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Crowdfunding : Fundamental Cases, Facts, and Insights /
No full textCrowdfunding: Fundamental Cases, Facts, and Insights presents fundamental knowledge about a maturing economic field. Assembling and arranging datasets, case analyses, and other foundational materials on subjects associated with crowdfunding, it systematically, comprehensively, and authoritatively provides access to a consistent body of crowdfunding research. With the crowdfunding industry now consolidated, this core reference can serve as the basis for research projects and applied work. Acclaim for Crowdfunding "This book provides insightful cases and statistics from around the world on how rewards and equity crowdfunding markets work. It also includes useful information on marketplace lending. It is a great resource for entrepreneurs and investors, as well as for policymakers, academics, and students."--Craig Asano, Founder and CEO, National Crowdfunding and Fintech Association "Crowdfunding offers detailed analyses of rewards and equity crowdfunding markets using statistical methods and case studies. I recommend it for academics, practitioners, and policymakers who seek a rigorous look at crowdfunding markets around the world." - Jay Ritter, Joseph B. Cordell Eminent Scholar Chair, Warrington College of Business, University of Florida.Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed December 26, 2019).Includes bibliographical references and index.Crowdfunding: Fundamental Cases, Facts, and Insights presents fundamental knowledge about a maturing economic field. Assembling and arranging datasets, case analyses, and other foundational materials on subjects associated with crowdfunding, it systematically, comprehensively, and authoritatively provides access to a consistent body of crowdfunding research. With the crowdfunding industry now consolidated, this core reference can serve as the basis for research projects and applied work. Acclaim for Crowdfunding "This book provides insightful cases and statistics from around the world on how rewards and equity crowdfunding markets work. It also includes useful information on marketplace lending. It is a great resource for entrepreneurs and investors, as well as for policymakers, academics, and students."--Craig Asano, Founder and CEO, National Crowdfunding and Fintech Association "Crowdfunding offers detailed analyses of rewards and equity crowdfunding markets using statistical methods and case studies. I recommend it for academics, practitioners, and policymakers who seek a rigorous look at crowdfunding markets around the world." - Jay Ritter, Joseph B. Cordell Eminent Scholar Chair, Warrington College of Business, University of Florida.Elsevie
Clinical cases in tropical medicine /
No full textTest your knowledge in tropical medicine with Clinical Cases in Tropical Medicine! Boasting an easily accessible, highly templated format and full-color photographs throughout, this medical reference book is designed to help anyone in the field better identify the tropical diseases they'll encounter. As a companion product to Manson's Tropical Diseases, Clinical Cases in Tropical Medicine offers over 75 cases covering today's most prevalent diseases. It's an ideal study tool for infectious diseases fellows, doctors preparing for exams, primary care doctors with patients returning from abroad, and global health nurses and practitioners alike. Stay at the forefront of tropical medicine with in-depth coverage of the latest research, including tropical neurology and AIDS- and HIV-associated diseases and treatments. Study as efficiently as possible with help from a Q & A format and succinct summary boxes. Expand your knowledge concerning rare and neglected tropical diseases, as well as how diagnosis and treatment takes place in resource-poor settings. Gain a complete understanding of tropical diseases with this companion product to Manson's Tropical Diseases, 23rd edition. A reading list at the end of each case will directly refer to a corresponding chapter in Manson's, further expediting study.A 20-year-old Woman from Sudan with Fever, Haemorrhage and Shock -- A 7-year-old Girl from Peru with a Chronic Skin Ulcer -- A 26-year-old Woman from Malawi with Headache, Confusion and Unilateral Ptosis -- A 4-year-old Girl from Uganda in Coma -- A 4-year-old Boy from Laos with a Lesion of the Lip and Cheek -- A 36-year-old Male Traveller Returning from Botswana with a Creeping Eruption -- A 28-year-old Male Fisherman from Malawi with Shortness of Breath -- A 26-year-old Female Traveller Returning from Ghana with a Boil on the Leg -- A 16-year-old Girl from Vietnam with Fever, Headache and Myalgias -- A 55-year-old Indigenous Woman from Australia with a Widespread Exfoliating Rash and Sepsis -- A 45-year-old Male Security Guard from Malawi with Difficulties