Tabla de Contenidos: “…Strategy 2 - Minimal implementation for long-tail items -- Not managing change -- The first cut - OCM -- Risks of reducing the OCM effort -- Optimizing value from OCM -- Responding to insufficient management of change -- Applying high-impact OCM activities -- Target state work instructions -- Transition support service -- The science experiment -- Projects extending ServiceNow -- Risks of the science experiment -- Recognizing a science experiment -- Handling a science experiment -- Summary -- Chapter 3: Capturing Value from your Implementation -- Lowering the process cycle time -- Causes of long cycle times -- Confusion in how and where to engage a process -- How to measure process cycle times and see your issues -- Delays in response to requests for service -- Inability to find the right expertise to fulfil the request -- Lost updates and poor transitions between service fulfillment parties -- How your ServiceNow transformation can reduce process cycle times -- How to prepare for an implementation with a focus on reducing the cycle time -- Optimizing asset utilization -- Causes of poor asset utilization -- How your ServiceNow transformation can improve asset utilization -- How to prepare for an implementation with a focus on optimizing asset utilization -- Automating toil -- Sources of toil -- Where ServiceNow can automate toil -- How to prepare for an implementation with a focus on automating toil -- Improving customer experience -- Where customer experience can improve -- Where ServiceNow can help improve customer experience -- How to prepare for an implementation to improve customer experience -- Summary -- Chapter 4: Planning an Implementation Program for Success -- Defining the scope of the project -- Important components of the project scope -- Adding details to the scope -- Planning the release and release activities…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…FUNCTIONAL CONSEQUENCES OF FEMALE NUTRITIONAL STATUS: TAKING A LIFE SPAN PERSPECTIVE -- Mortality and Morbidity -- Mortality -- Morbidity -- Cognitive Development and School Performance -- Reproductive Function -- Physical Work Capacity -- CONCLUSIONS -- RESEARCH NEEDS -- Notes -- References -- 4 Obstetric Morbidity and Mortality -- GENDER BURDEN -- THE LIFE SPAN: AN APPROACH TO MATERNAL MORBIDITY AND MORTALITY -- Childhood -- Adolescence -- Menopause and Postmenopause -- THE MAGNITUDE OF PREGNANCY-RELATED MORTALITY AND MORBIDITY -- Quantification of Maternal Mortality -- Vital Statistics -- Health Services Statistics -- Population-Based Data -- Alternative Approaches -- The Burden of Maternal Mortality and Morbidity -- Percent of Pregnancy-Related Deaths and Lifetime Risk of Dying -- Estimates of Maternal Morbidity -- Trends -- THE NATURE OF MATERNAL MORTALITY AS A PUBLIC HEALTH PROBLEM -- Prediction, Prevention, and Cure -- Prediction: Risk Factors and the Utility of Risk Scores -- Maternal Characteristics -- Community Characteristics -- Calculations of Risk -- Prevention -- Cure -- THE MULTIPLE CAUSALITY OF MATERNAL DEATH -- Clinical Causes -- Anemia -- Complications of Pregnancy and Delivery -- Sociocultural Factors: Traditional Medical Practices -- The Traditional Birth Attendant -- Gishiri Cuts -- Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) -- Health Services -- Access to Antenatal and Intrapartum Care -- MATERNAL HEALTH AND FAMILY PLANNING -- Provision of Family Planning Services -- Abortion -- Lactation -- MENOPAUSE -- CONCLUSIONS -- RESEARCH NEEDS -- References -- 5 Nervous System Disorders -- LIFE SPAN PERSPECTIVE -- TOXIC AND NUTRITIONAL DISORDERS OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM -- HEADACHE SYNDROMES -- Migraine -- Tension Headache -- CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASES AND USE OF ORAL CONTRACEPTIVES -- OTHER NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS -- Epilepsies -- Demyelinating Diseases…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Definition of Risk -- Dimensionality of Risk -- Summary Statistics -- Bounding the Technology -- Concern -- MEASURING BENEFITS -- Definition of Benefit -- Expressed Preferences -- Revealed Preferences -- SUMMARY -- IV THE NATURE OF THE CONTROVERSY -- THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN "ACTUAL" AND "PERCEIVED" RISKS IS MISCONCEIVED -- LAYPEOPLE AND EXPERTS ARE SPEAKING DIFFERENT LANGUAGES -- LAYPEOPLE AND EXPERTS ARE SOLVING DIFFERENT PROBLEMS -- DEBATES OVER SUBSTANCE MAY DISGUISE BATTLES OVER FORM, AND VICE VERSA -- LAYPEOPLE AND EXPERTS DISAGREE ABOUT WHAT IS FEASIBLE -- LAYPEOPLE AND EXPERTS SEE THE FACTS DIFFERENTLY -- SUMMARY -- V STRATEGIES FOR RISK COMMUNICATION -- CONCEPTS OF RISK COMMUNICATION -- SOME SIMPLE STRATEGIES -- Give the Public the Facts -- Sell the Public the Facts -- Give the Public More of What It