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Tabla de Contenidos: “…Sell Your Business at the Right Time and Price; 62. Sell Your Company to an Industry Giant; Chapter 3: Technology and Telecommunications; 63. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- The ID3 algorithm -- Java Implementation of the ID3 algorithm -- The Weka platform -- The ARFF filetype for data -- Java implementation with Weka -- Bayesian classifiers -- Java implementation with Weka -- Support vector machine algorithms -- Logistic regression -- K-Nearest Neighbors -- Fuzzy classification algorithms -- Summary -- Chapter 8: Cluster Analysis -- Measuring distances -- The curse of dimensionality -- Hierarchical clustering -- Weka implementation -- K-means clustering -- K-medoids clustering -- Affinity propagation clustering -- Summary -- Chapter 9: Recommender Systems -- Utility matrices -- Similarity measures -- Cosine similarity -- A simple recommender system -- Amazon's item-to-item collaborative filtering recommender -- Implementing user ratings -- Large sparse matrices -- Using random access files -- The Netflix prize -- Summary -- Chapter 10: NoSQL Databases -- The Map data structure -- SQL versus NoSQL -- The Mongo database system -- The Library database -- Java development with MongoDB -- The MongoDB extension for geospatial databases -- Indexing in MongoDB -- Why NoSQL and why MongoDB? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Preference -- 101 Phonetic Symbolism -- 102 Picture Superiority Effect -- 103 Priming -- 104 Progressive Disclosure -- 105 Propositional Density -- 106 Prospect-Refuge -- 107 Prototyping -- 108 Proximity -- 109 Readability -- 110 Reciprocity -- 111 Recognition Over Recall -- 112 Red Effects -- 113 Redundancy -- 114 Root Cause -- 115 Rosetta Stone -- 116 Rule of Thirds -- 117 Saint-Venant's Principle -- 118 Satisficing -- 119 Savanna Preference -- 120 Scaling Fallacy -- 121 Scarcity -- 122 Selection Bias -- 123 Self-Similarity -- 124 Serial Position Effects -- 125 Shaping -- 126 Signal-to-Noise Ratio -- 127 Similarity -- 128 Social Trap -- 129 Stickiness -- 130 Storytelling -- 131 Structural Forms -- 132 Sunk Cost Effect -- 133 Supernormal Stimulus -- 134 Symmetry -- 135 Threat Detection -- 136 Top-Down Lighting Bias -- 137 Uncanny Valley -- 138 Uncertainty Principle -- 139 Uniform Connectedness -- 140 Veblen Effect -- 141 Visibility -- 142 Visuospatial Resonance -- 143 von Restorff Effect -- 144 Wabi-Sabi -- 145 Waist-to-Hip Ratio -- 146 Wayfinding -- 147 Weakest Link -- 148 White Effects -- 149 Yellow Effects -- 150 Zeigarnik Effect -- Credits -- Acknowledgments -- About the Authors -- Dedication -- Copyright…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Financial Analysis and Economic Analysis in Public Services: The Distinction -- The Management Accountant in Public Services -- Factors That Drive the Configuration of Management Accounting in Public Service Organisations -- Part B Management Accounting Practice in Public Services -- Chapter 7 Costing and Cost Information for Decision Making in Public Services -- Introduction -- How Cost Information Can be Used to Manage Public Services -- Approaches to the Classification of Costs -- Costing Systems and Cost Models in Public Services -- Traditional Overhead Costing and Activity Based Costing (ABC) -- Identifying and Estimating Costs in Public Services -- Difficulties and Complexities of Costing in Modern Public Services -- Developing Costing Systems in Public Services -- Chapter 8 Management Accounting and Operational/Tactical Decision Making in Public Services -- Introduction -- Operational/Tactical and Strategic Decision Making: The Distinction -- Operational/Tactical Decision Making In Public Services -- Management Accounting Methods -- Chapter 9 Management Accounting and Public Service Strategy -- Introduction -- Cost and Income Benchmarking -- Strategic Capital Investment Appraisal -- Strategic Cost Improvement -- Programme/Client Group Analysis and Budgeting -- Strategic Options Evaluation -- Strategic Financial Forecasting -- Decision Support Models and Strategic Financial Forecasting -- Pricing Strategies in Public Services -- Strategic Financial Leadership -- Chapter 10 Management Accounting and Management Control In Public Services -- Introduction -- Key Management Tasks -- Nature and Purpose of Management Control -- Operational/Tactical Management Control -- Cash and Working Capital Control and Management -- Budgeting Systems and Budgetary Control in Public Service Management -- Strategic Management Control…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…2.4.3 High temperature reductive etching process2.4.4 Gas sensing experiments; 2.5 Results and Discussion; 2.5.1 Mo- and MoO3-based studies; 2.5.2 W- and WO3-based studies; 2.5.3 TiO2-based studies; 2.6 Conclusions; References; 3 Advanced characterization techniques for nanostructures; 3.1 Measurement of the Topology of Nanostructures; 3.1.1 Field emission scanning electron microscope; 3.1.2 Scanning probe microscopy; 3.1.3 Optical microscopes; 3.2 MEasurement of Internal Geometries of Nanostructures; 3.2.1 Transmission electron microscope; 3.2.2 Focused ion beam; 3.2.3 X-ray diffraction…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover; Title page; Copyright Page; Contents; About the Authors; Preface; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1 - Introduction; 1.1 - Data reliability in the Cloud; 1.2 - Background of Cloud storage; 1.2.1 - Distinctive features of Cloud storage systems; 1.2.1.1 - On-demand self-service and pay-as-you-go pricing model; 1.2.1.2 - Redundant and scalable virtualized resources; 1.2.1.3 - Dedicated Cloud network; 1.2.1.4 - Big data; 1.2.2 - The Cloud data life cycle; 1.2.2.1 - Data creation; 1.2.2.2 - Data maintenance; 1.2.2.3 - Data recovery; 1.2.2.4 - Data deletion; 1.3 - Key issues of research…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…3.1.3 Continuous-time models for asset prices and interest rates3.2 Some common probability distributions; 3.2.1 Bernoulli, binomial, and geometric variables; 3.2.2 Exponential and Poisson distributions; 3.2.3 Normal and related distributions; 3.2.4 Beta distribution; 3.2.5 Gamma distribution; 3.2.6 Empirical distributions; 3.3 Multivariate distributions: Covariance and correlation; 3.3.1 Multivariate distributions; 3.3.2 Covariance and Pearson''s correlation; 3.3.3 R functions for covariance and correlation; 3.3.4 Some typical multivariate distributions; 3.4 Modeling dependence with copulas…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…""2.8.1 Assigning an Object Variable to Another""""2.8.2 Losing Access to an Object""; ""2.8.3 Comparing Object Variables""; ""2.10 Passing an Object as an Argument""; ""2.11 Array of Objects""; ""2.11.1 Finding the Part with the Lowest Price""; ""2.12 Searching an Array of Objects""; ""2.13 Sorting an Array of Objects""; ""2.15 How to Return More Than One Value: Voting""; ""Chapter 3: Linked Lists""; ""3.1 Defining Linked Lists""; ""3.2 Basic Operations on a Linked List""; ""3.2.1 Counting the Nodes in a Linked List""; ""3.2.2 Searching a Linked List""…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover -- Title -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER 1: MEASUREMENT CONVERSION CHARTS -- Millimeters, Points, and Picas to Inches -- Inch Decimals to Inch Fractions -- Conversion Formulas -- Metric to Imperial Equivalents -- CHAPTER 2: COPYRIGHT AND TRADEMARK STANDARDS -- Copyright -- Public Domain -- Transferring Rights -- Creative Commons Licensing -- Tradmarks and Service Marks -- Legal Resources -- CHAPTER 3: PROOFREADING AND COPYWRITING -- Proofreaders' Symbols -- Footnotes -- Abbreviation Guide -- Hyphenation Guide -- Prime Marks and Quotation Marks Guide -- CHAPTER 4: IMAGING AND COLOR -- Image File Formatss -- Halftone Screens -- Tint Values for Halftone Screens -- Duotones -- Finding the Best Scanning Resolution -- Scaling an Image -- Standard Digital Image Sizes for Web -- Standard Ad Unit Guidelines -- CHAPTER 5: TYPE -- Type Basics and Terminology -- Categorizing Typefaces -- Serif and Sans Serif -- Measuring Type -- Type Guide -- Ways to Identify Typefaces -- Text Typefaces -- CHAPTER 6: NEW GRID DESIGN BASICS -- Types of Grids -- Anatomy of a Grid -- Working with Grids -- Typographic Unit Grids -- Composite Grids -- Modular Grids -- Hierarchical Grids -- CHAPTER 7: PAPER -- North American Sheet Sizes -- International, or ISO, Sheet Sizes -- Basis Weight Equivalents -- Grammage -- Caliper, Bulk, and PPI -- Basis Weight/Caliper Equivalents -- Finishes -- Grain -- Paper Estimator -- Paper Usage Guide -- CHAPTER 8: BINDINGS AND FOLDS -- Standard Binding Types -- Which Binding Method Works Best? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…; 4.6 Social Media and Communication; 4.6.1 A Focus on Facebook Advertising Tools; 4.7 Social Media Use Within Pricing and Revenue Management; References…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Adding more complexity and applying the modifier to other objects -- Adding rocks to the node tree -- Customizing our Geometry Nodes system -- Summary -- Chapter 6: Screen Space Reflections - Adding Reflection to the Water -- Technical requirements -- Screen space reflections -- Light probes - reflection planes -- Advanced water - volume and transparency -- Summary -- Chapter 7: Faking Camera Effects for Better Renders -- Technical requirements -- Atmospheric lighting -- Bloom -- Ambient occlusion -- Depth of field -- Summary -- Chapter 8: Using Alphas for Details -- Technical requirements -- Adding detail to the scene (with birds!) …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…About the Special Issue Editor -- Preface to "Hybrid Advanced Techniques for Forecasting in Energy Sector" -- Guo-Feng Fan, Shan Qing, Hua Wang, Wei-Chiang Hong and Hong-Juan Li Support Vector Regression Model Based on Empirical Mode Decomposition and Auto Regression for Electric Load Forecasting Reprinted from: Energies 2013, 6, 1887-1901, doi: 10.3390/en6041887 -- Qun Niu, Zhuo Zhou, Hong-Yun Zhang and Jing Deng An Improved Quantum-Behaved Particle Swarm Optimization Method for Economic Dispatch Problems with Multiple Fuel Options and Valve-Points Effects Reprinted from: Energies 2012, 5, 3655-3673, doi: 10.3390/en5093655 -- Hongze Li, Sen Guo, Huiru Zhao, Chenbo Su and Bao Wang Annual Electric Load Forecasting by a Least Squares Support Vector Machine with a Fruit Fly Optimization Algorithm, Reprinted from: Energies 2012, 5, 4430-4445, doi: 10.3390/en5114430 -- Ying-Yi Hong and Ching-Ping Wu Day-Ahead Electricity Price Forecasting Using a Hybrid Principal Component Reprinted from: Energies 2012, 5, 4711-4725, doi: 10.3390/en5114711 -- Antonio Bracale, Pierluigi Caramia, Guido Carpinelli, Anna Rita Di Fazio and Gabriella Ferruzzi -- A Bayesian Method for Short-Term Probabilistic Forecasting of Photovoltaic Generation in Smart Grid Operation and Control Reprinted from: Energies 2013, 6, 733-747, doi: 10.3390/en6020733 -- Qian Zhang, Kin Keung Lai, Dongxiao Niu, Qiang Wang and Xuebin Zhang A Fuzzy Group Forecasting Model Based on Least Squares Support Vector Machine (LS-SVM) for Short-Term Wind Power Reprinted from: Energies 2012, 5, 3329-3346, doi: 10.3390/en5093329 -- Jaeyeong Yoo and Kyeon Hur Load Forecast Model Switching Scheme for Improved Robustness to Changes in Building Energy Consumption Patterns Reprinted from: Energies 2013, 6, 1329-1343, doi: 10.3390/en6031329 -- Miloš Božic, Miloš Stojanovic, Zoran Stajic and Dragan Tasic A New Two-Stage Approach to Short Term Electrical Load Forecasting Reprinted from: Energies 2013, 6, 2130-2148, doi: 10.3390/en6042130 -- Luis Hernandez, Carlos Baladrón, Javier M. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…About the Special Issue Editors -- Preface to "Laser-Based Nano Fabrication and Nano Lithography" -- Seiya Nikaido, Takumi Natori, Ryo Saito and Godai Miyaji Nanostructure Formation on Diamond-Like Carbon Films Induced with Few-Cycle Pulses at Low Fluence from a Ti:Sapphire Laser Oscillator Reprinted from: Nanomaterials 2018, 8, 535, doi:10.3390/nano8070535 -- Xin Zheng, Cong Cong, Yuhao Lei, Jianjun Yang and Chunlei Guo Formation of Slantwise Surface Ripples by Femtosecond Laser Irradiation Reprinted from: Nanomaterials 2018, 8, 458, doi:10.3390/nano8070458 -- Ignacio Falcón Casas and Wolfgang Kautek Subwavelength Nanostructuring of Gold Films by Apertureless Scanning Probe Lithography Assisted by a Femtosecond Fiber Laser Oscillator Reprinted from: Nanomaterials 2018, 8, 536, doi:10.3390/nano8070536 -- Ying Liu, John H. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Quelques contrats de commandes d'étoffes à Nuzi / Demonization of enemies in Mesopotamian literature : a case study in verbal imagery / Identifying the big bird in the battle reliefs of Ashurnasirpal II / Composite creatures on seal impressions of Nuzi / Herméneutique de l'action pour l'étude des relations entre les entités animées et leur agency au Proche-Orient ancien: Hypatia et alii / The divine "image" and "shadow" in iconography, inscriptions and philology / La cuisse de Baal : analyse d'un rituel d'intégration / "Of marshes, kings, and rebels" : on the perception and representation of southern Mesopotamian wetlands at the Neo-Assyrian royal court / Bemerkungen zur vermittelnden Gottheit unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der sumerischen Königshymnen / Beschriftete Hundestatuetten aus Mesopotamien / An overview on the excavations at Üçtepe Höyük (ancient Tušḫan) : the 1988-1992 excavation seasons / "I was swollen with hunger and he kept me alive" : the imagery of the legal texts from Emar / The Nuzi apprenticeship contracts / Decreeing fate and name-giving in enūma eliš : approaching a fundamental Mesopotamian concept with special consideration of the underlying assumptions and of the condition of possibility of human knowledge / Dating the reigns of Xerxes and Artaxerxes / Une nouvelle archive privée d'un marchand de l'époque d'Ur III / Text als Bild : Graphic Reading am Beispiel der sumerischen Rangstreitgespräche / Gilgameš's ghosts : a case for Enkidu's Catalog of the Dead as a manual for apprentice exorcists / Le rapport entre texte et image dans les reliefs de Ḫorsābād : tradition et innovation un siècle et demi après Assurnaṣirpal II / Text and architecture: YBC 5022 and BM 15285 as "manuals of an architect" / Construire l'image, dire les rites : essai sur l'iconographie des rituels hittites / Estimation and observation : a study of two Old Babylonian tabular administrative documents / The movement of text and image within the layout of an envelope throughout Mesopotamian history / 'If the earth quakes…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Leusch, Kazuo Yamamoto, William E. Price and Long D. Nghiem / Degradation of Trace Organic Contaminants by a Membrane Distillation-Enzymatic Bioreactor, Reprinted from: Appl. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…DALLA MORTE AL PRIMO RECUPERO 75 -- 3.1. Le prime voci in difesa di Teige 75 -- 3.2. L'omaggio di un vecchio avversario 79 -- 3.3. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Life Cycle Impacts -- Green Building Certifications -- Policy and Regulation -- Conclusion -- Chapter 10 The Importance of Planning to Avoid Things Going Wrong -- Introduction -- Acquisitions and Investments -- Operating Models and Commercial Contracts -- Funding Investment -- Construction -- Choice of Contract -- Technical and Pricing Schedules -- Risk Allocation -- Usual Suspects -- Infrastructure Provision and Project Rights -- Construction -- Moving to Low Carbon Solutions -- What Are Data Centre Operators Doing to Transition to Low Carbon? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Part I: Preliminaries -- Chapter 1: Sets and Relations -- 1.1 Sets and subsets -- 1.2 Relations and functions -- 1.3 Equivalence relations and partitions -- 1.4 The cardinality of a set -- Chapter 2: Number Systems -- 2.1 Integers -- 2.2 Congruence modulo n -- 2.3 Rational, real and complex numbers -- 2.4 Ordering -- 2.5 Matrices -- 2.6 Determinants -- Part II: Group Theory -- Chapter 3: Groups -- 3.1 Binary systems -- 3.2 Groups -- 3.3 Elementary properties of groups -- 3.4 Finite groups and group tables -- Chapter 4: Subgroups and Quotient Groups -- 4.1 Subgroups -- 4.2 Cyclic groups -- 4.3 Cosets of a subgroup -- 4.4 Lagrange's theorem -- 4.5 Normal subgroups -- 4.6 Quotient groups -- Chapter 5: Homomorphisms of Groups -- 5.1 Definition and examples -- 5.2 Fundamental theorem of homomorphisms -- 5.3 Isomorphism theorems -- 5.4 Automorphisms -- Chapter 6: Permutation Groups -- 6.1 Cayley's theorem -- 6.2 The symmetric group Sn -- 6.3 Cycles -- 6.4 Alternating group An and dihedral group Dn -- Chapter 7: Group Actions on Sets -- 7.1 Action of a group on a set -- 7.2 Orbits and stabilizers -- 7.3 Certain counting techniques -- 7.4 Cauchy and Sylow theorems -- Chapter 8: Structure Theory of Groups -- 8.1 Direct products -- 8.2 Finitely generated abelian groups -- 8.3 Invariants of finite abelian groups -- 8.4 Groups of small order -- Part III: Ring Theory -- Chapter 9: Rings -- 9.1 Examples and elementary properties -- 9.2 Certain special elements in rings -- 9.3 The characteristic of a ring -- 9.4 Subrings -- 9.5 Homomorphisms of rings -- 9.6 Certain special types of rings -- 9.7 Integral domains and fields -- Chapter 10: Ideals and Quotient Rings -- 10.1 Ideals -- 10.2 Quotient rings -- 10.3 Chinese remainder theorem -- 10.4 Prime ideals -- 10.5 Maximal ideals -- 10.6 Embeddings of rings…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover -- Endorsements -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1 Introduction to Economic Dynamics -- 1.1 A short primer on MATLAB® -- Chapter 2 The Cobweb Model -- 2.1 Economic problem -- 2.2 Modelling -- 2.3 Analysis, simulation and visualisation -- 2.3.1 Cobweb plots -- 2.4 Concluding remarks, extensions and challenges -- Chapter 3 Expectation Dynamics in the Cobweb Model -- 3.1 Economic problem -- 3.2 Modelling -- 3.3 Analysis, simulation and visualisation -- 3.3.1 Cobweb plots -- 3.4 Concluding remarks, extensions and challenges -- Chapter 4 Keynesian Multiplier Model -- 4.1 Economic problem -- 4.2 Modelling -- 4.3 Analysis, simulation and visualisation -- 4.4 Concluding remarks, extensions and challenges -- Chapter 5 The Is/Lm Model -- 5.1 Economic problem -- 5.2 Modelling -- 5.3 Analysis, simulation and visualisation -- 5.4 Remarks, extensions and challenges -- Chapter 6 Debt, Deficit and Stabilisation Policy -- 6.1 Economic problem -- 6.2 Modelling -- 6.3 Analysis, simulation and visualisation -- 6.3.1 Simulation and visualisation -- 6.4 Concluding remarks, extensions and challenges -- Chapter 7 Expectation Dynamics and Hyperinflation -- 7.1 Economic problem -- 7.2 Modelling -- 7.3 Analysis, simulation and visualisation -- 7.3.1 The naive expectation model -- 7.3.2 The perfect foresight model -- 7.3.3 Analysis of the rational expectation model -- 7.3.4 Simulation and visualisation -- 7.4 Concluding remarks, extensions and challenges -- Chapter 8 The Dornbusch Exchange Rate Overshooting Model -- 8.1 Economic problem -- 8.2 Modelling -- 8.2.1 Commodity price dynamics -- 8.3 Analysis, simulation and visualisation -- 8.4 Concluding remarks, extensions and challenges -- Chapter 9 The Solow-Swan Growth Model -- 9.1 Economic problem -- 9.2 Modelling…”