“…By taking advantage of the accountable advertising model that direct response has to offer, you can improve your bottom line, build brands, and develop lasting relationships with legions of satisfied customers. …”

“…The milieu of best selling books on business strategies involving these communities have companies scrambling to create communities, both internal and external, to increase their bottom line, increase employee retention, improve products, and aid in marketing campaigns.Interface designers and usability specialists are being called on more and more to build communities for a variety of these business strategies. …”

“…He provides a comprehensive account of their interdependence: why the financial sector is crucial to achieving sustainability and why the triple bottom line of commercial, environmental and social success points the way forward for banking. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Service Identification and Design -- Service identification -- Top-down -- Example of top-down service identification -- Business service identification -- Information service identification -- Technical service identification -- Bottom-up -- Meet in the middle -- I have identified my services, now what? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…6.5.1 Mobile Eye-Tracking and Gaze-Based Interaction -- 6.5.2 Personalized Gaze-Based Decision Support -- 6.6 Conclusions and Future Work -- References -- 7 Urban Metabolism -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 History of Urban Metabolism -- 7.3 Methods of Urban Metabolism -- 7.3.1 Bottom-Up Methods -- 7.3.2 Top-Down Methods -- 7.3.3 Hybrid Methods -- 7.4 A Case Study: The Metabolism of Singapore -- 7.5 Urban Metabolism Applications, Challenges, and Opportunities -- 7.6 Conclusions -- References -- 8 Spatial Economics, Urban Informatics, and Transport Accessibility -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 Intellectual Context -- 8.3 Econometric Models -- 8.3.1 Isotropic Versus Hierarchical Market Linkages for Economic Mass (EM) Computation -- 8.3.2 Control Variables -- 8.3.3 Representing Spatial Spillover Effects -- 8.4 Data -- 8.5 Model Test Results -- 8.6 Discussions -- 8.7 Conclusions -- References -- 9 Conceptualizing the City of the Information Age -- 9.1 Introduction -- 9.1.1 Urban Complexity in the Age of Information and Communication Technologies -- 9.1.2 A Different Kind of City -- 9.1.3 The Smart City -- 9.1.4 Urban Informatics -- 9.2 Urban Research and Planning, Yesterday, and Tomorrow -- 9.2.1 The City as Place -- 9.2.2 The City as Node on a Network -- 9.2.3 Planning the City -- 9.3 Speculations -- 9.3.1 The Robotic Era? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…4.1.2.2.2 Conditional MRP -- 4.1.2.3 Research discussions on ERP -- 4.1.2.4 Variations in risk premium estimations -- 4.1.2.5 Risk premiums in other markets -- 4.1.2.5.1 Estimation of country risk premium from default spread -- 4.1.2.5.2 Country risk premium from volatility of stock prices -- 4.1.2.5.3 Estimation of default spread from bonds -- 4.1.3 Estimation of cost of equity -- 4.1.4 Beta estimation -- 4.1.4.1 Historical beta estimation -- 4.1.4.1.1 Regression beta calculation -- 4.1.4.2 Fundamental beta estimation -- 4.1.4.2.1 Fundamental beta -- 4.1.4.2.2 Determinants of beta -- 4.1.4.2.3 Bottom-up approach for beta estimation -- 4.1.4.2.4 Steps in bottom-up beta estimation -- 4.1.4.3 Accounting betas -- 4.1.5 Cost of equity -- 4.1.6 Cost of capital -- 4.1.6.1 Cost of debt calculation -- 4.1.6.2 Cost of preferred stocks -- 4.1.6.2.1 Estimation of Weighted Average Cost of Capital (WACC) -- 4.1.6.2.2 Estimation of