Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- 6.2.2 Work Function and Electron Affinity -- 6.2.3 Properties of Contact Potential -- 6.3 FORMATION OF A P-N JUNCTION -- 6.3.1 Contact between p-Type and n-Type Semiconductors -- 6.3.2 p-n Junctions in Equilibrium -- 6.3.3 Biased p-n Junctions -- 6.4 QUALITATIVE DESCRIPTION OF RECTIFICATION -- 6.5 ANALYSIS OF ABRUPT JUNCTIONS -- 6.5.1 Zero-Bias Abrupt Junctions -- 6.5.2 Biased Abrupt Junctions -- 6.6 CAPACITANCE OF P-N JUNCTIONS -- 6.6.1 Depletion Capacitance -- 6.6.2 Diffusion Capacitance -- 6.7 ONE-SIDED ABRUPT JUNCTIONS -- 6.8 CURRENT-VOLTAGE CHARACTERISTICS OF P-N JUNCTIONS -- 6.8.1 Equation of Current-Voltage Characteristics -- 6.8.2 Derivation of Current-Voltage Characteristics -- 6.8.3 Additional Notes on p-n Junctions -- 6.9 READING ENERGY BAND DIAGRAMS OF P-N JUNCTIONS -- 6.9.1 Bias Voltage Dependence -- 6.9.2 Lifetime Dependence -- Chapter 7 MOS Transistors -- 7.1 MOSFET STRUCTURE AND BASIC CHARACTERISTICS -- 7.1.1 Structure of MOSFETs -- 7.1.2 Basic Characteristics of MOSFETs -- 7.1.3 Outline of Analyzing MOSFETs -- 7.2 MOS CAPACITOR -- 7.2.1 Structure of MOS Capacitors -- 7.2.2 Analysis of MOS Capacitors -- 7.2.3 Classification of Surface Conditions of MOS Capacitors -- 7.2.4 Surface Electron Density and Surface Potential -- 7.2.5 Relation between Gate Voltage and Inversion Charge -- 7.2.6 Relation between Gate Voltage and Surface Potential -- 7.3 THREE-TERMINAL MOS STRUCTURES -- 7.3.1 Back-Gate-Referenced Analysis -- 7.3.2 Channel-Terminal-Referenced Analysis -- 7.4 FOUR-TERMINAL MOSFET -- 7.4.1 Back-Gate-Referenced Analysis -- 7.4.2 Source-Referenced Analysis -- 7.5 SCALING AND SHORT-CHANNEL MOSFETS -- 7.5.1 MOSFET Scaling -- 7.5.2 Short-Channel Effects -- 7.6 SUMMARY -- 7.7 PROBLEMS -- Chapter 8 Appendix -- A.1 MATRIX REPRESENTATIONS OF A TWO-PORT -- A.1.1 ABCD-Matrix…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Speed to fly from role diversityRoles are a concept of interactionRoles and counter roles are dancing togetherRole chart of a Stellar Team memberA. InfluencerB. StrategistC. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Continuous and Intermittent Reinforcement -- Comparison of Intermittent ReinforcementSchedules -- Behaviour Modification -- Identifying Relevant Behaviours -- Charting Behaviours -- Choosing a Contingency of Reinforcement -- Problem Solved? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Nutrition During Pregnancy -- Copyright -- PREFACE -- CONTENTS -- 1 SUMMARY -- PART I: NUTRITIONAL STATUS AND WEIGHT GAIN -- HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE -- CONCLUSION ON WEIGHT GAIN DURING PREGNANCY -- Assessment of Weight and Weight Gain -- Determinants of Gestational Weight Gain -- Consequences of Gestational Weight Gain -- CLINICAL RECOMMENDATIONS -- Measurement -- Counseling -- Monitoring Progress -- RESEARCH RECOMMENDATIONS -- Epidemiologic Research -- Basic Research -- Applied Research -- METHODOLOGY -- Limitations in the Data -- Criteria Used in Formulating Recommendations -- CONCLUSIONS -- CLINICAL RECOMMENDATIONS -- Dietary Assessment -- Iron -- Folate -- Multivitamin Mineral Supplements -- Nutrient Supplementation in Special Circumstances -- RESEARCH RECOMMENDATIONS -- Survey Needs -- Nutritional Assessment -- Iron Supplementation -- Periconceptional Supplements -- Supplementation for High-Risk Groups -- References -- PART I NUTRITIONAL STATUS AND WEIGHT GAIN -- 2 Introduction -- References -- 3 Historical Trends in Clinical Practice, Maternal Nutritional Status, and the Course and Outcome of Pregnancy -- TRENDS IN RECOMMENDATIONS -- TRENDS IN MATERNAL NUTRITIONAL STATUS AND