Tabla de Contenidos: “…Refreshment breaks -- Lunch -- Dinner -- Receptions -- Parties -- Banquets -- Serving Drinks at Your Event -- Working with the Catering Manager -- Getting It All in Writing -- Guaranteeing guests -- Setting up the room -- Chapter 8 Selecting Great Speakers -- Understanding Types of Presentation -- Selecting Good Speakers -- Know the program objectives -- Understand audience needs -- Check for reputation -- See a demo -- Watch out for celebrity speakers -- Be wary of grandiose claims -- Provide and ask for good information -- Ask for an outline, handouts, and promotional material -- Maximize opportunities -- Trust your instincts -- Using Help to Find a Speaker -- Understanding Fees -- Confirming Arrangements in Writing -- Chapter 9 It's the Extras That Count -- Helping Guests Get a Good Meal -- Showing Off the Location to Your Guests -- Putting Sports and Exercise on the Menu -- Welcoming Spouses and Partners -- Chapter 10 Lights, Camera, Action! …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP) -- X.509 trust model -- Main components of a public-key infrastructure -- Rogue CAs -- Digital certificates in TLS -- TLS extensions -- Encrypted extensions -- Certificate request -- Signature algorithms in TLS certificates -- Certificates and TLS authentication messages -- The Certificate message -- The CertificateVerify message -- Server certificate selection -- Client certificate selection -- OID filters -- Receiving a Certificate message -- The certificate_authorities extension -- Summary -- Chapter 11: Hash Functions and Message Authentication Codes -- The need for authenticity and integrity -- What cryptographic guarantees does encryption provide? -- One-way functions -- Mathematical properties -- Candidate one-way functions -- Hash functions -- Collision resistance -- One-way property -- Merkle-Damgard construction -- Sponge construction -- Message authentication codes -- How to compute a MAC -- HMAC construction -- MAC versus CRC -- Hash functions in TLS 1.3 -- Hash functions in ClientHello -- Hash Functions in TLS 1.3 signature schemes -- SHA-1 -- SHA-256, SHA-384, and SHA-512 hash functions -- Hash functions in authentication-related messages -- The CertificateVerify message -- The Finished message -- Transcript hash -- Hash functions in TLS key derivation -- Summary -- Chapter 12: Secrets and Keys in TLS 1.3 -- Key establishment in TLS 1.3 -- TLS secrets -- Early secret -- Binder key -- Bob's client early traffic secret. -- Exporter secrets -- Derived secrets -- Handshake secret -- Handshake traffic secrets -- Master secret -- Application traffic secrets -- Resumption master secret -- KDFs in TLS -- HKDF-Extract -- HKDF-Expand -- HKDF-Expand-Label -- Derive-Secret -- Updating TLS secrets -- TLS keys -- Exporter values -- Generation of TLS keys -- Key update -- TLS key exchange messages…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Teaming up with an investment banker -- Making a public offering -- Chapter 4 Digging into Accounting Basics -- Making Sense of Accounting Methods -- Cash-basis accounting -- Accrual accounting -- Why method matters -- Understanding Debits and Credits -- Double-entry accounting -- Profit and loss statements -- The effect of debits and credits on sales -- Depreciation and amortization -- Checking Out the Chart of Accounts -- Asset accounts -- Liability accounts -- Equity accounts -- Revenue accounts -- Expense accounts -- Differentiating Profit Types -- Gross profit -- Operating profit -- Net profit -- Part 2 The Big Show: Annual Reports -- Chapter 5 Exploring the Anatomy of an Annual Report -- Everything but the Numbers -- Debunking the letter to shareholders -- Making sense of the corporate message -- Meeting the people in charge -- Finding basic shareholder information -- Getting the skinny from management -- Getting guarantees from management -- Bringing the auditors' answers to light -- Presenting the Financial Picture -- Summarizing the Financial Data -- Finding the highlights -- Reading the notes -- Chapter 6 Balancing Assets against Liabilities and Equity -- Understanding the Balance Equation -- Introducing the Balance Sheet -- Digging into dates -- Nailing down the numbers -- Figuring out format -- Ogling Assets -- Current assets -- Long-term assets -- Accumulated depreciation -- Looking at Liabilities -- Current liabilities -- Long-term liabilities -- Navigating the Equity Maze -- Stock -- Retained earnings -- Capital -- Drawing -- Chapter 7 Using the Income Statement -- Introducing the Income Statement -- Digging into dates -- Figuring out format -- Delving into the Tricky Business of Revenues -- Defining revenue -- Adjusting sales -- Considering cost of goods sold -- Gauging gross profit -- Acknowledging Expenses…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…The duration, better known as the term -- The amount that must be paid -- Plan for amortization of debt -- Managing Debt Responsibly -- Personal guarantees: No good, very bad -- Keep your financial condition in good shape -- Establish a liquidity buffer -- Establish precise objectives -- Create a payment strategy -- Increase the variety of your funding sources -- Make investments in order to decrease your debt -- Conduct frequent audits of your debt portfolio -- Create an effective business strategy -- Make a deal that is favorable to you -- Be vigilant about the debt-to-equity ratio -- Mitigate the risk -- Change up your financing -- Examining your loan agreements often -- Seek professional advice -- Stay up to date on regulations -- Chapter 7 Sharing the Pie: Equity Funding Explained -- What's Equity Funding, Anyway? