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Mechanics of Financial Accounting
by Jacob Cohen David F. HawkinsExplains in simple terms and numerical examples how the language of accounting is spoken and communicated to financial statement users. Describes terms such as "debits," "credits," "journal entries," "t-accounts," and "financial statements."
Mechanics of User Identification and Authentication: Fundamentals of Identity Management
by Dobromir TodorovUser identification and authentication are absolutely essential to modern security. Mechanics of User Identification and Authentication presents the general philosophy of user authentication and access control. Introducing key concepts, this text outlines the process of controlled access to resources through authentication, authorization, and accounting. It provides specific information on the user authentication process for both UNIX and Windows. Addressing more advanced applications and services, the author presents common security models such as GSSAPI and discusses authentication architecture. Each method is presented with a specific authentication scenario.
Mechanism Design for Sustainability
by Zongwei LuoThis book provides advanced analytics and decision management techniques and tools for developing sustainable competitive advantages in the studied target context. In order to achieve sustainable economy, "the capacity to endure," it is essential to understand and study the mechanisms for interactions and impact from and among these perspectives.
Mechanism Design: A Linear Programming Approach
by Rakesh V. VohraMechanism design is an analytical framework for thinking clearly and carefully about what exactly a given institution can achieve when the information necessary to make decisions is dispersed and privately held. This analysis provides an account of the underlying mathematics of mechanism design based on linear programming. Three advantages characterize the approach. The first is simplicity: arguments based on linear programming are both elementary and transparent. The second is unity: the machinery of linear programming provides a way to unify results from disparate areas of mechanism design. The third is reach: the technique offers the ability to solve problems that appear to be beyond solutions offered by traditional methods. No claim is made that the approach advocated should supplant traditional mathematical machinery. Rather, the approach represents an addition to the tools of the economic theorist who proposes to understand economic phenomena through the lens of mechanism design.
Mechanism and Causality in Biology and Economics
by Szu-Ting Chen Hsiang-Ke Chao Roberta L. MillsteinThis volume addresses fundamental issues in the philosophy of science in the context of two most intriguing fields: biology and economics. Written by authorities and experts in the philosophy of biology and economics, Mechanism and Causality in Biology and Economics provides a structured study of the concepts of mechanism and causality in these disciplines and draws careful juxtapositions between philosophical apparatus and scientific practice. By exploring the issues that are most salient to the contemporary philosophies of biology and economics and by presenting comparative analyses, the book serves as a platform not only for gaining mutual understanding between scientists and philosophers of the life sciences and those of the social sciences, but also for sharing interdisciplinary research that combines both philosophical concepts in both fields. The book begins by defining the concepts of mechanism and causality in biology and economics, respectively. The second and third parts investigate philosophical perspectives of various causal and mechanistic issues in scientific practice in the two fields. These two sections include chapters on causal issues in the theory of evolution; experiments and scientific discovery; representation of causal relations and mechanism by models in economics. The concluding section presents interdisciplinary studies of various topics concerning extrapolation of life sciences and social sciences, including chapters on the philosophical investigation of conjoining biological and economic analyses with, respectively, demography, medicine and sociology.
Mechanismen und Einzigartigkeit von Acceleratoren: Beschleuniger, Weichensteller und Brückenbauer
by Thomas UlmerAcceleratoren sind ein neues, schnell wachsendes Element in unternehmerischen Ökosystemen und trotz ihrer erst kurzen Geschichte weit verbreitet. Das Wissen über die Auswirkungen von Acceleratoren auf die Entwicklung der teilnehmenden Start-ups ist jedoch nach wie vor begrenzt. Thomas Ulmer hat mit Hilfe eines qualitativen Forschungsdesigns, basierend auf 21 Interviews, die wertsteigernden Mechanismen von Acceleratoren aus Sicht von Gründern untersucht. Dabei zeigt sich erstens, dass Acceleratoren jeden Schritt der Ressourcenmobilisierung erleichtern, indem sie Unsicherheiten reduzieren und Defizite der Gründer und Start-ups kompensieren. Zweitens wird der Gründungsprozess durch Acceleratoren auch besser strukturiert, da die Teilnehmer eine Gründeridentität aufbauen und der Gründungsprozess selbst professionalisiert wird. Schließlich unterstützen Acceleratoren Start-ups beim Aufbau einer Ressourcenbasis, indem sie zum einen Ressourcen unmittelbar bereitstellen und zum anderen Brücken zur Akquise verschiedener Ressourcen schlagen. Neben diesem theoretischen Erkenntnisgewinn können auch eine Reihe von Praxisimplikationen abgeleitet werden, die die Arbeit für Gründer, Manager von Acceleratoren und Entscheidungsträger der Politik interessant machen.
