Designing Public Procurement Policy in Developing Countries

Growth performance in developing economies has recently been quite impressive. In parallel, fiscal health has improved. These factors are driving public and private spending capacity in these economies. This chapter attempts at estimating and projecting (1) public procurement outlays devoted to machinery and equipment in these economies; and (2) importations arising from these outlays. Res…

Entrepreneurship Development for Competitive Small and Medium Enterprises

In the new millennium, liberalization of trade borders has accelerated the flow of goods and services in the global markets; technological advancement and scientific development have had a multiplier effect on the opportunities and choices available to consumers, thus increasing competition and putting pressure on the performance of the individual firms and businesses within economies. Undo…

INFORMATION SECURITY MANAGEMENT, EDUCATION AND PRIVACY

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Blind Equalization and System Identification

Discrete-time signal processing has appeared to be one of the major momenta to the advances of science and engineering over the past several decades be- cause of the rapid progress of digital and mixed-signal integrated circuits in processing speed, functionality, and cost effectiveness. In many science and engineering applications, the signals of interest are distorted by an unknown physical s…

Opportunistic Mobile Social Networks

Over the past few decades, social networks have attracted massive interest from scholars in fields as diverse as sociology, biology, physics, business, politics, and computer science. From these diverse fields, researchers have found that many sys- tems can be represented as networks, and that there is much to be learned by studying those networks. With the rapid growth of the Internet and the …

Advances in Culture and Psychology

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The Ruby Programming Language

This book is an updated and expanded version of Ruby in a Nutshell (O’Reilly) by Yukihiro Matsumoto, who is better known as Matz. It is loosely modeled after the classic The C Programming Language (Prentice Hall) by Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie, and aims to document the Ruby language comprehensively but without the formality of a language specification. It is written for experienced pro…

Handbook of Advances in Culture and Psychology

Originally the concept of culture was proposed only for humans, stressing the importance of social influences on its dynamics and development. Although there is no question that all human groups have different diverse, complex, and rich cultures, a debate begun in the early 1950s raised the issue of animal culture and what it may mean for the uniqueness of human culture. This chapter argues tha…

Salesforce Reporting and Dashboards

This chapter will give you a general introduction to Salesforce.com. You will learn the benefits of cloud computing technology and how to extend beyond the Salesforce CRM application using custom objects. There is also an introduction to Schema Builder. Then we will be covering the Salesforce.com architecture, setup menu, and testing environment. This guide will involve some hands-on activities…

Wealth Through Integration

In December 2008, when I met with the president of the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), I was far from imagining that the work we wanted to do together would become a reality so quickly. As early as the beginning of 2009, we were given a unique opportunity to share our respective experiences through the celebration, throughout 2009, of 15 years of the West African Economic …

Platform Embedded Security Technology Revealed

Malware, virus, e-mail scam, identity theft, evil maid, password logger, screen scraper… Cyber security concerns everyone. Computers can be your trusted friends or traitors. The Internet is a scary place. Going on the Internet is like walking the streets of a crime-ridden neighborhood. Cyber criminals work to steal your privacy, money, assets, and even identity. Cyber-attacks are intangible, …

Financial System Stability, Regulation, and Financial Inclusion

Asia and the Pacific has been advancing in many aspects of its development, but the potential for growth is vast. The ADB Institute Series on Development Economics aims to identify and propose solutions using a multidisciplinary approach to impor- tant development issues facing economies in the Asia and Pacific region. Through edited volumes and monographs, the series showcases the research out…

PRACTICAL GUIDE TO CONTEMPORARY ECONOMICS

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Teenagers, Health Care & the Law

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The Impact of Management Information System (MIS) on the Performance of Busin…

The role of Management information system (MIS) in business environment has evolved over time to become an integral part of its business operations in Nigeria. The use of information systems (ISs) has increased in the last 10 years not only by firms, but also by individuals and even governments. The use of ISs was encouraged by the technological breakthroughs; the advancements in telecommunicat…

A Program Management Information System for Managing Urban Renewals

The urban renewal project is an activity to regenerate existing city areas that have become run-down. In South Korea, urban renewal is led by the government, which perceived the importance of reducing environmental burden and enhancing the efficiency of use of existing urban infrastructure (Bae et al., 2008). Managing these projects is challenging for the government because of its insuffici…

Digital Image Processing Part II

Digital image processing is an important research area. The techniques developed in this area so far require to be summarized in an appropriate way. In this book, the fundamental theories of these techniques will be introduced. Particularly, their applications in the image enhancement are briefly summarized. The entire book consists of three chapters, which will be subsequently introduced. C…

Strategic Management Accounting: State-of-the-Art

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CMOS Time-Mode Circuits and Systems Fundamentals and Applications

The rapid scaling of complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) technology has resulted in the sharp increase of time resolution and the continuous decrease of voltage headroom. As a result, time-mode circuits where information is represented by the time difference between the occurrence of digital events, rather than the nodal voltages or branch currents of electric networks, offer a viabl…

Fraud and Forensic Accounting  In a Digital Environment

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RISK MANAGEMENT, CORPORATE GOVERNANCE AND INVESTMENT BANKING: THE ROLE OF CHI…

Abstract This paper focuses on the defining the role of CRO in corporate governance and to show the interrelation between the way of CRO subordination and performance of investment bank. The sample consists of observations over a period of 2011 for 29 biggest investment banks (by amount of assets) implementing world-wide investment activity. The banks are originated in the USA (8), Eastern …

Flood Risk Management

The concepts of flood risk management (FRM) have been widely embraced over the past decade. In many instances this conceptual acceptance has resulted in changes to decision-making practice, highlighting risk management as potentially more complex, but more efficient and effective in delivering multiple goals, than a traditional engineering standards-based approach. In particular, the emergence…

Building Information Modeling

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Strategic Management Accounting: State-of-the-Art

The current paper presents the state-of-the-art of strategic management accounting (SMA) information usage among organisations. Despite SMA claimed importance to organisations operating in today’s competitive environment, little is known about its current achievement. In Malaysia in particular, the subject is almost absent. Thus, motivated by the scant attention given to SMA, the current …

MOTIVATION, EMOTION, AND COGNITION

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Building Information Modeling

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CONCEPT OF ENVIRONMENTALLY-CONSCIOUS STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT

The aim of this paper is to introduce a strategic management concept that is focused on environmental consciousness. First, starting from the concept of environmental consciousness and its interpretation at a corporate level, it determines the external and internal factors of companies’ strategic positioning. In the next step, it summarizes the possibilities of formulating strategic alternati…

Oracle Business Intelligence: The Condensed Guide to Analysis and Reporting

While often used interchangeably, data and information do not mean the same thing. In a few simple words, data is what you can save, transform, or retrieve, whereas information is what you normally use in a decision-making process. On the other hand, these two terms are very closely related, as information is taken out of data. And sometimes, it may be quite sufficient to take a glance at your …

Financial Risks and the Development Trend of Enterprise Risk Management

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HANDBOOK ON WELL-BEING OF WORKING WOMEN

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