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The "Internal Audit Handbook" is a comprehensive, up-to-date
presentation of the tasks and challenges facing internal audit. The
handbook is based on the audit work of SAPA(R)'s global internal
audit department, which obtained the highest score available,
"Generally Conforms," during a quality assessment review performed
by the Institute of Internal Auditors. It presents the Audit
Roadmap, the process model of internal auditing developed at
SAPA(R), describing all stages of an audit. The in-depth
description provides information on issues such as the
identification of audit fields, the annual audit planning, the
organization and execution of audits as well as reporting and
follow-up. The handbook also discusses management-related subjects,
e.g. the organizational structure of an internal audit department.
Separate chapters are dedicated to special topics like IT or SOX
audits. The book also includes a CD for computer-based learning
containing templates to put specific elements of theory into
practice. Since the handbook is based on practical experience and
gives numerous examples from audit practice it may serve as a guide
to internal auditing for persons new in the field as well as
provide experienced internal audit professionals with new insights.
Much discussion of morality presupposes that moral judgments are
always, at bottom, arbitrary. Moral scepticism, or at least moral
relativism, has become common currency among the liberally
educated. This remains the case even while political crises become
intractable, and it is increasingly apparent that the scope of
public policy formulated with no reference to moral justification
is extremely limited. The thesis of On Justifying Moral Judgments
insists, on the contrary, that rigorous justifications are possible
for moral judgments. Crucially, Becker argues for the coordination
of the three main approaches to moral theory: axiology, deontology,
and agent morality. A pluralistic account of the concept of value
is expounded, and a solution to the problem of ultimate
justification is suggested. Analyses of valuation, evaluation, the
'is-ought' issue, and the concepts of obligation, responsibility
and the good person are all incorporated into the main line of
argument.
Coronary heart disease remains the leading cause of death for men
and women in the United States and other industrialized nations.
Acute myocardial infarction accounts for a majority of these
deaths, approaching 750,000 yearly. Thrombolytic therapy has
revolutionized the treatment of myocardial infarction, saving lives
to a greater extent than any treatment developed to date. The
identification of patients best suited for thrombolytic therapy has
been a challenging task, as has the ideal adjuvant strategy.
Further, the noninvasic diagnosis of treatment successes and
failures, as well as the expeditious triaging of patients requiring
mechanical/surgical revascularization have been difficult to
define, but progress has been made recently. The emergence of
information vital for patient care has appeared at an extraordinary
pace, with hundreds of articles being published yearly.
Unfortunately, a resource devoted to the area of thrombolysis does
not exist, making the dissemination of information to physicians,
scientists and health care providers problematic. The Modern Era of
Coronary Thrombolysis is designed to bring the medical and
scientific communities up to date. It will serve as a foundation
for future investigation, as well as a resource which can be
referred to for many years to come.
Proceedings of a workshop sponsored by the European Community and
organized in Brussels, Belgium, October 1988 by the U. of Louvain
Medical School, discuss problems related to the study of receptors
and energy metabolism, particularly in relationship with the
compartmental analysis and the modelling
Much discussion of morality presupposes that moral judgments are
always, at bottom, arbitrary. Moral scepticism, or at least moral
relativism, has become common currency among the liberally
educated. This remains the case even while political crises become
intractable, and it is increasingly apparent that the scope of
public policy formulated with no reference to moral justification
is extremely limited. The thesis of On Justifying Moral Judgments
insists, on the contrary, that rigorous justifications are possible
for moral judgments. Crucially, Becker argues for the coordination
of the three main approaches to moral theory: axiology, deontology,
and agent morality. A pluralistic account of the concept of value
is expounded, and a solution to the problem of ultimate
justification is suggested. Analyses of valuation, evaluation, the
'is-ought' issue, and the concepts of obligation, responsibility
and the good person are all incorporated into the main line of
argument.
