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Computers, Management and Information (Routledge Library Editions: The Economics and Business of Technology #13)
by David FirnbergOriginally published in 1973 this book discusses whether the ordinary manager can exploit the power of computers without being overwhelmed by them, a question which still has enduring relevance today. As well as discussing the massive resources which computers put at our fingertips, the pitfalls are also discussed: the danger of using computers as a scapegoat for human failure, or of sub-contracting managerial decisions to a computer system.
Computerspiele im Diskurs: Aggression, Amokläufe und Sucht
by Tobias C. Breiner Luca D. KolibiusDieses Fachbuch ist eine umfassende Abhandlung zur Debatte um die negativen Auswirkungen von Computerspielen: Aggressionen, Amokläufe und Sucht. Die kontroverse Debatte zur Beziehung zwischen Computerspielen und Aggression wird hier auf Grundlage neuster wissenschaftlicher Erkenntnisse aufgearbeitet. Darüber hinaus inspirierte die Aufnahme in die aktuellste Version des Klassifikationssystems DSM für Internet Gaming Disorder (Computerspielsucht) eine Vielzahl wissenschaftlicher Veröffentlichungen, welche hier übersichtlich zusammengetragen werden. In diesem Buch finden Sie die Antworten auf folgende Fragen: Welche Symptome machen eine Computerspielabhängigkeit aus und welche Therapiemöglichkeiten gibt es?Geht Computerspielsucht mit Veränderungen im Gehirn und der Persönlichkeit einher?Gibt es eine kausale Beziehung zwischen Computerspielen einerseits und Aggressivität und Amokläufen andererseits? Die Autoren kommen dabei nach Sichtung der Studienlage zu überraschenden Erkenntnissen. Dieses Buch unterstützt Psychologen, Psychotherapeuten, Psychiater, Pädagogen, Therapeuten, Lehrkräfte und Eltern die Welt der Computerspiele zu navigieren.
Computerspiele: Nutzung, Wirkung und Bedeutung (Medienwissen kompakt)
by Sven JöckelDieser Band gibt einen Überblick darüber, wie Computerspiele sich zu einem populären Massenmedium entwickeln konnten und welche Mythen über ihre individuellen und gesellschaftlichen Nutzungsweisen und Wirkungen tatsächlich von der Forschung belegt werden können (und welche nicht). Von PacMan, Space Invaders über Super Mario, Tomb Raider bis hin zu den Blockbustern Grand Theft Auto, Call of Duty oder Fortnite, aber auch zu Candy Crush und Roblox haben sich Computerspiele in den letzten gut vierzig Jahren zu einem populären und erfolgreichen Unterhaltungsmedium entwickelt. Sie sind dabei, ähnlich wie Filme oder Musik, mittlerweile zum Kulturgut geworden. Für die zweite Auflage wurde der Band überarbeitet und aktualisiert.
Computervision-Japan (A)
by Rowland T. Moriarty Jr.The CAD/CAM market in Japan is about to take off. Computervision wants its exclusive distributor to dramatically expand its sales and service coverage. The distributor wants a joint venture with Computervision before expanding. Several distribution alternatives (including going direct) are presented.
Computing Intelligence in Capital Market (Studies in Computational Intelligence #1154)
by Asef Yelghi Aref Yelghi Mehmet Apan Shirmohammad TavangariThe book is divided into sections according to the content of the chapters. The first section covers AI concepts with NP and financial issues. The second section covers AI techniques in relation to Fintech issues. The remaining sections are implementation and analysis. As science and technology development and algorithms are widely used in various fields, their influence and development have increased efficiency and productivity. The introduction of algorithms in the financial field has not been an exception to this. In recent years, the growth and development of the financial system have been in sync with the growth of technology. Fintechs were born at the intersection of these two sectors. What happens through the application of computer knowledge in the financial field, or the examination of the efficiency and effectiveness of their use and the interaction and combination of these two fields has been written very infrequently in the majority of books. In Fintech, there are problems that researchers focus on such as customer support, portfolio management, trading algorithms, fraud detection, credit risk assessment, insurance, and wealth management. The mentioned problems are complex and are mapped to NP problems in the field of artificial intelligence. In the last two decades, optimization algorithms, neural networks, and deep learning have been widely applied in many scientific and engineering fields to solve the mentioned problems. The purpose of this book is to provide the reader with the most used artificial intelligence methods for scientific and engineering problems. This book is used by students, scientists, and practitioners in various fields. The chapters are self-explanatory, and the reader can read each one separately. They describe the algorithm used, the chosen problem, and the implementation. In addition, practical examples, comparisons, and experimental results are presented.
