Tabla de Contenidos: “…News & World Report Ranking (2008) -- BusinessWeek Ranking (2006) -- Financial Times Ranking (2007) -- Wall Street Journal Ranking (2006) -- Forbes Ranking (2005) -- Understanding the System of Rankings -- Do Your Own Research -- Reputation -- Alumni Presence -- Faculty and Curriculum -- Teaching Method and Learning Environment -- Class Composition -- 'Selectivity' and 'Yield' -- Determine the Best School for Yourself -- Chapter 5: The Basics: Application and Admission Procedure -- The Application Cycles -- The Application: Requirements and Evaluation -- The Decision on Admissions by the Schools -- The Admission Decision-makers -- Process of Shortlisting -- Criteria for Making the Decision -- The Cost Analysis…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Photochemical Products and Unregulated Emittants -- INDOOR CONCENTRATIONS -- Principal Trace Gases -- Minor Emittants and Products -- EMITTANTS WITH POTENTIAL GLOBAL INFLUENCE -- Carbon Dioxide -- Carbon Monoxide -- Methane -- SUMMARY -- Data Adequacy -- Trends -- Concentrations -- SUMMARY OF RESEARCH RECOMMENDATIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- References -- Mathematical Modeling of the Effect of Emission Sources on Atmospheric Pollutant Concentrations -- DEVELOPMENT OF AIR QUALITY MODELS -- Components of Exposure -- Source/Receptor Relationships -- Historical Perspective -- EMISSION SOURCE CHARACTERISTICS -- CATEGORIES OF AIR QUALITY MODELS -- Empirical/Statistical Models -- Deterministic Models -- Temporal and Spatial Resolution of Empirical and Analytical Models -- MODELING APPROACHES FOR INDIVIDUAL PROCESSES -- Turbulent Transport and Diffusion -- Complex Terrain: Street Canyons -- Removal Processes -- Representation of Atmospheric Chemistry Through Chemical Mechanisms -- Aerosol Dynamics -- MODEL EVALUATION -- Approaches for Testing Model Performance -- Data Requirements -- Analysis of Model Performance -- APPLICATION OF AIR QUALITY MODELS -- Population Exposure Calculations -- Source Apportionment and Control Strategies -- Future Uses -- SPECIAL TOPICS AND EMERGING ISSUES IN AIR QUALITY MODELING -- Modeling Large-Scale Processes -- Modeling Small-Scale Processes -- Indoor/Outdoor Pollutant Relationships -- CONCLUSION -- SUMMARY OF RESEARCH RECOMMENDATIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- References -- Assessment of Human Exposure to Air Pollution: Methods, Measurements, and Models -- HUMAN EXPOSURE: INTRODUCTION -- DEFINITIONS -- Concentration, Exposure, and Dose -- Components of Exposure -- Types of Exposure Information -- Individual Exposure Versus Population Exposure -- METHODS -- Air Monitoring -- Biological Monitoring -- Research Recommendations…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- About the Book -- Intended Audience -- Overview of the Contents -- Section 1: Planning: Reviewing Strategic Fundamentals -- Section 2: Planning: Designing the Presentation -- Section 3: Developing: Wording and Text -- Section 4: Developing: Numbers and Labels -- Section 5: Developing: Charts, Images, and Layouts -- Section 6: Delivering: Final Presentation Preparation -- Section 7: Delivering: Giving the Presentation -- Section 1 Planning: Reviewing Strategic Fundamentals -- Tip 1: Results Are Not the Biggest Factor in Success -- Tip 2: Data Literacy Is a Two-WayStreet -- Tip 3: Don't Write Your Story . . . Tell Your Story! …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Se desvanece la huella de Estados Unidos en Medio Oriente,según The Wall Street Journal ; 7. Control de daños de Kissinger para la retirada de Estados Unidosen Medio Oriente ; 8. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…5.6.3 Simulation of Bivariate Normal -- 5.7 Statistical Dependence and Financial Risks -- 5.7.1 A Story of Three Loans -- 5.7.2 Independent Defaults -- 5.7.3 Correlated Defaults -- References -- 6 Copula Models of Dependence -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Definitions -- 6.2.1 Quasi-Monotonicity -- 6.2.2 Definition of Copula -- 6.2.3 Sklar's Theorem -- 6.2.4 Survival Copulas -- 6.3 Simplest Pair Copulas -- 6.3.1 Maximum Copula -- 6.3.2 Minimum Copula -- 6.3.3 FGM Copulas -- 6.4 Elliptical Copulas -- 6.4.1 Elliptical Distributions -- 6.4.2 Method of Inverses -- 6.4.3 Gaussian Copula -- 6.4.4 The t-copula -- 6.5 Archimedean Copulas -- 6.5.1 Definitions -- 6.5.2 One-Parameter Copulas -- 6.5.3 Clayton Copula -- 6.5.4 Frank Copula -- 6.5.5 Gumbel-Hougaard Copula -- 6.5.6 Two-Parameter Copulas -- 6.6 Simulation of Joint Distributions -- 6.6.1 Bivariate Elliptical Distributions -- 6.6.2 Bivariate Archimedean Copulas -- 6.7 Multidimensional Copulas -- References -- 7 Statistics of Copulas -- 7.1 The Formula that Killed Wall Street -- 7.2 Criteria of Model Comparison -- 7.2.1 Goodness-of-Fit Tests -- 7.2.2 Posterior Predictive p-values -- 7.2.3 Information Criteria -- 7.2.4 Concordance Measures -- 7.2.5 Tail Dependence -- 7.3 Parametric Estimation -- 7.3.1 Parametric, Semiparametric, or Nonparametric? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…The Cooking -- Prerequisites for Your Own Session -- Pitfalls -- Quotes from a Portuguese Colleague -- Agile Community Events and Meetups -- Chapter 13: The Netherlands -- History -- Insights -- Agile Organizations Set the Stage for Emergent Leaders -- Getting On and Around -- Different People and Fewer Rules -- Developer Productivity -- "We Should Have Been There Already" -- At Different Speeds -- Too Slow and Too Fast -- There Is No Single Best Way of Working -- There Is No End-State -- Medan Revisited -- Fewer Rules -- Looking Back -- Agile Events and Meetups -- Chapter 14: Poland -- History -- Insights -- One-Way Street to Transparency -- Getting On and Around -- Forced Fun -- Icebreakers -- Gamification -- Art Classes -- Agile Community Events and Meetups -- Chapter 15: United Kingdom -- History -- Insights -- User-Centered Research to Plug the Afro Hair Problem -- Busting Silos -- Helping a Business to Innovate and Inspire -- Getting On and Around -- Agile Community Events and Meetups -- Part V: Africa -- Agile Community Events and Meetups -- Chapter 16: South Africa -- History -- Finding My Voice -- Insights -- Getting On and Around -- Navigating Cultural Differences in the South African Context -- The Impact of Cultural Traits on Agile Adoption -- Agile Community Events and Meetups -- Chapter 17: West Africa -- History -- Insights -- Learntor: On a Mission to Create a Level Playing Field for Nigerians -- Getting On and Around -- Agile Community Events and Meetups -- Part VI: Survival Guide -- Chapter 18: The State of the World -- Power to the People -- Is Taylorism Ingrained in the Way We Work Today? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…"They have lived in our street for six years now and still don't speak a work [!] …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Lesson 12: Pulling It All Together: Prompting for an Address -- STEP 1: GETTING STARTED -- STEP 2: ACCEPT USER INPUT -- STEP 3: DISPLAY THE INPUT VALUE -- STEP 4: MODIFY THE OUTPUT -- STEP 5: SPLIT A TEXT VALUE -- STEP 6: DISPLAY ONLY THE HOUSE NUMBER -- STEP 7: DISPLAY THE STREET NAME -- STEP 8: ADD THE PERIOD -- SUMMARY -- Lesson 13: Organizing with Functions -- FUNCTIONS OVERVIEW -- DEFINING FUNCTIONS IN PYTHON -- FUNCTION SYNTAX -- DEFAULT INPUT VALUES -- PARAMETER SYNTAX -- ARBITRARY ARGUMENTS -- KEYWORD ARGUMENTS -- ARBITRARY KEYWORD ARGUMENTS -- SUMMARY -- EXERCISES -- PART III: Object-Oriented Programming in Python -- Lesson 14: Incorporating Object-Oriented Programming -- OBJECT-ORIENTED PROGRAMMING OVERVIEW -- DEFINING CLASSES -- CREATING OBJECTS -- WORKING WITH METHODS -- CLASS ATTRIBUTES -- SUMMARY -- EXERCISES -- Lesson 15: Including Inheritance -- UNDERSTANDING INHERITANCE -- CREATING A PARENT CLASS -- CREATING A CHILD CLASS -- INHERITING AT MULTIPLE LEVELS -- OVERRIDING METHODS -- SUMMARY -- EXERCISES -- Lesson 16: Pulling It All Together: Building a Burger Shop -- REQUIREMENTS FOR OUR APPLICATION -- PLAN THE CODE -- CREATE THE CLASSES -- CREATE THE FOOD ITEM CLASS -- CREATE THE MAIN FILE -- DISPLAY THE OUTPUT -- TIE THE CODE FILES TOGETHER -- SUMMARY -- PART IV: Data Processing with Python -- Lesson 17: Working with Dates and Times -- GETTING STARTED WITH DATES AND TIMES -- GETTING THE CURRENT DATE AND TIME -- SPLITTING A DATE STRING -- USING DATETIME ATTRIBUTES -- CREATING CUSTOM DATETIME OBJECTS -- COMPARE DATETIME VALUES -- WORKING WITH UTC FORMAT -- APPLYING TIMESTAMPS -- ARITHMETIC AND DATES -- CALCULATING THE DIFFERENCE IN DAYS -- USING DATE WITHOUT TIME -- USING TIME WITHOUT DATE -- SUMMARY -- EXERCISES -- Lesson 18: Processing Text Files -- FILE PROCESSING OVERVIEW -- INTRODUCTION TO FILE INPUT/OUTPUT -- PROCESSING TEXT FILES…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…</P><UL><UL></B><P><LI>The four things that are stopping your sales</LI><P></P><P><LI>Old school "feet on the street" selling is dead.</LI><P></P><P><LI>Funnel Fallacies: You can't sell everything online.…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Disabling dynamics -- Lack of PO between clients and CFOC -- Less support for long-term CFOs and clients -- Unclear role of RD -- Organisational beliefs and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) -- Heavy reliance on the RD for finding and winning clients -- Covid-19 -- Psychological ownership pathways -- Roots of PO -- Efficacy is important for clients and CFOs -- Self-identity -- Having a place -- Routes of PO -- Psychological safety matters -- Control -- Investing self -- Knowing intimately -- Other considerations -- Age, gender, introversion, and extroversion -- Retention skills -- Emotional intelligence -- References -- Part V: Strategy and Leadership as Service Framework: The Four Rs -- Chapter 10: The Roots -- Developing roots -- Efficacy -- Having needs met is a two-way street -- Understanding the needs of the C-suite team members -- Service -- Education -- Monitoring -- Relationship between the client and firm of C-suite providers -- Self-identity -- C-suite professionals focus on sector and functional experience to enhance their identity -- Matching identity of client and C-suite professional -- C-suite professionals and their C-suite firm -- Lack of identity of clients with the C-suite firm -- Having a place -- C-suite professionals feel at home at their C-suite firm and with their clients -- Clients' feelings of being at home with their C-suite firm -- References -- Chapter 11: The Routes -- Training and coaching