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Tabla de Contenidos: “…The Logical Problem of Language Acquisition -- 9.1 The Logical Problem -- 9.2 Guaranteeing Lcarnability -- 9.3 The Case for (DS)-and the Case Against (I) -- 9.4 Some Morals for Language Learners -- 9.5 Substitutes for Negative Data -- 9.6 The Dialectical Role of the Logical Problem -- 10. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…David Fajgenbaum's Quest for a Cure -- Rare Diseases, Common Problems -- Notes -- PART 3 Building Your Own Patient Equations -- Chapter 9 The Steam Table -- Progressing Toward Alzheimer's Disease...or Maybe Not -- When the Measurement and the Therapy Are One and the Same -- Steam Tables for Cancer -- The Data Problem -- From Wellness to Illness-and Back Again -- Notes -- Chapter 10 Good Data -- The Failure of Watson -- The Mars Climate Orbiter -- The Progression to Value -- Notes -- Chapter 11 Changing Clinical Trials -- Expanding Access to Trials -- Pharma's Lack of Connection to Clinical Care -- Truly Patient‐centric Trials -- Accepting New Kinds of Data -- Unshackling the Clinical Trial -- Enter Thomas Bayes -- Breaking the Barrier -- Synthetic Control Arms -- Our Synthetic Control Model -- Making Every Trial an Adaptive Trial -- A Stroke of Insight -- Notes -- Chapter 12 Disease Management Platforms -- The Promise of Mobile Apps -- Digital from the Beginning -- But It's Not That Easy -- Where That Leaves Us -- Notes -- PART 4 Scaling Progress to the World -- Chapter 13 The Importance of Collaboration -- A Tiny Island or a Larger Ecosystem -- How Data Collaboration Can Change the Game -- Notes -- Chapter 14 Value‐based Reimbursement -- Beyond Survival -- The (Mathematical) Fountain of Youth -- Money‐back Guarantee -- Making Value‐based Care the Future -- Notes -- Chapter 15 Aligning Incentives -- Human Doctors, Digital Doctors -- Respecting the Unquantifiable -- Empowered Patients -- Notes -- Chapter 16 And Then, a Pandemic -- Phase Diagrams Revisited…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…The Crisis: Divergence of the Sovereign Debt Curves and the disintegration of the single interest rate curve Chapter 4: Dysfunctional Mechanisms of the Eurozone 4.1 The explosion of Target2 Balances and the unsustainable accumulation of the structural imbalances 4.2 The Nationalization of the Public Debt: the Case of Italy 4.3 The Nationalization of the Public Debt pushed to the extreme: the case of Greece Chapter 5: The Pathological Banks-Governments Relationship 5.1 The Spread Intermediation 5.2 Collateral Discrimination on the Interbank Market 5.3 The Divergence Mechanisms in Action: Synergies and Accelerations 5.4 Case Studies: The divergence process in some peripheral countries Chapter 6: Assessing the Risk of a Euro Break-Up 6.1 A Historical Perspective on the Possible Break-up of the Euro 6.2 The probability of a Euro Break-up 6.3 Costs and Benefits associated with the Exit from the Euro Chapter 7: Financial Assistance and Fiscal Agreements in the Eurozone 7.1 The Sovereign Bail-out Funds 7.2 The Reforms of the Stability and Growth Pact and the Fiscal Compact Chapter 8: The Extraordinary Interventions of the ECB 8.1 The Securities Market Programme and the Purchases of Covered Bonds 8.2 The Long Term Refinancing Operations of December 2011 and February 2012 (LTROs) 8.3 The Outright Monetary Transactions (OMT) 8.4 The Targeted Long-Term Refinancing Operations (TLTROs) 8.5 The Quantitative Easing Chapter 9: The European and National Interventions on the Banking Systems 9.1 The Banking Union 9.2 The Hidden Recapitalisation of the Peripheral Banking Systems 9.3 The State Aids to the Banking Systems of the Core Countries Chapter 10: Mutualisation of the Public Debt and Fiscal Transfers 10.1 The Mutualisation of the Public Debt in the Eurozone 10.2 The «Fiscal Currency» and Other Theories for the Unilateral Solution of Problems for Peripheral Countries 10.3 The Fiscal Transfers: Proposals for Structural Balance of Financial Flows Chapter 11: Proposals of Monetary Policy Interventions to Overcome the Crisis 11.1 Reforming the Statutory Objectives of the ECB: The «Zero-Spread Target» 11.2 The Cancellation of Interests on Government Bonds Purchased by the ECB 11.3 The European Public Debt Refinancing Programme (EPDRP) 11.4 A Far More Pervasive Intervention: Partial Debt Monetization 11.5 The Purchase Programme of Asset Backed Securities Guaranteed by Sovereign States and Supranational Institutions 11.6 A Measure of Direct Support to the Real Economy: the Cancellation of Impaired Debts of the Non-Financial Private Sector 11.7 A Proposal for an Authentic Sustainability of the Greek Public Debt Chapter 12: Transparency as a Tool to Prevent Excessive Risk-taking and Contrast the Crisis 12.1 The Need for a Market Logic at the Basis of the Financial Sector's Regulation 12.2 Implications of the Lack of Transparency on Risks at a Macro Level 12.3 Fair Value and Probability Scenarios as Solution to the Problem of Risk Transparency Annex A References Index…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…3.1 Basic definitions3.2 Probabilities; 