CHARACTERISTICS ASSOCIATED WITH OUTCOME -- Maternal Body Size -- Age of Menarche -- Maternal Age and Parity -- Ethnic Origin of Mothers -- Smoking Habits of Women of Reproductive Age -- Use of Selected Substances -- TRENDS IN USE OF PRENATAL CARE AND FOOD SUPPLEMENTATION PROGRAMS -- TRENDS IN PREGNANCY OUTCOME -- Infant Mortality -- Birth Weight -- TRENDS IN GESTATIONAL WEIGHT GAIN -- SUMMARY -- References -- 4 Assessment of Gestational Weight Gain -- METHODOLOGICAL ISSUES RELATED TO DATA COLLECTION IN THE CLINIC -- Weight -- Height -- Gestational Duration -- Assessing Prepregnancy Weight for Height -- Using Weight Gain Data in the Clinic -- Weight Gain Charts…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Developing Competency Models -- Examples of HR Competencies -- Competency-based Performance Management Systems -- Essential Elements of Performance-based Competency -- Competency Dictionary -- Summary -- Key Words -- General Review Questions -- Critical Review Question -- References -- Case Study -- Chapter 8: Performance-based Compensation -- Introduction -- Definitions -- Various Concepts of Compensation -- Determining Compensation Through Job Evaluation -- Incentive Schemes -- Performance-related Compensation Design -- Benefits of Performance-based Compensation -- Performance-related Pay -- Problems in Monitoring the PRP -- Selection of Appropriate Performance Appraisal Tools -- Perceptual Differences Between the Managers and the Employees -- Lack of Participation of Employees in Designing PRP -- Compensation Broadbanding Using PMS Results -- Compensation Design Through Skill-based Programmes -- Major Obstacles to the Introduction of Skill-based Pay -- Application of Skill-based Pay -- Competency-based Pay -- Obstacles in Introducing Performance-related Pay -- Performance Guide Charts -- Use of Performance Criteria for Designing Executive Compensation -- Calibration of Executive Compensation to Performance -- Performance Measurement in Executive Incentive Programmes -- Summary -- Key Words -- General Review Questions -- Critical Review Question -- References -- Case Study -- Chapter 9: Performance-based Career Planning, Career Development, and Succession Plans -- Introduction -- Definitions and Concepts -- Important Elements of Career -- Meaning and Overview of Career Development -- Importance of Career Development -- Significance and Advantages of Career Development -- Purposes and Objectives of Career Development -- Types of Career Development Programmes -- Difference Between Career Development and Career Planning…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…6.3 Multi-Standard Transceiver Architectures -- 6.4 Evaluating Reconfigurability -- 6.5 ADCs for Software-Defined Radio -- 6.6 DACs for Software-Defined Radio -- 6.7 Conclusions -- II RECEIVER DESIGN -- 7 OFDM Transform-Domain Receivers for Multi-Standard Communications (Sebastian Hoyos) -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Transform-Domain Receiver Background -- 7.3 Transform-Domain Sampling Receiver -- 7.4 Digital Baseband Design for the TD Receiver -- 7.5 A Comparative Study -- 7.6 Simulations -- 7.7 Gain-Bandwidth Product Requirement for an Op-Amp in a Charge-Sampling Circuit -- 7.8 Sparsity of (GHG)-1 -- 7.9 Applications -- 7.10 Conclusions -- 8 Discrete-Time Processing of RF Signals (RenaldiWinoto and Borivoje Nikolic) -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 Scaling of an MOS Switch -- 8.3 Sampling Mixer -- 8.4 Filter Synthesis -- 8.5 Noise in Switched-Capacitor Filters -- 8.6 Circuit-Design Considerations -- 8.7 Perspective and Outlook -- 9 Oversampled ADC Using VCO-Based Quantizers (MatthewZ. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Distributed (batch/stream) processing -- Data capabilities -- Data partitioning -- Data replication -- Summary -- Chapter 3: Patterns of the Data Intensive Architecture -- Application styles -- API Platform -- Message-oriented application style -- Micro Services application styles -- Communication styles -- Combining different application styles -- Architectural patterns -- The retry pattern -- The circuit breaker -- Throttling -- Bulk heads -- Event-sourcing -- Command and Query Responsibility Segregation -- Summary -- Chapter 4: Discussing Data-Centric Architectures -- Coordination service -- Reliable messaging -- Distributed processing -- Distributed storage -- Lambda architecture -- Kappa architecture -- A brief comparison of different leading No-Sql data stores -- Summary -- Chapter 5: Understanding Data Collection and Normalization Requirements and Techniques -- Data lineage -- Apache Atlas -- Apache Atlas high-level architecture -- Apache Falcon -- Data quality -- Types of data sources -- Data collection system requirements -- Data collection system architecture principles -- High-level component architecture -- High-level architecture -- Service gateway -- Discovery server -- Architecture technology mapping -- An introduction to ETCD -- Scheduler -- Designing the Micro Service -- Summary -- Chapter 6: Creating a Data Pipeline for Consistent Data Collection, Processing, and Dissemination -- Query-Data pipelines -- Event-Data Pipelines -- Topology 1 -- Topology 2 -- Topology 3 -- Resilience -- High-availability -- Availability Chart -- Clustering -- Clustering and Network Partitions -- Mirrored queues -- Persistent Messages -- Data Manipulation and Security -- Use Case 1 -- Use Case 2 -- Exchanges -- Guidelines on choosing the right Exchange Type -- Headers versus Topic Exchanges -- Routing -- Header-Based Content Routing…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…18 Managing Project Files -- Saving and Protecting Project Files -- Creating and Using Project Templates -- Creating a New Project Template -- Working with the Organizer and the Global File -- Consultants' Tips -- 19 Formatting Views -- Sorting the Tasks or Resources in a View -- Formatting Text Styles for Categories of Tasks and Resources -- Formatting Font for Selected Text -- Formatting Gridlines -- Using the Outline Options -- Formatting Timescales -- Using Page Breaks -- Formatting the Gantt Chart Views -- Formatting the Calendar View -- Formatting the Network Diagram View -- Formatting the Task Form and Resource Form Views -- Formatting the Resource Graph View -- Formatting the Resource Usage View -- Formatting the Task Usage View -- Formatting the Task Sheet and Resource Sheet Views -- Consultants' Tips -- 20 Creating and Customizing the Basic Reports -- Understanding the Basic Reports -- Customizing Reports -- Creating Reports -- Using the Common Customization Controls -- Customizing Specific Report Types -- Saving and Sharing Custom Reports -- Consultants' Tips -- 21 Creating and Customizing Visual Reports -- Understanding OLAP Cubes for Visual Reports -- Understanding Excel and Visio in Relation to Project -- Reporting Capabilities -- Sharing and Saving Visual Reports -- Consultants' Tips -- 22 Customizing Views, Tables, Filters, Groups, and Fields -- Creating and Customizing Tables -- Creating and Customizing Views -- Printing Views -- Creating and Customizing Filters -- Creating Custom Groups -- Creating and Customizing Fields -- Organizing Views and Other Custom Elements in Project Files -- Consultants' Tips -- 23 Customizing Toolbars, Menus, and Forms -- Customizing