Tabla de Contenidos: “…Bildkulturelle Ambiguität in der chinesisch‐australischen Kunst -- 3.1 Chinesität als transnationales Gegenwartsphänomen chinesischer Kunst im diasporischen Kontext -- 3.2 Migrationspfade und Austauschrouten: Wege zur chinesisch‐australischen Kunst -- 3.3 Inside out. Outside in. Kulturelle Remigration in Ah Xians China-Porträts -- 3.4 Back and forth. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Needs assessments -- 3.2. Means-testing -- 3.3. Out-of-pocket costs -- 4 Approaches to setting prices -- 4.1. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Decipher Objectives and Issues from the Result of the SWOT Analysis -- Organizing the Structure of an Issue -- 3 Lay Out the Options 1: Growing Potentials for the Preestablished Company -- Aim to Grow Preestablished Business Models and Positioning -- Consider Strategic Options for the Long Run -- Changing the Positioning -- Coming Up with Growth Options by Changing the Positioning -- Changing the Business Model -- Pairing the Positioning and the Business Model -- Coming Up with Growth Options by Changing the Business Options -- 4 Lay Out the Strategic Options 2: Options for the Newly Established Businesses -- Analyze from the Market Point of View -- Analyze from the Value Chain Point of View -- Analyze from the Asset Point of View -- Analyze from the Business Model Point of View -- Change the Rules of Competition, Think Outside of the Box -- 5 Lay Out the Strategic Options 3: Improve Profit -- Options to Lower Cost and Improve Gross Profit Margin -- Options to Lower Managing Cost…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- About the Author -- Introduction Game On -- Unrig Your Mind -- Built with Sweat, Backed by Science -- Lessons from the Elephant Boy -- Beat C-3PO -- Part One Get in the Game -- Chapter 1 Get Primed for Entry-Level Cattle Calls Clean Your House -- Scrub Those Leprotic Calluses -- The TMZ Test -- Chapter 2 Don't Fight the Tape Diligence Your Way to an Interview -- Diligence to Death -- Be a Troll -- Chapter 3 Be the Holy Trinity of Deals Your All-Important First Email -- Make Me Give a Damn -- Watch the Trapdoors -- The Rule of Three -- Go Out with a Bang -- Chapter 4 Failure as Fertilizer The Power of Persistence -- Be Unus -- Chapter 5 Strut Like a Peacock Your First Impression Might Be Your Last -- Find the Greater Fool -- Wear Some Damn Socks -- Master Half-Truths -- Customize -- Don't Compromise -- Know Oliver Stone from Oliver Twist -- Chapter 6 Ace the Personal Bake-Off Interviewing as Performance Art -- Show Time! …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Front Cover -- Human Recognition in Unconstrained Environments -- Copyright -- Contents -- Contributors -- Editor Biographies -- Foreword -- 1 Unconstrained Data Acquisition Frameworks and Protocols -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Unconstrained Biometric Data Acquisition Modalities -- 1.3 Typical Challenges -- 1.3.1 Optical Constraints -- 1.3.2 Non-comprehensive View of the Scene -- 1.3.3 Out-of-Focus -- 1.3.4 Calibration of Multi-camera Systems -- 1.4 Unconstrained Biometric Data Acquisition Systems -- 1.4.1 Low Resolutions Systems -- 1.4.2 PTZ-Based Systems -- 1.4.3 Face -- 1.5 Conclusions -- References -- 2 Face Recognition Using an Outdoor Camera Network -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Taxonomy of Camera Networks -- 2.2.1 Static Camera Networks -- 2.2.2 Active Camera Networks -- 2.2.3 Characteristics of Camera Networks -- 2.3 Face Association in Camera Networks -- 2.3.1 Face-to-Face Association -- 2.3.2 Face-to-Person Association -- 2.4 Face Recognition in Outdoor Environment -- 2.4.1 Robust Descriptors for Face Recognition -- 2.4.2 Video-Based Face Recognition -- 2.4.3 Multi-view and 3D Face Recognition -- 2.4.4 Face Recognition with Context Information -- 2.4.5 Incremental Learning of Face Recognition -- 2.5 Outdoor Camera Systems -- 2.5.1 Static Camera Approach -- 2.5.2 Single PTZ Camera Approach -- 2.5.3 Master and Slave Camera Approach -- 2.5.4 Distributed Active Camera Networks -- 2.6 Remaining Challenges and Emerging Techniques -- 2.7 Conclusions -- References -- 3 Real Time 3D Face-Ear Recognition on Mobile Devices: New Scenarios for 3D Biometrics "in-the-Wild -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 3D Capture of Face and Ear: CURRENT Methods and Suitable Options -- 3.2.1 Laser Scanners -- 3.2.2 Structured Light Scanners -- 3.2.3 Stereophotogrammetry -- 3.3 Mobile Devices for Ubiquitous Face-Ear Recognition…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…List of Figures xv -- List of Tables xxiii -- List of Abbreviations and Symbols xxv -- 1 Introduction. 