As increasing numbers of social anthropoloists use computers for wordprocessing, interest in other applications inevitably follows. "Applications in Computing for Social Anthropologists" addresses this interest and encourages researchers to make full use of their computers to help them organize data. Firstly, the author discusses computing applications in relation to research activities shared by all anthropologists - ethnographic fieldwork, management and analysis of footnotes and the use of visual and aural material. The book then illustrates the way in which computer-based representations can satisfy the requirements of anthropological methods with a detailed examination of representing kinship relations in an original way. Nal developments in the representation of visual and aural data on computers, as well as possible applications of knowledge based models are also introduced.

Franz Michael Fischer investigates the relationships between the application of the controllability principle and managers' cognitive, affective, and behavioral responses. The author further explores the impact of several important contextual factors on the basic relationships and, thus, develops moderated mediation models. He reveals that the application of the controllability principle has a significant effect on role stress and role orientation which, in turn, are related to managerial performance and affective constructs.

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Subtitle on cover: Financial literacy through 937 questions and answers.

Wirtschafts- und Unternehmensethik hat sich als wissenschaftliche Disziplin durchgesetzt. Aber ist Ethik ein effektiver Weichensteller für die Zukunft unserer Gesellschaft? Ist sie auch in ökonomischen Angelegenheiten verlässlich? Funktionieren operative Ansätze bei den Wirtschafts- und Unternehmensleitbildern wirklich oder verdecken sie die Risslinien unserer Gesellschaft? Deutlich zeigt dieser Band, dass im Bereich der Wirtschafts- und Unternehmensethik ein hohes und wichtiges Entwicklungspotential vorhanden ist. Denn immer stärker wird die Wirtschaft zu einem gesamtgesellschaftlichen Gesprächsstoff. Dieser zunehmende Konversationscharakter verbindet Unternehmer, Akteure, Konsumenten, Betrachter und Mitmacher in einer permanenten Auseinandersetzung um die Sinn- und Werthaftigkeit der ökonomischen Prozesse.

We all need to save and invest intelligently - in today's world this stuff is too important to ignore. Relying on someone else to make all the decisions can also lead to disaster. If we never get the full picture, we are relying on snippets that are often opinions, or even worse - biased opinions, when in reality the facts are what should matter most. Fortunately saving, investing and our financial system are very straightforward if we get the full picture once. After that everything makes sense! "Saving and Investing" brings the world of investing to an easy-to-read and understand level. The book covers compounding, how companies make money, financial markets, debt, equity, bonds, stocks, mutual funds and unit trusts, hedge funds, real estate, commodities, other investments, the economy and all of the related terminology, the impact of time, dollar cost averaging, taxes and compounding, diversification and transaction cost as well as getting started. If you are not intimately familiar with these concepts that can be amazingly straightforward when properly explained - then you should read this book! The book is different because it highlights facts and principles that will withstand the test of time and because of all of this comes from a professional practioner in the field. After reading this book, the simplicity will seem astounding, and the path towards financial independence and freedom so much clearer.

Diploma Thesis from the year 2001 in the subject Computer Science - Applied, grade: 2,3, Technical University of Munich (Informatik), course: Kommunikationsnetze, language: English, abstract: Inhaltsangabe: Abstract: Successive to a preceding study about Service Discovery, this thesis covers the topics Service Description and Service Access. Starting with an analysis and comparison of existing technologies, a new protocol for the service access was developed and an operating environment, capable of accessing services of any type was programmed. Thereby emphasis is placed an high scalability, extensibility, modularity and comprehensive documentation, to provide easy association with existing or future works. The first part deals with the various versions of Service Descriptions, followed by a description of the service access methods and concluding with a comprising comparison. All technologies or protocols qualified for Service Discovery and Access discovered during this diploma thesis are discussed. The main part comprises the software implementation which was written in Java, including a comprehensive documentation containing, among others, the protocol specification, software architecture, an user guide and proposals for advancements. Zusammenfassung: Aufbauend auf einer vorangegangenen Arbeit uber Service Discovery, werden in dieser Diplomarbeit die Themen Service Description und Service Access behandelt. Beginnend mit einer Analyse und dem Vergleich existierender Techologien, wurde ein neues Protokoll fur den dynamischen Dienstzugriff entwickelt und eine funktionsfahige Umgebung programmiert, die mittels dieses Protokolls auf Dienste jeglicher Art zugreifen kann. Dabei wurde das Augenmerk auf eine hohe Skalierbarkeit, Erweiterbarkeit, Modularitat und umfassende Dokumentation gelegt, so dass es nicht schwer fallen sollte, die Software mit folgenden oder existierenden Arbeiten zu verknupfen. Im ersten Teil wird auf die verschiedenen Varianten der Dienstbeschreibu

While the implementation of evidence-based medicine guidelines is well studied, there has been little investigation into the extent to which a parallel evidence-based management movement has been influential within health care organizations. This book explores the various management knowledges and associated texts apparent in English health care organizations, and considers how the local reception of these texts was influenced by the macro level political economy of public services reform evident during the period of the politics of austerity. The research outlined in this volume shows that very few evidence-based management texts are apparent within health care organizations, despite the influence of certain knowledge producers, such as national agencies, think tanks, management consultancies, and business schools in the industry. Bringing together the often disconnected academic literature on management knowledge and public policy, the volume addresses the ways in which preferred management knowledges and texts in these publicly funded settings are sensitive to the macro level political economy of public services reform, offering an empirically grounded critique of the evidence-based management movement.