“…As usual, technical excellence was an essential criterion, but our selections were also influenced by factors such as topicality and the desire to strike a balance between papers of theoretical and practical interest. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Introduction -- 2. Framework -- 3. Criterion -- 3.1. Structural Criterion -- 3.2. Model-Level Criterion -- 3.3. …”

“…The journal welcomes preliminary, descriptive and small-scale results if they have the potential to stimulate and/or contribute to future research, leading to new insights or hypotheses. The primary criterion for acceptance is that the work is original, scientifically and technically sound, and valuable to the advancement of neuroscience research."…”

“…Mathematical optimization is the selection of the best element in a set with respect to a given criterion. Optimization has become one of the most-used tools in modern control theory for computing the control law, adjusting the controller parameters (tuning), model fitting, and finding suitable conditions in order to fulfill a given closed-loop property, among others. …”

“…In this increasingly competitive global environment, the protection of property rights becomes a convergence criterion, together with openness to international markets for goods, services and assets, and a stable macroeconomy. …”

“…According to a predefined electrical failure criterion the connector lifetime is demonstrated in a model depending on oscillating amplitude, gold thickness and contact roughness. …”

“…53 writers invited to speak, as artists, of themselves and their world at the beginning of the new millennium in no more than 2002 keystrokes. A new research criterion with which Fonti di Weltliteratur. Ungheria obtains the real and literary data for a theoretical specification of the state and behaviour of the cultural sphere in the globalized context, in the critical passage constituted – for the political and economic spheres as well – by a transformation of linguistic—national realities. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Selecting Building Materials for Reduced Impacts on Ecosystem Services: Ecosystem Services Analysis; 1 Utilizing relationships between ecosystem services, built environments, and building materials; 1.1 Introduction: reducing the environmental impact of built environments; 1.2 Ecosystem services: definitions and boundaries 1.2.1 Provisioning services1.2.2 Regulating services; 1.2.3 Supporting services; 1.2.4 Cultural services; 1.3 Relationships between ecosystem services; 1.4 Defining ecosystem services for a built environment context: key places for change; 1.4.1 Ranking criterion one: integrating ecosystem services into the built environment; 1.4.2 Ranking criterion two: a hierarchy of ecosystem services relative to overall impact; 1.4.3 Ranking criterion three: the built environment's impact on ecosystem services; 1.5 Descriptions of ecosystem services most applicable to a built environment context 1.5.1 Habitat provision1.5.2 Nutrient cycling; 1.5.3 Purification; 1.5.4 Climate regulation; 1.5.5 Provision of fuel/energy source; 1.5.6 Provision of fresh water; 1.5.7 Provision of food; 1.6 Conclusion: ecosystem services and the built environment. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Front Cover; Extended Finite Element Method; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Chapter 1 - Overview of Extended Finite Element Method; 1.1 SIGNIFICANCE OF STUDYING COMPUTATIONAL FRACTURE MECHANICS; 1.2 INTRODUCTION TO X-FEM; 1.3 RESEARCH STATUS AND DEVELOPMENT OF X-FEM; 1.4 ORGANIZATION OF THIS BOOK; Chapter 2 - Fundamental Linear Elastic Fracture Mechanics; 2.1 INTRODUCTION; 2.2 TWO-DIMENSIONAL LINEAR ELASTIC FRACTURE MECHANICS; 2.3 MATERIAL FRACTURE TOUGHNESS; 2.4 FRACTURE CRITERION OF LINEAR ELASTIC MATERIAL; 2.5 COMPLEX FRACTURE CRITERION; 2.6 INTERACTION INTEGRAL; 2.7 SUMMARY…”

“…The application of the OECD-EU methodology allows to identify the whole system of urban areas in Colombia, with the same criterion; it thus provides a complementary tool to the national and city government to better plan and design future urban policy strategies. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Intelligence in People: The Boring CriterionIntelligence in Machines: The Turing Criterion; 2 Symbols, Connections, and Optimization by Trial and Error; Symbols in Trees and Networks; Problem Solving and Optimization; A Super-Simple Optimization Problem; Three Spaces of Optimization; Fitness Landscapes; High-Dimensional Cognitive Space and Word Meanings; Two Factors of Complexity:; Landscapes; Combinatorial Optimization; Binary Optimization; Random and Greedy Searches; Hill Climbing; Simulated Annealing; Binary and Gray Coding; Step Sizes and Granularity; Optimizing with Real Numbers; Summary…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Toward a Gold Standard System of Accountability: Advanced Methodologies in Athlete Assessment and Intervention Efficacy TestingGold Standard Accountability; Accountability Procedures: Key Components; The Universal Claim: Accountability Enlightens, Substantiates, and Refutes; The Accountability Challenge; Construct Validity; Criterion Referenced Validity; Predictive Validity; The Accountability Challenge: Rating Systems; Sample Ratings: Validity Profiles; Accountability Methodologies; Accountability in the Assessment Process; Criterion Referencing of an Athlete's Profile Constellation…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Intro -- Copyright -- Content -- Preface -- Part I: Conceptual Principles -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Credentialing -- Chapter 3: Evaluation &amp -- CRT Development -- Chapter 4: Approaches to Test Development -- Chapter 5: Defining Content Domain (Part I)-Job Analysis -- Chapter 6: Defining Content Domain (Part II)- Assessment Objectives and the Table of Specifications -- Chapter 7: Item Writing and Scoring -- Chapter 8: Validity -- Chapter 9: Reliability -- Chapter 10: Item Analysis -- Chapter 11: Standard Setting -- Chapter 12: Test Administration Issues -- Chapter 13: A Conclusion of Caveats -- Part II: Technical Appendix -- Chapter 14: Levels of Measurement -- Chapter 15: Mathematical Tools and Microsoft Excel -- Chapter 16: Classical Item Analysis -- Chapter 17: Reliability -- Chapter 18: Standard Error of Measurement (SEM) -- Chapter 19: Validity -- Chapter 20: Scaled Scores -- Chapter 21: Standard Setting -- Chapter 22: Job Analysis -- Overview of the Criterion-Referenced Test (CRT) Development Process -- Publisher's Note -- About the Author -- Index…”

“…This book evaluates the requirement for specificity as a criterion for property rights in securities evidenced by electronic entries made on securities accounts…”

“…The question of whether migration can be an equilibrating force in the labour market is an important criterion for an optimal currency area. It is of particular interest currently in the context of high and rising levels of labour market disparities, in particular within the Eurozone where there is no exchange-rate mechanism available to play this role. …”

“…The research also attempted to contribute to the overcoming of some economic-financial criteria used to discriminate between companies deserving of recognition of the privilege and other companies, also through the elaboration of an alternative criterion, already; subjected to a first empirical validation…”

“…A second problem is that value for money is only a partial criterion for decision-making, leading to disagreement about the relative importance of the results from CBA compared to other inputs into the decision-making process. …”

“…Trust in financial institutions, which is also a factor in sustainable business models, is an important criterion for business research. Economic model based on the irresponsible use of natural resources have been heavily criticized for years, and societies have begun to reject business models that negatively impact the environment. …”