“…First, as in standard cross-country analysis, we can exploit the cross-country variation of policies. …”

“…Though the apostle Paul boldly proclaimed “Christ crucified” as the heart of the gospel, Fleming Rutledge notes that preaching about the cross of Christ is remarkably neglected in most churches today. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…2.5 Summary and implications -- 3 Empirical research on discretionary asset write-offs -- 3.1 Chapter overview -- 3.2 Discretionary asset write-offs as a subject of accounting research -- 3.3 Determinants of write-off behavior -- 3.3.1 Earnings management as an explanatory factor -- 3.3.1.1 Earnings management defined -- 3.3.1.2 Overview of the earnings management literature -- 3.3.1.3 Discretionary asset write-offs and earnings management -- 3.3.2 Theory, hypotheses, and main findings -- 3.3.2.1 Overview -- 3.3.2.2 Economic factors -- 3.3.2.3 Economic-consequences incentives -- 3.3.2.3.1 Intellectual roots: Positive accounting theory -- 3.3.2.3.2 Application to financial reporting decisions -- 3.3.2.3.3 Accounting earnings-based compensation schemes -- 3.3.2.3.4 Accounting-based debt covenants in lending agreements -- 3.3.2.3.5 Political costs -- 3.3.2.3.6 Discriminating between competing hypotheses -- 3.3.2.4 Capital market-related incentives -- 3.3.2.4.1 Theoretical fundamentals -- 3.3.2.4.2 Management's interest in the firm's stock price -- 3.3.2.4.3 Maximizing earnings -- 3.3.2.4.4 Income smoothing -- 3.3.2.4.5 Target accounting -- 3.3.2.4.5.1 Prevalence of target accounting -- 3.3.2.4.5.2 Importance of earnings targets -- 3.3.2.4.5.3 Cross-sectional differences in target-accounting behavior -- 3.3.2.4.5.4 Market reactions to target accounting -- 3.3.2.4.6 Big bath -- 3.3.2.4.7 Rating -- 3.3.2.4.8 Specific considerations regarding accounting changes and other transitory earnings components -- 3.3.2.5 Factors restricting management discretion -- 3.4 Financial statement users' view of discretionary asset write-offs -- 3.4.1 Information perspective of financial reporting -- 3.4.2 Research approaches -- 3.4.3 Main findings -- 3.4.3.1 Information content studies -- 3.4.3.2 Association studies -- 3.5 Summary and implications…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…. -- Cause Related Marketing -- Caux Round Table Principles -- Centre for Corporate Governance (Nairobi) -- CERES -- CH2 Building, Melbourne -- Chapman Report (2006) (Australia) -- Cheating -- Chief Executive Officer -- Chief Sustainability Officer -- Christianity and CSR -- Christine Parker -- Civil Regulation -- Climate Change -- Clinton Global Initiative -- Club of Rome -- Co-determination -- Co-operation -- Co-ownership -- Coalation of Environmentally -- Responsible Economies -- Code of 'best practice' and norms of behavior -- Colin Scott -- Collaborative Advantage -- Collective bargaining/trade unions -- Combined Assurance -- Combined Code (June 2008) -- Command and Control -- Commonwealth Association of CG -- Communicating with Stakeholders -- Communities of Practice -- Community -- Community activism -- Community of practice -- Community outrage -- Community relations -- Company Directors and CSR -- Competition -- Competitive advantage -- Compliance/Legal Compliance -- Compliant Finance -- Comply-or-explain -- Comprehensive Environmental Responses , Compensation and Liability Act -- Confucian Ethics -- Consumer Driven Corporate Responsibility -- Consumerism Consumers' protection -- Core Principles of CSR Approaches Corporate -- Corporate Activism -- Corporate Citizenship -- Corporate codes of conduct -- Corporate giving -- Corporate Governance -- Corporate Governance as a Tool for Alleviating -- Developmental Issues -- Corporate Governance Reporting -- Corporate killing -- Corporate manslaughter -- Corporate Mission, Vision and Values -- Corporate moral agency -- Corporate negligence -- Corporate outrage -- Corporate Political Connection -- Corporate Reputation -- Corporate Responsibility Index -- Corporate Responsibiliy Maturity -- Corporate Secretaries -- Corporate Social Entrepreneurship -- Corporate Social innovation -- Corporate Social -- Irresponsibility -- Corporate Social Marketing -- Corporate Social Opportunity -- Corporate Social Performance -- Corporate Social Performance Measurement -- Corporate social responsibility -- Corporate Social Responsibility Report -- Corporate Social Responsibility Strategy -- Corporate social responsiveness (Carroll, Frederick and Ackerman) -- Corporate Strategy -- Corporate Sustainability -- Corporation as Psychopath -- Corporatism -- Corruption and National Development -- Cost-benefit analysis -- Cradle to cradle -- Cradle to grave -- Critical reflection in corporate management -- Critiques of Corporate Social Responsibility -- Cross-cultural