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Sorting out equipment -- Taking the Make-or-Buy Decision -- Making it yourself - pros and cons -- Outsourcing - a low investment option -- Setting quality standards -- Choosing a Supplier -- Evaluating trading terms -- Building a relationship -- Buying online -- Minimising Risk and Assessing Liability -- Protecting your employees -- Covering yourself against an employee suing -- Protecting assets -- Covering loss of profits -- Goods in transit -- Protecting yourself -- Guaranteeing goods and services -- Dissecting Directors -- Finding and Choosing Business Advisers -- Tallying up an accountant -- Investing in a bank -- Soliciting for a lawyer -- Managing a consultant -- Taking Cyber Security Seriously -- Recognising common types of cyber crime -- Adopting preventative measures -- Making a Virtue Out of Going Green -- Chapter 13 Keeping Track of Finances -- Keeping the Books -- Recording financial information -- Starting simple with single entry -- Dealing with double entry…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Results -- 3.1 "Techno-digital contamination": between control and dependence on new technologies -- 3.2 The role of new technologies in the promotion and defence of human rights -- 3.3 Protection and guarantee of human rights in the age of technology -- 4. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- 12.1.4 Advance beyond State of the Art -- 12.2 Strategy -- 12.2.1 Target Selection -- 12.2.1.1 Long-term monitoring -- 12.2.1.2 AGN flare programme -- 12.2.1.3 High-quality spectra -- 12.2.1.4 Time distribution model for the AGN KSP -- 12.2.2 Multi-wavelength and Multi-messenger Coverage -- 12.3 Data Products -- 12.4 Expected Performance/Return -- 12.4.1 Guaranteed Science Return -- 12.4.2 Discovery Potential -- Chapter 13. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Differences between Data Lake and Data Warehouse -- Approaches to building a Data Lake -- Lambda Architecture-driven Data Lake -- Data ingestion layer - ingest for processing and storage -- Batch layer - batch processing of ingested data -- Speed layer - near real time data processing -- Data storage layer - store all data -- Serving layer - data delivery and exports -- Data acquisition layer - get data from source systems -- Messaging Layer - guaranteed data delivery -- Exploring the Data Ingestion Layer -- Exploring the Lambda layer -- Batch layer -- Speed layer -- Serving layer -- Data push -- Data pull -- Data storage layer -- Batch process layer -- Speed layer -- Serving layer -- Relational data stores…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Use the Cache Management Functions to Guarantee Coherency -- Exercise 6.5 Data Cache Configuration -- Double Precision Floating Point Unit -- Functional Safety -- Cortex-M7 Safety Features -- Safety Documentation -- Development Tools -- Conclusion -- 7 Debugging with CoreSight -- Introduction -- CoreSight Hardware -- Debugger Hardware -- CoreSight Debug Architecture -- Exercise 7.1 CoreSight Debug -- Hardware Configuration -- Software Configuration -- Debug Limitations -- Instrumentation Trace -- Exercise 7.2 Setting Up the ITM -- System Control Block Debug Support -- Tracking Faults -- Exercise 7.3 Processor Fault Exceptions -- Instruction Trace with the Embedded Trace Macrocell -- Exercise 7.4 Using the ETM Trace -- CMSIS-DAP -- Cortex-M0+ MTB -- Exercise 7.5 Micro Trace Buffer -- CMSIS System Viewer Description -- Exercise 7.6 CMSIS-SVD -- Conclusion Debug Features Summary -- 8 Practical DSP for Cortex-M4 and Cortex-M7 -- Introduction -- Hardware FPU -- FPU Integration -- FPU Registers -- Cortex-M7 FPU -- Enabling the FPU -- Exceptions and the FPU -- Using the FPU -- Exercise 8.1 Floating Point Unit -- Cortex-M4/M7 DSP and SIMD Instructions -- Exercise 8.2 SIMD Instructions -- Exercise 8.3 Optimizing DSP Algorithms -- The CMSIS-DSP Library -- CMSIS-DSP Library Functions -- Exercise 8.3 Using the CMSIS-DSP Library -- DSP Data Processing Techniques -- Exercise 8.4 FIR Filter with Block Processing -- Fixed Point DSP with Q Numbers -- Exercise 8.5 Fixed Point FFT Transform -- Conclusion -- 9 Cortex Microcontroller Software Interface