Whiskey BBC Worldwide Ltd.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Whisky: Addicted to Pleasure (1:48) -- Booming Industry (1:49) -- Aqua Vitae (2:27) -- Distillation Methods (3:02) -- Excuses to Drink (2:19) -- Brain Research (2:16) -- Production (1:51) -- The Steins (2:03) -- Taxes (3:53) -- Illicit Distillers (2:42) -- Legal Whisky (2:48) -- Mass Drink Hysteria (4:10) -- Mass Market Sales (2:24) -- Dewar (1:55) -- Temperance Campaign (2:02) -- Prohibition (2:59) -- Decreasing Whisky Consumption (2:25) -- Alcoholism (1:44) -- Exports (2:53) -- Credits: Whisky: Addicted to Pleasure (0:36)…”
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International Trade, Economic Development, and the Vietnamese Economy Essays in Honor of Binh Tran-Nam / edited by Cuong Le Van, Van Pham Hoang, Makoto Tawada.

Table of Contents: “…Chapter 1.Introduction -- Chapter 2. Efficiency-inducing tax credits for charitable donations when taxpayers have heterogeneous behavioral norms -- Chapter 3. …”
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Systematic : how systems biology is transforming modern medicine / James R. Valcourt. by Valcourt, James R.

Table of Contents: “…Applications -- Build me a buttercup: using synthetic biology to make diesel fuel, programmable cells, and malaria medicine -- More than just 86 billion neurons: the science of the brain, and how connections among neurons make it work -- Death and taxes: aging is governed by an organism-wide system that we might be able to manipulate -- Your microbiome and you: the body is host to trillions of microbes that affect human health -- This is your system on drugs: tweaking biological systems to produce better medical treatments.…”

Applied Plant Cell Biology Cellular Tools and Approaches for Plant Biotechnology / edited by Peter Nick, Zdeněk Opatrny. by Nick, Peter

Table of Contents: “…Prologue: Plant Stem Cells – Evolution of a Key Concept -- From Němec and Haberlandt to Molecular Cell Biology -- Part I: Control of Growth And Development -- Why to Spent Tax Money on Plant Microtubules? -- Auxin Biology: Applications and the Mechanisms Behind -- The Biotechnological Potential of Cytokinin Status Manipulation -- Cell Fate Between Life and Death During Somatic Embryogenesis -- Molecular Cell Biology of Pollen Walls -- Part II: Stress Tolerance -- Plant Cell Responses to Cadmium and Zinc -- Applied Cell Biology of Sulfur and Selenium in Plants -- Endocytosis: At the Crossroads of Pattern Recognition Immune Receptors and Pathogen Effectors -- Part III: Plant Metabolism -- Plant Compounds Acting on the Cytoskeleton -- Secondary Metabolites of Traditional Medical Plants – A Case Study of Ashwagandha (Withania Somnifera) -- Metabolic Engineering of Wood Formation -- Part IV: The Cell Biology Toolbox – New Approaches -- Flow Cytometry in Plant Research: A Success Story -- Photoconvertible Reporters for Selective Visualization of Subcellular Events and Interactions -- Plant Cell Strains in Fundamental Research and Application.…”
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Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures (BICA) for Young Scientists Proceedings of the First International Early Research Career Enhancement School (FIERCES 2016) / edited by...

