This book provides extensive insight into the possibilities and challenges of XML in building new information management solutions in networked organizations. After a brief introduction to Web communication features and XML fundamentals, the book examines the benefits of adopting XML and illustrates various types of XML use: XML in document management; XML for data-centric and multimedia components; XML as a format for metadata, including metadata for the Semantic Web; and XML in support o...

Take a Journey with the Master of the Urban Landscape!John Salminen is one of the most accomplished watercolor artists working today, earning awards and recognition all over the world. Whether depicting the trees of Central Park, the architecture of San Francisco or the busy streets of Beijing, John Salminen's watercolor paintings are snapshots of urban life that are both rich in detail and universal in appeal.In Master of the Urban Landscape, Salm...

Dumpsite, the adventures of Mudd and Mother (M&M), two kids from New Jersey as they wend along their path to the world of music. The Dumpsite is a thrilling story of treachery, deceit and thievery. What started as two young musicians playing polka music in an old apple orchard pavilion, find themselves going to New York City, Chicago and continuing to the Boardwalk of Atlantic City. In Saddle River Township, New Jersey back in October 1951 their lives would change forever. The unassuming d...

Aversa and Salminen have gone beyond the call of duty. Hammer (Retribution) scores high points in mystery, adventure, retribution, music, and the treasure of the Jersey Coast Pirates. A vigilant study of many history books has brought our authors to a looming crisis beyond their capabilities. What ever happened to all the talked about treasure buried by the pirates who made their way into the harbors and bays along the Jersey coast? Very little if any has been found of the vast hoard claim...

Aversa and Salminen have again gone beyond the call of duty. Hammer II (Redirectribution) scores high points in mystery, adventure, retribution, music, and the treasure of the Jersey Coast Pirates. A vigilant study of many history books has brought our authors to a looming crisis beyond their capabilities. What ever happened to all the talked about treasure buried by the pirates who made their way into the harbors and bays along the Jersey coast? Very little if any has been found of the va...

This book examines the international picture regarding probiotic food applications, placing a particular emphasis on the legal context and assessment procedures of probiotic health claims in the major markets for these products. Health claim legislation is described and the ways in which manufacturers can ensure compliance are discussed. The book also covers the use of meta-analysis to assess available data, and case examples from various regulatory cultures and traditions are included. It...

In this book, legal scholars from a range of disciplines examine the private commercial corporation as a bearer of rights and as the central actor in the global transformations that constitute the Technocene: a geological epoch brought about not by the actions of humans, individually or collectively, but by technological agency.Central to this agency is the modern company: a form of legal technology that has made possible the emergence of entities with their own interests and objec...

This book constructs a multidisciplinary approach to human security questions related to digitalisation in the European High North i.e. the northernmost areas of Scandinavia, Finland and North-Western Russia. It challenges the mainstream conceptualisation of cybersecurity and reconstructs it with the human being as the referent object of security.

This book analyzes new theories and practical approaches for promoting excellence in human resource management and leadership. It shows how the principles of creating shared value can be applied to ensure faster learning, training, business development and social renewal. In particular, it presents novel methods and tools for tackling the complexity of management and learning in both business organizations and society. Discussing ontologies, intelligent management systems, and methods for ...

Cyber espionage, Red October, Anonymous and hacktivists... Cyber security has risen rapidly in the headlines, and the interest will continue unabated in the future. But what are we talking about when we talk about cyber security?International top security experts stress that cyber affects all of us in everyday actions. Digitized society is increasingly dependent on information networks, their availability, reliability and safety.This book discusses the world of bits that is...

This book analyzes new theories and practical approaches for promoting excellence in human resource management and leadership. It shows how the principles of creating shared value can be applied to ensure faster learning, training, business development and social renewal. In particular, it presents novel methods and tools for tackling the complexity of management and learning in both business organizations and society. Gathering the proceedings of the AHFE 2021 Conferences on Human Factors...

Through five editions, and since 1993, Lactic Acid Bacteria: Microbiological and Functional Aspects has provided readers with information on how and why fermentation by lactic acid-producing bacteria improves the shelf life, palatability, and nutritive value of perishable foods and also how these microbes have been used as probiotics for decades. Thoroughly updated (with the current lactobacilli taxonomy) and fully revised, with a rearrangement of chapters into fo...