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…

Radio Frequency Identification and Sensors

There is an unprecedented enthusiasm for radio frequency identification (RFID) technologies today. RFID is based on the exchange of information carried by electromagnetic waves between a label, or tag, and a reader. This technology is currently in full economic expansion, which has manifested itself in widely backed research activities, some of which will be examined in this book. There are mul…

Quicken® 2009 FOR DUMmIES

You aren’t a dummy, of course. But here’s the deal: You don’t have to be some sort of technogeek or financial wizard to manage your financial affairs on a PC. You have other things to do, places to go, and people to meet. And that’s where Quicken 2009 For Dummies comes in. In the pages that follow, I give you the straight scoop on how to use Quicken 2009 Premier for Windows, without a …

Programming microsoft’s clouds

this book is intended for developers interested in learning more about how to develop against the set of Microsoft cloud services: Windows Azure and Office 365. In some cases, you can combine the two technologies to build your solution, but in other cases you will use only one of the cloud solu- tions, so understanding what each has to offer enables you to decide on which cloud technology to b…

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 Business Connectivity Services in SharePoint® 2010

THE CREATION OF BUSINESS CONNECTIVITY SERVICES (BCS) for Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010 and Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 involved a massive investment of people and resources by Microsoft. The result of this investment is a set of services, components, and technologies that have signifi cant implications for the entire SharePoint community. Gradually, the impact of BCS is beginning 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 SharePoint 2010 Disaster Recovery and High Availability

I wrote this book to share what I have learned about high availability and disaster recovery for SharePoint at this point in time. It is certainly an interesting time. In the past 10 years, SharePoint has gone from a compiled application that just looked superficially like a web application into a more fully fledged cloud platform. The process is far from over, however, and SharePoint will like…

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…

Pro Freeware and Open Source Solutions for Business

In early 2009, I was relaunching my business in a new city (my family and I relocated in late 2008). We had actually planned this move for a couple of years, but the timing of the sale of our house coincided with the unfolding Financial Crisis. Like many other families, we were impacted in a negative way. Our relationship with money was forever redefined, and careful budgeting became a top pri…

Pro Excel Financial Modeling Building Models for Technology Startups

This book outlines smart business strategies for building a technology startup and provides a comprehensive guide to building a financial model of the company. I wrote this book to share my entrepreneuring experience and to help the entrepreneur avoid many of the obstacles and hazards that I encountered while leading and participating in early-stage companies. This book is important because it …

Introduction to Risk Management in the Public Procurement of Innovation

This guide aims to provide an overview of risk management in the context of public procurement of innovation (PPI). By definition, pursuing an innovative solution is a process that involves a higher degree of uncertainty towards the intended result compared to choosing for a proven solution. These uncertainties often act as a major barrier to innovation. Therefore, risk management is a key suc…

Quit & Stay Quit A Personal Program to Stop Smoking

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Investor Exits, Innovation, and Entrepreneurial Firm Growth

The bursting of the dot-com bubble in 2001 coincided with an abrupt and so far lasting change in the development of entrepreneurial venture-backed firms in the United States. Previously, entrepreneurs and investors commonly took viable young firms public through initial public offerings (IPOs). In some well-known cases, these firms subsequently grew into major, globally competitive corporatio…

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 …

Principles of Mobile Computing and Communications

The most familiar aspect of mobile computing technology is the hand phone. About two decades ago, a hand phone was bulky and was only used for voice communication. It was merely an extension of the fixed line telephony that allowed users to keep in touch with colleagues. Now the hand phone is not only used for voice communication, it is also used to send text and multimedia messages. Future mob…

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 …

EDUCATION MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEM

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Pragmatic Version Control with CVS

This book tells you how to improve the effectiveness of your software development process using version control. Version Control, sometimes called source code control, is the first leg of our project support tripod. We view the use of version control as mandatory on all projects. Version control offers many advantages to both teams and individuals. • It gives the team a project-wide undo but…

Pragmatic Thinking and Learning Refactor Your “Wetware”

Thanks for picking up this book. Together, we’re going to journey through bits of cognitive science, neuroscience, and learning and behavioral theory. You’ll see surprising aspects of how our brains work and see how you can beat the system to improve your own learning and thinking skills. We’re going to begin to refactor your wetware—redesign and rewire your brain—to make you more ef…

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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Practical Zendesk Administration

The version of Zendesk covered by this book is the latest public release as at September 12, 2012. Zendesk has a frequent—often weekly—release schedule, with new features and updates to existing features. The release notes are made available to the public in the official What’s New in Zendesk forum. Throughout this book I’ve deliberately de‐ scribed features without giving detailed st…

Ideas To Start Your Weight Loss

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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…