“…The core of this book deals with the Arduino projects themselves: Account for heat loss using a heat loss temperature sensor array that sends probes into every corner of your house for maximum measurement. Monitor local seismic activity with your own seismic monitor. …”

“…To celebrate the 270th anniversary of the De Gruyter publishing house, the company is providing permanent open access to 270 selected treasures from the De Gruyter Book Archive. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- About the author -- Introduction -- How to use this book -- Part I Money -- Chapter 1 Laying the foundations -- Your money mindset -- Financial goals -- Five financial numbers you need to know -- Signs you are financially confident -- Chapter 2 Managing money -- Money habits to follow -- 'Having' a budget vs 'being' on a budget -- How to make a budget -- Bank accounts -- Questions to ask before taking on debt -- Paying off debt -- Payday checklist -- Money conversation starters -- Managing money as a couple -- Moving out and navigating money with roommates -- Chapter 3 Saving money -- Savings strategies -- Saving for a house -- Saving money on your bills -- Saving money on groceries -- Saving money on travel -- Chapter 4 Spending money -- How to shop smarter -- Stop impulse shopping -- Navigating money with friends -- Chapter 5 Growing your money -- Type of income -- Why you should invest -- Before you start investing -- Types of investments -- Part II Career -- Chapter 6 Gettinga job -- Components of a winning resumé -- Cover letters -- Acing the job interview -- Questions to ask at the end of a job interview -- After the interview -- Negotiating your starting salary -- How to negotiate your salary -- Responding to a job offer -- Resigning on good terms -- Chapter 7 Confidence at work -- Powerful work affirmations -- Overcoming meeting anxiety -- When to say 'no' at work -- How to say 'no' at work -- Bouncing back after making a mistake at work -- Stop over-apologising at work -- Dealing with imposter syndrome -- Advocating for yourself at work -- Accepting a compliment at work -- Tackling scary conversations at work -- Chapter 8 Your career pathway -- Figuring out your career pathway -- Signs you may be stuck in your current job -- What to do if you feel stuck in your job…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…7.3.3 International Trade, Invoicing, and Dollarization -- 7.4 Financial Dollarization in the Highly Integrated International Market -- 7.4.1 Dollarization of Assets -- 7.4.2 Dollarization and Overseas Assets -- 7.4.3 Dollarization of Liability -- 7.5 Conclusion: Coping With Partial Dollarization -- References -- 8 Strategies for Promotion of Khmer Riel -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 De-Dollarization Policies Until Recently -- 8.2.1 Enhance Confidence in the Riel -- 8.2.2 Promote Price Quotations and Payments of Goods and Services in Riel -- 8.2.3 Promote the Opening of Bank Accounts in Riel -- 8.2.4 Improve the Payment System and Financial Instruments in Riel -- 8.3 De-Dollarization Policy and Financial Market Development -- 8.3.1 Improve Foreign Exchange Markets -- 8.3.2 Further Developing Interbank and Money Markets -- 8.3.3 Further Develop Securities Markets -- 8.3.4 Broaden the Clearing House's Policy On Lowering the Riel Transaction Fee to Market Fund Transfer -- 8.4 New Elements for the Promotion of Khmer Riel -- 8.4.1 Promote Financial Intermediation in Riel On a Gradual Basis -- 8.4.2 Fiscal Support for the Riel -- 8.4.3 Promote Public Awareness and Participation -- 8.4.4 Enhance Cooperation for the Implementation of Effective Measures -- 8.5 Effectiveness of Promoting the Policy and Its Limitations -- 8.5.1 Stronger Yet Still Limited Confidence -- 8.5.2 Difficulty in Changing People's Mindset -- 8.5.3 Network Externality -- 8.5.4 Lack of Demand-Side Policies -- 8.5.5 Limited Domestic Production -- 8.5.6 Limited