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Capital budgeting valuation financial analysis for today's investment projects / by Baker, H. Kent (Harold Kent), 1944-

Table of Contents: “…Jacobs ; Decision making using behavioral finance for capital budgeting / Yuri Biondi and Giuseppe Marzo ; Merger and acquisition pricing : the valuation of synergy / Rainer Lenz ; Multicriteria analysis for capital budgeting / Fernando R. …”
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Obsidian and ancient manufactured glasses

Table of Contents: “…Rogers -- Obsidian dating and source exploitation studies in Africa : implications for the evolution of human behavior / Stanley H. Ambrose -- Provenance of Peruvian Wari obsidian : comparing INAA, LA-ICP-MS, and portable XRF / Patrick Ryan Williams, Laure Dussubieux, and Donna J. …”
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Pediatric psychodermatology a clinical manual of child and adolescent psychocutaneous disorders /

Table of Contents: “…Freudenmann -- Dermatitis artefacta, skin picking, and other self-injurious behaviors : a psychological perspective / Helen D. …”
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Strong women, dangerous times gender and HIV/AIDS in Africa /

Table of Contents: “…Globalization, sexuality, and HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa : a feminist perspective / Margaret Asalele Mbilizi and Linda Semu -- Vulnerability of women and girls to HIV/AIDS in rural south Sudan / Ellen Percy Kraly, Erin Bergman, and Isaac Padiet -- The cultural context of women's and girls' vulnerability to HIV/AIDS infection in Thyolo and Mulanje Districts of Malawi / Olivia Mechaju Liwewe, Ezekiel Kalipeni, and Priscilla Upasani Matinga -- The risk of HIV among women in Malawi : the case of female domestic workers and their experiences with sexual abuse / Lucy Mkandawire-Valhmu, Ezekiel Kalipeni, and Rachel Rodriguez -- The itinerant male, marriage, family, and gender relations in matrilineal southern Malawi : lessons and challenges for HIV/AIDS programming / Linda Semu -- Social-cultural predictors of HIV/AIDS-related health and preventive behaviors among women in Kisumu District, Kenya / Veronica A. …”
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Evaluating Climate Change Action for Sustainable Development

Table of Contents: “…Adaptation Processes in Agriculture and Food Security: Insights from Evaluating Behavioral Changes in West Africa -- 15. Using Participatory Approaches in Measuring Resilience and Development in Isiolo County, Kenya -- 16. …”
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Overtourism : tourism management and solutions /

Table of Contents: “…: early detection measures in Vienna / Petra Tschöll, Clemens Költringer -- Visitor management in world heritage sites : does overtourism-driven traffic management affect tourist targets, behavior and satisfaction? : the case of the Dolomites UNESCO WHS (Italy) / Anna Scuttari, Giulia Isetti, Daria Habicher -- The end of tourism through localhood and overtourism? …”
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Applied mechatronics and mechanics : system integration and design /

Table of Contents: “…Ravindra -- A Retrospective Assessment of Elastic-Plastic and Creep Deformation Behavior in Structural Components Like Discs, Cylinders, and Shells / Shivdev Shahi, Satya Bir Singh, and A.K. …”
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Social Control in Europe : Volume 1, 1500-1800 /

Table of Contents: “…Moral order in the world of work: social control and the guilds in Europe / Maarten Prak -- 11. Behavioral regulation in the city: families, religious associations, and the role of poor relief / Katherine Lynch -- 12. …”
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Budgeting basics and beyond by Shim, Jae K.

Table of Contents: “…Machine generated contents note: About the Authors.Preface.Chapter 1: The What and Why of Budgeting: An Introduction.Chapter 2: Strategic Planning and Budgeting: Process, Preparation and Control.Chapter 3: Administering the Budget: Reports, Analyses, and Evaluations.Chapter 4: Break-even and Contribution Margin Analysis: Profit, Cost, and Volume Changes.Chapter 5: Profit Planning: Targeting and Reaching Achievable Goals.Chapter 6: Master Budget: Genesis of Financial Forecasting and Profit Planning.Chapter 7: Cost Behavior: Emphasis on Flexible Budgets.Chapter 8: Evaluating Performance: The Use of Variance Analysis.Chapter 9: Manufacturing Costs: Sales Forecasts and Realistic Budgets.Chapter 10: Marketing: Budgeting for Sales, Advertising, and Distribution.Chapter 11: Research and Development: Budgets for a Long-term Plan.Chapter 12: General and Administrative Costs: Budgets for Maximum Productivity.Chapter 13: Capital Expenditures: Assets to Be Bought, Sold, and Discarded.Chapter 14: Forecasting and Planning: Reducing Risk in Decision Making.Chapter 15: Moving Averages and Smoothing Techniques: Quantitative Forecasting.Chapter 16: Regression Analysis: Popular Sales Forecast System.Chapter 17: Cash Budgeting and Forecasting Cash Flow: Two Pragmatic Methods.Chapter 18: Financial Modeling: Tools for Budgeting and Profit Planning.Chapter 19: Using Software Packages and E-Budgeting: Computer-based Models, Spreadsheets, and Web-based System.Chapter 20: Capital Budgeting: Selecting the Optimum Long-term Investment and Real Options.Chapter 21: Budgeting for Cost Management: Activity-based Budgeting and Life-cycle Budgeting.Chapter 22: Zero-base Budgeting: Priority Budgeting for Best Resource Allocation.Chapter 23: Managers' Performance and Balanced Scorecard: Evaluation on the Division Level.Chapter 24: Budgeting for Service Organizations: Special Features.Chapter 25: Budgeting for Nonprofit Organizations: Diverse Types.Chapter 26: Using Management Games for Executive Training.Appendix I: Present and Future Value Tables.Appendix II: Statistical Table.Glossary of Budgeting and Planning Terms.Index.…”
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Engineering principles of combat modeling and distributed simulation

