“…Given the challenges posed to the U.S. corrections sector, such as tightened budgets and increasingly complex populations under its charge, it is valuable to identify opportunities where changes in tools, practices, or approaches could improve performance. In this report, RAND researchers, with the help of a practitioner Corrections Advisory Panel, seek to map out an innovation agenda for the sector…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright and Credits -- Packt Upsell -- Contributors -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1: Jira Software Basics -- Introducing Jira Software -- Installing Jira Software -- Obtaining and installing Jira Software -- Setting up Jira Software -- Creating a sample project -- Understanding Jira and its agile features -- Agile board -- Card -- Issues and issue types -- Fields -- Workflows -- Filters and JQL -- Using Jira agile project templates for agile -- Summary -- Chapter 2: Jira Software for Scrum -- Scrum -- Roles in Scrum -- The product owner -- The Scrum master -- The delivery team -- Understanding the Scrum process -- Creating a new Scrum board -- Understanding the Scrum board -- Creating new issues -- Creating new epics -- Estimating your work -- Ranking and prioritizing your issues -- Creating new versions -- Planning sprints -- Starting a sprint -- Running parallel sprints -- Working on a sprint -- Completing a sprint -- Reporting a sprint's progress -- The sprint report -- The burndown chart -- The velocity chart -- Summary -- Chapter 3: Jira Software for Kanban -- Kanban -- Creating a new Kanban board -- Understanding the Kanban board -- Customizing your Kanban board -- Visualizing workflow with Kanban -- Setting up column constraints -- Controlling which issues to show on the board -- Organizing your Kanban board with swimlanes -- Creating custom views with quick filters -- Releasing a version in Kanban -- Improving your team's performance -- Improving the process with charts and reports -- Cumulative flow diagram -- Control chart -- Customizing the control chart -- Summary -- Chapter 4: Using Jira Software Your Way -- Managing your board -- Controlling board scope -- Managing board permissions -- Enabling ranking -- Customizing your board's layout -- Working with columns -- Jira and workflow…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright and Credits -- Packt Upsell -- Contributors -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1: REST - What You Did Not Know -- REST fundamentals -- Principle 1 - Everything is a resource -- Principle 2 - Each resource is identifiable by a unique identifier -- Principle 3 - Manipulate resources via standard HTTP methods -- Principle 4 - Resources can have multiple representations -- Principle 5 - Communicate with resources in a stateless manner -- The REST goals -- Separation of the representation and the resource -- Visibility -- Reliability -- Scalability and performance -- Working with WADL -- Documenting RESTful APIs with Swagger -- Taking advantage of the existing infrastructure -- Summary -- Chapter 2: Getting Started with Node.js -- Installing Node.js -- Npm -- Installing the Express framework and other modules -- Setting up a development environment -- Handling HTTP requests -- Modularizing code -- Testing Node.js -- Working with mock objects -- Deploying an application -- Nodejitsu -- Microsoft Azure -- Heroku -- Self-test questions -- Summary -- Chapter 3: Building a Typical Web API -- Specifying the API -- Implementing routes -- Querying the API using test data -- Content negotiation -- API versioning -- Self-test questions -- Summary -- Chapter 4: Using NoSQL Databases -- MongoDB - a document store database -- Database modeling with Mongoose -- Testing a Mongoose model with Mocha -- Creating a user-defined model around a Mongoose model -- Wiring up a NoSQL database module to Express -- Self-test questions -- Summary -- Chapter 5: Restful API Design Guidelines -- Endpoint URLs and HTTP status codes best practices -- Extensibility and versioning -- Linked data -- Summary -- Chapter 6: Implementing a Full Fledged RESTful Service -- Working with arbitrary data -- Linking -- Implementing paging and filtering…”

“…With differences of just 200 milliseconds in performance having a measurable impact on your users, it's more important than ever to get server-side right. …”

“…This book proposes a joint diagnostic tool for SMEs, highlighting good practices to be mastered in order to simultaneously improve innovation and export performance, in the form of a virtuous circle. Innovation and Export focuses on the integration of innovation and export into the strategic management of SMEs, for which the use of synergies is a powerful lever to overcome any difficulties in mobilizing significant resources…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Make conscious decisions about where you'll work -- Find new ways to build connection -- Rethink how you measure performance -- Stay open to change -- Chapter 9 Social Justice and Joy -- Joy and justice for all -- How do we push "social justice" into the mainstream of business? …”

