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Free Download Contracts for Engineers: Intellectual Property, Standards, and Ethics By Robert D. Hunter
2011 | 368 Pages | ISBN: 1439852863 | PDF | 5 MB
Engineers encounter different types of contracts at nearly every turn in their careers. Contracts for Engineers: Intellectual Property, Standards, and Ethics is a tool to enhance their ability to communicate contractual issues to lawyers-and then better understand the legal advice they receive. Building on its exploration of contracts, this book expands discussion to: Patents, copyrights, trademarks, trade secrets, and other intellectual property issues Development of standards and the bodies that govern them, as well as conformity assessment and accreditation Ethics at both the micro and macro levels-a concept under major scrutiny after several major disasters, including the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, the collapse of Boston’s Big Dig, and a coal-mining accident that resulted in many deaths With a brief introduction to common law contracts and their underlying principles, including basic examples, the book presents a sample of the Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) regarding the sale of goods. It evaluates elements of the different contracts that engineers commonly encounter, such as employee and associated consulting agreements and contracts involved in construction and government. Approaching intellectual property from a contract perspective, this reference focuses on the many different types of patents and their role in commerce. It touches on the application of trademarks and recent developments in the use of copyright as a form of contract and explains the process of obtaining patents, including the rationale for investing in them. Ethical standards receive special attention, which includes a review of several prominent professional codes of ethics and conduct for both organizations and individual engineers, particularly officers and higher-level managers.

Free Download School Leadership in the Context of Standards-Based Reform: International Perspectives By Louis Volante (auth.), Louis Volante (eds.)
2012 | 264 Pages | ISBN: 9400740948 | PDF | 3 MB
"Although standards-based reform emerged in the United States and the United Kingdom, the idea has spread across the world, as an approach to systemic reform. It might appear that there is a world-wide "tsunami" of standards-based reform that will standardize and homogenize the educational system across the globe. This volume makes it very clear, however, that there is no one approach to standards-based reform and countries change – there is a danger in paying attention to its evolution and impact in only one context. That’s what makes this volume so valuable. Louis Volante has drawn together descriptions from a wide range of countries, all involved in large-scale reform and using standards and assessments as part of their process. What becomes very obvious is that the language may be the same but the words reflect different contexts and can represent very different ideals, values, and processes. I’m sure you will find this book as interesting and challenging as I have – a gem that pushes your thinking and does not allow readers to remain neutral." (Lorna Earl)

Free Download American College of Sports Medicine, Mary Sanders, "ACSM’s Health/Fitness Facility Standards and Guidelines"
English | 2018 | pages: 234 | ISBN: 1492567183 | PDF | 10,2 mb
ACSM’s Health/Fitness Facility Standards and Guidelines, Fifth Edition, presents the current standards and guidelines to help health and fitness establishments provide high-quality service and program offerings in a safe environment. Revised by an expert team of professionals with expertise in architecture, health and wellness, law, safety-related practices and policies, and the health and fitness club industry, this authoritative guide provides a blueprint for health and fitness facilities to elevate the standard of care they provide their members, as well as enhance their exercise experience.

Free Download Information Processing and Accounting Standards: The COVID-19 Pandemic and Its Impact on Accounting Information Systems by Joseph Olorunfemi Akande, Shame Mugova, Oluwayemi IbukunOluwa Odularu
English | PDF EPUB (True) | 2024 | 263 Pages | ISBN : 3031648684 | 11.2 MB
This book addresses challenges caused by COVID-19 crisis on financial reporting and information management systems. Information access, transmission and rapid changes in the operating environment revealed inadequacies of international financial reporting standards. Accounting and information are critical elements for business success. While accounting processes financial information and more often guided by standards, information sciences bothers on having access to the right information. Crisis overtime has exposed the weaknesses and/or limitations of these important ingredients of business. The recent pandemic created different challenges and revealed the inadequacies of several accounting and information systems processes. The dynamics of planned business restructuring activities introduced lots of considerations culminated to additional disclosure for business tax purposes. The volume combines perspectives and research from academics and practitioners from the industry on modifying accounting systems and processes to be resilient in and out of crisis. The chapters in the book highlight recommendations to standards and information system improvement.

