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This book has been compiled to assist students at tertiary institutions in South Africa with their studies in auditing.
The purpose of this book is to provide Auditing students with revision and practice questions.
Solutions are available to prescribing lecturers.
Periods of environmental hypoxia (Low Oxygen Availability) are
extremely common in aquatic systems due to both natural causes such
as diurnal oscillations in algal respiration, seasonal flooding,
stratification, under ice cover in lakes, and isolation of densely
vegetated water bodies, as well as more recent anthropogenic causes
(e.g. eutrophication). In view of this, it is perhaps not
surprising that among all vertebrates, fish boast the largest
number of hypoxia tolerant species; hypoxia has clearly played an
important role in shaping the evolution of many unique adaptive
strategies. These unique adaptive strategies either allow fish to
maintain function at low oxygen levels, thus extending hypoxia
tolerance limits, or permit them to defend against the metabolic
consequences of oxygen levels that fall below a threshold where
metabolic functions cannot be maintained.
The aim of this volume is two-fold. First, this book will review
and synthesize the adaptive behavioural, morphological,
physiological, biochemical, and molecular strategies used by fish
to survive hypoxia exposure and place them within an environmental
and ecological context. Second, through the development of a
synthesis chapter this book will serve as the cornerstone for
directing future research into the effects of hypoxia exposures on
fish physiology and biochemistry.
Key Features
* The only single volume available to provide an in-depth
discussion of the adaptations and responses of fish to
environmental hypoxia.
* Reviews and synthesizes the adaptive behavioural, morphological,
physiological, biochemical, and molecular strategies used by fish
to survive hypoxia exposure.
* Includes discussion of the evolutionary and ecological
consequences of hypoxia exposure in fish.
Much of our life is consumed looking for quantitative
relationships. For example, How much more sleep do I need at night
to make me feel better? How many calories do I need to eliminate to
lose weight? How much larger does my budget on the job need to be
for me to be more effective? All these quantitative questions are
preceded, and depend on, qualitative questions. For example, before
I decide how much extra sleep I need at night, I need to determine
if extra sleep will actually make me feel better. In another
example, I need to determine if a larger budget will make me more
effective on the job, before I think about how much more money I
will need. What elements influence job performance, and how do they
interact? We spend much of our life trying to find answers to such
quantitative and qualitative questions. We are, then, in search of
a kind of intelligence that includes numbers but is also above and
beyond them. We call it "supernumerary" intelligence (SI). To aid
our quest for SI, we use Quantitative CyberQuest (QCQ) and the
Public Administration Genome Project (PAGP) as useful tools. QCQ is
a philosophy as well as an analytic tool that helps in exploring
the supernumerary. QCQ is particularly wellsuited for sorting out
variables as well as their interrelations. It involves a
combination of statistics, systems analysis, research methodology,
qualitative research, and artificial intelligence. QCQ also
provides a relatively easy to understand but still powerful set of
tools and guidancemechanisms to pilot (the "Cyber" part) users in
their "Quest" for supernumerary relationships.
Since the early 1930s "MacPhail" has been a big name in baseball.
Three generations of this one family have provided leadership,
innovation and vision for the sport. Larry, Lee and Andy MacPhail,
representing very different eras of American life, have each
addressed baseball's needs and opportunities in his own way. During
the 1930s and 1940s Larry MacPhail served as general manager and
vice president of the Cincinnati Reds, executive vice president and
president of the Brooklyn Dodgers, and part owner and president of
the New York Yankees. He was posthumously inducted into the
Baseball Hall of Fame in 1978. Larry's son, Lee, worked for 13
years in the Yankee organization before serving as general manager
and president of the Baltimore Orioles. Lee later served two
five-year terms as president of the American League and two years
as president of the Player Relations Committee. Lee was inducted
into the Hall of Fame in 1998, becoming the only son ever to join
his father in the Hall. Lee's son, Andy, worked in management
positions for the Chicago Cubs, the Houston Astros and the
Minnesota Twins before becoming president and CEO of the Cubs.
This volume investigates the material production and expression of
colonial experiences in Africa. It combines archaeological,
historical, and ethnographic sources to explore the diverse
pathways, practices, and projects constructed by Africans in their
engagement with the forces of colonial modernity and capitalism.
