“…Compiled by leading international experts, this authoritative reference work covers every aspect of broadcast technology from camera to transmitter - encompassing subjects from analogue techniques to the latest digital compression and interactive technologies in a single source.Written with a minimum of maths, the book provides detailed coverage and quick access to key technologies, standards and practices. This global work will become your number one resource whether y…”

“…Corporate Finance: A Practical Approach is designed to help financial analysts, executives, and investors achieve this goal with a practice-oriented distillation of the most important tools and concepts of corporate finance.Updated for a post-financial crisis environment, the Second Edition provides coverage of the most important issues surrounding modern corporate finance for the new global economy: Preserves the hallmark conciseness of the first edition while offering expanded coverage of key topics including dividend policy, share repurchases, and capital structure Current, real-world examples are integrated throughout the book to provide the reader with a concrete understanding of critical business growth concepts Explanations and examples are rigorous and global, but make minimal use of mathematics Each chapter presents learning objectives which highlight key material, helping the reader glean the most effective business advice possible Written by the experts at CFA Institute, the world's largest association of professional investment managers Created for current and aspiring financial professionals and investors alike, Corporate Finance focuses on the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to succeed in today's global corporate world"--…”

“…It is well recognized that succeeding at innovation is fundamental in today's hyper-competitive global marketplace. It is the only way to outperform current and emerging competitors sustainably. …”

“…Combining a deep knowledge of humanities and social sciences as well as a real familiarity with computer science issues, this book explains the collaborative construction of a global hypercortex coordinated by a computable metalanguage. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “….) -- PÁGINA LEGAL -- INTRODUCCIÓN -- ÍNDICE -- INTRODUCCIÓN -- REFERENCIAS INTRODUCCIÓN -- CAPÍTULO 1 UN PROBLEMA DE VASTAS PROPORCIONES -- LA MAYOR PARTE DE LAS SUSTANCIAS A LAS QUE NOS EXPONEMOS NO HAN SIDO (...) -- EL VOLUMEN GLOBAL DE QUÍMICA SINTÉTICA SIGUE CRECIENDO ESPECTACULARMENTE (...) -- REFERENCIAS CAPÍTULO 1 -- CAPÍTULO 2 LEYES INEFICACES -- UN EJEMPLO: EL REGLAMENTO REACH DE LA UE -- MUCHOS PRODUCTOS QUÍMICOS IMPORTANTES QUE PODRÍAN SER TÓXICOS NI SIQUIERA (...) -- OTRO EJEMPLO: LA LEY DE CONTROL DE SUSTANCIAS TÓXICAS DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS -- NO SE DISPONE DE UNA REGULACIÓN ADECUADA SOBRE LAS SUSTANCIAS ALTERADORAS (...) -- EL PUNTO DE PARTIDA -- EL TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE LA UE CONDENÓ A LA COMISIÓN EUROPEA POR ANTEPONER (...) -- LA COMISIÓN EUROPEA: ANTES EL DINERO QUE LA SALUD -- UNA RUTA A NINGUNA PARTE -- LA COSA EMPEORABA -- UNA BURLA A LA COMUNIDAD CIENTÍFICA -- UN CÍRCULO VICIOSO -- FALLOS EN EL TRATAMIENTO DE LOS CONTAMINANTES DISRUPTORES ENDOCRINOS EN LA (...) -- OTRO EJEMPLO: EUROPA NO EVALÚA BIEN EL RIESGO DE LOS PESTICIDAS -- PETICIONES EN RELACIÓN A LOS PESTICIDAS: CIUDADANOS POR LA CIENCIA EN LA (...) -- CUANDO SE APLICA LA PRESUNCIÓN DE INOCENCIA A LAS SUSTANCIAS TÓXICAS -- LA DEMOSTRADA TARDANZA EN ACTUAR -- LA FALSA "CERTEZA" DE LAS AUTORIDADES ACERCA DE LA SEGURIDAD DE LOS (...) -- EL DOBLE RASERO DE LA "CERTEZA". …”

