Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Why and How We Use Strategic Communication -- Agents and Domains of Practice -- What Is Communication? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…; A Tough Road Forward; Organic Middleware Hinges On Semantic Interoperability; Fragmented Industry Efforts and Organic Computing; Autonomic Computing; Semantic Web; Semantic Web Services; Service Grid; Model-Driven Architecture; Intelligent Agents; Achieving Synthesis; Intelligence Information Sharing in the Twenty-First Century…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Challenging (in)vulnerability -- Towards 'Blackhood': conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 6 The Secret Agent -- fictionalizing history: Joseph Conrad and Stan Douglas -- A Simple Tale of the Nineteenth Century -- A moment in flux -- Looping time -- From Hitchcock to the multiscreen -- The process of suture -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 7 New worlds: violent intersections in graphic novels Introduction: new worlds and contrapuntal readings -- A world before violence -- First encounters -- Violent intersections -- New worlds -- Glimmers of hope: a new new world? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Forward Transactions in the Acid Rain Program""; ""Combination with Other Instruments""; ""Means of Application""; ""Means of Information""; ""Compliance Checks and Incentives to Encourage Compliance with the Rules""; ""Provisions to Promote Participation by Agents""; ""Two Examples of Transferable Permit Programmes""; ""Table 3. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…/CFA Lenses Owner/Family Lenses Family Business Advisor Lenses Staff/Vendor Lenses Client Lenses Notes Chapter 5: The Role of Governance Governance Focus on Culture About Boards, Governance & Strategy Healthy Board Governance & Strategy Creates Value Strategy & Equity Value Family Harmony & Legacy as a Governance Driver Board Strategy & Governance Creation Why Governance is Needed Board Structure & Member Traits FO Governance & Risk Management Qualitative Valuation Measures Taking Control The Secret Sauce Governance Measurements Governance Takeaways Notes Chapter 6: The Role of Relationships Client Relationships Advisor Relationships Commercial Bankers Investment Bankers Insurance Agents Wealth Advisors Board of Directors The Bottom Line on "Free" Advisors Accountants Attorneys Fractional CFO Family Relationships Shareholder Relationships Vendor Relationships Community/Legislative/Philanthropic Relationships Notes Chapter 7: The Role of Risk Financial & Legal Oriented Risk Commonly Missed Risks Final thoughts Notes Chapter 8: The Role of Risk Operational Related Risks Operational Related Risks Chapter 9: The Role of Knowledge A Matter of Culture Healthy Knowledge Be Transparent Encourage Two-Way Communication Knowledge and Human Capital Knowledge Measures Notes Chapter 10: Valuation versus Value Creation ("GRRK") Software and Rules of Thumb A Personal Aside Collaboration, Cohesion and Transformation Notes Chapter 11: Putting It All Together - Four Vignettes Vignette One - What the 2009 financial crisis can teach us - it's about relationships Vignette Two - The trees and forest syndrome Vignette Three - The Path Not Taken Vignette Four - Putting it All Together (Strategy, Human Capital and Finance) Recommended Reading About the Author Index …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…""The site.pp File""""Firewall Configuration""; ""Starting the Puppet Master""; ""Connecting Our First Agent""; ""Completing the Connection""; ""Creating Our First Configuration Item""; ""Adding a Node Definition""; ""Creating Our First Module""; ""Module Structure""; ""The init.pp file""; ""Applying Our First Configuration""; ""Summary""; ""Resources""; ""Chapter 2: Building Hosts with Puppet""; ""Getting Started""; ""Installing Puppet""; ""Integrating and Bootstrapping Puppet with Kickstart""; ""Configuring Nodes""; ""Working with Similar Hosts""; ""Using External Sources""…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…""Image