YFOSBAPP Database A database is information organized in such a way that a computer program can quickly select pieces of data. You can think of it as an electronic filing system. A database is an organized collection of data. It is the collection of schemas, tables, queries, reports, views and other objects. Data Integration Data integration involves combining data residing in different sources and providing users with a unified view of these data. This process becomes significant
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There is plenty of information around - but often too much of the wrong kind and not enough if the right kind. Marketing Information systems R.A. PROCTOR The Nature of Marketing Marketing management is about finding ways of satisfying customer wants and needs, while achieving organizational objectives or requirements in terms of profit or some other measure of corporate performance. It brings together all customer-impinging resources, such as product design and specification, advertising
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[Note: This text was originally printed as a chapter in A Primer for new Institutional Researchers and is reprinted here with permission from the Association for Institutional Research. The bibliographical citation is: Morrison, J. L. (1992). Environmental scanning. In M. A. Whitely, J. D. Porter, and R. H. Fenske (Eds.), A primer for new institutional researchers (pp. 86-99). Tallahassee, Florida: The Association for Institutional Research.] Editor's Note: The Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature
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Advanced Manufacturing Competency Model Updated April 2010 Employment and Training Administration United States Department of Labor 1 www.doleta.gov Updated April 2010 Advanced Manufacturing Competency Model Table of Contents About the Model 3 Tier One: Personal Effectiveness Competencies 4 Interpersonal Skills 4 Integrity 4 Professionalism 4 Initiative
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Mobile Value Added Services: A Business Growth Opportunity for Women Entrepreneurs 3 Acknowledgements The Cherie Blair Foundation for Women is extremely grateful to the following people and organisations for generously contributing their time and expertise to assist in the research and preparation of this report: Adia Sowho, Etisalat Nigeria Akinwale Goodluck, MTN Alan David Johnson, IFC Jerome Fromager, Mobinil John Irungu Ngahu, IFC Joshua Haynes, USAID Andriantsoa Ramanantsialonina
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1.2. TRENDS AND PATTERNS OF MIGRATION TO AND FROM CARIBBEAN COUNTRIES Elizabeth Thomas-Hope[1] INTRODUCTION Migration has become deeply embedded in the psyche of Caribbean peoples over the past century and a half. It has evolved as the main avenue for upward mobility through the accumulation of capital – financial and social. Thus the propensity for migration is high and there is a general responsiveness to the opportunities for moving whenever they occur. At times these
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CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background of the Study In an increasingly global marketplace many businesses are developing an international presence. They therefore need solutions robust enough to cope with multiple government legislation, multiple currencies, multiple languages and which can offer integration, customization, multiple platform options and more. As a global business we understand these challenges and have developed Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and Customer Relationship
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is not satisfactory. The paper includes comment on the performance of the estimation models and description of several newer approaches to cost estimation. Keywords: project estimation, effort estimation, cost models. 1. Introduction In recent years, software has become the most expensive component of computer system projects. The bulk of the cost of software development is due to the human effort, and most cost estimation methods focus on this aspect and give estimates in terms of person-months
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Research Notes and Comments A Bibliographical Essay on Decision Making IT has been said that administration is the critical organizational process, making possible production, procurement, and the rest; that leadership is the heart of administration; and that decision making is the key to leadership. Inherent in these statements are some remarkably accurate characterizations of current administrative theory. One thing they seem to imply is a coherence and a unity in administrative theory which
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video. Our goal is to establish a simple baseline method for human identification based on body shape and gait. Our project describes a representation of the dynamics of human walking action for the purpose of person identification and classification by gait appearance. The outer contour of the binarized silhouette of a walking person is chosen as the basic image feature. This project is also based on face recognition software to obtain recognition in a short period of time interval after the image
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