Mechanisms for Implementing IT Governance
by Jeanne W. Ross Peter WeillThis chapter discusses how IT decisions are made and monitored by focusing on the formal mechanisms-structures, processes, and communications-enterprises deploy to implement IT governance. Examples of governance mechanisms used by Carlson Companies and other leading enterprises illustrate how well-implemented mechanisms can encourage desirable IT-related behavior. This chapter was originally published as chapter 4 of "IT Governance: How Top Performers Manage IT Decision Rights for Superior Results."
Mechanisms for Long-Term Innovation: Technology and Business Development of Reverse Osmosis Membranes (Advances in Japanese Business and Economics #31)
by Yaichi Aoshima Masatoshi FujiwaraThis book explores how a long-term innovation can take place based on historical analyses of the development of reverse osmosis (RO) membrane from the early 1950s to the mid-2010s. The RO membrane is a critical material for desalination that is a key to solve water shortages becoming serious in many places of the world. The authors conducted in-depth field studies as well as analyses of rich archival data to demonstrate how researchers, engineers, managers, entrepreneurs, and policymakers interacted each other for this material innovation to be realized. A series of historical analyses in this book uncovered that initial government supports, strategic niche markets, emergence of breakthrough technology, and company-specific rationales played significant roles for companies to overcome four types of uncertainty, technological, market, competition, and social/organizational ones, and enabled the companies to persistently invest in the development and commercialization of the RO membrane. This book depicts that innovation does not arise on a sudden, but that it is actualized through long lasting process with turns and twists, which is driven by many non-economic rationales beyond economic motives.
Mechanizing Hypothesis Formation: Principles and Case Studies
by Jan Rauch Milan Šimůnek David Chudán Petr MášaMechanizing hypothesis formation is an approach to exploratory data analysis. Its development started in the 1960s inspired by the question “can computers formulate and verify scientific hypotheses?”. The development resulted in a general theory of logic of discovery. It comprises theoretical calculi dealing with theoretical statements as well as observational calculi dealing with observational statements concerning finite results of observation. Both calculi are related through statistical hypotheses tests. A GUHA method is a tool of the logic of discovery. It uses a one-to-one relation between theoretical and observational statements to get all interesting theoretical statements. A GUHA procedure generates all interesting observational statements and verifies them in a given observational data. Output of the procedure consists of all observational statements true in the given data. Several GUHA procedures dealing with association rules, couples of association rules, action rules, histograms, couples of histograms, and patterns based on general contingency tables are involved in the LISp-Miner system developed at the Prague University of Economics and Business. Various results about observational calculi were achieved and applied together with the LISp-Miner system. The book covers a brief overview of logic of discovery. Many examples of applications of the GUHA procedures to solve real problems relevant to data mining and business intelligence are presented. An overview of recent research results relevant to dealing with domain knowledge in data mining and its automation is provided. Firsthand experiences with implementation of the GUHA method in the Python language are presented.
MedCath Corporation (C)
by Regina E. Herzlinger Kevin Schulman F. Fallon UpkeMedCath is a horizontally integrated chain of heart hospitals that partners with local cardiologists. It claims that its focus leads to better and cheaper results than those of an everything-for-everybody general hospital. Community hospitals generally vehemently oppose their entry into a new area. What options does MedCath have?
