This Companion to Sociolinguistics has been collected together for anyone who is interested in how and why diverse people speak and write differently: in other words, it is aimed at everyone. Anyone who has ever noticed an accent, or puzzled over a dialect phrase, or wondered why road signs are in several languages; anyone who adjusts their speech or writing in different situations, or cannot i…
Corporate property in the past has been concerned to much with the facility and insufficiently concerned with the relationship of that facility to the larger real estate markets and to corporate business strategy. Researchers concerning corporate strategic management have too seldom been sensitive to—let alone aware of—the significance of the properties in which corporations operate as a …
This work justified “the impacts of Strategic Environmental Scanning on Organization performance in a competitive business environment” by studying Nestle Nigeria Plc and Cadbury Nigeria Plc. The opinions of the selected respondents were sought by the use of structured questionnaire; the collected data were analyzed and interpreted with regression and coefficient of correlation method of an…
How many beggars one rich man can feed!/When kings build, the carters have their hands full,” writes Friedrich Schiller in Kant und seine Ausleger.1 In this poem carters are separated from the king as conspicuously as light is from darkness, or giants from dwarves. Should this division prove unjust, the king may be overthrown. Schiller’s poem, however, has nothing to do with political just…
Pipedream.com, Inc. will create the first Internet Sports Entertainment Network offering sports programming along with clothing and equipment. Recognizing that a vital aspect of selling merchandise online is to provide compelling entertainment content to inspire sales. The company’s unique content will showcase the new and exciting Entertainment and all the products, events, services and adv…
The theory of univariate splines began its rapid development in the early sixties, resulting in several thousand research papers and a number of books. This development was largely over by 1980, and the bulk of what is known today was treated in the classic monographs of deBoor [Boo78] and Schu- maker [Sch81]. Univariate splines have become an essential tool in a wide variety of application are…
This book is the first to apply the network approach to the analysis of business relationships in a global context. Drawing on a wide variety of international case. studies, a `network approach' is developed, giving rise to far-reaching theoretical and practical managerial insights and a different way of conceptualizing companies within markets. New angles emerge on traditional problems of busi…
Optimization is a discipline that plays a key role in modeling and solving problems in most areas of engineering and sciences. Optimization tools are used to understand the dynamics of information networks, financial markets, solve logistics and supply chain problems, design new drugs, solve biomedical problems, design renewable and sustainable energy systems, reduce pollution, and improve he…
Bargaining in the international system is governed by rules, which shape and constrain states’ bargaining behavior. However, these rules can be changed. When, why, and how do states bargain differently under different sets of rules? Drawing on original qualitative and quantitative evidence, this book demonstrates how the rules of the game influence the cooperative or coercive nature of the st…
The theory of an exciton formed from a spatially separated electron and a hole is developed within the framework of the modified effective mass method. The effect of significantly increasing the exciton binding energy in quantum dots of zinc selenide, synthesized in a borosilicate glass matrix and relative to that in a zinc selenide single crystal is revealed. It is shown that the short-wavelen…
The year 2001 marked the tenth anniversary of Taiwan’s multi-party elections. The National Assembly elections of 1991 and the forced retirement of the senior parliamentarians elected in the 1940s on the Chinese mainland signify the begin- ning of democratic elections that for the first time had the potential to bring about a change in the ruling party. Ten years have passed, offering a timely…
You’ve survived all those technical accounting courses, advanced courses, systems, auditing, cost, and tax, and now you’re ready to take the big exam. But perhaps in those intermediate or advanced courses, you didn’t receive enough expo- sure to research in the accounting standards, the auditing standards, or the tax code. No problem! This little book is designed to quickly bring you up…
My premise is that the destiny of man is to emerge or evolve toward an advancing potential and that individual liberty is essential to such progress. Unless a reader shares my premise, he will not respond to my reasoning; nor will it be possible for him to arrive at my conclusions. He may have his eye set on a star I do not see or, if seeing, care nothing whatsoever about. I side with Th…