THE NEW SOCIALISM

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RESEARCH METHODOLOGY AND CRITICAL MATHEMATICS EDUCATION

The label ‘critical mathematics education’ refers to a variety of perspectives and activities, which highlight some concerns.1 Critical mathematics education is concerned with the social and political aspects of the learning of mathematics. It is concerned with providing access to mathematical ideas for everybody independent of colour of skin, gender and class. It is concerned with the …

Integrated Risk Management of Non-Maturing Accounts

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1st Edition

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978-3-658-04903-4

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NCHRP Synthesis 389: Performance-Based Contracting for Maintenance

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Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies

Whether you are a security professional, an IT professional who wants to learn more about security, someone who has been thrust into a security role without preparation, an executive who wants to increase your organization’s knowledge assets, a member of a sales force in a company that sells security products or services, or a technology, law, or business student or professor in a college or …

Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies

There’s a lot of excitement about Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies. Optimists claim that Bitcoin will fundamentally alter payments, economics, and even politics around the world. Pessimists claim Bitcoin is inherently broken and will suffer an inevitable and spectacular collapse. Underlying these differing views is significant confusion about what Bitcoin is and how it works. We wrote this book …

A Guide to Risk Management

The Financial Accountability Act 2009 (the Act) outlines a number of accountable officer and statutory body functions, one of which is the establishment and maintenance of an June 2008 appropriate system of risk management (section 61). The Financial and Performance Management Standard 2009 (the Standard), section 28, prescribes that the agency’s risk management system must provide for: �…

Decision-making support systems:Theory and Practice

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Risk Management Manual for the Public Transit Industry

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A Guide to EPR

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21st Century Intenships

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1st Edition

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Statistics for Economics, Accounting and Business Studies

This text is aimed at students of economics and the closely related disciplines of accountancy and business, and provides examples and problems relevant to those subjects, using real data where possible. The book is at an elementary level and requires no prior knowledge of statistics, nor advanced mathematics. For those with a weak mathematical background and in need of some revision, some…

MANAGEMENT INFORMATION FOR THE ELECTRONIC LIBRARY (MIEL) PROGRAMME

The Management Information Systems and Performance Measurement for the Electronic Library project was part-funded by JISC under the Electronic Libraries Programme (eLib) as a Supporting Study. The contractor, the Centre for Research in Library & Information Management at the University of Central Lancashire, undertook the work as part of its Management Information for the Electronic Library…

Proceedings of Government/Industry Forum: The Owner's Role in Project Managem…

The work of the National Research Council’s Committee on Oversight and Assessment of U.S. Department of Energy Project Management can be traced back to 1998, when there was a one-person report by Lloyd Duscha, Assessing the Need for Independent Project Reviews in the Department of Energy. His report led to expansion of the agency’s external review process and changes to it. In the wake of …

INFRASTRUCTURE MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEM

A geographic information system (GIS) is a technology that combines database management with digital mapping on a computer (Korte 1994). Users are able to query the database and have the results displayed on a map or obtain detailed information about objects displayed on the map with the click of a mouse button. Relationships between different types of data can be easily understood, display…

Progress in Improving Project Management at the Department of Energy

This report is the second in a series of three annual assessments of project management at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). The first annual report assessed progress through mid-2001 (NRC, 2001b), and this report continues the assessment through October 2002. The assessments are being made by the National Research Council’s (NRC’s) Committee for Oversight and Assessment of U.S. Departm…

Workflow Management: Models, methods and systems

This book is about the management of business processes. This is certainly not a new topic. Since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, it has been written about from every possible point of view - economic, sociological, psychological, accountancy, mechanical engineering and business administration. In this book, we examine the management of business processes from the perspective of…

Measuring Performance and Benchmarking Project Management at the Department o…

In response to a directive from the Committee of the Conference on Energy and Water Development of the 105th Congress (U.S. Congress, 1999), DOE requested that the National Research Council (NRC) appoint a committee to review and assess the progress made by the department in improving its project management practices. The NRC appointed the Committee for Oversight and Assessment of U.S. Departm…

From Information Management to Knowledge Management: Beyond the 'Hi-Tech Hide…

Most extant knowledge management systems are constrained by their overly rational, static and acontextual view of knowledge. Effectiveness of such systems is constrained by the rapid and discontinuous change that characterizes new organizational environments. The prevailing knowledge management paradigm limits itself by its emphasis on convergence and consensus-oriented processing of informatio…

Guidance for Cost Estimation and Management for Highway Projects During Plann…

Systematic, well-designed research provides the most effective approach to the solution of many problems facing highway administrators and engineers. Often, highway problems are of local interest and can best be studied by highway departments individually or in cooperation with their state universities and others. However, the accelerating growth of highway transportation develops increasingly …

Berliner Balanced Scorecard: Employee Perspective

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1st edition

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978-87-7681-218-9

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An Introduction to Information System Risk Management

The fundamental precept of information security is to support the mission of the organization. All organizations are exposed to uncertainties, some of which impact the organization in a negative manner. In order to support the organization, IT security professionals must be able to help their organizations’ management understand and manage these uncertainties

OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT AN INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVE

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Essentials of Management Information Systems

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Eighth Edition

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Concise Hydrology

Hydrology is a branch of scientific and engineering discipline that deals with the occurrence, distribution, movement, and properties of the waters of the earth. A knowledge of hydrology is fundamental to water and environmental professionals (engineers, scientists and decision makers) in such tasks as the design and operation of water resources, wastewater treatment, irrigation, flood defence,…

I NTRODUCTION TO MANAGEMENT I N THE HOSPITALITY INDUSTRY

If any phrase characterizes the hospitality and tourism industry today it would probably be “constantly changing.” Worldwide recessionary conditions, globalization, industry-wide focus on sustainability and corporate responsibility are just some of the forces converging and resulting in widespread change. The result is an industry that requires future leaders in hospitality and tourism …

Approaches to strengthening health information systems

The focus of this book has been on routine health unit-based information systems. Routine health information systems, more than nonroutine methods such as surveys or rapid assessment methods, are the main data source in most countries. Yet they have the infamous reputation for producing a plethora of irrelevant or low-quality data. Therefore, most health managers, as a rule, do not use the…

Project Management

Projects are, more than ever, a fact of life for voluntary organisations. Changing patterns of funding, particularly the impact of the Community Fund, mean that it is becoming ever more common for agencies to develop their work and secure funding by developing specific projects. Funders in their turn are asking for details of how projects will be managed, with some beginning to expect agencies …

MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEM

We are in the midst of a swiftly moving river of technology and business innovations that is transforming the global business landscape. An entirely new Internet business culture is emerging with profound implications for the conduct of business. You can see this every day by observing how business people work using high-speed Internet connections for e-mail and information gathering, portable …

International Business

The concept of governance is not a new one but nowadays we hear words as corporate governance, organizational governance or good governance frequently. Actually corporate governance or, as defined in ISO FDIS 26000, organizational governance is the system by which an organization makes and implements decisions in pursuit of its objectives. Simply put “governance” means: the process of decis…