Tabla de Contenidos: “…Basis of assessment -- Employment income -- Non-taxable employment income -- Deductible expenses -- Termination payments -- The PAYE system -- Construction industry scheme -- Employee incentive schemes -- 8 Income from employment (2) -- Benefits in kind -- Living accommodation -- Cars provided for private use -- Beneficial loans -- Salary sacrifice -- 9 Income from self-employment: Computation of income -- The badges of trade -- The calculation of trading profits -- Deductibility of expenditure -- Disallowed expenditure -- Allowable expenditure -- Adjustments relating to income -- Trading income allowance -- Cash basis and simplified expenses -- 10 Income from self-employment: Basis periods -- The current year basis -- Commencement of trade -- Cessation of trade -- Change of accounting date -- Averaging of trading profits for farmers and creative artists -- Basis period reform -- 11 Income from self-employment: Capital allowances -- Eligible expenditure -- Chargeable periods -- Plant and machinery -- Capital allowances on plant and machinery -- Writing down allowance (WDA) -- Annual investment allowance (AIA) -- First year allowance (FYA) -- Balancing allowances and charges -- Non-pooled assets -- Allowances on cessation of trade -- Structures and buildings allowances -- Miscellaneous capital allowances -- 12 Income from self-employment: Trading losses -- Relief for trading losses -- Carry-forward trade loss relief -- Trade loss relief against total income -- Temporary extension of s64 relief -- Early trade losses relief -- Terminal trade loss relief -- Post-cessation trade relief -- Transfer of a business to a company -- Losses on shares in unlisted trading companies -- Limit on income tax reliefs -- 13 Income from self-employment: Partnerships -- Principles of partnership taxation -- Notional profits and losses -- Change in partnership composition…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Deep dive causality in real-life settings -- Exploring the technical aspects of causality -- Simpson's paradox -- Defining variables -- Summary -- References -- Chapter 2: Unraveling Confounding and Associations -- A deep dive into associations -- Causality and a fundamental issue -- Individual treatment effect -- Average treatment effect -- The distinction between confounding and associations -- Discussing the concept of bias in causality -- Assumptions in causal inference -- Strategies to address confounding -- Regression adjustment -- Propensity score methods -- Summary -- References -- Chapter 3: Initiating R with a Basic Causal Inference Example -- Technical requirements -- What is R? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- The Scheduling Algorithm -- Scheduling of Conventional Processes -- Base time quantum -- Dynamic priority and average sleep time -- Active and expired processes -- Scheduling of Real-Time Processes -- Data Structures Used by the Scheduler -- The runqueue Data Structure -- Process Descriptor -- Functions Used by the Scheduler -- The scheduler_tick( ) Function -- Updating the time slice of a real-time process -- Updating the time slice of a conventional process -- The try_to_wake_up( ) Function -- The recalc_task_prio( ) Function -- The schedule( ) Function -- Direct invocation -- Lazy invocation -- Actions performed by schedule( ) before a process switch -- Actions performed by schedule( ) to make the process switch -- Actions performed by schedule( ) after a process switch -- Runqueue Balancing in Multiprocessor Systems -- Scheduling Domains -- The rebalance_tick( ) Function -- The load_balance( ) Function -- The move_tasks( ) Function -- System Calls Related to Scheduling -- The nice( ) System Call -- The getpriority( ) and setpriority( ) System Calls -- The sched_getaffinity( ) and sched_setaffinity( ) System Calls -- System Calls Related to Real-Time Processes -- The sched_getscheduler( ) and sched_setscheduler( ) system calls -- The sched_ getparam( ) and sched_setparam( ) system calls -- The sched_ yield( ) system call…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Part A: Information Theory