Coordination Between Implementing Agencies -- 8.6 Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Index…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Evaluating AIDS Prevention Programs -- Copyright -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- NOTE ON CONTRIBUTIONS -- Contents -- Summary -- BACKGROUND -- EVALUATION: NEEDS AND IMPLEMENTATION -- OUTCOMES -- THE MEDIA CAMPAIGN -- COMMUNITY-BASED ORGANIZATIONS -- HIV TESTING AND COUNSELING -- RANDOMIZED AND OBSERVATIONAL APPROACHES TO EVALUATION -- SPECIFIC RECOMMENDATIONS -- All AIDS Intervention Programs -- National AIDS Media Campaign -- Community-Based Organizations -- Testing and Counseling -- 1 Design and Implementation of Evaluation Research -- TYPES OF EVALUATION -- EVALUATION RESEARCH DESIGN -- Process Evaluation Designs -- Outcome Evaluation Designs -- Nonexperimental and Quasi-Experimental Designs -- Randomized Experiments -- Rationale -- Pitfalls -- Unit of Assignment -- Choice of Methods -- THE MANAGEMENT OF EVALUATION -- Project Selection -- Research Administration -- Conducting the Research -- Independent Oversight -- Agency In-House Team -- Interagency Collaboration -- Costs of Evaluation -- REFERENCES -- 2 Measurement of Outcomes -- PROGRAM OBJECTIVES -- OUTCOMES FOR EVALUATIONS OF HIV PREVENTION PROGRAMS -- Biological Outcomes -- Strengths and Weaknesses of Biological Outcomes -- Behavioral Outcomes -- Primary Prevention Behaviors -- Risk Reduction -- Protective Behaviors -- Complementary Prevention Behaviors -- Strengths and Weaknesses of Behavioral Outcomes -- Psychological Outcomes -- Strengths and Weaknesses of Psychological Outcomes -- EVALUATION MEASURES -- Timing of Measurement -- Quality of Measures -- REFERENCES -- 3 Evaluating Media Campaigns -- BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES -- FORMATIVE EVALUATION: WHAT WORKS BETTER? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Conté: Brugge pavilion, Bruges, Bélgica (2000-2002), p.22; Architects competition vestbanen, Oslo, Noruega (2002), p.26; Serpentine gallery Pavilion 2002, Londres, Reino Unido (2002), p.30; Shinonome canal court CODAN Block 2, Koto, Tokyo, Japón (1999-2003), p. 34; Matsumoto performing Arts Centre, Matsumoto, Nagano, Japón (2000-2004), p. 38; TOD’S Omotesando building, Shibuya, Tokyo, Japón (2002-2004), p. 48; Forum for music, Dance and visual culture competition, Ghent, Bélgica (2004), p. 52; Gavia park in Madrid, Madrid, España (2004-), p. 58; Island city central park “GRIN GRIN”, Fukuoka, Japón (2002-2005), p. 60; Dormitory for SUS Company Fukushima Branch, Sukagawa, Fukushima, Japón (2004-2005), p. 66; MIKIMOTO Ginza 2, Chuo, Tokyo, Japón (2003-2005), p. 70, ‘Meiso no Mori’ Municipal Funeral hall, Kakamigahara, Gifu, Japón (2004-2006), P. 74; VivoCity, Singapur (2003-2006), p. 80; Hôpital Cognacq-Jay, Paris, Francia (2000-2006), p. 88; Tama art university library (Hachioji Campus), Hachioji, Tokyo, Japón (2004-2007), p. 92; “Les Halles” Competition, Paris, Francia (2007), p. 100; Extention for “the fair of Barcelona Gran via venue”, Barcelona, España (2005-2008), p. 104; ZA-KOENJI Public theatre, Suginami, Tokyo, Japón (2005-2008), p. 112; SUMIKA PAVILION / SUMIKA PROJECT by TOKYO GAS, Utsunomiya, Tochigi, Japón (2007-2008), p. 120; The new Deichman main library competition, Oslo, Noruega (2009), p. 122; BAMPFA University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and pacific film archive, California, U.S.A (2009), p. 128; White O, Marbella, Chile (2004-2009), p. 132; Facade renovation “Suits Avenue Aparthotel”, Barcelona, Spain (2003-09) p.138; Kaohsiung national stadium, Kaoisihung, Taiwan, R.O.C. (2006-09), p. 140; Belle vue residences, Singapore (2006-10), p.148; TORRES PORTA FIRA, Barcelona, Spain (2004-10), p.152; Toyo Ito museum of architecture, Imbari, Ehime, Japan (2008-11), p.156; House H, Hokkaido, Japan (2009-11), p. 162; Ken Iwata mother of child