1 -- 1.1 Motivation . 1 -- 1.2 Scope and objective. 5 -- 1.3 Contribution to the current state of research. 6 -- 1.4 Outline of this dissertation 8 -- 2 Current state of research 9 -- 2.1 Definition of hybrid materials 9 -- 2.2 Composite materials . 14 -- 2.2.1 Definition and fundamentals 14 -- 2.2.2 Basic mechanisms of fibrous reinforcement. 16 -- 2.3 Sheet moulding compound composites. 21 -- 2.3.1 Definition and terminology delimitation 21 -- 2.3.2 Discontinuous SMC composites 21 -- 2.3.3 Continuous SMC composites 57 -- 2.4 Hybrid composites . 61 -- 2.4.1 Definition, motivation and development -- of hybrid composites . 62 -- 2.4.2 Evaluation of hybridisation effects . 65 -- 2.4.3 Existing concepts of hybrid SMC . 68 -- 2.5 Research questions . 82 -- 3 Materials and specimen geometries 85 -- 3.1 Manufacturing of SMC composites 85 -- 3.1.1 Composition of resin systems . 85 -- 3.1.2 Manufacturing of semi-finished sheets 87 -- 3.1.3 Manufacturing of compression moulded sheets . 89 -- 3.1.4 Manufacturing of pure resin sheets 92 -- 3.1.5 Manufacturing of demonstrator part 93 -- 3.2 Specimen preparation and geometry 94 -- 3.2.1 Water-jet cutting and milling 94 -- 3.2.2 End tabs. 95 -- 3.2.3 Specimen geometries . 95 -- 4 Experimental setups, procedures and data evaluation 103 -- 4.1 Characterisation strategy 103 -- 4.2 Characterisation at the coupon level 105 -- 4.2.1 Microstructural characterisation 105 -- 4.2.2 Macrostructural characterisation . 106 -- 4.3 Characterisation at the structure level. 114 -- 4.3.1 Quasi-static puncture testing 114 -- 4.3.2 Dynamic puncture testing . 116 -- 4.4 Characterisation at the component level 118 -- 4.5 Data evaluation . 121 -- 5 Analytical modelling 123 -- 5.1 Description of modelling approach 123 -- 5.2 Micromechanics and homogenisation methods . 124 -- 5.2.1 Fundamentals of homogenisation 124 -- 5.2.2 Analytical modelling of fibre reinforced polymers 128 -- 5.3 Classical laminate theory 133 -- 5.3.1 Macromechanical characterisation of a lamina . 134 -- 5.3.2 Macromechanical characterisation of a laminate. 134 -- 5.4 Analytical modelling of hybrid composites 138 -- 5.4.1 Rule of hybrid mixtures 139 -- 5.4.2 Tensile and flexural modulus based on classical laminate theory . 140 -- 6 Results . 143 -- 6.1 Evaluation of testing methods and preliminary studies . 143 -- 6.1.1 Tensile properties of discontinuous SMC composites . 144 -- 6.1.2 Tensile properties of continuous SMC composites 150 -- 6.1.3 Flexural properties of SMC composites . 152 -- 6.2 Microstructural analysis . 158 -- 6.2.1 Fibre volume content . 158 -- 6.2.2 Fibre orientation distribution 164 -- 6.2.3 Interface of continuous-discontinuous SMC 173 -- 6.3 Mechanical properties and failure at the coupon level . 176 -- 6.3.1 Tensile and compressive properties of -- polyester-polyurethane hybrid resin . 176 -- 6.3.2 Process-induced material properties of -- discontinuous glass fibre SMC 179 -- 6.3.3 In-plane loading of SMC composites 190 -- 6.3.4 Out-of-plane loading of SMC composites . 229 -- 6.4 Mechanical properties and failure at the structure level . 237 -- 6.4.1 Puncture properties of discontinuous glass fibre SMC 238 -- 6.4.2 Puncture properties of continuous carbon fibre SMC . 248 -- 6.4.3 Puncture properties of continuous-discontinuous glass/carbon fibre SMC 256 -- 6.5 Mechanical properties and failure at the component level . 268 -- 6.6 Analytical stiffness prediction 271 -- 6.6.1 Analytical stiffness prediction of discontinuous glass fibre SMC 272 -- 6.6.2 Analytical stiffness prediction of continuous carbon fibre SMC . 277 -- 6.6.3 Analytical stiffness prediction of continuous-discontinuous glass/carbon fibre SMC 279 -- 7 Discussion. 283 -- 7.1 Testing methodology and preliminary studies 283 -- 7.2 Material behaviour of unsaturated polyester-polyurethane two-step curing hybrid resin system 285 -- 7.3 Discontinuous glass fibre SMC . 