“…Good schools teach intellectual virtues, moral virtues, civic virtues and performance virtues. Teaching students how to be successful contributors to shared endeavor and community how to be connected to things that are greater than the sum of the individual parts is essential to making productive and happy citizens. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…; ""Table 1. Macroeconomic performance at a glance""; ""Figure 1. The business cycle in Belgium and in the euro area""; ""â€? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…The 2015/16 tax reform""; ""Boost competitiveness, particularly in the service sector""; ""Figure 4. Export performance undermined by unit labour cost pressure""; ""Figure 5. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…""The macroeconomic roller coaster ride since 2007 is reflected in labour market performance""""Figure 1.1. Recent and projected developments in real GDP growth, employment growth and unemployment rate in OECD countries ""; ""The labour market recovery remains far from complete in some OECD countries""; ""Figure 1.2. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Decomposition of government expenditure by function; There is room to further improve state-level performance indicators…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…""CONTENTS""; ""List of Contributors""; ""Opening Address""; ""1 The Role of Business Survey Data in Macroeconomic Research and Practice""; ""I Macroeconomic Analysis and Forecasting ""; ""2 A Comparative Study of Forecasting Performance: European Long Range Gauge vs. European Business Surveys Anirvan Banerji and Philip A. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…GDP growth projections for selected OECD countries, China and Russia""; ""So much depends now on US performance""; ""But the Japanese economy remains in recession""…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Shares of government and industry in GERD funding, 1999 (%)""; ""Table 3. Performance and funding of R&D, 19991""; ""Figure 10. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Medium-term output performance""; ""Figure 3. Key indicators""; ""Output growth is falling below trendâ€?""…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Recent trends and prospects""; ""Overview""; ""The economic recovery gathered pace in 1999""; ""Figure 1. Macroeconomic performance""; ""Table 1. Demand and output""; ""As export growth acceleratedâ€?""…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Recommendations on labour market and social policies; Raising economic growth; The United Kingdom's productivity performance is low; Figure 15. Framework conditions for business…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Main policy recommendations to facilitate the economy's adjustment to the commodity boomFurther structural reforms to boost sustainable economic growth and reduce income inequality; Improving the performance of the labour market; Figure 12. The unemployment rate is high; Figure 13. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Rock Print -- Rock Wall -- Continuing Explorations of Granular Jamming -- Notes -- Granular Construction: Designed Particles for Macro-Scale Architectural Structures -- Macro-Scale Granular Systems -- Autonomous Granular Construction -- Outlook: Robotic Granular Matter -- Notes -- Distributed Structures: Digital Tools for Collective Design -- STRUCTURAL OPTIMISATION AND ITS LIMITS -- DIGITAL BRAINSTORMING -- BALANCE, COMPROMISE, CONSTRAINTS -- DATA-DRIVEN FRONTIERS -- MATERIALISING STRUCTURALLY DRIVEN COMPLEXITY -- NOTES -- Compressive Assemblies: Bottom-Up Performance for a New Form of Construction -- Reducing Falsework -- Controlling Force Flow -- Embracing New Fabrication Technologies -- Further Potential -- Notes -- Disarmed Strategies: New Machines and Techniques for an Era of Computational Contextualism in Architecture -- On Neutral Grounds of Architecture -- The Spectacle: From Projectile to Project -- Compression as Expression -- From Autonomous Construction to Autonomous Design -- Flying Through Space, Building In Space -- Computational Contextualism -- Notes -- 2060: An Autonomously Crafted Built Environment -- Sensitive Relationships -- Portable Preferences -- Customised Solutions -- Site Feedback -- Adaptive Construction -- Historical Futurescape -- Rapid Formation -- Thoughtful Creation -- Notes -- Counterpoint: Autonomous Assembly as the Fourth Approach to Generic Construction -- Localisation and the Element-Assemblage Mindset -- Time and the Layer-Stratification Mindset -- Scalability and the Module-Composition Mindset -- Generic Construction and the Autonomous Assembly Approach -- Challenges of the Fourth Approach -- Notes -- Contributors -- ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN: AUTONOMOUS ASSEMBLY -- What is Architectural Design? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Third-party templates -- Project samples -- Third-party plugins -- ADB Wi-Fi -- Codota -- Summary -- Chapter 7: Language Support -- Kotlin support -- The advantages of Kotlin -- Extending Kotlin -- C/C++ support -- The NDK -- Android Things -- Development kits -- Creating a Things project -- Summary -- Chapter 8: Testing and Profiling -- Logcat filters -- JUnit testing -- Local unit tests -- Testing a UI -- Testing views -- Testing lists and data -- Recording tests -- Remote testing -- Stress testing -- Performance monitoring -- CPU profiling -- Memory profiler -- Network profiler -- Summary -- Chapter 9: Packaging and Distribution -- Gradle build configurations -- Command-line options -- Product flavors -- An APK analysis -- Publishing applications -- Generating a signed APK -- Managing keystores -- Google Play app signing -- Automatic signing -- Summary -- Index…”