“…Biological invasions by animals, plants, pathogens or vectors are one of the greatest environmental and economic threats and, along with habitat destruction, a leading cause of global biodiversity loss. In this book, more than 50 worldwide invasion scientists cover our current understanding of biological invasions, its impacts, patterns and mechanisms in both aquatic and terrestrial systems…”

“…The resource is comprised of some 300 topical entries, definitions of key terms and concepts, and review essays, from a global array of more than 250 researchers, business executives, policymakers, and artists, illuminating the many facets of creativity and innovation, and highlighting their relationships to such universal concepts as knowledge management, economic opportunity, and sustainability. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- The tasks of an orchestrator -- Reconciling the desired state -- Replicated and global services -- Service discovery -- Routing -- Load balancing -- Scaling -- Self-healing -- Zero downtime deployments -- Affinity and location awareness -- Security -- Secure communication and cryptographic node identity -- Secure networks and network policies -- Role-based access control (RBAC) -- Secrets -- Content trust -- Reverse uptime -- Introspection -- Overview of popular orchestrators -- Kubernetes -- Docker Swarm -- Apache Mesos and Marathon -- Amazon ECS -- Microsoft ACS -- Summary -- Questions -- Further reading -- Chapter 10: Introduction to Docker Swarm -- Architecture -- Swarm nodes -- Swarm managers -- Swarm workers -- Stacks, services, and tasks -- Services -- Task -- Stack -- Multi-host networking -- Creating a Docker Swarm -- Creating a local single node swarm -- Creating a local swarm in VirtualBox or Hyper-V -- Using Play with Docker (PWD) to generate a Swarm -- Creating a Docker Swarm in the cloud -- Deploying a first application -- Creating a service -- Inspecting the service and its tasks -- Logs of a service -- Reconciling the desired state -- Deleting a service or a stack -- Deploying a multi-service stack -- The swarm routing mesh -- Summary -- Questions -- Further reading -- Chapter 11: Zero Downtime Deployments and Secrets -- Technical requirements -- Zero downtime deployment -- Popular deployment strategies -- Rolling updates…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Setting the figure resolution -- Jupyter support -- Interactive navigation toolbar -- Configuring Matplotlib -- Configuring within Python code -- Reverting to default settings -- Global setting via configuration rc file -- Finding the rc configuration file -- Editing the rc configuration file -- Summary -- Chapter 3: Decorating Graphs with Plot Styles and Types -- Controlling the colors -- Default color cycle -- Single-lettered abbreviations for basic colors -- Standard HTML color names -- RGB or RGBA color code -- Hexadecimal color code -- Depth of grayscale -- Colormaps -- Creating custom colormaps -- Line and marker styles -- Marker styles -- Choosing the shape of markers -- Using custom characters as markers -- Adjusting marker sizes and colors -- Fine-tuning marker styles with keyword arguments -- Line styles -- Color -- Line thickness -- Dash patterns -- Designing a custom dash style -- Cap styles -- Spines -- More native Matplotlib plot types -- Choosing the right plot -- Histogram -- Bar plot -- Setting bar plot properties -- Drawing bar plots with error bars using multivariate data -- Mean-and-error plots -- Pie chart -- Polar chart -- Controlling radial and angular grids -- Text and annotations -- Adding text annotations -- Font -- Mathematical notations -- Mathtext -- LaTeX support -- External text renderer -- Arrows -- Using style sheets -- Applying a style sheet -- Creating own style sheet -- Resetting to default styles -- Aesthetics and readability considerations in styling -- Suitable font styles -- Effective use of colors -- Keeping it simple -- Summary -- Chapter 4: Advanced Matplotlib -- Drawing Subplots -- Initiating a figure with plt.figure() -- Initiating subplots as axes with plt.subplot() -- Adding subplots with plt.figure.add_subplot() -- Initiating an array of subplots with plt.subplots() -- Shared axes…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Learning Objectives -- Survey Methods -- Survey Methods Classified by Mode of Administration -- Telephone Methods -- Traditional Telephone Interviews -- Computer-Assisted Telephone Interviewing -- Advantages and Disadvantages of Telephone Interviewing -- Personal Methods -- Personal In-Home Interviews -- Advantages and Disadvantages of In-Home Interviewing -- Mall-Intercept Personal Interviews -- Advantages and Disadvantages of Mall Intercepts -- Computer-Assisted Personal Interviewing -- Advantages and Disadvantages of CAPI -- Mail Methods -- Mail Interviews -- Mail Panels -- Advantages and Disadvantages of Mail Surveys -- Electronic Methods -- E-mail Surveys -- Internet Surveys -- Advantages and Disadvantages of Electronic Methods -- Some Other Survey Methods -- Criteria for Selecting a Survey Method -- Improving Survey Response Rates -- Prior Notification -- Incentives -- Follow-Up -- Other Facilitators of Response -- Observation Methods -- Personal Observation -- Mechanical Observation -- A Comparison of Survey and Observation Methods -- Relative Advantages of Observation -- Relative Disadvantages of Observation -- International Marketing Research -- Marketing Research and Social Media -- Surveys -- Observation -- Ethics in Marketing Research -- Summary -- Companion Website -- Key Terms and Concepts -- Suggested Cases and Video Cases -- Live Research: Conducting a Marketing Research Project -- Acronyms -- Review Questions -- Applied Problems -- Internet Exercises -- Online Video Case 5.1: Starbucks: Staying Local While Going Global Through Marketing Research -- Chapter 6: Experimentation and Causal Research -- Overview -- Learning Objectives -- Concept of Causality -- Conditions for Causality -- Concomitant Variation -- Time Order of Occurrence of Variables -- Absence of Other Possible Causal Factors -- Role of Evidence…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Supply has not kept up with demand -- Governments are investing less in housing development -- Housing affects economic performance in many ways -- Housing markets play a paramount role in the economy -- Greater access to housing finance creates opportunities and risks -- Residential mobility yields important benefits but may be hindered by poorly functioning housing markets -- Housing affects inequalities -- Lack of access to quality housing can have lasting distributional effects -- Housing is an integral part of household wealth -- Housing has sizeable environmental consequences -- Housing accounts for a substantial share of global CO2 emissions -- Complex links tie housing and environmental quality -- What can governments do? …”

