“…You’ll learn how to leverage the platform to enable seamless cloud and on-premises applications connectivity, develop custom scenarios, mix master data, blend business-to-business (B2B) and electronic data interchange (EDI) processes, including trading partner management. …”

“…In Rated A, Darshana Sreedhar Mini examines the local and transnational influences that shaped Malayalam soft-porn cinema--such as vernacular pulp fiction, illustrated erotic tales, and American exploitation cinema--and maps the genre's circulation among blue-collar workers of the Indian diaspora in the Middle East, where pirated versions circulate alongside low-budget Bangladeshi films and Pakistani mujra dance films as South Asian pornography. Through a mix of archival and ethnographic research, Mini also explores the soft-porn industry's utilization of gendered labor and trust-based arrangements, as well as how actresses and production personnel who are marked by their involvement with a taboo form negotiate their social lives. …”

“…At the same time Mozambican rural landscape is dominated by smallholders, whose livelihoods depend on farming and a mix of non-farming activities, and are often extremely vulnerable to shocks and pressure over resources. …”

“…Hospitals and nursing homes are responding to changes in the health care system by modifying staffing levels and the mix of nursing personnel. But do these changes endanger the quality of patient care? …”

“…Reason, they argue with a compelling mix of real-life and experimental evidence, is not geared to solitary use, to arriving at better beliefs and decisions on our own. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…; Glass composition and properties; Raw material; Silica structural unit; Different types of glass; Lime glass; Borosilicate glass; Optical glass; Tempered or safety glass; Vitreous mix elements; Elaboration techniques; Cold techniques; Hot techniques…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Rossalina Latcheva / Barbara Herzog-Punzenberger: Integration trajectories – a mixed method approach -- 7. Ingrid Tucci:National context and logic of social distancing: children of immigrants in France and Germany -- 8. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Worlds, today / The aesthetics of proliferation / Building science-fiction worlds / "He doesn't look like Sherlock Holmes": the truth value and existential status of fictional worlds and their characters / "Visible world": the atlas as a visual form of knowledge and narrative paradigm in contemporary art / A world of Disney: building a transmedia storyworld for Mickey and his friends / World-building logics and copyright: the Dark Knight and the Great Detective / Battleworlds: the management of multiplicity in the media industries / Platform producer meets game master: on the conditions for the media mix / Narrative ecosystems: a multidisciplinary approach to media worlds / The building and blurring of worlds: sound, space, and complex narrative cinema / Beyond immersion: absorption, saturation, and overflow in the building of imaginary worlds / Zombie escape and survival plans: mapping the transmedial world of the dead / MMORPG as locally realized worlds of action / The worries of the world(s): cartoons and cinema / Linguistic terrain and world time: Chinese media theories and their world imaginations / The worlds align: media convergence and complementary storyworlds in Marvel's Thor: The Dark World / World building and metafiction in contemporary comic books: metalepsis and figurative process of graphic fiction / The monster at the end of this book: metalepsis, fandom, and world making in contemporary TV series / Traversing the "Whoniverse": Doctor Who's hyperdiegesis and transmedia discontinuity/diachrony / Transmediaphilia, world building, and the pleasures of the personal digital archive / The politics of world building: heteroglossia in Janelle Monáe's Afrofuturist WondaLand…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Monolingual Humorous Slogans Are Recalled Better than Mixed-Language Ones / The Semiotics of Multilingual Wordplay in Linguistic Landscapes: Communicative Settings, the Hearer-Origo, and Contextual Knowledge / Through the Cognitive Looking Glass: Studying Bilingual Wordplay in Public Signage / Cutting across Linguistic Borders? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Introduction: The Role of Large Housing Estates in Past, Present and Future Change in European Cities -- PART 1: Four Thematic Lenses for Viewing the Trajectories of Large Housing Estates -- PART 2: Case Studies of Housing Estates in European Metropolitan Area -- Western Europe (Changing Context, Policies and Estates in the UK: The Birmingham Example / The Socio-economic Evolution of Large Housing Estates in Brussels / Large Housing Estates in a Divided City: Berling's Pallenbauten and Wohnblöcke / Large Housing Estates in the Paris Region: The Local Challenge of Internal Social Mixing in Orly) -- Eastern Europe (Persistence or Change: Social and Physical Challenges of Housing Estates in Budapest / Housing Estates in Prague: Long-term Development and Current Situation / Mass Housing Inherited from State Socialism in Tartu, Estonia / Ursynów: Emergence and Evolution of Warsaw's Largest Dormitory Suburb) -- Northern Europe (Equity or Net Gains? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Optimality in Distributed AC OPF: A Case Study Considering ADMM and ALADIN -- Security Analysis of Embedded HVDC in Transmission Grids -- Multi-area Coordination of Security-Constrained Dynamic Optimal Power Flow in AC-DC Grids with Energy Storage -- A Domain Decomposition Approach to Solve Dynamic Optimal Power Flow Problems in Parallel -- Part II Energy System Integration -- Optimal Control of Compressor Stations in a Coupled Gas-to-Power Network -- Utilising Distributed Flexibilities in the European Transmission Grid -- Part III Managing Demand Response -- A Discussion of Mixed Integer Linear Programming Models of Thermostatic Loads in Demand Response -- Weighted Fair Queuing as a Scheduling Algorithm for Deferrable Loads in Smart Grids -- Part IV Planning and Operation of Distribution Grids -- Cost Optimal Design of Zero Emission Neighborhoods’ (ZENs) Energy System -- Efficient Operation of Modular Grid-Connected Battery Inverters for RES Integration. p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Times} p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times} span.s1 {letter-spacing: 0.0px}…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Foreword: Grounding the spell : the fairy tale film and transformation / Jack Zipes -- Introduction: Envisioning ambiguity : fairy tale films / Pauline Greenhill and Sidney Eve Matrix -- Mixing it up : generic complexity and gender ideology in early twenty-first century fairy tale films / Cristina Bacchilega and John Rieder -- Building the perfect product : the commodification of childhood in contemporary fairy tale film / Naarah Sawers -- The parallelism of the fantastic and the real : Guillermo del Toro's Pan's labyrinth/El Laberinto del fauno and neomagical realism / Tracie D. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Introducing Group Cognition in Virtual Math Teams -- A Chat About Chat -- The VMT Vision -- Mathematical Discourse as Group Cognition -- Interactional Methods and Social Practices in VMT -- From Individual Representations to Group Cognition -- Studying Group Cognition in Virtual Math Teams -- The Sequential Co-Construction of the Joint Problem Space -- The Organization of Graphical, Narrative and Symbolic Interactions -- Question Co-Construction in VMT Chats -- Resolving Differences of Perspective in a VMT Session -- Studying Group Discourse in Virtual Math Teams -- Representational Practices in VMT -- Student and Team Agency in VMT -- Group Creativity in VMT -- Inscriptions, Mathematical Ideas and Reasoning in VMT -- Reading’s Work in VMT -- Designing the VMT Collaboration Environment -- The Integration of Dual-Interaction Spaces -- Designing a Mix of Synchronous and Asynchronous Media for VMT -- Deictic Referencing in VMT -- Scripting Group Processes in VMT -- Helping Agents in VMT -- Representing Group Interaction in VMT -- Thread-Based Analysis of Patterns in VMT -- Studying Response-Structure Confusion in VMT -- A Multidimensional Coding Scheme for VMT -- Combining Coding and Conversation Analysis of VMT Chats -- Polyphonic Inter-Animation of Voices in VMT -- A Model for Analyzing Math Knowledge Building in VMT -- Conceptualizing Group Cognition in VMT -- Meaning Making in VMT -- Critical Ethnography in the VMT Project -- Toward a Science of Group Cognition…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Norms, Diffusion and Social Networks -- A Classification of Normative Architectures -- The Complex Loop of Norm Emergence: A Simulation Model -- A Social Network Model of Direct Versus Indirect Reciprocity in a Corrections-Based Therapeutic Community -- A Force-Directed Layout for Community Detection with Automatic Clusterization -- Comparing Two Sexual Mixing Schemes for Modelling the Spread of HIV/AIDS -- Exploring Context Permeability in Multiple Social Networks -- A Naturalistic Multi-Agent Model of