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Social Determinants of Health in Non-communicable Diseases Case Studies from Japan /

Table of Contents: “…Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Table of Contents -- Editor Bio -- The Social Determinants of Health and Trends Concerning Health Disparity -- Behavioral Problems in Children -- Metabolic Syndorome -- Cancer and Socioeconomic Status -- Coronary Heart Disease -- Stroke -- Chronic kidney disease -- Diabetes Mellitus -- Suicide -- Depression -- Dementia -- Falls and Related Bone Fractures -- Malnutrition in Older People -- Oral Health -- Healthy aging:IADL and functional disability -- Life Course Epidemiology -- Social capital and health -- Access to Healthcare and Health Inequality -- Measures of Health Inequality and Health Impact Assessment -- What Measures Can Be Taken to Reduce Health Disparity? …”
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The Illusion of Risk Control What Does it Take to Live With Uncertainty? /

Table of Contents: “…Johnson -- 8 What can Japan's early modern capital of Edo teach us about risk management?, by Jordan Sand -- 9 Conclusion, by Corinne Bieder.…”
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Beyond Global Food Supply Chains Crisis, Disruption, Regeneration /

Table of Contents: “…-- Chapter 11: The Un Food Systems Summit: Disaster Capitalism And The Future Of Food -- Chapter 12: Against Consumer Ethics -- Chapter 13. …”
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International Business by Carpenter, Mason A, Dunung, Sanjyot P

Table of Contents: “…Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: International Trade and Foreign Direct Investment -- Chapter 3: Culture and Business -- Chapter 4: World Economies -- Chapter 5: Global and Regional Economic Cooperation and Integration -- Chapter 6: International Monetary System -- Chapter 7: Foreign Exchange and the Global Capital Markets -- Chapter 8: International Expansion and Global Market Opportunity Assessment -- Chapter 9: Exporting, Importing, and Global Sourcing -- Chapter 10: Strategy and International Business -- Chapter 11: Global Entrepreneurship and Intrapreneurship -- Chapter 12: Winning through Effective, Global Talent Management -- Chapter 13: Harnessing the Engine of Global Innovation -- Chapter 14: Competing Effectively through Global Marketing, Distribution, and Supply-Chain Management -- Chapter 15: Understanding the Roles of Finance and Accounting in Global Competitive Advantage --…”
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Humanistic Governance in Democratic Organizations The Cooperative Difference /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Part 1 -- Humanism and the cooperative enterprise - theoretical foundations -- Parsing dignity for organizations -- Cooperative governance in context -- Part 2 -- Humanism and democracy in worker cooperatives -- Democratic cooperative governance: understanding the roles of the governing bodies -- Governance in Lincolnshire Consumer Cooperative -- Comparing governance systems in Cuban cooperatives: a study of producer and worker cooperatives in agriculture, industry and services -- From theory to practice: social capital in agricultural cooperatives in Flanders, Belgium -- The governance of multistakeholder cooperatives in Mondragon: The evolving relationship among purpose, structure, and process -- Networking, governance, and stakeholder engagement of financial cooperatives: some national case studies -- Part 3 -- Decades of radical self-management at a Venezuelan cooperative: Institutional distinctiveness and ideology -- Transformational resilience and future-ready cooperative governance systems -- Measuring transformational impact of cooperatives.…”
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Your Post has been Removed Tech Giants and Freedom of Speech / by Stjernfelt, Frederik, Lauritzen, Anne Mette

Table of Contents: “…Improving the World or Capitalizing on it? -- Chapter 9. Free Speech Under Pressure -- Chapter 10. …”
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Solidarity in Europe Citizens' Responses in Times of Crisis /

Table of Contents: “…Solidarity in the post-crisis United Kingdom; Tom Montgomery, Simone Baglioni, Olga Biosca and Maria Grasso -- Solidarity practices in Poland and their social capital foundations; Anna Kurowska and Maria Theiss -- The social and political dimensions of solidarity in Italy; Nicola Maggini -- Volunteering for refugees and asylum seekers in Greece; Stefania Kalogeraki -- Civic and political solidarity practices in Switzerland; Eva Fernandez G. -- Trajectories of solidarities in France across fields of vulnerability; Manlio Cinalli and Maria Jimena Sanhueza -- European Solidarity: a comparative assessment and discussion; Christian Lahusen and Maria Grasso.…”
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Built on Value The Huawei Philosophy of Finance Management / by Huang, Weiwei

