Tabla de Contenidos: “…Alert aggregation and correlation -- Alert engine architecture -- A look into rulers and Alertmanager -- Architecture -- Creating your first alerts -- Grafana for alerts -- External integrations -- Alerting tips and best practices -- Addressing common alert challenges -- Build on top of communication and transparency -- Healthy incident management process -- The role of AI in alerting -- Summary -- Chapter 10: Real-World Observability Architectures -- Observability stack options -- All-in-one open source tools -- Commercial off-the-shelf tools -- Controller-based systems -- Time series versus snapshot observability -- Comparing build versus buy decision points -- Defining requirements -- Evaluating in-house capabilities and resources -- Cost analysis -- Assessing risks -- Comparing features and flexibility -- Making a decision -- Orchestrating an observability platform -- Deployment methodologies and orchestration -- Summary -- Part 3: Using Your Network Observability Data -- Chapter 11: Applications of Your Observability Data - Driving Business Success -- The business value of observability data -- Capacity planning -- Percentiles -- Forecasting -- Defining health status -- Treating your network as a service -- Monitoring SLIs, SLOs, and SLAs for optimal network performance -- How to treat a network as a service -- Architecting dashboards -- Network-related personas -- Dashboard types -- Summary -- Chapter 12: Automation Powered by Observability Data - Streamlining Network Operations -- Setting up the lab environment -- Advanced automation techniques with event-driven automation -- Event-driven automation -- Closed-loop automation -- Event-driven automation with Prefect -- Summary -- Chapter 13: Leveraging Artificial Intelligence for Enhanced Network Observability -- AI and ML fundamentals -- ML algorithms -- Neural networks and language models…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Intro -- Foreword -- Editorial -- Abbreviations and acronyms -- Executive summary -- 1 Overview -- Introduction -- Accelerated trends and recent shocks shape global challenges in 2024 and beyond -- Achieving environmental sustainability must be a priority today -- Building environmental sustainability will require education and training policy to catch up with other accelerated longer-term evolutions -- Managing digitalisation is the top priority for participating education systems, both for the shorter term and moving forward, with varied levels of preparedness -- Strengthening equity, inclusion and diversity remains a top priority as well for education systems, particularly for the shorter term -- Demographic change is expected to significantly gain relevance over the mid-term -- Changing forms of democratic and civic engagement is seen as important moving forward, but with less current policy action -- But recent shocks will continue to pose a challenge for societies in 2024 and beyond -- Economic recovery remains modest and fragile, and skills shortages and lower productivity and population ageing may slow it further down -- Global health has been an area of extensive action that made the end of the pandemic possible but, moving forward, climate change will require it to adopt a new angle -- International conflict, security and development co-operation challenges will continue to require some education systems to urgently support populations from all ages and backgrounds -- Disaster management and risk reduction appear of importance to fewer education systems, but climate change is likely to increase its relevance to others -- Making the case for helping learners of all ages, stages and backgrounds to go green in 2024 -- Transitions to greener and fairer societies can help address other ongoing challenges…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Case study 2 - creating a Chrome extension using AI -- Summary -- Chapter 8: AI for Chatbots -- Technical requirements -- How to use GPT-4 APIs and other LLM APIs to create chatbots -- Building conversational interfaces with LLM APIs -- How to use AI for customer support -- Case study - a chatbot using AI to assist users in ordering products -- Case study - creating interactive quizzes/assessments and deploying them as chatbot flows -- Summary -- Chapetr 9: Building Smarter Systems - Advanced LLM Integrations -- Automating bulk prompting with spreadsheets -- Integrating LLMs into your tech stack using Zapier and Make -- Creating and translating product descriptions -- Moving beyond APIs - building