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The fifth edition of this bestseller celebrates 40 of the most beautiful houses and apartments from all over the world, containing exclusive new projects from renowned architects, interior designers, garden and landscape architects, and experienced professionals. Published to coincide with Contemporary Living Yearbook 2023 is Timeless Living Yearbook 2023, which emphasises classic and more traditional forms, the integration of antique building materials, wood and natural stone, exclusive fabrics and objects, the restoration of homes and farms. Both Yearbooks complement each other perfectly and together offer a selection of dozens of recently finished villas, country houses, townhouses and apartments. Text in English, French, Dutch.

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This lavishly presented coffee table book features 60 new residential projects with a focus on the beautiful use of natural stone. The Beauty of Natural Stone in Private Residences includes over 200 photographs of houses and apartments where the use of this timeless organic material has been used to create unique and stunning entrance halls, kitchens, bathrooms, and wellbeing rooms. Packed full of inspiration this is a must buy for those looking to recreate similar spaces in their own homes.

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Globally, cereal grains are a staple part of the diet providing primarily carbohydrates and other phytochemical components. Detailed coverage of the composition and functionality of the bulk carbohydrate components, specifically starch, beta-glucans, and arabinoxylans, and the trace phytochemical components, i.e. phenolic compounds such as phenolic acids, anthocyanins, deoxyanthocyanins, and proanthocyanidins in cereal grains and grain products is provided. Considerable attention is paid to the interactions between carbohydrate and non-carbohydrate components in grains including starch–protein and starch–lipid interactions and their effects on starch digestibility. The phenolic constituents bound to grain dietary fiber also receive detailed consideration and the final chapter presents a review that discusses whole grain–gut microbiota interactions identifying new areas of research that may contribute to a better understanding of the underlying mechanisms linked to human health. This book provides researchers, clinicians and students with a comprehensive compendium on aspects of whole grain components and brings the literature up to date.

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This is a unique book containing comprehensive coverage of pluripotent stem cell therapies for the treatment of diabetes. Organized into six parts, this book covers the development and differentiation of beta cells, bioengineering, immunoescape, preclinical model and translational approaches, beta cell replacement, and disease modeling.

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1. El coste del capital de la empresa2. La relación entre la rentabilidad y el riesgo3. El coste de la deuda4. El coeficiente Beta5. El modelo de valoración de activos (CAPM)6. El coeficiente Beta de las empresas que no cotizan en bolsa7. Un ejemplo de cálculo del coste de capital8. El coste de capital de los proyectos de inversión9. El coste de capital en la evaluación de proyectos internacionales10. ConclusionesANEXO: La tasa de descuento de los activos sin liquidezBIBLIOGRAFÍA

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It all starts with your typical childhood friend love story-average Kanade pining afterhis dandy best friend, Munechika. There’s just one big problem with their high schoolromance...Kanade’s a Beta and Munechika’s an Alpha! And everyone knows thatAlpha/Beta pairing just aren’t compatible...on a physical level. But when Kanade goesinto heat as an Omega for the first time, will Munechika be there to give him a helpinghand?

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This is a resource for academia, practitioners, and policymakers seeking to take part in the discourses of various most updated issues within the shared prolific intersection of the three domains. It discusses headline topics such as how internet penetration and quality may improve a country's productivity, how usage of big data can predict customer churn, how connection with global value chain may stimulate demand for worker, how prominence of CSR disclosure in optimizing firm value along with the reflections of other thought-provoking topics. The configuration of this edited volume manifests the concerted connection between economics of development, business and finance in its four parts, which offer thorough investigation-based evidence on investment, technology and human capital development; corporate social responsibility, big data, and customer behaviour; reporting, auditing, business financial performance; and finance and banking. Articles in these chapters are also completed with executable managerial and policy implications providing handiness to business leaders and policymakers to walk the talk without getting overinvolved with texts and numbers.

