Tabla de Contenidos: “…3.3.3 Cruel, Unmanly, and Unchivalrous: The Military's Aversion to the Use of Poison -- 4 The Continuing Politicization of International Law: The Legal Assessment of War Crimes, 1918-1925 -- 4.1 Crime and Argument: The Intense Discourse After the End of World War I -- 4.2 Self-justifications: The Nationalist Polarization of International Law -- 4.3 Politicized Scholarship: No Mediation Possible -- 4.4 Reforms as Affirmation of the Prohibition of Poison in International Law -- 4.4.1 Asymmetric New Paths: The Prohibitions of the Production and Possession of Weapons in the Paris Peace Treaties of 1919 -- 4.4.2 Pacifist Efforts: Initiatives by the League of Nations -- 4.4.3 An Expression of the General Opinion of the Civilized World: The Washington Treaty of 1922 -- 4.4.4 Reassuring One's Principles: The Geneva Protocol on Poison Gas of 1925 -- 5 Summary: Expectations Regarding International Law -- References -- 8 Military-Industrial Interactions in the Development of Chemical Warfare, 1914-1918: Comparing National Cases Within the Technological System of the Great War -- Abstract -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Western Front as a Technological Meta-System -- 3 Chemical Weapons as an Illustrative Case -- 4 Industrial Mobilization for Chemical Warfare: The Experimental Phase, 1914-15 -- 5 Scaling up, Innovation and Integration, 1915-17 -- 6 Culmination of the Chemical War, 1917-1918 -- 7 Concluding Reflections -- References -- Contexts and Consequences of Chemical Weapons -- 9 The Gas War, 1915-1918: If not a War Winner, Hardly a Failure -- Abstract -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Debate -- 3 Gas: Not a War Winner -- 4 The Challenge of Chemical Warfare -- 5 Effectiveness of the Gas War -- References -- 10 "Gas, Gas, Gaas!" …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Economy-Wide PPC -- Comparative Advantage and Specialization Among States -- 8.4 Trade Between Countries -- Determinants of Trade Between Countries -- Exporting Nations: Winners and Losers -- Letting The Data Speak: Fair Trade Products -- Importing Nations: Winners and Losers -- Where Do World Prices Come From? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Economy-Wide PPC -- Comparative Advantage and Specialization Among States -- 8.4 Trade Between Countries -- Determinants of Trade Between Countries -- Exporting Nations: Winners and Losers -- Letting the Data Speak: Fair Trade Products -- Importing Nations: Winners and Losers -- Where Do World Prices Come From? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Trade Between Countries -- Determinants of Trade Between Countries -- Letting the Data Speak: Fair Trade Products -- Exporting Nations: Winners and Losers -- Importing Nations: Winners and Losers -- Where Do World Prices Come From? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Comparisons -- A worthwhile goal -- Tall versus "tall" -- The main ingredient of stardom -- Peace of mind -- Circle what you are -- The biggest change of all -- Personal glory is secondary -- Individual honors -- Quick to judge -- Overachievers -- Eight suggestions for succeeding -- Beating yourself -- Winners make the most mistakes -- Cashing in on fame -- Characteristics of a team player -- All-time best starting five -- Why teams fail -- Orange peels, pride, and productivity --…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Chapter 5: TQM Kitemarks -- Introduction -- Japan's Deming Prize -- Categories of the Deming Prize -- The Deming Application Prize-Checklist -- Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award (MBNQA) -- Programme Impact -- Criteria for Performance Excellence -- IMC Ramakrishna Bajaj National Quality Award (IMC RBNQA) -- The European Quality Award -- The EFQM Excellence Model Criteria -- CII-EXIM Bank Award for Excellence -- Levels of Recognition -- Maturity Models -- International Quality Maturity Model -- Structure -- Manuals -- Self-Assessment -- Scoring -- Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) -- Benefits of Process Improvement -- Benefits of CMMI -- Main Features of CMMI -- Maturity or Capability Levels -- Staged -- Continuous -- Process Area (PA) -- Goals and Practices -- Summary -- Key Terms -- Case Study -- The Deming Prize and Sona Koyo -- The Company -- Performance of the Deming Prize Winners -- Sona's Quality Journey -- For Discussion -- Short-answer Questions -- Match the Following -- Discussion Questions -- Projects -- End Notes -- Chapter 6: Statistical Concepts in Quality Management -- Introduction -- Variation -- Variation Due to Natural Causes -- Variation Due to Assignable Causes -- Statistical Process