This book provides an overview of earnings quality (EQ) in the context of financial reporting and offers suggestions for defining and measuring it. Although EQ has received increasing attention from investors, creditors, regulators, and researchers in different areas, there are various definitions of it and different approaches for its measurement.

Dieses kompakte Mathematikbuch überzeugt durch das didaktische Konzept und durch sein ansprechendes, in der 7. Auflage verbessertes Layout. Das einbändig vorliegende Werk umfasst den Mathematikstoff für technisch orientierte Bachelor-Studiengänge. Abstrakte mathematische Begriffe werden anschaulich erklärt, auf Beweise wird größtenteils verzichtet. 380 ausführlich durchgerechnete Beispiele auch aus technischen Anwendungsgebieten helfen den Studierenden, sich die Mathematik einprägsam zu erschließen.

Die Digitalisierung bietet ohne Frage großartige Chancen und hat unendliches Innovationspotential. Gleichzeitig bereitet sie vielen Unternehmern Kopfzerbrechen. Dies liegt nach Ansicht des Autors am Fehlen anerkannter, einheitlicher und vor allem praktikabler Management Tools zur Unterstützung der digitalen Transformation.

Once a legendary detective and a new mom, Mi-young, now works a desk job. But when overenthusiastic newbie Ji-hye is assigned to Mi-young’s civil complaints team, the two female cops get caught up in a serious criminal case that triggers an action-filled comedic investigation.

Nutrition spans a wide range of mechanisms from acquisition of food to digestion, absorption and retention of energy substrates, water and other nutrients. Nutritional principles have been applied to improving individual health, athletic performance and longevity of humans and of their companion animals, and to maximizing agricultural efficiency by manipulating reproduction or growth of tissues such as muscle, hair or milk in livestock. Comparative nutrition borrows from these tra- tional approaches by applying similar techniques to studies of ecology and physiology of wildlife.

Science produces fascinating puzzles: why is there such a range of placental structures when other mammalian organs are so structurally uniform ? Why and how did the different placental structures evolve ? Comparative placental studies can facilitate the identification of the common factors in placental growth, differentiation and function and their relevance to possible evolutionary pathways.

Thirteen years have passed since the seminal book on knapsack problems by Martello and Toth appeared. On this occasion a former colleague exclaimed back in 1990: "How can you write 250 pages on the knapsack problem?" Indeed, the definition of the knapsack problem is easily understood even by a non-expert who will not suspect the presence of challenging research topics in this area at the first glance.

Two friends drive to New York City to secure an investment for their microbrewery. Once in New York, however, a hidden agenda and secret love interest threaten to derail their plans.