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Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Nature and Structure of the U.S. Mortgage Business, 1940-85 -- Wall Street Develops Collateralized Mortgage Obligations (CMOs) -- 'Subprime 1.0' Temporarily Sobers the Market -- Countrywide's Strategy in the 1990s -- AmeriQuest Launches a Subprime 'Race to the Bottom' -- Mozilo Reconsiders Countrywide's Subprime Strategy -- Author's Note -- Notes -- Case 4 Subprime Heading South at Bear Stearns Asset Management -- Hedge Funds Develop on Wall Street -- Bear Stearns Forms its Own Hedge Funds -- Mortgage Market Trends and HGF Disclosure -- Financial Control Issues at HGF -- Cioffi and Tannin Respond to Growing Pressures -- February 2007: ELF Performance Turns Negative -- Matthew Tannin Considers His Response to Barclays Bank -- Author's Note -- Notes -- Part 2 Consequences for Gatekeepers and Firms -- Case 5 Ratings Integrity vs. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…En supposant un milliard de dollars US supplémentaires pour les paiements à la surfac... -- Les rendements et les superficies cultivées devraient augmenter en Australie -- La production de céréales secondaires croîtra en Chine -- Mais la reprise restera modérée dans les NEI -- Croissance plus rapide dans les pays d'Amérique latine -- L'expansion de la consommation s'accélérera -- L'essentiel de l'expansion de la demande devrait venir des pays en développement -- Graphique 6. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…3.5.1 Selected LCA studies on energy crops -- 3.5.2 Selected LCA studies on solid biofuels upgrade -- 3.5.3 Selected LCA studies on biofuel thermochemical pretreatment -- 3.5.4 Selected LCA studies on the overall impact of biofuel production -- 3.6 Conclusions -- References -- 4 - Biofuels: technology, economics, and policy issues -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Moving from fossil fuel to biofuels: insights from socio-technical transition theory -- 4.3 Assessing first- and next-generation biofuels -- 4.3.1 First generation: bioethanol, biodiesel, and other biofuels -- 4.3.1.1 Bioethanol -- 4.3.1.2 Biodiesel -- 4.3.1.3 Other biofuels -- 4.3.2 Beyond the first-generation biofuels -- 4.3.3 Integrated biorefineries: making biofuel along with other high-added value products -- 4.4 Economic, environmental, and social issues -- 4.4.1 Socioeconomic issues -- 4.4.2 Socio-environmental issues -- 4.5 Policy actions and the regulatory framework -- 4.5.1 The Brazilian incentive and regulatory systems -- 4.5.2 The US incentive and regulatory systems -- 4.5.3 The European incentive and regulatory systems -- 4.6 Conclusions -- References -- 5 - Feedstocks and challenges to biofuel development -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Edible vegetable raw materials for biodiesel production -- 5.2.1 Rapeseed/canola seed -- 5.2.2 Sunflower seed -- 5.2.3 Palm tree -- 5.2.4 Soybean seed -- 5.2.5 Peanut seed -- 5.2.6 Cotton seed -- 5.3 Nonedible/low-cost raw materials for diesel engine biofuel production -- 5.3.1 Green canola seed -- 5.3.2 Callophyllum inophyllum L. -- 5.3.3 Annona -- 5.3.4 Croton megalocarpus -- 5.3.5 Azadirachta indica -- 5.3.6 Waste oils -- 5.3.7 Other sources of low-cost, renewable oil for biofuel production -- 5.4 Raw materials for bioethanol production -- 5.4.1 Most frequent raw materials for bioethanol production -- 5.4.1.1 Raw materials employed by country…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- 1.2.3 How do APIs help us drive microservices integrations? -- 1.3 Challenges of microservices architecture -- 1.3.1 Effective service decomposition -- 1.3.2 Microservices integration tests -- 1.3.3 Handling service unavailability -- 1.3.4 Tracing distributed transactions -- 1.3.5 Increased operational complexity and infrastructure overhead -- 1.4 Introducing documentation-driven development -- 1.5 Introducing the CoffeeMesh application -- 1.6 Who this book is for and what you will learn -- Summary -- 2 A basic API implementation -- 2.1 Introducing the orders API specification -- 2.2 High-level architecture of the orders application -- 2.3 Implementing the API endpoints -- 2.4 Implementing data validation models with pydantic -- 2.5 Validating request payloads with pydantic -- 2.6 Marshalling and validating response payloads with pydantic -- 2.7 Adding an in-memory list of orders to the API -- Summary -- 3 Designing microservices -- 3.1 Introducing CoffeeMesh -- 3.2 Microservices design principles -- 3.2.1 Database-per-service principle -- 3.2.2 Loose coupling principle -- 3.2.3 Single Responsibility Principle -- 3.3 Service decomposition by business capability…”

