Trust Or Consequences
Trust Or Consequences

Author: Al Golin

Publisher: Amacom

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 346

ISBN-13:

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This book shows what makes such strategies work, and reveals the eye-opening results of a survey of over 700 business professionals. The recent rash of corporate scandals?and the ensuing financial ruin of companies and their stockholders -- proves that even the bluest of blue chip businesses cannot bank on the blind faith of consumers and investors. More than ever, corporations must rebuild, restore, and strengthen bonds of trust. Al Golin has helped create trust strategies for global business leaders including The Walt Disney Company, Hewlett-Packard, McDonald's, Toyota, Owens-Corning, and many others. In Trust or Consequences, he reveals how to: create an effective trust strategy determine the impact of trust issues on stakeholders assess trust-building performance and calculate the difficulty of restoring trust create a "trust bank" for saving deposits of good will to draw on as needed This invaluable resource offers tools for identifying trust opportunities, as well as numerous inside accounts of trust-building successes and failures by high-profile organizations and leaders. Filled with provocative ideas about why many companies overlook trust issues, Trust or Consequences brings the subject to center stage -- where it must remain if companies are to regain stakeholder loyalty and competitive advantage.

The Spike
The Spike

Author: Mark Humphries

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2023-01-24

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13: 0691241481

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The story of a neural impulse and what it reveals about how our brains work We see the last cookie in the box and think, can I take that? We reach a hand out. In the 2.1 seconds that this impulse travels through our brain, billions of neurons communicate with one another, sending blips of voltage through our sensory and motor regions. Neuroscientists call these blips “spikes.” Spikes enable us to do everything: talk, eat, run, see, plan, and decide. In The Spike, Mark Humphries takes readers on the epic journey of a spike through a single, brief reaction. In vivid language, Humphries tells the story of what happens in our brain, what we know about spikes, and what we still have left to understand about them. Drawing on decades of research in neuroscience, Humphries explores how spikes are born, how they are transmitted, and how they lead us to action. He dives into previously unanswered mysteries: Why are most neurons silent? What causes neurons to fire spikes spontaneously, without input from other neurons or the outside world? Why do most spikes fail to reach any destination? Humphries presents a new vision of the brain, one where fundamental computations are carried out by spontaneous spikes that predict what will happen in the world, helping us to perceive, decide, and react quickly enough for our survival. Traversing neuroscience’s expansive terrain, The Spike follows a single electrical response to illuminate how our extraordinary brains work.

Beadweaving Brilliance 2
Beadweaving Brilliance 2

Author: Kumiko Mizuno Ito

Publisher: Japan Publications Trading

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 92

ISBN-13: 9784889962314

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In her follow-up to last fall's well-received Beadweaving Brilliance, Kumiko Mizuno Ito shows crafters how to make more colorful and unique beaded pieces using off-loom techniques. Readers will learn a variety of stitches that will enable them to weave beads into flat fabric or 3-dimensional objects with a single needle and thread. And even though the finished projects may look complicated, each piece is simple enough for a beginner to complete in only one to two hours. The first two sections of Beadweaving Brilliance 2 include detailed, step-by-step directions for making rings, necklaces, bracelets, lariattas, earrings, chokers, brooches, eyeglass chains and straps using the different stitches (peyote, spiral rope, daisy chain, herringbone, brick, right angle, etc.). A third section serves as an Inspiration Gallery, in which vibrant full-color photographs showcase masterpieces by the author and other bead artists. The book concludes with a guide to tools and materials, fundamental techniques and a directory of basic stitches. Enjoyable and satisfying, the projects in Beadweaving Brilliance 2 will let readers express their individuality and create gorgeous beaded ornaments for themselves or for special friends, family and loved ones.

New Routes for Diaspora Studies
New Routes for Diaspora Studies

Author: Sukanya Banerjee

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 2012-07-11

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13: 0253006015

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“Offers a welcome addition to the literature on migration by using the springboard of ‘diaspora’ to address the cross-border movements of people.” —Rhacel Parreñas, Brown University Study of diasporas provides a useful frame for reimagining locations, movements, identities, and social formations. This volume explores diaspora as historical experience and as a category of analysis. Using case studies drawn from African and Asian diasporas and immigration in the United States, the contributors interrogate ideas of displacement, return, and place of origin as they relate to diasporic identity. They also consider how practices of commensality become grounds for examining identity and difference and how narrative and aesthetic forms emerge through the context of diaspora. Contributions by Crispin Bates, Martin A. Berger, Rachel Ida Buff, Marina Carter, Betty Joseph, Parama Roy, Jenny Sharpe, Todd Shepard, and Lok Siu

Children of Icarus
Children of Icarus

Author: Caighlan Smith

Publisher: Capstone

Published: 2016-07-01

Total Pages: 309

ISBN-13: 1630790583

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It�s Clara who�s desperate to enter the labyrinth and it�s Clara who�s bright, strong, and fearless enough to take on any challenge. It�s no surprise when she�s chosen. But so is the girl who has always lived in her shadow. Together they enter. Within minutes, they are torn apart forever. Now the girl who has never left the city walls must fight to survive in a living nightmare, where one false turn with who to trust means a certain dead end.

Bio-inspired Audio Processing, Models and Systems
Bio-inspired Audio Processing, Models and Systems

Author: Shih-Chii Liu

Publisher: Frontiers Media SA

Published: 2019-12-05

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13: 2889632326

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Neurophysiology and biology provide useful starting points to help us understand and build better audio processing systems. The papers in this special issue address hardware implementations, spiking networks, sound identification, and attention decoding.

High-Resolution Electrophoresis and Immunofixation
High-Resolution Electrophoresis and Immunofixation

Author: David F. Keren

Publisher: Elsevier

Published: 2017-05-17

Total Pages: 414

ISBN-13: 1483221091

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High-Resolution Electrophoresis and Immunofixation: Techniques and Interpretation, Second Edition presents the important developments in the technology of serum protein electrophoresis. This book discusses the electrophoretic patterns that one encounters when using high-resolution electrophoresis and immunofixation. Organized into nine chapters, this edition begins with an overview of the migration of charged particles in an electrical field. This text then presents the study of nasal and aural fluids looking for cerebrospinal fluid (CSF)-specific transferrin to detect CSF leakage due to a skull fracture or tumor. Other chapters consider some detailed studies of strategies employing immunoglobulin quantification and high-resolution electrophoresis to detect monoclonal gammopathies. This book discusses as well the three available strategies to enhance the efficiency of diagnosis of monoclonal gammopathies. The final chapter deals with the principles of high-resolution electrophoresis and immunofixation electrophoresis (IFE). This book is a valuable resource for pathologists, technologists, epidemiologists, physicians, and clinicians.

The Nissan Report
The Nissan Report

Author: Steve Barnett

Publisher: Broadway Business

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 250

ISBN-13:

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Drawing on the insights of artists, philosophers, anthropologists, and other unusual sources, this first look inside the successful Japanese company addresses not just the question of how do we make good, responsible products, but the very basic questions that nag at us as we try to figure out the moral center--the purpose--of our everyday work.