Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Overseeing Risk -- Chapter 24 The Intricacies of Subsidiary/Holding Governance -- Structures -- Culture -- Chapter 25 Fostering Entrepreneurship from the Board -- 'Best Practice' Governance vs Entrepreneurship -- Boards Should Actively Encourage Entrepreneurship -- Innovativeness and Autonomy -- Passion and Risk Taking -- Chapter 26 The Board's Oversight Framework for M&amp -- As -- Creating a Deal-making Mindset -- Seeing the Bigger Picture -- Staging Deals with Maximum Precision -- Strategy Fit Review -- Risk Analysis -- Due Diligence -- Deal Structure and Pricing -- Integration -- Post-integration Analysis -- Confronting Litigation Involving M&amp -- As -- Conflicts of Interest -- Lack of Disclosure -- Hostile and Friendly Takeover -- Pre-acquisition Mismanagement -- Post-acquisition Mismanagement -- Acknowledgement -- Chapter 27 Boards and Oversight of KPIs -- KPIs are a Language - and are Indispensable for Boards -- KPIs Need to be Credible to be Useful -- Zooming in on the KPIs that Matter - and that Tell a Story of How the Company Creates Value -- KPIs Should Measure What is Critical -- A Keen Focus on Value Creation -- KPIs Help Diminish Substantial Business Risks Linked to ESG -- KPIs and Human Capital -- A Dynamic Approach to KPIs -- Hi-tech Display and Review of KPIs -- A Renaissance of the Balanced Scorecard -- KPIs for Board Members -- Appendix 27A -- Checklist -- Chapter 28 The Talent Pipeline -- The Board's Responsibility for Talent Management -- From succession plans to transitioning leaders, boards have a role to play…”

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Tabla de Contenidos: “…Oil and gas companies slash spending across the board -- The extent of spending cutbacks varies widely across regions -- North America leads cuts in upstream spending -- Middle East investment holds up for now -- A weaker ruble and lower taxes helps maintain Russian spending -- Sub-Saharan African producers scale back their deepwater plans -- Upstream oil and gas costs down 30% since 2014 -- US shale costs plummet -- Lower costs are the biggest contributors to lower investment -- Investments in oil midstream infrastructure -- Oil transport and storage investment prove to be sticky -- North America sees a boom in oil infrastructure building -- Oil storage attracts financing globally -- Demand growth drives investment in the emerging economies -- Investment in oil refining -- Asia dominates refining investment -- Financing in the oil and gas sector -- Upstream -- Majors and Independents -- National oil companies -- Financing midstream and refinery projects -- LNG chains -- Spending on liquefaction falls back as projects reach completion -- Regasification capacity rises steadily -- Coal -- References -- 4. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Immutability -- Tuples -- Value mutation -- Immutable collections -- Functions as values -- Higher-order functions -- Pure functions -- Currying -- Memoization -- Expressions, not statements -- Pattern matching -- Recursion -- Summary -- Chapter 6: Streaming Your Data -- The it notation -- The map() function -- Filter family -- Find family -- Drop family -- Sort family -- ForEach -- Join family -- Fold/Reduce -- Flat family -- Slice -- Chunked -- Zip/Unzip -- Streams are lazy, collections are not -- Sequences -- Summary -- Chapter 7: Staying Reactive -- Reactive principles -- Responsiveness -- Resiliency -- Elasticity -- Message-driven -- Reactive extension -- Hot Observable -- Multicast -- Subject -- ReplaySubject -- BehaviorSubject -- AsyncSubject -- SerializedSubject -- Flowables -- Holding state -- FlowableProcessor -- Batching -- Throttling -- Summary -- Chapter 8: Threads and Coroutines -- Threads…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Assessing student loans -- Considering paying down mortgage debt -- Sorting Out Your Financial Plans -- Considering your investment options and desires -- Assessing your savings rate -- Investing regularly with dollar cost averaging -- Knowing the Impact of Investing for College Costs -- Paying for college -- Considering educational savings account options -- Investing money earmarked for college -- Securing Proper Insurance -- Chapter 6 Starting Out with Bank and Credit Union Accounts -- Understanding FDIC Bank Insurance -- Investing in Banking Account and Savings Vehicles -- Bank checking accounts and debit cards -- Savings accounts and certificates of deposit -- Negotiating