the Ribbon -- Customizing the Quick Access Toolbar -- Customizing the Status Bar -- Consultants' Tips -- V: Microsoft Office Project 2010 Knowledge In Depth…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Defining the Corporate Mission -- Establishing Strategic Business Units -- Assigning Resources to Each SBU -- Assessing Growth Opportunities -- Organization and Organizational Culture -- Marketing Innovation -- Marketing Insight: Creating Innovative Marketing -- Business Unit Strategic Planning -- The Business Mission -- SWOT Analysis -- Marketing Memo: Checklist for Evaluating Strengths/Weaknesses Analysis -- Goal Formulation -- Strategic Formulation -- Program Formulation and Implementation -- Marketing Insight: Businesses Charting a New Direction -- Feedback and Control -- The Nature and Contents of a Marketing Plan -- Marketing Memo: Marketing Plan Criteria -- The Role of Research -- The Role of Relationships -- From Marketing Plan to Marketing Action -- Summary -- Applications -- Marketing Excellence: Electrolux -- Marketing Excellence: Emirates -- Sample Marketing Plan: Pegasus Sports International -- Part 2: Capturing Marketing Insights -- Chapter 3: Collecting Information and Forecasting Demand -- Components of a Modern Marketing Information System -- Internal Records -- The Order-to-payment Cycle -- Sales Information Systems -- Databases, Data Warehousing, and Data Mining -- Marketing Insight: Digging Into Big Data -- Marketing Intelligence -- The Marketing Intelligence Syst Em -- Collecting Marketing Intelligence on the Internet -- Communicating and acting on Marketing Intelligence -- Analyzing the Macroenvironment -- Needs and Trends -- Identifying the Major Forces -- The Demographic Environment -- Marketing Memo: Finding Gold at the Bottom of the Pyramid -- The Economic Environment -- The Sociocultural Environment…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- The big data landscape -- Message queuing systems -- Data warehousing -- MongoDB as a data warehouse -- Big data use case with servers on-premises -- Setting up Kafka -- Setting up Hadoop -- Using a Hadoop-to-MongoDB pipeline -- Setting up a Spark connection to MongoDB -- MongoDB Atlas Data Lake -- Summary -- Further reading -- Part 4 - Scaling and High Availability -- Chapter 13: Mastering Replication -- Technical requirements -- Replication -- Logical or physical replication -- Different high availability types -- An architectural overview -- How do elections work? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…. -- Replica of Bionic Nepenthes Peristome-like and Anti-Fouling Structures for Self-Driving Water -- and Raman-Enhancing Detection -- Reprinted from: Polymers 2022, 14, 2465, doi:10.3390/polym14122465 107 -- Ming-Ze Gao, Zhong-Yuan Li and Wei-Feng Sun -- Nonlinear Conductivity and Space Charge Characteristics of SiC/Silicone Rubber -- Nanocomposites -- Reprinted from: Polymers 2022, 14, 2726, doi:10.3390/polym14132726 121 -- Yu-Ruei Kung, Jing-Tang Su, Chiung-Cheng Huang, Yaoming Xiao and Jeng-Yu Lin -- Enhanced Thermal Stability of Mesoporous Carbon Microbeads-Based Lithium-Ion Batteries by -- Propargyl Methacrylate as Electrolyte Additive -- Reprinted from: Polymers 2022, 14, 4491, doi:10.3390/polym14214491 135 -- Chen-Hsin Lu, Ming-Ren Cheng, Sheng Chen, Wei-Lin Syu, Ming-Yen Chien and -- Kuan-Syun Wang et al. -- Flexible PDMS-Based SERS Substrates Replicated from Beetle Wings for Water Pollutant -- Detection -- Reprinted from: Polymers 2022, 15, 191, doi:10.3390/polym15010191 149 -- Nguyen-Phuong-Dung Tran, Chuan-Cheng Ting, Chien-Hong Lin and Ming-Chien Yang -- A Novel Approach to Increase the Oxygen