“…Many employers consider intercultural competence to be a key criterion for selecting qualified candidates. The authors discuss practical approaches for designing and conducting intercultural trainings, methodology, and evaluation procedures based on current research. …”

“…Know how video podcasts work and every facet of what it takes to produce a professional-quality program that will meet every criterion for success. The authors are seasoned video production pros that have been on the crest of the video podcasting wave as it has risen. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…RESEARCH PRIORITIES -- Life-Sustaining Treatment in Older Persons -- Improving Discussions About Life-Sustaining Treatment -- Improving Decision Making for Incompetent Patients Who Have Not Given Clear Advance Directives -- Defining the Role of Institutional Ethics Committees, Particularly Within Nursing Homes -- Establishing Medical Futility -- Resolving Disagreements Between Health Care Professionals and Patients (or Patients' Families) -- Issues of Equity and Access -- Identification of Criteria for Appropriate Practice Standards -- Age as a Criterion for Allocating Health Care Resources -- Allocation of Resources for Patient Care and for Research -- Ethical Issues in Aging Research -- Innovative Approaches to Informed Consent -- Proxy Consent for Incompetent Patients -- Attitudes Toward Participation in Research -- Research Review in Long-Term Care -- ADDITIONAL RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES -- CONCLUSIONS AND RESOURCE RECOMMENDATIONS -- REFERENCES -- 7 Review of Resources Committed to Research on Aging -- FUNDING SUPPORT FOR RESEARCH ON AGING -- The Federal Government -- National Institutes of Health -- Department of Veterans Affairs -- Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Administration -- Health Care Financing Administration -- Agency for Health Care Policy and Research -- Other Federal Departments and Agencies -- Industry and Foundations -- Industry -- Foundations -- INSTITUTIONS ENGAGED IN RESEARCH ON AGING -- Centers for Research on Aging Supported by the NIA -- Centers for the Study of Alzheimer's Disease -- Centers of Excellence in Research and Teaching in Geriatrics and Gerontology (Claude Pepper Centers) -- Geriatric Research, Education, and Clinical Centers of the Department of Veterans Affairs -- Teaching and Research Nursing Homes -- Other Institutional Supports for the Study of Aging -- PUBLICATIONS ON RESEARCH IN AGING…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…""5.2.2 The dialectic of conscience""""5.2.3 Function of conscience""; ""5.2.4 The formation of the conscience""; ""5.2.5 Ethical conscience as the ultimate criterion""; ""5.3 Freedom""; ""5.3.1 Freedom in process""; ""5.3.2 Freedom for commitment""; ""5.3.3 Meaning or purpose of freedom""; ""5.4 Responsibility""; ""5.4.1 How to be responsible?""…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…4.1 Elements of Extension FieldsA Minimal Polynomials; B Adjoining Elements; Mathematical Notes; Historical Notes; 4.2 Irreducible Polynomials; A Using Maple and Mathematica; B Algorithms for Factoring; C The Schönemann-Eisenstein Criterion; D Prime Radicals; Historical Notes; 4.3 The Degree of an Extension; A Finite Extensions; B The Tower Theorem; Mathematical Notes; Historical Notes; 4.4 Algebraic Extensions; Mathematical Notes; References; 5 Normal and Separable Extensions; 5.1 Splitting Fields; A Definition and Examples; B Uniqueness; 5.2 Normal Extensions; Historical Notes…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Residual analysis; 2.4.2. Akaike criterion corrected; 2.4.3. Sequential estimation; 2.4.4. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Concurrency Control: Notions of Correctness for the Page Model3.1 Goal and Overview; 3.2 Canonical Concurrency Problems; 3.3 Syntax of Histories and Schedules; 3.4 Correctness of Histories and Schedules; 3.5 Herbrand Semantics of Schedules; 3.6 Final State Serializability; 3.7 View Serializability; 3.8 Conflict Serializability; 3.9 Commit Serializability; 3.10 An Alternative Correctness Criterion: Interleaving Specifications; 3.11 Lessons Learned; Exercises; Bibliographic Notes; Chapter 4. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Noisy Optimization; 2.5.1. Stopping Criterion; Chapter 3 Minimum Cross-Entropy Method; 3.1. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Selection methods; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Validity; 3.3 Correlation; 3.4 Measuring validity; 3.5 Reliability; 3.6 Improving criterion-related validity; 3.7 Choosing performance criteria; 3.8 Psychometric tests; 3.9 Other kinds of test; 3.10 Assessment centres; 3.1 1 The interview…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Murphy -- Identifying our ethical responsibility: a criterion-based approach / D. Bringhurst -- 2: Tutor training in the writing center. …”
