Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Schedule and risk - too many test ideas, not enough time -- Iterative testing -- Strategy - what are our risks and priorities? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…P&amp -- G and the Moments of Truth-Just How Many Moments Are There? -- Notes -- Chapter 8. Buying, Using, and Disposing -- The Shopping Experience -- Shop 'til You Drop? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Open Science and Planning Research -- The Replicability Crisis: Why Many Published Results May Be False -- Open Science -- Pilot Testing -- Preregistration -- Open Materials and Data -- Quiz 10.1 -- Precision for Planning -- Quiz 10.2 -- Planning Using Statistical Power -- Comparing Power and Precision for Planning -- Quiz 10.3 -- Reporting Your Work -- Take-Home Messages -- End-of-Chapter Exercises -- Answers to Quizzes -- Answers to In-Chapter Exercises -- 11. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…. -- If your team is smaller than four programmers... -- If you have many developers working solo... -- Prerequisite #6: Use All the Practices -- If practices don't fit... -- Recommendation #1: A Brand-New Codebase -- If you have preexisting code... -- Recommendation #2: Strong Design Skills -- If no one has strong design skills... -- Recommendation #3: A Language That's Easy to Refactor -- If your language is hard to refactor... -- Recommendation #4: An Experienced Programmer-Coach -- If you have no obvious coach... -- If your leaders are inexperienced... -- If you're assigned a poor coach... -- Recommendation #5: A Friendly and Cohesive Team -- If your team doesn't get along... -- Go! …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…18.6 Local Classes -- 18.7 Inherently Nonportable Features -- Chapter Summary -- Defined Terms -- Appendix A: The Library -- A.1 Library Names and Headers -- A.2 A Brief Tour of the Algorithms -- A.2.1 Algorithms to Find an Object -- A.2.2 Other Read-Only Algorithms -- A.2.3 Binary-Search Algorithms -- A.2.4 Algorithms that Write Container Elements -- A.2.5 Partitioning and Sorting Algorithms -- A.2.6 General Reordering Operations -- A.2.7 Permutation Algorithms -- A.2.8 Set Algorithms for Sorted Sequences -- A.2.9 Minimum and Maximum Values -- A.2.10 Numeric Algorithms -- A.3 The IO Library Revisited -- A.3.1 Format State -- A.3.2 Many Manipulators Change the Format State -- A.3.3 Controlling Output Formats -- A.3.4 Controlling Input Formatting -- A.3.5 Unformatted Input/Output Operations -- A.3.6 Single-Byte Operations -- A.3.7 Multi-Byte Operations -- A.3.8 Random Access to a Stream -- A.3.9 Reading and Writing to the Same File -- Index…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Do Not Use Quotation Marks Around Link Text -- 7 Writing Tasks, Procedures, and Steps -- Understanding the Relationship Among Tasks, Procedures, and Steps -- Developing Task Information -- Perform an Audience Analysis and a User Task Analysis -- Provide Only Necessary Task Information -- Organize Related, Optional, and Conditional Tasks -- Use Continuous Prose for Some Tasks -- Do Not Use Procedures for Command Explanations -- Writing Procedures -- Write Procedures That Are Easy to Follow -- Place Procedures Appropriately -- Use Procedure Headings Appropriately -- Use One Method to Describe a Single Procedure -- Writing Steps -- Order and Number the Steps -- Make Each Step Short and Equivalent to One Action -- Write Each Step as a Complete Sentence in the Imperative Mood -- Write Meaningful Steps -- Use Branching of Steps Appropriately -- Checking for Structural Problems -- Duplicate Series of Steps -- Nearly Identical Procedures -- Many Nested Substeps -- Procedures With More Than 10 Steps -- Several Single-Step Procedures -- Repeated Steps Indicated at the End of Repeated Actions -- 8 Writing for an International Audience -- Guidelines for Writing for Translation -- Cultural and Geographic Sensitivity -- Use Culturally Neutral Examples -- Include International Date, Time, and Contact Information -- Avoid Informal Language and Styles -- Definitions and Word Choice -- Avoid Jargon and Slang -- Do Not Use Foreign Terms -- Use Terms Consistently -- Use Abbreviations and Acronyms Judiciously -- Avoid Contractions -- Grammar and Word Usage -- Follow These Grammar Guidelines -- Use Words Precisely -- Use Modifiers and Nouns Carefully -- Limit the Use of Pronouns -- Simplify Sentences -- Numbers, Symbols, and Punctuation -- Clarify Measurements and Denominations -- Avoid Certain Symbols and Punctuation Marks -- Illustrations and Screen Captures…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Eligibility for federal programmes varies across spatial scales, which hinders participation of local governments -- Rural innovators' barriers to finance can be overcome by involving a wider pool of stakeholders -- Non-bank financial intermediaries can help overcome barriers for access to finance -- With more support, non-governmental organisations (NGO) and community-based organisations can continuously contribute to foster community development -- Broadband connectivity is an important condition for innovation, yet there are substantial gaps to high-quality broadband access in rural and Tribal Land areas, in comparison with urban areas -- Rural areas in the United States have lower broadband coverage, less choice of internet providers and lower speed rates than urban regions -- The United States government has recognised the importance of broadband connectivity for all, regardless of where they live -- Access to quality education has been a barrier for many rural counties -- Access to education in rural counties is more expensive and of lower quality than in urban counties -- Skills training needs to match local labour market demands -- Higher education and R&amp -- D institutions can have a positive impact on local innovation -- Recommendations -- Improving policy design and implementation for rural innovation -- Promoting a broader view of innovation policy for diverse rural areas -- Implementing programs in accordance with different scales of intervention -- Ensuring effective co-ordination mechanisms across levels of government and capacity for multi-level governance -- Building a culture of experimentation in rural entrepreneurship -- Improving access to high-quality broadband in rural areas -- Better assessing the state of broadband connectivity…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Transitions into further education and employment -- Many upper general secondary graduates transition into tertiary education -- Few vocational upper secondary graduates progress into tertiary education -- Until recently, VET students have had limited post-secondary options -- An upper secondary vocational qualification provides little advantage on the labour market -- References -- Notes -- 3 Strengthening pathways in upper secondary education -- Introduction -- Issue 1: Reviewing students' transitions and orientation into upper secondary education -- The current context: transitions into upper secondary education -- Entrance into upper secondary education in Lithuania is currently automatic and entirely based on student preferences -- Most students currently experience a "smooth" transition into upper secondary education -- A smooth transition supports students to stay in education and complete upper secondary education -- Less than a quarter of students aged 15-19 transition into vocational upper secondary education in Lithuania -- Indicators of learning outcomes show that almost a quarter of students lack basic competencies upon entry into upper secondary education -- The contribution of upper secondary education to young adults' skills is modest -- From 2024, entrance into upper secondary education will depend on examination results -- The structure of lower and upper secondary education discourages enrolments in vocational education -- Students in Lithuania lack guidance and support to help them identify the most appropriate upper secondary programme -- Lithuania is introducing guidance counsellors from Grade 1 -- VET is not perceived to be a rigorous learning option -- Policy options for student transitions and orientation into upper secondary education…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Municipal waste per capita increased in many OECD regions -- Climate adaptation -- Cities are particularly affected by heat stress -- Regions in Australia, Latin America and the Mediterranean Basin are particularly exposed to wildfires -- Burned area -- Wildfire danger -- Regions in Belgium, Northern Germany and the Netherlands are particularly vulnerable to coastal and river floods -- Soil moisture has decreased in 70% of OECD regions -- Conclusions -- References -- 4 Assessing the implementation of a territorial approach to climate action and resilience in OECD countries -- Introduction -- Integrating a place-based perspective into climate policy -- Measuring and monitoring GHG emissions, climate risks and impacts at different territorial levels -- Incorporating local action into national climate plans and strategies -- Global recognition of local climate action and resilience is increasing -- NDCs and LT-LEDS incorporating local action -- NAPs and NAS incorporating local action -- Policy implications -- Developing subnational climate goals and targets reflecting local needs and interests and aligned with the Paris Agreement -- City and regional climate goals and targets and their alignment with those of national governments -- National governments' initiatives to promote subnational climate plans and strategies -- Policy implications -- "Climate-proofing" regional development policy at