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“…With plenty of distinct action items, dozens of anecdotal illustrations and examples, and lists and tips for adapting bulletproof strategies to your own situation, Bulletproof Your Job will show you how to leverage the black-and-white stuff—your title, salary, and tenure—with the gray stuff—your relationship with coworkers, visibility in the workplace, and ability to make your boss look good—to ward off the pink stuff—the dreaded layoff notice. …”

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“…Please note: the print version of this title is black & white; the eBook is full color…”

“…Arriving in the remote Arnhem Land Aboriginal settlement of Oenpelli (Gunbalanya) in 1925, Alf and Mary Dyer aimed to bring Christ to a former buffalo shooting camp and an Aboriginal population many whites considered difficult to control. The Bible in Buffalo Country: Oenpelli Mission 1925-1931 represents a snapshot of the tumultuous first six years of the Church Missionary Society's mission at Oenpelli and the superintendency of Alfred Dyer between 1925 and 1931. …”

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“…To support this contention, Penrose takes the listener on a dazzling tour that covers such topics as complex numbers, Turing machines, complexity theory, quantum mechanics, formal systems, Godel undecidability, phase spaces, Hilbert spaces, black holes, white holes, Hawking radiation, entropy, quasicrystals, and the structure of the brain…”

“…The material represented in these proceedings cover the following topics: accretion, active galactic nuclei, alternative theories of gravity, black holes (theory, observations and experiments), binaries, boson stars, cosmic microwave background, cosmic strings, dark energy and large scale structure, dark matter, education, exact solutions, early universe, fundamental interactions and stellar evolution, fast transients, gravitational waves, high energy physics, history of relativity, neutron stars, precision tests, quantum gravity, strong fields, and white dwarf; all of them represented by a large number of contributions. …”

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“…It is also unique in dramatizing the contradictory nature of divinities in China through narrating the parallel lives of Chen Jinggu and her spirit double/rival, the White Snake demon who is born as her twin, battles with her over the body of her husband, kills her through devouring her fetus, and finally becomes her spirit mount. …”

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“…They met the greatest crisis of the twentieth century not by urging collective action against tyranny but by spinning conspiracy theories, warning of race suicide, or even embracing fascism. They imagined a white nation and then constructed its enemies-not the Nazis, or even the Japanese, but the "warmongers" among their fellow citizens who wanted to resist rather than appease the aggressors. …”

“…Ranging widely across some of the defining conflicts of modern times-the Irish Troubles and the Easter Uprising of 1916, the white settlement of Australia, the American Civil War, the Balkan wars, the Holocaust, and 9/11-Rieff presents a pellucid examination of the uses and abuses of historical memory. …”

“…He tells about the tragedy of Cambodia, the collateral negotiations with the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China, the disagreements within the Nixon and Ford administrations, the details of all negotiations in which he was involved, the domestic unrest and protest in the States, and the day-to-day military to diplomatic realities of the war as it reached the White House. As compelling and exciting as Barbara Tuchman's The Guns of August, Ending the Vietnam War also reveals insights about the bigger-than-life personalities -- Johnson, Nixon, de Gaulle, Ho Chi Minh, Brezhnev -- who were caught up in a war that forever changed international relations. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…8.1 Introduction 179 -- 8.2 Scenario and Application 182 -- 8.2.1 Concept Definition 182 -- 8.2.2 Fog-enabled IoT Application 184 -- 8.2.3 Characteristics and Open Challenges 185 -- 8.2.4 Orchestration Requirements 187 -- 8.3 Architecture: A Software-Defined Perspective 188 -- 8.3.1 Solution Overview 188 -- 8.3.2 Software-Defined Architecture 189 -- 8.4 Orchestration 191 -- 8.4.1 Resource Filtering and Assignment 192 -- 8.4.2 Component Selection and Placement 194 -- 8.4.3 Dynamic Orchestration with Runtime QoS 195 -- 8.4.4 Systematic Data-Driven Optimization 196 -- 8.4.5 Machine-Learning for Orchestration 197 -- 8.5 Fog Simulation 198 -- 8.5.1 Overview 198 -- 8.5.2 Simulation for IoT Application in Fog 199 -- 8.5.3 Simulation for Fog Orchestration 201 -- 8.6 Early Experience 202 -- 8.6.1 Simulation-Based Orchestration 202 -- 8.6.2 Orchestration in Container-Based Systems 206 -- 8.7 Discussion 207 -- 8.8 Conclusion 208 -- Acknowledgment 208 -- References 208 -- 9 A Decentralized Adaptation System for QoS Optimization 213 /Nanxi Chen, Fan Li, Gary White, Siobh©Łn Clarke, and Yang Yang -- 9.1 Introduction 213 -- 9.2 State of the Art 217 -- 9.2.1 QoS-aware Service Composition 217 -- 9.2.2 SLA (Re-)negotiation 219 -- 9.2.3 Service Monitoring 221 -- 9.3 Fog Service Delivery Model and AdaptFog 224 -- 9.3.1 AdaptFog Architecture 224 -- 9.3.2 Service Performance Validation 227 -- 9.3.3 Runtime QoS Monitoring 232 -- 9.3.4 Fog-to-Fog Service Level Renegotiation 235 -- 9.4 Conclusion and Open Issues 240 -- References 240 -- 10 Efficient Task Scheduling for Performance Optimization 249 /Yang Yang, Shuang Zhao, Kunlun Wang, and Zening Liu -- 10.1 Introduction 249 -- 10.2 Individual Delay-minimization Task Scheduling 251 -- 10.2.1 System Model 251 -- 10.2.2 Problem Formulation 251 -- 10.2.3 POMT Algorithm 253 -- 10.3 Energy-efficient Task Scheduling 255 -- 10.3.1 Fog Computing Network 255 -- 10.3.2 Medium Access Protocol 257 -- 10.3.3 Energy Efficiency 257 -- 10.3.4 Problem Properties 258.…”