Tabla de Contenidos: “…MacKinnon ; Engineered barriers system modelling and performance assessment in SAFIR 2 / Xavier Sillen ... …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Analysis of a New Index for the Thermal Performance of Horizontal Opaque Building Components in Summer 1 -- Effect of Urban Heat Island and Global Warming Countermeasures on Heat Release and Carbon Dioxide Emissions from a Detached House 17 -- Temperature of Paved Streets in Urban Mockups and Its Implication of Reflective Cool Pavements 39 -- Untangling Urban Sprawl and Climate Change: A Review of the Literature on Physical Planning and Transportation Drivers 51 -- Urban Resilience of Shenzhen City under Climate Change 71 -- Effects of Densification on Urban Microclimate-A Case Study for the City of Vienna 93 -- Impact of Urbanization on Sunshine Duration from 1987 to 2016 in Hangzhou City, China 117 -- Experimental Determination of Pedestrian Thermal Comfort on Water-Retaining Pavement for UHI Adaptation Strategy -- 131 -- Mobile Observation of Air Temperature and Humidity Distributions under Summer Sea Breezes in the Central Area of Osaka City 149 -- Indicators Framework for Sustainable Urban Design 165 -- Concentrations of Four Major Air Pollutants among Ecological Functional Zones in Shenyang, Northeast China 183 -- Local Climate Zone Classification Scheme Can Also Indicate Local-Scale Urban Ventilation Performance: An Evidence-Based Study 199 -- Study on the Accelerated Aging Test Method in the Development of a Self-Cleaning Topcoat for Cool Roofs 219.…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Preface to "Efficiency and Sustainability of the Distributed Renewable Hybrid Power Systems Based on the Energy Internet, Blockchain Technology and Smart Contracts-Volume II" -- Blockchain-Enabled Smart Grid Applications: Architecture,Challenges, and Solutions -- Developing a Generalized Multi-Level Inverter with Reduced Number of Power Electronics Components -- Design, Modeling, and Model-Free Control of Permanent Magnet-Assisted Synchronous Reluctance Motor for e-Vehicle Applications -- Simplified Super Twisting Sliding Mode Approaches of the Double-Powered Induction Generator-Based Multi-Rotor Wind Turbine System -- Technical Performance Prediction and Employment Potential of Solar PV Systems in Cold Countries -- Bidirectional Interface Resonant Converter for Wide Voltage Range Storage Applications -- Frequency Stability of AC/DC Interconnected Power Systems with Wind Energy Using Arithmetic Optimization Algorithm-Based Fuzzy-PID Controller -- An Improved Heap-Based Optimizer for Optimal Design of a Hybrid Microgrid Considering Reliability and Availability Constraints -- Design, Modeling, and Differential Flatness Based Control of Permanent Magnet-Assisted Synchronous Reluctance Motor for e-Vehicle Applications -- State-of-the-Art Review on IoT Threats and Attacks: Taxonomy, Challenges and Solutions -- Performance Investigation of a Solar Photovoltaic/Diesel Generator Based Hybrid System with Cycle Charging Strategy Using BBO Algorithm…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Perez-Sindin Part II: Performative Narratives -- Chapter 4. Performing Imaginary Landscapes: Instagram Communities in the German Ruhr Victoria Huszka -- Chapter 5. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Chapter 20: Effect of Supply Chain Quality Management on PerformanceChapter 21: Concluding Thoughts; Back Cover…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Caching -- Implementing a Caching Service for Distributed CORBA Objects -- A Middleware System Which Intelligently Caches Query Results -- Distributed Object Implementations for Interactive Applications -- Indirection -- MIMO — An Infrastructure for Monitoring and Managing Distributed Middleware Environments -- Gateways for Accessing Fault Tolerance Domains -- An Architecture for Distributed OASIS Services -- Reflection -- Monitoring, Security, and Dynamic Configuration with the dynamicTAO Reflective ORB -- Customization of Object Request Brokers by Application Specific Policies -- The Role of Software Architecture in Constraining Adaptation in Component-Based Middleware Platforms -- Messaging -- Exploiting IP Multicast in Content-Based