Permeability of Soft Contact Lenses by Incorporating -- Silica Sol -- Reprinted from: Polymers 2020, 12, 2087, doi:10.3390/polym12092087 159 -- Yen-Ching Yang, Wei-Shen Huang, Shu-Man Hu, Chao-Wei Huang, Chih-Hao Chiu and -- Hsien-Yeh Chen -- Synergistic and Regulatable Bioremediation Capsules Fabrication Based on Vapor-Phased -- Encapsulation of Bacillus Bacteria and its Regulator by Poly-p-Xylylene -- Reprinted from: Polymers 2020, 13, 41, doi:10.3390/polym13010041 171 -- Chiu-Ming Chen, Shen-Mao Chen, Shiou-Fu Lin, Huang-Chien Liang and Chia-Chun Wu -- Clinical Efficacy of Polycaprolactone -Calcium Triphosphate Composite for Osteoconduction in -- Rabbit Bone Defect Model -- Reprinted from: Polymers 2021, 13, 2552, doi:10.3390/polym13152552 183 -- Carlos Humberto Valencia-Llano, Mois ́es A. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…High availability strategies and options -- 4.1 Overview -- 4.1.1 Availability concept -- 4.1.2 Planned versus unplanned outages -- 4.1.3 High availability and continuous availability -- 4.1.4 Cost versus loss -- 4.1.5 Availability matrix -- 4.1.6 Levels of availability -- 4.1.7 Measuring availability -- 4.2 Content Manager HA strategies and options -- 4.2.1 Content Manager infrastructure fundamentals -- 4.2.2 High availability example 1: Clustering -- 4.2.3 Example 1 modified: Clustering with mid-tier RM application -- 4.2.4 High availability example 2: Clustering and replication -- 4.2.5 High availability example 3: Replication -- 4.2.6 High availability example 4: Single server configuration -- 4.2.7 High availability summary chart -- Chapter 5. Practical procedures for high availability -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.1.1 Out test case scenario -- 5.2 Library Server HACMP -- 5.2.1 Software installation -- 5.2.2 Library Server parameter values -- 5.2.3 File system setup and user IDs creation -- 5.2.4 DB2 and Content Manager instance creation on primary node -- 5.2.5 Setting up shared disks and LVM -- 5.2.6 DB2 and Content Manager instance creation on secondary node -- 5.2.7 HACMP topology configuration -- 5.2.8 Defining resource groups -- 5.2.9 HACMP post-configuration procedures -- 5.3 Resource Manager replication -- 5.3.1 Initial parameter definitions -- 5.3.2 Resource Manager installation and configuration -- 5.3.3 Cross-referencing server definitions -- 5.3.4 Enable collections for replication -- 5.3.5 Adjust replication schedule -- 5.3.6 Adjust Resource Manager fail-over settings -- 5.3.7 Replication test -- 5.4 The rest of the environment -- 5.4.1 Tivoli Storage Manager…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contributors -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Part 1: Introduction to ETL, Data Pipelines, and Design Principles -- Chapter 1: A Primer on Python and the Development Environment -- Introducing Python fundamentals -- An overview of Python data structures -- Python if...else conditions or conditional statements -- Python looping techniques -- Python functions -- Object-oriented programming with Python -- Working with files in Python -- Establishing a development environment -- Version control with Git tracking -- Documenting environment dependencies with requirements.txt -- Utilizing module management systems (MMSs) -- Configuring a Pipenv environment in PyCharm -- Summary -- Chapter 2: Understanding the ETL Process and Data Pipelines -- What is a data pipeline? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…2 Individuum und Kollektiv in ein Verhältnis setzen: Soziologische Phantasie bei Charles W. Mills -- 3 Relationalität und Reflexivität: Die Erforschung des Sozialen bei Pierre Bourdieu -- 4 Pädagogik, Übersetzung, Kampfsport: Die Rolle der Wissenschaft bei Mills und Bourdieu -- 5 Fazit und Ausblick -- Literatur -- Interdisziplinäre Verständigung als Baustein wissenschaftsdidaktischer Kompetenz -- 1 Einleitung -- 2 Der Stellenwert wissenschaftlicher Praktiken für die Sozialisation von Wissenschaftler:innen -- 3 Das Implizite wissenschaftlicher Praktiken als Herausforderung für die Verständigung -- 4 Verständigungskompetenz fördern: das Konzept einer interdisziplinären Sommerschule -- 4.1 Das Problem empirisch begründet: Eine Analyse des Verständnisses von Interdisziplinarität -- 4.2 Analyseprozess und Ergebnisse -- 4.3 HoBid: Das Konzept der Sommerschule -- Meetup‐Gruppen -- Plenumsformate -- Methodenworkshops -- Schreibwerkstätten -- Soziale Bedingungen interdisziplinärer Reflexion -- 4.4 Ergebnisse und Erfahrungen -- Verständnisse von Interdisziplinarität -- Evaluation der HoBid -- Gelingensbedingungen -- 5 Abschluss -- Literatur -- Die Bezugnahme auf Forschung im Lehramtsstudium -- 1 Einleitung -- 2 Das Vorbereitungsseminar: Programmatische und wissenschaftsdidaktische Einordnungen -- 3 Das Forschungsprojekt Kulturen Forschenden Lernens (KuFoLe): Untersuchungsdesign -- 4 Empirische Befunde: Ankündigungsreden zu Studienprojekten im Praxissemester -- 4.1 Fall 11: Relativierung forschungsbezogener Anforderungen im Modus der Beschwichtigung -- 4.2 Fall 5: Aufforderung zur Mimesis forschungsbezogener Praxis im Modus der Anpreisung -- 5 Fazit -- Literatur -- Wissenschaftliche Bilder und ihre Kommunikation als Ausgangspunkt von Wissenschaftskritik -- 1 Kommunikative Artefakte inszenieren fachwissenschaftliche Praxis…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Reducing VAT non-compliance and fraud remains a priority for tax authorities -- Almost all OECD countries apply domestic reverse charge measures to limit fraud risks in sectors that may be particularly vulnerable to VAT fraud -- The split payment mechanism applies to a more limited extent -- 2.10.3. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Control Category A.6 - Organization of Information Security (2 objectives and 7 controls) -- Control Category A.7 - Human Resource Security (3 objectives and 6 controls) -- Control Category A.8 - Asset Management (3 objectives and 10 controls) -- Control Category A.9 - Access Control (4 objectives and 14 controls) -- Control Category A.10 - Cryptography (1 objective and 2 controls) -- Control Category A.11 - Physical and Environmental Security (2 objectives and 15 controls) -- Control Category A.12 - Operations Security (7 objectives and 14 controls) -- Control Category A.13 - Communications Security (2 objectives and 7 controls) -- Control Category A.14 - System Acquisition, Development, and Maintenance (3 objectives and 13 controls) -- Control Category A.15 - Supplier relationships (2 objectives and 5 controls) -- Control Category A.16 - Information security incident management (1 objective and 7 controls) -- Control Category A.17 - Information security aspects of business continuity management (2 objectives and 4 controls) -- Control Category A.18 - Compliance (2 objectives and 8 controls) -- Who is charged for implementing Annex A controls? -- Using the ISO 27001 controls -- Identification of ISO 27001 controls to implement -- Summary -- Chapter 8: Preparing Policies and Procedures to Avoid Internal Risk -- Company policies -- How do you determine the appropriate policies for your business? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…. -- References -- A Method for Wandering Trajectory Detection in Video Monitor -- Introduction -- Algorithm Description -- Target Detection -- Determine the Initial Half-Line -- Calculate the Angle -- Judge the Type of Trajectory -- Experimental Results and Analysis -- Conclusion -- References -- The Design of a Vision-Based Motion Performance System -- Introduction -- Related Work -- System Overview -- Initialization -- Feature Detection -- Feature Tracking -- 3D Point Reconstruction and Display -- Experiments and Analysis -- Conclusion -- References -- Window Function for EEG Power Density Estimation and Its Application in SSVEP Based BCIs -- Introduction -- Experiment Setting -- Subjects -- EEG Recording -- Experimental Paradigms -- EEG Signal and Window Function -- Application in SSVEP -- Method -- Result -- Conclusion -- References -- Efficient Multi-resolution Plane Segmentation of 3D Point Clouds -- Introduction -- Related Work -- Efficient Multi-resolution Segmentation into Planar Segments -- Efficient Normal Estimation through Multiple Resolutions -- Pre-segmentation in Hough-Space -- Segmentation into Connected Components -- Accurate Segmentation through RANSAC -- Coarse-to-Fine Segmentation -- Post-Processing -- Experiments -- Conclusion and Future Work -- References -- 3D Body Pose Estimation Using an Adaptive Person Model for Articulated ICP -- Introduction -- Related Work -- Basic Algorithm -- Human Body Model -- Articulated Iterative Closest Point Algorithm -- Proposed Extensions -- Data Segmentation -- Data Assignment -- Model Adaption -- Self-collision Checking -- Model Initialization -- Experiments -- Conclusions -- References -- Self-optimising Production Systems…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Reasons for Using Cost-Effectiveness Analysis -- Limits of Cost-Effectiveness Analysis -- Ethical Issues -- Analytic Perspectives -- Time Horizon and Discounting -- MODEL OVERVIEW -- Health Benefits: The Denominator -- Quality Adjustments: Weighting -- Morbidity Scenarios -- Quality Adjustments for Average Population Health States -- Disease Incidence and Death Rates -- Time Intervals -- QALYs Gained with Vaccine Use -- Costs: The Numerator -- Cost of Research and Development -- Cost of Vaccine Use -- Health Care Costs -- Vaccine Efficacy and Utilization -- Cost-Effectiveness Ratios -- Exclusions from the Analysis -- EXAMPLES: HYPOTHETICAL VACCINE X -- Target Population -- Program Considerations -- Disease Severity -- Discounting -- An Idealized Scenario -- Summary -- RESULTS -- Challenges -- 5 Review of the Analytic Model -- UNIT OF ANALYSIS -- IMPLEMENTING THE ANALYSIS -- Basic Model -- Performing the Analysis -- CALCULATION OF HEALTH BENEFITS -- Quality-Adjusted Life Years -- Quality-Adjustment Weights Based on the Health Utilities Index -- Steps in the Calculation of Anticipated Health Benefits from Vaccine Use -- Develop Morbidity Scenarios -- Calculate Quality-Adjustment Weights -- Calculate Discounted Quality-Adjusted Life Expectancies -- Establish Age-Specific Incidence and Death Rates -- Calculate Time Intervals for Discounting Future Health Benefits -- Calculate Condition-Related Life Expectancies -- Adjust for the Underlying Health Status of the Population -- Calculate Discounted QALYs for Each Health State -- Calculate Total QALYs Gained with Vaccine Use -- COST FACTORS -- Vaccine Development -- Vaccine Use -- Cost of Care -- VACCINE EFFICACY AND UTILIZATION -- COST-EFFECTIVENESS RATIOS -- 6 Ethical Considerations and Caveats -- ETHICAL AND VALUE JUDGMENTS BUILT INTO THE MODEL -- All QALYs Count Equally…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…WIC Nutrition Risk Criteria: A Scientific Assessment -- Copyright -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Summary -- COMMITTEE PROCESS AND