287 -- 7.3.1 Microstructural aspects of discontinuous glass fibre SMC 287 -- 7.3.2 Mechanical behaviour and damage evolution of discontinuous glass fibre SMC . 291 -- 7.4 Continuous carbon fibre SMC 301 -- 7.4.1 Microstructural aspects of continuous carbon fibre SMC . 301 -- 7.4.2 Mechanical behaviour and damage evolution of continuous carbon fibre SMC 302 -- 7.5 Continuous-discontinuous glass/carbon fibre SMC 308 -- 7.5.1 Microstructural aspects of continuous-discontinuous glass/carbon fibre SMC 308 -- 7.5.2 Mechanical properties, damage evolution and hybridisation effect 310 -- 8 Final remarks . 347 -- 8.1 Summary . 347 -- 8.2 Conclusion . 356 -- Bibliography 361 -- A Appendix 403 -- A.1 Influence of subset size and step size . 403 -- A.2 Influence of edge preparation 405 -- A.3 Tensile properties of discontinuous glass fibre SMC (2D) . 406 -- A.4 Tensile properties of discontinuous glass fibre SMC (1D) . 407 -- A.5 Compressive properties of discontinuous glass fibre SMC . 408 -- A.6 Tensile and compressive properties of continuous carbon fibre SMC . 409 -- A.7 Flexural properties of continuous carbon fibre SMC. 410 -- A.8 Flexural properties of continuous-discontinuous glass/carbon fibre SMC . 411 -- A.9 Classical laminate theory: calculations 412.…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Solution #2 - use a global flag -- Solution #3 - remove the handler -- Solution #4 - change the handle -- Solution #5 - disable the button -- Solution #6 - redefine the handler -- Solution #7- use a local flag -- A functional solution -- A higher-order solution -- Testing the solution manually -- Testing the solution automatically -- An even better solution -- Questions -- Summary -- Chapter 3: Starting Out with Functions - A Core Concept -- All about functions -- Of lambdas and functions -- Arrow functions - the modern way -- Returning values -- Handling the this value -- Working with arguments -- One argument or many? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Despite growing coverage and higher values, carbon prices remain low -- 3.4.3. Phasing-out of preferential sectoral taxes in several countries and the expansion of carbon pricing mechanisms has encouraged transition towards low-carbon economies -- 3.4.4. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Tableau and Business Intelligence -- Connecting Big Data with Business Intelligence -- Analyzing Data with Tableau -- Visualizing Data -- Understanding Key Tableau Terms -- Data source -- Data type -- Data fields -- Dimensions and measures -- Continuous versus discrete -- Filter -- Aggregation -- Workbook and worksheet -- Gearing Up for the Tableau Journey -- Understanding installation prerequisites -- Getting familiar with Tableau file types and sources -- Chapter 2 Venturing into Tableau Versions -- Getting to Know the Tableau Product Line -- Tableau Desktop -- Tableau Prep -- Tableau Server and Tableau Cloud -- Tableau Public -- Tableau Reader -- Tableau CRM Analytics -- Tableau Data Management -- Tableau Advanced Management -- Choosing the Right Version -- Chapter 3 Mapping Out the Data Journey -- Cycling Down the Tableau Highway -- Identifying the right question or business need -- Getting raw data -- Choosing mapping techniques -- Viewing and preparing datasets -- Developing visual insights -- Publishing and sharing insights -- Knowing What Tools You Need in Each Stage of the Data Life Cycle -- Understanding User Types and Their Capabilities -- Viewer -- Explorer -- Creator -- Engaging Users Based on User Type -- Access -- Author -- Prepare -- Interact -- Collaborate -- Govern -- Part 2 Prepping Data in Tableau -- Chapter 4 Connecting Your Data -- Understanding Data Source Options -- Connecting to Data -- Making the Desktop or Prep connection -- Locating the Server and Online connections -- Setting Up and Planning the Data Source…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Deciding What You Want from a Business -- Exploring Different Types of Business -- Assessing Yourself -- Taking the Make-or-Buy Decision -- Chapter 4: Preparing the Business Plan -- Finding a Reason to Write a Business Plan -- Writing Up Your Business Plan -- Using Business Planning Software -- Presenting Your Plan -- Chapter 5: Establishing Your Starting Position -- Introducing SWOT Analysis -- Identifying Strengths