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Summarizing the current state of knowledge on the links between
business and climate change, this timely Handbook analyzes how
businesses contribute to and are affected by climate change,
looking closely at their centrality in developing and deploying
solutions to address this problem. Contributions from a global
collection of scholars and practitioners explore a broad range of
key industries' impacts and responses to climate change, examining
corporate strategy and leadership in the climate economy,
functional perspectives and corporate practice, and climate
finance. Chapters use diverse case studies to analyze
climate-related business issues, including supply chain management,
decarbonization, consumer decision-making, and climate-related
financial investments. The Handbook delves deeper into how
businesses perceive the issue of climate change, how they are
affected by and engage with it, as well as the impact they have and
what this impact costs. Forward-thinking, it concludes with
reflections from the contributors on what the future holds for
businesses and climate change. Covering matters relating to
finance, economics, marketing, operations, strategy, leadership and
communications, this interdisciplinary Handbook will prove
invaluable to students and scholars in business management,
sustainability and environmental studies, as well as to
sustainability officers (and their staff) in corporations.
Addressing, as it does, a wide range of climate-related issues from
the corporate standpoint, it will also prove to be a useful
resource for policymakers concerned with enabling solutions to
climate change.
This book ‘plays up’ stories of mostly unknown figures and
their journeys through a life affected by movement, and a search
for home. It engages with individuals and groups whose passions
have carried the subjects through ‘uncharted’ or unhomely
territories, here told in a series of ‘tracks’ depicting their
roles in community memories and histories. Side A engages with
individual journeys, such as Lewis, the American black literature
book seller; the civil rights activist, Izzy, an American-Swedish
folklorist; Eugene, a black classical pianist; and Pi, the Jew
transported to Sweden during WWII. Side B focuses on communal
histories and alternative educational and artistic spaces,
addressing life writing and memory in German comic books;
alternative educational spaces in Israel-Palestine and Africa,
and ‘small press passions’ of zines/newsletter culture.
Tellers and their interpreters are mediating identities where
nationality, race, and class (and other markers of identity) have
influenced selfhood and collective belonging - revealing how
individuals and outsider cultures have the power to influence
dominant cultures and inspire societal change.
PCBs have captured the attention of scientists, journalists and the
public for three decades, but during most of that time attention
was focused on a small number of the 209 possible chlorobiphenyls.
Recent work has implicated many of the forgotten and/or unstudied
congeners as neuro-endocrine active and potential developmental
toxicants. This interest has created a need for information
regarding the non-dioxin-like' PCBs. The ortho Side of PCBs:
Occurrence and Disposition integrates historical information,
analytical interpretations, and global concepts with recent
comprehensive residue reports and public health concerns. This
condensed source of extensive information provides detailed
comparisons of comprehensive data in a consistent format. The data
will improve the accuracy of concepts regarding the occurrence and
disposition of the 60-100 (rather than 6-10) most important
congeners. Actual PCB burdens are shown to deviate from average
steady-state profiles through sporadic exposures to unique mixtures
characteristic of individual dietary sources. The task of accurate
hazard characterization and risk assessment can be overwhelming,
especially when sporadic changes are considered. Models and
relationships are suggested to facilitate the efficient
categorization and evaluation of the more important congeners.
Most introductions to English phonetics and phonology focus
primarily on British or American English, which fails to account
for the rich diversity of English varieties globally. This book
addresses this gap, providing an overview of English phonetics and
phonology through an exploration of the sounds of English around
the world, including older varieties of English such as American,
Canadian, British, and Australian Englishes, as well as new
varieties of English such as Indian, Singaporean, Hong Kong, and
Kenyan English. It focuses on diversity in vowels and consonants,
allophonic variation, and stress and intonation patterns across
regional, ethnic and social varieties of English in North America,
The Caribbean, Asia, Africa, Europe, and Oceania. Listening
exercises are incorporated throughout to facilitate the
understanding of different concepts, and the book also has an
accompanying website with a wide range of speech samples, allowing
readers to hear the phonetics of the varieties under discussion.
The focus of this book is on the impact of politics on language and
identity in Hong Kong. The book is the first study to track real
time language attitude changes against a divisive political
landscape. It is also the most comprehensive study of language
attitudes in Hong Kong to date, taking place over four years with
over 1600 participants. Through both survey and interview data, a
multifaceted portrait of language change in progress is presented,
providing a more nuanced and complex view of language and identity
than has previously been presented. The book examines the status of
Hong Kong English in the light of attitudes towards Cantonese,
English, and Putonghua, providing a deeper analysis of the
linguistic complexity of Hong Kong; it can be argued that one
cannot understand attitudes towards Hong Kong English without fully
understanding the status and use of English in Hong Kong today. The
book also presents a complex examination of language attitudes in
Hong Kong by focusing not only on the what of language attitudes,
but also the question of for whom, through an analysis of language
attitudes by gender, age, identity, and speaking HKE.
