Introduction to Global Studies I: People & Politics

This is the first in a three-semester series of core courses designed to introduce students to the field of global studies and to processes of globalization. The course’s approach is interdisciplinary and thematic, with special attention to the political, economic, social, historical and cultural patterns that are defining the modern world – its “people” and its “politics.” The co…

Principle of economics

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English Pronunciation in the Eighteenth Century

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Getting Started with Windows 8

It’s the Windows for every- thing: Windows 8 is the first version of Windows designed to run on desktop PCs, laptops, and touch-based PC tablets. To do that, it brings a whole new way of working with Windows called the Start screen environment (some- times known by its code name, Metro). The Start screen is a sleek, tile-based user interface designed especially for touch- screen users and is …

PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE OF LENDING IN THE BANKING SECTOR: A CASE STUDY OF SOM…

This study examined the principles and practice of lending in the banking sector of some selected banks. It looked at the perceptions of respondents in these selected banks regarding principles and practice of lending. A total number of twenty-five (25) questionnaires were administered to the credit department and some staff of five (5) selected banks within the Accra Metropolis. The descrip…

Getting Started with Fluidinfo

Fluidinfo is an online storage system in which there is a place for information about everything—everything that exists, everything that could exist, and everything that can be imagined. It allows anyone to store any information, about anything, in any digital form. And Fluidinfo makes it easy to find information in the system, and to extract it, using an unusually simple query language. Flui…

Monetary Theory and Policy

This book covers the most important topics in monetary economics and some of the models that economists have employed as they attempt to understand the interactions between real and monetary factors. It deals with topics in both monetary theory and monetary policy and is designed for second-year graduate students specializing in monetary economics, for researchers in monetary economics wish…

Central Banking Monetary Policy: An Introduction

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Getting an IT Help Desk Job

Technology as a whole, is the foundation of a strong and energetic job industry brimming with a seemingly neverending supply of jobs. Most IT help desk jobs are on a form of help desk, but there is a lot of diversity in roles, including consulting, a customer facing help desk, and internal technical support team member. If you’re looking to get in on the ground floor of technology, the IT hel…

The A to Z of Presentations

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SYNDICALISM

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LISTEN & SAY IT RIGHT IN ENGLISH! WHEN TO USE FORMAL AND EVERYDAY ENGLISH

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Getting an Information Security Job

T he information security (InfoSec) profession got its start decades ago, but it consisted of few people, mostly in military and other secret organizations. With the appearance of the Internet in the 1990s, organizations started to put information online, and the InfoSec profession became a little more popular. Fast‐forward to the mid 2010s, with its big security breaches as well as new laws …

FXRuby Create Lean and Mean GUIs with Ruby

FXRuby is a library for developing powerful and sophisticated cross- platform graphical user interfaces (GUIs) for your Ruby applications. It’s based on the FOX Toolkit, a popular open source C++ library devel- oped by Jeroen van der Zijp. What that means for you as an application developer is that you’re able to write code in the Ruby programming language that you already know and love, wh…

Financial risk management

Topic Gateways are intended as a refresher or introduction to topics of interest to CIMA members. They include a basic definition, a brief overview and a fuller explanation of practical application. Finally they signpost some further resources for detailed understanding and research. Topic Gateways are available electronically to CIMA Members only in the CPD Centre on the CIMA website, along w…

Fundamentals of Image Processing

Modern digital technology has made it possible to manipulate multi-dimensional signals with systems that range from simple digital circuits to advanced parallel computers. The goal of this manipulation can be divided into three categories: • Image Processing image in → image out • Image Analysis image in → measurements out • Image Understanding image in → high-level descri…

FILTERING, CONTROL AND FAULT DETECTION WITH RANDOMLY OCCURRING INCOMPLETE INF…

In the past decade, networked control systems (NCSs) have attracted much attention owing to their successful applications in a wide range of areas for the advantage of decreasing the hard- wiring, the installation cost, and implementation difficulties. Nevertheless, network-related challenging problems inevitably arise due to the physical equipment constraints, the complexity, and uncertainty …

Responding to Climate Change

’ve looked here at three issues around adaptation. There are others that I could have selected but, working as I do in NCCARF at the interface between research and policy, these are three that come up time and time again when we are considering how to overcome barriers to adaptation and equip decision makers with the best tools for their task. Time and again, it boils down to equipping decisi…

Accounting for Non-Accountants

The world of accounting is in turmoil. New accounting standards are being pressed into use that will at a stroke cut the value of a company such as Shell by £2.5 bn, whilst adding a similarly large sum to its liabilities to account for ‘black holes’ in pension schemes. Small wonder that the big accountancy firm PwC (Price water house Coopers), for example, reported record global revenues o…

The Canadian Banking System*

This paper examines the major changes in the Canadian banking system since the Second World War, with special attention paid to the differences between Canadian and U.S. developments over this period. An important difference between the countries is the nationwide branch banking arrangements in Canada. Two other differences are a result of regulatory dimensions of the Canadian scene: perio…

Facebook® Marketing FOR Dummies

With more than 200 million active users and 250,000 new registrants every day, Facebook has become a virtual world unto itself. But, what started as a dorm room exercise to extend the popular printed college directory of incoming freshmen online, Harvard drop-out Mark Zuckerberg has developed an international organization employing more than 400 programmers, graphic artists, and business develo…

Accounting for Non-Accountants

Accounting and finance have a language of their own with a variety of statements and techniques that can mystify non-accounting colleagues. This new edition, like its predecessors, is written primarily for those non-financial students and managers who need to know about finance and accounting in any organization. The aim is to cut through as much of the jargon as possible and explain the variou…

Expert VB 2008 Business Objects

I have a passion for frameworks. In more than 20 years as a professional developer, I’ve never worked on a computing platform that did everything I needed it to do to build applications productively. The Microsoft .NET platform is wonderful, but it doesn’t always do quite what I want or need. To address those needs, I’m always looking for tools and frameworks, and sometimes I end up creat…

Neo-classical Economics as a Stratagem against Henry George

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The Art of Money Getting or Golden Rules for Making Money

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Expert Indexing in Oracle Database 11g

An index is an optionally created database object used primarily to increase query performance. The purpose of a database index is similar to an index in the back of a book. A book index associates a topic with a page number. When you’re locating information in a book, it’s usually much faster to examine the index first, find the topic of interest, and identify associated page numbers. With…

PRONOUNCE IT PERFECTLY IN ENGLISH

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Elastic Search Cookbook

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Everyday Cryptography

There is a wealth of alternative literature on cryptography, thus presenting a healthy range of options for a reader wishing to pursue cryptography from a variety of different perspectives. A substantial number of cryptography books focus on presenting the mathematical aspects of cryptography. Many of these are textbooks targeted at computer science or mathematics undergraduate students.Forourp…