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Hindūmat, Budhmat aur Islām

Dīdāt, Shaykh Aḥmad,

“Hinduism, Buddhism, and Islam” is an enlightening book by Sheikh Ahmed Deedat that delves into the philosophical and spiritual aspects of these three major religions. With his profound knowledge and compelling insights, Sheikh Ahmed Deedat explores the fundamental beliefs, practices, and historical developments of Hinduism, Buddhism, and Islam. Through a comparative approach, he highlights the similarities and differences among these traditions, providing readers with a deeper understanding of their core teachings and principles. “Hinduism, Buddhism, and Islam” is a valuable resource for individuals interested in interfaith dialogue, religious studies, and seeking to enhance their knowledge of these diverse spiritual paths. Sheikh Ahmed Deedat’s thoughtful exploration encourages a spirit of inclusivity and fosters a meaningful engagement with these important religious traditions.

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Management accounting : information for decision-making and strategy execution

How management accounting information supports decision making -- The balanced scorecard and strategy map -- Using costs in decision making -- Accumulating and assigning costs to products -- Activity-based cost systems -- Measuring and managing customer relationships -- Measuring and managing process performance -- Measuring and managing life-cycle costs -- Behavioral and organizational issues in management accounting and control systems -- Using budgets for planning and coordination -- Financial control. An approach to management accounting from the perspective of a business manager. Management Accounting: Information for Decision-Making and Strategy Execution explains how business managers can estimate and manage the cost and profitability of their products and customers. This text also covers how managers use financial and nonfinancial information to improve processes, design and develop new products, and motivate employee performance.

Date Published:2012

Cost accounting : a managerial emphasis

Horngren, Charles T., 1926-

Includes index. Horngren’s Cost Accounting defined the cost accounting market and continues to innovate today by consistently integrating the most current practice and theory. This acclaimed, number one market-leading book embraces the basic theme of “different costs for different purposes.” It reaches beyond cost accounting procedures to consider concepts, analyses, and management. This latest edition of Cost Accounting incorporates the latest research and most up-to-date thinking into all relevant chapters. Professional issues related to Management Accounting and Management Accountants are emphasized. Chapter topics cover the accountant's role in the organization to performance measurement, compensation, and multinational considerations. For future accountants who want to enhance their understanding of–and ability to–solve cost accounting problems.

Date Published:2005

Topology for beginners

Muhammad, Noor, 1951-2004,

Preface1: Introduction2: Topological Spaces3: Metric Spaces4: Continuous Functions and Homeomorphisms5: The Separation Axioms6: Compact Spaces7: Connectedness8: Further Directions in Topology and ApplicationsBibliographyIndex. Topology for Beginners is written for undergraduate students enrolled in a 4-year Bachelor of Science programme. The mathematical content covers a full introductory course on topology. The authors explain why the subject is worth understanding and convince the reader that it is fun and useful. It builds up gradually, explaining why one needs to go to more abstraction, rather than using the 'Definition-Theorem-Proof' method. It does not avoid geometrical descriptions that help the reader to see what is meant, rather than relying on symbol manipulation to obtain results that will be true but in a manner that doesnt develop the intuition of the reader. This book belongs to the genre of modern books that first motivate pictorially and then gently move up the path of mathematical rigour. Where concepts are introduced, or results are proved, the authors also indicate how and where they are used further in Topology, that lead to direct mathematical, natural science, and social science applications. By the end of the book, advanced topics are introduced in a way that makes them intelligible. It also provides many exercises to hone the reader's skills at problem solving in Topology.

Date Published:2022

Transformers for natural language processing and computer vision : explore generative AI and large language models with Hugging Face, ChatGPT, GPT-4V, and DALL-E3

Rothman, Denis, 28/01/2025.

