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The Intelligent Enterprise : Theoretical Concepts and Practical Implications
Today's enterprises have to continuously extend their operational limits to earn profit, thrive and prosper. Over time evolution led to the development of two concepts to master this challenge: intelligence and knowledge. This work introduces a system theoretic perspective on enterprises, regarding them as natural living systems formed by evolutional forces. Intelligence and knowledge manifest in the system's behavior. 'Intelligence' is identified as the necessary framework that realizes continuous adaptation through the ongoing development and incorporation of control procedures and building blocks. The content that fills this framework is the 'Enterprise Knowledge'. The rigid framework of business processes has to be replaced by a project framework, employees have to be integrated as 'Knowledge Workers' and IT systems have to offer advanced structural and organizational properties to facilitate declarative processing.
The Integration of Phonetic Knowledge in Speech Technology
Continued progress in Speech Technology in the face of ever-increasing demands on the performance levels of applications is a challenge to the whole speech and language science community. Robust recognition and understanding of spontaneous speech in varied environments, good comprehensibility and naturalness of expressive speech synthesis are goals that cannot be achieved without a change of paradigm. This book argues for interdisciplinary communication and cooperation in problem-solving in general, and discusses the interaction between speech and language engineering and phonetics in particular. With a number of reports on innovative speech technology research as well as more theoretical discussions, it addresses the practical, scientific and sometimes the philosophical problems that stand in the way of cross-disciplinary collaboration and illuminates some of the many possible ways forward.
The Innovation Game : A New Approach to Innovation Management and R&D
Management and management science mainly treat RandD and innovations as costs or budgets to be managed, an approach that is in stark contrast to their overwhelming importance. This and the very fact that RandD and innovation success is a by necessity a-priori unknown and thus uncertain ex-post definition is not at all being respected properly up to now.In The Innovation Game La Corre and Mishchke consider RandD and innovation as an inherently risky investment which should be profitable, at least on average. Applying a statistical filter model, the authors are able to describe the RandD- and the innovation-process in great detail, almost like a production process. As a metaphor, the book tries to describe it like the control laws of the "distillery for inno-success knowledge"
The InfoSec Handbook : An Introduction to Information Security
Offers a practical and simple view of the security practices while still offering somewhat technical and detailed information relating to security. It helps the reader build a strong foundation of information, allowing them to move forward from the book with a larger knowledge base. This book is intended to educate the average and experienced user of what kinds of different security practices and standards exist. It will also cover how to manage security software and updates in order to be as protected as possible from all of the threats that they face.
The Information Society in an Enlarged Europe
Presents a benchmarking study of the 10 new member states and 3 candidate countries of the European Union as compared to the 15 incumbent countries with respect to the development of their information societies. Using a framework based on the Europe 2005 benchmarking framework, the 28 EU members and candidate countries are ranked according to their level of information society development, and then classified into 4 categories. The results presented in this book are of importance to all managers and companies doing business in the IT sector in the European Union.
The information society : Emerging landscapes ; IFIP International conference on landscapes of ICT and social accountability, Turku, Finland, June 27-29, 2005
International Federation for Information Processing - The IFIP series publishes state-of-the-art results in the sciences and technologies of information and communication. The scope of the series includes: foundations of computer science; software theory and practice; education; computer applications in technology; communication systems; systems modeling and optimization; information systems; computers and society; computer systems technology; security and protection in information processing systems; artificial intelligence; and human-computer interaction. Proceedings and post-proceedings of referred international conferences in computer science and interdisciplinary fields are featured. These results often precede journal publication and represent the most current research. The principal aim of the IFIP series is to encourage education and the dissemination and exchange of information about all aspects of computing.
The Influence of National Competition Policy on the International Competitiveness of Nations : A Contribution to the Debate on International Competition Rules
Two fields of economic research in competition policy have gained in importance in times of economic globalization. Firstly, globalization has resurrected the debate whether there is a need for international competition rules against private anticompetitive practices and how these rules could be implemented in the best way. Secondly, the concept of the international competitiveness of nations has become a significant issue for all open economies. The discussion of both themes directs the attention to a specific interface of these two issues. The implementation of international competition rules would limit or even eliminate national competition policy. The matter in question is to what extent national competition policy has to be regarded as a factor of international competitiveness so that national antitrust policy should be given priority over international antitrust rules.
The Inferior Colliculus
Winer and Schreiner's The Inferior Colliculus is the first critical, comprehensive reference presenting the current knowledge of the inferior colliculus from a variety of perspectives, including anatomical, physiological, developmental, neurochemical, biophysical, neuroethological and clinical vantage points. the book is an ideal introduction to the inferior colliculus and central auditory processing for clinicians, otolaryngologists, graduate and postgraduate research workers in the auditory and other sensory-motor systems.
The impact of the size of the capital on the performance indicators of traditional private bank
The financial performance of banks is affected by many variables, including the size of the capital. The size of the capital was studied for each of the Bank of Jordan, the Bank of France, the Bank of Qatar and the Bank of Trade and Finance, and the impact of that size on the return on total assets, the return on ownership and the liquidity ratio. And standard analysis was used to show that relationship, as the ARDL-J. J . methodology was followed Optimal regression models were developed and the results showed that there was no relationship between the size of capital and the rate of return on assets, while for the relationship between the size of capital and the rate of return on equity, the results showed that there was no relationship between them except in some cases. As for the liquidity index, there is also no connection between it and the size of the capital, except for the Bank of France, which showed the existence of this relationship.