“…This highly sought-after global credential has been updated with revised objectives. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Intro -- Foreword -- Editorial -- We must continue to co-ordinate our responses to the ongoing Ukrainian refugee crisis, as well as plan for their longer-term displacement -- Executive summary -- Migration flows bounced back in 2021 -- Labour market outcomes of immigrants were more resilient than expected -- The global competition for talent is back on the policy agenda -- Responding to the refugee crisis from Ukraine -- International students make a large economic contribution in most OECD countries -- Key findings -- Key facts and figures -- 1 Recent developments in international migration movements and labour market inclusion of immigrants -- Recent trends in international migration -- Permanent-type migration to OECD countries partially bounced back in 2021 -- Temporary worker migration has not returned to its pre-COVID-19 level -- Inflow of international seasonal workers remained stable during the pandemic -- Other types of temporary labour migration were significantly impacted by the pandemic -- Contrasting trends in the number of worker postings within the OECD-Europe area in 2020 -- Shifts in origin and destination of asylum seekers -- A strong rebound in asylum seeking, but not up to pre-COVID-19 levels -- China and India start to lose their lead as main origin countries -- Size and composition of foreign-born populations in OECD countries -- Foreign-born population continued to rise during the pandemic -- Men still account for more than half of migration flows but their share decreased in 2020 -- Record acquisitions of citizenship in OECD countries in 2021 -- Recent trends in labour market outcomes for immigrants in the OECD area -- In 2021, the labour market situation of immigrants improved in most OECD countries -- The risk of long-term unemployment for migrants increased as a result of the crisis…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Climate Change -- Actions and results in the 1990s -- Recent commitments and planned actions -- Table 7.3 Greenhouse gas emissions, 1998 -- Table 7.4 Deposition of SO2 and NOx, 1996 -- Assessment of future results and strategic issues -- 6. Other Global Issues -- Follow-up to UNCED -- Ozone depleting substances (ODS) -- International trade and investment -- Figure 7.1 Official development assistance, 1998 -- Development assistance -- 7. …”

