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This comprehensive Research Handbook provides international
perspectives on the role of information systems in environmental
sustainability, drawing on groundbreaking research from leading
scholars to predict future trends. This Research Handbook presents
in-depth studies on green information systems which utilise a
diverse range of approaches and methods, including reviews of
previous literature, experimental studies, surveys, and interviews.
Chapters focus on the development and promotion of energy
informatics, the use of digital technologies in the implementation
of a circular economy, and the role of information systems in
supporting the integration of renewable energy. This Research
Handbook further analyses the ways in which digital nudging, demand
response, and the impact of psychological ownership can influence
consumer behaviour and encourage sustainable consumption. Tackling
the issues facing information systems and the environment on an
individual, organisational, and societal scale, this Research
Handbook will be crucial reading for students and scholars in
business ethics, environmental management, information systems, and
management and sustainability. It will also be beneficial for
practitioners in business management and corporate social
responsibility who are interested in environmental sustainability.
This book takes a holistic approach to the prevention and control
of infectious diseases from enteric pathogens, covering different
concepts and approaches to address these challenging diseases, with
special emphasis on HIV and AIDS. It examines several different
approaches, such as ayurvedic, bioinformatic, and fungal- and
metal-based treatment of diseases in the first section. The
remaining chapters fully focus on various approaches specifically
to HIV and AIDS, one of the most challenging infectious disease
known to mankind. The book also discusses recent trends in HIV and
AIDS research, ongoing treatments, case studies, and major
achievements.
This book provides a set of integrated frameworks-capital, systems,
and objects-that transcend managerial or technology hype by
focusing on the long-term fundamentals that sustain organizational
success, and it contains cases from South East Asia to elaborate
this concept. Many organizations are currently addressing two
important transformational issues: ecological sustainability and
digitization. Sustainability is a goal, an end, and digitization is
a process, a means to achieve a goal. This book introduces a
flexible model that can be applied to current and future
organizational challenges, including sustainability and
digitization, because the fundamentals are constant. This book is
designed to serve two purposes for the readers: first, to present
three conceptual foundations for designing and operating
organizations (capital, systems, and objects (section 1)); and
second, to provide a reference source for implementing these ideas
in your organization (sections 2 and 3). The first section of the
book, chapters 1 through 7, sets forth the conceptual foundations.
The chapters mix concepts and practical examples to give a new way
of thinking about the setting in which one may work many days each
year. The second section provides details and associated examples
of every one of the thirty-six forms of capital conversion. It also
illustrates how the five foundational systems support capital
conversion in a variety of ways. Finally, the third section is
about measuring capital and systems. The book covers measurement of
all types of capital and systems performance and has been written
for current and future organizational leaders to change the game
and play it more effectively. The book will thus resonate with
students of organizational behaviour and leadership strategy,
organizational leaders, industry experts, and general readers.
India, especially coastal India, has a long history of shipbuilding
and navigation dating back to the Indus Valley Civilization. Indian
shipwrights and the labour force associated with various aspects of
shipbuilding excelled in naval architecture. Their native wisdom
was adopted by the Europeans engaged in shipbuilding in coastal
India. Similarly some of the techniques of navigation followed by
Indians were emulated by the European mariners. A comprehensive
peep into the science of naval architecture and navigation is
attempted in this work making a comparative study of Indian and
Portuguese architecture and navigation. The volume discusses the
importance of the timber grown in the monsoon-fed forests of the
Malabar coast and its appreciation by the Portuguese shipwrights
and theoreticians of naval architecture. The work shows that
increase of the tonnage of ocean-going vessels and the appearance
of hostile mariners from other quarters of Western Europe compelled
the Portuguese to adopt enhanced technology in naval architecture
and navigation. The fact that the use of canons for defence against
intruders made the Portuguese vessels stronger than the Indian
ships which, for centuries, were accustomed to considerably
peaceful navigation is also brought out in this much anticipated
volume.
This book provides a set of integrated frameworks-capital, systems,
and objects-that transcend managerial or technology hype by
focusing on the long-term fundamentals that sustain organizational
success, and it contains cases from South East Asia to elaborate
this concept. Many organizations are currently addressing two
important transformational issues: ecological sustainability and
digitization. Sustainability is a goal, an end, and digitization is
a process, a means to achieve a goal. This book introduces a
flexible model that can be applied to current and future
organizational challenges, including sustainability and
digitization, because the fundamentals are constant. This book is
designed to serve two purposes for the readers: first, to present
three conceptual foundations for designing and operating
organizations (capital, systems, and objects (section 1)); and
second, to provide a reference source for implementing these ideas
in your organization (sections 2 and 3). The first section of the
book, chapters 1 through 7, sets forth the conceptual foundations.
The chapters mix concepts and practical examples to give a new way
of thinking about the setting in which one may work many days each
year. The second section provides details and associated examples
of every one of the thirty-six forms of capital conversion. It also
illustrates how the five foundational systems support capital
conversion in a variety of ways. Finally, the third section is
about measuring capital and systems. The book covers measurement of
all types of capital and systems performance and has been written
for current and future organizational leaders to change the game
and play it more effectively. The book will thus resonate with
students of organizational behaviour and leadership strategy,
organizational leaders, industry experts, and general readers.