MedNet.com Confronts 'Click-Through' Competition
by Allegra YoungIn January 2007, "MedNet.com" is a leading website that provides science-based health information free of charge to online visitors. MedNet communicates with traditional web journalism, interactive software, and social media tools such as blogs, video reports and virtual reality tours. The site operates conservatively within the government-regulated health information market. MedNet's business model relies on advertising sales, primarily to pharmaceutical companies. MedNet competes for advertising dollars with large search engines, category specific sites, and clinical trial sites. In 2007, large search engines charge for "results," or "click throughs." Other sites, such as online newspapers, charge for impressions. Advertising campaigns depend on numerous variables (an efficient audience size, audience frame of mind, willingness to complete a transaction, etc.) In the face of fierce advertising competition, MedNet is forced to defend key elements of its business model vis-a-vis a large search engine. However, in defending the advertising value MedNet delivers, MedNet executives may be building the case for why niche sites may be a better investment for the advertiser's budget.
MedRevolution: Neue Technologien am Puls der Patienten
by Boris BogdanIn naher Zukunft regiert der Roboter im OP, erscheint der Patient im Double als Hologramm, kommen Ersatzorgane aus dem Drucker, überwachen Gesundheits-Apps Gesunde wie Kranke, werden Nanokapseln als Medizin durch den Körper geschleust - was sich wie Fiction anhört, steht unmittelbar vor der Realisierung. Vieles davon ist bereits möglich, wartet auf den flächendeckenden Einsatz. Die Digitalisierung im Verbund mit einer Reihe weiterer neuer Technologien wird innerhalb weniger Jahre Medizin, Medizintechnik und Gesundheitswesen revolutionieren. Die Gesundheitsversorgung wie wir sie heute kennen, wird sich dadurch grundlegend neu erfinden: Der Fokus wird von der Behandlung von Symptomen auf die Prävention und Erhaltung der Gesundheit wandern. Daten werden eine nie dagewesene Transparenz bieten. Konsumenten werden mündiger und selbstständiger ihre Gesundheit steuern. Dieses Buch stellt die technologischen Kräfte, die zu dieser tektonischen Verschiebung führen und fester Bestandteil unserer Gesundheitsversorgung werden, einzeln vor: Cloud Computing, Internet of Things, künstliche Intelligenz, 3-D-Druck, Virtual Realilty, Nanomedizin. Es beleuchtet zugleich die gesellschaftlichen Herausforderungen und zeigt in einem Ausblick,was sich dadurch für Konsumenten und Patienten ändern wird.
MedSource Technologies
by Robert S. HuckmanConsiders the issues facing Richard Effress, MedSource's chairman and CEO, as the firm approaches the Precision Cut project--the first test of MedSource's capabilities as an integrated, contract manufacturer in the medical device industry. MedSource Technologies was formed in 1999 by the simultaneous acquisitions of seven component manufacturing companies serving original equipment manufacturers in the medical device industry. The firm's model of integrated manufacturing aimed to leverage its expertise in manufacturing to become a single-source supplier of customized services in product design and development, rapid prototyping, component manufacturing, device assembly, and supply chain management.
MedVal Ventures
by Regina E. HerzlingerIs medical travel a viable business opportunity? A group of MBA students consider the pros and cons of starting a business that would send people from the U.S. to India for elective non-emergency surgeries.
Medalogix
by Matthew Preble Richard G. HamermeshThis case examines an exciting new approach to health care that will help care providers identify when hospice services are the appropriate type of care for patients. The company, Medalogix, already has a product on the market that uses a proprietery algorithm to consider dozens of factors and determine when a patient qualifies for a hospice care eligability review. The product has started to gain traction, and the case explores how Medalogix can scale and disseminate its innovative product.
Medell n Reborn (A)
by Ashish Nanda Margaret Cross Jorge TamayoIn 2003, mathematics professor Sergio Fajardo was elected mayor of Medell n, Colombia - one of the most violent cities in the world at that time. As mayor, Fajardo faced a host of daunting challenges. Rampant gang violence had raised Medell n's homicide rate dramatically, and a history of corruption had undermined the public's trust in the local government and law enforcement institutions. The under-resourced local police did not communicate clearly with the mayor, and the city was approaching bankruptcy. To address these concerns, Fajardo would need to not only develop a strategy, but also convince the majority of his 21-member city council - among whom he had only one ally - to support it. Fajardo needed to decide how to prioritize the many financial, legal, and cultural concerns in Medell n to bring the city closer to peace and prosperity.
