Category: Management

By Anne Laurent, Olivier Strauss, Bernadette Bouchon-Meunier, Ronald R. Yager (eds.)

ISBN-10: 3319087940

ISBN-13: 9783319087948

ISBN-10: 3319087959

ISBN-13: 9783319087955

These 3 volumes (CCIS 442, 443, 444) represent the lawsuits of the fifteenth overseas convention on info Processing and administration of Uncertainty in Knowledge-Based platforms, IPMU 2014, held in Montpellier, France, July 15-19, 2014. The one hundred eighty revised complete papers awarded including 5 invited talks have been conscientiously reviewed and chosen from a variety of submissions. The papers are equipped in topical sections on uncertainty and imprecision on the internet of information; determination aid and uncertainty administration in agri-environment; fuzzy implications; clustering; fuzzy measures and integrals; non-classical logics; facts research; real-world purposes; aggregation; probabilistic networks; suggestion structures and social networks; fuzzy structures; fuzzy common sense in boolean framework; administration of uncertainty in social networks; from diverse to similar, from imitation to analogy; gentle computing and sensory research; database structures; fuzzy set thought; size and sensory details; aggregation; formal equipment for vagueness and uncertainty in a many-valued realm; graduality; personal tastes; uncertainty administration in computer studying; philosophy and heritage of sentimental computing; gentle computing and sensory research; similarity research; fuzzy good judgment, formal proposal research and tough set; clever databases and data platforms; thought of facts; aggregation services; massive information - the position of fuzzy equipment; vague possibilities: from foundations to functions; multinomial logistic regression on Markov chains for crop rotation modelling; clever size and regulate for nonlinear systems.

By Stewart R. Clegg

ISBN-10: 1848608683

ISBN-13: 9781848608689

This four-volume set brings jointly over sixty of the main papers released in SAGE books and journals because the flip of the millennium, lots of which aren't simply to be had in conventional library holdings. Professor Stewart Clegg is well known as a preeminent pupil of association stories, and including a global editorial board of ten popular students within the box, has prepared this feature to aid the reader greater comprehend the advancements within the box from various views. Emphasis is put on the ‘history of the present’ of association experiences, with articles that debate modern matters and foreshadow additional advancements within the box, throughout renowned theoretical views similar to discourse research, institutional concept, and complexity theory.

By Gernot Dern

ISBN-10: 3834807184

ISBN-13: 9783834807182

By Marc-Oliver Jauch

ISBN-10: 3319071149

ISBN-13: 9783319071145

ISBN-10: 3319071157

ISBN-13: 9783319071152

Uniform Across-the-Board Promotions (UABPs) are characterised via outlets delivering a uniform at the whole collection (e.g. 20% on each article) to their clients. This most modern kind of advertising has received monstrous recognition between shops and shoppers in recent years. This booklet analyses their effect on brief- and long term shop functionality and patron buying behaviour by means of utilizing state-of-the artwork advertising study equipment. additionally this ebook presents tips for retail and advertising managers on the right way to most sensible benefit from UABPs, to extend revenues and earnings whereas balancing the hazards linked to this kind of promotion.

By P. J. H. Baily B.Sc. (Econ.), A.C.I.S., M.Inst.P.S. (auth.)

ISBN-10: 0412115700

ISBN-13: 9780412115707

ISBN-10: 1489969020

ISBN-13: 9781489969026

By Frank J. Fabozzi CFA, Pamela P. Peterson

ISBN-10: 0471234842

ISBN-13: 9780471234845

ISBN-10: 3175723993

ISBN-13: 9783175723998

It doesn't matter what region of finance you’re in–financial administration, investments, or monetary institutions–Financial administration and research, moment version offers the rules of finance that might let you comprehend monetary decision-making and its position within the decision-making strategy of the full enterprise. Crisp writing and targeted content material truly ties idea and perform jointly in a single whole package deal.

Comprising seven informative sections, monetary administration and research, moment version deals a accomplished creation to the techniques, instruments, and functions of finance. You’ll be brought to a number of crucial monetary concerns equivalent to:

• The fundamentals of finance, together with the target of monetary administration, valuation rules, and the connection among hazard and return
• Long-term funding administration (aka capital budgeting), the administration of long term assets of cash, and dealing capital management
• Financial assertion research, together with monetary ratio research, gains research, and funds circulate analysis
• Considerations in overseas finance administration, borrowing through dependent monetary transactions, undertaking financing, gear leasing, and monetary making plans strategies

Filled with specialist recommendation, real-world examples, and beneficial charts and graphs, monetary administration and research, moment variation can assist you enhance the ability set essential to take care of the $64000 monetary difficulties you’ll come across in today’s enterprise international.

