“…Reynolds lays out an action agenda to dramatically improve our retirement systems – public and private -- lift our savings rate, improve people’s retirement prospects, spur faster growth – and reboot America’s national morale…”

“…It reviews the historical, sociocultural, and political influences on violence towards children, and sets out future agendas for research and practice to eliminate GBV in sport. …”

“…The acquisition and management of knowledge as an end in itself is relatively new, but has grown in importance on most managers agendas over the past fifteen years and is something that many managers are still fundamentally ill-equipped to control effectively. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…A Quantitative Method for Revealing and Comparing Places in the Home -- Principles of Smart Home Control -- Historical Analysis: Using the Past to Design the Future -- Extending Authoring Tools for Location-Aware Applications with an Infrastructure Visualization Layer -- Automated Generation of Basic Custom Sensor-Based Embedded Computing Systems Guided by End-User Optimization Criteria -- An Experimental Comparison of Physical Mobile Interaction Techniques: Touching, Pointing and Scanning -- An Exploratory Study of How Older Women Use Mobile Phones -- Farther Than You May Think: An Empirical Investigation of the Proximity of Users to Their Mobile Phones -- No More SMS from Jesus: Ubicomp, Religion and Techno-spiritual Practices -- Scribe4Me: Evaluating a Mobile Sound Transcription Tool for the Deaf -- SenseCam: A Retrospective Memory Aid -- Development of a Privacy Addendum for Open Source Licenses: Value Sensitive Design in Industry -- Mobility Detection Using Everyday GSM Traces -- Practical Metropolitan-Scale Positioning for GSM Phones -- Predestination: Inferring Destinations from Partial Trajectories -- Fish’n’Steps: Encouraging Physical Activity with an Interactive Computer Game -- Hitchers: Designing for Cellular Positioning -- Embedding Behavior Modification Strategies into a Consumer Electronic Device: A Case Study -- Instrumenting the City: Developing Methods for Observing and Understanding the Digital Cityscape -- Voting with Your Feet: An Investigative Study of the Relationship Between Place Visit Behavior and Preference -- Lo-Fi Matchmaking: A Study of Social Pairing for Backpackers -- Experiences from Real-World Deployment of Context-Aware Technologies in a Hospital Environment -- Doing Community: Co-construction of Meaning and Use with Interactive Information Kiosks -- Moving on from Weiser’s Vision of Calm Computing: Engaging UbiComp Experiences -- Ferret: RFID Localization for Pervasive Multimedia -- PowerLine Positioning: A Practical Sub-Room-Level Indoor Location System for Domestic Use -- UbiREAL: Realistic Smartspace Simulator for Systematic Testing -- Instant Matchmaking: Simple and Secure Integrated Ubiquitous Computing Environments -- A Wirelessly-Powered Platform for Sensing and Computation -- Automated Application-Specific Tuning of Parameterized Sensor-Based Embedded System Building Blocks…”

“…Ansible służy do automatyzacji wdrożeń oprogramowania i zarządzania jego konfiguracjami. Inżynierowie cenią ten framework za minimalne rozmiary, brak konieczności instalowania czegokolwiek na serwerach i prostotę użytkowania. …”

“…Tematyka ta została potraktowana wszechstronnie: omówiono kwestie technologiczne, organizacyjne, jak również socjologiczne i kulturowe. Dzięki temu jest to cenna lektura zarówno dla architektów i inżynierów, jak i dla badaczy, analityków danych, wreszcie dla liderów i kierowników zespołów…”

“…See how effective leaders create agendas and decide on session participants Learn the distinctions between two types of collaborative meetings: informative and generative Discover the secrets of in-session information capture and pattern identification Explore the best techniques for documenting processes on-the-fly Understand how to synthesize a whiteboard session and share it with others Jorge Arango, Brian O’Kelley, and Chris Baum are partners at Futuredraft, an Oakland, CA based experience design consultancy that solves complex problems using co-creation. …”