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Chemotaxis Assay of Bone Marrow-Derived Macrophages.- Methods and Protocol for Single Cell Motility Assays under Topological Constraints.- Imaging-Based Analysis of Cell-Cell Contact Dependent Migration in Dictyostelium.- A Mutant of Dictyostelium discoideum, KI-Cell, As a Model of Collective Cell Migration Independent of Chemotaxis.- Using Multiphoton Intra-Vital Microscopy to Study Neutrophil Transmigration and Blood-Brain Barrier Permeability in a Mouse Model of Herpes Simplex Virus Encephalitis.- An In Vivo Metastasis Model using Genotype-Defined Tumor Organoids.- Different Morphotypes of Physarum polycephalum as Models for Chemotaxis and Locomotion.- Flagella and Cell Body Staining of Bacteria with Fluorescent Dyes.- Re-Purposing Proximity-Dependent Protein Labelling (BioID2) for Protein Interaction Mapping in E. coli.- Electrotaxis of Dictyostelium discoideum, Migration in an Electric Field.- Electric Cell-substrate Impedance S

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This text addresses three literary works with adolescence in mind: Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" and "Much Ado About Nothing" and Pushkin's "Eugene Onegin". These set the stage for the clinical material when the author illustrates the core approach of intensive one-to-on work with adolescents.

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This book plugs on the essential demand of highlighting consumer behaviour and financial performance of companies, including banking and modern fintech-based institutions, particularly at the backdrop of an emerging giant -- Indonesia. Contributed by prominent researchers at Universitas Indonesia, the topmost Business School in Indonesia, this book offers how wide array of theories are tested and used to frame models to recommend evidence-informed strategies of effective management. It also covers conversations around the concept, measurement, determinant of middle-class millennials; anti-corruption disclosure and its impact on firm value; effect of behavioural finance, financial and zakat literacy to the public; to roles of various forms of financial technology- (fintech-) based institutions, including peer-to-peer lending and charitable crowdfunding to our society, and other thought-provoking questions and discussions. We are pleased to present this important book to government policymakers and lifelong practitioner learners who can use the information and insights contained here. And, for fellow researchers, librarians, and students especially those who are engaging with research practices, this book is a must-have as it provides various practical replicable examples and helps shape the direction future research of recent issues in its areas.

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La armada de Horus se reúne. Ya ha derrotado a todos los enemigos que se interponían en su camino, incluso al propio verdugo del Emperador. Lo único que queda es una barrera antes de que pueda dirigirse a Terra para arrasar con el sueño del Emperador.El sistema Beta-Garmon ocupa la única ruta viable, la más directa, hacia el sistema solar y Terra. Para derribar aquella barrera, Horus congrega a una hueste de guerra de unas proporciones inimaginables y a un número incontable de titanes. Perder en Beta-Garmon significa perder la guerra, y Horus no tiene ninguna intención de volver atrás. Sin embargo, el Imperio también comprende la importancia de Beta-Garmon y despliega un ejército colosal, conformado por unas cohortes del ejército de números casi infinitos y un conjunto de titanes capaz de desafiar incluso al poderío marcial del Señor de la Guerra.Los titanes luchan contra los propios titanes conforme las máquinas dios de los leales al Emperador y de los traidores se dirigen a la

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Having procured a boat, Kirito and Asuna are one step closer to unravelling the quest that was missing from the Beta launch. Together with their team, they'll tackle the new puzzles of Sword Art Online that await them.

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In the twenty-first century, women are outpacing men in education and career advancement. Yet successful women are constantly being told that their professional achievements might doom their chances of marriage and family. Data show that today's Alpha women-ambitious, self-assured, and hardworking-are hardly fated to be spinsters. By rethinking outmoded gender roles, women can have better relationships than ever before. A clinical psychologist with more than thirty years' experience, Dr. Rhodes shares her secrets to helping women triumph in love by finding men who will appreciate and complement their strengths. Challenging gender stereotypes associated with the terms Alpha and Beta, she advises the Alpha woman to look past the overly competitive, domineering Alpha male for a man who is not threatened by her strengths. Just as Alpha women aren't demanding bitches, Beta men aren't passive wimps. Demonstrating that nearly everyone is a combination of both qualities, Dr. Rhodes includes a comprehensive test to help readers define where they (and their partners) are on the Alpha-Beta spectrum, giving women more options and helping them make better choices. The Alpha Woman Meets Her Match can bring women greater empowerment in both their love lives and their careers.

