Tabla de Contenidos: “…Intro -- Foreword -- Executive summary -- Costa Rica recovered well but growth prospects are worsening -- The fiscal outlook improved but remains challenging -- Spreading the benefits of integration in international trade -- Improving education and equality of opportunities -- 1 Key Policy Insights -- Costa Rica recovered well but faces substantial challenges -- Growth is mitigated by high inflationary pressures and the global outlook -- The recovery has further progressed -- Financial stability risks appear contained -- Macroeconomic policies can be further strengthened Adapting the monetary policy stance to contain inflation -- Improving debt sustainability and reinforcing the fiscal framework -- Maintaining fiscal prudence is key for debt sustainability -- Raising more revenue and enhancing the redistributive power of tax policy -- Strengthening the fiscal framework -- Improving public debt management -- Strengthening productivity growth -- Boosting productivity through more competition -- Reducing informality: a win-win for productivity and inclusiveness -- Further spreading the benefits of trade integration -- Closing infrastructure gaps Making the most of digitalisation -- Continuing to improve governance and reduce corruption -- Redoubling efforts to improve equality of opportunities -- Upgrading social protection -- Reducing gender inequalities -- Adapting the pension system to ageing -- Transitioning towards net carbon neutrality -- References -- 2 Improving the quality and efficiency of education and training in Costa Rica to better support growth and equity -- Strengthening pre-tertiary education -- Pre-tertiary education does not equip all students with sufficient skills -- Educational attainment could be increased further The quality of education needs to improve -- Inequality in education is high -- Expanding coverage and quality of early childhood education and care services -- Fully implementing the curricula reform -- Better supporting students at risk of educational exclusion -- Improving school infrastructure -- Strengthening the digitalisation of education -- Improving the quality of teachers -- Improving the selection of students accessing programmes in education -- Improving the hiring system -- Strengthening teachers' in-service training -- Strengthening the appraisal process Improving the governance and regulation of Education and Administrative Boards -- Prioritise spending in early stages of education to better support growth and equity -- Improving tertiary education -- Boosting tertiary graduation rates and improving spending efficiency on tertiary education -- Improving access to tertiary education for vulnerable groups -- Making STEM fields more attractive to students, especially women -- Making public university funding more efficient, accountable and transparent -- Improving spending efficiency at public universities -- Broadening the sources of revenues…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Intro -- Foreword -- Executive summary -- Costa Rica recovered well but growth prospects are worsening -- The fiscal outlook improved but remains challenging -- Spreading the benefits of integration in international trade -- Improving education and equality of opportunities -- 1 Key Policy Insights -- Costa Rica recovered well but faces substantial challenges -- Growth is mitigated by high inflationary pressures and the global outlook -- The recovery has further progressed -- Financial stability risks appear contained -- Macroeconomic policies can be further strengthened Adapting the monetary policy stance to contain inflation -- Improving debt sustainability and reinforcing the fiscal framework -- Maintaining fiscal prudence is key for debt sustainability -- Raising more revenue and enhancing the redistributive power of tax policy -- Strengthening the fiscal framework -- Improving public debt management -- Strengthening productivity growth -- Boosting productivity through more competition -- Reducing informality: a win-win for productivity and inclusiveness -- Further spreading the benefits of trade integration -- Closing infrastructure gaps Making the most of digitalisation -- Continuing to improve governance and reduce corruption -- Redoubling efforts to improve equality of opportunities -- Upgrading social protection -- Reducing gender inequalities -- Adapting the pension system to ageing -- Transitioning towards net carbon neutrality -- References -- 2 Improving