Tabla de Contenidos: “…Broadband connectivity in rural areas needs to improve in coverage and quality to provide equal development opportunities -- Building on recent efforts to improve rural access to quality education and healthcare -- Further efforts are needed on land restitution and formalisation as well as on clarity on the autonomy of ethnic groups to improve social cohesion in rural communities -- Enhancing environment conservation and its income-generating potential requires stronger involvement of local communities in land use management -- Rural policy implementation requires better co-ordination among levels of government and further involvement of local actors to attain long-lasting outcomes -- An inter-ministerial structure can co-ordinate the design and implementation of rural development policies at the national and local levels -- Municipal governments need to become better partners for rural policy implementation -- The government has scope to make civil society a stronger partner in rural policy implementation -- Recommendations -- Developing a comprehensive national rural policy that focuses on raising people's well-being -- Prioritising key enabling factors for rural development to ensure lasting policy outcomes and mobilise the rural potential -- Improving the design and implementation of rural policy, supported by an inter-ministerial co-ordination body for rural policy -- References -- Notes -- 2 Strengths and challenges in the rural development of Colombia -- Introduction -- A territorial classification to better grasp the rural potential in Colombia -- Colombia's official definition: A modern proposal not yet fully adopted -- The Colombian sub-regionalisation under functional criteria: A crucial step to identify territorial functionality -- The OECD regional typology -- Setting the scene: The Colombian context…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Legislation guiding the monitoring and evaluation of regional development in Croatia -- Notes -- 5 Regional development funding and financing -- Introduction -- Sources of regional development funding and financing in Croatia -- Croatia's performance on selected fiscal indicators -- Subnational governments continue to rely heavily on grants and subsidies, despite increasing tax revenue -- Cities and municipalities receive most of their transfers from EU funds -- Subnational tax autonomy has gradually increased in Croatia -- Driven by EU accession, subnational investment increased by 82.7% over the last decade -- Subnational governments have maintained sound fiscal health during crises thanks to national government support -- EU and national funding and financing mechanisms for regional development -- Integrated Territorial Investments -- National Recovery and Resilience Plan -- Regional development funding from the national government -- Funding for the operation of RDAs -- Financing options for regional development -- Public finance-related challenges to regional development in Croatia -- Making the most of EU funding for regional development -- An increasing use of EU funding may pose challenges for policy makers to effectively address local needs -- Resource disparities across cities and municipalities can affect equal access to EU funding opportunities -- Subnational governments should diversify their revenue streams -- Under certain conditions, subnational public-private partnerships could mobilise funding for regional development initiatives -- Ensuring that the recent PIT reforms do not exacerbate regional and local disparities -- The 2023 PIT reform could reduce city and municipal dependency on inter-governmental grants -- A race to lower PIT rates may widen fiscal gaps between cities and municipalities…”

“…"This book is the ontological thesis that all objects, as Ian Bogost has so nicely put it, equally exist while they do not exist equally. The claim that all objects equally exist is the claim that no object can be treated as constructed by another object"-- Google books In The Democracy of Objects Bryant proposes that we break with the epistemological tradition and once again initiate the project of ontology as first philosophy. …”

“…"Migration, Equality and Racism trigger ever more salient societal debates. …”

“…"Kazakhstan has made important gains in gender equality over the past decade, but gaps still remain. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Part II-monosymmetric (R) and double symmetric built-up box cross-sections -- Comparison of two different innovative solutions for IPE beam to CHS column connections -- Performances of moment resisting frames with slender steel and composite sections in low and moderate seismic areas -- Laser technology for innovative connections in steel construction: An overview of the project LASTEICON -- Analytical assessment of CFS wall-panels sheathed with MgO board -- Direct Strength Method (DSM) design of simply supported short-to-intermediate hot-rolled steel equal-leg angle columns -- Stability of ring stiffened steel liners under external pressure-comparison of the existing design concept with 3D-FEM analysis -- Numerical investigation of steel built-up columns composed of track and channel cold-formed sections…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Investment Structure: Mutual Fund, Collective Investment Trust, or Separately Managed Account -- Understand Revenue Sharing: Consider Paying Administration and Other Plan Fees -- Blended Multimanager or White-Label Investment Options -- Tier III: "Do-It-Myself" Mutual-Fund-Only or Full Brokerage Window -- Considering an Outsourced Chief Investment Officer -- Considering an Outsourced Chief Investment Officer -- In Closing -- Questions for Plan Fiduciaries -- Notes -- Chapter 4 Target-Date Designand Approaches -- Target-Date Structures vary By plan Size -- Custom Target-Date Strategies -- Semicustom Target-Date -- Packaged Target-Date -- Target-Date Selection and Evaluation Criteria -- No Such Thing as Passive -- Low Cost and Low Tracking Error Does Not Equal Low Risk -- Framework for Selecting and Evaluating Target-Date Strategies: Three Active Decisions Plan Sponsors Must Make -- Active Decision #1: How Much Risk Can Plan Participants Take? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Performance properties -- Performance testing - best practices -- Knowing your code and hot spots -- Profilers -- Instrumentation profilers -- Sampling profilers -- Summary -- Chapter 4: Data Structures -- Properties of computer memory -- STL containers -- Sequence containers -- Vector and array -- Deque -- List and forward_list -- The basic_string -- Associative containers -- Ordered sets and maps -- Unordered sets and maps -- Hash and equals -- Hash policy -- Container adaptors -- Priority queues -- Parallel arrays -- Summary -- Chapter 5: A Deeper Look at Iterators -- The iterator concept -- Iterator categories -- Pointer-mimicking syntax -- Iterators as generators -- Iterator traits -- Implementing a function using iterator categories…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Understanding strategic sourcing -- Establishing ethics -- Exploring certifications and standards -- Chapter 14 Circular Materials, Products, and Packaging -- Redesigning Materials and Products: The Transition from Linear to Circular -- "Less bad" does not equal "good" -- Planning for material reincarnation -- How To Keep Materials In Use Forever -- Why things break -- From planned obsolescence to planned permanence -- Shipping Global versus Producing Local -- Building a regional economy: A shipping substitute -- You've got to be shipping me -- Permanent packaging -- Part 4 Redesigning the Future to be Circular -- Chapter 15 The Circular Economy of Food Production -- Examining the Two Ways of Producing Food -- Investigating the Hidden Costs of Agriculture -- Food waste: Expending money, time, and resources unnecessarily -- Environmental degeneration: Damaging the planet with increasing speed -- Permaculture to the Rescue -- Following nature's lead: Permaculture design principles -- Taking a look at permaculture management zones -- Chapter 16 Circularity for Design -- Redesigning Design -- Understanding circular design -- Designing out waste -- Keeping products and materials in use -- Regenerating natural systems -- Recognizing the Problems Designers Face -- We're being overtaken by trash -- We're running out of materials -- We're choking on carbon -- Creating a Framework for Circular Design -- Applying the ReSOLVE framework to buildings -- Layers of useful life -- Putting the pieces together -- Chapter 17 Circular Economy for Builders, Makers, and Manufacturers -- Assessing a Building's Lifecycle -- Defining construction and demolition debris -- Gauging the economic opportunities of C&amp -- D waste -- Measuring C&amp -- D waste impact -- Defining lifecycle impacts -- Identifying human health hazards and promoting transparency…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Inspecting databases -- Inspecting tables -- Making sense of pg_stat_user_tables -- Digging into indexes -- Tracking the background worker -- Tracking, archiving, and streaming -- Checking SSL connections -- Inspecting transactions in real time -- Tracking vacuum progress -- Using pg_stat_statements -- Creating log files -- Configuring the postgresql.conf file -- Defining log destination and rotation -- Configuring syslog -- Logging slow queries -- Defining what and how to log -- Summary -- Q&amp -- A -- Chapter 6: Optimizing Queries for Good Performance -- Learning what the optimizer does -- Optimizations by example -- Evaluating join options -- Nested loops -- Hash joins -- Merge joins -- Applying transformations -- Inlining the view -- Flattening subselects -- Applying equality constraints -- Exhaustive searching -- Trying it all out -- Making the process fail -- Constant folding -- Understanding function inlining -- Join pruning -- Speedup set operations -- Understanding execution plans -- Approaching plans systematically -- Making EXPLAIN more verbose -- Spotting problems -- Spotting changes in runtime -- Inspecting estimates -- Inspecting buffer usage -- Fixing high buffer usage -- Understanding and fixing joins -- Getting joins right -- Processing outer joins -- Understanding the join_collapse_limit variable -- Enabling and disabling optimizer settings -- Understanding genetic query optimization -- Partitioning data -- Creating partitions -- Applying table constraints -- Modifying inherited structures -- Moving tables in and out of partitioned structures -- Cleaning up data -- Understanding PostgreSQL 11.0 partitioning -- Adjusting parameters for good query performance -- Speeding up sorting -- Speeding up administrative tasks -- Making use of parallel queries -- What is PostgreSQL able to do in parallel? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Set Theory and Predicate Logic -- Undefined Terms -- Equality, Identity, and Sameness -- Mathematical Conventions -- Numbers -- Context -- Alphabetical Order -- Functions, Parameters, and Variables -- Instructions and Algorithms -- Set Theory -- Set-Builder Notation -- Well-Definedness of Sets -- Domains of Discourse -- Domains and Modeling -- Faithfulness -- Russell's Paradox -- Ordered Pairs, Tuples, and Cartesian Products -- The Cartesian Product -- The Empty Set(s) -- The Characteristic Function of a Set -- Cardinality -- Order -- Alphabetical Order -- Trichotomy -- Induced Order -- Ordinal Numbers -- Set Operators -- Set Difference -- Set Partitions -- Generalizations of Set Theory -- Predicate Logic -- Propositions and Predicates -- Proposition or Predicate? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Gathering runtime statistics -- Working with PostgreSQL system views -- Checking live traffic -- Inspecting databases -- Inspecting tables -- Making sense of pg_stat_user_tables -- Digging into indexes -- Tracking the background worker -- Tracking, archiving, and streaming -- Checking SSL connections -- Inspecting transactions in real time -- Tracking vacuum progress -- Using pg_stat_statements -- Creating log files -- Configuring postgresql.conf file -- Defining log destination and rotation -- Configuring syslog -- Logging slow queries -- Defining what and how to log -- Summary -- Chapter 6: Optimizing Queries for Good Performance -- Learning what the optimizer does -- Optimizations by example -- Evaluating join options -- Nested loops -- Hash joins -- Merge joins -- Applying transformations -- Inlining the view -- Flattening subselects -- Applying equality constraints -- Exhaustive searching -- Trying it all out -- Making the process fail -- Constant folding -- Understanding function inlining -- Join pruning -- Speedup set operations -- Understanding execution plans -- Approaching plans systematically -- Making EXPLAIN more verbose -- Spotting problems -- Spotting changes in runtime -- Inspecting estimates -- Inspecting buffer usage -- Fixing high buffer usage -- Understanding and fixing joins -- Getting joins right -- Processing outer joins -- Understanding the join_collapse_limit variable -- Enabling and disabling optimizer settings -- Understanding genetic query optimization -- Partitioning data -- Creating partitions -- Applying table constraints -- Modifying inherited structures -- Moving tables in and out of partitioned structures -- Cleaning up data -- Adjusting parameters for good query performance -- Speeding up sorting -- Speedup administrative tasks -- Summary -- Chapter 7: Writing Stored Procedures…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Introduction -- Comparing two means (rating scales and task times) -- Within-subjects comparison (paired t-test) -- Confidence interval around the difference -- Practical significance -- Comparing task times -- Normality assumption of the paired t-test -- Between-subjects comparison (two-sample t-test) -- Confidence interval around the difference -- Assumptions of the t-tests -- Normality -- Equality of variances -- Don't worry too much about violating assumptions (except representativeness) -- Comparing completion rates, conversion rates, and A/B testing -- Between-subjects -- Chi-square test of independence -- Small sample sizes -- Two-proportion test -- Fisher exact test -- Yates correction -- N−1 Chi-square test -- N−1 Two-proportion test -- Confidence interval for the difference between proportions -- Within-subjects -- McNemar exact test -- Concordant pairs -- Discordant pairs -- Alternate approaches -- Chi-square statistic…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Finding confidence limits for a mean -- Using R to find the confidence limits for a mean -- Fit to a t -- Chapter 2 One-Sample Hypothesis Testing -- Hypotheses, Tests, and Errors -- Hypothesis Tests and Sampling Distributions -- Catching Some Z's Again -- Z Testing in R -- t for One -- t Testing in R -- Working with t-Distributions -- Visualizing t-Distributions -- Plotting t in base R graphics -- Plotting t in ggplot2 -- One more thing about ggplot2 -- Testing a Variance -- Manufacturing an Example -- Testing in R -- Working with Chi-Square Distributions -- Visualizing Chi-Square Distributions -- Plotting chi-square in base R graphics -- Plotting chi-square in ggplot2 -- Chapter 3 Two-Sample Hypothesis Testing -- Hypotheses Built for Two -- Sampling Distributions Revisited -- Applying the central limit theorem -- Zs once more -- Z-testing for two samples in R -- t for Two -- Like Peas in a Pod: Equal Variances -- t-Testing in R -- Working with two vectors -- Working with a data frame and a formula -- Visualizing the results -- Box plots -- Bar graphs -- Like ps and qs: Unequal variances -- A Matched Set: Hypothesis Testing for Paired Samples -- Paired Sample t-testing in R -- Testing Two Variances -- F testing in R -- F in conjunction with t -- Working with F Distributions -- Visualizing F Distributions -- Chapter 4 Testing More than Two Samples -- Testing More than Two -- A thorny problem -- A solution -- Meaningful relationships -- ANOVA in R -- Plotting a boxplot to visualize the data -- After the ANOVA -- Planned comparisons -- Another word about contrasts -- Contrasts in R.…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- The WHERE Clause -- Life Without WHERE -- WHERE to the Rescue -- WHERE Clause Evaluation -- Conditions and Expressions -- Equality/Inequality Conditions -- Membership Conditions -- Range Conditions -- Matching Conditions -- Regular Expressions -- Handling NULL -- Placement of Join Conditions -- WHERE to Go from Here -- Joins -- What Is a Join Query? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…. -- Stretching a histogram to improve the image contrast -- Applying a lookup table on color images -- Equalizing the image histogram -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- Backprojecting a histogram to detect specific image content -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- There's more... -- Backprojecting color histograms -- Using the mean shift algorithm to find an object -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- See also -- Retrieving similar images using histogram comparison -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- See also -- Counting pixels with integral images -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- There's more... -- Adaptive thresholding -- Visual tracking using histograms -- See also -- Chapter 5: Transforming Images with Morphological Operations -- Eroding and dilating images using morphological filters -- Getting ready…”