The main aim of this book is motivating readers on the potential of mobile clouds for implementing a large number of possible solutions needed or emerging in our present and future mobile and wireless world. Given that mobile clouds as such is a relatively new concept, a complete account of mobile cloud technology is not yet available. The goal of this book is to serve as an inspiring source …
The fourth edition of the United Nations Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction is being issued at a pivotal moment for the future of development. In 2015, the global community is aiming to adopt an ambitious set of sustainable development goals and a meaningful, universal agreement on climate change. Disaster risk reduction can play an important role in advancing these agendas th…
From all that I have observed throughout the years, whether as President and CEO of companies or as an industry observer, I know you can only ignore the suggestions of Pham’s book … at your own peril. And it’s a heck of a lot less money than getting this same advice from an expensive team of traditional consultants; it’s faster and easy to implement the ideas in this book; and it will h…
The fifth edition of The Marketing Book is a testimony to both the continuing demand for an authoritative overview of the marketing discipline and the constantly changing nature of its subject matter. First published in 1987 to coincide with the Editor’s appointment as the first academic National Chairman of the Institute of Marketing, the original concept was: To produce an authoritative…
Since their introduction, the wireless local area networks (LANs) have attracted the interest of professionals, faced with the needs of mobility and network connectivity to their organization. 802.11 networks, standardized by the IEEE in 1997 [1] has rapidly become until, in some cases, replace traditional wired networks like Ethernet. Since their arrival on the market, the steady evolution of …
The idea for this volume came with the formation of the Community of Evaluators (CoE) for South Asia in 2008. The CoE’s goal is to enhance the field of evaluation. That initiative brought together a group of evaluators from across South Asia interested in working together to strengthen the quality, use, and relevance of evaluation in the region. Dedicated evaluators came together from se…
FMIS project performance is analyzed from various angles. The performance ratings in the ICRs indicate that the majority of 55 completed projects were “satisfactory” along most dimensions of performance (67% of outcome, 87% of sustainability, 56% of development impact, 61% of Bank performance, and 59% of Borrower performance ratings were satisfactory or above).4 This pa ern changes sli…
Activiti is a lightweight, open source workflow and a Business Process Management (BPM) platform distributed under the Apache license. It can also be clustered and managed on a Cloud environment. It is the best platform to build BPM for people-to-people communication. It can be used very easily in every Java environment. It supports all aspects of BPM in the full context of software developmen…
This book covers the major historical aspects, characteristics, assessment strategies, and psychological treatment techniques for youths with social anxiety and social phobia. Chapter 1 provides an introduction to the related constructs and history of social phobia. Chapters 2 and 3 provide a summary of the characteristics and etiological variables that pertain most to youths with social anxiet…
IBM Cognos Business Intelligence is a reporting and analytics product that enables end users to develop robust reports and analyses through a web interface. This book will look at the latest version of IBM Cognos BI, IBM Cognos BI V10. With the release of IBM Cognos BI V10, we find many new features, such as: • IBM Cognos Workspace—a self-service dashboard and collaboration area • IBM C…
The objective of this paper is to incorporate the entrepreneurial view point into the framework of the resource-based view of strate- gic management. We firstly attempt to make a brief survey of the conceptual framework of the RBV, and formulize it in a static sense by contrasting it with the competitive forces approach. Secondly, we conduct a critical assessment of the RBV from a dynamic …