Table of Contents: “…Panagos -- New challenges : human, social, cultural, and behavioral modeling / S.K. Numrich & P.M. Picucci -- Agent-directed simulation for combat modeling and distributed simulation / G.K. …”
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Scientific argumentation in biology : 30 classroom activities / by Sampson, Victor, 1974-

Table of Contents: “…Termite trails: animal behavior -- [Section 3] Refutational writing -- Activity 21. …”
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Lone Parenthood in the Life Course

Table of Contents: “…A View with Belgian Register Data -- Susan Harkness: The Economic Consequences of Becoming a Lone Mother -- PART V. Labor Market Behavior of Lone Parents: Michelle Brady: The Role of Informal Care in the Transition from Welfare to Work and Employment Sustainability: A Longitudinal Qualitative Study of Australian Single Mothers -- Emanuela Struffolino and Dimitri Mortelman:Lone Mothers in Belgium: Labour Force Attachment and Risk Factor -- PART VI. …”
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Petrodiesel fuels : science, technology, health, and environment /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction to oil spill behaviorMerv Fingas3. Introduction to oil spills and their cleanupMerv Fingas4. …”
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Treating black women with eating disorders : a clinician's guide /

Table of Contents: “…The Other End of the Eating Spectrum : Overweight and Obesity / Dawn McMillan -- The Presence of Black Women in Eating Disorders Treatment Facilities / Kena Watson -- The Weight of Shame : Black Women's Struggle with Binge Eating Disorder / Paula Edwards-Gayfield -- Food as a Drug : Mental Problem, Spiritual Solution / Joyce Woodson -- Creative Training Approaches for Clinicians-in-Training Working with African American Women with Eating Disorders / Jacqueline Conley -- Disordered Eating Habits of a Black Deaf Adolescent Female : A Case Study Applying a Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Approach to School Psychological Services / Erica Payne -- Food for Thought, Mind, and Body : Exploring Embodiment Techniques for Black Queer Women / Anisha Cooper -- Multidisciplinary Treatment Teams as Best Practice for Treating Eating Disorders and Body Image for College Students : Who Should Be at the Table? …”
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Artificial intelligence safety and security /

Table of Contents: “…: Different Approaches and Their Implications for Life in the Universe -- chapter 10 The MADCOM Future: How Artificial Intelligence Will Enhance Computational Propaganda, Reprogram Human Culture, and Threaten Democracy … and What can be Done About It -- chapter 11 Strategic Implications of Openness in AI Development -- part, PART II Responses of Scholars -- chapter 12 Using Human History, Psychology, and Biology to Make AI Safe for Humans -- chapter 13 AI Safety: A First-Person Perspective -- chapter 14 Strategies for an Unfriendly Oracle AI with Reset Button -- chapter 15 Goal Changes in Intelligent Agents -- chapter 16 Limits to Verification and Validation of Agentic Behavior -- chapter 17 Adversarial Machine Learning (AI Safety and Security Textbook) -- chapter 18 Value Alignment via Tractable Preference Distance -- chapter 19 A Rationally Addicted Artificial Superintelligence -- chapter 20 On the Security of Robotic Applications Using ROS -- chapter 21 Social Choice and the Value Alignment Problem* -- chapter 22 Disjunctive Scenarios of Catastrophic AI Risk -- chapter 23 Offensive Realism and the Insecure Structure of the International System: Artificial Intelligence and Global Hegemony -- chapter 24 Superintelligence and the Future of Governance: On Prioritizing the Control Problem at the End of History -- chapter 25 Military AI as a Convergent Goal of Self-Improving AI -- chapter 26 A Value-Sensitive Design Approach to Intelligent Agents -- chapter 27 Consequentialism, Deontology, and Artificial Intelligence Safety -- chapter 28 Smart Machines ARE a Threat to Humanity.…”
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Automotive alloys 1999 /

