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"The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008 was a major update to the UK's laws on the use reproductive technology and regulation of assisted reproduction. This was legislation which, according to the minister responsible, would ensure that the law remains effective and fit for purpose in the early 21st century. Since the enactment of the new law, the sector's regulatory body, the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA), has also consulted on various related topics including barriers to egg and sperm donation in the UK, multiple births/single embryo transfer, and using IVF technology to prevent mitochondrial disease with a view to publishing recommendations. This book critically evaluates the recent developments, asking whether the Act has achieved the stated aim of being 'fit for purpose' or, if not, what should be done to improve it. The book looks at various aspects of the law and ethics of human fertilisation and embryology and topics covered include: problems with DIY assisted conception; attribution of legal parenthood in cases of surrogacy; mitochondrial DNA transfer; as well as chapters which compare the UK's regulation to the situation in Canada and Australia. It brings together a range of experts in order to evaluate the fresh risks and challenges emerging from both established and existing technologies and techniques in the field of human fertilisation and embryology, as well as offering valuable insights into the social and regulatory challenges that lie ahead."--

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Dedication -- Acknowledgements -- Prologue -- OPENING -- ABOUT THE BOOK -- MY EXPERIENCE -- THE BOOK: KEY MESSAGES -- SUMMARY -- CLOSING -- Chapter One: The ethics project -- THE OPPORTUNITY -- THE STRONACH GROUP PLC -- AN OFFER FROM THE CHAIRMAN -- DISCLAIMER -- Chapter Two: The business ethics framework -- THE ETHICS PROJECT: FIRST WORKSHOP -- THE BUSINESS ETHICS FRAMEWORK -- KEY TERMS -- BUSINESS DILEMMAS -- WORKSHOP CONCLUSION -- Chapter Three: Bribery, corruption and adequate procedures -- BUSINESS ETHICS IN ACTION: SECOND WORKSHOP -- BRIBERY AND CORRUPTION -- CASE STUDY -- THE BRIBERY ACT 2010 (UKBA) -- PERSONAL EXPERIENCES -- WORKSHOP CONCLUSION -- Chapter Four: Reputation, risk and conduct -- REPUTATIONAL RISK: THIRD WORKSHOP -- REPUTATION -- THE HUMAN FACTOR: PEOPLE, BEHAVIOUR AND CONDUCT RISK -- PEOPLE RISK -- CASE STUDY -- ETHICAL RISK IN THE STAKEHOLDER BASE -- WORKSHOP CONCLUSION -- Chapter Five: The governance dimension -- EFFECTIVE GOVERNANCE: FOURTH WORKSHOP -- WHY GOOD GOVERNANCE MATTERS -- CORPORATE GOVERNANCE OVERVIEW -- THE DEVELOPMENT OF CORPORATE GOVERNANCE CODES AND LEGISLATION -- THE US POSITION -- THE UK POSITION -- CREATING AN EFFECTIVE AND TALENTED BOARD -- WORKSHOP CONCLUSION -- Chapter Six: Aspects of leadership: ethics, tone at the top and handling a crisis -- ETHICAL LEADERSHIP: FIFTH WORKSHOP -- LEADERSHIP -- THE COMPONENTS OF ETHICAL LEADERSHIP -- HANDLING A CRISIS -- WORKSHOP CONCLUSION -- Chapter Seven: Risk, compliance and the controls framework -- A THREE-STAGE PROCESS: SIXTH WORKSHOP -- RISK MANAGEMENT -- COMPLIANCE AND CONTROLS -- INTERNAL AUDIT -- WORKSHOP CONCLUSION -- Chapter Eight: The business ethics toolbox -- ETHICAL DEVELOPMENT: SEVENTH WORKSHOP -- CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY (CSR) -- PAY, BONUSES AND THE BALANCED SCORECARD.

