“…The present volume explores questions that are fundamental to this line of research: First, the question of whether variation can always and completely be explained by intra- or extra-linguistic predictors, or whether there is a certain amount of unpredictable - or 'free' - grammatical variation. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Molecular Shape Is Related to Molecular Function -- Hydrogen Ions in Solution Can Alter Molecular Shape -- Protein Interactions -- Proteins Are Selective about the Molecules They Bind -- Protein‐Binding Reactions Are Reversible -- Binding Reactions Obey the Law of Mass Action -- The Dissociation Constant Indicates Affinity -- Multiple Factors Alter Protein Binding -- The Body Regulates the Amount of Protein in Cells -- Reaction Rate Can Reach a Maximum -- CHAPTER SUMMARY -- REVIEW QUESTIONS -- Chapter 3: Compartmentation: Cells and Tissues -- RUNNING PROBLEM Pap Tests Save Lives -- Functional Compartments of the Body -- The Lumens of Some Organs Are Outside the Body -- Functionally, the Body Has Three Fluid Compartments -- Biological Membranes -- The Cell Membrane Separates Cell from Environment -- Membranes Are Mostly Lipid and Protein -- Membrane Lipids Create a Hydrophobic Barrier -- Membrane Proteins May Be Loosely or Tightly Bound to the Membrane -- Membrane Carbohydrates Attach to Both Lipids and Proteins -- Intracellular Compartments -- Cells Are Divided into Compartments -- The Cytoplasm Includes Cytosol, Inclusions, Fibers, and Organelles -- Inclusions Are in Direct Contact with the Cytosol -- Cytoplasmic Protein Fibers Come in Three Sizes -- Microtubules Form Centrioles, Cilia, and Flagella -- Emerging Concepts Single Cilia Are Sensors -- The Cytoskeleton Is a Changeable Scaffold -- Motor Proteins Create Movement -- Organelles Create Compartments for Specialized Functions -- The Nucleus Is the Cell's Control Center -- Tissues of the Body -- Extracellular Matrix Has Many Functions -- Cell Junctions Hold Cells Together to Form Tissues -- Epithelia Provide Protection and Regulate Exchange -- Connective Tissues Provide Support and Barriers -- Muscle and Neural Tissues Are Excitable -- Tissue Remodeling -- Apoptosis Is a Tidy Form of Cell Death…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Understanding the benefits of modular architecture in web development -- Understanding Flask Blueprints -- Setting up a Flask application with Blueprints -- Structuring Blueprint Flask applications -- Defining models and Blueprint modules -- Registering the Blueprints -- Handling the React frontend with Flask Blueprints -- Summary -- Chapter 15: Flask Unit Testing -- Technical requirements -- Unit testing in Flask applications -- FIRST -- RITE -- 3A -- Introducing Pytest -- Setting up Pytest -- Basic syntax, structures, and features of Pytest -- Using fixtures -- Parameterizing in pytest -- Mocking external dependencies in pytest -- Writing unit tests -- Unit-testing user registration -- Unit-testing user login -- Testing JSON APIs -- Testing speaker data creation -- Updating the speaker data object -- Testing the deletion of the speaker data object -- Test-driven development with Flask -- Defining the feature -- Writing a failed test case -- Implementing the minimal amount of code to pass the test -- Running the test and ensuring it passes -- Refactoring the code -- Writing additional tests -- Handling exceptions -- Summary -- Chapter 16: Containerization and Flask Application Deployment -- Technical requirements -- What is containerization? …”

