“…Includes 10 handy do's and don'ts of using KPIs Want to measure the performance of your people and your business? …”

“…The essays and commentary explore Iliad 10 within the larger contexts of Homeric epic and the epic tradition."…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…DESCRIBE LOS DIFERENTES TIPOS DE LOS SISTEMAS COMPUTACIONALES (...) -- 1.25 LÓGICA DE FUNCIONALIDAD DE UN EQUIPO DE CÓMPUTO -- 1.25.1 ARQUITECTURA CISC, RISC, EPIC -- 1.26 DISEÑO BÁSICO DEL CPU EN BASE A LA EJECUCIÓN DE UN PROGRAMA -- 1.27 PALABRA DE PROCESADOR -- 1. 28 COMO EJECUTA UN PROGRAMA EL MICROPROCESADOR -- 1. 29 TIPOS DE INSTRUCCIONES: -- 1. 30 LOS MODOS DE DIRECCIONAMIENTO -- 1.31 RECURSOS DEL SISTEMA -- 1.31.1 IRQ·S -- 1.31.2 ACCESO DIRECTO A LA MEMORIA -- 1.31.3 DIRECCIONES DE PUERTOS DE ENTRADA/SALIDA -- 1. 32 HYPER. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Description of TreeFix-TP -- 2.3. Evaluation using simulated data sets -- 2.3.1. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Creole typology II: Typological features of creoles: From early proposals to phylogenetic approaches and comparisons with non-creolesTypological features of creoles: From early proposals to phylogenetic approaches and comparisons with non-creol -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Claims about typological properties of creoles, 1950s-2000s -- 6.2.1 Taylor (1971) -- 6.2.2 Markey (1982) -- 6.2.3 Bickerton (1981, 1984) -- 6.2.4 Baker (2001) -- 6.2.5 Muysken &amp -- Law (2001) -- 6.2.6 Holm &amp -- Patrick (2007) -- 6.2.7 Szmrecsanyi &amp -- Kortmann (2009) -- 6.2.8 Cysouw (2009) -- 6.2.9 Mauritian Creole and proposed creole features (Grant &amp -- Guillemin 2012) -- 6.2.9 Mauritian Creole and proposed creole features (Grant &amp -- Guillemin 2012) -- 6.2.10 Summary of structural overviews and conclusions -- 6.3 Mass comparisons of creoles and non-creoles -- 6.3.1 Holm &amp -- Patrick's creole sample among the languages of the world -- 6.3.2 WALS features: Non-creoles and creoles -- 6.3.3 WALS features and APiCS features compared -- 6.3.4 The four WALS features that set creoles apart from non-creoles -- 6.3.5 Surinamese creoles, the lexifiers and the Gbe and Kikongo substrates -- 6.3.6 Summary mass comparisons…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Structure de l'administration fédérale non ministérielle allemande -- Pays-Bas -- Cadre général -- Le contexte de la création des agences aux Pays-Bas -- Un modèle de différenciation -- L'importance du secteur des agences -- L'importance du secteur des ZBO (organismes administratifs autonomes) -- Cadre juridique et organisationnel -- Les structures de gouvernance -- Les rôles du propriétaire, du donneur d'ordres, de l'entrepreneur, du client, du banquier... -- Les structure de direction et les mécanismes de nomination -- Les ressources et la procédure budgétaire -- Cohérence des politiques, mécanismes de surveillance et de responsabilité -- Cohérence des politiques -- Information comptable -- Les performances -- La surveillance externe -- Évaluation, enseignements à tirer et évolutions récentes -- Évolutions récentes -- Nouvelle-Zélande -- Cadre général -- L'émergence du concept de «Crown entity» (entité de la Couronne) -- Les cas où la création d'une entité de la Couronne s'impose -- Les fonctions de l'administration et les entités de la Couronne -- Les catégories d'entités de la Couronne -- Pourquoi créer une entité de la Couronne -- La taille du secteur des entités de la Couronne -- Cadre juridique et organisationnel -- L'environnement juridique et les procédures de création -- Graphique 1. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- 8.4.1 Approaches Against Hijacking -- 8.4.2 Public Key Solutions -- 8.4.3 Smart Card-Based Solutions -- 8.4.4 Methods Based on Pre-Provisioned Symmetric Keys -- 8.4.5 Protocol for Automated Bootstrapping Based on Identity-Based Encryption -- 8.4.6 Security for Groups of M2M Devices -- 8.5 Standardization Efforts on Securing M2M and MTC Communications -- 8.5.1 ETSI M2M Security -- 8.5.2 3GPP Security Related to Network Improvements for Machine Type Communications -- References -- 9 M2M Terminals and Modules -- 9.1 M2M Module Categorization -- 9.1.1 Access Technology -- 9.1.2 Physical Form Factors -- 9.2 Hardware Interfaces -- 9.2.1 Power Interface -- 9.2.2 USB (Universal Serial Bus) Interface -- 9.2.3 UART (Universal Asynchronous Receiver/ Transmitter) Interface -- 9.2.4 Antenna Interface -- 9.2.5 UICC (Universal Integrated Circuit Card) Interface -- 9.2.6 GPIO (General-Purpose Input/Output Port) Interface -- 9.2.7 SPI (Serial Peripheral Interface) Interface -- 9.2.8 I2C (Inter-Integrated Circuit Bus) Interface -- 9.2.9 ADC (Analog-to-Digital Converter) Interface -- 9.2.10 PCM (Pulse Code Modulation) Interface -- 9.2.11 PWM (Pulse Width Modulation) Interface -- 9.2.12 Analog Audio Interface -- 9.3 Temperature and Durability -- 9.4 Services -- 9.4.1 Application Execution Environment -- 9.4.2 Connectivity Services -- 9.4.3 Management Services -- 9.4.4 Application Services -- 9.5 Software Interface -- 9.5.1 AT Commands -- 9.5.2 SDK Interface -- 9.6 Cellular Certification -- 9.6.1 Telecom Industry Certification…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…4.8.1 Key caching metrics -- 4.8.2 Cache administration and monitoring -- 4.9 Chapter summary -- 5 Securing Enterprise Web Application -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Security strategy -- 5.3 Vulnerability, threat, and risk assessment -- 5.4 Designing security principles and policies -- 5.5 Implementing security policy at all levels -- 5.6 Security testing and monitoring -- 5.6.1 Security testing -- 5.7 Chapter summary -- 6 Enterprise Web Application Testing -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Web testing challenges -- 6.2.1 Brief introduction to Web 2.0 -- 6.2.2 Analysis of testing methodologies in enterprise web projects -- 6.2.2.1 Testing challenges -- 6.3 Testing best practices -- 6.4 Testing estimation at each project phase -- 6.5 UCAPP testing model for enterprise applications -- 6.5.1 User-centric testing -- 6.5.2 Complete validation -- 6.5.3 Automated testing -- 6.5.4 Proactive defect prevention and detection -- 6.5.5 Performance focus -- 6.6 Other aspects of testing -- 6.6.1 Services testing -- 6.6.2 A special case of testing challenges in environment with layered caching -- 6.6.3 Testing metrics and business KPIs -- 6.7 Chapter summary -- 7 Project Management for Enterprise Applications -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Survey and analysis of enterprise software projects -- 7.3 Project management best practices during various phases of the software project -- 7.4 Lead indicators of quality issues -- 7.5 Proactive quality approach techniques -- 7.5.1 Comprehensive proactive quality governance framework -- 7.5.2 Automated quality control -- 7.5.3 Continuous and iterative development, integration, testing, release, and monitoring -- 7.5.4 Productivity improvement measures -- 7.5.5 Continuous quality improvement framework -- 7.6 Project quality tools and metrics -- 7.6.1 Quality mission control -- 7.6.2 Proactive project quality metrics…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Roy Live Faecalibacterium prausnitzii Does Not Enhance Epithelial Barrier Integrity in an Apical Anaerobic Co-Culture Model of the Large Intestine Reprinted from: Nutrients 2017, 9, 1349, doi: 10.3390/nu9121349 . 