Автор: Paul M.Fischer, William J.Taylor, Rita H.Cheng
Издательство: South-Western College Publishers
Год издания: 2005
isbn: 0324304013
Количество страниц: 1149
Язык: english
Формат: PDF
Business combinations have been a common business transaction since the start of commercial activity. The concept is simple: A business combination is the group acquisition of all of a company’s assets at a single price. Business combinations is a comprehensive term covering all acquisitions of one firm by another. Business combinations can be further categorized as either mergers or consolidations. The term merger applies when an existing company acquires another company and combines that company’s operations with its own. The term consolidation applies when two or more previously separate firms merge into one new, continuing company. Business combinations make headlines not only in the business press but also in the local newspapers of the communities where the participating companies are located. While investors may delight in the price received for their interest, employees become concerned about continued employment, and local citizens worry about a possible relocation of the business.
Автор: W.J.Thomas, Barry Crittenden
Издательство: Elsevier Science & Technology Books
Год издания: 1998
isbn: 0750619597
Количество страниц: 274
Язык: english
Формат: PDF
In Adsorption Technology and Design, we find a carefully crafted blend of theory, practice and example. The reader who seeks only an overview is as well served as the experienced practitioners seeking to broaden their knowledge. Chapters 1 and 2 are an introduction that allows the nonpractitioner to gain some understanding of the history and technology. Chapters 3 and 4 deal with the theory of adsorption equilibria and adsorption kinetics respectively. These well-structured chapters define the basic science of the subject and provide the essential grounding necessary to allow applications development. Chapters 5 and 6 are a comprehensive description of processes and cycles and their design procedures. Here the practitioner may gain experience or inspiration to innovate. These chapters are suitable reading for both the novice and the expert. Chapter 7 is the consolidation of the book. Here we see how theory is put into commercial practice. It also clearly illustrates the variety of possible approaches to particular processes and the rate of development of the technology.
Автор: Wei Xiao
Издательство: Humana Press
Год издания: 2006
isbn: 1588294374
Количество страниц: 405
Язык: english
Формат: PDF
Unicellular yeast cells have been traditionally used as models of lower eukaryotic organisms and the study of yeast has made tremendous contributions to our understanding of life and cellular metabolism. In particular, the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae is the first organism whose entire genome sequence was determined. This has greatly facilitated and expedited our efforts aiming at deciphering functions of the entire genome of approximately 6200 genes. As a consequence, the functionally unknown genes have decreased from two-thirds of the genome in 1994 to less than 40% today. We are confident that in another decade, the functions of the vast majority of yeast genes will be uncovered, with new functions added to previously described genes as well.
Автор: Iain Aitken
Издательство: Butterworth-Heinemann
Год издания: 2003
isbn: 0750659254
Количество страниц: 329
Язык: english
Формат: PDF
There are few professions which require as much continuous updating as that of the IT executive. Not only does the hardware and software scene change relentlessly, but also ideas about the actual management of the IT function are being continuously modified, updated and changed. Thus keeping abreast of what is going on is really a major task. The Butterworth-Heinemann – Computer Weekly Professional Series has been created to assist IT executives keep up to date with the management ideas and issues of which they need to be aware.
Автор: Paul G.Slade
Издательство: CRC Press and Taylor & Francis
Год издания: 2008
isbn: 0849390915
Количество страниц: 528
Язык: english
Формат: PDF
The vacuum interrupter is deceptively simple. A typical cross-section. The contacts are enclosed in a vacuum chamber originally manufactured from glass, but later from a high alumina ceramic. The contacts are closed by a mechanism connected to the moving terminal. The moving terminal is connected to the vacuum chamber by a stainless steel bellows that permits the contacts to open and close while maintaining the vacuum. Typical vacuum levels inside the device are about 10.4 Pa (10.6 mbar).
