RiskBuster


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Never again fear business plans, market research or financial forecasts! RiskBuster empowers ordinary women and men to tap their entrepreneurial power to build thriving, profitable business ventures. This step-by-step process makes it easy to research your business ideas, to determine feasibility, to write business plans for any audience, and to start or grow your business confidently—even if you've never done any of these things before. RiskBuster is for you if: You want to start a new business, You want to grow an existing business, You need to build your own business plan. You might be in a job you hate. You may be broke and living from paycheck to paycheck. Maybe you've lost your job. You might be slugging it out in a deadbeat business, but not getting anywhere. Or perhaps you're just not satisfied with your day to day lifestyle. You already know that life is not a test run or a dress rehearsal, it's the real thing. The clock is ticking; don't waste another precious minute wondering what life might have been like if only you had tapped your potential! Yet, when the risk taker within you is telling you to roll the dice and leap into a business unprepared, the wise will urge you to hunker down and research your business idea. Fact is, when you really need to know the bottom line, when you can't afford to risk losing your assets or investments—you need to take the time determine if your business idea is feasible, and you need a business plan. Don't worry, it doesn’t have to take a lot of time or cost a lot of money! A well-researched business plan will unleash the small business still within you. Get immersed in the work you love to do in a planned, logical way—without taking senseless or unnecessary risks. Take control of your entrepreneurial future, today!




American Vineyard


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Experimental IR Meets Multilinguality, Multimodality, and Interaction


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This volume LNCS 14163 constitutes the refereed proceedings of 14th International Conference of the CLEF Association, CLEF 2023, in Thessaloniki, Greece, during September 18–21, 2023. The 10 full papers and one short paper included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 35 submissions. The conference focuses on authorship attribution, fake news detection and news tracking, noise-detection in automatically transferred relevance judgments, impact of online education on children’s conversational search behavior, analysis of multi-modal social media content, knowledge graphs for sensitivity identification, a fusion of deep learning and logic rules for sentiment analysis, medical concept normalization and domain-specific information extraction. In addition to this, the volume presents 7 “Best of the labs” papers which were reviewed as full paper submissions with the same review criteria. 13 lab overview papers were accepted and represent scientific challenges based on new datasets and real world problems in multimodal and multilingual information access.




New Trends in Software Methodologies, Tools and Techniques


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Software has become an essential enabler for science and the economy. Not only does it create new markets and the possibility of a more reliable, flexible and robust society, it also empowers our exploration of the world in ever increasing depth. However software often falls short of our expectations, with current methodologies, tools and techniques remaining insufficiently robust and reliable for constantly changing and evolving needs. This book presents papers from the 15th International Conference on New Trends in Intelligent Software Methodology Tools and Techniques (SoMeT 16), held in Larnaca, Cyprus, in September 2016. The SoMeT conference focuses on exploring the innovations, controversies and challenges facing the software engineering community, bringing together theory and experience to propose and evaluate solutions to software engineering problems with an emphasis on human-centric software methodologies, end-user development techniques, and emotional reasoning, for an optimally harmonized performance between the design tool and the user. The book is divided into six chapters covering the following areas: decision support systems; software methodologies and tools; requirement engineering; software for biomedicine and bioinformatics; software engineering models, and formal techniques for software representation; and intelligent software development and social networking. The book explores new trends and theories which illuminate the direction of developments in the field, and will be of interest to all in the software science community.




Risk


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Auditing


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Full Speed Ahead


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Get into the fast lane by setting goals, so you can avoid detours and stay on the highway to your dream! Make quality decisions and stay committed 'where the rubber meets the road' by doing whatever it takes!Learn how to: Recharge your battery and turn negatives into positives so you can always start your 'engine' and go for it!Tune-up your 'funny bone' and use high-octane humor to attract people into your lane, who will follow you to success.How to use communication as a two-way street to build rapport and relationships with more people.




The Healthy Heart For Dummies


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The Healthy Heart For Dummies explores that most vital organ -- the heart -- and explains why you need to care for it. This book also helps you design a personal lifestyle based on proper nutrition, physical activity, weight management, and mind/body connections to both prevent and control heart disease. It includes a section describing the latest tests and procedures used in evaluating heart health and problems, which help you make decisions on treatment options. As an added bonus, the author, James M. Rippe, M.D., has conferred with the world's top chefs to offer you 35 great tasting and heart-healthy recipes.




The Risks We Run


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This critique of political risk insurance (PRI), the type of insurance used by large-scale mining projects, includes six case studies that show how PRI has severe negative social and environmental impacts on mining communities. Included are descriptions of such landmark cases as the Omai gold mine in Guyana, which was insured through PRI by the World Bank and the Canadian government and whose waste facilities completely collapsed, causing the country’s worst environmental disaster in recorded history. Conclusions are drawn about the failure of agencies such as the World Bank to anticipate the consequences of major mining projects and consider the effects of large-scale mining on sustainable development.