Free Download Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade, "Prescription and Tradition in Language: Establishing Standards across Time and Space "
English | ISBN: 1783096500 | 2016 | 408 pages | PDF | 5 MB
This book contextualises case studies across a wide variety of languages and cultures, crystallising key interrelationships between linguistic standardisation and prescriptivism, and between ideas and practices. It focuses on different traditions of standardisation and prescription throughout the world and addresses questions such as how nationalistic idealisations of ‘traditional’ language persist (or shift) amid language change, linguistic variation and multilingualism. The volume explores issues of standardisation and the sociolinguistic phenomenon of prescription as a formative influence on the notional standard language as well as the interconnections between these in a wide range of geographical contexts. It balances the otherwise strong emphasis on English in English language publications on prescriptivism and breaks new ground with its multilingual approach across languages and nations. The book will appeal to scholars working within different linguistic traditions interested in questions relating to all aspects of standardisation and prescriptivism.

Free Download Chiara Monaco, "Redefining the Standards in Attic, Koine, and Atticism "
English | ISBN: 9004682996 | 2024 | 356 pages | PDF | 6 MB
Brings together scholars of Attic, the Koine, and Atticism to better understand the connections between these varieties. Represents a key moment in the culturo-linguistic analysis of Atticism. Contains key breakthroughs in the linguistic analysis of Classical Attic, the Koine, and Atticism.

Free Download Product Standards, Exports and Employment: An Analytical Study By Dr. Rajat Acharyya (auth.)
2005 | 149 Pages | ISBN: 3790815578 | PDF | 7 MB
This book makes an analytical study of implications of the new set of non-tariff barriers that are forthcoming on the exports of the developing countries in the disguise of quality regulations and environmental standards. It argues that in the present era of globalization, with technological revolution in the West raising the demand for skill-intensive, high value-addition and high-quality goods, export-led growth may not be a poverty-reducing strategy in the short run.

Free Download Innovative Accreditation Standards in Education and Training: The Italian Experience in Ethical Standards and the Impact on Business Organisation By Pietro Previtali (auth.)
2015 | 122 Pages | ISBN: 3319169157 | PDF | 4 MB
​The aim of this book is to examine how technical and institutional factors affect the responsiveness of public and private organisations to a change in accreditation standards, with specific reference to the vocational educational and training (VET) sector and ethical standards. In particular, the authors analyse the Italian experience regarding a new accreditation standard recently adopted in the Region of Lombardy. Although based on a national experience, this innovative approach to accreditation systems in the educational sector provides a more general framework of analysis of how ethics and compliance can be applied in business organisation worldwide.

Free Download Cellular Communication Networks and Standards: The Evolution from 1G to 6G by Wei Jiang , Bin Han
English | PDF EPUB (True) | 2024 | 268 Pages | ISBN : 3031578198 | 51.3 MB
This textbook provides a comprehensive review of the evolution of mobile communications and networking from the birth of cellular networks to the forthcoming sixth-generation mobile communications, which is envisioned to be commercially deployed first in 2030. New students who are coming to wireless communications/electrical engineering/computer networking/telecommunications and network engineering can benefit from this book by quickly grasping the whole history of cellular networks, understanding its trends. This tutorial styled textbook provides a comprehensive overview, but also provides details of the system design aspects of the various cellular generations up to 6G and how they build on each other. The book also gives the student an overview of different cellular generations’ motivations, core technologies, architecture, key performance indicators, killer applications, market drivers, and the general/main features of each. The authors capture the big picture and fundamental drivers of wireless communication technologies, and then motivate students to understand the importance of learning related subjects such as electromagnetics theory, antenna design, analog and digital circuits, signal processing, Internet protocols, artificial intelligence, etc. The book features homework questions and case studies throughout.

Free Download The PCI Security Standards
Released 8/2024
MP4 | Video: h264, 1280×720 | Audio: AAC, 44.1 KHz, 2 Ch
Level: Beginner | Genre: eLearning | Language: English + vtt | Duration: 1h 35m | Size: 218 MB
In every card payment transaction some data is exchanged which, if stolen, can lead to fraudulent transactions. This course explains how the different PCI security standards protect that data and the payment ecosystem.