In addition to news and insights
from global publishing, this issue puts a special focus on diversity in the book business, including publisher and author interviews.
For five years now, Publishing Perspectives has brought you daily reports
from the global publishing industry.
Not exact matches
In our
Global Leadership Forecast 2018 —
published by DDI, The Conference Board and EY with support
from CNBC — we took a look at more than 25,000 leaders spanning 54 countries and 26 major industry sectors.
In a paper recently
published in Geophysical Research Letters, they highlighted something called black carbon — soot, really — that is distinct
from carbon dioxide, the gas primarily associated with
global warming.
In its seventh annual survey,
published in May 2017, the
Global Impact Investing Network, or GIIN, reported on data
from 209 respondents managing $ 114 billion in impact investing assets.
In our feature article
published today about Four Seasons» ambitious
global expansion plans, CEO Allen Smith sizes up the competition
from sharing - economy upstarts like Airbnb:
Two weeks earlier, he had gotten a call
from the company's largest shareholder, Texas - based fund manager US
Global Investors Inc., warning that a broker at another firm had received an anonymous call, saying Muddy Waters was about to
publish a report on Silvercorp and US
Global should dump its stock.
Business travelers
from the U.S. are expected to spend $ 273.3 billion in 2013, according to an estimate
published today
from the
Global Business Travel Association, a non-profit trade group that tracks business travel and corporate meeting expenditures.
That's the conclusion
from a report
published in August by Stratasys Direct Manufacturing (SSYS), the service arm of the
global 3D - printer manufacturing company Stratasys.
The Company's top managers often grant interviews to the most prestigious
global financial media sources, whereas daily reviews
from the professional analyst team are
published on the industry's largest web portals.
Ripple partner Accenture
published a brief report based on investment data
from global venture finance analytics firm CB Insights last week.
TNW
published a statement
from Visa Europe confirming it had terminated its partnership with WaveCrest Holdings, a
global payment solutions company, after it had failed to comply with Visa's operating rules.
We
publish a variety of content online for our
global readers including user submitted content, native content and aggregated news
from various industry sources.
Below are quotes
from an article
published on March 28, 2018 in The Wall Street Journal titled «Warning Sign: Tech Stocks Are Dominating
Global Markets Like Never Before»:
But according to the 2010
Global Financial Centers Index (GFCI),
published by Z / Yen, Dubai tied for 24th place with Isle of Man out of a total of 75 centers, representing a slide of three points in its ranking
from the 2009 GFCI.
But when the
Global Investment Committee recently
published its strategic seven - year forecasts, it only trimmed annualized U.S. equity returns modestly —
from 5.3 % to 4.9 % — in part because it does not expect a significant contraction to profit margins.
The change of emphasis in Hartshorne's writings
from the
global argument to the table of options is well illustrated in two of the papers
published here.
A recent study
from researchers at Oxford University
published in the medical journal The Lancet looked at how changing weather patterns will affect the planet's ability to grow enough food to adequately feed the
global population, and the results are terrifying: They predicted that because of large scale agricultural changes, 247,970 could die in China alone by the year 2050.
, just
published in paperback by ISI: «As more and more populations are added to the immense «
global middle class,» each people is commanded to divorce itself
from its culpable past» one said to be defined by intolerance and oppression.
Stand - up pouches (SUPs) is now one of the fastest growing flexible packaging formats with
global demand expected to pass 90 billion units in 2017, according to a newly
published report
from specialist industry consultants, AMI (ami.international).
Global food companies are hungry for insights, and we oblige with resources
from published research to our patent - pending EsSense Profile ® — a scientific measurement of the very emotional human response to flavor.
The report «Gluten - Free Products Market by Type (Bakery Products, Pizzas & Pastas, Cereals & Snacks, Savories, and Others), Source (Oilseeds & Pulses, Rice & Corn, Dairy & Meat Products, and Other Crops), & by Region -
Global Trends & Forecast to 2020» published by MarketsandMarkets, The global market for Gluten - Free Products was valued at $ 4.63 Billion in 2015 and is projected to reach $ 7.59 Billion by 2020, at a CAGR of 10.4 % from 2015 to
Global Trends & Forecast to 2020»
published by MarketsandMarkets, The
global market for Gluten - Free Products was valued at $ 4.63 Billion in 2015 and is projected to reach $ 7.59 Billion by 2020, at a CAGR of 10.4 % from 2015 to
global market for Gluten - Free Products was valued at $ 4.63 Billion in 2015 and is projected to reach $ 7.59 Billion by 2020, at a CAGR of 10.4 %
from 2015 to 2020.
Mr Popov said the company was particularly delighted to be recognised by the Meininger
Publishing House, the publishers of a range of wine and spirit industry publications including the respected Wine Business International, which covers the wine trade
from a
global perspective.
I feel that now, as the Lancet today
publishes its series on breastfeeding stating that a lack of protection and support for breastfeeding is killing more than 800,000 babies each year, causing more than 20,000 deaths
from breast cancer, and costing the
global economy around $ 302bn per year in lost cognitive development and thus economic potential.
Learning
from Large - Scale Community - Based Programmes to Improve Breastfeeding Practices (2008) Authoring organization (s): World Health Organization (WHO), United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), Academy for Educational Development, Africa's Health in 2010
Published: 2008 Summary: Community - based breastfeeding promotion and support is one of the key components of a comprehensive program to improve breastfeeding practices, as outlined in the WHO / UNICEF
Global Strategy for Infant and Young Child Feeding.
The study,
published in The Lancet
Global Health Journal, \ was conducted by using data
from a prospective study of over approximately 6,000 infants born in Pelotas, Brazil in 1982.
