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Spot On is spot on! The most popular course in South Africa, Spot
On has everything a learner needs in one book. Spot On improves
results, makes learning enjoyable, makes teaching a pleasure and is
easy to use. The Spot On Teacher’s Guide comes with printable
planning material, Formal Assessment Tasks, revision tests and
exams.
Spot On is spot on! The most popular course in South Africa, Spot
On has everything a learner needs in one book. Spot On improves
results, makes learning enjoyable, makes teaching a pleasure and is
easy to use. The Spot On Teacher’s Guide comes with printable
planning material, Formal Assessment Tasks, revision tests and
exams.
An examination of how corporate governance institutions affect
firms' internationalization strategies, exploring how corporate
governance is linked to international business.This book provides
key insights into the way in which corporate governance and
international business could be usefully linked. It is based on the
best papers presented at the 34th AIB-UK conference. It is
international in scope. It is the first of its kind to focus on how
corporate governance factors impact upon firms' strategic
decisions, and upon how firms organize and manage their activities
across national boundaries.Bringing together a number of leading
scholars and pioneering research, this volume explores the links
between corporate governance and international business, and
demonstrates how corporate governance influences the attractiveness
of host countries to inward investors, as well as the
internationalization strategies of MNEs themselves.
In this thorough and state-of-the-art book, top experts provide
cutting edge techniques which greatly expand the depth and scope of
classical invasive prenatal diagnosis. The book features a totally
unique focus on novel non-invasive approaches for prenatal
diagnosis. Following the Methods in Molecular Biology(TM) series
format, the chapters feature step-by-step laboratory protocols,
lists of the necessary materials, and tips on troubleshooting and
avoiding known pitfalls.
Over the last twenty years there has been tremendous growth in the
research and development of sensors and sensor signal processing
methods. Advances in materials and fabrication techniques have led
to a departure from traditional sensor types and the development of
novel sensing techniques and devices, many of which are now finding
favor in industry. Novel Sensors and Sensing provides an
introduction to modern sensor types and sensor signal processing
methods, with emphasis placed on the underlying physics and the
generic operating principles involved. It includes a review of the
fundamentals of measurement and instrumentation and covers the
principle types of modern sensor-resonator, semiconductor based,
and optical fiber (including an overview of optical propagation and
transmission.) The final chapter of the book is devoted to flow
measurement, an area that has benefited greatly from the
developments in novel sensing devices and techniques.
Over the last twenty years there has been tremendous growth in the
research and development of sensors and sensor signal processing
methods. Advances in materials and fabrication techniques have led
to a departure from traditional sensor types and the development of
novel sensing techniques and devices, many of which are now finding
favor in industry. Novel Sensors and Sensing provides an
introduction to modern sensor types and sensor signal processing
methods, with emphasis placed on the underlying physics and the
generic operating principles involved. It includes a review of the
fundamentals of measurement and instrumentation and covers the
principle types of modern sensor-resonator, semiconductor based,
and optical fiber (including an overview of optical propagation and
transmission.) The final chapter of the book is devoted to flow
measurement, an area that has benefited greatly from the
developments in novel sensing devices and techniques.
In 1897, the triumphant return of the Jackson-Harmsworth Arctic
expedition revived widespread enthusiasm for Polar exploration.
Within days of the expedition's arrival in London, newspapers
ranging from the Boy's Own Paper to the Graphic were full of
articles relating to the endeavours and findings of this intrepid
undertaking. The demand for information did not abate and, in 1899,
this two-volume account by Frederick G. Jackson (1860-1938) of his
travels in Franz Josef Land was published to wide acclaim. Hailed
by The Morning Post as 'a record of solid achievement accomplished
by dint of steady perseverance in the face of hardship and
difficulty', Jackson's journal describes a forbidding terrain of
ice and snow. Illustrated by maps and numerous anthropological and
zoological images, Volume 1 opens with the voyage north and goes on
to recount the team's accommodation - a wooden hut named 'Elmwood'
- bear-hunts, and arduous but inspirational journeys by sledge.
In 1897, the triumphant return of the Jackson Harmsworth Arctic
expedition revived widespread enthusiasm for Polar exploration.
Within days of the expedition's arrival in London, newspapers
ranging from the Boy's Own Paper to the Graphic were full of
articles relating to the endeavours and findings of this intrepid
undertaking. The demand for information did not abate and, in 1899,
this two-volume account by Frederick G. Jackson (1860 1938) of his
travels in Franz Josef Land was published to wide acclaim. Hailed
by The Morning Post as 'a record of solid achievement accomplished
by dint of steady perseverance in the face of hardship and
difficulty', Jackson's journal describes a forbidding terrain of
ice and snow. Richly illustrated, Volume 2 includes accounts of new
lands, dark winters, and a famous encounter with Nansen. It is
supplemented by a substantial appendix containing geographical and
scientific observations.
G. G. Jackson The pathogenesis of bacterial infection defines the
dynamics at an interface of ecologic association of bacteria and
host. First, it occurs at the portal of initial contact with a per
missive target cell. The infected cell provides either a passive or
a specific receptor for the bacterium or its products, to gether
with ligands and an environment of helper and inhibiting factors.
The result is bacterial replication to produce an im balance of a
potentially commensal relation which, under other defined
conditions, would be optimal for the survival of both the host and
bacterial cells. Virulence and pathogenesis are both absolute and
relative terms. They must be interpreted strictly according to the
circumstances of site-specific inter actions of bacterial and host
cells, membrane composition, structure, characteristics, and
environmental substances. The bacteria themselves may have,
acquire, or switch on or off under certain conditions, the products
or properties that produce cellular damage that we recognize as
virulence. Another result of bacterial infection may be to
stimulate a normal host cell function to perform at a
pathophysiologic level, causing illness that we recognize as
virulence. A third marker of virulence may be the ability to invade
a cell or tissue barrier and produce a pathologic effect at a site
that is remote from the portal of commensal association or
pathologic entry."
In this thorough and state-of-the-art book, top experts provide
cutting edge techniques which greatly expand the depth and scope of
classical invasive prenatal diagnosis. The book features a totally
unique focus on novel non-invasive approaches for prenatal
diagnosis. Following the Methods in Molecular Biology series
format, the chapters feature step-by-step laboratory protocols,
lists of the necessary materials, and tips on troubleshooting and
avoiding known pitfalls.
This work challenges all the standard approaches to the saga of
African history, from the dawn of prehistory to the modern
resurgent Africa of today.
Bringing together a number of leading scholars and pioneering
research, this volume explores the links between corporate
governance and international business, and demonstrates how
corporate governance influences the attractiveness of host
countries to inward investors, as well as the internationalization
strategies of MNEs themselves.
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