Front Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Public Policy And Disaster Planning -- Emergency Management: Aframework For Governments -- The United States -- International Emergency Management -- Organization Of The Book -- Section I: Marginalization And Recovery -- Section Ii: Transportation Considerations -- Section Iii: Resilience, Cooperation, And Citizen Attitudes -- Section Iv: Planning And Path Dependence -- Concluding Thoughts -- References -- Editor -- Contributors -- Section I Marginalization And Recovery -- Chapter 1 Enhancing Community And Economic Development Postdisaster Through The Increased Resilience Of Women -- Chapter 2 Nonprofits And Disasters -- Chapter 3 Country Mouse, City Mouse: Exploring The Differences In Rural And Urban Economic Recovery Postdisaster -- Section II Transportation Considerations -- Chapter 4 Improving City Resistance In War: Planning Major Transportation Terminals Based On Passive Defense Considerations -- Chapter 5 Return To A State Of Nature, Compassionate Conservatism, Failed Response, And Their Impact On Race, Ethnicity, And The U. S. Economy: Hurricane Katrina Case Study -- Section III Resilience, Cooperation, And Citizen Attitudes -- Chapter 6 The Big Spill -- Chapter 7 How Government's Actions After A Disaster Affect Long- Term Civic Engagement: Shifting Opportunity And Motivation For Civic Participationin Christchurch, New Zealand -- Chapter 8 Managing For Resilience Across Multiple Scales Of Action In Joplin, Missouri -- Chapter 9 Vulnerabilities Magnified: A Closer Look At Disasters And Displacement -- Section IV Planning And Path Dependence -- Chapter 10 The Historical Aspect Of Social Vulnerability In The Lower Ninth Ward* -- Chapter 11 Building Back Tremé: Using Ppgis To Evaluate Neighborhood Stability.

" Three macro trends are changing the marketing landscape and forcing massive change on most organizations: the digitization of media and channels; social media; and the ability for consumers to access media anytime, anywhere. Marketers are responding with data-driven, digital customer strategies and a collective business model transformation. For the first time, marketers are now able to put customers at the core of the business strategy. The challenge, now that there's "universal" buy-in on the philosophy, of 'every organization should be "customer-centric" is the "how". How do we successfully implement a comprehensive, data-driven, customer-centric business strategy? The answer is called "Connected CRM", the focus of this book. Customer-centric marketing isn't merely a tactical implementation plan. Executed correctly, it's a fundamental shift in the organization's framework, affecting every department, not just marketing, though it puts marketing at the heart of the business and leadership strategy for the organization. It's a new source of visibility and accountability for the CMO and a new basis of competitive differentiation for the company. CMOs of the future will play a much larger role in all aspects of marketing, sales, service and technology. Through years of work in data-driven customer relationship marketing and observations of successful (and unsuccessful) implementation efforts; Merkle has developed a customer-centricity blueprint for organizations. This book explains how to make it a reality--for sustained competitive advantage"--

Cover -- HalfTitle -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- FIGURES -- TABLES -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- FOREWORD -- Who should use this book? -- About the authors -- Introduction -- What is forensic linguistics? -- The language of the law: Meaning -- The discourse of the law -- Linguistic advantage and disadvantage -- History of forensic linguistics in practice6 -- Outline of this book -- Part One Language as forensic evidence -- CHAPTER ONE The road to authorship -- The beginnings of literacy -- The role of memory in language use -- Orality in early written language -- The transition from orality to literacy -- The first author? -- Conclusion -- CHAPTER TWO The author constructed -- The doctrine of authorship -- Authorship as an individual act -- Text as property -- The genius of the author -- Style -- Social factors and language style -- Aspects of style -- Conclusion -- CHAPTER THREE Time, variation and genre -- Introduction -- Expected and unexpected relationships in the genre domain -- The genre institution and the author space -- Comparison across genres -- Testing author-genre relationships -- A corpus of 32 novels -- Entropy and ectropy in the language system -- Conclusion -- CHAPTER FOUR Range of variation -- Individual range of variation -- Variation and interpersonal relationships -- Is variation random? -- The token 'you' as a variable in the mobile phone text corpus -- The '-ing' inflection -- Conclusion -- CHAPTER FIVE Textual variation -- Register factors -- Non-register factors -- Polyphonic factors -- Conclusion -- CHAPTER SIX Forensic phonetics: An introduction by Harry Hollien1 -- Defining forensic phonetics -- Signal analysis -- Speech decoding and transcripts -- Authenticating recordings -- Behavioural analyses -- The aural-perceptual approach -- Machine-computer approaches -- Validating the approach.