Cover -- Copyright -- Contributors -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1: What Are Transformers? -- How constant time complexity O(1) changed our lives forever -- O(1) attention conquers O(n) recurrent methods -- Attention layer -- Recurrent layer -- The magic of the computational time complexity of an attention layer -- Computational time complexity with a CPU -- Computational time complexity with a GPU -- Computational time complexity with a TPU -- TPU-LLM -- A brief journey from recurrent to attention -- A brief history -- From one token to an AI revolution. From one token to everything -- Foundation Models -- From general purpose to specific tasks -- The role of AI professionals -- The future of AI professionals -- What resources should we use? -- Decision-making guidelines -- The rise of transformer seamless APIs and assistants -- Choosing ready-to-use API-driven libraries -- Choosing a cloud platform and transformer model -- Summary -- Questions -- References -- Further reading -- Chapter 2: Getting Started with the Architecture of the Transformer Model -- The rise of the Transformer: Attention Is All You Need -- The encoder stack Input embedding -- Positional encoding -- Sublayer 1: Multi-head attention -- Sublayer 2: Feedforward network -- The decoder stack -- Output embedding and position encoding -- The attention layers -- The FFN sublayer, the post-LN, and the linear layer -- Training and performance -- Hugging Face transformer models -- Summary -- Questions -- References -- Further reading -- Chapter 3: Emergent vs Downstream Tasks: The Unseen Depths of Transformers -- The paradigm shift: What is an NLP task? -- Inside the head of the attention sublayer of a transformer -- Exploring emergence with ChatGPT Investigating the potential of downstream tasks -- Evaluating models with metrics -- Accuracy score -- F1-score -- MCC -- Human evaluation -- Benchmark tasks and datasets -- Defining the SuperGLUE benchmark tasks -- Running downstream tasks -- The Corpus of Linguistic Acceptability (CoLA) -- Stanford Sentiment TreeBank (SST-2) -- Microsoft Research Paraphrase Corpus (MRPC) -- Winograd schemas -- Summary -- Questions -- References -- Further reading -- Chapter 4: Advancements in Translations with Google Trax, Google Translate, and Gemini -- Defining machine translation Human transductions and translations -- Machine transductions and translations -- Evaluating machine translations -- Preprocessing a WMT dataset -- Preprocessing the raw data -- Finalizing the preprocessing of the datasets -- Evaluating machine translations with BLEU -- Geometric evaluations -- Applying a smoothing technique -- Translations with Google Trax -- Installing Trax -- Creating the Original Transformer model -- Initializing the model using pretrained weights -- Tokenizing a sentence -- Decoding from the Transformer -- De-tokenizing and displaying the translation Transformers for Natural Language Processing and Computer Vision, Third Edition, explores Large Language Model (LLM) architectures, applications, and various platforms (Hugging Face, OpenAI, and Google Vertex AI) used for Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Computer Vision (CV). The book guides you through different transformer architectures to the latest Foundation Models and Generative AI. Youâll pretrain and fine-tune LLMs and work through different use cases, from summarization to implementing question-answering systems with embedding-based search techniques. You will also learn the risks of LLMs, from hallucinations and memorization to privacy, and how to mitigate such risks using moderation models with rule and knowledge bases. Youâll implement Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) with LLMs to improve the accuracy of your models and gain greater control over LLM outputs. Dive into generative vision transformers and multimodal model architectures and build applications, such as image and video-to-text classifiers. Go further by combining different models and platforms and learning about AI agent replication. This book provides you with an understanding of transformer architectures, pretraining, fine-tuning, LLM use cases, and best practices.

Date Published:2024

Cost and management accounting : an introduction

Drury, Colin

Previous ed.: International Thomson Publishing, 1998. Accompanying material: Students' manual. The aim of this established and best-selling textbook is to provide an introduction to the theory and practice of cost and management accounting. The book is intended primarily for accounting students who are pursuing a one or two semester basic introductory cost and management accounting course. It covers the basic topics needed on an introductory course in management accounting. Costing: An Introduction is a companion volume to Management and Cost Accounting, which includes more advanced topics not suitable for introductory courses. Overall, the book is a rigorous, clear and easy-to understand introduction to management accounting, with a tried and tested successful format that has enabled literally thousands of students to pass their exams.

Date Published:2003

Cost management : accounting and control

Hansen, Don R.

Cost Management: Accounting and Control emphasizes that changing conditions often require a change in cost management systems. Emphasizing this point stresses the dynamic and exciting nature of the field. By taking a systems approach -- one that first covers functional-based cost and control and then activity-based cost systems -- students understand how to understand and manage any cost management system.

