Drools is a Business Logic integration Platform (BliP). It is written in Java. It is an open source project that is backed by JBoss and Red Hat, Inc. It is licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (http://www.apache.org/licenses/ LICENSE-2.0.html). This book will focus on Version 5.5 of this platform that was released in November 2012. Work on Drools (the rule engine) began in 2001. Fr…
We have designed this book to be a supplement to Robert J. Barro’s Macroeconomics, which is the textbook that is used in introductory macroeconomics courses at the University of Chicago. In teaching these courses, we have found that Barro’s treatment of the subject does not make use of the mathematical skills of our students. In particular, Barro relies almost exclusively on economic in…
I started writing articles on such topics in the 1980s and published them in obscure academic journals. Then in January 1996 I began writing the “Spirit of Accounting” col- umn for Accounting Today with my friend Paul Miller. I needed a break in 2000, so I quit the column; Paul Bahnson joined Paul Miller on it. After a year’s respite, I found myself writing “Accounting Annotations” fo…
The first edition of The Companion to Development Studies has been very well received, both critically and in the marketplace. Indeed, the major criticism we encountered suggested that we had made it all too easy for students of development studies – a limitation that we could more than happily live with! Further, the original volume has given rise to at least one other companion to devel…
The Politics of Aristotle is the second part of a treatise of which the Ethics is the first part. It looks back to the Ethics as the Ethics looks forward to the Politics. For Aristotle did not separate, as we are inclined to do, the spheres of the statesman and the moralist. In the Ethics he has described the character necessary for the good life, but that life is for him essentially to be live…
DotNetNuke is not just a great piece of free (yes, free!) software: It’s your key to a vibrant and ever-changing community of software users, designers, and developers. How deeply you choose to get involved with the DotNetNuke world is up to you. If you opt for little involvement, you can simply download the code or find a hosting provider who can set you up with a domain and hosting where yo…
So how does a former police officer come to write a book on corporate social responsibility? I often ask myself the same question, as the path from where I began to where I am now has hardly been a predictable one. After leaving school I soon found myself in uniform. I worked at Merrylands and Cabramatta police stations in the late eighties and early nineties. It was frustration over attending …
This course is designed to familiarize you, the dutiful student, with Supreme Court policy making in the form of the Court’s written opinions. The Supreme Court, the highest judicial institution in the United States, makes decisions that affect the lives of people all over the country. In this course, I hope to promote an understanding and appreciation of the profound influence the Supreme …
A Packt Compendium is a book formed by drawing existing content from several related Packt titles. In other words, it is a mash-up of published Packt content – Professional Expertise Distilled in the true sense. Such a compendium of Packt's content allows you to learn from each of the chapters' unique styles and Packt does its best to compile the chapters without breaking the narrative flow f…
Introduction Perl provides direct access to the C library routines for socket communication. Often, arguments and return values are constants defined in the C header files, or are data structures which Perl will pass in a packed binary format. TheSocketmoduleprovidestheseconstantsandalso many functions for packing and unpacking these data structures TheIO::Socketmoduleprovidesahigherlevelacc…
This guide contains the basic elements that should be addressed by each university concerning the safe and legal use of vehicles operated by the university, whether they are university owned, rented, or privately owned. The use of this guide will facilitate continuity across the IHL System with regard to elements addressed while allowing flexibility among member institutions as to how each elem…
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…
e-Health is an emerging field in the intersection of medical informatics, public health and business, referring to health services and information delivered or enhanced through the Internet and related technologies. In a broader sense, the term characterizes not only a technical development, but also a state-of-mind, a way of thinking, an attitude, and a commitment for networked, global thinkin…
The purpose of any Information System is to help an Organisation manage its business better. For instance, an Inventory Management System would assist the organisation in keeping track of stocks and optimising stock levels. An HR Information system would help in managing the key Human Resources of the organisation, and so on. With ever increasing complexities of business as well as manageme…
In this course, we will explore constitutional developments in defining the nature and scope of judicial, congressional, and executive power. The course will also address the enduring constitutional debates surrounding the appropriate balance of power between the national and state governments.
The ndings of this study are primarily based on the 2010 FMIS Database, which includes 55 closed and 32 active Treasury/FMIS (T/F) projects implemented between 1984 and 2010 (7 pipeline projects are also analyzed in some sections).3 The data were gathered primarily from internal World Bank documents and sources: individual project Implementation Completion Reports (ICRs), Project Appraisa…