This volume is situated in ongoing debates in archaeological and
anthropological approaches to materiality. In this respect, it
seeks to target archaeologists interested in the conceptual issues
provoked by colonial enfoldments. It is also concerned with
increasing the visibility of relevant African archaeological
literature to scholars of colonialism and imperialism laboring in
other fields. This book brings together an array of junior and
senior scholars, whose contributions represent a rich sample of the
vibrant archaeological research conducted in Africa today, blending
conceptual inspiration with robust fieldwork. The chapters target a
variety of cultural, historical, and colonial settings. They are
driven by a plurality of perspectives, but they are bound by a
shared commitment to postcolonial, critical, and material culture
theories. While this book focuses on western and southern Africa -
the sub-regions that boast the deepest traditions of historical
archaeological research in the continent - attention was also
placed on including case-studies from traditionally less
well-represented areas (East African and Swahili coasts,
Madagascar), whose material pasts are nevertheless essential to a
wider comprehension of variability and comparability of 'modern'
colonial conditions. Consequently, this volume lends a unique
wide-ranging look at African experiences across the tangle of
imperial geographies on the continent, with case-studies focusing
on Anglophone, Francophone, and Dutch-speaking contexts. This
volume is an exciting opportunity to present this work to wider
audiences and foster conversations with a wide community of
scholars about the material fashioning of colonial life, relations,
and configurations of power.
The collective inquiries in this volume address ethnicity in
ancient Africa as social fact and political artifact along numerous
dimensions. Is ethnicity a useful analytic? What can archaeology
say about the kinds of deeper time questions which scholars have
asked of identities in Africa? Eleven authors engage with
contemporary anthropological, historical and archaeological
perspectives to examine how ideas of self-understanding, belonging,
and difference in Africa were made and unmade. They examine how
these intersect with other salient domains of social experience:
states, landscapes, discourses, memory, technology, politics, and
power. The various chapters cover broad geographic and temporal
ground, following an arc across Senegal, Mali, Nigeria, Cameroon,
the Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda, and East Africa, spanning
from prehistory to the colonial period.
Ken Livingstone was elected Mayor of London on a platform that
included a congestion charge for central London, a policy that
became reality on 17 February 2003. Richards uses his experience as
Director of a bliog2.5 million Government congestion charging
study, as one of those who created the scheme Livingstone adopted
and as advisor to the London Assembly, to provide a critical record
of the introduction of the London Congestion Charge, and of its
implications for congestion charging elsewhere.
The contributions to the volume examine in detail diverse
aspects of second language education, ranging from a focus on the
basic contributions of linguistic theory and research to our
understanding of second language learning and teaching on the one
hand, to a series of reviews of innovative language education
practices in selected regions of the world on the other.
Radar's ever-expanding role in the modern world has spawned a
demand for professionals well-versed in the latest system-level
analysis and performance modeling techniques. This expanded second
edition of an Artech House bestseller helps engineers,
mathematicians, and programmers answer the call, by providing the
clearest presentation of radar system principles and system-level
modeling procedures available. It serves as both a reference and a
text, and features new material on airborne and space-based radar,
radar tracking techniques, radar system design, and operational and
performance issues. It also provides detailed examples, problem
sets and solutions, and a comprehensive self-test. Extensive
references, bibliographies, and over 100 illustrations help make
this work an indispensable resource for radar specialists and
non-specialists alike. CD-ROM Included! Provides custom radar
functions and equations that let practitioners calculate the radar
performance parameters covered by the book in Excel worksheets.
This book is the result of over ten (10) years of research and
development in flexible robots and structures at Sandia National
Laboratories. The authors de cided to collect this wealth of
knowledge into a set of viewgraphs in order to teach a graduate
class in Flexible Robot Dynamics and Controls within the Mechanical
En gineering Department at the University of New Mexico (UNM).
These viewgraphs, encouragement from several students, and many
late nights have produced a book that should provide an upper-level
undergraduate and graduate textbook and a reference for experienced
professionals. The content of this book spans several disciplines
including structural dynam ics, system identification,
optimization, and linear, digital, and nonlinear control theory
which are developed from several points of view including
electrical, me chanical, and aerospace engineering as well as
engineering mechanics. As a result, the authors believe that this
book demonstrates the value of solid applied theory when developing
hardware solutions to real world problems. The reader will find
many real world applications in this book and will be shown the
applicability of these techniques beyond flexible structures which,
in turn, shows the value of mul tidisciplinary education and
teaming."
The collective inquiries in this volume address ethnicity in
ancient Africa as social fact and political artifact along numerous
dimensions. Is ethnicity a useful analytic? What can archaeology
say about the kinds of deeper time questions which scholars have
asked of identities in Africa? Eleven authors engage with
contemporary anthropological, historical and archaeological
perspectives to examine how ideas of self-understanding, belonging,
and difference in Africa were made and unmade. They examine how
these intersect with other salient domains of social experience:
states, landscapes, discourses, memory, technology, politics, and
power. The various chapters cover broad geographic and temporal
ground, following an arc across Senegal, Mali, Nigeria, Cameroon,
the Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda, and East Africa, spanning
from prehistory to the colonial period.
