The How and Why of One Variable Calculus

This book is meant as a textbook for an honours course in Calculus, and is aimed at first year students beginning studies at the university. The preparation assumed is high school level Mathematics. Any arguments not met before in high school (for example, geometric arguments à la Euclid) can be picked up along the way or simply skipped without any loss of continuity. This book may also be us…

A Life Course Approach to Mental Disorders

A life course approach to mental disorders is concerned with the interplay of social and biological factors in the production and consequences of mental illness over the life span—from the prenatal period to death and across generations. As described by Drs Kuh and Ben-Shlomo in the Preface, the life course approach to mental disorders draws on two foundations: the psychological life span per…

Economic Management in a Volatile Environment

Since the 1990s, several developing economies have, to varying degrees, embraced “financial globalisation”, broadly defined as a set of poli- cies that involve allowing for greater openness to cross-border capital flows as well as greater market access to foreign financial institutions. Developing economies that have become increasingly dependent on and able to attract foreign private savin…

Kansas Local Road Management Handbook

This handbook was developed for new road supervisors and county engineers. If you have not worked for a government before, you are about to gain a lot of new experiences. From the outside looking in, government jobs may seem relaxed and unchallenging; however, you will find the road supervisor’s job is much harder than you imagined. The road supervisor is pulled in three directions: from the …

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Communicating Information Systems Goals: A Case in Internet Banking Security

A large part of information systems (IS) security approaches is technical in nature with less consideration on people and organizational issues. The research presented in this paper adopts a broader perspective and presents an understanding of IS security in terms of a social and organizational perspective. In doing so, it uses the communication of risk messages among the members of IT gro…

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BUSINESS MANAGEMENT PRINCIPLES

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Guideline for Strategic Crisis Management Exercises

Due to changed threat situations in the whole world (climate change, natural catastrophes, international terrorism, pandemics, power cuts etc.), efficient preparation for crises has meanwhile become a must everywhere in the world. This applies, above all, to top management levels in the state administrations and in the boardrooms of enterprises. In his reference book for the practice of crisis …

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Strategic management and entrepreneurship: Friends or foes?

The objective of this article is to create a better understanding of the intersection of the academic fields of entrepreneurship and strategic management, based on an aggregation of the extant literature in these two fields. The article structures and synthesizes the existing scholarly works in the two fields, thereby generating new knowledge. The results can be used to further enhance fruit…

Facing Hazards and Disasters: Understanding Human Dimensions

Recent catastrophic events—in 2005, the earthquake at the borders of Pakistan, India, and Afghanistan as well as Hurricane Katrina along the United States Gulf Coast; in 2004, the Indian Ocean tsunami, and in 2001, the terrorist attacks on New York City and Washington, D.C.—are stark reminders of the global importance and implications of natural, technological, and willful disasters. Respon…

Identification of Yield-Limiting Factors in Southeast Kansas Cropping Systems

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INTRODUCTION TO HUMAN RIGHTS AND DUTIES

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Cyber Security Awareness Campaigns Why do they fail to change behaviour?

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Applied Regression Analysis: A Research Tool

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STATISTICAL REINFORCEMENT LEARNING Modern Machine Learning Approaches

Reinforcement learning is aimed at controlling a computer agent so that a target task is achieved in an unknown environment. In this chapter, we first give an informal overview of reinforcement learning in Section 1.1. Then we provide a more formal formulation of reinforcement learning in Section 1.2. Finally, the book is summarized in Section 1.3. 1.1

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Applied Regression Analysis: A Research Tool

This text is a new and improved edition of Rawlings (1988). It is the outgrowth of several years of teaching an applied regression course to graduate students in the sciences. Most of the students in these classes had taken a two-semester introduction to statistical methods that included experimental design and multiple regression at the level provided in texts such as Steel, Torrie, and D…