Tabla de Contenidos: “…Skill or frequency of task -- Staticity bias -- The bias of gatekeepers and professional respondents -- 5 Doing the right things -- Consensus bias -- Get beyond the recency and primacy effects -- 6 ...at the right time of day or week or month -- 7 ...for the right duration -- 8 ...in the right location/setting -- 9 ...using the right device -- Bias during the execution phase -- 10 Correctly primed and instructed -- 11 The right amount of priming and instruction -- 12 Correctly moderated -- Moderator bias -- 12a Biased questions -- Leading question bias -- Misunderstood question bias -- Unanswerable question bias -- Metaphorically speaking -- Question order bias -- 12b Biased answers -- Cognitive overload bias -- Consistency bias -- Dominant respondent bias -- Error bias -- Hostility bias -- Moderator acceptance bias (acquiescence or confirmation bias) -- Mood bias -- Overstatement bias -- Reference bias (order bias) -- Sensitive issue bias -- Social acceptance bias -- Sponsor bias -- The most dreaded answer: "I don't know." -- 13 Monitored by the right people -- Bias during the analysis and reporting phase -- 14 A rigorous, methodical analysis -- 15 A timely, relevant, and actionable report -- Biased reporting -- Positive reporting bias and publication bias -- 16 A simple and focused presentation -- Hindsight bias -- 17 Sustaining the findings -- 18 Actioned right -- Bias is not a bug - it's a feature -- Further reading on bias -- Chapter 3: Succeed Through Better Research Practice -- Compliance to rules and regulations -- GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) -- A consent form -- Minimize the collection of unnecessary information -- Ensure that all user data (including data used by third-party tools) is being stored and processed securely -- Give users control of their data -- COPPA (Children's Online Privacy Protection Act)…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Depreciation has put upward pressure on prices -- Figure 4. Unemployment has remained low but is rising -- Table 2. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Chapter 23 Hydropower Flexibility for Power Systems with Variable Renewable Energy Sources: An IEA Task 25 Collaboration -- INTRODUCTION -- HYDROPOWER FLEXIBILITY -- PRACTICAL EXPERIENCE IN USING HYDRO FLEXIBILITY FOR INTEGRATION OF VARIABLE GENERATION -- STUDYING POSSIBILITIES OF HYDROPOWER IN WIND INTEGRATION -- SIMULATION CHALLENGES -- CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 24 Contribution of Bulk Energy Storage to Integrating Variable Renewable Energies in Future European Electricity Systems -- INTRODUCTION -- ANALYSIS OF THE EUROPEAN ELECTRICITY MARKET REGIONS -- SETUP AND INPUT DATA -- RESULTS FOR THE CENTRAL WESTERN EUROPE REGION -- RESULTS FOR THE IBERIAN PENINSULA -- ROLE OF CROSS‐BORDER TRANSMISSION GRID EXPANSION AND EXTREME WEATHER EVENTS IN THE EUROPEAN ELECTRICITY MARKET REGIONS -- SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- FURTHER READING -- Chapter 25 Characterization of Demand Response in the Commercial, Industrial, and Residential Sectors in the United States -- OVERVIEW OF DEMAND RESPONSE IN THE UNITED STATES -- END USES CONSIDERED FOR DR -- DR ATTRIBUTES -- CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- FURTHER READING -- Chapter 26 Simplified Analysis of Balancing Challenges in Sustainable and Smart Energy Systems with 100% Renewable Power Supply -- INTRODUCTION -- KEEPING THE CONTINUOUS SHORT‐TERM POWER BALANCE -- LEVEL 1 ANALYSIS: MAXIMAL SHARE OF VARIABLE RENEWABLE -- LEVEL 2 ANALYSIS: TRANSITION DIAGRAMS -- LEVEL 3 ANALYSIS: TIME SERIES ANALYSIS -- CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- Part IV Changing Electricity Markets -- Chapter 27 Who Gains from Hourly Time-of-Use Retail Prices on Electricity? An Analysis of Consumption Profiles for Categories of Danish Electricity Customers -- INTRODUCTION -- DATA FOR HOURLY ELECTRICITY CONSUMPTION -- AVERAGE HOURLY CONSUMPTION AND SPOT MARKET PRICE PROFILES…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover -- Logic and Computer Design Fundamentals -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1: Digital Systems and Information -- Information Representation -- The