Declining religiosity, waning class values, rising postmaterialism, along with Green values, postmodernism, feminism, are indicative of profound and widespread change in the values of citizens. This volume tracks these changes and analyses their impact on political efficacy, interest, activity, trust, voting, and involvement in new social movements.

"Values-Driven Ventures: Navigating Business Ethics and CSR in Social Entrepreneurship" is an indispensable guide for entrepreneurs and business leaders committed to embedding ethical principles and corporate social responsibility (CSR) into the core of their ventures. This book offers a detailed roadmap for integrating values-driven decision-making processes that not only align with ethical standards but also foster sustainable business practices. Through practical examples and in-depth analysis, readers will learn how to balance profit with purpose, create inclusive and responsible business models, and effectively address social and environmental challenges. By reading this book, individuals will gain the insights and tools needed to build ventures that not only succeed in the marketplace but also contribute positively to society, making it an essential resource for driving meaningful and sustainable impact.

Twelfth edition, 2009 of this book is based on IS: 800-2007 and also newly revised IS: 883-1994 (code of practice for timber structures). New code of practice, IS: 800 is likely to be issued soon. It is likely to introduce ``Limit State Design of Steel Structures''. Authors have distributed the text in thirty four chapters in main text and one chapter `on Location of Shear Centre' in Appendix A. Concept of Shear Centre and bending axis is important and significant and essentially needed to understand simple theory of bending and so also unsymmetrical bending. Complete-text has been updated and new matter added (e.g., elastic buckling, inelastic, stability and instability of columns and compression members, torsional-buckling, torsional-flexural buckling, etc.). Behaviour of web-stiffeners and web-panels specially near the end panels, tension-field action has been first time included to familiarise the students with the concept. Durability of steel members have been emphasized phenomenon of corrosion has been distinctly explained.

This second edition provides a comprehensive overview of the SSCP Risk, Response, and Recovery Domain in addition to providing a thorough overview of risk management and its implications on IT infrastructures and compliance. Written by industry experts, and using a wealth of examples and exercises, this book incorporates hands-on activities to walk the reader through the fundamentals of risk management, strategies and approaches for mitigating risk, and the anatomy of how to create a plan that reduces risk. It provides a modern and comprehensive view of information security policies and frameworks; examines the technical knowledge and software skills required for policy implementation; explores the creation of an effective IT security policy framework; discusses the latest governance, regulatory mandates, business drives, legal considerations, and much more. --

Special edition of the Federal register, containing a codification of documents of general applicability and future effect as of ... with ancillaries.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 34th European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2012, held in Barcelona, Spain, in April 2012. The 37 full papers, 28 poster papers and 7 demonstrations presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 167 submissions. The contributions are organized in sections named: query representation; blogs and online-community search; semi-structured retrieval; evaluation; applications; retrieval models; image and video retrieval; text and content classification, categorisation, clustering; systems efficiency; industry track; and posters.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 21st IFIP WG 5.5 Working Conference on Virtual Enterprises, PRO-VE 2020, held in Valencia, Spain, in November 2020. The conference was held virtually. The 53 full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 135 submissions. They provide a comprehensive overview of major challenges and recent advances in various domains related to the digital transformation and collaborative networks and their applications with a strong focus on the following areas related to the main theme of the conference: collaborative business ecosystems; collaborative business models; collaboration platform; data and knowledge services; blockchain and knowledge graphs; maintenance, compliance and liability; digital transformation; skills for organizations of the future; collaboration in open innovation; collaboration in supply chain; simulation and analysis in collaborative systems; product and service systems; collaboration impacts; boosting sustainability through collaboration in Agri-food 4.0; digital innovation hubs for digitalizing European industry; and collaborative networks for health and wellness data management.