Has Gotten in the Past -- Give the Public Clear-Cut, Noncontroversial Statements of Regulatory Philosophy -- Let the Marketplace Decide -- Put Risk Managers on the Firing Line…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Chapter 12 - Adjusting for AR(1) correlation in complex models 12.1 Introduction 12.2 The two sample t-test - Uncut and patch cut forest 12.3 The second Sleuth case - Global warming, a simple regression 12.4 The Semmelweis intervention 12.5 The NYC temperatures (adjusted) 12.6 The Boise river flow data: model selection with filtering 12.7 Implications of AR(1) adjustments and the "skip" method 12.8 Summary Part III - Complex temporal structures Chapter 13 - The backshift operator, the impulse response function, and general ARMA models 13.1 The general ARMA model 13.2 The backshift (shift, lag) operator 13.3 The impulse response operator - intuition 13.4 Impulse response operator, g(B) - computation 13.5 Interpretation and utility of the impulse response function Chapter 14 - The Yule-Walker equations and the partial autocorrelation function. 14.1 Background 14.2 Autocovariance of an ARMA(m,l) model 14.3 AR(m) and the Yule-Walker equations 14.4 The partial autocorrelation plot 14.5 The spectrum for ARMA processes 14.6 Summary Chapter 15 - Modeling philosophy and complete examples 15.1 Modeling overview 15.2 A complex periodic model - Monthly river flows, Furnas 1931-1978 15.3 A modeling example - trend and periodicity: CO2 levels at Mauna Lau 15.4 Modeling periodicity with a possible intervention - two examples 15.5 Periodic models: monthly, weekly, and daily averages 15.6 Summary Part IV - Some detailed and complete examples Chapter 16 - the Wolf sunspot number data 16.1 Background 16.2 Unknown period => nonlinear model 16.3 The function nls() in R 16.4 Determining the period 16.5 Instability in the mean, amplitude, and period 16.6 Data splitting for prediction 16.7 Summary Chapter 17 - Analysis of prostate and breast cancer data 17.1 Background 17.2 The first data set 17.3 The second data set Chapter 18 - Christopher Tennant/Ben Crosby watershed data 18.1 Background and question 18.2 Looking at the data and fitting Fourier series 18.3 Averaging data 18.4 Results Chapter 19 - Vostok ice core data 19.1 Source of the data 19.2 Background 19.3 Alignment 19.4 A naïve analysis 19.5 A related simulation 19.6 An AR(1) model for irregular spacing 19.7 Summary Appendices Appendix 1 - Using Data Market A1.1 Overview A1.2 Loading a time series in DataMarket A1.3 Respecting DataMarket licensing agreements Appendix 2 - AIC is PRESS A2.1 Introduction A2.2 PRESS A2.3 Connection to Akaike's result A2.4 Normalization and R2 A2.5 An example A2.6 Conclusion and further comments Appendix 3 - A 15 minute tutorial on optimization and nonlinear regression A3.1 Introduction A3.2 Newton's method for one dimensional nonlinear optimization A3.3 A direction, a step size, and a stopping rule A3.4 What could go wrong? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Rewrapping instead of state changing -- Computing Spearman rank-order correlation -- Polymorphism and type-pattern matching -- Summary -- Chapter 8: The Itertools Module -- Working with the infinite iterators -- Counting with count() -- Counting with float arguments -- Re-iterating a cycle with cycle() -- Repeating a single value with repeat() -- Using the finite iterators -- Assigning numbers with enumerate() -- Running totals with accumulate() -- Combining iterators with chain() -- Partitioning an iterator with groupby() -- Merging iterables with zip_longest() and zip() -- Filtering with compress() -- Picking subsets with islice() -- Stateful filtering with dropwhile() and takewhile() -- Two approaches to filtering with filterfalse() and filter() -- Applying a function to data via starmap() and map() -- Cloning iterators with tee() -- The itertools recipes -- Summary -- Chapter 9: More Itertools Techniques -- Enumerating the Cartesian product -- Reducing a product -- Computing distances -- Getting all pixels and all colors -- Performance analysis -- Rearranging the problem -- Combining two transformations -- Permuting a collection of values -- Generating all combinations -- Recipes -- Summary -- Chapter 10: The Functools Module -- Function tools -- Memoizing previous results with lru_cache -- Defining classes with total ordering -- Defining number classes -- Applying partial arguments with partial() -- Reducing sets of data with the reduce() function -- Combining map() and reduce() -- Using the reduce() and partial() functions -- Using the map() and reduce() functions to sanitize raw data -- Using the groupby() and reduce() functions -- Summary -- Chapter 11: Decorator Design Techniques -- Decorators as higher-order functions -- Using the functools update_wrapper() functions -- Cross-cutting