museum, Imbari city, Imbari, Ehime, Japan (2009-11), p.164; Yaoko Kawagoe museum (Yuji Misu memorial hall), Kawagoe, Saitama, Japan (2009-11), p. 168; Tokyo mother’s clínic, Setagaya, Tockyo, Japan (20019-11), p. 172; ITO JUKU Epsi Studio, Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan (2012-13), p.174; “Home-for-all” projects, Tohoku and Kumamoto, Japan (2011-), p. 176; Hermès Pavilion, Basel, Switzerland (2011-13), p. 180; Products, p.182; Set design, p. 183; New national stadium Japan International design competition, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan (2012), p.184; Crematorium and Akayama historic nature park in Kawaguchi, Kawaguchi, Saitama, Japan (2011), p.188; National Taiwan University, College of social sciences, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C. (2006-13), p. 192; Songshan Taipei new horizon building, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C. (2008-13), p.200; New athletic field and sports park in Aomori, Aomori, Japan (2013), p.204; Museum + /West Kowloon cultural district competition, Hongkong, China (2013), p.208; Interior design for the reconstruction project of Jikido in Yakushiji Temple, Nara, Japan (2013), p. 212; The Shinano Manichi Shimbun Matsumoto Head Office, Matsumoto, Nagano, Japan (2014), p. 214; CapitaGreen, Singapore (2007-14), p. 216; Residential Hall in Nanyang Drive, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (2011-14), p.220; K-por / Isoya Suisan Minatomachi 1chome Branch, Kesen’numa, Miyagi, Japan (2012-14), p.224; New national stadium Japan Proposal, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan (2015), p.226; ‘Minna no Mori’ Gifu media cosmos, Gifu, Japan (2011-15) p.232; Yamanashi Gakuin University International College of Liberal Arts, Kofu, Yamanashi, Japan (2013-15), p.242; Fubon Sky Tree, Taichung, Taiwan, R.O.C. (2010-16), p. 246; Miyagi Gakuin Preschool “Mori no Kodomo-en”, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan (2014-16), p. 250; Museo Internacional del Barroco, Puebla, México (2012-16), p. 254; Mito Civic Hall, Mito, Ibarki, Japan (2016), p. 264; National Taichung Theater, Taichung, Taiwan, R.O.C. (2005-16), p. 268; List of Works (2002-16), p.280…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…2.11.2 Digital Video Recorder (DVR)2.11.3 Optical Disk; 2.12 Hard-copy Video Printers; 2.13 Ancillary Equipment; 2.13.1 Camera Housings; 2.13.1.1 Standard-rectangular; 2.13.1.2 Dome; 2.13.1.3 Specialty; 2.13.1.4 Plug and Play; 2.13.2 Pan/Tilt Mounts; 2.13.3 Video Motion Detector (VMD); 2.13.4 Screen Splitter; 2.13.5 Camera Video Annotation; 2.13.5.1 Camera ID; 2.13.5.2 Time and Date; 2.13.6 Image Reversal; 2.14 Summary; Part II; Chapter 3 Natural and Artificial Lighting; 3.1 Overview; 3.2 Video Lighting Characteristics; 3.2.1 Scene Illumination; 3.2.1.1 Daytime/Nighttime…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Popular permissioned blockchain platforms -- Ethereum -- Quorum -- Parity -- MultiChain -- Hyperledger Fabric 1.0 -- BigchainDB -- InterPlanetary File System -- Corda -- Transaction validity -- Hyperledger Sawtooth -- Popular blockchain use cases -- Everledger -- Walmart's food tracking -- Ghana's land registry -- Dubai's housing rental -- Project Ubin -- Summary -- Chapter 2: Building Blockchain Using Quorum -- Overview of Quorum -- Ethereum accounts -- What are Ethereum transactions? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Author biographies -- Editors -- Contributors -- Introduction: 1989 and the West: revisiting the Cold War victory narrative -- Toward a history of Western Europe since the end of the Cold War -- Eleni Braat and Pepijn Corduwener -- The end of the Cold War as accelerator -- The legacy of the end of the Cold War today -- Outline -- Notes -- References -- Part I: A new Germany in a new Europe -- Chapter 1: Germany and Europe after 1989: The spectre of the German question versus the resilience of self-restraint -- The German Question and international relations theory in the 1990s -- Germany as Europe's hegemon -- Germany's 1989 at three levels -- Notes -- Literature -- Chapter 2: The view from Benjamin Franklin Strasse: American military bases and the politics of conversion in post-1989 Germany -- Conversion and transformation in post-Cold War Germany -- Hopes and anxieties of conversion during the Cold War -- The fall of the Berlin Wall and the process of conversion in Germany -- Plans for the future: housing, environment, and employment -- Conclusion: the conversion, three decades on -- Notes -- Literature -- Chapter 3: The rise of a new power: Germany's political realism and global strategy -- Introduction: 1989, the new Germany -- German reunification and the restarting of the European integration process -- Germany's transformation from 2005 onward: three factors in reshaping Germany's international role -- From the 'sick man of Europe' to a role model: political and institutional stability in the German Federal Republic in the 2000s -- The features of German power: political realism and global strategy -- Conclusion: the changing position of Germany in Europe -- Notes -- Literature…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Stage 5: Laggards (16% market share) -- Accelerate take-up of purposeful products with affordable prices -- Case: LED bulbs -- Pricing strategy -- Maintaining or increasing prices of non-purpose-driven products and services in the later stages -- Case: Plastic bottles -- Slowing the growth of environmentally damaging products -- Finding creative alternatives -- Case: The Keurig coffee maker -- Key takeaways -- Notes -- Chapter 4: Behavioral pricing for a better world faster -- The foundations of behavioral pricing -- The "just-noticeable difference" theory -- Key concepts in behavioral pricing -- Leveraging behavioral insights to accelerate adoption -- The price gap -- When less is more -- The say-do gap -- Managing performance perceptions effectively -- Warranties -- Anchoring -- Price framing for online purchases -- Tell the price sooner rather than later -- Key takeaways -- Notes -- Part II: Bringing stakeholders along -- Chapter 5: The role of government policy -- Environment -- Solar panels tax credit -- Electric vehicle tax credit -- Carbon pricing -- Oil subsidies -- Housing subsidies -- Healthcare -- Public health: Covid-19 vaccine pricing strategy -- Food prices and health -- Tobacco tax -- Pharmaceutical drug pricing -- Food and water prices -- Agricultural subsidies -- Water tariffs -- Quality of life -- Key takeaways -- Notes -- Chapter 6: Bringing customers along -- Why do people make pro-social choices? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Complying with YouTube Contest Guidelines -- Only Use a Skills-Based Contest -- Basic Steps to a Good Contest -- Chapter 15 YouTube forCharities -- Four Advantages That Charities Have -- YouTube-Your Best Donation of All Time -- Your Basic Opportunities -- Close Up with the Potter's House-T.D. Jakes Ministries…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Machine generated contents note: Preface Acknowledgments Chapter 1: Discount Rates and Returns Estimating Returns Geometric and Arithmetic Averages Caveats to Return Extrapolation Discounting Present Values of Cash Flow Streams Internal Rate of Return and Yield to Maturity Real and Nominal Returns Summary Chapter 2: Fixed Income Securities Coupon Bearing Bonds Infinite Cash Flow Streams (Perpetuities) General Pricing Formulas for Finite Cash Flow Streams Interest Rate Risk Analysis of Duration Interest Rate Risk Dynamics Immunization and Duration Applications - Liability Discounting and Cash Matching Pension Logic Risky Coupons Inflation Risk and TIPS A Bond Portfolio Strategy (Optional) Summary Appendix 2.1: Solving Infinite and Finite Power Series References Chapter 3: Term Structure