“…This Congressional Budget Office (CBO) study--prepared at the request of the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Science--presents an overview of issues related to climate change, focusing primarily on its economic aspects. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…David Bulbeck -- The cultural construction of rank, identity and ethnic origins in the Sulu archipelago / Charles O. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…On a Generalized Companion Matrix Pencil for Matrix Polynomials Expressed in the Lagrange Basis -- Ill-conditioned Properties and Hybrid Computations -- Rational Interpolation and Its Ill-conditioned Property -- Computing Approximate GCD of Multivariate Polynomials -- Structured Low Rank Approximation of a Sylvester Matrix -- Implementation of Fast Low Rank Approximation of a Sylvester Matrix -- New Algorithms for Exact and Approximate Polynomial Decomposition -- Amortized Bound for Root Isolation via Sturm Sequences -- An Algorithm of Real Root Isolation for Polynomial Systems with Applications to the Construction of Limit Cycles -- An Algebraic Method for Separating Close-Root Clusters and the Minimum Root Separation -- On the Location of Zeros of an Interval Polynomial -- Root-Finding with Eigen-Solving -- Galois Theory via Eigenvalue Methods -- Pythagore’s Dilemma, Symbolic-Numeric Computation, and the Border Basis Method -- Proposal for the Algorithmic Use of the BKK-Number in the Algebraic Reduction of a O-dimensional Polynomial System -- Evaluation of Jacobian Matrices for Newton’s Method with Deflation to Approximate Isolated Singular Solutions of Polynomial Systems -- On Approximate Linearized Triangular Decompositions -- On the Extended Iterative Proportional Scaling Algorithm -- Preprocessing for Finite Element Discretizations of Geometric Problems -- Symbolic Computation Sequences and Numerical Analytic Geometry Applied to Multibody Dynamical Systems -- A Symbolic-Numeric Approach to an Electric Field Problem -- Financial Applications of Symbolically Generated Compact Finite Difference Formulae -- Symbolic Analyzer for Large Lumped and Distributed Networks…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Course Metrics Dashboard -- Comparing Individual Performance with Peers -- What-If Analysis: Wage Increase Ramifications -- Executive Sales Dashboard -- Ranking by Now, Comparing with Then -- Are We on Pace to Reach Our Goals? …”