in Walking and Back Pain -- A 29-year-old Man from The Gambia with Genital Ulceration -- A 16-year-old Girl from Malawi with Fever and Abdominal Pain -- A 22-year-old Woman from Bangladesh with Profuse Watery Diarrhoea -- A 3-year-old Boy from Laos with Right Suppurative Parotitis -- A 25-year-old Female School Teacher from Malawi with Abrupt Onset of a Febrile Confusional State -- A 34-year-old Man from Thailand with Fever and a Papular Rash -- A 43-year-old Male Traveller with Fever and Eosinophilia -- A 40-year-old Man from Togo with Subcutaneous Nodules and Corneal Changes -- A 56-year-old Man Returning from a Trip to Thailand with Eosinophilia -- A 35-year-old American Man with Fatigue and a Neck Lesion -- A 32-year-old Woman from Nigeria with Jaundice and Confusion -- A 31-year-old HIV-Positive Man with Extensive Travel History, with Cough and Night Sweats -- A 14-year-old Boy from Rural Tanzania with Difficulties in Walking -- A 72-year-old Male Farmer from Laos with Extensive Skin Lesions on the Lower Leg -- A 14-year-old boy from Malawi who has been bitten by a snake -- A 16-year-old Boy from Sri Lanka with Fever, Jaundice and Renal Failure -- A 67-year-old Female Expatriate Living in Cameroon with Eosinophilia and Pericarditis -- A 35-year-old Woman from Malawi with Fever and Progressive Weakness -- A 35-year-old Woman from Malawi with Fever and Progressive Weakness -- A 12-year-old Boy from Rural Kenya with Painful Eyes -- A 6-year-old Boy from Malawi with Fever, Cough and Impaired Consciousness -- A 44-year-old Male Farmer from Laos with Diabetes and a Back Abscess -- A 53-year-old Man from Malawi with a Chronic Cough -- A 35-year-old Male Farmer from Peru with a Chronic Ulcer and Multiple Nodular Lesions on the Arm -- A 32-year-old Woman from Malawi with Headache and Blurred Vision.A 25-year-old Buddhist Monk from Myanmar with Unilateral Scrotal Swelling -- A 29-year-old Woman from Malawi with Confusion, Diarrhoea and a Skin Rash -- A 24-year-old Female Globetrotter from The Netherlands with Strange Sensations in the Right Side of Her Body -- A 30-year-old Male Trader from China with Persistent Fever -- A 62-year-old Woman from Ethiopia with Difficulty Eating -- A 7-year-old Girl from West Africa with Two Skin Ulcers and a Contracture of Her Right Wrist -- A 41-year-old Male Traveller Returning from Australia with Itchy Eruptions on Both Upper Thighs -- A 35-year-old Woman from Malawi with a Painful Ocular Tumour -- A 7-year-old Girl from South Sudan with Undulating Fever -- A 2-month-old Girl from Laos with Dyspnoea, Cyanosis and Irritability -- A 45-year-old Man from Sri Lanka with Fever and Right Hypochondrial Pain -- A 32-year-old Man from Malawi with a Painfully Swollen Neck -- A 31-year-old Woman from Tanzania with Acute Flaccid Paraplegia -- A 33-year-old Male Traveller to India with Diarrhoea and Flatulence for Two Weeks -- A 24-year-old Man of Turkish Origin with Jaundice and Cystic Liver Lesions -- A 34-year-old HIV-Reactive Woman from Malawi with Slowly Progressive Half-Sided Weakness -- A 56-year-old Man from Peru with Prolonged Fever and Severe Anaemia -- A 24-year-old Woman from Uganda with Fever and Shock -- A 52-year-old Male Safari Tourist Returning from South Africa with Fever and a Skin Lesion -- A 40-year-old Male Farmer from Peru with Chronic Cough and Weight Loss -- A 21-year-old Pregnant Woman from The Gambia with a Rash -- A 37-year-old Woman from Malawi with Haematemesis -- A 25-year-old Woman from Egypt with Severe Chronic Diarrhoea and Malabsorption -- A 24-year-old Man from Malawi with Skin Lesions and Breathlessness -- A 6-year-old Boy from Malawi with Proptosis of the Left Eye -- A 48-year-old Woman from Thailand with Fever and Disseminated Cutaneous Abscesses, Lymphadenopathy and Swelling of her Left Elbow -- A 28-year-old Man from Ghana with a Chronic Ulcer on His Ankle -- A 38-year-old Expatriate Man Living in Malawi with Difficulties Passing Urine -- A 40-year-old Woman from Thailand and Her Brother-in-Law with Severe Headache -- A 4-year-old Girl from Bolivia with a Dark Nodule on Her Toe -- A 32-year-old Man from Malawi with Pain in the Right Upper Abdomen and a Feeling of Faintness -- A 24-year-old Woman from the Peruvian Andes with Fever and Abdominal Pain -- A 31-year-old Woman from Malawi with a Generalized Mucocutaneous Rash -- A 22-year-old Male Farmer from Rural Ethiopia with Difficulty Walking -- A 58-year-old Woman from Sri Lanka with Fever, Deafness and Confusion -- A 71-year-old Man from Japan with Eosinophilia and a Nodular Lesion in the Lung -- A 4-year-old Boy from Mozambique with Severe Oedema and Skin Lesions -- A 38-year-old Woman from Malawi with Chronic Anaemia and Splenomegaly -- A 28-year-old Woman from Sierra Leone with Fever and Conjunctivitis -- A 25-year-old Woman from Zambia with a New Onset Seizure -- A 55-year old Woman