3.3 Constructing the life table from the values of qx; 3.4 Life expectancy; 3.5 Choice of life tables; 3.6 Standard notation and terminology; 3.7 A sample table; Notes and references; Exercises; 4 Life annuities; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Calculating annuity premiums; 4.3 The interest and survivorship discount function; 4.3.1 The basic definition; 4.3.2 Relations between yx for various values of x; 4.4 Guaranteed payments; 4.5 Deferred annuities with annual premiums; 4.6 Some practical considerations; 4.6.1 Gross premiums; 4.6.2 Gender aspects…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…3.10.1 Scalability considerations3.10.2 Evaluating a local protection implementation; 3.10.3 The cost of bandwidth protection; 3.11 IP and LDP FRR; 3.11.1 The tunnel-based approach; 3.11.2 The alternate-path approach; 3.12 Conclusion; 3.13 References; 3.14 Further reading; 3.15 Study questions; 4 MPLS DiffServ-TE; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 The business drivers; 4.3 Application scenarios; 4.3.1 Limiting the proportion of traffic from a particular class on a link; 4.3.2 Maintaining relative proportions of traffic on links; 4.3.3 Providing guaranteed bandwidth services; 4.4 The DiffServ-TE solution…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Evaluating public sector R&D programs : the advanced technology program's investment in wavelength references for optical fiber communications / Evaluating a Dutch scheme for encouraging research and development / Public/private technology partnerships : evaluating SBIR supported research / Government as venture capitalist : the long run impact of the SBIR program / Government policy towards entrepreneurial finance : innovation investment funds / When bureaucrats meet entrepreneurs : the design of effective 'public venture capital' programmes / Estimating additionality and leverage : the interplay between public and private sector equity finance in Ireland / Grant assistance and small firm development in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland / Loan guarantees : costs of default and benefits to small firms / Why do minority business development programs generate so little minority business development / Evaluating 'soft' support. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- It's all about you -- Imagine -- Because -- 'Now', 'quickly', 'immediately', 'fast' and 'instantly': time-critical words -- Please and thank you -- 'In charge', 'ownership', 'risk free', 'guarantee' and 'no obligation': control words -- 'Free' -- 'New' -- 'Aware', 'realise' and 'experience' -- Chapter 5: K Is for Knowledge -- Demonstrating Expertise -- Let's Start with Publishing -- Blogging -- Which platform? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Computational Environments for Coupling Multiphase Flow, Transport, and Mechanics in Porous Media -- The Excitement in Parallel Computing -- Session I: Performance Optimization -- Improving Performance of Digest Caches in Network Processors -- Optimization of BLAS on the Cell Processor -- Fine Tuning Matrix Multiplications on Multicore -- The Design and Architecture of MAQAOAdvisor: A Live Tuning Guide -- A Load Balancing Framework for Clustered Storage Systems -- Construction and Evaluation of Coordinated Performance Skeletons -- Session II: Parallel Algorithms and Applications -- Data Sharing Analysis of Emerging Parallel Media Mining Workloads -- Efficient PDM Sorting Algorithms -- Accelerating Cone Beam Reconstruction Using the CUDA-Enabled GPU -- Improving the Performance of Tensor Matrix Vector Multiplication in Cumulative Reaction Probability Based Quantum Chemistry Codes -- Experimental Evaluation of Molecular Dynamics Simulations on Multi-core Systems -- Parsing XML Using Parallel Traversal of Streaming Trees -- Session III: Scheduling and Resource Management -- Performance Analysis of Multiple Site Resource Provisioning: Effects of the Precision of Availability Information -- An Open Computing Resource Management Framework for Real-Time Computing -- A Load Aware Channel Assignment and Link Scheduling Algorithm for Multi-channel Multi-radio Wireless Mesh Networks -- Multi-round Real-Time Divisible Load Scheduling for Clusters -- Energy-Efficient Dynamic Scheduling on Parallel Machines -- A Service-Oriented Priority-Based Resource Scheduling Scheme for Virtualized Utility Computing -- Session IV: Sensor Networks -- Scalable Processing of Spatial Alarms -- Coverage Based Expanding Ring Search for Dense Wireless Sensor Networks -- An Energy-Balanced Task Scheduling Heuristic for Heterogeneous Wireless Sensor Networks -- Energy Efficient Distributed Algorithms for Sensor Target Coverage Based on Properties of an Optimal Schedule -- In-Network Data Estimation for Sensor-Driven Scientific Applications -- Localization in Ad Hoc and Sensor Wireless Networks with Bounded Errors -- Session V: Energy-Aware Computing -- Optimization of Fast Fourier Transforms on the Blue Gene/L Supercomputer -- ScELA: Scalable and Extensible Launching Architecture for Clusters -- Parallel Information Theory Based Construction of