The four essays in this book examine aspects of Portugal's first
overseas empire, the maritime and commercial empire that was
founded in the fifteenth century and which, during the sixteenth
century extended from Brazil to China.
Three powerful technologies are combined in a single book:
Remoting, Reflection, and Threading. When these technologies come
together, readers are faced with a powerful range of tools that
allows them to run code faster, more securely, and more flexibly,
so they'll be able to code applications across the spectrum--from a
single machine to an entire network.
This book takes a holistic approach to the prevention and control
of infectious diseases from enteric pathogens, covering different
concepts and approaches to address these challenging diseases, with
special emphasis on HIV and AIDS. It examines several different
approaches, such as ayurvedic, bioinformatic, and fungal- and
metal-based treatment of diseases in the first section. The
remaining chapters fully focus on various approaches specifically
to HIV and AIDS, one of the most challenging infectious disease
known to mankind. The book also discusses recent trends in HIV and
AIDS research, ongoing treatments, case studies, and major
achievements.
In 1958, Alaska was not yet a state; it was one of the last
frontiers in the West and offered a life of adventure to anyone
willing to relocate there. Donna Joy McGladrey, the daughter of a
Methodist minister, had recently graduated from college and was
ready for what Alaska promised.
McGladrey became the first band instructor in Dillingham, a
remote fishing village 350 miles west of Anchorage. Before she
arrived, someone showed her a photo of Dillingham and her immediate
reaction was, "It's terribly primitive." But later she reported in
a letter to her family, "I SAW A GLACIER! WOW! . . . Fall colors
are the most gorgeous I've ever seen. And the mountainsWow."
On her first day of class, the new music teacher discovered
there were no instruments for the students to play--she had to
convince the parents, who depended on the annual salmon harvest for
income, to buy them. But her students were excited about music and
they energized their young teacher as much as she inspired
them.
McGladrey made new friends, learned to appreciate Alaska and its
ruggedness, and decided to make her home in the forty-ninth state.
In those days before instant communication, she and her family
maintained close contact through the mail. Sandra Mathews,
McGladrey's niece, made extensive use of that correspondence to
tell the story of her aunt's experiences in Alaska. Mathews also
interviewed people who had known McGladrey and supplemented the
letters and interviews with archival research. "Between Breaths"
reflects Donna McGladrey's willingness to adapt, accept, and,
perhaps most importantly, to rely on herself.
For the first time, there is now a textbook that addresses state
standards for the teaching of New Mexico history at the high school
level. In this thoughtful work, the authors delineate New Mexico's
role in the shaping of the United States by carefully analyzing how
the rich histories of the many cultures of the region affected and
in turn were affected by influxes of newcomers seeking health
benefits, minerals, farms, relaxation, and new beginnings.
Supplementing this richly illustrated and accessible textbook is
the optional Teacher Guide Book on CD for use with A History of New
Mexico Since Statehood, which will help in structuring lessons,
tests, and student activities. The Teacher Guide Book is included
free with the purchase of twenty-five classroom copies.
Can a complex subject like tax compliance be handled in such a
simple manner? Sibichen K Mathew is successful in presenting his
in-depth study on what makes people pay taxes or what prevents them
from paying in a very interesting style. The Author takes us
through the history, the economics and the politics of taxation to
dissect the interconnected issues related to tax evasion and tax
enforcement. He forcefully argues that the economic models are
unable to fully explain the behaviour of taxpayers. For, if the tax
laws are complex, the human mind is much more complex to yield to
the economic models. His arguments are supported by data on
attitudes, perceptions and experience of taxpayers, many of whom
declare themselves to be tax evaders. The author also analyzes the
sociological and economic causes and consequences of tax evasion
and tax enforcement in the global context. The author has also
briefly referred to the tax challenges thrown up by the integrated
world economy. The solution offered is scaling up of international
cooperation on a significant scale. The insights gained from these
incisive analyses have enormous implications for policy makers as
well as tax administrators all over the world. The taxpayers, tax
practitioners and the students of social sciences would also find
this book enriching.
Can a complex subject like tax compliance be handled in such a
simple manner? Sibichen K Mathew is successful in presenting his
in-depth study on what makes people pay taxes or what prevents them
from paying in a very interesting style. The Author takes us
through the history, the economics and the politics of taxation to
dissect the interconnected issues related to tax evasion and tax
enforcement. He forcefully argues that the economic models are
unable to fully explain the behaviour of taxpayers. For, if the tax
laws are complex, the human mind is much more complex to yield to
the economic models. His arguments are supported by data on
attitudes, perceptions and experience of taxpayers, many of whom
declare themselves to be tax evaders. The author also analyzes the
sociological and economic causes and consequences of tax evasion
and tax enforcement in the global context. The author has also
briefly referred to the tax challenges thrown up by the integrated
world economy. The solution offered is scaling up of international
cooperation on a significant scale. The insights gained from these
incisive analyses have enormous implications for policy makers as
well as tax administrators all over the world. The taxpayers, tax
practitioners and the students of social sciences would also find
this book enriching.
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