Tabla de Contenidos: “…Declarative Languages""; ""SQL Basics""; ""Statements""; ""Databases""; ""Transaction Logs""; ""Schemas""; ""Tables""; ""Views""; ""Indexes""; ""Stored Procedures""; ""User-Defined Functions""; ""SQL CLR Assemblies""; ""Elements of Style""; ""Whitespace""; ""Naming Conventions""; ""One Entry, One Exit""; ""Defensive Coding""; ""The SELECT * Statement""…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…""Defining the templates in script tags""""Loading the template externally""; ""Writing HTML inside the JavaScript""; ""Precompiling templates""; ""Summary""; ""Chapter 4 : Developing the Model-View-Controller Layers""; ""Evolving the current setup""; ""Directory structure""; ""Forming the main server handlers""; ""Implementing the router""; ""Introducing Ractive.js""; ""Constructing the entry point of the application""; ""Defining a controller""; ""Managing our views""; ""Creating a model""; ""Summary""; ""Chapter 5 : Managing Users""; ""Working with the MongoDB database""…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Regular Papers -- Fully Automatic Text Categorization by Exploiting WordNet -- A Latent Dirichlet Framework for Relevance Modeling -- Assigning Location Information to Display Individuals on a Map for Web People Search Results -- Web Spam Identification with User Browsing Graph -- Metric and Relevance Mismatch in Retrieval Evaluation -- Test Collection-Based IR Evaluation Needs Extension toward Sessions – A Case of Extremely Short Queries -- Weighted Rank Correlation in Information Retrieval Evaluation -- Extractive Summarization Based on Event Term Temporal Relation Graph and Critical Chain -- Using an Information Quality Framework to Evaluate the Quality of Product Reviews -- Automatic Extraction for Product Feature Words from Comments on the Web -- Image Sense Classification in Text-Based Image Retrieval -- A Subword Normalized Cut Approach to Automatic Story Segmentation of Chinese Broadcast News -- Japanese Spontaneous Spoken Document Retrieval Using NMF-Based Topic Models -- Finding ‘Lucy in Disguise’: The Misheard Lyric Matching Problem -- Selecting Effective Terms for Query Formulation -- Discovering Volatile Events in Your Neighborhood: Local-Area Topic Extraction from Blog Entries -- A Unified Graph-Based Iterative Reinforcement Approach to Personalized Search -- Exploiting Sentence-Level Features for Near-Duplicate Document Detection -- Posters -- Language Models of Collaborative Filtering -- Efficient Text Classification Using Term Projection -- IPHITS: An Incremental Latent Topic Model for Link Structure -- Supervised Dual-PLSA for Personalized SMS Filtering -- Enabling Effective User Interactions in Content-Based Image Retrieval -- Improving Text Rankers by Term Locality Contexts -- Mutual Screening Graph Algorithm: A New Bootstrapping Algorithm for Lexical Acquisition -- Web Image Retrieval for Abstract Queries Using Text and Image Information -- Question Answering Based on Answer Trustworthiness -- Domain Specific Opinion Retrieval -- A Boosting Approach for Learning to Rank Using SVD with Partially Labeled Data -- Opinion Target Network and Bootstrapping Method for Chinese Opinion Target Extraction -- Automatic Search Engine Performance Evaluation with the Wisdom of Crowds -- A Clustering Framework Based on Adaptive Space Mapping and Rescaling -- Research on Lesk-C-Based WSD and Its Application in English-Chinese Bi-directional CLIR -- Searching Polyphonic Indonesian Folksongs Based on N-gram Indexing Technique -- Study on the Click Context of Web Search Users for Reliability Analysis -- Utilizing Social Relationships for Blog Popularity Mining -- S-node: A Small-World Navigation System for Exploratory Search -- Efficient Probabilistic Latent Semantic Analysis through Parallelization…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…""Configuring the Detail View Controller""""Adding Our Code Files""; ""CTAppDelegate""; ""EntryCollectionViewCell""; ""FriendsCollectionViewController""; ""FriendDetailViewController""; ""UIDocument""; ""Our Document Model""; ""CTDocument""; ""Implementing CTDocument""; ""Implementing CTDocument with iCloud""; ""Controlling iCloud with Settings""; ""A Few More Constants""; ""Many Different States""; ""Summary""; ""Chapter 6: iCloud with Core Data""; ""What Is Core Data?""…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Data Quality""; ""Facets of Data Quality""; ""Dirty Data""; ""Data Generation""; ""Data Entry""; ""Missing Data""…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Captive versus partner -- Build-operate-transfer -- Dual-shore delivery -- Going captive and avoiding the expat trap -- Ten lessons learned -- What works elsewhere does not necessarily work in China -- Develop a vision of the future beyond the next shareholder meeting -- Establish the right partnerships from the beginning -- Do your homework -- Commit for the long haul -- Prepare yourself for an unprecedented speed of change -- Choose an outsourcing city based on-- -- People, people, people -- Never give up -- It is all about face -- Winning the talent war -- English makes the world go round -- Recruiting staff -- Salaries on the rise -- Chinese work ethics -- Retaining staff: employee retention and loyalty programs -- China's outsourcing cities -- Beijing -- Shanghai -- Dalian -- Chengdu -- Xi'an -- Jinan -- Hangzhou -- Guangzhou -- Nanjing -- Shenzhen -- IT outsourcing, business process outsourcing, and knowledge process outsourcing in China -- Scope of outsourcing -- Global outsourcing options for customers -- Advantages of outsourcing to China -- Disadvantages to outsourcing to China -- Selection of vendor partners -- Due diligence of the capabilities of vendors -- Importance of business process standards -- Importance of standards in BPO -- Application of standards to different process types -- Process selection for outsourcing -- China's legal framework -- Market entry and establishing a business in China -- Intellectual property rights protection -- Employment issues -- Government policy -- Currency and taxation -- Dispute resolution and litigation -- China 2020 -- Pillar of the economy: focus on the high-tech sector -- Growth of the services sector -- Satisfying a fast-growing global IT and business processes services demand -- Overseas promotions leap forward -- Stable China market economic prospects -- Rise of globalization: in the front row -- China 2020: wild cards -- Appendix A: Exclusive survey of selected cities in cooperation with MOFCOM-- Appendix B: Case studies -- Appendix C: Contact information for major government offices, outsourcing centers, and online resources -- Index…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Human security at risk: development impacts of global environmental change in drylands; Introduction; Methodology; Global Integrated Sustainability Model (GISMO); Archetypical patterns of pulnerability; Prospects in child mortality; Vulnerability of small-holder farmers in dryland areas; Increasing vulnerability due to global environmental change; Entry points to strengthen human security in drylands…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…External Threats and Countermeasures; Objectives; Introduction; Methods of Unauthorized Entry; Countermeasures; Case Problems; References; Chapter 9. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1 Financial Institutions as Information Processors; Financial Institutions' Raison d'Etre; Low Barriers to Entry; Technical Core Products and Services Offered (Financial Intermediation and Disintermediation and Risk Pooling); Cultural Issues; The Senior Leadership Component; Outsourcing and the Culture of Failure; IT Literacy and the Spreadsheet Deluge; Other Challenges to Establishing an IT-Savvy Culture; Notes; Chapter 2 Strategic Hardware and Software Management; Overview; Storage and Retrieval; Data Processing…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…""Variable Reassignment""""nil Assignment""; ""Owner Deallocation""; ""Creating Multiple Order Entries""; ""Using ARC with Apple Frameworks and Services""; ""Objective-C Toll Free Bridging""; ""ARC Bridged Casts""; ""Using ARC Bridged Casts""; ""Roundup""; ""Chapter 7: Runtime System""; ""Dynamic Features""; ""Object Messaging""; ""Selectors""; ""Empty Selector Segments""; ""The SEL Type""; ""Method Signatures""; ""Using Object Messaging""; ""Dynamic Typing""; ""Dynamic Binding""; ""Dynamic Method Resolution""; ""Providing a Method Implementation Dynamically""; ""Dynamic Loading""…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…The TRPC Family of Ion Channels: Relation to the TRP Superfamily and Role in Receptor- and Store- Operated Calcium Entry; Chapter 2. Multiple Mechanisms of TRPC Activation; Chapter 3. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…RESISTANCE IDENTIFICATION IN TRADING RANGES WITH NEWLY FORMING RESISTANCESTRADING RANGES WITH NEWLY FORMING SUPPORTS; SUPPORT IDENTIFICATION REITERATED; BREACHING A LINE LEGALLY OR ILLEGALLY; APPLYING FIBONACCI LEVELS; Chapter 4: Developing the Profit Targets or Entry Points of a Trading Range for the S90/Crossover; EXPLANATION OF LEVELS AND HOW THEY MAY BE INTERPRETED; S90/CROSSOVER LEVELS ARE NOT THE SAME AS A PIVOT POINT; S-90 CROSSOVERS WITHIN A RANGE; LEGAL AND ILLEGAL S90/CROSSOVERS; Chapter 5: S90/Crossover with Gaps, Holes, and Fibonacci Levels; GAPS; HOLES IN THE MARKET…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Partial conclusions: a high station among philosophers -- 6 Ricardo on logic and political economy -- Ricardian rhetoric -- Language and definitions -- Laws and causes -- Permanent causes and natural magnitudes -- Strong cases -- The redundancy of utility -- Ricardian logic and scientific practice -- Ricardian logic and policy advice -- Partial conclusions: a science without an art -- 7 Ricardo on ethics and political economy -- Moral impressions and the rational pursuit of happiness -- Just war -- Penal law and private morality -- Slavery -- Unlimited toleration -- Good government -- Ethics and the uses of political economy -- The miscarriage of all social theodicies -- Partial conclusions: neither a utilitarian nor theological optimist -- Conclusions: a man from another planet -- Appendix -- The Christian Reformer: text of the Christians' Petition -- The Christian Reformer &amp -- The Monthly Repository: presentation of the Christians' Petition in the House of Commons and the House of the