Control (SPC)3 -- Quality Control Measurements4 -- Probability Distributions5 -- Laws of Probability -- Normal Distribution -- Measurement System Analysis (MSA)6 -- Precision and Accuracy of the Method of Measurement -- Process Capability7 -- Process Capability Study -- Process Capability Indices8 -- Process Performance Capability Ratio -- Sampling11 -- Acceptance Sampling12 -- Sampling Plans14 -- Quality Assurance15 -- Quality Assurance System16 -- Designing the Quality Assurance System -- Summary -- Key Terms -- Case Study -- Statistical Process Control at Motorola -- For Discussion -- Exercises -- Short-answer Questions…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Land Tenure Security and Armed Conflict: Before, During, After -- From Tenure Insecurity to Armed Conflict -- From Conflict to Tenure Insecurity -- Opportunities for Post-war Land Tenure Security and Sustainability -- Tenure Security Opportunities in Statutory Tenure Systems -- Tenure Security Opportunities in Customary Tenure Systems -- Lessons Learned for Afghanistan -- Conclusion -- References -- 9: Land Tenure Insecurity and Climate Adaptation: Socio-Environmental Realities in Colombia and Implications for Integrated Environmental Rights and Participatory Policy -- Winners and Losers in the Climate Change Landscape -- The Tangled Web of Land Tenure Security and Adaptation -- Complicated Land Tenure in Colombia (Past and Present) -- Climate Adaptation Amidst Tenure Confusion: The Case of Montes de María, Colombia -- Looking Forward: Considering Land Tenure and Climate Adaptation Together -- References -- 10: Interaction of Conditional Incentives for Ecosystem Conservation with Tenure Security: Multiple Roles for Tenure Interventions -- The Role of Tenure in PES Programs -- The Wide Spectrum of Conditionality and Tenure Security -- Tenure Interventions in the Context of the Dedicated Grant Mechanism -- Successes and Pitfalls with Formalization of Tenure Rights in the Context of Conditional Incentives -- References -- 11: Strategies for Securing Tenure: The Promise and Pitfalls of Formalization -- What Is Land Formalization and How Does It Connect with Tenure Security? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Why the United States Imports T-Shirts -- Why the United States Exports Airplanes -- Winners, Losers, and the Net Gain from Trade -- Gains and Losses from Imports -- Gains and Losses from Exports -- Gains for All -- International Trade Restrictions -- Tariffs -- Import Quotas -- Other Import Barriers -- Export Subsidies -- The Case Against Protection -- Helps an Infant Industry Grow -- Counteracts Dumping -- Saves Domestic Jobs -- Allows Us to Compete with Cheap Foreign Labor -- Penalizes Lax Environmental Standards -- Prevents Rich Countries from Exploiting Developing Countries -- Reduces Offshore Outsourcing that Sends Good U.S. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Why the United States Imports T-Shirts -- Why the United States Exports Airplanes -- Winners, Losers, and the Net Gain from Trade -- Gains and Losses from Imports -- Gains and Losses from Exports -- Gains for All -- International Trade Restrictions -- Tariffs -- Import Quotas -- Other Import Barriers -- Export Subsidies -- The Case Against Protection -- Helps an Infant Industry Grow -- Counteracts Dumping -- Saves Domestic Jobs -- Allows Us to Compete with Cheap Foreign Labor -- Penalizes Lax Environmental Standards -- Prevents Rich Countries from ExploitingDeveloping Countries -- Reduces Offshore Outsourcing that Sends Good U.S. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- About the Authors -- Brief Contents -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 USING OPERATIONS TO CREATE VALUE -- Disney -- Role of Operations in an Organization -- Historical Evolution and Perspectives -- A Process View -- How Processes Work -- Nested Processes -- Service and Manufacturing Processes -- A Supply Chain View -- Core Processes -- Support Processes -- Supply Chain Processes -- Operations Strategy -- Corporate Strategy -- Market Analysis -- Competitive Priorities and Capabilities -- Managerial Practice 1.1 Zara -- Order Winners and Qualifiers -- Using Competitive Priorities: An Airline Example -- Identifying Gaps Between Competitive Priorities and Capabilities -- Addressing the Trends and Challenges in Operations Management -- Productivity Improvement -- Global Competition -- Ethical, Workforce Diversity, and Environmental Issues -- The Internet of Things -- Developing Skills for Your Career -- Adding Value with Process Innovation -- Learning Goals in Review -- MyLab Operations Management Resources -- Key Equations -- Key Terms -- Solved