Computing Research for Sustainability
by Committee on Computing Research for Environmental Societal SustainabilityA broad and growing literature describes the deep and multidisciplinary nature of the sustainability challenges faced by the United States and the world. Despite the profound technical challenges involved, sustainability is not, at its root, a technical problem, nor will merely technical solutions be sufficient. Instead, deep economic, political, and cultural adjustments will ultimately be required, along with a major, long-term commitment in each sphere to deploy the requisite technical solutions at scale. Nevertheless, technological advances and enablers have a clear role in supporting such change, and information technology (IT) is a natural bridge between technical and social solutions because it can offer improved communication and transparency for fostering the necessary economic, political, and cultural adjustments. Moreover, IT is at the heart of nearly every large-scale socioeconomic system-including systems for finance, manufacturing, and the generation and distribution of energy-and so sustainability-focused changes in those systems are inextricably linked with advances in IT. The focus of Computing Research for Sustainability is "greening through IT," the application of computing to promote sustainability broadly. The aim of this report is twofold: to shine a spotlight on areas where IT innovation and computer science (CS) research can help, and to urge the computing research community to bring its approaches and methodologies to bear on these pressing global challenges. Computing Research for Sustainability focuses on addressing medium- and long-term challenges in a way that would have significant, measurable impact. The findings and recommended principles of the Committee on Computing Research for Environmental and Societal Sustainability concern four areas: (1) the relevance of IT and CS to sustainability; (2) the value of the CS approach to problem solving, particularly as it pertains to sustainability challenges; (3) key CS research areas; and (4) strategy and pragmatic approaches for CS research on sustainability.
Computron, Inc.
by John A. QuelchIn July 1996, Mr. Thomas Zimmermann, European Manager of Computron, must select a price for a new computer for his largest customer. A rewritten version of an earlier case.
Compórtate como un animal
by Nicolás ReyesUn libro de autogestión, de negocios, sobre el maravilloso e infinito mundo animal, del cual los seres humanos debemos aprender para hacernos seleccionables, convertirnos en seres felices y sobrevivir en la vida cotidiana En las organizaciones y en la vida cotidiana las personas pueden llegar a ser como pavos reales, que se inflan y deslumbran con su plumaje para que los vean, los seleccionen y hasta los asciendan; o quedarse como simples pajaritos encerrados en jaulas de oro, que cumplen con sus tareas cotidianas sin dar siquiera un paso más de lo que les corresponde. En este libro, inundado de metáforas, historias y anécdotas, Nicolás Reyes hace una maravillosa comparación entre el agreste mundo animal, donde la selección natural obliga a las especies más salvajes a atacar, adaptarse y destacarse para subsistir y evolucionar; y las organizaciones, donde empleados y directivos deben encontrar la manera de sobrevivir a la agitada jungla de la vida corporativa y cotidiana. A partir de ese espejo, nos muestra qué deberíamos aprender de ciertos animales para fijar la misión de nuestra vida, hacernos seleccionables y alcanzar con éxito nuestros propósitos o los de nuestra compañía. Después de leer estas páginas, usted tendrá claro si quiere ser un tiburón, que arrasa con todo a su paso y aterroriza a los peces más pequeños; o prefiere ser un ganso, que se pone al frente de la bandada y la guía con destreza, pero sabe cuándo cederle a otro el liderato. Desde la publicación, hace más de una década, de ¿Quién se ha llevado mi queso? o La culpa es de la vaca, no había vuelto a aparecer un libro tan necesario y útil para el mundo de las organizaciones.
