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M & A : a practical guide to doing the deal / by Hooke, Jeffrey C.

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10th Nordic conference on construction economics and organization /

Table of Contents: “…: a structural analysis -- Quality evaluation of contractor's schedule in the bidding phase -- Activity cruciality as measure of network schedule structure resilience -- Construction programmes and programming: a critical review -- Procurement research: current state and future challenges in the Nordic countries -- Exploitative learning in inter-organizational projects: evidence from dutch infrastructure practices -- The transition from design-bid-build contracts to design-build -- Exploring the dynamics of supplier innovation diffusion -- Understanding collaborative working in a facilitated interdisciplinary environment -- Ensuring successful knowledge transfer in building renovation projects -- Public private collaboration in the context of zero emission neighbourhood -- Strategizing and project management in construction projects: an exploratory literature review -- Building information, data and digitalization -- BIM-enabled education: A systematic literature review -- A BIM-enabled learning environment: a conceptual framework -- "I work all day with automation in construction: I am a sociomaterial-designer" -- Developing smart services to smart campus -- An overview of BIM adoption in the construction industry: benefits and barriers -- BIM for construction education: initial findings from a literature review -- Model for smart, self-learning and adaptive resilience building -- Investigating the drop-out rate from a BIM course -- Innovations in the construction process -- Senior residence concepts in Norway: challenges and actions for a sustainable development -- 3D-printing technology in construction: results from a survey -- Product and manufacturing systems alignment: a case study in the timber house building industry -- Opening the black box of accessibility regulation -- Orchestrating multi-actor collaborative innovation across organizational boundaries -- Sustainability and resource efficiency -- Social sustainability in modelling of value creation in housing refurbishment -- Reviewing the role of sustainability professionals in construction -- Exploring the evolution and impact of building environment assessment methods in achieving green building -- Stakeholders of construction and real estate -- Challenging the rhetoric of construction briefing: insights from a formula 1 sports venue -- Underlying causes for risk taking behaviour among construction workers -- Towards developing a framework for user-driven innovation in refurbishment -- Reconstructing knowledge integration in the Norwegian AEC-industry -- Institutional complexity for Chinese international contractors -- Built environments -- BIM related innovation in healthcare precinct design and facilities management -- Location is crucial in retrofit: strategy selection in different regions -- Construction education and research -- From theoretical to practical competence on health and safety -- A test platform of viable methods to improve production and learning on construction sites.…”
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10th Nordic conference on construction economics and organization /

Table of Contents: “…: a structural analysis -- Quality evaluation of contractor's schedule in the bidding phase -- Activity cruciality as measure of network schedule structure resilience -- Construction programmes and programming: a critical review -- Procurement research: current state and future challenges in the Nordic countries -- Exploitative learning in inter-organizational projects: evidence from dutch infrastructure practices -- The transition from design-bid-build contracts to design-build -- Exploring the dynamics of supplier innovation diffusion -- Understanding collaborative working in a facilitated interdisciplinary environment -- Ensuring successful knowledge transfer in building renovation projects -- Public private collaboration in the context of zero emission neighbourhood -- Strategizing and project management in construction projects: an exploratory literature review -- Building information, data and digitalization -- BIM-enabled education: A systematic literature review -- A BIM-enabled learning environment: a conceptual framework -- "I work all day with automation in construction: I am a sociomaterial-designer" -- Developing smart services to smart campus -- An overview of BIM adoption in the construction industry: benefits and barriers -- BIM for construction education: initial findings from a literature review -- Model for smart, self-learning and adaptive resilience building -- Investigating the drop-out rate from a BIM course -- Innovations in the construction process -- Senior residence concepts in Norway: challenges and actions for a sustainable development -- 3D-printing technology in construction: results from a survey -- Product and manufacturing systems alignment: a case study in the timber house building industry -- Opening the black box of accessibility regulation -- Orchestrating multi-actor collaborative innovation across organizational boundaries -- Sustainability and resource efficiency -- Social sustainability in modelling of value creation in housing refurbishment -- Reviewing the role of sustainability professionals in construction -- Exploring the evolution and impact of building environment assessment methods in achieving green building -- Stakeholders of construction and real estate -- Challenging the rhetoric of construction briefing: insights from a formula 1 sports venue -- Underlying causes for risk taking behaviour among construction workers -- Towards developing a framework for user-driven innovation in refurbishment -- Reconstructing knowledge integration in the Norwegian AEC-industry -- Institutional complexity for Chinese international contractors -- Built environments -- BIM related innovation in healthcare precinct design and facilities management -- Location is crucial in retrofit: strategy selection in different regions -- Construction education and research -- From theoretical to practical competence on health and safety -- A test platform of viable methods to improve production and learning on construction sites.…”
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Interlinkages and the effectiveness of multilateral environmental agreements by Chambers, W. Bradnee