The Impact of Food Bioactives on Health : In vitro and ex vivo models
Describes in vitro and ex vivo models that can be employed to investigate effects of digested food products on the GIT, or specific components thereof. Many such models exist and include, for example, those used to study digestion and fermentation in the small and large intestine, to investigate absorption (e.g. Ussing chamber, epithelial cell systems), and to research the immune and enteroendocrine responses (e.g. macrophages, dendritic cells, co-cultures). In each case, these respective assays and models are discussed, and tips and tricks concerning their proper use are given. The Impact of Food Bioactives on Health: In Vitro and Ex Vivo Models is an asset to researchers wishing to study the health benefits of their foods and food bioactives of interest. The book highlights which in vitro/ex vivo assays are of greatest relevance to their goals, what sort of outputs/data can be generated, and highlights the strengths and weaknesses of the various assays. It is also an important resource for under-graduate students in the ‘food and health’ arena.
The impact of financial leverage and operational efficiency on the profitability of Syrian banks using Dupont model
Aims to reveal the influence of the financial leverage and operational efficiency on the profitability of Syrian banks and the extent of the possibility of using the debt to increase profitability. To achieve the objectives of the study, the necessary data were collected for the variables of the study which is independent variables represented by financial leverage (equity multiplayer) and operational efficiency (assets utilization, net profit margin). The dependent variable profitability is expressed as the return on assets.
The impact of dividend policy on stock market value : an applied study at Damascus securities exchange
Tests the impact of dividend policy on stock market value for a sample consisted of (10) listed companies in DSE for the period between years (2017-2021). Dividend policy data were extracted from the financial reports for the sample of the research they were divided into three groups: SPSS program was used to make descriptive statistic study and linear regression to test the hypothesis...
The Impact of Digital Technologies on Public Health in Developed and Developing Countries ; 18th International Conference, ICOST 2020, Hammamet, Tunisia, June 24–26, 2020, Proceedings
The objective of this work is to detect Alzheimer’s disease using Magnetic Resonance Imaging. For this, we use a three-dimensional densenet-121 architecture.
The impact of crisis on the financial performance : case study on UK’s oil, gas, and coal companies
Focuses on the impact of the crises (BREXIT, Covid-19, and Russian-Ukrainian war) on the financial performance of 6 companies in the oil, gas, and coal sector, as a sample of the whole sector. Based on the market cap, these companies were categorised into large, mid, and small sizes. The data used in this research is both qualitative and quantitative analysed in Eviews student version 12. The study concludes that BREXIT and RussianUkrainian war have an impact on profitability ratio on the long run...
The Impact of COVID-19 on the Spread of E-Services: Case Study in Damascus City
Investigates the relationship between COVID-19 and the spread of E-Services in Damascus city; it was based on deductive methodology that guided us to collect the primary data through distributing a questionnaire which based on Likert five scale. As well as, the sample was set from infinite population. To analyze data, we used correlation measurements in addition to two types of regression analysis (simple linear regression, Stepwise regression); plus, the researchers tested the power of the relation between COVID-19 and the spread of E-services by involving the demographic variables as moderator variables.
The impact of auditor rotation and key audit matters disclosures on financial reporting quality : An applied study at Damascus security exchange
Aims to explain the impact of Auditor Rotation and Key Audit Matter Disclosures on Financial Reporting Quality. To achieve that goal, the study depended on practical study; by extracting an actual data from the (11) traditional banks‟ financial reports of the registered companies at Damascus Securities Exchange (DSE), that data were about the auditor rotation, Key Audit Matter Disclosures and Financial Reporting Quality. The study used descriptive statistics, ANOVA test and logistic regression, to examine the research hypothesis...
The impact of applying a balanced scorecard on banks’ operating efficiency
Aims to realize whether Syrian banks are implementing the balanced scorecard effectively and paying attention to its four main perspectives. Highlight the perspectives of the balanced scorecard. Find out the degree of employees' satisfaction with concern in their affairs, rights, and problems; and the degree of customer's satisfaction with the bank’s services quality provided to them. Research on the development of the strategic performance of the Syrian private banks...
The Impact of Announcements on Stock Return at Damascus Securities Exchange : An Empirical Study
Announcements represent an important source of information to investors at stock exchanges and they are the center of the tests of market efficiency at the semi-strong level. Damascus Securities Exchange (DSE) extensively publish announcements on variety of topics that range from dividends to changes in boards. This study examines the effect of four types of announcements on stock returns for companies listed at DSE for the period from 2020 to 2021. The aim of this study is to find out whether there are tatistically significant abnormal Cumulative Abnormal Returns (CAR) before and after the announcement which is in essence a test for the semi-strong as well as the strong form of market efficiency of the DSE.
The IMO Compendium : A collection of problems suggested for the International Mathematical Olympiads, 1959-2004
The IMO has sparked off a burst of creativity among enthusiasts in creating new and interesting mathematics problems. In an extremely stiff competition, only six problems are chosen each year to appear on the IMO. The total number of problems proposed for the IMOs up to this point is staggering Until now it has been almost impossible to obtain a complete collection of the problems proposed at the IMO in book form. "The IMO Compendium" is the result of a two year long collaboration between four former IMO participants from Yugoslavia, now Serbia and Montenegro, to rescue these problems from old and scattered manuscripts, and produce the ultimate source of IMO practice problems.
The Illusion of Certainty : Health Benefits and Risks
Peels away the "veneer of certainty" which many of us attach to health risk and benefit information given to us in our daily lives. It was written and designed primarily to assist the public in comprehending and interpreting the uncertainty associated with the overwhelming amount of information on medical and environmental health risks. The book uses unique, visual presentations and case studies to explain the benefits of medical screening tests (e.g., mammography, prostate and colorectal cancer screening, cholesterol screening) and drugs (e.g., statins, Vioxx™) and the risks associated with exposure to environmental contaminants (e.g., lead, dioxin, radon). This book will help patients and their families get more involved in making medical decisions.
