“…En 1908, afin de lutter contre le favoritisme qui mine autant l'efficacité de l'administration publique que la démocratie, le Parlement canadien décrète que les fonctionnaires de l'État seront dorénavant nommés selon le principe du mérite, en fonction de processus administrés par un organisme indépendant : la Commission de la fonction publique du Canada. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Coal Reserves and Production; Coal Variability; Mine Size; Policy Implications of the Coal Resource Base; CHAPTER THREE- Coal-to-Liquids Technologies; The Fischer-Tropsch Coal-to-Liquids Approach; The Methanol-to-Gasoline Coal-to-Liquids Approach; The Direct Coal Liquefaction Approach…”

“…—Russell McCormmach, New York Times."A mine of material . . . Scrupulously edited . . . …”

“…Edison and his associates, however, audaciously operated on a global scale, not just focusing on the major cities of North America and Europe but reaching simultaneously from Appleton, Wisconsin, to Australia, through the Indian subcontinent and East Asia, to Central and South America.Praise for The Papers of Thomas A. Edison:"A mine of material . . . Scrupulously edited . . . …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…CHAPTER 18 A Powerful Prescription for Energy- and Soul-Loss PreventionCHAPTER 19 Great Relationships Require Great Results; CHAPTER 20 Sustain Your Team's Energy and Momentum; CHAPTER 21 Essential Practices That Build Your Credibility and Influence; SECTION 4 It's Time to Win Well; CHAPTER 22 What If My Boss Doesn't Want to Win and Doesn't Care About Their Soul or Mine?; CHAPTER 23 What If My Team Doesn't Want to Win?…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Praise; Title page; Copyright; Foreword; Preface; Strategy 1 Find Growth Before Your Competitors Do; Chapter 1 Look Ten Quarters Ahead; Surf the Trends; Invest Ahead of Demand; Make It a Way of Life; Notes; Chapter 2 Mine Growth beneath the Surface; Find the Pockets of Growth; Look beyond Sales; Keep It Easy for the Sales Team; Notes; Chapter 3 Find Big Growth in Big Data; Harvest Every Source of Big Data; Get Personal in Selling; Put Big Data at the Heart of Sales; Notes; Strategy 2 Sell the Way Your Customers Want; Chapter 4 Master Multichannel Sales; Blend Remote Sales and Field Sales…”

“…They remain timelessly potentially valuable but are an almost unexploited gold mine. This book is comprised of a selection of 20-25 of Stephen King's most important articles, each one introduced by a known and respected practitioner who, in turn, describes the relevance of the particular original idea to the communications environment of today. …”

“…. -- Preface About a year ago, a colleague of mine offered me the opportunity to write a book tailored to program managers and, more specifically, how leadership can create high-performing teams (HPTs) that regularly exceed expectations and operate as a collective, innovative, communication-driven, and conflict-positive group. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…; Getting a property; Condition and maintenance; It's mine!; Settling in, moving on; Summary; 3: Building Support Systems; Working together…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Landscapes in European history : some thoughts from the COST A27 experience / Almudena Orejas, David Mattingly, and Monique Clavêl-Lévêque -- Historic landscapes in Europe : highlights and challenges / Heleen van Londen, María Ruíz del Árbol and Almudena Orejas -- Recording and characterising landmarks -- Concepts and approaches to analyse regional landscape histories / Daniel Salzmann, Oliver Bender and Matthias Bürgi -- Hidden landscapes and ancient landmarks : some theoretical and methodological issues of studying early historical landscapes in Southwest Iberia / Frank Vermeulen and Filipe Themudo Barata -- Regards croisés sur la viticulture en Catalogne et en Languedoc romains / Monique Clavêl-Lévêque and Oriol Olesti -- Less obvious Imperial landscapes : distant Britannia and Hispania / David Mattingly and Almudena Orejas -- Culture, technology and change in pre-industrial silver-mining / Peter Cloughton, Christoph Bartels and Marie-Christine Bailly-Maître -- Perceiving, protecting, and representing landmarks. …”
