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Outcome-Driven Business Architecture : Synergizing Strategies and Intelligence with Architecture / by Tiwary, Amit, Unhelkar, Bhuvan

Table of Contents: “…List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- Preface -- Authors --Section A CONCEPTS AND ODBA FRAMEWORK -- 1 Business Strategies and Outcome-Driven Business Architecture -- 2 Developing Business Architecture ICapabilities and Challenges -- 3 Developing Business ArchitectureII -- 4 Building and Assessing Business CapabilitiesI -- 5 Implementing Business CapabilitiesII -- 6 Metrics and Measurements with Outcome-Driven Business Architecture -- 7 Governance, Risk, and Compliance and Quality --Section B PRACTICE AND TOOLS -- 8 Establishing and Managing the Business Architecture Practice -- 9 ODBA, Big Data, and a Functioning Agile Organization --Section C CASE STUDIES -- 10 Business Architecture and Capability Case Study 1Manufacturing Industry -- 11 ODBA and Capability-Building Case Study 2Energy Market -- 12 Business Architecture and Capability Case Study 3Government Services --Bibliography -- Index.…”
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Szycher’s Practical Handbook of Entrepreneurship and Innovation / by Szycher, Michael

Table of Contents: “…IPO Your Ultimate Exit Strategy…”
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Maritime Business and Economics : Asian Perspectives /

Table of Contents: “…History of the Japanese Maritime Industry (Takuma Matsuda and Masato Shinohara) -- 3. Shipping Business Strategies in the Japanese Maritime Industry (Masato Shinohara, Setsuo Nomura, Hiroko Suzuki and Takuma Matsuda) -- 4. …”
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A Feminist Post-transsexual Autoethnography : Challenging Normative Gender Coercion / by Peters, Julie Elizabeth

Table of Contents: “…List of Tables -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Dedication -- Foreword -- 1 The Gendered Subject in the Social World -- 1.1 Research Themes and Structure of the Work -- 1.2 Methodological Overview -- 1.3 Ethical Considerations -- 1.4 The Exegesis Analysis and Interpretation -- --2 Critical Framing: Literature Review -- 2.1 Sociological Framing of Gendered Subject Formation -- 2.2 The Subject in the Social World -- 2.3 Competing/Intersecting Complexes of Power Constructing Gender -- 2.4 Trans and Gender-Diverse Health and Wellbeing -- 2.5 In Summary A Complex Intersectional Multidisciplinary Framing -- --3 Autoethnography I Peter -- 3.1 Ignorance is Bliss (1951-1958) -- 3.2 Realisations (1958-1962) -- 3.3 Secret Agency (1963-1965) -- 3.4 Puberty Rupture (1965) -- 3.5 My Dark Ages (1966-1971) -- --4 Autoethnography II Ghost -- 4.2 Grasping for Stability (1971-1973) -- 4.2 Transgression and Identity Quest (mid-1973-1990) -- --5 Autoethnography III Julie -- 5.1 Rebirth Transition Work (1990-1992) -- 5.2 The Art of Becoming Myself in a Gendered World -- --6 My Accommodation to the Social World -- 6.1 The Interplay between Desire and Normative Gender Coercion -- 6.2 Agency Grounded in a Transformation of Subjectivity -- 6.3 Agency Grounded in Restructuring Power Relations with Institutions -- 6.4 Political Recognition and Agency -- 6.5 Gendered Identity -- 6.6 Psychological Health -- 6.7 Gendered Embodiment, Habitus and Physical Health -- 6.8 Relationships, Intimacy, Sexuality and Livable Life -- 6.9 Aesthetic Appreciation and Achievement -- 6.10 Becoming Myself -- 7 The Subjects Explication of the Social World -- 7.1 Society Needs Coercion for Gender to be Performed Naturally -- 7.2 Individual, Ascribed Identity and Identity Politics -- 7.3 Disease Models of Gender Nonconformity -- 7.4 A Critique of Complexes of Power on Gender Nonconformity -- 7.5 The Radical Feminist Moral Critique of Transsexuality -- --8 Remaking the Social World -- 8.1 Strategies for Achieving the Necessities in Life -- 8.2 Strategies for a Healthy Life -- 8.2 Strategies for Achieving a Life with Agency -- 8.4 Strategies for Making Ones Life a Work of Art -- 8.5 The Realistic Possibility of Social Change -- --9 Synthesis and Conclusions -- 9.1 A Non-Pathological Schema on the Operation of Gender -- 9.2 Ensuing and Post-Doctoral Research Questions -- 9.3 The Major Themes Considered -- --Index.…”
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Accessing and Implementing Human Rights and Justice /