Proposals
from the Task Force on protecting the right to food are presented in the book
Global Obligations for the Right to Food (
published in 2008), and include possible approaches for legally - binding measures to hold corporations accountable (chapter 4, Mike Brady).
Where background rates of «ever breastfed» were not reported, we have used either rates
published in the WHO
Global Data Bank on Infant and Young Child Feeding (www.who.int/nutrition/databases/infantfeeding/countries/en/index; accessed July 2016), or those
published in the supplementary material to Victora 2016, and for the two studies
from Scotland (Hoddinott 2009; Muirhead 2006), we used www.isdscotlandarchive.scot.nhs.uk/isd/1914 (accessed November 2016).
But Jonathan who spoke through his former aide, Reno Omokri, said that under his administration, the only
global body for monitoring corruption, Transparency International, had
published in its annual corruption index, showing Nigeria made am eight (8) points improvement in coeeution reduction, haven moved
from 144 to 136 then.
The Daily Telegraph today
publishes key extracts
from a speech that Sir Malcolm Rifkind has given on his hope for a «
Global Zero»; a nuclear free world.
Sato et al. (p. 1395,
published online 19 May) describe the huge displacements
from ocean bottom transponders — previously placed directly above the earthquake's hypocenter — communicating with
Global Positioning System (GPS) receivers aboard a ship.
This study, coordinated by researchers
from the GET (IRD, OMP, CNRS, CNES, UPS) and EPOC laboratories (OASU, CNRS, Université Bordeaux 1) and
published in the journal Nature, changes the order for
global carbon footprints.
But,» [w] hile in developing countries those friendships helped in securing the most attractive jobs, such as professorships, within their national higher education system, researchers in developed countries benefited
from the
global network of their senior friends giving them access to the most respected research groups, labs and universities, allowing them to present their work at the most prestigious conferences and
publish in the most important books and journals.»
In a review article recently
published online in the journal Nature, researchers arrived at a new estimate for total usable
global offshore groundwater: 500,000 cubic kilometers — a quantity 100 times greater than the amount of water extracted
from land aquifers since 1900, the study states.
According to a study
published online this week in Science, University of Minnesota researchers, building
from studies of nitrogen levels in Lake Superior, uncovered a good news / bad news scenario for lake health that has long - term,
global implications for pollution control efforts.
New research
from the University of South Florida
published in the journal Nature reveals that amphibians can acquire behavioral or immunological resistance to a deadly chytrid fungus implicated in
global amphibian population declines.
Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences researchers have developed a statistical method to quantify important ocean measurements
from satellite data,
publishing their findings in the journal
Global Biogeochemical Cycles.
The study,
published online today in Environmental Science & Technology, provides the most comprehensive set yet of direct measurements of emissions
from the distribution system and, with a series of partner studies, is helping to determine the natural gas industry's contribution to U.S. greenhouse gas emissions and to
global warming.
However, in a new paper
published in Proceedings of the National of Sciences USA (PNAS) scientists
from the University of Helsinki, Faculty of Science, show that key environmental parameters, namely climate - related primary productivity, biodiversity, and pathogen stress have strong influence on the
global pattern of population densities of ethnographically documented hunter - gatherers.
My own recent
global compilation of data
from soil production studies,
published last year in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, revealed an average rate of 0.00067 to 0.00142 inch a year — equivalent to 700 to 1,500 years to form an inch of soil.
Ocean researchers
from Kiel and Finland come to this conclusion in a current study, which will be
published online yesterday (September 8th) in the journal
Global Change Biology.
Published in the international journal
Global Change Biology, experts
from Cardiff University describe having discovered a previously unknown benefit of trees to the resilience of river ecosystems.
«In contrast to the long tradition of field guides authored by expert natural historians, Map of Life draws on collective wisdom, amalgamating
global data sets of species observations
from published sources and using a series of modeling techniques to convert them into species range maps,» Goldsmith wrote.
The scientific results have recently been shown by scientists Kathrin Rousk and Anders Michelsen
from Center for Permafrost and Department of Biology at University of Copenhagen, and is now
published in the widely recognized scientific journal
Global Change Biology.
In advance of this month's World Health Assembly and the G7 summit in June, world leaders should consider the establishment of a
global biomedical research and development fund and a mechanism to address the dearth in innovation for today's most pressing
global health challenges, according to Bernard Pécoul,
from the Drugs for Neglected Diseases Initiative, Geneva, Switzerland, and colleagues in an Essay
published in PLOS Medicine.
The research to be
published in
Global Change Biology on June 3 was carried out by 10 researchers
from 11 universities and research institutions in Brazil and the UK.
The study,
published today in PNAS and led by scientists at Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre (BiK - F), the University of Vienna and UCL, analysed a
global database of 45,984 records detailing the first invasions of 16,019 established alien species
from 1500 until 2005 to investigate the dynamics of how alien species spread worldwide.
The rapid northerly shifts in spawning may offer a preview of future conditions if ocean warming continues, according to the new study
published in
Global Change Biology by scientists
from the Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission, Oregon State University and NOAA Fisheries» Northwest Fisheries Science Center.
In their latest paper,
published in the February issue of Nature Geoscience, Dr Philip Goodwin
from the University of Southampton and Professor Ric Williams
from the University of Liverpool have projected that if immediate action isn't taken, Earth's
global average temperature is likely to rise to 1.5 °C above the period before the industrial revolution within the next 17 - 18 years, and to 2.0 °C in 35 - 41 years respectively if the carbon emission rate remains at its present - day value.
According to the study
published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences,
global average storm surge damages could increase
from about $ 10 - $ 40 billion per year today to up to $ 100,000 billion per year by the end of century, if no adaptation action is taken.