Risk-sharing in the Pharmaceutical Industry
The costs of developing a new drug have reached record levels in the pharmaceutical industry. As any failure of a new drug ...
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River Basin Development and Human Rights in Eastern Africa — A Policy Crossroads
This book offers a devastating look at deeply flawed development processes driven by international finance, African governments ...
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Road Pricing, the Economy and the Environment
Economic growth and globalisation create traffic growth, leading to congestion, which again increases travel times and costs. ...
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Robotics, AI, and Humanity Science, Ethics, and Policy
This book examines recent advances in how artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics have elicited widespread debate over ...
Lire la suiteRoot, Tuber and Banana Food System Innovations : Value Creation for Inclusive Outcomes
This book describes recent innovations in food systems based on root, tuber and banana crops in developing countries. These ...
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Russian Contributions to Game Theory and Equilibrium Theory
The research of Soviet scientists within the field of game theory has resulted in many high-level publications. This book ...
Lire la suiteSDGs, Transformation, and Quality Growth : Insights from International Cooperation
The primary objective of this book is to seek out insights into the concept of high-quality growth (HQG). It explores the ...
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Saving Biological Diversity
The distinctive contribution of this book is that it presents a pragmatic approach for preserving biological diversity. Experts ...
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Saving and Investment in the Twenty-First Century The Great Divergence
The economy of the 21st century in the OECD countries and in China, is characterized by a new phenomenon: the structural ...
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Scenario Logic and Probabilistic Management of Risk in Business and Engineering
In this volume the methodological aspects of the scenario logic and probabilistic (LP) non-success risk management are considered. ...
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Scheduling Algorithms
Besides scheduling problems for single and parallel machines and shop scheduling problems the book covers advanced models ...
Lire la suiteScience and Technology Governance and Ethics : A Global Perspective from Europe, India and China
The first chapter introduces the topic, offering a global perspective on embedding ethics in science and technology policy. ...
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Seasonal Climate: Forecasting and Managing Risk
Formed around a set of lectures presented at a NATO Advanced Study Institute (ASI), this book has grown in scope and in aspiration ...
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Seasonality in Human Mortality
Seasonal fluctuations in mortality are a persistent phenomenon across populations. In Western countries of the Northern hemisphere, ...
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Selected Essays in Empirical Asset Pricing
Financial researchers extensively discuss the efficiency of capital markets and the existence of possible misreactions in ...
Lire la suiteSelf-Governance and Sami Communities : Transitions in Early Modern Natural Resource Management
The book gives a new portrayal of how proficiently and systematically indigenous inhabitants organized and governed natural ...
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Service Chain Management
Service chain management enables service organisations to improve customer satisfaction and reduce operational costs through ...
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Service Enterprise Integration
The book will present a variety of on-going efforts to provide new results and solutions to the problem of service productivity. ...
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Service Franchising
The book advances the body of knowledge on international franchising for the academic community. In addition to being a breakthrough ...
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Service Parts Planning with mySAP SCM™
The main planning areas of service parts planning are forecasting, inv- tory planning, procurement and distribution – similar ...
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