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Texas Estate Planning
by Dianne ReisSpeed is important when you charge fixed fees for creating wills and trusts, but imprecise drafting can lead to costly errors. When novel situations demand quick answers and custom clauses, turn to Dianne Reis' Texas Estate Planning. Her big book contains over 40 Texas-specific pattern wills and trusts annotated with alternate clauses, pitfalls to avoid, practice tips, recent cases, tax considerations, and more. For example, you receive: * Pattern clauses. Drafting recommendations include sample clauses that you can copy and paste. * Direct answers. Issue-oriented text is to-the-point, delivered without hedging, and is well-supported with recent cases. * Flow charts. Use the handouts to help your clients understand how particular types of assets affect the estate plan. * Tax considerations. Consequences and opportunities are clearly presented and supported with examples. Every estate planning attorney needs a base of ready answers, clauses, and documents. This affordable guide will add many reliable answers and over 80 forms to your collection.
Texas Furniture: The Cabinetmakers and Their Work, 1840-1880
by Lonn Taylor David B. WarrenThe art of furniture making flourished in Texas during the mid-nineteenth century. To document this rich heritage of locally made furniture, Miss Ima Hogg, the well-known philanthropist and collector of American decorative arts, enlisted Lonn Taylor and David B. Warren to research early Texas furniture and its makers. After more than a decade of investigation, they published Texas Furniture in 1975, and it quickly became the authoritative reference on this subject. An updated edition, Texas Furniture, Volume One, was issued in the spring of 2012. Texas Furniture, Volume Two presents over 150 additional pieces of furniture that were not included in Volume One, each superbly photographed in color and accompanied by detailed descriptions of the piece's maker, date, materials, measurements, history, and owner, as well as an analysis by the authors. Taylor and Warren have also written a new introduction for this volume, in which they amplify the story of early Texas furniture. In particular, they compare and contrast the two important traditions of cabinetmaking in Texas, Anglo-American and German, and identify previously unknown artisans. The authors also discuss nineteenth-century Texans' desire for refinement and gentility in furniture, non-commercial furniture making, and marquetry work. And they pay tribute to the twentieth-century collectors who first recognized the value of locally made Texas furniture and worked to preserve it. A checklist of Texas cabinetmakers, which contains biographical information on approximately nine hundred men who made furniture in Texas, completes the volume.
Texas Gulf Sulphur: The Timmins Ontario Mine
by Henry B. Reiling Maria M. CamargoEmployees, officers, and directors of Texas Gulf Sulphur acquired or tipped off others to acquire common stock or options before and concurrent with the announcement of a major discovery of ore. The question is whether any of these acquisitions violated either federal securities law, state fiduciary law, or ethical standards.
Texas High-Speed Rail Corp.
by Timothy A. Luehrman Andrew D. ReganThe finance director of the Texas High-Speed Rail Corp. (THSRC) is considering modifications to the financing program designed to support the development, construction, and operations of THSRC's planned high-speed rail system. The current plan achieves many objectives, including raising $6.5 billion from private sources, but a few problems remain to be addressed. These include temporary overfunding, unutilized tax losses, and certain important contingencies. Designed to highlight the shortcomings of simple valuation tools in a static analysis when applied to a dynamic project. The class discussion should isolate specific analytical issues, which may then be addressed in subsequent class sessions.
Texas Instruments: Cost of Quality (A)
by Robert S. Kaplan Christopher D. IttnerTexas Instruments implements a Cost of Quality (COQ) system as part of a company-wide "Total Quality Thrust." After several years of operation, group management questions whether or not the COQ system should be updated to make it more useful in identifying areas for quality improvement. The case documents the current system and asks students to analyze the role it played in the quality control process and areas in which it could be improved.
Texas Instruments: Time Products Division
by Steven C. Wheelwright Roderick E. WhiteOutlines the components of Texas Instruments' low-cost digital watch. Focus is on getting the assembly line running smoothly and efficiently in order to meet production cost and delivery requirements.
