“…With the growing dependency on the partners, effective supply chains have become as important for a com­pany's suc­cess as efficient in-house processes. This book covers typical business processes and shows how these processes are implemented. …”

“…With the phenomenology of Merleau-Ponty, in a different register, but within the theme, we consolidated, now in the 20th century, that neither human consciousness nor human behavior are a series of automatic reactions, typical of causal thinking. We have finally completed these arguments with the critical thinking of a tradition of academic researchers in which Carlos Pires, Peter Breggin, Thomas Szasz or R.D. …”

“…Investments in its research base are lagging, and some typically Dutch strengths have recently come under pressure. …”

“…Ali is here to speak with the clinician at this treatment facility for substances at the behest of her employer. Ali typically drinks four or more times a week and three or four drinks at a time. …”

“…Thin provisioning can help by reducing the amount of unused storage that is typically allocated to applications or users. Now available for the IBM® DS8880 for Fixed Block (FB) and Count Key Data (CKD) volumes, thin provisioning defers the allocation of actual space on the storage system until the time that the data must effectively be written to disk. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Making Excuses -- Efficiency and Honesty -- Chapter 15 The Purchase Agreement -- How to Review the Purchase Agreement -- The Definitions -- Purchase Price and Payment Execution -- Warranties and Representations -- Indemnification -- Termination Provisions and Breakup Fees -- Closing Conditions -- Covenants -- Terms and Clauses to Watch -- Jurisdiction -- Stock Exchange Ratio -- Asset Purchases -- Earnouts -- Express Nonreliance -- No-Shop versus Go-Shop Clauses -- Pandemic and Epidemic Carve-Outs -- Typical Purchase Agreement Outline -- Lawyers and the Purchase Agreement -- Choosing the Right M&amp -- A Lawyer -- Experience Fit -- Global versus Local -- Value for the Money -- Alignment -- Bandwidth and Priority -- Dealing with Legal Counsel -- Chapter 16 Strategic versus Financial Acquisitions -- Different Types of Acquisitions -- Financial Acquisitions -- Strategic Acquisitions -- Reasons for Strategic Acquisitions -- Growth -- Roll-Ups -- Strength in Competition -- Extending Control over the Supply Chain -- Legal and Regulations -- Entering New Geographic Markets -- Buying versus Building New Products and Tech -- Economies of Scale -- Branding -- Acquihires -- Removing the Competition -- How to Know What Drives the Buyer's Motivation -- Consider What Type of Organization the Buyer Is -- Ask -- What They're Asking and Focusing On -- Their Track Record -- What's Happening with Its Business…”

“…The examples provided in the first part of this exciting collection will help you comprehend some typical boundaries in theoretical research of MPC. …”

“…The first section includes three chapters, providing an overview of Energy Management of Distributed Systems. It outlines typical concepts, such as Demand-Side Management, Demand Response, Distributed, and Hierarchical Control for Smart Micro-Grids. …”

“…TPEs show advantages typical of both rubbery materials and plastic materials. …”

“…While it is often equated to a risk-free return, or the return available on a ten-year government bond, many commentators agree that it should incorporate a risk element. The typical rationale for applying differential taxation stems from the desire to achieve neutral taxation, i.e. minimise the real economic responses of taxpayers due to the wedge taxation imposes between before-tax and after-tax returns. …”

“…These measures are bank regulations that apply a discrimination−e.g. a less favourable treatment−on the basis of the currency of an operation, typically foreign currencies. The new data shows that CBMs have been increasingly used in the post-crisis period, including for macro-prudential purposes. …”

“…The literature suggests that integration in the EU goods and financial markets is typically more advanced than among the other OECD countries. …”

“…This paper compares the lifetime costs of like internal combustion and battery electric vehicle pairs on the market in France and finds that relative costs of electric vehicles remain elevated for consumers and even more so for society under current conditions and typical use scenarios. It also suggests that in those cases where electric vehicles do already compare favourably to internal combustion engine powered cars, subsidies may be superfluous. …”

“…These non-tax compulsory payments, which are typically paid to privatelymanaged funds, will either increase the employer’s labour costs or reduce the employee’s net take-home pay in a similar way to taxes, although they do not necessarily have the same behavioural impact. …”

“…This paper adopts a conceptual model that examines both types of interventions and how they interact along the dementia care continuum. …”

“…Empirical evidence is consistent with the hypothesis that transparency contributes to the successful conduct of monetary policy: higher transparency is a typical element of monetary frameworks that are associated with better anchored inflation expectations and more stable inflation outcomes. …”

“…But the challenge of the future is that the typical recipient of health care will be aged and will have multiple morbidities. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Analysis of the actors engaging in bribery and typical corruption agreements -- pt. 3. Preventing, detection and sanctioning bribery in public procurement -- pt. 4. …”

“…The paper argues that transport interventions are typically characterized by non-random assignment and that the key issues for successful ex-post evaluation involve identifying and adjusting for confounding factors. …”

“…The chemical sensor plays an essential role in the fields of environmental conservation and monitoring, disaster and disease prevention, and industrial analysis. A typical chemical sensor is a device that transforms chemical information in a selective and reversible way, ranging from the concentration of a specific sample component to total composition analysis, into an analytically useful signal. …”