The objective of this book is to facilitate informed choice making about personal use of biotechnologies and formulation of public policies governing their development and applications. The book provides basic information about a wide range of biotechnologies, the ethical issues raised by each one, and diverse viewpoints on dealing with these issues. Two under- lying premises imbue the book: 1…
his book is for programmers who want to improve their skills by learning about what is going on “under the hood” of a computer system. Our aim is to explain the important and enduring concepts underlying all computer systems, and to show you the concrete ways that these ideas affect the correctness, performance, and utility of your application programs. By studying this book, y…
The resurgence of the American economy since 1995 has outrun all but the most optimistic expectations. Economic forecasting models have been seriously off track and growth projections have been revised to reflect a more sanguine outlook only recently.1 It is not surprising that the unusual combination of more rapid growth and slower inflation in the 1990s has touched off a strenuous debate am…
The Basics of Information Security will provide the reader with a basic knowledge of information security in both theoretical and practical aspects. We will first cover the basic knowledge needed to understand the key concepts of information security, discussing many of the concepts that underpin the security world. We will then dive into practical applications of these ideas in the areas of o…
This book provides a multidisciplinary interrogation of the global anti-corruption campaigns of the last ten years, arguing that while some positive change is observable, the period is also replete with perverse consequences and unintended outcomes
The articles assembled in this volume offer a fresh approach to analysing the problem of corruption in developing countries and the k means to tackle the phenomenon.
When Tom Powers took a new job as system administrator at a mid-sized energy company, he knew his computer security skills had been a critical factor for being hired. The com- pany had been hacked several times in the last year and their home page had been replaced with obscene images. Management wanted him to make their company information more secure from digital attacks in addition to runnin…
The purpose of STATISTICS FOR BUSINESS AND ECONOMICS is to give students, primarily those in the fields of business administration and economics, a conceptual introduction to the field of statistics and its many applications. The text is applications oriented and written with the needs of the nonmathematician in mind; the mathematical prerequisite is knowledge of algebra. Applications of d…
en an increasing amount of talk about “employee stress” over the past decade. Quite what it is and how best to combat it are two aspects which are rather less well-documented. This chapter will try to decide – in a non-medical way – what it may be, how it may be caused, what relevance it has to organisations and their business and how it can best be avoided or treated. Stress is…
Excel 2007 for Business Statistics: A Guide to Solving Practical Business Problems helps anyone who wants to learn the basics of applying Excel’s powerful statistical tools to their business or to their classes. If understanding statistics isn’t your strongest suit, you are not mathematically inclined, or you are wary of computers, then this is the book for you. You’ll learn how to p…
Welcome to the fourth edition of Handbook of Psychological Assessment. I hope you find this edition to be a clear, useful, and readable guide to conducting psychological assessment. It is readers such as you who have enabled the previous editions to be suc- cessful and, because of your interest and feedback, have enabled each edition to be an improvement on the previous ones
This compendium aims at providing a comprehensive overview of the main topics that appear in any well-structured course sequence in statistics for business and economics at the undergraduate and MBA levels. The idea is to supplement either formal or informal statistic textbooks such as, e.g., “Basic Statistical Ideas for Managers” by D.K. Hildebrand and R.L. Ott and “The Practice of B…
StaffworkingpapersintheFinanceandEconomicsDiscussionSeries(FEDS)arepreliminary materialscirculatedtostimulatediscussionandcriticalcomment.Theanalysisandconclusionssetforth are thoseoftheauthorsanddonotindicateconcurrencebyothermembersoftheresearchstafforthe Board ofGovernors.ReferencesinpublicationstotheFinanceandEconomicsDiscussionSeries(otherthan acknowledgement)shouldbeclearedwiththeauth…
The pages that follow contain the material presented in my introductory quantitative methods in economics class at the University of Toronto. They are designed to be used along with any reasonable statistics textbook. The most recent textbook for the course was James T. McClave, P. George Ben- son and Terry Sincich, Statistics for Business and Economics , Eighth Edi- tion, Prentice Hall,…
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) in 2011 asked the Na- tional Academies’ Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy (STEP) to examine and report on the role of patents in standard-setting processes in an international context. For the STEP program, this charge represented the conflu- ence of its long-standing interests in the standards system on the one hand and intellectua…