all territorial levels -- Mainstreaming climate objectives in national urban, rural and regional development policies -- The role of national urban policy in climate mitigation and adaptation -- The OECD Rural Agenda for Climate Action -- Policy implications -- Promoting climate action and resilience at the right territorial scale -- Planning climate action and resilience at the metropolitan scale…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Java EE in the container -- Container orchestration frameworks -- Realizing container orchestration -- Java EE in orchestrated containers -- Connecting external services -- Configuring orchestrated applications -- 12-factor applications and Java EE -- Have one codebase tracked in revision control, many deploys -- Explicitly declare and isolate dependencies -- Store config in the environment -- Treat backing services as attached resources -- Strictly separate build and run stages -- Execute the app as one or more stateless processes -- Export services via port binding -- Scale out via the process model -- Maximize robustness with fast startup and graceful shutdown -- Keep development, staging, and production as similar as possible -- Treat logs as event streams -- Run admin/management tasks as one-off processes -- Cloud, Cloud native, and their benefits -- Cloud native -- Summary -- Chapter 6: Application Development Workflows -- Motivation and goals of productive development workflows -- Realizing development workflows -- Version control everything -- Building binaries -- Java artifacts -- Artifact versions -- Building containers -- Quality assurance -- Deployment -- Configuration -- Credentials -- Data migration -- Adding database structures -- Changing database structures -- Removing database structures -- Implementing migration -- Testing -- Build metadata -- Going to production -- Branching models -- Technology -- Pipeline-as-code -- Workflows with Java EE -- Continuous Delivery culture and team habits -- Responsibility -- Check in early and often -- Immediately fixing issues -- Visibility -- Improve continuously -- Summary -- Chapter 7: Testing -- The necessity of tests -- Requirements of well-crafted tests -- Predictability -- Isolation -- Reliability -- Fast execution -- Automation -- Maintainability -- What to test…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…The Git Model of Branches -- Creating a Branch -- Checking Out a Branch -- Adding Content to a Branch -- One Working Directory-Many Branches -- Getting Information about Branches -- Deleting or Renaming a Branch -- Developing with Branches -- Advanced Topics -- Checking Out Non-branch Commits -- Checking Out Individual Files -- Summary -- About Connected Lab 5: Working with Branches -- Connected Lab 5 Working With Branches -- Prerequisites -- Steps -- Chapter 9: Merging Content -- The Basics of Merging -- The Merge Command -- Preparing for a Merge -- Types of Merges -- Rebasing-Merging with History -- Cherry-Picking -- Differences between Cherry-Pick and Rebase -- Merge Operations -- Dealing with Conflicts -- Merging Is a State -- Error Messages for Conflicts -- Aborting the Operation -- Dealing with Conflicts-the Workflow -- Resolution Options and Strategies -- Visual Merging -- Selecting a Merging Tool -- Making Merge Tools Available to Git -- Advanced Topics -- Alternative Style for Conflict Markers -- Advanced Rebasing Scenario -- Interactive Rebasing -- Summary -- About Connected Lab 6: Practicing with Merging -- Connected Lab 6 Practicing with Merging -- Prerequisites -- Steps -- Chapter 10: Supporting Files in Git -- The Git Attributes File -- What Can You Do with This File? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Chapter 18 How to Achieve the Highest Lead Conversion Rate Possible -- How Lead Response Time Impacts Conversion -- Best Days and Times to Follow Up with Leads -- How Many Times Should You Follow Up with a Lead? -- Chapter 19 How to Convert Leads Using Text Messages -- Chapter 20 How to Use Automated Email Campaigns to Convert Leads…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Structural changes in GVCs -- Political globalisation and geopolitical context -- Climate change, fairness and sustainability -- How the rationale for organising global production networks can evolve -- Notes -- 5 Knowledge and innovation networks for SMEs and start-ups -- Introduction and background -- Issue: The importance of knowledge and innovation networks for SMEs and start-ups -- SMEs amidst shifting innovation networks: Structural and emerging trends -- Clusters are increasing SME connections -- For a few high-performing SMEs, dynamic VC markets provide strong network spillovers -- For a few high-performing SMEs, integration in - often more disruptive - R&amp -- D networks is intensifying -- Open innovation and partnerships continue to spread including