“…Research and teaching in the program have grown synergistically ever since, but ten years down the road it was time to take stock of our research to project the direction in which we wanted to move forward. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Conté "Manzanas y bloques con patio": Barrio estudiantil Westfield (Queen Mary College, Londres, Reino Unido), Feilden Clegg Bradley Architects -- La Maquinista (Barcelona, España), Josep Lluís Mateo MAP Arquitectos -- High Cross Road (Londres, Reino Unido), Walter Menteth Architects -- Viviendas para jóvenes (Leipzig, Alemania), HPP Hentrich-Petschnigg & Partner -- Edificio de viviendas y oficinas (Wimbergergasse, Viena, Austria), Delugan_Meissl Associated Architects -- Viviendas Mondrian (Sydney, Australia), Stanisic Associates Architects -- Viviendas para estudiantes, familias y ancianos (Ingolstadt, Alemania), meck architekten -- Viviendas en Harold Way (Hollywood, California, EE UU), KoningEizenbergArchitecture -- Barrio Donnybrook (Londres, Reino Unido), Peter Barber Architects -- URV…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Traffic outcomes are not promising; Reducing the costs of road congestion; Promoting better use of rail infrastructure; Improving policy co-ordination; Box 8. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Intro -- Too Big to Ignore -- Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: This Ain't Your Father's Data -- Better Car Insurance through Data -- Potholes and General Road Hazards -- Recruiting and Retention -- How Big Is Big? …”

“…Essential reading for IP managers and corporate executives, Innovate or Perish is a new road map equipping readers with the principles and tools needed for their companies to compete in the emerging creativity economy. …”

“….; Identification and creation of memorable experiences for your customer service representatives and their customers; A valuable treasure of resources whether you are a seasoned veteran, a trainer/facilitator with middle of the road years of experience, or a newcomer or occasional trainer.; 50 high quality activities which may be easily aligned with the specific needs and identified competencies within your customer service area.; User friendly activi…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Batch monitoring and managementCross-time zone scheduling; Maintenance and troubleshooting; Reporting; Reacting to changes; From batch scheduling to workload automation; Batch scheduling: Static scheduling; The Workload Automation concept; Dynamic batch processing with virtualization technology and cloud computing; Integration with real-time system, workload reusability; Summary; Chapter 2:Exploring Control-M; Control-M overview; Control-M road map; Key features; Supported platforms; The Control-M way; Control-M job; Submitting jobs; Post processing…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover -- Contents -- About the authors -- Publisher's acknowledgements -- Preface -- Using this book -- Part 1: Corporate and business strategy -- Chapter 1: Ansoff's matrix and product market grid -- Chapter 2: BCG matrix -- Chapter 3: Strategic dialogue -- Chapter 4: BHAG -- Chapter 5: Blue ocean strategy -- Chapter 6: Business model canvas -- Chapter 7: Business scope (Abell) -- Chapter 8: Competitive analysis: Porter's five forces model -- Chapter 9: Core competencies -- Chapter 10: Internationalisation strategy framework -- Chapter 11: Road-mapping -- Chapter 12: Scenario planning -- Chapter 13: Strategy maps -- Chapter 14: SWOT analysis -- Chapter 15: Value disciplines -- Part 2: Organisation and governance -- Chapter 16: 7-S framework -- Chapter 17: Balanced scorecard -- Chapter 18: Benchmarking -- Chapter 19: Organisational growth model (Greiner) -- Chapter 20: Offshoring/outsourcing -- Chapter 21: Organisational configurations (Mintzberg) -- Chapter 22: Overhead value analysis -- Chapter 23: Risk management -- Chapter 24: The value chain -- Part 3: Finance -- Chapter 25: Activity-based costing -- Chapter 26: Capital asset pricing model (CAPM) -- Chapter 27: Discounted cash flow (DCF) and net present value (NPV) -- Chapter 28: DuPont scheme -- Chapter 29: Economic value added (EVA) and weighted average cost of capital (WACC) -- Chapter 30: Financial ratio analysis: liquidity, solvency and profitability ratios -- Chapter 31: Investment stages -- Chapter 32: Real options theory -- Chapter 33: Risk-reward analysis -- Chapter 34: Value-based management -- Part 4: Marketing and sales -- Chapter 35: 4Ps of marketing (Kotler) -- Chapter 36: Branding pentagram -- Chapter 37: Client pyramid (Curry) -- Chapter 38: Crowdsourcing -- Chapter 39: Customer journey mapping -- Chapter 40: MABA analysis -- Chapter 41: Social network analysis…”