“…These new technologies allow us opportunities to gain insights into the discoveries of creative and innovative approaches. …”

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“…In recent years, nanotechnology has ventured away from the confines of the laboratory and has been able to conquer new domains to help us live better lives. Bioinspired and Green Synthesis of Nanostructures focuses on the recent developments and novel applications of bioinspired and biomimetic nanostructures as functionally advanced biomolecules with huge prospects for research, development, and engineering industries. …”

“…"Corporate Finance: Theory and Practice continues to hold sway as one of the most popular financial textbooks, thanks to its four unique features: A balanced blend of theory and practice: authors hold academic positions at top ranking universities and business schools and are also investment bankers, private investors or sit on the boards of listed and unlisted companies A presentation of concepts that explain situations, followed by a discussion of techniques in a direct and succinct style Content enriched by the www.vernimmen.com website, which with 1,500 daily visitors is one of the leading finance teaching sites worldwide Free monthly updates on finance through The Vernimmen.com Newsletter, with over 60,000 subscribers The authors draw on their dual experience to enhance and expand the content of this new, fifth edition to reflect the latest developments, in particular, the change to accounting for operating leases under both IFRS and US GAAP which will take place in 2018. The numerous statistical tables and graphs throughout the text are fully updated with the latest available information"--…”

“…It includes all the personal finance education most of us were missing, but also the accompanying tactical step-by-step guidance so readers can take action and create systems to set themselves up for success months and years after they read the book. …”

