This open access book provides graduate students and scientists with fundamental knowledge on the mechanics of granular suspensions as well as on the mathematical and numerical techniques that can be adopted to investigate geophysical flows. To this end, three formidably complex problems (sediment transport, flow-like landslide inception, and gravity currents) are considered. The reader will fi…
Non-Western perspective on the international history of intellectual property rights. Politics in Publishing focuses on Japan's involvement in shaping international copyright law over a seventy-year period following the country's 1899 accession to the Berne Convention, the first multilateral copyright treaty. During this time, Japanese state officials collaborated with various stakeholders such…
Furthermore, within the context of action regulation theory, a suitable concept canbe identified to conceptualize sovereignty with respect to individuals in work settings.A core meaning of sovereignty – across all domains as described above (Couture and Toupin 2019) – deals withcontrol, in the sense of individuals – or groups, movements,corporations, states – having control over their e…
Principles of Management is designed to meet the scope and sequence requirements of the introductory course on management. This is a traditional approach to management using the leading, planning, organizing, and controlling approach. The table of contents of this book was designed to address two main themes. What are the variables that affect how, when, where, and why managers perform their jo…