Standard-Real-Time Operating System -- Introduction -- First Steps with CMSIS-RTOS -- Accessing the CMSIS-RTOS API -- Threads -- Starting the RTOS -- Exercise 9.1 A First CMSIS-RTOS Project -- Creating Threads -- Exercise 9.2 Creating and Managing Threads -- Thread Management and Priority…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Understanding the concerns behind writing broken tests -- Providing reassurance that we test our tests -- TDD guarantees good code -- Understanding problem-inflated expectations -- Managing your expectations of TDD -- Our code is too complex to test -- Understanding the causes of untestable code -- Reframing the relationship between good design and simple tests -- Managing legacy code without tests -- I don't know what to test until I write the code -- Understanding the difficulty of starting with testing -- Overcoming the need to write production code first -- Summary…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…5.2 Transmitting Information -- 5.3 Safety Hyper Implementations -- 6 Synthesis with Prefix Information Flow Assumptions -- 6.1 Automata for Assume and Guarantee Specifications -- 6.2 Compositional Synthesis -- 7 Experiments -- 8 Related Work -- 9 Conclusion -- References -- Synthesis of Temporal Causality -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Temporal Causality -- 1.2 Contributions and Structure -- 2 Preliminaries -- 3 Overview: The Topology of Causality -- 3.1 Actual Causes as Downward Closed Sets of Traces -- 3.2 Causality Without the Limit Assumption -- 4 Generalized Temporal Causality -- 4.1 Similarity Relations and the Limit Assumption -- 4.2 A General Definition of Temporal Causality -- 4.3 Proving Generalization -- 5 Cause Synthesis -- 5.1 Proving Our Characterization -- 5.2 Cause-Synthesis Algorithm for -Regular Effects -- 6 Implementation and Evaluation -- 6.1 Cause Synthesis -- 6.2 Cause Checking -- 7 Related Work -- 8 Conclusion -- References -- Dynamic Programming for Symbolic Boolean Realizability and Synthesis -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Preliminary Definitions -- 2.1 Boolean Formula and Synthesis Concepts -- 2.2 Dynamic Programming Concepts - Project-Join Trees -- 3 Realizability CheckingProofs for All Lemmas and Theorems Can Be Found in the Appendix A. -- 3.1 Theoretical Basis and Valuations in Trees -- 3.2 Determining Nullary, Partial and Full Realizability -- 4 Synthesis of Witness Functions -- 4.1 Monolithic Approach -- 4.2 Synthesis Using Graded Project-Join Trees -- 5 Experimental Evaluation -- 5.1 Realizability-Checking Phase -- 5.2 Synthesis -- 5.3 Tree Widths and Realizability -- 5.4 Comparison with Non-BDD-Based Synthesis -- 6 Concluding Remarks -- References -- Localized Attractor Computations for Infinite-State Games -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Preliminaries -- 3 Attractor Computation with Caching -- 4 Abstract Template-Based Cache Generation…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Add Methods to Existing Types with Extension Methods -- Call Methods with Default Parameters -- Call Methods with Named Parameters -- Defer Evaluation of a Value Until Referenced -- Enforce Code Contracts -- 4 Exceptions -- Throw an Exception -- Catch an Exception -- Catch Multiple Exceptions -- Rethrow an Exception -- (Almost) Guarantee Execution with finally -- Get Useful Information from an Exception -- Create Your Own Exception Class -- Catch Unhandled Exceptions -- Usage Guidelines -- 5 Numbers -- Decide Between Float, Double, and Decimal…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Specifying a file's location with a namespace declaration -- Locating code files with a using statement -- Introducing the C# interface -- The State Machine and the interface guarantee -- Time for action - implementing an interface -- What just happened? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- A New Name, a New Owner, a Familiar Operating System -- Solaris Now "Goes to 11" -- A Short Review of Solaris' Long History -- The Future of Solaris -- Solaris 11 Licensing -- Solaris Communities -- Solaris 11 Documentation -- For Those Moving from Solaris 10 to Solaris 11 -- Summary -- Reference -- Chapter 2: Getting Ready for Solaris 11 -- Where Solaris 11 Runs: Hardware Requirements -- The Application Guarantee Program -- Testing Your x86 System for Solaris 11 Compatibility -- The Oracle Solaris 11 Live Media -- Running the Solaris 11 Live Media -- Preparing Your x86 System for Solaris 11 Installation -- Disk Partitions -- Other Installation Methods -- Summary -- References -- Chapter 3: Installation Options -- How to Get Solaris 11 -- Downloads -- Licensing -- Write to DVD -- Write to a USB Key -- A Focus on Workstations -- A Range of Installation Scenarios -- New Systems -- Linux -- Microsoft Windows -- Solaris 10 -- Notes on Virtual Machines -- The GUI Interactive Installation -- Boot the Live Media -- Answer Basic Questions -- Start the Interactive GUI Installation -- Basic Parameters -- Risks -- Partitions for Solaris and More -- Time Zones and Locales -- Users and Hostnames -- Final Step -- Multiboot Situations -- GRUB on Solaris -- A GRUB Option for Windows -- A GRUB Option for Linux -- Configure a GRUB Password -- A Triple-Boot Scenario -- Summary -- References -- Chapter 4: Alternative Oracle Solaris 11 Installation Methods -- SPARC and x86 Systems…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…2 Economic and Environmental Aspects of Globalization -- 3 The Role of the WTO and the OECD in Achieving Environmental Sustainability -- 4 Liberalization Processes in the WTO on the Way to Sustainability -- 4.1 The Liberalization of Agricultural Trade -- 4.2 Liberalization of Trade in Services with Focus on the Environment -- 4.3 Intellectual Property Protection and Sustainability -- 5 Conclusions -- 7 The International Trade System in the Concept of Global Public Goods: Principles of Export -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Background of Institutionalization of International Trade as a GPG -- 3 Principles of Export Credit Functioning in WTO and OECD Regulations -- 3.1 WTO Regulations -- 3.1.1 The SCM Agreement -- 3.1.2 WTO Rules Provide Special Treatment for Developing Countries -- 3.1.3 The Agreement on Agriculture -- 3.2 Characteristics of Export Credit Provision and Export Guarantees Under the OECD Arrangement -- 4 Conclusions -- 8 The Role of EU Trade Agreements in Light of the Sustainable Development Goals -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Trade as a Global Public Good in the Context of the SDG s -- 3 The Holistic Approach to Trade Policy by the European Union -- 4 The EU Mechanism for the Implementation of Trade Agreements in Relation to the SDG s -- 5 Conclusions -- Part 4 Financial Stability and GDP in World Bank, IMF, and EU Activities -- 9 The World Bank: A New Narrative for New Challenges? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Step 2 - Checking the current setup using the command line -- Step 3 - Initializing the gcloud init command -- Step 4 - Downloading example data from Git -- Step 5 - Uploading data to GCS from Git -- Practicing developing a data warehouse -- Data warehouse in BigQuery - Requirements for scenario 1 -- Steps and planning for handling scenario 1 -- Data warehouse in BigQuery - Requirements for scenario 2 -- Using the GCP console versus the code-based approach -- Steps and planning for handling scenario 2 -- BigQuery's useful features -- BigQuery console sub-menu options -- BigQuery partitioned table -- Summary -- Exercise - Scenario 3 -- See also -- Chapter 4: Building Workflows for Batch Data Loading Using Cloud Composer -- Technical requirements -- Introduction to Cloud Composer -- Understanding the working of Airflow -- Cloud Composer 1 vs Cloud Composer 2 -- Provisioning Cloud Composer in a GCP project -- Introducing the Airflow web UI -- Cloud Composer bucket directories -- Exercise - build data pipeline orchestration using Cloud Composer -- Level 1 DAG - creating dummy workflows -- Deploying the DAG file into Cloud Composer -- Level 2 DAG - scheduling a pipeline from Cloud SQL to GCS and BigQuery datasets -- Level 3 DAG - parameterized variables -- Level 4 DAG - Guaranteeing task idempotency in Cloud Composer -- Level 5 DAG - handling DAG dependency using an Airflow dataset -- Summary -- Chapter 5: Building a Data Lake Using Dataproc -- Technical requirements -- Introduction to Dataproc -- A brief history of the data lake and Hadoop ecosystem -- A deeper look into Hadoop components -- How much Hadoop-related knowledge do you need on GCP? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…. -- 2.2 Addressing Human Rights and Ethical Issues in Covid-19 Clinical Trials -- 2.3 Establishing a Human Right to Science-Based Registration and Science-Based-Post-Marketing Surveillance of Medicines... -- 2.4 Guaranteeing Availability, Accessibility, Affordability, and Equitable Distribution of Covid-19 Medicines and Vaccines -- 3 Conclusion -- References -- 17 Is Covid-19 Frustrating Or Facilitating Sustainability Transformations?…”

“…Risk-sharing arrangements with private banks involve the guarantee of late maturities as well as direct participation in bank loans and partial guarantee of bond issues. …”

“…These suretyships are commonly banking guarantees contracted by means of standard terms. Sometimes the guarantor signs the contract while he/she is not aware of the financial risk related to the guarantee. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Building pathways into the middle class for the young generation -- The COVID-19 crisis led to drop in the availability of apprenticeship places - and in the number of applicants -- A vocational training guarantee could ensure that every young person gets the chance to obtain a qualification -- 5.3. …”