attitudes to CSR -- CSR and Africa -- CSR and Catholic Social Teaching -- CSR and Corruption -- CSR and Poverty -- CSR and Spirituality -- CSR Butterfly effect -- CSR Communication -- CSR Continuum - core business to broader goals -- CSR Europe -- CSR Evolutionary Journey - CSR Journey, CSR Organisational Evolutions -- CSR Frameworks -- CSR Innovation -- CSR Lifecycle -- CSR Measurement -- CSR: Australian Standard AS8003 [world first] -- CSRwire -- Cultural differences in values/ethics and decision-making -- Culture and Organization Performance -- Cultures, businesses, and global CSR -- Customer value creation -- Dame Anita Roddick -- Data protection -- David Henderson -- Decent work -- Definitions of social responsibility -- Deming 14 points model -- Demographic change -- Design for Environment (sep entry Hannover Principles) -- Development -- Dialogue -- Director Competencies and Skills -- Director Interlocks -- Director Role Position Description -- Disability -- Disclosure (CSR reporting) -- Discrimination -- Distributive Justice -- Diversity -- Dividend -- Dow Jones Sustainability Index -- Downsizing -- Due Diligence -- Duties of employees (comlpy with contract, comply with law, respect employers property) -- E-Waste -- Earth Summitt (separate entry on Rio declaration and on Agenda 21) -- Earthscan (publisher) -- EC Non-Discrimination Law -- Eco-Efficiency -- Eco-innovation -- Ecolabel -- Ecological economics -- Ecological footprint -- Ecology (separate entries on human and industrial) -- Econology -- Economic Globalization -- Economic sociology -- Economic Sociology of the CSR Movement -- Ecopreneurship -- Ecosystem -- Ecotoxity -- Education -- Elkington, John -- Embedded CSR -- Emissions trading -- Employability -- Employee participation/'ownership -- Employee Surveillance -- Employee volunteer programmes -- Employers' Forum on Age -- Employers' Forum on Disability -- EMS -- Endemic -- Energy Biofuels -- Energy—renewable -- Energy-solar -- Engagement/Stakeholder Engagement -- Enlightened Self-Interest -- Enron -- Environmental Accounting -- Environmental Audit -- Environmental ethics -- Environmental governance -- Environmental impact assessment -- Environmental law -- Environmental Management System -- Environmental protection agencies (all countries) -- Environmental Report Verification -- Environmental sustainability index (World economic forum) -- Environmental, Social and Governance Factors in Investment -- Environmental, Social and Governance Risk -- Environmentally Sensitive Accounting -- Equal Opportunity -- Equal Pay -- Equator Principles -- Ethic of responsibility to other stakeholders -- Ethical absolutism v. ethical relativism -- Ethical Corporation -- Ethical CSR -- Ethical Egoism & CSR -- Ethical problems in financial markets -- Ethical Theories -- Ethical Trading Initiative -- European Corporate Governance Institute -- European Multistakeholder Forum -- European Union Directive - The 8th Company Law Directive on Disclosure & Transparency -- European Urban Charter 1992 and 1998 -- Evolution of Corporate Governance Reports in the UK and Ireland -- Executive remuneration and CSR -- Externalities -- Externally Driven Business Case (EDBC) -- Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) -- Exxon Mobil -- Exxon Valdez -- Factor 4 / Factor 10 -- Fair Pensions -- Fair Trade -- Fair wages -- Family Business and Corporate Social Responsibility -- Fiduciary duty -- Filial Piety & CSR -- Financial Regulations -- Financial Reporting Council (UK) -- Five Capitals Framework (Forum for the Future) -- Forest Stewardship Council -- Fortune at the bottom of the pyramid (Prahalad) -- Franchising Fraud prevention, detection and auditing -- Free range/cage-free/crate free/ethically raised -- Freedom of conscience -- Freedom of speech -- Friedman, Milton -- FTSE4Good Index -- G20.…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…The Tax-Base: Intra-Community Cross-Border Flows of Interest Payments -- IV. Community Action to Reduce Economic Welfare Losses? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Accessing the API server -- Authenticating users -- Impersonation -- Authorizing requests -- Using admission control plugins -- Securing pods -- Using a private image repository -- ImagePullSecrets -- Specifying a security context -- Protecting your cluster with AppArmor -- Requirements -- Securing a pod with AppArmor -- Writing AppArmor profiles -- Pod security policies -- Authorizing pod security policies through RBAC -- Managing network policies -- Choosing a supported networking solution -- Defining a network policy -- Limiting Egress to external networks -- Cross-namespace policies -- Using secrets -- Storing secrets in Kubernetes -- Configuring encryption at Rest -- Creating secrets -- Decoding