Table of Contents: “…Enhancing Core Competencies through Strategic Mergers and Acquisitions and Corporate Venture Capital Investment -- 5. Strengthening Risk Control and Compliance Management -- 6. …”
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Managerial Accounting by Heisinger, Kurt, Hoyle, Joe

Table of Contents: “…-- Chapter 8: How Is Capital Budgeting Used to Make Decisions? -- Chapter 9: How Are Operating Budgets Created? …”
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Contracting and Safety Exploring Outsourcing Practices in High-Hazard Industries /

Table of Contents: “…Inter-Organizational Collaboration for the Safety of Railway Vehicles: a Japanese Case -- Effects of Tendering on the Resilience of Critical Services -- Part II: Capital Projects and Supply Chains -- 4. Organizing for Nuclear Safety: Exploring General Applicability of Relational Contracting to Nuclear Industry Projects with Practitioners -- 5. …”
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Introduction to Development Engineering A Framework with Applications from the Field /

Table of Contents: “…Part I: A New Discipline: Development Engineering -- Chapter 1: The Role Of Technology In Development -- Chapter 2: The Development Engineering Framework: Innovate, Evaluate, Scale -- Chapter 3: Asking the Right Questions -- Part II: Water, Sanitation and Health -- Chapter 4: Advances In Water and Health Technologies -- Chapter 5: Case Study: Electrochemical Arsenic Remediation, India (Innovation) -- Chapter 6: Case Study: Information For Intermittent Water Supply, India (Evaluation) -- Chapter 7: Case Study: Mobile Phone Diagnostic Microscopy, Vietnam/Cameroon (Innovation, Scale) -- Part III: Governance -- Chapter 8: Technologies for Governance And Accountability -- Chapter 9: Case Study: Sensors For Aid Accountability, Rwanda (Evaluation, Scale) -- Chapter 10: Case Study: High Resolution Development Indicators, Afghanistan (Evaluation, Scale) -- Chapter 11: Case Study: Monitoring For Elections And Public Service Delivery, Kenya (Evaluation, Scale) -- Part IV: Energy and Resources -- Chapter 12: Advances in Energy & Environmental Technologies -- Chapter 13: Case Study: Economic Impacts Of Rural Electrification, Kenya (Evaluation, Scale) -- Chapter 14: Case Study: Cool Joule: Flexible Energy Loads, Nicaragua (Innovation, Evaluation) -- Chapter 15: Case Study: Cookstove Monitoring and Use In East Africa (Innovation, Evaluation) -- Part V: Information -- Chapter 16: Information and Communications Technology For Development -- Chapter 17: Case Study: Community Cellular Networks, Philippines (Innovation, Evaluation) -- Chapter 18: Case Study: ICT Solutions To Bring Telemedicine To Rural India (Innovation) -- Chapter 19: Case Study: Platforms For Development Data (ODK/Mezuri) (Innovation, Scale) -- PART VI: Markets (Incorporates Agriculture) -- Chapter 20: Technologies To Improve Market Performance -- Chapter 21: Case Study: Ag Market Information Platforms, India (Innovation, Evaluation, Scale) -- Chapter 22: Case Study: Agricultural Trading Platforms, Uganda (Innovation, Evaluation) -- Chapter 23: Case Study: Inventory And Supply Chain Tracking, Sri Lanka (Evaluation) -- PART VII: Human Capital (Incorporates Labor) -- Chapter 24: Increasing the Productivity of Human Capital -- Chapter 25: Case Study: Electronic Job Search Platforms, India (Evaluation, Scale) -- Chapter 26: Case Study: Customized E-Learning Innovations, India (Evaluation) -- Chapter 27: Case Study: TBD (Evaluation) -- PART VIII: Conclusion -- Chapter 28: Promising Directions in Development Engineering.…”
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Consumption, Sustainability and Everyday Life

Table of Contents: “…Consumption, sustainability and everyday life -- 2. Capitalism, consumption, and the transformation of everyday life: The political economy of social practices -- 3. …”
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Conventions 101 A Functional Approach to Teaching (And Assessing!) Grammar and Punctuation by Ramsey, Chauna

