The title of this book requires some explanation. It is a heavily revised edition of a book entitled Integrity in Organizations: An Alternative Business Ethic, published by McGraw-Hill in 1995. The focus of the text has not changed; it remains oriented to the business practitioner’s perspective and is written specifically for students of management. What has changed is the depth of understand…
Financial analysis has never been an exact science. Occasionally, the theoretical models upon which it is based are even “bad” science. The root cause is that economic decisions undertaken in a real world of uncertainty are invariably characterised by hypothetical human behaviour, for which there is little empirical evidence. Thus, a financial model may satisfy a fundamental requirement of …
JavaFX 2.0 is Java’s next generation graphical user interface (GUI) toolkit for developers to rapidly build rich cross-platform applications. Built from the ground up, JavaFX takes advantage of modern GPUs through hardware-accelerated graphics while providing well-designed programming interfaces enabling developers to combine graphics, animation, and UI controls. The new JavaFX 2.0 is a pure …
The world of information technology is evolving rapidly. Enterprise applications must deliver services that meet the needs of the global business environment, ensure that users’ data remains private, protect the integrity of enterprise data, and ensure that business transactions are accurate and processed quickly. Enterprises today need to extend their reach, reduce their costs, and lower the…
Intelligent Vision Systems for Industry
The iPad is transforming the way businesses work with the power of mobile solutions; these include the manufacturing, retail services, and medical industries. Using the iPad makes it easy to deliver stunning presentations, collaborate with colleagues remotely, and access important business information from wherever your work takes you. Some businesses have been using the iPad as a mobile sales…
The chapters of this volume are grouped into a number of topical areas — demonstrating that the security canon is a very varied one. As Chris Earnshaw so rightly highlighted in his preface, getting the appropriate security built into new products, systems and services is fundamental to a rosy Internet future. We highlight a number of the vital issues to address as part of that process.
In general, document capture refers to the process of scanning paper documents using scanners or cameras, and transforming these documents into an electronic file such as a PDF, TIFF, and so on. Through a type of document capture software, these electronic files are assessed through character or pattern recognition (that is, OCR, ICR, and OMR) and converted into meaningful data or information, …