values of capital components -- 4.1.6.2.3 Estimations of components of debt capital -- 4.1.7 Estimation of cost of capital-industry practices -- 4.1.8 Estimation of WACC-Johnson &amp -- Johnson -- 4.1.8.1 Estimation of cost of capital of Chevron corporation -- References -- 5 Principles of cash flow estimation -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Adjustments to financial statements -- 5.2.1 Invested capital -- 5.2.2 Debt -- 5.2.3 Equity -- 5.2.4 Return on Invested Capital -- 5.2.5 Free cash flow -- 5.2.6 Operating working capital -- 5.2.7 Net capital expenditure -- 5.2.8 Provisions and reserves -- 5.2.9 Earnings adjustments -- 5.3 Adjustments of expensed investments -- 5.3.1 Adjustment for financing expenses: case of operating leases -- 5.3.2 Adjustment for operating lease: case of IBM in 2013 -- 5.3.3 Summary of adjustments for operating income -- 5.4 Reflections on managed earnings -- 5.4.1 Tax effect on valuation…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Chapter 4: Syntax Analyzer -- 4.1 Top-down and Bottom-up Parsing -- 4.2 Top-down Parsing -- 4.2.1 Recursive-descent Parser (RDP) -- 4.2.2 Exercises -- 4.2.3 Parser for Simple LL(1) Grammars -- 4.2.4 LL(1) Grammar Without ε-rules -- 4.2.5 LL(1) Grammars with ε-rules -- 4.3 Bottom-up Parsing -- 4.3.1 Shift/Reduce Parsing -- 4.3.2 Operator Precedence Parsing -- 4.3.3 LR Grammars -- 4.3.4 FSM for an LR(0) Parser -- 4.3.5 Design of the FSM for an LR(0) Parser -- 4.3.6 Table-driven LR(0) Parser -- 4.3.7 Parsing Decision Conflicts -- 4.3.8 Canonical LR(1) Parser -- 4.3.9 SLR(1) Parser -- 4.3.10 Conflict Situations -- 4.3.11 Look-ahead (LA) Sets -- 4.3.12 LALR(1) Parser -- 4.4 Yacc - A Parser Generator -- 4.4.1 YACC - A Compiler Writing Tool -- 4.4.2 Working of the Parser Generated by YACC -- 4.4.3 Input Specification -- 4.4.4 Recursion in Grammar Specification -- 4.4.5 Actions -- 4.4.6 Ambiguity and Conflict Resolution -- 4.4.7 Error Handling -- 4.4.8 Arbitrary Value Types -- 4.4.9 Debugging yacc -- 4.4.10 Working Examples -- 4.5 Other Parser Generators -- 4.5.1 Bison -- 4.5.2 Parse::Yapp -- 4.5.3 ANTLR -- 4.6 Grammar for miniC -- 4.7 Symbol Table and Parser -- 4.7.1 Pre-defined Entities -- 4.8 Real-life - GCC: GNU Compiler Collection -- Exercises -- Web Resources -- Further Reading -- Glossary -- Chapter 5: Syntax-directed Translation -- 5.1 Implicit Stacking in RDP -- 5.2 Synchronized Semantic Stacks -- 5.2.1 Semantic Stack in yacc -- 5.3 Action Symbols -- 5.3.1 Action Symbols in yacc -- 5.4 Attribute Grammars -- 5.4.1 Syntax-directed Techniques -- 5.4.2 Definition of Attribute Grammar -- 5.4.3 Dependency Graphs -- 5.4.4 Definitions: Inherited and Synthesized Attributes -- 5.4.5 S-Type Definitions and Grammars -- 5.4.6 L-Type Definitions and Grammars -- 5.4.7 Synthesized and Inherited Attributes in yacc -- 5.4.8 More on Inherited Attributes in yacc…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- A Devil's Advocate -- Takeaway -- Chapter 2: And You Thought Earnings Are the Bottom Line -- The Lucrative Earnings Prediction -- Curb Your Enthusiasm -- Earnings Had Its Days of Glory -- But Wait, What about the Earnings Consensus? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Unikernels -- Hybrid Virtualization -- Security Trade-offs -- Securing Linux -- Not sharing -- Security-The Lowest Common Denominator -- Current Packet Handling -- Application Processing -- Background-Context Switch/Data Copy Reduction -- Background-Scalar Versus Vectorization -- Ongoing-Intel Advancements (and Academic Work) -- Netmap and vhost-User -- Software packet handling bottom line -- Turnkey Optimization (Is There an EASY Button?) …”