Publish-Subscribe Systems -- The Design and Performance of a Scalable ORB Architecture for CORBA Asynchronous Messaging -- A Publish/Subscribe CORBA Persistent State Service Prototype -- Quality of Service -- QualProbes: Middleware QoS Profiling Services for Configuring Adaptive Applications -- Structuring QoS-Supporting Services with Smart Proxies -- Trading and Negotiating Stream Bindings -- Transactions and Workflow -- Strategies for Integrating Messaging and Distributed Object Transactions -- A Distributed Object Oriented Framework to Offer Transactional Support for Long Running Business Processes -- Active Middleware Services in a Decision Support System for Managing Highly Available Distributed Resources -- Composition -- The Design and Performance of a Pluggable Protocols Framework for Real-Time Distributed Object Computing Middleware -- Customizing IDL Mappings and ORB Protocols -- Hierarchical Architecture for Real-Time Adaptive Resource Management…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Stewart / Popular Sufi Narratives and the Parameters of the Bengali Imaginaire -- Susanne Enderwitz / Religion into Literature: A Close Reading o f'Abd al-Haklm Qasim's Novel Ayyam al-insan as-sab'a (The Seven Days of Man) -- Suzanne Pinckney Stetkevych / Rhetoric, Hybridity, and Performance in Medieval Arabic-Islamic Devotional Poetry: Al-Kafiya al-Badllyya of SafF ad-DTn al-HillT -- Ines Weinrich / Strategies in Islamic Religious Oral Performance: The Creation of Audience Response…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- 12 Performance, Moving Image, Installation: The Making of Body of War and Faith -- 13 Muybridge's Disobedient Horses: Non-stop Stop-motion -- 14 A Dialogue with Claude Cahun: Between Writing, Photography and Film in Magic Mirror and Confessions to the Mirror -- Index…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- 2 The mindset of a strengths-focused leader -- Part 2: The MORE model -- My strengths -- 3 Identifying my own strengths -- 4 Developing my strengths and managing my weaknesses -- 5 Aligning my goals and objectives with my strengths -- Others' strengths -- 6 Introducing a strengths focus to others -- 7 Identifying and developing strengths in others -- 8 Supporting others to manage their weaknesses -- Regular conversations -- 9 Applying a strengths focus to day-to-day conversations -- 10 Strengths-focused meetings -- 11 Strengths-focused coaching -- Employee processes -- 12 Strengths-focused performance appraisals -- 13 Strengths-focused development discussions -- 14 Strengths-focused recruitment -- Part 3: Applying the strengths focus to business challenges -- 15 Building high-performing teams -- 16 Leading change -- 17 Developing strategy -- Putting it all together -- On a final note -- Appendix 1: Dictionary of strengths -- Appendix 2: Template for business objectives action plan -- Appendix 3: Template for development objectives action plan -- Appendix 4: A strengths-focused team development plan -- References -- Index…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Part V: The Decision-Making RealmChapter 12: Reality Testing; Chapter 13: Problem Solving; Chapter 14: Impulse Control; Part VI: The Stress-Management Realm; Chapter 15: Flexibility; Chapter 16: Stress Tolerance; Chapter 17: Optimism; Part VII: General Well-Being; Chapter 18: Happiness; Part VIII: Putting It All Together; Chapter 19: The Star Performers; Chapter 20: More Star Performers; Chapter 21: The EQ Research Continues; Chapter 22: Emotional Intelligence as Ability; Appendix A: The EQ-i 2.0; Appendix B: EQ and Work Success; Appendix C: The Emotional Intelligence Skills Assessment (EISA)…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Sarah Ndagire’s Way to World Music -- Plucking a Liberal Sound: Japanese Women’s Resignification of Finnish Kantele in a Hobbyist Club -- Female Balkan Romani Singers: Charting Innovative Performance Paths -- Assumptions of Normality: How Three Women with a Disability Changed the Face of Music -- Female Leadership in Iranian-Arab Shiʻa Rituals from Khorramshahr, South-western Iran -- God Has a Woman’s Voice. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…SECTION C: Next Generation Evolutionary Computation Techniques and Innovations. 