Gene Regulatory Networks -- Communication Analysis of Parallel 3D FFT for Flat Cartesian Meshes on Large Blue Gene Systems -- Scalable Multi-cores with Improved Per-core Performance Using Off-the-critical Path Reconfigurable Hardware -- Session VI: Distributed Algorithms -- TrustCode: P2P Reputation-Based Trust Management Using Network Coding -- Design, Analysis, and Performance Evaluation of an Efficient Resource Unaware Scheduling Strategy for Processing Divisible Loads on Distributed Linear Daisy Chain Networks -- A Novel Learning Based Solution for Efficient Data Transport in Heterogeneous Wireless Networks -- Scalable Data Collection in Sensor Networks -- Task Scheduling on Heterogeneous Devices in Parallel Pervasive Systems (P 2 S) -- A Performance Guaranteed Distributed Multicast Algorithm for Long-Lived Directional Communications in WANETs -- Session VII: Communication Networks -- Maintaining Quality of Service with Dynamic Fault Tolerance in Fat-Trees -- Designing a High-Performance Clustered NAS: A Case Study with pNFS over RDMA on InfiniBand -- Sockets Direct Protocol for Hybrid Network Stacks: A Case Study with iWARP over 10G Ethernet -- Making a Case for Proactive Flow Control in Optical Circuit-Switched Networks -- FBICM: Efficient Congestion Management for High-Performance Networks Using Distributed Deterministic Routing -- Achieving 10Gbps Network Processing: Are We There Yet? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- How to convert your pension into income -- Early retirement -- Working later than you had planned -- Raising cash on your home: equity release -- Annuities -- Shopping around for the best deal -- Inflation protection -- Providing for a spouse or partner after your death -- Guaranteed annuity payments -- How do I want to be paid? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Make an emotional connection Don't overthink it Your Three "What We Want Them To Say" Statements The Three Things You Must Get Right A simple, powerful formula to attract business For over thirty years, this strategy has been solid gold The Grand Guarantee Do it your way The Best Idea Ever Make sure the other guy wins An elegant equation to explain everything Look at the options I hate to lose I've developed reverse paranoia "We Make People Lose" It's like a cultural miracle drug Standing out like a sore thumb Constructive disagreements The ultimate guideline Better Beats Different Don't strive to be different. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…4.2.1 Case Study: The National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “….) -- How to choose what to do next -- Put it into play -- Secret three How to get started right now -- The problem with goals -- The problem with thinking -- Pick a play project -- How to choose your project -- Think big, start small -- Kick off your play project -- The benefits of being in play -- Put it into play -- Secret four How to guarantee your success -- Welcome to the roller-coaster -- Introducing your nemesis -- Build your support team -- Feeling scared yet? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Get Others To Justify Your Prices. 10. Price With Guarantees. 11. Price For Specialisation. 12. Price For Profile And Experience. 13. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…6.3 The Necessity of Whistleblowing in Counter Crime Framework -- 6.4 Protection and Guarantees for Whistleblowers -- 6.5 Channels and Procedures of Disclosure for Whistleblowers -- 6.6 Incentives and Remedies for Whistleblowers -- 6.7 Sanctions on Whistleblower Protection Breaches -- 6.8 Transposition Progress of the WBPD -- 6.9 Human Factors in Whistleblowing -- 6.10 Conclusion -- 7. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Flume -- Installing Flume -- An Example -- Transactions and Reliability -- Batching -- The HDFS Sink -- Partitioning and Interceptors -- File Formats -- Fan Out -- Delivery Guarantees -- Replicating and Multiplexing Selectors -- Distribution: Agent Tiers -- Delivery Guarantees -- Sink Groups -- Integrating Flume with Applications -- Component Catalog -- Further Reading -- Chapter 15. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…. -- Down Payments -- Introduction -- Down Payment Received -- Reconciliation Accounts for Customer Down Payments -- Down Payment Requests (Customer) -- Defining Reconciliation Accounts for Customer Down Payments Request -- Defining Account for Tax Clearing (Down payments Customer) -- Down Payment Made -- Reconciliation Accounts for Vendor Down Payments -- Down Payment Request for Vendors -- Defining Account for Tax Clearing (Down payments - Vendor) -- Guarantees -- Defining Alternative Reconciliation Accounts for Vendors (Guarantees) -- Defining Accounts for Automatic Offsetting Entry -- Summary -- Chapter 17: Ledgers -- Defining Accounting Principles -- Defining Ledger Group -- Assigning Accounting Principle to Ledger Groups -- Defining Ledger Settings for Ledgers and Currency Types -- Update the following field: -- Define Settings for Ledgers and Currency Types -- Summary -- Appendix A: Some Useful Transaction Codes -- Index…”