Table of Contents: “…International criminal justice as political strategy: asymmetry of opportunity? -- Yuna Christine Han -- 4. …”
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Modern and Interdisciplinary Problems in Network Science : A Translational Research Perspective /

Table of Contents: “…Chapter 1: The Spread of Strategies Predicted by Artificial Intelligence in Networks --…”
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The Economics of Renewable Energy in the Gulf /

Table of Contents: “…Potential Impacts of Solar Energy Integration on Fuel Mix Strategies in Qatar. 10. Renewable Energy and Its Potential Impact on GCC Labor Markets: Opportunities and Constraints. 11. …”
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Adaptations of the metropolitan landscape in delta regions / by Bosselmann, Peter C

Table of Contents: “…chapter 3 Contemporary Examples and Strategies for the Future.…”
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Dreaming global change, doing local feminisms : visions of feminism. global north/global south encounters, conversations and disagreements /

Table of Contents: “…chapter 6 Dreaming of home: a feminist strategy for importing the Nordic model to Taiwan /…”
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Chasing the City : Models for Extra-Urban Investigations /

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Protein Purification / by Bonner, Philip

Table of Contents: “…Chromatography and the strategy of protein purification. 4. Groundwork. 5. …”
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Ethnic Marketing : Theory, Practice and Entrepreneurship / by Pires, Guilherme D., Stanton, John

Table of Contents: “…--Marketing reasons for aggregating ethnic groups -- Homophily and ethnic group formation --Homophily and the choice of suppliers to the ethnic community --An EMIC approach to creating panethnic segments -- When ethnic groups can be aggregated -- A Framework for Assessing Panethnic Segments -- The framework -- Summary--References -- CHAPTER 5: PERSPECTIVES ON ETHNIC LOYALTY --Interactions between ethnic consumers, groups and businesses -- Dealing with intra-group heterogeneity -- Loyalty drivers -- Developing loyalty -- Cultural affinity / shared ethnicity and switching costs--Switch motivations--Summary--References -- CHAPTER 6: articulatinG ethnic marketing with ethnic entrepreneurship --From immigrant to ethnic minority consumer--From ethnic minority consumer to ethnic entrepreneur--Socialisation and entrepreneurship --Recognition of ethnic minority business by ethnic communities--From ethnic marketing to marketing by ethnic minority businesses--References -- CHAPTER 7: UNDERSTANDinG ethnic entrepreneurship --Conceptualising ethnic entrepreneurship --Drivers and impediments in the creation of ethnic minority business -- The ethnic enclave theory--The middleman minority model--The disadvantage theory--The cultural theory -- Ethnic minority business creation and consolidation --Business opportunity structures--Group characteristics--Ethnic strategies and the typical ethnic minority businesses--Ethnic groups as natural incubators for ethnic businesses --References -- CHAPTER 8: ethnic minority business growth, demise and failure --Interactive model--Social embeddedness theory--One model doesnt fit all--Mixed embeddedness theory--Mixed embeddedness: the norm and a potential barrier to growth--Considering growth capabilities and the role of the co-ethnic minority group--Ethnic minority business and the acculturation process--Growth and demise--Summary--References -- CHAPTER 9: ethnic NETWORKS AND THE ADOPTION OF RELATIONAL STRATEGIES --Preferred suppliers, ethnic networks and minority ethnic markets--Ethnic networks as relational drivers--Networks imply relational imperatives--Decision to adopt a relational marketing approach--Relationship between consumers and preferred suppliers -- Loyalty to preferred suppliers--Switching preferred suppliers -- Relationships, networks and competitive advantage--Implications for consumer groups not bound by ethnicity--Conclusion--References -- CHAPTER 10:ETHNIC ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND THE MARKETING MIX --Theory, practice, strategy and the segmentation dilemma--A view of the gap between theory and practice--Business opportunities and ethnic minority business--Objectives, strategies, and tactics--Ethnic minority business objectives, strategies and tactics--Outgrowth threshold--Ethnic minority business customer portfolio--Why adopting an ethnic sensitive relational marketing strategy?…”
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Managing People in the Hospitality Industry / by Riley, Michael

