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Intro -- Contents -- Series Foreword -- Preface -- Chronology -- Chapter 1 Historical Overview -- Chapter 2 The Way We Were: On the Eve of the Industrial Revolution -- Chapter 3 The Agricultural Revolution in Great Britain -- Chapter 4 The Industrial Revolution in Great Britain -- Chapter 5 The Industrial Revolution in America -- Chapter 6 The Industrial Revolution on the Continent in the Late 19th Century -- Chapter 7 The Industrial Revolution beyond the West -- Biographies -- Primary Documents -- Annotated Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z -- Photographs

ABSTRACT  Early members of the genus Homo experienced heightened absolute metabolic costs, partially owing to increases in body size. However, as is characteristic of modern humans, they also likely began reproducing with shortened interbirth intervals. Male investment in offspring may help explain how this life history shift occurred. Evolutionary models of hominin male investment in offspring have traditionally focused on provisioning of females and young, yet the extent to which direct male care of offspring was evolutionarily important, from an energetic perspective, is largely unaddressed. I propose an evolutionary model of direct male care, demonstrating that males could have helped reduce the energetic burden of caregiving placed on mothers by carrying young. In doing so, males would have assisted females in achieving and maintaining an energetic condition sufficient for reproduction, thereby hastening the advent of shortened interbirth intervals that played a formative role in the success of our genus.

Introduction to risk assessment -- Risk perception -- Risks and consequences -- Ecological risk assessment -- Task analysis techniques -- Preliminary hazard analysis -- Primer on probability and statistics -- Mathematical tools for updating probabilities -- Developing probabilities -- Quantifying the unquantifiable -- Failure mode and effects analysis -- Human reliability analyses -- Critical incident technique -- Basic fault tree analysis technique -- Critical function analysis -- Event tree and decision tree analysis -- Probabilistic risk assessment -- Probabilistic risk assessment software -- Qualitative and quantitative research methods used in risk assessment -- Risk of an epidemic -- Vulnerability analysis technique -- Developing risk model for aviation inspection and maintenance tasks -- Risk assessment and community planning -- Threat assessment -- Project risk management -- Enterprise risk management overview -- Process safety management and hazard and operability assessment -- Emerging risks -- Process plant risk assessment example -- Risk assessment framework for detecting, predicting, and mitigating aircraft material -- Inspection: a case study -- Traffic risks -- Acronyms.

This study represents part of a long-term research program to investigate the influence of U.K. accountants on the development of professional accountancy in other parts of the world. It examines the impact of a small group of Scottish chartered accountants who emigrated to the U.S. in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Set against a general theory of emigration, the study's main results reveal the significant involvement of this group in the founding and development of U.S. accountancy. The influence is predominantly with respect to public accountancy and its main institutional organizations. Several of the individuals achieved considerable eminence in U.S. public accountancy.

This paper evidences the contribution of leading writers in the early 1900s to the vexed problems associated with capital maintenance and periodic income determination. It reveals that the issues which were then being discussed (such as the treatment of holding gains) remain as unresolved problems for today's accountancy practitioners.

"Safety culture refers to the norms, values, and practices shared by groups in relation to risk and safety. Within safety critical industries (e.g., nuclear energy, oil and gas, aviation), safety culture assessments with cross sectional surveys are used to identify trends that are promotive (e.g., shared beliefs on risk) and problematic (e.g., lack of incident reporting) for safety management. Through further investigation, opportunities for interorganizational learning are identified (e.g., sharing best practice) and used to improve safety culture. Research indicates that safety culture within an organization may be influenced by national cultural tendencies to avoid the anxiety caused by risky and ambiguous situations. This has implications for how the results of safety culture assessments are analyzed and interpreted"--