“…Regardless of their citizens' primary interests, and despite some positive signals surfacing in the international media, almost every attempt to establish lasting conditions for democratic governance in the Western Balkans has been shrouded in the veil of profit-driven political scandals, personal greed for more and more power over the people's rights, and the extinction of public property in pursuit of social elite's corporate and private interests. …”

“…"Privacy matters because it shields us from possible abuses of power. Human beings need privacy just as much as they need community. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Endnotes -- Unit II: Global Business Environment -- Chapter 3: Economic Environment -- Introduction -- Economic Systems -- Free Market Economy -- Command Economy -- Mixed Economy -- Transition Economy -- Asian Capitalism -- Japan -- East Asian Countries -- China -- Economic Indicators -- Income Level and Distribution -- Economic Growth: GDP -- International Business in Action: Daimler Expands in India -- Alternatives to GDP -- Inflation -- Infrastructure -- Region Focus: the Making of a Global Giant -- Population -- Economic Stability -- Industry Focus: Internationalization of Argentina's Manufacturing Sector -- Closing Case: Index of Economic Freedom -- Summary -- Key Terms -- Discussion Questions -- Mini Projects -- Endnotes -- Chapter 4: Political and Legal Environment -- Introduction -- Political Environment -- Political Ideologies and Systems -- Political Risk -- International Business in Action: Google in China -- Legal Environment -- Legal Systems -- Legal Jurisdiction -- Region Focus: Industrial Carnage in Bhopal -- Ethics in International Business -- Human Rights -- Industry Focus: Articulating Corporate Values -- Environmental Issues -- Corruption and Bribery -- Closing Case: Ethical Survival of TNCs -- Summary -- Key Terms -- Discussion Questions -- Mini Projects -- Endnotes -- Chapter 5: Cultural Environment -- Introduction -- Culture and its Relevance for International Business -- Cultural Environment -- Elements of Culture -- Language -- Non-verbal Communication -- Religion -- Values and Attitudes -- International Business in Action: Islamic Banking -- Customs and Manners -- Aesthetics -- Industry Focus: Emergence of the Creative Industry -- Cultural Dimensions in International Business -- Hofstede's Dimensions of Culture -- Schwartz's Classification -- Trompenaars' and Hampden-Turner's Classification…”

“…Next, he presents the foundational knowledge you need to start creating real bots and conversational user interfaces (CUIs). …”

“…"The theory of natural law grounds human laws in the universal truths of God's creation. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Being a friend to oneself -- 3.2. The right way of `self-love' as an issue of self-controversy -- 4. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Viewing the Entire Spectrum of Environmental Impact -- Defining degenerative lifecycles -- Defining sustainable lifecycles -- Defining regenerative lifecycles -- Understanding the Ellen MacArthur Foundation's Butterfly Diagram -- Examining the circular economy's structure: The bones of the operation -- Renewables flow management: Harnessing biological cycles -- Stock management: Optimizing technical cycles -- Promoting environmental restoration: Investing now to obtain even more later -- Chapter 11 Analyzing Material Lifecycle Processes -- Looking at Material Processes -- Fostering transparency -- Instituting chemical management -- Rewarding innovation -- The Lifecycle Principles: Identifying Where Change Can Happen -- Preserving natural capital -- Enhancing the usefulness of products, components, and raw materials -- Developing effective systems that minimize negative externalities -- Looking at Opportunities for Optimization -- Refusing the new: Reusing the old -- Employing the remaining factor: Remanufacturing -- Biochemical extraction for the win -- Chapter 12 Improving the Material Lifecycle -- Improving How Material Lifecycles Function -- Looking at Materials in a New Way -- Getting to know your lifecycle -- Refuse before you reduce, reuse, and recycle -- Examining Operations in a New Way -- Looking at human capital -- You can be everywhere -- Connecting Sourcing, Suppliers, and Customers -- Chapter 13 It All Comes Down to Selecting the Right Materials -- The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Exploring Materials -- Oil or Plastics - They're Really Much the Same Thing -- What's Harder than Rock? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Validating, calibrating, and integrating your churn model -- Improving churn insights with generative AI -- Combating churn with customer retention strategies -- Personalizing customer interactions -- Enhancing customer support -- Implementing loyalty programs -- Conducting regular feedback and follow-up initiatives -- Using exit surveys and win-back campaigns -- Ramping Up Your Measurement Operations -- Letting AI drive data collection and monitoring -- Optimizing measurement operations with AI techniques -- Incorporating visualization and reporting solutions -- Checking Out Tools for Churn Modeling and Measurement Operations -- Part 4 Transforming Brand Content and Campaign Development -- Chapter 12 Using AI for Ideation and Planning -- Engaging AI to Ideate on Behalf of Human Beings -- Deciding whether AI Hallucinations Are a Feature or a Bug -- Bringing in unexpected ideas and concepts -- Branching out with non-traditional storytelling -- Facilitating testing and experimentation -- Staying the course with generative AI -- Following Practical Steps for Idea Generation with AI -- Starting with the right prompts -- Stepping through an AI-for- ideation exercise -- Deciding on AI Ideation Tools to Use -- Chapter 13 Perfecting Prompts for Conversational Interfaces -- Reviewing Use Cases for Conversational Interfaces -- Writing Strong Prompts to Guide AI Responses -- Setting the voice and tone -- Defining a role -- Identifying the AI's task -- Specifying the format -- Good and Bad Marketing Prompt Design Examples -- Refining and Iterating Strong Prompts -- Fighting AI Bias in Prompt Writing -- Using Prompt Design Apps -- Chapter 14 Developing Creative Assets -- Trying Out an AI-Generated Where's Waldo? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…285 -- 17.3 Why is SCADA the Right Foundation for an IoT Platform? 287 -- 17.4 Case Study: Algae Lab Systems 290 -- 17.5 The Future of SCADA and the Potential of the IoT 290 -- Part III DATA ANALYTICS TECHNOLOGIES 295 -- 18 Data Analysis and Machine Learning Effort in Healthcare: Organization, Limitations, and Development of an Approach 297 /Oleg Roderick, Nicholas Marko, David Sanchez and Arun Aryasomajula -- 18.1 Introduction 297 -- 18.2 Data Science Problems in Healthcare 298 -- 18.3 Qualifications and Personnel in Data Science 306 -- 18.4 Data Acquisition and Transformation 310 -- 18.5 Basic Principles of Machine Learning 316 -- 18.6 Case Study: Prediction of Rare Events on Nonspecific Data 321 -- 18.7 Final Remarks 324 -- 19 Data Analytics and Predictive Analytics in the Era of Big Data 329 /Amy Shi-Nash and David R. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…&lt -- Design -- 4.2.1: Mapping as a link -- 4.2.2: Visualise strategy -- 4.2.3: Visualise name -- 4.2.4: Distinctive brand assets -- 4.2.5: Idea as a bridge -- 4.2.6: The fifth element -- 4.3: Design methodology -- 4.3.1: Human-centred design -- 4.3.2: User-experience -- 4.3.3: Emotional design -- 4.3.4: Innovation -- 4.3.5: Iterative method -- 4.3.6: Divergence and convergence -- 4.3.7: Sprint -- 4.3.8: Scrum -- 4.3.9: Kanban -- 4.3.10: Lean and agile -- 4.3.11: Design thinking -- 4.3.12: Customer journey -- 4.3.13: Need-finding -- 4.3.14: Service blueprint -- 4.3.15: Co-design -- 4.3.16: Business design -- 4.3.17: Strategic design thinking -- 4.3.18: Systemic design -- 4.3.19: In retrospect -- 4.4: Concept development -- 4.4.1: Foundation and framework -- 4.4.2: Creative problem solving -- 4.4.3: Brainstorming -- 4.4.4: Idea development -- 4.4.5: Conceptual directions -- 4.4.6: Verbalisation and visualisation -- 4.4.7: Prototyping of ideas -- 4.4.8: Testing of ideas -- 4.4.9: Presentation of ideas -- 4.5: Design development -- 4.5.1: The three-direction principle -- 4.5.2: Design sketches -- 4.5.3: Concrete design -- 4.6: Design elements -- 4.6.1: Shape -- 4.6.2: Colour -- 4.6.3: Texture -- 4.6.4: Space -- 4.7: Composition -- 4.7.1: Perception -- 4.7.2: Principles of composition -- 4.7.3: Unity/whole -- 4.7.4: Focal point -- 4.7.5: Proportions -- 4.7.6: Balance -- 4.7.7: Rhythm -- 4.8: Surface and format -- 4.8.1: Surface -- 4.8.2: Format -- 4.8.3: Aspect ratios -- 4.8.4: The A series -- 4.8.5: The golden ratio -- 4.8.6: Golden rectangle -- 4.8.7: The golden spiral -- 4.8.8: Fibonacci -- 4.8.9: The rule of thirds -- 4.9: Identity development -- 4.9.1: The identity principles -- 4.9.2: The identity elements -- 4.9.3: Logo -- 4.9.4: Symbol -- 4.9.5: Identity colours -- 4.9.6: Typography -- 4.9.7: Distinctive assets -- 4.9.8: Identity management…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Partner With 67 Chapter 18: High Impact Areas for the Startup CFO as Partner 71 Chapter 19: Board and Shareholder Management 77 Chapter 20: Equity 80 Chapter 21: Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) 85 Chapter 22: Bonus Section: WhatWe Used for Our Internal Systems WhenWe Started Bolster 91 Chapter 23: CEO-to-CEO Advice About the Finance Role 97; Matt Blumberg PART THREE: People and Human Resources 101 ; Cathy Hawley Chief People Officer 102 Chapter 24: Values and Culture 105 Chapter 25: Diversity, Equity…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Business Cycle -- 4. Company Foundation -- A Team Approach -- Chapter 5 Value Growth and Optimization* -- Increasing the Return on Invested Capital -- Strategic Position -- Customer Base -- Cost Structure and Scalability -- Working Capital -- Human Capital -- Reducing the Risk of Investment -- Awareness and Planning -- Growth Plans and Relative Position -- Leadership Team -- Predictability of Revenues and Earnings -- Concentrations -- Compliance -- Keeping Current -- Ease the Transfer of Ownership -- Financial Information -- Contracts -- Title to Assets -- Corporate Structure and Attributes -- Don't Lose Focus on the Core Business -- Summary -- Formula Definitions -- Part 3 The M&amp -- A Practice and Processes -- Chapter 6 Practice Management -- Primary M&amp…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Managing People for Service Advantage -- Service Employees Are Extremely Important -- Service Personnel as a Source of Customer Loyalty and Competitive Advantage -- Front-Line Work Is Difficult and Stressful -- Service Jobs Are Boundary-Spanning Positions -- Sources of Role Conflict -- Emotional Labor -- Service Sweatshops -- Cycles of Failure, Mediocrity, and Success -- The Cycle of Failure -- The Cycle of Mediocrity -- The Cycle of Success -- Human Resource Management-How to Get It Right?…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Front Cover -- Cloud Data Centers and Cost Modeling -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Organisation of the Book -- Acknowledgments -- I. Cloud Computing Foundations and Business Requirements -- 1 Cloud Computing -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.1.1 Operation Cost Rationalization -- 1.1.2 Revenue Estimation for Emerging Products -- 1.2 Cloud Computing at a Glance -- 1.3 Right Approach to Definition -- 1.4 A Brief History of Cloud Computing Definitions -- 1.5 Parallel Computing -- 1.5.1 Hardware Parallelism -- 1.5.1.1 Processor parallelism -- 1.5.1.2 Memory parallelism -- 1.5.2 Software Parallelism -- 1.5.2.1 Algorithm parallelism -- 1.5.2.2 Programming parallelism -- 1.5.2.3 Data parallelism -- 1.5.2.4 Architecture balance parallelism -- 1.5.3 Different Types of Parallel Models -- 1.6 Distributed Computing -- 1.7 Grid Computing -- 1.8 Utility Computing -- 1.9 Cloud Computing -- 1.10 Summary -- 1.10.1 Software (Applications) -- 1.10.2 IT Infrastructure (Hardware) -- 1.11 Review Questions -- 2 Business Needs -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Project Contents and Processes -- 2.3 Allocate the Right People for the Right Job -- 2.4 Business Analyst Role -- 2.5 Defining Business -- 2.6 Business Variables -- 2.6.1 Business Entity -- 2.6.2 Business Strategy -- 2.6.3 Business Profile (Variety) -- 2.6.4 Business Size (Volume) -- 2.6.5 Business Variation -- 2.7 Classification of Business Requirements -- 2.7.1 Business Requirements -- 2.7.2 Stakeholder requirements -- 2.7.3 Solution Requirements -- 2.7.3.1 Functional requirements -- 2.7.3.2 Nonfunctional requirements -- 2.7.4 Transition Requirements -- 2.8 E2E Process of Business Problem Solving -- 2.8.1 Business Problem Definition -- 2.8.1.1 Preliminary definition -- 2.8.1.2 Analysis process -- 2.8.1.3 Confirmation and documentation of the real problem -- 2.8.1.4 Challenges of problem definition…”

“…This is a foundational guide to changing the world that will be referenced for years to come.” …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Determine Whether There Is Compatibility. -- Step 6. Ask the Right Questions. -- Step 7. Stay in Touch. -- Step 8. …”