STRUCTURE OF THE REPORT -- PRINCIPLES OF NUTRITION RISK ASSESSMENT -- GENERAL CONCLUSIONS -- RECOMMENDATIONS FOR SPECIFIC NUTRITION RISK CRITERIA -- Anthropometric Risk Criteria -- Biochemical and Other Medical Risk Criteria -- Dietary Risk Criteria -- Predisposing Nutrition Risk Criteria -- RECOMMENDATIONS FOR FUTURE RESEARCH AND ACTION -- Research Recommendations -- Action Recommendations -- 1 Overview -- CHARGE TO THE COMMITTEE -- THE WIC PROGRAM -- Program Benefits -- WIC Program Eligibility Criteria -- Legislative and Programmatic History of the WIC Program -- National Expansion -- Other Programmatic and Administrative Changes During the 1970s -- Programmatic and Administrative Changes During the 1980s -- Programmatic and Administrative Changes During the 1990s -- Program Size -- OVERVIEW OF THE REPORT AND THE COMMITTEE PROCESS -- REFERENCES -- 2 Poverty and Nutrition Risk -- DEFINITION OF POVERTY -- PREVALENCE OF POVERTY -- POVERTY AND NUTRITION RISK FOR WOMEN -- POVERTY AND NUTRITION RISK FOR INFANTS AND CHILDREN -- EFFECTS OF WIC PROGRAM PARTICIPATION -- REFERENCES -- 3 Principles Underlying the Nutrition Risk Criteria for WIC Eligibility -- PRINCIPLES OF NUTRITION RISK ASSESSMENT -- Purpose of Nutrition Risk Criteria in the WIC Program -- Identifying Nutrition Risk Indicators -- Setting Cutoff Points for Nutrition Risk Indicators -- WIC NUTRITION RISK CRITERIA -- PRIORITY SYSTEM OF THE WIC PROGRAM -- SUMMARY AND IMPLICATIONS -- REFERENCES -- 4 Anthropometric Risk Criteria -- USE OF ANTHROPOMETRIC MEASURES IN THE WIC PROGRAM -- MATERNAL ANTHROPOMETRIC RISK CRITERIA -- Prepregnancy Underweight -- Prevalence of and Factors Associated with Prepregnancy Underweight…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Other STD-Related Cancers -- Reproductive Health Problems -- Pelvic Inflammatory Disease -- Ectopic Pregnancy -- Infertility -- Health Consequences for Pregnant Women and Infants -- Health Consequences for Infected Infants -- Health Consequences for Infected Pregnant Women -- Health Consequences for Men -- Deaths Associated with STDs -- IMPACT OF STDS ON HIV TRANSMISSION -- Epidemiological Evidence -- Explaining the Association Between STDs and HIV Infection -- Evidence of Effect of STD Prevention on HIV Prevention -- Estimating the Impact of STDs on HIV Transmission -- ECONOMIC CONSEQUENCES OF STDS -- Estimating STD-Associated Costs -- Sources of Payment for STD-Related Costs -- CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- 3 Factors that Contribute to the Hidden Epidemic -- BIOLOGICAL FACTORS -- Asymptomatic Infections -- Lag Time to Complications -- Increased Susceptibility of Women and Female Adolescents -- Other Biological Factors -- SOCIAL FACTORS -- Poverty and Inadequate Access to Health Care -- Substance Use -- Impact of Crack Cocaine on STD Transmission -- How Drug Use Increases STD Transmission -- Association Between Alcohol Use and STDs -- Sexual Abuse and Violence -- STDs Among Disenfranchised Populations -- Sex Workers -- Homeless Persons -- Adolescents in Detention -- Adults in Detention -- Migrant Workers -- SECRECY AS A CONTRIBUTING FACTOR -- Sexuality and Secrecy in the United States -- Impact of Secrecy on STD Prevention -- Impact on Sexuality Education for Adolescents -- Impact on Communication Between Sex Partners -- Impact on Mass Media Messages -- Impact on Clinical Preventive Services -- Impact on Community Activism -- Experiences of Other Countries -- Research and Training Issues in Sexuality -- Trends in Sexual Activity -- Knowledge and Awareness of STDs -- CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- 4 Prevention of STDs -- ISSUES IN PREVENTION…”