the quality and efficiency of education and training in Costa Rica to better support growth and equity -- Strengthening pre-tertiary education -- Pre-tertiary education does not equip all students with sufficient skills -- Educational attainment could be increased further The quality of education needs to improve -- Inequality in education is high -- Expanding coverage and quality of early childhood education and care services -- Fully implementing the curricula reform -- Better supporting students at risk of educational exclusion -- Improving school infrastructure -- Strengthening the digitalisation of education -- Improving the quality of teachers -- Improving the selection of students accessing programmes in education -- Improving the hiring system -- Strengthening teachers' in-service training -- Strengthening the appraisal process Improving the governance and regulation of Education and Administrative Boards -- Prioritise spending in early stages of education to better support growth and equity -- Improving tertiary education -- Boosting tertiary graduation rates and improving spending efficiency on tertiary education -- Improving access to tertiary education for vulnerable groups -- Making STEM fields more attractive to students, especially women -- Making public university funding more efficient, accountable and transparent -- Improving spending efficiency at public universities -- Broadening the sources of revenues…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cross-Layer Design Framework for Adaptive Cooperative Caching in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks -- 6. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Transport -- Water, sanitation, and solid waste disposal -- Electricity -- Telecommunications -- Improving the efficiency of public investment in infrastructure -- Strengthening the institutional framework for project planning, selection, and execution -- Aligning public procurement procedures with international best practices -- Lowering the regulatory burden and increasing market competition -- Improving the governance of State-Owned Enterprises -- Enhancing financing options for infrastructure projects -- Gaps in the financing of infrastructure -- Diversifying the current model for public-private partnerships -- Improving infrastructure financing -- Better managing risks and mobilising foreign investments in infrastructure -- Further expanding green financing -- Better infrastructure to support climate change mitigation and adaptation -- Developing low-carbon infrastructure to mitigate climate change -- Adapting infrastructure to climate change risks -- References…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…A taste for AFNsA feel for uncertainty; A taste for adaptability; Conclusion; References; 6. Taste in competition; Introduction; Situating agricultural shows; The spectacle of the Royal Canberra Show; Taste, judging and being moved at the show; Relational tastes on show; Conclusion; References; 7. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Streaming media: #tMocha: a quality adaptive multimedia proxy cache for internet streaming /#rR. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Chapter 20: Quantum Computing Applications in Competitive StarCraft -- Chapter 21: Full-Cycle Banana Fission Reactor Design and Analysis -- Chapter 22: A Computationally Efficient Solution to the SLAM Problem in Houses of Mirrors -- Chapter 23: Ray Tracing and the Optical Design of Healing-Crystal-Constructed Adaptive Optics -- Index…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…PSYCHOSIS AND PSYCHOTICISMADHD AND CREATIVITY; PHYSICAL IMPAIRMENTS; ADAPTABILITY AND MALADAPTATIONS; Culture, Creativity, and Adaptability; ENCOURAGING CREATIVITY; SELF-ACTUALIZATION AND THE COURAGE TO CREATE; CONCLUSION; 5 Social, Attributional, and Organizational Perspectives; INTRODUCTION; SOCIAL INFLUENCES ON ENVIRONMENTS AND SETTINGS; SOCIAL JUDGMENT; CONCERNS WITH SOCIAL AND ATTRIBUTIONAL PERSPECTIVES; BIAS IN SOCIAL JUDGMENT; COLLABORATION AND CREATIVITY; COMPETITION AND CREATIVITY; PERSON-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTIONS; ORGANIZATIONAL THEORIES; ORGANIZATIONAL CLIMATE; Optimal Teams…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…From Technological Innovation to "Situated" Innovation: Improving the Adaptation of Engineering Training to the Societal Challenges of the 21st Century -- 1.1. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Anderson and the strangeness of common grace / Solitude, search, and forgiveness in Paris, Texas : an Augustinian turn / Graphic theology : community, Imago Dei, and temptation in 300 / Making dinner : the artistry of communal meals in Babette's feast and Antonia's line / The parable of the poltergeist : making righteous use of the element of horror / The undiscovered country : Star Trek and the Christian's human journey / Theological reflections and philosophical themes in the new DC Comic films : faith and spirituality, self-identity, and worldview through comic book cartoon movie adaptations / C.S. Lewis contra cinema / Fantasy, escapism, and narrative in Pan's labyrinth / Apocalyptic images and prophetic function in zombie films…”
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Tabla de Contenidos: “…Introduction / Drugs, moral geographies, and indigenous peoples : some initial mappings and central issues / The stimulus of prohibition : a critical history of the global narcotics trade / Opium and the people of Laos / Opium production in Afghanistan and Pakistan / The state and the ongoing struggle over coca in Bolivia : legitimacy, hegemony, and the exercise of power / The marijuana milpa : agricultural adaptations in a post-subsistence Maya landscape in southern Belize / Sacred and profane uses of the cactus Lophophora Williamsii from the south Texas Texas peyote gardens / Desert traffic : the dynamics of the drug trade in northwestern Mexico / Cannabis in colonial India : production, state intervention, and resistance in the late nineteenth-century Bengali landscape / Suppressing opium and "reforming" minorities : antidrug campaigns in ethnic communities in the early People's Republic of China / Environmental and social consequences of coca/cocaine in Peru : policy alternatives and a research agenda / Modern use and environmental impact of the kava plant int eh remote Oceania / Mark Merlin, William Raynor -- The global nexus of drug cultivation / Joseph J. …”
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Tabla de Contenidos: “…COVER; CONTENTS; LIST OF FIGURES; LIST OF TABLES; ABOUT THE AUTHORS; PREFACE; CHAPTER ONE Davanloo's ISTDP, psychoneurosis, and the importance of attachment trauma; CHAPTER TWO The neurobiological regulation of emotion and anxiety; CHAPTER THREE Emotion regulation and the role of defences; CHAPTER FOUR Assessment of a patient's anxiety; CHAPTER FIVEResistance, transference, ego-adaptive capacity, and multifoci core neurotic structure; CHAPTER SIX Observational learning and teaching our patients to overcome their problems…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Women's ways of coping with employment stress: a feminist contextual analysisOrganizational change: adaptive coping and the need for training; Coping with subjective health problems in organizations; Organizational interventions; Organizational healthiness: work-related stress and employee health; Organizational-level interventions designed to reduce occupational stressors; Coping with the stress of new organizational challenges: the role of the employee assistance programme; Contemporary organizational realities and professional efficacy: downsizing, reorganization and transition…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…The Commission and development policy: bureaucratic politics in EU aid - from the Lomé leap forward to the difficulties of adapting to the twenty-first century / Adrian Hewitt and Kaye Whiteman --9. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…part, 5I The Classical world -- chapter Introduction / chapter 1 Alcmaeon and his addressees -- Revisiting the incipit * / chapter 2 Gone with the wind -- Laughter and the audience of the Hippocratic treatises / chapter 3 The professional audiences of the Hippocratic Epidemics -- Patient cases in Hippocratic scientific communication 1 / part, 65II The Imperial world -- chapter 4 Galen’s Exhortation to the Study of Medicine -- An educational work for prospective medical students * / chapter 5 An interpretation of the preface to Medical Puzzles and Natural Problems 1 by Pseudo-Alexander of Aphrodisias in light of medical education * / part, 111III The Islamic world -- chapter 6 The user-friendly Galen -- Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq and the adaptation of Greek medicine for a new audience / chapter 7 Medical knowledge as proof of the Creator’s wisdom and the Arabic reception of Galen’s On the Usefulness of the Parts / part, 151IV The Byzantine world -- chapter 8 Physician versus physician -- Comparing the audience of On the Constitution of Man by Meletios and Epitome on the Nature of Men by Leo the Physician * / chapter 9 Reading Galen in Byzantium -- The fate of Therapeutics to Glaucon *…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Organic Waste Composting at Versalles: an Alternative that Contributes to the Economic, Social and Environmental Well-Being of Stakeholders -- 8. Traditional and Adapted Composting Practices Applied in Smallholder Banana-Coffee-Based Farming Systems: Case Studies from Kagera and Morogoro Regions, Tanzania -- 9. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Albanian immigrants in the Greek city: spatial 'invisibility' and identity management as a strategy of adaptation: Ifigeneia Kokkali -- 8. Albanian seasonal work migration to Greece: a case of last resort?…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Foreword -- Preface -- Index -- Chapter 1 Introduction: Setting the Scene -- WG1 DRIVERS OF CHANGE AND INTEGRATED FUTURE SCENARIOS -- Chapter 2 Drivers of Change to Mountain Sustainability -- Chapter 3 Climate Change in the Hindu Kush Himalaya -- Chapter 4 Exploring Futures of the Hindu Kush Himalaya: Scenarios and Pathways -- WG2 SUSTAINABLE RESOURCES MANAGEMENT IN THE HKH -- Chapter 5 Sustaining HKH Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services -- Chapter 6 Meeting Energy Needs in the HKH -- Chapter 7 Status and Change of the HKH Cryosphere -- Chapter 8 Water Security: Availability, Use, and Governance -- Chapter 9 Food and Nutrition Security in the HKH -- Chapter 10 Air Pollution in the HKH -- WG3 SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN THE HKH -- Chapter 11 Disaster Risk Reduction and Increasing Resilience -- Chapter 12 Poverty and Vulnerability in Mountain Livelihoods -- Chapter 13 Adaptations to Climate Change -- Chapter 14 Gender and Inclusive Development -- Chapter 15 Migration in the HKH: Governance, Drivers, and Consequences -- Chapter 156 Environmental Governance in the HKH -- Bibliography…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Local Maximum-Entropy Approximation Schemes -- Genetic Algorithms for Meshfree Numerical Integration -- An RBF Meshless Method for Injection Molding Modelling -- Strain Smoothing for Stabilization and Regularization of Galerkin Meshfree Methods -- Fuzzy Grid Method for Lagrangian Gas Dynamics Equations -- New Shape Functions for Arbitrary Discontinuities without Additional Unknowns -- A Meshless BEM for 2-D Stress Analysis in Linear Elastic FGMs -- A Particle-Partition of Unity Method Part VII: Adaptivity -- Enriched Reproducing Kernel Particle Approximation for Simulating Problems Involving Moving Interfaces -- Deterministic Particle Methods for High Dimensional Fokker-Planck Equations -- Bridging Scale Method and Its Applications -- A New Stabilized Nodal Integration Approach -- Multigrid and M-Matrices in the Finite Pointset Method for Incompressible Flows -- Assessment of Generalized Finite Elements in Nonlinear Analysis -- A Meshfree Method for Simulations of Interactions between Fluids and Flexible Structures -- Goal Oriented Error Estimation for the Element Free Galerkin Method -- Bubble and Hermite Natural Element Approximations…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Introduction -- Problems and Trends in Global Economic Dynamics (Including Specific Examples): Recent Developments on Asset Pricing with Heterogeneous Beliefs and Adaptive Behaviour of Financial Markets -- Modeling House Price Dynamics with Heterogeneous Speculators -- A Reconsideration of the Formal Minskyan Analysis -- Global Bifurcations in a Complementarity Game -- A Little Help from My Friend -- Pattern Formation in Economic Geography -- A Three-region New Economic Geography Model in Discrete Time -- Chaotic Dynamics in Organization Theory -- One-dimensional Discontinuous Piecewise-linear Maps and the Dynamics of Financial Markets -- Consistency of Linear Forecasts in a Nonlinear Stochastic Economy -- A Homoclinic Route to Volatility -- Mathematical Methods and Philosophy for Global Analysis of Dynamical Systems: Image Entropy for Discrete Dynamical Systems -- Embedding a Dim1 Piecewise Continuous and Linear Leonov Map into a Dim2 Invertible Map -- A Gallery of Bifurcation Scenarios in Piecewise Smooth 1D Maps -- Periodic Orbits and Their Bifurcations in 3D Maps with a Separate Third Iterate -- Complexities of Natural Selection Synamics…”