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Healthcare Security: Solutions for Management, Operations, and Administration
By Bernard J. Scaglione, Anthony Luizzo. 2022
Healthcare is on a critical path, evolving with the introduction of Obama Care and now COVID-19. How will healthcare and specifically…
healthcare security adapt over the next few years? What tools will be necessary for healthcare security professionals and all security professionals to meet the demands of the transforming security environment? Security professionals need new tools and programs to adapt security services to the “New Normal.” As healthcare emerges from pandemic threats, active shooter and workplace violence will re-emerge and new threats related to civil unrest, fraud, mergers, and further financial struggles will change how healthcare security will function. Healthcare Security: Solutions for Management, Operations, and Administration provides a series of articles related to the management and operations of healthcare security which will assist healthcare security professionals in managing the “New Normal” now and into the future. It is a collection of previously published articles on healthcare security and general security covering various topics related to the management of healthcare security and provides information on general security operations. It also includes unconventional topics that are necessary in the administration of healthcare security such as auditing principles, fraud prevention, investigations, interview and interrogation techniques, and forensics.Working Minds
By Gary Klein, Robert R. Hoffman, Beth Crandall. 1986
Cognitive Task Analysis CTA helps researchers understand how cognitive skills and strategies make it possible for people to…
act effectively and get things done CTA can yield information people need -- employers faced with personnel issues market researchers who want to understand the thought processes of consumers trainers and others who design instructional systems health care professionals who want to apply lessons learned from errors and accidents systems analysts developing user specifications and many other professionals CTA can show what makes the workplace work -- and what keeps it from working as well as it might Working Minds is a true handbook offering a set of tools for doing CTA methods for collecting data about cognitive processes and events analyzing them and communicating them effectively It covers both the why and the how of CTA methods providing examples guidance and stories from the authors own experiences as CTA practitioners Because effective use of CTA depends on some conceptual grounding in cognitive theory and research -- on knowing what a cognitive perspective can offer -- the book also offers an overview of current research on cognition The book provides detailed guidance for planning and carrying out CTA with chapters on capturing knowledge and capturing the way people reason It discusses studying cognition in real-world settings and the challenges of rapidly changing technology And it describes key issues in applying CTA findings in a variety of fields Working Minds makes the methodology of CTA accessible and the skills involved attainableFundamentals of Financial Instruments: An Introduction to Stocks, Bonds, Foreign Exchange, and Derivatives (Wiley Finance)
By Sunil K. Parameswaran. 2022
In the newly revised Second Edition of Fundamentals of Financial Instruments: An Introduction to Stocks, Bonds, Foreign Exchange, and Derivatives,…
renowned finance trainer Sunil Parameswaran delivers a comprehensive introduction to the full range of financial products commonly offered in the financial markets. Using clear, worked examples of everything from basic equity and debt securities to complex instruments—like derivatives and mortgage-backed securities – the author outlines the structure and dynamics of the free-market system and explores the environment in which financial instruments are traded. This one-of-a-kind book also includes: New discussions on interest rate derivatives, bonds with embedded options, mutual funds, ETFs, pension plans, financial macroeconomics, orders and exchanges, and Excel functions for finance Supplementary materials to enhance the reader’s ability to apply the material contained within A foundational exploration of interest rates and the time value of moneyFundamentals of Financial Instruments is the ideal resource for business school students at the undergraduate and graduate levels, as well as anyone studying financial management or the financial markets. It also belongs on the bookshelves of executive education students and finance professionals seeking a refresher on the fundamentals of their industry.Because We Belong: Because You Are Mine Series #3 (Because You Are Mine)
By Beth Kery. 2013
For fans of FIFTY SHADES, Sylvia Day and J. Kenner. In Because You Are Mine, billionaire Ian Noble lost control…