“…2.5 quintillion bytes! This is the amount of data being generated every single day across the globe. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Pere Ribot, M. Benet Ricart, Ramona Riera Cuberes, Mn. Joan Roig, Tomás Roig i Llop, Jordi Roig i Sans, Maria Roig de Nebot, Ramon Romagosa i Coll, Josep Ros i Artigues, Joan Ros i Poch, Maria-Victòria Rovira, Josep M. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Confirm that the Account Used to Record the Amount is Appropriate -- 3. The Balance and Its Movement are in Line with the Activities of the Business -- Frequency of the Balance Sheet Substantiation -- Evidencing the Balance Sheet Substantiation -- Unsupported Balances -- Lines of Responsibility -- 18 Dividending of Profit and Loss and FX Selldown -- Additional Items to Consider -- 19 Controlling Nostros -- Introduction to Nostros -- Controlling Nostros - Cash Breaks -- Risk-Weighting Cash and AVE breaks -- Provisioning for Nostro and AVE Breaks -- Notes -- PART SIX Financial Accounting and Reporting -- 20 Financial Accounting Entries -- Financial Accounting Entries -- Stock -- Loan -- Bond…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Matthias Thomas xiii Preface xv Preface to Part Two xvii Acknowledgements xix List of Figures xxi Reader's Manual xxiii Part One Chapter 1 Introduction to Property Financing 3 1.1 Forms of financing: debt and equity 3 1.1.1 Debt 4 1.1.2 Equity 6 1.2 A different approach to property financing 6 1.3 Corporate finance and project finance 7 1.4 Bank financing 8 1.4.1 Property Loans to Private Individuals 9 1.4.2 Property Financing to Cover Financial Requirements 9 1.4.3 Structured Real Estate Financing 10 1.5 Fund raising, securitization, and syndication 10 1.5.1 Traditional Funding and Securitization 11 1.5.2 Funding for Real Estate Loans and Syndication 12 1.5.3 Syndication of Real Estate Loans 13 Chapter 2 Structured Real Estate Financing 15 2.1 Bank roles 17 2.2 Bank loan contractual forms 17 2.3 Loans for development projects 18 2.4 Parts and stages of a structured loan 18 2.4.1 Analysis of the Transaction and Term Sheet 19 2.4.2 Real Estate Valuation 21 2.4.3 Basics of Property Appraisal 23 2.4.4 Due Diligence Process 32 2.4.5 Legal Due Diligence 32 Chapter 3 Loan Agreement 33 3.1 Object and purpose of the loan 34 3.2 Conditions precedent 34 3.3 Amount of the loan 35 3.4 Interest rates 36 3.5 Interest rate risk hedging 38 3.5.1 Interest Rate Cap 38 3.5.2 Collar 38 3.5.3 Interest Rate Swap 38 3.6 Loan allocation 41 3.7 Loan repayment schedule 43 3.8 Fees 43 3.9 Frequency of drawdown and procedures 45 3.10 Events of default 46 3.11 Property insurance 48 3.12 Representations and warranties 49 3.13 Duty to provide information 53 3.14 Costs, taxes, and ancillary charges 56 3.15 Contractual covenants 56 3.15.1 Balance Sheet Covenants 57 3.15.2 Financial Covenants 57 Chapter 4 Loan Repayment, Interest, and Renegotiation 63 4.1 Bullet payments 63 4.2 Pre-amortizing (semi-bullet) 63 4.3 Balloon payment 64 4.4 Fully amortizing repayment plans 65 4.4.1 Fixed-Capital Loan Repayment Plan 66 4.4.2 Floating-Rate Loan Repayment Plan 68 4.4.3 Loan with Interest Rate Caps 71 4.5 Other repayment schedules 73 4.5.1 Negative Amortizing Constant Payment Loan 73 4.5.2 Declining Payment Loan with Constant Amortizing 74 4.6 Restructuring and renegotiation of real estate loans 75 4.6.1 Grant of a New Loan 76 4.6.2 Deferral of Payment Deadlines 76 4.6.3 Restructuring Arrangement 77 Chapter 5 Effects of Financial Leverage on Real Estate Investments 79 5.1 An illustration of financial leverage 80 5.2 The effects of an increase in volatility 81 5.3 The effect of financial leverage on returns 82 5.4 The effect of financial leverage on risk 82 5.5 "No Free Lunch" 84 5.6 The mechanics of financial leverage 84 5.7 The effect of the spread 85 5.8 A brief summary of when to use financial leverage 86 Chapter 6 Structured Real Estate Financing Case Studies 89 6.1 Structured financing for an income producing property 90 6.1.1 Description of the Transaction 90 6.1.2 Term Sheet for an Income Producing Property 90 6.2 Structured financing for a real estate portfolio acquisition 100 6.2.1 Description of the Portfolio Acquisition 100 6.2.2 Term Sheet for the Financing of a Real Estate Portfolio 101 6.3 Financing of a real estate development project 113 6.3.1 Description of the Residential Development Project 113 6.3.2 Term Sheet for the Development Project Loan 113 6.4 Financing a shopping centre: credit application 121 6.4.1 Players Involved 121 6.4.2 Financial Analysis and Key Figures 126 6.4.3 Risk Appraisal 128 6.4.4 Risk Rating and Risk-Reward 131 6.4.5 Conclusion and Recommendation 131 Chapter 7 Hybrid Forms of Financing 