When speaking about eBusiness as applied to the healthcare market, two questions arise immediately. First, what is eBusiness? Second, why is eBusiness in healthcare different from eBusiness in other industries? In this chapter, we shall give an overview of the foundations of eBusiness, explain the importance of eBusiness within the healthcare domain, and describe the peculiarities of the h…
“The EU Public Procurement Directives are hidden to most relevant actors behind the veil of the transposing national law. As a result the problem of unavailable damages remains defi ned by the national perspective. While considering the same problem, this book shifts the perspective to the point of view of EU law. What can EU law do in order to improve the effectiveness of damages for vio…
The Authors will in the following chapter explain what the dissertation is about, how and why the research topic has been chosen, and an explanation of the basic concepts will be pointed out as well. The background includes a description of the problem that will lead to the main question and purpose of the work
Similar battles of change have been fought before as new technology insinuated itself into peoples' lives, from basic labor-saving devices such as the washing machine, to innovations with radical cultural consequences like the automGbfle. We take almost for granted the inexorable march of progress toward these seemingly indispensable, ubiquitous tools, not stopping to remember that they replace…
Actuarial Science is a discipline with a fascinating blend of traditional approaches, developed over many decades of experience, and modern techniques which are available thanks to the fast development of statistical, computational, and mathematical tools, new insights into dependence modeling, analysis of big data, financial engineering, risk management, and insurance economics. At the same ti…
Since 2003, online social networking sites have experienced explosive growth, becoming a major phenomenon in the new millennium. Online social networking allows people to connect and share information and ideas with others via the Internet. These online communities were created as a means for members to socialize and are often seen as a fun diversion from work. Recently, however, online social …
This book contains primarily papers presented at the seminar held at the inauguration of the doctoral program in psychology in May 1994, at the University of Tromsø, which is the youngest university in Norway and the northernmost university in the world (if one discounts the university branch on Svalbard at 88 degrees north). In fact, the University of Tromsø is situated on a coastal island i…
An informant once said to us, “Man, you have to be crazy to use a gun to hold up a bank; those credit cards can get you the same thing with no risk.” Whether it be filling out fraudulent applications, stealing cards from the mail, or taking over legitimate accounts, it can be done — “You have to pick them though, watch out for the good banks; they’ve got systems to catch you if you …
The global financial crisis has brought home to many—particularly in the central banking community—the urgent need for a substantial reassessment of the fundamental workings of financial systems, their interactions with the real economy, and the circumstances that tip such systems from stability to instability. The crisis revealed how rapid financial innovation during an era of prolonged ma…
The subject of this study is Rosa Luxemburg’s contribution to economic theory. It arose out of materials gathered for a broader monograph, on the economic views of the Polish–German socialist, that was abandoned by the author. Such a narrowing of the subject-matter may nevertheless have some practical advantages. At a certain stage of research, one of the fundamental duties of the historian…
Text editing is one of the most common tasks on any computer system, and vi is one of the most useful standard text editors on a system. With vi you can create new files or edit any existing text-only file. vi, like many of the classic utilities developed during the early years of Unix, has a reputation for being hard to navigate. Bram Moolenaar’s enhanced clone, Vim (“vi Improved”), has …
The book’s chapters follow pretty closely the actual set of steps that need to be accomplished before data can be visualized, from the design of the survey to the collection of the data to ultimately its visualization. Really pretty simple. So if you’re fairly new to the game, it is probably going to make sense for you to start at the beginning and read the whole way through the book. Likew…
The adequate implementation of an SMS by all RUs/IMs is a key element for success for the entire safety regulatory framework as foreseen by the Railway Safety Directive, since it forms the basis on which the National Safety Authorities (NSAs) issue safety certificates and safety authorisations. For the assessment of an SMS, NSAs can rely on the Regulations 1148/2010/EU2 and 1169/2010/EU3. Su…
Review of the strategy literature indicates there has been five phases in the evolution of the field since World War II. The paradigm was at its peak in the 1970s with the strategic planning phase, however, prescriptive approaches to strategy formulation and implementation were demonstrated to be inadequate in this period in the face of environmental uncertainty. In the 1980s the field evol…
Globalization, demographic changes and lack of talented employees – they all contribute to the increase in interest in managing diversity of workers’ potential. The concept of diversity management first appeared in the eighties, but nowadays it appears even more often, especially in the business, scientific and social and legal context. Diversity management (dm) is a part of the Europe…
The purpose of this study is to investigate the current level of strategic management tools and techniques utilization as well as to explore and identify the impact of management tools on organizational performance in the Czech Republic. The research paper is based on a questionnaire survey obtained from the 91 companies. This paper is one of the few studies which investigate the relationsh…