Texas Oil and Gas (Postcard History Series)
by Jeff A. SpencerTexas Oil and Gas documents in postcards the rapid growth of the Texas petroleum industry from its beginnings near Corsicana in the 1890s through the next several decades of oil booms throughout the state. The young 20th century opened with the Lucas Gusher at Spindletop in 1901. Thousands rushed from the oilfields of Pennsylvania, Ohio, and West Virginia to find work and riches. Continued drilling success along the Texas Gulf Coast transformed Houston into a major city and the Beaumont area into a major petrochemical center. Through the 1910s and 1920s, oil booms occurred in North Texas, the Panhandle, Central Texas, and West Texas. The giant East Texas oilfield, the second largest North American oilfield to Alaska's North Slope, was discovered in 1930. Texas oil replaced coal as fuel for the nation's railroads and provided fuel for our military in two world wars.
Texas Pacific Group--J. Crew
by William A. Sahlman Michael J. Roberts Lauren BarleyDescribes Texas Pacific Group's purchase and operation of J. Crew, the catalog and specialty clothing retailer. Highlights the issues involved in financing such a transaction, and then focuses on the operational challenges of turning around the business, and of TPG's intensive involvement in the running of the business. Details the improvements in the business, and then the retrenchment, leaving the business facing a significant debt payment coming due. TPG must decide whether to sell the business and get out "whole," or whether it can develop and execute a more successful strategy going forward.
Texas Probate Forms and Procedures
by Keith BranyonNo better timesaver exists than a well-drafted, on-point form. Here are over 170, plus a law-and-procedure outline. Keith Branyon's formbook will help you deal with the ever-increasing pressure to do more in less time, covering each procedural step with: * The relevant code sections. * Summaries of the interpretive cases. * Advice for avoiding common pitfalls. * A complete collection of practice-proven forms. All forms are custom-drafted in plain English specifically for use in Texas by one of the state's top probate practitioners. Here are some of the topics covered by the book's many forms: * Initial representation * Independent administration * Dependent administration * Other options * Creditors * Foreign wills * Contested matters
Texas Small-Firm Practice Tools
by Cindy StormerThe latest edition of Texas Small-Firm Practice Tools includes updated citations and substantive coverage to reflect the implementation of the Estates Code, as well as new and revised text on a broad range of topics, including: * Business records affidavits * Collateral consequences of a DWI * Criminal discovery under the Michael Morton Act * Management trusts for disabled persons You also receive 31 new and revised forms to help you work more efficiently. Texas Small-Firm Practice Tools is the one resource you need to stay current on Texas law and practice. Order your copy today . . . Texas Legal Checklists Pilots and accountants have long relied on checklists to avoid omissions. Your legal work deserves the same care, especially if you handle a variety of practice areas. Bring order and method to your practice, tackle new areas with confidence, and avoid omissions and wasted effort with the task checklists in Cindy Stormer's Small-Firm Practice Tools. These checklists break big jobs like probating a will, filing a divorce, forming a corporation, preparing for trial, and dozens more into manageable tasks. You receive: Civil litigation checklists Car accident checklists Business checklists Divorce checklists Estate checklists Criminal checklists Over 560 Texas FormsEach of the 16 practice areas in Cindy Stormer's Small-Firm Practice Tools is supported with a: (1) summary of the essential law and procedures, and (2) collection of custom-drafted, time-tested forms in both print and on Jamesforms.com.