“…"For 20 years, the Great Place to Work® Institute has been developing the annual ranking of the best companies to work for in the US and in 39 countries around the world. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…"The Mischiefs of Foreign Intrigue" -- "Highway Robbery under the Protection of the Law" : American Privateers in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic -- "Free Ships Make Free Goods" : Revolutionary Experiments in Neutrality -- "The Contests of European Nations" : George Washington and Neutrality -- "Americans in Politics" : Crafting a Neutral Proclamation -- "To Keep This Country in Peace" : French Violations and Executive Actions -- "A Rank Due to the United States" : Enforcing Neutrality across the Federal Government -- "My Objects Are, to Prevent a War" : Enforcing Neutrality across the Globe -- "First in Peace" : George Washington, Statesman…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Introduction -- Accelerating large dataset work: map and parallel computing -- Function pipelines for mapping complex transformations -- Processing large datasets with lazy workflows -- Accumulation operations with reduce -- Speeding up map and reduce with advanced parallelization -- Processing truly big datasets with Hadoop and Spark -- Best practices for large data with Apache Streaming and mrjob -- PageRank with map and reduce in PySpark -- Faster decision-making with machine learning and PySpark -- Large datasets in the cloud with Amazon Web Services and S3 -- MapReduce in the cloud with Amazon's Elastic MapReduce…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Effective Management of Benchmarking Projects: Practical Guidelines and Examples of Best Practice; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Rank Xerox: where the benchmarking story started; 2 The strategic application of benchmarking for best practice: a prioritization tool; 3 Partner selection; 4 The ethics of benchmarking: how to handle secrecy and sensitive issues; 5 The value of industrial visits; 6 The value of benchmarking awards; 7 The process of benchmarking in practice; 8 The diversity of benchmarking: examples of best practice…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…The first salvos -- The seige of Beijing -- Confusion on campuses -- The fifty days -- Mao's new successor -- The red guards -- Red terror -- Confusion nationwide -- Shanghai's "January Storm" -- Seizing power -- The last standof the old guard -- The Wuhan incident -- The May 16 conspiracy -- The end of the red guards -- Cleanings the class ranks -- Dispatching Lie Shaoqi -- The congress of victors -- War scares -- The defection and death of Lin Biao -- Mao becalmed -- Zhou under pressure -- Deng Xiaoping takes over -- The gang of four emerges -- The Tiananmen incident of 1976 -- The last day of chairman Mao…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Revealing Injustice with Computers, 1967-1995 -- 2. Rankings -- or, The Unintended Consequences of Computation, 1988-2000 -- Part II. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…""Advertising Your App in Other Apps""""Cross Promoting User Bases""; ""Chapter 8: Plan to Scale, or Your App Will Fail""; ""Tracking Trends and Producing Results""; ""Tools for Tracking Downloads""; ""AppViz ( www.ideaswarm.com/AppViz2.html)""; ""Distimo ( www.distimo.com)""; ""AppSales Mobile ( github.com/omz/AppSales-Mobile)""; ""Tools for Tracking App Store Ranking""; ""App Annie ( www.appannie.com)""; ""MajicRank ( majicjungle.com/majicrank.html)""; ""Tools for Tracking Keyword Rankings""; ""AppCodes ( http://www.appcod.es)""; ""Search Man SEO ( www.searchman.com)""; ""Parting Thoughts""…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…The graph visualizationInstalling the GraphStream and BreezeViz libraries; Visualizing the graph data; Plotting the degree distribution; The analysis of network connectedness; Finding the connected components; Counting triangles and computing clustering coefficients; The network centrality and PageRank; How PageRank works; Ranking web pages; Scala Build Tool revisited; Organizing build definitions; Managing library dependencies; A preview of the steps; Running tasks with SBT commands; Summary; Chapter 4: Transforming and Shaping Up Graphs to Your Needs…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Is there a preferred metric we should use to determine a brand's rank? How do I make sure that all relevant competitors are ranked? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…8: Image-Capturing Webbots -- Example Image-Capturing Webbot -- Creating the Image-Capturing Webbot -- Binary-Safe Download Routine -- Directory Structure -- The Main Script -- Further Exploration -- Final Thoughts -- 9: Link-Verification Webbots -- Creating the Link-Verification Webbot -- Initializing the Webbot and Downloading the Target -- Setting the Page Base -- Parsing the Links -- Running a Verification Loop -- Generating Fully Resolved URLs -- Downloading the Linked Page -- Displaying the Page Status -- Running the Webbot -- LIB_http_codes -- LIB_resolve_addresses -- Further Exploration -- 10: Anonymous Browsing Webbots -- Anonymity with Proxies -- Non-proxied Environments -- Your Online Exposure -- Proxied Environments -- The Anonymizer Project -- Writing the Anonymizer -- Final Thoughts -- 11: Search-Ranking Webbots -- Description of a Search Result Page -- What the Search-Ranking Webbot Does -- Running the Search-Ranking Webbot -- How the Search-Ranking Webbot Works -- The Search-Ranking Webbot Script -- Initializing Variables -- Starting the Loop -- Fetching the Search Results -- Parsing the Search Results -- Final Thoughts -- Be Kind to Your Sources -- Search Sites May Treat Webbots Differently Than Browsers -- Spidering Search Engines Is a Bad Idea -- Familiarize Yourself with the Google API -- Further Exploration -- 12: Aggregation Webbots -- Choosing Data Sources for Webbots -- Example Aggregation Webbot -- Familiarizing Yourself with RSS Feeds -- Writing the Aggregation Webbot -- Adding Filtering to Your Aggregation Webbot -- Further Exploration -- 13: FTP Webbots -- Example FTP Webbot -- PHP and FTP -- Further Exploration -- 14: NNTP News Webbots -- NNTP Use and History -- Webbots and Newsgroups -- Identifying News Servers -- Identifying Newsgroups -- Finding Articles in Newsgroups -- Reading an Article from a Newsgroup…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Frontmatter 1 Contents 5 Acknowledgements 7 Practices of Comparing 11 Preliminary Typology of Comparative Utterances 39 Incomparability 87 Odysseus, Blackbirds, and Rain Barrels 111 Where Do Rankings Come From? 137 The Weight of Comparing in Medieval England 173 The Shifting Grounds of Comparison in the French Renaissance 199 Comparison and East-West Encounter 213 Japan as the Absolute 'Other' 229 "Goût de Comparaison" 257 Inventing White Beauty and Fighting Black Slavery 295 The Politicisation of Comparisons 329 Genealogies of Modernism 349 Comparing in the Digital Age 377 Authors and Editors 401…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Table of contents; Basic statistics of Belgium, 2013; Abbreviations and acronyms; Executive summary; Main findings; Selected economic indicators: Belgian ranking among OECD countries; Key recommendations; Securing fiscal sustainability while promoting employment and competitiveness; Improving the labour market integration of immigrants; Maintaining an efficient and equitable housing market; Assessment and recommendations; Challenges facing Belgium; Economic prospects remain fragile; Figure 1. …”

“…In addition, they can also be used for the selection and ranking of candidate chemicals during the development of new chemicals and products and in toxicology research. …”

“…For example, internationalization can be influenced by the university ranking system, which is based on the international reputation of universities, the competitive quality of programmes offered in a market-oriented education environment, generation of income from the enrolment of international students, and employment of high-profile researchers. …”

“…The purpose of this paper is to describe a series of techniques used to improve various parts of Search and Ranking algorithms by utilizing the embeddings representations of the user and deal features. …”