the routes to build psychological ownership -- Psychological safety -- A natural part of the model -- C-suite skills for creating psychological safety -- Building interpersonal trust -- An escape clause -- Time and place -- Mediator roles -- Control -- Control versus influence -- Freedom and control within portfolio work -- Freedom is a beautiful system -- Day-to-day control -- Control for the client -- Accessibility and availability…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Railway Sheds, Expo Pavilions, Terminals - Spatial Landscapes of the Future, p. 58 ; Railways Conquer Architecture, p. 62 ; Euston Station, London, p. 64 ; Lime Street Station, Liverpool, p. 66 ; Gare d’Austerlitz, paris, p. 68 ; Station Designed by german Master Builders, p. 70 ; Field of Experimentation Expo Pavilions, p. 72 ; Crystal Palace, London, p. 74 ; Glass Palace, Munich, p. 74 ; Palais des Machines, World Exhibition, Paris, p. 78 ;Interim Worlds: The Avant-garde and Fascination with Construction, p. 80 ; Main station on Santa Maria Novella, Florence, p. 82 ; “Tensegrity” Structures for Wide Halls – Richard Buckminster Fuller and the Consequences, p. 84 ; Olympic Stadium, Munich, p. 86 ; US Pavilion, Expo Osaka, p. 88 ; A New Type of Terminal: Station and Airport Buildings, p. 90 ; Roofing Over the Postal Vehicle Shed, Chur, p. 92 ; Waterloo lnternational Terminal, London, p. 94 ; Lehrter Main Station, Berlin, p. 98 ; New Stations for Deutsche Bahn - Visions, p. 100 ; How Concrete Became Lighter - 100 Years of Concrete Pioneers, p. 102 ; Concrete: The Building Material of the 20th Century, p. 106 ; The ldeal Industrial City - Citè Industrielle, p. 108 ; The Magazine ABC, p. 110 ; The Domino Model, p. 112 ; Système Hennebique: The Strength of Reinforced Concrete in Design, p. 114 ; Apartment House, 25bis rue Franklin, Paris, p. 116 ; Bally Shoe Factory, Dottikon, p. 118 ; Fiat Automobile Factory Lingotto, Turin, p. 120 ; Key Buildings of Dutch Modernism, p. 122 ; Bauhaus Dessau, p. 126 ; The Invention of the “Mushroom Column”, p. 124 ; Van Nelle Tobacco, Tea and Coffee Factory, Rotterdam, p. 128 ; Johnson Wax, Administration Building, Racine, Wisconsin, p. 130 ; The Further Development of a Modern Culture of Building in Concrete: Concepts for Free Spatial Forms, p. 132 ; Pier Luig Nervi - Engineer Architect, p. 134 ; Angelo Mangiarotti - The Design Impact of Concrete: Structural Systems, p. 136 ; Franz Dischinger and Concrete Shell Technology, p. 138 ; Eduardo Torroja - The Logic of Form, p. 140 ; Eladio Dieste - Thin-shell Brickwork Structures: Using Concrete Technology, p. 142 ; Heinz Isler - Spatial Form and Shell Technology, p. 144 ; Concrete and Architectonically Shaped Space, p. 146 ; Portuguese Pavilion, World Exposition on the Theme of the Oceans, Lisbon, p. 148 ; Menil Collection Museum, Houston, Texas, p. 150 ; Hochschule fïr Technik und Wirtschaft and Commercial Building on Ottoplatz, Chur, p. 152 ; Transitions - From Tectonics to Morphology, Andermatt, p. 154 ; The “Liberated Façade” - From Wall to Partition to Skin, p. 156 ; Iron Skeleton Structure and Curtain Wall, p. 160 ; Office Buildings Liverpool, p. 162 ; Menier Chocolate Factory Noisiel-sur-Marne, p. 164 ; From the New York Iron Works to the “Chicago Frame”, p. 166 ; First Leiter Building and Fair Building; Chicago, Illinois, p. 168 ; The Chicago School of Architecture, p. 170 ; The “'façade libre” - A Project of Modernism, p. 172 ; The Luxfer Prism Company - Frank Lloyd Wright's Studies and