“…By weaving Song, Liao, and Jin materials with Khara-Khoto, Wuwei, and Dunhuang manuscripts into a historical narrative, the book offers a gateway to the outer shape and inner life of the Western Xia (Xixia) economy and society, and rethinks the Tanguts’ influence on the Hexi Corridor and the Silk Road. Readership: Historians interested in East and Inner Asia in the 11th-13th centuries, historians of medieval China: late Tang, Five Dynasties, Liao, Song, Jin Dynasties; Scholars interested in Dunhuang and Tangut studies…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Putting People in Boxes -- Change Mindsets to Change Behavior -- "Problem Children" and Other Things HR Sees -- Reimagining Potential -- Avoiding the Easy Way -- Chapter 3 What Do You (Really) Want? -- Any Road Won't Do -- The Long Shadow of in Loco Parentis -- Hiring Adults -- Mommy Benefits -- Make It Meaningful -- Eye-of-the-Storm Wants -- Thinking Partners -- Is Being Right Really All You Want? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…8.6.1 Competition on Diesel Fuel Taxes Leads EU Countries to Revise Their Pricing of Road Freight -- 8.6.2 Europe Does Not Make the Best Use of Its Rail and Air Transport System -- 8.7 What Have We Learnt? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Updating and evaluation of the road map -- 1.9.1. Evaluation indices -- 1.9.2. Evaluation reports -- 1.10. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…COME ON, MY LUCKY LADS (...)AT SENLIS ONCE [EN SENLIS UNA VEZ]; THE ZONNEBEKE ROAD [EL CAMINO (...); THE ANCRE AT HAMEL: AFTERWARDS (...); REPORT ON EXPERIENCE [INFORME (...); VLAMERTINGHE [VLAMERTINGHE]; 1916 SEEN FROM 1921 [1916 VISTO (...); CAN YOU REMEMBER? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Carlos MallorquínThe end of postmodern economics; On the road to the Mecca of development; Disembarking at the Mecca of development; Mr. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…The Empowered Manager: Positive Political Skills at Work -- Contents -- Prologue: To Read or Not to Read -- The View from the Bridge -- The View from the Boiler Room -- Sorry, Wrong Number -- What to Expect -- What Next -- Introduction: Why Empowerment Now and Again -- One: Managers in the Middle -- Part One: Politics in the Workplace-Rekindling the Entrepreneurial Spirit -- Two: Personal Choices That Shape the Work Environment -- The Road Most Traveled -- Now You See It, Now You Don't -- Choosing an Entrepreneurial Path -- Maintenance Versus Possibility -- Caution Versus Courage -- Dependency Versus Autonomy Leading to Interdependence -- When to Play It Safe -- Three: A Culture of Empowerment -- The Bureaucratic Cycle -- The Entrepreneurial Cycle -- The Patriarchal Contract -- Submission to Authority -- Denial of Self-Expression -- Sacrifice for Unnamed Future Rewards -- Belief That the First Three Elements Are Just -- Myopic Self-Interest: The Myth That Advancement and Self-Esteem Are Related -- Life At the Top -- Seeking Approval -- Hard Cash -- The Wish to Be Safe -- Control At All Costs -- Manipulative Tactics -- Saying What We Don't Mean -- God Is My Ally -- Understating the Downside -- Communication Devices -- Padding -- Language That Masks Reality -- The Price and the Point -- Four: The Empowerment Choice -- The Entrepreneurial Contract -- Be Our Own Authority -- Encourage Self-Expression -- Make Commitments -- Act on Our Interdependence -- Believe That These Elements Are Just -- Enlightened Self-Interest -- Meaning -- Contribution and Service -- Integrity -- Positive Impact on Others' Lives -- Mastery -- The Payoff -- Authentic