allows automated recognizing of the metadata and structured facts related to the disease outbreaks collects an average 50000 news articles per day from about 1400 news portals and about 150 specialized Public Health sites 43 languages current ontology contains 2400 disease names, 400 organisms, 1500 political entities and over 70000 location names including towns, cities, provinces …
This paper highlights relevant curriculum issues that were identified in a Management Information Systems (MIS) program review undertaken by a group of business faculty in a small regional university. The program review was initiated to improve job marketability of graduates and student enrollment. The review process is described as a collective effort in continuous improvement in program p…
Supply Chain Management Information System (SCMIS) in automobile industry has gained importance recently due to its ability to reduce cost and increase responsiveness in the supply chain. The system provides high quality, relevant and timely information that supports decision making. The implementation of this system is a complicated process with significant risk as huge amount of money and…
The purpose of this course is give students a broad, yet deep understanding of the issues involved in the design and analysis of experiments in each of the major experimental traditions in the discipline, including experimental political economy, political psychology and survey experiments (we will also briefly touch on field experiments, “natural” experiments and quasi- experimental desi…
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…
This comprehensive overview to information systems management is an enhanced version of an original title regularly updated since its original format more than ten years ago. Its expanded format successfully guides the student reader through a basic introduction to aspects of information technology both within systems and as systems in their own right. Using case-driven analyses in order to exp…
The monarch of ancient times mingled the functions of priest and judge. It is therefore not altogether surprising that even today a judicial system should be stamped with a certain resemblance to an ecclesiastical hierarchy. If the Church of the Middle Ages was "an army encamped on the soil of Christendom, with its outposts everywhere, subject to the most efficient discipline, animated with a c…
The present interest of this paper consists in the powerful impact that IT&C technologies have upon the development of the last 20 years of the Romanian organizations as well as upon the daily life of each individual in the special condition of the Romanian economy and especially Romanian society as a whole. The motivation of the approach is supported by the fact that IT&C industry has had an e…
There are some who would dispute the greatness of Parnell—who would deny him the stature and the dignity of a leader of men. There are others who would aver that Parnell was made by his lieutenants—that he owed all his success in the political arena to their ability and fighting qualities and that he was essentially a man of mediocre talents himself. It might be enough to answer to these c…
In this paper I reflect on Piero Sraffa’s concept of the ‘standpoint’ of the old classical economists from Adam Smith to Ricardo and compare it with the standpoint of the marginalist economists in the theory of value and distribution.
On February 9, 1921, three hundred and twenty-one years after Queen Elizabeth granted to her trusty "Merchant- venturers" of London the charter out of which the East India Company and the British Empire of India were to grow up, His Royal Highness the Duke of Connaught inaugurated at Delhi, in the King-Emperor's name, the new representative institutions that are to lead India onward towards com…
The accounting department is a cost center. It does not directly generate revenues, but rather provides a fixed set of services to the rest of the company, and is asked to do so at the lowest possible cost. Consequently, the accounting staff is called upon to process transactions, write reports, create new processes or investigate old ones—while doing so as an ever-shrinking proportion of to…
This study aimed to identify the impact of management information systems (MIS) on the performance of governmental organizations, Jordanian Ministry of Planning – case study, a sample consisted of 77 employees in the ministry, the study found: there is no impact of hardware and software equipment on the performance of governmental organizations, there is a significant impact of networks, i…
The research assessed the impact of organisational approaches to occupational safety and health (OSH) management on organisational performance, safety climate, employees’ attitudes to the organisation and employees’ health and wellbeing. The research was conducted in 31 case study organisations, covering a broad range of company sizes and industrial sectors. Seventy-eight interviews were co…
With a certain mind-numbing frequency, users of financial statements—investors and creditors—find themselves buffeted with announcements of accounting irregularities. These irregularities are called many things, including aggressive accounting, earnings management, income smoothing, and fraudulent financial reporting. While they may vary in the degree to which they misreport financial resul…
LBNL is a government-owned, contractor-operated, multiprogram research and development facility. UC manages and operates LBNL under Prime Contract DE-AC02-05CH11231 for DOE (Contract 31). Contract 31 defines the principles, working relationships, and contractual and legal requirements under which the Laboratory must operate. The institutional ISMS requirements result from careful examination …