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Forget to get exhausted while finding the most updated literature and research across the area of economics of development, business and accounting. Whether you aim to seek research ideas, learn from best practices, formulate evidence-based policies, "Recent Studies in Economics of Development, Business and Accounting" is your decent starting point. By showcasing evidence from Indonesia, the fastest-growing economies in the south-Asia region and beyond, this edited volume brings wide and deep insights on: How supports from government (through policy and subsidy), academia (through community engagement programs), public (through cash waqf) play role in improving the sustainability of informal sectors including microfinance and fishery; How corporate governance structure, the structure of ownership, gender diversity and country law play a role in companies' CSR disclosures and earning management; How children's education, marriage, and other demographic indicator affect intergenerational income mobility to their parents; How the integration of business ethics into the undergraduate accounting curriculum, teaching methods and student interactions correlate with student ethical sensitivity; How companies' tax avoidance and audit quality influence their probability to participate in tax amnesty; How the host and home country's determinants influences return of capital market product; How business leaders and policymakers may generate practical implications from various studies on the volume.

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This self-contained book provides modern and practical analytical methodologies for the assays in foods, pharmaceuticals and clinical samples. It covers the fat-soluble Vitamins: A, beta-carotene, D, E and K as well as the water soluble vitamins, C, folate, thiamin, biotin, pyridoxin and cyancobalims.

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Boldly go and explore the ally and enemy ships encountered by the Federation in the Alpha and Beta Quadrants in the newest Star Trek Shipyards book. The popular Star Trek Shipyards series continues with detailed looks at ships from the Alpha and Beta Quadrants as seen in Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: The Original Series, and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. First up? Ships of the Breen, Cardassians, and those pesky Ferengi. Each featured ship is profiled with technical details, in-universe operational history, and illustrated with plan-view CG renders, wherever possible utilizing the original VFX models created for the Star Trek shows and features from across the franchise's remarkable 55 years. This volume includes more than 40 ships, including the Anaxar cargo vessel, the Breen Warship, the Cardassian Bok'Nor, Cardassian military freighter, the Ferengi shuttle, the Gorn warship, the Husnok warship and the Jem'Hadar battlecruiser.

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This book deals with various image processing and machine vision problems efficiently with splines and includes: the significance of Bernstein Polynomial in splines, detailed coverage of Beta-splines applications which are relatively new, Splines in motion tracking, various deformative models and their uses. Finally the book covers wavelet splines which are efficient and effective in different image applications.

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This Second Edition continues the fine tradition of its predecessor by exploring the various automatic control systems in aircraft and on board missiles. Considerably expanded and updated, it now includes new or additional material on: the effectiveness of beta-beta feedback as a method of obtaining coordination during turns using the F-15 as the aircraft model; the root locus analysis of a generic acceleration autopilot used in many air-to-air and surface-to-air guided missiles; the guidance systems of the AIM-9L Sidewinder as well as bank-to-turn missiles; various types of guidance, including proportional navigation and line-of-sight and lead-angle command guidance; the coupling of the output of a director fire control system into the autopilot; the analysis of multivariable control systems; and methods for modeling the human pilot, plus the integration of the human pilot into an aircraft flight control system. Also features many new additions to the appendices.

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Ensure that you're using the most up-to-date data available: Buy the 2017 Valuation Handbook – U.S. Industry Cost of Capital + Quarterly PDF Updates together!The most recent cost of capital data for approximately 180 U.S. industries, identified by Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) codeThe 2017 Valuation Handbook – U.S. Industry Cost of Capital provides valuation professionals with the same type of rigorous industry-level analysis previously published in the green-cover Morningstar/Ibbotson Cost of Capital Yearbook (now discontinued).The 2017 Valuation Handbook – U.S. Industry Cost of Capital provides up to eight cost of equity capital and weighted average cost of capital (WACC) estimates for each of the U.S. industries covered in the book, plus capital structure, valuation (trading) multiples, sales, market capitalization, several levered and unlevered beta estimates (e.g., ordinary-least squares (OLS) beta, sum beta, downside beta, etc.), financial and profitability ratios, equity returns, aggregate forward-looking earnings-per-share (EPS) growth rates, and more.The 2017 Valuation Handbook – U.S. Industry Cost of Capital includes data through March 31, 2017, and is intended to be used for 2017 valuation dates.For more information about Duff & Phelps valuation data resources published by Wiley, please visit www.wiley.com/go/valuationhandbooks.Also Available 2017 Valuation Handbook – U.S. Guide to Cost of Capital 2017 Valuation Handbook – International Guide to Cost of Capital 2017 Valuation Handbook - International Industry Cost of Capital Key Features Access cost of capital estimates and betas for approximately 180 U.S. industries Reference industry-level valuation multiples, growth rates, sales, capital structure, profitability ratios, plus statistics that enable the user to gauge the impact of "debt-like" off-balance-sheet items on the capital structure of the subject industry Use the information in this book to (i) benchmark, (ii) augment, and (iii) provide additional support for your own custom analyses of the industry in which a subject business, business ownership interest, security, or intangible asset resides