and Source Coding -- Chapter 1: Probability, Random Processes, and Noise -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Fundamentals of Probability -- 1.2.1 Algebra of Probability -- 1.2.2 Axioms of Probability -- 1.2.3 Elementary Theorems on Probability -- 1.2.4 Conditional Probability -- 1.2.5 Independent Events -- 1.2.6 Total Probability -- 1.3 Random Variables and Its Characteristics -- 1.3.1 Discrete Random Variable and Probability Mass Function -- 1.3.2 Cumulative Distribution Function -- 1.3.3 Distribution Function for Discrete Random Variable -- 1.3.4 Continuous Random Variable and Probability Density Function -- 1.4 Statistical Averages -- 1.5 Frequently Used Probability Distributions -- 1.5.1 Binomial Distribution -- 1.5.2 Poisson Distribution -- 1.5.3 Gaussian Distribution -- 1.6 Random Processes -- 1.7 Noise -- 1.7.1 Sources of Noise -- 1.7.2 Thermal Noise -- 1.7.3 Shot Noise -- 1.7.4 Partition Noise -- 1.7.5 Flicker Noise or 1/f Noise -- 1.8 Solved Problems -- Multiple Choice Questions -- Review Questions -- Chapter 2: Information Theory -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Measure of Information -- 2.3 Entropy -- 2.4 Information Rate -- 2.5 Channel Model -- 2.5.1 Discrete Memoryless Channel -- 2.5.2 Special Channels -- 2.6 Joint Entropy and Conditional Entropy -- 2.7 Mutual Information -- 2.8 Channel Capacity -- 2.8.1 Special Channels -- 2.9 Shannon's Theorem -- 2.10 Continuous Channel -- 2.10.1 Differential Entropy -- 2.10.2 Additive White Gaussian Noise Channel -- 2.10.3 Shannon-Hartley Law -- 2.11 Solved Problems -- Multiple Choice Questions -- Review Questions -- Chapter 3: Source Codes -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Coding Parameters -- 3.3 Source Coding Theorem -- 3.4 Classification of Codes -- 3.5 Kraft Inequality -- 3.6 Image Compression…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…SUMMARY -- References -- 30 Different Schools: Same Barriers -- SCHOOL TRADITION -- Structure of the Day -- Teacher Schedule -- Teacher Isolation -- Teacher Instruction -- Artificial Separation of the Sciences -- State Certification -- Sex Roles -- Tracking -- TEXTBOOKS -- MONETARY CONSTRAINTS -- Resources -- Time -- Average Teacher Load -- Conferences -- STANDARDIZED TESTING -- UNIVERSITY PREPARATION -- PRESERVICE EDUCATION -- PROFESSIONAL IN-SERVICE EDUCATION -- ADMINISTRATION -- TEACHER ATTITUDES -- CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- References -- PART VII ACCOMPLISHING CURRICULAR-IMPLEMENTATION -- 31 Problems and Issues in Science-Curriculum Reform and Implementation -- References -- 32 Changing Practice in High Schools: A Process, Not an Event -- DEVELOPMENT VS. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…How to compensate for equivalent CO2e emissions -- Design patterns of FL-based model training -- Sustainability in model deployments -- Design patterns of FL-based model deployments -- Summary -- Further reading -- Chapter 13: Sustainable Model Life Cycle Management, Feature Stores, and Model Calibration -- Sustainable model development practices -- Organizational standards for sustainable, trustworthy frameworks -- Explainability, privacy, and sustainability in feature stores -- Feature store components and functionalities -- Feature stores for FL -- Exploring model calibration -- Determining whether a model is well calibrated -- Calibration techniques -- Model calibration using scikit-learn -- Building sustainable, adaptable systems -- Concept drift-aware federated averaging (CDA-FedAvg) -- Summary -- Further reading -- Chapter 14: Industry-Wide Use Cases -- Technical requirements -- Building ethical AI solutions across industries -- Biased chatbots -- Ethics in XR/AR/VR -- Use cases in retail -- Privacy in the retail industry -- Fairness in the retail industry -- Interpretability - the role of counterfactuals (CFs) -- Supply chain use cases -- Use cases in BFSI -- Deepfakes -- Use cases in healthcare -- Healthcare system architecture using Google Cloud -- Survival analysis for Responsible AI healthcare applications -- Summary -- Further reading -- Index -- Other Books You