to a broader population of SMEs -- Knowledge service providers have become key co-operation partners for many SMEs -- SMEs are operating a massive migration to the cloud and platform technologies -- A number of threats weigh on future SME capacity to build and expand linkages -- The role of public policy in shaping and strengthening SME knowledge and innovation networks…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Chapter 3 Tech Misinformation and Medical Misinformation as Evil Twins: The Misinformation Path to Destroying Trust in Medical Technology -- Introduction -- Identifying Misinformation = Distrust -- Examples of Gaps between Tech and Medicine -- An Excerpt by a Systems Engineer for Systems Engineers: A Call to Protect the Public -- Hierarchy of Medical Misinformation -- Hierarchy of Tech Hype Misinformation -- When Dogma and Physics Collide to Kill: Why Many People Don't Know That COVID Is Airborne -- Conclusion -- Next Steps: Team Training to Bust Medical (and Medical Technology) Misinformation -- References -- Part II Management and Leadership Competencies and Objectives for Driving the Science, Medicine, and Engineering of Advanced Medical Technology Forward -- Chapter 4 Allyship in Reducing Medical Technology Risk: Why Partnerships Are Vital to Your Professional Success -- Introduction -- Prelude -- Aligning Allies with Reducing Risk and Increasing Success -- Pros and Cons of Allies -- Evidence That Ally Relationships Work -- Recognizing, Recruiting, and Empowering Allies -- Putting Myself in the Shoes of a Leader Looking to Learn How to Recognize a Solid Ally -- Methods for Recruiting Desired Allies (And Yes, Some Allies Might Not Be Desired) -- Establishing a Model That Promotes and Strengthens Allies -- Allyship Competency Checklist -- Paying It Forward as an Ally, Mentor, and Role Model -- Ignorance Might Be Bliss -- Recognize and Own Our Behaviors -- Manage Our Behaviors -- See Inequality -- Holy Grail - Strategizing Your Impact and Scale: Assessing Potential Partner Service Organizations -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 5 Extinction Is Eminent without Effective Transformational Leadership: Closing Leadership Gaps That Prevent Execution -- Introduction -- What Is Transformational Leadership and Why You Should Care? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Intro -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Editorial -- Executive Summary -- Many systems are still missing a shared understanding of what constitutes thoughtful engagement with research, and the basic conditions to enable it -- Novel approaches and well co-ordinated policy mechanisms can help build a robust knowledge base -- Professional learning should be better supported to ensure all actors have the right knowledge and skills for research engagement -- Structures and processes that support research engagement should be tested more widely -- Coherent leadership is needed to drive research engagement towards systematic and system-wide improvement -- Part I Conceptual landscape -- 1 Building a culture of research engagement in education -- Introduction -- A systems approach to research engagement: Rendering the abstract concrete -- What do we mean by a culture of research engagement? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…3.3 The Interaction and Mutual Shaping of Literature and People -- "The People Need Art, and Art Needs the People Even More" -- Literature and "People to Come" -- References -- 3 Nation: A New Dimension of Literary Criticism in the Context of Globalization -- 1 The Discrimination of the Concept of Nation -- 1.1 Nation and Its Related Concepts -- The Concept of Nation -- Nation Versus Race and Ethnicity -- 1.2 Nation and the Chinese Nation 中华民族 -- The Proposal of a "Chinese Nation" -- The One and the Many of the Chinese Nation -- 2 Marx and Engels on Nation -- 2.1 Nation and Class -- Class Issues Dominate National Issues -- Complex Relationship Between Nation and Class -- 2.2 Nation and Internationalism -- Criticism of National Chauvinism -- Arguments on Colonization -- The Relationship Between Nations and Internationalism -- 3 National View in the Chinese Form -- 3.1 The Restoration of the Reputation of the Concept of Nation -- The Nation Is Not About Self-Seclusion -- The Nation Is Not About Going Back to the Good Old Days -- The Nation Does Not Imply the Collective's Suppression of Its Individual Members -- 3.2 New Interpretations of National View -- Nation Is a Historical Concept -- Nation and Culture -- Nation and the People -- 4 The Nature and Characteristics of the National Dimension -- 4.1 The Research Standpoint of the National Dimension -- Open Nationalism -- The Fundamental Connotation of Open Nationalism -- 4.2 The National Dimension and the National Spirit of Literature -- National Dimension and National Identity