statistics are not popular. one might even say they are disliked. not by statisti- cians, of course, but by the millions who have to cope with the steady flow of statistics supporting all kinds of assertions, opinions, and theories. received wisdom harrumphs, “You can prove anything by statistics”—and then sneers, “Lies, damned lies, and statistics.” my sympathies do not lie with thes…
According to the most recent figures published by National SME Development Council (2012), small medium size enterprises (SMEs) with less than 150 employees made up 99.2% of all firms up to 1st quarter of 2011 and accounted for an average of 59% of jobs in all sectors and contributing 32% to total GDP (SME Annual Report, 2012). However, despite their economic importance and the number of employ…
This book is for people who want to use WordPress. It’s for web designers who’d like to get to know WordPress a little better—or a lot better. It’s for writ ers who have been asked to contribute content to a WordPress site, but haven’t been shown how to use the software. It’s for server administrators who’d like to know more about this little CMS that users are always asking them …
A management information system (MIS) provides information that organizations require to manage themselves efficiently and effectively. Management information systems are typically computer systems used for managing
Whether you work in alarge multinational corporation or in atiny family-owned company, you have at least one thing in common: it’s a challenge to secure IT resources to solve common everyday business problems. In a large corporation, resources are typically spent on the big projects that have a significant cost benefit to the company. When you make a request for assistance, you’re probably …
Information has become an essential resource for managing modern organizations. This is so because today’s business environment is volatile, dynamic, turbulent and necessitates the burgeoning demand for accurate, relevant, complete, timely and economical information needed to drive the decision-making process in order to accentuate organizational abilities to manage opportunities and threats …
Knowledge Management as a crucial factor impacts on organizational performance. It seems to be a lack of empirical studies that measure knowledge in high educational environments, especially in universities. The main purpose of this study was to identify and assess five pointers that contribute towards knowledge management in a university in Iran. The methodology involved both qualitative and q…
TPC Case Management Handbook: An Integrated Case Management Approach is a com- panion to the National Institute of Corrections’ TPC Reentry Handbook: Implementing the NIC Transition from Prison to the Community Model and the Bureau of Justice Assistance’s Increasing Public Safety Through Successful Offender Reentry: Evidence-Based and Emerging Practices in Corrections.
The financial management information system (FMIS) is a tool that will assist school foodservice administrators in interpreting the financial outcomes of operational decision-making. It will help administrators to decide whether their school foodservice programs financial health is better or worse than during previous accounting periods or past budget periods. The FMIS will also allow admini…
Disaster and emergency response and recovery efforts require timely interaction and coordination of public emergency services in order to save lives and property. Today computer-based application guidance systems, also called Public Safety Systems, are used for the coverage of emergencies. In this paper we sketch the structure and functions of these systems and describe which roll Geographic In…
Functions and formulas are the secret weapon in every spreadsheet user’s arsenal. They help you quickly analyze huge amounts of data or build interactive models that let you try different scenarios before you commit your time and money to a project. If you ever want to compare prices or financing options, or find out when you are going to break even, you should be using formulas to make such …
The six chapters and its associated ten appendixes of this edition of field manual (FM) 5-0, The Operations Process, constitute the Army’s view on planning, preparing, executing, and assessing operations. Together with FM 6-0, Mission Command: Command and Control of Army Forces, this manual provides the Army with a common philosophy and language for the exercise of command and control thro…
Enterprise risk management (ERM) has emerged as a new paradigm for managing the portfolio of risks that face organizations and delivers syner-gic value by exploiting natural hedges. Proponents of ERM claim that ERM is designed to enhance the shareholder value (SHV). Increasing numbers of re-searchers have studied the impact of ERM on a firms’ value (value creation) and found a positive correl…
Employer commitment to health and safety is the foundation on which effective safety management practices are built. Employers who are committed to health and safety, who involve their employees and who lead by example will usually create a safer working environment than employers who dictate changes to employees and who rely on paper-based systems that are not implemented into day-to-day workp…
Although the origins of radio frequency based wireless networking can be traced back to the University of Hawaii’s ALOHANET research project in the 1970s, the key events that led to wireless networking becoming one of the fastest growing technologies of the early 21st century have been the ratification of the IEEE 802.11 standard in 1997, and the subsequent development of interoperability ce…
BackTrack is a penetration testing and security auditing platform with advanced tools to identify, detect, and exploit any vulnerabilities uncovered in the target network environment. Applying appropriate testing methodology with defined business objectives and a scheduled test plan will result in robust penetration testing of your network. BackTrack 4: Assuring Security by Penetration Testing …
The incrementing of variables in Asterisk is one of the more common functionalities you’ll encounter, especially as you start building more complex dialplans where you need to iterate over several values. In versions of Asterisk prior to 1.8, the most common method for incrementing (and decrementing) the value of a counter variable was with the use of the dialplan conditional matching format,…