309,467 research outputs found
United Daughters of the Confederacy, E.D. Willett Chapter scrapbooks, MSS.3644
No full textAbstract: Scrapbooks from the E. D. Willett Chapter of the U.D.C.Scope and Content Note:Biographical/Historical Note
A metric approach to limit operators
No full textWe extend the limit operator machinery of Rabinovich, Roch, and Silbermann from Z^N to (bounded geometry, strongly) discrete metric spaces. We do not assume the presence of any group structure or action on our metric spaces. Using this machinery and recent ideas of Lindner and Seidel, we show that if a metric space X has Yu's property A, then a band-dominated operator on X is Fredholm if and only if all of its limit operators are invertible. We also show that this always fails for metric spaces without property
What can management accounting practitioners and academics do to improve risk measurement and forewarn of impending financial crises?
No full textWe discuss some perceived shortcomings of management accounting in the light of the financial crisis of 2008. We describe current trends in management accounting thinking and Japanese perspectives on the discipline. Our main focus is on the lack of reliable measurement of financial risk and its consequences. The importance of collaborative multi-disciplinary research through partnerships between academics and practitioners is emphasised.SubmittedAsada, T., Bailes, J. C. and Suzuki, K. (2000). “Implementing ABM with Hoshin Management”, Management Accounting Quarterly,Winter, 1-6
Beheshti, H. M. (2006). “What managers should know about ERP/ERP II’, Management Research News, 29 (4), 184-193
Bhimani, A. (2002). “European management accounting research: traditions in the making”,The European Accounting Review, 11(1), 99-117
Bromwich, M. (1999/2000). “Thoughts on management accounting and strategy”, Pacific Accounting Review, 11(2), 41-48
Davila, T. and Oyon, D. (2008). “Cross paradigm collaboration and the advancement of the
management accounting knowledge”, Critical Perspectives on Accounting, 19, 8 87-893
Dercon, B. (2007). “Corporate governance after the Asian crisis”, Managerial Law, 49 (4),129-1 40
Dujuan, Y. (2009). “Inefficient American corporate governance under the financial crisis and China’s reflections”, International Journal of Law and Management, 51(3), 139-152
Falta, M., Gallagher, L. and Willett, R.J.(2006). “Modelling “hard-to-measure” costs in environmental management accounting”, Asia Pacific Journal of Management Accounting, 1, 76-91.
Hopper, T., Koga, T., and Goto, J. (1999). “Cost accounting in small and medium sized Japanese companies: an exploratory study”, Accounting and Business Research, 30 (1), 73-86
“Japan Company Handbook”, (2009) Tokyo, Toyo Keizai Inc.
Kakouris, A. P. And Polychronopoulos, G.(2005). “Enterprise resource planning (ERP)system: An effective tool for production management”, Management Research News, 28 (6),
66-7 8 Langfield-Smith, K. (2008). “Strategic Management Accounting: How far have we come in 25 years?” Accounting, Auditing, & Accountability Journal, 2 1(2), 204-228
Lewellyn, S. (2003). “What counts as “theory” in qualitative management and accounting research?” Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal, 16 (4), 662-708
Nishimura, A. (2007). “Conceptual analysis of value-based management and accounting: with reference to Japanese practice”, Asia-pacific Management Accounting Journal, 2(1), 71-88
Nishimura, A. and Willett, R. (2005). “Fundamental features and perspectives of Management Accounting in Asia” in Management Accounting in Asia, ed. Akira Nishimura and Roger
Willett, Malaysia, Thomson Learning. Nishimura, A. (2003). “Management Accounting: feed forward and Asian perspectives”, New York, Palgrave Nishimura, A. and Willett, R. (1997). “Structures and features of Japanese Accounting” in Accounting in the Asia-Pacific Region, ed. Nabil Baydoun, Akira Nishimura, and Roger Willett, Singapore, John Wiley and Sons. Nobes, C. W. (1983). “A Judgemental International Classification of Financial Reporting Practices”, Journal of Business Finance & Accounting, Spring, 1-19
Otley, D. (2008). “Did Kaplan and Johnson get it right?” Accounting, Auditing, & Accountability Journal, 21(2), 229-239
Parker, S, Peters, G. F. and Turetsky, H. F.
(2002). “Corporate governance and corporate
failure; a survival analysis”, Corporate Governance, 2 (2), 4-12
Pretorius, M. (2008). “When Porter’s generic strategies are not enough: complementary strategies for turnaround situations”, Journal of Business Strategy, 29(6), 19-28
Pudelko, M. and Mendenhall, M. E. (2007). „What western executives need to know about current management practices”, Organizational Dynamics, 36 (3), 274-287
Riaz, S. (2009). “The global financial crisis: an institutional theory analysis”, Critical Perspectives on International Business, 5 (1/2), 26-3 5
Rosenzweig, E. G. (2009). “A contingent view of e-collaboration and performance in manufacturing”, Journal of Operations Management, 27, 462-47 8
Wong, L. (2009). “The crisis: a return to political economy?” Critical Perspective on International Business, 5 (1/2), 56-7
Letter from D. E. Wilson to W. E. Willett, Morris Plan Company, Birmingham, Alabama, March 13, 1918
No full textA document from an extensive collection spanning four generations of the Woodward family that operated merchant pig iron companies in West Virginia and Alabama. The collection begins with Stimpson Harvey Woodward (S. H. Woodward), a native of Massachusetts, who moved from Pittsburgh to Wheeling, West Virginia in 1852. He had interests in an iron company as early as 1852 in West Virginia and began Alabama operations in 1869. The family business continued in Alabama until the death of S. H. Woodward's great-grandson in 1965
Georges E. Sioui (1989), Pour une autohistoire amérindienne. Essai sur les fondements d'une morale sociale
No full textWillett Gilles. Georges E. Sioui (1989), Pour une autohistoire amérindienne. Essai sur les fondements d'une morale sociale. In: Communication. Information Médias Théories, volume 12 n°1, printemps 1991. Explorations. pp. 304-312
Parsimonious Kernel Fisher Discrimination
No full textBy applying recent results in optimization transfer, a new algorithm for kernel Fisher Discriminant Analysis is provided that makes use of a non-smooth penalty on the coefficients to provide a parsimonious solution. The algorithm is simple, easily programmed and is shown to perform as well as or better than a number of leading machine learning algorithms on a substantial benchmark. It is then applied to a set of extreme small-sample-size problems in virtual screening where it is found to be less accurate than a currently leading approach but is still comparable in a number of cases
Review: Interspecies Ethics by Cynthia Willett
No full textThis paper provides a review of Cynthia Willett\u27s book Interspecies Ethics. Willett aims to outline the beginnings of biosocial eros ethics – an ethical outline that sketches the potentiality of a cross-species cosmopolitan ideal of compassion (agape), derived through acknowledging and emphasizing the existence of spontaneous, playful interaction between social animals. Though this book is recommended for offering an innovative framework from which to explore the possibility of non-anthropocentric cross-species ethic, readers should be wary of expecting to find a fully-fledged moral program detailing how this would work
Uniform local amenability
No full textThe main results of this paper show that various coarse (‘large scale’) geometric properties are closely related. In particular, we show that prop- erty A implies the operator norm localisation property, and thus that norms of operators associated to a very large class of metric spaces can be effectively estimated.The main tool is a new property called uniform local amenability. This property is easy to negate, which we use to study some ‘bad’ spaces. We also generalise and reprove a theorem of Nowak relating amenability and asymptotic dimension in the quantitative setting
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
No full textWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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