Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover -- Engage, Assess, Reflect -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Brief Contents -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Global Edition Acknowledgments -- About the Authors -- Part 1: An Introduction -- Chapter 1: Welcome to the World of OB -- Chapter Warm-up -- Management and Organizational Behavior -- Organizational Behavior (OB) Defined -- Effective versus Successful Managerial Activities -- Watch It-Herman Miller: Organizational Behavior -- Complementing Intuition with Systematic Study -- Big Data -- Disciplines that Contribute to the OB Field -- Psychology -- Social Psychology -- Sociology -- Anthropology -- There are few Absolutes in OB -- Challenges and Opportunities for OB -- Continuing Globalization -- Workforce Demographics -- Workforce Diversity -- Social Media -- Employee Well-Being at Work -- Positive Work Environment -- Ethical Behavior -- Coming Attractions: Developing an OB Model -- Overview -- Inputs -- Processes -- Outcomes -- Summary -- Implications for Managers -- Personal Inventory Assessments: Multicultural Awareness Scale -- Part 2: Individual Differences -- Chapter 2: Attitudes -- Chapter Warm-up -- Attitudes -- Watch It-Gawker Media: Attitudes and Job Satisfaction -- Attitudes and Behavior -- Job Attitudes -- Job Satisfaction and Job Involvement -- Organizational Commitment -- Perceived Organizational Support -- Employee Engagement -- Measuring Job Satisfaction -- Approaches to Measurement -- Measured Job Satisfaction Levels -- What Causes Job Satisfaction? …”

“…A study of the operation and usage in the Global South extends the scope to a global scale. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Editors and Contributors -- 1 A Framework for Resilient Urban Futures -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 An Approach to Urban Resilience Research-Practice -- 1.3 Linking the Past, Present, and Future -- References -- 2 How We Got Here: Producing Climate Inequity and Vulnerability to Urban Weather Extremes -- 2.1 Breaking Climatological Records -- 2.2 Urbanization and Extreme Weather Events -- 2.2.1 Urban Industrialization -- 2.2.2 Urban Climatology -- 2.3 Breaking Political Will -- 2.3.1 Liberal Trade Narrative -- 2.3.2 Rational Choice Narrative -- 2.3.3 Global Climate Narrative -- 2.4 Urban Climate Extremes Exacerbate Existing Inequities -- 2.5 Conclusion -- References -- 3 Social, Ecological, and Technological Strategies for Climate Adaptation -- 3.1 Social-Ecological-Technological Systems (SETS) Framework -- 3.2 Content Analysis of Municipal Planning Documents and Governance Strategies in SETS -- 3.2.1 Selecting Municipal Planning Documents -- 3.2.2 Extracting Governance Strategies -- 3.2.3 Labeling Strategies with Levers and Exogenous Drivers -- 3.2.4 The SETS Codebook -- 3.3 Conclusion -- References -- 4 Mapping Vulnerability to Weather Extremes: Heat and Flood Assessment Approaches -- 4.1 Vulnerability Frameworks and Spatial Vulnerability Assessments for Resilience -- 4.1.1 Extreme Heat Vulnerability -- 4.1.2 Flood Vulnerability -- 4.2 Role of Vulnerability Maps -- 4.3 Urban Resilience to Extremes (UREx) Assessments and Mapping Methodologies -- 4.3.1 Vulnerability Assessments -- 4.3.2 Mapping Urban Landscapes -- 4.3.3 Mapping Extreme Event Injustice -- 4.4 Conclusion -- References -- 5 Producing and Communicating Flood Risk: A Knowledge System Analysis of FEMA Flood Maps in New York City -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.1.1 The National Flood Insurance Program -- 5.1.2 Flood Insurance Rate Maps as a Knowledge System…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…General Assessment of the Macroeconomic Situation -- Introduction -- Recent developments -- The outlook is for a significant but uneven recovery -- The global recovery is projected to strengthen as vaccination deployment becomes widespread -- Inflation is expected to increase temporarily but the longer-term outlook remains uncertain, with upside risks -- Trade prospects are improving, but imbalances may widen -- The outlook is subject to upside and downside risks -- Significant uncertainty remains about the pace of vaccine deployment and the evolution of the virus -- Excess saving poses upside risks to household consumption -- Companies have resisted well, but performance has varied across sectors and company sizes -- Pandemic-related risks are still high in some emerging-market economies -- Policy requirements -- The pace of vaccine production and deployment needs to be accelerated -- Monetary policy -- Fiscal policy -- Structural reforms are needed to improve resilience, facilitate reallocation and strengthen growth prospects -- Bibliography -- Annex 1.A. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…3 Deploying and operating in AWS global infrastructure -- 3.1 Hosting IT infrastructure on AWS -- 3.2 Deploying and operating in AWS -- 3.2.1 Interacting with the AWS Cloud -- 3.2.2 Deploying in the AWS Cloud -- 3.2.3 Connectivity options in the AWS Cloud -- 3.2.4 Section quiz -- 3.3 AWS global infrastructure -- 3.3.1 Regions -- 3.3.2 Availability Zones -- 3.3.3 Edge Locations -- 3.3.4 Section quiz -- Summary -- Chapter quiz answers -- 4 Core AWS services -- 4.1 Compute services -- 4.1.1 Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud -- 4.1.2 AWS Elastic Beanstalk -- 4.1.3 Elastic Load Balancing -- 4.1.4 AWS Lambda -- 4.1.5 Amazon Elastic Container Service -- 4.1.6 Section quiz -- 4.2 Storage services -- 4.2.1 Amazon Simple Storage Service -- 4.2.2 Amazon Elastic Block Store -- 4.2.3 AWS Snowball -- 4.2.4 AWS Storage Gateway -- 4.2.5 Amazon Elastic File System -- 4.2.6 Section quiz -- 4.3 Database services -- 4.3.1 Amazon Relational Database Service -- 4.3.2 Amazon DynamoDB -- 4.3.3 Amazon Redshift -- 4.3.4 Section quiz -- 4.4 Networking and content delivery services -- 4.4.1 Amazon Route 53 -- 4.4.2 Section quiz -- 4.5 Management tools -- 4.5.1 AWS CloudFormation -- 4.5.2 AWS CloudTrail -- 4.5.3 Amazon CloudWatch -- 4.5.4 AWS Config -- 4.5.5 AWS Trusted Advisor -- 4.5.6 Section quiz -- Summary -- Chapter quiz answers -- 5 Security and compliance -- 5.1 Security and compliance concepts -- 5.1.1 Shared responsibility model -- 5.1.2 A Well-Architected Framework -- 5.1.3 Principle of least privilege -- 5.1.4 Section quiz -- 5.2 Security services -- 5.2.1 AWS Identity and Access Management -- 5.2.2 AWS Web Application Firewall -- 5.2.3 AWS Shield -- 5.2.4 Amazon Inspector -- 5.2.5 AWS Trusted Advisor -- 5.2.6 Amazon GuardDuty -- 5.2.7 Section quiz -- Summary -- Chapter quiz answers -- 6 Billing and pricing -- 6.1 AWS billing and pricing concepts…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Electricity prices in Ontario and the Global Adjustment -- Box 1.1. Electricity prices in Ontario and the Global Adjustment (cont.) -- Figure 1.5. …”

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Tabla de Contenidos: “…Global growth recovered strongly in 2021 from the COVID-19 crisis -- 1.1.2. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…; Summary and Key Conclusions; Chapter 5 Strategy and Capability; Corporate Strategy; Business Strategy; HR Strategy; Talent Strategy; Inclusive vs Exclusive Talent Management; Buy, Borrow or Build?; Global Local Strategy; Summary and Key Conclusions; Chapter 6 The Perfect Employee; Identifying the Right Talent; Summary and Key Conclusions; Chapter 7 Diversity and Segmentation; Accounting for Diversity; The Benefits of Diversity; Talent Segmentation; Summary and Key Conclusions; Chapter 8 Reputation and Attraction…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Unlocking the Potential of the Middle Corridor: Challenges, Opportunities, and Pathways Forward -- The economies of the South Caucasus and Central Asia remain closely integrated with Russia, leaving them vulnerable to supply risks and secondary sanctions -- Countries along the corridor can foster regional co-operation and generate trade opportunities -- The Middle Corridor has the potential to become a viable route if capacity constraints and regional co-operation issues are addressed -- References -- 2 Further regional economic and trade integration is key to the route's long-term viability -- Limited integration into global trade constrains private-sector demand for the Middle Corridor -- The corridor countries' trade integration could improve -- The participation of the South Caucasus and Central Asia in global trade is limited -- Intra-regional trade remains under-developed in Central Asia and the South Caucasus -- Weaknesses in the overall business climate in Central Asia and the South Caucasus constrain private sector development and export growth -- Regional logistics services remain underdeveloped along the Middle Corridor reducing transit efficiency and reliability -- High prices and low capacity along the Middle Corridor weigh on its competitiveness -- Rail and maritime tariffs and schedules are unpredictable and often poorly accessible -- Overall, quasi-monopolies hamper the development of this sector -- Recommendations -- Further reforms to improve framework conditions for private-sector development can enhance the region's trade potential and stimulate demand along the route -- Develop national and regional export promotion strategies through SME and entrepreneurship development -- Address remaining gaps in the operational environment for firms, particularly in relation to trade and investment…”

“…This book explains the evolutions of architecture for mobiles and summarizes the different technologies:- 2G: the GSM (Global System for Mobile) network, the GPRS (General Packet Radio Service) network and the EDGE (Enhanced Data for Global Evolution) evolution;- 3G: the UMTS (Universal Mobile Telecommunications System) network and the HSPA (High Speed Packet Access) evolutions:- HSDPA (High Speed Downlink Packet Access),- HSUPA (High Speed Uplink Packet Access),- HSPA+;- 4G: the EPS (Evolved Packet System) network.The telephone service and data transmission are the…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Questions -- Summary -- Chapter 4: Behaving Properly - Pure Functions -- Pure functions -- Referential Transparency -- Side effects -- Usual side effects -- Global state -- Inner state -- Argument mutation -- Troublesome functions -- Advantages of pure functions -- Order of execution -- Memoization -- Self-documentation -- Testing -- Impure functions -- Avoiding impure functions -- Avoiding the usage of state -- Injecting impure functions -- Is your function pure? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- About the Author -- About the Technical Reviewer -- Brief Contents -- Contents in Detail -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- The Road to ECMAScript 6 -- About This Book -- Browser and Node.js Compatibility -- Who This Book Is For -- Overview -- Conventions Used -- Help and Support -- Chapter 1: Block Bindings -- var Declarations and Hoisting -- Block-Level Declarations -- let Declarations -- No Redeclaration -- const Declarations -- The Temporal Dead Zone -- Block Bindings in Loops -- Functions in Loops -- let Declarations in Loops -- const Declarations in Loops -- Global Block Bindings -- Emerging Best Practices for Block Bindings -- Summary -- Chapter 2: Strings and Regular Expressions -- Better Unicode Support -- UTF-16 Code Points -- The codePointAt() Method -- The String.fromCodePoint() Method -- The normalize() Method -- The Regular Expression u Flag -- Other String Changes -- Methods for Identifying Substrings -- The repeat() Method -- Other Regular Expression Changes -- The Regular Expression y Flag -- Duplicating Regular Expressions -- The flags Property -- Template Literals -- Basic Syntax -- Multiline Strings -- Making Substitutions -- Tagged Templates -- Summary -- Chapter 3: Functions -- Functions with Default Parameter Values -- Simulating Default Parameter Values in ECMAScript 5 -- Default Parameter Values in ECMAScript 6 -- How Default Parameter Values Affect the arguments Object -- Default Parameter Expressions -- Default Parameter TDZ -- Working with Unnamed Parameters -- Unnamed Parameters in ECMAScript 5 -- Rest Parameters -- Increased Capabilities of the Function Constructor -- The Spread Operator -- The name Property -- Choosing Appropriate Names -- Special Cases of the name Property -- Clarifying the Dual Purpose of Functions…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Intro -- Abbreviations and acronyms -- Executive summary -- 1 Monitoring and reviewing the implementation of the AEOI Standard - the