Tabla de Contenidos: “…Consumer Protection Strategies and Mechanisms in the EU: 1. From minimal to full to 'half' harmonisation Norbert Reich; 2. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…NMDA Receptors and a Neuronal Code Based on Bursting -- Spiny and Nonspiny Neurons -- The NMDA Receptor -- Long-Term Potentiation Is Not the Mechanism of Rapid Synaptic Plasticity -- Spike Timing-Dependent Plasticity -- The Role of Back-Propagating Action Potentials in Rapid Synaptic Plasticity and Bursting -- A Neuronal Burst Code -- Attentional Binding by Bursting: The Role of Cholinergic Feedback -- Attentional Binding by Bursting: The Role of Noncholinergic Feedback -- Conclusion -- 6. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…: the indeterminate mechanism of cultural evolution -- Cultural evolution : an historical case study -- Directing evolution : Antonio Gramsci and the manipulation of cultural development -- The memetic approach to intellectual evolution -- Doctrinal development : are there islands of theological stability? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Kroll -- Cellular and molecular mechanisms of anesthesia / Alex S. Evers and C. Michael Crowder -- Genomic basis of perioperative medicine / Mihai V. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Chapter 9: Functional Programming and Reactive Programming -- Combining FP with OOP -- Functional reactive programming -- The Reactive Manifesto -- Functional reactive frameworks for Kotlin -- Getting started with RxKotlin -- Downloading and setting up RxKotlin -- Comparing the Pull mechanism with the RxJava Push mechanism -- Observables -- How Observable works -- The Observable.create method -- The Observable.from methods -- Iterator&lt -- T&gt -- .toObservable -- Subscriber - the Observer interface -- Subscribing and disposing -- Summary -- Chapter 10: Functors, Applicatives, and Monads -- Functors -- Monads -- Applicatives -- Summary -- Chapter 11: Working with Streams in Kotlin -- Introduction to Streams -- Collections versus Streams -- Working with Streams -- Primitive streams -- Stream factory methods -- Stream Builder -- Creating empty Streams - Stream.empty() -- Creating a Stream by passing elements - Stream.of() -- Generating Streams - Stream.generate() -- Collector and Stream.collect - collecting Streams -- The Collectors.toList(), Collectors.toSet(), and Collectors.toCollection() methods -- Collecting into Map - Collectors.toMap() -- Joining Stream of strings - Collectors.joining() -- Grouping elements of Stream - Collectors.groupingBy() -- Summary -- Chapter 12: Getting Started with Arrow -- Function composition -- Partial application -- Binding -- Reverse -- Pipes -- Currying -- Differences between the currying and partial application -- Logical complement -- Memoization -- Partial functions -- Identity and constant -- Optics -- Configuring Arrows code generation -- Generating lenses -- Summary -- Chapter 13: Arrow Types -- Option -- Arrow's type hierarchy -- Either -- Monad transformers -- Try -- State -- Corecursion with State -- Summary -- Appendix: Kotlin's Quick Start -- Writing and running Kotlin -- Kotlin online -- On your console…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- About the Author -- 1 Materials for Engineering -- 1.1 The Material World -- 1.2 Materials Science and Engineering -- 1.3 Six Materials That Changed Your World -- STEEL BRIDGES-INTRODUCING METALS -- LUCALOX LAMPS-INTRODUCING CERAMICS -- OPTICAL FIBERS-INTRODUCING GLASSES -- NYLON PARACHUTES-INTRODUCING POLYMERS -- KEVLAR®-REINFORCED TIRES-INTRODUCING COMPOSITES -- SILICON CHIPS-INTRODUCING SEMICONDUCTORS -- 1.4 Processing and Selecting Materials -- 1.5 Looking at Materials by Powers of Ten -- PART I The Fundamentals -- 2 Atomic Bonding -- 2.1 A tomic Structure -- 2.2 The Ionic Bond -- COORDINATION NUMBER -- 2.3 The Covalent Bond -- 2.4 The Metallic Bond -- 2.5 The Secondary, or van der Waals, Bond -- 2.6 Materials-The Bonding Classification -- 3 Crystalline Structure-Perfection -- 3.1 Seven Systems and Fourteen Lattices -- 3.2 Metal Structures -- 3.3 Ceramic Structures -- 3.4 Polymeric Structures -- 3.5 Semiconductor Structures -- 3.6 Lattice Positions, Directions, and Planes -- 3.7 X-Ray Diffraction -- 4 Crystal Defects and Noncrystalline Structure-Imperfection -- 4.1 The Solid Solution-Chemical Imperfection -- 4.2 Point Defects-Zero-Dimensional Imperfections -- 4.3 Linear Defects, or Dislocations-One-Dimensional Imperfections -- 4.4 Planar Defects-Two-Dimensional Imperfections -- 4.5 Noncrystalline Solids-Three-Dimensional Imperfections -- 5 Diffusion -- 5.1 Thermally Activated Processes -- 5.2 Thermal Production of Point Defects -- 5.3 Point Defects and Solid-State Diffusion -- 5.4 Steady-State Diffusion -- 5.5 Alternate Diffusion Paths -- 6 Mechanical Behavior -- 6.1 Stress Versus Strain -- METALS -- CERAMICS AND GLASSES -- POLYMERS -- 6.2 Elastic Deformation -- 6.3 Plastic Deformation -- 6.4 Hardness -- 6.5 Creep and Stress Relaxation -- 6.6 Viscoelastic Deformation -- INORGANIC GLASSES…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Legal and arbitrational mechanisms for redress available to the stakeholders of SOEs -- 9.3. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Reasons to adapt functional reactive programming -- Reactive Manifesto -- Reactive Streams standard specifications -- Reactive Frameworks for Kotlin -- Getting started with RxKotlin -- Downloading and setting up RxKotlin -- Comparing the pull mechanism with the RxJava push mechanism -- The ReactiveEvenOdd program -- The ReactiveCalculator project -- Summary -- Chapter 2: Functional Programming with Kotlin and RxKotlin -- Introducing functional programming -- Fundamentals of functional programming -- Lambda expressions -- Pure function -- High-order functions -- Inline functions -- Applying functional programming to the ReactiveCalculator class -- Coroutines -- Getting started with coroutines -- Building sequences -- The ReactiveCalculator class with coroutines -- Functional programming - monads -- Single monad -- Summary -- Chapter 3: Observables, Observers, and Subjects -- Observables -- How Observable works -- Understanding the Observable.create method -- Understanding the Observable.from methods -- Understanding the toObservable extension function -- Understanding the Observable.just method -- Other Observable factory methods -- Subscribers - the Observer interface -- Subscribing and disposing -- Hot and Cold Observables -- Cold Observables -- Hot Observables -- Introducing the ConnectableObservable object -- Subjects -- Varieties of Subject -- Understanding AsyncSubject -- Understanding PublishSubject -- Understanding BehaviorSubject -- Understanding ReplaySubject -- Summary -- Chapter 4: Introduction to Backpressure and Flowables -- Understanding backpressure -- Flowable…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…8.4.3 Alternative Gas Chemistries for Fluorination of Actinide Species -- 9 Summary -- AcknowledgementS -- Disclaimer -- References -- 3 Laser-Induced Spray Jet Cleaning -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Laser-Induced Spray Jet Cleaning -- 2.1 Concept of Laser-Induced Spray Jet Cleaning -- 2.2 Particle Removal Mechanism -- 3 Nanoscale Particle Removal -- 3.1 Experimental Setup -- 3.2 Hydrodynamic Phenomena -- 3.2.1 Effect of Incident Laser Energy (E) -- 3.2.2 Effect of Droplet Position (s) -- 3.2.3 Effect of Droplet Size (D) -- 3.3 Cleaning Results -- 3.3.1 Optimization of Microspray Jet -- 3.3.2 Effect of Process Parameters -- 3.3.3 Sub-100-nm Particle Cleaning -- 4 LSJC Using Isopropyl Alcohol -- 4.1 Hydrodynamic Phenomena -- 4.2 Nanoscale Particle Cleaning -- 4.3 Side Effects of LSJC -- 5 Summary and Conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- References -- 4 Brush Scrubbing for Post-CMP Cleaning -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Particle Removal Mechanism -- 3 Process and Tool Kinematics -- 4 Consumables -- 4.1 Brush -- 4.2 Chemical Formulations -- 5 Related Issues -- 6 Summary -- Appendix: Application of Tribology to Post-CMP Brush Scrubbing -- References -- 5 Contamination Removal From UV and EUV Photomasks -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Effect of Photomask Contamination on Lithography Process -- 2.1 Photomask for Lithography Process -- 2.2 Photomask Contamination -- 2.3 Impact of Contamination on Mask Properties and Imprinted Images -- 3 Haze Effect on Photomask Surface -- 3.1 Background -- 3.2 Major Components of Haze -- 3.3 Haze Control -- 4 The Particle Removal Process -- 4.1 Megasonic Cleaning -- 4.2 Jet Spray Cleaning -- 4.2.1 Gas Flow Rate -- 4.2.2 Liquid Flow Rate -- 4.2.3 Distance Between the Nozzle and the Photomask Surface -- 4.2.4 Nozzle Design -- 4.2.5 Other Parameters -- 4.2.6 Challenges and Future Scope -- 4.3 Aerosol Cleaning -- 5 Organics Removal -- 5.1 SPM Cleaning…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Introduction . xvi -- 1.1 The State of the Research3 -- 1.2 The Analytical Framework 11 -- 1.3 The Aims, Methods and Justification 14 -- 1.4 The Research Questions . 