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Tabla de Contenidos: “…ETFs for the Long Run: What They Are, How They Work, and Simple Strategies for Successful Long-Term Investing; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1: ETFs-The Newfangled Mutual Funds; Chapter 2: ETF History Lesson; Chapter 3: The Evolution of the ETF; Chapter 4: Index Fund-amentals; Chapter 5: Fee Bitten; Chapter 6: The Better Mousetrap; Chapter 7: The New Indexers; Chapter 8: The ETFs That Aren't ETFs; Chapter 9: Putting the "Trade" in Exchange-Traded Funds; Chapter 10: Building Your Own ETF Portfolio; Chapter 11: The Future of ETFs…”

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Tabla de Contenidos: “…Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART I: LEARNING THE GAME; PART II: PLAYING THE GAME; PART III: MASTERING THE GAME; PART IV: REDEFINING THE GAME; Epilogue: Is Success the Standard or Is Greatness the Goal?; Notes; Index; About the Authors…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Chapter 4: Software Quality Attributes -- Quality attributes -- External or internal -- Quality attributes and the SDLC -- Testing quality attributes -- Maintainability -- Types of software maintenance -- Corrective maintenance -- Perfective maintenance -- Adaptive maintenance -- Preventive maintenance -- Modifiability -- Extensibility and flexibility -- Scope of modifications -- Designing for maintainability -- Reducing size -- Increasing cohesion -- Reducing coupling -- Measuring maintainability -- Lines of code (LOC) -- Cyclomatic complexity -- Depth of inheritance tree (DIT) -- Usability -- Allowing users to complete their tasks efficiently -- Learnability -- Providing useful feedback -- Accessibility -- Usability needs to be considered during requirements -- Usability testing -- Appealing visual design -- Providing a good help system -- Software must be useful, and not just usable -- Availability -- Calculating availability based on time -- Calculating availability based on request success rate -- Faults, errors, and failures -- Detecting faults -- Ping/echo reply -- Heartbeat -- Timestamp -- Voting -- Sanity test/sanity checking -- Condition monitoring -- Self-tests -- Recovering from faults -- Exception handling -- Retry strategy -- Varying levels of redundancy -- Rollback -- Graceful degradation -- Ignoring faulty behavior -- Preventing faults -- Removal from service -- Transactions -- Increasing competence sets -- Exception prevention -- Portability -- Adaptability -- Installability -- Replaceability -- Internationalization and localization -- Maintaining portability -- Interoperability -- Challenges with interoperability -- Locating and exchanging information with another system -- Interoperability standards -- Interoperability testing -- Testability -- Controllability -- Observability -- Isolability -- Automatability…”

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Tabla de Contenidos: “…The value exchange vs the fear of imitationchapter 11 ReConnect Principle 6 - Think bigger; Game changers vs game resisters; Fear is not your friend; Fail your way to success; Thinking big? Then make the decisions big; Take calculated risks; Lights, camera, action; The discomfort zone; Be alert and alarmed; There is no I in ...; chapter 12 ReConnect Principle 7 - Sponsor others; Sponsors vs mentors; Sponsorship as part of the We economy; A laser-sharp focus on sponsorship; Conclusion; Index; Advert; EULA…”

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