to Francesca Arno. Now their explosive erotically charged romance continues in Because We Belong...Book Three in the bestselling Because You Are Mine series.Ian Noble and Francesca Arno return to reignite the exquisite passions that drew them together, and to finally face the intimate secrets that threatened to separate them for ever. The secrets of an inescapable past that was one man's darkest mystery - a darkness that seduced one woman and held her spellbound with forbidden desire. For both of them, the next step is total abandon...For more electrifying, passionate romance, don't miss the other titles in the Because You Are Mine series: Because You Are Mine, When I'm With You and Since I Saw You and look for Beth's sizzling new serialisation The Affair.(P)2013 Headline DigitalComplete Me: Stark Series Book 3 (Stark Series #8)
By J. Kenner. 2013
For fans of Fifty Shades of Grey and the Crossfire series comes Complete Me, the third in J. Kenner's sensual,…
erotic, powerfully emotional and internationally bestselling romance series. In Release Me, multimillionaire Damien Stark made Nikki Fairchild an unforgettable but irresistible indecent proposal; in Claim Me their passion burned ever more fierce; now, can their love survive the secrets of their pasts?Our desire runs deep. But our secrets cut close.Beautiful, strong, and commanding, Damien Stark fills a void in me that no other man can touch. His fierce cravings push me beyond the brink of bliss - and unleash a wild passion that utterly consumes us both. Yet beneath his need for dominance, he carries the wounds of a painful past. Haunted by a legacy of dark secrets and broken trust, he seeks release in our shared ecstasy, the heat between us burning stronger each day. Our attraction is undeniable, our obsession inevitable. Yet not even Damien can run from his ghosts, or shield us from the dangers yet to come.Spellbinding romance. Electrifying passion. Why not indulge in J. Kenner...Discover the whole story of Damien and Nikki's epic romance in J. Kenner's hot and addictive bestselling Stark series: Release Me, Claim Me, Complete Me, Take Me, Have Me, Play My Game, Seduce Me, Unwrap Me, Deepest Kiss, Entice Me and Anchor Me.(P)2013 Headline DigitalThe Productivity Project: Proven Ways to Become More Awesome
By Chris Bailey. 2016
'A fun, interesting, and useful read!' David Allen, bestselling author of Getting Things DoneNearly all of us want to be…
more productive, but finding the method that works for you among the hundreds and hundreds of different tips, tricks and hacks can be a daunting prospect. After graduating college, Chris Bailey decided to dedicate a whole year to doing just that - experimenting with as many of the techniques as he could, and finding the things that work. Among the experiments that he undertook are: going several weeks on little to no sleep; cutting out caffeine and sugar; taking a daily siesta; living in total isolation for 10 days; stretching his workweek to 90 hours; and getting up at 5:30 every morning, all the while monitoring the impact of his experiments on the quality and quantity of his work. The results were often surprising! This book is the result of Chris's year-long journey, distilling the lessons he learned into a few core truths about how we get things done (or, indeed, don't). Among the many counterintuitive insights Chris discovered that had the biggest impact on his productivity were striving for imperfection; scheduling less time for important tasks; the 20 second rule to distract yourself from distractions; and the concept of productive procrastination. In this accessible and fun guide, Chris Bailey offers over 30 tried-and-tested best practices that will help everyone to accomplish more - and become more awesome.Made In Britain: How the nation earns its living
By Evan Davis. 2011
Looking at how Britain pays its way in the world today. Like Andrew Marr's HISTORY OF MODERN BRITAIN or Michael…
Palin's HIMALAYA, the book will have a coherence and life beyond the television series, mirroring its basic structure, but looking at some issues in greater depth, and telling additional stories to illustrate some of the ideas.This book is about the things that Britain produces in order to pay its way in the world, from physical goods that we can see and feel, to intangible services that are much harder to quantify. We don't have to be prejudiced in favour of certain types of value: we shouldn't assume finance is modern, and manufacturing out of date for example. What matters is what sells and for how much. From manufacturing to technology, design and the services industries, this book will provide a cutting edge analysis - via entertaining stories - about what we make and why it matters.The New Digital Age: Reshaping the Future of People, Nations and Business
By Eric Schmidt, Jared Cohen. 2013
This is the most important - and fascinating - book yet written about how the digital age will affect our…
