Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Sharing the Blame for Low Saving -- How to Promote Saving for Development -- Tackle the pension problem -- Focus on infrastructure and capital spending -- Target tax policy better -- Promote household saving and create a savings culture -- Improve productivity growth -- Fix the financial system -- The Many Faces of Saving -- A Policy Agenda for the Future -- Notes -- 2 The State of Saving in Latin America and the Caribbean -- National Saving Rates: Comparatively Low -- The Private Sector: Taking the Lead -- Foreign Savings: A Secondary Actor -- Businesses: The Biggest Savers-Worldwide -- Farewell to the Demographic Dividend -- Too Old to Save? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Annotation management tools; A.5. (Many) Other tools; I.1.1. Where linguistics hides; I.1.2. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- References -- 6 - Berlin Helps: Resource Mobilization and Social Media Deployment in Berlin's Refugee Aid Movement -- 6.1 ONE HOT SUMMER DAY AT #LAGESO -- 6.2 RESOURCE MOBILIZATION THEORY -- 6.3 SOCIAL MEDIA AND RESOURCE MOBILIZATION -- 6.3.1 Moral Resources -- 6.3.2 Cultural Resources -- 6.3.3 Social-Organizational Resources -- 6.3.4 Human Resources -- 6.3.5 Material Resources -- 6.4 CONCLUSIONS -- References -- 2 - Discussion -- 7 - Between Actions and Algorithms: How Social Media Facilitate and Enable Collective Action -- 7.1 BETWEEN FLICKR AND THE GOOGLE INDEX -- 7.2 BETWEEN ACTIONS AND ALGORITHMS -- 7.3 CONCLUSIONS -- References -- 8 - Alternative or Mainstream: The Interplay Between Social Media and Mass Media -- 8.1 THE MANY FACETS OF NEWSWORTHINESS -- 8.2 SOCIAL MEDIA-ALTERNATIVE MEDIA? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Testing DOM attributes -- 3.4. Testing how many components are rendered -- 3.5. Testing props -- 3.6. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…1 - Second General Artificial Intelligence Workshop (GAIW 2007) -- Towards Tractable Local Closed World Reasoning for the Semantic Web -- Optimal Brain Surgeon for General Dynamic Neural Networks -- Answer-Set Programming Based Dynamic User Modelling for Recommender Systems -- Application of Logic Wrappers to Hierarchical Data Extraction from HTML -- Relaxing Feature Selection in Spam Filtering by Using Case-Based Reasoning Systems -- Gödel and Computability -- Prospective Logic Agents -- An Iterative Process for Building Learning Curves and Predicting Relative Performance of Classifiers -- Modelling Morality with Prospective Logic -- Change Detection in Learning Histograms from Data Streams -- Real-Time Intelligent Decision Support System for Bridges Structures Behavior Prediction -- Semi-fuzzy Splitting in Online Divisive-Agglomerative Clustering -- On the Use of Rough Sets for User Authentication Via Keystroke Dynamics -- The Halt Condition in Genetic Programming -- Two Puzzles Concerning Measures of Uncertainty and the Positive Boolean Connectives -- 2 - First Workshop on AI Applications for Sustainable Transportation Systems (AIASTS 2007) -- Nonlinear Models for Determining Mode Choice -- Adaptation in Games with Many Co-evolving Agents -- 3 - Third Workshop on Artificial Life and Evolutionary Algorithms (ALEA 2007) -- Symmetry at the Genotypic Level and the Simple Inversion Operator -- A Genetic Programming Approach to the Generation of Hyper-Heuristics for the Incapacitated Examination Timetabling Problem -- Asynchronous Stochastic Dynamics and the Spatial Prisoner’s Dilemma Game -- Improving Evolutionary Algorithms with Scouting -- Stochastic Barycenters and Beta Distribution for Gaussian Particle Swarms -- Exploiting Second Order Information in Computational Multi-objective Evolutionary Optimization -- 4 - First Workshop on Ambient Intelligence Technologies and Applications (AMITA 2007) -- Ambient Intelligence – A State of the Art from Artificial Intelligence Perspective -- Ubiquitous Ambient Intelligence in a Flight Decision Assistance System -- Argumentation-Based Decision Making in Ambient Intelligence Environments -- Intelligent Mixed Reality for the Creation of Ambient Assisted Living -- Medical Imaging Environment – A Multi-Agent System for a Computer Clustering Based Multi-display -- 5 - Second Workshop on Building and Applying Ontologies for the Semantic Web (BAOSW 2007) -- Partial and Dynamic Ontology Mapping Model in Dialogs of Agents -- Using Ontologies for Software Development Knowledge Reuse -- 6 - First Workshop on Business Intelligence (BI 2007) -- Analysis of the Day-of-the-Week Anomaly for the Case of Emerging Stock Market -- A Metamorphosis Algorithm for the Optimization of a