Table of Contents: “…Models of Autonomous Cognitive Agents -- Differentiation of Groundwater Tax Rates as an Element of Improving the Economic Mechanism in the State Groundwater Extraction Management -- Users' of Information Systems Protection Analysis from Malefactor's Social Engineering Attacks Taking into Account Malefactor's Competence Profile -- Character Reasoning of the Social Network Users on the Basis of the Content Contained on Their Personal Pages -- Bayesian Optimization of Spiking Neural Network Parameters to Solving the Time Series Classiffcation Task -- Simulation of Learning in Neuronal Culture -- Unsupervised Neural Architecture for Saliency Detection: Extended Version -- Active adaptation of expert-based suggestions in ladieswear recommender system LookBooksClub via Reinforcement Learning -- Visual Analytics Support for Carbon Nanotube Design Automation -- A model of Neurodynamics of Hippocampal Formation Neurons Performing Spatial Processing Based on Even Cyclic Inhibitory Networks -- Feature Selection for Time-Series Prediction in Case of Undetermined Estimation -- A New Approach for Semantic Cognitive Maps Creation and Evaluation Based on Affix Relations -- On Alternative Instruments for the fMRI Data Analysis: General Linear Model Versus Algebraic Topology Approach -- Application of Hopfield Neural Network to the N-Queens Problem -- Simulation of a Fear-Like State on a Model of Dopamine System of Rat Brain -- Spatial and Temporal Parameters of Eye Movements During Viewing of Affective Images -- MEG Data Analysis Using the Empirical Mode Decomposition Method -- Evolutional Approach to Image Processing on the Example of Microsections -- "Cognovisor" for the Human Brain: Towards Mapping of Thought Processes by a Combination of fMRI and Eye-tracking -- Dynamic Intelligent Systems Integration and Evolution of Intelligent Control Systems Architectures -- Automated Planning: Usage for Integrated Expert Systems Construction -- Some Aspects of Temporal Knowledge Acquisition and Representation in Dynamic Integrated Expert Systems -- Collaboration of All-purpose Static Solver, Temporal Reasoning and Simulation Modeling Tools in Dynamic Integrated Expert Systems -- Some Aspects of Intellectual Tutoring Based on the Integrated Tutoring Expert Systems Usage -- To the Question of Learnability of a Spiking Neuron with Spike-Timing-Dependent Plasticity in Case of Complex Input Signals -- Causal Interactions Within the Default Mode Network as Revealed by Low-frequency Brain Fluctuations and Information Transfer Entropy -- Hierarchical Temporal Memory Implementation with Explicit States Extraction -- Swarm MeLiF: Feature Selection with Filter Combination Found via Swarm Intelligence -- Agent-based Model of Interactions in the Community of Investors and Producers -- Patterns of Spiking Activity of Neuronal Networks in Vitro as Memory Traces -- The Competency Management Based on Ontologies: Issues of Using in Organizations -- The Approach to Modeling of Synchronized Bursting in Neuronal Culture Using a Mathematical Model of a Neuron with Autoregulation Mechanism -- Dynamic Clustering of Connections Between fMRI Resting State Networks: A Comparison of Two Methods of Data Analysis -- Neural Network Solution of an Inverse Problem in Raman Spectroscopy of Multi-Component Solutions of Inorganic Salts -- Prediction of Relativistic Electrons Flux in the Outer Radiation Belt of the Earth Using Adaptive Methods -- Comparative Analysis of Residual Minimization and Artificial Neural Networks as Methods of Solving Inverse Problems: Test on Model Data -- A Biologically Inspired Architecture for Visual Self-Location.…”
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Uncle Sam and us : globalization, neoconservatism, and the Canadian state / Stephen Clarkson. by Clarkson, Stephen

Table of Contents: “…Contents -- 1 Not Whether, but Which Canada Will Survive -- 2 The Peripheral State: Globalization and Continentalism -- I: The Polity: Reconstituting the Canadian State -- CHANGE FROM WITHOUT -- 3 Continental and Global Governance -- 4 NAFTA and the WTO as Supraconstitution -- CHANGE FROM WITHIN -- 5 The Federal State: Internal Trade and the Charter -- 6 The Municipal State: Megacity and the Greater Toronto Area -- II: The Economy: Reframing the State's Functions -- THE MACRO ECONOMY AND THE MANAGERIAL STATE -- 7 The Taxing State: From Lord Keynes to Paul Martin…”
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Entrepreneur Revolution, 2nd Edition Priestley, Daniel. by Priestley, Daniel

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Entrepreneur Revolution Priestley, Daniel. by Priestley, Daniel

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Fruit Fly Pests : A World Assessment of Their Biology and Management.

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The Changing Face of Innovation : Is It Shifting to Asia? / Seeram Ramakrishna, Daniel Joo-Then Ng. by Ramakrishna, Seeram

Table of Contents: “…2.1 Research and Development InvestmentsChina; China's Rising Stature in Science and Technology; India; China and India -- Research Output Has Been Rising Rapidly; Korea; Korea's R & D output; Singapore; Key Innovation Outcome of Some Asian Countries; 2.2 Universities; Singapore; Current State of Higher Education; Geographic Distribution of Researchers in the World; Scientific Publications; 2.3 Young Minds and Human Resources; State of China and India; China's and India's Intellectual Diaspora -- Reverse Brain-drain; India's Intellectual Diaspora -- Reverse Brain-drain.…”
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The Economic Viability of Micropolitan America Gordon, Gerald. by Gordon, Gerald

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Financial Advice and Investment Decisions : a Manifesto for Change. by Wilcox, Jarrod W.

