chapter 4  the business of data

... list of all the methods of a list Note that the returned list contains the names of the methods as strings, not the methods themselves d is a dictionary, so dir(d) returns a list of the names of ... function returns the datatype of any arbitrary object The possible types are listed in the types module This is useful for helper functions that can handle several types of data Example 4.5 Introducing ... the actual doc string of the method is easy The next piece of the puzzle is the use of str around the doc string As you may recall, str is a built-in function that coerces data into a string But...

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... CONTENTS The concept of measurement; What is measured?; The benefits of the measurement; The laws (rules) of measurement; Measure scales; Three standards of a measurement; Psychological ... times (by 200%) than time TV viewing Ex 2: The level of expenditure of funds for the children’s school fee makes up 30% of my income These types of measurement scales assess and compare the physical ... to the level of description, the nature of the physical phenomenon, an attitude, or an assessment paradoxical We use a single word with two-way (+/-) for the level of agreement of the interviewee...

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... forms of teams that are the subject of much business abuse, both in terms of the number of meetings held and in terms of what business people think of most meetings Indeed, business people often ... payoff matrix represented the length of prison sentences, so the higher number represented lower payoffs 25 Of course, not everyone can receive this payoff 26 Jane would receive a lower payoff of ... one of the founders of Intel, Inc Before Intel, Moore and seven other scientists entered a business venture that failed because of what Moore described as “chaos.” Because of the inability of...

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... understanding of the mechanisms of gender differences in the course and outcome of certain diseases For a more complete discussion of women's health, see Chap Care of the Elderly The relative proportion of ... eliminate misreading of handwriting Implementation of infection-control systems, enforcement of hand-washing protocols, and careful oversight of antibiotic use can minimize complications of nosocomial ... occur in at least 5% of hospitalized patients, and the incidence increases with use of a large number of drugs No matter what the clinical situation, it is the responsibility of the physician to...

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... allows rapid amplification and analysis of the gene of interest In addition, PCR enables genetic testing on minimal amounts of DNA extracted from a wide range of tissue sources including leukocytes, ... deduced through the study of RNA or protein (e.g., apoprotein E, hemoglobin, immunohistochemistry) The determination of DNA sequence alterations relies heavily on the use of polymerase chain reaction ... pattern of disease transmission, clinical course, and treatment may differ significantly, depending on the specific gene affected In these cases, the choice of which genes to test is often determined...

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... or derivation of assets in certain circumstances, presumptions about the extent of unlawful benefits flowing from certain offenses, and the reversal of the onus and burden of proof in certain ... Confiscation of the Proceeds of Crime (1990) and the revised Council of Europe Convention on Laundering, Search, Seizure and Confiscation of the Proceeds of Crime and on the Financing of Terrorism ... the final order of confiscation.19 A benefit of criminal prosecution and confiscation is the societal recognition of the criminal nature of corruption and the accountability of the perpetrator...

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... of travel The hotel as a market concept Principal parties in the hotel business Organization chart of a small hotel Leading European hotel groups by country of head of ce Organization chart of ... profit, 1997 Organization chart of a large hotel Organization of the human resource function of a group of hotels Organization of the training function in a group of hotels The hotel as a systems ... oversimplification From the point of view of the community and of hotel customers, the purpose of an hotel is to provide certain facilities and services to its users From the point of view of its employees an...

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... mouse To the right of that are icons for the currently active windows The size expands and contracts depending on the number of different kinds of window active If you select one of these icons with ... that: what we’re doing here is feeding the output of a program into the input of another program That happens so often that there’s a special method of doing it, called pipes: $ ls -l | grep -rw-r ... gets written to disk, and the result is much faster A typical use of pipes are to handle quantities of output data in excess of a screenful You can pipe to the less1 program, which enables you...

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... think of a socket as a "pipe" between the client and server Data written to one end of the pipe appears on the other end of the pipe To create a pipe, call socket( ) To write data into one end of ... parameter is the file handle to write the data to The data to write is specified as the second parameter Finally, the third parameter is the length of the data to write Like this: $buffer="hello world!"; ... to store the data that was read Finally, the third parameter specifies the maximum number of bytes you want to read from the connection The sysread( ) routine returns the number of bytes actually...

