Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Element 14 Subject Matter -- Element 15 Leveraging AI to Enhance Your Negotiation Skills -- Chapter 3 Tools: Introduction: Tools for Negotiation -- Element 16 Negotiation Strategy -- Choice of Strategy -- Flexible Tactics -- Element 17 Rules of the Game -- Element 18 Questions -- Types of Questions -- Open Questions -- Closed Questions -- Leading Questions -- Follow-up Questions -- Questions for Your Audience -- Questions from Your Counterpart -- Dealing with Questions You're Not Able to Answer -- Be Specific in Your Questions -- Precision with Language -- How to Hold a Conversation -- Element 19 Openness -- SMARTnership Approach -- Element 20 The Hidden Value: NegoEconomics -- Room for Negotiation -- A Simple Model to Identify NegoEconomics -- The Four-Step Model -- Identifying NegoEconomics in Projects -- From Public Authority to Commercial Enterprise -- Element 21 TrutCurrency -- The Water Bottle Experiment -- Element 22 Strategy Access Matrix (SAM) Model -- Element 23 Threats -- Element 24 Activating Several Senses -- Physical or Intellectual Demonstrations -- Visual Aids -- The Professional Picture -- Use Colors Effectively -- Pacing -- PowerPoint -- Your Personality Is 80 Percent of Your Presentation -- Element 25 Using an Agenda -- Taking the Initiative -- Controlling the Other Party -- Demand a Set Agenda Before You Meet -- Prepare Better -- Know What the Other Party Wants -- When an Agenda Is Unsuitable -- Element 26 Planned Target -- Element 27 Walking Away -- Element 28 Team Dynamics -- Element 29 Division of Roles on the Team -- Element 30 The Trial Balloon and Highball/Lowball Techniques -- The Trial Balloon: Testing the Waters -- The Highball/Lowball Technique: Setting the Negotiation Range…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Non-trading income -- Trading losses -- 14 Pension contributions -- Registered pension schemes -- Tax relief for contributions by scheme members -- Tax relief for contributions by employers -- Annual allowance charge -- Lifetime allowance charge -- 15 Payment of income tax, interest and penalties -- Payment of income tax -- Late payment penalties -- Interest on overdue income tax -- Interest on overpaid income tax -- Penalties -- Reformed late filing and late payment penalties -- 16 National Insurance contributions -- Class 1 -- Class 1A and Class 1B -- Class 2 and Class 3 -- Class 4 -- Annual maximum contributions -- Review questions (Set A) -- Part 2 Capital Gains Tax -- 17 Introduction to capital gains tax -- Chargeable persons -- Chargeable assets -- Chargeable disposals -- Basis of assessment -- Rates of CGT -- Relief for capital losses -- Relief for trading losses -- Administration of CGT -- 18 Computation of gains and losses -- Layout of a CGT computation -- Disposal value -- Allowable expenditure -- Part disposals -- Assets with negligible value -- Assets held on 31 March 1982 -- 19 Chattels and wasting assets -- The chattels exemption -- Chattels disposed of at a loss -- Part disposals of chattels -- Wasting chattels -- Wasting assets -- Leases -- 20 Shares and securities -- The share matching rules -- The Section 104 holding -- Bonus issues -- Rights issues -- Capital distributions -- Takeovers -- Gilts and qualifying corporate bonds -- 21 Principal private residence -- Principal private residence -- Partial exemption -- Deemed residence -- Letting relief -- Business use -- 22 CGT reliefs -- Damaged assets -- Destroyed assets -- Replacement of business assets -- Gift of business assets -- Transfer of a business to a company -- Business asset disposal relief -- Reinvestment into EIS shares -- Loans to traders -- Review questions (Set B)…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Outsourced Custom Development -- Vertical-Market Software -- Horizontal-Market Software -- Questions -- Results -- Contraindications -- Alternatives -- Ubiquitous Language -- The Domain Expertise Conundrum -- Two Languages -- How to Speak the Same Language -- Ubiquitous Language in Code -- Refining the Ubiquitous Language -- Questions -- Results -- Contraindications -- Alternatives -- Further Reading -- Stand-Up Meetings -- How to Hold a Daily Stand-Up Meeting -- Be Brief -- Questions -- Results -- Contraindications -- Alternatives -- Further Reading -- Coding Standards -- Beyond Formatting -- How to Create a Coding Standard -- Dealing with Disagreement -- Adhering to the Standard -- Questions -- Results -- Contraindications -- Alternatives -- Iteration Demo -- How to Conduct an Iteration Demo -- Two Key Questions -- Weekly Deployment Is Essential -- Questions -- Results -- Contraindications -- Alternatives -- Reporting -- Types of Reports -- Progress Reports to Provide -- Vision statement -- Weekly demo -- Release and iteration plans -- Burn-up chart -- Progress Reports to Consider -- Roadmap -- Status email -- Management Reports to Consider -- Productivity -- Throughput -- Defects -- Time usage -- Reports to Avoid -- Source lines of code (SLOC) and function points -- Number of stories -- Velocity -- Code quality -- Questions -- Results -- Contraindications -- Alternatives -- Further Reading -- Chapter 7. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…I Don't Remember -- Ads That Say Less: Fewer People and Places Say More, Say It Louder, and Say It Better -- How Deep Tones Convey Wisdom: Finding Meaning in the Timbre of Voiceovers -- No Surprise, Women Are Tired of "Mansplaining" -- The Decelerated Delight - Slow Motion and the Mesmerized Mind -- The Neuroscience of Contact: Touch, Hug, and Hold to Connect -- First Impressions Are All That Matter - First Five Seconds of Advertising -- The Awe of the Unveil: Neuroscience Behind the Curtain Rise -- Tackling Territorial Transitions: Navigating the Mind's Map in 30 Seconds -- Chapter 17 scriptGPT - Writing Entire TV Shows, Plots, and Dialogue -- The Persona Palette: Neuronal Narratives in Archetypal Depictions -- The Neural Alchemy of Storytelling: Decoding Narrative Twists in Screenwriting -- Orchestrating Words, Sounds, and Emotion in Screenwriting Crafting Words that Resonate -- Character Interactions and Audience Appeal -- Chapter 18 luxuryGPT - Premiumize Products Using Brain Codes of Luxury -- The Paradox of Plenty: Perceived Luxury in the Economics of More or Less…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Evaluate Yourself -- Search for Answers -- Think and Solve -- Interfacing: Keyboards -- Introduction -- Contact Type Keys -- Interfacing a Key -- Solved Example -- Example 18.1 -- Bouncing of Keys -- Hardware Debouncing -- Software Debouncing -- Key Matrix -- Scanning Keyboard Matrix -- Debouncing Keyboard Matrix -- Summary -- Points to Remember -- Review Questions -- Evaluate Yourself -- Search for Answers -- Think and Solve -- Interfacing:Display Devices -- Introduction -- Led Interfacing -- Solved Examples -- Seven-Segment Display Interfacing -- Multiplexed Display -- Multiplexed Keyboard Display Interface -- Summary -- Points to Remember -- Review Questions -- Evaluate Yourself -- Search for Answers -- Think and Solve -- Interfacing: Dac/Adc -- Introduction -- How a Dac Works -- How an Adc Works -- Sample and Hold -- Interfacing Dac -- Interfacing Adc -- Solved Examples -- Summary -- Points to Remember -- Review Questions -- Evaluate Yourself -- Search for Answers -- Think and Solve -- Interfacing: Dc Motor -- Introduction -- How Dc Motor Works -- Direction Control -- H-Bridge -- H-Bridge Using Transistors -- L293D -- Speed Control -- Through Dac -- Changing Duty Cycle of Square Wave -- Relay and Optocoupler -- Solved Examples -- Summary -- Points to Remember -- Review Questions -- Evaluate Yourself -- Search for Answers -- Think and Solve -- Interfacing: Stepper Motor -- Introduction -- How Stepper Motor Functions -- Full-Step Rotation -- How Step Angle is Controlled -- Generation of 3.6° Step Angle -- Generation of Half-Step -- Stepper Motor Interfacing -- Using Transistors -- Using Dedicated Ics -- Direction Control -- Speed Control -- Solved Examples -- Summary -- Points to Remember -- Review Questions -- Evaluate Yourself -- Search for Answers -- Think and Solve -- Interfacing: Steppermotor -- Introduction -- How a Servomotor Works…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Invisible button zones -- Examples -- Navigating through Buttons and using First Selected -- Loading scenes with Button presses -- Button Animation Transitions -- Summary -- Chapter 10: UI Text and TextMeshPro -- Technical requirements -- UI Text GameObject -- The Text and Character properties -- The Paragraph properties -- The Color and Material properties -- The Raycast and Maskable properties -- Text-TextMeshPro -- Text Input properties -- Main Settings -- Extra Settings -- TextMeshPro Project Settings -- Working with fonts -- Importing new fonts -- Custom fonts -- Font assets -- Exploring the markup format -- Font style -- Font color -- Font size -- Using style sheets -- Translating text -- Examples -- Creating animated text -- Translating the dialogue -- Custom font -- TextMeshPro - Warped Text with Gradient -- Summary -- Chapter 11: UI Images and Effects -- Technical requirements -- UI Image component properties -- Image Type -- UI effect components -- Shadow -- Outline -- Position As UV1 -- Examples -- Horizontal and circular health/progress meters -- Mute Buttons with sprite swap -- Adding press-and-hold/long-press functionality -- Creating a floating eight-directional virtual analog stick -- Summary -- Chapter 12: Using Masks, Scrollbars, and Scroll Views -- Technical requirements -- Using masks -- The Mask component -- Rect Mask 2D component -- Implementing UI Scrollbars -- The Scrollbar component -- Implementing UI Scroll View -- Scroll Rect component -- Examples -- Making a scroll view from a pre-existing menu -- Summary -- Chapter 13: Other Interactable UI Components -- Technical requirements -- Using UI Toggle -- Toggle component -- Toggle Group component -- UI Slider -- Slider component -- UI Dropdown and Dropdown - TextMeshPro -- Dropdown Template -- The Dropdown component -- UI Input Field -- Input Field component…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…The BRIICS Story -- Summary -- Key Terms -- Discussion Questions -- Mini Projects -- Endnotes -- Chapter 9: Foreign Direct Investment: Theory and Application -- Introduction -- FDI: A Classification -- Asset-based View -- Nature of Business Activity -- Motive-based View -- Industry Focus: Kobe Steel's Multi-Pronged Strategy for the Indian Market -- Modes of FDI Entry -- Branch Offices -- Strategic Alliances -- Wholly Owned Subsidiaries -- Umbrella Holding Companies -- Differences Between Joint Ventures and Mergers -- International Business in Action: Suzlon Energy: Post-Merger Blues -- Traditional Theories of FDI -- Perfect Market Hypothesis -- Industrial Organization Approach -- Transaction Cost Approach -- Eclectic Paradigm -- FDI Theories for Emerging-Market Firms -- Effects of FDI -- Host-country Perspective…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Pride in Work -- Passion-The Fire Within -- A Delicate Balancing Act -- The Glue that Holds all these Together: Process -- Vision -- Vision, Vision Everywhere -- Characteristics of Vision -- What is not Vision -- What are the Benefits of Vision -- What Makes Great Visionaries -- In Summary -- Personal Accountability -- What is Personal Accountability? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Encryption and key management -- Tokenization -- Hashing -- Data loss prevention (DLP) -- Data de-identification -- Masking -- Implementing Data Discovery -- Structured data -- Unstructured data -- Semi-structured data -- Data location -- Chapter 6 Domain 2: Cloud Data Security, Part 2 -- Planning and Implementing Data Classification -- Data classification policies -- Data mapping -- Data labeling -- Sensitive data -- Personally Identifiable Information (PII) -- Protected health information (PHI) -- Cardholder data -- Designing and Implementing Information Rights Management (IRM) -- Objectives -- Appropriate tools -- Planning and Implementing Data Retention, Deletion, and Archiving Policies -- Data retention policies -- Data deletion procedures and mechanisms -- Data archiving procedures and mechanisms -- Legal hold -- Designing and Implementing Auditability, Traceability, and Accountability of Data Events -- Defining event sources and requirements of identity attribution -- SaaS event sources -- PaaS event sources -- IaaS event sources -- Identity attribution -- Logging, storing, and analyzing data events -- Collection -- Verification -- Storage and analysis -- Chain of custody and nonrepudiation -- Chapter 7 Domain 3: Cloud Platform and Infrastructure Security, Part 1 -- Comprehending Cloud Infrastructure and Platform Components -- Physical environment -- Network and communications -- Compute -- VMs -- Containers -- Reservations, limits, and shares -- Virtualization -- Storage -- Volume storage -- Object storage -- Management plane -- Designing a Secure Data Center -- Logical design -- Physical design -- Location, location, location! …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…3 Leading Others -- The Job to Be Done -- Leaders-of-Others Set the Direction for Their Team -- Leaders-of-Others Empower the Team -- Leaders-of-Others Develop Their Direct Reports -- Leaders-of-Others Follow Through on the Performance of Their Direct Reports -- Leaders-of-Others Select Their Team Members -- Leaders-of-Others Build Their Team -- Leaders-of-Others Integrate Upwards and Sideways -- The Transition to the Role -- Work Values -- Time Application -- Skills -- Typical Transition Issues -- Finding More Satisfaction in One's Own Contribution Than in Team Members' Contributions -- Micromanaging Instead of Delegating -- Competing with Direct Reports About "Knowing Best" -- Avoiding Tough Conversations with Direct Reports -- Considering Questions from Direct Reports a Disturbance Rather Than Opportunities to Coach and Develop Them -- Variations of the Role -- Store Managers (Retail) -- Supervisors (Manufacturing) -- Leaders-of-Others Who Are Also Specialists -- Project Leaders -- 4 Leading Leaders -- The Job to Be Done -- Leaders-of-Leaders Translate Strategy into Operating Plans -- Leaders-of-Leaders Develop Other Leaders -- Leaders-of-Leaders Follow Through on the Performance of Other Leaders -- Leaders-of-Leaders Select Leaders -- Leaders-of-Leaders Build a Diverse Organization -- Leaders-of-Leaders Lead Across the Organization -- The Transition to the Role -- Work Values -- Time Application -- Skills -- Typical Transition Issues -- Neglecting to Develop Direct Reports into Effective Leaders -- Neglecting to Explicitly Hold Direct Reports Accountable for Leadership Performance -- Failing to Truly Empower the Leaders Reporting to Them -- Focusing Mainly on Leading Downwards but Not Much on Leading Sideways and Upwards -- Struggling with the Combination of Individual Contributors and Leaders-of-Others as Direct Reports -- Variations of the Role…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…CONTEMPORARY EXCHANGE RATE SYSTEMS -- Fixed Exchange Rate System -- Independent Float System -- Currency Board Arrangement -- Soft Pegs -- Crawling Peg -- Pegged Exchange Rates within Horizontal Bands -- Floating Arrangements -- INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL SYSTEM -- Foreign Exchange Markets -- FOREIGN EXCHANGE RISK AND EXPOSURE -- International Capital Market -- International Money Markets -- International Bond Markets -- International Stock Markets -- KEY TERMS -- DISCUSSION QUESTIONS -- Chapter10 INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS -- INTRODUCTION -- INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND (IMF) -- Objectives of the IMF -- Functions of the IMF -- WORLD BANK GROUP -- Grants -- ASIAN DEVELOPMENT BANK -- AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK -- AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT FUND (ADF) -- NIGERIA TRUST FUND (NTF) -- KEY TERMS -- DISCUSSION QUESTIONS -- Chapter11 INTERNATIONAL BALANCE OF PAYMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- FUNDAMENTALS OF BALANCE-OF-PAYMENTS ACCOUNTING -- Defining International Economic Transactions -- The BOP as a Cash Flow Statement -- BOP Accounting: Double-entry Book-keeping -- TYPES OF