The world of information technology is evolving rapidly. Enterprise applications must deliver services that meet the needs of the global business environment, ensure that users’ data remains private, protect the integrity of enterprise data, and ensure that business transactions are accurate and processed quickly. Enterprises today need to extend their reach, reduce their costs, and lower the…
Intelligent Vision Systems for Industry
The iPad is transforming the way businesses work with the power of mobile solutions; these include the manufacturing, retail services, and medical industries. Using the iPad makes it easy to deliver stunning presentations, collaborate with colleagues remotely, and access important business information from wherever your work takes you. Some businesses have been using the iPad as a mobile sales…
The chapters of this volume are grouped into a number of topical areas — demonstrating that the security canon is a very varied one. As Chris Earnshaw so rightly highlighted in his preface, getting the appropriate security built into new products, systems and services is fundamental to a rosy Internet future. We highlight a number of the vital issues to address as part of that process.
In general, document capture refers to the process of scanning paper documents using scanners or cameras, and transforming these documents into an electronic file such as a PDF, TIFF, and so on. Through a type of document capture software, these electronic files are assessed through character or pattern recognition (that is, OCR, ICR, and OMR) and converted into meaningful data or information, …
This paper reviews a number of recent surveys relevant to risk management by UK insurers. These include the results of four surveys specifically on UK insurers. Our findings suggest that the risk management practices of UK insurers are variable, generally behind best practices in adjacent sectors, and in some cases are a cause of concern. However, we also find that they have been improving sign…
This booklet for teachers is the second of the three books in the “Towards Excellence...” series. These books were first authored and published by me with generous financial help from the Director, St. Joseph Engineering College, Vamanjoor, Mangalore, India, and distributed for free to schools, Pre-University, Degree and Professional colleges in Mangalore Dioces area. The books were receive…
There has been an increasing amount of talk about “employee stress” over the past decade. Quite what it is and how best to combat it are two aspects which are rather less well-documented. This chapter will try to decide – in a non-medical way – what it may be, how it may be caused, what relevance it has to organisations and their business and how it can best be avoided or treated. Str…
The class of Lévy processes consists of all stochastic processes with stationary and independent increments; here ‘stationarity’ means that increments corresponding to a fixed time interval are identically distributed, whereas ‘independence’ refers to the property that increments corresponding to non-overlapping time intervals behave statistically independently. As such, Lévy proces…
This paper examines how developing countries can embark on a sustained path of strong investment, capital accumulation and economic growth without capital imports. It is argued that the key lies in the Keynesian-Schumpeterian credit-investment nexus: Given certain preconditions, the central bank can allow a credit expansion which finances new investment and creates the savings necessary to …
The personal computer (PC) has changed everything—for both better and worse—in the world of statistics. The PC can effortlessly produce precise cal- culations and eliminate the computational burden associated with statistics. One need only provide the right questions. With the minimal knowledge required to program (instruct) statistical software, which entails telling it where the input dat…
The clinician’s skills in integrating sources of information, contemplating the meanings of discrepant cues, formulating opinions, and persuading others to listen constitute the focus of this book. This process involves four steps: (1) identifying the problem, (2) selecting measurement instruments, (3) integrating sources of information about the problem, and (4) deriving and reporting conclu…