Real options in engineering design, operations, and management / / edited by Harriet Black Nembhard, Mehmet Aktan

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910455086803321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Boca Raton : , : CRC Press, , 2010
• ISBN: 0-429-14181-5; 1-282-31211-1; 1-4200-7170-X; 9786612312113
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (258 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): NembhardHarriet Black; AktanMehmet
• Disciplina: 620; 620.0042; 620/.0042
• Soggetti: Engineering design - Management; Operations research; Real options (Finance); Electronic books.
• 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 and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front cover; Contents; Preface; Editors; Contributors; Chapter 1. Introduction; Chapter 2. Real Options in Practice; Chapter 3. Origins of Real Options in Engineering; Chapter 4. Real Options in Manufacturing Operations; Chapter 5. Real Options Valuation for Quality Improvement; Chapter 6. Real Options in Outsourcing; Chapter 7. Barriers to Real Options Adoption and Use in Architecture, Engineering, and Construction Project Management Practice; Chapter 8. Identifying Real Options to Improve the Design of Engineering Systems; Chapter 9. Real Options in Underground Mining Systems Planning and DesignChapter 10. Real Options in Engineering Systems Design; Chapter 11. Real Options Model for Workforce Cross-Training; Chapter 12. Real Options Design for Sustainable Product Quality Management; Chapter 13. Real Options in Nanotechnology R&D; Chapter 14. Real Options-Based Analysis in Pharmaceutical Partnerships for Research ; and Development; Chapter 15. Hands-On Applications: Real Option Super Lattice Solver Software; Index; Back cover
• Sommario/riassunto: Given that engineering flexibility can potentially provide a competitive advantage, the question then becomes: Precisely how valuable is this flexibility? However, traditional methods often fail to accurately capture the economic value of investments in an environment of widespread uncertainty and rapid change. The real options method represents the new state-of-the-art technique for valuation and management of strategic investments, enabling corporate decision-makers to leverage uncertainty and limit downside risk. Real Options in Engineering Design, Operations, and M

Issues in religion and education : whose religion? / / edited by Lori G. Beaman, Leo Van Arragon

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910460944903321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Leiden, Netherlands ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : Brill, , 2015; ©2015
• ISBN: 90-04-28981-X
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (414 p.)
• Collana: International Studies in Religion and Society, , 1573-4293 ; ; Volume 25
• Disciplina: 379.2/8
• Soggetti: Religion in the public schools - Cross-cultural studies; Church and education - Cross-cultural studies; Electronic books.
• 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 at the end of each chapters and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Preliminary Material / Lori G. Beaman and Leo Van Arragon -- Introduction / Leo Van Arragon and Lori G. Beaman -- Public Religion in an Age of Ambivalence: Recovering Religious Literacy after a Century of Secularism / Adam Dinham -- Religion and Education in Ontario Public Education: Contested Borders and Uneasy Truces / Leo Van Arragon -- Minority Faiths and Religious Education Policy: The Case of ; Australian and American Jews, 1945–1980 / Damon Mayrl -- Religion as a Separate Area of Study in India / Asha Mukherjee -- What is Indian ‘Religion’? How Should it Be Taught? / Sonia Sikka -- What Does Conceptualisation of Religion Have to Do with Religion in Education? / Geir Skeie -- Law’s Entanglements: Resolving Questions of Religion and Education / Lori G. Beaman , Lauren L. Forbes and Christine L. Cusack -- From Religion to Spirituality in Education: Towards a Political Regulation of Spirituality? / Solange Lefebvre -- The Spaces in Between: Religion, Sexual Identity, Media and Education in Ontario / Heather Shipley -- Neutrality in Public School Religion Education: Theory and Politics / Bruce Grelle -- Religion, the Elephant in the Asia-Focused Australian School Room / Catherine Byrne -- Religion in Schools: A Human Rights Contribution to the Debate / Alison Mawhinney -- Who Speaks for Religion? / Pamela Dickey Young -- Lagging Behind Other Nations: The Religions in School Debate in Australia / Anna Halafoff and Kim Lam -- Religion and the Cultures of Higher Education: Student Christianity in the UK / Mathew Guest -- Impartiality of Teachers in Quebec’s Non-Denominational Ethics and Religious Culture Program / Stéphanie Gravel -- Index / Lori G. Beaman and Leo Van Arragon.
• Sommario/riassunto: Issues in Religion and Education, Whose Religion? is a contribution to the dynamic and evolving global debates about the role of religion in public education. This volume provides a cross-section of the debates over religion, its role in public education and the theoretical and political conundrums associated with resolutions. The chapters reflect the contested nature of the role of religion in public education around the world and explore some of the issues mentioned from perspectives reflecting the diverse contexts in which the authors are situated. The differences among the chapters reflect some of the particular ways in which various jurisdictions have come to see the problem and how they have addressed religious diversity in public education in the context of their own histories and politics.