Table of Contents: “…From Stockholm to Johannesburg via Malmö : a historical overview of international coordination of environment-sustainable development institutions -- Legal mechanisms and coordination systems for promoting and managing interlinkages between multilateral environmental agreements -- Towards an improved understanding of effectiveness of international treaties -- Interlinkages and legal effectiveness : laying the foundations of an analytical framework -- The interlinkages of plant genetic resources : the Convention on Biological Diversity and FAO International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture -- The interlinkages of plant genetic resources : the CBD and ITPGRFA and their relationship with the TRIPS agreement -- Conclusions for public international law and treaty management.…”
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Rising China and world order by Zhang, Yunling, 1945-

Table of Contents: “…New security thinking for China in a changing world -- Searching for collaboration: China and the US in the Asia-Pacific -- Regional and global dimensions in the China-US relationship -- China and its neighbors : relations in a new context -- Changing Sino-US-Japanese relations -- Peace in the Korean Peninsula and the role of China -- Ending confrontation in the Korean Peninsula : the way out -- The international environment facing China in the Asia-Pacific Region -- How to make our region safe -- Non-traditional security and socio-economic development of East Asia -- Whither the world order? …”
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Interlinkages and the effectiveness of multilateral environmental agreements by Chambers, W. Bradnee

Table of Contents: “…From Stockholm to Johannesburg via Malmö : a historical overview of international coordination of environment-sustainable development institutions -- Legal mechanisms and coordination systems for promoting and managing interlinkages between multilateral environmental agreements -- Towards an improved understanding of effectiveness of international treaties -- Interlinkages and legal effectiveness : laying the foundations of an analytical framework -- The interlinkages of plant genetic resources : the Convention on Biological Diversity and FAO International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture -- The interlinkages of plant genetic resources : the CBD and ITPGRFA and their relationship with the TRIPS agreement -- Conclusions for public international law and treaty management.…”
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Rising China and world order by Zhang, Yunling, 1945-

Table of Contents: “…New security thinking for China in a changing world -- Searching for collaboration: China and the US in the Asia-Pacific -- Regional and global dimensions in the China-US relationship -- China and its neighbors : relations in a new context -- Changing Sino-US-Japanese relations -- Peace in the Korean Peninsula and the role of China -- Ending confrontation in the Korean Peninsula : the way out -- The international environment facing China in the Asia-Pacific Region -- How to make our region safe -- Non-traditional security and socio-economic development of East Asia -- Whither the world order? …”
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Brownlie's principles of public international law / by Crawford, James, 1948-

Table of Contents: “…The sources of international law -- The relations of international and national law -- Subjects of international law -- Creation and incidence of statehood -- Recognition of states and governments -- International Organizations -- Forms of governmental authority over territory -- Acquisition and transfer of territorial sovereignty -- Status of territory : further problems -- The territorial sea and other maritime zones -- Maritime delimitation and associated questions -- Maritime transit and the regime of the high seas -- Common spaces and the co-operation in the use of natural resources -- Legal aspects of the protection of the environment -- The law of treaties -- Diplomatic and consular relations -- Unilateral acts; estoppel : Succession to rights and duties -- Sovereignty and equality of states -- Jurisdictional competence -- Privileges and immunities of foreign states -- The relations of nationality -- Nationality of corporations and assets -- The conditions for international responsibility -- Consequences of an internationally wrongful act -- Multilateral public order and issues of responsibility -- The international minimum standard : persons and property -- International human rights -- International criminal justice -- The claims process -- Third-party settlement of international disputes -- The use of threat of force by states.…”

Security education, awareness, and training from theory to practice / by Roper, C. A. (Carl A.)

