A free, open source textbook that covers both introductory and intermediate material. It also introduces many topics that are usually missed by intermediate courses, like risk aversion,... More > multi-tasking, land price gradients, and fishing to extinction.< Less
A free, open source textbook that covers both introductory and intermediate material. It also introduces many topics that are usually missed by intermediate courses, like risk aversion,... More > multi-tasking, land price gradients, and fishing to extinction.< Less
"To be completed successfully, a project needs to be planned and managed, costs determined and times allocated, problems dealt with and, eventually, concluded. Formal methods of managing a... More > project offer clear guidelines and deadlines. The key elements of project management include:
• defining the project carefully, including the setting of clear objectives
• dividing the project up into manageable tasks and activities
• controlling the project at every stage to check that time limits are being kept to
• giving each team member a clear role
• providing controls over quality issues and risks.
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As marching into the digital era, many people in different sectors are quite keen to understand why this has happened. They hope to obtain basic principles about digital signals and associated... More > digital systems. Instead of targeting advanced or expert level, they often hope to grasp the subject as efficient and effective as possible without undertaking impossible task under usually limited time and effort available. This book is written for those beginners who want to gain an overview of the topic, understand the basic methods and know how to deal with basic digital signals and systems...< Less
The Markle Task Force on National Security in the Information Age provides guidelines and recommendations for the creation and implementation of a trusted information sharing network for homeland... More > security. The Markle Task Force wrote, "In this report, we reaffirm the principles of our first report and offer greater detail on how we believe the government should create networks for information collection, sharing, analysis, and use across federal, state, and local agencies and the private sector, while preserving—and even enhancing—privacy and other civil liberties."< Less
The Markle Task Force explores ways in which we can organize people at all levels—from neighborhoods to federal agencies—and develop innovative technologies that will allow us to mobilize... More > information to better prevent terrorist attacks in the U.S., reduce America's vulnerability to terrorism, minimize damage, and recover from attacks that may occur. This report also examines the potential of the Department of Homeland Security as a central hub for the collection and analysis of information.< Less
This book series contains some 18 years of warning and analysis published within the U.S. Congress by an organization known as the Task Force on Terrorism and Unconventional Warfare. During its... More > remarkably long life, the Task Force issued hundreds of reports comprising thousands of pages of warnings and analyses of the growing specter of the Islamist movement, its increasingly violent nature, and its selection of the Western world as its ultimate target. The depth and breadth of the Task Force's analytical efforts were unparalleled, as were its productive capacity and broad product distribution efforts. The Task Force's astonishing knowledge of the gathering storm that finally broke over New York City and Washington on that fateful September morning is represented in these pages.< Less
This book series contains some 18 years of warning and analysis published within the U.S. Congress by an organization known as the Task Force on Terrorism and Unconventional Warfare. During its... More > remarkably long life, the Task Force issued hundreds of reports comprising thousands of pages of warnings and analyses of the growing specter of the Islamist movement, its increasingly violent nature, and its selection of the Western world as its ultimate target. The depth and breadth of the Task Force's analytical efforts were unparalleled, as were its productive capacity and broad product distribution efforts. The Task Force's astonishing knowledge of the gathering storm that finally broke over New York City and Washington on that fateful September morning is represented in these pages.< Less
This book series contains some 18 years of warning and analysis published within the U.S. Congress by an organization known as the Task Force on Terrorism and Unconventional Warfare. During its... More > remarkably long life, the Task Force issued hundreds of reports comprising thousands of pages of warnings and analyses of the growing specter of the Islamist movement, its increasingly violent nature, and its selection of the Western world as its ultimate target. The depth and breadth of the Task Force's analytical efforts were unparalleled, as were its productive capacity and broad product distribution efforts. The Task Force's astonishing knowledge of the gathering storm that finally broke over New York City and Washington on that fateful September morning is represented in these pages.
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This book series contains some 18 years of warning and analysis published within the U.S. Congress by an organization known as the Task Force on Terrorism and Unconventional Warfare. During its... More > remarkably long life, the Task Force issued hundreds of reports comprising thousands of pages of warnings and analyses of the growing specter of the Islamist movement, its increasingly violent nature, and its selection of the Western world as its ultimate target. The depth and breadth of the Task Force's analytical efforts were unparalleled, as were its productive capacity and broad product distribution efforts. The Task Force's astonishing knowledge of the gathering storm that finally broke over New York City and Washington on that fateful September morning is represented in these pages.< Less