“…One only has to consider the global warming debate to realize how critically important it is to be able to derive clear conclusions from often noisy data drawn from a broad range of sources. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Using functions for various purposes -- Summary -- Questions -- Chapter 8: Managing PostgreSQL Security -- Managing network security -- Understanding bind addresses and connections -- Managing the pg_hba.conf file -- Handling instance-level security -- Defining database-level security -- Adjusting schema-level permissions -- Working with tables -- Handling column-level security -- Configuring default privileges -- Digging into row-level security -- Inspecting permissions -- Reassigning objects and dropping users -- Summary -- Questions -- Chapter 9: Handling Backup and Recovery -- Performing simple dumps -- Running pg_dump -- Passing passwords and connection information -- Extracting subsets of data -- Handling various formats -- Replaying backups -- Handling global data -- Summary -- Questions -- Chapter 10: Making Sense of Backups and Replication -- Understanding the transaction log -- Looking at the transaction log -- Understanding checkpoints -- Optimizing the transaction log -- Transaction log archiving and recovery -- Configuring for archiving -- Using archiving libraries -- Configuring the pg_hba.conf file -- Creating base backups -- Replaying the transaction log -- Cleaning up the transaction log archive -- Setting up asynchronous replication -- Performing a basic setup -- Halting and resuming replication -- Checking replication to ensure availability -- Performing failovers and understanding timelines -- Managing conflicts -- Making replication more reliable -- Upgrading to synchronous replication -- Adjusting durability -- Making use of replication slots -- Handling physical replication slots -- Handling logical replication slots -- Making use of the CREATE PUBLICATION and CREATE SUBSCRIPTION commands -- Setting up an HA cluster using Patroni -- Understand how Patroni operates -- Installing Patroni -- Creating Patroni templates -- Summary…”

“…In the second part, young historians from Russia and Germany present “New Perspectives on German-Russian Relations and Historical Interconnections in the 19th and 20th Centuries in a Global Context.”…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Complementarity between local and global motion -- 3.6. Discussion -- 3.7. References -- Conclusion to Part 1 -- Part 2. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Potential roadblocks -- Summary -- Chapter 13: The Importance of Smart Buildings for Sustainability and the Environment -- ESG -- ESG terminology -- ESG and buildings -- Sustainability -- Sustainability data -- ESG and sustainability confusion -- Green buildings -- EU sustainability taxonomy -- ESG and smart buildings investments -- Sustainability funding -- Global sustainability plan -- Summary -- Chapter 14: Smart Buildings Lead to Smart Cities -- The elusive smart city -- Smart city defined -- The benefits of a smart city -- Smart buildings create the smart city -- Framework for measuring smart city impact -- IoT helps buildings give back to the grid -- Net-zero buildings -- Government buildings are smart city starters -- World's top smart cities 2022 -- Summary -- Chapter 15: Smart Buildings on the Bleeding Edge -- Smart buildings' impact on NOI -- Smart buildings are digitalizing the commercial real estate market -- Building smart from the start -- Intelligent learning -- AI is making buildings smarter -- Unified buildings -- IoT will drive the future of buildings -- What's next -- Final thoughts - data tagging -- Summary -- Index -- Other Books You May Enjoy…”