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“…Based on the OECD criteria for the evaluation of environmental indicators – measurability, analytical soundness and policy relevance – the paper identifies key challenges for developing and using specific categories of compliance assurance outcome indicators and suggests several ways to improve their effectiveness. The review of a “toolbox” of existing outcome indicators and the analysis of their respective strengths and weaknesses suggests that it is not possible to identify a “best practice” approach or a universal optimal set of indicators. …”

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“…, Matt wrote the O'Reilly title Migrating to Cloud-Native Application Architectures ; works as a technical product manager for Cloud Foundry and Spring at Pivotal; and serves as technical editor of NFJS the Magazine …”

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“…Based on documents of the central archives in Vienna and Moscow, the thesis comes to the following results: On the one hand, conflicts between the soldiers of the Central Powers in the former Tsarist empire, in particular between the Austro-Hungarian nationalities, for example between the "Bolshevik internationalists" and the "Czech Legion", played a decisive role in the beginning of an Eastern European "period of confusion" which can hardly be entitled a "Russian Civil War". …”

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“…The author returns to the Kosovo Crisis of 1999, discussing also the motives that led the Kremlin and Putin to invaded Chechnya for a second time in a decade. Parallels can be drawn to the 2008 Russian invasion of Georgia and the roots of the Neo-Eurasianist ideology that is behind the two invasions are examined. …”

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“…From a competitive set of high-quality submissions, we accepted 31 long research papers, 8 short papers, and 2 demo papers. …”

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“…Discover why Kubernetes is an excellent choice for any individual or organization looking to embark on developing a successful data and application platform. What You'll Learn · Configure and install Kubernetes and k3s on vendor-neutral platforms, including generic virtual machines and bare metal · Implement an integrated development toolchain for continuous integration and deployment · Use data pipelines with MQTT, NiFi, Logstash, Kafka and Elasticsearch · Install a serverless platform with OpenFaaS · Explore blockchain network capabilities with Ethereum · Support a multi-tenant data science platform and web IDE with JupyterHub, MLflow and Seldon Core · Build a hybrid cluster, securely bridging on-premise and cloud-based Kubernetes nodes …”