“…This is a book about the emotional issues that other business books ignore – the sacrifices you make, the struggle to choose and work with the right partner(s), the strain of uncertainty and potential failure, the dizzying and addictive highs of success, the challenge of building and motivating a team – everything that you will experience when you start a new business. …”

“…"Developing credible short-term and long-term projections of Medicare health care costs is critical for public- and private-sector policy planning, but faces challenges and uncertainties. There is uncertainty not only in the underlying economic and demographic assumptions used in projection models, but also in what a policy modeler assumes about future changes in the health status of the population and the factors affecting health status, the extent and pace of scientific and technological breakthroughs in medical care, the preferences of the population for particular kinds of care, the likelihood that policy makers will alter current law and regulations, and how each of these factors relates to health care costs for the elderly population. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- part 1 Your strategic self -- Shaping the future -- Thinking before you plan -- Becoming a strategic thinker -- Selling your strategy -- part 2 Thinking like a strategist -- Reacting is as important as planning -- Taking risks (jump your uncertainty gaps) -- Looking over your shoulder -- Knowing where the grass (really) is greener -- part 3 Creating your strategy -- Seeing the big picture -- Finding position, intention and direction -- Looking for advantages -- Making strategic decisions and choices -- Adapting to your competitive environment -- part 4 Winning with strategy -- Winning strategy games -- Creating new markets -- Getting ahead of your strategic group -- Growing your business (again and again) -- Going global without going broke -- Knowing what you can do best -- part 5 Making your strategy work -- Managing your strategy process -- Meetings for strategic minds -- Managing change, making strategy work -- Understanding what can go wrong -- Saving your company from failure -- part 6 The strategy book toolkit -- The basic (powerful) strategy questions -- Quick start strategy -- SWOT analysis -- Porter's 5 forces of competition -- Porter's generic strategies -- Burgelman's strategy dynamics model -- Porter's value chain and value system -- Core competencies and resource-based view -- Nonaka and Takeuchi's knowledge spiral -- Peters, Athos and Waterman's 7-S framework -- Scenario planning -- Ansoff's growth grid -- The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) growth share matrix -- Kim and Mauborgne's four actions -- Greiner's growth (and crisis) model -- De Wit and Meyer's strategy tensions -- Cummings and Wilson: orientation and animation -- Lewin's force field analysis…”

“…Practitioners might experience uncertainty in working with vulnerable client groups; for example, lesbian/gay/transgender/intersex (LGBT) clients, or persons who report intimate partner violence. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Intro -- Epigraph -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- About the author -- Gratitudes -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Moving from 'seek and destroy' to co-creation -- Part I: Innovation -- Chapter 1: Challenging the fear and fatigue of change -- Changing capitalism -- Committing to change and community -- Chapter 2: Navigating workplace complexity -- Social capital and community -- The connection crisis -- Your leadership imperative -- Moving from toxic to Emergent -- The romance of movements -- Chapter 3: Naked and extraordinary -- Stripping away pretence and persuasion -- An interdependent model -- Embrace uncertainty -- Part II: Transformation -- Chapter 4: From institutional to collective power -- Old power versus new power -- See it, feel it, believe it -- Challenging organisational stereotypes -- Chapter 5: Corporate social responsibility is dead -- Philanthropy in crisis -- Give and you will receive -- Creating a framework for advocacy and support -- Chapter 6: Conscious leadership and culture -- The dampening field of consumption -- The conscious leadership paradigm -- Finding a higher-purpose strategy -- Empathic understanding -- Part III: Evolution -- Chapter 7: A culture for engagement -- The X-factor -- The Culture Quadrant -- Cultural resonance -- OurSay.org -- Chapter 8: Co-creation: Test. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…5. The certainty of uncertainty: topographies of risk and landscapes of fear in Sri Lanka's civil war: Benedikt Korf6. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…A sustainable development model needs new thinking; Social and economic inclusion in post-apartheid South Africa; Chapter 5 - Perceptions of Well-being; Public Opinion on Economic Security; Economic security in a time of uncertainty: A South African public opinion perspective; References; Back cover…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Data Donations as Exercises of Sovereignty (Patrik Hummel, Matthias Braun and Peter Dabrock) -- Chapter 4. The Ethics of Uncertainty for Data Subjects (Philip J. Nickel) -- Chapter 5. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Labour policies in a deflationary environment --15. Uncertainty and undecidability in the contemporary state: the dualist and complex role of the state in Spanish labour and employment relations in an age of ‘flexibility’ --16. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…</LI><P></P><P><LI>Solidarity contestation in Denmark: A national escape from transnational crisis </LI><P></P><P><LI>Solidarity contestation in France: bottom-up polarisation and segmentation</LI><P></P><P><LI>Solidarity contestation in Greece: Standing on n the verge of emergency </LI><P></P><P><LI>Solidarity contestation Italy: a dual debate between regulatory and confrontational discussions</LI><P></P><P><LI>Solidarity contestation in Poland: The categorical denial of responsibility</LI><P></P><P><LI>Solidarity contestation in the UK: Reluctance during political uncertainty</LI><P></P><P></P><P><LI>Conclusion: The divided Europe of solidarity contestation</LI><P></P></OL>…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Emission Scenarios 59 -5.1 Paper making (applicable to both recycled pulp and virgin pulp) 59 -5.2 Plants using recovered (recycled) paper&nbsp;68 -5.3 Example calculations 74 6. Uncertainties 90 7. References 91 8. Abbreviations 95 9. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…A 4.1 Progress in performance and safety assessmentA 4.2 Understanding of system components; A 4.3 Treatment of uncertainty; A 4.4 Presentation of assessment findings; A 4.5 Feedback to site selection, characterisation and repository design; Appendix 5: References for Appendices 2-4; Appendix 6: Overview of responses: communication and perceptions; A 6.1 Communication; A 6.2 Perceptions; Appendix 7: Key texts of published Collective Opinions of the NEA; Appendix 8: List of acronyms…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Chapter 13: Frequency Modelling: Adjusting for Claim Count IBNR; Chapter 14: Frequency Modelling: Selecting and Calibrating a Frequency Model; Chapter 15: Severity Modelling: Adjusting for IBNER and Other Factors; Chapter 16: Severity Modelling: Selecting and Calibrating a Severity Model; Chapter 17: Aggregate Loss Modelling; Chapter 18: Identifying, Measuring and Communicating Uncertainty; Chapter 19: From Costing to Pricing; Chapter 20: Experience Rating for Non-Proportional Reinsurance; Chapter 21: Exposure Rating for Property…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Youth and pensions in a European comparison - how pension systems consider early adulthood and life course uncertainties / Susan Kuivalainen, Antti Mielonen and Niko Väänänen -- 3. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…3.3 Self-Weight Settlement of Sandy Soils3.4 Bearing Capacity of Shallow Foundations; 3.5 Load Capacity of Deep Foundations; 3.6 Laterally Loaded Piles and Shafts; 4 Retaining Structures - Lateral Loads; 4.1 Lateral Earth Pressure; 4.2 Retaining Walls - Gravity, Cantilevered, MSE, Sheet Piles, and Soldier Piles; 4.3 Tieback Walls; 5 Geotechnical LRFD; 5.1 Reliability, Uncertainty and Geo-Statistics; 5.2 Geotechnical Load and Resistance Factor Design; 5.3 LRFD Spread Footings; 5.4 LRFD Pile Foundations; 5.5 LRFD Drilled-Shaft Foundations; 5.6 LRFD Slope Stability; 6 Closing…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…METHYL BROMIDE RISK CHARACTERIZATION IN CALIFORNIA -- Copyright -- Preface -- Contents -- Executive Summary -- THE SUBCOMMITTEE'S TASK -- THE SUBCOMMITTEE'S EVALUATION -- Toxicology -- Recommendations -- Exposure -- Recommendations -- Risk Characterization -- Recommendations -- 1 Introduction -- BACKGROUND -- CALIFORNIA REGULATIONS -- THE SUBCOMMITTEE'S TASK -- ORGANIZATION OF THE REPORT -- 2 Toxicology and Hazard Identification -- PHARMACOKINETICS -- GENOTOXICITY -- ACUTE TOXICITY -- SUBCHRONIC TOXICITY -- CHRONIC INHALATION AND ONCOGENICITY -- REPRODUCTIVE TOXICITY -- DEVELOPMENTAL TOXICITY -- NEUROTOXICITY -- SELECTION OF CRITICAL EFFECTS FOR ACUTE TOXICITY -- 3 Exposure Assessment -- BACKGROUND -- LIKELY EXPOSURE SCENARIOS -- QUALITY OF DATA AVAILABLE FOR CHARACTERIZING EXPOSURES -- Analytical Methods -- Representativeness of Available Exposure Measurements -- Appropriateness of Normalizing Assumptions for Different Application Rates -- Appropriateness of Exposure-Duration Assumptions -- ACCURACY AND APPROPRIATENESS OF AVAILABLE MODELING TOOLS -- Exposure Estimates Based on Modeling -- Exposure of Residents in a Fumigated House -- Exposure of Residents Downwind from Soil Fumigations -- SUMMARY -- 4 Risk Characterization -- RISK CHARACTERIZATION GOALS -- HAZARD IDENTIFICATION -- Acute Toxicity Database -- Subchronic Toxicity Database -- Chronic Toxicity Database -- Developmental Neurotoxicity -- EXPOSURE ASSESSMENT -- Appropriateness of Acute-Exposure Definition -- Subchronic Exposure -- Chronic Exposure -- MARGIN-OF-EXPOSURE ANALYSIS -- Categories with More than Two Data Points -- Categories with One or Two Data Points -- UNCERTAINTY ISSUES -- Derivation of Reference Concentrations -- Sensitive Subpopulations -- Multiple Exposures -- SUMMARY -- 5 Conclusions and Recommendations -- TOXICOLOGICAL INFORMATION -- Conclusions -- Recommendations…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Antecedents and consequences of uncertainties perceived by finance professionals. 17. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgement -- About the Authors -- Contributors -- Chapter 1: Dynamical Problems for Generally Anisotropic Shells with the GDQ Method -- Chapter 2: Dynamical Problems of Functionally Graded Nonuniform Nanoplates under Thermal Field -- Chapter 3: Effect of External Resistances on Energy Harvesting Behaviour of Porous Functionally Graded Magneto-Electro-Elastic Beam -- Chapter 4: Mass Resonator Sensor and Its Inverse Problems -- Chapter 5: Axial-Wave Propagation of Carbon Nanorod-Conveying Fluid with Elastic Support Using Nonlocal Continuum Elasticity -- Chapter 6: Differential Transformation and Adomian Decomposition Methods for the Radiation Effect on Marangoni Boundary Layer Flow of Carbon Nanotubes -- Chapter 7: Min-Max Game Theory for Coupled Partial Differential Equation Systems in Fluid Structure -- Chapter 8: Numerical Simulation for Time Fractional Integro Partial Differential Equations Arising in Viscoelastic Dynamical System -- Chapter 9: From Continuous Time Random Walk Models to Human Decision-Making Modelling: A Fractional Perspective -- Chapter 10: Dynamics of Slender Single-Link Flexible Robotic Manipulator Based on Timoshenko Beam Theory -- Chapter 11: Non-Probabilistic Solution of Imprecisely Defined Structural Problem with Beams and Truses Using Interval Finite Element Method -- Chapter 12: Linear Eigenvalue Problems in Dynamic Structure with Uncertainty: An Expectation-Based Approach -- Chapter 13: Dynamical Approach to Forecast Decentralized Currency Exchange Value with Respect to Indian National Rupees -- Chapter 14: Curriculum Learning-Based Approach to Design an Unsupervised Neural Model for Solving Emden-Fowler Type Equations of Third Order -- Index…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…""ETHICAL, LEGAL, AND SOCIAL ISSUES""""ETHICAL CONSIDERATIONS""; ""INDEMNIFICATION FOR ADVERSE EVENTS""; ""COMMUNICATION""; ""RISK COMMUNICATION""; ""PUBLIC HEALTH RISKS AND BENEFITS""; ""PERSPECTIVE 1""; ""PERSPECTIVE 2""; ""PERSPECTIVE 3""; ""PERSPECTIVE 4""; ""PUBLIC COMMENTS AND DISCUSSION""; ""USE OF SCARCE PUBLIC HEALTH RESOURCES AND INSURING DUAL USE APPROACHES""; ""VACCINE DEVELOPMENT AND APPROVAL""; ""INTERNATIONAL CONSIDERATIONS""; ""UNCERTAINTIES""; ""COMMUNICATION AND EDUCATION""; ""EPILOGUE""…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Food and Drug Administration Total Diet Study, 1991-1997 -- F Canadian Dietary Intake Data, 1990 -- G Biochemical Indicators for Iron, Vitamin A, and Iodine from the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES III), 1988-1994 H Comparison of Vitamin A and Iron Intake and Biochemical Indicators from the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES III), 1988-1994I Iron Intakes and Estimated Percentiles of the Distribution of Iron Requirements from the Continuing Survey of Food Intakes by Individuals (CSFII), 1994-1996 -- J Glossary and Acronyms -- K Conversion of Units -- L Options for Dealing with Uncertainties -- M Biographical Sketches of Panel and Subcommittee Members -- Index…”