Tactics -- Say No When We Mean No -- Share As Much Information As Possible -- Use Language That Describes Reality -- Avoid Repositioning for the Sake of Acceptance -- Part Two: Positive Political Skills at Work…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Preface -- Contributors -- Part I Access and Backhaul Networks -- 1 Roadmap for Next Generation Communications Networks (Mar<U+0083>ia lngeles Callejo Rodr<U+0083>iguez and Jos ̌Enr<U+0083>iquez Gabeiras) -- 2 Wide-Area Ubiquitous Network: An Infrastructure for Sensor and Actuator Networking (Hiroshi Saito, Masato Matsuo, Osamu Kagami, Shigeru Kuwano, Daisei Uchida, and Yuichi Kado) -- 3 Wireline Access Networks (Scott Reynolds) -- 4 Fiber-Wireless (FIWI) Networks: Technologies, Architectures, and Future Challenges (Navid Ghazisaidi and Martin Maier) -- 5 Packet Backhaul Network (Hao Long) -- 6 Microwave Backhaul Networks (Ron Nadiv) -- Part II Wireline Technologies -- 7 Paving the Road to Gbit/s Broadband Access with Copper (Thomas Magesacher, Per <U+00d6>dling, Miguel Berg, Stefan Hs̲t, Enrique Areizaga, Per Ola Br̲jesson and Eduardo Jacob) -- 8 Dynamic Bandwidth Allocation in EPON and GPON (Bj<U+008a>orn Skubic, Jiajia Chen, Jawwad Ahmed, Biao Chen and Lena Wosinska) -- 9 Next-Generation Ethernet Passive Optical Networks: 10G-EPON (Marek Hajduczenia and Henrique J. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…About this book -- STEP -- Worked Problems ; Worked problem 1 ; Worked problem 2 ; Problems-- ‡a P1 An integer equation P2 Partitions of 10 and 20 P3 Mathematical deduction P4 Divisibility P5 The modulus function P6 The regular Reuleaux heptagon P7 Chain of equations P8 Trig. equations P9 Integration by substitution P10 True or false P11 Egyptian fractions P12 Maximising with constraints P13 Binomial expansion P14 Sketching subsets of the plane P15 More sketching subsets of the plane P16 Non-linear simultaneous equations P17 Inequalities P18 Inequalities from cubics P19 Logarithms P20 Cosmological models P21 Melting snowballs P22 Gregory's series P23 Intersection of ellipses P24 Sketching x m ( 1 - x ) n P25 Inequalities by area estimates P26 Simultaneous integral equations P27 Relation between coefficients of quartic for real roots P28 Fermat numbers P29 Telescoping series P30 Integer solutions of cubics P31 The harmonic series P32 Integration by substitution P33 More curve sketching P34 Trig sum P35 Roots o ‡a f a cubic equation P36 Root counting P37 Irrationality of e P38 Discontinuous integrands P39 A difficult integral P40 Estimating the value of an integral P41 Integrating the modulus function P42 Geometry P43 The t substitution P44 A differential-difference equation P45 Lagrange's identity P46 Bernoulli polynomials P47 Vector geometry P48 Solving a quartic P49 Areas and volumes P50 More curve sketching P51 Spherical loaf P52 Snowploughing P53 Tortoise and hare P54 How did the chicken cross the road? P55 Hank's gold mine P56 A chocolate orange P57 Lorry on bend P58 Fielding P59 Equilibrium of rod of non-uniform density P60 Newton's cradle P61 Kinematics of rotating target P62 Particle on wedge P63 Sphere on step P64 Elastic band on cylinder P65 A knock-out tournament P66 Harry the calculating horse P67 PIN guessing P68 Breaking plates P69 Lottery P70 Bodies in the fridge P71 Choosing keys P72 Commuting by train P ‡a 73 Collecting voles P74 Breaking a stick P75 Random quadratics -- Syllabus…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…; Plutarch's Lives and the Critical Reader; 1. The road not taken; 2. Telling and showing; 3. Multivalence; 4. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Health problems of affluent societies -- Chronic diseases -- Ischaemic heart disease -- Cerebrovascular disease -- Diabetes mellitus -- Stomach, colorectal, breast, prostate cancer -- Lung cancer -- Liver cirrhosis -- Dementia -- Depression -- Injuries -- Road traffic injuries -- Suicide -- A new plague -- AIDS -- PART III: SYNTHESIS AND OUTLOOK -- Chapter 7. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Options for remedial actionBox 1.1. Example: Finnish Road Enterprise; Chapter 2. Identifying the costs of any given function; 2.1. …”