Problems -- Discussion Questions -- Problems -- Active Model Exercise -- Video Case Using Operations to Create Value at Crayola -- Case Theorganicgrocer.com -- SUPPLEMENT A Decision Making -- Break‐Even Analysis -- Evaluating Services or Products -- Evaluating Processes -- Preference Matrix -- Decision Theory -- Decision Making under Certainty -- Decision Making under Uncertainty -- Decision Making under Risk -- Decision Trees -- Learning Goals in Review -- MyLab Operations Management Resources -- Key Equations -- Key Terms -- Solved Problems -- Problems -- PART 1 Managing Processes -- 2 PROCESS STRATEGY AND ANALYSIS -- CVS Pharmacy -- Process Structure in Services -- Customer‐Contact Matrix -- Service Process Structuring -- Process Structure in Manufacturing…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Narcissus Versus Humble Bloke - and the Winner Is . . . ? -- Are Overconfident Ceos Born or Made? …”

“…It is a research organization filled with some of the world's leading scientists and has produced many Nobel prize winners. NIST has a wide-ranging mandate: develop federal patents, oversee over 1,300 Standard Reference Materials, run a scientific laboratory in Boulder, CO, and pursue innovation in encryption technologies, among other significant efforts. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…It is hazardous to seek to pick future winners -- 4. It needs an ecosystem to nurture scalers and a whole-of-government approach to support them -- Framing, scoping and mapping scale up policy -- Conclusion -- References -- Annex 1.A. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Section IV: Data and Automation -- 13: Designing Your Ultimate Marketing Stack -- How to Build a Solid Martech Stack -- Bottoms Up -- CRM -- Marketing Automation -- Tag Management -- Analytics and Tracking: You Need to Track Your Performance, Ads, Technology, and Everything Else -- Invest in Keeping Your Stack Open -- Data Management Platform (DMP) -- Content Delivery Network (CDN) -- Conversion Optimization -- Campaign Management -- E-mail Marketing -- Mobile Optimization -- Advertising Networks -- Remarketing -- Search Engine Marketing -- Search Engine Advertising -- Monitoring the Martech Stack -- Martech That Drives Business Growth -- Agile Is Your Savior -- Marketing Technology Frameworks and the Emf -- Always-On Assessment, Evaluation, and Adoption -- No Single Platform Winner Aka "Marketing Operating System -- Build, Buy, or Rent? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Progrès technologique, mondialisation et émergence d'une dynamique du « winner-takes-most » -- 2.2.1. Progrès technologique et mondialisation -- 2.2.2. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Summary -- Chapter 12: Educating the Customer and Finishing Up -- Finishing up -- Avoiding surprises with constant contact -- Establishing periodic updates -- When to hit the big red button -- Weaving optimism with your action plan -- The executive summary -- Introduction -- Highlights, scoring, and risk recap -- More on risk -- Guidance - earning your keep -- Detailed findings -- The Dradis framework -- MagicTree -- Other documentation and organization tools -- Graphics for your reports -- Bringing best practices -- Baking in security -- Honing the SDLC -- Role-play - enabling the team -- Picking a winner -- Plans and programs -- More on change management -- Automate and adapt -- Assessing the competition -- Backbox Linux -- Samurai web testing framework -- Fedora Security Spin -- Other Linux pen test distros -- What About Windows and macOS? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Filter out all but the TMIN entries -- Create (station ID, temperature) key/value pairs -- Find minimum temperature by station ID -- Collect and print results -- Running the minimum temperature example and modifying it for maximums -- Examining the min-temperatures script -- Running the script -- Running the maximum temperature by location example -- Counting word occurrences using flatmap() -- Map versus flatmap -- Map () -- Flatmap () -- Code sample - count the words in a book -- Improving the word-count script with regular expressions -- Text normalization -- Examining the use of regular expressions in the word-count script -- Running the code -- Sorting the word count results -- Step 1 - Implement countByValue() the hard way to create a new RDD -- Step 2 - Sort the new RDD -- Examining the script -- Running the code -- Find the total amount spent by customer -- Introducing the problem -- Strategy for solving the problem -- Useful snippets of code -- Check your results and sort them by the total amount spent -- Check your sorted