“…A number of interesting nanoparticles, such as clays (lamellar or tubular), silica, carbon nanotubes, siloxanes, and, more recently, graphenes, have emerged as peculiar nanofillers for enhancing the performance of polymer matrices for a wide variety of technological applications. …”

“…This book helps you explore AWS observability tools that provide end-to-end visibility, enabling quick identification of performance bottlenecks in distributed applications. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- The Experiential Triangle -- Chapter Five Ignite Integrity and Responsibility -- Integrity and Responsibility: An Essential Pair -- Integrity and Responsibility Breed Trust -- Telling the Truth -- Standing Up for What Is Right -- Keeping Promises -- Responsibility -- Admitting Mistakes -- Serving Others -- Chapter Six Embrace Empathy and Compassion -- Empathy and Compassion: An Essential Pair -- Empathy, Compassion, and Leadership Performance -- Empathy, Compassion, and the Bottom Line -- Barriers to Empathy and Compassion -- Empathy and Compassion Begin at Home -- Encouraging Empathy and Compassion in Others -- Chapter Seven Decide Wisely -- Decision-Making Is a Full-Time Job -- Obstacles to Deciding Wisely -- Emotional Landmines -- Preventing Emotionally Driven Decisions -- Mental Biases -- How to Decide -- When It Comes to Decisions, 4Rs Make All the Difference -- Recognizing -- Reflecting -- Reframing -- Responding -- Chapter Eight Let Go of What You Know -- The Business Case for Learning Agility -- Cultivating a Learning Mindset -- Empathy-fueled Learning -- Strengthening Your Individual Learning Agility -- Be Curious -- Choose Growth over Comfort -- Resist Defensiveness -- Experiment -- Cultivate Learning Agility in Those You Lead -- Chapter Nine Achieve Purposeful Goals…”

“…Secondly, how do formal and informal regional contexts shape family firm operations and performance? This book presents a model of "regional familiness" and uses themes such as productivity, networks and competitiveness to shed new light on family businesses. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- 3.3: Developing stable, core collections of germplasm for breeding -- 3.4: Deploying genetic diversity for rootstocks -- 3.5: Grafting as a tool for genetic hybridisation and chimera production -- 3.6: Selection of improved rootstocks -- 3.7: Transgenic rootstocks -- 3.8: Rootstock registration and commercialization 4: Rootstock-scion signalling: key factors mediating scion performance -- 4.1: Introduction -- 4.2: Current knowledge of ionic and chemical signalling between rootstock and scion -- 4.3: Conclusions 5: Physiological and molecular mechanisms underlying graft compatibility -- 5.1: Introduction -- 5.2: Anatomical and physiological steps during graft union development -- 5.3: Role of secondary metabolites at the interface in graft incompatibility -- 5.4: Cell-to-cell communication between graft partners -- 5.5: Understanding the molecular mechanisms involved in graft union formation and compatibility. -- 5.6: Methods for examining graft union development and compatibility -- 5.7: Conclusions and future perspectives 6: Grafting as agro-technology for reducing disease damage -- 6.1: Introduction -- 6.2: The first step: Managing diseases in the nursery -- 6.3: Disease spread from the nursery to the field, the example of powdery mildew of watermelons -- 6.4: Intra- and interspecific grafting and their relations to diseases -- 6.5: Biotic or abiotic stress? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…On-Premises -- Think Parallel -- The Well-Architected Framework -- Pillar 1: Operational Excellence -- Pillar 2: Security -- Pillar 3: Reliability -- Pillar 4: Performance Efficiency -- Pillar 5: Cost Optimization -- Pillar 6: Sustainability -- Chapter 2 Staying Safe with Security and Compliance -- Introduction -- The Shared Responsibility Model -- The Customer's Responsibility -- AWS's Responsibility -- Security and Compliance Concepts -- Finding AWS Compliance Information -- Services That Help with Auditing and Reporting -- The Concept of Least Privileged Access -- AWS Access Management Capabilities -- The Purpose of User and Identity Management -- Access Keys and Passwords -- Multifactor Authentication -- AWS Identity and Access Management -- Identifying Resources for Security Support -- Getting Help with Security -- Security Documentation -- AWS Trusted Advisor -- Chapter 3 Entering the Cloud -- Introduction -- Different Ways of Provisioning and Operating in the AWS Cloud -- Types of Deployment Models -- "All In" the Cloud -- Hybrid Model -- On-Premises Model -- Considering Migration Options -- Identifying Connectivity Options -- VPN…”

“…Although many of these measures provide useful information, their usefulness in either gauging or guiding performance improvement in health and health care is seriously limited by their sheer number, as well as their lack of consistency, compatibility, reliability, focus, and organization. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Patil, Kukati Aruna Kumari, Santanu Das, Arpit Namdev, Praful Nandankar, and Ankur Gupta -- Impact of artificial intelligence on agriculture value chain performance : agritech perspective / C. Ganeshkumar, Jeganthan Gomathi Sankar, and Arokiaraj David -- Applications of artificial intelligence of things in green supply chain management : challenges and future directions / Arshi Naim, Hamed Alqahtani, Sadaf Fatima, and Mohammad Faiz Khan -- Effects on supply chain management due to COVID-19 / Shipra Gupta and Vijay Kumar -- Artificial intelligence from vaccine development to pharmaceutical supply chain management in post-COVID-19 period / Abhishek Dadhich and Priyanka Dadhich -- Blockchain for SCM : a prospective study based on a panel of literature reviews / Mostafa Qandoussi and Abdellah Houssaini -- A blockchain-based framework for circular plastic waste supply chain management in India : a case study of Kolkata, India / Biswajit Debnath, Ankita Das, Adrija Das, and Abhijit Das -- Supply chain management–based transportation system using IoT and blockchain technology / Ahmed Mateen Buttar, Mahnoor Bano, and Amna Khalid -- Perspective analysis of three types of services on a queueing-inventory system with a sharing buffer for two classes of customers / K. …”