9. Performance Analysis of Industrial Unit Using Evolutionary Computation Methods. 10. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Dropping Out from University: an Empirical Analysis of Students' Performance -- 5. University Dropout rates in Italy -- 6. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- 12 Performance, Moving Image, Installation: The Making of Body of War and Faith -- 13 Muybridge's Disobedient Horses: Non-stop Stop-motion -- 14 A Dialogue with Claude Cahun: Between Writing, Photography and Film in Magic Mirror and Confessions to the Mirror -- Index…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Waving ensaladas / Pepe Rey -- Song migrations : the case of Adorámoste, Señor / Tess Knighton -- The villancico in the works of early Castilian playwrights (with a note on the function and performance of the musical parts) / Alberto del Río -- Function and liturgical context of the villancico in Salamanca Cathedral / Álvaro Torrente -- The third villancico was a motet : the villancico and related genres / Andrea Bombi -- The villancico as music of state in 17th-century Spain / Pablo-L. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Building a multimodal modular RAG program for drone technology -- Loading the LLM dataset -- Initializing the LLM query engine -- Loading and visualizing the multimodal dataset -- Navigating the multimodal dataset structure -- Selecting and displaying an image -- Adding bounding boxes and saving the image -- Building a multimodal query engine -- Creating a vector index and query engine -- Running a query on the VisDrone multimodal dataset -- Processing the response -- Selecting and processing the image of the source node -- Multimodal modular summary -- Performance metric -- LLM performance metric -- Multimodal performance metric -- Multimodal modular RAG performance metric -- Summary -- Questions -- References -- Further reading -- Chapter 5: Boosting RAG Performance with Expert Human Feedback -- Adaptive RAG -- Building hybrid adaptive RAG in Python -- 1. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Índice: Leveraging architectural and design patterns -- Constructing advanced components -- Turbo-charging data binding -- Tuning applications for superior performance -- Flex and AIR: taking applications to the desktop -- Integrating with Java using services -- Integrating via data and media services -- PHP and Flex -- Talking with JavaScript and HTML: web page integration -- Flex mashups -- Migrating Web 1.0 interface to RIA -- Sculpting interactive business intelligence interfaces -- Working with Web 2.0 APIs -- Facilitating audio and video streaming -- Using 3D in Flex…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Introduction : 'give me that glass, and therein will I read' -- 'Sad stories chanced in the times of old' : the book in performance in Titus Andronicus and Cymbeline -- 'The lunatic, the lover, and the poet' : teaching, perversion, and subversion in The taming of the shrew and Love's labour's lost -- 'Marked with a blot, damned in the book of heaven' : word, image, and the reformation of the self in Richard II -- 'Minding true things by what their mockeries be' : forgetting and remembering in Hamlet -- 'Rather like a dream than an assurance' : The tempest and the book of illusions -- Conclusion : 'we turn'd o'er many books together'…”
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Tabla de Contenidos: “…Front Cover; Contents; Series Preface; Preface; About the Editors; Contributors; Chapter 1 - Engineering Aspects of Olfaction; Chapter 2 - Study of the Coding Efficiency of Populations of Olfactory Receptor Neurons and Olfactory Glomeruli; Chapter 3 - Mimicking Biological Olfaction with Very Large Chemical Arrays; Chapter 4 - The Synthetic Moth: A Neuromorphic Approach toward Artificial Olfaction in Robots; Chapter 5 - Reactive and Cognitive Search Strategies for Olfactory Robots; Chapter 6 - Performance of a Computational Model of the Mammalian Olfactory System; Back Cover…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Methods of influence -- Performance measures. The dangers of failure. Key judgements -- Potential audiences in Muslim communities. …”