Comrades and Brothers: Communism and Trade Unions in Europe (Routledge Library Editions: Trade Unions #22)
by Waller Micheal Courtois Stéphane Lazar MarcOriginally published in 1991, this book opens with a theoretical and historical section and analyses the affairs of both the communist party and the trade unions of specific European countries. The first part of the book deals with cases of communist strength, where the communist part had close links with a particular trade union (France, Italy, Spain). The second part looks at cases where social democracy dominated the Left (Belgium, The Netherlands and the UK). Two further essays examine developments in the 1980s in Hungary and Poland.
Comunazgo
by Russed Yesid Barrera Santos"Durante los últimos quince años he dedicado mi vida a promover una forma diferente de gestionar las organizaciones, donde liderar deje de ser exclusivo de unos cuantos y se traslade ese poder a todos aquellos que, independientemente del cargo o posición que ocupen, se animen a una nueva propuesta de interacción institucional."
Comunicación en el trabajo
by Jaime Lértora«Hoy en día, nadie puede sostener que la comunicación no forma parte esencial de su trabajo. Por tanto, todos (y no solo los llamados profesionales de la comunicación) deberíamos preocuparnos por cómo ser mejores comunicadores» Las ideas y consejos prácticos que todo trabajador necesita para mejorar sus habilidades comunicativas. Basado en su propia experiencia como profesional de la comunicación, Jaime Lértora plantea en este libro lo importante que es la comunicación en el trabajo y propone cómo desarrollarla para fortalecer nuestras competencias laborales y llegar al éxito. Comunicación para el trabajo es una invitación a utilizar todos los recursos que tenemos para transmitir y recibir mensajes de manera efectiva con técnicas que derivan de la unión aprendizaje práctico con el teórico. Lértora da a conocer los secretos acumulados a lo largo de su carrera y expone, punto por punto, las características de una comunicación eficaz al interior y exterior de la empresa.
Comunicar com Eficácia: Quem Ouvimos, Quem Não Ouvimos e Porquê
by Stephen Martin Joseph MarksCOMO CONQUISTAR CONFIANÇA, SABER TRANSMITIR MENSAGENS E INFLUENCIAR PESSOAS Vivemos num mundo em que factos comprovados e dados verificáveis estão amplamente disponíveis. Porque será, então, que as pessoas escolhem dar ouvidos a ignorantes em vez de prestar atenção a especialistas confiáveis? E por que motivo pormenores aparentemente irrelevantes, como a aparência física ou o estatuto socioeconómico, influenciam se iremos ou não confiar no que uma pessoa diz, independentemente da fiabilidade dos seus conhecimentos? Neste livro inovador, os especialistas em ciência comportamental Stephen Martin e Joseph Marks revelam as forças que atuam por detrás de alguns dos fenómenos mais irritantes e nocivos da atualidade, como a crença em fake news ou a conquista de cargos políticos por parte de pessoas que veiculam informações erradas e mentem de forma descarada. Explicam também de que forma o mensageiro, ao deter ou ao adquirir determinados traços, como os que definem uma pessoa carismática, se pode tornar mais importante do que a mensagem veiculada, influenciando negócios, políticas, comunidades e a nossa sociedade em geral. «Comunicar com Eficácia é um verdadeiro tour de force que aborda um assunto crucial de forma oportuna e fortemente fundamentada em pesquisas. Não consigo pensar em nenhum outro livro capaz de tratar de modo tão convincente os papéis e os atributos do mensageiro moderno.» Robert Cialdini, autor bestseller de Pré-Suasão «Compreender em quem confiamos e porquê é fundamental para explicar tudo, desde a liderança ao poder, e até mesmo os nossos relacionamentos diários. Esclarecedor e interessante, este livro ajuda-nos a entender aqueles que seguimos e por que motivo o fazemos, seja na política, nos negócios ou na vida quotidiana.» Sinan Aral, professor de Gestão no MIT «A utilidade deste livro reside no facto de ter sido concebido para auxiliar consumidores e cidadãos a entenderem quando estão a ser manipulados e a tomarem medidas para resistir a isso.» Harvard Business Review «Um livro que demonstra como a nossa consideração inata por fatores como a beleza ou o estatuto, em detrimento de evidências e factos comprovados, torna pouco surpreendente que vivamos num mundo inundado de fake news.» Financial Times
Comviva: Exploring New Frontiers (A)
by Dante Roscini Mahima Rao-KachrooComviva, a mobile solutions provider active in India 94 other countries, has had a rich history and been successful across many emerging and complex markets: Latin America, South-East Asia, Africa. What are the lessons learnt from expansion, cultural fits, and technological business model changes? With a global decline in telecommunication revenue per user, operators are looking for new revenue sources. Now, in 2019, how and where should Comviva India grow?
