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Corporate Governance and Diversity in Boardrooms: Empirical Insights into the Impact on Firm Performance

Palgrave Macmillan, 2020

This book explores diversity in boardrooms to highlight the link between the heterogeneous dimensions of board diversity and their impact on the firms. The book provides a brief definition of corporate governance and focuses on the role and functions of the board of directors. The work contributes to the literature enriching the...

Methionine Dependence of Cancer and Aging: Methods and Protocols (Methods in Molecular Biology, 1866)

Springer, 2019

This book explores the methionine dependence of cancer and its effects on aging, a great story of science that is not widely known. The chapters in this book describe the discovery of methionine dependence of cancer; the molecular basis for the increased methionine demand of cancer cells and tumors; the clinical application of...

Wave Goodbye to Type 2 Diabetes: 16 Holistic Lifestyle Practices to Prevent & Reverse Diabetes & Reclaim Joy, Vitality, & Plenty

Holistic Remedy Publishing, 2019

Has diabetes or wild blood sugar swings taken you prisoner? Discover how to break free from being sick, tired, and symptomatic.

“Contrary to what conventional medicine generally believes, type 2 diabetes is reversible… even preventable. All the secrets for how to do this are right here in this engaging...

Principles of Model Checking

MIT Press, 2008

Our growing dependence on increasingly complex computer and software systems necessitates the development of formalisms, techniques, and tools for assessing functional properties of these systems. One such technique that has emerged in the last twenty years is model checking, which systematically (and automatically) checks whether a model of a...

A Guide to Forensic Testimony: The Art and Practice of Presenting Testimony As An Expert Technical Witness

Addison Wesley, 2002

Information technology is an increasingly large factor in legal proceedings. In cases large and small, from the U.S. Government's antitrust suit against Microsoft Corporation, to civil lawsuits filed over the failure of a network, to criminal cases in which the authenticity of electronic evidence is questioned, the testimony of a technical...

Promoting Sustainable Electricity in Europe: Challenging the Path Dependence of Dominant Energy Systems

Edward Elgar Publishing, 2008

This is a timely and comparative assessment of initiatives to promote renewable electricity sources (RES) in eight European countries. Carried out by the ProSus research programme at the University of Oslo in cooperation with leading research institutions in each country, the study focuses on the promotional schemes used to foster RES in Austria,...

Digital Communication over Fading Channels: A Unified Approach to Performance Analysis

John Wiley & Sons, 2000

Regardless of the branch of science or engineering, theoreticians have always been enamored with the notion of expressing their results in the form of closed-form expressions. Quite often, the elegance of the closed-form solution is overshadowed by the complexity of its form and the difficulty in evaluating it numerically. In such instances, one...

Constraint Satisfaction Techniques for Agent-Based Reasoning

Birkhauser, 2005

An important aspect of multi agent systems are agent reasoning techniques for problem solving, either at the level of a single agent or at the level of distributed collaboration amongst multiple agents.

Constraint Satisfaction Problems (CSP) prove to be a generic framework which can be applied for modeling and solving a wide range...

1: Cartilage and Osteoarthritis (Methods in Molecular Medicine)

Humana Press, 2004

Osteoarthritis (OA), the most common form of arthritis, is generally characterized by a slowly progressive degeneration of articular cartilage, particularly in the weight-bearing joints. It has a stronger prevalence in women, and its incidence increases with age. OA is a major and growing health concern in developed countries, owing to...

Spatio-temporal Networks: Modeling and Algorithms (SpringerBriefs in Computer Science)

Springer, 2012

Spatio-temporal networks (STN)are spatial networks whose topology and/or attributes change with time. These are encountered in many critical areas of everyday life such as transportation networks, electric power distribution grids, and social networks of mobile users. STN modeling and computations raise significant challenges. The model must...

Network Security Essentials: Applications and Standards (4th Edition)

Prentice Hall, 2010

In this age of universal electronic connectivity, of viruses and hackers, of electronic eavesdropping and electronic fraud, there is indeed no time at which security does not matter.Two trends have come together to make the topic of this book of vital interest. First, the explosive growth in computer systems and their interconnections...

Hacking Healthcare: A Guide to Standards, Workflows, and Meaningful Use

O'Reilly, 2011

Ready to take your IT skills to the healthcare industry? This concise book provides a candid assessment of the US healthcare system as it ramps up its use of electronic health records (EHRs) and other forms of IT to comply with the government’s Meaningful Use requirements. It’s a tremendous opportunity for tens of...

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