“…Estimates suggest that about half of the foreign-born population originally came to Sweden as refugees or as the family of refugees and Sweden has been the OECD country that has had by far the largest inflows of asylum seekers relative to its population. …”

“…In particular, it turns out that improvements of Germany’s price competitiveness in the second half of the 1990s have been primarily the result of a relative domestic demand restraint and hardly that of supply side expansions…”

“…In order to achieve the ambitious energy transformation set out in the Energiewende, by 2030 half of all electricity supply will come from renewable energy sources; Germany must continue to develop cost-effective market-based approaches which will support the forecast growth of variable renewable generation. …”

“…Regression results suggest that transfer systems tend to be pro-cyclical in general and in more than half of OECD countries they tend to destabilise sub-central budgets. …”

“…Developing countries, with the support of multilateral institutions, the bilateral development assistance community and civil society organisations, are focusing as never before on the development priority of reducing poverty by half by 2015. Country-led and country-owned poverty reduction strategies focusing on local needs and priorities as determined by stakeholders are now the focus of all development assistance efforts. …”

“…The new publication is scheduled for release in the first half of 1998.…”

“…Rob Johnson writes here the engrossing history of the individual conflicts that have engulfed the states of South Asia during the last half century. A Region in Turmoil offers a new perspective on the area, drawing together the conflicts of South Asia and examining them in local and global contexts, from the end of the West…”

“…Given the process of internationalization in which the university institution is today, the study of the reform that occurred in the first half of the 19th century when the corporation of the old regime disappeared and a centralized and state order emerged. …”

“…You can even combine multiple effects to create other cool results–the book’s cover was designed by combining at least half a dozen techniques found within. Corey wrote this book for working designers, or anyone who just wants to add some “cool factor” to their projects. …”

“…Fast-moving software teams used flags a decade ago to work on half-finished code without disrupting their users. …”

“…Created in the 1950s, Modern Portfolio Theory (MPT) was created as an academic exercise and reflects the conditions of the 1950s and 1960s, not the state of your retirement account. A half century later, MPT has outlived its usefulness and is leading investors astray. …”

“…She has expertise in Java high-performance systems, is passionate about enabling developer productivity, and has a wide breadth of industry experience from the decade and a half she's been a professional developer. Twitter: @trisha_gee Skill Level Intermediate What You Will Learn How to build modern UIs using AngularJS How Java can be used between the front-end and MongoDB on the back-end More about MongoDB, a document database How to use these tools together to rapidly prototype web applications Who Should Take This Course Developers looking for a demonstration on how to use front-end and back-end tools to rapidly prototype web applications. …”

“…Change Your Space, Change Your Culture was born out of recent studies that expose truly outrageous "Oh, my God" realities: More than 70 percent of the workforce either hates their job or they are just going through the motions. Half of all office space is wasted. Those shattering facts exist because office space is generally regarded as "overhead" or "sunk cost." …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- Introduction -- A Pencil Timeline -- Tools and Materials -- CHAPTER 1: DRAWING WITH LINE -- Type of Line and Line Personality -- Exercise 1: Line and Space -- Exercise 2: Texture -- Exercise 3: Volume -- Exercise 4: Completing a Full Composition in Line -- Gallery -- CHAPTER 2: DRAWING WITH TONE -- Getting Started in Tone -- Exercise 1: Taking Creative Control of the Values -- Exercise 2: Getting Started -- Exercise 3: Drawing with the Eraser -- Exercise 4: Adding Complex Shadows (Seeing Light in the Shadows) -- Exercise 5: Building Tone with Marks -- Gallery -- CHAPTER 3: DRAWING QUICKLY -- Finding the Essence of a Form -- Exercise 1: Blind Contour -- Exercise 2: Drawing in a Busy Public Space -- Exercise 3: Adding a Background -- Gallery -- CHAPTER 4: PHOTOREALISTIC DRAWING -- Interpreting Reality -- Exercise 1: Grid the Paper and Photo -- Exercise 2: Add Tone in the Lighter Range -- Exercise 3: Establish a Range: The Darkest Dark, The Lightest Light -- Exercise 4: Add Details in the Midrange -- CHAPTER 5: ADDING COLOR -- Wet and Dry -- Exercise 1: Watercolor over Pencil -- Exercise 2: Pencil over Watercolor -- Exercise 3: Pencil and Colored Pencil -- Exercise 4: Pencil and Ink -- Exercise 5: Pencil and Gouache -- Gallery -- Artists Directory -- Acknowledgments -- About the Author -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.…”

“…Six and a half Hours of Video Instruction More than six hours of video instruction covering the knowledge necessary to pass the AWS Solutions Architect Associate certification exam, including an in-depth review of AWS architecture principles and best practices, and technical details pertaining to the implementation of services in accordance with the Well Architected Framework as published by Amazon Web Services. …”

“…Significantly more than half the world's population currently lives under some form of right-wing populist or authoritarian rule. …”

“…The overall offset is estimated at between about one-third and one-half, depending on model specification, and applies both to public consumption and revenue shifts. …”

“…The capital region absorbs more than a half of the total FDI in Spain and has extended its economic relations with Latin American countries. …”

“…Mo Gawdat, a remarkable thinker whose gifts had landed him top positions in half a dozen companies and who - in his spare time - had created significant wealth, realized that he was desperately unhappy. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Front Cover -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Figures -- Bibliographical Abbreviations -- Text Editions and Translations of Ancient and Modern Texts -- Inclusion of Previously Published Work by the Same Author -- Chapter 1. …”