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This book provides the fundamentals of asset management. It takes a practical perspective in describing asset management. Besides the theoretical aspects of investment management, it provides in-depth insights into the actual implementation issues associated with investment strategies. The 19 chapters combine theory and practice based on the experience of the authors in the asset management industry. The book starts off with describing the key activities involved in asset management and the various forms of risk in managing a portfolio. There is then coverage of the different asset classes (common stock, bonds, and alternative assets), collective investment vehicles, financial derivatives, common stock analysis and valuation, bond analytics, equity beta strategies (including smart beta), equity alpha strategies (including quantitative/systematic strategies), bond indexing and active bond portfolio strategies, and multi-asset strategies. The methods of using financial derivatives (equity derivatives, interest rate derivatives, and credit derivatives) in managing the risks of a portfolio are clearly explained and illustrated.

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Nobunaga won the genetic lottery and was born an alpha: his beauty, intelligence, and talent drive everyone wild with lust. Despite his seemingly perfect life, Nobunaga is unsatisfied - until he meets the woman of his dreams, who can sate his every desire. Enjoy a taste of the supernatural in this alpha/beta/omega tale about love, lust, and the power of attraction.

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Nobunaga won the genetic lottery and was born an alpha: his beauty, intelligence, and talent drive everyone wild with lust. Despite his seemingly perfect life, Nobunaga is unsatisfied - until he meets the woman of his dreams, who can sate his every desire. Enjoy a taste of the supernatural in this alpha/beta/omega tale about love, lust, and the power of attraction.

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Nobunaga won the genetic lottery and was born an alpha: his beauty, intelligence, and talent drive everyone wild with lust. Despite his seemingly perfect life, Nobunaga is unsatisfied--until he meets the woman of his dreams, who can sate his every desire. Enjoy a taste of the supernatural in this alpha/beta/omega tale about love, lust, and the power of attraction.

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The fifth-floor boss, Fuscus the Vacant Colossus, brings the raid party to the brink of destruction when it reveals mechanics that are completely different from the game’s beta. On top of that, PoH, the leader of Laughing Coffin, attacks Kirito to obtain the Flag of Valor. Will Kirito be able to overcome these unexpected trials and make it out of the fifth floor alive?!

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Continúa la serie de Akira Toriyama.Después de que Trunks y Goten le roben al doctor Hedo un disco duro con información importante, este envía al instituto donde los saiyanos estudian a una de sus creaciones, Beta 1, para desenmascarar a los ladrones. Así, tiene lugar una espectacular batalla en los terrenos del instituto, y con Goten convertido en Saiyaman X2!

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One spring break, a high school freshman is selected as a beta tester for a totally immersive VR experience: the open-world sandbox game 'Cube Arts.' In a world made up of blocks where your imagination is the only limit on what you can build and explore, high school students from all over the country gather together to tame a digital frontier! But this world may be more dangerous than they realised...

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Ever since he was selected to beta test the mysteriously realistic game, 'The Village of Fate,' Yoshio's slowly been putting his life back together. Helping save the villagers was the catalyst he needed to help himself. Yet there's one big scar that Yoshio hasn't addressed: The convicted stalker who tormented his sister and wounded him with a knife. When the stalker reappears, could it mean the end of everything that changed for the better...?

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With Pram and Romantica joining his party, Desir is ready to put his plan of advancing to Alpha class in motion. But not everyone is thrilled about the prospect of Beta students moving up—painting clear targets on their backs. Still, Desir’s armed with power and thirteen years’ worth of knowledge, and he’s ready to take on anyone, even Azest. Promotion battle...START!