Multi-node OLAP System -- Experiments for the Number of Clusters in K-Means -- A Network Algorithm to Discover Sequential Patterns -- Adaptive Decision Support for Intensive Care -- A Tool for Interactive Subgroup Discovery Using Distribution Rules -- Quantitative Evaluation of Clustering’s for Marketing Applications: A Web Portal Case Study -- Resource-Bounded Fraud Detection -- 7 - First Workshop on Computational Methods in Bioinformatics and Systems Biology (CMBSB 2007) -- System Stability Via Stepping Optimal Control: Theory and Applications -- Evaluating Simulated Annealing Algorithms in the Optimization of Bacterial Strains -- Feature Extraction from Tumor Gene Expression Profiles Using DCT and DFT -- 8 - Second Workshop on Intelligent Robotics (IROBOT 2007) -- An Omnidirectional Vision System for Soccer Robots -- Generalization and Transfer Learning in Noise-Affected Robot Navigation Tasks -- Heuristic Q-Learning Soccer Players: A New Reinforcement Learning Approach to RoboCup Simulation -- Human Robot Interaction Based on Bayesian Analysis of Human Movements -- Understanding Dynamic Agent’s Reasoning -- 9 - Fourth Workshop on Multi-agent Systems: Theory and Applications (MASTA 2007) -- Convergence of Independent Adaptive Learners -- Multi-agent Learning: How to Interact to Improve Collective Results -- A Basis for an Exchange Value-Based Operational Notion of Morality for Multiagent Systems -- Intelligent Farmer Agent for Multi-agent Ecological Simulations Optimization -- Tax Compliance Through MABS: The Case of Indirect Taxes -- 10 - First Workshop on Search Techniques for Constraint Satisfaction (STCS 2007) -- Efficient and Tight Upper Bounds for Haplotype Inference by Pure Parsimony Using Delayed Haplotype Selection -- GRASPER -- 11 - Second Workshop on Text Mining and Applications (TEMA 2007) -- Text Segmentation Using Context Overlap -- Automatic Extraction of Definitions in Portuguese: A Rule-Based Approach -- N-Grams and Morphological Normalization in Text Classification: A Comparison on a Croatian-English Parallel Corpus -- Detection of Strange and Wrong Automatic Part-of-Speech Tagging -- New Techniques for Relevant Word Ranking and Extraction…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…4.3 Independent random variables4.3.1 Independent events; 4.3.2 Independent random variables; 4.3.3 Independence of many random variables; 4.3.4 Sum of independent random variables; 4.3.5 Exercises; 4.4 Sequences of independent random variables; 4.4.1 Weak law of large numbers; 4.4.2 Borel-Cantelli lemma; 4.4.3 Convergences of random variables; 4.4.4 Strong law of large numbers; 4.4.5 A few applications of the law of large numbers; 4.4.6 Central limit theorem; 4.4.7 Exercises; Chapter 5 Discrete time Markov chains; 5.1 Stochastic matrices; 5.1.1 Definitions; 5.1.2 Oriented graphs…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…A lethal weapon -- Composite -- Get together -- The Squad -- Varargs and secondary constructors -- Counting bullets -- Facade -- Keep it simple -- Flyweight -- Being conservative -- Saving memory -- Proxy -- A short detour into the RMI world -- A replacement -- Lazy delegation -- Summary -- Chapter 4: Getting Familiar with Behavioral Patterns -- Strategy -- Fruit arsenal -- Citizen function -- Switching sides -- Iterator -- One, two... many -- Running through the values -- State -- Fifty shades of State -- State of the Nation -- Command -- Undoing commands -- Chain of responsibility -- Interpreter -- We need to go deeper -- A language of your own -- Taking a break -- Call suffix -- Mediator -- Trouble in the Jungle -- The middleman -- Flavors -- Caveats -- Memento -- Remembrance -- Visitor -- Writing a crawler -- Template method -- Observer -- Animal Choir -- Summary -- Chapter 5: Functional Programming -- Why functional programming? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…. -- ... with gains to be made through innovation, including in the agri-food sector -- Many of the challenges for firms to innovate in rural regions are related to demographic change... -- ... to address these issues, regional innovation system partners must consider demographically targeted programmes for delivering entrepreneurship and innovation support services, including for women, youth and older workers -- References -- 1 Assessment and recommendations -- Assessment -- Switzerland is one of the leading OECD countries, systematically performing highly on innovation -- yet, some areas within Switzerland still face acute challenges -- The size and structure of the economy matter for how firms innovate in rural regions -- There is a strong level of entrepreneurship and competition in Switzerland -- Research and development (R&amp -- D) activities gain importance in non-metropolitan areas -- Activating female, young and older workers can help mobilise untapped potential for innovation and entrepreneurship in rural labour markets -- How is Switzerland supporting innovation in rural places? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…An updated methodology and increased national support could improve strategic plans -- RDAs struggle to ensure strategic coherence between regional and local objectives -- Regional data gaps hamper the quality of regional planning -- Monitoring and evaluation are inhibited by data, culture and capacity gaps -- Finance and implementation -- The Regional Programmes provide significant but insufficient funds for regional investment needs -- RDAs need to build expertise and capacity for effective call design and execution -- Implementation of regional plans requires co-ordination and monitoring at the local and national levels -- Communication and stakeholder engagement -- Stakeholders are not fully motivated to support regional plans -- All communications need to be sharpened to focus on a shared regional vision -- Communication plans should leverage RDA understanding of regional stakeholders -- RDAs could benefit from new approaches and tools for engagement -- Conclusion -- References -- Notes -- 4 Building on Romania's innovation support services -- Strategy, planning and performance measurement for innovation support services -- Strategy design for regional innovation -- Strategic co-ordination is limited within many RDA innovation strategies -- RDA capacity to develop a coherent innovation strategy is limited -- RDAs must address strategy design challenges and take advantage of wider opportunities -- Innovation camps could be further explored to support improved strategy design -- European Union initiatives offer further opportunities to improve innovation strategy design -- The limitations of a weak innovation ecosystem -- Suggestions to improve the innovation ecosystem -- International expertise could support a better understanding of regional innovation ecosystems -- Knowledge and understanding of innovation…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Introduction; 1.1.2. Why Are There So Many Footnotes?; 1.1.3. What About the Exercises and Their Answers?…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Programmer-defined quoting mechanism; 1.4.1.10. Many new built-in packages; 1.5. Resources for PL/SQL Developers; 1.5.2. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…2.1 Progressive or Interlace?2.2 How Many Pixels Do You Need?; 2.3 Recording Formats; 2.4 HDV - Can You Get Away With It?…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Spec-ing out the parts -- Starting with the payload -- Choosing the gimbal -- Landing gear -- A first-person view - FPV system -- The actual aerial platform - drone -- Batteries -- Running the numbers -- Assembling the drone -- Too many freakin' wires! -- GPS on a stick -- Rails are awesome -- Anything loose? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Applying what you learned -- Summary -- Answers to quizzes and exercises -- Further reading -- Chapter 8. Many cooks in the kitchen: Thread safety -- 8.1. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Interpreting the posterior mean -- Interpreting the posterior predictions -- Generalizing the linear model -- Counting bikes -- Robust regression -- Logistic regression -- The logistic model -- Classification with logistic regression -- Interpreting the coefficients of logistic regression -- Variable variance -- Hierarchical linear regression -- Centered vs. noncentered hierarchical models -- Multiple linear regression -- Summary -- Exercises -- Chapter 5: Comparing Models -- Posterior predictive checks -- The balance between simplicity and accuracy -- Many parameters (may) lead to overfitting -- Too few parameters lead to underfitting -- Measures of predictive accuracy -- Information criteria -- Akaike Information Criterion -- Widely applicable information criteria -- Other information criteria -- Cross-validation -- Approximating cross-validation -- Calculating predictive accuracy with ArviZ -- Model averaging -- Bayes factors -- Some observations -- Calculation of Bayes factors -- Analytically -- Sequential Monte Carlo -- Savage-Dickey ratio -- Bayes factors and inference -- Regularizing priors -- Summary -- Exercises -- Chapter 6: Modeling with Bambi -- One syntax to rule them all -- The bikes model, Bambi's version -- Polynomial regression -- Splines -- Distributional models -- Categorical predictors -- Categorical penguins -- Relation to hierarchical models -- Interactions -- Interpreting models with Bambi -- Variable selection -- Projection predictive inference -- Projection predictive with Kulprit -- Summary -- Exercises -- Chapter 7: Mixture Models -- Understanding mixture models -- Finite mixture models -- The Categorical distribution -- The Dirichlet distribution -- Chemical mixture -- The non-identifiability of mixture models -- How to choose K -- Zero-Inflated and hurdle models -- Zero-Inflated Poisson regression -- Hurdle models…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover -- Half-title page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 The rule of law: a basic account -- I Opening technicalities -- II The weak version of the rule of law in two principles -- A Regularity -- B Publicity -- III Vertical equality -- A Respect and hubris -- B Terror -- C Normative robustness -- IV Closing technicalities -- Chapter 2 The strong version of the rule of law -- I Generality and the idea of a relevant distinction -- A Many conceptions of generality -- B Against the formal conception of generality -- C Public reason as relevance criterion -- II How to apply the public reason conception of generality -- A Public reason: expressive -- B Finding the expressive content of a law -- 1 Reasons and meanings -- 2 Proof of concept -- III Generality as egalitarian principle -- Chapter 3 Generality and hierarchy -- I The literacy tests: a model of nongeneral law -- II The rule of law and social facts -- A The disjunctive character of rule of law commands -- III The rule of law and the criminalization of poverty -- A The rule of law critique of economic injustice -- IV Is this still the rule of law? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Displaying characters and text -- Scrolling text on the display -- Working with the individual LEDs -- Images and animations -- Working with built-in push buttons -- Summary -- Further reading -- Chapter 6: Interfacing External LEDs -- Technical requirements -- Breadboards and solderless circuits -- LEDs and their programming -- Blinking an LED -- SOS message -- Blinking two LEDs alternately -- Traffic light simulator -- GPIO pins usage -- 4-bit binary counter -- Chaser effect -- Using an LED bar graph -- Enabling more pins -- RGB LEDs -- Seven-segment display -- Summary -- Further reading -- Chapter 7: Programming External Push Buttons, Buzzers, and Stepper Motors -- Technical requirements -- Push buttons -- Connecting an external push button -- Slide switches -- Counting how many times a button is pushed -- Connecting multiple push buttons -- Buzzers -- Stepper motors -- Summary -- Further reading -- Part 3: Filesystems and Programming Analog I/O -- Chapter 8: Exploring the Filesystem -- Technical requirements -- Creating and reading files -- Appending a file -- Creating our own library -- The OS module -- Working with MicroFS -- Summary -- Further reading -- Chapter 9: Working with Analog Input and PWM -- Technical requirements -- Micro:bit analog pins -- Potentiometers -- Photoresistors -- PWM signals -- Servo motors using PWM -- Handling multiple analog devices -- PWM using an RGB LED -- Joysticks -- Summary -- Further reading -- Part 4: Advanced Hardware Interfacing and Applications -- Chapter 10: Working with Acceleration and Direction -- Technical requirements -- Accelerometer -- Data logging -- Compasses -- Audio and compass -- Summary -- Further reading -- Chapter 11: Working with NeoPixels and a MAX7219 Display -- Technical requirements -- NeoPixel products -- The NeoPixel library -- Adding interactivity to the projects…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Policies to tackle harmful alcohol consumption: What works and provides a good return on investment -- Substantial health gains may be achieved by scaling up many of the assessed policies to the national level -- Many interventions have a significant impact on health expenditure, and MUP, taxation and restrictions on opening hours are cost-saving -- All the interventions show potential to increase labour force participation and productivity, but the impact on early retirement is more limited -- All the interventions are affordable, and in the majority of cases the return on investment is significantly greater than the implementation cost -- 1.4.2. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…São Paulo's GreenBlue Programme -- Figure 2.1. Many municipalities have established an environmental institution -- 1.3. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Real business investment contracted relatively more than in many other countries…”