Intro -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION -- ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS -- PART 1: THE GOVERNANCE CHALLENGE: OVERARCHING PERSPECTIVES -- CHAPTER ONE: NEW CONCEPTIONS OF GOVERNANCE IN SMALL STATES -- CHAPTER TWO: GOVERNANCE AND THE NEW IMPERIUM -- PART 2: GLOBAL GOVERNANCE -- CHAPTER THREE: THE CARIBBEAN IN THE AGE OF NEO-MERCANTILIST IMPERIALISM -- CHAPTER FOUR: RETHINKING INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS -- CHAPTR FIVE: GLOBAL GOVERNANCE IN THE CONTEXT OF GLOBALISATION -- CHAPTER SIX: GOVERNANCE IN INTERNATIONAL TRADE -- PART 3: GOVERNANCE: THEORETICAL ASPECTS -- CHAPTER SEVEN: DESIGNING AND IMPLEMENTING DEVELOPMENT POLICY -- CHAPTER EIGHT: GOVERNANCE IN THE CONTEXT OF GLOBALISATION AND REGIONALISATION -- CHAPTER NINE: GOVERNANCE IN SMALL SOCIETIES -- CHAPTER TEN: MAJORITARIAN AND CONSOCIATIONAL SYSTEMS OF GOVERNANCE -- CHAPTER ELEVEN: ENGENDERING GOVERNANCE -- PART 4: GOVERNANCE SYSTEMS AND STRUCTURES -- CHAPTER TWELVE: CARIBBEAN GOVERNANCE SYSTEMS -- CHAPTER THIRTEEN: INSTITUTIONAL DESIGN FOR SUB-NATIONAL GOVERNANCE -- CHAPTER FOURTEEN: 'NAH VOTE AGAIN' -- CHAPTER FIFTEEN: THE CARIBBEAN DIASPORA -- PART 5: STATE, ECONOMY & -- SOCIETY -- CHAPTER SIXTEEN: CIVIL SOCIETY, GOVERNANCE AND CONFLICT RESOLUTION IN THE CARIBBEAN -- CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: GUYANA: GOVERNANCE AND PATTERNS OF ETHNIC CONFLICT -- CHAPTER EIGHTEEN: MULTI-ETHNIC DIVISIONS AND GOVERNANCE -- CHAPTER NINTEEN: GOVERNANCE UNDER THREAT -- CHAPTER TWENTY: CARIBBEAN SECURITY IN THE AGE OF TERROR -- CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE: GOVERNANCE, PUBLIC SECTOR REFORM AND NEW PUBLIC SECTOR MANAGEMENT -- CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO: GOVERNANCE AND THE MEDIA -- CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE: GOVERNANCE, SOCIAL PROTECTION AND EMPLOYMENT IN CARICOM -- CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR: PROMOTING GOOD GOVERNANCE -- CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE: GOVERNANCE FOR POVERTY ERADICATION AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT -- PART 6: REGIONAL GOVERNANCE.

How did the conduct of business come to be so different in different countries? Why are some less developed countries in the process of rapid industrialization while so many others remain poor? Analysts often point to national differences in the cultures of business to explain these patterns. What then, accounts for these differences in culture? We can gain some insights into these issues by considering the incentives that are likely to shape the behaviors of upwardly mobile sub-elites. Patterns of elite initiatives in the early years of industrialization have an enduring impact on the subsequent conduct of business. Understanding the impact of history can provide important insights into contemporary business practices. Viewed from the perspective of developmental history, apparently independent phenomena can often be seen as different aspects of a common pattern. Questions about the relation between our collective past experiences and future performances are also relevant for our understanding of democratic self-governance. Governments are generally engaged in nation building. What works? Why? Where are we collectively headed? This volume suggests some answers. Author David Hanson develops an analysis that focuses on governing elites, the need for security, and the search for status. His analysis rests on considerations of social structure, conflict, and psychology rather than on resources, markets and economics. The result is a book to offer international managers an understanding of history's critical role in fully understanding the societies in which they operate.

A proposal for a new way to understand cities and their design not as artifacts but as systems composed of flows and networks.In The New Science of Cities, Michael Batty suggests that to understand cities we must view them not simply as places in space but as systems of networks and flows. To understand space, he argues, we must understand flows, and to understand flows, we must understand networks--the relations between objects that compose the system of the city. Drawing on the complexity sciences, social physics, urban economics, transportation theory, regional science, and urban geography, and building on his own previous work, Batty introduces theories and methods that reveal the deep structure of how cities function.Batty presents the foundations of a new science of cities, defining flows and their networks and introducing tools that can be applied to understanding different aspects of city structure. He examines the size of cities, their internal order, the transport routes that define them, and the locations that fix these networks. He introduces methods of simulation that range from simple stochastic models to bottom-up evolutionary models to aggregate land-use transportation models. Then, using largely the same tools, he presents design and decision-making models that predict interactions and flows in future cities. These networks emphasize a notion with relevance for future research and planning: that design of cities is collective action.