implementation and results against mine -- Summary -- Chapter 3: Advanced Examples of Spark Programs -- Finding the most popular movie -- Examining the popular-movies script -- Getting results -- Using broadcast variables to display movie names instead of ID numbers -- Introducing broadcast variables -- Examining the popular-movies-nicer.py script -- Getting results -- Finding the most popular superhero in a social graph -- Superhero social networks -- Input data format -- Strategy -- Running the script - discover who the most popular superhero is -- Mapping input data to (hero ID, number of co-occurrences) per line -- Adding up co-occurrence by hero ID -- Flipping the (map) RDD to (number, hero ID) -- Using max() and looking up the name of the winner -- Getting results…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- About the Authors -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Series Editor's Foreword -- Series Foreword Second Edition -- Series Foreword First Edition -- Foreword First Edition -- Preface Second Edition -- Preface First Edition -- Acknowledgments -- Glossary -- Part I Reliability and Software Quality - It's a Matter of Survival -- Chapter 1 The Need for a New Paradigm for Hardware Reliability and Software Quality -- 1.1 Rapidly Shifting Challenges for Hardware Reliability and Software Quality -- 1.2 Gaining Competitive Advantage -- 1.3 Competing in the Next Decade - Winners Will Compete on Reliability -- 1.4 Concurrent Engineering -- 1.5 Reducing the Number of Engineering Change Orders at Product Release -- 1.6 Time‐to‐Market Advantage -- 1.7 Accelerating Product Development -- 1.8 Identifying and Managing Risks -- 1.9 ICM, a Process to Mitigate Risk -- 1.10 Software Quality Overview -- References -- Further Reading -- Chapter 2 Barriers to Implementing Hardware Reliability and Software Quality -- 2.1 Lack of Understanding -- 2.2 Internal Barriers -- 2.3 Implementing Change and Change Agents -- 2.4 Building Credibility -- 2.5 Perceived External Barriers -- 2.6 Time to Gain Acceptance -- 2.7 External Barrier -- 2.8 Barriers to Software Process Improvement -- Chapter 3 Understanding Why Products Fail -- 3.1 Why Things Fail -- 3.2 Parts Have Improved, Everyone Can Build Quality Products -- 3.3 Hardware Reliability and Software Quality - The New Paradigm -- 3.4 Reliability vs. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Understanding TDD -- Red-Green-Refactor -- Speed is the key -- It's not about testing -- Testing -- Black-box testing -- White-box testing -- The difference between quality checking and quality assurance -- Better tests -- Mocking -- Executable documentation -- No debugging -- Summary -- Chapter 2: Tools, Frameworks, and Environments -- Git -- Virtual machines -- Vagrant -- Docker -- Build tools -- The integrated development environment -- The IDEA demo project -- Unit-testing frameworks -- JUnit -- TestNG -- Hamcrest and AssertJ -- Hamcrest -- AssertJ -- Code coverage tools -- JaCoCo -- Mocking frameworks -- Mockito -- EasyMock -- Extra power for mocks -- User interface testing -- Web-testing frameworks -- Selenium -- Selenide -- Behavior-driven development -- JBehave -- Cucumber -- Summary -- Chapter 3: Red-Green-Refactor - From Failure Through Success until Perfection -- Setting up the environment with Gradle and JUnit -- Setting up Gradle/Java project in IntelliJ IDEA -- The Red-Green-Refactor process -- Writing a test -- Running all the tests and confirming that the last one is failing -- Writing the implementation code -- Running all the tests -- Refactoring -- Repeating -- Tic-Tac-Toe game requirements -- Developing Tic-Tac-Toe -- Requirement 1 - placing pieces -- Test - board boundaries I -- Implementation -- Test - board boundaries II -- Implementation -- Test - occupied spot -- Implementation -- Refactoring -- Requirement 2 - adding two-player support -- Test - X plays first -- Implementation -- Test - O plays right after X -- Implementation -- Test - X plays right after O -- Requirement 3 - adding winning conditions -- Test - by default there's no winner…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Joint analysis of economic and environmental impacts -- The European Union Emissions Trading System and its economic and environmental impacts -- The joint effects of energy prices and carbon taxes in the French manufacturing sector -- The joint effects of energy prices in the Indonesian manufacturing sector -- Summing up: What to expect from a 10% increase in relative energy prices? -- Winners and losers -- Economy-friendly environmental policies -- Appropriate policy design can underpin the economic benefits of environmental policies…”