Property Rights: Philosophic Foundations, first published in 1977,
comprehensively examines the general justifications for systems of
private property rights, and discusses with great clarity the major
arguments as to the rights and responsibilities of property
ownership. In particular, the arguments that hold that there are
natural rights derived from first occupancy, labour, utility,
liberty and virtue are considered, as are the standard
anti-property arguments based on disutility, virtue and inequality,
and the belief that justice in distribution must take precedence
over private ownership. Lawrence Becker goes on to contend that
there are four sound lines of argument for private property that,
together with what is sound in the anti-property arguments, must be
co-ordinated to form the foundations of a new theory. He therefore
expounds a concise but sophisticated theory of property that is
relevant to the modern world, and concludes by indicating some of
the implications of his theory.
This cutting-edge, multidisciplinary Handbook comprises specially
commissioned contributions surveying state-of-the-art research on
the concept of organizational routines. An authoritative overview
of the concept of organizational routines and its contributions to
our understanding of organizations is presented. To identify those
contributions, the role of organizational routines in such
processes as organizational learning, performance feedback, and
organizational memory is discussed. To identify how the concept can
contribute to different disciplinary fields, the expert authors
review applications across a range of fields including political
science, sociology, and accounting. Two chapters on research
methods provide expert advice on the endeavour of experimental
studies and empirical field studies of organizational routines.
Overall, this Handbook contains articles that identify the role of
organizational routines in processes underlying the stability and
change of organizations, show how the concept has been applied in
different disciplinary fields, and discuss methods for carrying out
empirical research using the organizational routines concept.
Because of the importance issues such as the stability and change
of organizations have in organization theory and strategy, this
Handbook will appeal to scholars and students in business and
management, in particular in organization theory, organization
behaviour, and strategic management.
As one of the most important ethicists to emerge since the Second
World War, Alan Gewirth continues to influence philosophical
debates concerning morality. In this ground-breaking book,
Gewirth's neo-Kantianism, and the communitarian problems discussed,
form a dialogue on the foundation of moral theory. Themes of
agent-centered constraints, the formal structure of theories, and
the relationship between freedom and duty are examined along with
such new perspectives as feminism, the Stoics, and Sartre. Gewirth
offers a picture of the philosopher's theory and its applications,
providing a richer, more complete critical assessement than any
which has occurred to date.
This cutting-edge, multidisciplinary Handbook comprises specially
commissioned contributions surveying state-of-the-art research on
the concept of organizational routines. An authoritative overview
of the concept of organizational routines and its contributions to
our understanding of organizations is presented. To identify those
contributions, the role of organizational routines in such
processes as organizational learning, performance feedback, and
organizational memory is discussed. To identify how the concept can
contribute to different disciplinary fields, the expert authors
review applications across a range of fields including political
science, sociology, and accounting. Two chapters on research
methods provide expert advice on the endeavour of experimental
studies and empirical field studies of organizational routines.
Overall, this Handbook contains articles that identify the role of
organizational routines in processes underlying the stability and
change of organizations, show how the concept has been applied in
different disciplinary fields, and discuss methods for carrying out
empirical research using the organizational routines concept.
Because of the importance issues such as the stability and change
of organizations have in organization theory and strategy, this
Handbook will appeal to scholars and students in business and
management, in particular in organization theory, organization
behaviour, and strategic management.
What would stoic ethics be like today if stoicism had survived as a
systematic approach to ethical theory, and if it had coped
successfully with the challenges of modern philosophy and
experimental science? What would stoic ethics be like today if
stoicism had survived as a systematic approach to ethical theory,
if it had coped successfully with the challenges of modern
philosophy and experimental science? A New Stoicism proposes an
answer to that question, offered from within the stoic tradition
but without the metaphysical and psychological assumptions that
modern philosophy and science have abandoned. Lawrence Becker
argues that a secular version of the stoic ethical project, based
on contemporary cosmology and developmental psychology, provides
the basis for a sophisticated form of ethical naturalism, in which
virtually all the hard doctrines of the ancient Stoics can be
clearly restated and defended. Becker argues, in keeping with the
ancients, that virtue is one thing, not many; that it, and not
happiness, is the proper end of all activity; that it alone is
good, all other things being merely rank-ordered relative to each
other for the sake of the good; and that virtue is sufficient for
happiness. Moreover, he rejects the popular caricature of the stoic
as a grave figure, emotionally detached and capable mainly of
endurance, resignation, and coping with pain. To the contrary, he
holds that while stoic sages are able to endure the extremes of
human suffering, they do not have to sacrifice joy to have that
ability, and he seeks to turn our attention from the familiar,
therapeutic part of stoic moral training to a reconsideration of
its theoretical foundations.
