Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Biotechnology battles -- Regulatory contexts -- Science and the law -- Regulation, precaution and ethics -- Science, technology and society -- Conclusion -- 4 Critical Infrastructures: How to Keep the Lights On and the Animals Alive -- Introduction -- Normal accidents -- Electricity systems: keeping the lights on in California -- Pastoral systems: responding to drought and disease -- Beyond the politics of design and control -- Conclusion -- 5 Pandemics: Building Responses from Below -- Epidemiological certainties? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Digital Image and Video Compression and ProcessingImage and Video Coding-Emerging Standards and Beyond; Comparison of International Standards for Lossless Still Image Compression; Embedded Image Coding Using Zerotrees of Wavelet Coefficients; The MPEG-4 Video Standard Verification Model; Multimedia Data-Embedding and Watermarking Technologies; Algorithms for Manipulating Compressed Images; Manipulation and Compositing of MC-DCT Compressed Video; Chapter 3. …”

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Tabla de Contenidos: “…part PART I Developing, implementing and maintaining risk strategies -- chapter 1 Developments in risk security / chapter 2 The evolution of risk management thinking in organizations / chapter 3 Intuition and decision making for crisis situations / chapter 4 Business continuity management organizations: the models of implementation / chapter 5 Knowledge in high-reliability organizations: a review of interrelated perspectives / part Part II Natural and man-made disasters -- chapter 6 A retrospective account of the impacts of the 1960 Valdivia, Chile, earthquake and tsunami and the lack of business continuity planning / chapter 7 What lurks beneath: deep supply chain risks / chapter 8 Crisis leadership: a leader’s new normal / chapter 9 Internal investigations of white-collar crime / chapter 10 Collapse or recovery after white-collar crime / part Part III Infrastructure risks -- chapter 11 Business resiliency considerations: in the site selection and construction of a new facility / chapter 12 Megacities at risk / chapter 13 Self-organization and its role in building disaster resilience / chapter 14 Risk management in the bioeconomy / chapter 15 SMEs defending their businesses from flood risk: contributing to the theoretical discourse on resilience / part Part IV Systems security for business resiliency -- chapter 16 Security awareness in the software arena / chapter 17 Information security in an ever-changing threat landscape / chapter 18 Business continuity and e-business: towards an “always-on” e-business / chapter 19 Using location k-anonymity models for protecting location privacy / part Part V Risk in business sectors -- chapter 20 Accounting information systems: opportunity and risk Shoshana Altschuller and Shaya (Isaiah) Altschuller -- chapter 21 Transcending beyond finance for managing foreign exchange risk / chapter 22 Financial risk inherent in oil fracking / chapter 23 Cause-related marketing and disaster management: opportunities from tourism-related initiatives / chapter 24 Shared sorrow is half a sorrow: the role of social capital in building resilient supply chains / chapter 25 Risk management and auditing of technology incubators/science parks: innovation enabler to drive capacity of tech ventures / part Part VI Qualitative and quantitative risk modeling -- chapter 26 What’s in a name? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…; Chapter 2 Getting All The Pieces of the Puzzle; Equity Market Composition; Evaluating Investment Managers: The Search for, and Use of, Skill; Conclusion; Chapter 3 Beyond the Sortino Ratio…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…""Front Cover""; ""Learning-Based Local Visual Representation and Indexing""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""List of Figures""; ""List of Tables""; ""List of Algorithms""; ""Chapter 1: Introduction""; ""1.1 Background and Significance""; ""1.2 Literature Review of the Visual Dictionary""; ""1.2.1 Local Interest-Point Extraction""; ""1.2.2 Visual-Dictionary Generation and Indexing ""; ""1.3 Contents of This Book""; ""Chapter 2: Interest-Point Detection: Beyond Local Scale""; ""2.1 Introduction""; ""2.2 Difference of Contextual Gaussians""; ""2.2.1 Local Interest-Point Detection""…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…""Title Page""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Contents at a Glance""; ""Table of Contents""; ""Introduction""; ""About This Book""; ""Foolish Assumptions""; ""Icons Used in This Book""; ""Beyond the Book""; ""Where to Go from Here""; ""Part I: Getting Started with Key Performance Indicators""; ""Chapter 1: Introducing Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)""; ""Why Every Company Needs KPIs""; ""The Fishing Analogy""; ""The Datafication of our World""; ""KPIs as vital decision support tools""; ""Making KPIs Work in Your Business""; ""Create a KPI culture""; ""Decide on the right KPI framework""…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…a reflection on the challenges and opportunities for the digital humanities / Ernesto Priego -- Peering beyond the pink tent : queer of color critique across the digital Indian Ocean / Rahul K. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Shifting Power Dynamics and Redefining Fan Culture -- Developing the Strategy -- Defining the NFT Opportunity -- Crafting an NFT Strategy -- Considering the Risks and Mitigating Them -- Music NFT Marketplaces to Consider (as of 2023) -- Summary -- Chapter 7: Other Use Cases -- Understanding NFTs -- The Methodology -- Applications and Use Cases -- Events -- Food and Drink -- Fashion -- Supply Chain -- Summary -- Chapter 8: The Future of NFTs -- A Tale of Three Webs -- Back to the Future -- Beyond the Hype -- Art and Collectibles -- Music and Entertainment -- Gaming and Virtual Worlds -- Fractional Ownership and Liquidity -- Digital Identity and Personal Branding -- Challenges and Potential Solutions -- Lack of Awareness and Education -- Trust and Verification -- Market Speculation and Volatility -- Technical Complexity -- Scalability and Network Congestion -- Copyright and Intellectual Property Challenges -- Environmental Concerns -- Summary -- Chapter 9: Uncovering Trends and Other Applications of NFTS -- NFTs and the Future of Intellectual Property Rights -- NFTs in Real Estate and Physical Assets -- NFTs and Decentralized Finance (DeFi) -- Future NFT Platforms -- NFTs and the Metaverse -- What to Watch For -- Summary -- Glossary -- Index…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover -- Copyright -- Contributors -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1: Reviewing the Basics -- Creating worksheets and dashboards -- Creating worksheets -- Creating a visualization -- Beyond the default behavior -- Show Me -- Creating dashboards -- Building a dashboard -- Adding interactivity to a dashboard -- Connecting Tableau to your data -- Connecting to a file -- Connecting to Tableau Server -- Connecting to saved data sources -- Measure Names and Measure Values -- Measure Names and Measure Values shortcuts -- Three essential Tableau concepts -- Dimensions and measures…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Intro -- Foreword -- Glossary of acronyms -- Executive summary -- The economic recovery has been disrupted by external shocks -- Monetary policy needs to reduce inflation durably -- Fiscal spending must be targeted and sustainable -- Boosting inclusive growth through a stronger and deeper Single Market -- Accelerating the green transition -- Limiting reallocation costs from the green transition -- Basic statistics of the European Union, 2022 -- Basic statistics of the Euro Area, 2022 -- 1 Key Policy Insights -- The European Union is tackling critical challenges -- Economic recovery has been slow and uneven -- The recovery has been hampered by the energy crisis and high inflation -- A forceful policy response helped to reduce the fallout from the energy crisis -- Growth will slow down in 2023, gradually picking up in 2024 -- Monetary policy is broadly appropriate but financial risks are increasing -- The ECB should continue its data-dependent approach to policy -- Inflation has distributional implications, but they are beyond the ECB's mandate -- Unconventional policies should be gradually withdrawn -- Higher interest rates are beginning to weigh on the economy -- Financial sector integration needs to be stepped up -- Fiscal policy needs to become sufficiently restrictive -- Planned public investment may be delayed -- A broad reform of economic governance is needed -- Stronger fiscal councils could help improve compliance more than reliance on sanctions -- The Single Market must be protected and deepened -- Improving product market regulations further would deepen the Single Market -- Strong state aid framework is needed to protect the level playing field -- The EU can help increase resilience -- Avoiding market fragmentation to spur progress towards a digital and green economy…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Positive public administration's long history -- 3. Beyond the binary: understanding success and failure -- 4. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Captive versus partner -- Build-operate-transfer -- Dual-shore delivery -- Going captive and avoiding the expat trap -- Ten lessons learned -- What works elsewhere does not necessarily work in China -- Develop a vision of the future beyond the next shareholder meeting -- Establish the right partnerships from the beginning -- Do your homework -- Commit for the long haul -- Prepare yourself for an unprecedented speed of change -- Choose an outsourcing city based on-- -- People, people, people -- Never give up -- It is all about face -- Winning the talent war -- English makes the world go round -- Recruiting staff -- Salaries on the rise -- Chinese work ethics -- Retaining staff: employee retention and loyalty programs -- China's outsourcing cities -- Beijing -- Shanghai -- Dalian -- Chengdu -- Xi'an -- Jinan -- Hangzhou -- Guangzhou -- Nanjing -- Shenzhen -- IT outsourcing, business process outsourcing, and knowledge process outsourcing in China -- Scope of outsourcing -- Global outsourcing options for customers -- Advantages of outsourcing to China -- Disadvantages to outsourcing to China -- Selection of vendor partners -- Due diligence of the capabilities of vendors -- Importance of business process standards -- Importance of standards in BPO -- Application of standards to different process types -- Process selection for outsourcing -- China's legal framework -- Market entry and establishing a business in China -- Intellectual property rights protection -- Employment issues -- Government policy -- Currency and taxation -- Dispute resolution and litigation -- China 2020 -- Pillar of the economy: focus on the high-tech sector -- Growth of the services sector -- Satisfying a fast-growing global IT and business processes services demand -- Overseas promotions leap forward -- Stable China market economic prospects -- Rise of globalization: in the front row -- China 2020: wild cards -- Appendix A: Exclusive survey of selected cities in cooperation with MOFCOM-- Appendix B: Case studies -- Appendix C: Contact information for major government offices, outsourcing centers, and online resources -- Index…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…s Accessibility Features""; ""Using Voice Recognition and Speech""; ""Book II: Beyond the Basics""; ""Chapter 1: Doing More with Dashboard Widgets""; ""Getting to Know Your Dashboard Widgets""; ""Adding and Removing Widgets""; ""Finding New Widgets""; ""Disabling and Deleting Widgets from Dashboard""; ""Peeking at Other Widget Programs""…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…; Activity 15 The Promises We Make; Activity 16 Delivering Bad News; Activity 17 Mind Your Language!; Activity 18 Beyond the Call of Duty; PART IV Face-to-Face Communication; Introduction; Activity 19 So what you are saying is...; Activity 20 I'm Sorry, I'll Ask That Again; Activity 21 Getting My Point Across; Activity 22 No Problem!…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Chapter 31: Escalate Is Not a Dirty WordChapter 32: Declare Your Project's Risk Value; Chapter 33: How to Run an Effective Meeting; Chapter 34: The S-Shape Curve 50/70 Rule; Part Six: Project Closeout; Chapter 35: Conducting a Post-Project Review; Part Seven: Promoting the Advancement of Project Management beyond Your Projects; Chapter 36: Project Review Mentoring Workshops; Chapter 37: The Project Manager/Resource Manager Leadership Workshop; Chapter 38: How to Institutionalize Improvements in Your Organization; Part Eight: Some Final Thoughts; Glossary; Index…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Connecting the Inner with the Outer: Purpose, Authenticity, and CongruenceUnfolding the Defining Thread of Purpose; Six Thousand Days; Eight Points for Purpose Mastery; Leadership Growth Plan: Purpose Mastery; CHAPTER THREE: INTERPERSONAL MASTERY: Leading through Synergy and Service; Two Principal Streams of Leadership Development; Building Relationship Bridges; Balancing Personal Power with Synergy Power and Contribution Power; Reducing the Intention-Perception Gap; Beyond 360° Feedback to 720° Feedback; Intimate Connection of Personal Mastery and Interpersonal Mastery…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…A Strategic Context for Relationship ManagementRelationship Management Capabilities; Culture and Values; Leadership; People; Technology; Customer analytics, Knowledge and Insight; Process; The Cultural Imperative; Beyond Culture: The Strategic Enablers; Relationship-Based Strategy; Structure; Relationships and the Relationship Manager; Relationship Managers and Mega-Processes; Chapter Three: Planning Relationships with Existing Customers; What's In a Relationship Management Plan?…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Understanding VisionCreating that Compelling Vision; Keeping True to your Organization's Purpose and Core Values; Engaging Key Stakeholders to Cocreate your Vision; Think Big, Bold, and Beyond; Viewing the Future Using the New Corporate Facts of Life; Articulating the Vision; Translating Words into Actions; Applying the New Corporate Facts of Life; Chapter 4: Map the Strategic Journey; Delivering Today's Commitments and Tomorrow's Promise; Mapping your Strategy Using the New Corporate Facts of Life; Evolving your Strategy; Applying the New Corporate Facts of Life…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…HSCSD -- 8.3. EDGE -- 9. Beyond GSM and MTS: 4G -- Appendices -- A. Data communication and networking…”