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Intelligence Integration in Distributed Knowledge Management

 Intelligence Integration in Distributed Knowledge Management

Dariusz Krol, Ngoc Thanh Nguyen “Intelligence Integration in Distributed Knowledge Management”
IGI Global | 2008-07-16 | ISBN: 1599045761 | 388 pages | PDF | 6,2 MB

Intelligent methods are used in distributed environments in countless ways, with examples such as propagation, communication, collaboration, and cooperation. With the abundant purposes for intelligence in distributed systems, it is pertinent for researchers, technicians, and students in various areas of computer science to discover the most current and definitive advances in the field. Intelligence Integration in Distributed Knowledge Management provides recent technologies and practices in intelligence for distributed systems while covering major aspects of the agent based systems. This book is a must for those striving to enhance their understanding of distributed knowledge management and extend their ideas of cooperation using for numerous real-world problems.

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Oxford Handbook of International Business

 Oxford Handbook of International Business
Helclac, “Oxford Handbook of International Business”
Oxford University Press, USA | 2001 | ISBN: 0199241821 | 896 pages | PDF | 4,5 MB

Review
“Twenty-eight original chapters from the world’s most distinguished IB scholars are united as a whole, reflecting both the present structure of the field and the major intellectual issues involved.”–Business Horizons

Product Description
Comprises 28 original chapters from the world’s leading scholars in the field. United, these reflect both the present structure of the field and the major intellectual issues of current and likely future interest.

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Getting Started in Real Estate Investment Trusts

 Getting Started in Real Estate Investment Trusts

Getting Started in Real Estate Investment Trusts
Wiley | 2006-07-11 | ISBN: 0471769193 | 304 pages | PDF | 5 MB

Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) offer small investors the chance to participate in a broad range of real estate opportunities across most major property sectors and geographic locations. But to make the most out of this proven investment vehicle, you must first gain a firm understanding of it.
Getting Started in Real Estate Investment Trusts provides an accessible introduction to the benefits and performance characteristics of REITs and examines the role they play in a well-diversified investment portfolio.
Divided into three comprehensive parts, Getting Started in Real Estate Investment Trusts covers a wide variety of issues within this field, including:
* The legal and financial history of REITs
* How REITs behave as an investment class and how they are best integrated into an investor’s portfolio
* The fundamental economic issues that affect real estate and how they impact REITs
* Specific methods for analyzing REITs as an investment
* Different types of REITs: residential, office, industrial, retail property, and more
Filled with in-depth insight and practical advice, Getting Started in Real Estate Investment Trusts is a valuable road map to an investment that can help stabilize and grow your portfolio for years to come.

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5 Magic Paths to Making a Fortune in Real Estate

 5 Magic Paths to Making a Fortune in Real Estate

5 Magic Paths to Making a Fortune in Real Estate
Wiley | 2004-05-21 | ISBN: 0471548251 | 336 pages | PDF | 5 MB

More and more people are discovering that real estate investing is a safe and affordable way to increase their cash flow and build lasting wealth. If you want to achieve financial freedom, then look no further. 5 Magic Paths to Making a Fortune in Real Estate reveals the proven real estate investment strategies that many of today’s millionaires used to make their fortunes. In fact, you don’t even need a lot of money to start investing and start putting cash in your pocket today!

Real estate expert James Lumley offers simple, straightforward explanations of the most common and lucrative approaches to property investment–including fixer-uppers, lease/options, wholesales, buy-and-hold, and single-and multifamily rentals. You’ll understand all the basics of real estate and learn to use these five strategies to make a killing in any economy. Packed with new information–including sections on the IRS’s simplified tax exchange rules and the capital gains exclusion–5 Magic Paths to Making a Fortune in Real Estate will show you how to:

* Find foreclosed, repossessed, or condemned properties
* Research the markets and perform valuations
* Determine what you can safely afford
* Negotiate with sellers and buyers
* Find the best financing terms, including seller financing
* Price and perform money-making repairs
* Work with agents and contractors
* And much more!

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The Insider’s Guide to 52 Homes in 52 Weeks: Acquire Your Real Estate Fortune Today

 The Insiders Guide to 52 Homes in 52 Weeks: Acquire Your Real Estate Fortune Today

The Insider’s Guide to 52 Homes in 52 Weeks: Acquire Your Real Estate Fortune Today
Wiley | February 3, 2006 | ISBN:0471757055 | 208 pages | PDF | 5 Mb

A real estate guide unlike any other, The Insider’s Guide to 52 Homes in 52 Weeks is the true story of a seemingly impossible investing challenge and the two investors who pulled it off–all to prove that you can do it too.