The tendency to reciprocate - to return good for good and evil for
evil - is a potent force in human life, and the concept of
reciprocity is closely connected to fundamental notions of
'justice', 'obligation' or 'duty', 'gratitude' and 'equality'. In
Reciprocity, first published in 1986, Lawrence Becker presents a
sustained argument about reciprocity, beginning with the strategy
for developing a moral theory of the virtues. He considers the
concept of reciprocity in detail, contending that it is a basic
virtue that provides the basis for parental authority, obligations
to future generations, and obedience to law. Throughout the first
two parts of the book, Becker intersperses short pieces of his own
narrative fiction to enrich reflection on the philosophical
arguments. The final part is devoted to extensive bibliographical
essays, ranging over anthropology, psychology, political theory and
law, as well as the relevant ethics and political philosophy.
Property Rights: Philosophic Foundations, first published in 1977,
comprehensively examines the general justifications for systems of
private property rights, and discusses with great clarity the major
arguments as to the rights and responsibilities of property
ownership. In particular, the arguments that hold that there are
natural rights derived from first occupancy, labour, utility,
liberty and virtue are considered, as are the standard
anti-property arguments based on disutility, virtue and inequality,
and the belief that justice in distribution must take precedence
over private ownership. Lawrence Becker goes on to contend that
there are four sound lines of argument for private property that,
together with what is sound in the anti-property arguments, must be
co-ordinated to form the foundations of a new theory. He therefore
expounds a concise but sophisticated theory of property that is
relevant to the modern world, and concludes by indicating some of
the implications of his theory.
The tendency to reciprocate - to return good for good and evil for
evil - is a potent force in human life, and the concept of
reciprocity is closely connected to fundamental notions of
'justice', 'obligation' or 'duty', 'gratitude' and 'equality'. In
Reciprocity, first published in 1986, Lawrence Becker presents a
sustained argument about reciprocity, beginning with the strategy
for developing a moral theory of the virtues. He considers the
concept of reciprocity in detail, contending that it is a basic
virtue that provides the basis for parental authority, obligations
to future generations, and obedience to law. Throughout the first
two parts of the book, Becker intersperses short pieces of his own
narrative fiction to enrich reflection on the philosophical
arguments. The final part is devoted to extensive bibliographical
essays, ranging over anthropology, psychology, political theory and
law, as well as the relevant ethics and political philosophy.
Lawrence C. Becker introduces an unconventional set of background
ideas for future philosophical work on normative theories of basic
justice. The organizing concept is habilitation -- the process of
equipping a person or thing with functional abilities or
capacities. The specific proposals drawn from the concept of
habilitation are independent of any particular set of distributive
principles. The result is a framework for theory that includes a
metric for the pursuit of basic justice, but not a normative theory
of it.
The basic idea is that receiving and providing habilitation is a
lifelong necessity for human beings, from their nearly helpless
newborn state through their struggles to survive and thrive
thereafter, even into the most severe diminishments of old age.
This lifelong human necessity underlies all questions about basic
justice, and the possibilities for habilitation define the
circumstances under which those questions arise.
Focusing on the circumstances of habilitation calls attention to
the central role of physical and psychological health. Without
basic good health in both domains, it is not possible to cope with
the habilitative demands of one's physical and psychological
endowments, and one's physical and social environments. And for
human beings, a particular aspect of human health effectively sums
up these matters: namely human agency; the nature and extent of the
ability to act effectively.
The book proposes, specifically, that normative theories of basic
justice adopt the habilitation framework. What then appears to
follow is that the most plausible comprehensive metric for
assessing progress toward basic justice will be the level and
distribution of basic good health. Moreover, achieving robustly
healthy agency will be the most plausible tactical target for
making progress toward basic justice -- no matter what one's
favored distributive principles might be.
Coronary heart disease remains the leading cause of death for men
and women in the United States and other industrialized nations.