Con Game: Bernard Madoff and His Victims
by Lionel S. LewisBernard Madoff's financial fraud was global, an enormous amount of money was involved, and thousands of people and hundreds of institutions were swindled. Madoff's con game was a Ponzi scheme—an investment that pays returns to early investors from money acquired from subsequent investors.This case study of the Madoff scheme looks at the effects of his crimes on the victims. Elements from a theoretical framework put forward by Erving Goffman provide a perspective for understanding the development and the aftermath of Madoff's con. For example, as Goffman would have put it, Madoff's marks were not cooled out. Many did not accept the fact that they were victims of a con game and publicly clamored for sympathy, restitution, and for public officials to share their perspective.Inside men, ropers, outside men, and victims are at the core of con games. Lionel S. Lewis emphasizes that it is important to understand a con game's characteristics so as to grasp how it operates. The Madoff fraud includes elements of a variety of con games. For a comprehensive study of this economic crime, the case study must be seen as part of the broader social system. Considerably more is known about the dynamics of con games than about Ponzi schemes, and this fact frames this book's approach. To better understand what Madoff did, who was central in keeping his scheme alive, whom he defrauded, and how they reacted, this work is as invaluable as it is illuminating.
Con dinero y sin dinero...
by Carlos Elizondo Mayer-SerraUna obra de actualidad donde se presenta al gran público el espinoso tema de los impuestos y los principales factores que han ocasionado la profunda ineficacia tributaria del Estado mexicano. Tenemos un Estado frágil, con una baja capacidad recaudatoria e incapaz de hacer que se cumpla plenamente la ley. El país no ha encontrado un equilibrio fiscal justo, eficaz y sostenible. El pacto fiscal vigente en México -el cual incluye tanto el cobro de impuestos como el monto y destino de los recursos públicos- no parece responder a las urgentes necesidades del país porque descansa sobre tres debilidades: cobrar poco, gastar mal -con amplios espacios para la corrupción- y gastar significativamente más de lo que se obtiene a través de impuestos gracias al ingreso petrolero. A partir de este diagnóstico, Carlos Elizondo Mayer-Serra posa la mirada en las zonas más preocupantes de nuestra vida pública: tenemos servicios públicos de mala calidad, somos testigos de los efectos de la desigualdad, la violencia campea a sus anchas. ¿Qué hacer? El autor propone fundar un nuevo pacto fiscal. Es necesario convencer a la sociedad de que los impuestos son necesarios y deseables, pero para ello se requiere que el gasto público sea de calidad y pertinente. No en balde las democracias, cuando saben gastar bien, suelen recaudar más que los regímenes autoritarios. Aunque ofrece un panorama retrospectivo que parte de los gobiernos autoritarios priistas, Con dinero y sin dinero fija su atención en las dos administraciones panistas, las cuales desaprovecharon la alternancia para construir el pacto fiscal propio de una democracia, y permitieron se acentuaran algunos de los problemas que heredaron, como un federalismo fiscal basado en gobiernos locales que recaudan poco y gastan mal y millones de mexicanos en la informalidad que no contribuyen a la hacienda pública en la medida de sus posibilidades. Una preocupación más se hace patente en sus páginas: hay regiones en las que el poder del Estado, incluso en su tarea de recaudar, ha sido puesto en entredicho por las mafias criminales que cobran extorsiones en muchas zonas del país. Conviene, pues, insistir: necesitamos un nuevo pacto fiscal, uno que se base en una democracia efectiva donde se perciba una mejora en el nivel y en la calidad de vida de los mexicanos a través de un gasto público de calidad.