BALANCE-OF-PAYMENTS ACCOUNTS -- Current Account -- Capital and Financial Account -- Net Errors and Omissions -- Official Reserves Account -- THE BALANCE OF PAYMENTS IN TOTALITY -- KEY TERMS -- DISCUSSION QUESTIONS -- Chapter12 FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT -- INTRODUCTION -- FDI: A CLASSIFICATION -- Asset-based View -- Nature of Business Activity -- Motive-based View -- MODES OF FDI ENTRY -- Branch Office -- Strategic Alliances -- Wholly Owned Subsidiary -- Forms of Wholly Owned Subsidiaries: Greenfield Investmentversus Mergers and Acquisitions -- Umbrella Holding Company -- Differences Between Joint Ventures and Mergers -- GLOBAL FDI PATTERNS -- Trends in FDI -- Direction of FDI -- FDI Outflows -- FOREIGN INVESTMENT IN INDIA -- Policy Perspective -- Sectoral Dimensions of FDI Flows…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Report de la distribution de dividendes -- 4. Sociétés holdings offshore et éventuelle application d'un régime de société étrangère contrôlée -- 5. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover -- Copyright -- Credits -- About the Author -- About the Reviewer -- www.PacktPub.com -- Customer Feedback -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1: The First Step - Concurrency Design Principles -- Basic concurrency concepts -- Concurrency versus parallelism -- Synchronization -- Immutable object -- Atomic operations and variables -- Shared memory versus message passing -- Possible problems in concurrent applications -- Data race -- Deadlock -- Livelock -- Resource starvation -- Priority inversion -- A methodology to design concurrent algorithms -- The starting point - a sequential version of the algorithm -- Step 1 - analysis -- Step 2 - design -- Step 3 - implementation -- Step 4 - testing -- Step 5 - tuning -- Conclusion -- Java Concurrency API -- Basic concurrency classes -- Synchronization mechanisms -- Executors -- The fork/join framework -- Parallel streams -- Concurrent data structures -- Concurrency design patterns -- Signaling -- Rendezvous -- Mutex -- Multiplex -- Barrier -- Double-checked locking -- Read-write lock -- Thread pool -- Thread local storage -- Tips and tricks for designing concurrent algorithms -- Identifying the correct independent tasks -- Implementing concurrency at the highest possible level -- Taking scalability into account -- Using thread-safe APIs -- Never assume an execution order -- Preferring local thread variables over static and shared when possible -- Finding the easier parallelizable version of the algorithm -- Using immutable objects when possible -- Avoiding deadlocks by ordering the locks -- Using atomic variables instead of synchronization -- Holding locks for as short a time as possible -- Taking precautions using lazy initialization -- Avoiding the use of blocking operations inside a critical section -- Summary -- Chapter 2: Working with Basic Elements - Threads and Runnables…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Running Commands with root Privileges -- The Upstart Event-Based init Daemon -- System Operation -- Avoiding a Trojan Horse -- Getting Help -- Textual System Administration Utilities -- Setting Up a Server -- nsswitch.conf: Which Service to Look at First -- PAM -- Chapter Summary -- Exercises -- Advanced Exercises -- CHAPTER 12: FILES, DIRECTORIES, AND FILESYSTEMS -- Important Files and Directories -- File Types -- Filesystems -- Chapter Summary -- Exercises -- Advanced Exercises -- CHAPTER 13: DOWNLOADING AND INSTALLING SOFTWARE -- JumpStart: Installing and Removing Packages Using aptitude -- Finding the Package That Holds a File You Need -- APT: Keeps the System Up-to-Date -- dpkg: The Debian Package Management System -- BitTorrent -- Installing Non-dpkg Software -- wget: Downloads Files Noninteractively -- Chapter Summary -- Exercises -- Advanced Exercises -- CHAPTER 14: PRINTING WITH CUPS -- Introduction -- JumpStart I: Configuring a Local Printer -- system-config-printer: Configuring a Printer -- JumpStart II: Setting Up a Local or Remote Printer Using the CUPS Web Interface -- Traditional UNIX