17 -- 1.5 Limitations to this Research . 19 -- 1.6 Overview of the Structure 21 -- 2 Theoretical Framework 27 -- 2.1 Accountability as a Concept 27 -- 2.1.1 Understanding accountability 28 -- 2.1.2 Subjects of the relation 31 -- 2.1.3 Issues with translation 35 -- 2.2 The Rights-Based Approach 37 -- 2.2.1 Understanding this rights-based perspective . 37 -- 2.2.2 Goals and operations 38 -- 2.3 The Right to Adequate Housing 40 -- 2.3.1 Understanding the right to adequate housing 41 -- 2.3.2 Legal guarantees to the most marginalized groups . 46 -- 2.3.3 Social housing programs as a mechanism to combat human rights violations 49 -- 2.3.4 Economic growth and costs . 50 -- 2.4 Accountability Relations in Social Housing Programs . 52 -- 2.4.1 Responsibility 52 -- 2.4.2 Answerability . 53 -- 2.4.3 Enforcement . 54 -- 2.5 Summary 62 -- 3 A Review: historical, political, socio-economic, legal and policy backgrounds 63 -- 3.1 Historical, Political and Socio-economic Background 63 -- 3.1.1 A historical look. 63 -- 3.1.2 Latest political developments 64 -- 3.1.3 Socio-economic trends . 67 -- 3.2 Administrative Law Review 70 -- 3.2.1 Administrative and public procurement procedures 70 -- 3.2.2 Principles of Administrative Law in Brazil and Chile 72 -- 3.2.3 Rights-based principles 75 -- 3.2.4 Theories of responsibility of the State . 77 -- 3.3 Housing Policy Review 80 -- 3.3.1 Chilean Housing Policy Review 82 -- 3.3.2 Brazilian Housing Policy Review 88 -- 3.4 Summary 95 -- 4 Dimension 1: Responsibility in social housing programs 97 -- 4.1 Beneficiaries . 97 -- 4.1.1 Legal definitions 98 -- 4.1.2 Vulnerable categories: FAR, FDS, D.S. 19 and D.S. 49 . 101 -- 4.1.3 Emergent categories: FGTS (1.5, 2 and 3), D.S. 1 and D.S. 19104 -- 4.2 Service Providers . 109 -- 4.2.1 Financial institutions 109 -- 4.2.2 Firms and business enterprises of the private construction sector 114 -- 4.2.3 Supporting entities . 116 -- 4.2.4 Other supporting agents . 122 -- 4.2.5 Frontline professionals . 124 -- 4.3 Government 125 -- 4.3.1 Ministries . 126 -- 4.3.2 Funds 127 -- 4.3.3 Coordination bodies . 130 -- 4.3.4 Local public entities . 133 -- 4.3.5 Decentralization and coordination . 134 -- 4.4 Others . 137 -- 4.4.1 Courts . 137 -- 4.4.2 Internal control organs . 137 -- 4.4.3 Internal participatory mechanisms . 138 -- 4.4.4 External control 139 -- 4.4.5 Quasi-judicial agencies 139 -- 4.4.6 Financial Councils . 140 -- 4.4.7 Ombudspersons 140 -- 4.4.8 Superintendencies 141 -- 4.4.9 National participatory councils 142 -- 4.4.10 Local consultative bodies 144 -- 4.4.11 Grass-root movements . 145 -- 4.4.12 Academy and research institutes . 147 -- 4.4.13 Media . 148 -- 4.5 Summary 148 -- 5 Dimension 2: Answerability in social housing programs 151 -- 5.1 Beneficiaries . 153 -- 5.1.1 Eligibility . 153 -- 5.1.2 Application . 166 -- 5.1.3 Selection . 174 -- 5.1.4 Rights-based critics 183 -- 5.2 Service Providers . 214 -- 5.2.1 Eligibility, Application and Selection . 214 -- 5.2.2 Rights-based critics 229 -- 5.3 Government 255 -- 5.3.1 Informing, responding and justifying 256v 5.4 Summary 259 -- 6 Dimension 3: Enforcement in social housing programs 265 -- 6.1 Beneficiaries . 266 -- 6.1.1 Exit and Sanctions . 266 -- 6.1.2 Access to grievance and redress by vulnerable groups . 277 -- 6.1.3 Control and Remediation . 286 -- 6.2 Service Providers . 303 -- 6.2.1 Exit and Sanctions . 304 -- 6.2.2 Control and Remediation . 309 -- 6.3 Government 316 -- 6.3.1 Exit and Sanctions . 316 -- 6.3.2 Control and Remediation . 320 -- 6.4 Summary 337 -- 7 Synthesis and Discussion . 341 -- 7.1 Responsibility in focus . 343 -- 7.2 Answerability in focus . 352 -- 7.3 Enforcement in focus . 372 -- 8 Conclusion 381 -- References . 387 -- Annexes 429 -- 7 Guiding Rights-based Principles . 518.