Digital Computer -- Beyond the Computer -- More on the Generic Computer -- Abstraction Layers in Computer Systems Design -- An Overview of the Digital Design Process -- Number Systems -- Binary Numbers -- Octal and Hexadecimal Numbers -- Number Ranges -- Arithmetic Operations -- Conversion from Decimal to Other Bases -- Decimal Codes -- Alphanumeric Codes -- ASCII Character Code -- Parity Bit -- Gray Codes -- Chapter Summary -- References -- Problems -- Chapter 2: Combinational Logic Circuits -- Binary Logic and Gates -- Binary Logic -- Logic Gates -- HDL Representations of Gates -- Boolean Algebra -- Basic Identities of Boolean Algebra -- Algebraic Manipulation -- Complement of a Function -- Standard Forms -- Minterms and Maxterms -- Sum of Products -- Product of Sums -- Two-Level Circuit Optimization -- Cost Criteria -- Map Structures -- Two-Variable Maps -- Three-Variable Maps -- Map Manipulation -- Essential Prime Implicants -- Nonessential Prime Implicants -- Product-of-Sums Optimization -- Don't-Care Conditions -- Exclusive-Or Operator and Gates -- Odd Function -- Gate Propagation Delay -- HDLs Overview -- Logic Synthesis -- HDL Representations-VHDL -- HDL Representations-Verilog -- Chapter Summary -- References -- Problems -- Chapter 3: Combinational Logic Design -- Beginning Hierarchical Design -- Technology Mapping -- Combinational Functional Blocks -- Rudimentary Logic Functions -- Value-Fixing, Transferring, and Inverting -- Multiple-Bit Functions -- Enabling -- Decoding -- Decoder and Enabling Combinations -- Decoder-Based Combinational Circuits -- Encoding -- Priority Encoder -- Encoder Expansion -- Selecting -- Multiplexers -- Multiplexer-Based Combinational Circuits…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Election of Councillors -- Reservation of Seats for Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, and Women -- Ward Committees -- Standing Committee -- Duration of Municipalities -- Dissolution of the Municipality -- Co-option or Nomination of Members -- Associate Members -- Removal or Disqualification of Municipal Councillors -- Meetings of the Council -- Committee System -- Municipal President -- Position of the President -- The Executive Officer -- Powers of the Council -- Powers, Authority and Responsibilities of Municipalities -- Committee for District Planning -- Composition -- Functions -- Municipal Finance -- Appraisal of the Performance of Municipal Committees -- Erosion of Functions of Municipal Committees -- Notes and References -- Chapter 7: Municipal Corporations -- Main Features of a Municipal Corporation -- Differences Between a Municipal Corporation and a Municipal Committee -- Criteria for the Creation of a Municipal Corporation -- Structure Pattern of Municipal Corporations: The Municipal Authorities -- The Corporation Council -- Removal of Councillors -- Reservation for Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, and Women -- Duration of the Corporation -- Ward Committees -- Standing Committee -- The Powers, Functions and Duties of the Standing Committee -- Subject Committees -- Finances of Municipal Corporation -- Functions of Municipal Corporation -- Dissolution of Municipal Corporation -- Obligations and Privileges of the Councillors -- Committees for Metropolitan Planning -- Composition of the Committee -- Functions of the Committee -- Mayor -- Powers and Functions of the Mayor -- Strengthening the Mayor's Position -- Separation of Deliberative and Executive Functions: Rationale and Critique -- Rationale and Critique -- Remodelling the Structure -- Municipal Commissioner -- Appointment of the Commissioner…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Factors That Affect Final Cost -- Average Wind Speed -- Cost of Electricity Offset -- Government/Utility Incentives and Net-Metering Policies -- Rising Cost of Real Prices of Electricity -- Application -- Cost of Equipment -- Monitoring and Maintenance -- Installation Cost -- Insurance -- Source of Money -- Permitting Costs -- Zoning Jurisdiction -- Energy Usage Tax -- Raw Materials -- Financial Incentives -- Capital Subsidies -- Tax Incentives -- Low-Interest Loans -- Does Small Wind Pay? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Activity 9.02: Analyzing the Difference in the Sales Price Hypothesis -- Exercise 9.04: Analyzing Sales Growth by Email Opening Rate -- Exercise 9.05: Analyzing the Performance of the Email Marketing Campaign -- Conclusions -- In-Field Testing -- Summary -- Appendix -- Author Page -- Index…”