The focus of this book is on the impact of politics on language and
identity in Hong Kong. The book is the first study to track real
time language attitude changes against a divisive political
landscape. It is also the most comprehensive study of language
attitudes in Hong Kong to date, taking place over four years with
over 1600 participants. Through both survey and interview data, a
multifaceted portrait of language change in progress is presented,
providing a more nuanced and complex view of language and identity
than has previously been presented. The book examines the status of
Hong Kong English in the light of attitudes towards Cantonese,
English, and Putonghua, providing a deeper analysis of the
linguistic complexity of Hong Kong; it can be argued that one
cannot understand attitudes towards Hong Kong English without fully
understanding the status and use of English in Hong Kong today. The
book also presents a complex examination of language attitudes in
Hong Kong by focusing not only on the what of language attitudes,
but also the question of for whom, through an analysis of language
attitudes by gender, age, identity, and speaking HKE.
An in-depth analysis of the problems of learning a second language
as experienced by a family of learners. This is a study of the
phonological development of a group of L2 English learners. It is
the first full-length book that focuses on a tightly-knit group of
learners' acquisition of phonology over a period of years, and the
first book to study both social and linguistic factors across that
time period. Jette Hansen analyses this data gathered from actual
language learners in terms of recent theory, as well as challenging
aspects of current thinking on the subject of second language
acquisition. Acquiring a Non-Native Phonology therefore makes an
important and original contribution to the field, and provides an
in-depth analysis and discussion of the developmental processes in
acquiring a non-native sound system which has not previously been
presented. The book is aimed at academics interested in second
language acquisition, and researchers studying phonology in
general.
The Culture of Strangers explores the relationship between the
development of commercial societies and cultural values. Using a
phenomenological approach, G. Eric Hansen presents an evolutionary
model of social development, which describes the ways in which
economic relations and values interactively change as societies
evolve in terms of such elements as demography and technology.
Using the insights of the social sciences and history in
particular, Hansen proposes that the development of commercial
societies and market values relate to the parallel development of
other key cultural values. He holds that only Western societies
have fully developed these commercial values and attributes of
personality and that the forces of globalization have advanced and
advantaged these societies while disadvantaging others.
Most introductions to English phonetics and phonology focus
primarily on British or American English, which fails to account
for the rich diversity of English varieties globally. This book
addresses this gap, providing an overview of English phonetics and
phonology through an exploration of the sounds of English around
the world, including older varieties of English such as American,
Canadian, British, and Australian Englishes, as well as new
varieties of English such as Indian, Singaporean, Hong Kong, and
Kenyan English. It focuses on diversity in vowels and consonants,
allophonic variation, and stress and intonation patterns across
regional, ethnic and social varieties of English in North America,
The Caribbean, Asia, Africa, Europe, and Oceania. Listening
exercises are incorporated throughout to facilitate the
understanding of different concepts, and the book also has an
accompanying website with a wide range of speech samples, allowing
readers to hear the phonetics of the varieties under discussion.
PCBs have captured the attention of scientists, journalists and the
public for three decades, but during most of that time attention
was focused on a small number of the 209 possible chlorobiphenyls.
Recent work has implicated many of the forgotten and/or unstudied
congeners as neuro-endocrine active and potential developmental
toxicants. This interest has created a need for information
regarding the non-dioxin-like' PCBs. The ortho Side of PCBs:
Occurrence and Disposition integrates historical information,
analytical interpretations, and global concepts with recent
comprehensive residue reports and public health concerns. This
condensed source of extensive information provides detailed
comparisons of comprehensive data in a consistent format. The data
will improve the accuracy of concepts regarding the occurrence and
disposition of the 60-100 (rather than 6-10) most important
congeners. Actual PCB burdens are shown to deviate from average
steady-state profiles through sporadic exposures to unique mixtures
characteristic of individual dietary sources. The task of accurate
hazard characterization and risk assessment can be overwhelming,
especially when sporadic changes are considered. Models and
relationships are suggested to facilitate the efficient
categorization and evaluation of the more important congeners.
Impulse fur eine europaische harmonisierung DES Urheberrechts
Urheberrecht im deutsch-franzoesischen Dialog Die Harmonisierung
des Urheberrechts in Europa wird auch in den kommenden Jahren eine
Herausforderung bleiben. Die Rechtsordnungen der Mitgliedsstaaten
weisen gerade in diesem Rechtsgebiet erhebliche Unterschiede auf.