with Bankers -- Feeling Secure with Your Bank -- Evaluating any bank -- Protecting yourself when banking online -- Exploring Alternatives to Bank Accounts -- Credit union accounts and benefits -- Brokerage cash management accounts -- Money market mutual funds -- Chapter 7 Managing Money Market Funds -- Defining Money Market Mutual Funds -- Making sense of the appeal of money market funds -- Understanding the drawback of money market funds -- Looking at Money Market Fund Holdings -- Protecting and Accessing Your Money in Money Funds -- Protecting your money -- Accessing your money -- Using Money Market Funds in Your Investment Plan -- Shopping for the Best Money Funds -- Discovering traits of leading money funds -- Naming good money funds…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Whether markets are efficient or not, indexing works -- International funds also trail their benchmark indexes -- Caution about gambling -- Chapter Fourteen Bond Funds: Where Those Relentless Rules of Humble Arithmetic Also Prevail -- Why would an intelligent investor hold bonds? -- A similar gap between bond yields and stock yields -- Bond fund managers track the bond market -- Bonds vary in riskiness -- Three basic types of bond funds -- Like stock funds, actively managed bond funds lag their benchmarks. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…22.1 Pager-mode Instant Messaging in the IMS -- 22.2 Pager-mode Instant Messaging to Multiple Recipients -- 22.3 Session-based Instant Messaging in the IMS -- 22.4 File Transfer -- 23 Conferencing on the Internet -- 23.1 Conferencing Standardization at the IETF -- 23.2 The SIPPING Conferencing Framework -- 23.3 The XCON Conferencing Framework -- 23.4 The Binary Floor Control Protocol (BFCP) -- 24 Conferencing in the IMS -- 24.1 The IMS Conferencing Service -- 24.2 Relation with the work in TISPAN and OMA -- 25 Push-to-Talk over Cellular -- 25.1 PoC Standardization -- 25.2 IETF Work Relevant to PoC -- 25.3 Architecture -- 25.4 Registration -- 25.5 PoC Server Roles -- 25.6 PoC Session Types -- 25.7 Adding Users to a PoC Session -- 25.8 Group Advertisements -- 25.9 Session Establishment Types -- 25.10 Answer Modes -- 25.11 Right-to-send-media Indication Types -- 25.12 Participant Information -- 25.13 Barring and Instant Personal Alerts -- 25.14 Full Duplex Call Follow on -- 25.15 The User Plane -- 25.16 Simultaneous PoC Sessions -- 25.17 Charging in PoC -- 26 Multimedia Telephony Services: PSTN/ISDN Simulation Services -- 26.1 Providing Audible Announcements -- 26.2 Communication Diversion (CDIV) -- 26.3 Communication Diversion Notification (CDIVN) -- 26.4 Conference (CONF) -- 26.5 Message Waiting Indication (MWI) -- 26.6 OIP and OIR -- 26.7 TIP and TIR -- 26.8 ACRACR and CB -- 26.9 Advice of Charge (AoC) -- 26.10 CCBS and CCNR -- 26.11 Malicious Communication Identification (MCID) -- 26.12 Communication Hold (HOLD) -- 26.13 Explicit Communication Transfer (ECT) -- 26.14 User Settings in PSTN/ISDN Simulation Services -- 27 Voice Call Continuity (VCC) -- 27.1 Overview of Voice Call Continuity -- 27.2 VCC architecture -- 27.3 Registration -- 27.4 Call origination and anchoring -- 27.5 Call termination and anchoring -- 27.6 Domain Transfer -- Appendix A List of IMS-related Specifications -- A.1 Introduction -- A.2 3GPP Specifications -- A.3 ETSI NGN Specifications -- A.4 OMA Specifications…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Lener, Beth Blanton- Kent, Anne Osterman, Summer Durrant, Alison Armstrong, Georgie Donovan, Tamara Remhof -- Identifying Errors in Periodical Holdings Statements: How AUL Improved Its Outdated ILS Records / Sandra G. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Co-management and tenant attach -- Co-management settings -- Windows Update for Business -- Types of updates managed by Windows Update for Business -- Enforcing compliance deadlines for updates -- How to handle conflicting or legacy policies -- How to set up and configure Windows Update for Business -- Safeguard holds -- Feature updates for Windows 10 and later -- Opting out of safeguard holds -- Expediting a Windows patch -- The Windows Insider Program for Business -- Updating Microsoft 365 apps -- Windows Autopatch -- Windows Autopatch requirements -- How to enable Windows Autopatch -- Optimizing Windows Update rings -- Enabling Windows Autopatch for Cloud PCs -- Summary -- Questions -- Answers -- Further reading -- Chapter 7: Windows Autopilot -- Technical requirements -- Windows Autopilot overview -- Uploading the hardware ID to Windows Autopilot -- Where is Windows Autopilot device information stored? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…John Mann is to the left holding paper, Harald von Petrikovits to the right -- Figure 26. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- About This Book -- Foolish Assumptions -- Icons Used in This Book -- Beyond the Book -- Where to Go from Here -- Part 1 Getting Started with Personal Finance -- Chapter 1 Improving Your Financial Literacy -- Talking Money at Home -- Identifying Unreliable Sources of Information -- Understanding the dangers of free financial content online -- Recognizing fake financial gurus -- Publishers pandering to advertisers -- Jumping over Real and Imaginary Hurdles to Financial Success -- Discovering what (or who) is holding you back -- Developing good financial habits -- Chapter 2 Measuring Your Financial Health -- Avoiding Common Money Mistakes -- Determining Your Financial Net Worth -- Adding up your financial assets -- Subtracting your financial liabilities -- Crunching your numbers -- Interpreting your net worth results -- Examining Your Credit Score and Reports -- Understanding what your credit data includes and means -- Obtaining your credit reports and score -- Improving your credit reports and score -- Getting credit report errors corrected -- Knowing the Difference between Bad Debt and Good Debt -- Consuming your way to bad debt -- Recognizing bad debt overload -- Assessing good debt: Can you get too much? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Understanding the distinction between information and knowledge -- Asking questions to extract information -- Asking questions to gain knowledge -- Seeking clarification with follow-up questions -- Using Questions and Guardrails to Initiate and Guide Conversations -- Asking safe questions to get the conversation moving -- Adding guardrails to limit the scope of a question -- Using questions to transition to other topics -- Chapter 7 Holding Productive and Meaningful Conversations -- Appreciating the Value of Reciprocity, Self-Disclosure, and Give-and-Take -- Embracing reciprocity -- Building trust and reciprocity through self-disclosure -- Giving and taking more or less equally -- Being a Good Conversation Partner -- Cultivating two-way interaction -- Putting the principle of reciprocity into practice -- Strengthening Relationships with Self-Disclosure -- Following the ebb and flow of the conversation -- Getting personal, even in a business setting -- Creating Mutual Meaning -- Checking for confirmation -- Agreeing on next steps -- Part 3 Owning Your Message with Confident Communication -- Chapter 8 Making Simple Communication Changes for Significant Impact -- Making People Less Defensive and More Receptive -- Using the I+verb framework -- Avoiding "you" statements -- Steering clear of generalizations -- Getting to Yes Faster -- Subtly framing your requests -- Providing choices -- Removing all reasons to say no -- Focusing Less on Names and More on Pertinent Details -- Avoiding cheesy sales talk -- Admitting what you don't know -- Pivoting to someone else -- Tabling a topic for later -- Returning the serve -- Purging "Sorry" and "Just" from Your Vocabulary -- Stop saying "sorry" -- Jettison "just" -- Chapter 9 Setting the Stage for Effective Communication -- Challenging the Status Quo -- Understanding why changing the status quo can be difficult…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…9 Swaps, Futures and Derivatives9.1 Swaps; 9.1.1 Interest Rate Swap; 9.1.2 Asset Swap; 9.1.3 Cross-Currency Swap; 9.1.4 Basis Swap; 9.1.5 Forward Rate Agreement; 9.2 Credit Risk in Swaps; 9.3 Swaptions; 9.4 Futures; 9.5 Credit Default Swaps; 10 Portfolio and Other Considerations; 10.1 Holding Period Returns; 10.2 Immunization; 10.3 Portfolio Measures; 10.4 Allowing for Tax; 11 Indices; 11.1 Bond Index Classifications; 11.2 Choosing Indices; 11.3 Index Data Calculations; 11.4 Index Continuity; 11.4.1 Large Changes in the Constituents of the Index; 11.4.2 Gaps in Subindex Calculations…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Savings Bank Account with Commercial Banks -- Bank Fixed Deposits -- Company Fixed Deposits -- Post Office Deposits and Certificates -- Life Insurance Policies -- Provident Fund Scheme -- Equity Linked Savings Schemes (ELSSs) -- Pension Plan -- Government and Semi-government Securities -- Mutual Fund Schemes -- Real Assets -- Real Estate -- Bullion