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Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- 12.1 Apprenticeship and Learning -- 12.1.1 Institutional History of Apprenticeship Programmes in the US -- 12.2 Methodology of this Study -- 12.3 The Physical Context of the Classroom as compared to the Field -- 12.4 On the Job: The Worksite itself as Resource for Learning -- 12.5 On the Job: Tools and Equipment as Resources for Learning -- 12.6 Learning Through Interaction without Master-Apprentice Relationships -- 12.7 Learning and the ‘Bottom Line’ -- 12.8 What can go Wrong -- 12.9 Apprenticeship Learning as Reproduction of the Economic Viability -- 12.10 Conclusion -- 13. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Ethics and Strategy Feature: The Ethics of Collusion -- The Value of Collusion -- Colluding to Reduce the Threat of New Competitors -- Colluding to Reduce the Threat of Current Competitors -- Strategy in Depth: How Colluding Firms Generate Economic Profits -- Colluding to Reduce Other Competitive Threats -- Collusion and Sustained Competitive Advantage -- Ways Firms Can Cheat on Collusive Agreements -- Explicit and Tacit Collusion -- Industry Attributes and the Threat of Cheating -- Research Made Relevant: Sending Signals to Maintain Collusion -- Rarity and Costly to Imitate Collusion Strategies -- Organizing to Implement Tacit Collusion -- Organizational Efficiency -- Organizational Self‐Discipline -- Summary -- Challenge Questions -- Problem Set -- End Notes -- End‐of‐Part 2 Cases -- Case 2-1: McDonald's: Comeback in the U.S. Burger Market? -- Case 2-2: The Levi's Personal Pair Proposal…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Can children accurately tell us about their thinking and experiences? -- The intersection of policy questions, research rigor, and cultural context…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Evaluating the equalisation system modality -- Equalisation modality hinges on how fiscal capacity is measured -- Data requirements vary with the design of the equalisation system -- Selecting the rate of equalisation -- Equalisation may not supplant all other transfers -- Implementing transition measures -- Guidance from OECD country surveys on equalisation reform -- Enhance the policy neutrality and relevance of cost equalisation -- Equalisation should be carefully targeted to ensure it is not exacerbating disparities nor undermining SCG fiscal autonomy -- Equalisation reform in practice -- In practice, large-scale reforms aim to reinforce subnational fiscal autonomy and stability through the adoption of rules-based equalisation systems -- Italy's comprehensive equalisation reform -- Moving towards rules-based systems -- Enhancing subnational fiscal autonomy -- Reforms to established equalisation systems tend to reinforce transparency and relevance through simplification and updating of formulas -- Simplifying equalisation formulas -- Updating equalisation formulas -- References -- Notes -- 3 Twenty years of tax autonomy across levels of government: Measurement and applications -- Introduction and main findings -- The importance of tax autonomy for sub-central governments -- Measuring tax autonomy -- The use of the OECD's tax autonomy analysis -- Tax autonomy in OECD member countries: Latest update -- Trends in sub-central government tax revenues -- Taxing power of state and local governments in the 2020 exercise -- Changes in tax autonomy 2000 to 2018 -- US local government tax autonomy -- Measuring local government tax autonomy -- Local government tax autonomy: The United States compared with the OECD average -- Tax autonomy by type of tax -- Tax autonomy by state -- References -- Notes…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- The Three Stages of Power-Pausing -- The Business Case for Pausing -- Let's Pause on This -- Biography -- Part II AI and Us -- 7 AI and the Future of Human Connection -- Funhouse Mirror: How Humans Experience AI -- The Pivotal Role of Language and Meaning -- Meaning Is at the Heart of Every Type of Human Connection…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Preface -- Part One: Private Enterprise and Public Trust -- Chapter 1: The Free Market System and Business -- Introduction -- Primary Objectives -- The Free Enterprise System and Capital Markets -- Public Trust and Investor Confidence -- The Role and Responsibility of Business in Society -- The First Tier: Investors -- The Second Tier: Creditors -- The Third Tier: Others -- The Role of Financial Information in the Capital Markets -- Introduction to Corporate Governance -- Corporate Culture and Integrity -- Corporate Accountability -- Introduction to Business Ethics -- Classroom Implications of this Book -- Summary -- Key Terms -- Review Questions -- Discussion Questions -- Notes -- Chapter 2: Corporate Governance -- Introduction -- Primary Objectives -- Definition of Corporate Governance -- Aspects of Corporate Governance -- Shareholder Aspect -- Stakeholder Aspect -- Integrated Aspect -- Corporate Governance Structure -- Corporate Governance Principles -- Corporate Governance Functions -- Corporate Governance Mechanisms -- Sources of Corporate Governance -- Corporate Laws -- The Federal Securities Laws -- Listing Standards -- Best Practices -- Corporate Governance Reforms -- Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 -- Corporate Governance Rating -- Corporate Governance Reporting -- Global Convergence in Corporate Governance -- Differences between U.S. and European Models of Corporate Governance -- Summary -- Key Terms -- Review Questions -- Discussion Questions -- Notes -- Chapter 3: Introduction to Business Ethics -- Introduction -- Primary Objectives -- Ethical Theories -- Ethics in the Workplace -- Business Ethics -- Corporate Culture -- Incentives -- Opportunity -- Choices -- Triangle of Business Ethics -- Ethics Sensitivity -- Ethics Incentives -- Ethical Behavior -- SEC Rules on Corporate Code of Ethics…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Protective failure -- Continuous protection -- Redundancy -- Use of standardized cryptography -- Summary -- Further reading -- Chapter 3: Threat Landscape against Vehicle Components -- Threats against external vehicle interfaces -- Backend-related threats -- Connectivity threats -- Threats against the E/E topology -- Highly distributed E/E architecture -- Domain-centralized E/E architecture -- Central vehicle computer architecture -- Threats against in-vehicle networks -- CAN -- FlexRay -- Ethernet -- The Unified Diagnostic Services (UDS) protocol -- SAE J1939 protocols -- SAE J2497 (PLC4TRUCKS) -- Threats against sensors -- Common ECU threats -- Debug ports -- Flash programming -- Power and mode manipulation -- Tampering with machine learning algorithms -- Software attacks -- Disclosure and tampering of cryptographic keys -- Summary -- References -- Part 2: Understanding the Secure Engineering Development Process -- Chapter 4: Exploring the Landscape of Automotive Cybersecurity Standards -- Primary standards -- UNECE WP.29 -- Chinese regulation and standardization -- Secondary standards -- IATF 16949:2016 -- Automotive SPICE (ASPICE) -- Trusted Information Security Assessment Exchange (TISAX) -- SAE J3101 - hardware-protected security for ground vehicles -- Coding and software standards -- NIST cryptographic standards -- Supporting standards and resources -- MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) -- US DoT NHTSA Cybersecurity Best Practices for the Safety of Modern Vehicles -- ENISA good practices for the security of smart cars -- SAE J3061 - cybersecurity guidebook for cyber-physical vehicle systems -- ISO/IEC 27001 -- NIST SP 800-160 -- Uptane -- Summary -- References -- Chapter 5: Taking a Deep Dive into ISO/SAE21434 -- Notations -- At a glance - the ISO 21434 standard -- Organizational cybersecurity management -- Management systems…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…. -- Social structure of accumulation theory and stagnation -- History of SSAs in the United States -- The neoliberal SSA and stagnation in the U.S. -- Data analysis -- Concluding comments -- References -- Further reading -- Five - Financialization and stagnation-a macroeconomic regime perspective∗∗This contribution draws on Hein (2018a, ... -- Introduction -- The concept of macroeconomic regimes under financialization -- The regimes before the crisis -- Changes in the regimes in the course of and after the crisis -- Challenges: imbalances, instability, and stagnation -- Conclusions -- References…”