custom LLM pipelines with LangChain -- LangChain's building blocks -- LangChain's no-code tools - Langflow and Flowise -- LangSmith - debug, test, and monitor your LLM workflows -- The future of LLM integration - plugins, agents, assistants, GPTs, and multimodal models -- Summary -- Part 4: Ethics, Limitations, and Future Developments -- Chapter 10: Generative AI - Emerging Issues at the Intersection of Ethics and Innovation -- Exploring the ethical challenges of generative AI -- Trust and accountability challenges of generative AI -- Economic impact considerations -- Environmental sustainability issues -- Societal risks and reflections -- Broader societal impacts -- What machine creativity reveals about cognition -- Concerns in defense and healthcare -- The path forward - solutions and safeguards -- Summary -- Chapter 11: Conclusion -- Recap of the book's content -- Expanding possibilities - innovative prompt engineering applications -- Achieving intended outcomes - prompt engineering goals -- Understanding limitations and maintaining oversight -- Summary -- Index -- Other Books You May Enjoy…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…The Business Case -- 3.1 Definition of the Business Case -- 3.2 Identifying the Business Needs -- 3.3 Justifying Automation in Terms of Cost and Benefits -- 3.4 Risks -- 3.5 Other Considerations -- Summary -- Notes -- 4. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…(Oh Please . . .) -- Stock Options, Risk, and Manipulations -- Too Hot to Handle: Explaining Excessive Top Management Remuneration -- How to Justify Paying Top Managers Too Much -- Ceos Do Seek Advice - if You Pay Them for It . . . -- Dirty Laundry: Who Is Hiding the Bad Stuff? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- The importance of being committed to your niche -- Why professionals resist adopting a niche -- How to find your niche -- What research you need to do to get underneath the skin of your niche -- Deciding on your niche -- Part 2: Packaging your brand -- Chapter 3: How to make your services irresistible to clients -- What you need to know about your niche to build a successful marketing plan -- Deciding what services to offer -- Your sound bite -- How to package up your services -- How to differentiate yourself from your colleagues and competitors in the eyes of your niche market -- Removing the risk for your clients -- Chapter 4: How to craft the right impression -- Your personal marketing toolkit -- How to dress the part -- Social media etiquette -- Chapter 5: How to use your content to reinforce your expertise -- What is meant by valuable content? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Introduction How to get the most out of this book Section 1 How to manage people Introduction T1 Fayol's 14 principles of management part 1: structure and control T2 Fayol's 14 principles of management part 2: working relationships T3 Taylor and scientific management T4 Mayo and the Hawthorn experiments T5 Urwick's ten principles of management T6 Drucker on the functions of management T7 McGregor's X and Y theory T8 Peters and Waterman's theory of management T9 Covey's 7 habits of highly effective people T10 Management by walking about (MBWA) A final word on management Section 2 How to lead people Introduction T11 Trait theory T12 The Michigan and Ohio basic style theory T13 Blake and Mouton's leadership grid T14 Adair's action centred leadership T15 Fiedler's contingency theory T16 Hersey and Blanchard's situational leadership T17 Burn's transactional leadership theory T18 Dansereau, Graen and Haga leader member exchange (LMX) theory T19 House and charismatic leadership theory T20 Burns and transformational leadership T21 Bass and transformational leadership T22 Bennis and Nanus and transformational leadership A final word on leadership Section 3 How to motivate staff Introduction T23 Maslow's hierarchy of needs theory T24 Alderfer's existence, relatedness and growth (ERG) theory T25 McClellands achievement and acquired needs theory T26 Herzberg's motivation and hygiene theory T27 Adam's equity theory T28 Vroom's expectancy theory T29 The Hackman and Oldham job characteristic model T30 Ernst's OK Corral model T31 Berne's theory of transactional analysis A final word on motivation Section 4 How to build and manage teams Introduction T32 Belbin's team roles T33 Maccoby's Gamesman theory T34 Likert's theory of team management styles T35 Drexler/ Sibbet Team Performance Model T36 Homan's theory of group formation T37 Tuckman's group