By Ernest L. Mazzaferri MD, MACP (auth.), Ernest L. Mazzaferri MD, MACP, Clive Harmer FRCR, FRCP, Ujjal K. Mallick MS, FRCR, Pat Kendall-Taylor MD, FRCP (eds.)

ISBN-10: 1846280133

ISBN-13: 9781846280139

ISBN-10: 1852339101

ISBN-13: 9781852339104

Practical administration of Thyroid Cancer follows the yank and eu version of treating thyroid melanoma in accordance with the excessive criteria urged via the on hand instructions. All infrequent and curable cancers together with thyroid cancers with a great analysis could be handled via a multidisciplinary staff of specialists following released instructions. This crucial quantity is for this reason directed not just to the administration of thyroid melanoma in constructed nations yet is additionally the version that would be hugely beautiful to the constructing countries.

This is a useful connection with health and wellbeing care execs, from basic to tertiary care, thinking about the administration of thyroid melanoma similar to medical nurse experts, medical psychologists, family members drugs practitioners, experts in palliative care (especially for anaplastic thyroid cancers), genetics in addition to surgeons, endocrinologists, oncologists, pathologists, and radiologists.

By John De La Mothe, Dominique Foray (auth.)

ISBN-10: 1461356024

ISBN-13: 9781461356028

ISBN-10: 1461515351

ISBN-13: 9781461515357

It is now widely known that a number of the principal unresolved difficulties in financial coverage, administration and learn activate questions of data. more and more, complicated organisations and businesses needs to ask, and resolution, such tough questions as:

• what's wisdom?
• the place is it? Who has it?
• Does the association lose or achieve aggressive virtue or effectiveness through sharing wisdom?
• the place will we locate the information we want?
• How will we degree wisdom?

In a knowledge-based economic system, those queries are crucial to the targets of each coverage maker, analyst and strategist.
Knowledge administration within the Innovation Process - a joint venture among facts Canada and application of study on Innovation administration and economic system (PRIME) on the college of Ottawa - brings jointly fiscal, social, dimension and coverage perspectives on those serious concerns. This venture matches into an ongoing examine software at information Canada to enhance significant symptoms for technological know-how, expertise and innovation in a technology-intensive financial system. It additionally suits into the continuing application at top to higher comprehend know-how coverage and innovation method. This e-book tells the tale of the dynamic interaction among wisdom and innovation with an eye fixed to constructing instruments and frameworks for dealing with wisdom for social and monetary benefit.

By Manfred Hupfauer

ISBN-10: 3663088774

ISBN-13: 9783663088776

ISBN-10: 3824466066

ISBN-13: 9783824466061

Der Aufbau von Produktivitätspotentialen in der Produktion führt häufig zur deploy und Nutzung von Anlagensystemen mit zunehmendem Komplexitätsgrad und ansteigender Kapitalintensität. Durch wachsende Systemkomplexität entstehen aber auch Verlustquellen, die diese Ziele gefährden. Es gilt, ein produktivitätsorientiertes administration von Anlagensystemen zu einer künftigen Kernkompetenz zu entwickeln, die neben situationsbezogenen Strategien auch operationale Maßnahmenbündel enthält. Manfred Hupfauer stellt ein Modell zur Verbesserung der Produktivitäts- place von Anlagensystemen vor. Aus einer empirischen examine werden Basisstrategien und Lösungsansätze aus dem technologischen, dem organisatorischen und dem personalorientierten Gestaltungsfeld abgeleitet.

By Stewart Factor, MD and William Weiner, MD

ISBN-10: 1933864001

ISBN-13: 9781933864006

ISBN-10: 1934559873

ISBN-13: 9781934559871

Parkinson's affliction (PD) is the second one most typical neurodegenerative disorder on this planet. nonetheless the single significant textual content at the topic, the thoroughly revised and up-to-date moment variation of Parkinson s illness: analysis and scientific administration comes at a time while experts have made vital advances in our figuring out of the etiology, pathogenesis, research, and administration of Parkinson s illness.