ConAgra Foods: The Next Chapter
by Ray A. Goldberg Mary ShelmanIn 2005, CEO Bruce Rohde has almost completed the integration of ConAgra Foods' collection of 90 independent operating companies into a focused, value-added firm and was beginning to think about his successor. ConAgra had become the second largest food company and No. 1 food service supplier in the United States. Rohde believed that the company, with its solid portfolio of brands and history of leadership in important trends such as healthy foods, was ready to begin its next chapter as one of the great marketing companies, in league with Kraft Food or Coca-Cola. The job of the next CEO would be to unlock the enterprise value of the company in the face of continuing customer consolidation and increasingly diverse consumer requirements.
Conceiving Companies: Joint Stock Politics in Victorian England (Routledge Explorations in Economic History)
by Timothy L. AlbornQuestions concerning the relationships and boundaries between 'private' business and 'public' government are of great and perennial concern to economists, economic and business historians, political scientists and historians.Conceiving Companies discusses the birth and development of joint-stock companies in 19th century England, an area of great importance to the history of this subject. Alborn takes a new approach to the rise of large scale companies in Victorian England, including the Bank of England and East India Company and Victorian railways, locating their origins in political and social practice. He offers a new perspective on an issue of great significance, not only for historians, but for political scientists and economists.
Conceiving Normalcy
by Elizabeth C. BrittThrough the processes of normalization, "fertile" and "infertile" become cultural categories that frame our understanding of families, parenting, gender roles, and more
Concentrarsi su LinkedIn
by Richard G Lowe Jr Sonia Dal CasonAccrescete di molto il vostro potenziale di guadagno promuovendovi su LinkedIn. Imparate come scrivere il vostro profilo LinkedIn che, con buona probabilità, garantirà contatti maggiori e migliori, un flusso di offerte di lavoro e potenziali contatti di vendita per gli affari. Se lasciate il Vostro profilo LinkedIn nello stato in cui si trova ora, non importa quanto eccezionali siate, quante probabilità ci sono che vi troviate incastrati nello stesso lavoro ripetitivo o a lottare per aumentare le vendite negli affari da qui a cinque anni? Siete felici di lavorare nello stesso posto insoddisfacente e sottopagato, o di cercare con disperazione e di solito senza successo persone interessate ai vostri prodotti e ai vostri servizi? Oppure preferireste che le opportunità di lavoro e gli affari venissero da VOI, offrendovi di assumere proprio VOI o di pagare VOI, imparando a scrivere un profilo LinkedIn che attragga la gente giusta direttamente nella vostra casella di posta? Io sono stato dove siete voi oggi. Facevo lavori insoddisfacenti per titolari a cui non interessava e che non ricompensavano un servizio buono e competente. Sono rimasto in quei posti per anni, mandando in giro migliaia di Curricula nella speranza che qualcuno riconoscesse il mio valore. Per fare più soldi ho tentato di creare i miei prodotti e i miei servizi e ho cercato disperatamente sistemi per commercializzarli. Credo di aver provato centinaia di metodi di marketing e promozionali con un successo limitato e altalenante. Quello che mi ha spinto a farcela sono stati il molto studio, un allenamento specializzato e la pratica. Più importante ancora, credevo in me stesso e nel valore che potevo fornire ai datori di lavoro e ai clienti per i miei prodotti e servizi. All'inizio ero felice di trovare clienti di tanto in tanto per guadagnare soldi extra. Ma più tardi ho appreso come promuovermi in modo efficace e i clienti hanno cominciato a venire da
Concentrated Investing: Strategies of the World's Greatest Concentrated Value Investors
by Tobias E. Carlisle Allen C. Benello Michael Van BiemaDiscover the secrets of the world's top concentrated value investors Concentrated Investing: Strategies of the World's Greatest Concentrated Value Investors chronicles the virtually unknown--but wildly successful--value investors who have regularly and spectacularly blown away the results of even the world's top fund managers. Sharing the insights of these top value investors, expert authors Allen Benello, Michael van Biema, and Tobias Carlisle unveil the strategies that make concentrated value investing incredibly profitable, while at the same time showing how to mitigate risk over time. Highlighting the history and approaches of four top value investors, the authors tell the fascinating story of the investors who dare to tread where few others have, and the wildly-successful track records that have resulted. Turning the notion of diversification on its head, concentrated value investors pick a small group of undervalued stocks and hold onto them through even the lean years. The approach has been championed by Warren Buffett, the best known value investor of our time, but a small group of lesser-known investors has also used this approach to achieve outstanding returns. Discover the success of Lou Simpson, a former GEICO investment manager and eventual successor to Warren Buffett at Berkshire Hathaway Read about Kristian Siem, described as "Norway's Warren Buffett," and the success he has had at Siem Industries Concentrated Investing will quickly have you re-thinking the conventional wisdom related to diversification and learning from the top concentrated value investors the world has never heard of.