Word-of-Mouth Dynamics -- Economy, Market and Organization -- Introducing Preference Heterogeneity into a Monocentric Urban Model: An Agent-Based Land Market Model -- The Agent-Based Double Auction Markets: 15 Years On -- A Doubly Structural Network Model and Analysis on the Emergence of Money -- Analysis of Knowledge Retrieval Heuristics in Concurrent Software Development Teams -- Reputation and Economic Performance in Industrial Districts: Modelling Social Complexity Through Multi-Agent Systems -- Modeling Approaches and Programming Environments -- Injecting Data into Agent-Based Simulation -- The MASON HouseholdsWorld Model of Pastoral Nomad Societies -- Effects of Adding a Simple Rule to a Reactive Simulation -- Applying Image Texture Measures to Describe Segregation in Agent-Based Modeling -- Autonomous Tags: Language as Generative of Culture -- Virtual City Model for Simulating Social Phenomena -- Modeling Endogenous Coordination Using a Dynamic Language*…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover; Preface; Contents; Figures; Tables; Summary; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; CHAPTER ONE - Introduction; Purpose of This Monograph; A Note on Contemporary Threats and Operations; Research Approach; Graphs Used in This Monograph; Conventional Wisdom; How This Monograph Is Organized; CHAPTER TWO - Classifying Outcomes and Selecting Cases; Outcomes; Type I: Government Loss; Type II: Government Victory; Type III: Mixed (Stalemate/Negotiated Settlement); Type IV: Inconclusive or Ongoing Outcome; The Tipping Point: Explanation by Way of Example; Key Indicators: A Note of Caution…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Appealing to Empathy in a Persuasive Mixed- Reality Game -- 7. Macro, Micro, and Meta-Persuasive Play to Change Society -- 8. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…part Introduction -- chapter Art History Empowering Medieval and Early Modern Things / part PART 1 Material Agency -- chapter 1 The Power of Nature and the Agency of Art: The Unicorn Cup of Jan Vermeyen / chapter 2 Late Medieval Enclosed Gardens of the Low Countries: Mixed Media, Remnant Art, Recyclage and Gender in the Low Countries (Sixteenth Century Onwards) / part PART 2 The Power of Things -- chapter 3 Knighted by the Apostle Himself: Political Fabrication and Chivalric Artefact in Compostela,1332 / chapter 4 Agency and Miraculous Images / chapter 5 Agency, Beauty and the Late Medieval Sculptural Encounter / part PART 3 Objects as Social Agents -- chapter 6 Dispersal, Exchange and the Culture of Things in Fifteenth-century Italy / chapter 7 Michelangelo, Tommaso de’ Cavalieri and the Agency of the Gift-Drawing / chapter 8 Distributing Durer in the Netherlands: Gifts, Prints, and the Mediation of Fame in the Early Sixteenth Century / part PART 4 Agency of Physical Manipulations -- chapter 9 The Early Modern Bible between Material Book and Immaterial Word / chapter 10 Diagnostic Performance and Diagrammatic Manipulation in the Physician’s Folding Almanacs / chapter 11 Surgical Saws and Cutting-Edge Agency / part PART 5 The Agency of Things and Human Agency -- chapter 12 The Boots of Saint Hedwig: Thoughts on the Limits of the Agency of Things…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Woodson and Frantz Fanon -- 8 The Québec Financial Education Program: a necessary change of perspective -- 9 "And I know the money don't really make me whole": feminist financial literacy through Hip-Hop pedagogy -- 10 Financial socialization: past, present, and future -- 11 The power of relational work: reimagining new forms of financial citizenship through sociability -- 12 Transdisciplinary financial literacy -- 13 Piggy banking to personal banking: toward a sociocultural mixed methods approach to advance research in financial literacy -- Conclusion -- Index…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Land use planning in greater Nantes Saint-Nazaire -- The mixed character and land use pressures in Nantes Saint-Nazaire region -- Multi-layered governance and spatial planning -- Territorial coherence across a diverse territory -- Main challenges and opportunities -- Key recommendations for Nantes Saint-Nazaire -- Notes -- References…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Operating the systemCalibration tests; Perfecting the system; Studio Lighting; Introduction; Studio lighting; Health and safety; Light sources; Mixed light sources; Working with studio lights; Lighting ratios; On location; Creative Techniques; Introduction; Illusion of movement; Assignments; Introduction; Practical assignments; Glossary; Index…”