Discounting Using Spot Rates Forward Rates NPV revisited Short Rates The Bootstrap Method Duration Redux Summary Chapter 4: Equity The Determination of Stock Prices Discount Rates Redux Price and Dividend Multiples Extrapolating Multiples to Forecast Returns Pitfalls of Trend Analysis The Gordon Growth Model Sources of Return Summary References Chapter 5: Portfolio Construction Stochastic Returns and Risk Diversification The Efficient Frontier Markowitz Portfolio Selection Criteria Capital Market Line and the CAPM Performance Evaluation Summary Appendix 5.1: Statistical Review Appendix 5.2: Risk Adjusted Performance References Chapter 6: Optimal Portfolios Portfolio 1: Minimum Variance Portfolio (Fully Invested) Portfolio 2: Minimum Variance Portfolios with Targeted Return Portfolio 3: Minimum Variance Portfolios with No Short Sales Portfolio 4: Minimum Variance Portfolios with Capped Allocations Portfolio 5: Maximum Risk-Adjusted Return Performance Attribution The Efficient Frontier (Again) Summary Appendix 6.1: Matrix Operations Chapter 7: Data and Applications Analyzing Returns on a Ten Asset Portfolio Performance Attribution Changing the Investment Horizon Benchmarking to the Market Portfolio The Cost of Constraints A Bond Strategy Summary Chapter 8: Anomalies Deviations from the CAPM Behavioral Finance Summary References Chapter 9: Factor Models Arbitrage Pricing Theory (APT) Factor Selection Model Estimation Principal Components Applications and Examples Summary References Chapter 10: Active Portfolio Management Active Portfolio Construction and Attribution Analysis Performance Attribution Summary Appendix 10.1: Active Space Chapter 11: Risk The Failure of VaR Taxonomy of Risk Visualizing Risk Estimating Volatilities Maximum Likelihood Estimation (Optional) Credit Risk Adjusting for Leverage Adjusting for Illiquidity Other Risks Summary References Chapter 12: Monte Carlo Methods Example 1: Generating Random Numbers - Estimating pi Example 2: Confirming the Central Limit Theorem Example 3: Credit Default Risk Non-Normal Distributions The Gaussian Copula Summary References Chapter 13: Systemic Risk Extreme Value Theory Estimating the Hazards of Downside Risks A Systemic Risk Indicator Summary References Chapter 14: Incorporating Subjective Views Methodological Concepts An Example using Black-Litterman Active Space Risk Attribution Summary References Chapter 15: Futures, Forwards, and Swaps Institutional Detail and Futures Mechanics The Relationship between Spot Prices and Forward (Futures) Prices Hedging Basis Risk Hedging Portfolio Risk Futures Pricing Swaps Summary References Chapter 16: Introduction to Options Option Payoffs and Put-Call Parity Pricing European Call Options Pricing European Put Options Option Strategies Real Options Summary References Chapter 17: Models of Stock Price Dynamics Stock Price Dynamics Ito Processes Lognormal Stock Prices Deriving the Parameters of the Binomial Lattice Black-Scholes-Merton Model The Greek Letters Monte Carlo Methods Summary Appendix 17.1: Derivation of Ito's Lemma Chapter 18: Hedging Portfolio Risk Simple Hedging Strategies S&P 500 Index Puts Selling Volatility VIX Calls Liability Driven Investment Summary References Chapter 19: Private Equity The Private Equity Model Return and Risk Methodology Summary Appendix 19.1: CAPM References Chapter 20: Structured Credit Securitization Credit Enhancement Basics of Pricing Interest Rate Derivatives Interest Rate Dynamics CDO Valuation The Crash of the Housing Bubble Summary References Chapter 21: Optimal Rebalancing Trigger Strategies and No-trade Regions An Optimal Control Problem Implications Optimal Rebalancing in a Static Optimization Model The Comparative Statics of Transactions Costs References Chapter 22: Data Problems* Covariance Estimation An Example Empirical Results Overlapping Observations Conclusions Appendix 22.1: Covariance Matrix Estimation Removing the