Acute myocardial infarction accounts for a majority of these
deaths, approaching 750,000 yearly. Thrombolytic therapy has
revolutionized the treatment of myocardial infarction, saving lives
to a greater extent than any treatment developed to date. The
identification of patients best suited for thrombolytic therapy has
been a challenging task, as has the ideal adjuvant strategy.
Further, the noninvasic diagnosis of treatment successes and
failures, as well as the expeditious triaging of patients requiring
mechanical/surgical revascularization have been difficult to
define, but progress has been made recently. The emergence of
information vital for patient care has appeared at an extraordinary
pace, with hundreds of articles being published yearly.
Unfortunately, a resource devoted to the area of thrombolysis does
not exist, making the dissemination of information to physicians,
scientists and health care providers problematic. The Modern Era of
Coronary Thrombolysis is designed to bring the medical and
scientific communities up to date. It will serve as a foundation
for future investigation, as well as a resource which can be
referred to for many years to come.
A collection of essays examining how philosophers in the Western
tradition have viewed and written about children through the ages.
The Philospoher's Child is an edited collection of 9 contemporary
essays (7 new works, 2 revised from previously published work),
each of which examines the views of a different philosopher
(Socrates, Aristotle, Hobbes, Locke, Kant, Mill, Wittgenstein,
Rawls, and Firestone) on the topic of children. Each of the
contributors to this groundbreaking volume is a specialist in the
area of the philosopher he or she considers and offers to the
reader both the opportunity to review the thoughts of these
important thinkers on a subject that is fast becoming an issue of
great urgency and the chance to those thoughts in a critical
context.
This book showcases advanced empirical research that applies the
concept of organizational routines to understanding organizations
and how they change and evolve. The contributions gathered in the
book cover qualitative, quantitative, and archival methods for
empirical research applying the concept of organizational routines.
Specific issues highlighted include the use of event-sequence
methods in the analysis of organizational routines, the impact of
standard operating procedures on recurrent behaviour patterns, and
the stability, resilience, and change of organizational routines.
The book thus provides an overview of different empirical methods
applied to study organizational routines, and of their
prerequisites, analytical power, and contribution. This
comprehensive book will be of great interest to scholars and
postgraduate students in the fields of organization theory,
strategy, and organization behaviour. Researchers in organization,
management and economic science, organizational change and
evolutionary theories will also find this book invaluable.
Thrombotic disorders of the circulatory system represent the
leading cause of morbidity, motality, and health care expenditure
in the United States. Fibrinolytic and Antithrombotic Therapy
provides a practical, evidence-based approach to the management of
thrombotic disorders for all clinicians involved in the care of
patients with these disorders. It provides not only vital
conceptual information on fibrinolytic and antithrombotic therapy,
but also the means to apply it to everyday decision making and
patient care. Focusing on managment guidelines and critical
pathways, the text stresses practicality and usability. It will be
a valuable resource for the wide range of clinicians involved in
the care of patients with these disorders, including cardiologists,
emergency physicians, primary care physicians, hematologists,
neurologists, intensivists, pharmacists, and nurse
practitioners.
The origins of mammalian blood coagulation can be traced back over
400 million years. Despite its long history, it is only within the
past century that this complex and pivotal teleologic system has
begun to be understood. Most recently, the intricacies of
hemostasis and pahtologic thrombosis have come to light, leading
the way toward new, more effective, and safer treatment
modalities.
The Second Edition of Fibrinolytic and Antithrombotic Therapy,
even more concise and clinically relevant than the First, provides
vital, evidence-based information on management of patients with
arterial and venous thrombotic disorders. Since the First Edition,
the text has been expanded to cover the evolving topics of
atherothrombosis, thrombocardiology, hematologic/thrombophilic
conditions, and vascular medicine. Itincludes up-to-date guidelines
for antithrombotic and fibrinolytic therapy, and offers concise
summaries of current "standards of care." Chapters are dedicated to
discussions of patient-specific therapeutics and to the importance
of genomics, proteomics, and metabolomics in defining
genotype-phenotype relationships, while throughout the book
coagulation, inflammation, and vascular medicine are newly examined
as elements in an intricatley-linked triad of biochemical and
cellular based phenomenology.
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