Ensuring Failure

Author : Sandeep K. S. Gupta,Tridib Mukherjee,Krishna Kumar Venkatasubramanian
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04-18
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781107355033

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Body Area Networks by Sandeep K. S. Gupta,Tridib Mukherjee,Krishna Kumar Venkatasubramanian Pdf

Body area networks (BANs) are networks of wireless sensors and medical devices embedded in clothing, worn on or implanted in the body, and have the potential to revolutionize healthcare by enabling pervasive healthcare. However, due to their critical applications affecting human health, challenges arise when designing them to ensure they are safe for the user, sustainable without requiring frequent battery replacements and secure from interference and malicious attacks. This book lays the foundations of how BANs can be redesigned from a cyber-physical systems perspective (CPS) to overcome these issues. Introducing cutting-edge theoretical and practical techniques and taking into account the unique environment-coupled characteristics of BANs, the book examines how we can re-imagine the design of safe, secure and sustainable BANs. It features real-world case studies, suggestions for further investigation and project ideas, making it invaluable for anyone involved in pervasive and mobile healthcare, telemedicine, medical apps and other cyber-physical systems.

Author : Tom Eisenmann
Publisher : Currency
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780593137024

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Why Startups Fail by Tom Eisenmann Pdf

If you want your startup to succeed, you need to understand why startups fail. “Whether you’re a first-time founder or looking to bring innovation into a corporate environment, Why Startups Fail is essential reading.”—Eric Ries, founder and CEO, LTSE, and New York Times bestselling author of The Lean Startup and The Startup Way Why do startups fail? That question caught Harvard Business School professor Tom Eisenmann by surprise when he realized he couldn’t answer it. So he launched a multiyear research project to find out. In Why Startups Fail, Eisenmann reveals his findings: six distinct patterns that account for the vast majority of startup failures. • Bad Bedfellows. Startup success is thought to rest largely on the founder’s talents and instincts. But the wrong team, investors, or partners can sink a venture just as quickly. • False Starts. In following the oft-cited advice to “fail fast” and to “launch before you’re ready,” founders risk wasting time and capital on the wrong solutions. • False Promises. Success with early adopters can be misleading and give founders unwarranted confidence to expand. • Speed Traps. Despite the pressure to “get big fast,” hypergrowth can spell disaster for even the most promising ventures. • Help Wanted. Rapidly scaling startups need lots of capital and talent, but they can make mistakes that leave them suddenly in short supply of both. • Cascading Miracles. Silicon Valley exhorts entrepreneurs to dream big. But the bigger the vision, the more things that can go wrong. Drawing on fascinating stories of ventures that failed to fulfill their early promise—from a home-furnishings retailer to a concierge dog-walking service, from a dating app to the inventor of a sophisticated social robot, from a fashion brand to a startup deploying a vast network of charging stations for electric vehicles—Eisenmann offers frameworks for detecting when a venture is vulnerable to these patterns, along with a wealth of strategies and tactics for avoiding them. A must-read for founders at any stage of their entrepreneurial journey, Why Startups Fail is not merely a guide to preventing failure but also a roadmap charting the path to startup success.

Author : Edwin Abbott Abbott
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Electronic
ISBN : PRNC:32101068155561

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The Anglican Career of Cardinal Newman by Edwin Abbott Abbott Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1116 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : Nineteenth century
ISBN : UIUC:30112059709508

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The Nineteenth Century by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 900 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : England
ISBN : PRNC:32101033256692

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The Fortnightly Review by Anonim Pdf

Author : Cecil Hay
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 798 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1870
Category : Clubs
ISBN : NYPL:33433071377448

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The Club and the Drawing-room by Cecil Hay Pdf

Author : Massachusetts. State Board of Agriculture
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1002 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : UCAL:$B647713

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Annual Report of the Secretary of the Board of Agriculture by Massachusetts. State Board of Agriculture Pdf

Vols. for 1889-1894, 1906-1912 issued with the Annual report of the Massachusetts Agricultural Experiment Station; vols. for 1895-1905 issued with the Annual report of the Hatch Environment Station of the Massachnusetts Agricultural College.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 960 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:B2973808

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The Fortnightly by Anonim Pdf

Author : Massachusetts
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1484 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Massachusetts
ISBN : CHI:74635360

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Public Documents of Massachusetts by Massachusetts Pdf

Author : Cecil Hay (pseud.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1870
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:600059461

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The club and the drawing-room, pictures of modern life: social, political, and professional by Cecil Hay (pseud.) Pdf

Author : Massachusetts. State Board of Agriculture
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1004 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : UOM:39015073199807

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Annual Report of the Secretary of the Massachusetts State Board of Agriculture ... by Massachusetts. State Board of Agriculture Pdf

Author : Nicholas Morris,David Vines
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2014-08-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780191020773

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Capital Failure by Nicholas Morris,David Vines Pdf