Table of Contents: “…First Things First: Conventions Pre-Test -- Unit 1: A Lot; There, They're, Their; To, Two, Too -- Unit 2: Your, You're; Its, It's; Woman,Women -- Unit 3: Where, Were; Could Have, Could "Of"; Lose, Loose -- Unit 4: Whose, Who's; Fewer, Less; Choose, Chose -- Unit 5: Accept, Except; Who vs That; Lose, Loose -- Unit 6: All Ready, Already; I vs Me; Affect, Effect -- Unit 7: Everyday, Every Day; Defiant, Definite -- Unit 8: Capitalizing Pronouns; All Right vs "Alright" -- Unit 9: Commas in a Series; Commas After Introductory Phrases -- Unit 10: Commas with "So," "Or," "But," "And"; Commas with Interrupting Elements -- Unit 11: Comma Review -- Unit 12: Fragments and Run-Ons -- Unit 13: Semicolons -- Unit 14: Punctuation and End Quotation Marks; Punctuating Titles -- Unit 15: Colons -- Unit 16: Apostrophe Pre-Assessment -- Unit 17: Apostrophes -- Unit 18: Subject-Verb Agreement -- Unit 19: Final Exam; "Rejected" Notice; Cheat Sheet…”
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The International Handbook of Social Enterprise Law Benefit Corporations and Other Purpose-Driven Companies /

Table of Contents: “…-- Corporate Purpose : How the Board of Directors can Achieve an Inclusive Corporate Governance Regime -- Social Enterprise: Conceptual Debates and Approaches -- Models and Trends of Social Enterprise Regulation in the European Union -- Social enterprises in the social cooperative form -- How social entrepreneurs create systemic change A comparative analysis of for-profit and non- profit models -- PART II: Benefit Corporations and B Corp Certification -- Benefit Corporations: Trends and Perspectives -- Behavioral Perspectiveson B Corps -- B Lab and the process of certificating B Corps -- Introduction to the law of Benefit Corporations and other public purpose-driven companies -- Benefit Corporations and the Common Law Tradition -- Viability of non-recognized benefit corporations -- Real-World Lessons on Stakeholder Capitalism: How B Lab & B Corp movement catalyze change in society -- PART III: Purpose-Driven Companies: An International Overview -- Social Enterprises and Benefit Corporations in Argentina -- The Failed Attempt to Enact Benefit Company Legislation in Australia and the Rise of B Corps -- Social Enterprises and Benefit Corporations in Brazil: Projects for Corporate Qualification and Capital Market Regulation -- The suitability of Belgian Law to B-Corp -- B Corps, Benefit Corporations and socially oriented enterprises in Canada -- Purpose-driven companies and the projected legal system for benefit and collective interest companies in Chile -- Social Enterprises and Benefit Corporations in China -- Social Enterprises and Benefit Corporations in Colombia -- Social Enterprises and B-Corps in Ecuador -- The suitability of French Law to B-Corp -- Social Purposes in German Corporate Law and Benefit Corporations in Germany -- Social Enterprises and Certified B Corporations in Hong Kong: Development, Key Lessons Learnt and Ways Forward -- B-Corps in India: A Sustainable Business Model -- Social Enterprises and Benefit Corporations in Italy -- Corporations with Social Aims in the Japanese Legal System -- The suitability of Luxembourgish Law to B-Corp -- Certified B Corps in Mexico -- Benefit Corporations in the Peruvian legal ecosystem -- Social Enterprises and Benefit Corporations in Portugal -- Finding space for the B-Corporation within the South African legal landscape -- Social Enterprises and Benefit Corporations in South-Korea -- Social Enterprises and Benefit Corporations in Spain -- Social Enterprises and Benefit Corporations in Switzerland -- Social Enterprises in the Netherlands: Towards more institutional diversity? …”
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The Demography of Disasters Impacts for Population and Place /