Successful real estate investors Dolf de Roos and Gene Burns wanted to show skeptical investors that there are always great deals to be found. So they set out to buy fifty-two homes in just one year. Not only did they succeed, they did it in less than ten months and earned a lot of money in the process! Tracing this ten-month real estate adventure in depth and detail, The Insider’s Guide to 52 Homes in 52 Weeks explains the authors’ strategies and techniques for acquiring almost any property in any market. Inside, you’ll find step-by-step guidance on:
* Finding the perfect market to invest in
* Designing your strategy and getting started
* Making your first deal
* Finding the help you need to succeed
* Changing strategies midstream
* Networking to find new leads and opportunities
* And much more

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The Cycle of Leadership: How Great Leaders Teach Their Companies to Win

 The Cycle of Leadership: How Great Leaders Teach Their Companies to Win

Noel M. Tichy, “The Cycle of Leadership: How Great Leaders Teach Their Companies to Win”
Collins Business | 2004 | ISBN: 0066620570 | 464 pages | PDF | 10,7 MB

In The Leadership Engine, Noel Tichy showed how great companies strive to create leaders at all levels of the organization, and how those leaders actively develop future generations of leaders. In this new book, he takes the theme further, showing how great companies and their leaders develop their business knowledge into “teachable points of view,” spend a great portion of their time giving their learnings to others, sharing best practices, and how they in turn learn and receive business ideas/knowledge from the employees they are teaching.

Calling this exchange a virtuous teaching cycle, Professor Tichy shows how business builders from Jack Welch at GE to Joe Liemandt at Trilogy create organizations that foster this knowledge exchange and how their efforts result in smarter, more agile companies, and winning results. Some of these ideas were showcased in Tichy’s recent Harvard Business Review article entitled, “No Ordinary Boot Camp.”

Using examples from GE, Ford, Dell, Southwest Airlines and many others, Tichy presents and analyzes these principles in action and shows how managers can begin to transform their own businesses into teaching organizations and, consequently, better-performing companies.

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Valuing Environmental Preferences: Theory and Practice of the Contingent Valuation Method in the US, EU, and …

 Valuing Environmental Preferences: Theory and Practice of the Contingent Valuation Method in the US, EU, and ...

Instant Info Riches
Publisher: Oxford University Press | ISBN-10: 0198288530 | edition June 24, 1999 | PDF | 672 pages | 4.86 mb

This is a comprehensive and up-to-date treatment of the Contingent Valuation Method (CVM) which asks what people would be willing to pay for an environmental good or attribute, or willing to accept for its loss. CVM is currently central to the assessment of environmental damage and has been the subject of considerable debate, especially in the case of the Exxon Valdex disaster in Alaska. Aimed at specialists, this book contains specially commissioned papers from both sides of that debate, as well as from commentators who see it as an interesting experimental tool regardless of the question of absolute validity of estimates.

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Productivity Measurement and Analysis

 Productivity Measurement and Analysis

Productivity Measurement and Analysis
OECD Publishing | ISBN: 9264044558 | 2009-05-12 | PDF | 554 pages | 5 Mb

Productivity measurement and analysis are the main topics addressed in this book, which brings together contributions presented and discussed in two international workshops organized by the Statistics Directorate and the Directorate for Science, Technology and Industry (DSTI) of the OECD. The first workshop was organized jointly by the OECD with Fundaccion BBVA and the Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Económicas and held in Madrid in October 2005, and the second one was organized jointly by the OECD and the Swiss Federal Statistical Office and the State Secretary for Economic Affairs of Switzerland and held in Bern in October 2006. The two workshops brought together representatives of statistical offices, central banks and other branches of government in OECD countries that are engaged in the analysis and the measurement of productivity developments at aggregate and industry levels.

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Natural Gas Market Review 2009 (International Energy Agency)

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Natural Gas Market Review 2009 (International Energy Agency)
International Energy Agency | ISBN: 9264064133 | PDF | 194 pages | June 30 2009 | 4 MB

Natural Gas Market Review 2009 by International Energy Agency
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