Maximizing Mobile 2012 Information and Communications for Development

Mobile phones, a rarity in many developing countries at the turn of the century, now seem to be everywhere. Between 2000 and 2012, the number of mobile phones in use world- wide grew from fewer than 1 billion to around 6 billion. The mobile revolution is transforming livelihoods, helping to create new businesses, and changing the way we communi- cate. The mobile phone network is already t…

Accounting and Financial Information

Accounting is often called “the language of business” because it communicates so much of the information that owners, managers, and investors need to evaluate a company’s financial performance. These people are stakeholders in the business—they’re interested in its activities because they’re affected by them. The financial futures of owners and other investors may depend heavily on …

Data-driven optimization and knowledge discovery for an enterprise informatio…

This book provides a comprehensive set of optimization and prediction techniques for an enterprise information system. Readers with a background in operations research, system engineering, statistics, or data analytics can use this book as a reference to derive insight from data and use this knowledge as guidance for production management. The authors identify the key challenges in enterprise i…

Data-driven process discovery and analysis

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the Fourth International Symposium on Data-Driven Process Discovery and Analysis held in Riva del Milan, Italy, in November 2014. The five revised full papers were carefully selected from 21 submissions. Following the event, authors were given the opportunity to improve their papers with the insights they gained from the symposium. Du…

Database systems for advanced applications

This two volume set LNCS 9049 and LNCS 9050 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications, DASFAA 2015, held in Hanoi, Vietnam, in April 2015. The 63 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 287 submissions. The papers cover the following topics: data mining; data streams and time series;…

Database systems for advanced applications

This two volume set LNCS 9049 and LNCS 9050 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications, DASFAA 2015, held in Hanoi, Vietnam, in April 2015. The 63 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 287 submissions. The papers cover the following topics: data mining; data streams and time series;…

Databases theory and applications

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 26th Australasian Database Conference, ADC 2015, held in Melbourne, VIC, Australia, in June 2015. The 24 full papers presented together with 5 demo papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 43 submissions. The Australasian Database Conference is an annual international forum for sharing the latest research advancements and novel appli…

Policy-Oriented Technology Assessment Across Europe: Expanding Capacities

Edition

1

ISBN/ISSN

978-1-137-56172-5

Collation

XVI, 171

Series Title

Expanding Capacities

Call Number

351.856

How Human Rights Can Build Haiti : Activists, Lawyers, and the Grassroots Cam…

A cataclysmic earthquake, revolution, corruption, and neglect have all conspired to strangle the growth of a legitimate legal system in Haiti. But as How Human Rights Can Build Haiti demonstrates, the story of lawyer-activists on the ground should give us all hope. They organize demonstrations at the street level, argue court cases at the international level, and conduct social media and lobbyi…

Unexpected Subjects : Intimate Partner Violence, Testimony, and the Law

Unexpected Subjects is an ethnography of the encounter between women’s words and the demands of the law in the context of adjudications on intimate partner violence. A study of institutional devices, it focuses on women’s practices of resistance and the elicitation of intelligible subjectivities. Using Italy as an illustrative case, Alessandra Gribaldo explores the problematic encounter bet…