and Weaknesses -- Analysing Your Situation in 3-D -- Chapter 6: Researching Your Customers and Competitors -- Anatomy of a Customer -- Determining Which Customers Buy What -- Seeing Your Product through Your Customers' Eyes -- Sizing Up Competitors -- Calculating Your Market Share -- Introducing Market Research -- Book 2: Sorting Out Your Finances -- Chapter 1: Finding the Money -- Assessing How Much Money You Need -- Reviewing Your Financing Options -- Determining the Best Source of Finance for You -- Going for Debt -- Sharing Out the Spoils -- Chapter 2: Seeking Alternative Funding -- Researching and Obtaining Grants -- Applying for Awards -- Paying for Help -- Playing to the Crowd -- Comparing Accelerators and Incubators -- Chapter 3: Figuring Out the Figures -- Understanding Your Accounts -- Balancing the Books -- Analysing Performance -- Accounting for Pricing -- Chapter 4: Budgeting for Beginners…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- When to Use Portfolio Rationalization -- How to Rationalize the Portfolio -- Step 1: Understand Portfolio Complexity -- Step 2: Manage the Trade-offs -- Step 3: Take Out Associated Costs -- Chapter 6: Zero-Basing: Justify What to Keep, Not What to Kill -- What Is Zero-Basing?…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Scaling -- 7.1 Introduction to scalability -- 7.1.1 Scale-up vs. scale-out -- 7.1.2 Scalability dimensions -- 7.2 Scaling up -- 7.2.1 Adding additional processors -- 7.2.2 Taking advantage of greater parallelism -- 7.2.3 Adding additional memory -- 7.3 Scaling out -- 7.3.1 Preparing the new servers -- 7.3.2 Moving database partitions without data redistribution -- 7.3.3 Adding database partitions -- 7.3.4 Data redistribution via REDISTRIBUTE command -- 7.3.5 Alternate methods of data redistribution -- Related publications -- IBM Redbooks -- Other publications -- Online resources -- How to get IBM Redbooks -- Help from IBM -- Index -- Back cover…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- 1.2 Cooking with DAGs -- 1.3 Scaling out, concurrency, and recovery -- 1.3.1 Scaling up vs. scaling out -- 1.3.2 Concurrency and resource management -- 1.3.3 Recovering from failures -- 1.4 Introducing a companion dataset -- Summary -- Chapter 2: Introducing Dask -- 2.1 Hello Dask: A first look at the DataFrame API -- 2.1.1 Examining the metadata of Dask objects -- 2.1.2 Running computations with the compute method -- 2.1.3 Making complex computations more efficient with persist -- 2.2 Visualizing DAGs -- 2.2.1 Visualizing a simple DAG using Dask Delayed objects -- 2.2.2 Visualizing more complex DAGs with loops and collections -- 2.2.3 Reducing DAG complexity with persist -- 2.3 Task scheduling -- 2.3.1 Lazy computations -- 2.3.2 Data locality -- Summary -- Part 2: Working with structured data using Dask DataFrames -- Chapter 3: Introducing Dask DataFrames -- 3.1 Why use DataFrames? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…El beso de la mujer araña de Manuel Puig (1976) y la adaptación homónima de Héctor Babenco (1985) -- 2.3. Auschwitz. Out of the Ashes (2003) de Joseph Sargent -- 2.4. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Spending on pharmaceuticals is low but represents a growing share of the health system's budget -- 4.3.3. High out-of-pocket payments on outpatient medicines constitute a major barrier in access to care -- 4.3.4. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…47 -- 2.4.3 Single Dielectric Layer Backed with a PEC or PMC 49 -- 2.4.4 Mode Dispersion Relation of a Closed Structure Consisting of Dielectric Layers 53 -- Appendix: Dyadic Definition and Properties 61 -- References 62 -- Further Reading 63 -- 3 One-Dimensional Periodic Medium 65 -- 3.1 Bloch-Floquet Theorem 65 -- 3.2 Eigenwave in a 1D Holographic Grating 66 -- 3.2.1 Two Space-Harmonic Approximation 68 -- 3.2.2 Single Interface between a Semi-infinite Uniform and a 1D Periodic Medium 76 -- 3.3 Eigenwave in 1D Dielectric Gratings: Modal Transmission-Line Approach 81 -- 3.3.1 In-Plane Incidence: ky =0 88 -- 3.3.2 Out-of-Plane Incidence: ky / = 0 89 -- 3.3.3 Eigenwave in a Two-Tone Periodic Medium 94.