Table of Contents: “…The Wider Perspective -- Chapter 20 Developing Human Resource Management (HRM) strategies -- Chapter 21 Managing in an international environment -- Part 6 Development and Careers -- Chapter 22 Development and Careers -- Bibliography and further reading.…”
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Finite Element Analysis / by Moatamedi, M, Khawaja, Hassan A.

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Constructing Metropolitan Space : Actors, Policies and Processes of Rescaling in World Metropolises /

Table of Contents: “…Part 1: Introduction -- Chapter 1: Introduction: Actors, Policies and Processes in the Construction of Metropolitan Space: Conceptual and Analytical Issues -- Enrico Gualini and Jill Simone Gross -- Part 2: Constructing Metropolitan Space in World Cities: Case Studies -- Chapter 2: Berlin as an Implicit Metropolitan Space: Contradictions in the Institutional Construction of Scale -- Carola Fricke and Enrico Gualini -- Chapter 3: Contrasting the Spatial and Political Dimensions of Rescaling in Metropolitan Delhi -- Brnice Bon and Loraine Kennedy -- Chapter 4: The Governance of Istanbul Metropolitan Development: The Role of the State and the Private Sector -- Yksel Demirkaya -- Chapter 5: Contesting the Region: Transportation and the Politics of Scale in New York -- Jill Simone Gross and Jen Nelles -- Chapter 6: Paris, a Contested Construction of Metropolitan Space -- Christian Lefvre -- Chapter 7: Economic Actors at Odds with the Metropolis: Rio de Janeiro in the Context of Mega Events -- Luiz Cesar de Queiroz Ribeiro and Nelson Rojas de Carvalho -- Chapter 8: The Uncertain Metropolization of Rome: Economy, Space and Governance -- Ernesto dAlbergo, Giulio Moini and Barbara Pizzo -- Chapter 9: Urban Strategies for Extended Metropolises in Shenzhen and the Pearl River Delta: State-Firm Dynamics in Anchoring the New Metropolitan Center -- Lin Ye and Xinhui Yang -- Part 3: Findings and Conclusions -- Chapter 10: The Construction of Metropolitan Space: Comparative Lessons -- Jill Simone Gross and Enrico Gualini.…”
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Analytical Similarity Assessment in Biosimilar Product Development / by Chow, Shein-Chung

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Insect Vectors and Plant Pathogens / by Butter, Nachhattar Singh

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Chemical Ecology : The Ecological Impacts of Marine Natural Products /

Table of Contents: “…From the Tropics to the Poles: Chemical Defense Strategies in Sea Slugs (Mollusca: Heterobranchia) --…”
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Contested sustainability discourses in the agrifood system /

Table of Contents: “…chapter 13 Understanding the challenge of problem definition in multistakeholder initiatives: lessons from sustainability policy frames in Canadian non- state food strategies /…”
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Nanobiotechnology : Human Health and the Environment /

Table of Contents: “…Patel -- Chapter 3 - Nanodevices for early diagnosis of cardiovascular disease: Advances, Challenges and Way ahead -- Alok Pandya, Madhuri Bollapalli -- Chapter 4 - Emerging trends in nanotechnology for diagnosis and therapy of lung cancer -- Nanda Rohra, Manish Gore, Sathish Dyawanapelly, Mahesh Tambe, Ankit Gautam, Meghna Suvarna, Ratnesh Jain, Prajakta Dandekar -- Chapter 5 - Surface Modification of Nanomaterials for Biomedical Applications: Strategies and Recent Advances -- Ragini Singh, Sanjay Singh -- Chapter 6 - Nanoparticle contrast agents for medical imaging -- Rabee Cheheltani, Johoon Kim, Pratap C. …”
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