concerns -- Composite design -- Preprocessing bad data…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- The Color of Your Most Valued Asset - Your Time -- The Many Shades of Value -- Your DILO Log -- You Don't Have a Time Machine -- Cut the Passion Police and Create Advantage…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…1 Germany's global efforts for sustainable development -- Efforts to support global sustainable development -- Germany is well-positioned to influence global sustainable development -- Germany is driving implementation of sustainable development and climate action -- Greater ambition and more effective architecture would improve sustainability -- Germany strives for fair and sustainable globalisation -- Promoting global public goods and addressing global challenges -- Policy coherence for sustainable development -- Institutional mechanisms for addressing incoherent policies could be more effective -- Progress is being made in some shared policy areas that impact sustainable development -- More could be done to address spillover effects on developing countries -- Global awareness -- German citizens have positive views about development co-operation -- Awareness and development education could focus more on changing behaviour -- References -- Notes -- 2 Germany's policy vision and framework -- Framework -- Germany's development co-operation is centred on the 2030 Agenda and the Paris Agreement -- The BMZ 2030 reform strategy provides a long-term focus on global public goods and German expertise, allowing for new political initiatives that are consistent with the 2030 Agenda -- Principles and guidance -- Guidance on cross-cutting issues is made available, but Germany should assess the impact of programmes on the wide range of quality criteria -- Germany should continue to invest at all levels in gender equality and poverty reduction and inequality -- Basis for decision making -- Germany presents a clear rationale for how to engage at different levels -- German development co-operation is provided by a diverse group of autonomous partners and members of civil society -- Multilateral co-operation -- References -- Notes…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Intro -- Foreword -- General Introduction -- Outline of the Report -- Detailed Table of Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Abbreviations and Signs -- Abbreviations -- Signs -- Country Aggregates -- Currency -- Cut off Date -- List of Team Members -- Conclusions and Recommendations -- 1. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…. -- INTRODUCTION -- Sustainability Frameworks for Process Design -- Life Cycle Assessment Framework -- Importance of Life Cycle Inventories -- LCI ASPECTS IN EARLY TO BASIC PROCESS DESIGN STAGES -- LCI Data Gaps and Process Design Decisions -- Importance of the Process Scale -- CASE STUDIES -- CASE STUDY 1: LCA ASPECTS OF SOLVENT SELECTION POSTCOMBUSTION CO2 CAPTURE -- Motivation -- Process System and Scope of the LCA -- Life Cycle Inventories: Short-Cut Models for Filling in Data Gaps -- CASE STUDY 2: LCA ASPECTS IN THE DESIGN OF LIGNOCELLULOSIC BIOREFINERIES -- Motivation -- Process System and Scope of the LCA -- Life Cycle Inventories: Allocation Through Detailed Process Flowsheeting -- Life Cycle Inventories: Model-Based Calculations for Impact Assessment -- CASE STUDY 3: POLY(METHYL METHACRYLATE) RECYCLING PROCESS -- Motivation -- Process System and Scope of the LCA -- Life Cycle Inventories: Background Information and Process Simulation -- Life Cycle Inventories: Global Market Data and Process Size…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- The DAO -- Decentralizing an organization -- Putting a corporation on a blockchain -- Cutting out the middle man…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…</LI><P></P><P><LI>Death by 1000 cuts: The wrong approach to selling.</LI><P></P><P><LI>The New Age of Selling: Why time is not on your side.…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…. -- Working With Shortcuts and the PSShortCut Module -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Incorporating visuals and other media -- Prepping for virtual presentations: The same but different -- Test your technology beforehand -- Manage your presentation space -- Use visuals wisely and keep slides clear and uncluttered -- Take advantage of the advanced features of remote presentation applications -- Leveraging the Communicative Power of Visualization -- Practicing Your Presentation to Improve Your Confidence -- Part 4 Persuading and Driving Results -- Chapter 12 Knowing the People You're Trying to Persuade -- Analyzing Your Audience -- Conducting a demographic analysis -- Digging deeper with a psychographic analysis -- Using Communication Direction to Your Advantage -- Upward communication: Finesse required -- Demonstrate respect -- Cut to the chase -- Show how your proposal will benefit the organization or individual -- Downward communication: A balancing act -- Explain your rationale -- Approach the situation with a curious mind -- Listen and be prepared to respond to complaints and excuses -- Lateral communication: Navigating peer-to-peer interactions -- Seek mutually beneficial solutions -- Acknowledge and respect your communication history -- Balance competition with cooperation -- Anticipating Possible Objections -- Researching possible objections: Conducting surveys -- Conducting an indirect survey -- Surveying actual audience members -- Preparing your responses to objections -- Remaining objective and demonstrating it -- Chapter 13 Engaging in Persuasion That Drives Results -- Sizing Up the Stakeholders -- Identifying stakeholders and their interests -- Sharing the credit to give stakeholders a sense of ownership -- Clarifying Your Goal and Aligning It with Your Audience -- Putting your goals and the needs of your audience in perspective -- Setting realistic goals and objectives…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Discussing doubly robust methods -- Estimating variance -- Advanced DR techniques (using the tmle and SuperLearner packages) -- Balancing flexibility and reliability with DR estimation -- Summary -- References -- Part 3: Advanced Topics and Cutting-Edge Methods -- Chapter 10: Analyzing Instrumental Variables -- Technical requirements -- Introduction to instrumental variables -- The concept of instrumental variables -- The importance of instrumental variables in causal inference -- Criteria for instrumental variables -- Relevance of the instrumental variable -- Exogeneity of the instrumental variable -- Exclusion restriction -- Strategies for identifying valid instrumental variables -- Relevance condition -- Exogeneity condition -- Demonstrating instrumental variable analysis in R -- Using gmm for generalized method of moments -- Diagnostics and tests in instrumental variable analysis -- Interpretation of results -- Challenges and limitations of instrumental variable analysis -- Weak instrumental variables -- Measurement errors in instrumental variables -- Interpretation of instrumental variable estimates -- Summary -- References -- Chapter 11: Investigating Mediation Analysis -- Technical requirements -- What is mediation analysis? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Shell Programs -- Chapter Summary -- Exercises -- Advanced Exercises -- CHAPTER 12: THE GAWK PATTERN PROCESSING LANGUAGE -- Syntax -- Arguments -- Options -- Notes -- Language Basics -- Examples -- Advanced gawk Programming -- Error Messages -- Chapter Summary -- Exercises -- Advanced Exercises -- CHAPTER 13: THE SED EDITOR -- Syntax -- Arguments -- Options -- Editor Basics -- Examples -- Chapter Summary -- Exercises -- PART V: COMMAND REFERENCE -- Standard Multiplicative Suffixes -- Common Options -- The sample Utility -- sample: Very brief description of what the utility does -- aspell: Checks a file for spelling errors -- at: Executes commands at a specified time -- bzip2: Compresses or decompresses files -- cal: Displays a calendar -- cat: Joins and displays files -- cd: Changes to another working directory -- chgrp: Changes the group associated with a file -- chmod: Changes the access mode (permissions) of a file -- chown: Changes the owner of a file and/or the group the file is associated with -- cmp: Compares two files -- comm: Compares sorted files -- configure: Configures source code automatically -- cp: Copies files -- cpio: Creates an archive or restores files from an archive -- crontab: Maintains crontab files -- cut: Selects characters or fields from input lines -- date: Displays or sets the system time and date -- dd: Converts and copies a file -- df: Displays disk space usage -- diff: Displays the differences between two files -- du: Displays information on disk usage by file -- echo: Displays a message -- expr: Evaluates an expression -- file: Displays the classification of a file -- find: Finds files based on criteria -- finger: Displays information about users -- fmt: Formats text very simply -- fsck: Checks and repairs a filesystem -- ftp: Transfers files over a network -- gcc: Compiles C and C++ programs…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover -- Copyright -- Contributors -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Part 1: Foundations of Java Concurrency and Parallelism in Cloud Computing -- Chapter 1: Concurrency, Parallelism, and the Cloud: Navigating the Cloud-Native Landscape -- Technical requirements -- The dual pillars of concurrency versus parallelism - a kitchen analogy -- When to use concurrency versus parallelism - a concise guide -- Java and the cloud - a perfect