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The aim of this book is to review recent research and technical advances, including the progress in design codes, related to the engineering applications of light gauge metal sections made in carbon, high strength and stainless steel, as well as aluminium alloys. Included is a review of the new technologies for connections of light gauge metal members. Main advanced applications, for residential, non residential and industrial buildings and pallet rack systems are also covered. For the first time, this book takes into account all the metallic materials now used more and more for structural components. The book will be of great interest not only for researchers but also for design engineers faced to the use of new metallic materials in modern structural applications.

4. Functional Rationality and 'Sense of Function': Critical Comments on an Ideological Distortion -- 5. Use Value and Substantive Rationality: Marx and Weber on Dichotomization in Modern Social Theory -- PART TWO RECONSTRUCTING SOCIAL SCIENCE: FROM SOCIAL THEORIZING TO REFLEXIVE PRAXIS -- Editor's note to Part II -- 6. Technocracy as Late Capitalist Ideology: Between Spectre and Myth -- 7. Communication, Deprivation and Mobilization: Notes on the Achievement of Communicative Action and Related Difficulties -- 8. Science, Technology, and Innovation: Reflections on Capital and Common Sense.

The world is at risk and the supply chain is not exempt Supply risk used to be defined as the potential for strikes by transport workers, fires at a key supplier's plant, or missed deliveries. That simple vision no longer applies. For the last 50 years, the global economies have benefited from the stability afforded by Pax Group of Seven - the longest period of uninterrupted economic advance.Previously published in: Physical Distribution and Logistics Management, Volume 34, Number 9, 2004

This paper examines the implementation of recent changes to Victorian food safety legislation with particular reference to the implications for the foodservice industry. The research findings reported in this paper are based on a major food safety management audit undertaken for the Victorian Auditor General's Office. The components of the audit, on which this paper is based, involved a quantitative survey of all 79 of the Victorian local councils, in-depth qualitative audits of 12 of these councils selected across the range of councils, from central business district to urban, suburban and rural locations, and a telephone survey of 219 food businesses within these 12 councils. Concludes that, to improve food safety awareness among operators, local councils need to pay attention to the provision of effective education and training programs, to the timely review of food safety programs, and to have a risk-based approach to inspections.