Adam Smith's 'invisible hand' relied on the self-interest of individuals to produce good outcomes. Economists' belief in efficient markets took this idea further by assuming that all individuals are selfish. This belief underpinned financial deregulation, and the theories on incentives and performance which supported it. However, although Adam Smith argued that although individuals may be self-interested, he argued that they also have other-regarding motivations, including a desire for the approbation of others. This book argues that the trust-intensive nature of financial services makes it essential to cultivate such other-regarding motivations, and it provides proposals on how this might be done. Trustworthiness in the financial services industry was eroded by deregulation and by the changes to industry structure which followed. Incentive structures encouraged managers to disguise risky products as yielding high returns, and regulation failed to curb this risk-taking, rent-seeking behaviour. The book makes a number of proposals for reforms of governance, and of legal and regulatory arrangements, to address these issues. The proposals seek to harness values and norms that would reinforce 'other-regarding' behaviour, so that the firms and individuals in the financial services act in a more trustworthy manner. Four requirements are identified which together might secure more strongly trustworthy behaviour: the definition of obligations, the identification of responsibilities, the creation of mechanisms which encourage trustworthiness, and the holding to account of those involved in an appropriate manner. Financial reforms at present lack sufficient focus on these requirements, and the book proposes a range of further actions for specific parts of the financial industry.

Author : Susan Strega,Julia Krane,Rosemary Carlton,Simon Lapierre,Cathy Richardson
Publisher : Fernwood Books Limited
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1552665569

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Failure to Protect by Susan Strega,Julia Krane,Rosemary Carlton,Simon Lapierre,Cathy Richardson Pdf

Failure-to-protect policies and practices are intended to better ensure the safety and protection of children. But as this book demonstrates, these policies actually increase danger for children and for their mothers. While failure to protect is not always encoded in policy documents, practices that engage mothers and hold them responsible for violence in the home, while excusing or ignoring the male offender, are common. Moreover, these actions most often play out on the shoulders of marginalized and already oppressed women and, in a cruel twist, place blame on mothers because they are unable to protect their children from factors beyond their control, such as poverty, racism, intimate partner violence and inadequate housing. In this book, writers from Canada, the U.S., the U.K. and Australia explain how the concept of failure to protect emerged and how it differentially impacts child welfare clients by virtue of their gender, race and class positions. Chapters dedicated to child sexual abuse and intimate partner abuse, for example, illustrate just how ineffective failure-to-protect policies are at protecting both women and children. Beyond a critique of child protection systems, the book proposes innovative and effective alternatives to policies and practices informed by failure to protect. This edited collection compels us to think critically about knowledge that is taken for granted and opens up possibilities for practices that are not only grounded in social justice but fulfill the mandate of child welfare to effectively protect children."

Author : Orlando López
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2020-12-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000222999

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Ensuring the Integrity of Electronic Health Records by Orlando López Pdf

Data integrity is a critical aspect to the design, implementation, and usage of any system which stores, processes, or retrieves data. The overall intent of any data integrity technique is the same: ensure data is recorded exactly as intended and, upon later retrieval, ensure the data is the same as it was when originally recorded. Any alternation to the data is then traced to the person who made the modification. The integrity of data in a patient’s electronic health record is critical to ensuring the safety of the patient. This book is relevant to production systems and quality control systems associated with the manufacture of pharmaceuticals and medical device products and updates the practical information to enable better understanding of the controls applicable to e-records. The book highlights the e-records suitability implementation and associated risk-assessed controls, and e-records handling. The book also provides updated regulatory standards from global regulatory organizations such as MHRA, Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (UK); FDA, Food and Drug Administration (US); National Medical Products Association (China); TGA, Therapeutic Goods Administration (Australia); SIMGP, Russia State Institute of Medicines and Good Practices; and the World Health Organization, to name a few.

Author : Justin Reich
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-15
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780674249660

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Failure to Disrupt by Justin Reich Pdf

A Science “Reading List for Uncertain Times” Selection “A must-read for anyone with even a passing interest in the present and future of higher education.” —Tressie McMillan Cottom, author of Lower Ed “A must-read for the education-invested as well as the education-interested.” —Forbes Proponents of massive online learning have promised that technology will radically accelerate learning and democratize education. Much-publicized experiments, often underwritten by Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, have been launched at elite universities and elementary schools in the poorest neighborhoods. But a decade after the “year of the MOOC,” the promise of disruption seems premature. In Failure to Disrupt, Justin Reich takes us on a tour of MOOCs, autograders, “intelligent tutors,” and other edtech platforms and delivers a sobering report card. Institutions and investors favor programs that scale up quickly at the expense of true innovation. Learning technologies—even those that are free—do little to combat the growing inequality in education. Technology is a phenomenal tool in the right hands, but no killer app will shortcut the hard road of institutional change. “I’m not sure if Reich is as famous outside of learning science and online education circles as he is inside. He should be...Reading and talking about Failure to Disrupt should be a prerequisite for any big institutional learning technology initiatives coming out of COVID-19.” —Inside Higher Ed “The desire to educate students well using online tools and platforms is more pressing than ever. But as Justin Reich illustrates...many recent technologies that were expected to radically change schooling have instead been used in ways that perpetuate existing systems and their attendant inequalities.” —Science