May Enjoy…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- The cost of highly available architecture -- Mixing good and bad - tricks to wrapping bad code and making it resilient -- Alerting that fires actions -- Adding additional logging to monitor potential issues -- Using try catch to encapsulate exceptions -- Retries to the rescue...or not -- Summary -- Part 2 - Implementing Observability for Site Reliability Engineering -- Chapter 4: Essential Observability - Metrics, Events, Logs, and Traces (MELT) -- Technical requirements -- Accomplishing systems monitoring and telemetry -- Monitoring targets for infrastructure -- Monitoring types and tools -- Monitoring golden signals -- Monitoring data -- Understanding APM -- Getting to know topology self-discovery, the blast radius, predictability, and correlation -- Alerting - the art of doing it quietly -- The user perspective notification trigger principle -- Event-to-incident mapping principle -- Mixing everything into observability -- Outages versus downtime -- Observability architecture -- Observability effectiveness -- In practice - applying what you have learned -- Lab architecture -- Lab contents -- Lab instructions -- Summary -- Further reading -- Chapter 5: Resolution Path - Master Troubleshooting -- Properly defining the problem - and what to ask and not ask -- Source of information…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Long-term and compressed storage -- Cross-cloud data analytics with federated access model and BigQuery Omni -- Backup and recovery -- Best practices for optimizing compute -- Analysis cost options -- Query optimization -- Query optimization cheat sheet -- Monitoring and controlling costs -- Query plan and query performance insights -- Monitoring, estimating, and optimizing costs -- Controlling costs -- Summary -- Further reading -- Part 4: Hands-On and Conclusion -- Chapter 11: Hands-On Exercise - Analyzing Advertising Data -- Technical requirements -- Exercise and use case overview -- Loading CSV data files from local upload -- Data preparation -- Standardizing date formats -- Data exploration, analysis, and visualization -- Analyzing ads and sales data -- Return on ad spend -- Visualizations -- Summary -- References -- Chapter 12: Hands-On Exercise - Analyzing Transportation Data -- Technical requirements -- Exercise and use case overview -- Loading data from GCS to BigQuery -- Uploading data files to Google Cloud Storage -- Loading data into BigQuery -- Data preparation -- Data exploration and analysis -- Visualizing data with BigQuery geography functions -- Summary -- Further reading -- Chapter 13: Hands-On Exercise - Analyzing Customer Support Data -- Technical requirements -- Exercise and use case overview -- Data loading from CSV upload -- Data preparation -- Data exploration and analysis -- Count of ticket_type across both datasets -- The most common support issues using ticket_subject data -- Average resolution time per ticket_type -- Customer demographics using customer_age and customer_gender -- Analyzing emotions with sentiment analysis -- Creating a connection -- Granting access to the external connection service account -- Creating a model -- Querying the model -- Summary -- References and further reading…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Formulating null and alternative hypotheses -- Determining the significance level -- Understanding errors -- Getting to grips with p-values -- Significance tests for a population proportion - making informed decisions about proportions -- The z-test - comparing a sample proportion to a population proportion -- Z-test example made easy -- Significance tests for a population average (mean) -- Writing hypotheses for a significance test about a mean -- Conditions for a t-test about a mean -- When to use z or t statistics in significance tests -- Example - calculating the t-statistic for a test about a mean -- Using a table to estimate the p-value from the t-statistic -- Comparing the p-value from the t-statistic to the significance level -- One-tailed and two-tailed tests -- Walking through a case study -- Summary -- Understanding Regression -- How can I benefit from understanding regression? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Intro -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations and acronyms -- Executive Summary -- Key findings -- 1 Assessment and recommendations -- Regional development trends in Croatia -- Croatia's governance framework for regional development -- Croatia's regional development planning instruments and practices -- Funding and financing of regional development in Croatia -- References -- 2 Setting the scene: Regional development trends in Croatia -- Introduction -- National trends in Croatia since joining the EU -- The governance dimension -- Croatia's territorial-administrative structure has remained stable -- Progress in governance has been modest since EU accession -- The economic dimension -- Economic growth has exceeded the EU average -- Unemployment has fallen considerably since 2013 -- The demographic dimension -- Croatia's population is both shrinking and ageing -- Migration has contributed significantly to population decline -- The well-being dimension -- Inequality, poverty and life expectancy has remained constant -- Household internet access has increased rapidly throughout Croatia -- Regional trends -- The economic dimension -- Zagreb City's economic dominance has grown, with other regions falling behind -- The demographic dimension -- The well-being dimension -- County trends -- Economic changes at county level -- GVA is concentrated around Zagreb and coastal counties -- Tourism is booming but only in coastal areas -- Long-term unemployment has fallen rapidly in all counties and Zagreb City -- Demographic changes at the county level -- Well-being changes at the county level -- Health outcomes are highly uneven across counties and Zagreb City -- Crime rates vary across counties, but with no clear geographic pattern -- Internet speeds vary significantly across counties…”

“…In this hard-hitting new book, apologetics experts Patrick Madrid and Kenneth Hensley help Christians to wake up to the crisis of godlessness, alerting them to the imperative need to take seriously atheism’s challenge, while learning how to effectively engage in today’s atheistic debate. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Motivation xviii About the Authors xxv 1 Globalization: Economies in Collision 1 Motivation 1 1.1 Introduction 1 1.2 Trend and Challenges in Global Finance 5 1.2.1 Global Finance and the 2007-2008 Financial Crisis 5 1.2.2 Geopolitics and Finance or Geo-Finance 7 1.2.3 Population Growth 9 1.2.4 Geo-Finance and Gating 9 1.2.5 Culture and Social Norms 10 1.2.6 Emerging Economies, Equalization, and Risks 11 1.2.7 Regulation and Politics 12 1.3 Global Finance and Trade in the Media and News 12 1.3.1 Taxing Foreign Returns When They Are Repatriated 12 1.3.2 Sovereign Gating and Protective Tariffs, Trade Defense 12 1.3.3 Global Insurance and Dependence 13 1.3.4 Finance and Politics 13 1.3.5 EU-US Regulation Risks in a Trans-Atlantic Market 13 1.3.6 Rare Earth and Strategic Trades 14 1.4 Global Risks 15 1.4.1 Factors Affecting Global Risks 15 1.4.2 Global Finance and Risk Theories 17 1.5 Global Finance and Swaps and Financial Products 18 1.6 Currencies and Liquidity 20 1.7 Foreign Exchange Regime and Markets, Global Payment, and Reserve Currency 23 1.7.1 Foreign Exchange Markets and Global Trade Currency 24 1.7.2 Exchange Rate Regimes 28 1.7.3 Foreign Exchange Reserve Currencies 29 1.7.4 Exchange Rate in Emerging Markets 30 1.8 Trade Incentives and Repressions 33 1.9 Historical Evolution 36 1.9.1 The Gold Standard System 36 1.9.2 The Bretton Woods Agreement 37 1.9.3 The Yuan Exchange Rate: An Example 38 1.10 Archaic and Modern Globalization: A Time Path 40 1.11 Discussions on Global Issues 44 References 46 2 Data, Measurements, and Global Finance 51 Motivation 51 2.1 Data and Models 51 2.1.1 National Accounts and Country-Specific Data 52 2.1.2 Financial Data 53 2.1.3 Corporate and Statistical Measurements 53 2.1.4 Big Data and Model-Less Finance 56 2.1.5 Technology and Financial Data 59 2.1.6 Transforming Data