Tabla de Contenidos: “…""Book Title""; ""Table of Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""ch 1-Introduction: Latin America in the New Century""; ""Changing Intrahemispheric Relations and U.S. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Front Cover -- Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) Investing -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- 1 Introduction -- Principles for responsible investing -- Sustainable development goals -- The scope of this book -- Chapter 2: ESG, SRI, and impact investing -- Chapter 3: Theories of the firm -- Chapter 4: Fiduciary duty in investment management -- Chapter 5: Overview of financial institutions -- Chapter 6: Financial markets: equities -- Chapter 7: Financial markets: bonds -- Chapter 8: Shareholder engagement -- Chapter 9: Defining and measuring ESG performance…”

“…This book records the first success stories of a new form of financial intermediation, the hometown investment fund, that has become a national strategy in Japan, partly to meet the need to finance small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) after the devastating earthquake and tsunami in March 2011. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover -- Title -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- How To Use This Book -- Pronunciation Guide -- Languages Table of Contents -- English Terms -- A -- ACCORDION FOLD -- ALIASING, ANTI-ALIASING -- ALIGNMENT -- ALL CAPS -- ANALOGOUS COLORS -- ANIMATION -- APOSTROPHE -- AQUEOUS COATING -- ART DECO -- ART NOUVEAU -- ARTS AND CRAFTS -- ASCENDER -- ASYMMETRY -- B -- BACK MATTER -- BALANCE -- BARREL FOLD -- BASELINE -- BAUHAUS -- BÉZIER CURVE -- BINDING -- BITMAP -- BLACKLETTER -- BLEED -- BODY COPY -- BOLD/BOLDFACE -- BORDER -- BRANDING -- BRIGHTNESS -- BULLET -- C -- CALIPER -- CALLIGRAPHY -- CALLOUT -- CAP HEIGHT -- CAPTION -- CASE BINDING -- CENTERED TYPE/TEXT -- CHANNELS -- CHROMA -- CLIP ART -- CMYK -- COATED PAPER -- COLLAGE -- COLOR -- COLOR CORRECTION -- COLOR-MATCHING SYSTEM -- COLOR MODEL -- COLOR PALETTE -- COLOR SPACE -- COLOR WHEEL -- COLUMN -- COMPLEMENTARY COLORS -- COMPOSITE -- COMPOSITION -- CONDENSED TYPE -- CONSTRUCTIVISM -- CONTRAST -- COPYFITTING -- COUNTER -- CROP -- CUBISM -- D -- DADA -- DE STIJL -- DEBOSS -- DESCENDER -- DIE CUT -- DINGBATS -- DISPLAY TYPE -- DITHER -- DROP CAPITAL/CAP -- DUOTONE -- E -- EGYPTIAN -- ELLIPSIS -- EM -- EM DASH -- EM SPACE -- EMBOSS -- EN -- EN DASH -- EN SPACE -- END MATTER -- EXPERT SET -- EYE FLOW -- F -- FACING PAGES -- FIGURE-GROUND -- FLUSH-LEFT/FLUSH-RIGHT -- FOCAL POINT -- FOIL STAMPING -- FONT -- FOR POSITION ONLY (FPO) -- FORM-COUNTERFORM -- FOUR-COLOR PROCESS -- FRONT MATTER -- FUTURISM -- G -- GALLEY PROOF -- GRADIENT -- GRAYSCALE -- GREEKING -- GRID -- GUTTER -- H -- H&amp -- J -- HALFTONE -- HANGING PUNCTUATION -- HEADING -- HEADLINE -- HIERARCHY -- HUE -- HYPHEN -- HYPHENATION -- I -- ICON -- IDENTITY -- IMPOSITION -- INDENT -- INITIAL CAPITAL/CAP -- INTERACTION DESIGN -- ITALIC -- J -- JUSTIFIED TYPE/TEXT -- K -- KERNING -- KISS DIE CUT -- L -- LASER CUT -- LAYER -- LAYOUT…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- 1.1 WIND ENERGY BACKGROUND -- 1.2 ORGANIZATION OF THIS BOOK -- 1.2.1 Who Should Use This Book -- 1.2.2 Note for Instructors -- 1.2.3 Datasets Used in the Book -- Part I: Wind Field Analysis -- Chapter 2: A Single Time Series Model -- 2.1 TIME SCALE IN SHORT- TERM FORECASTING -- 2.2 SIMPLE FORECASTING MODELS -- 2.2.1 Forecasting Based on Persistence Model -- 2.2.2 Weibull Distribution -- 2.2.3 Estimation of Parameters in Weibull Distribution -- 2.2.4 Goodness of Fit -- 2.2.5 Forecasting Based on Weibull Distribution -- 2.3 DATA TRANSFORMATION AND STANDARDIZATION -- 2.4 AUTOREGRESSIVE MOVING AVERAGE MODELS -- 2.4.1 Parameter Estimation -- 2.4.2 Decide Model Order -- 2.4.3 Model Diagnostics -- 2.4.4 Forecasting Based on ARMA Model -- 2.5 OTHER METHODS -- 2.5.1 Kalman Filter -- 2.5.2 Support Vector Machine -- 2.5.3 Artificial Neural Network -- 2.6 PERFORMANCE METRICS -- 2.7 COMPARING WIND FORECASTING METHODS -- Chapter 3: Spatio temporal Models -- 3.1 COVARIANCE FUNCTIONS AND KRIGING -- 3.1.1 Properties of Covariance Functions -- 3.1.2 Power Exponential Covariance Function -- 3.1.3 Kriging -- 3.2 SPATIO-TEMPORAL AUTOREGRESSIVE MODELS -- 3.2.1 Gaussian Spatio-temporal Autoregressive Model -- 3.2.2 Informative Neighborhood -- 3.2.3 Forecasting and Comparison -- 3.3 SPATIO-TEMPORAL ASYMMETRY AND SEPARABILITY -- 3.3.1 Definition and Quantification -- 3.3.2 Asymmetry of Local Wind Field -- 3.3.3 Asymmetry Quantification -- 3.3.4 Asymmetry and Wake Effect -- 3.4 ASYMMETRIC SPATIO-TEMPORAL MODELS -- 3.4.1 Asymmetric Non-separable Spatio-temporal Model -- 3.4.2 Separable Spatio-temporal Models -- 3.4.3 Forecasting Using Spatio-temporal Model -- 3.4.4 Hybrid of Asymmetric Model and SVM -- 3.5 CASE STUDY…”

“…This book is about migration as a form of risk-taking. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Quality improvement in food value chains: searching for integrated solutions; Abstract; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 Defining food quality; 1.3 Different perspectives of food chain analysis; 1.4 Market access and the debate around the impact of quality standards; 1.5 From innovation to co-innovation; 1.6 Outline of the book; References; 2. Linking smallholder farmers to high quality food chains: appraising institutional arrangements; Abstract; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Institutional constraints to quality improvement…”