“…In doing so, it argues that engaging with islands has become increasingly important for the generation of some of the core frameworks of contemporary thinking and concludes with a new critical agenda for the Anthropocene…”

“…Sahana Udupa and Ethiraj Gabriel Dattatreyan interrogate the forms, forces, and processes that have reinforced neocolonial relations within contemporary digital environments, at a time when digital networks—and the agendas and actions they proffer—have unsettled entrenched hierarchies in unforeseen ways. …”

“…I am sure now that it was late in the day, as we knew this discussion could take a while, and we needed to make sure the bulk of the agenda was covered before embarking on the project discussion--…”

“…To make matters worse, many of us are ill-equipped to interpret the visuals that politicians, journalists, advertisers, and even our employers present each day, enabling bad actors to easily manipulate them to promote their own agendas.In How Charts Lie, data visualization expert Alberto Cairo teaches us to not only spot the lies in deceptive visuals, but also to take advantage of good ones to understand complex stories…”

“…Collectively, these papers demonstrate how scholars and policy makers, from disparate disciplinary or stakeholder starting points, are progressing in their understanding of each other's language and requirements--thus facilitating the important move towards a more coherent and understandable agenda that seeks to minimize the potential risks to children and young people, understand the relationships between involvement in cyberbullying and associated biopsychosocial factors, in order to implement integrated and evidence-informed intervention and prevention programmes…”

“…Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is a hot topic on the agendas of many CIOs and architects. But the bright and shining landscape of an SOA, with all the advantages it offers, is quite different from the reality that currently exists in many IT environments; the IT is too complex, too tightly integrated, and too inflexible. …”

“…This book therefore establishes the state of the art regarding available knowledge on rural NEETs, and represents an inspirational resource for new research agendas on the subject of vulnerable rural youth in Europe. …”

“…This is particularly topical at a time when Long Covid-19 has moved post-viral syndromes to the forefront of the political agenda, and confronted society with new challenges in this area on a hitherto unprecedented scale. …”

“…Zugleich muss jedoch mit erhöhten Schadstoffemissionen, dem Problem der Ascheentsorgung sowie häufig mit erhöhten Energiebereitstellungskosten gerechnet werden.In dieser Arbeit werden die Chancen und Risiken der Energieressource Holz am konkreten Beispiel des Landes Baden-Württemberg unter der Berücksichtigung technischer, ökologischer und ökonomischer Gesichtspunkte bewertet, um eine Grundlage zu politischer Entscheidungsunterstützung zu geben.Neben einer Potenzialanalyse wird anhand konkreter Anlagenbeispiele eine Prozesskettenanalyse durchgeführt, in der kumulierter Energieaufwand, Kohlendioxid-Emissionen, Schadstoffemissionen sowie Kosten bilanziert werden.Die Wirtschaftlichkeit und Konkurrenzfähigkeit der energetischen Holznutzung im Gesamtkontext des bestehenden Energiesystems wird anhand einer systemanalytischen Bewertung mit dem Energiesystemmodell PERSEUS-Reg2 untersucht.Abgerundet wird das Bild durch die Bilanzierung der Emissionen kanzerogener Spurenstoffe aus Holzfeuerungsanlagen für Baden-Württemberg, sowie die Darstellung der Möglichkeiten eines Beitrags zur Nachhaltigkeit Anhand eines konkreten Projekts im Rahmen der Lokalen Agenda 21.…”

“…This book builds on those efforts to think beyond the agenda of twentieth-century development policies, and will be of interest to those working in the fields of development, economics, sociology, philosophy and political science…”

“…For example, mortality is greater in children affected by malaria and dengue fever, two diseases whose spread is increasing as a result of climate change. …”

“…Technologies in Decline presents an emerging research agenda for the study of technological decline, emphasising the need for a plurality of perspectives. …”

“…Practical guidance is provided for managers interested in implementation. A robust research agenda is also provided for those interested in expanding present research…”