Management in Global Finance 60 2.2 Global Finance, Data Reduction, and Statistical Measurements 61 2.2.1 Moments 61 2.2.2 Skew and Kurtosis (Tails) 63 2.2.3 Outliers, Extreme Statistics, and Fat Tails 65 2.2.4 Extreme Risks 65 2.2.5 Time Series and Filtration 66 2.2.6 Dependence 67 2.2.7 Risk Exposure 75 2.3 Volatility and Implied Models Estimates 76 2.3.1 Simple Volatility Estimates 76 2.3.2 Implied Volatility 77 2.3.3 Moving Average and Autoregressive Moving Average Models 79 2.3.4 ARCH-GARCH Volatility Models 80 2.3.5 ARCH-GARCH Model: Empirical Evidence 82 2.4 Stochastic Models 86 2.4.1 The Constant Rate of Return Hypothesis 88 2.4.2 Autoregressive and Mean Reverting Models 90 2.5 Multivariate Probability Models 91 2.5.1 Bernoulli and Codependence: Qualitative Data 92 2.5.2 Multivariate Qualitative Data 93 2.5.3 Copulas and Multivariate Models 96 2.6 Statistical Data Reduction 100 2.7 Complexity: The Global Risk Finance Scourge 102 2.8 Discussion 103 References 104 3 Global Finance: Utility, Financial Consumption, and Asset Pricing 110 Motivation 110 3.1 Introduction: Financial Models and Pricing 110 3.1.1 The Walras-Arrow-Debreu Preference-Free Q Framework 111 3.1.2 Utility Finance 113 3.1.3 Utility Preferences and Pricing 114 3.2 Review: Elements of Utility and Risk 116 3.2.1 Utility and Risk Preferences 117 3.2.2 Selected Utility Functions 119 3.3 The Utility of Consumption and its Price 119 3.3.1 Example: The Financial Utility of Consumption 120 3.3.2 The Utility of Financial Consumption 121 3.4 The Capital Assets Pricing Model 123 3.4.1 Discussion 125 3.4.2 The Jensen Alpha Case: η = α−Rf 0 125 3.4.3 The Arbitrage Pricing Theory 126 3.4.4 The Capital Assets Pricing Model and Foreign Exchange 127 3.4.5 Pricing Foreign Exchange Rates and a Basket of Foreign Exchange Rates 128 3.4.6 Thought Experiment 130 3.4.7 Linear Regressions, Capital Assets Pricing Model, and Global Finance 130 3.5 Review of Elements of Arrow-Debreu and Q Pricing 131 3.5.1 Applications of the Arrow-Debreu Framework 134 3.5.2 Pricing a Foreign Bond and Foreign Exchange Rates 134 3.5.3 Global Investment Pricing: A Binomial Model 137 3.5.4 Global Investment Pricing: A Portfolio Problem 139 3.5.5 Foreign Exchange, Consumer Price Index, and Purchasing Power Parity 141 3.5.6 Relative Purchasing Power Parity 141 3.6 The Multiperiod Consumption-Based Capital Asset Pricing Model 142 3.6.1 Example: Pricing Exports 144 3.6.2 Example: The Multiagent Consumption-Based Capital Asset Pricing Model 145 3.6.3 Example: Portfolio Investment 146 3.6.4 The Capital Assets Pricing Model as a Special Case of the Consumption-Based Capital Asset Pricing Model 149 3.6.5 Foreign Exchange Rates, Bonds, and Equity 150 3.6.6 Example: Rate of Returns in Foreign Equity Markets and the Foreign Exchange Rate 153 3.7 Thought Experiments 154 References 155 4 Macroeconomics, Foreign Exchange, and Global Finance 157 Motivation 157 4.1 Introduction 157 4.2 Fundamental Macroeconomic Models 158 4.2.1 The Keynes Model: Goods and Money Markets in a Closed Economy 159 4.2.2 Macroeconomic Accounting in Open Economies 162 4.3 Balance of Payments Accounts 165 4.3.1 The Structure of Balance of Payments 165 4.3.2 Principles of Balance of Payments 167 4.3.3 Global External Imbalances 168 4.4 The Mundell and Fleming Model: IS-LM-BOP Model 171 4.4.1 Equilibrium Exchange Rate in the Foreign Exchange Market 171 4.4.2 IS-LM-BOP Model 173 4.4.3 Two-Country Model with Mundell-Fleming 175 4.4.4 Extension of the Mundell-Fleming Model: Trade 176 4.5 Macroeconomic Factors Reshaping Global Outlook 178 4.5.1 Foreign Direct Investment 178 4.5.2 External Debt and its Sustainability 182 4.5.3 Government Bonds and other Macroeconomic Factors 184 4.5.4 The Impact of a Strong US Dollar 185 4.5.5 The US Dollar and Commodity Prices 186 4.5.6 Globalization and Economic Inequalities 187 4.6 Conclusion 190 References 191 5 Foreign Exchange Models and Prices 195 Motivation 195 5.1 Introduction 195 5.2 Macroeconomic Models of Foreign Exchange Rates 196 5.2.1 Underlying Factors for Modeling Foreign Exchange Prices 196 5.2.2 Classification of Foreign Exchange