Texas Takes Wing: A Century of Flight in the Lone Star State (Bridwell Texas History Series)
by Barbara GansonA history of aviation in Texas that &“brilliantly demonstrates the evolution of flight technology as a harbinger of social change&” (Technology and Culture). In this book, pilot and historian Barbara Ganson brings to life the colorful personalities that shaped the phenomenally successful development of the aviation industry in the Lone Star state. Weaving stories and profiles of aviators, designers, manufacturers, and those in related services, Texas Takes Wing covers the major trends that propelled Texas to the forefront of the field. Covering institutions from San Antonio&’s Randolph Air Force Base (the West Point of this branch of service) to Brownsville&’s airport with its Pan American Airlines instrument flight school (which served as an international gateway to Latin America as early as the 1920s) to Houston&’s Johnson Space Center, home of Mission Control for the US space program, the book provides an exhilarating timeline and engaging history of dozens of unsung pioneers as well as their more widely celebrated peers. Drawn from personal interviews as well as major archives and the collections of several commercial airlines, including American, Southwest, Braniff, Pan American Airways, and Continental, this sweeping history captures the story of powered flight in Texas since 1910. With its generally favorable flying weather, flat terrain, and wide-open spaces, Texas has more airports than any other state and is often considered one of America&’s most aviation-friendly places. Texas Takes Wing also explores the men and women who made the region pivotal in military training, aircraft manufacturing during wartime, general aviation, and air servicing of the agricultural industry. The result is a soaring history that will delight aviators and passengers alike. Includes photos
Texas Teachers and the New Texas Way
by Luis M. Viceira Matthew Rhodes-Kropf John Dionne Nathaniel BurbankIn 2011 Britt Harris, the Chief Investment Officer for the $107.4 billion Teachers Retirement System of Texas (TRS), was considering whether to pursue strategic partnerships with a group of large private equity firms. After spending four years aggressively moving the fifth largest pension fund in the United States into alternative asset classes, Harris felt that TRS shouldn't just participate in private equity funds as a typical limited partner. Rather, under his proposal TRS would offer carefully vetted firms multi-billion dollar investments through a customized fund structure that had fewer allocation mandates than traditional fund structures, and guarantees to reinvest 50% of any investment gains back into the investment vehicle. In exchange, Harris hoped to receive a highly customized compensation structure and gain greater access to investment professionals within the participating firms.
Text Analytics: Advances and Challenges (Studies in Classification, Data Analysis, and Knowledge Organization)
by Domenica Fioredistella Iezzi Damon Mayaffre Michelangelo MisuracaFocusing on methodologies, applications and challenges of textual data analysis and related fields, this book gathers selected and peer-reviewed contributions presented at the 14th International Conference on Statistical Analysis of Textual Data (JADT 2018), held in Rome, Italy, on June 12-15, 2018. Statistical analysis of textual data is a multidisciplinary field of research that has been mainly fostered by statistics, linguistics, mathematics and computer science. The respective sections of the book focus on techniques, methods and models for text analytics, dictionaries and specific languages, multilingual text analysis, and the applications of text analytics. The interdisciplinary contributions cover topics including text mining, text analytics, network text analysis, information extraction, sentiment analysis, web mining, social media analysis, corpus and quantitative linguistics, statistical and computational methods, and textual data in sociology, psychology, politics, law and marketing.
Text Book for Intermediate Second Year Economics - Telangana Board
by B. Sudhakar Reddy Dr K. Mohan Reddy Dr S. Radha Krishna Dr M. Prabhakar Reddy Dr V. Rajeswari Dr P. Bal Reddy Dr K. Srinivas Sri D.babu Rao Prof.S.Limba Goud Editors : Prof.K.sateesh Reddy Prof.c.Sivaramakrishna RaoThis is the prescribed text book for students of Intermediate Second year from Telangana state, for the subject of Economics in English medium
Text Mining im Personalmanagement: Eine Analyse der Anwendungspotenziale und Entwicklung eines Integrationskonzepts
by Felix GroßStetig wachsende Datenbestände bergen ein immenses Informationspotenzial und sind für Unternehmen daher von zentraler Bedeutung. Häufig liegen diese Daten in unstrukturierter Form vor, insbesondere in Textform. Text-Mining-Analysen liefern einen Ansatz, um große Mengen derartiger Daten zu analysieren, Muster in diesen Daten zu erkennen und die gewonnenen Informationen zur Entscheidungsunterstützung heranzuziehen. Der Einsatz dieser Technologie findet in zahlreichen strategischen Unternehmensbereichen – darunter dem Personalmanagement – sowohl in der Forschung als auch in der Praxis bislang jedoch nur eingeschränkt Beachtung. Vor diesem Hintergrund beschäftigt sich die Arbeit mit der Frage, in welcher Form die Technologie Text Mining genutzt und sinnvoll in die gesamte Breite des Personalmanagements integriert werden kann. Hierzu erfolgt eine systematische Analyse der konzeptionellen Anwendungsmöglichkeiten von Text Mining im Personalmanagement und der Eignung bestehender Text-Mining-Softwareangebote für den Einsatz in der Domäne. Darauf basierend erfolgt die Entwicklung einer neuartigen Systeminstanz, welche die Anwendungsmöglichkeiten von Text Mining im Personalmanagement erweitert und anhand von Beispielszenarien demonstriert und evaluiert.
