“…The theoretical and empirical literature to date has fallen short of reaching a consensus as to whether granting more managerial discretion to managers tends to enhance, not alter or diminish organisational performance (the discretion puzzle). This book aims to build a bridge between these contradictory results by synthesising principal-agent theory, stewardship theory, and managerial discretion theory into a new empirically-validated model. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Energy Demand; Opportunities for Improving Energy Efficiency in Buildings; Options for Improving Buildings Sector Efficiency; Barriers to Demand Reduction; Policy Options for Overcoming Barriers; CHAPTER TWO - European Approaches; Early Approaches; Energy Performance of Buildings Directive; EPBD Recast; CHAPTER THREE - Australian Approaches; Market-Based Energy Efficient Buildings Policy; Building Codes and Performance Ratings; Disclosure and Energy Audits; Grant and Rebate Programs…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Chapter Four - Empirical Analysis of Performance MeasuresChapter Five - Choosing Performance Windows andOrganizational Units for Evaluation; Using the Performance Window to Control for RandomOutcomes; The Use of Station Versus Individual PerformanceEvaluation; Chapter Six - Conclusions; Summary of Results; Implications for Policy; Appendix A - Allocation of Recruiter Effort: Implications of aMicroeconomic Model; Appendix B - Recruiter Behavior in the Face of Risk; References…”

“…Tammy Everts walks you through a brief history of UX and web performance research, highlighting key studies that connect the dots between performance and user experience and sharing some educated guesses about new metrics that are just around the corner. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Writing a report -- Updating your default configurations -- Reviewing the conclusions -- Enriching your project backlog -- Summary -- Chapter 10: Continuous Performance Evaluation -- Writing performance tests - the pitfalls -- Writing performance tests -- JMH - the OpenJDK tool -- Writing a benchmark with JMH -- The state -- Creating your first JMH benchmark -- BlackHole to be a star -- Running the benchmarks -- Integrating JMH with JUnit -- ContiPerf -- Arquillian and ContiPerf - the diabolic pair -- JMeter and build integration -- Gatling and continuous integration -- Deploying your (benchmark) application -- Continuous integration platform and performance -- Summary -- Another Book You May Enjoy -- Index…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Intro -- Table of Contents -- About the Authors -- About the Technical Reviewer -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I: Methods and Tools -- Chapter 1: Methodical Performance Tuning -- A Cautionary Tale -- Symptomatic Performance Tuning -- Systematic Performance Tuning -- Anatomy of a Database Request -- The Layers of a MongoDB Database -- Minimizing the Application Workload -- Reducing Physical IO -- Optimizing Disk IO -- Cluster Tuning -- Summary -- Chapter 2: MongoDB Architecture and Concepts -- The MongoDB Document Model -- JSON -- Binary JSON (BSON) -- Collections -- MongoDB Schemas -- The MongoDB Protocol -- Wire Protocol -- MongoDB Drivers -- MongoDB Commands -- The find Command -- The aggregate Command -- Data Manipulation Commands -- Consistency Mechanisms -- Read Preference and Write Concern -- Transactions -- Query Optimization -- MongoDB Architecture -- Mongod -- Storage Engines -- Replica Sets -- Sharding -- Sharding Mechanisms -- Cluster Balancing -- Conclusion -- Chapter 3: Tools of the Trade -- Introduction to explain() -- Getting Started with explain() -- Alternate Plans -- Execution Statistics -- Using explain() to Tune a Query -- Visual Explain Utilities -- The Query Profiler -- The system.profile Collection -- Analyzing Profiling Data -- Tuning with MongoDB Logs -- Server Statistics -- Examining Current Operations -- Operating System Monitoring -- MongoDB Compass -- Summary -- Part II: Application and Database Design -- Chapter 4: Schema Modelling -- The Guiding Principles -- Linking vs. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…2.6.1 Additional reading -- 2.6.2 Exercises -- Summary -- 3 Performance limits and profiling -- 3.1 Know your application's potential performance limits -- 3.2 Determine your hardware capabilities: Benchmarking -- 3.2.1 Tools for gathering system characteristics -- 3.2.2 Calculating theoretical maximum flops -- 3.2.3 The memory hierarchy and theoretical memory bandwidth -- 3.2.4 Empirical measurement of bandwidth and flops -- 3.2.5 Calculating the machine balance between flops and bandwidth -- 3.3 Characterizing your application: Profiling -- 3.3.1 Profiling tools -- 3.3.2 Empirical measurement of processor clock frequency and energy consumption -- 3.3.3 Tracking memory during run time -- 3.4 Further explorations -- 3.4.1 Additional reading -- 3.4.2 Exercises -- Summary -- 4 Data design and performance models -- 4.1 Performance data structures: Data-oriented design -- 4.1.1 Multidimensional arrays -- 4.1.2 Array of Structures (AoS) versus Structures of Arrays (SoA) -- 4.1.3 Array of Structures of Arrays (AoSoA) -- 4.2 Three Cs of cache misses: Compulsory, capacity, conflict -- 4.3 Simple performance models: A case study -- 4.3.1 Full matrix data representations -- 4.3.2 Compressed sparse storage representations -- 4.4 Advanced performance models -- 4.5 Network messages -- 4.6 Further explorations -- 4.6.1 Additional reading -- 4.6.2 Exercises -- Summary -- 5 Parallel algorithms and patterns -- 5.1 Algorithm analysis for parallel computing applications -- 5.2 Performance models versus algorithmic complexity -- 5.3 Parallel algorithms: What are they? …”

“…High performance MySQL. Third edition…”

“…You'll find several books on basic or advanced MySQL performance, but nothing in between. That's because explaining MySQL performance without addressing its complexity is difficult. …”

“…Reinforcements are an integral part of all composites and the quality and performance of the composite can be optimised by modelling the type and structure of the reinforcement before moulding. …”

“…The book is organized into three main sections including 10 chapters overall: (i) Gas Turbine and Component Performance, (ii) Gas Turbine Combustion and (iii) Fault Detection in Systems and Materials…”

Materias:

Materias: “…Performance Evaluation…”

“…OECD Environmental Performance Reviews…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Basic statistics of Lithuania -- Reader's guide -- Assessment and recommendations -- Foreword -- Environmental performance: Trends and recent developments -- Towards green growth -- Sustainable mobility -- Executive summary -- Abbreviations and acronyms -- Environmental governance and management…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Environmental performance: Trends and recent developments -- 1.1. …”

“…OECD Environmental Performance Reviews…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Actions taken to implement selected recommendations from the 2009 OECD Environmental Performance Review of Finland…”