What Do We Buy ? A Look at Goods and Services

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OPERATIONS RESEARCH METHODS

Business managements make daily decisions on many issues, such as how much and where to produce, for which market, what prices to set, and how much stock to keep. Mathematical models can help to make the best decisions, among the possible alternatives. The objective of this book is to present a survey of selected Operations Research methods, and some of their applications to managerial decisio…

BUSINESS LAW

The study of business law and, more generally, the legal environment of business has universal applicability. A student entering any field of business must have at least a passing understanding of business law in order to function in the real world. Additionally, students preparing for a career in accounting, government and political science, economics, and even medicine can use much of the inf…

A History of Balloons and Balloon Voyages

Let posterity know, and knowing be astonished, that on the fifteenth day of September, 1784, Vincent Lunardi of Lucca, in Tuscany, the first aerial traveller in Britain, mounting from the Artillery Ground in London, and traversing the regions of the air for two hours and fifteen minutes, on this spot revisited the earth. In this rude monument for ages be recorded this wondrous enterprise succes…

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 …

The future of higher education: How technology will shape learning

The future of higher education: how technology will shape learning is an Economist Intelligence Unit white paper, sponsored by the New Media Consortium. The Economist Intelligence Unit’s editorial team executed the survey, conducted the interviews and wrote the report. The findings and views expressed do not necessarily reflect the views of the sponsor. Marie Glenn was the author of the repor…

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.

Cities in Global Economy

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Corporate Valuation and Takeover: Excercises

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Identifying How Firms Manage Cybersecurity Investment

s ago most rms would manage cybersecurity and make investment decisions based mainly on industry best practices, resulting in their adopting certain technologies, policies and practices, without a detailed understanding of their specic overall cyber risk situation. As a result, very few successfully developed and deployed a strategic, comprehensive and eective cyber risk mana…

The Computer Science of TEX and L ATEX

For L ATEX use the ‘Not so short introduction to L ATEX’ by Oetiker et al. For further reading and future reference, it is highly recommended that you get ‘Guide to L ATEX’ by Kopka and Daly [15]. The original reference is the book by Lamport [16]. While it is a fine book, it has not kept up with developments around L ATEX, such as contributed graphics and other packages. A book that d…

Think Java How to Think Like a Computer Scientist

Think Java is an introduction to computer science and programming intended for people with little or no experience. We start with the most basic concepts and are careful to define all terms when they are first used. The book presents each new idea in a logical progression. Larger topics, like recursion and object- oriented programming, are divided into smaller examples and introduced over the…

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 …

Managing Creativity: A Practical Guide to Inventing Developing and Producing …

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RESTful Web Services

There are a number of protocols and standards, mostly built on top of HTTP, designed for building Web Services (note the capitalization). These standards are collectively called the WS-* stack. They include WS-Notification, WS-Security, WSDL, and SOAP. Throughout this book we give the name “Big Web Services” to this collection of tech- nologies as a fairly gentle term of disparagement. Thi…

Energy Efficiency Trends in Canada 1990 to 2009

This 15th edition of Energy Efficiency Trends in Canada delivers on Canada’s commitment to provide a comprehensive summary of secondary energy use and related greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in Canada. It also tracks trends in energy efficiency. This year’s edition is produced electronically and in paper format. For more secondary energy use statistics, see the comprehensive energy use d…

Hodge and His Masters

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Intellectual Property Rights

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Higher Education and Business Standards

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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: The Current Financial Crisis, Lessons Learned and Future Imp…

Many people believe that excessive risk taking at large financial firms was an important cause of the financial crisis of 2007–2008 and that preventing another crisis requires improving risk-management systems at such institutions. One way to do this would be to use board oversight liability to hold directors personally liable for failing to properly monitor the risks that their firms are run…

Risk Management: The Current Financial Crisis, Lessons Learned and Future Imp…

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The Foundations of Business

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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…

Management: Science, Theory and Practice

One of the most important human activities is managing. Ever since people began forming groups to accomplish aims they could not achieve as individuals, managing has been essential to ensure the coordination of individual efforts. As society has come to rely increasingly on group effort and as many organized groups have grown larger, the task of mangers has been in importance. The purpose of th…