Text Mining: Classification, Clustering, and Applications (Chapman & Hall/CRC Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery Series)
by Ashok N. Srivastava Mehran SahamiThe Definitive Resource on Text Mining Theory and Applications from Foremost Researchers in the FieldGiving a broad perspective of the field from numerous vantage points, Text Mining: Classification, Clustering, and Applications focuses on statistical methods for text mining and analysis. It examines methods to automatically cluster and classify te
Text Mining: Concepts, Implementation, and Big Data Challenge (Studies in Big Data #45)
by Taeho JoThis book discusses text mining and different ways this type of data mining can be used to find implicit knowledge from text collections. The author provides the guidelines for implementing text mining systems in Java, as well as concepts and approaches. The book starts by providing detailed text preprocessing techniques and then goes on to provide concepts, the techniques, the implementation, and the evaluation of text categorization. It then goes into more advanced topics including text summarization, text segmentation, topic mapping, and automatic text management.
Text and Materials on the Criminal Justice Process
by Nicola Padfield Jonathan BildHighlighting key issues in Criminal Justice that students need to consider, the Fifth Edition of this popular text contains a wide and varied selection of materials which help to explain the evolution of the criminal justice process in England and Wales since the early 1990s. Statutes, case law, empirical research and official and unofficial reports, as well as theoretical perspectives and academic comment are woven together and contextualized by the accompanying narrative to provide an authoritative account of the recent development of the criminal justice system. Fully updated, this Fifth Edition explores the issues around: • the introduction of Police and Crime Commissioners; • the contracting out of probation services; • the significant reforms to legal aid funding; • the challenges to trial by jury posed by the internet. This book also helpfully directs students to further reading by chapter to provide next steps for research. Written in an accessible style, Text and Materials on the Criminal Justice Process is a valuable resource for students of criminal justice.
Text und Konzeption im Content Marketing: Alle wichtigen Grundlagen für Print, Web, Corporate Blogs und Social Media (essentials)
by Sandro AbbateIn diesem essential erfahren Sie alle wichtigen Grundlagen der Text- und Konzeptentwicklung f#65533;r eine Content-Marketing-Strategie. Der Autor beschreibt die erfolgsentscheidenden Stellschrauben, die Sie beachten m#65533;ssen und in die Sie ausreichend Zeit investieren sollten: von der vorab zu leistenden Denkarbeit, #65533;ber die strukturierte Konzeptentwicklung, bis hin zur optimalen Textarbeit f#65533;r Webtexte. Abgerundet wird dieser Band durch Interviews mit renommierten Experten und Erfolgsbeispielen aus der Praxis.
Text, Cases and Materials on Equity and Trusts
by Mohamed RamjohnText, Cases and Materials on Equity and Trusts has been considerably revised to broaden the focus of the text in line with most LLB core courses to encompass equity, remedies and injunctions and to take account of recent major statutory and case law developments. The new edition features increased pedagogical support to outline key points and principles and improve navigation; 'notes' to encourage students to reflect on areas of complexity or controversy; and self-test questions to consolidate learning at the end of each chapter. New to this edition: is a detailed examination of The Civil Partnership Act 2004 and the Charities Act 2006 important case law developments such as Stack v Dowden (constructive trusts and family assets), Oxley v Hiscock (quantification of family assets), Barlow Clowes v Eurotrust (review of the test for dishonesty), Abou-Ramah v Abacha (dishonest assistance and change of position defence), AG for Zambia v Meer Care & Desai (review of the test for dishonesty), Horley Town Football Club (gifts to unincorporated association), Re Loftus (defences of limitation, estoppel and laches), Templeton Insurance v Penningtons Solicitors (Quistclose trust and damages) and many more are new chapters on the equitable remedies of specific performance, injunctions, rectification, rescission and account are extracts from the Law Commission’s Reports and consultation papers on ‘Sharing Homes’ and ‘Trustee Exemption Clauses’ as well as key academic literature and debates. The structure and style of previous editions have been retained, with an emphasis on introductory text and case extracts of sufficient length to allow students to develop analytical and critical skills in reading legal judgments. Substantial author commentary helps the text give the flow, coherence and direction of a textbook whilst providing the reader with a wide range of primary and secondary material from a variety of sources. A supporting Companion Website provides twice-annual updates to the cases and legislation discussed within the text; answers to the questions contained within the text, and sample essay questions. http://www.routledgecavendish.com/textbooks/9780415442947
Text/Work: Representing Organization and Organizing Representation (Routledge Studies in Management, Organizations and Society)
by Stephen LinsteadThe concepts of social sciences, social action and organizations as texts, are no longer unfamiliar ones. The use of language in social analysis has made researchers acutely aware of the importance of language use, not only to contain and express experience but also to create second order accounts of these experiences. This way of using language to shape our knowledge and guide social action, it is urged, makes social action and organization a 'text'.Text/Work is an innovative exploration of our understanding of the textual nature of organizational life, and considers the consequences of textual nature for organization studies. How can organizations be profitably written into textual forms? This is a bold investigation into a challenging and exciting area of study.
