The Architecture of Privacy

You have decided to build a new technology that processes data about people. Where do you start? In Part I, we walk you through the initial steps that lay the foundation upon which your privacy-protective framework will be built. Chapter 1 defines the concept of privacy and the critical role of the engineer in shaping that concept through technology. We then raise some preliminary questions reg…

Strategic ICT Planning in Pathology

This book is concerned with the assessment of medical pathology laboratory in- formation systems effectiveness, and in what way information system effectiveness impacts on the medical pathology business. To achieve this goal we discuss a study that focused on determining the level of Strategic Information Systems Planning (SISP) and by what means information system effectiveness is measured, in…

STARTUP AN INSIDER’S GUIDE TO LAUNCHING AND RUNNING A BUSINESS

Too often, business owners, managers, and decision-makers get fooled by the way they use language into thinking that their business is a “thing.” It is not. It is convenient and even necessary to use a noun to refer to your business when communicating with people, but when you visualize it for yourself, make sure you don’t ever do so. One of the lessons I have brought along to all of the …

SQL Antipatterns Avoiding the Pitfalls of Database Programming

I hadn’t been taught SQL in school. Databases weren’t as ubiquitous as they are today, and open source brands like MySQL and PostgreSQL didn’t exist yet. But I had developed complete applications in shell, and I knew something about parsers, having done projects in classes like compiler design and computational linguistics. So, I thought about taking the job. How hard could it be to parse…

SPECIFICATION BY EXAMPLE

The book you hold in your hands, or see on your screen, is the result of a series of studies of how teams all over the world specify, develop, and deliver the right software, without defects, in very short cycles. It presents the collective knowledge of about 50 projects, ranging from public websites to internal back-office systems. These projects involved diverse teams, from small ones working…

SIP Trunking

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Instant Silverlight 5 Animation

This chapter describes Silverlight/WPF concepts needed for creating animations, namely dependency and attached properties, bindings, transforms, and storyboards. We assume that the reader is already familiar with most of the concepts within this section and uses it simply as a refresher, as well as a way to jump-start the samples for the rest of the application. In this chapter we will look at:…

Silverlight 4 Business Intelligence Software

It is a very exciting time to be in the software development industry. The governing concepts of developing software are changing and rapidly evolving before our eyes. Skills and frameworks that you may have used even just two years ago could very well be considered obsolete and replaced with something more efficient. This is why software vendors and the developers of engineering products need …

MANUAL OF REGULATIONS FOR NON-BANK FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS

The 2008 Manual of Regulations for Non-Bank Financial Institutions (MORNBFI) is an updated compilation of regulations and policies issued by the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) for financial institutions under its supervision. Available in hard and soft copies, it is a convenient reference and guide for said financial institutions in the conduct of their operations. The updated MORNBFI incorp…

Real Estate & the New Economy The impact of information and communications te…

The overall aim of this book is to show how new technology (i.e. Infor- mation and Communications Technology (ICT)) is impacting on the shape and form of real estate in our towns and cities, and how it is influ- encing and is being influenced by other forces within what many commen- tators call the ‘new economy’, as part of an ‘information society’. UK private sector commercial prope…

PROFESSIONAL IOS NETWORK PROGRAMMING

AS IPHONES AND IPADS BECOME A UBIQUITOUS part of your personal and professional life, you become more and more dependent on their capability to seamlessly and fl awlessly interact with hosts across the Internet or with other phones across the room. This book provides a compilation of methods to accomplish this level of connectivity with examples and best practices for each of these methods. T…

Professional ASP.NET MVC 1.0

Django), which have embraced the MVC (Model-View-Controller) application pattern, and if you’re one of those developers, or even if you’re just curious, this book is for you. MVC allows for (buzzword alert!) a “greater separation of concerns” between components in your application. We’ll go into the ramifi cations of this later on, but if it had to be said it in a quick sentence: AS…

Pro XML Development with JavaTM Technology

Extensible Markup Language (XML) is based on simple, platform-independent rules for representing structured textual information. The platform-independent nature of XML makes it an ideal format for exchanging structured textual information among disparate applications. Therefore, at the heart of it, XML is about interoperability. XML 1.0 was made a W3C1 Recommendation in 1998. Sun formally intro…

Simplified Diet Manual

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Pro Oracle Spatial for Oracle Database 11 g

Organizations are discovering with increasing frequency that the vast majority of their information assets have a spatial component, for example, the location of customers, shipments, facilities, personnel, competitors, and so on. The ability to use this information properly is fundamental to reducing operational costs, optimizing production efficiency, and increasing the quality of service. Ev…

Capturing Change in Science, Technology, and Innovation: Improving Indicator…

The availability of relevant, accurate, timely, and objec- tive information on the health of the science, technology, and innovation (STI) enterprise in the United States is critical to addressing vital policy questions for the nation. Just some of these questions are • How is the contribution of STI to productivity, employment, and growth in the broader U.S. econ- omy changing in a world o…

Science, Technology & Innovation Indicators

The social sciences, humanities, and law (SSH) are known to have more heterogeneous publi- cation patterns than the sciences, medicine, and technology (STM). On the one hand, original peer-reviewed research is published in a wider range of formats. Book publishing (monographs or articles in edited volumes) may even be more important than journal publishing in some of the disciplines (Sivertsen …

Critical analysis of scientific management

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Wealth Through Integration

In December 2008, when I met with the president of the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), I was far from imagining that the work we wanted to do together would become a reality so quickly. As early as the beginning of 2009, we were given a unique opportunity to share our respective experiences through the celebration, throughout 2009, of 15 years of the West African Economic …

Hidden Financial Risk, Understanding Off–Balance Sheet Accounting

Then Enron disclosed problems in its third-quarter report of 2001 and soon declared bankruptcy. All of a sudden people were interested in accounting at levels I had never experienced previously. During the first half of 2002 I had at least 500 interviews with the media, and I discussed at length issues about Enron, Global Crossing, WorldCom, Tyco, Adelphia, and Arthur Andersen. My main message …

Hidden Financial Risk Understanding Off–Balance Sheet Accounting

When I graduated with a doctorate in 1977, I researched and published articles on mainstream topics, particularly current value accounting and the interaction between earnings and cash flows. After a while, it occurred to me that these are not the crucial issues of financial accounting and reporting. Ethics and honesty and fairness to financial statement users comprise the foundational issu…

Hidden Financial Risk: Understanding Off–Balance Sheet Accounting

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GREEN FOODS FOR MEN

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Fraud Auditing and Forensic Accounting

White-collar crime is rampant, and has been for some time, in the business community of the U.S. economy. Experts have estimated that the costs of white-collar crime averages about 20 times the costs of street crimes each year. The Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE) estimated that fraud cost the U.S. economy $660 billion in 2004. But white-collar crime has taken a backseat to stree…

From Stress to Success Faster Emotionally Focused Transformations

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Fight Heart Disease with Vitamins and Antioxidants

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HOW TO EAT A CURE FOR "NERVES"

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Markets The Fulton Fish Market

This feature explores the operation of individual markets. Patterns of behavior in markets for specific goods and services offer lessons about the determinants and effects of supply and demand, market structure, strategic behavior, and government regulation. Suggestions for future columns and comments on past ones should be sent to James R. Hines Jr., c/o Journal of Economic Perspectives, D…

Practical Business Analytics Using SAS

There is an ever-increasing need for advanced information and decision support systems in today’s fierce global competitive environment. The profitability and the overall business can be managed better with access to predictive tools—to predict, even approximately, the market prices of raw materials used in production, for instance. Business analytics involves, among others, quantitative te…

Managing Workplace Diversity

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