development sequence model T38 Wheelan's integrated model of group development T39 Locke's goal setting theory A final word on teams Section 5 How to analyse organisational culture Introduction T40 Handy's model of organisational culture T41 Deal and Kennedy's risk and feedback model T42 Morgan's organisational metaphors T43 Graves's cultural leadership theory T44 Schein's three levels of organisational culture T45 Johnson and Scholes' cultural web T46 Hofstede's six cross-organisational dimensions T47 Hargreaves and Balkanised cultures A final word on organisational culture Section 6 How to lead change Introduction T48 The Kubler-Ross coping with change cycle model T49 Shewhart's plan-do-check-act (PDCA) model T50 Lewin's freeze/unfreeze model T51 Lewin's force field analysis T52 Kotter's eight step approach to change T53 Moss-Kanter and change masters T54 Burke-Letwin's drivers for change T55 Egan's shadow side theory A final word on leading change Section 7 Strategic management Introduction T56 Johnson and Scholes the seven stages of strategic planning T57Ansoff Top down approaches to strategic management (the modernist approach) T58 Peters and Waterman strategic planning as chaos (the post-modernist approach tostrategic management) T59 Quinn, Hamdi and Prahaland middle of the road strategic management (the new modernist approach) T60 The Boston Consulting Group matrix theory T61 The McKinsey 7S framework model T62 Johnson, Scholes and Wittingham's stakeholder mapping theory T63 Porter's value chain theory T64 Porter's five forces theory T65 SWOT analysis T66 PEST/PESTLE analysis T67 Scenario planning A final word on strategic management Section 8 How to manage quality Introduction T68 Deming's seven deadly diseases of quality T69Juran's quality trilogy T70 Crosby's maturity grid model T71 Peters and Waterman's excellence model T72 Ishikawa cause and effect (fishbone) model T73 Imai's Kaizan 5S housekeeping theory T74 The Benchmarking matrix T75 The Excellence Model A final word on quality management Section 9 How to exercise authority, power and influence Introduction T76 Weber's tripartite theory of authority T77 French and Ravens the five sources of power T78 Sources of influence T79 Machiavelli's guide to survival T80 Ronson's Psychopath's test A final word on authority, influence power and ethics Section 10 - The best of the rest. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…; Try out new things, take reasonable risks ; Imagine future positive outcomes ; Do not dwell on past disappointments: learn, forgive, and look ahead --…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover -- Foreword -- Messages -- Next Generation IT Architecture -- Contents -- Expert's Speak -- Part 1: Foundation Architecture -- Chapter 1: IT Simplification-A Step towards Future Enterprise -- Introduction -- Technology Complexity -- Standardization -- Abstraction -- Landscape Complexity -- Toolset Simplification -- Legacy Modernization -- Straight through Processing -- Single Point of Truth -- Approach -- Risks -- Preventing Relapse -- Conclusion -- References -- Authors -- Chapter2: Who is an Architect? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…. -- Metabolic Evaluation of Urine from Patients Diagnosed with High Grade (HG) Bladder Cancer -- by SPME-LC-MS Method -- Reprinted from: Molecules 2021, 26, 2194, doi:10.3390/molecules26082194 113 -- Andrea Speltini, Francesca Merlo, Federica Maraschi, Giorgio Marrubini, Anna Faravelli and -- Antonella Profumo -- Magnetic Micro-Solid-Phase Extraction Using a Novel Carbon-Based Composite Coupled with -- HPLC-MS/MS for Steroid Multiclass Determination in Human Plasma -- Reprinted from: Molecules 2021, 26, 2061, doi:10.3390/molecules26072061 125 -- Hiroyuki Kataoka and Daiki Nakayama -- Online In-Tube Solid-Phase Microextraction Coupled with Liquid Chromatography-Tandem -- Mass Spectrometry for Automated Analysis of Four Sulfated Steroid Metabolites in Saliva -- Samples -- Reprinted from: Molecules 2022, 27, 3225, doi:10.3390/molecules27103225 141 -- Hiroyuki Kataoka, Sanae Kaji and Maki Moai -- Risk Assessment of Passive Smoking Based on Analysis of Hair Nicotine and Cotinine as -- Exposure Biomarkers by In-Tube Solid-Phase Microextraction Coupled On-Line to LC-MS/MS -- Reprinted from: Molecules 2021, 26, 7356, doi:10.3390/molecules26237356 153 -- Atsushi Ishizaki and Hiroyuki Kataoka -- Online In-Tube Solid-Phase Microextraction Coupled to Liquid Chromatography-Tandem -- Mass Spectrometry for the Determination of Tobacco-Specific Nitrosamines in Hair Samples -- Reprinted from: Molecules 2021, 26, 2056, doi:10.3390/molecules26072056 163 -- Yuping Zhang, Ning Wang, Zhenyu Lu, Na Chen, Chengxing Cui and Xinxin Chen -- Smart Titanium Wire Used for the Evaluation of Hydrophobic/Hydrophilic Interaction by -- In-Tube Solid Phase Microextraction -- Reprinted from: Molecules 2022, 27, 2353, doi:10.3390/molecules27072353 173.