secrets -- Using secrets in a container…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…16.1 Introduction 523 -- 16.2 Layering as Optimization Decomposition 524 -- 16.3 Cross-Layer Optimization 533 -- 16.4 Optimization Problem Decomposition Methods 543 -- References 554 -- 17 Network Information Theory 557 -- 17.1 Capacity of Ad Hoc Networks 557 -- 17.2 Information Theory and Network Architectures 569 -- 17.3 Cooperative Transmission in Wireless Multihop Ad Hoc Networks 577 -- References 584 -- 18 Stability of Advanced Network Architectures 585 -- 18.1 Stability of Cooperative Cognitive Wireless Networks 585 -- 18.2 System Model 586 -- 18.4 Optimal Control Policy 592 -- 18.5 Achievable Rates 594 -- 18.6 Stabilizing Transmission Policies 598 -- References 605 -- 19 Multi-Operator Spectrum Sharing 607 -- 19.1 Business Models for Spectrum Sharing 607 -- 19.2 Spectrum Sharing in Multi-hop Networks 638 -- References 656 -- 20 Large Scale Networks and Mean Field Theory 659 -- 20.1 MFT for Large Heterogeneous Cellular Networks 659 -- 20.2 Large Scale Network Model Compression 664 -- 20.3 Mean Field Theory Model of Large Scale DTN Networks 668 -- 20.4 Mean Field Modeling of Adaptive Infection Recovery in Multicast DTN Networks 674 -- 20.5 Mean Field Theory for Scale-Free Random Networks 701 -- 20.6 Spectrum Sharing and MFT 709 -- 20.7 Modeling Dynamics of Complex System 711 -- Appendix A.20 Iterative Algorithm to Solve Systems of Nonlinear ODEs (DiNSE-Algorithm) 721 -- Appendix B.20 Infection Rate of Destinations for DNCM 722 -- Appendix C.20 Infection Rate for Basic Epidemic Routing 722 -- References 722 -- 21 mmWave Networks 726 -- 21.1 mmWave Technology in Subcellular Architecture 726 -- 21.2 Microeconomics of Dynamic mmWave Networks 737 -- References 747 -- 22 Cloud Computing in Wireless Networks 750 -- 22.1 Technology Background 750 -- 22.2 System Model 752 -- 22.3 System Optimization 756 -- 22.4 Dynamic Control Algorithm 758 -- 22.5 Achievable Rates 761 -- 22.6 Stabilizing Control Policies 763 -- References 769 -- 23 Wireless Networks and Matching Theory 771.…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Summary -- Chapter 11: Improving Our Team Dynamics to Increase Our Agility -- How to create high-performing teams -- Collaboration is the key -- Knowledge work and high-bandwidth communication -- Communication lines -- Psychological safety - what it is and how to create it -- Further reading -- The stages of team formation -- Stage 1 - forming -- Helping our team process this phase -- Relationship-building games -- Stage 2 - storming -- Helping our team process this phase -- Coach - diversity is a good thing -- Coach - conflict happens, how to navigate it -- Positivity and successful relationships -- Activity - process the conflict -- Group decision making -- Coach - focus on the task, not the person -- Coach - conflict protocols -- Coach - giving feedback -- Stage 3 - norming -- Helping our team process this phase -- Activity - experiments in process -- Activity - improve the team's ability to self-assess -- Stage 4 - performing -- Helping our team process this phase -- Activity - 360 team review -- Stage 5 - adjourning/mourning -- Helping our team process this phase -- Learning by practicing -- Hackathons -- Innovation Days -- Running a hackathon or innovation day -- Google's 20% time and other alternatives -- Summary -- Chapter 12: Baking Quality into Our Software Delivery -- Cross-pollination of skills -- Mob programming -- Why does mob programming work? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Popular alternatives to TensorFlow -- GPU requirements for TensorFlow and Keras -- Installing Nvidia CUDA Toolkit and cuDNN -- Installing Python -- Installing TensorFlow and Keras -- Building datasets for deep learning -- Bias and variance errors in deep learning -- The train, val, and test datasets -- Managing bias and variance in deep neural networks -- K-Fold cross-validation -- Summary -- Chapter 2: Using Deep Learning to Solve Regression Problems -- Regression analysis and deep neural networks -- Benefits of using a neural network for regression -- Drawbacks to consider when using a neural network for regression -- Using deep neural networks for regression -- How to plan a machine learning problem -- Defining our example problem -- Loading the dataset -- Defining our cost function -- Building an MLP in Keras -- Input layer shape -- Hidden layer shape -- Output layer shape -- Neural network architecture -- Training the Keras model -- Measuring the performance of our model -- Building a deep neural network in Keras -- Measuring the deep neural network performance -- Tuning the model hyperparameters -- Saving and loading a trained Keras model -- Summary…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover -- Copyright and Credits -- Packt Upsell -- Contributors -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1: Analyzing Insurance Severity Claims -- Machine learning and learning workflow -- Typical machine learning workflow -- Hyperparameter tuning and cross-validation -- Analyzing and predicting insurance severity claims -- Motivation -- Description of the dataset -- Exploratory analysis of the dataset -- Data preprocessing -- LR for predicting insurance severity claims -- Developing insurance severity claims predictive model using LR -- GBT regressor for predicting insurance severity claims -- Boosting the performance using random forest regressor -- Random Forest for classification and regression -- Comparative analysis and model deployment -- Spark-based model deployment for large-scale dataset -- Summary -- Chapter 2: Analyzing and Predicting Telecommunication Churn -- Why do we perform churn analysis, and how do we do it? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Installing PostgreSQL -- Simple search lookups -- Searching against multiple fields -- Building a search view -- Stemming and ranking results -- Weighting queries -- Searching with trigram similarity -- Other full-text search engines -- Summary -- Chapter 4: Building a Social Website -- Creating a social website project -- Starting your social website project -- Using the Django authentication framework -- Creating a login view -- Using Django authentication views -- Login and logout views -- Changing password views -- Resetting password views -- User registration and user profiles -- User registration -- Extending the user model -- Using a custom user model -- Using the messages framework -- Building a custom authentication backend -- Adding social authentication to your site -- Authentication using Facebook -- Authentication using Twitter -- Authentication using Google -- Summary -- Chapter 5: Sharing Content in Your Website -- Creating an image bookmarking website -- Building the image model -- Creating many-to-many relationships -- Registering the image model in the administration site -- Posting content from other websites -- Cleaning form fields -- Overriding the save() method of a ModelForm -- Building a bookmarklet with jQuery -- Creating a detail view for images -- Creating image thumbnails using sorl-thumbnail -- Adding AJAX actions with jQuery -- Loading jQuery -- Cross-Site Request Forgery in AJAX requests -- Performing AJAX requests with jQuery -- Creating custom decorators for your views -- Adding AJAX pagination to your list views -- Summary -- Chapter 6: Tracking User Actions -- Building a follower system -- Creating many-to-many relationships with an intermediary model -- Creating list and detail views for user profiles -- Building an AJAX view to follow users -- Building a generic activity stream application…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…B ALI Principles, CLIP Principles, and the Japanese Transparency Proposal -- Section 5 The American Scholarly Debate -- I Common Law Tradition and Transnational Market Protection -- A The General Tendency of Equitable Rights Limitlessness -- B The Nintendo Transformation: From Act-of-State-Doctrine to Substantive Dichotomy -- C The Revival of Territoriality: A Quasi Continental Choice-of-Law Approach -- D The "Domestic Extraterritoriality" of Statutory Trademark Rights -- E Tea Rose/Rectanus "Transnationalized": The Common Law Cross-Border Crusade -- F The Shift to Effects Testing: An Idea of Transnational Market Regulation -- II Analysis: Common Law Tradition Meets Extraterritorial Market Regulation -- Section 6 Substantivism and Transnational Uniform Law -- I Overview -- A Foundations -- B Modern Concepts of Substantivism in Intellectual Property Law -- C Nonterritorial Concepts: "Cyberlaw" and the "Collision of Rights" -- II Analysis: The Fata Morgana of Universal Policy -- Section 7 The Rediscovery of International Comity -- I The Comitas Approach -- II Analysis: A"Quadrature of the Circle" -- Conclusions -- 4 Substantive Policy: Convergent Foundations -- Introduction -- Section 1 Foundations-The Market Mechanism -- I The Concept of "Economic Competition" -- A The Legal Framework -- B The Rediscovery of Chaos -- C The Dynamics of Competition -- 1 A Tradition of Competitor Protection -- 2 The Advent of (Consumer) Decision Making -- 3 The Complementary Spheres of Transactional Freedom -- II The "Triangular" Structure of the Market Mechanism -- II The Stages of Consumer Decision Making and Transacting -- A Information Transmission -- B Information Processing -- C Implementation of the Consumer's Decision -- D Caveat: Limitations of Consumer Decision Making -- IV Summary -- Section 2 Implementation-Substantive Law -- I Tort and Unfair Competition Law…”