133 7.1 Description 133 7.2 Procedures for establishing mezzanine finance and cost 137 7.2.1 The Debt Component 137 7.2.2 Equity Kicker 139 7.3 Covenants in a mezzanine financing 140 7.4 Economic mechanics of hybrid financing 141 7.4.1 Mezzanine Financing for an Income Producing Property 142 7.4.2 Preferred Equity for Development Projects 144 7.5 Waterfall payout agreement 148 7.6 Intercreditor agreement 154 Chapter 8 Basel Accords and Effects on Real Estate Financing 159 8.1 Basel II 160 8.2 Basel III 160 8.3 The Basel Accords and real estate financing 161 8.4 Standardized Approach 162 8.5 IRB Foundation and Advanced methods 163 Part two Outline of the most relevant legal issues in selected jurisdictions Chapter 9 China 171 Chapter 10 England and Wales 177 Chapter 11 France 185 Chapter 12 Germany 201 Chapter 13 India 207 Chapter 14 Italy 215 Chapter 15 Spain 229 Authors 235 Giacomo Morri 235 Antonio Mazza 235 Alessandro P. …”

“…Gain hands-on experience of installing OpenShift Origin 3.9 in a production configuration and managing applications using the platform you built Key Features Gain hands-on experience of working with Kubernetes and Docker Learn how to deploy and manage applications in OpenShift Get a practical approach to managing applications on a cloud-based platform Explore multi-site and HA architectures of OpenShift for production Book Description Docker containers transform application delivery technologies to make them faster and more reproducible, and to reduce the amount of time wasted on configuration. Managing Docker containers in the multi-node or multi-datacenter environment is a big challenge, which is why container management platforms are required. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- 5.7 Increasing the Amount of Product Formed in a Reaction -- 5.8 Calculating &amp -- #916 -- H° Values -- 5.9 Using &amp -- #916 -- H° Values to Determine the Relative Stabilities of Alkenes -- PROBLEM-SOLVING STRATEGY -- NUTRITIONAL CONNECTION: Trans Fats -- 5.10 Kinetics: How Fast is the Product Formed? …”

“…Everyone from database administrators to application programmers and the people who manage them will find clear, concise explanations of the SQL language and its many powerful applications. With the ballooning amount of data out there, more and more businesses, large and small, are moving from spreadsheets to SQL databases like Access, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle databases, MySQL, and PostgreSQL. …”

“…Squid improves network performance by reducing the amount of bandwidth used when surfing the Web. It makes web pages load faster and can even reduce the load on your web server. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Using a bar chart to show the average amount spent by category -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- See also -- Creating a line chart of item views and purchases over time -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- See also -- Chapter 4: Building an Operational Intelligence Application -- Introduction -- Creating an Operational Intelligence application -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- There's more... -- Creating an application from another application -- Downloading and installing a Splunk app -- See also -- Adding dashboards and reports -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- There's more... -- Changing permissions of saved reports -- See also -- Organizing the dashboards more efficiently -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- There's more... -- Modifying the Simple XML directly -- See also -- Dynamically drilling down on activity reports -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- There's more... -- Disabling the drilldown feature in tables and charts -- See also -- Creating a form for searching web activity -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- There's more... -- Adding a Submit button to your form -- See also -- Linking web page activity reports to the form -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- There's more... -- Adding an overlay to the Sessions Over