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Tabla de Contenidos: “…Putative effects of Education -- METHODOLOGICAL ISSUES -- The North Manhattan Aging Project and the Active Life Expectancy Study -- Our Methods for Minimizing Biases in Ethno-Racial Comparisons of Dementia -- Case Findings -- Screening and Field Classification Techniques -- Criterion Diagnosis -- Biological Indicators -- Longitudinal and Outcome Information -- Dementia and Quality of Life -- Dementia and Service Utilization -- Convergence of Conclusions -- Border-Zone Dementias and Nondementias -- Designation of Ethno-Racial Membership -- Other Socioeconomic Information -- RESULTS -- General Results -- Yields from the Survey Component -- Overrepresentation -- Differences in Prevalence Rates of Dementia -- Mislabeling -- Prevalence and Other Indices of Rates -- Effect of the Breadth of the Concept of Dementia -- Risk Factors -- Educational Associations -- Subtypes of Dementia Among Ethno-Racial Groups -- Other Risk Factors: Income and Immigration -- Quality-of-Life Impairments -- Memory Complaints -- Tasks of Daily Living -- Affective Suffering -- Service Utilization -- Nursing Homes -- Home Care -- Emergency Clinics -- Hospitalization -- DISCUSSION -- Limitations of the Findings and Potential of the Methods -- Ethno-Racial Variation in Prevalence Rates -- Ethno-Racial Consistency in the Associations of Dementia -- Working Hypotheses for the Effects of Education -- Ethno-Racial Differences in Service Utilization -- CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENT -- REFERENCES -- 9 Cardiovascular Disease Among Elderly Asian Americans -- INTRODUCTION -- METHODS -- Study Population -- Baseline Examination -- Measures of Acculturation for the Hawaii Cohort -- Follow-up Examinations and Surveillance -- Definition of Cases -- Age Categories -- RESULTS -- Ni-Hon-San Comparisons -- Cultural Pathways to Coronary Heart Disease in the Elderly -- DISCUSSION -- FUTURE RESEARCH…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…5.5.4 Fitting Distributions to Data in R Using MLE -- 5.5.5 Likelihood Ratio Test, LRT -- 5.6 Regression: Basic Principles -- 5.6.1 Simple Linear Regression -- 5.6.2 Quantifying Uncertainty on -- 5.6.3 Analysis of Variance in Regression -- 5.6.3.1 R2 and adjusted R2 Coefficient of Determination -- 5.6.4 Some Visual Diagnostics for the Proposed Simple Regression Model -- 5.7 Multiple Regression -- 5.7.1 Introduction -- 5.7.2 Regression and MLE -- 5.7.2.1 Multivariate Regression -- 5.7.3 Tests -- 5.7.3.1 Likelihood Ratio Test in Regression -- 5.7.3.2 Akaike Information Criterion: AIC -- 5.7.3.3 AIC and Regression model selection -- 5.7.3.4 Bayesian Information Criterion: BIC -- 5.7.4 Variable Selection, Finding the Most Appropriate Sub-Model -- 5.7.5 Backward Elimination -- 5.7.6 Forward Selection -- 5.7.7 Using AIC/BIC Criteria -- 5.7.8 LRT in Model Selection -- 5.7.9 Automatic Search Using R-squared Criteria -- 5.7.10 Concluding Remarks on Test Data -- 5.7.11 Modelling Beyond Linearity -- 5.8 Dummy/Indicator Variable Regression -- 5.8.1 Introducing Categorical Variables -- 5.8.2 Continuous and Indicator Variable Predictors - Including Load in the Model -- 5.9 Recommended Reading -- 6 Multivariate Distributions, and Sums of Random Variables -- 6.1 Multivariate Distributions - Examples in Finance -- 6.2 Simulating Multivariate Normal Variables -- 6.3 The Summation of a Number of Random Variables -- 6.4 Conclusion -- 6.5 Recommended Reading -- 7 Benefits of Diversification -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Background -- 7.3 Key Mathematical Ideas -- 7.4 Running Simulations -- 7.5 Recommended Reading -- 8 Modern Portfolio Theory -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 2-Asset Portfolio -- 8.3 3-Asset Portfolio -- 8.4 Introduction of a Risk-free Asset to the Portfolio -- 8.4.1 Adding a Risk-free Asset -- 8.4.2 Capital Market Line and the Sharpe Ratio…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…References Chapter 5 Feature Selection; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Preprocessing; 5.3 The Peaking Phenomenon; 5.4 Feature Selection Based on Statistical Hypothesis Testing; 5.5 The Receiver Operating Characteristics (ROC) Curve; 5.6 Class Separability Measures; 5.7 Feature Subset Selection; 