Tabla de Contenidos: “…Q&A: Interview with Mary Virginia Swanson, Marketing Consultant and Educator (© 2009, Mary Virginia Swanson)Q&A: Interview with Richard Grefé, Executive Director, AIGA; Q&A: Interview with Joe Quackenbush, Associate Professor of Design at Massachusetts College of Art and Design; Step 2: Branding; Introduction; Brand; Research and Analysis; Discovery; Defining Your Own Brand Attributes; Reflect on Your Work; Reflect on Yourself and Interests; Reflect on Your Future; Inspiration; Looking Outward; Genres and Styles; Process; Trends…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Data type objectsCharacter codes; dtype constructors; dtype attributes; Creating a record data type; One-dimensional slicing and indexing; Manipulating array shapes; Stacking arrays; Splitting arrays; Array attributes; Converting arrays; Creating views and copies; Fancy indexing; Indexing with a list of locations; Indexing arrays with Booleans; Stride tricks for Sudoku; Broadcasting arrays; Summary; Chapter 3: Basic Data Analysis with NumPy; Introducing the dataset; Determining the daily temperature range; Looking for evidence of global warming; Comparing solar radiation versus temperature…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…; The Passage of Time; A Closer Look at the Current U.S. ""Recovery""; The Fed's Next Steps; Bottom Line: ""Recovery"" Is Still Driven by Massive Borrowing and Massive Money Printing; Our Investment Outlook; Stocks; Bonds; Europe; International Equities; Gold; Silver and Commodities…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…The MapReduce Programming ModelBefore Looking to PL/SQL; Processes Available for Parallel Activities; Using Parallel Execution Servers for MapReduce; Pipelined Table Functions; Guidance; Parallel Pipelined Table Functions Summary; Summary; CHAPTER 4 Warnings and Conditional Compilation; PL/SQL Warnings; Basics; Using Warnings; Promoting Warnings to Errors; Ignoring Warnings; Compilation and Warnings; Final Words on Warnings; Conditional Compilation; Basics; What Part of the Code is Running?…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Keep Track of MemoryRead Apple's Documentation; Use Online Resources; Always Remember the Parent Class; Look Beyond the Current Problem; Follow Interface Builder's Guidelines; Reduce, Reuse, Recycle; Use Keyboard Shortcuts; Set Xcode to Your Preferences; Stay Up to Date; Index…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Unleashing the Power of IT: Bringing People, Business, and Technology Together; Contents; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 Creating Your Twenty-First Century Workforce and Culture; Core Skills for Success; A Consistent Terminology; Who Will Benefit Most; Leveraging This Book; 2 Transforming Your IT Team; How to Make This Transition: Learn to Think Differently; Five Critical Success Factors that Enable IT Organizational Excellence; Conclusion: High-Performance Reality; 3 Building a Client-Focused IT Culture; What Good Service Looks Like; Service Skills and Mindsets…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Appendix 2.2: Asset -Based Approach to Business Valuation (American Society of Appraisers)Notes; Chapter 3: Valuation Based on Earnings (Income); Earnings Defined; Types of Earnings; Operating Earnings Are Key to Value; Earnings Are Relative to Revenues and Expenses; Earnings Are Ultimately Based on Assets; Hard Times Reveal Earnings-Asset Connection; How the Standard Setters Currently Define Earnings; A Brief Pause to Look at Our Compass; The Other Side of the Equation: Revenues Minus Expenses; How XBRL Can Connect the Dots between Earnings and Assets; Earnings Management and Fraud…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Customizing the Interface; Taking a Closer Look; Viewing in Full-Screen Mode; Additional Viewer Options; Configuring and Using Metadata Overlays; Switching between RAW+JPEG Masters; Working with Referenced Images; Working with Stacks in Browser; Creating and Working with Light Tables; Chapter 4: How Can I Use Metadata to Organize and Find My Images?…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…A More Complex Network; Supplies for Chapter 3; Network Maps and Addresses; Networked Cat; Conclusion; Chapter 4. Look, Ma, No Computer! Microcontrollers on the Internet; Supplies for Chapter 4; Introducing Network Modules; Hello Internet!…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Zero-Knowledge Reconciliation The Curator ́s Burden; Chapter 7: Measurement; Background; Counting; Gene Counting; Dealing with Negations; Understanding Your Control; Practical Significance of Measurements; Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: The Mark of a Great Data Manager; Chapter 8: Simple but Powerful Big Data Techniques; Background; Look At the Data; Data Range; Denominator; Frequency Distributions; Mean and Standard Deviation; Estimation-Only Analyses; Use Case: Watching Data Trends with Google Ngrams; Use Case: Estimating Movie Preferences; Chapter 9: Analysis; Background; Analytic Tasks…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover image; Title page; Table of Contents; Copyright; Dedication; Foreword; Preface; Perspectives on the Relational Paradigm of Data; The Temporal SQL Standards: ISO 9075:2011 and TSQL2; Audience; A Companion Volume to Managing Time in Relational Databases; An Extensive Glossary; A Note on Style; Looking Forward; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1. Bitemporal Data: Preliminaries; Nontemporal, Unitemporal and Bitemporal Data; Semantics and its Implementations; Glossary List; Part 1: Theory; Part 1. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Chapter 48 Harness the Power of Discipline -- Chapter 49 Motivate Yourself -- Chapter 50 Derive Enjoyment from Your Profession -- Chapter 51 Think Constructively -- Chapter 52 Act Responsibly -- Chapter 53 Foster Creativity All Life Long -- Chapter 54 Assume Responsibility -- Chapter 55 Look After Yourself -- Chapter 56 Commit Yourself to More Than Just Your Own Well-Being -- Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Notes -- Index…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Exploring the PossibilitiesPlaying music anywhere; Storing your sounds; Surveying the App World; Scratching your iPhone or iPad; Using iOS as a full-fledged recording system; Investing in your iOS studio; Chapter 2 Choosing Your iOS Device; Comparing the Advantages of iPad and iPhone; Exploring Device Generation and OS Versions; iOS 8 versus iOS 7; iPhone; iPad; Looking at Ports and Connectors; 30-pin or Lightning?…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Mining ColonyRefiller Cargo Terminal; Tutorial Creating a heavily armoured spaceship; Section 3 Post Production Editing; Chapter 13 Post Production; Using speed; Effects of depth When you really don't want to see all of the background; Getting dirty Adding those elements that make the image less digital; Getting the right size for your render Don't waste resources or time, get the right resolution instead; Selecting colour profiles Those neon colours look great, but not if it has to be printed; Chapter 14 Appendix - Resources; Resources; Acknowledgements; Index…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Personal Benchmark: Integrating Behavioral Finance and Investment Management; Contents; Preface; Introduction; Part 1: Why Do We Need to Look at Investing Differently?; Chapter 1: Freedom in the Market and Advisor Responsibility; The Financial Markets; The Purpose of the Securities Industry; Real Wins . . . and Losses; The Rot in Denmark; What We've Been Up to as Advisors; What Investors Really Want and Need; Help Me Resolve My Conflicts; Help Me Achieve My Personal Goals; Help Me Increase My Purchasing Power; Help Me Weather Volatility; Now Explain It to Me Like I'm a Four-Year-Old…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover; Copyright; Credits; About the Author; Acknowledgments; About the Reviewers; www.PacktPub.com; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: Getting Started; Introducing the Infinispan data grid; Infinispan and JSR 107 - Java Temporary Caching API; Getting started with Infinispan; Installing Infinispan; Looking inside the box; Using Maven; Running the sample application; Creating your first project; Creating a Maven project manually; Building Infinispan from source; Setting up the environment; Contributing to the project; Summary; Chapter 2: Barriers to Scaling Data…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Challenge Two: Setting Enterprise DirectionChallenge Three: Shaping the Soft Side of the Enterprise; Challenge Four: Maintaining an Edge in Execution; Challenge Five: Managing the Enterprise in a Broader, Global Context; A Significant Value Shift; Signs That a CEO Is Struggling; CEO Development: No Skipping Levels Allowed; Don't Set Up a CEO for Failure; Frequently Asked Questions; Observations from the Field; Three Good Reasons to Diagnose Early and Often; A Tool to Look Beyond What Got Done; Diagnostic Steps; Skipping Levels: The Brightest Aren't Always the Best; Frequently Asked Questions…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Starting the More Detailed ExplorationLooking Across the Whole Map to Identify All Statements Having to Do with Writers; Drawing the First Workshop to a Close; Providing Written Feedback on the First Workshop; Holding the Second Half-Day Workshop; Laddering Up from "Writing as a Craft"; Drawing the Second Workshop to a Close; Refining Strategies, Goals (Purposes), and Performance Indicators; Finalizing the Goals System; Building the Strategic Framework Document; Summary; Part 3: Doing Strategy Mapping (ViSM); Step One: What Do We Have to Change to Create Strategic Success?…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Additional ResourcesLocal Colleges and Universities; Business Intelligence Companies; Other Places to Look for Market-Research Help; Foreign Trade; The Export Practitioner; Ease of Doing Business Rankings; The World Factbook; US and World Population Clock; World Bank Atlas Method; Euromonitor International; eAtlas of Global Development; International Trade Statistics Yearbook; Bureau of Economic Analysis; Binational Societies, Councils, and Trade Associations; Additional Instant Resources; Creating an Action Plan; Summary; Notes…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cost of Capital: Applications and Examples; Contents; About the Authors; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; Part One: Cost of Capital Basics; Chapter 1: Defining Cost of Capital; Introduction; Components of a Capital Structure; Cost of Capital Is a Function of the Investment; Cost of Capital Is Forward-looking; Cost of Capital Is Based on Market Value; Cost of Capital Is Usually Stated in Nominal Terms; Cost of Capital Equals the Discount Rate; Discount Rate Is Not the Same as Capitalization Rate; Standard (Basis) of Value; Summary…”