Tabla de Contenidos: “…Policy and politics in associations and interest groups -- Interest groups in health care policy and politics / Policy issues in nursing associations / Taking action: school nursing at the intersection of health and education / Taking action: the alliance of nurses for healthy environments promoting environmental health / Coalitions: a powerful political strategy / Taking action: campaign for action / Taking action: why not Minot? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Discours inaugural du colloque -- Napoléon III et Eugénie : un couple impérial hors-norme -- L'union originale de deux personnalités atypiques -- Les grandeurs et les servitudes du couple impérial -- L'union retrouvée du couple dans l'adversité -- Les Montijo -- Maria Francisca de Sales Portocarrero y Guzmin (1754-1808), comtesse de Montijo, grand-mère de l'Impératrice -- Eugenio Palafox y Portocarrero (1773-1834), comte de Montijo, oncle et parrain de l'Impératrice -- Cipriano Palafox y Portocarrero (1784-1839), comte de Montijo, père de l'Impératrice -- Prosper Mérimée et une future impératrice de quatre ans -- Joséphine, Hortense et Eugénie -- Une géographie du souvenir -- Un récit mémoriel omniprésent -- Grâce, talents et bonté -- La roue tourne -- L'impératrice Eugénie, savoir-être et l'art de paraître -- De son enfance espagnole à la Cour des Tuileries -- De la cour des Tuileries à la chute du pouvoir impérial (1870) -- De la chute du pouvoir impérial (1870) au décès de l'Empereur (1873) et du Prince impérial (1879) -- De la mort du Prince impérial à son décès à Madrid (1920) -- Pour un regard plus intime, à la recherche de son "être", loin de la "Fée Chiffon" -- La maison de l'Impératrice -- Une Maison pour l'Impératrice -- Mettre en scène le pouvoir -- Des dames au service de l'Empire -- L'agentivité médiatique de l'impératrice Eugénie -- L'impératrice Eugénie et les diamants de la couronne -- L'impératrice Eugénie vue par la noblesse française -- L'amie impératrice -- Un héritier en quête de reconnaissance -- Le couple princier et la fête impériale -- L'avènement et l'éloignement du prince -- Tractations diplomatiques et stratégies matrimoniales -- La fidélité après l'Empire -- Voisine de la Principauté -- La régence de l'impératrice Eugénie -- Construire une dynastie -- La retranscription juridique de l'objectif politique -- La loi de régence -- L'héritage relatif du Premier Empire -- L'usage politique du cadre juridique : Eugénie, impératrice-régente -- Les régences intérimaires de 1859 et 1865 -- La régence tragique de 1870 -- L'impératrice Eugénie dans la diplomatie du Second Empire -- Le succès d'un mariage sans alliance -- L'Impératrice et les grandes initiatives internationales -- Eugénie dans l'Empire fragilisé -- L'année charnière de la politique étrangère de Napoléon III au prisme d'Eugénie -- L'espoir autrichien d'Eugénie -- La fondation d'un royaume de Pologne sous une tête couronnée autrichienne -- La fondation d'un royaume de Pologne au sein d'une Europe aux frontières redéfinies -- La déception autrichienne d'Eugénie -- Le désarroi religieux -- Le désarroi diplomatique -- Mater dolorosa -- Un demi-siècle d'exil -- Du Pharo au cap Martin, les projets de villa impériale en Méditerranée -- Les sources : architecture, archives et sources littéraires -- Balnéaire et politique -- Le désir de Méditerranée : du palais français à la villa de bord de mer -- L'impératrice et l'architecture -- Quel pouvoir pour une épouse de souverain ? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights -- 2012 EU Data Protection Reform -- 2013 California Department of Justice Agreement -- 2013 UK's Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill with Midata Rights -- 2013 Network Advertising Initiative (NAI) Code of Conduct -- 2012 EU Commission Cloud Computing Report -- 2013 California Department of Justice's "Privacy on the Go" -- 2013 EU's Article 29 Data Protection Working Party Opinion -- 2013 UK's Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB) -- 2013 European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance Campaign -- Pivotal Business Event Time Line -- Notes -- CHAPTER 11 Future Consumer Data Ecosystem -- Consumer as Information Stakeholder -- Mature Consumer/Business Information Sharing Models -- The Collaborative Data Landscape -- Personal Data Flows in an Ecosystem -- Walking through the Model -- Personal Zone -- Personal Zone Connects Individual to Organizations -- Infomediaries Work on the Individual's Behalf for Businesses/Markets -- Data Aggregators in the Personal Data Ecosystem -- Three Key Components Enabling the Personal Data Ecosystem -- Frameworks: The Major Ecosystem Governance Mechanism -- Governance Manages Risk -- Recap -- Volunteered Customer Information Service Characteristics -- Personal Information as a Sovereign/Monetized Asset -- Personal Data Ecosystem -- PDE Data Elements -- PDE Roles and Flows -- PDE Data Sovereignty and Interoperability -- New Customer's Voice Feeds New Business Intelligence -- Notes -- About the Author -- Index -- EULA…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover -- Contents -- Forewords -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- About the Authors -- Section I: Agile Development -- Chapter 1: Agile Practices -- The Agile Alliance -- Principles -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Chapter 2: Overview of Extreme Programming -- The Practices of Extreme Programming -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Chapter 3: Planning -- Initial Exploration -- Release Planning -- Iteration Planning -- Defining "Done" -- Task Planning -- Iterating -- Tracking -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Chapter 4: Testing -- Test-Driven Development -- Acceptance Tests -- Serendipitous Architecture -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Chapter 5: Refactoring -- A Simple Example Of Refactoring: Generating Primes -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Chapter 6: A Programming Episode -- The Bowling Game -- Conclusion -- Overview of the Rules of Bowling -- Section II: Agile Design -- Chapter 7: What Is Agile Design? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Union-brand Initiatives: Action, Collaboration, Transformation -- Union Initiatives: IndustriALL's Regional Strategy On Living Wages -- Union-NGO Initiatives: Asia Floor Wage Alliance -- NGO Initiatives: Global Living Wage Coalition -- Conclusion: Strengths and Weaknesses of Different Approaches -- Notes -- References -- 16 Conclusion -- Minimum Wages Are Not Living Wages -- Living Wages in the Neoliberal Era -- European Collectivism and Trade Unions -- A New 'Social Contract' for Decent Work -- A Global Living Wage -- References -- Index…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Delineating the Yocto Project -- The alliance of the OpenEmbedded project and the Yocto Project -- Understanding Poky -- BitBake -- OpenEmbedded Core -- Metadata -- The Yocto Project releases -- Summary -- Chapter 2: Baking Our First Poky-Based System -- Preparing the build host system -- Using Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSLv2) -- Preparing a Linux-based system -- Downloading the Poky source code -- Preparing the build environment -- Knowing the local.conf file -- Building a target image -- Running images in QEMU -- Summary -- Chapter 3: Using Toaster to Bake an Image -- What is Toaster? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Accelerating Technology Developments -- Simulation Development Environment -- THE CHALLENGES AHEAD -- Archival Storage Systems and Data Management -- Input/Output -- Networks -- Data Analysis and Visualization -- Scientific Simulation Software -- Computer Systems Software -- THE ASCI ALLIANCES -- ASCI'S CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE GREATER SCIENCE COMMUNITY -- SUMMARY -- DISCUSSION -- 2 Software Development for Computational Chemistry: Does Anything Remain to Be Done? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Streit's "Nucleus Approach" to World Organization -- The Structural Interdependence of Democracy, Security, and Effective World Organization -- "How the Unit Shapes the End": The Primacy of Individual Equality -- Realism Through Democracy: Dynamics and Traits in Streit's Formal Model -- The Nucleus Idea and the Postwar Euro-Atlantic Institutions -- References -- 9 Current Proposals for Closer Cooperation Among Democracies -- Contemporary Options for Structured Cooperation -- The Promising D10 Proposal and Its Variants -- The Variables Underlying Options for Democratic Alliance -- The Shadow War Already Exists -- Notes -- References -- 10 Representation and Participation of Citizens at the United Nations: The Democratic Legitimacy of the UN and Ways to Improve It -- The Right to Democracy -- International Recognition of Democratic Rights -- Right to a Democratic International Order -- The Democratic Deficit of the UN -- The UN as an Intergovernmental Organization -- A Broken Chain of Legitimation -- A Cosmopolitan Perspective -- A UN Parliamentary Assembly -- Rationale and Concept…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Newton-Fisher -- Cooperation, coalition, alliances / Charlotte K. Hemelrijk, Jutta Steinhauser…”

