The National Cancer Policy Board (board) concluded in its April 1999 re- port, Ensuring Quality Cancer Care, that based on the best available evidence, some individuals with cancer do not receive care known to be effective for their condition. The magnitude of the problem is not known, but the board believes it is substantial (IOM 1999a). Why do we know so little about the nature and extent of …
The classical view of inventory data collection is that of employees filling out forms of various kinds throughout the warehouse and production areas, which are then forwarded to a central data entry location, where hordes of clerks keypunch the data into a central computer database. Although this was a reasonably accurate view of the situation in the past, the types of systems available for co…
We begin this chapter by outlining the problems that stakeholder theory was originally conceptualized to solve and the “basic mechanics” that we believe underlie the development of the theory during the last thirty years. We turn in the next sections to the arguments of Milton Friedman, Michael Jensen, Michael Porter, and Oliver Williamson, often cited as opponents of stakeholder theor…
Financial accounting is the communication of information about a business or other type of organization (such as a charity or government) so that individuals can assess its financial health and prospects. Probably no single word is more relevant to financial accounting than “information.” Whether it is gathering financial information about a specific organization, putting that information…
This is a guide to designing and programming embedded systems to communicate in local Ethernet networks and on the Internet.
We provide an overview of the role of extreme value theory (EVT) in risk management (RM), as a method for modelling and measuring extreme risks. We concentrate on the peaks-over-threshold (POT) model and emphasize the generality of this approach. Wherever the tail of a loss distribution is of interest, whether for market, credit, operational or insurance risks, the POT method provides a sim…
This guide was developed as the result of collaboration between several information security experts in order to provide CISOs with an understanding of how traditional security architectures are being disrupted by key trends such as Cloud Computing, Web 2.0 and Mobility. The guide provides a wealth of data points, definitions and statistics to address the key challenges that CISOs are facing as…
This eBook explains how to use key financial ratios to help you make informed management decisions about the financial status of other organizations. You will learn: ●How key ratios can be derived from readily available financial statements ●How to tell if a business is solvent by using the current ratio and the quick ratio ●How to tell if a business is profitable and to put any prof…
This book is expected to be useful for engineers and technical managers who want to know the principles and applications of ZigBee in short-range wireless networking. The reader should be able to follow most of the materials in this book as long as he or she has some basic knowledge in electrical engineering and wireless networking.