Time chart -- See also -- Displaying a geographical map of visitors -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- There's more... -- Adding a map panel using Simple XML -- Mapping different distributions by area -- See also -- Highlighting average product price -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- See also -- Scheduling the PDF delivery of a dashboard -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- See also…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- The Mole: A Chemist's "Dozen" -- Converting between Number of Moles and Number of Atoms -- Converting between Mass and Amount (Number of Moles) -- REVIEW -- Self-Assessment Quiz -- Key Learning Outcomes -- Key Terms -- Key Concepts -- Key Equations and Relationships -- EXERCISES -- Review Questions -- Problems by Topic -- Cumulative Problems -- Challenge Problems -- Conceptual Problems -- Answers to Conceptual Connections -- 3 The Quantum-Mechanical Model of the Atom -- 3.1 Schrödinger's Cat -- 3.2 The Nature of Light -- The Wave Nature of Light -- The Electromagnetic Spectrum -- Interference and Diffraction -- The Particle Nature of Light -- 3.3 Atomic Spectroscopy and the Bohr Model -- Atomic Spectra -- The Bohr Model -- Atomic Spectroscopy and the Identification of Elements -- 3.4 The Wave Nature of Matter: The de Broglie Wavelength, the Uncertainty Principle, and Indeterminacy -- The de Broglie Wavelength -- The Uncertainty Principle -- Indeterminacy and Probability Distribution Maps -- 3.5 Quantum Mechanics and the Atom -- Solutions to the Schrödinger Equation for the Hydrogen Atom -- Atomic Spectroscopy Explained -- 3.6 The Shapes of Atomic Orbitals -- s Orbitals (l = 0) -- p Orbitals (l = 1) -- d Orbitals (l = 2) -- f Orbitals (l = 3) -- The Phase of Orbitals -- The Shape of Atoms -- REVIEW -- Self-Assessment Quiz -- Key Learning Outcomes -- Key Terms -- Key Concepts -- Key Equations and Relationships -- EXERCISES -- Review Questions -- Problems by Topic -- Cumulative Problems -- Challenge Problems -- Conceptual Problems -- Answers to Conceptual Connections -- 4 Periodic Properties of the Elements -- 4.1 Aluminum: Low-Density Atoms Result in Low-Density Metal…”

“…Digitization and Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) have vastly increased the amount of data available to manufacturing production systems. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Processes, threads, and coroutines -- Processes -- Threads -- Coroutines -- Putting things together -- Introduction to concurrency -- Concurrency is not parallelism -- CPU-bound and I/O-bound -- CPU-bound -- I/O-bound -- Concurrency versus parallelism in CPU-bound algorithms -- Single-core execution -- Parallel execution -- Concurrency versus parallelism in I/O-bound algorithms -- Why concurrency is often feared -- Race conditions -- Atomicity violation -- Deadlocks -- Livelocks -- Concurrency in Kotlin -- Non-blocking -- Being explicit -- Readable -- Leveraged -- Flexible -- Concepts and terminology -- Suspending computations -- Suspending functions -- Suspending lambdas -- Coroutine dispatcher -- Coroutine builders -- Summary -- Chapter 2: Coroutines in Action -- Downloading and installing Android Studio -- Creating a Kotlin project -- Adding support for coroutines -- Android's UI thread -- CalledFromWrongThreadException -- NetworkOnMainThreadException -- Requesting in the background, updating in the UI thread -- Creating a thread -- CoroutineDispatcher -- Attaching a coroutine to a dispatcher -- Starting a coroutine with async -- Starting a coroutine with launch -- Using a specific dispatcher when starting the coroutine -- Adding networking permissions -- Creating a coroutine to call a service -- Adding UI elements -- What happens when the UI is blocked -- Displaying the amount of news that were processed -- Using a UI dispatcher -- Platform-specific UI libraries -- Adding the dependency -- Using Android's UI coroutine dispatcher -- Creating an asynchronous function to hold the request... or not -- A synchronous function wrapped in an asynchronous caller…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Get