Автор: David A.Grimaldi
Издательство: Harry N. Abrams, Inc. Publishers
Год издания: 1996
isbn: 0810919664
Количество страниц: 217
Язык: english
Формат: PDF
The inspiration for this book came from a desire to produce a lavishly illust rated volume on the entire spectrum of amber. The text, of course, should be accurate and informative, but the images should speak for themselves. A high standard for photographs was set by Dieter Schlee at the Museum fur Naturkunde in Stuttgart. These beautiful photographs, which were published in the Stuttgarter Beitrage series, are of wondrous fossil and mineralogical pieces of amber, but the booklets are in German and not easily obtained. When the American Museum of Natural History launched an exhibit on the natural history and artistry of amber, opening in March 1996, it was a prime opportunity to produce such a book, which would be a guide for developing as well as enjoying the exhibit.
Автор: Susan L.Brantley, James D.Kubicki, Art F.White
Издательство: Springer
Год издания: 2008
isbn: 0387735623
Количество страниц: 852
Язык: english
Формат: PDF
Systems at the surface of the Earth are continually responding to energy inputs derived ultimately from radiation from the Sun or from the radiogenic heat in the interior. These energy inputs drive plate movements and erosion, exposing metastable mineral phases at the Earth’s surface. In addition, these energy fluxes are harvested and transformed by living organisms. As long as these processes persist, chemical disequilibrium at the Earth’s surface will be perpetuated. In addition, as human populations grow, the need to produce food, extract water, and extract energy resources increases. These processes continually contribute to chemical disequilibrium at the Earth surface. We therefore find it necessary to predict how the surface regolith will change in response to anthropogenic processes as well as long-term climatic and tectonic forcings.
Автор: David M.Berry
Издательство: Pluto Press
Год издания: 2008
isbn: 0745324150
Количество страниц: 273
Язык: english
Формат: PDF
This book critically engages with the activities and theoretical exchanges between the free/libre and open source software groups who write and share computer code online. I place these groups in the context of the expansion of intellectual property rights and look at their discourses surrounding the enclosure of the ‘intellectual’ commons. In particular, I explore how free/libre software and open source software (FLOSS) articulates productive forms of self-knowledge and discipline (such as through discursive formations and code), which appear to establish a potential for uncoordinated and decentred models of creativity.
Автор: Dennis F.Vanderwerf
Издательство: Spie Press
Год издания: 2010
isbn: 081948332X
Количество страниц: 303
Язык: english
Формат: PDF
This text deals primarily with the optics of refracting and reflecting planar surfaces in the form of prismatic refracting and reflecting components, and the design, analysis, and applications of these components. Optical prisms consist of multiple planar surfaces, constructed to a specified geometry and formed from optical glass or plastic. The surfaces may have thin-film coatings that contribute to their functionality. Optical prismatic elements can be classified into two general types: those that are used in imaging systems, such as binoculars or projectors, and those used in nonimaging systems, such as spectrometers, illuminators, and solar concentrators. In addition to well-known prism systems, new applications of prisms are being introduced in the fields of electro-optics, metrology, prismatic films and arrays, projection displays, and others.
Автор: D.M.Akbar Hussain
Издательство: In-Tech
Год издания: 2009
isbn: 9537619516
Количество страниц: 428
Язык: english
Формат: PDF
This book has a unique title” Advances in Computer Science and IT”, although it is not entirely new there is a trend of similar titles in many international conferences. However, for a book this title certainly has innovation and many articles presented in the text shows there uniqueness likewise the title. The book presents some very interesting and excellent articles for this divergent title, the 22 chapters presented here cover core topics of computer science like Visualization of large databases, Security, Ontology, User Interface, Graphs, Object Oriented Software Developments and on the Engineering side Filtering, Motion Dynamics, Adaptive Fuzzy Logic, Hyper Static Mechanical Systems. It has also topics which are combination of Computer Science and Engineering like Meta Computing, Future Mobiles, Color Image Analysis, Relative representation and Recognition, Neural Networks. The book will serve a unique purpose through these multi-disciplined topics to share different but interesting views on each of these topics.
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