Projects, p. 174 ; The Industrial Building Culture in Germany, p. 176 ; “Le mur rideau” - Studies and Projects by Le Corbusier, p. 178 ; Industrial Façade Technology - Studies and Projects by Jean Prouve, p. 180 ; The Lightness of Post-war Modernism, p. 182 ; Ludwig Mirs van der Rohe: IIT Campus and Skyscraper Technology in Chicago, p. 184 ; An American School of Thought of Post-war Modernism: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, p. 186 ; From “Liberated Space” to Transparent Skin: Egon Eiermann and Sep Ruf, p. 188 ; After 1973 - The Future of the Intelligent Building Envelope, p. 190 ; The Technology of Structural Glazing - Peter Rice and RFR, p. 192 ; Experiments in the Field of Material Technology - the Buildings of Renzo Piano Building Workshop, p. 194 ; Concepts for New Glass Façades, p. 196 ; Transformation Strategies, p. 198 ; The “Communicative” Building Envelope, p. 200 ; Process Thinking Conquers Construction – lndustrialisation from the Balloon Frame to the Skyscraper, p. 202 ; Balloon Frame and Skyscraper: The First Symbols of Successful Industrial Building, p. 206 ; Wooden Frame Construction: Balloon Frame and Western Frame, p. 208 ; The McCormick Factory: “Interchangeable Parts” as the Forerunner of Industrial Building, p. 210 ; The Chicago Frame and the lnvention of the Skyscraper, p. 212 ; Frank Lloyd Wright – Ballon-frame Construction Technique and Tectonic Design, p. 214 ; Mass Production and the Industrial Programme of Modern Architecture, p. 216 ; Albert Kahn and the 'Industrial Office', p. 218 ; Major and Model Developments, p. 220 ; Case Study Houses, p. 224 ; Empire State Building, New York, p. 226 ; Construction System Mindset Between the “Sputnik Shock” and the “Oil Shock” - Precursors and Consequences, p. 228 ; Jean Prouve: from the “baraque demonlable” to the “2CV de l'habitat”, p. 230 ; The General Panel System, p. 232 ; The USM Construction System, p. 234 ; Concrete Construction Systems, p. 236 ; Structuralism, p. 238 ; From Mass-made to Customised Production, p. 240 ; Bercy 2 Shopping Centre Charenton le Pont near Paris, p. 242 ; Spheres, Blobs and Digital Tectonics, p. 244 ; Combination of Industrial and Manual Techniques, p. 246 ; "Sustainable Building Design" - A Future Project, p. 248 ; Efficiency and Effectiveness of Systems, Structures and Elements, p. 252 ; The Invention of the Joint, p. 254 ; The Renault Distribution Centre, Swindon, p. 256 ; Aluminium Jubilee Pavilion, Paris, p. 258 ; IBM Travelling Exhibition Pavilion, p. 260 ; Air as Construction Material, p. 262 ; Material and Technology, Resources and Processes, p. 264 ; Shigeru Ban: The “Paper Tube Structure” Technique, p. 266 ; Profiling: a Constant Theme of Industrial Design, p. 268 ; Plastics, New Materials, Composities, p. 270 ; Metamorphoses in Glass, p. 272 ; “Light Tech” and “Low Energy” - A Watershed in The Way of Thinking, p. 274 ; The “New Atrium” , p. 276 ; The City Mall, p. 278 ; The Green Skyscraper, p. 280 ; The Newsirit and Peak_Lab Research Projects, p. 282 ; Regarding the Question of Habitat, p. 286 ; 10 Points Regarding a Culture of Sustainability, p. 288 ; Learning from Nature, p. 290 ; Low-energy Strategies, p. 292 ; The Sustainable Skin Concept, p. 294 ; Jean-Marie TJibaou Cultural Centre, Nouméa, p. 296 ; Sir Ove Arup: The Key Speech, 1970, p. 298 ; Notes, p. 306 ; Bibliography, p. 313 ; Index, p. 318 ; Picture Credits, p. 318 ; lndex of Names, p. 318 ; Index of Places and Projects, p. 320 ; Exhibition and Expo Projects, p. 322.…”