It’s an old, tired joke among people in the armed services that “military intelligence is a contradiction in terms.” And yet, intelligence in the mili- tary sense — accurate, timely information that can help produce an effective strategy — is more important these days than ever before. As organizations continue to pursue their goals in an economy that seems more like a battle- field, …
Microarray technology has its roots in high-throughput parallel synthesis of biomacromole- cules, combined with combinatorial science. In principle, the preparation of arrays can be performed either by in situ synthesis of biomacromolecules on solid substrates or by spotting of ex situ synthesized biomacromolecules onto the substrate surface. The application of microarrays includes spatial addr…
If each of us could get all the food, clothing, and toys we want without working, no one would study economics. Unfortunately, most of the good things in life are scarce—we can’t all have as much as we want. Thus scarcity is the mother of economics. Microeconomics is the study of how individuals and firms make themselves as well off as possible in a world of scarcity and the consequences o…
This book presents a critical view of the current state of commercial mass media in America. It examines the media through the lens of the public policy debates about limits on the number and type of media outlets that a single firm can own. The focal point is the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) policy that prevents a television station from owning or being owned by a newspaper in …
Our approach in this book will be to use statistics and social science theory to mine social media and we'll use R as our base programming language. We will walk you through many important and recent developments in the field of social media. We'll cover advanced topics such as Open Authorization (OAuth), Twitter's OAuth API, Facebook's graph API, and so on, along with some interesting referenc…
jBPM is a leading open source BPM and workflow platform whose development is sponsored by Red Hat under Apache Software License (ASL) licensing. The jBPM product has been around for almost 10 years; its strongest points rely on flexibility, extensibility, and lightness, and it is a modular, cross-platform pure Java engine that is BPMN2 compliant. It features a robust management console and deve…
True to its title, this book itself is an excellent financial investment. For the price of one volume it teaches two Nobel Prize winning theories, with plenty more included for good measure. How many undergraduate mathematics textbooks can boast such a claim? Building on mathematical models of bond and stock prices, these two theories lead in different directions: Black–Scholes arbitrage…
In the five years since the first edition of this classic book was published, Internet use has exploded. The commercial world has rushed headlong into doing business on the Web, often without integrating sound security technologies and policies into their products and methods. The security risks - and the need to protect both business and personal data - have never been greater. We've updated B…
About 40 per cent of the world’s population lives in river basins that are shared by countries. These transboundary basins cover almost half of the Earth’s land surface and provide over 60 per cent of global freshwater flow. Transboundary river basin management is something that concerns many of us. Water, energy and food security are central elements for society. Having access to suffic…
At this writing, Marketing Mistakes has passed its thirtieth anniversary. Who would have thought? The fi rst edition, back in 1976, was 147 pages and included such long-forgotten cases as Korvette, W. T. Grant, Edsel, Corfam, Gilbert, and the Midi. In this eleventh edition, seven cases from the tenth edition have been dropped, and seven added, several of these being modifi ed from earlier editi…
This paper provides a snapshot of the computer network security industry and addresses specific issues related to network security in public education. The following topics are covered: (1) security policy, including reasons for establishing a policy, risk assessment, areas to consider, audit tools; (2) workstations, including physical security, protecting workstation components, and compu…
There is only one valid definition of business purpose: to create a customer. – Peter Drucker, in The Practice of Management (1954) People expect some benefit when they use the products and services an organization provides. They want to get some job done, solve a problem, or experience a particular emotion. If they then perceive this benefit valuable, they’ll give something in return –…
REAL Knowledge at NASA presents a descriptive project practitioner– centered Knowledge Model derived from experience in developing Knowledge Services (KS) at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). It involves an organizational knowledge systems perspective that better negotiates rapid change and accelerated learning in data-rich complex project environments. It discuss…
The purpose of this book is to convey vital knowledge about application security to developers working on the Android platform, to enable the development of robust, rugged, and more secure applications. While application security knowledge and skills have matured rapidly over the past couple of years, that knowledge is still scattered in a huge number of diverse locations. As of now, no single …
Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) is an area of rapidly growing interest in the development community. ALM is all about how you can manage the entire cycle of building software. With a good ALM process in place, you can develop software faster, more cost effectively, and with greater quality than before. This book shows you what ALM is and why it matters. Modern organizations depend on so…
The purpose of this book is to supply, in a form suitable for laymen, guidance in the adoption and execution of an investment policy. Comparatively little will be said here about the technique of analyzing securities; attention will be paid chiefly to investment principles and investors’ attitudes. We shall, however, provide a number of condensed comparisons of specific securities—chie…