Dewey Library - HG185.L3 W45 2019

Berkeley : University of California Press, [2019]

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2010.

The Constitution guarantees the right to jury trial. What does it mean for a vital democracy? Director of the Center for Jury Studies Paula Hannaford-Agor explains their importance.

What were colonists buried in? This was a question posed to Research Librarian Juleigh Clark. Tracking down the answer led her, and us, through the history of funerals, burials, shrouds and winding sheets.

The men who served in the Revolutionary War share much in common with their modern-day brothers. The sacrifices of friendship, safety, and security unite soldiers across time. Remember their devotion and support them when they come home, urges Lieutenant Colonel James Innes, portrayed by Nat Lasley.

Title: Archaeologies of materiality [electronic resource] / edited by Lynn Meskell.
Imprint: Malden, MA Oxford, UK : Blackwell Pub., 2005.
Shelfmark: Wiley
Subjects: Social archaeology.
Material culture.
Material culture. fast (OCoLC)fst01011739
Social archaeology. fast (OCoLC)fst01122274

Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2019]

Engineered bacteria could be used for bioremediation of antibiotic-contaminated soils

Chemists are designing better methods to analyze confiscated nuclear materials and to track nuclear activity remotely

La polimerización frontal, una nueva estrategia sintética, disminuye el coste energético

As demand for the rare element grows, researchers trace the history of long-range tellurium deposition 

Updated following the West, Texas, fertilizer explosion, rule is intended to prevent incidents at facilities handling large amounts of hazardous materials

As demand for the rare element grows, researchers trace the history of long-range tellurium deposition

Updated following the West, Texas, fertilizer explosion, rule is intended to prevent incidents at facilities handling large amounts of hazardous materials

A superhydrophilic film made of two sugar molecules could help prevent bacterial growth on the mouthpieces

Superhydrophilic film made of two sugar molecules could lead to cleaner retainers or tooth aligners

A new method creates superstrong fibers out of cellulose

These exotic materials could find applications in electronics, catalysis, and quantum computing

As they ride the wave, several storm clouds emerge on the horizon

PlantArcBio, an Israeli start-up, will try out its new soybean genes at the University of Wisconsin

Un estudio hace que los científicos se replanteen cómo se desarrollan las infecciones bacterianas

Study shakes up scientists’ understanding of how bacterial infections develop

Short α-synuclein peptide affects uptake of dopamine rather than forming typical clumps in the brain

Combining UV disinfection with a photocatalytic membrane helps to reduce the bacteria and their genes in wastewater

An antibody called BAN2401 cleared amyloid-β proteins and slowed cognitive decline in people with mild Alzheimer’s disease

Combining UV disinfection with a photocatalytic membrane helps reduce the bacteria and their genes in wastewater

Available: September 2011

Author: Dr. Leo Troy

Determine a company's true measure of performance and value. The comprehensive resource puts 50 comparative performance indicators at the practitioner's command and covers all of North America (U.S., Canada, and Mexico) using NAICS data. The Almanac provides financial information that is calculated and derived from the latest available IRS data on nearly 5 million U.S. and international companies. The Almanac gives you accurate performance data for 50 operating and financial factors in 199 industries.

Data for each industry is divided into 13 categories based on company size, so you'll find a precise benchmark against which to measure any company's performance. One quick glance at the appropriate field of business and company-size category and you've found the definitive starting point for competitive performance analysis. The Almanac provides competitive norms in actual dollar amounts for revenue and capital factors, such as net receivables, net property, inventories, total assets, portfolio income, and more. It then gives you important average operating costs in percent of net sales, including cost of operations, pensions and benefits, interest, and more.

The Almanac provides ratios for industry-wide results for inventory turnover, current assets to working capital, quick ratio, asset turnover, and others. It also provides other critical financial factors in percentages, including debt ratio, return on assets, and return on equity, and profit margin.

The Almanac of Business and Industrial Financial Ratios comes complete with a CD that contains a special Excel Spreadsheet Template that can be used to input data on a given company to see how a company compares with the data provided in the Almanac.

The book is organized by the following major industry sectors, which in turn cover 199 industries, including:

• Agriculture, forestry, fishing, and hunting
• Mining
• Utilities
• Construction
• Manufacturing
• Wholesale trade
• Retail trade
• Transportation and warehousing
• Information
• Finance and insurance
• Real estate and rental leasing
• Professional, scientific and technical services
• Management of companies (holding companies)
• Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
• Health care and social assistance
• Arts, entertainment and recreation
• Accommodation and food services
• Other services (including repair and maintenance, automotive repair and maintenance, personal and laundry services, and religious, grant making, civic, and professional organizations)

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Available: September 2010

Author: Leo Troy Ph. D.

CCH's Almanac of Business and Industrial Financial Ratios is the first step in helping to determine a company's true measure of performance and value.  The comprehensive resource puts 50 comparative performance indicators at the practitioner's command and covers all of North America (U.S., Canada, and Mexico) using NAICS data. The Almanac provides financial information that is calculated and derived from the latest available IRS data on nearly 5 million U.S. and international companies. The Almanac gives you accurate performance data for 50 operating and financial factors in 199 industries.