…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- LESSON 1 Understanding Rich Internet Applications -- Understanding the Evolution of Computer Applications -- Breaking Away from Page-Based Architecture -- Identifying the Advantages of Rich Internet Applications -- Business Managers -- IT Organizations -- End Users -- RIA Technologies -- Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX) -- Flash -- Flex -- The Windows Presentation Foundation, XAML, Silverlight, and Expression -- LESSON 2 Getting Started -- Getting Started with Flex Application Development -- Creating a Project and an MXML Application -- Understanding the Flex Builder 3 Workbench -- Running Your Application -- Creating a Second Application Page and Working in Design Mode -- Getting Ready for the Next Lesson -- LESSON 3 Laying Out the Interface -- Learning About Containers -- Laying Out the E-Commerce Application Using Design Mode -- Working with Constraint-Based Layouts -- Using Constraints with the Parent Container -- Using Enhanced Constraints -- Working with View States -- Controlling View States -- Laying Out an Application in Source Mode -- Adding and Controlling View States with MXML -- LESSON 4 Using Simple Controls -- Introducing Simple Controls -- Displaying Images -- Building a Detail View -- Using Data Binding to Link a Data Structure to a Simple Control -- Using a Form Layout Container to Lay Out Simple Controls -- Adding Radio Buttons and Date Fields to the Dashboard -- LESSON 5 Handling Events and Data Structures -- Understanding Event Handling -- Understanding a Simple Example -- Handling the Event with an ActionScript Function -- Passing Data when Calling the Event Handler Function -- Building a Data Structure on the creationComplete Event -- Using Data from the Event Object -- Building a Custom ActionScript Class -- Building a Value Object…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…International Monetary System -- 2.1 History of the International Monetary System -- Global Finance in Practice 2.1: The "Gold Bloc"-The Last Stand of Gold Standard -- Global Finance in Practice 2.2: Britain Leaves the Gold Standard: Press Notice (Excerpts of September 19, 1931) -- Global Finance in Practice 2.3: Hammering out an Agreement at Bretton Woods -- 2.2 Fixed versus Flexible Exchange Rates -- 2.3 The Impossible Trinity -- 2.4 A Single Currency for Europe: The Euro -- 2.5 Internationalization of the Chinese RMB -- 2.6 Emerging Markets and Regime Choices -- Global Finance in Practice 2.4: Nigeria Fights Currency Exchange Innovation -- Summary Points -- Mini-case: The Promise of the Digital Yuan -- Questions -- Problems -- Chapter 3. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Exercise 16.1: Explore Visual Styles -- Work with Tiled Viewports -- Exercise 16.2: Tile Viewports -- Navigate with the ViewCube -- Exercise 16.3: Use the ViewCube to Navigate -- Orbit in 3D -- Exercise 16.4: Orbit -- Use Cameras -- Exercise 16.5: Utilize Virtual Cameras -- Navigate with SteeringWheels -- Exercise 16.6: Use SteeringWheels to Navigate -- Save Views -- Exercise 16.7: Save Views -- Chapter 17 Modeling in 3D -- Create Surface Models -- Exercise 17.1: Make Planar Surfaces -- Exercise 17.2: Revolve a 2D Profile to Create a 3D Model -- Exercise 17.3: Sweep Out 3D Geometry -- Exercise 17.4: Extrude 2D Geometry into 3D -- Edit Surface Models -- Exercise 17.5: Trim Surfaces with Other Surfaces -- Exercise 17.6: Project Edges on Surfaces -- Exercise 17.7: Trim Surfaces with Edges -- Create Solid Models -- Exercise 17.8: Extrude Solid Objects -- Exercise 17.9: Loft Solid Objects -- Edit Solid Models -- Exercise 17.10: Perform Boolean Operations -- Exercise 17.11: Edit Solids -- Smooth Mesh Models -- Exercise 17.12: Create, Edit, and Smooth Mesh -- Live-Section Models -- Exercise 17.13: Create and Edit a Section Plane -- Chapter 18 Presenting and Documenting 3D Design -- Assign Materials -- Exercise 18.1: Apply Materials -- Place and Adjust Lights -- Exercise 18.2: Add Artificial Lights -- Exercise 18.3: Simulate Natural Light -- Create Renderings -- Exercise 18.4: Make Realistic Renderings in the Cloud -- Document Models with Drawings -- Exercise 18.5: Document Models -- Appendix A Making Isometric Drawings -- Appendix B AutodeskTM AutoCADTM 2018 Certification -- Index -- EULA…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…In-sample hedging results -- 4.3.5. Out-of-sample hedging results -- 4.4. Conclusion -- 4.5. …”