Enterprise Cloud Strategy

When briefing CIOs and senior IT executives at Microsoft, we are often told that migrating IT workloads to the cloud ranks among their highest priorities. That statement is almost inevitably followed by “How do I start?”; “How should I build a plan for cloud migration for my entire portfolio?”; and “How will my organization be affected by this change?” This book, based on real-world…

Fair Value Accounting Fraud

Fair value accounting is the accounting profession’s equivalent of the automobile commercials you have seen on television, showing a vehicle racing around an obstacle course or bouncing over hills, along with a dis- claimer saying something to the effect that “This is a professional stunt driver on a closed course. Do not try this at home!” Fair value accounting is not for the timid. It i…

Microsoft® SQL Server ® 2012 High-Performance T-SQL Using Window Functions

Window functions, to me, are the most profound feature supported by both standard SQL and Microsoft SQL Server’s dialect—T-SQL. They allow you to perform calculations against sets of rows in a flexible, clear, and efficient manner. The design of window functions is ingenious, overcoming a number of shortcomings of the traditional alternatives. The range of problems that window functions hel…

Microsoft Silverlight 4 Business Application Development Beginner's Guide

Welcome to the wonderful world of Silverlight, Microsoft's platform for building Rich Internet Applications (RIA). The earliest versions of Silverlight focused on rich media, interactivity, and animation. Now Silverlight has gotten down to business with new features geared towards making business application development faster and easier. Of course, you still have access to all the graphics and…

Economics in Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged

ABSTRACT: This article provides a summary of economic issues found in Atlas Shrugged. It discusses the role of individual initiative, creativity, and productivity in economic progress as illustrated in this novel. It also shows the novel’s depiction of the benefits of trade—and the destruction of exchange relationships and production that results from government intervention in the econom…

Sustainable City and Creativity

Our world is dominated by an urban culture. Cities not only represent economies of density, but also economics of interaction. They incorporate both quantity and quality. Cities are not just geographical settlements of people, they are also the ‘home of man’ (Ward 1976). They reflect the varied history of mankind and are at the same time contemporaneous expressions of the diversity of human…

Budgeting: Planning for Success - Budgeting and Decision Making

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The Little Book of Yoga

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International B u s i n e s s

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The Healthy Heart Book

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Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Business Application Blueprints

This book will dive into a diverse set of real-world scenarios to deliver sample business solutions that can serve as the foundation for your own solutions. It draws from the author's extensive experience with SharePoint to leverage the platform's underlying services to provide solutions that can support social collaboration, content and document management, as well as project collaboration. Ea…

Coping With the Seasons

Stunning developments in healthcare have taken place over the last several years, but many of our widely accepted interventions and strate- gies in mental health and behavioral medicine have been brought into question by research evidence as not only lacking benefit, but perhaps, inducing harm

AN INVESTIGATION OF RISK MANAGEMENT PRACTICES

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Understanding Applied Behavior Analysis

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Behavioral Activation

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Knowledge and Coordination

At a roller rink, you can see something that holds insights into great questions of politics and society. At a roller rink you see 100 people skating—but wait!— Rather than imagine what you know happens at a roller rink, imagine that you have never seen or heard of a roller rink. Nor an ice skating rink. Long ago, people didn’t know anything of skating. Imagine yourself one of them. Ima…

Principles of banking and fi nance

This subject guide is written for students studying 24 Principles of banking and finance. The aim is to help you to interpret the syllabus. It tells you what you are expected to know for each area of the syllabus and suggests the reading which will help you understand the material. It must be emphasised that this guide is intended to supplement the essential textbooks, not replace them. A…

Microsoft Lync 2013 Unified Communications

The book combines both interesting areas; business, and technology, into one single literature. The reader will get to know all important key areas of unified communications technologies: How to evaluate and integrate unified communications project in your own company or for your customer, how you select the right solution, how you plan, design, and implement the technology itself, and also how…

eXist

As it turns out, this is quite a difficult question to answer. The problem lies in the wide audience that eXist serves. eXist is many things to many people, and thus there is no single succinct answer. eXist is an open source piece of software written in Java that is freely available in both source code and binary form. eXist has always been made available under the Lesser GNU Public License (L…

Policy and Choice

Then should the government intervene in the economy? When do mar- kets fail? How do we craft policies that maximize social welfare? How do we design policies to minimize unintended consequences? Traditional public finance provides a powerful framework to tackle those questions. This frame- work, however, relies on an overly simple model of human behavior. This book revisits the core questions…

Expert PHP and MySQL Application Design and Development

Pick up any of the many PHP/MySQL books in any large bookstore and you’ll find chapters on installing PHP, variables, statements, functions, string processing, arrays, objects, file handling, debugging, and, probably, a toy e-commerce site. Not this book! I assume you already know all that stuff, or can find it somewhere if you don’t. Instead, I tried to cover essential topics that I’ve n…

SPORTS NUTRITION FATS AND PROTEINS

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Financial System Stability, Regulation, and Financial Inclusion

Asia and the Pacific has been advancing in many aspects of its development, but the potential for growth is vast. The ADB Institute Series on Development Economics aims to identify and propose solutions using a multidisciplinary approach to impor- tant development issues facing economies in the Asia and Pacific region. Through edited volumes and monographs, the series showcases the research out…

Enterprise Rails

It would be quite unusual for a person not trained as a surgeon to walk into a hospital operating room, ask a nurse for a scalpel, and start cutting. However, anyone—even those without computer science degrees—can walk into a bookstore, pick up a pro- gramming book, and start programming that afternoon. To build a website, you once needed to be adept in a number of languages and technologie…

Strategic Management

The strategic management process (see Figure 1.1) is the full set of commitments, decisions, and actions required for a firm to achieve strategic competitiveness and earn above-average returns. The firm’s first step in the process is to analyze its external and internal environments to determine its resources, capabilities, and core competencies— the sources of its “strategic inputs.�…

SMART PEOPLE DON’T DIET

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The Agglomeration of the Animation Industry in East Asia

Given the dramatic advances in the transportation and information technologies that have allowed the world economy to globalize over the last few decades, experts have begun to speculate on whether the world is now “flat” (Friedman 2007) or perhaps “spiky” (Florida 2008). Previous thinkers supposed that globalization would lead to creative workers being drawn to specific cities and regi…

Understanding the effects of user participation in Information Security Risk …

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FORENSIC ACCOUNTING INVESTIGATION

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eBusiness and Information Systems: Academic Programs in Australia and New Zea…

Universities are increasingly turning to ‘fashionable’ education programs to attract bright, high-quality students to both under-graduate and post-graduate degree programs. Traditional offerings in technology areas, such as Information Systems and Information Technology are being augmented by newer, more marketable degrees in areas such as eCommerce/eBusiness. This paper analyses the eCo…