Media Backends: Digital Infrastructures and Sociotechnical Relations (Geopolitics of Information)
by Jonathan Cohn Vicki Mayer Ranjit Singh Mark Andrejevic Lisa Parks Zala Volcic Amanda Lagerkvist Anne Kaun Tim Markham Kaarina Nikunen Stine Lomborg Rahul Mukherjee Vibodh Parthasarathi Philippe Bouquillion Jacek Smolicki Fredrik Stiernstedt Christine Ithurbide Faithe Day Sander De Ridder Fatima Gaw Alexis Logsdon Philipp Seuferling Matilda Tudor Julia VelkovaExploring how we make, distribute, and consume today’s media systems Media backends--the electronics, labor, and operations behind our screens--significantly influence our understanding of the sociotechnical relations, economies, and operations of media. Lisa Parks, Julia Velkova, and Sander De Ridder assemble essays that delve into the evolving politics of the media infrastructural landscape. Throughout, the contributors draw on feminist, queer, and intersectional criticism to engage with infrastructural and industrial issues. This focus reflects a concern about the systemic inequalities that emerge when tech companies and designers fail to address workplace discrimination and algorithmic violence and exclusions. Moving from smart phones to smart dust, the essayists examine topics like artificial intelligence, human-machine communication, and links between digital infrastructures and public service media alongside investigations into the algorithmic backends at Netflix and Spotify, Google’s hyperscale data centers, and video-on-demand services in India. A fascinating foray into an expanding landscape of media studies, Media Backends illuminates the behind-the-screen processes influencing our digital lives. Contributors: Mark Andrejevic, Philippe Bouquillion, Jonathan Cohn, Faithe J. Day, Sander De Ridder, Fatima Gaw, Christine Ithurbide, Anne Kaun, Amanda Lagerkvist, Alexis Logsdon, Stine Lomborg, Tim Markham, Vicki Mayer, Rahul Mukherjee, Kaarina Nikunen, Lisa Parks, Vibodh Parthasarathi, Philipp Seuferling, Ranjit Singh, Jacek Smolicki, Fredrik Stiernstedt, Matilda Tudor, Julia Velkova, and Zala Volcic
Media Career Guide: Preparing For Jobs In The 21st Century (Twelfth Edition)
by Sherri Hope Culver Nichole HarkenTargeted to today's media-savvy students, the eleventh edition of Media Career Guide includes the latest information on the emerging employment opportunities in mobile media, as well as tips for developing and honing professional networking skills. This essential manual provides an updated, comprehensive directory of media jobs, and walks readers through the entire job-search process, from researching a company to applying for jobs to displaying appropriate behavior in the workplace.
Media Career Guide: Preparing for Jobs in the 21st Century
by Sherri Hope CulverIn this economic climate, students need more help than ever navigating the media job marketplace. By providing practical career tips and current statistics, the Media Career Guide is the ideal starting point for a successful communication-related job search. Beginning with an overview of today’s employment environment and opportunities, the manual guides readers through the process of researching, interviewing for, and landing that perfect media job. The new edition now offers career advice from real media professionals and emphasizes the importance of creating and maintaining a professional online presence for the workplace. And, with added information on how to start your own business, students will find this guide to be a useful resource no matter what media career path they choose.
Media Center in der Unternehmenskommunikation: Wie Sie eine professionelle digitale Content-Plattform aufbauen, etablieren und nachhaltig betreiben
by Andreas Kohne Marc J. Friedrich Christine SiepeDieses Fachbuch beleuchtet, wie Unternehmen ein professionelles Media Center für ihre externe Kommunikation aufbauen und effektiv nutzen können. Media Center stellen auf Unternehmenswebsites und -microsites umfangreiches Material wie Texte, Bilder, Grafiken, Videos und Audio-Dokumente crossmedial zur Verfügung. Alle Inhalte werden auf individuell definierte Zielgruppen – wie beispielsweise Journalisten, Blogger, Kunden oder Investoren – optimal ausgerichtet. Das Autorenteam beschreibt konkret und praxisnah die verschiedenen strukturellen und organisatorischen Ausprägungen eines Media Centers. Es wird erläutert, welche Prozesse, Tools, Systeme und Experten benötigt werden, um das Unternehmen optimal nach außen zu präsentieren. Zusätzlich wird erläutert, wie es gelingt, selektiv Content aus dem Unternehmen strukturiert zu erfassen, hochwertig medial aufzubereiten und zu positionieren.Mit wertvollen Tipps aus der Praxis und umfangreichen Checklisten für die Implementierung.