“…Azelton and Teufel demonstrate a method for uncovering performance and risk-management opportunities-and show the readers how they can do it, too. …”

“…It is a compilation of insights and experiences from various experts in the field of coaching, addressing topics such as commitment management, high-performance team coaching, individual leadership coaching, strategic coaching, and organizational culture transformation through coaching. …”

“…Physical fitness testing in American youth was established on a large scale in the 1950s with an early focus on performance-related fitness that gradually gave way to an emphasis on health-related fitness. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Mother-Fetus Competition for Macronutrients -- Micronutrient Deficiencies -- Infections -- Pregnancy-Induced Hypertension -- Malaria -- Complications of Delivery -- Conclusions -- OLDER MATERNAL AGE AND GRAND MULTIPARITY -- Relative Risks of Poor Pregnancy Outcomes and Infant Deaths -- Congenital Abnormalities -- Iron-Deficiency Anemia and Micronutrient Deficiencies -- Multiple Births -- Complications of Delivery -- Conclusions -- EFFECTS OF SHORT INTERVALS BETWEEN PREGNANCIES -- Effects on Length of Gestation and Birthweight -- Maternal Nutrition and Fetal Growth -- Postpartum Nutrition -- Infectious Diseases -- Maternal Infections -- Increased Postnatal Exposure to Pathogens -- Conclusions -- ACKNOWLEDGMENT -- REFERENCES -- Psychosocial Consequences to Women of Contraceptive Use and Controlled Fertility -- CONCEPTS OF HEALTH AND WELL-BEING: INDICATORS OF PSYCHOSOCIAL STRESS -- PSYCHOSOCIAL STRESS AND ROLE PERFORMANCE -- CONTRACEPTIVE AND REPRODUCTIVE PATTERNS AS POTENTIAL STRESSORS -- Conjugal Roles -- Occupational Roles -- Maternal Roles -- Domestic, Kinship, and Community Roles -- Women as Individuals -- CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- Appendix Background Papers…”

“…- How can we develop and utilize the capability of everyone in the organization to repeatedly work toward and achieve new levels of performance? - How can we give an organization the power to handle dynamic, unpredictable situations and keep satisfying customers? …”

“…He celebrates the great performers of the past, and he looks forward to developments in the future, while also illuminating the inner workings of the movie industry and what moves us in a film and in an actor's performance. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Figure 7.1 Escalation model of surgical errorTable 7.1 Summary of first iteration of the surgical NOTECHS scoring system; Figure 7.2 Relationship between minor failures and ranked non-technical skills performance in paediatric cardiac surgery; Figure 7.3 Mechanisms of surgical failure; Table 7.2 Reliability (Rwg) of Oxford NOTECHS tool for 36 dual observed LCs and CEAs; Table 7.3 Reliability (Rwg) of Oxford NOTECHS for 12 dual observed CEAs; Table 7.4 Reliability of Oxford NOTECHS in 14 cases observed independently with third observer…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…What demands further study: occasions; role of narrators; purpose and function; literary conventions; performance; originality and authorship. Conclusion -- 14. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Classes -- Rcpp Modules -- Testing -- Measuring Performance -- Debugging -- Distribution Explorer -- Summary -- Additional Resources -- Exercises -- Part IV: Python -- Chapter 7: Building a Python Extension Module -- Introduction -- Prerequisites -- Using Visual Studio Community Edition 2019 -- StatsPythonRaw -- Project Settings -- Code Organization -- Functions -- Declarations -- Descriptive Statistics -- Linear Regression -- Statistical Tests -- The Conversion Layer -- Error Handling -- The Module Definition -- Python Client -- Debugging -- Summary -- Additional Resources -- Exercises -- Chapter 8: Module Development with Boost.Python and PyBind -- Introduction -- Boost.Python -- Prerequisites -- Project Settings -- Code Organization -- Functions -- StatisticalTests -- The Conversion Layer -- The Module Definition -- Exception Handling -- PyBind -- Prerequisites -- Project Settings -- Code Organization: module.cpp -- Exception Handling -- The Python "Client" -- Performance -- The Statistics Service -- Summary -- Additional Resources -- Exercises…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Improving labour market performance 34 -Addressing labour market segmentation 34 -Reforming wage-setting mechanisms 36 -Reducing non-wage labour costs 36 -Reviewing the unemployment benefit system and strengthening active labour market policies 36 PART II. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Understanding Fixnums; 4-3. Performing Modular Arithmetic; Efficiency Considerations; 4-4. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Using a Collection Creating a Connection with MongoDB; Connecting to a Database; Creating a Collection; Using Documents; Adding a Document; Adding Multiple Documents; Finding a Single Document; Finding Multiple Documents; Updating Documents; Deleting Documents; Performing Bulk Operations; Summary; Chapter 5: Using MongoDB with Node.js; Getting Started; Overview of Node.js Driver for MongoDB; Setting Up the Environment; Installing MongoDB Server; Installing Node.js; Installing the Node.js Driver for MongoDB; Using a Connection; Creating a MongoDB Connection…”