Date Published:2003

Management accounting for decision makers

Atrill, Peter,

Introduction to management accounting -- Relevant costs and benefits for decision making -- Cost-volume-profit analysis -- Full costing -- Costing and cost management in a competitive environment -- Budgeting -- Accounting for control -- Making capital investment decisions -- Managing risk -- Strategic management accounting: performance evaluation and pricing in a competitive environment -- Measuring divisional performance -- Managing working capital. "In this edition, we have taken the opportunity to improve the book. We have expanded on the changing role of management accountants to enable them to retain their place at the centre of the decision-making and planning process. In Chapter 1, we have included the recently developed statement of Global Management Accounting Principles. These principles have been identified (by the leading management accounting professional bodies in the UK and US) as those to be followed when determining the information that managers need. In Chapter 7, we have brought in a discussion of current thinking and practice in the area of management control. Throughout this new edition, we have included additional, and more up-to-date, examples of management accounting in practice. We have also added more in-chapter questions and diagrams"--

Date Published:2021

Management

Includes index. This best-selling text demonstrates the real-world applications of management concepts and makes management come alive by bringing real managers and students together. As it successfully integrates the various functions of management, the book establishes a dialogue with managers from a variety of fields.

Date Published:2005

Management

Robbins, Stephen P.,

Management 15th Edition by Stephen P. Robbins and Mary A. Coulter This ISBN 9781292215839 is Textbook only. It will not come with online access code. MyLab Online Access code (if required by your instructor ) sold separately at other ISBN Global edition has the same title, same author, same edition but different in product cover page. For undergraduate Principles of Management courses. REAL managers, REAL experiences With a renewed focus on skills and careers, the new edition of this bestselling text can help better prepare your students to enter the job market. Management, 14th Edition, Global Edition, vividly illustrates effective management theories by incorporating the perspectives of real-life managers. Through examples, cases, and hands-on exercises, students will see and experience management in action, helping them understand how the concepts they're learning actually work in today's dynamic business world. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.

Date Published:2021

Deductive databases and logic programming

Das, Subrata Kumar.

This book provides a tutorial introduction to deductive databases - one of the fastest growing areas in database technology. Deductive databases, based on logic, offer the possibility of reducing the complexity of information from databases by applying deductive rules. These databases also promise a closer integration between databases and programming languages. This book first takes the reader step by step through the basics of logic and logic programming using numerous examples and exercises to illustrate each concept. It then surveys developments in deductive databases, with special attention to query optimization and integrity constraints. Features Tutorial approach to one of the most topical areas in database technology. No prior knowledge of logic programming and Prolog required. Provides steps for designing a prototype deductive database. Includes chapters on query optimization and integrity constraints.

Date Published:1992

Management : building competitive advantage

Bateman, Thomas S.

Focusing on management and building competitive advantage, this text is organized around four themes: cost, quality, speed and innovation. It has been updated with current business examples and management research and includes coverage of NAFTA, European unification, strategic alliances and the MBA Enterprise Corps. The book places greater emphasis on entrepreneurship and small businesses and contains 42 new experiential exercises. Student learning aids include end of chapter cases and end of part case incidents.

Date Published:1996

Management

Includes index. The eighth edition of this international best seller goes beyond just describing management theories; the reader goes out and talks with real managers while reading the text and brings the combined experience of successful managers. The revision includes complete updating and reflects the dynamism of management in todays organization.

Date Published:2005

Schaum's outline of theory and problems of business statistics

Kazmier, Leonard J.

Includes index. Schaum's Outline of Business Statistics helps you understand basic concepts and offers extra practice on topics you'll encounter in your introductory- and intermediate-level courses. With this book, you'll understand and master the basic methods of statistical description, statistical inference, decision analysis, and process control. You will also learn about frequency distributions, histograms and frequency polygons, frequency curves, sampling distribution of the mean, and more. .

Date Published:2004

Economics : principles, problems, and policies

McConnell, Campbell R.

Includes index. McConnell, Brue, and Flynn’s Economics: Principles, Problems, and Policies is the #1 Principles of Economics textbook in the world. It continues to be innovative while teaching students in a clear, unbiased way. The 19th Edition builds upon the tradition of leadership by sticking to 3 main goals: Help the beginning student master the principles essential for understanding the economizing problem, specific economic issues, and the policy alternatives; help the student understand and apply the economic perspective and reason accurately and objectively about economic matters; and promote a lasting student interest in economics and the economy. Connect is the only integrated learning system that empowers students by continuously adapting to deliver precisely what they need, when they need it, and how they need it, so that your class time is more engaging and effective.