A study of the literary criticism of the famous and influential
German play fragment Woyzeck. Although it was never completed,
Georg Buchner's drama fragment Woyzeck occupies a pivotal place in
the development of modern drama: its stature and influence have
been recognized by representatives of naturalism, expressionism,
epic theater, the theater of the absurd, and the documentary
theater. It provided the libretto for one of the century's greatest
operas, Alban Berg's Wozzeck, has been made into a film, and is
frequently performed inmany countries. The history of the criticism
of Woyzeck is fascinating not only for the diversity of critical
approaches but also for the dependence of criticism and
interpretation on editors' constructions of a playable text from
Buchner's three drafts or complexes of scenes. The debate about an
authoritative text is ongoing, and this contributes greatly to the
liveliness of the continuing critical dialogue about Buchner's
work. This is the first extensive survey and analysis of the
criticism of Woyzeck from the nineteenth century to the present.
David G. Richards is professor emeritus at SUNY Buffalo and has
written extensively about German literature.
There is currently a popular view that the world is undergoing
profound changes in the fundamental relationships upon which it is
organised. In particular, there is widespread talk of a
'globalised' economy, facilitated by and associated with 'new'
technologies and practices. There is a further consensus that
within this 'globalised', 'new' economy, regionalisation in some
form is important. The aim of this volume is to address these
topical issues, presenting perspectives from which they can be
analysed and exploring specific aspects in greater detail. The
contributors provide a framework for understanding current trends,
and suggest approaches that highlight appropriate ways forward in
the context of both opportunities and dangers. In doing so, they
discuss specific cases and explore detailed policy possibilities,
including the prospect of stimulating change through multinational
engagement and debate. The rigorous analysis and coherent nature of
the book will ensure its appeal to researchers and scholars across
a wide range of disciplines and topics, including industrial
economics, regional science and globalisation.
It is argued that the normative and ethical presuppositions of
standard economics render the discipline incapable of addressing an
important class of problems involving human choices. Economics
adopts too thin an account both of human motivation and of "the
good" for individuals and for society. It is recommended that
economists and policy-makers look back to ancient philosophy for
guidance on the good life and good society considered in terms of
eudaimonism, or human flourishing. Economics, Ethics, and Ancient
Thought begins by outlining the limitations of the normative and
ethical presuppositions that underpin standard economic theory,
before going on to suggest alternative normative and ethical
traditions that can supplement or replace those associated with
standard economic thinking. In particular, this book considers the
ethical thought of ancient thinkers, particularly the ancient
Greeks and their concept of eudaimonia, arguing that within those
traditions better alternatives can be found to the rational choice
utilitarianism characteristic of modern economic theory and policy.
This volume is of great interest to those who study economic theory
and philosophy, history of economic thought and philosophy of
social science, as well as public policy professionals.
Phillips and Ruth Thygeson were pioneers in medical research on
external diseases of the human eye. Together, this husband-and-wife
team shared a mutual story of extraordinary accomplishment
including, among other things, the discovery of the cause and the
cure of trachoma, a potentially blinding disease that affects
millions of people worldwide.This comprehensive biography tells the
complete story of their personal lives and careers. Beginning with
each of their childhoods, the story continues through their meeting
on the campus of Stanford University, their years of practicing
""frontier medicine"" in rural Colorado (where they built a log
cabin with their own hands), their world travels in search of a
cure for trachoma, and their considerable roles in establishing the
Francis I. Proctor Foundation for Research in Ophthalmology. The
story of this couple is one of a lifelong collaboration in
medicine, a 70-year love affair, and an unending quest to conquer
preventable blindness around the world.
Baseball players, like teams, have their ups and downs. Pitchers
inexplicably lose their command of the strike zone, batters think
themselves into deep slumps, and injuries, addiction, and poor
decision-making can radically change the fortunes of either. It's
in the response to such adversity that memorable stories are made.
This book focuses both on players whose determination in the face
of injury or private demons landed them back in the big leagues and
stars who never recovered from their dramatic, unexpected falls.
Profiled here are 14 players whose stories are among the most
stirring in baseball history: Tony Conigliaro, Monte Stratton, Pete
Rose, Bert Shepard, Eddie Waitkus, Mark Wohlers, Red Barney, Lou
Brissie, Tommy John, Mark McGwire, Sammy Sosa, Steve Blass, Dave
Dravecky, and Joe Jackson.
Many assume incorrectly that confrontations between baseballs
players and management began in the 1960s when the Major League
Baseball Players Association started showing signs of becoming a
union to be reckoned with. (The tensions of the 1960s prompted the
owners to form the Player Relations Committee to deal with them and
in February 1968, the two groups negotiated the games first Basic
Agreement.) The struggles between players and management to gain
the upper hand did not, however, start there--the two groups have
had numerous clashes since baseball began (as well as since the
1968 agreement). There have been various periods of conflict and
peace throughout the century and before. This work traces the
history of the relationship between players and management from
baseball's early years to the new challenges and developing
tensions that led to spring training lockouts instigated by the
owners and to player strikes in 1972, 1981, 1985, and 1994. An
important agreement in 1996 brought labor peace once again. The
future of player-management relations is also covered.
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