THE INVISIBLE HOOK Th e Hidden Economics of Pirates

I’m not a historian. Nor am I a pirate. I’m an economist with a long-standing interest in privately created law and order who happened to wonder one day how pirates cooperated since they had no government. Like many others, my interest in pirates goes back many years. I went to Disney World when I was eight; Pirates of the Caribbean was my favorite ride. My parents bought me a “silver” …

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Research Methods in Physical Education and Youth Sport

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Essential System Administration

This book covers the fundamental and essential tasks of Unix system administra- tion. Although it includes information designed for people new to system administra- tion, its contents extend well beyond the basics. The primary goal of this book is to make system administration on Unix systems straightforward; it does so by provid- ing you with exactly the information you need. As I see it, this…

Advanced Penetration Testing for Highly-Secured Environments

Penetration testers are faced with a combination of firewalls, intrusion detection systems, host-based protection, hardened systems, and teams of knowledgeable analysts that pour over data collected by their security information management systems. In an environment such as this, simply running automated tools will typically yield few results. The false sense of this security can easily result …

Building Web Apps for Google TV

This book provides an in-depth look at how to build web-based applications (web apps) for Google TV, a new platform that integrates the open web with traditional TV. This powerful and versatile new platform includes Google Chrome, a modern web browser that enables developers to deliver rich and sophisticated web apps to Google TV users. This book has three primary goals. First, this book aims t…

Social networking sites and our lives

Questions have been raised about the social impact of widespread use of social networking sites (SNS) like Facebook, LinkedIn, MySpace, and Twitter. Do these technologies isolate people and truncate their relationships? Or are there benefits associated with being connected to others in this way? The Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project decided to examine SNS in a survey that…

Decentralization: The Future of Online Social Networking

Social networking forms an important part of online activities of Web users. Web sites such as Facebook, MySpace and Orkut have millions of users using them everyday. However, these sites present two problems. Firstly, these sites form information silos. Information on one site is not usable in the others. Secondly such sites do not allow users much control over how their personal information i…

AutoCAD Platform Customization User interface,AutoLISP,VBA and Beyond

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Windows 2000 Commands Pocket Reference

This desktop reference documents Windows 2000 command mode. It is designed for system administrators, but will also prove beneficial to many other types of users. It includes most available Windows 2000 commands, as well as the most useful system administration command-line utilities from the Resource Kit (space permitting). Resource Kit commands are marked with an "RK" superscript in their hea…

Windows 7: Up and Running

Windows 7 is Microsoft’s latest version of its Windows operating system. Unlike its predecessor, Vista, Windows 7 offers incremental upgrades and is aimed at ensuring maximum compatibility with applications and hardware already supported in Vista. Microsoft’s key agenda around Windows 7 is to woo many of the Windows XP users who skipped Vista. Windows 7 offers significant performance improv…

Test-Driven iOS Development

A common goal of many software projects is to make some profit for someone.The usual way in which this goal is realized is directly, by selling the software via the app store or licensing its use in some other way. Software destined for in-house use by the developer’s business often makes its money indirectly by improving the efficiency of some business process, reducing the amount of time pa…

NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY IN ENVIRONMENTAL CHEMISTRY

Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy has been an important analytical and qualitative tool in chemistry, material science, and organic geochemistry for quite some time, and now is becoming recognized as a valuable tool in environmental science and technology. Because it is a non- destructive and element-specific probe, it is useful for examining a myriad of environmental reactions occu…

The Healthy Heart Book

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The Ascent of International Business Communication

This book is dedicated to Mirjaliisa Charles. Its content is related to the research fields she has been involved in over the years, but in particular, the book focuses on the field in which she has done pioneering work over the past ten years: International Business Communication (IBC). The authors of the book are Mirjaliisa’s research fellows, colleagues and doctoral students from all over …

Leaves from the tree of life

To know and cooperate with the laws of health in order to retain, or regain, health is most important. The study of disease takes a secondary place to the study of the laws of life. To know how to employ every rational means at our disposal in order to avert sickness should be our constant study and goal. Life’s activities are centered in the home. Parents should be an example of good h…

Has the Basel Accord Improved Risk Management During the Global Financial Cri…

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Review of Healthcare In India

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Risks and Controls in the Implementation of ERP Systems

The implementation of ERP systems has been problematic for many organizations. Given the many reports of substantial failures, the implementation of packaged ERP software and associated changes in business processes has proved not to be an easy task. As many organizations have discovered, the implementation of ERP systems can be a monumental disaster unless the process is handled carefully.…

Electronics FOR DUMmIES

Are you curious to know what makes your iPod tick? How about your mobile phone, laptop, stereo system, digital camera, plasma TV – or, well, just about every piece of electronics you use for work or play, in the office, at home or on the move? Perhaps you’ve even thought that you could design and build your own little electronic circuit or gadget to do something you want it to do? If you�…

Communications and Technology for Violence Prevention

The past 25 years have seen a major paradigm shift in the field of violence prevention, from the assumption that violence is inevitable to a recognition that violence is preventable. As evidence-based interventions increasingly demonstrate measurable impacts on the prevalence of violence, those who work in the field of violence prevention face the challenge of finding new ways to disseminate in…

CORPORATE SUSTAINABILITY IN THE BRAZILIAN BANKING SECTOR

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Information Security Management as a Bridge in Cloud Systems from Private to …

Abstract: Cloud computing has made it possible for private companies to make rapid changes in their computing environments. However, in the public sector, security issues hinder institutions from adopting cloud computing. To solve these security challenges, in this paper, we propose a methodology for information security management, which quantitatively classifies the importance of informat…

TIPS FOR TEACHING THE HIGH SCHOOL ECONOMICS COURSE

Since the inception of the national economic education movement in the middle of the twentieth century, the prominence of economics has grown in our public schools.

The Sports Business an The Pacific Rim

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Globalization making the World a Smaller Place Globalization making the World a Smaller Place

The Significance of Managing this Trillion $ Healthcare The Significance of Managing this Trillion $ Healthcare Industry Industry

International Standard Industry Classification International Standard Industry Classification - -Human & Animal Service Provision Human & Animal Service Prov…

Improving Palliative Care for Cancer

The last half-century produced substantial advances in the treatment and early detection of a few types of cancer and at least modest gains in many others. Yet the reality is that at the beginning of the twenty-first century, half of all patients diagnosed with cancer will die of their disease within a few years. This translates into more than half a million people each year in the United Stat…

Psychology and Buddhism: From Individual to Global Community

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Health Data in the Information Age: Use, Disclosure, and Privacy

From the very first meetings, in the early 1970s, of the newly constituted Institute of Medicine (IOM) of the National Academy of Sciences, a major objective has been the engagement of the most important and difficult health and science policy issues from the public's or society's perspective. The Institute was created so that a broad-based and multidisciplinary membership could work across pro…

The Future of Drug Safety

Every day the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) works to balance expeditious access to drugs with concerns for safety, consonant with its mission to protect and advance the public health. The task is all the more complex given the vast diversity of patients and how they respond to drugs, the conditions being treated, and the range of pharmaceutical products and supplements patients use. Review…