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... paramaters my ($full_url, $response, $header, $data) =@_; # assume that response, header, and data will be printed my $all = !($response || $header || $data) ; # if the URL isn't a full URL, assume ... headers, and entity-body data from standard input With this program, you can write shell scripts that specify different methods, custom headers, and submit form data All of this can be done by ... containing the HTML data to go through The second argument is a hash of tags and parameters that we're looking for After going through the HTML, grab_urls( ) returns an array of links that matched...

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... the University of California, Berkeley (UCB) as part of UCB’s public domain version of the UNIX operating system All rights reserved Copyright © 1981, Regents of the University of California NOTWITHSTANDING ... LIMITATION, LOST PROFITS OR LOSS OR DAMAGE TO DATA ARISING OUT OF THE USE OR INABILITY TO USE THIS MANUAL, EVEN IF CISCO OR ITS SUPPLIERS HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES AccessPath, ... Attackers? Why is Data Center Security So Important? Enterprise data centers contain the assets, applications, and data that are often targeted by electronic attacks Endpoints such as data center servers...

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... ease of calculation, availability of data and ease of adjustment for flotation costs when calculating the cost of new ordinary share capital Copyright © 2011 Pearson Australia (a division of Pearson ... next dollar of total new financing  Is an increasing function of the level of total new financing  The ‘break point’ is the level of total new financing at which the cost of one of the financing ... Understand the cost of capital and the specific sources of capital associated with the cost of capital • Determine the cost of debt and preference share capital • Calculate cost of ordinary share...

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... role of time value in finance and the basic patterns of cash flows • Understand present and future value • Describe annuities, and perpetuities • Find future/present values of a stream of cash ... division of Pearson Australia Group Pty Ltd) – 9781442518193/ Gitman et al / Principles of Managerial Finance / 6th edition Future Value Of A Single Amount  Future Value: the value of a present ... division of Pearson Australia Group Pty Ltd) – 9781442518193/ Gitman et al / Principles of Managerial Finance / 6th edition Present Value Of A Single Amount  Present Value: the current value of a...

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... surprising to see them show up more often as a result of future development work Assigning an Explicit Size to Data Items Sometimes kernel code requires data items of a specific size, either to match ... representing a four-byte string'' because the normal C data types are not the same size on all architectures To show the data size of the various C types, the datasize program has been included in the sample ... binary file, or when decoding a network packet The kernel offers the following data types to use whenever you need to know the size of your data All the types are declared in , which...

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... of prospective quality In spite of the lack of historical proof, the consensus opinions of groups of sophisticated bond analysts (i.e., agency ratings) are analyzed as meaningful indicators of ... Balance Sheets: A Study of Twenty Countries, 1688-1978 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1985) is the only source I am aware of that offers a tolerably consistent set of data allowing one to ... total staff of 1,700.”34 The growth of agency employment obviously reflected a growth in the business of credit rating The number of rated issuers has increased by the same order of magnitude...

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... provides practical descriptions of some relational database theory Many of the antipatterns this book covers are the result of misunderstanding database theory Anatomy of an Antipattern Each antipattern ... You use SQL’s data definition language—statements such as CREATE TABLE Query Antipatterns You need to add data to your database and then retrieve data SQL queries are made with data manipulation ... Executive Director of Open Query (http://openquery.com); Coauthor of High Performance MySQL, Second Edition This book is obviously the product of many years of practical experience with SQL databases...

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... tension of water (7.28 × 10–8 MPa m) and r is the radius of curvature of the air–water interface The value of Yp in soil water can become quite negative because the radius of curvature of air–water ... than 60% of the surface area of the roots (see Figure 5.6) Water enters the root most readily in the apical part of the root that includes the root hair zone More mature regions of the root often ... surface of the remaining water is drawn into the interstices of the cell wall (Figure 4.9), where it forms curved air–water interfaces Because of the high surface tension of water, the curvature of...

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... how a pound of profit is made is a building block in the creation of a just capitalism; progressive profitability must replace simple financial profitability as the sole yardstick of business success" ... Economic Sustainability -the business of staying in business 2.0 Methodology 2.0.1 © The SIGMA Project - 2001 Economic Sustainability -the business of staying in business 2.1 Methodology The ... framework of performance measurement" RSA Inquiry Tomorrow’s Company "The business of business is business" Milton Friedman "Economic growth can and should occur without damaging the social fabric of...

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