MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEM

A Management Information System is an integrated user-machine system, for providing information, to support the operations, management, analysis & decision-making functions in an organization

THE FINANCE OF FOREIGN TRADE

Tins is an unconventional book practical rather than theoretical. The methods of financing foreign trade described in it may not follow exactly the ordinary accepted rules laid down by writers on economics, but they are those to which the importer and exporter have to conform when seeking financial facilities from bankers. " If you would only tell us how you do the business, and what it…

Cyber Security and Global Information Assurance

Cyber Security and Global Information Assurance: Threat Analysis and Response Solutions provides a valuable resource for academicians and practitioners by addressing the most pressing issues facing cyber-security from both a national and global perspective. This reference source takes a holistic approach to cyber security and information assurance by treating both the technical as well as manag…

FOUNDATION OF RISK MANAGEMENT; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS

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Cyber security best practices

The incidence and cost of cyber crime is escalating, and no business is immune. Attacks are more sophisticated and more successful, because hackers collaborate and share tools and techniques. So we must collaborate, too. In 2014, we sponsored a series of chief information security officer (CISO) roundtables, where participants shared experiences and enterprise security best practices. Through t…

Fact and Value in Emotion

David Hume famously claimed that one cannot derive an ‘ought’ from an ‘is,’ or in less poetic terms, one cannot derive a value from a fact. Hume was arguing that the imperatives given to our preferences, goals and actions are derived from emotion and not from logical reasoning. Emotion, therefore, had a prominent place in Hu -me’s thinking.

Fundamentals of Construction Management

This book is based on a series of lecture notes used by the author for teaching the following subjects: Management of Building Projects (University of Lagos), Construction Management I & II (Caleb University, Lagos), and Construction Management (University of Cape Town) between 1996 and 2012. The book is also based on research undertaken and personal work experience of the author, and other con…

ADHD in Adults

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HEALTHY NUTRITION FOR CHILDREN IN PRIMARY EDUCATION

Nutrition is one of the most important factors in protecting and developing human health beginning from the pregnancy stage of the mother. Healthy, satisfactory and balanced nutrition is essential for everybody, especially for children, because nutritional habits that are made in our early ages turn out to be our lifetime habits. Infancy, childhood and adolescence periods, as being periods…

THE PROBLEM OF INTEREST IN ITS RELATION TO CURRENCY & DEBT

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Wolfsberg Anti-Money Laundering Principles for Correspondent Banking

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MANAGING RISK AND CREATING VALUE WITH MICRO FINANCE

when World Bank staff members meet with representatives of a country’s microfi nance sector, microfi nance institution (MFI) managers often assume that they will receive some kind of new fi nancing—credit lines, guarantees, or grants—to support their development eff orts. Th ey do not expect the Bank to provide technical assistance or best-practice information. More recently, however,…

Confessions of an IT Manager

During my career as an IT professional, strange things have always seemed to happen to me. The true incidents I describe in the chapters that lie ahead are those that are intended to illustrate a point about working in IT. There are many such incidents that I cannot talk about because, in doing so, I would reveal my true identity. Many cannot be used because they are unrelated to the themes of …

eQuality

The “information age” is transformative for people with disabilities. Never before in modern history have the civil and human rights of people with disabilities aligned so well with fast-moving developments in communications and information technology. Without doubt, the center of the knowledge revolution is the Internet’s World Wide Web (web) which has opened up unprecedented opportuni…

Urban Government and Politics

In this course, we will examine some of the key challenges faced by contemporary cities. We will do this in part by looking at cities historically, focusing especially on the development of cities during the 20th century. As you will learn, many of the problems faced by contemporary cities have their origins in policies and practices that were initiated many years ago. Only by understanding the…

MONETARY POLICY IN THE UK

We argue in this contribution that the institutional dimension of the Bank of England (BoE) monetary policy and the role the UK HM Treasury assumes in this framework are both firmly based on the New Consensus in Macroeconomics (NCM), a theoretical framework upon which also the Inflation Targeting policy element is firmly based. This paper discusses these aspects of the UK monetary policy, a…

Computers at Risk: Safe Computing in the Information Age

Computer systems are coming of age. As computer systems become more prevalent, sophisticated, embedded in physical processes, and interconnected, society becomes more vulnerable to poor system design, accidents that disable systems, and attacks on computer systems. Without more responsible design and use, system disruptions will increase, with harmful consequences for society. They will also re…

Comparative E-Government

Electronic government or e-government has impacted all countries of the world. E-government is not just a movement that has transpired in one particular country, it is truly a global phenomenon, impacting both developed and developing nations. Essentially, e-government has influenced nations on all corners of the earth to dif- ferent degrees. The discussion of e-government does not necessarily…

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…

COMBAT READY IT AND PIE

Like the Industrial Revolution and the Information Technology Age, this year we started a new Wave headlined as the Golden Wave of the SMB - (the age of the Artisan). Enterprises have already commenced reducing their workforces. Craftflows will be handed off out to artisans, specialists, and in particular SMBs. Robotica and automation technology join and the accepted notion of the FTE will disa…

Strategic Management of Higher Education Enterprises

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Ambidexterity and the Concept of Fit in Strategic Management – Which Better…

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The Euro Imbalances and Financial Deregulation: A Post-Keynesian Interpretati…

Conventional wisdom suggests that the European debt crisis, which has thus far led to severe adjustment programs crafted by the European Union and the International Monetary Fund in both Greece and Ireland, was caused by fiscal profligacy on the part of peripheral, or noncore, countries in combination with a welfare state model, and that the role of the common currency—the euro—was at b…

Thoughts On Business

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Communication Skills Module

Communication is a two way interactive process and its importance can be found in our professional as well as in our daily personal lives. We have intentionally taken a holistic approach in this module. It focuses on the person you are, of which your role as a teacher is a facet. Without taking the whole persona into consideration, it may not be possible to achieve the objective of improvin…

Motivating Interviewing

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Basics of Accounting & Information Processing

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Targeting Occupational Health and Safety

Occupational health and safety (OHS) management protects the safety, health, and welfare of people at the workplace. In 1950, the first session of the joint International Labour Organization (ILO) and the World Health Organization (WHO) Committee on Occupational Health adopted a definition of occupational health. The definition was subsequently revised in 1995 and states:

TOP HEALTH INDUSTRY ISSUES OF 2015

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Word-formation in English

The existence of words is usually taken for granted by the speakers of a language. To speak and understand a language means - among many other things - knowing the words of that language