Media Corporate Entrepreneurship
by Min HangThis book examines corporate entrepreneurship start-ups in the media industries and provides a timely solution to fill in the gap of academic as well as practical knowledge in this regard. It brings together new media venturing practices in the west and east and covers new media opportunities in various emerging forms, including gaming, Internet, mobile and webcasting business. The book presents case studies from major transnational media companies, highlights the industry specific characteristics of corporate entrepreneurship, and thus contributes to understanding the links between new business venturing and certain particular industries, so as to further explore the industry specific characteristics of entrepreneurship. This book also suggests a new approach to integrate economic and management theories for the study of media corporate entrepreneurship; while the two sets of theories are conflicting with each other, the book proposes a contingent model to reconcile different theories. This is an innovative approach and will be a valuable starting point to construct an interdisciplinary theoretical framework for new media business studies.
Media Corruption in the Age of Information (Library of Public Policy and Public Administration #15)
by Edward H. SpenceThis book provides an applied model of corruption to identify, analyse, and assess the ethics of major types of corruption in the media involving practices such as cash-for-comment, media release journalism, including video news releases (VNRs), fake news, deep fakes, and staged news. The book starts with a conceptual philosophical analysis of corruption in general, followed by an in-depth analysis of media corruption, across its various transformations, from the legacy media of the 4th Estate (e.g. The UK Guardian) to the digital media of the 5th Estate (e.g. Social Media and Wikileaks) to the Network Media of the 6th Estate (e.g. Facebook and Google), and provides key case studies as practical illustrations and contextualisation of those major types of media corruption. It explains how the conversion of the two forms of media communication, corporate and social digital communication, as expressed in the symbiotic relationship between the 4th Estate and the 5th Estate exposes and enables the reporting of corruption, signalling a major shift in the way the media itself can provide an effective means for anti-corruption measures against major practices of corruption that would have otherwise gone unnoticed.
Media Culture in Transnational Asia: Convergences and Divergences (Global Media and Race)
by John Gagnon Hamid Abdollahyan Asantha U. Attanayake W. Michelle Wang Maya Dodd Hyesu Park Rea Amit Shubhda Arora Juhi Jotwani Dorothy Wai Lau Hiroki Yamamoto Sabiha Huq Darlene Machell Espena Alireza Dehghan Hoornaz KeshavarzianMedia Culture in Transnational Asia: Convergences and Divergences examines contemporary media use within Asia, where over half of the world’s population resides. The book addresses media use and practices by looking at the transnational exchanges of ideas, narratives, images, techniques, and values and how they influence media consumption and production throughout Asia, including: Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, South Korea, Singapore, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iran and many others. The book’s contributors are especially interested in investigating media and their intersections with narrative, medium, technologies, and culture through the lenses that are particularly Asian by turning to Asian socio-political and cultural milieus as the meaningful interpretive framework to understand media. This timely and cutting-edge research is essential reading for those interested in transnational and global media studies.
Media Cultures: Reappraising Transnational Media (Routledge Library Editions: Cultural Studies)
by Michael Skovmand Kim Christian SchrøderThis book, first published in 1992, challenges the elitism and cultural pessimism of much Anglo-American and Continental cultural debate with regard to the role and power of transnational media practices. In a series of ten innovative essays, an international group of media researchers explores a wide range of cultural practices across national borders and the cultural politics associated with these everyday practices and debates.
Media Economics
by Todd Chambers Rodney A. Carveth Benjamin J. Bates Alan B. Albarran Alison AlexanderU.S. economists review the economic structures of media economics and provide descriptions of practices within the particular sectors of American media. The overall value and structure of the domestic and international communications industry is presented from a mainstream perspective in a series of four contributions, while the remaining nine papers provide overviews of the economics of daily newspapers, books and magazines, broadcast and cable television, Hollywood, radio, advertising, and Internet media. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)