This chapter argues for a composite utterances approach to research on body, language, and communication. It argues that to understand meaning we need to begin with the utterance or speech act as the unit of analysis. From this perspective, the primary task in interpreting others' behaviour in communication is to infer what a person wants to say. In order to solve this task, an interpreter is free to consult any and all available information, regardless of the sensory modality in which that information is gathered (e.g., vision versus hearing), and regardless of the semiotic function of that information (e.g., iconic/indexical, symbolic/conventional, or some combination of these). Having recognized that another person has an intention to communicate, an interpreter takes the available relevant information (e.g., vocalizations, facial expressions, hand movements, all in the context of synchronic knowledge of linguistic and cultural systems, and other aspects of common ground) and looks for a way in which those cooccuring signs may simultaneously point to a single overall message of the move that a person is making. This is helped by the binding power of social cognition in an enchronic context (that is, the sequential context of turn-by-turn conversation), in particular the assumption that people are not merely saying things but making moves. The chapter focuses on co-speech hand gestures, and also discusses implications of the composite utterances approach to research on syntax, and on sign language.

List of tables -- List of figures -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on contributors -- Acronyms and abbreviations -- Introduction: neoliberalism and developmental politics in perspective / Chang Kyung-Sup, Linda Weiss, Ben Fine -- Developmental politics and neoliberalism : critical issues -- The myth of the neoliberal state / Linda Weiss -- Kicking away the ladder : neoliberalism and the "real" history of capitalism / Chang Ha-Joon -- Neo-liberalism in retrospect? : it's financialisation, stupid / Ben Fine -- Predicaments of neoliberalism in the post-developmental liberal context / Chang Kyung-Sup -- European welfare states : neoliberal retrenchment, developmental reinforcement, or plural evolutions / Peter Abrahamson -- Developmental politics and neoliberalism in developing political economies -- Neoliberalism, democracy and development policy in Brazil / Alfredo Saad-Filho -- From dirgisme to neoliberalism: aspects of the political economy of the transition in India / C. P. Chandrasekhar -- The transition from neoliberalism to state neoliberalism in China at the turn of the 21st century / Alvin Y. So and Yin-wah Chu -- Vietnam between developmental state and neoliberalism : the case of the industrial sector / Pietro Masina -- New developmentalism in the old wineskin of neoliberalism in Uganda / Julius Kiiza -- Developmental politics and neoliberalism in advanced political economies -- Neoliberal restructuring in South Korea before and after the crisis / Tat Yan Kong -- The irish social partnership model : from growth promotion to crisis management? / Kwon Hyeong-ki -- From developmentalism to neoliberalism and back again? : governing the market in Australia from the 1980s to the present / Elizabeth Thurbon -- Conclusion and prospect -- Developmental politics beyond the neoliberal era / Ben Fine and Chang Kyung-Sup

Brief historical overview of steps to African unity / Mohammed Bedjaoui -- The transition from the organisation of African unity to the African Union / Tiyanjana Maluwa -- The African Union: principles and purposes / Stephane Doumbe-Bille -- The assembly, executive council and commission / Joram M. Biswaro -- The Pan-African Parliament / Sani L. Mohamed -- The African Court of Justice and Human Rights / Fatsah Ouguergouz -- The Peace and Security Council / Roland Adjovi -- The Economic, Social and Cultural Council / Mohamed S. Amr -- The African Economic Community / Makane M. Mbengue & Ousseni Illy -- The New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD) / Edward Kannyo -- The regional economic communities (RECs) / Stephen Karangizi -- The prohibition of unconstitutional change of government / Muna Ndulo -- The African Charter on Democracy, Elections and Governance / Helene Tigroudja -- The African Convention on the Prevention and Combating of Corruption / Mpazi Sinjela -- The role of the Union in conflict prevention and resolution / Mesmer L. Gueuyou -- The right of forcible intervention in certain conflicts / Abdulqawi A. Yusuf -- Peacekeeping operations: the examples of Burundi and Sudan / Mutoy Mubiala -- The African Union's relationship with the United Nations in the maintenance of peace and security / Djaboca L. Tehindrazanarivelo -- The African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights / Michelo Hansungule -- The Protocol on the Rights of Women in Africa / Rachel Mayanja -- The African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child / Chris M. Peter & Ummy A. Mwalimu -- The Convention governing the specific aspects of refugee problems in Africa / Osita C. Eze