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Tabla de Contenidos: “…Lack of resource limits and quotas -- 5. Ignoring pod health probes -- 6. Bloated container images -- 7. Overutilization of Persistent Volumes -- 8. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…The total tax burden on cigarettes is above 60% of the consumer price in almost all OECD countries and above 75% in a majority of them -- 3.5. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…References -- Green Computing and Resource Management -- GreenWare: Greening Cloud-Scale Data Centers to Maximize the Use of Renewable Energy -- Introduction -- GreenWare Architecture -- Design Methodology of GreenWare -- Problem Formulation -- Response Time and Power Models -- Wind Power Model -- Solar Power Model -- Problem Solution -- Simulation Setup -- Datacenter Parameters -- Renewable Energy Availability -- Real-World Workload Traces -- Electricity Price Traces -- Evaluation Results -- Baselines -- Impacts of the Monthly Cost Budget -- Comparison with Baselines -- Impacts of Pricing Policies of Renewable Energy -- Related Work -- Conclusion -- References -- Resource Provisioning Framework for MapReduce Jobs with Performance Goals -- Introduction -- MapReduce Background -- Profiling MapReduce Jobs -- Job Execution as a Function of Allocated Resources -- Job Performance Invariants as a Job Profile -- MapReduce Performance Model -- General Theoretical Bounds -- Bounds-Based Completion Time Estimates of a MapReduce Job -- Scaling Factors -- Impact of Failures on the Completion Time Bounds -- SLO-Based Resource Provisioning -- Evaluation -- Performance Invariants -- Scaling Factors -- Performance Bounds of Job Completion Times -- SLO-Based Resource Provisioning -- Prediction of Job Completion Time with Failures -- Related Work -- Conclusion -- References -- Resource-Aware Adaptive Scheduling for MapReduce Clusters -- Introduction -- MapReduce and Hadoop -- Resource-Aware Adaptive Scheduler -- Problem Statement -- Architecture -- Performance Model -- Placement Algorithm and Optimization Objective -- Task Scheduler -- Job Profiles -- Evaluation -- Experimental Environment and Workload -- Experiment 1: Execution with Relaxed Completion Time Goals -- Experiment 2: Execution with Tight Completion Time Goals -- Related Work -- Conclusions -- References…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…La culture de la concurrence -- Recommandation de réforme -- Plan d'action et soutien potentiel de l'OCDE -- Recommandations -- Plan d'action -- Pour en savoir plus -- Références -- Chapitre 7. Intégrité du secteur privé au Maroc -- 7.1. L'importance de l'intégrité dans le secteur privé pour lutter contre la corruption -- 7.1.1. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Logique qui préside à la prise de décisions -- Les programmes globaux mettent l'accent sur la vulnérabilité et forment le cadre de l'engagement mondial -- La logique qui sous-tend l'engagement de la Suisse aux niveaux régional et national n'a pas de caractère prescriptif -- Un large éventail de partenariats avec des niveaux d'ambition stratégique différents -- Notes -- Références -- Chapitre 3. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Population active, emploi et chômage -- Annexe : Tableau 16. Indices de prix du PIB -- Annexe : Tableau 17. Déflateur de la consommation privée -- Annexe : Tableau 18. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Investissements incorporels, en pourcentage du PIB, 1995 -- Figure 3. Intensité des investissements corporels et incorporels, en pourcentage du PIB, 1995 -- Figure 4. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Indices implicites de prix du PIB -- Annexe : Tableau 17. Indices implicites de prix de la consommation privée -- Annexe : Tableau 18. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Impact de la convergence des résultats des hommes et des femmes en termes d'emploi sur le PIB par habitant…”