Table of Contents: “…Resisting Forecasting OverconfidenceMaking Estimates More Robust to Extreme Observations; Taking Context into Account; Making Better Use of Information in Decisions; CHAPTER 7 Controlling Investing Behavioral Biases; Facing Up to Complexity; Promoting Independent Thinking; Controlling Organizational Biases; CHAPTER 8 Tax Efficient Investing; Context; Taxes that Affect Investment Returns; General Principles of After-Tax Investing; Measurement of After-Tax Performance and Benchmarks; CHAPTER 9 Matching Investment Vehicles to Needs; Revisiting Risk Aversion; Taxes Again; Diversification.…”
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New Health Care for Profit : Doctors and Hospitals in a Competitive Environment. by Gray, Bradford H.

Table of Contents: “…The New Health Care for Profit; Copyright; Preface; Contents; An Introduction to the New Health Care for Profit; THE CHANGING HEALTH CARE ENVIRONMENT; PROFESSIONAL AUTONOMY, TRUST, AND HEALTH POLICY; IMPLICATIONS OF THE CURRENT CHANGES IN FOR-PROFIT HEALTH CARE; THE INSTITUTE OF MEDICINE PROJECT; CONCLUSION; REFERENCES AND NOTES; Legal Differences Between Investor-Owned and Nonprofit Health Care Institutions; ORGANIZATIONAL DIFFERENCES; Investor-Owned Hospitals; Nonprofit Hospitals; FINANCIAL DIFFERENCES; Tax Exemptions; Reimbursement Factors; Sources of Capital.…”
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Unnatural causes...is inequality making us sick? produced by California Newsreel in association with Vital Pictures ; presented by NMC, National Minority Consortia ; directed and p...

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Financial Advice and Investment Decisions : a Manifesto for Change. by Wilcox, Jarrod W.

Table of Contents: “…Resisting Forecasting OverconfidenceMaking Estimates More Robust to Extreme Observations; Taking Context into Account; Making Better Use of Information in Decisions; CHAPTER 7 Controlling Investing Behavioral Biases; Facing Up to Complexity; Promoting Independent Thinking; Controlling Organizational Biases; CHAPTER 8 Tax Efficient Investing; Context; Taxes that Affect Investment Returns; General Principles of After-Tax Investing; Measurement of After-Tax Performance and Benchmarks; CHAPTER 9 Matching Investment Vehicles to Needs; Revisiting Risk Aversion; Taxes Again; Diversification.…”
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Making Washington Work : Tales of Innovation in the Federal Government. by Donahue, John D.

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Swords into market shares : technology, economics, and security in the new Russia / by Glenn E. Schweitzer. by Schweitzer, Glenn E., 1930-

Table of Contents: “…International sharing of intellectual property rights. The tax man cometh. Taxation and technical assistance from abroad. …”
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Drug use & abuse / Micah L. Issitt. by Issitt, Micah L.

Table of Contents: “…Searching for a better brain : drug your way to high grades (2010) -- 27. …”
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"Fatal Indifference: The G8, Africa, and Global Health" / "℗ Ronald Labonte, Ted Schrecker, David Sanders, and Wilma Meeus."

Table of Contents: “…-- Poverty Reduction and Foreign Direct Investment -- International Finance, Tax Competition and Offshore Financial Centers -- Summary: Chapter Two -- Chapter Three: Health and Health Systems -- Introduction…”
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Linguistic Justice for Europe and for the World. by Van Parijs, Philippe

Table of Contents: “…; 1.3 Probability-driven language learning; 1.4 Maxi-min language use; 1.5 The maxi-min dynamics; 1.6 Deviation from maxi-min: didactic and symbolic; 1.7 Maxi-min dynamics and power relationships; 1.8 Power and the rise of English; 1.9 Lingua franca and justificatory community; 1.10 Lingua franca and trans-national demos; 1.11 A vector of ideological domination?…”
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