world' Walter Isaacson, author of Steve Jobs.From two leading thinkers, the widely anticipated book that describes a new, hugely connected world of the future, full of challenges and benefits which are ours to meet and harness. The New Digital Age is the product of an unparalleled collaboration: full of the brilliant insights of one of Silicon Valley's great innovators - what Bill Gates was to Microsoft and Steve Jobs was to Apple, Schmidt (along with Larry Page and Sergey Brin) was to Google - and the Director of Google Ideas, Jared Cohen, formerly an advisor to both Secretaries of State Condoleezza Rice and Hillary Clinton. Never before has the future been so vividly and transparently imagined. From technologies that will change lives (information systems that greatly increase productivity, safety and our quality of life, thought-controlled motion technology that can revolutionise medical procedures, and near-perfect translation technology that allows us to have more diversified interactions) to our most important future considerations (curating our online identity and fighting those who would do harm with it) to the widespread political change that will transform the globe (through transformations in conflict, increasingly active and global citizenries, a new wave of cyber-terrorism and states operating simultaneously in the physical and virtual realms) to the ever present threats to our privacy and security, Schmidt and Cohen outline in great detail and scope all the promise and peril awaiting us in the coming decades.A breakthrough book - pragmatic, inspirational and totally fascinating. Whether a government, a business or an individual, we must understand technology if we want to understand the future.'A brilliant guidebook for the next century . . . Schmidt and Cohen offer a dazzling glimpse into how the new digital revolution is changing our lives' Richard Branson(P)2013 Audible, IncPublished to mark the 30th anniversary of the financial revolution known as 'Big Bang', Crash Bang Wallop will tell the…
gripping story of how the changes introduced in the 1980s in the City of London transformed our world.Attitudes to money and the way we measure value and status were completely reshaped by Big Bang, and it had an extraordinary impact on politics, on style, on technology, on the class system, on questions of public ownership, and on the geography of London. Perhaps more than anything, Big Bang revolutionised the international markets, as the capital became a testing ground for financial globalisation, with huge repercussions for the global economy. The definitive insider's account of this critically important moment in modern history, Crash Bang Wallop will also explore what's next for global finance as it gets ready to undergo yet another revolution. 'Iain Martin tells it brilliantly, mixing fury-inducing narrative with an acute eye for the broader conclusion.' Observer(P)2016 Hodder & StoughtonDealing with China
By Hank Paulson. 2015
DEALING WITH CHINA takes the reader behind closed doors to witness the creation and evolution and future of China's state-controlled…
capitalism.Hank Paulson has dealt with China unlike any other foreigner. As head of Goldman Sachs, Paulson had a pivotal role in opening up China to private enterprise. Then, as Treasury secretary, he created the Strategic Economic Dialogue with what is now the world's second-largest economy. While negotiating with China on needed economic reforms, he safeguarded the teetering U.S. financial system. Over his career, Paulson has worked with scores of top Chinese leaders, including Xi Jinping, China's most powerful man in decades. In DEALING WITH CHINA, Paulson draws on his unprecedented access to modern China's political and business elite, including its three most recent heads of state, to answer several key questions:How did China become an economic superpower so quickly?How does business really get done there?What are the best ways for Western business and political leaders to work with, compete with, and benefit from China?How can the West negotiate with and influence China given its authoritarian rule, its massive environmental concerns, and its huge population's unrelenting demands for economic growth and security?Written in an anecdote-rich, page-turning style, DEALING WITH CHINA is certain to become the classic and definitive examination of unlocking, building, and engaging an economic superpower.Inside Apple: The Secrets Behind the Past and Future Success of Steve Jobs's Iconic Brand
By Adam Lashinsky. 2012
In Inside Apple, Adam Lashinsky provides readers with an insight on leadership and innovation. He introduces Apple business concepts like…
the 'DRI' (Apple's practice of assigning a Directly Responsible Individual to every task) and the Top 100 (an annual event where that year's top 100 up-and-coming executives are surreptitiously transported to a secret retreat with company founder Steve Jobs).Based on numerous interviews, the book reveals exclusive new information about how Apple innovates, deals with its suppliers, and is handling the transition into the Post Jobs Era. While Inside Apple provides a detailed investigation into the unique company, its lessons about leadership, product design and marketing are universal. Inside Apple will appeal to anyone hoping to bring some of the Apple magic to their own company, career, or creative endeavour.Claim Me: Book 2: Stark Trilogy (Stark Series #4)
By J. Kenner. 2013
For fans of Fifty Shades of Grey and the Crossfire series. In Release Me, powerful multimillionaire Damien Stark made Southern…
