Measuring business performance -- 8. Analyzing business performance -- Part V. Where to next -- 9. Are we creating value for owners -- 10. Business mergers and valuation -- Epilogue -- Appendix -- Notes -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: In a fast-changing world, brimming with social and economic uncertainty, financial information plays a vital role in the life of an organization and does so with two sets of eyes. One set looks back to see what has happened. This is the accounting function, which is simply about the recording of events and the production of the financial reports that satisfy the stewardship responsibility of management. The other set looks forward to determine the most appropriate strategic direction for an organization, guiding managerial actions, motivating behaviors, and creating and supporting the cultural values necessary to achieve an organization's strategic objectives. This book is all about the second set of eyes, which are the lenses of financial management, that help organizations plot their ways through an environment filled with opportunities and dangers. For students and aspiring managers, as well as those who already have management responsibilities, this book provides an insight, through the eyes of the characters of a start-up company, of some of the ideas and models that help to identify the possible strategies capable of maximizing an organization's value, which is the same as making the owners as wealthy as possible, to determine how to finance the organization in the most proper way, to allocate the collected capital in the most effective way, to monitor the implementation of the chosen strategy to see whether it is meeting the planned objectives, and to reasonably decide on the reinvestment and distribution of profits.

Adaptation and complex design / / John C. Avise and Francisco J. Ayala, editors

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910964711303321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Washington, D.C., : National Academies Press, c2007
• ISBN: 9786611110079; 9781281110077; 1281110078; 9780309667869; 0309667860
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (379 p.)
• Collana: In the light of evolution ; ; v. 1
• Altri autori (Persone): AviseJohn C; AyalaFrancisco J <1934-2023.> (Francisco José)
• Disciplina: 576.8
• Soggetti: Evolution (Biology)
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Vol. 1 based on a colloquium of the National Academy of Sciences, held December 1-2, 2006, in Irvine, California.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: pt. 1. Introduction essay -- pt. 2. Epistemological approaches to biocomplexity assessment -- pt. 3. From individual ontogeny to symbiosis : a hierarchy of complexity -- pt. 4. Case studies : dissecting complex phenotypes -- pt. 5. Concluding essay.
• Sommario/riassunto: In December 2006, the National Academy of Sciences sponsored a colloquium (featured as part of the Arthur M. Sackler Colloquia series) on "Adaptation and Complex Design" to synthesize recent empirical findings and conceptual approaches toward understanding the evolutionary origins and maintenance of complex adaptations. Darwin's elucidation of natural selection as a creative natural force was a monumental achievement in the history of science, but a century and a half later some religious believers still contend that biotic complexity registers conscious supernatural design. In this book, modern scientific perspectives are presented on the evolutionary origin and maintenance of complex phenotypes including various behaviors, anatomies, and physiologies. After an introduction by the editors and an opening historical and conceptual essay by Francisco Ayala, this book includes ; 14 papers presented by distinguished evolutionists at the colloquium. The papers are organized into sections covering epistemological approaches to the study of biocomplexity, a hierarchy of topics on biological complexity ranging from ontogeny to symbiosis, and case studies explaining how complex phenotypes are being dissected in terms of genetics and development.