Investment -- Investment Opportunities for Foreign Citizens of Indian Origin -- Foreign Direct Investment -- Portfolio Investment -- Sources of Investment Information -- Institutions Floating Financial Securities -- Financial Markets -- Financial Service Intermediaries -- Media -- Summary -- Concepts -- Short Questions -- Essay Questions -- Appendix I -- Appendix II -- Chapter 6: Debt Instruments and Their Valuation -- Players in the Debt Market -- Valuation of Debt Instruments -- Running Yield -- Simple Yield to Maturity -- Redemption Yield -- Holding Period Yield -- Comparison of Yield Computations -- Yields to Call/Put -- Yields on Index Linked Bonds -- Yield Curves -- Ascending Yield Curve -- Descending Yield Curve -- Risk Management in Bonds -- Default Risk -- Reinvestment Risk -- Purchasing Power Risk -- Price Risk -- Liquidity Risk -- Bond Duration -- Convexity -- Dispersion -- Summary -- Concepts -- Short Questions -- Essay Questions -- Problems -- Case Study -- Chapter 7: Equity Instruments and Their Valuation -- Share Valuation -- Earnings Valuation -- Negative Earnings Due to Cyclical Nature of Industry -- Negative Earning Due to Unforeseeable Circumstances -- Negative Earning Due to Poor Managements -- Persistent Negative Earnings -- Negative Earnings Due to Early Growth Stage -- Negative Earnings Due to High Leverage Cost -- Earnings Forecast -- Forecasting Earnings Using Statistical Tools -- Forecast of Annual Versus Quarterly results -- Revenues Valuation -- Cash Flows Valuation…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Comparative studies of infant-adult interaction in humans and chimpanzees -- Imitation of odd walking and "baby-sitting" posture -- A mother's "medical care" prevents suffocation and releases holding behaviour -- Two different "situational definitions" of a similar event -- Moving with the mother's movement when back-riding -- An object-oriented imitating attempt by a 22 months-old -- Returning to the question of cultural transitions -- No cultural learning in chimpanzees? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Consider the timing of various objectives -- Choosing the most important objectives -- Using your formula -- Exploring Other Ways to Help You Set Objectives -- Using rituals -- Drawing on the wisdom of crowds -- Considering what's holding you back -- Incorporating the Characteristics of Effective Objectives -- Making it qualitative -- Making it meaningful to you -- Ensuring that it's doable in the time period -- Aligning it vertically and horizontally -- Keeping it easy to read and understand -- Controlling the necessary resources -- Providing business value -- Chapter 9 Rolling Up Your Sleeves, Part 2: Creating Key Results -- Looking at the Types of Key Results -- Metric key results -- Milestone key results -- Walking through the Process of Creating Key Results -- Determining your business impact key result by asking the fundamental question -- Telling the story of success using leading key results -- Telling the story by working backward -- Telling the story by measuring the objective -- Don't look for perfect key results -- Using the formulas -- Incorporating the Characteristics of an Effective Key Result -- Making it quantitative -- Shooting for stretch - but ensuring that it's attainable -- Limiting the number of key results -- Making it specific -- Ensuring that it's a key result, not a task -- Fighting the "You can't measure what we do" syndrome -- Chapter 10 Making Your OKRs Even Stronger -- Ensuring Alignment among OKRs -- Using vertical alignment to drive strategy execution -- Think connecting, not cascading -- The problems with cascading -- The power of intrinsic motivation -- Focus on connecting, not cascading -- Achieving horizontal alignment by managing dependencies -- Answering Some FAQs about OKRs that You're Sure to Get -- What if I can't measure business impact during the quarter?