effects of smoothing References About the Author Index…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Kierkegaard: traces of religious individualization -- Suifaction: typological reflections on the evolution of the self -- Afterword: relationships between selfhood and transcendence -- Section 1.2: The social lives of religious individualisation -- 'Go from your country and your kindred and your father's house!' (Gen. 12:1): Schelling's Boehmian redefinition of idealism -- Dining with the gods and the others: the banqueting tickets from Palmyra as expressions of religious individualisation -- Self-affirmation, self-transcendence and the relationality of selves: the social embedment of individualisation in bhakti -- Sufis, Jogis, and the question of religious difference: individualisation in early modern Punjab -- Afterword: the social lives of religious individualisation -- Part 2: The dividual self -- Introduction: the dividual self -- Section 2.1: Dividual socialities -- The subject as totum potestativum in Albert the Great's OEuvre: cultural transfer and relational identity -- Monism and dividualism in Meister Eckhart -- The empathic subject and the question of dividuality -- Simmel and the forms of in-dividuality -- Afterword: dividual socialities -- Section 2.2: Parting the self -- Reading the self in Persian prose and poetry -- The good citizen and the heterodox self: turning to Protestantism and Anabaptism in 16th-century Venice -- Dividualisation and relational authorship: from the Huguenot République des lettres to practices of clandestine writing -- Disunited identity. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Figuring out your 'why' -- Challenging your 'why' -- Adding a time frame -- Chapter 3 Setting Strong Foundations -- Foundation 1: Respect your earnings -- Foundation 2: Pay attention to your spending -- Foundation 3: The cost of money is interest -- Foundation 4: Be realistic -- Foundation 5: Reward yourself -- Part II Strategy Stacking -- Chapter 4 Understanding the Strategy Stacking Philosophy -- Understand your 'why' -- Remember the five foundations -- Start with the Basic Stack: Budgeting, where earnings meet spending -- Use a Risk Assessment Strategy -- Stack your strategies appropriately -- Assess, execute, review, refine and repeat -- Chapter 5 Strategy Stacking around Significant Life Events -- Redundancy -- Marriage and divorce -- An unexpected windfall -- Trauma and disability -- Stacking for the next generation -- Chapter 6 Getting Started: Assessing Your Starting Position -- Know your money truths before you begin -- The Strategy Stacker's Starting Position -- Working out your starting position -- Chapter 7 Making a Plan: The Strategy Stacking Calendar -- Chapter 8 Strategy Stacking Scenarios -- Strategy stack: 'I want to save more and buy a house one day'…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contributors -- Contents -- Welcome -- A Friend Indeed -- Fieldbook and Guide -- Seeing More in What We Do -- Moving On -- The Icons -- Part 1 No Fast and Easy Way -- Chapter 1 Flawless -- Chapter 2 Transformation Is Slow, Small, and Low Cost -- Community Through "Houses" -- The First Open Space Meeting -- Morning Circles: Checking In -- Mentoring Administrators and Teachers -- The Advantages of Restorative Practices -- The Benefit of Design -- You're Invited to a Pro Action Café -- Reducing Disciplinary Referrals and Expulsions -- Designed to Succeed -- Chapter 3 Risk Is Where You Find It -- No Pain, No Pain -- The Risks We Fear -- Vulnerability Is a Sign of Life -- Chapter 4 Consultant, Flawed: A Story of Eternal Internal Triangles -- Part 2 The Complexity of Advice -- Chapter 5 Partners for Possibility -- An Encouraged Principal -- Peter Block and Community Building Workshops -- Dinokeng Scenarios -- Walking Together in Education -- Piloting an Idea at a Primary School -- Leadership Development Through Immersion