Printing -- Configuring Printers -- Printing from Windows -- Printing to Windows -- Chapter Summary -- Exercises -- Advanced Exercises -- CHAPTER 15: BUILDING A LINUX KERNEL -- Prerequisites -- Downloading the Kernel Source Code -- Read the Documentation -- Configuring and Compiling the Linux Kernel -- Installing the Kernel, Modules, and Associated Files -- Rebooting -- GRUB: The Linux Boot Loader -- dmesg: Displays Kernel Messages -- Chapter Summary -- Exercises -- Advanced Exercises -- CHAPTER 16: ADMINISTRATION TASKS -- Configuring User and Group Accounts -- Backing Up Files -- Scheduling Tasks -- System Reports -- parted: Reports on and Partitions a Hard Disk -- Keeping Users Informed -- Creating Problems -- Solving Problems -- MySQL…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…R) -- Problem 1 -- Illustration 15 -- Analysis -- Normalised yield (YN) -- Illustration 16 -- Process capability analysis (PCA) -- Conclusion -- Annexure 12A: Exercises on Six Sigma calculations -- Exercise 1 -- Exercise 2 -- Exercise 3 -- Exercise 4 -- Exercise 5 -- Exercise 6 -- Exercise 7 -- Exercise 8 -- Individual process -- Process chain -- Exercise 9 -- Chapter 13: Improving Process Flow and Speed to Achieve Lean Process -- Background -- Process flow and process speed -- Two streams of quality improvement -- Checklist of factors having a bearing on process flow and speed -- Lean Six Sigma -- Addressing the factors of hold-up -- Waiting for approval -- Waiting for maintenance -- Movement -- Searching -- Formats and records -- Meetings -- Late starting and early closing -- Push, pull and out -- Process set-up -- Work in process, lead time and process cycle efficiency -- Work in process -- Lead time/process speed -- Analysis of process lead time and process velocity -- Process cycle efficiency (PCE)-the 'lean metric' -- Lean Six Sigma -- Conclusion -- Section D: Continual Improvement Process Framework…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Sorting Data Using Merge Sort and Quick Sort -- Understanding why sorting data is important -- Employing better sort techniques -- Using Search Trees and the Heap -- Considering the need to search effectively -- Building a binary search tree -- Performing specialized searches using a binary heap -- Relying on Hashing -- Putting everything into buckets -- Avoiding collisions -- Creating your own hash function -- Part 3 Exploring the World of Graphs -- Chapter 8 Understanding Graph Basics -- Explaining the Importance of Networks -- Considering the essence of a graph -- Finding graphs everywhere -- Showing the social side of graphs -- Understanding subgraphs -- Defining How to Draw a Graph -- Distinguishing the key attributes -- Drawing the graph -- Measuring Graph Functionality -- Counting edges and vertexes -- Computing centrality -- Putting a Graph in Numeric Format -- Adding a graph to a matrix -- Using sparse representations -- Using a list to hold a graph -- Chapter 9 Reconnecting the Dots -- Traversing a Graph Efficiently -- Creating the graph -- Applying breadth-first search -- Applying depth-first search -- Determining which application to use -- Sorting the Graph Elements -- Working on Directed Acyclic Graphs (DAGs) -- Relying on topological sorting -- Reducing to a Minimum Spanning Tree -- Getting the minimum spanning tree historical context -- Working with unweighted versus weighted graphs -- Creating a minimum spanning tree example -- Discovering the correct algorithms to use -- Introducing priority queues -- Leveraging Prim's algorithm -- Testing Kruskal's algorithm -- Determining which algorithm works best -- Finding the Shortest Route -- Defining what it means to find the shortest path -- Adding a negative edge -- Explaining Dijkstra's algorithm -- Explaining the Bellman-Ford algorithm -- Explaining the Floyd-Warshall algorithm…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Februar 2001 - Alfred Dunhill Ltd -- f) High Court of Justice, 1. März 2006 - Newsat Holdings Ltd…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Variables vary -- Special variables hold specific