“…Quality assurance advances with not only a stereoscopic top-down and bottom-up planning method, but also the incorporation of the latest in automated test engines. …”

“…Bring the heart of your company into the community with effective CSR Doing Good by Doing Good shows companies how to improve the bottom line by implementing an engaging, authentic, and business-enhancing program that helps staff and business thrive. …”

“… Now that ActionScript is reengineered from top to bottom as a true object-oriented programming (OOP) language, reusable design patterns are an ideal way to solve common problems in Flash and Flex applications. …”

“…Master the analysis and business modeling techniques that help you transform your data into bottom-line results. Award-winning business professor and corporate consultant Wayne Winston shares the best of his real-world experience in this practical guide-now updated for Excel 2007. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part I: The truth about what makes writing work -- TRUTH 1 Most people aim for the wrong target -- TRUTH 2 If you can say it, you can write it -- TRUTH 3 Forget yesterday-write for today -- TRUTH 4 Planning is the magic ingredient -- TRUTH 5 To achieve your goal, look below its surface -- TRUTH 6 Cut to the chase: Put the bottom line on top -- TRUTH 7 "Me"-focused messages fail -- TRUTH 8 People are not the same: Write for differences -- TRUTH 9 Tone makes-or breaks-your message -- TRUTH 10 Knowing your inside story is the key -- TRUTH 11 Forget outlines-organize your thinking -- TRUTH 12 How to organize is a personal choice -- TRUTH 13 Every message you send has a psychological impact -- TRUTH 14 Effective messages lead with strength -- TRUTH 15 To succeed, cover your ground and remember "the ask" -- TRUTH 16 Your goal and audience determine the best way to communicate -- Part II: The truth about self-editing -- TRUTH 17 The best writers don't write -- they rewrite -- TRUTH 18 Rhythm and transitions make writing move -- TRUTH 19 Less can be a whole lot more -- TRUTH 20 Passive thinking and jargon undermine clarity -- TRUTH 21 You don't need grammar drills to spot your writing problems -- Part III: The truth about successful e-mail -- TRUTH 22 Use e-mail to communicate in the fast lane-powerfully -- TRUTH 23 Good subject lines say, "Open sesame" -- TRUTH 24 Know your e-mail do's and don'ts -- TRUTH 25 Writing good progress reports is worth your time -- Part IV: The truth about letters -- TRUTH 26 Letters: They live! …”

“…A manager’s guide to inspiring employees to work at peak performance—to improve organizational culture and help meet the bottom-line About the Book Manager’s Guide to Motivating Employees is the perfect primer for managers looking to jumpstart the work ethic, excitement, and company synergy by engaging and motivating their employees. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Irby -- Mentoring within communities of practice / SueAnn Bottoms, Jerine Pegg, Ann Adams, Hillary Smith Risser, and Ke Wu -- Mentoring women of color in the academy for career improvement / Brenda Lloyd-Jones and Gaetane Jean-Marie -- Protégé preparation for mentoring / Linda Searby -- Collaborative learning and knowledge-sharing : the potential of new administrator networks and mentoring programs / Catherine Hands, Denise E. …”

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Tabla de Contenidos: “…; Sign In, Please; Follow the Links; Exploring Your Home Page Search Options; Home Links, the Next Generation; Maneuvering through Categories; Bottoming Out; Chapter 4: Your Very Own, Private eBay; Getting to Your My eBay Page; Keeping Track of Your Personal Business; Understanding Your Seller Dashboard; Using the Resolution Center; Organizing in the Lists Section; Following the Action on Your Buying…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Chapter 30 Adding Intelligence and MetricsChapter 31 Lateral Thinking; Chapter 32 The Bottom Line; Part 2 Tutorials; Tutorial 1 Calling Shell Commands from AppleScript; Tutorial 2 Calling AppleScript from Shells; Tutorial 3 Calling Visual Basic from AppleScript; Tutorial 4 Calling Visual Basic from UNIX; Tutorial 5 Calling UNIX Shell Commands from C; Tutorial 6 Calling Java from C Language; Tutorial 7 Calling C from Java; Tutorial 8 What Your Web Server Log Can Tell You; Tutorial 9 Monitoring Your Operating System Logs; Tutorial 10 Measuring and Monitoring Disk Usage…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright and Credits -- Packt Upsell -- Contributors -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1: Identifying Performance Bottlenecks -- Reasons for performance issues -- Memory management -- Garbage collection -- Working principles of the garbage collector -- Impacts of garbage collection -- Heap fragmentation -- Finalization -- Resource leaks -- Memory leaks -- String pool -- Memory model -- The problem of concurrency and parallelism -- Java Memory Model (JMM) -- Synchronization -- Slow rendering -- Device refresh rate -- Frame rate -- Summary -- Chapter 2: Identifying Indicators of Performance Issues -- Benchmarking -- Microbenchmarks -- Java Microbenchmark Harness (JMH) -- Benchmark modes -- Benchmark time units -- Benchmark state -- State scope -- Fixture methods -- Levels of fixture methods -- Writing good benchmarks -- The pitfalls of loops -- Dead Code Elimination -- Using black holes -- Constant folding -- Kotlin benchmarks -- IDEA JMH plugin -- General performance metrics -- Types of performance testing -- Performance testing process -- Overview of performance testing tools -- JMeter -- Fabric -- Summary -- Chapter 3: Learning How to Use Profiling Tools -- Memory profiling -- Memory Viewer -- HProf -- Eclipse Memory Analyzer Tool -- Histogram -- Shallow and Retained Heap -- Dominator Tree -- Top Consumers -- Analyzing class loaders -- Android Studio Memory Profiler -- Memory categories -- Recording memory allocation -- Threads profiling -- Threads viewer -- Frames pane -- The Threads pane -- Thread profiling in the MAT -- Threads Overview -- Thread Details -- CPU Profiler in Android Studio -- Call Chart and Flame Chart tabs -- Top Down and Bottom Up tabs -- Summary -- Chapter 4: Functional Approach -- Functional programming -- Declarative versus imperative -- Pure functions -- First-class functions…”