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An Analysis of Corporate Sukuk Development

In Indonesia and The United Kingdom: Analytic Network Process Approach

Islamic financial concept-based today has developed quite rapidly. One of the role player is the investments instrument such as sukuk or also known as islamic bonds. Sukuk, particularly corporate sukuk, deemed as a source of interest-free fund that could be utilized by any corporation to enhance their existing economic business scale. In fact, the development of Islamic financial instrument gradually happens not only in the Muslim country but also to a country that does not implement Islamic law entirely. As a growing sukuk market, Indonesia and The UK are among countries that have been utilized the benefit of corporate sukuk. Basically this book is trying to portray how the development of corporate sukuk in both these countries. The research shows that academics/experts and practitioners respondents in both countries have relatively similar views on major issues of corporate sukuk development. Beside some minor challenges, both two countries have a major similarity particularly lies in the lack of understanding of the corporate sukuk issuers as well as supporting factors. Therefore there should be a concrete and sustainable effort for the stakeholders to tackle this nice issue.

As a growing sukuk market, Indonesia and The UK are among countries that have been utilized the benefit of corporate sukuk. Basically this book is trying to portray how the development of corporate sukuk in both these countries.

Customer Relationship Management (CRM) for Medium and Small Enterprises

How to Find the Right Solution for Effectively Connecting with Your Customers

Customer Relationship Management (CRM) systems are a growing topic among small- and medium-sized enterprises, entrepreneurs, and solopreneurs, and it is completely clear that CRM is a tool that businesses should have in place to manage sales processes. Teams of salespeople must have a system to run their daily activities, and small businesses and solopreneurs must track their marketing effort, a functioning structure for maintaining their contacts with prospects and clients to improve the effectiveness of their sales effort. CRM tools, once only available to large corporations, is now powerful technology for small and medium businesses. Small and medium businesses are now able to implement CRM solutions under a more cost-effective balance as an alternative to traditional tools like Salesforce, Dynamics, or Oracle. The reason for the success is mainly the simplicity of new tools and solutions that have been developed for the management of sales processes. This book discusses how to implement a CRM from the perspective of the businessperson—not the more typical IT consultant or the technical staff. It benefits business development, sales management, and sales process control. Small business owners must understand why and how implementing a CRM will create value for the business—how it will focus on business development, sales management, and how sales leads develop into happy customers. Small business owners must first understand what a CRM systems is, how it works, what its main functions are, and how it serves to manage workflows in the company’s sales department. Generally, entrepreneurs struggle to find the time to read and study complex and fully comprehensive books. This book provides direct operational guidelines to those who need easy-to-read information about how to use CRM effectively. Business professionals must be able to set up CRM systems and avoid mistakes and wasting time. This book provides an overview of what can be done with CRM and how it happens to empower business people to find new customers and win their business. This book discusses the logic of CRM in sales, giving tips and explanations on why and what happens when it's implemented in a specific way. Essentially, it will give the entrepreneur the know-how behind CRM in sales in general terms, supporting enhanced customer relationships.

Essentially, this book gives the entrepreneur the know-how behind CRM in sales in general terms, supporting enhanced customer relationships.

Edited Versions of Selected Papers from the International Conference on "Logic, Informatics, Law," Florence, Italy, April 1981: Artificial intelligence and legal information systems

The application of logic for the purposes of legal reasoning has been inhibited by the fact that the various basic positions about logic differ too much from each other . This is especially important in a field like legal reasoning ...

Edited Versions of Selected Papers from the International Conference on "Logic, Informatics, Law," Florence, Italy, April 1981: Deontic logic, computational linguistics, and legal information systems

The most profound justification of legal reasoning is related to the totality of Weltanschauung expressed in action , that is to the form of life . In this context , one may refer Aulis Aarnio's works To make justification more detailed ...

Automated Analysis of Legal Texts

Logic, Informatics, Law : Edited Versions of Selected Papers from the Second International Conference on "Logic, Informatics, Law,"Florence, Italy, September 1985

Effective Workforce Development

A Concise Guide for HR and Line managers

Developed for busy HR practitioners and trainers, this book provides a concise guide to the theory and practice of employee training in contemporary organizations. Reflecting the importance of employee development to learning-based organisations in the knowledge economy, it clearly links employee training needs to business development and offers an accessible guide to current theories combined with research-based practical guidance in how to design effective training programs. Covering all the current theories about training and development and the latest thinking about workplace learning interventions, this concise, practical guide will be an essential source for HR practitioners and line managers seeking improve organizational learning and performance.

