ECONOMICS

The past decade has seen tremendous changes in the world economy. Many of these changes are linked to new technological advances that have trans- formed what the global economy produces, the ways in which many goods and services are produced, where they are produced, and how goods and services are transferred from the firms that produce them to the households, governments, and other firms that …

ON THE SIGNIFICANCE OF SCIENCE AND ART

“Only sociology, founded on biology, founded on all the positive sciences, can give us the laws of humanity. Humanity, or human communities, are the organisms already prepared, or still in process of formation, and which are subservient to all the laws of the evolution of organisms. “One of the chief of these laws is the variation of destination among the portions of the organs. Some peopl…

PROBLEMS ON ALGORITHMS

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Mastering Enterprise Java Beans

This book is a tutorial on Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB). It’s about EJB concepts, methodology, and development. This book also contains a number of advanced EJB topics, giving you a practical and real-world understanding of the subject. By reading this book, you will acquire a deep understanding of EJB. Make no mistake about it—what you are about to read is not easy. EJB incorporates concept…

Practical Programming An Introduction to Computer Science Using Python

Practical Programming is true to its name. The information it presents is organized around useful tasks rather than abstract constructs, and each chapter addresses a well-contained and important aspect of programming in Python. A student wondering “How do I make the computer do X?” would be able to find their answer very quickly with this book.

ELEGANT WEB UI DESIGN TECHNIQUES: FLAT DESIGN & COLORS

Color is common to every website. While the way designers use col- or changes dramatically based on trends and time periods, we are definitely designing in the decade of vibrant color. Red, orange, pink and bright green, blue and purple have become the focal point of web design projects across a variety of industries. Designers are pairing bright color choices in a way that was almost taboo a …

Manual on Statistics of international trade in services

The Manual on Statistics of International Trade in Services is an important first step in addressing a growing demand from Governments, business and analysts for more relevant, detailed and internationally comparable statistics on such trade. A special emphasis is given to the statistical information needs of international trade negotiations and agreements. The aim of the Manual is to provid…

The Water Accounts Results of pilot studies

This publication summarises the numerical results and methodological findings of pilot water accounts in 15 European countries. Water accounts focus on physical flows of water in to and out of the economy: abstraction and use of water by industries and households, emissions to water by different actors; as well as the costs of water supply and wastewater treatment. These pilot accounts generat…

Production and productivity in the European Union

In a somewhat simplified analysis of the economy, the economic system can be broken down into two main parts: on one side the enterprise 'operators', producing goods and services, providing employment and distributing income in the form of wages; on the other the household ”operators”, receiving income and consuming goods and services. The other operators in the economic system are the genera…

Risk Management 2013

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Market Risk and Model Risk For a Financial Institution Writing Options

Trading in derivatives involves heavy use of quantitative models for valuation and risk management. These models are necessarily imperfect, and when options are involved, the models require a volatility input that must be forecasted, subject to error. This creates “model risk” to which nearly all participants in derivatives markets are exposed. In this paper, we conduct an empirical sim…

Business statistics with Excel and Tableau A hands-on guide with screencasts…

I began business life as an entrepreneur in business in Hong Kong. I ran trade exhibitions, imported coffee from Kenya, and started and operated two restaurants, one of which (unusually for Hong Kong) served vegetarian food. These businesses were profitable, but I would have saved myself a great deal of stress, and done better if I had used some business intelligence informed by statistics to i…

Human resource management

This subject guide is about human resource management (HRM). This is the management activity taken by commercial firms, state owned enterprises and other organisations to recruit, retain and motivate their employees. In other words HRM is the bundle of policies, programmes and plans which organisations adopt with the objective of making full use of the people they employ. These includ…

Statistics:The Exploration and Analysis of Data

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Summary Minutes of the Working Group (WG) Meeting "Harmonization of Consume…

The Econometric Study and Model to Estimate Land Prices undertaken by an external contractor on behalf of Eurostat showed that a separation of the land price part from the structure part was not feasible from the data at hand. Notwithstanding the traditional partition to land and structure becomes less clear depending on the allocation of the location variables. More conceptual work and a furth…

Statistics Applied to Clinical Studies

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978-94-007-2862-2

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Probability & Statistics for Engineers & Scientists

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Banking: An Introduction

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International Trade in Services EU surplus down to almost €163 bn in 2014 T…

The main components of EU international trade in services were "other business services" (R&D, business, professional & technical services) which accounted in 2014 for 26% of EU total exports and 28% of imports, Transport services (18% and 20%), Travel services (14% and 16%), Telecommunications, computer and information services (12% and 9%) and Financial services (10% and 6%). In 2014, the…

Intangible Assets: Measuring and Enhancing Their Contribution to Corporate V…

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Equity Market: An Introduction

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Elementary Statistics

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Science and Technology Leadership in American Government: Ensuring the Best P…

This report is from a study of the federal government's capacity to recruit highly qualified individuals for the top science and technology (S&T)-related leadership positions in the executive branch. The effort was supported by the Carnegie Commission on Science, Technology, and Government and by the National Research Council Fund of the Academies—National Academy of Sciences, National Academ…

INTRODUCTORY STATISTICS

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Data Mining and Statistics for Decision Making

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BUSINESS STATISTICS DEMYSTIFIED

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Android Application Development with Maven

During the months we were writing this book, a lot of people asked us what would make this book special and why someone should care to read it. The most powerful argument that I heard all this time was, "Hey, Google official supports only Gradle to build Android applications and the latest release of Android Studio makes extensive use of Gradle. Ant was already replaced and Maven is nowhere. Wh…

The Complete CFO Handbook From Accounting to Accountability

The role of financial executives in any business has expanded signiicantly in recent years as companies become more accountable to their stake- holders and regulators. Combine this increase in accountability with the increasing sophistication of technology, risk management, financial analysis, and financial records processing, and we see that the responsibilities of financial executives in any …

Managing Health Care Waste Disposal

Health care waste management (HCWM) has been described as “a process to help ensure proper hospital hygiene and the safety of health care workers and communities. It includes planning and procurement, construction, staff training and behavior, proper use of tools, machines and pharmaceuticals, proper disposal methods inside and outside the hospital, and evaluation.”1 Health care waste manag…

Wearable Sensors for Pervasive Healthcare Management

We show that it is possible to identify individual personality traits and measure group performance in a Post- anesthesia Care Unit (PACU) using wearable sensors. We instrumented a group of 67 nurses working in the PACU of a Boston area hospital with sociometric badges capable of measuring physical activity, speech activity, face-to-face interaction, and physical proximity. Using the data colle…