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One spring break, a high school freshman is selected as a beta tester for a totally immersive VR experience: the open-world sandbox game 'Cube Arts.' In a world made up of blocks where your imagination is the only limit on what you can build and explore, high school students from all over the country gather together to tame a digital frontier! But this world may be more dangerous than they realised...

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Presenting the best practices of the best manufacturing companies in the world, this book presents proven models for achieving world-class performance. Using a case study of a fictional company called Beta International, Moore illustrates how to increase uptime, lower costs, increase market share, maximize asset utilization, apply benchmarks and best practices, and improve many other aspects that ultimately raise your company's performance to the level of world-class. "Making Common Sense Common Practice" takes a good, hard look at plant design, procurement, parts management, installation and maintenance, training, and implementing a computerized maintenance management system. In discussing the successes and failures of the world's premier manufacturers, Moore outlines a stable path of growth for almost any manufacturing company. In today's tough competitive markets, "Making Common Sense Common Practice" greatly enhances your company's chance to succeed - and profit. The third edition features updating plus new sections on innovation, change management, and leadership. It presents proven models for achieving world-class performance based on real-life case histories. The highly readable, concrete style brings the key points to life through a case study of a fictitious organization, Beta International, which runs throughout the book, based on real case histories.

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The seventh layer of Aincrad-a massive casino where over half of the game's betatesters dropped out before launch. Kirito, too, lost everything in its Monster Arena backthen. When an informant named Argo seduces Kirito and Asuna with knowledge thatcould aid in their investigation, the pair soon plunge into the casino's dark underbellyonce more. Meanwhile, the Elf War Quest also reaches a sudden turning point when aflurry of crises rock the Dark Elves' home!

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Innovation in the Pharmaceutical Industry traces the discovery and development of drugs in Japan and the UK both historically and sociologically. It includes sixteen case studies of major pharmaceutical developments in the twentieth century, encompassing, amongst others, beta-blockers, beta-stimulants, inhaled steroids and histamine H2-antagonists.The book illustrates that the four stages of drug development - namely compound, application, organisational authorisation and market - are interactively shaped by heterogeneous actors and institutions. The book also identifies three different types of pharmaceutical development - paradigmatic innovation, application innovation and modification-based innovation, all with distinguishable features in the drug development process. Finally, several historical, structural and cultural factors influencing the shaping of medicines are revealed by the comparison between British and Japanese drug innovation.Addressing a number of practical implications for the promotion of the pharmaceutical industry, this book will be of enormous interest to students, researchers and academics specialising in science and technology, and the management of technology and innovation. Practitioners, managers, and policy planners within the pharmaceutical industry will also deem this book invaluable.

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Arika is what you could charitably call a vampire “enthusiast.” When she stumbles across the beautiful and mysterious vampire Divo however, her excitement quickly turns to disappointment as she discovers he’s not exactly like the seductive, manipulative villains in her stories. His looks win first place, but his head’s a space case. Armed with her extensive knowledge of vampire lore, Arika downgrades Divo to a beta vampire and begins their long, long… long journey to educate him in the ways of the undead.

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An informative guide offering new and innovative ways to think about active management and investing ActiveBeta Indexes presents exciting new research that shows how above-market returns can be achieved in a low-cost, transparent, and efficient fashion. Active Betas reflect fundamental investment principles that have long been the foundation of active equity returns, but are commonly masqueraded as investment skill, or alpha. This groundbreaking book lifts the veil to uncover the common sources of active returns and reveals their beta-like properties. Developed by leading investment practitioners at Westpeak Global Advisors, ActiveBeta Indexes introduces Active Beta sources and explains how the behavior of short- and long-term earnings growth gives rise to systematic sources of active equity returns. Details a new index framework and research findings that could change the face of active portfolio management Presents patent-pending innovations for constructing style indexes and informationally-efficient active portfolios Explores the historical performance of ActiveBeta Indexes Wealth advisers, consultants, pensions and endowments, and other institutional investors will find the intellectual honesty of ActiveBeta Indexes a refreshing perspective on the active management industry. They will also find it a useful guide to a more strategic allocation of their risk and management fee budgets – a growing necessity in these challenging times.

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