Will man eine moeglichst breite Beteiligung der Mitglieder an
diesem Prozess erreichen, so mussen ihre verschiedenen Ansatze bei
der Harmonisierung Berucksichtigung finden. Dazu bedarf es zunachst
einer grundlichen Analyse der Besonderheiten der jeweiligen
Regelungssysteme. Vor diesem Hintergrund erscheint ein Vergleich
des deutschen und des franzoesischen Urheberrechts besonders
lehrreich. Zudem zeigt die Erfahrung, dass die Punkte, in denen das
"deutsch-franzoesische Tandem Einigkeit erzielen konnte, oftmals
einen Sogeffekt auf die Gemeinschaft ausgeubt haben. Aus diesem
Grund haben das Max-Planck-Institut fur Geistiges Eigentum und das
Institut de Recherche en Propriete Intellectuelle Henri-Desbois
beschlossen, gemeinsam von einem deutsch-franzoesischen Standpunkt
aus die Perspektiven eines Urheberrechts auf europaischer Ebene
auszuloten. Von September 2004 bis Januar 2006 fand eine
Vortragsreihe im Wechsel in Munchen und Paris statt, in deren
Rahmen namhafte Urheberrechtexperten beider Lander zentrale Fragen
des Urheberrechts diskutierten. Ziel der gemeinsamen UEberlegungen
war es, dem europaischen Gesetzgeber auf unabhangigem Wege
Loesungsmoeglichkeiten fur eine Harmonisierung aufzuzeigen. Den
Abschluss bildete ein Symposium, auf dem die gemeinsam erarbeiteten
Thesen diskutiert wurden. Die ideenreichen Beitrage dieser
Vortragsreihe sind im vorliegenden Band abgedruckt. PERSPECTIVES
D'HARMONISATION DU DROIT D'AUTEUR EN EUROPE Rencontres
franco-allemandes L'harmonisation europeenne du droit d'auteur
reste un enjeu majeur pour les prochaines annees, tant different
dans ce domaine les traditions juridiques des differents Etats
membres. Afin d'entrainer une large adhesion de la part de ces
pays, ces differentes conceptions doivent etre prises en compte
dans le processus d'harmonisation, ce qui necessite qu'une analyse
de ces particularites soit conduite au prealable. Dans cette
perspective, la comparaison des systemes francais et allemand du
droit d'auteur est tres riche d'enseignements. De plus,
l'experience passee a demontre que les points communs degages par
le fameux " axe franco-allemand " ont souvent eu un grand effet
d'entrainement au sein de l'Union europeenne. C'est pour cette
raison que l'Institut Max-Planck pour le droit de la propriete
intellectuelle et l'Institut de Recherche en Propriete
Intellectuelle Henri-Desbois ont decide ensemble de conduire une
reflexion sur l'avenir du droit d'auteur a l'echelle europeenne,
dans une perspective franco-allemande. Avec pour ambition de
proposer, de maniere independante, des pistes a suivre au
legislateur communautaire, une serie de conferences traitant des
principales questions du droit d'auteur et reunissant de
prestigieux experts francais et allemands a ete organise de
septembre 2004 a janvier 2006 successivement a Munich et a Paris,
cloture par une conference finale durant laquelle ont ete discutees
les differentes idees degagees lors des rencontres precedentes.
C'est ces riches contributions qui ont ete reproduites dans le
present ouvrage.
Attractive, cynical hooker, Liz, with a profession in which women
are held in hostage relationships with their brutal pimps, begins
to dream that she is a follower of Jesus before and after the
crucifixion. Her dreaming is progressive and she tries to run from
her self defeating life style. She falls deeply in love with a
gentle pastor, who falls in love with her. They marry. The brutal
confrontation with the "Committee" of pimps and the ensuing drama
makes a poignant play on the morality of our times. The Dream
reveals to us that everyone of us is capable of love, dignity and
extraordinary acts of courage. There is indeed a hero lurking
inside of each one of us.
Current speech recognition systems tend to be developed only for
commercially viable languages. The resources needed for a typical
speech recognition system include hundreds of hours of transcribed
speech for acoustic models and 10 to 100 million words of text for
language models; both of these requirements can be costly in time
and money. The goal of this research is to facilitate rapid
development of speech systems to new languages by using
multilingual phoneme models to alleviate requirements for large
amounts of transcribed speech. The GlobalPhone database, which
contains transcribed speech from 15 languages, is used as source
data to derive multilingual phoneme models. Various bootstrapping
processes are used to develop an Arabic speech recognition system
starting from monolingual English models, International Phonetic
Association (IPA) based multilingual models, and data-driven
multilingual models. The Kullback-Leibler distortion measure is
used to derive datadriven phoneme clusters. It was found that
multilingual bootstrapping methods outperform monolingual English
bootstrapping methods on the Arabic evaluation data initially, and
after three iterations of bootstrapping all systems show similar
performance levels. Applications of this research are in speech
recognition, word spotting, information retrieval, and
speech-to-speech translation.
Game Theory: 5 Questions is a collection of short interviews based
on 5 questions presented to some of the most influential and
prominent scholars in the field. We hear their views on game
theory, its aim, scope, use, the future direction of game theory
and how their work fits in these respects.
In this pioneering study of the phonological development of a
family of L2 English learners, Jette Hansen analyses data from
actual language learners to examine the developmental processes
involved in acquiring a nonnative sound system.This is a pioneering
study of the phonological development of a family of L2 English
learners. It is the first full-length book that focuses on a
tightly-knit group of learners' acquisition of phonology over a
longitudinal timeframe, and the first book to study both social and
linguistic factors across that time period. Jette G. Hansen
analyses this data gathered from actual language learners in the
light of recent theory, as well as challenging aspects of current
thinking on the subject of second language acquisition. Acquiring a
Non-Native Phonology therefore makes an important and original
contribution to the field and provides an in-depth analysis and
discussion of the developmental processes in acquiring a non-native
sound system, presented here for the first time. The book is aimed
at academics interested in second language acquisition, and
researchers studying phonology in general.
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