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Tabla de Contenidos: “…, p.178; Sede do Parque Natural da Ilha do Fogo = Head Office of Ilha do Fogo Natural Park / OTO, p.184; Museu da Mina de São Domingos = Mining Museum of São Domingos / António Sousa Coutinho, p.190…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- 1 Shafts and Stars, Crafts and Sciences: The Making of a Jesuit Astronomer in the Habsburg Provinces -- 1 A Regional Life World -- 2 Turbulent Times and an Immigrant Family around the Mines -- 3 Apprenticeship -- 4 Professor on the Frontier -- 2 Metropolitan Lures: Enlightened and Jesuit Networks, and a New Node of Science -- 1 An Agenda for Astronomic Advance -- 2 Science in the City and in the World: Hell and the respublica astronomica -- 3 A New Node of Science in Action: The 1761 Transit of Venus and Hell's Transition to Fame -- 1 A Golden Opportunity -- 2 An Imperial Astronomer's Network Displayed -- 3 Lessons Learned -- 4 "Quonam autem fructu?" …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Emery: Associations between Single Motherhood and Depression: a Co-twin Control Study -- Mine Hancioglu: Changes in Lone Mothers’ Health: A Longitudinal Analysis -- Carmel Hannan: Growing-Up in a One-Parent Family: The Case of Ireland -- Conclusions: Laura Bernardi, Dimitri Mortelmans. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Imaging and Data Mining -- Ranking as Function Approximation -- Two Algorithms for Approximation in Highly Complicated Planar Domains -- Computational Intelligence in Clustering Algorithms, With Applications -- Energy-Based Image Simplification with Nonlocal Data and Smoothness Terms -- Multiscale Voice Morphing Using Radial Basis Function Analysis -- Associating Families of Curves Using Feature Extraction and Cluster Analysis -- Numerical Simulation -- Particle Flow Simulation by Using Polyharmonic Splines -- Enhancing SPH using Moving Least-Squares and Radial Basis Functions -- Stepwise Calculation of the Basin of Attractionin Dynamical Systems Using Radial Basis Functions -- Integro-Differential Equation Models and Numerical Methods for Cell Motility and Alignment -- Spectral Galerkin Method Applied to Some Problems in Elasticity -- Statistical Approximation Methods -- Bayesian Field Theory Applied to Scattered Data Interpolation and Inverse Problems -- Algorithms for Structured Gauss-Markov Regression -- Uncertainty Evaluation in Reservoir Forecasting by Bayes Linear Methodology -- Data Fitting and Modelling -- Integral Interpolation -- Shape Control in Powell-Sabin Quasi-Interpolation -- Approximation with Asymptotic Polynomials -- Spline Approximation Using Knot Density Functions -- Neutral Data Fitting by Lines and Planes -- Approximation on an Infinite Range to Ordinary Differential Equations Solutions by a Function of a Radial Basis function -- Weighted Integrals of Polynomial Splines -- Differential and Integral Equations -- On Sequential Estimators for Affine Stochastic Delay Differential Equations -- Scalar Periodic Complex Delay Differential Equations: Small Solutions and their Detection -- Using Approximations to Lyapunov Exponents to Predict Changes in Dynamical Behaviour in Numerical Solutions to Stochastic Delay Differential Equations -- Superconvergence of Quadratic Spline Collocation for Volterra Integral Equations -- Special Functions and Approximation on Manifolds -- Asymptotic Approximations to Truncation Errors of Series Representations for Special Functions -- Strictly Positive Definite Functions on Generalized Motion Groups -- Energy Estimates and the Weyl Criterion on Compact Homogeneous Manifolds -- Minimal Discrete Energy Problems and Numerical Integration on Compact Sets in Euclidean Spaces -- Numerical Quadrature of Highly Oscillatory Integrals Using Derivatives…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Preliminary Material / Chapter 1: Introduction / Chapter 2: Parallel Processing Before and After Pauses: A Combined Analysis of Graphomotor and Eye Movements During Procedural Text Production / Chapter 3: From Written Word to Written Sentence Production / Chapter 4: Influence of Typing Skill on Pause–Execution Cycles in Written Composition / Chapter 5: The Word-Level Focus in Text Production by Adults with Reading and Writing Difficulties / Chapter 6: GIS for Writing: Applying Geographical Information Systems Techniques to Data Mine Writings’ Cognitive Processes / Chapter 7: Verbal and Visual Working Memory in Written Sentence Production / Chapter 8: Effects of Note-Taking and Working-Memory Span on Cognitive Effort and Recall Performance / Chapter 9: The Dynamics of Idea Generation During Writing: An Online Study / Chapter 10: Skilled Writers’ Generating Strategies in L1 and L2: An Exploratory Study / Chapter 11: The Writing Superiority Effect in the Verbal Recall of Knowledge: Sources and Determinants / Chapter 12: The Effect of Writing on Phonological Awareness in Spanish / Chapter 13: Developmental Trends in a Writing To Learn Task / Chapter 14: Approaches to Writing / Chapter 15: Cognitive Processes in Discourse Synthesis: The Case of Intertextual Processing Strategies / Chapter 16: Preformulation in Press Releases: What the Writing Process Tells Us about Product Characteristics / Chapter 17: Talking to Write: Investigating the Practical Impact and Theoretical Implications of Speech Recognition (SR) Software on Real Writing Tasks / Chapter 18: How do Writers Adapt to Speech Recognition Software? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…CAPITALISM AND COAL: A REASSESSMENT -- Capitalism, Patriarchy and "Mens Work": The -- System of Control of Production -- in Coal Mining, Mike Yarrow 29 -- IV. WORDS AND PHOTOGRAPHS: -- ENDURING IMAGES OF APPALACHIA -- Early Regional Photographers: Margaret Morley and -- William Barnhill in Western North Carolina, -- Richard Straw 48 -- V. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Sor Juana Criolla and the Mexican archive : public performances / Stephanie Merrim -- Creole Bradstreet : Philip Sidney, Alexander the Great, and English identities / Jim Egan -- Self- and collective identity among new Christians in the periphery of the Iberian empires : Bento Teixeira, Ambrósio Fernandes Brandão, and Manuel Beckman / Lúcia Helena Costigan -- Spectacular wealth : Baroque festivals and creole consciousness in colonial mining towns of Brazil and Peru / Lisa Voigt -- Creole bodies : race, gender, ethnicity. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Redundant Arrays of Independent Disks -- New Storage Systems -- Accessing Data from Disk -- Placing File Records on Disk Blocks -- Organization of Records in Files -- Indexing -- Summary -- Key Terms -- Exercises -- Queryp Rocessing and Optimization -- Query Processing Steps -- External Sort-Merge Algorithm -- Algorithms for Relational Algebra Operations -- Expressions Containing Multiple Operations -- Query Optimization -- Query Optimization in Oracle -- Summary -- Key Terms -- Exercises -- Introduction to Transaction Processing -- Desirable Properties of a Transaction -- States of a Transaction -- Concurrent Execution of Transactions -- Transaction Schedules -- SQL Transaction Statements -- Summary -- Key Terms -- Exercises -- Concurrency Control Tenchniques -- Locking -- Lock-Based Techniques -- Specialized Locking Techniques -- Performance of Locking -- Timestamp-Based Technique -- Optimistic Technique -- Multiversion Technique -- Dealing with Deadlock -- Summary -- Key Terms -- Exercises -- Database Recovery System -- Types of Failures -- Caching of Disk Pages -- Recovery Related Steps During Normal Execution -- Recovery Techniques -- Recovery for Concurrent Transactions -- ARIES Recovery Algorithm -- Recovery from Catastrophic Failures -- Summary -- Key Terms -- Exercises -- Database Security -- Security Issues -- Role of DBA in Database Security -- Authorization -- Authentication -- Access Control -- Encryption -- Statistical Database -- Summary -- Key Terms -- Exercises -- Databasesy Stem Architectures -- Overview of Parallel DBMS -- Distributed DBMS -- Client/Server Systems -- Summary -- Key Terms -- Exercises -- Data Warehousing, Olap, and Data Mining -- Data Warehousing -- Online Analytical Processing -- Data Mining Technology -- Summary -- Key Terms -- Exercises -- Information Retrieval -- Information Retrieval Systems…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Intro -- Foreword -- Executive summary -- 1 The context: Trends in online job postings in Alberta -- The data: Using online job postings to track Alberta's labour market evolution -- The context: Overall trends in online job postings in Alberta around the COVID-19 crisis -- The pandemic also led to new forms of work: Remote working opportunities -- Evolution of online job postings by required qualifications and degrees -- The number of job postings requiring high school/no diploma nearly tripled post-pandemic -- Trends in online job postings for different Albertan regions -- Calgary's decline in OJPs during the pandemic and recover period afterwards were much steeper than the decline and recovery in Edmonton -- Grande prairie saw the largest decrease in 2020, and the steepest recovery post-pandemic -- References -- 2 Tracking demand in online job postings by sector of activity in Alberta -- Tracking the demand in online job postings published in Alberta: Top growing sectors -- Which occupational career areas represent the largest volume of OJPs within the top growing sectors in Alberta? -- The Mining, Quarrying, Oil and Gas Extraction is a volatile sector that faces labour shortages post-pandemic -- The number of OJPs for the Public Administration sector decreased significantly in 2020 -- OJPs for Transportation and Warehousing sector kept increasing during and after the pandemic -- References -- Notes -- 3 The evolution of growing occupations in online job postings in Alberta -- The fastest-growing occupations that require post-secondary education -- Ageing populations are boosting the demand for Home Health Aides in Alberta and Canada -- Demand for professionals in the logistics and transportation sector was increasing before the pandemic and remains strong…”