results -- The AEOI commitment process -- Monitoring the timeliness of delivery -- Delivery of the commitments -- Jurisdictions yet to commence exchanges as committed to -- Commitments to commence exchanges in the future -- Peer reviews of the effectiveness of implementation -- An analysis of the peer review results to date -- The results of the reviews of the AEOI legal frameworks -- Common issues identified -- The results of the reviews of the effectiveness in practice -- Common issues identified -- A summary of the peer reviews to date -- The second round of AEOI effectiveness reviews -- 2 The methodologies for the Global Forum's AEOI peer reviews -- Global Forum AEOI peer reviews: covering all relevant areas -- Peer reviews of the AEOI legal frameworks -- The requirements -- How the requirements are reviewed -- What is reviewed in relation to Core Requirement 1 -- What is reviewed in relation to Core Requirement 2 -- Drawing conclusions and issuing determinations on the completeness of the AEOI legal frameworks -- Peer reviews of the effectiveness in practice of AEOI implementation -- The requirements -- How the requirements are reviewed during the initial reviews -- How the requirements are reviewed during the in-depth reviews -- What is reviewed in relation to Core Requirement 1 -- What is reviewed in relation to Core Requirement 2 -- Drawing conclusions and issuing ratings on the effectiveness of the implementation of AEOI in practice -- Ratings issued during the initial reviews -- Ratings issued during the in-depth reviews -- Notes -- 3 Jurisdiction-specific reports -- Albania -- Overall findings -- Conclusions on the legal framework -- General context -- Detailed findings…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- The climate emergency has complex and place-specific impacts -- The current state of global warming -- Complex climate impacts across economic and social systems -- Climate impacts hit differently across places and people -- Governments at all levels are facing challenges in transitioning towards net zero and enhancing climate resilience -- Challenges for national governments -- Challenges for cities and regions -- Definition and potential benefits of a territorial approach to climate action and resilience -- Definition -- How can a territorial approach respond to climate challenges? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Governance, system-level policies and practices -- Detailed overview of PISA 2022 modules -- Basic demographics -- Economic, Social, and Cultural Status (ESCS) -- Educational pathways and post-secondary aspirations -- Migration and language exposure -- PISA preparation and effort -- School culture and climate -- Subject-specific beliefs, attitudes, feelings, and behaviours -- General social and emotional characteristics -- Health and well-being -- Out-of-school experiences -- School type and infrastructure -- Selection and enrolment -- School autonomy -- Organisation of student learning at school -- Exposure to mathematics content -- Mathematics teacher behaviours -- Teacher qualification, training, and professional development -- Assessment, evaluation and accountability -- Parental/guardian involvement and support -- Creative thinking -- Global crises -- PISA 2022 Survey Design Principles -- Question types -- Use of Matrix Questions -- Use of alternative item formats -- Minimize use of open-ended fill-in-the-blank questions -- Question wording -- Use of positive and negative statements -- Contextual cue placement -- Avoid multi-barrelled statements -- Choose a meaningful number of examples -- Minimise surface-level similarities in wording across matrix question items -- Response options -- Number of options -- Use of agreement and frequency scales -- Harmonizing directionality of response options -- Scaled indices -- Distinguishing manifest, reflective, and formative constructs -- Number of Items per Scaled Index -- Routing -- Matrix Sampling -- Log file data -- References -- 6 PISA 2022 ICT Framework -- Introduction -- Why develop a framework to assess the integration of information and communication technologies in teaching and learning? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Preface -- Part One: Private Enterprise and Public Trust -- Chapter 1: The Free Market System and Business -- Introduction -- Primary Objectives -- The Free Enterprise System and Capital Markets -- Public Trust and Investor Confidence -- The Role and Responsibility of Business in Society -- The First Tier: Investors -- The Second Tier: Creditors -- The Third Tier: Others -- The Role of Financial Information in the Capital Markets -- Introduction to Corporate Governance -- Corporate Culture and Integrity -- Corporate Accountability -- Introduction to Business Ethics -- Classroom Implications of this Book -- Summary -- Key Terms -- Review Questions -- Discussion Questions -- Notes -- Chapter 2: Corporate Governance -- Introduction -- Primary Objectives -- Definition of Corporate Governance -- Aspects of Corporate Governance -- Shareholder Aspect -- Stakeholder Aspect -- Integrated Aspect -- Corporate Governance Structure -- Corporate Governance Principles -- Corporate Governance Functions -- Corporate Governance Mechanisms -- Sources of Corporate Governance -- Corporate Laws -- The Federal Securities Laws -- Listing Standards -- Best Practices -- Corporate Governance Reforms -- Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 -- Corporate Governance Rating -- Corporate Governance Reporting -- Global Convergence in Corporate Governance -- Differences between U.S. and European Models of Corporate Governance -- Summary -- Key Terms -- Review Questions -- Discussion Questions -- Notes -- Chapter 3: Introduction to Business Ethics -- Introduction -- Primary Objectives -- Ethical Theories -- Ethics in the Workplace -- Business Ethics -- Corporate Culture -- Incentives -- Opportunity -- Choices -- Triangle of Business Ethics -- Ethics Sensitivity -- Ethics Incentives -- Ethical Behavior -- SEC Rules on Corporate Code of Ethics…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Technology and Development -- The Contribution of Technology -- Managing Technology for Development -- Integrating Technology with Business -- Technology in Developing Countries -- Technology Acquisition and Protection -- Technology Transfer -- The Need for Technology Transfer -- Forms of Technology Transfer -- Innovations -- Varying Research and Development Budgets -- Technical Cooperation and India's Capabilities -- India and the Global Knowledge Market -- Summary -- Notes -- Key Words -- Discussion Questions -- Suggested Readings -- Chapter 6: Human Resource Development -- Evolution -- What is Human Resource Development? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Coding and Design Patterns -- Coding patterns -- Separating behavior -- Content -- Presentation -- Behavior -- Example of separating behavior -- Asynchronous JavaScript loading -- Namespaces -- An Object as a namespace -- Namespaced constructors -- A namespace() method -- Init-time branching -- Lazy definition -- Configuration object -- Private properties and methods -- Privileged methods -- Private functions as public methods -- Immediate functions -- Modules -- Chaining -- JSON -- Design patterns -- Singleton -- Singleton 2 -- Global variable -- Property of the Constructor -- In a private property -- Factory -- Decorator -- Decorating a Christmas tree -- Observer -- Summary -- A. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…. -- Chapter 4: Configuring Global Scale Infrastructure -- Introduction -- Creating a VPC and subnet from the CLI -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- There's more... -- Creating a VPC to DC connectivity--VPN Tunneling -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- There's more... -- Creating a VPC with a private subnet and connecting DC -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- Creating a multi-region VPC communication -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- There's more... -- Setting up a private DNS with a VPC -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- There's more... -- Migrating to IPv6 -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- There's more... -- Chapter 5: Working with Infrastructure Automation -- Introduction -- Infrastructure as a Service -- Why do we need to automate? …”