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by Matej Marinč, Razvan Vlahu
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2011
This book shows that a special bank bankruptcy regime is desirable for the efficient restructuring and/or liquidation of distressed banks. It explores in detail both the principal features of corporate bankruptcy law and the specific characteristics of banks including the importance of public confidence,...
Cross-border Transactions of Intermediated Securities
A Comparative Analysis in Substantive Law and Private International Law
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2012
This work aims to analyse substantive and conflict of laws rules regarding intermediated securities in a comparative way. For this purpose, it examines major jurisdictions’ rules for intermediated securities and the intermediated securities holding systems, such as the rules of the German, US, Korean,...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2010
Research and development (R&D) as well as innovation are the drivers of change and the key determinants of growth in many industry and service sectors. In spite of the financial turmoil and restructuring of the world economy after 2008, investment in R&D is expected to grow further. Innovation...
Global Constitutionalism
A Socio-legal Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2017
This book provides insights into the viability of the idea of global constitution. Global constitutionalism has emerged as an alternative paradigm for international law. However, in view of the complex and varied structure of contemporary constitutionalism, in reality it is extremely difficult to...
Web Information Systems and Technologies
9th International Conference, WEBIST 2013, Aachen, Germany, May 8-10, 2013, Revised Selected Papers
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2014
This book contains the thoroughly refereed and revised best papers from the 9th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies, WEBIST 2013, held in Aachen, Germany, in May 2013, organized by the Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Control and Communication...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2013
The developments over a thirty-year time span in the study of power, especially voting power, are traced in this book, which provides an up-to-date overview of applications of n-person game theory to the study of power in multimember bodies. Other theories that shed light on power distribution (e.g....
by Hannu Nurmi
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
We live in an uncertain world, is a truism most of us hear more often than we would like. What one usually means to say by this is that we do not know what will happen in the future. Since changes, even major ones, have occurred in the past, it is possible that they will occur again in the future....
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Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
This compilation provides advanced graduate students and researchers with a structured overview of olefin polymerization. Divided into eight chapters written by international experts, this book covers polymerization using various organotransition-metal catalysts, including early and late transition...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2009
Dear Readers, Since the ground-breaking, Nobel-prize crowned work of Heeger, MacDiarmid, and Shirakawa on molecularly doped polymers and polymers with an alternating bonding structure at the end of the 1970s, the academic and industrial research on hydrocarbon-based semiconducting materials and devices...
by Yu-Chen Hu
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2014
"Gene Therapy for Cartilage and Bone Tissue Engineering" outlines the tissue engineering and possible applications of gene therapy in the field of biomedical engineering as well as basic principles of gene therapy, vectors and gene delivery, specifically for cartilage and bone engineering....
Changing Innovation in the Pharmaceutical Industry
Globalization and New Ways of Drug Development
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
The internationalization of research and technology is one key component of the globalization of trade and business, with potentially major impacts on patterns of economic development and public policies worldwide. Although certain aspects of this internationalization trend are well documented, and...
Media Convergence Handbook - Vol. 2
Firms and User Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2016
The Media Convergence Handbook sheds new light on the complexity of media convergence and the related business challenges. Approaching the topic from a managerial, technological as well as end-consumer perspective, it acts as a reference book and educational resource in the field. Media convergence...
Measuring National Innovation Performance
The Innovation Union Scoreboard Revisited
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2013
This book provides a critical re-examination of the Innovation Union Scoreboard (IUS) as the main tool used by the European Commission and other policy-making bodies to measure national innovation capacity. Given that contemporary societies and economies are to a great extent characterised by the...
Enterprise Governance
Driving Enterprise Performance Through Strategic Alignment
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2013
This book is written for business leaders and those that govern organisations. All high performing organisations excel in achieving 7 organisational outcomes: Accountability, Awareness, Adaptability, Agility, Alignment, Action and Achievement. The enterprise governance framework must deliver on these...