Table of Contents: “…Security programs, security education and this book -- Starting with some basics -- Goals, objectives and a model -- Performance problem-solving: figuring out what's going on -- Security education and the "employment life-cycle" -- Motivation: getting people to do things -- Motivation: some theories with practical applications -- Planning an awareness program -- Promoting an informed awareness: program implementation -- Practical exercise promoting an informed awareness -- Training and education: going one step beyond -- Planning to train: reader exercise -- Moving security education into the work environment -- How not to train: a common-sense alternative -- Evaluating security education programs -- Security education in the electronic age.…”
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The wealth of networks how social production transforms markets and freedom / by Benkler, Yochai

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: a moment of opportunity and challenge -- The networked information economy -- Some basic economics of information production and innovation -- Peer production and sharing -- The economics of social production -- The political economy of property and commons -- Individual freedom: autonomy, information, and law -- Political freedom part 1: the trouble with mass media -- Political freedom part 2: emergence of the networked public sphere -- Cultural freedom: a culture both plastic and critical -- Justice and development -- Social ties: networking together -- Policies of freedom at a moment of transformation -- The battle over the institutional ecology of the digital environment -- Conclusion: the stakes of information law and policy.…”
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Carter's conversion the hardening of American defense policy / by Auten, Brian J., 1969-

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The missing gene psychiatry, heredity, and the fruitless search for genes / by Joseph, Jay

Table of Contents: “…-- ADHD genetic research -- A critique of the spectrum concept as used in the Danish-American schizophrenia adoption studies -- Pellagra and genetic research -- A generation misinformed : psychiatry and psychology textbooks' inaccurate accounts of schizophrenia adoption research -- Irving Gottesman's 1991 schizophrenia genesis : a primary scource for misunderstanding the genetics of schizophrenia -- Autism and genetics : much ado about very little -- The 1942 "Euthanasia" debate in the American Journal of Psychiatry -- The twin method's Achilles' heel : a critical review of the equal environment assumption test literature -- Bipolar disorder and genetics -- Genotype or genohype? …”
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Biodiversity change and human health from ecosystem services to spread of disease /

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Business analysis best practices for success / by Blais, Steven

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Innovation networks and clusters the knowledge backbone /

Table of Contents: “…Conceptualising innovation networks and clusters / Abdelillah Hamdouch -- Networking innovation and intellectual property rights : the enterprise's knowledge capital / Blandine Laperche -- Guanxi and the business environment in China : an innovative network as a "process of a knowledge-based economy" / Francis Munier and Cao Huan -- The dynamics between plural and network-based entrepreneurship in small high-tech firms / Thierry Burger Helmchen -- The local basis of innovation and growth processes / Maryann P. …”
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Wildlife refuges factors and concerns about future sustainability /

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Graphic design and architecture, a 20th century history a guide to type, image, symbol, and visual storytelling in the modern world / by Poulin, Richard

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Implementing culture change in long-term care benchmarks and strategies for management and practice / by Jurkowski, Elaine Theresa

Table of Contents: “…The changing landscape of our long-term care population : the demographic shift -- Introduction to long-term care settings and culture change -- Philosophical paradigms impacting long-term care settings -- Artifacts of culture change : an overview of purpose and measurement practices -- Care practices -- Environment benchmarks/artifacts -- Family and community practices -- Leadership benchmarks/artifacts -- Workplace practice benchmarks/artifacts -- Outcome practices -- The assessment process : identifying a road map for success -- From assessment to action : building on the planning process -- Partners for change : residents and family -- Building coalitions of effective change agent teams -- Legal and regulatory bodies and the culture change process -- A vision for the future.…”
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The architecture of change : building a better world /

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Carter's conversion the hardening of American defense policy / by Auten, Brian J., 1969-

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