from Turkey with Fever of Unknown Origin.Test your knowledge in tropical medicine with Clinical Cases in Tropical Medicine! Boasting an easily accessible, highly templated format and full-color photographs throughout, this medical reference book is designed to help anyone in the field better identify the tropical diseases they'll encounter. As a companion product to Manson's Tropical Diseases, Clinical Cases in Tropical Medicine offers over 75 cases covering today's most prevalent diseases. It's an ideal study tool for infectious diseases fellows, doctors preparing for exams, primary care doctors with patients returning from abroad, and global health nurses and practitioners alike. Stay at the forefront of tropical medicine with in-depth coverage of the latest research, including tropical neurology and AIDS- and HIV-associated diseases and treatments. Study as efficiently as possible with help from a Q & A format and succinct summary boxes. Expand your knowledge concerning rare and neglected tropical diseases, as well as how diagnosis and treatment takes place in resource-poor settings. Gain a complete understanding of tropical diseases with this companion product to Manson's Tropical Diseases, 23rd edition. A reading list at the end of each case will directly refer to a corresponding chapter in Manson's, further expediting study.Online resource; title from PDF title page (ClinicalKey, viewed May 30, 2014).Includes bibliographical references.Elsevie
[Western hemisphere] [cartographic material] /
No full text"Mappa A".; From: Atlante storico, geografico, genealogico, cronologico ... , Venezia, 1826-1840.; Map of the Western hemisphere with text. Relief shown pictorially.; Phillips, 127.; Rex Nan Kivell Collection Map NK 2456/8
Author Co-Citation Analysis (ACA): a powerful tool for representing implicit knowledge of scholar knowledge workers
No full textIn the last decade, knowledge has emerged as one of the most important and valuable organizational assets. Gradually this importance caused to emergence of new discipline entitled ―knowledge management‖. However one of the major challenges of knowledge management is conversion implicit or tacit knowledge to explicit knowledge. Thus Making knowledge visible so that it can be better accessed, discussed, valued or generally managed is a long-standing objective in knowledge management. Accordingly in this paper author co- citation analysis (ACA) will be proposed as an efficient technique of knowledge visualization in academia (Scholar knowledge workers)
The vanishing author in computer-generated works: a critical analysis of recent Australian case law
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The use of software is ubiquitous in the creation of many copyright works, yet the requirement in copyright law that every work have a human author who engages in independent intellectual effort means that its use may prevent copyright subsistence. Several recent Australian cases have refocused attention on authorship as an essential criterion of copyright subsistence, and these cases suggest that much computer-produced output may be authorless and thus lack copyright protection. This article, the first in a two-part series, analyses how each case deals with the question of authorship of computer-produced works and why the use of software diminishes copyright protection for a significant number of computer-generated works. The article critiques the application of conventional notions of human authorship developed in the pre-computer age to modern productions and suggests alternative approaches to authorship that satisfy both the major objectives of copyright policy and the need to adapt to the computer age. The article argues that, without a broader judicial approach to authorship of computer-generated works, Parliament must remedy the lacuna in protection for these ‘authorless’ works. Possible solutions for reform are suggested. In a forthcoming article, the author comprehensively examines those reform proposals
RESULTS OF TWO CASES WITH DISTINCT COMPLICATIONS DUE TO INTRAVITREAL BEVACIZUMAB IN RETINOPATHY OF PREMATURITY
No full textPurpose:To present the surgical outcome and long-term follow-up of 2 cases who underwent intravitreal bevacizumab injection for retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) and subsequently developed full thickness macular hole and endophthalmitis.Methods:Case report.Patients:The first case is a premature girl who was delivered 650 g at the 27th week of postmenstrual age (PMA) because of preeclampsia and received intravitreal 0.16 mg bevacizumab bilaterally at the 38th PMA with the diagnosis of ROP. She was referred with endophthalmitis 10 days after injection in the left eye. Endophthalmitis resolved with pars plana vitrectomy that was performed the following day. The second case is a premature girl who was delivered at the 30th week of PMA weighing 1,230 g and received intravitreal 0.16 mg bevacizumab injections bilaterally at the 39th PMA with a diagnosis of ROP. Retinopathy of prematurity regressed in the follow-up; however, full thickness macular hole was noted in the right eye on the first week of the injection. Pars plana vitrectomy, internal limiting membrane peeling, and gas tamponade were performed at the 41st PMA week. Full thickness macular hole persisted despite pars plana vitrectomy whereas glaucoma emerged during the follow-up.Conclusion:Development of endophthalmitis and macular hole may occur after intravitreal injections in cases with ROP