Date Published:2012

Management : Leading & Collaborating in a Competitive World

Bateman, Thomas S.,

Develop with the confidence and innovative skills to lead in today's rapidly changing, turbulent business environment with Daft's market-leading MANAGEMENT, 14E. This reader-friendly presentation blends coverage of the latest managerial theories and emerging trends with a strong foundation in best management practices. New personal feedback inventories let you evaluate your strengths, while updated engagement exercises and applications guide you in expanding management competencies, harnessing your creativity and putting theory into practice. Recent research, organized around the four functions of management, helps you look beyond traditional techniques to consider a full breadth of progressive management solutions. Numerous new examples and cases from familiar organizations bring the practice of management into clear focus. In addition, MindTap online video cases, interactive exercises and applications further equip you to achieve exceptional results in your managerial role.

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An introduction to quantum computing algorithms

Pittenger, Arthur O., 1936-

In 1994 Peter Shor [65] published a factoring algorithm for a quantum computer that finds the prime factors of a composite integer N more efficiently than is possible with the known algorithms for a classical com puter. Since the difficulty of the factoring problem is crucial for the se curity of a public key encryption system, interest (and funding) in quan tum computing and quantum computation suddenly blossomed. Quan tum computing had arrived. The study of the role of quantum mechanics in the theory of computa tion seems to have begun in the early 1980s with the publications of Paul Benioff [6]' [7] who considered a quantum mechanical model of computers and the computation process. A related question was discussed shortly thereafter by Richard Feynman [35] who began from a different perspec tive by asking what kind of computer should be used to simulate physics. His analysis led him to the belief that with a suitable class of "quantum machines" one could imitate any quantum system.

Date Published:2000

Financial & managerial accounting : the basis for business decisions

Williams, Jan R.

Includes index. Accounting: information for decision making -- Basic financial statements -- The accounting cycle : capturing economic events -- The accounting cycle : accruals and deferrals -- The accounting cycle : reporting financial results -- Comprehensive problem -- Merchandising activities -- Financial assets -- Inventories and the cost of goods sold -- Comprehensive problem 2 -- Plant and intangible assets -- Macrs 400 -- Liabilities -- Stockholders' equity : paid-in capital -- Comprehensive problem 3 -- Income and changes in retained earnings -- Statement of cash flows -- Financial statement analysis -- Comprehensive problem 4 -- Global business and accounting -- Management accounting : a business partner -- Job order cost systems and overhead allocations -- Process costing -- Costing and the value chain -- Cost-volume-profit analysis -- Incremental analysis -- Comprehensive problem 5 -- Responsibility accounting and transfer pricing -- Operational budgeting -- Standard cost systems -- Rewarding business performance -- Comprehensive problem 6 -- Capital budgeting -- A Home depot 2012 financial statements -- B The time value of money : future amounts and present values -- C Forms of business organization -- Index. With the seventeenth edition of Financial and Managerial Accounting: The Basis for Business Decisions, the Williams author team continues to be a solid foundation for students who are learning basic accounting concepts. Hallmarks of the text-including the solid Accounting Cycle Presentation, relevant pedagogy, and high quality, end-of-chapter material-have been updated throughout the book.

Date Published:2015

Management

Samson, Danny

Introduction to management. The enviroment of management. Planning Organising. Leading. Controlling. Includes Index. The sixth edition of this market leading text continues to raise the standard through its cutting-edge presentation of managerial thought, carefully developed applications, and innovative technology components. Richard Daft seamlessly integrates the new workplace with traditional management concepts to show what influences and guides managerial action in today's organizations. To illustrate the conceptual material and engage the student, Daft includes diverse examples, exercises, applications in every chapter. Through each edition, Management has continued to build an outstanding reputation with instructors for its quality, topic selection, applications, and authorship.

Date Published:2003

Statistical techniques in business & economics

Lind, Douglas A.

Includes index. Lind/Marchal/Wathen is a perennial market best seller due to its comprehensive coverage of statistical concepts and methods delivered in a student friendly, step-by-step format. The text presents concepts clearly and succinctly with a conversational writing style and illustrates concepts through the liberal use of business-focused examples that are relevant to the current world of a college student. Known as a "student's text," Lind's supporting pedagogy includes self-reviews, cumulative exercises, and coverage of software applications including Excel, Minitab, and MegaStat for Excel. And now, McGraw-Hill's adaptive learning component, LearnSmart, provides assignable modules that help students master chapter core concepts and come to class more prepared. In addition, resources within Connect Plus help students solve problems and apply what they've learned. Lind's real-world examples, comprehensive coverage, and superior pedagogy combine with a complete digital solution to help students achieve higher outcomes in the course.

Date Published:2015