…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…. -- Kyrgyzstan: Use of economic instruments for water resource management -- Kazakhstan: Large-scale multi-purpose water infrastructure -- Policy recommendations -- Building clear and comprehensive compliance and enforcement mechanisms for environmental regulatory frameworks -- Recent progress in environmental compliance assurance systems in Eastern Europe and the Caucasus countries -- New compliance assurance institutions have been set up. -- Some countries have improved information management systems and others plan to do so. -- Initiatives to share compliance assurance information with the public and to promote voluntary compliance -- Planned inspections are mostly set based on risk following newly adopted methodologies -- The use of self-monitoring mechanisms and Pollutant Release and Transfer Registers has expanded -- Some Eastern Europe and Caucasus countries plan to update their environmental penalties with the goal of increasing their dissuasive effect -- Work on environmental liability in the region is progressing to varying extents. -- Policy recommendations -- References -- 5 A focus on finance for green growth in EECCA -- Reforming fossil-fuel subsidies to promote transition towards a green economy in EECCA countries -- Key findings and data on fossil fuel subsidies in EECCA -- Policy recommendations -- Enhancing public financial management for green finance mobilisation in EECCA -- A crucial role for public financial management in promoting green economy transition -- Progress on, and remaining challenges to, developing and financing public investments towards a green economy…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Understanding Core Data framework classes -- Using Core Data with SwiftUI -- Creating a Core Data project -- Working with the data model file -- Core Data migrations -- The SQLite data file -- CloudKit -- Summary -- Chapter 13: Modern Structured Concurrency -- A brief introduction to concurrency -- Understanding traditional concurrency mechanisms -- Threads -- Callbacks and event loops -- GCD -- What is structured concurrency? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Biosensors 101 5.1 Waveguide Sensors 102 5.2 Active Elements 104 5.3 Special Examples 107 6. Mechanical Sensors 129 6.1 Bending Sensors 129 6.2 Cantilever Type Sensors 130 6.3 Micromechanical Oscillators 130 6.4 Microelectromechanical Capacitor Array 132 6.5 Change in Thermodynamic Properties 132 6.6 Dielectric Elastomer Sensors 132 6.7 Polymers for Mechanical Sensors 133 6.8 Cardiac Infarction Monitoring 135 7. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- International Significance of Malawi's Constitutional Court Ruling -- Enduring Issues of Concern -- Genesis of the Book -- Organisation of the Book -- Significance of the Book -- Conclusion -- Chapter 1 - A Decade of Governance as "Roving Banditry" The Political Economy of Public Finance Mismanagement in Malawi, 2010 -2020 -- Introduction: Setting the Context -- Analytical and Methodological Framework -- Institutional Political Economy Analysis -- State of Public Finance Mismanagement and its Developmental Cost -- Illustrating the Development Cost of Public Finance Mismanagement -- Public Finance Management Chain and Attendant Accountability Mechanisms -- Revenue Collection -- Allocation of Public Finances -- Oversight for Expenditure of Public Funds -- A PEA Explanation of Persistent Public Finance Mismanagement -- Interests, Capture and Repurposing of the State -- Appointive Bureaucracies and their Roles in Public Finance Mismanagement -- Weak Social Accountability Mechanisms for Public Finance Management -- Conclusion and Recommendations -- Chapter 2 - Two Decades of Governance in Malawi: Examining Citizen Trust in Malawi from 1999-2019 -- Introduction -- The Concept and Governance Consequences of Political Trust -- Good Governance in Africa -- A Brief Background to Governance in Malawi -- General Trends of Trust in Presidents, Parliament, Police and Courts from 1999 to 2019 -- Possible Explanatory Factors -- Consequences of (Loss of) Citizenry Trust: Implications on State Legitimacy and Prospects for Democracy -- Conclusion -- Chapter 3 - Trust in Election Management Bodies, Participation in Demonstrations and Willingness to Pay Taxes: Evidence from Malawi…”