"The main purpose of the book is to discuss new trends in the dynamic geography of innovation and argue that in an era of increasing globalization, two trends seem quite dominant: rigid territorial models of innovation, and localized configurations of innovative activities. The book brings together scholars who are working on these topics. Rather than focusing on established concepts and theories, the book aims to question narrow explanations, rigid territorializations, and simplistic policy frameworks; it provides evidence that innovation, while not exclusively dependent on regional contexts, can be influenced by place-specific attributes. The study of innovation encompasses an increasingly wide and rich field of conceptual and empirical studies and debates, which span across disciplinary boundaries in the social sciences. This book identifies the key debates, new streams of inquiry and progress in research related to the transfer, circulation and generation of knowledge in a spatial perspective. The book is organized into three subheadings: place-specific aspects of specialization and diversity; evolutionary spatio-sectoral dynamics; and bridging the local and the global divide. It is the aggregate of all of these contributions that offers an exclusive insight into the dynamic geographies of knowledge creation, diffusion and innovation, well beyond the traditional territorial approach. This volume contains new empirical and conceptual work by an interdisciplinary group of leading scholars from areas such as economic geography, innovation studies, and political science"--

"IMIA's Medinfo 2010 conference in Cape Town, the first to be held in Africa, focuses on the needs of and solutions from developing countries in Africa and beyond. This book, which presents the proceedings of Medinfo 2010, contains tutorials, workshops, keynotes, presentations, panels, demonstrations and posters, selected after review, from the 905 submissions received. These contributions are organised under four major themes; hospital information systems, consumer-health informatics, knowledge management and national and international health IT. The content covers all aspects of modern health informatics, ranging from traditional topics such as hospital information systems, patient registries, nursing informatics, data integration, standards, interoperability issues and decision support, to new topics such as translational bioinformatics, text mining, intelligent data analysis, emerging technologies, quality, social networking, workflow and organizational issues. It is well recognised that information and communication technologies have enormous potential for improving the health and lives of individuals, but innovative and effective change using such technologies is dependent upon people working together in partnerships, with particular regard to contextual and environmental factors. The theme selected for the Medinfo 2010 conference is a topic that most countries are currently addressing: 'partnerships for effective ehealth solutions - innovative collaborations promote solutions to health challenges, and this book will be of interest to all those whose work involves the use of biomedical and health informatics"--Publisher's description.

"In this book the social scientist and economist Professor Dr. Raymond Saner draws upon his long years of experience as a negotiation adviser, teacher, trainer, researcher and university lecturer to show that two-thirds of negotiation practice is learnable." "Without sacrificing scientific accuracy, Professor Saner offers a highly readable and fascinating guide to the subject. In so doing, he does not limit himself to the over-simplified tips generally put out on successful bargaining in every imaginable situation. Rather, he treats the different aspects of negotiation practice in a way that is useful to both academics and practitioners, such that the general laws and principles gradually become evident as and of themselves." "The aim of this approach is to reveal the essence of negotiation through the experience of both the author and the reader. Such an understanding of the processes involved in negotiation is of far greater practical value than a mere collection of recipes with no discussion of the underlying theory, while the most comprehensive treatment of the theory without reference to its application in practice would be only half the story. Thus, the text is supplemented by a series of illustrative examples and case studies from the business, political, NGO and international organization arenas, plus some seventy figures and tables. With all this, the author has paid considerable attention to writing a text that is both entertaining to read and rigorous in content."--Jacket

With President Hu Jintao's November 2004 visit to Latin America, China signaled to the rest of the world its growing interest in the region. Many observers welcome this development, highlighting the benefits of increased trade and investment, as well as diplomatic cooperation, for both sides. But other analysts have raised concerns about the relationship's impact on Latin American competitiveness and its implications for U.S. influence in Washington's traditional backyard. In C hina's Expansion into the Western Hemisphere, experts from Latin America, China, and the United States, as well as Europe, analyze the history of this triangular relationship and the motivations of each of the major players. Several chapters focus on China's growing economic ties to the region, including Latin America's role in China's search for energy resources worldwide. Other essays highlight the geopolitical implications of Chinese hemispheric policy and set recent developments in the broader context of China's role in the developing world. Together, they provide an absorbing look at a particularly sensitive aspect of China's emergence as a world power. Contributors include Christopher Alden (London School of Economics), Robert Devlin (ECLAC), Francisco González (Johns Hopkins–SAIS), Monica Hirst (Torcuato Di Tella University), Josh Kurlantzick (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace), Xiang Lanxin (Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva), Luisa Palacios (Barclays), Jiang Shixue (Chinese Academy of Social Sciences), Barbara Stallings (Brown University), Juan Tokatlián (San Andrés University), and Zheng Kai (Fudan University).