…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Providing Community Access and Security -- Chapter 7 Cranking It Up: Developing Your Music Collection -- Building a Physical Library -- Thinking about shelving (and space) -- Choosing an organizational method -- Collecting your materials and getting to work -- Venturing into vinyl -- Learning CD selectivity -- Tangling with tapes -- Programming albums -- Marking materials for safekeeping -- Developing a Digital Library -- Seeking digital selections -- Managing digital files -- Using software to keep the music going -- Archiving Original In-House Productions -- Chapter 8 Going for the Gold: Developing Station Income -- Making Friends and Creating Opportunities -- Organizing a Capital Campaign -- Building Station Membership -- Developing Partnerships and Sponsorships -- Working with Underwriters -- Finding Government Money -- Considering Incentive Programs -- Driving Vehicle Donations -- Maximizing Merch Sales -- Hosting Fundraising Events -- Chapter 9 Holding the Line: Managing Station Expenses -- Maintaining Your Home-Base -- Factoring in The Price of Technology -- Internet service -- Webhosting -- Remote access -- Video conferencing -- Licensing Music -- FM transmission -- Digital transmission -- Hiring Personnel and Growing a Happy Team -- Showing staff and donor appreciation -- Funding continuing education -- Joining Professional Organizations -- Budgeting for Communications -- Keeping Financial Records -- Bookkeeping -- Filing annual taxes -- Maintaining transparency -- Remembering Everything Else, Too -- Saving up for sundries -- Buying merch -- Launching events -- Saving for station updates -- Part 4 Star Systems: (Low) Power to the People! …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Schmidt -- EU Citizenship Should Speak Both to the Mobile and the Non-Mobile European: Frank Vandenbroucke -- The Impact and Political Accountability of EU Citizenship: Dorte Sindbjerg Martinsen -- ‘Feed Them First, Then Ask Virtue of Them’: Broadening and Deepening Freedom of Movement: Andrea Sangiovanni -- EU Citizenship, Duties and Social Rights: Martin Seeleib-Kaiser -- Why Compensating the ‘Stayers’ for the Costs of Mobility is the Wrong Way to Go: Julia Hermann -- Balancing the Rights of European Citizenship with Duties Towards National Citizens: An Inter-national Perspective: Richard Bellamy -- Grab the Horns of the Dilemma and Ride the Bull: Rainer Bauböck -- Why Adding Duties to European Citizenship is Likely to Increase the Gap Between Europhiles and Eurosceptics: Theresa Kuhn -- Enhancing the Visibility of Social Europe: A Practical Agenda for ‘the Last Mile’: Ilaria Madama -- Towards a ‘Holding Environment’ for Europe’s (Diverse) Social Citizenship Regimes: Anton Hemerijck -- Imagine: European Union Social Citizenship and Post-Marshallian Rights and Duties: Dora Kostakopoulou -- Why the Crisis of European Citizenship Is a Crisis of European Democracy: Sandra Seubert -- Regaining the Trust of the Stay-at-Homes: Three Strategies: Philippe Van Parijs -- Social Citizenship, Democratic Values and European Integration: a Rejoinder: Maurizio Ferrera…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Gary Berman, The CyberHero Adventures: Defenders of the Digital Universe -- Jason Hoenich, Habitu8 -- Jim Shields, Twist and Shout -- Kai Roar, CLTRe -- Lisa Plaggemier, InfoSec Institute -- Masha Sedova, Elevate Security -- Stu Sjouwerman, KnowBe4 -- Tom Pendergast, MediaPRO -- Winn Schwartau, The Security Awareness Company (SAC) -- Reference -- Part III The Process of Transformation -- Chapter 8 Living Your Awareness Program Through the Eyes and Lives of Your Audience -- A Learner Journey Map: Awareness in the Context of Life -- Key Takeaways -- Notes and References -- Chapter 9 Putting It All Together -- Before You Begin -- The Five Secrets of Security Awareness Success -- Tips for Gaining Buy-In -- Leverage Cialdini's Principles of Persuasion -- Making Adjustments -- Thoughts About Crafting Campaigns -- Thinking Through Target Groups -- Be Intentional with Recognition and Reward -- Assembling Your Culture Carriers -- Measuring Your Success -- What Does the Future Hold? -- Key Takeaways -- Notes and References -- Chapter 10 Closing Thoughts -- Leverage the Power of Community -- Be a Lifelong Learner -- Be a Realistic Optimist -- Conclusion -- Chapter 11 Voices of Transformation: Interviews with Security Awareness Program Leaders -- Bruce Hallas, Marmalade Box -- Carlos Miró, MUFG Union Bank -- Dr. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…When - when I (the user) tell you to, and don't stop until there are no more toys to be found -- Where - the game room upstairs -- The problem - part 2 -- Who - the robot, the user (granddad), and the grandchildren -- What - receive commands and verbally interact (hold a conversation) with children, which must include knock-knock jokes -- When - as requested by the robot controller, then when the child speaks to the robot -- Where - in the game room, within about six feet of the robot -- What is our robot to do? …”