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Business Accounting covers financial and management accounting in an accessible, non-technical style that is particularlysuitable for undergraduate students of business & finance and MBAs. The active-learning approach seeks to convey the ability to understand and evaluate financial information for a range of business services.

Stakeholder engagement is an important component in developing policies on critical issues such as the use and development of novel methods and technologies, including biotechnologies and nanotechnologies. Understanding the perspectives, needs, and concerns of stakeholder groups can facilitate the development of transparent and trusted policy recommendations. Innovative online research platforms have been developed as alternatives to typical stakeholder engagement methods such as in-person focus groups, interviews, and online and paper surveys. These platforms facilitate the engagement of geographically and linguistically (i.e., individuals who speak different languages) diverse stakeholders using a wide range of methods, from virtual focus groups to surveys. Stakeholders can participate at their own leisure and anonymously, which can facilitate more open interactions on issues where viewpoints may differ. In this work, we used an online stakeholder engagement platform (OSEP) to engage stakeholders and capture their perceptions and views about the application of nanotechnology in food and agriculture (nano-agrifood) and the role of responsible innovation in the development of nano-agrifood products. The OSEP provided a reliable and interactive environment for stakeholders to share their views and exchange ideas. Such OSEPs should be further explored as novel tools for engaging stakeholders on a range of issues from emerging technologies to public health.

What happens when a team of writers who swear allegiance to punk are pitched into brutal, no-holds-barred story war with a squad of scribes pledging loyalty to metal? When it comes to rivalries between musical genres, there are few as storied, enduring, and hostile, as the one between punk rock and heavy metal. For two styles that have much in common, this pair of rebellious, agressive musical beasts have long been at loggerheads with each other. So, what happens when a team of writers who swear allegiance to punk are pitched into brutal, no-holds-barred story war with a squad of scribes pledging loyalty to metal? With Michael Fisher campaigning team punk and Jim Goforth at the helm of team metal, we're about to find out. As we go thirteen rounds in a battle anthology like no other. Strap on your guitars. Turn the volume to eleven. And, be prepared to launch yourself into a world where heavy music rules over all. And horror and bizarro authors sling savage ink in the name of their chosen genre. In this knock-down, drag-out war of words, two teams fight for supremacy, and you will be the judge. You make the final call. You decide who wins the ultimate battle that is... PUNK VS METAL

As of January 1, 2020, all new and replacement bridge rails installed on the National Highway System are required to conform to the requirements stipulated in the AASHTO Manual for Assessing Safety Hardware [MASH], 2nd edition (2016).NCHRP Research Report 1109: Bridge Railing Design Requirements, from TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program, presents an update to bridge railing design requirements to ensure consistency with the state of knowledge. The update incorporates the recommendations from NCHRP Research Report 1024: Evaluation of Bridge Rail Systems to Confirm AASHTO MASH Compliance and NCHRP Research Report 1078: MASH Railing Load Requirements for Bridge Deck Overhang.

A Shooting Star' is a heartfelt, empowering story of how, Sarah-a young girl who moves to a new location with her family-helps turn around her negative perception through the magic of giving and receiving 'A Shooting Star'. This kind action turns into a movement that deepens positive connections and relationships, not only within her family and school, but the whole community as well. In a world of distraction, where negativity, bullying, dobbing, and social media demand our attention, this book helps create balance. This book is for parents, teachers, families, and everyone who works to empower children. Through this one simple kind action-that can be done at any time of the day, by both YOU and YOUR child, as a TEAM, TOGETHER-you can start to see and acknowledge the star qualities you wish to see in each other! Start sharing 'A Shooting Star' as soon as you finish reading this book!! I am so excited for you. Will you join me and be part of this evolution of change?

Analyzing linked employer-employee panel administrative databases, we study the evolving isolation of higher earners from other employees in eleven countries: Canada, Czechia, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, Japan, Norway, Spain, South Korea, and Sweden. We find in almost all countries a growing workplace isolation of top earners and dramatically declining exposure of top earners to bottom earners. We compare these trends to segregation based on occupational class, education, age, gender, and nativity, finding that the rise in top earner isolation is much more dramatic and general across countries. We find that residential segregation is also growing, although more slowly than segregation at work, with top earners and bottom earners increasingly living in different distinct municipalities. While work and residential segregation are correlated, statistical modeling suggests that the primary causal effect is from work to residential segregation. These findings open up a future research program on the causes and consequences of top earner segregation.

A bold and urgent perspective on how American foreign policy must change in response to the shifting world order of the twenty-first century, from the New York Times bestselling author of The Limits of Power and The Age of Illusions. The purpose of U.S. foreign policy has, at least theoretically, been to keep Americans safe. Yet as we confront a radically changed world, it has become indisputably clear that the terms of that policy have failed. Washington’s insistence that a market economy is compatible with the common good, its faith in the idea of the “West” and its “special relationships,” its conviction that global military primacy is the key to a stable and sustainable world order—these have brought endless wars and a succession of moral and material disasters. In a bold reconception of America’s place in the world, informed by thinking from across the political spectrum, Andrew J. Bacevich—founder and president of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, a bipartisan Washington think tank dedicated to foreign policy—lays down a new approach—one that is based on moral pragmatism, mutual coexistence, and war as a last resort. Confronting the threats of the future—accelerating climate change, a shift in the international balance of power, and the ascendance of information technology over brute weapons of war—his vision calls for nothing less than a profound overhaul of our understanding of national security. Crucial and provocative, After the Apocalypse sets out new principles to guide the once-but-no-longer sole superpower as it navigates a transformed world.