Table of Contents: “…Part 1 People, Vulnerability and Resilience -- Demographic approaches to understanding impacts from disasters -- The four periods of natural and technological disasters -- Demographic and vulnerability aspects of affected populations and regionalization of natural hazards related with extreme rainfall events in Brazil -- Natural Disaster and Social Capital Nexus for Resilience: A study of Jeddah City, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia -- Part 2 - Migration & Relocation, Climate Change and Spatial Impacts -- Relocation of Communities after Natural Disasters in Taiwan and Japan -- Long-term mass displacements after nuclear disasters - Are they the largest emergency displacements of human history?…”
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Guide to Ancient Near Eastern Art

Table of Contents: “…Ancient Persia, an introduction -- 23. Capital of a column from the audience hall of the palace of Darius I, Susa -- 24. …”
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West African Youth Challenges and Opportunity Pathways

Table of Contents: “…Police-Youth Relations: On the Ground Perspectives from Nigeria´s Federal Capital; Samuel Oluwole Ojewale -- 5. "To become somebody in the future": Exploring the Content of Youth Aspirations in Urban Nigeria; Dabesaki Mac-Ikemenjima -- 6. …”
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Questioning the Entrepreneurial State Status-quo, Pitfalls, and the Need for Credible Innovation Policy /

Table of Contents: “…Part I: Introductory Chapter -- Introduction -- Part II: The Entrepreneurial State: Theoretical Perspectives -- The Entrepreneurial State and the Platform Economy -- An Effectual Analysis of Markets and States -- The Entrepreneurial State: An Ownership Competence Perspective -- Innovation Without Entrepreneurship: The Pipe Dream of Mission-Oriented Innovation Policy -- Part III: The Entrepreneurial State, Entrepreneurial Universities, and Startups -- Building Local Innovation Support Systems: Theory and Practice -- Reducing Higher Education Bureaucracy and Reclaiming the Entrepreneurial University -- Cultural Ideals in the Entrepreneurship Industry -- Evaluating Evaluations of Innovation Policy: Exploring Reliability, Methods, and Conflicts of Interest -- Do Targeted R&D Grants toward SMEs Increase Employment and Demand for High Human Capital Workers? -- Part IV: The Entrepreneurial State and Sustainability Transitions -- Third-Generation Innovation Policy: System Transformation or Reinforcing Business as Usual? …”
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Rethinking Graduate Employability in Context Discourse, Policy and Practice /

Table of Contents: “…Institutionalisation of employability capitals in employment markets -- 9. The vocational drift of French higher education and the employability of graduates -- 10. …”
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Principles of Economics

Table of Contents: “…Chapter 1: Economics: The Study of Choice -- Chapter 2: Confronting Scarcity: Choices in Production -- Chapter 3: Demand and Supply -- Chapter 4: Applications of Demand and Supply -- Chapter 5: Elasticity: A Measure of Response -- Chapter 6: Markets, Maximizers, and Efficiency -- Chapter 7: The Analysis of Consumer Choice -- Chapter 8: Production and Cost -- Chapter 9: Competitive Markets for Goods and Services -- Chapter 10: Monopoly -- Chapter 11: The World of Imperfect Competition -- Chapter 12: Wages and Employment in Perfect Competition -- Chapter 13: Interest Rates and the Markets for Capital and Natural Resources -- Chapter 14: Imperfectly Competitive Markets for Factors of Production -- Chapter 15: Public Finance and Public Choice -- Chapter 16: Antitrust Policy and Business Regulation -- Chapter 17: International Trade -- Chapter 18: The Economics of the Environment -- Chapter 19: Inequality, Poverty, and Discrimination -- Chapter 20: Macroeconomics: The Big Picture -- Chapter 21: Measuring Total Output and Income -- Chapter 22: Aggregate Demand and Aggregate Supply -- Chapter 23: Economic Growth -- Chapter 24: The Nature and Creation of Money -- Chapter 25: Financial Markets and the Economy -- Chapter 26: Monetary Policy and the Fed -- Chapter 27: Government and Fiscal Policy -- Chapter 28: Consumption and the Aggregate Expenditures Model -- Chapter 29: Investment and Economic Activity -- Chapter 30: Net Exports and International Finance -- Chapter 31: Inflation and Unemployment -- Chapter 32: A Brief History of Macroeconomic Thought and Policy -- Chapter 33: Economic Development -- Chapter 34: Socialist Economies in Transition…”
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