Lords -- The Sunday Times: Daniel Whittle Harvey's obituary -- The Morning Chronicle: Mill's Letter to the Editor -- The Monthly Repository: obituary -- The Gentlemen's Magazine: obituary -- The Penny Cyclopaedia: George Porter's entry -- Index…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Attraction and Repulsion: Desensitization and AdaptationSignal Transduction; Summary; Chapter 6: Target Selection; Defasiculation; Target Recognition and Entry; Slowing Down and Branching; Border Patrol and Prevention of Inappropriate Targeting; Topographic Mapping; Chemospecificity and Ephrins; Shifting and Fine Tuning of Connections; The Third Dimension, Lamina-Specific Termination; Cellular and Synaptic Targeting; Sniffing Out Targets; Summary; Chapter 7: Naturally Occurring Neuron Death; What does Neuron Death Look Like?…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Preface; Chapter 1: An Introduction to Board Certification in Clinical Psychology; Board Certification; Why Seek Board Certification in Clinical Psychology; Competence; When to Become Board Certified; Early Entry Program; Senior Option; Getting Started; References; Chapter 2: Making the Commitment to Obtain Board Certification and Getting Started; Motivation to Become Board Certified; An Overview of the Process; Stage I-Credentialing; Stage II-Practice Samples; Stage III-Oral Examination…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…A model polythene recycling machine for economic development and pollution controlMultivariate control charts for short-run complex processes; Dimensional accuracy achievable by three-dimensional printing; Improved airline seat inventory control under incomplete information; Effects of key size and key layout on numeric data entry performance with touch screens; Older people's preferences for mobile phone features; Evaluation of recognition threshold for discolored safety signs in terms of white pixel concentration and CIELUV color difference…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Intro -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations and acronyms -- Executive summary -- Strengthening vocational education and training pathways in upper secondary education in Lithuania (Chapter 3) -- Consolidating Lithuania's upper secondary certification to meet learners' diverse needs and promote higher order, complex learning (Chapter 4) -- 1 Assessment and Recommendations -- Introduction -- Main trends in upper secondary education in Lithuania -- Participation and completion -- Attainment of upper secondary education is very high -- Participation in upper secondary education is very high, supported by smooth transitions into and through upper secondary education -- Participation in upper secondary vocational education is lower than national targets -- Completion of upper secondary education is high but lower for VET programmes -- The gender gap in participation and completion of upper secondary vocational education is more pronounced than across the OECD on average -- Learning outcomes -- On entry to upper secondary education, 15-year-olds in Lithuania score below the OECD average -- The gap in performance between boys and girls and between students from rural and urban areas is greater in Lithuania than across the OECD -- Adults in Lithuania score above the OECD average -- Upper secondary education, especially VET, seems to play a modest role in contributing to adult skills -- Transitions into further education and work -- Transitions into tertiary education are high, but only for general upper secondary graduates -- Employments outcomes are very positive for tertiary graduates, but less so for VET graduates -- Priority areas for upper secondary education in Lithuania -- Lithuania achieves limited returns on its investment in upper secondary education…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…8.3.8 APPC output descriptors -- 8.3.9 Message destinations -- 8.3.10 Summary of IMS resources managed by STM -- 8.4 STM terms and concepts -- 8.4.1 Resource type consistency -- 8.4.2 Resource name uniqueness -- 8.5 Resource status -- 8.5.1 Command status -- 8.5.2 End-user status -- 8.5.3 Recoverable status -- 8.5.4 Non-recoverable status -- 8.6 Significant status -- 8.6.1 Command significant status -- 8.6.2 End-user significant status -- 8.7 Resource status recovery -- 8.7.1 Significant status -- 8.7.2 Status recovery mode (SRM) -- 8.7.3 Status recoverability (RCVYxxxx) -- 8.8 Status recovery examples -- 8.8.1 Status recovery (SRM=GLOBAL) -- 8.8.2 Status recovery (SRM=LOCAL) -- 8.8.3 Status recovery (SRM=NONE) -- 8.9 Ownership and affinities -- 8.9.1 Resource ownership and RM affinity -- 8.10 Resources and the resource structure -- 8.10.1 Resource structure components and characteristics -- 8.11 Resource entries in the resource structure -- 8.11.1 IMSplex entries -- 8.11.2 Sysplex terminal entries -- Chapter 9. …”

“…The authors clearly and lucidly survey the life, work and impact of 50 of the most important theorists of globalization including: - Manuel Castells - Amartya Sen - Zygmunt Bauman - Jan Aart Scholte Each thinker's contribution to the field is evaluated and assessed, and each entry includes a helpful guide to further reading. …”