Comprehension, Use Cases and Requirements
No full textWithin requirements engineering it is generally accepted that in writing specifications (or indeed any requirements phase document), one attempts to produce an artefact which will be simple to comprehend for the user. That is, whether the document is intended for customers to validate requirements, or engineers to understand what the design must deliver, comprehension is an important goal for the author. Indeed, advice on producing ‘readable’ or ‘understandable’ documents is often included in courses on requirements engineering. However, few researchers, particularly within the software engineering domain, have attempted either to define or to understand the nature of comprehension and it’s implications for guidance on the production of quality requirements.
In contrast, this paper examines thoroughly the nature of textual comprehension, drawing heavily from research in discourse process, and suggests some implications for requirements (and other) software documentation. In essence, we find that the guidance on writing requirements, often prevalent within software engineering, may be based upon assumptions which are an oversimplification of the nature of comprehension. Furthermore, that these assumptions may lead to rules which detract from the quality of the requirements document and, thus, the understanding gained by the reader. Finally the paper suggests lessons learned which may be useful in formulating future guidance for the production of requirements documentation
The Göttingen rotating turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard convection facility
No full textThermally driven turbulent convection under the influence of global rotation is ubiquitous in nature. Well known examples are the outer convective shell of our Sun and the outer liquid core of the Earth. Trying to understand the underlying dynamics of such flows is highly challenging, not only because of the enormous range in length- and time-scales that are involved with these geo/astrophysical cases and the complex interaction of hydrodynamics with electromagnetism, but also because direct measurements on these systems are most often impossible to carry out. We gain access to direct measurements by isolating part of the problem: We focus solely on the hydrodynamical aspects of turbulent convection by performing experiments in the lab and making comparisons with direct numerical simulations (DNS). The canonical system that we use to study such flows is Rayleigh-B\'enard convection (RBC), the flow between a warm bottom plate and cold top plate, in a fluid-filled upright cylindrical cell that is rotating around its geometrical axis. This presentation will focus on the newly constructed rotating RBC facility at the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization (MPIDS) in G\"ottingen
Cash flow is cash and is a fact. Net income is just an opinion
No full textA company's profit after tax (or net income) is quite an arbitrary figure, obtained after assuming certain accounting hypotheses regarding expenses and revenues. On the other hand, its cash flow is an objective measure, a single figure that is not subject to any personal criterion. In general, to study a company's situation, it is more useful to operate with the cash flow (equity cash flow, free cash flow or capital cash flow) as it is a single figure, while the net income is one of several that can be obtained, depending on the criteria applied. Profit after tax (PAT) is equal to the equity cash flow when the company is not growing, buys fixed assets for an amount identical to depreciation, keeps debt constant, and only writes off or sells fully depreciated assets. Profit after tax (PAT) is also equal to the equity cash flow when the company collects in cash, pays in cash, holds no stock (this company's working capital requirements are zero), and buys fixed assets for an amount identical to depreciation. When making projections, the dividends and other forecast payments to shareholders must be exactly equal to expected equity cash flows.Cash flow; Net income; Equity cash flow; Free cash flow; Capital cash flow;
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