Concentrating Photovoltaics (Green Energy and Technology)
by Harry Apostoleris Marco Stefancich Matteo ChiesaThis book is a concise review of the current status and future prospects of concentrating photovoltaic (CPV) technology. Starting with a summary of the current technical and economic status of CPV technology, it identifies the factors that hold CPV back in the commercial market. The main technical areas considered are solar cells, tracking and optics. The solar cells section focuses on spectrum splitting systems, which offer potentially higher efficiency than multi-junction cells with reductions in the manufacturing constraints that lead to high costs. It also offers a brief survey of the latest developments in spectral splitting alongside a discussion of the advances in solar cell manufacturing that aid the development of such systems. Further, it examines electrical design principles for spectral splitting systems that can improve the spectral stability of these systems' performance. The section on tracking includes a description of tracking integration with an update of the review published in Nature, presenting the latest advances in the field and focusing on surveying conceptual approaches rather than providing an exhaustive description of the literature. The optics section explores 3D printing and other emerging methods of fabricating optics for both prototype and large-scale production, as well as new classes of concentrators, particularly those based on novel photonic materials such as angular filters. Lastly, the authors consider the impact that environmental factors have on the performance of CPV in non-standard environments before concluding with a discussion of the combinations of technologies that they anticipate will most effectively boost CPV in the commercial market.
Concentration and Power in the Food System: Who Controls What We Eat?
by Philip H. HowardThis book reveals the dominant corporations, from the supermarket to the seed industry, and the extent of their control over markets. It also analyzes the strategies these firms are using to reshape society in order to further increase their power, particularly in terms of their bearing upon the more vulnerable sections of society, such as recent immigrants, ethnic minorities and those of lower socioeconomic status. Yet this study also shows that these trends are not inevitable. Opposed by numerous efforts, from microbreweries to seed saving networks, it explores how such opposition has encouraged the most powerful firms to make small but positive changes.
Concentration and Price-Cost Margins in Manufacturing Industries
by Lee E. Preston Norman R. CollinsAuthors Collins and Preston, who have collaborated on earlier studies of industrial organization and marketing, are here concerned with the relationship between business concentration and profitability in American manufacturing industries. Economic theory states that prices are higher and price-cost margins wider under conditions of monopoly than under those of competition. the problem in applying this theoretical conclusion to empirical analysis and economic policy is that a gap exists between the theoretical concept of monopoly on the one hand and the measurement of concentration on the other. A number of earlier studies have analyzed samples of available data to relate measured concentration to profitability. the present study reviews these previous efforts and provides a common basis for comparison of them. It then analyzes statistical data for the year 1958 in order to obtain an extensive new collection of empirical results. This analysis focuses specifically on the inter-industry variability of price-cost margins, and seeks to explain this variability in terms of differences in concentration and other variables. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1968.
Concept Devices, Inc.: International Market Entry
by Thomas V. Bonoma Randy MaselConcept is a highly touted startup venture in distributed data processing computers. The company has only made one sale to date, but has an order backlog for its unique product and expects an almost vertical growth curve. The company has been courted seriously by potential partners in France and the United Kingdom. Management wishes to decide how best to set up distribution in Europe.
Concept Testing
by Robert J. DolanDescribes concept testing products. Presents guidelines for effective design, execution, and interpretation of test procedures. Discusses limitations of these techniques and sets out the situations for which they are appropriate.