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Tabla de Contenidos: “…Evans) 16.1 Corrosion Fundamentals 16.2 Thermodynamics of Corrosion Systems 16.3 Corrosion Rate for Uniform Corrosion 16.4 Localized Corrosion 16.5 Corrosion Protection General References Problems Appendices A Electrochemical Reactions and Standard Potentials B Fundamental Constants C Thermodynamic Data D Mechanics of Materials Subject Index…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover -- Copyright and Credits -- Dedication -- Packt Upsell -- Contributors -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1: Approaching a Penetration Test Using Metasploit -- Organizing a penetration test -- Preinteractions -- Intelligence gathering/reconnaissance phase -- Threat modeling -- Vulnerability analysis -- Exploitation and post-exploitation -- Reporting -- Mounting the environment -- Setting up Kali Linux in a virtual environment -- The fundamentals of Metasploit -- Conducting a penetration test with Metasploit -- Recalling the basics of Metasploit -- Benefits of penetration testing using Metasploit -- Open source -- Support for testing large networks and natural naming conventions -- Smart payload generation and switching mechanism -- Cleaner exits -- The GUI environment -- Case study - diving deep into an unknown network -- Gathering intelligence -- Using databases in Metasploit -- Modeling threats -- Vulnerability analysis - arbitrary file upload (unauthenticated) -- Attacking mechanism on the PhpCollab 2.5.1 application -- Exploitation and gaining access -- Escalating privileges with local root exploits -- Maintaining access with Metasploit -- Post-exploitation and pivoting -- Vulnerability analysis - SEH based buffer overflow -- Exploiting human errors by compromising Password Managers -- Revisiting the case study -- Revising the approach -- Summary and exercises -- Chapter 2: Reinventing Metasploit -- Ruby - the heart of Metasploit -- Creating your first Ruby program -- Interacting with the Ruby shell -- Defining methods in the shell -- Variables and data types in Ruby -- Working with strings -- Concatenating strings -- The substring function -- The split function -- Numbers and conversions in Ruby -- Conversions in Ruby -- Ranges in Ruby -- Arrays in Ruby -- Methods in Ruby -- Decision-making operators -- Loops in Ruby…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Generators and function* Iterators -- The Definition of a State Machine -- Space-Truckers: The Application State Diagram -- Almost Infinitely Looping State -- Adding the Constructor and Supporting Logic -- Writing the Initialize logic -- Transitioning to the Main Menu -- Space-Truckers: The Main Menu -- Basic Design -- Setting up the Main Menu snippet -- Building the Background -- Creating the AdvancedDynamicTexture and GUI -- Adding the Menu Container and Background -- Image Aside: Bringing in External Content -- Laying out the Title and Menu Items -- Populating the Menu with Items -- Adding Menu Item Selection and Indicators -- Indicating Selection and Reacting to Change -- Visual Improvements and Animating the Selection Idle -- Integrating the Main Menu -- Entering and Leaving Transitions -- Menu Finishing Touches -- Summary -- Extended Topics -- Chapter 5: Adding a Cut Scene and Handling Input -- Technical Requirements -- Space-Truckers - the Splash Screen -- Storyboarding the Scene -- Building the Scene -- Integrating the SplashScene -- Designing the Input System -- Defining the Main Menu Control Scheme -- Mapping Input Data -- Input Management -- Input Processing -- Action Handling -- Summary -- Extended Topics -- Part 2: Constructing the Game -- Chapter 6: Implementing the Game Mechanics -- Technical Requirements -- Helpful Things to Know -- Useful Links from the Babylon.js Docs -- A Detour into Sound Management -- Sounds, SoundTracks, and the AudioEngine -- SpaceTruckerSoundManager -- Designing the Game Elements of the Route Simulation -- An Overview of the Helios System -- Actors and Their Behavior -- Establishing the Basic Route Planning Screen -- Creating the Orbital Mechanics Simulation -- Understanding the Physics -- Driving the Simulation's Physics -- Configuring the InFlight Physics Simulation -- Defining the Rules - Game Mechanics…”