“…Students will learn how to: • Write job descriptions and specifications; develop cost-effective, competitive compensation and benefits programs • Recruit, select, interview, and hire more qualified employees in full compliance with Federal and State laws • Implement a results-based performance management plan • Develop policies and procedures manuals and employee handbooks • Select and use a Human Resource Information System (HRIS) • Evaluate training options to provide optimal training and development opportunities for all workers • Build a mentoring program to aid in succession planning • Create HR budgets and strategic plans that align with senior management priorities • Leverage new information on employee assistance and health insurance options to strengthen employee benefit programs Now completely revised, the fifth edition of this course covers new trends in training and development, the latest thinking on hiring, updated information on employment-related legal issues, insight on the changing role of unions, guidance on online recruitment and the smart use of social media, information on electronic performance management systems, a glossary of key terms, and much more. …”

“…Students will learn how to: • Set measurable project objectives and create a practical plan to achieve them • Control time, cost, and scope • Obtain approval and buy-in from senior management and key stakeholders • Create a work breakdown structure to ensure a solid foundation for project activities • Use network diagramming to control the project schedule • Employ standard estimating techniques, including analogous, parametric, and bottom-up methods • Prepare a project plan using progressive elaboration and the Critical Path Method • Lead the project team and manage relationships effectively and productively across the spectrum of project stakeholders • Identify project risk and manage change • Evaluate and report on project performance Now completely revised and updated, Successful Project Management aligns with the 5thedition of A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide), and covers outsourcing and procurement planning, the role of the Project Management Office, the use of three-point estimating and Monte Carlo simulation, earned value management, and much more. …”

“…Digital certificates play a major role in the protection of data communications and their use continues to grow. …”

“…Five senior IBM architects show you how to use information-centric views to give data a central role in project design and delivery. Using Common Information Models (CIM), you learn how to standardize the way you represent information, making it easier to design, deploy, and evolve even the most complex systems. …”

“…The book will help readers: Learn what it takes for editors, cinematographers, directors, producers, gaffers, and other filmmakers to work more effectively with the visual effects team during pre-production, on the set and in post, use visual effects as a narrative aid, reduce production costs, and solve problems on location; Achieve a deeper understanding of 3D, 2D, and 2.5D workflows; the various VFX crafts from matchmove to compositing; essential concepts like photorealism, parallax, roto, and extraction; become familiar with the most common types of VFX, their role in filmmaking, and learn how to plan effectively for the cost and complexity of VFX shots; See visual effects concepts brought to life in practical, highly illustrated examples drawn from the real-world experiences of industry professionals, and discover how to better integrate visual effects into your own projects…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…You are here -- Welcome to the production office -- Unlocking the role of the office PA -- Making it happen, behind the scenes -- Turning the page on production paperwork -- Mastering the art of workplace performance -- Reel life, unhinged -- Responsible production initiatives -- The big screen vs the small screen -- Where your story begins…”

“…Decolonizing "Prehistory" critically examines and challenges the paradoxical role that modern scholarship plays in adding legitimacy to, but also delegitimizing, contemporary colonialist practices. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…El Jefe Calls -- FIVE Clothes Make the Man -- SIX Trujillo's Two Bodies -- SEVEN Papá Liborio and the Morality of Rule -- CONCLUSION Charisma and the Gift of Recognition -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index…”

“…Light and light based technologies have played an important role in transforming our lives via scientific contributions spanned over thousands of years. …”

“…All topics of these proceedings are essential to the scientific foundations of oceanography which has a vital role in climate science. Studies convened in this volume focus on a range of fundamental areas, including: Observations at a high resolution of upper ocean properties such as temperature, salinity, topography, wind, waves and velocity; Large scale numerical simulations; Data-based stochastic equations for upper ocean dynamics that quantify simulation error; Stochastic data assimilation to reduce uncertainty. …”

“…The development of aperture synthesis and the controversy surrounding the cosmological interpretation of the first major survey which resulted in the Sydney research group's disagreements with Nobel laureate Martin Ryle play major roles in this story. This book also shows the connections among prominent astronomers like Oort, Minkowski, Baade, Struve, famous scientists in the UK such as J.A. …”

“…Secondary cities are vital as they perform essential regional, and in some cases, global economic roles and help to distribute the population of a country more evenly across its surface. …”

“…Migration plays a key role in these processes, bringing changes not just in social, cultural, religious and linguistic phenomena, but also in the ways that these phenomena combine with others like gender, age and legal status. …”

“…Governments nevertheless have important roles to play in ensuring credible net zero commitments, implementing frameworks for optimal risk management and by becoming involved as project participants, in cases where they judge that private actors do not realise the full value of a nuclear power project. …”

“…Nature, art, and the concordia discors that characterises both play a special role in the textual analyses. Together with distinctive intra- and intertextual references, they are understood as key aspects of Claudian's poetics…”

“…You'll see how employee engagement and experience research, concepts, and implementations are growing rapidly across many organizations and taking a key role in their global strategies. Employee-centric IT will transform employees to own their digital literacy and development, and this in turn reduces or even eliminates the shadow IT need and allows the organization to drive and implement successful digital transformation…”

“…This timely volume: Surveys the current state of the field and provides a starting point for developing faster, more reliable, and more selective analytical devices Focuses on the practical applications of miniaturized analytical devices in materials science, clinical microbiology, the pharmaceutical industry, and environmental analysis Covers a wide range of materials and analytical techniques such as microvolume UV-VIS spectroscopy, microchip and capillary electrophoresis, and matrix assisted laser desorption ionization-mass spectrometry (MALDI-MS) analysis Discusses the role of miniaturized analytical devices in securing a green and sustainable future Miniaturized Analytical Devices: Materials and Technology is essential reading for analytical chemists, analytical laboratories, materials scientists, biologists, life scientists, and advanced students in related fields…”

“…A detailed analysis and discussion is provided of the faunal remains; and a concluding chapter discusses the castles architecture and planning, its military functions, and its economic role within an agricultural estate that developed in the the later twelfth century to producefood and revenue for the Hospital in Jerusalem…”

“…To ensure continued progress, as well as stronger government finances in the longer term, the medium-term fiscal framework needs to be improved, notably by embedding the annual budget in a detailed three-year rolling programme. Expenditure needs to be controlled better, in particular as regards subsidies, which the central government has indeed been trying to rein in, though with difficulty in the face of rising world oil prices. …”

“…Ce rapport fait le point sur les principales tendances dans la zone de l’OCDE et analyse de manière plus approfondie certains thèmes spécifiques qui constituent les priorités des responsables de l’élaboration des politiques de l’innovation, tels que le rôle des droits de propriété intellectuelle et des marchés des concessions de licences technologiques dans les performances de l’innovation, les politiques destinées à accroître les retombées positives de l’internationalisation de la R-D des entreprises, les ressources humaines de la science et de la technologie, et l’évaluation de la politique de l’innovation. …”