…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Comparing the needs of humans and AI -- Understanding risk in AI -- Summary -- Questions -- Further reading -- Answers -- Appendix -- Introducing MOSA -- A brief overview of ROS 2 -- Understanding the basic concepts -- Comparing ROS 2 and ROS -- Software requirements for the robot -- Installing ROS 2 -- Installing other packages -- Basic ROS 2 commands -- Introducing the hardware for the robot -- Effectors - base, motors, and wheels -- Battery -- DC/DC power supply -- CPU - the brains of the outfit -- Effectors - robot arm -- Arm controller -- Arduino microcontroller and motor controller -- Sensor - USB camera -- Sensor and effector - audio interface -- Robot safety tips -- Index -- Other Books You May Enjoy…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…5.7 Musculoskeletal -- 5.8 Oncology -- 5.8.1 Diagnosis and Treatment of Cancer -- 5.8.2 Histopathological Cancer Diagnosis -- 5.8.3 Tracking Tumor Development -- 5.8.4 Prognosis Detection -- 5.9 GI -- 5.10 COVID-19 -- 5.11 Genomics -- 5.12 Mental Health -- 5.13 Diagnostic Bots -- 5.14 At Home Diagnostics/Remote Monitoring -- 5.15 Sound AI -- 5.16 AI in Democratizing Care -- References -- Chapter 6 Therapeutics -- 6.1 Robotics -- 6.2 Mental Health -- 6.3 Precision Medicine -- 6.4 Chronic Disease Management -- 6.5 Medication Supply and Adherence -- 6.6 VR -- References -- Chapter 7 Clinical Decision Support -- 7.1 AI in Decision Support -- 7.2 Initial Use Cases -- 7.3 Primary Care -- 7.4 Specialty Care -- 7.4.1 Cancer Care -- 7.4.2 Neurology -- 7.4.3 Cardiology -- 7.4.4 Infectious Diseases -- 7.4.5 COVID-19 -- 7.5 Devices -- 7.6 End-of-Life AI -- 7.7 Patient Decision Support -- References -- Chapter 8 Population Health and Wellness -- 8.1 Nutrition -- 8.2 Fitness -- 8.3 Stress and Sleep -- 8.4 Population Health and Management -- 8.5 Risk Assessment -- 8.6 Use of Real World Data -- 8.7 Medication Adherence -- 8.8 Remote Engagement and Automation -- 8.9 SDOH -- 8.10 Aging in Place -- References -- Chapter 9 Clinical Workflows -- 9.1 Documentation Assistants -- 9.2 Quality Measurement -- 9.3 Nursing and Clinical Assistants -- 9.4 Virtual Assistants -- References -- Chapter 10 Administration and Operations -- 10.1 Providers -- 10.1.1 Documentation, Coding, and Billing -- 10.1.2 Practice Management and Operations -- 10.1.3 Hospital Operations -- 10.2 Payers -- 10.2.1 Payer Administrative Functions -- 10.2.2 Fraud -- 10.2.3 Personalized Communications -- References -- Chapter 11 AI Applications in Life Sciences -- 11.1 Drug Discovery -- 11.2 Clinical Trials -- 11.2.1 Information Engines -- 11.2.2 Patient Stratification -- 11.2.3 Clinical Trial Operations…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Tracking the Exponential -- A World Rebooting -- Introduction -- Where the World Is Now -- 2030: A New Future -- 1998: So Last Century -- Humans 2.0 -- Devices -- People Going Binary-Computers Going Quantum -- Part I Important Technologies You Cannot Ignore -- Chapter 1 Foundational Technologies -- Artificial Intelligence -- GPT -- Benefits of GPT -- Risks of GPT -- AI Foundation Models -- Other Key Players -- Quantum Computing -- Quantum Theory -- Quantum Computing -- Sources of Data -- Advanced Communications -- Wired -- Wireless -- Cellular -- Moving into the Future -- Satellite -- Key Takeaways -- Chapter 2 Enabling Technology -- Blockchain -- Blockchain Mechanisms -- Proof of Work -- Proof of Stake -- Proof of Assignment -- Mining -- Forking and 51 Percent Attacks -- The Future of the Blockchain -- Smart Contracts -- Decentralized Autonomous Organizations -- Tokenization -- Types of Tokens -- Functional Types and Uses of Tokens -- The Benefits of Tokenization -- Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency -- Structure -- Systemic Constraints -- User Constraints -- Other Cryptocurrencies -- The Future of the Cryptocurrency Industry -- Key Takeaways -- Chapter 3 Consumer-Facing Hardware Technologies -- Robotics -- Industrial Automation -- Additive Manufacturing (3D and 4D Printing) -- Internet of Things -- Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality -- Virtual Reality -- Augmented Reality -- Key Takeaways -- Chapter 4 Important Uses of Technologies You Cannot Ignore -- The Metaverse -- Energy -- Sourcing -- Solar -- Wind -- Geothermal -- Hydrogen Fuel Cells -- Nuclear Fission and Fusion -- Energy Storage -- Energy Transmission and Distribution -- Use of Frontier Technologies in the Up-Front Design and Planning of the Grid -- Use -- The Bioeconomy and Biodigital Convergence…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Radiation and Antennas -- 9-1 The Hertzian Dipole -- 9-2 Antenna Radiation Characteristics -- 9-3 Half-Wave Dipole Antenna -- 9-4 Dipole of Arbitrary Length -- 9-5 Effective Area of a Receiving Antenna -- 9-6 Friis Transmission Formula -- TB17 Health Risks of EM Fields…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…CPU and memory requirements -- Disk requirements -- Analyze Index Disk Usage API -- ML node capacity -- Storage efficiency strategies -- Reducing dimensionality -- Quantization -- Excluding dense_vector from _source -- Summary -- Chapter 4: Performance Tuning - Working with Data -- Deploying an NLP model -- Loading a model into Elasticsearch -- Model deployment configurations -- Load testing -- Rally -- RAM estimation -- Troubleshooting slowdown -- Summary -- Part 3: Specialized Use Cases -- Chapter 5: Image Search -- Overview of image search -- The evolution of image search -- The mechanism behind image search -- The role of vector similarity search -- Image search in practice -- Vector search with images -- Image vectorization -- Indexing image vectors in Elasticsearch -- k-Nearest Neighbor (kNN) search -- Challenges and limitations with image search -- Multi-modal models for vector search -- Introduction and rationale -- Understanding the concept of vector space in multi-modal models -- Introduction to the OpenAI clip-ViT-B-32-multilingual-v1 model -- Implementing vector search for diverse media types -- Summary -- Chapter 6: Redacting Personal Identifiable Information Using Elasticsearch -- Overview of PII and redaction -- Types of data that may contain PII -- Risks of storing PII in logs -- How PII is leaked or lost -- Redacting PII with NER models and regex patterns -- NER models -- Regex patterns -- Combining NER models and regex (or grok) patterns for PII redaction -- PII redaction pipeline in Elasticsearch -- Generating synthetic PII -- Installing the default pipeline -- Expected results -- Expanding and customizing options for the PII redaction pipeline in Elasticsearch -- Customizing the default PII example -- Cloning the pipeline to create different versions for different data streams -- Fine-tuning NER models for particular datasets…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Intro -- Table of Contents -- About the Author -- About the Technical Reviewer -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I: The Fit Between Your Creativity and Your Activities -- Chapter 1: Four Types of Creators -- When There's Hope, There Are Opportunities to Craft Your Role As a Creator -- Chapter 2: Definitions of Personal Creativity -- The Outside-In View: How Researchers Study Creativity -- Creativity As a Type of Thinking -- Creativity As a Process -- Creativity As an Outcome -- The Inside-Out View: How Recognized Creators Talk About Their Creativity -- Chapter 3: For an Updated View on Your Creativity, Make the Implicit Biases Explicit -- Two Ways to Relate to Your Creativity -- When Trust in Your Creative Capacity Outlasts Authority -- Gender Stereotypes That Confuse You About the Roles That Suit Your Creativity -- Flexing Creativity Archetypes -- Touching Base with the Creativity Formed in School Years -- Opening Up to Your Inner Creative Diversity -- To Be Creative Is to Think Twice About What You Deem to Be an Appropriate Curiosity to Follow -- Chapter 4: Impulses to Create -- Four Possible Temptations Toward Creative Activities -- Explore Your Creative Drive by Harmonizing the Importance of Creativity for Your Sense of Well-Being and Your Work Role -- Narrative 1: Being a Conformist -- Narrative 2: You Feel Misunderstood -- Narrative 3: You Compare Your Creativity with Others' Creativity -- Big-C Creativity -- Pro-C Creativity -- Little-c Creativity -- Mini-c Creativity -- Narrative 4: Creativity Achieved -- Chapter 5: Three Pathways to the Discovery of New Creative Impulses -- Emotional Availability Is Not Only for Artists -- Disrupt Your Patterns of Curiosities -- Childhood Activities -- Step Outside the Professional Sphere -- Use More of the Less Used Senses -- Take the Risk to Invest Time in Disruptive Activities…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Management -- A. General -- B. Risk assessment -- C. Herd management plan -- D. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Mission and History -- Research Focus on Opiates and Cocaine -- Program Objectives -- Organizational Structure -- Budget Process -- Resources and Funding Instruments -- Types of Grants and Contracts -- Interagency Agreements -- CRADAs -- Screening Agreements -- Training -- RELATIONSHIPS WITH OTHER FEDERAL AGENCIES AND THE PRIVATE SECTOR -- Food and Drug Administration -- Drug Enforcement Administration -- Office of Protection from Research Risks -- Pharmaceutical Industry -- ASSESSMENT OF THE MEDICATIONS DEVELOPMENT DIVISION -- Staff and Resources -- Drug-Discovery Programs -- Clinical Trials -- Clinical-Research Training -- Relationships with Regulatory Agencies -- Interaction with the Private Sector -- SUMMARY -- CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS -- REFERENCES -- 4 Treatment Setting and Effectiveness -- TREATMENT SETTING -- Opiate Addiction -- Cocaine Addiction -- DEMOGRAPHIC AND FINANCIAL PROFILE -- Opiate-Dependent Patients -- Cocaine-Dependent Patients -- TREATMENT EFFECTIVENESS AND COST-EFFECTIVENESS -- Methadone Maintenance Treatment -- Effectiveness -- Cost-Effectiveness -- Cocaine Addiction Treatment -- Effectiveness -- Cost-Effectiveness -- CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATION -- REFERENCES -- 5 Treatment Financing and Trends in Health Insurance -- FINANCING OF TREATMENT -- Financing the Treatment of Opiate Addiction -- Financing the Treatment of Cocaine Addiction -- FINANCING OF LAAM FOR THE TREATMENT OF OPIATE ADDICTION -- IMPACT OF HEALTH INSURANCE TRENDS ON MEDICATIONS DEVELOPMENT -- Trends in Drug Abuse Treatment Benefits -- REFERENCES -- 6 Training and Education -- EXPANDING THE CORE OF RESEARCHERS AND CLINICIANS -- Training Programs -- Fellowships -- Certification -- Conclusions and Recommendations -- INCREASING KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS AMONG PRIMARY CARE PHYSICIANS -- Required Education in Medical Schools -- Residency Training…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Teacher's Assessment -- Chapter 9: Application Writing -- Introduction -- Resume -- Preparation -- Self-analysis -- Drafting -- Choosing the Format -- Summary -- Scholastics -- Work Experience -- Training and Certifications -- Computer Skills -- Heading -- Career Objective -- Position Sought -- Professional Summary -- Experience -- Education -- Special Skills and Abilities -- Achievements -- Social and Environmental Sensitivity -- Activities/Interests -- References -- Vocabulary and Action Verbs -- Video Resume -- Editing -- Cover Letter -- Address of the Applicant -- Date -- Address of the Receiver -- Subject -- Body -- Closing -- Student Activity Sheet -- Self-Assessment -- Chapter 10: Essay Writing -- Introduction -- Readers -- Purpose -- Important Features of an Essay -- Types of Essays -- Argumentative Essay -- Descriptive Essay -- Narrative Essay -- Cause and Effect -- Informative Essay -- Analytical Essay -- Methodology -- Understanding the Topic -- Collecting the Necessary Information -- Planning -- Drafting the Essay -- Reviewing and Editing -- Student Activity I -- Self-Assessment -- Peer Group Assessment -- Teacher's Assessment -- Chapter 11: Report Writing -- Introduction -- Types of Reports -- Methodology of Writing a Report -- Preparation -- Locating Sources of Information -- Planning -- Organizing the Information -- Writing -- Important Characteristics of a Good Report -- Preliminary Pages -- Main Text -- Conclusions and Recommendation -- End Matter or Supplementary Parts -- Review and Editing -- Appendix A: Questionnaire -- Self-Assessment -- Teacher's Assessment -- Peer Group Assessment -- Chapter 12: Leadership Skills -- Introduction -- Self-Assessment -- Value System -- Self-Assessment -- Vision -- Decision Making -- Self-Assessment -- Risk-Taking Ability and Crisis Management -- Self-Assessment -- Team Spirit -- Self-Assessment…”

“…It will also be valuable in developing responses that draw on “scientific evidence” to address the issues of adaptation, resource conservation, solutions and risk prevention. Reflecting the full complexity of the Mediterranean environment, the book is a major scientific contribution to the climate issue, where various scientific considerations converge to break down the boundaries between disciplines…”