“…Here, Hill is shown instead as someone alert to the full scope and power of the British empire, to the geopolitics of international imperial competition, to the ins and outs of naval command, the vicissitudes of court politics, and, as such, to Pitcairn's symbolic power for the British empire more broadly"…”

“…Professional creativity has always been a bit of an enigma to those who seek it. The average person believes every artist is a starving one, while the average artist will tell you there is an impenetrable wall between commerce and art. ¿ Neither of these statements is true, and the end result of all this misinformation is that many incredibly talented people don’t realize that there are others like them out in the world making a (rather good) living by doing something they love. …”

“…What you will learn Understand how to use machine learning algorithms for regression and classification problems Implement ensemble techniques such as averaging, weighted averaging, and max-voting Get to grips with advanced ensemble methods, such as bootstrapping, bagging, and stacking Use Random Forest for tasks such as classification and regression Implement an ensemble of homogeneous and heterogeneous machine learning algorithms Learn and implement various boosting techniques, such as AdaBoost, Gradient Boosting Machine, and XGBoost Who this book is for This book is designed for data scientists, machine learning developers, and deep learning enthusiasts who want to delve into machine learning algorithms to build powerful ensemble models. …”

“…Aprofundar a análise dessas questões é o objetivo desta coletânea, que reúne dez capítulos, assinados por autores brasileiros e norte-americanos. Eles fazem alertas sobre os meandros da estigmatização e as formas de eliminá-la, buscando conexões entre as pesquisas acadêmicas e as práticas dos serviços de saúde…”

“…The many theorists considered include Adorno, Fromm, Lw̲enthal and Marcuse, alongside analysis of Austrian Facebook pages and Trump?s tweets and operatic media drama. This book is a major contribution towards deeper understanding of populism?…”

“…Our findings show that on average Macedonian municipalities exhibit low efficiency in service delivery, although there are significant variations among municipalities. …”

“…An essential companion to Reducing Gun Violence in America, the reliable, empirical research and legal analysis in this e-book will help lawmakers, opinion leaders, and concerned citizens identify policy changes to address gun violence, which takes an average of more than 80 lives every day in the United States…”

“…The facts that mood disorders are seen as high as 3-5% of the society and 70% of the patients' first psychiatric application puts forward that they are not well known show that these are a serious type of mental illness. The average time to make the right diagnose is reported as 10 years. …”

“…Over 1996-2016, the country closed the gross domestic product (GDP) per capita gap with the OECD average by 26 percentage points. Vibrant exports underpinned strong economic growth, with Korea becoming the eighth largest exporter in the world. …”

“…This, along with long-term changes in average conditions (whether in temperature or rainfall), is likely to continue to have a major impact on livelihoods. …”

“…Extending the OECD methodology to Asian and Pacific economies enables comparisons of tax levels and tax structures on a consistent basis, both among Asian and Pacific economies and with OECD, Latin American and Caribbean and African averages. SPECIAL FEATURE: MANAGING TAXPAYERS' COMPLIANCE…”

“…Across OECD countries, pharmaceutical spending reached around USD 800 billion in 2013, accounting for about 20% of total health spending on average when pharmaceutical consumption in hospital is added to the purchase of pharmaceutical drugs in the retail sector. …”

“…Even though the share of women in doctorate programmes has increased over the last decade (as in other levels of education), by 2012 women were still less likely than men to earn an advanced research qualification. On average, individuals with advanced research qualifications benefit from higher employment rates compared to other university-level graduates (Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees combined). …”

“…Surveys suggest that Denmark ranks close to or slightly above the OECD average in terms of student and adult skills, even though Denmark spends more than many OECD countries on education, labour market policies and adult learning. …”

“…Policies that take into account regional differences beyond national averages can therefore have a greater impact on improving well-being for the country as a whole. …”

“…Female participation rates remain below the OECD average for all except the under-thirties. Cultural attitudes and low educational attainment among older women are factors, but policy settings play a role as well. …”

“…To meet the capital requirements effective in 2015 (4.5% for the common equity ratio, 6% for the Tier 1 capital ratio), banks are estimated to increase their lending spreads on average by about 15 basis points. The capital requirements effective as of 2019 (7% for the common equity ratio, 8.5% for the Tier 1 capital ratio) could increase bank lending spreads by about 50 basis points. …”

“…This paper therefore extends the macroeconomic balance approach to account for model uncertainty by using Bayesian Model Averaging techniques. Results from both approaches suggest that current account benchmarks for the current account deficit lie in the range of 3% to 51⁄2 per cent of GDP, which is broadly in line with previous estimates but substantially below recent current account deficit levels. …”

“…In the baseline projection, world GDP would grow in PPP terms by about 3 3⁄4 % per year on average over the period 2005-2050. When expressed in constant market exchange rates, taking into account future Balassa-Samuelson effects, this projection falls roughly in the middle of the range of long-run scenarios recently developed in the context of greenhouse gas emission projections. …”

“…Israel has made progress in removing policies that distort trade, and resource allocation and support to agriculture is lower than the OECD average. However, the government still plays an important role. …”