Автор: Liviu Giosan and Janok P. Bhattacharya Название: River Deltas: Concepts, Models and Examples ISBN: 1565761138 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781565761131 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 140800.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: Deltas are amongst the most environmentally and economically important coastal sedimentary environments. Studies of deltas lag behind research in both fluvial and deep-water depositional systems, as well as more geomorphologically oriented land studies. This knowledge lag reflects both a reorientation of the petroleum industry in the last two decades toward deep-water systems, as well as the difficulty of working across the shoreline with the traditional tools used for oceanographic or land-based work. However, deltaic studies are experiencing a renewed focus, because of their global importance in environmental and other societal concerns. This volume stems from a special session: "Deltas: Old and New", held at the Annual Geological Society of America conference in October 2002, that was convened to highlight these new directions in deltaic research.
Автор: Liviu Warter Название: Post-Investment Monitoring: Intercultural Synergy Valuation ISBN: 153615959X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781536159592 Издательство: Nova Science Рейтинг: Цена: 149940.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: This monograph is focused on post-investment issues, particularly on intercultural synergy, and M&A performance. The M&A reasons are the result of globalization, of the need of growth and of achieving synergies. Most of the professionals consider that M&A is one of the most significant business phenomena in the past decades, but warn about the dangers of M&A. The most challenging part of the M&A process is the integration of two entities that present different organisational and national cultures. This monograph emphasises the relationship between culture, post-merger integration processes, and M&A performance. This monograph exerts to find an explanation for M&A performance in terms of the impact that cultural differences have on the post-merger integration process. It emphasises the role of post-investment monitoring and intercultural synergies achievement. This monograph offers an extensive insight of the M&A process inasmuch as M&As are a complex domain demanding an interdisciplinary approach. This book is seeking to deepen the apprehension of the impact of cultural differences on M&A performance. M&A performance can be characterised by ambiguity of the concept and a lack of concurrence on measurement procedures. This monograph reveals that cultural synergy can be produced by similarities in organizations but at once by differences. The empirical results deliver contradictory outcomes. Intercultural synergy might be highly significant after the merger or on the contrary have an insignificant effect on firms performance or even a negative impact. The findings regarding the cross-cultural integration aspects are contradictory and the relation between M&A performance and intercultural synergy is still to be refined. The findings of this book suggest that intercultural synergy is a significant and controversial issue of cross border M&As. Some inconsistent results suggest the need for further research on post-merger integration. The main goal of this book is to uncover intercultural issues that managers encountered during the post-investment phase and they should have discovered during the pre-investment phase. Intercultural synergy has a strong impact on M&A. Both national and organisational cultures are determinants for maximising the intercultural synergy. This monograph integrates the research on national, organisational and professional culture, into a theory of M&A performance and outcome. It investigates not only the outcomes and intercultural synergy but also the perception on these issues. In the area of intercultural management, this book reveals that the culture clusters make for a very helpful and strong tool. It appears that national culture might influence perceptions on M&A in some culture clusters much more than in others. M&A professionals may benefit from a deeper understanding of cultural values that shape the post-merger integration process and implicitly the M&A performance. The companies that minimise the importance of post-investment monitoring expose themselves to a higher risk of failure. The expectation of the author of this monograph is that the conclusions would help forewarn M&A scholars and practitioners of the need to thoroughly understand the cultural issues influencing the post-M&A processes. This monograph will be useful for academic researchers, postgraduate students, for MBA/Executive Education and for practitioners.
Автор: Liviu Pilat, Ovidiu Cristea Название: The Ottoman Threat and Crusading on the Eastern Border of Christendom during the 15th Century ISBN: 9004278850 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789004278851 Издательство: Brill Цена: 231110.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: In The Ottoman Threat and Crusading on the Eastern Border of Christendom during the Fifteenth Century Liviu Pilat and Ovidiu Cristea focus on less-known aspects of the later crusades in Eastern Europe, examining the ideals of holy war and political pragmatism. They analyze the Ottoman threat and crusading as political themes through a unifying vision based in the political realities of the fifteenth century and the complex relationship between crusading, Ottoman expansion, and the political interests of the Christian states in the region. Approaching the relationship between the borders of Christendom and crusading as a highly complex phenomenon, Pilat and Cristea introduce new elements to the image of Latin Christendom's frontier from the perspective of Catholic-Orthodox relations, frontier ideology, and crusading rhetoric in political propaganda.
Автор: Liviu C. Florescu, Christiane Godet-Thobie Название: Young Measures and Compactness in Measure Spaces ISBN: 3110276402 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783110276404 Издательство: Walter de Gruyter Цена: 185890.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: In recent years, technological progress created a great need for complex mathematical models. Many practical problems can be formulated using optimization theory and they hope to obtain an optimal solution. In most cases, such optimal solution can not be found. So, non-convex optimization problems (arising, e.g., in variational calculus, optimal control, nonlinear evolutions equations) may not possess a classical minimizer because the minimizing sequences have typically rapid oscillations. This behavior requires a relaxation of notion of solution for such problems; often we can obtain such a relaxation by means of Young measures. This monograph is a self-contained book which gathers all theoretical aspects related to the defining of Young measures (measurability, disintegration, stable convergence, compactness), a book which is also a useful tool for those interested in theoretical foundations of the measure theory. It provides a complete set of classical and recent compactness results in measure and function spaces.The book is organized in three chapters: The first chapter covers background material on measure theory in abstract frame. In the second chapter the measure theory on topological spaces is presented. Compactness results from the first two chapters are used to study Young measures in the third chapter. All results are accompanied by full demonstrations and for many of these results different proofs are given. All statements are fully justified and proved.
Автор: Liviu C. Florescu, Christiane Godet-Thobie Название: Young Measures and Compactness in Measure Spaces ISBN: 3110280523 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783110280524 Издательство: Walter de Gruyter Цена: 247880.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: Many problems in science can be formulated in the language of optimization theory, in which case an optimal solution or the best response to a particular situation is required. In situations of interest, such classical optimal solutions are lacking, or at least, the existence of such solutions is far from easy to prove. So, non-convex optimization problems may not possess a classical solution because approximate solutions typically show rapid oscillations. This phenomenon requires the extension of such problems' solution often constructed by means of Young measures. This book is written to introduce the topic to postgraduate students and may also serve as a reference for more experienced researchers.
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