Selection""""File System Selection""; ""Virtual Image Optimization""; ""Security Considerations""; ""Reference Architecture""; ""Conclusion""; ""Chapter 4: MySQL, Git, and Postfix""; ""Database Categories""; ""Picking a Database""; ""Installing MySQL""; ""MySQL Failover""; ""MySQL Enterprise Design""; ""Managing MySQL""; ""Backing up MySQL""; ""Getting Help with MySQL""; ""Future of MySQL""; ""E-mail in an Enterprise""; ""E-mail Solution Strategy""; ""Enterprise Mail Transfer Agents""; ""Postfix Enterprise Design""; ""Install ing Postfix""; ""Configuring Postfix""…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…CHAPTER 8 - DISCOVERING COVERT CRIMESDEPLOYMENT OF UNDERCOVER AGENTS; SHOPLIFTING SURVEILLANCE; REFERENCES; Part III BUILDING A CASE; CHAPTER 9 - INTERVIEWS AND INTERROGATIONS; INTERVIEWING; INTERROGATION; PREPARING FOR THE INTERROGATION; CONCLUSION; REFERENCE; CHAPTER 10 - AN OVERVIEW OF THE INTERVIEW AND INTERROGATION PROCESS; DEMEANOR; RAPPORT; INTERVIEW AND INTERROGATION; CONDUCTING THE INTERVIEW; SELLING THE INTERVIEW; STATEMENT ANALYSIS-THE UNTAINTED STORY; FACT GATHERING; LIFESTYLE INTERVIEWS; COGNITIVE INTERVIEWING; COMMON INTERVIEWER ERRORS; BEHAVIORAL INTERVIEWING; DIAGRAMS…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Uncertainty analysisStatic uncertainties; Dynamic uncertainties; Ito process representation; Mental models; Decision making with uncertainty; Optimization approach; Agent-based scenario analysis; Case studies; Summary; References; 2 Recent developments in the application of Fisher information to sustainable environmental management; Introduction; Information theory; Fisher information; Dynamic order, regime shifts, and the sustainable regimes hypothesis; Comparison of Computational Approaches: Assessing Sustainability in Model Systems…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…; Concepts and Application; Understanding the Nature of Change; Types of Change; Change Models; Lewin's Planned Change Model; Action Research Model; The Positive Model; Change and Life-Cycle Theories; Summary; Chapter 2: Change and People; Concepts and Application; Change Agents; Recipients of Change; Using Organizational Culture to Support Recipients of Change…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Creating an expressive embodied conversational agent based on Okot p'Biteks' Song of Lawino -- Alexis Malefakis From "recycling art" to "reverse engineering". …”

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Tabla de Contenidos: “…part SECTION I A Prologue -- chapter 1 Introduction: What You Hold in Your Hand -- chapter 2 Aristotle’s Poetics : It’s All Greek to Me -- chapter 3 Motivating Factors: Why We Tell Stories -- chapter 4 Starting the Journey: Defining the Road Ahead -- part SECTION II A Beginning -- chapter 5 Story: And I’m Sticking to It -- chapter 6 Ideas: Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire -- chapter 7 Conflict: People Who Write Should Throw Stones -- chapter 8 Wholeness: We Need Some Closure -- chapter 9 Magnitude: It All Boils Down to One Thing -- chapter 10 Loglines: Putting It All Together (Part 1) -- part SECTION III A Middle -- chapter 11 Plot: Let’s Stay Connected -- chapter 12 Reversals and Recognitions: Pieces of the Action -- chapter 13 Change of Fortune: Covenant of the Arc -- chapter 14 Fatal Flaw: And the Plot Thickens -- chapter 15 Structure: The Shape of Things to Come -- chapter 16 The Three Acts: Let’s Break It Down -- chapter 17 Anchor Points: A Pattern of Design -- chapter 18 Character: The Agents of the Action -- chapter 19 Defining Traits: What’s Good and Appropriate -- chapter 20 The 5 Ps: They Help Build Character -- chapter 21 Motivating Behavior: Goooooaaal!! …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Show Ethical, Strong and Consistent Leadership -- Regulate -- Monitor and Measure what Matters -- Develop a Reputation for Ethical Behaviour -- Listen and Understand: Communicate Effectively -- The Principles of Great PR -- Technology: Creating and Improving Relationships -- 3 Achieving Socially Inclusive Wealth Creation -- Time to Return to Socially Inclusive Wealth Creation -- The Pearson Story -- Achieving Socially Inclusive Wealth Creation -- Establish a Business Covenant -- Recognise Your Moral Duty -- Be an Agent of Social Inclusion -- Changing Eating Habits -- Be Fair- and Create the Right Environment for Business in Our Society -- The John Lewis Partnership -- Finally, Do the Right Thing and Show Leadership -- 4 Harnessing the Power of Education, Training and Skills -- Why is Education, Training and Skills Such a Vital Business Issue? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Chapter 5: Operating Linux on Azure -- Optimize -- Azure Cost Management -- Azure Advisor -- Manage and Secure -- Linux Agent for Azure -- Extensions -- Data protection -- Azure Disk Encryption -- Updating Linux on Azure -- Azure Update Management -- Hands-on managing Linux on Azure -- Creating a Log Analytics workspace -- Onboarding an Azure virtual machine -- Data collection -- Querying data -- Summary -- Chapter 6: Troubleshooting and problem solving -- Remote connectivity and VM start issues -- Run commands without a network connection -- Boot diagnostics and serial console access -- Common boot problems -- Common Linux runtime challenges -- SELinux -- Storage configuration issues -- Disk encryption problems -- Resizing disks -- Performance issues and analysis -- Azure diagnostics tooling - a summary -- Opening support requests -- Summary -- New horizons for Linux in Azure -- Index…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Expect: expectationFrom: email_address; Host: hostname:port; If-Modified-Since: date; If-Match: entity_tag; If-None-Match: entity_tag; If-Range: (entity_tag|date; If-Unmodified-Since: date; Max-Forwards: n; Proxy-Authorization: credentials; Range: bytes=n-m; Referer: url; TE: transfer-codings; User-Agent: string; Server Response Headers; Accept-Ranges: bytes|none; Age: seconds; ETag: entity_tag; Location: url; Proxy-Authenticate: scheme realm; Retry-After: date|seconds; Server: string; Set-Cookie: name=value options; Vary: headers; WWW-Authenticate: scheme realm; Entity Headers…”

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Tabla de Contenidos: “…The power of communityProven benefits; The challenge ahead; Summary; Points to ponder; 3 Technology: the knowledge enhancer; Knowledge tools; Knowledge repositories; Data warehouses; Document management; Online databases; Knowledge creation; Knowledge discovery; Data mining; Text mining; Visualization; Information gathering; Search engines; Intelligent agents; Customized information provision; Push vs pull; Knowledge development; Simulation and modelling; Guidance systems; Case-based reasoning; Collaborative technologies; Group decision support systems; Information persistence…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…People in OrganizationsOrganizational Culture; Athenian Versus Spartan Outlooks; Risk-Taking Versus Risk-Avoiding Outlooks; Innovative Versus Legacy Outlooks; Conclusion; 5: The Moral Dimension; Broad Categories of Moral Failings; Deceit; Negligence; Illegal Behavior; Moral Hazard; Principal-Agent Dilemma; Morality, Ethics, and Legality: They Are Different; Last Word; 6: People as Decision-Makers; Factors That Affect How Individuals Make Decisions; Personality; Creative Capacity; Intelligence; Competence and Capability; Cognitive State; Psychological State…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Banking Law and Practice: The Hong Kong Institute of Bankers; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Part 1: Bank-Customer Relationship and Account Opening; 1: Contractual Relationships in Law and Practice; Learning Objectives; Introduction; Definition of 'Customer'; Nature of the Banker-Customer Relationship; Banker and Customer; Debtor and Creditor; Principal and Agent; Bailor and Bailee; Laws and Practice; Common Law; Legislative Sources; Statutory and Non-statutory Guidelines; Code of Banking Practice; Mandates; Power of Attorney; Types of Power of Attorney; Rules in the Use of Power of Attorney…”