Data for each industry is divided into 13 categories based on company size, so you'll find a precise benchmark against which to measure any company's performance. One quick glance at the appropriate field of business and company-size category and you've found the definitive starting point for competitive performance analysis. The Almanac provides competitive norms in actual dollar amounts for revenue and capital factors, such as net receivables, net property, inventories, total assets, portfolio income, and more. It then gives you important average operating costs in percent of net sales, including cost of operations, pensions and benefits, interest, and more.

The Almanac provides ratios for industry-wide results for inventory turnover, current assets to working capital, quick ratio, asset turnover, and others. It also provides other critical financial factors in percentages, including debt ratio, return on assets, and return on equity, and profit margin. 

The Almanac of Business and Industrial Financial Ratios comes complete with a CD that contains a special Excel Spreadsheet Template that can be used to input data on a given company to see how a company compares with the data provided in the Almanac.

The book is organized by the following major industry sectors, which in turn cover 199 industries, including:

• Agriculture, forestry, fishing, and hunting
• Mining
• Utilities
• Construction
• Manufacturing
• Wholesale trade
• Retail trade
• Transportation and warehousing
• Information
• Finance and insurance
• Real estate and rental leasing
• Professional, scientific and technical services
• Management of companies (holding companies)
• Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
• Health care and social assistance
• Arts, entertainment and recreation
• Accommodation and food services
• Other services (including repair and maintenance, automotive repair and maintenance, personal and laundry services, and reli

  If you would like more details about this product, or would like to order a copy online, please click here.

  
  
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Practitioners in arbitration and trade must have timely access to current information in those fields. But the rapid and continual growth in practical and academic research in these areas makes staying current nearly impossible.

World Trade and Arbitration Materials publishes the texts of all of the most important current documents relating to international trade not readily available elsewhere. Its coverage and currency make it an indispensable tool for those working in the fields of arbitration and trade, especially those involved in research in these areas.

Topics covered:

• Anti-dumping and unfair trade practices decisions
• Pending legislation and new statutes
• Policy statements, position papers, proposals, and reports concerning trade negotiations
• New arbitration rules and news of arbitration centres
• Reports of trade dispute settlement panels
• Arbitral awards and court decisions

The journal also includes a selection of essential current documents relating to international arbitration as a means of settling international business disputes. It provides arbitral awards, news of adhesion to international conventions, court decisions, statutes, reports from official authorities, arbitration rules, and news of arbitration centres and associations.

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Published: January 2008

The practice of international commercial law has become so complex since the onset of globalization that it has become virtually impossible for interested parties to collect their own copies of the various source materials. After six years, the editor has thoroughly updated this collection, which in its first edition quickly became a cornerstone resource for business lawyers, making it far and away the most complete collection of applicable treaties, institutional rules, regulations, model laws and codes there is.

The Second Edition includes increased attention to influential areas like the extraterritorial effects of certain national laws and the growing use of non-statutory models such as the UNIDROIT principles. This one-volume source provides invaluable support for in-house counsel and corporate lawyers and offers the scholar and student a peerless reference work.

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• Chapter 1: Arbitration and Mediation
• Chapter 2: Contract Law
• Chapter 3: Electronic Commerce
• Chapter 4: Financial Law
• Chapter 5: Intellectual Property
• Chapter 6: Contractual Arrangements on Transport
• Chapter 7: Trusts
• Chapter 8: Insolvency
• Chapter 9: Taxation
• Chapter 10: Corporate Governance, Transparency, Bribery and Codes of Conduct

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Philip Wilson

The comprehensive resource puts 50 comparative performance indicators at the practitioner's command and covers all of North America (U.S., Canada, and Mexico) using NAICS data. The Almanac provides financial information that is calculated and derived from the latest available IRS data on nearly 5 million U.S. and international companies. The Almanac gives you accurate performance data for 50 operating and financial factors in 199 industries.

Data for each industry is divided into 13 categories based on company size, so you'll find a precise benchmark against which to measure any company's performance. One quick glance at the appropriate field of business and company-size category and you've found the definitive starting point for competitive performance analysis. The Almanac provides competitive norms in actual dollar amounts for revenue and capital factors, such as net receivables, net property, inventories, total assets, portfolio income, and more. It then gives you important average operating costs in percent of net sales, including cost of operations, pensions and benefits, interest, and more.

The Almanac provides ratios for industry-wide results for inventory turnover, current assets to working capital, quick ratio, asset turnover, and others. It also provides other critical financial factors in percentages, including debt ratio, return on assets, and return on equity, and profit margin.

It comes complete with a CD that contains a special Excel Spreadsheet Template that can be used to input data on a given company to see how a company compares with the data provided in the Almanac.

The book is organized by the following major industry sectors, which in turn cover 199 industries, including:

• Agriculture, forestry, fishing, and hunting
• Mining
• Utilities
• Construction
• Manufacturing
• Wholesale trade
• Retail trade
• Transportation and warehousing
• Information
• Finance and insurance
• Real estate and rental leasing
• Professional, scientific and technical services
• Management of companies (holding companies)
• Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
• Health care and social assistance
• Arts, entertainment and recreation
• Accommodation and food services
• Other services (including repair and maintenance, automotive repair and maintenance, personal and laundry services, and religious, grant-making, civic, and professional organizations)

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