and Service -- South Africa: Alive with Possibility -- Partners for Possibility -- Reflecting on Thirteen Years of Impact -- Chapter 6 Changing Focus: The New Direction of "Flawless" Consulting -- Flawless Contracting -- Change: Now and Future -- Chapter 7 Be Careful Who You Ask: Perils of Wisdom -- From Myth and History -- The Educated Expert -- Partnership: The Promise and Perils -- Mining the Expert Within -- Chapter 8 Dealing with Resistance: Having the Right Conversation in Difficult Situations -- Revealing Resistance -- Four Guidelines for Exposing Content and Emotions -- Taking the Risk -- Part 3 The Power of the Question -- Chapter 9 Flawless Goes to Parliament -- Consulting in Parliament -- Partnership and Transparency -- Introducing Process Checks -- Opening up the Room…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…. -- Roman Catholic Church -- United Methodist Church -- Activities in Local Congregations -- CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- 6 Voluntary and Community-Based Organizations -- THE ORIGINS OF COMMUNITY-BASED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS -- WHO VOLUNTEERS AND WHY -- VOLUNTEERS AND WHAT THEY CONTRIBUTE -- THE RISE OF ADVOCACY -- VOLUNTEERS AND COMMUNITY-BASED ORGANIZATIONS IN THE SECOND DECADE -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- 7 Correctional Systems -- WHO ARE THE PRISONERS -- THE BURDEN OF HIV DISEASE IN PRISONS -- Testing and Screening Controversies -- Transmission Within Prisons -- HIV Education and Prevention -- Housing and Segregation -- Visitation Policies…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- 9.3.3 Land Capitalisation and Housing -- 9.3.4 Residential Segregation -- 9.4 More Cities or Bigger Cities? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…6.2 Overview of the Dutch housing market and land use planning -- 6.3 Eco-costs/value ratio and the EVR model -- 6.4 Applying the EVR model to housing -- 6.5 EVR and tall buildings -- 6.6 Embedding EVR in other sustainable ranking methods -- 6.7 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 7 Productivity in Construction Projects -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Concept and measurement of productivity -- 7.3 Previous literature on factors affecting site productivity -- 7.4 Productivity survey -- 7.5 Proposed framework for site productivity -- 7.6 Conclusion and further research -- References -- Chapter 8 Design Variables and Whole-Life Cost Modelling -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 Whole-life cost modelling -- 8.3 Steps in LCC modelling -- 8.4 Design principles to optimise lcc -- 8.5 A worked example of an office façade -- 8.6 Inclusion of carbon emissions into wlc modelling -- 8.7 Limitations of wlc -- 8.8 Concluding remarks -- References -- Chapter 9 Procurement and Contract Strategy: Risks Allocation and Construction Cost -- 9.1 Introduction -- 9.2 Procurement strategy and contract selection -- 9.3 Wembley stadium case study -- 9.4 Allocation of risks and forms of contract -- 9.5 Risks and construction costs -- 9.6 Procurement systems and contract issues -- 9.7 Alternative forms of procurement -- 9.8 Concluding remarks -- References -- Chapter 10 Sustainable Design, Investment and Value -- 10.1 Introduction -- 10.2 Formulation of project goals -- 10.3 Identifying value-related characteristics -- 10.4 The performance approach -- 10.5 Use of sustainability assessment systems -- 10.6 Relationship between sustainable credentials and value -- 10.7 Concluding remarks -- References -- Chapter 11 Carbon Reduction and Fiscal Incentives for Sustainable Design -- 11.1 Introduction -- 11.2 Key drivers of owners and occupiers -- 11.3 Reducing demand for energy in buildings…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Three separation's system of the rear/central sections (modules) in the LBK houses in Lesser Poland. -- The visible and the invisible. …”