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…
In today‟s world of ever-increasing complexities of business as well as management, every business organization, in order to survive and grow, must have a properly planned, analyzed, designed and maintained Management Information System (MIS) so that it provides timely, reliable and useful information to enable the management to take speedy, effective and rational decisions. There are varieti…
This pocket reference covers Bash, particularly version 4.1, the primary shell for GNU/Linux and Mac OS X. Bash is available for Solaris and the various BSD systems, and can be easily compiled for just about any other Unix system. The following topics are covered: • History • Overview of features • Invoking the shell • Syntax • Functions • Variables • Arithmetic expressions • Co…
VSAT, now a well established acronym for Very Small Aperture Terminal, was initially a trademark for a small earth station mar- keted in the 1980s by Telcom General in the USA. Its success as a generic name probably comes from the appealing association of its first letter V, which establishes a ‘victorious’ context, or may be per- ceived as a friendly sign of participation, and SAT which de…
The topic of barcodes serves as the common thread running through the chapters of this book, but you can dive into specific chapters to learn about particular technologies. Here’s a quick overview of what you will find in each of the chapters. Chapter 1 introduces you to the barcode types that are natively supported starting with iOS 7. You’ll become a barcode guru and be able to hold your …
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,…
Over the past decade, Asia has rapidly grown in importance to the global economy. Its share of global GDP, measured in purchasing-power parity terms, increased from 26.8% in 2001 to 33.8% in 2010.2 By 2016, the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) expects this proportion to rise to 38.9%. There are three broad trends associated with Asia’s rapid growth and development that have been driving its …
Business intelligence, including reporting and analytics, is essential to an organization’s survival and growth. Understanding your data and turning it into actionable insights is the key to sustaining and growing your business. As companies recognize this need, the employees that facilitate these insights, also known as “data scientists,” are highly sought after across the board. Microso…
Microsoft and Cisco are two of the largest technology vendors in the infor- mation technology industry today. Microsoft’s Windows 2000 is its latest network operating system (NOS), and Cisco is pushing the limits for routing and switching voice, video, and data across internetworks. Beyond this, Microsoft and Cisco have partnered in order to integrate their respec- tive systems using director…
The main aims and objectives of this study are, to explore the procedures, tools and problems related to primary health care data collection, storage, use and information flows and to offer ideas and suggestions on how to improve the systems of routine data collection, storage, analysis and use of information and more generally to improve the flows of information and health care information…
Management Information Systems (MIS) is the key factor to facilitate and attain efficient decision making in an organization. This research explores the extent to which management information systems implemented to make successful decisions at two selected financial organizations. The research examined whether the selected financial institutions of Bahrain vary as to the use of Management I…
This Manual is designed to be a quick-and-easy, user-friendly reference for the development of health management information systems (HMIS), with the focus on applications. It serves as a primer on HMIS development and provides a general overview of the basic principles, as well as the fundamental steps and issues involved in the different activities to be undertaken. The information is pre…
This study guide is designed to provide an overview of the key elements, important historical context and current debates in the field of Quality Management. It aims to give a coherent view of the underlying principles of quality management, and how these relate to practical application in a range of organizations. The tools and techniques which support the principles are not covered in detail …
The book on introduction to Decision-making support systems and conclusions act as a frame for the field of decision support systems (DSS). There was an effort by Udo Averweg in the ordering of the sections and the presentation of information flows logically thereby helping the reader to follow the development of his project. It is also essential to remember that the book helps to choose concis…
The introduction to the "History of Woman Suffrage," published in 1881-85, edited by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony and Matilda Joslyn Gage, contains the following statement: "It is often asserted that, as woman has always been man's slave, subject, inferior, dependent, under all forms of government and religion, slavery must be her normal condition; but that her condition is abnormal…
The object of a Constitution like that of the United States is to establish certain fundamentals of government in such a way that they cannot be altered or destroyed by the mere will of a majority of the people, or by the ordinary processes of legislation. The framers of the Constitution saw the necessity of making a distinction between these fundamentals and the ordinary subjects of lawmaking,…
Risk management information systems are designed to overcome the problem of aggregating data across diverse trading units. The design of an information system depends on the risk measurement methodology that a firm chooses. Inherent in the design of both a risk management information system and a risk measurement methodology is a tradeoff between the accuracy of the resulting measures of ri…
The basic concept of effects-based operations is not new. Call it what you may, the idea of a human-centered approach to warfare dates to at least Sun Tzu and it is certainly evident in the writings of Carl von Clausewitz1 and B.H. Lid- dell Hart. We can trace the fundamentals of what we have come to call effects-based operations or an effects-based approach to operations through a lengthy hist…