Developed for busy HR practitioners and trainers, this book provides a concise guide to the theory and practice of employee training in contemporary organizations.

Encyclopedia of Information Communication Technology

NetLibrary named the Encyclopedia of Information Communication Technology as their September 2008 e-book of the month! CLICK HERE to view the announcement. The Encyclopedia of Information Communication Technology (ICT) is a comprehensive resource describing the influence of information communication technology in scientific knowledge construction, with emphasis on the roles of product technologies, process technologies, and context technologies. Through 111 authoritative contributions by 93 of the world's leading experts this reference covers the materials and instruments of information technology: from ICT in education to software engineering; the influence of ICT on different environments, including e-commerce, decision support systems, knowledge management, and more; and the most pervasive presence of information technology, including studies and research on knowledge management, the human side of ICT, ICT in healthcare, and virtual organizations, among many others. Addressing many of the fundamental issues of information communication technology, the Encyclopedia of Information Communication Technology will be a top-shelf resource for any reference library.

NetLibrary named the Encyclopedia of Information Communication Technology as their September 2008 e-book of the month! CLICK HERE to view the announcement.

The Home in the Digital Age

The Home in the Digital Age is a set of multidisciplinary studies exploring the impact of digital technologies in the home, with a shift of emphasis from technology to the people living and using this in their homes. The book covers a wide variety of topics on the design, introduction and use of digital technologies in the home, combining the technological dimension with the cognitive, emotional, cultural and symbolic dimensions of the objects that incorporate digital technologies and project them onto people’s lives. It offers a coherent approach, that of the home, which gives unity to the discussion. Scholars of the home, the house and the family will find here the connection with the problems derived from the use of domestic robots and connected devices. Students of artificial intelligence, machine learning, robotics, big data and other branches of digital technologies will find ideas and arguments to apply their disciplines to the home and participate fruitfully in forums where digital technologies are built and negotiated in the home. Experts from various disciplines ・ psychologists and sociologists; philosophers, epistemologists and ethicists; economists; engineers, architects, urban planners and designers and so on ・ and also those interested in developing policies for the home and family will find this book contains well-founded and useful ideas to focus their work.

Retrieved from http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/activities/einclusion/docs/ageing/aal_overview.pdf. Ferguson, N., et al. ... The Concept of “Ageing Well” in Ten Latin America and European Countries. Ageing and Society, 30(1), pp.

Gesture-Based Communication in Human-Computer Interaction

5th International Gesture Workshop, GW 2003, Genova, Italy, April 15-17, 2003, Selected Revised Papers

Research on the multifaceted aspects of modeling, analysis, and synthesis of - man gesture is receiving growing interest from both the academic and industrial communities. On one hand, recent scienti?c developments on cognition, on - fect/emotion, on multimodal interfaces, and on multimedia have opened new perspectives on the integration of more sophisticated models of gesture in c- putersystems.Ontheotherhand,theconsolidationofnewtechnologiesenabling “disappearing” computers and (multimodal) interfaces to be integrated into the natural environments of users are making it realistic to consider tackling the complex meaning and subtleties of human gesture in multimedia systems, - abling a deeper, user-centered, enhanced physical participation and experience in the human-machine interaction process. The research programs supported by the European Commission and s- eral national institutions and governments individuated in recent years strategic ?elds strictly concerned with gesture research. For example, the DG Infor- tion Society of the European Commission (www.cordis.lu/ist) supports several initiatives, such as the “Disappearing Computer” and “Presence” EU-IST FET (Future and Emerging Technologies), the IST program “Interfaces & Enhanced Audio-Visual Services” (see for example the project MEGA, Multisensory - pressive Gesture Applications, www.megaproject.org), and the IST strategic - jective “Multimodal Interfaces.” Several EC projects and other funded research are represented in the chapters of this book. Awiderangeofapplicationscanbene?tfromadvancesinresearchongesture, from consolidated areas such as surveillance to new or emerging ?elds such as therapy and rehabilitation, home consumer goods, entertainment, and aud- visual, cultural and artistic applications, just to mention only a few of them.

... an integral aspect of sign language communication - grammatical inflections which are conveyed through systematic ... ASL (American Sign Language) have parallel channels so that two or more concepts can be expressed simultaneously.