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Corporate Criminal Liability
Emergence, Convergence, and Risk
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2011
With industrialization and globalization, corporations acquired the capacity to influence social life for good or for ill. Yet, corporations are not traditional objects of criminal law. Justified by notions of personal moral guilt, criminal norms have been judged inapplicable to fictional persons,...
Econodynamics
The Theory of Social Production
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
In this book the theory of social production is systematically formulated in terms and concepts of classical political economy and neo-classical economics. In this way the subject becomes accessible not only to professional researchers in areas of the theory of production and economic growth, but...
by G. Tullock
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
While income redistribution is one of the most important functions of modern governments, the world has changed greatly since this first edition of Economics of Income Redistribution was published in 1983. Pension systems and medical programs are in a state of crisis in many parts of the world and...
Accounting for the Public Interest
Perspectives on Accountability, Professionalism and Role in Society
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2013
This volume explores the opportunities and challenges facing the accounting profession in an increasingly globalized business and financial reporting environment. It looks back at past experiences of the profession in attempting to meet its public interest obligation. It examines the role and responsibilities...
LAWS, LANGUAGE and LIFE
Howard Pattee’s classic papers on the physics of symbols with contemporary commentary
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2012
Howard Pattee is a physicist who for many years has taken his own path in studying the physics of symbols, which is now a foundation for biosemiotics. By extending von Neumann’s logical requirements for self-replication, to the physical requirements of symbolic instruction at the molecular level,...
EPSA Philosophical Issues in the Sciences
Launch of the European Philosophy of Science Association
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2010
This volume collects papers presented at the Founding Conference of the European Philosophy of Science Association meeting, held November 2007. It provides an excellent overview of the state of the art in philosophy of science in different European countries.
Challenges for Quality of Life in the Contemporary World
Advances in quality-of-life studies, theory and research
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Wolfgang Glatzer Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universitiit Franlifurt am Main, Germany ABSTRACT Challenges for the quality of life in the contemporary world were the focus of the Fifth International Quality of Life-Conference in Frankfurt am Main in the year 2003, hosted and organized by the Interna tional...
by Jürgen H.P. Hoffmeyer-Zlotnik, Uwe Warner
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2013
This book explains harmonisation techniques that can be used in survey research to align national systems of categories and definitions in such a way that comparison is possible across countries and cultures. It provides an introduction to instruments for collecting internationally comparable data...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013
This volume addresses questions that lie at the core of research into education. It examines the way in which the institutional embeddedness and the social and ethnic composition of students affect educational performance, skill formation, and behavioral outcomes. It discusses the manner in which...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2011
This volume explores corporate governance from three perspectives: a traditional economic, a philosophical, and an integrated business ethics perspective.
Corporate governance has enjoyed a long tradition in the English-speaking world of management sciences. Following its traditional understanding...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2010
This multi-author contributed proceedings volume contains recent advances in several areas of Computational and Applied Mathematics. Each review is written by well known leaders of Computational and Applied Mathematics.
The book gives a comprehensive account of a variety of topics including...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
At the dawn of the 21st century, computational stochastic dynamics is an emerging research frontier. This book focuses on advanced computational methods and software tools which can highly assist in tackling complex problems in stochastic dynamic/seismic analysis and design of structures. The book...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
What is the first thing that ordinary people, for whom journalists are the proxy, ask when they meet a seismologist? It is certainly nothing technical like "What was the stress drop of the last earthquake in the Imperial Valley?" It is a sim ple question, which nevertheless summarizes...
by Vincent Acary, Olivier Bonnefon, Bernard Brogliato
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2010
Nonsmooth Modeling and Simulation for Switched Circuits concerns the modeling and the numerical simulation of switched circuits with the nonsmooth dynamical systems (NSDS) approach, using piecewise-linear and multivalued models of electronic devices like diodes, transistors, switches. Numerous examples...