Table of Contents: “…-- Overview of Doe's programs on aluminum and magnesium for automotive applications -- ALCAR : a model for horizontal R & D consortia -- Innovative aluminum applications for automotive use in europe -- Mechanical surface treatments on high-strength magnesium alloys for fatigue life improvements -- Metallurgical characteristics of conductive heat resistance seam welds on aluminum sheet -- Producing steering wheel frames with an AIMg5Si2Mn-type alloy -- Ductility and formability of automotive AI alloy sheet -- Effect of Si on the ageing behaviour and formability of alloys based on AA6016 -- Microstructural strengthening in AI-Zn-Mg-Cu alloys used in automotive bumpers -- The role of natural aging on subsequent precipitation during the artificial aging of AA6111 aluminum alloy -- A process model for the age hardening of a 319-type aluminum alloy -- Observation of through-thickness deformation bands in an AI6111 alloy deformed in plane strain tension -- Texture evolution of a strip cast AA5XXX aluminum alloy during annealing -- Improvement of hot ductility in AI-Mg base alloys caused by small amounts of additional elements -- Optimised 6XXX aluminum alloy sheet for autobody outer panels -- Microchemistry and microstructural aspects leading to stress corrosion cracking in AA508 -- Ductility and bendability in 6000 series automotive alloys -- The effect of pre-aging on artificial aging response in AI-Mg-Si-Cu alloy 6111 -- Effects of minor Sc and Zr additions on commercial AI-Mg-Mn alloys -- Age hardening behavior in a commercial 319-type aluminum alloy -- The optimized tensile and fatigue properties of semi-solid 357 and modified 319 aluminum automotive parts -- Mechanisms of soldering in high pressure die casting of AI-11SiCu-Fe alloy -- Fiction stir welding magnesium alloys -- Roll forming technology for manufacturing axisymmetric automotive components - II: application to fabrication of AI V96Ts3 and 295 cast alloy wheels -- Optimisation of the quality of high pressure die cast magnesium alloys -- High-cycle fatigue crack initiation site distribution in A356.2.…”
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Agricultural Implications of the Fukushima Nuclear Accident

Table of Contents: “…The overview of our research (Tomoko M. Nakanishi) -- 2. Behavior of radiocesium adsorbed by the leaves and stems of wheat plant during the first year after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant accident (K. …”
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21st Century nanoscience : a handbook,

Table of Contents: “…Wagner 12 Quantum Chaotic Systems and Random Matrix Theory Akhilesh Pandey, Avanish Kumar, and Sanjay Puri 13 Topological Constraint Theory and Rigidity of Glasses Mathieu Bauchy 14 Topological Descriptors of Carbon Nanostructures Sakander Hayat 15 Numerical Methods for Large-Scale Electronic State Calculation on Supercomputer Takeo Hoshi, Yusaku Yamamoto, Tomohiro Sogabe, Kohei Shimamura, Fuyuki Shimojo, Aiichiro Nakano, Rajiv Kalia, and Priya Vashishta 16 Atomistic Simulation of Disordered Nano-electronics Youqi Ke 17 Ab Initio Simulations of Carboxylated Nanomaterials Vivian Machado de Menezes and Ivi Valentini Lara 18 Phase Behavior of Atomic and Molecular Nanosystems R. Stephen Berry 19 Exact solutions in the Density Functional Theory (DFT) and Time-Dependent DFT of Mesoscopic Systems Vladimir U. …”
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Management of animal care and use programs in research, teaching, and testing /

Table of Contents: “…Simmonds \n -- 5. Behavioral Management Programs to Promote Laboratory Animal Welfare by Mollie A. …”
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Lifelines for money misfortunes how to overcome life's greatest challenges / by Pollan, Stephen M.

Table of Contents: “…The secrets of personal crisis management -- Alleviate the pain and learn the essential skill -- Accept the problem and own the solution -- Unburden yourself -- Lighting the darkness -- Cultivate antibodies -- Lifelines for 33 of life's most trying catastrophes -- Lifeline 1: your child's college fund has come up short -- Lifeline 2: you've lost your job -- Lifeline 3: your insurance company has dropped you -- Lifeline 4: you're temporarily disabled -- Lifeline 5: you're permanently disabled -- Lifeline 6: your spouse is having an affair -- Lifeline 7: you're diagnosed with an incurable disease -- Lifeline 8: you lose your major client or customer -- Lifeline 9: your business's lease isn't renewed -- Lifeline 10: you receive a bad performance review -- Lifeline 11: you're wrongfully accused of bad behavior at work -- Lifeline 12: you can't make your loan payments -- Lifeline 13: your parent dies -- Lifeline 14: you need to send your child to private school -- Lifeline 15: you're getting a divorce -- Lifeline 16: you're facing large, uncovered medical bills -- Lifeline 17: your adult child needs financial help -- Lifeline 18: your parents need financial help -- Lifeline 19: your new boss dislikes you -- Lifeline 20: you've been embezzled -- Lifeline 21: you haven't saved enough for retirement -- Lifeline 22: your spouse or child is permanent disabled -- Lifeline 23: you suffer an uncovered property loss -- Lifeline 24: your company is sold -- Lifeline 25: you lose a key employee -- Lifeline 26: you're accused of a crime -- Lifeline 27: your bank calls your line of credit -- Lifeline 28: someone is promoted over you -- Lifeline 29: your employer has declared bankruptcy -- Lifeline 30: you're transferred against your will -- Lifeline 31: you're asked to change your job function -- Lifeline 32: your business is forced to close temporarily -- Lifeline 33: your spouse or life partner dies.…”
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