and Use Good Data -- Heed Growing Threats More -- Row the Same Direction -- Focus on Social Engineering Mitigation -- Track Processes and Network Traffic -- Improve Overall Cybersecurity Hygiene -- Use Multifactor Authentication -- Use a Strong Password Policy -- Secure Elevated Group Memberships -- Improve Security Monitoring -- Secure PowerShell -- Secure Data -- Secure Backups -- Summary -- Chapter 11 What Not to Do -- Assume You Can't Be a Victim -- Think That One Super-Tool Can Prevent an Attack -- Assume Too Quickly Your Backup Is Good -- Use Inexperienced Responders -- Give Inadequate Considerations to Paying Ransom -- Lie to Attackers -- Insult the Gang by Suggesting Tiny Ransom -- Pay the Whole Amount Right Away -- Argue with the Ransomware Gang -- Apply Decryption Keys to Your Only Copy -- Not Care About Root Cause -- Keep Your Ransomware Response Plan Online Only -- Allow a Team Member to Go Rogue -- Accept a Social Engineering Exclusion in Your Cyber-Insurance Policy -- Summary -- Chapter 12 Future of Ransomware -- Future of Ransomware -- Attacks Beyond Traditional Computers -- IoT Ransoms -- Mixed-PurposeHacking Gangs -- Future of Ransomware Defense -- Future Technical Defenses -- Ransomware Countermeasure Apps and Features -- AI Defense and Bots -- Strategic Defenses -- Focus on Mitigating Root Causes -- Geopolitical Improvements -- Systematic Improvements…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Social microcredit to support local housing policies: new instruments for social inclusion -- 4.5.4 Possible developments within the programming period 2014-2020: the Italian case -- 4.6 Housing microcredit: the French case -- 4.6.1 Introduction -- 4.6.2 Context of the experimentation -- General overview of personal microcredit in France -- Energy poverty: a rising problem -- 4.6.3 Main characteristics of housing microcredit -- Target group -- Amount, duration, cost -- Eligible works -- Credit assessment methodology: combining energy efficiency and financial expertise -- 4.6.4 A shared-value approach -- Expected impacts -- Environmental impact -- Impact on the beneficiaries -- Financial impact -- Sustainability: a multistakeholder approach…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Chapter 9: Paying for Expenses -- When to Pay Expenses -- Entering Bills -- Recording a Deposit to a Vendor -- Handling Reimbursable Expenses -- Paying Your Bills -- Writing Checks Without Entering Bills -- Producing Checks -- Paying Using Other Payment Methods -- Recording Vendor Refunds and Credits -- Running Expense-Related Reports -- Chapter 10: Invoicing -- Choosing the Right Type of Form -- Sales Forms and Accounts -- Creating Invoices -- Creating Batch Invoices -- Deposits, Down Payments, and Retainers -- Invoicing for Billable Time and Costs -- Invoicing for Backordered Products -- Estimating Jobs -- Creating Progress Invoices -- Handling Customer Refunds and Credits -- Modifying Invoices -- Chapter 11: Producing Statements -- Generating Statements -- Chapter 12: Transaction Timesavers -- Printing Forms -- Emailing Forms -- Memorizing Transactions -- Finding Transactions -- Chapter 13: Managing Accounts Receivable -- Receivables Aging -- Receiving Payments for Invoiced Income -- Applying Credits to Invoices -- Discounting for Early Payment -- Correcting Misapplied Customer Payments -- Applying Finance Charges -- Cash Sales -- Making Deposits -- Chapter 14: Bank Accounts and Credit Cards -- Entering Transactions in an Account Register -- Handling Bounced Checks -- Transferring Funds -- Reconciling Accounts -- Managing Loans -- Chapter 15: Doing Payroll -- Getting Started with QuickBooks Payroll -- Intuit Payroll Services -- Signing Up for an Intuit Payroll Service -- Setting Up Payroll in QuickBooks -- Running Payroll -- Paying Payroll Liabilities -- Preparing Payroll Tax Forms -- Running Payroll Reports -- Recording Transactions from a Payroll Service -- Paying Yourself -- Chapter 16: Making Journal Entries -- Balancing Debit and Credit Amounts -- Some Reasons to Use Journal Entries -- Creating Journal Entries -- Checking Journal Entries…”