values -- Working with Functions -- Summarizing data with set functions -- COUNT -- AVG -- MAX -- MIN -- SUM -- LISTAGG -- ANY_VALUE -- Dissecting data with value functions -- String value functions -- Numeric value functions -- Datetime value functions -- Polymorphic table functions -- Using Expressions -- Numeric value expressions -- String value expressions -- Datetime value expressions -- Interval value expressions -- Boolean value expressions -- Array value expressions -- Conditional value expressions -- Handling different cases -- The NULLIF special CASE -- Bypassing null values with COALESCE -- Converting data types with a CAST expression -- Casting one SQL data type to another -- Using CAST to overcome data type incompatibilities between SQL and its host language -- Row value expressions -- Chapter 2 SELECT Statements and Modifying Clauses -- Finding Needles in Haystacks withthe SELECT Statement -- Modifying Clauses -- FROM clauses -- WHERE clauses -- Comparison predicates -- BETWEEN -- IN and NOT IN -- LIKE and NOT LIKE -- NULL -- ALL, SOME, and ANY -- EXISTS -- UNIQUE -- DISTINCT -- OVERLAPS -- MATCH -- The MATCH predicate and referential integrity -- Logical connectives -- GROUP BY clauses -- HAVING clauses -- ORDER BY clauses -- Tuning Queries -- SELECT DISTINCT -- Temporary tables -- The ORDER BY clause -- The HAVING clause -- The OR logical connective -- Chapter 3 Querying Multiple Tables with Subqueries -- What Is a Subquery? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Molecular Shape Is Related to Molecular Function -- Hydrogen Ions in Solution Can Alter Molecular Shape -- Protein Interactions -- Proteins Are Selective about the Molecules They Bind -- Protein‐Binding Reactions Are Reversible -- Binding Reactions Obey the Law of Mass Action -- The Dissociation Constant Indicates Affinity -- Multiple Factors Alter Protein Binding -- The Body Regulates the Amount of Protein in Cells -- Reaction Rate Can Reach a Maximum -- CHAPTER SUMMARY -- REVIEW QUESTIONS -- Chapter 3: Compartmentation: Cells and Tissues -- RUNNING PROBLEM Pap Tests Save Lives -- Functional Compartments of the Body -- The Lumens of Some Organs Are Outside the Body -- Functionally, the Body Has Three Fluid Compartments -- Biological Membranes -- The Cell Membrane Separates Cell from Environment -- Membranes Are Mostly Lipid and Protein -- Membrane Lipids Create a Hydrophobic Barrier -- Membrane Proteins May Be Loosely or Tightly Bound to the Membrane -- Membrane Carbohydrates Attach to Both Lipids and Proteins -- Intracellular Compartments -- Cells Are Divided into Compartments -- The Cytoplasm Includes Cytosol, Inclusions, Fibers, and Organelles -- Inclusions Are in Direct Contact with the Cytosol -- Cytoplasmic Protein Fibers Come in Three Sizes -- Microtubules Form Centrioles, Cilia, and Flagella -- Emerging Concepts Single Cilia Are Sensors -- The Cytoskeleton Is a Changeable Scaffold -- Motor Proteins Create Movement -- Organelles Create Compartments for Specialized Functions -- The Nucleus Is the Cell's Control Center -- Tissues of the Body -- Extracellular Matrix Has Many Functions -- Cell Junctions Hold Cells Together to Form Tissues -- Epithelia Provide Protection and Regulate Exchange -- Connective Tissues Provide Support and Barriers -- Muscle and Neural Tissues Are Excitable -- Tissue Remodeling -- Apoptosis Is a Tidy Form of Cell Death…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Legacy Builder 2: Guard your time and share it so it aligns with your values and the mission -- Legacy Builder 3: Be honest with yourself and others about who you really are -- Legacy Builder 4: Focus on actions that hold true 500 years from now -- Legacy Builder 5: Seek forgiveness over apologies -- Legacy Builder 6: Be slow yet deliberate, not fast and reckless -- Legacy Builder 7: Bring trusted partners into your inner circle -- Legacy Builder 8: Help others remember the promise of their own multigenerational dream -- Ask the experts: How can social impact communicators build personal and professional legacies that outlive them and their careers? …”