belle Nikki Fairchild an unforgettable indecent proposal which she couldn't resist. Now their sensual, erotic, powerfully emotional romance continues in Claim Me, the next in J. Kenner's New York Times bestselling series.For Damien, our obsession is a game. For me, it is fiercely, blindingly, real.Damien Stark's need is palpable - his need for pleasure, his need for control, his need for me. Beautiful and brilliant yet tortured at his core, he is in every way my match. I have agreed to be his alone, and now I want him to be fully mine. I want us to possess each other beyond the sweetest edge of our ecstasy, into the deepest desires of our souls. To let the fire that burns between us consume us both. But there are dark places within Damien that not even our wildest passion can touch. I yearn to know his secrets, yearn for him to surrender to me as I have surrendered to him. But our troubled pasts will either bind us close...or shatter us completely.Spellbinding romance. Electrifying passion. Why not indulge in J. Kenner...Discover the whole story of Damien and Nikki's epic romance in J. Kenner's hot and addictive bestselling Stark series: Release Me, Claim Me, Complete Me, Take Me, Have Me, Play My Game, Seduce Me, Unwrap Me, Deepest Kiss, Entice Me and Anchor Me.(P)2013 Headline DigitalNeed to Know: Higher PE
By John Millar, Janice Smith. 2019
Exam board: SQALevel: HigherSubject: PEFirst teaching: September 2018First exams: Summer 2019 What do you really need to know for the…
SQA Higher PE exam?This revision guide covers the essentials in less than 100 pages, so it's perfect for early exam preparation or last-minute revision.- Find key content at your fingertips with quick summaries of the factors, concepts and terminology that you need to understand- Get a better grade in your exam with tips on exam technique, mistakes to avoid and important things to remember- Revise and practise using end-of-topic questions and in-depth questions at the end of each section - with answers provided online - Benefit from the knowledge of experienced teachers and examiners John Millar and Janice SmithWaste-to-Energy: Recent Developments and Future Perspectives towards Circular Economy
By Jin Huang, Abd El-Fatah Abomohra, Qingyuan Wang. 2022
This book addresses the needs of students, researchers, as well as engineers and other professionals or readers interested in recent…
advances of biofuel and efficient waste management. In the context of energy consumption, over 85% of the total consumed energy comes from non-renewable fossil resources. Developing new renewable energy resources, especially biofuel production from wastes, has received increasing attention. The book is organized into three sections, namely Section I: Conventional waste management; Section II: From waste to green energy; and Section III: Case studies and future perspectives. Each section presents topic-specific chapters, which contain comprehensive and advanced knowledge of the subjects. Overall, the book covers the recent advances, breakthroughs, challenges, and future perspectives of waste-to-energy approach using different kinds of wastes as a feedstock for alternative biofuels and other integrated approaches such as wastewater treatment, plastic degradation, and CO2 sequestration in a cost-effective and eco-friendly way. In addition, different routes of waste recycling for enhanced biofuel production and case studies are presented with environmental and economic analysis. The presented case studies and future perspectives under Section III complement the chapters as they are authored by experts from bioenergy businesses who actually encounter real-world problems.Product Lifecycle Management. Green and Blue Technologies to Support Smart and Sustainable Organizations: 18th IFIP WG 5.1 International Conference, PLM 2021, Curitiba, Brazil, July 11–14, 2021, Revised Selected Papers, Part I (IFIP Advances in Informat
By Abdelaziz Bouras, Louis Rivest, Frédéric Noël, Osiris Canciglieri Junior. 2022
The two-volume set IFIP AICT 639 and 640 constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 18th IFIP WG 5.1 International…
Conference on Product Lifecycle Management, PLM 2021, held in Curitiba, Brazil, during July 11-14, 2021. The conference was held virtually due to the COVID-19 crisis.The 107 revised full papers presented in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 133 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: Volume I: Sustainability, sustainable development and circular economy; sustainability and information technologies and services; green and blue technologies; AI and blockchain integration with enterprise applications; PLM maturity, PLM implementation and adoption within industry 4.0; and industry 4.0 and emerging technologies: Volume II: Design, education and management; lean, design and innovation technologies; information technology models and design; and models, manufacturing and information technologies and services.Product Lifecycle Management. Green and Blue Technologies to Support Smart and Sustainable Organizations: 18th IFIP WG 5.1 International Conference, PLM 2021, Curitiba, Brazil, July 11–14, 2021, Revised Selected Papers, Part II (IFIP Advances in Informa
By Abdelaziz Bouras, Louis Rivest, Frédéric Noël, Osiris Canciglieri Junior. 2022
The two-volume set IFIP AICT 639 and 640 constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 18th IFIP WG 5.1 International…