5.8 Optimal Feature Generation; 5.9 Neural Networks and Feature Generation/Selection; 5.10 A Hint On Generalization Theory; 5.11 The Bayesian Information Criterion; 5.12 Problems; References; Chapter 6 Feature Generation I: Data Transformation and Dimensionality Reduction; 6.1 Introduction…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…2.3.2 Power System Security and Stability Standard and Stability Criterion2.3.3 Calculating Methods for Transmission Capability of the UHV AC System; 2.4 Influence of System Parameters on Transmission Capability of the UHV AC System; 2.4.1 Transformer Reactance/Line Reactance Ratio of UHV System; 2.4.2 Ratio of Generator Reactance to UHV Transmission Line Reactance; 2.4.3 Influence of Connection Scheme of Generators (Power Plants/Stations) on UHV Transmission Capability; 2.4.4 Influence of System Parameters on Transmission Capability of UHV AC System; References…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Spatial Solitons; 2.1 Analytical Solutions; 2.2 Soliton Stability and Internal Modes; 2.3 Stability Criterion; 2.4 Embedded Solitons; 2.5 Soliton Collisions; 2.6 Breathers and Soliton Bound States; 2.7 Experimental Results; References; Chapter 3. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Stability; 9.1 Introduction; 9.2 The characteristic equation; 9.3 The Routh-Hurwitz stability criterion; 9.4 The stability quartic; 9.5 Graphical interpretation of stability; References; Problems; Chapter 10. …”

“…The content includes modern topics such as wavelets, Fourier series, and Akaike's Information Criterion (AIC), which is not typical of current-day "classics." …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Cache invalidation -- CPU pipeline -- Branch prediction -- The relevance of branch prediction for our code -- Profiling tools -- Valgrind -- Callgrind -- Cachegrind -- OProfile -- Summary -- Chapter 6: Benchmarking -- Selecting what to benchmark -- Benchmarking in nightly Rust -- Benchmarking in stable Rust -- Continuous integration for benchmarks -- Travis-CI integration -- Benchmark statistics with Criterion -- Summary -- Chapter 7: Built-in Macros and Configuration Items -- Understanding attributes -- Trait derivations -- Crate features -- Configuration attributes -- Macros -- Console printing -- String formatting -- Compilation environment -- Loading byte arrays and strings at compile time -- Code paths -- Checking preconditions and postconditions -- Others -- Nightly Rust -- Conservative trait return -- Constant functions -- Inline assembly and naked functions -- Using bigger integers -- Single instruction multiple data -- Allocation API -- Compiler plugins -- Summary -- Chapter 8: Must-Have Macro Crates -- Working with external data -- Data serialization and deserialization -- Serializing and deserializing complex structures -- Parsing byte streams -- Learning about useful small crates -- Creating lazily evaluated statics -- Avoiding boilerplate code for the builder pattern -- Managing errors -- Logging efficiently in Rust -- Creating command-line interfaces -- Using Rust for web development -- Creating extremely efficient templates -- Connecting with a database -- Creating a complete web server -- Summary -- Chapter 9: Creating Your Own Macros -- Creating your own standard macros -- Macro variants -- Complex macros -- Creating procedural macros -- Implementing a simple trait -- Implementing complex derivations…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover -- Half-title page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 The rule of law: a basic account -- I Opening technicalities -- II The weak version of the rule of law in two principles -- A Regularity -- B Publicity -- III Vertical equality -- A Respect and hubris -- B Terror -- C Normative robustness -- IV Closing technicalities -- Chapter 2 The strong version of the rule of law -- I Generality and the idea of a relevant distinction -- A Many conceptions of generality -- B Against the formal conception of generality -- C Public reason as relevance criterion -- II How to apply the public reason conception of generality -- A Public reason: expressive -- B Finding the expressive content of a law -- 1 Reasons and meanings -- 2 Proof of concept -- III Generality as egalitarian principle -- Chapter 3 Generality and hierarchy -- I The literacy tests: a model of nongeneral law -- II The rule of law and social facts -- A The disjunctive character of rule of law commands -- III The rule of law and the criminalization of poverty -- A The rule of law critique of economic injustice -- IV Is this still the rule of law? …”