Textbook of Emergency General Surgery: Traumatic and Non-traumatic Surgical Emergencies
by Fausto Catena Federico CoccoliniThis text aims to provide a comprehensive review of general emergency surgery, the branch of medicine that treats patients presenting to the hospital with a wide variety of emergency conditions. It includes a section focusing on clinical aspects, management, logistics, patient cohorts and perioperative considerations in the context of general emergency surgery and trauma. Other sections describe various conditions and diseases in specific anatomical structures to enable readers to easily find the information they need. Written and edited by international experts and opinion leaders in the field, this book is a valuable reference resource for general and emergency surgeons, trauma surgeons, emergency physicians and nurses. It will also be of interest to residents, students and all other healthcare professionals involved in the management of emergency surgical patients.
Textbook of Logic (Routledge Revivals)
by Wolf AbrahamOriginally published in 1930, this well-known text by the late British philosopher Abraham Wolf offers the student a practical, consistent, and comprehensive approach to logic which remains unique in its field. Dr. Wolf here deals systematically with the two main types of reasoning - formal logic and inductive logic - and their various applications. All the main elements of logic - such as inference, syllogism, dilemmas, evidence, deductive and inductive methods, and probability - are subsumed under these general headings. Professor Wolf strongly emphasizes the fact that logic cannot be mastered without some practical application; at the end of this volume, therefore, he includes a section of exercises based on each chapter. His unusally interesting appendix examines such matters as symbolic as logic, fallacies, the law of contradiction, modal propositions, the existential import of categorical propositions, predictables, and categories.
Textbook of Patient Safety and Clinical Risk Management
by Walter Ricciardi Riccardo Tartaglia Liam Donaldson Susan SheridanImplementing safety practices in healthcare saves lives and improves the quality of care: it is therefore vital to apply good clinical practices, such as the WHO surgical checklist, to adopt the most appropriate measures for the prevention of assistance-related risks, and to identify the potential ones using tools such as reporting & learning systems.The culture of safety in the care environment and of human factors influencing it should be developed from the beginning of medical studies and in the first years of professional practice, in order to have the maximum impact on clinicians' and nurses' behavior. Medical errors tend to vary with the level of proficiency and experience, and this must be taken into account in adverse events prevention. Human factors assume a decisive importance in resilient organizations, and an understanding of risk control and containment is fundamental for all medical and surgical specialties. This open access book offers recommendations and examples of how to improve patient safety by changing practices, introducing organizational and technological innovations, and creating effective, patient-centered, timely, efficient, and equitable care systems, in order to spread the quality and patient safety culture among the new generation of healthcare professionals, and is intended for residents and young professionals in different clinical specialties.
Textbooks and School Library Provision in Secondary Education in Sub-Saharan Africa
by World BankThis study is based on research on secondary textbook and school library provision in Botswana, Cameroon, Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Togo, as well as existing recent country reports on textbook provision and an extensive desk research. Considerable variations exist in Sub-Saharan African textbook requirements needed to meet secondary curriculum specifications just as significant differences exist between and within countries in regard to the average price of recommended textbooks. Some countries have no approved textbooks list. This World Bank Working Paper aims to discuss the textbook situation in Sub-Saharan Africa with a special focus on secondary textbook availability, cost and financing, distribution and publishing, and the status of school libraries. Its objective is to analyze the issues in secondary textbook and school library provision and to provide some options and strategies for improvement.