Conference on Product Lifecycle Management, PLM 2021, held in Curitiba, Brazil, during July 11-14, 2021. The conference was held virtually due to the COVID-19 crisis.The 107 revised full papers presented in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 133 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: Volume I: Sustainability, sustainable development and circular economy; sustainability and information technologies and services; green and blue technologies; AI and blockchain integration with enterprise applications; PLM maturity, PLM implementation and adoption within industry 4.0; and industry 4.0 and emerging technologies: Volume II: Design, education and management; lean, design and innovation technologies; information technology models and design; and models, manufacturing and information technologies and services.Das Forschungsinteresse dieser Studie richtet sich auf das Zusammenspiel von Biografie und Professionalisierungsprozessen von Akteurinnen in Migrantinnenselbstorganisationen (MSO) bei der…
Ausübung ihrer Bildungs- und Beratungsarbeit. Es werden drei Fallanalysen mit markanten Innenansichten präsentiert. Als Ergebnis werden drei Muster vorgestellt, die auf unterschiedliche Herstellungsprozesse biografischer Passungsverhältnisse individueller undorganisationaler Professionalisierung und Self-Empowermentstrategien der Akteurinnen verweisen. Die Muster zeigen, dass die Akteurinnen eine bestehende dynamische Wechselbeziehung zwischen der ausgeübten Tätigkeit und den Interaktionsressourcen aus ihren Migrationsbiografien zu nutzen und individuelle Lösungs- und Bewältigungsstrategien bei der Professionalisierung und Etablierung der MSO anzuwenden vermögen. Die priorisierten Zielverständnisse ihrer Tätigkeit unterscheiden sich entlang der drei ausgearbeiteten Muster: die Möglichkeiten die gesellschaftliche Partizipation von Migrantinnen zu erhöhen, Selbstverwirklichung der Migrantinnen zu unterstützen und migrations- und geschlechtsbezogene Exklusionsprozesse zu minimieren.Dieses Buch ist eine kompakte Einführung in das Thema Multisensorisches Marketing. Paul Steiner untersucht die marketingspezifische Relevanz des menschlichen Sinnessystems…
und die verschiedenen Facetten (multisensualen) multisensorischen Brandings und bietet zahlreiche pragmatische Hilfestellungen für die Umsetzung. Für die Unternehmenspraxis werden wichtige Ansatzpunkte zur multisensorischen Gestaltung von Marken geliefert, um so Konsumenten langfristig und mit allen fünf Sinnen an eine Marke zu binden und damit Markeninhalte tiefgreifend zu verankern. Dies wird durch konkrete Beispiele von Singapore Airlines, Swarovski und MINI illustriert. Drei Interviews mit renommierten Experten aus Wissenschaft und Praxis runden das Buch ab. Der Inhalt• Wahrnehmung und Wirkung multisensorischer Reize• Markenrecht – Markenformen mit Sinn• Multisensorisches Marketing • Praxisbeispiele multisensorischer Marken• Ausblick• ExperteninterviewsErfolgreich als Unternehmer für Dummies (Für Dummies)
By Jan Evers, Susanne Schreck. 2022
Sie brauchen keine Superkräfte und auch kein BWL-Studium, um erfolgreich ein Unternehmen zu führen. In diesem Buch haben Jan Evers…
und Susanne Schreck wertvolles Erfahrungswissen und praktische Tipps für Ihren Unternehmeralltag zusammengefasst. Es hilft Ihnen, einen starken Kundennutzen zu schaffen, Ihr Geschäftsmodell aktuell zu halten, Kundenakquise und Vertrieb nicht aus dem Blick zu verlieren und Ihre Finanzen zu regeln. Wenn Sie Ihr Unternehmen so aufziehen, dass es zu Ihnen passt, wird Schweres auf einmal ganz leicht und selbst Krisen lassen sich meistern.This book examines water remunicipalization in Cochabamba since the Water War, offering innovative methodological and theoretical conceptualizations of what it…
means to be "public," helping to move debates on water services beyond the paralyzing binary of public versus private with a focus on the contested terrain of community engagement around water services. The Cochabamba Water War of 2000 brought together city residents of all stripes to mobilize against water privatization and gain back public control of the city’s water utility. This event catapulted anti-privatization movements around the world, but two decades later, the water movement’s vision of democratic water provision remains largely unfulfilled and the city suffers from a protracted water crisis. Building a typology of participation, this book explores the difficulty in rebuilding a strong public water service in Cochabamba by analyzing the different, and often incompatible, understandings and interpretations of social control and public participation. Applying this framework to the Bolivian context, and more specifically to the water and sanitation sector in Cochabamba, the book uncovers whose interests are served, and which groups are included or excluded from decision-making and access to water. This exercise illustrates how, in their implementation, participatory practices are not linear and can be distorted or appropriated towards different ends. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of water governance, natural resource management, public policy, social movements and Latin American studies.