alliance for cloud-native development -- Exploring cloud service models and their impact on software development -- Java's transformation in the cloud - a story of innovation -- Java - the cloud-native hero -- Java's cloud-focused upgrades - concurrency and beyond -- Real-world examples of successful cloud-native Java applications -- Modern challenges in cloud-native concurrency and Java's weapons of choice -- Wrangling distributed transactions in Java - beyond classic commits -- Maintaining data consistency in cloud-native Java applications -- Handling state in microservices architectures -- Cloud database concurrency - Java's dance moves for shared resources -- Parallelism in big data processing frameworks -- Cutting-edge tools for conquering cloud-native concurrency challenges -- Conquering concurrency - best practices for robust cloud-native applications -- Code examples illustrating best practices -- Ensuring consistency - the bedrock of robust concurrency strategies -- Summary -- Exercise - exploring Java executors -- Questions -- Chapter 2: Introduction to Java's Concurrency Foundations: Threads, Processes, and Beyond -- Technical requirements -- Java's kitchen of concurrency - unveiling threads and processes -- What are threads and processes? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Review Questions -- References -- Part II: Financial Markets -- Chapter 4: The Money Market -- Introduction -- Functions of the Money Market -- Benefits of an Efficient Money Market -- The Indian Money Market -- Role of the Reserve Bank of India in the Money Market -- Steps to Develop the Money Market in India -- Money Market Centres -- Money Market Instruments -- Treasury Bills -- Features of T-Bills -- Types of T-Bills -- Importance of T-Bills -- Development of the T-Bills Market -- Participants in the T-Bills Market -- Sale of T-Bills -- Types of Auctions -- 91-Day T-Bills -- Size of the 91-Day T-Bills Market -- Competitive Bids and Non-Competitive Bids -- 364-Day T-Bills -- Size of the 364-Day T-Bills Market -- 182-Day T-Bills -- 14-Day T-Bills -- Size of the 14-Day T-Bills Market -- Implicit Yield at Cut-off Prices -- Conclusion -- Commercial Paper -- The Process for Issuing a CP -- Guidelines Relating to CPs -- Summary of Guidelines for Issuance of a CP -- Stamp Duty on CP -- Size of the CP Market -- Secondary Market in CPs -- Factors Inhibiting the Growth of the CP Market -- Commercial Paper: A Comparative Position -- Commercial Bills -- Types of Commercial Bills -- Features of Commercial Bills -- Measures to Develop the Bills Market -- Size of the Commercial Bills Market -- Certificates of Deposit -- Measures to Develop the CD Market -- Guidelines for Issue of Certificates of Deposit (CDs) -- Secondary Market for CDs -- Size of the CD Market -- Factors Inhibiting the Growth of CDs -- Comparison of Certificates of Deposit and Commercial Papers -- Call/Notice Money Market -- Introduction -- Why Call Money -- Participants in the Call Money Market -- Reporting of Call/Notice Money Transactions -- Role of the Reserve Bank in the Call Money Market -- Link Between the Call Money Market and Other Financial Markets -- Call Rate -- Mibor…”

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Tabla de Contenidos: “…Space funicular polygons and their applications by Émile Foulon -- Lighting and visual comfort systems in administrative buildings in 1950s Milan -- Energy-aware construction within the Modern Movement: Erskine's approach -- We're not in Kansas anymore: ASHRAE and the global growth of thermal comfort research -- 'Sirapite for Sopranos': Tempered construction and designing for musical tone -- The 1968 Integrated Facade System by Josef Gartner -- Open session: Structural theory and analysis -- The aditus maximus of the Roman Theatre in Málaga: An early model ofRoman stonework vault -- Experimental analysis to define the stability conditions of the temple ofVesta in Forum Romanum -- Geometry by eye: Medieval vaulting of the Anba Hadra Church (Egypt) -- The construction and stereotomy of the medieval vaults in Notre-Dame: Planning, stone-cutting and building of the double-curved -- Geometry and construction of the severies of the vaults in the Cathedral of -- Vaults on the water: A systematic analysis of vault construction in theWasserkirche Zurich -- Stone and brick flat vaults from the 16th century in Spain -- The renovation of the Church of San Benito Abad in Agudo (Ciudad Real, Spain) through a 17th-century drawing -- The geometric design of the "Guarinesque" vaults in Banz and Vierzehnheiligen in relation to the treatises of stereotomy -- Joseph M.Wilson, Henry Pettit and the iron truss bridges of the Pennsylvania Railroad -- Construction of English fan vaults: The tangent plane as a surface of operation -- Graphical analysis of masonry domes. …”