“…"Cellular Internet of Things: From Massive Deployments to Critical 5G Applications, Second Edition, gives insights into the recent and rapid work performed by the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) and the Multefire Alliance (MFA) to develop systems for the Cellular IoT. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Summary -- Chapter 10: Understanding Your Building's Existing Smart Level and Systems -- How smart is your building -- The Smarter Stack -- WiredScore -- SPIRE Smart Building AssessmentTM -- Smart Building Alliance -- Smart Building Collective assessment and certification -- Current building systems -- Civil systems -- Structural systems -- Mechanical systems -- Electrical systems -- Energy systems -- Plumbing systems -- Technology systems -- Communication systems -- A post-smart building assessment -- Network diagram -- System modification, upgrade, replacement, and addition -- Summary -- Chapter 11: Technology and Applications -- Hardware technology -- Smart building applications -- IoT middleware -- Codes, standards, and guidelines to consider -- Summary -- Part 4: Building Sustainability for Contribution to Smart Cities -- Chapter 12: A Roadmap to Your Smart Building Will Require Partners -- Smart project planning -- A built environment drives the majority of IoT smart buildings projects -- New buildings create built-in IoT opportunities -- Partners -- Smart building project roadmap…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Surrounding initiatives -- World Community Grid -- Globus Alliance -- Global Grid Forum -- OASIS and WSRF TC -- W3C -- TeraGrid -- Appendix B. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…SEBI's Poor Performance-Suggestions for Improvement -- Conclusion -- Keywords -- Discussion Questions -- Notes -- Suggested Readings -- Chapter 6: Corporate Governance and Other Stakeholders -- Introduction -- Corporate Governance and Employees -- Wealth Creation Requires Capital and Labour -- Corporate Governance and Customers -- The Society Bears The Hidden Taxation -- The Stakeholder Alliance -- Customer's Information Needs -- Consumer Protection Acts -- Consumer Protection Act 1986 -- Corporate Governance and Institutional Investors -- Types of Institutional Investors in India -- Factors Influencing Investment Decisions -- Findings of the Study Conducted by Pitabas Mohanty -- Kumar Mangalam Birla Committee and Institutional Investors -- The McKinsey Survey on Corporate Governance -- Corporate Governance and Creditors -- Creditor Monitoring and Control -- Adequate Information -- Creditor Incentives -- Debt Collection -- Kinds of Debts Provided to Corporates -- Diffused Debt -- Concentrated Debt -- Corporate Governance and the Community -- Practical Steps to Corporate Social Responsibility -- Corporate Governance and the Government -- Conclusion -- Keywords -- Discussion Questions -- Notes -- Suggested Readings -- Case Study: The Tylenol Crisis: How Ethical Practices Saved Johnson &amp -- Johnson from Collapse -- Chapter 7: Board of Directors: A Powerful Instrument in Corporate Governance -- Introduction -- Corporate Management Structure -- Company Director and the Board -- Who is a Director? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Nouvelles technologies et mondialisation des PME -- Cadre général -- Les PME et la restructuration mondiale -- Alliances stratégiques -- Figure 2.9. Alliances transnationales impliquant des PME, 1988-2000 -- Fusions et acquisitions -- Fournisseurs spécialisés -- Encadré 2.6. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Victoria López-Cordón -- La conservación de la herencia española de Carlos VI en la paz de Utrecht / Virginia León Sanz -- Philippe V contre les traités d'Utrecht : la reconnaissance diplomatique de l'espace baltique entre 1717 et 1719 / Nuŕria Sallés Vilaseca -- Le destin d'Ypres (1635-1715) : une ville frontalière dans le comté de Flandre / Rik Opsommer -- Les Amériques au temps d'Utrecht : l'intégration d'un continent fragmenté / Guillaume Hanotin -- La diplomatie à l'épreuve de l'empire Les Amérindiens dans le traité d'Utrecht / Gilles Havard -- La "pérdida de las Indias": el comercio colonial español y la competencia de los imperios mercantiles / Ana Crespo Solana -- La politique maritime de la France à l'égard de l'Espagne et de ses colonies américaines (1697-1703) / Philippe Hrodej -- La poltique européenne en Inde après les Traités d'Utrecht : une alliance franco-anglo-hollandaise en Bengale / Massimiliano Vaghi -- La persistance des questions coloniales d'Utrecht à Aix-la-Chapelle / François Ternat -- La paix d'Utrecht et les États de Savoie / Laurent Perrillat -- Les Hanséates à Utrecht : l'affirmation d'une identité spécifique en Europe et dans le Saint-Empire / Indravati Félicité -- La paix d'Utrecht vue par les agents du roi de France à Rome / François Brizay -- Genève et la paix d'Utrecht. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright and Credits -- Packt Upsell -- Contributors -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1: DevSecOps Drivers and Challenges -- Security compliance -- ISO 27001 -- Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) -- Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) -- Center for Internet Security (CIS) and OpenSCAP - securing your infrastructure -- National Checklist Program (NCP) repository -- OpenSCAP tools -- Legal and security compliance -- New technology (third-party, cloud, containers, and virtualization) -- Virtualization -- Dockers -- Infrastructure as Code (IaC) -- Cloud services hacks/abuse -- Case study - products on sale -- What do hackers do? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Data Distribution Service for real-time systems (DDS) -- 5.5.4. Open Mobile Alliance Device Management (OMA-DM) -- 5.6. Internet of Everything (IoE) -- 5.6.1. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover -- Copyright -- Contributors -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Part 1: Foundations of Java Concurrency and Parallelism in Cloud Computing -- Chapter 1: Concurrency, Parallelism, and the Cloud: Navigating the Cloud-Native Landscape -- Technical requirements -- The dual pillars of concurrency versus parallelism - a kitchen analogy -- When to use concurrency versus parallelism - a concise guide -- Java and the cloud - a perfect alliance for cloud-native development -- Exploring cloud service models and their impact on software development -- Java's transformation in the cloud - a story of innovation -- Java - the cloud-native hero -- Java's cloud-focused upgrades - concurrency and beyond -- Real-world examples of successful cloud-native Java applications -- Modern challenges in cloud-native concurrency and Java's weapons of choice -- Wrangling distributed transactions in Java - beyond classic commits -- Maintaining data consistency in cloud-native Java applications -- Handling state in microservices architectures -- Cloud database concurrency - Java's dance moves for shared resources -- Parallelism in big data processing frameworks -- Cutting-edge tools for conquering cloud-native concurrency challenges -- Conquering concurrency - best practices for robust cloud-native applications -- Code examples illustrating best practices -- Ensuring consistency - the bedrock of robust concurrency strategies -- Summary -- Exercise - exploring Java executors -- Questions -- Chapter 2: Introduction to Java's Concurrency Foundations: Threads, Processes, and Beyond -- Technical requirements -- Java's kitchen of concurrency - unveiling threads and processes -- What are threads and processes? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Asset/Liability Management Models -- Credit Risk Analytics -- Credit-Scoring Models -- Credit Migration Models -- Counterparty Credit Exposure Models -- Credit Portfolio Models -- Financial and Econometric Models -- Actuarial Models -- Operational Risk Analytics -- Top-Down Approaches -- Bottom-Up Approaches -- GRC Systems -- Chapter 10 Data and Technology -- Early Systems -- Data Management -- Interface Building -- Middleware -- Distributed Architectures -- Key Factors for a Successful Implementation -- Chapter 11 Stakeholder Management -- Employees -- Recruiting and Screening -- Training and Development -- Retention and Promotion -- Firing and Resignation -- Customers -- Acquisition and Retention -- Loyalty and Satisfaction -- Know Your Customer -- Handling Crisis -- Regulators -- Rating Agencies -- Shareholder Service Providers -- Business Partners -- Evaluating an Alliance -- Finding the Right Partner -- Monitoring Progress -- Section Three Risk Management Applications -- Chapter 12 Credit Risk Management -- Key Credit Risk Concepts -- Exposure, Severity, and Default -- Expected Loss -- Unexpected Loss -- Reserves and Economic Capital -- Off-Balance Sheet Credit Risk -- The Credit Risk Management Process -- Policy and Infrastructure -- Credit Granting -- Monitoring and Exposure Management -- Portfolio Management -- Credit Review -- Basel Requirements -- Best Practices in Credit Risk Management -- Basic Practice -- Standard Practice -- Best Practice -- Case Study: Export Development Corporation (EDC) -- Lines of Business -- Credit Risk at EDC -- EDC 's Credit Risk Policy Manual -- EDC 's Statement of Credit Risk Philosophy -- Chapter 13 Market Risk Management -- Types of Market Risk -- Market Risk Measurement -- Gap Analysis -- Duration -- Value-at-Risk -- Calculating VaR -- Three Flavors of VaR -- Estimating the Market Risk of Extreme Events…”