Patients admitted to hospital are at risk of damage to kidney function, termed acute kidney injury (AKI), either from their illness or as a result of subsequent treatment. Kidney injury can lead to serious health issues and even death. It is essential that patients at risk, and those who develop kidney injury, are recognised early and treated effectively. However, the 2009 National Confidential…
This book was motivated by the author’s experience in teaching accounting at postgraduate level (MBA and MSc) at Aston Business School and in-house training provided for non-financial managers in many organizations to introduce them to the use of financial tools and techniques. My own education as an accountant was aimed at achieving professional recognition and emphasized an uncritical acce…
As an emerging field of applied research, Quantitative Risk Management (QRM) poses a lot of challenges for probabilistic and statistical modeling. This review provides a discussion on selected past, current, and possible future areas of research in the intersection of statistics and quantitative risk management. Topics treated include the use of risk measures in regulation, including their…
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.
Baking a cake is a simple problem. Simple problems lend themselves to a recipe approach. The process and results are generalizable; and while special skill at cooking is a plus, it is not essential for success. Sending a rocket to the moon is an example of a complicated problem. Complicated problems are best dealt with using formulaic and expert-knowledge approaches. The overall problem can b…
This book was motivated by the author’s experience in teaching accounting at postgraduate level (MBA and MSc) at Aston Business School and in-house training provided for non-financial managers in many organizations to introduce them to the use of financial tools and techniques. My own education as an accountant was aimed at achieving professional recognition and emphasized an uncritical …
Every month the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC) provides 9.2 million Americans with nutritious food, nutrition education, including breastfeeding support, and referrals to healthcare and social services. Among the services provided by WIC, breastfeeding support has been a priority of the program since it began in the 1970s. In 1997 the Food and Nutri…
The acquisition of one company by another is a commonplace business activity. Frequently, a company is groomed for sale. Also, the recent proliferation of new technology businesses and financial services firms that merge into larger companies is an expected, and often planned for, occurrence. For three decades, prior to 2001, accounting standards for business combinations had remained stable. T…
IS selection decisions are traditionally viewed through a techno-rationalist lens; however, it is clear that numerous biases affect the decision makers. In this paper, we have categorised common types of biases into four groups. Firstly, information biases distort information and how it is weighted. Secondly, cognitive biases are “games” decision makers play to simplify information proc…
This paper is an assessment of the topical coverage of current Managing Information Systems (MIS) textbooks. The MIS course is normally required of all undergraduate and graduate business majors, and therefore is their primary education in the use of IS/IT in the modern technologyoriented organization. However, the MIS textbooks researched do not attempt IS/IT management fluency. They do no…
This book introduces the general strategy of design, the natural environmental cycles and how human activities interrupt and control them, toxicity and risk assessment for the protection of human and environmental health, the fate of pollutants in the environment, and a review of U.S. and international laws and regulations. Understanding these broad environmental issues leads to better engineer…
This Information Security Handbook provides a broad overview of information security program elements to assist managers in understanding how to establish and implement an information security program. Typically, the organization looks to the program for overall responsibility to ensure the selection and implementation of appropriate security controls and to demonstrate the effectiveness of sat…