in Literature -- National Dimension and the National Characteristics of Literature -- National Dimension and the World -- References -- 4 The Political Dimension of Literary Criticism -- 1 Marx and Engels on Politics and Literature -- 1.1 Classical Marxist View on Politics -- Politics as a Component of the Superstructure…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Appendix: Object-Oriented Analysis and Design: Project Management -- Learning Objectives -- Unique Characteristics of an OOSAD Project -- Define the System as a Set of Components -- Complete Hard Problems First -- Using Iterations to Manage the Project -- Don't Plan Too Much Up Front -- How Many and How Long Are Iterations? -- Project Activity Focus Changes Over the Life of a Project -- Summary -- Review Question -- Problems and Exercises -- BEC CASE: MANAGING THE INFORMATION SYSTEMS PROJECT -- Case Questions -- PART TWO Planning -- AN OVERVIEW OF PART TWO -- 4 Identifying and Selecting Systems Development Projects -- Learning Objectives -- Introduction -- Identifying and Selecting Systems Development Projects -- The Process of Identifying and Selecting IS Development Projects -- Deliverables and Outcomes -- Corporate and Information Systems Planning -- Corporate Strategic Planning -- Information Systems Planning -- Electronic Commerce Applications: Identifying and Selecting Systems Development Projects -- Internet Basics -- Pine Valley Furniture WebStore -- Summary -- Key Terms -- Review Questions -- Problems and Exercises -- Field Exercises -- References -- BEC CASE: IDENTIFYING AND SELECTING SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS -- Case Questions -- 5 Initiating and Planning Systems Development Projects -- Learning Objectives -- Introduction -- Initiating and Planning Systems Development Projects -- The Process of Initiating and Planning is Development Projects -- Deliverables and Outcomes -- Assessing Project Feasibility -- Assessing Economic Feasibility -- Assessing Technical Feasibility -- Assessing Other Feasibility Concerns -- Building and Reviewing the Baseline Project Plan -- Building the Baseline Project Plan -- Reviewing the Baseline Project Plan -- Electronic Commerce Applications: Initiating and Planning Systems Development Projects…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright and Credits -- Contributors -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1: Unlock New Opportunities with Azure -- Why many decision makers choose Azure -- Understanding segregation of responsibility in different Azure cloud models -- IaaS -- PaaS -- SaaS -- How to get started with Azure -- Step 1: Understand your business needs -- Step 2: Create an Azure account -- Step 3: Familiarize yourself with the Azure portal -- Step 4: Choose your services and solutions -- Step 5: Monitor and optimize your usage -- Understanding the Azure subscription models -- Free tier -- Pay-as-you-go -- Azure for Students -- Enterprise Agreement (EA) -- Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) -- Microsoft Partner Network (MPN) -- Summary -- Chapter 2: Achieve Availability, Scalability, and Monitoring with Azure -- Importance of achieving high availability with Azure -- Understanding high availability with Azure -- Planned maintenance -- Unplanned maintenance -- Application deployment architecture -- Achieving high availability on Azure -- Load balancing options in Azure -- How to choose the most suitable load balancing option in Azure -- Availability sets and availability zones -- Replica sets -- Why achieving scalability with Azure is important -- Scalability versus performance -- Autoscaling -- IaaS scalability -- Azure virtual machine scale sets -- PaaS scalability -- Azure App Service autoscaling -- Azure Functions -- Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) -- Azure Container Apps -- Azure Container Instances -- How to choose your IaaS and PaaS compute service -- Why do we need monitoring with Azure? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Chapter 10 Law 6: Everybody Owns the Customer: Community Is a Company-Wide Strategy, Not a DepartmentBy Seth Wylie -- Community Starts at the Top, with a Purpose -- Community's Value Flows in All Directions -- Engage Employees in the Value Loop -- Engage Employees in the Validation Loop -- Start Small, with Eager Believers -- Crank up the Momentum -- Community Management Skills -- Program Leadership -- Community Leadership -- Tummeling -- Community Operations -- The Team Can Be One or Many -- So, Who Owns Community? -- Standalone Community Org, Owned at the C-Level -- Community in Product -- Community in Marketing -- Community in the Customer Team -- Who's Excited? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…"It Is about the Fear of Toilets That I Had as a Child, and That Many Children Have without Saying a Word", Says M. …”