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Many companies recognize the importance of corporate social
responsibility, but seek to understand how this can be harmonized
with current profitability. This new approach, drawing upon many
contemporary examples, demonstrates the importance of balancing
short term profitability with long term sustainability and shows
how this relates to many business issues and aspects including
environmental change, ethical trading, corporate governance, risk
management, sustainable development and competitive balance.
This Technical Report presents the outcome of a Working Group that
was established to determine broadly applicable sound exposure
guidelines for fishes and sea turtles. After consideration of the
diversity of fish and sea turtles, guidelines were developed for
broad groups of animals, defined by the way they detect sound.
Different sound sources were considered in terms of their acoustic
characteristics and appropriate metrics defined for measurement of
the received levels. The resultant sound exposure guidelines are
presented in a set of tables. In some cases numerical guidelines
are provided, expressed in appropriate metrics. When there were
insufficient data to support numerical values, the "relative
"likelihood of effects occurring was evaluated, although the
"actual" likelihood of effects depends on the received level. These
sound exposure guidelines, which are based on the best scientific
information at the time of writing, should be treated as interim.
The expectation is that with more research the guidelines can be
refined and more cells in the tables completed. Recommendations are
put forward defining the research requirements of highest priority
for extending these interim exposure guidelines.
Many companies recognize the importance of corporate social
responsibility, but seek to understand how this can be harmonized
with current profitability. This new approach draws upon many
contemporary examples to show how to balance short term
profitability with long term sustainability.
This book, first published in 1996, is a concise yet fully
informative coverage of the structure and function of genes. It
describes DNA and how it replicates, how DNA is transcribed and
translated into proteins, the organisation of genes in prokaryotes
and eukaryotes, the control of gene expression and the role of
retroviruses and oncogenes in cancer. There are additional
discussions of gene families, genes and the immune systems and
mitochondrial and chloroplast genomes. This is a third edition of a
successful undergraduate text. It has been extensively updated,
particularly in regard to advances in our understanding of
replication and transcription.
Our pocket-book has come about as a direct attempt to answer the
needs of our clinical students. We have tried to use radiology as a
magic window for looking at their patients' medical and surgical
problems. The book is very simple and highly selective. A number of
excellent introductory texts already exist for students seeking
comprehensive and balanced accounts of radiology as a specialty. We
have tried to keep close to our title: a good guide shows you a
bare outline of where you might go, and makes sure you see the
highlights. He will point to interesting places that deserve study,
without going into them himself. Occasionally he may enlarge on a
topic when the information is not readily available anywhere else
(as in our chapter on the skull). And he will be ready to listen to
students asking, perhaps rather shyly, some basic questions (as in
our first and last chapters). We have taken Voltaire as our own
guide: "Le secret d'ennuyer est . . . de tout dire." The book has
been written by only a small group of all those teaching radiology
at Cambridge. We wish to absolve our colleagues from all blame, and
to thank them for generous support, especially in the loan of
illustrations. Cambridge, 1982 Thomas Sherwood Contents 1.
Introduction: Medicine and Radiology Thomas Sherwood. . . . . . . .
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. . . . . 1 2. Diagnosis Thomas Sherwood. . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Looking at an x-ray. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Diagnostic pathways . . . . . . .
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Sensitivity and specificity of tests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . 14 Conclusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 3. Bones Thomas
Sherwood. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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This new edition of a highly successful undergraduate text is a
concise yet fully informative guide to the structure and function
of genes. It describes DNA and how it replicates, how DNA is
transcribed and translated into proteins, the organization of genes
in prokaryotes and eukaryotes, the control of gene expression, and
the role of retroviruses and oncogenes in cancer. There are
additional discussions of gene families, genes and the immune
systems, and mitochondrial and chloroplast genomes. The new edition
has been extensively updated, particularly in regard to recent
advances in our understanding of replication and transcription.
Undergraduates studying genetics will benefit from this established
text.
The problem of outliers is one of the oldest in statistics, and
during the last century and a half interest in it has waxed and
waned several times. Currently it is once again an active research
area after some years of relative neglect, and recent work has
solved a number of old problems in outlier theory, and identified
new ones. The major results are, however, scattered amongst many
journal articles, and for some time there has been a clear need to
bring them together in one place. That was the original intention
of this monograph: but during execution it became clear that the
existing theory of outliers was deficient in several areas, and so
the monograph also contains a number of new results and
conjectures. In view of the enormous volume ofliterature on the
outlier problem and its cousins, no attempt has been made to make
the coverage exhaustive. The material is concerned almost entirely
with the use of outlier tests that are known (or may reasonably be
expected) to be optimal in some way. Such topics as robust
estimation are largely ignored, being covered more adequately in
other sources. The numerous ad hoc statistics proposed in the early
work on the grounds of intuitive appeal or computational simplicity
also are not discussed in any detail.
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