Many people believe that the only way to avoid a vicious, dog-eat-dog moral relativism is to affirm eternal and universal moral values and principles, values whose source must lie in something that transcends the finiteness and vicissitudes of human existence. I was nurtured and educated in just such a transcendent, absolutist view, but over the years, and with much emotional and intellectual t…
IBM Cognos 10 BI is the leading performance management tool, which enables users to monitor, measure, and manage corporate performance at a glance. With its dashboard capabilities, users can assemble and organize data in personalized dashboard views to support different decision-making requirements.
In this chapter, we will take a look at how modern data centers are built. We will see what virtualization is, and why it is very appealing to IT departments. We will look at Windows Server 2012, and how we can use some of its new features and functionalities to build a modern data center. We will learn about Hyper-V 3.0, which is the latest edition of Microsoft hypervisor. The main focus on th…
act Financial institutions have been in the process of significant transformation. The force behind the transformation of these institutions is innovation in information technology. Information and communication technology is at the Centre of this global change curve of mobile and internet banking in Kenya. Rapid development of information technology has made banking tasks more efficient a…
Culturelink was established by UNESCO and the Council of Europe in 1989 with the aim of strengthening communication between networks, institutions and professionals in the field of culture throughout the world. Culturelink has accompanied the turbulent history in this part of Europe over the past twenty years. Its role and work have been fundamental. Cultural action and cultural cooperation hav…
Human ICT implants such as cochlear implants and cardiac pacemakers have been in common clinical use for many years, forming intimate links between technology and the body. Such medical devices have become increasingly advanced in their functionality, with some able to modify behaviour by directly interacting with the human brain and others coming closer to restoring functionality which outperf…
Often, in past years, the computer systems were isolated from other systems; each system had its specific job and worked alone to execute it. Today, computer systems have grown exponentially both in number and in size. They, generally, are interconnected and collaborated to each other exchanging information and sharing resources. The problem with this pervasive presence of computer systems and…
Conversation is indispensable in our intellectual life. People may make conversation either to achieve a social goal, to create a joint story, or to just enjoy a language game. Although a conversation has a fairly sophisticated structure and dynamism, people are sufficiently proficient in expressing their thoughts and interpreting utterances of their partners. In this chapter, we will introduce…
The continuing trend towards miniaturization of optoelectronic devices leads to fundamental physical limits of conventional silicon-based materials. The search for new concepts has moved low-dimensional carbon nanostructures into the focus of current research [1–5]. They are represented by a variety of different metallic and semiconducting materials with unique optical, electronic, and mecha…
Recently, people in local community often address tourism planning through their collaboration. The process of the collaborative tourism planning con- sists of planners’ learning and consensus building. Without the knowledge of the tourism planning, it is difficult for the planners to begin the collaborative tourism planning. Nowadays, the practical case reports of tourism planning are availa…
This chapter provides an introduction to and discussion of global information warfare and sets the stage for the chapters that follow. It begins with a fictional scenario that soon can become all too real—some of it already has occurred. Some aspects of information warfare attacks have already been tested by government agencies, terrorists, hackers, organized crime members, and the general cr…
Traditional theories of intermediation are based on transaction costs and asymmetric information. They are designed to account for institutions which take deposits or issue insurance policies and channel funds to ®rms. However, in recent decades there have been signi®cant changes. Although transaction costs and asymmetric information have declined, intermediation has increased. New market…
This is the first in a three-semester series of core courses designed to introduce students to the field of global studies and to processes of globalization. The course’s approach is interdisciplinary and thematic, with special attention to the political, economic, social, historical and cultural patterns that are defining the modern world – its “people” and its “politics.” The co…
This study examined the principles and practice of lending in the banking sector of some selected banks. It looked at the perceptions of respondents in these selected banks regarding principles and practice of lending. A total number of twenty-five (25) questionnaires were administered to the credit department and some staff of five (5) selected banks within the Accra Metropolis. The descrip…
With more than 200 million active users and 250,000 new registrants every day, Facebook has become a virtual world unto itself. But, what started as a dorm room exercise to extend the popular printed college directory of incoming freshmen online, Harvard drop-out Mark Zuckerberg has developed an international organization employing more than 400 programmers, graphic artists, and business develo…
I have a passion for frameworks. In more than 20 years as a professional developer, I’ve never worked on a computing platform that did everything I needed it to do to build applications productively. The Microsoft .NET platform is wonderful, but it doesn’t always do quite what I want or need. To address those needs, I’m always looking for tools and frameworks, and sometimes I end up creat…
An index is an optionally created database object used primarily to increase query performance. The purpose of a database index is similar to an index in the back of a book. A book index associates a topic with a page number. When you’re locating information in a book, it’s usually much faster to examine the index first, find the topic of interest, and identify associated page numbers. With…
There is a wealth of alternative literature on cryptography, thus presenting a healthy range of options for a reader wishing to pursue cryptography from a variety of different perspectives. A substantial number of cryptography books focus on presenting the mathematical aspects of cryptography. Many of these are textbooks targeted at computer science or mathematics undergraduate students.Forourp…
People on the outside of software development projects see them spew out a multitude of tools that shift work from people to computers. But the view inside a project is—all too often—different. There, we see days filled with repetitive manual chores. At one desk, a tester is entering test data into a database by hand. At another, a programmer is sifting through the output from a version co…
Philosophy and business don’t always get along well. Philosophy is generally not much concerned with the practical implications of its investigations and, conversely, business is often deeply interested in the tactical outcomes of its operations. And ethics is a loaded word. Preconceived notions of what ethics mean, even as a le gitimate field of study, often make people shy away from it as…