Models 197 5.3 Exchange Rates and Purchasing Power Parity 198 5.3.1 Purchasing Power Parity and the Law of One Price 198 5.3.2 Application of the Law of One Price and Purchasing Power Parity 200 5.4 Foreign Exchange Rates and Interest Rates: The Assets Approach 204 5.4.1 Covered Interest Arbitrage 204 5.4.2 Uncovered Interest Parities 205 5.4.3 Real Interest Parity 206 5.4.4 Testing Uncovered Interest Parity 206 5.5 Demand and Supply of Money and Exchange Rates: Monetary Approach 207 5.5.1 The Frenkel-Mussa Model 208 5.5.2 Foreign Exchange Prices and Inflation 209 5.5.3 The Unified Asset/Monetary Approaches 211 5.5.4 Empirical Evidence on the Monetary Model of Exchange Rate 211 5.6 Extensions of the Models 212 5.6.1 The Balassa-Samuelson Model 212 5.6.2 The Dornbusch Overshooting Model 215 5.6.3 The Real Interest Differential Theory 219 5.6.4 Present-Value Models: Complete and Incomplete Markets 219 5.7 Conclusions 221 Appendix 5.A: Suggested Empirical Work for Econometric and Statistical Analysis 222 References 223 6 Asia: Financial Environment and Risks 226 Motivation 226 6.1 Introduction 226 6.2 Driving Engines of Economic Growth in Asia 228 6.2.1 International Trade 229 6.2.2 Exchange Rate 229 6.2.3 Foreign Investments Expansion 234 6.3 Financial Sector Development in Asia 235 6.3.1 Fast-Growing Banking Sector 237 6.3.2 Bond Market Development 239 6.3.3 Stock Market Development 242 6.4 Risks of Investing in Asia 245 6.4.1 Foreign Exchange Risk 245 6.4.2 Foreign Exchange Option 248 6.4.3 Portfolio with Asian Assets 249 6.5 Financial Development in China 251 6.5.1 Importance of the Banking Sector in China 252 6.5.2 State-Owned Enterprises 254 6.5.3 Challenges in Equity Markets in China 257 6.5.4 Stock Market Development in China 257 6.6 Finance in Japan 260 6.6.1 Banking Sector in Japan 260 6.6.2 Effectiveness of Corporate Governance 260 6.6.3 The Importance of Industry 261 6.6.4 Bond Market Volatility in Japan 263 6.7 Conclusion 265 References 266 7 Financial Currency Pricing, Swaps, Derivatives, and Complete Markets 269 Motivation 269 7.1 Introduction 269 7.2 Pricing Consumption Price Index and Foreign Exchange in Complete Financial Markets 272 7.3 A Generalized Consumption Price Index Foreign Exchange Pricing Model 276 7.4 Relative and Foreign Exchange Basket Price Tracking 278 7.4.1 Currency Basket Design 281 7.4.2 A Global Index Consumption Price Index Price Reversion and Foreign Exchange Prices 284 7.4.3 Global Index Reversion…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Morawski Article: Formation of Combustible Hydrocarbons and H2 during Photocatalytic Decomposition of Various Organic Compounds under Aerated and Deaerated Conditions Reprinted from: Molecules 2014, 19(12), 19633-19647 http://www.mdpi.com/1420-3049/19/12/19633 -- Robert Michal, Stavroula Sfaelou and Panagiotis Lianos Article: Photocatalysis for Renewable Energy Production Using PhotoFuelCells Reprinted from: Molecules 2014, 19(12), 19732-19750 http://www.mdpi.com/1420-3049/19/12/19732 -- Josef Krysa, Martin Zlamal, Stepan Kment, Michaela Brunclikova and Zdenek Hubicka Article: TiO2 and Fe2O3 Films for Photoelectrochemical Water Splitting Reprinted from: Molecules 2015, 20(1), 1046-1058 http://www.mdpi.com/1420-3049/20/1/1046 -- Shozo Yanagida, Susumu Yanagisawa, Koichi Yamashita, Ryota Jono and Hiroshi Segawa Article: Theoretical Verification of Photoelectrochemical Water Oxidation Using Nanocrystalline TiO2 Electrodes Reprinted from: Molecules 2015, 20(6), 9732-9744 http://www.mdpi.com/1420-3049/20/6/9732…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…GENETIC ALGORITHM WITH FITNESS FUNCTION BASED ON THE GENDER OF THE STUDENTS AND THEIR GRADE POINT AVERAGES FOR THE FORMATION OF EQUITABLE SCHOOL GROUPS -- CAPÍTULO 47. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Good Cop, Bad Cop -- Why Bankers Add Value -- They Are Experts at Pitching -- They Can Run Valuations -- They See the Maximum Potential Value of Your Startup -- They Handle the Paperwork -- They Know the Players -- They Know How to Stretch to Help Get Deals Done -- Getting the Right Advice -- Trusted Referrals -- Long-Term Experience -- Domain Experience -- Not Just What You Want to Hear -- Breaking Down the Fees -- Retainers and Up-Front Fees -- Reimbursement -- Success Fees -- Breakup Fees -- Average Fee Levels -- Chapter 4 How to Plan Ahead -- Consider the Reasons Why You Want to Sell -- Getting to the Next Level of Scale and Customers -- Efficient Growth -- Advancing the Mission -- The Value Has Peaked -- You Get an Offer Too Good to Refuse -- You Get an Opportunity to Advance Your Learning -- Fundraising Challenges -- Creating a Great Outcome for Your Team -- Personal Reasons -- Moving On to the Next Thing…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Historically, rates of unmet need for mental health care have been high -- Coverage of mental health services varies across countries -- Average waiting times for mental health services decreased in countries tracking them -- Are services developed close to the community? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Experimental comparison of Post-Study usability questionnaires -- Post-task questionnaires -- ASQ (After-Scenario Questionnaire) -- Description of the ASQ -- Psychometric evaluation of the ASQ -- SEQ (Single Ease Question) -- Description of the SEQ -- Psychometric evaluation of the SEQ -- SMEQ (Subjective Mental Effort Question) -- Description of the SMEQ -- Psychometric evaluation of the SMEQ -- ER (Expectation Ratings) -- Description of expectation ratings -- Psychometric evaluation of expectation ratings -- UME (Usability Magnitude Estimation) -- Description of UME -- Psychometric evaluation of UME -- Experimental comparisons of POST-TASK questionnaires -- Questionnaires for assessing perceived usability of websites -- WAMMI (Website Analysis and Measurement Inventory) -- Description of the WAMMI -- Psychometric evaluation of the WAMMI -- SUPR-Q (Standardized User Experience Percentile Rank Questionnaire) -- Description of the SUPR-Q -- Psychometric evaluation of the SUPR-Q -- Other questionnaires for assessing websites -- Other questionnaires of interest -- CSUQ (Computer System Usability Questionnaire) -- USE (Usefulness, Satisfaction, and Ease-of-Use) -- HQ (hedonic quality) -- EMO (emotional metric outcomes) -- ACSI (American customer satisfaction index) -- NPS (Net Promoter Score) -- CxPi (Forrester customer experience index) -- TAM (technology acceptance model) -- Key points -- Chapter review questions -- Answers to chapter review questions -- References -- Chapter 9 - Six enduring controversies in measurement and statistics -- Introduction -- Is it OK to average data from multipoint scales? -- On one hand -- On the other hand -- Our recommendation -- Do you need to test at least 30 users? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…. -- See also -- Successive differences and moving averages -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- See also -- Exponential smoothing -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- See also -- Plotting the autocorrelation function -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- See also -- Chapter 4: R and Statistics -- Introduction -- Understanding data sampling in R -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- See also -- Operating a probability distribution in R -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- There's more... -- Working with univariate descriptive statistics in R -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- There's more... -- Performing correlations and multivariate analysis -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- See also -- Conducting an exact binomial test -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- See also -- Performing a student's t-test -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- See also -- Performing the Kolmogorov-Smirnov test -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- See also -- Understanding the Wilcoxon Rank Sum and Signed Rank test -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- See also -- Working with Pearson's Chi-squared test -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works…”