Learning Force.com Application Development is a hands-on guide aimed at developing Force.com applications on the Force.com platform. As you read through the content, you will notice that this book focuses on a single real-world example. This book builds upon this example to help you understand and use the tools and features of the Force.com platform. Cloud computing has made significant changes…
The enterprise begins when you carefully put the first two computers together, and complexity grows with every step thereafter. Haphazard IT building practices can easily lead to an enterprise network that is poorly planned or composed of random, one-off projects undertaken as standalone goals. An e-mail consolidation project can unexpectedly derail concurrent licensing projects intended to vas…
Social media constitutes a group of online applications that encourages users to create content and interact with one another. Examples include blogs, social and professional networking sites like Facebook and LinkedIn, micro-blogging sites such as Twitter, media-sharing sites like YouTube and Flickr, social aggregation applications like Pinterest, and location-based sites like Foursquare. Some…
Anxiety disorders are among the most prevalent of psychological disorders, affecting up to 25% of individuals in the general population at some time in their lives (Kessler et al., 1994). Despite their high prevalence, however, anxiety disorders often go undiagnosed and untreated, especially in primary care settings (e.g., Weiller, Bisserbe, Maier, & Lecrubier, 1998). In addition, there is …
Despite its thirty year history, strategic management accounting has yet to establish itself as a core element of managerial accounting. That it has the capacity to do so is immediately apparent from the term itself, which in turn explains its continuing appeal for those attracted to developing and promoting it. The purpose of this paper is to suggest that by reconceptualising strategic managem…
PostgreSQL is the world's most advanced open-source database. PostgreSQL is the most comprehensive, in-depth, and easy-to-read guide to this award-winning database. This book starts with a thorough overview of SQL, a description of all PostgreSQL data types, and a complete explanation of PostgreSQL commands.
Despite being introduced into the literature as a potentially exciting development over 20 years ago, there is still little or no agreement about what constitutes strategic management accounting (SMA). The term itself is open to a number of interpretations, something that is reflected in the varied nature of the research associated with it. In our view, however, SMA is best understood as a g…
This revision of Principles of Accounting is based on an understanding of the nature, culture, and motivations of today’s undergraduate students and on extensive feedback from many instructors who use our book. These substantial changes meet the needs of these students, who not only face a business world increasingly complicated by ethical issues, globalization, and technology but who als…
The outdated health care service that works on strong paternalistic and con- trolling principles is in effect dead. The changes in the culture of the NHS have been driven by numerous factors including changes in society, and the decentralizaion of health care services. Others factors include the failing of the NHS to tackle system failures such as those identified by the Bristol enquiry and cha…
Medical waste can be hazardous; if you do not dispose of it correctly, health personnel, waste handlers, and the community risk being seriously injured or infected. This is true no matter where you provide health care—at the facility or at the community level. Establishing good practices for proper handling and disposal of health care waste is an important part of the health care delivery sys…
This research report was sponsored by the U.S. Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC). It summarizes a project conducted by RAND Health, ECRI Institute, the University of Texas, and Baylor College of Medicine. The project facilitated the identification of safety risks associated with health information technology (IT) by 11 organizations (hospitals and ambula…
Millennials are the first “always connected” generation ensconced within an ecosystem of digital devices from iphones and iPads to tablets and laptops. They bring these devices and behaviors into the places where they study and work which can expose organizations to security vulnerabilities. Millennials are reported to lack awareness of and demonstrate limited adherence to organizational se…