14 -- Pamela Vernocchi, Federica Del Chierico, Andrea Quagliariello, Danilo Ercolini, Vincenzina Lucidi and Lorenza Putignani A Metagenomic and in Silico Functional Prediction of Gut Microbiota Profiles May Concur in Discovering New Cystic Fibrosis Patient-Targeted Probiotics Reprinted from: Nutrients 2017, 9, 1342, doi: 10.3390/nu9121342 . 27 -- Toshifumi Osaka, Eri Moriyama, Shunichi Arai, Yasuhiro Date, Junji Yagi, Jun Kikuchi and Satoshi Tsuneda Meta-Analysis of Fecal Microbiota and Metabolites in Experimental Colitic Mice during the Inflammatory and Healing Phases Reprinted from: Nutrients 2017, 9, 1329, doi: 10.3390/nu9121329 . 42 -- Hideaki Shima, Shizuka Masuda, Yasuhiro Date, Amiu Shino, Yuuri Tsuboi, Mizuho Kajikawa, Yoshihiro Inoue, Taisei Kanamoto and Jun Kikuchi Exploring the Impact of Food on the Gut Ecosystem Based on the Combination of Machine Learning and Network Visualization Reprinted from: Nutrients 2017, 9, 1307, doi: 10.3390/nu9121307 . 55 -- Shang-Jin Kim, Sang Hoon Park, Hong-Sig Sin, Seung-Hwan Jang, Sang-Wang Lee, Seon-Young Kim, Bora Kwon, Kang-Yeol Yu, Su Young Kim and Dong Kwon Yang Hypocholesterolemic Effects of Probiotic Mixture on Diet-Induced Hypercholesterolemic Rats Reprinted from: Nutrients 2017, 9, 293, doi: 10.3390/nu9030293 65 -- Giancarlo Ceccarelli, Jason M. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- #16 Measure Your Success by How Many People Thank You for Theirs -- #17 Create a Scalable, Repeatable, and Predictable Playbook for Your Team -- #18 Become an Expert in Your Field -- #19 Seniority Doesn't Mean Anything -- #20 Be Obsessed with Maximizing the Performance of Your Team -- #21 Survey Your Team on Your Management -- #22 Boost Productivity by Eliminating Bottlenecks -- #23 Reward Employees for Their Ideas to Improve -- #24 Place People Where They Are a Perfect Fit -- #25 Give Your People Freedom and Creative Space -- #26 Be Your Team's Biggest Cheerleader -- #27 Give All the Credit When You Win, Take All the Blame When You Lose -- #28 Help Your Team Make Friends at Work -- #29 No Matter the Job, Acknowledge How Hard Your People Work -- #30 Positive Reinforcement Trumps Negative Reinforcement -- #31 Create a Culture of Continuous Learning and Development -- Part II The Strategies for Building High-Performing Teams -- Month 4 KPIs, Goal Setting, and Decision-Making -- #1 Find Your Daily Dose of Inspiration in Your "Why" -- #2 Evaluate Your Judgment -- #3 Leaders Are Readers -- #4 Train Your Team to Be the Best Players -- #5 Show Integrity 24/7 (Even When No One Is Watching) -- #6 Getting Things Wrong Is an Integral Part of Getting Things Right -- #7 Favor Results Over Time -- #8 Don't Sweat the Small Stuff -- #9 Create Key Performance Indicators -- #10 Identify Your Team's Goals -- #11 Set AQMD Goals -- #12 Tackle the Big Picture with Quarterly Reviews -- #13 Coach Your Team to Provide Weekly Updates -- #14 There Are Only Two Outcomes to a Decision -- #15 Use Team Recommendations to Make the Right Decisions -- #16 Recommit to Your Decisions Daily -- #17 Multitasking Is Doing More but Getting Less -- #18 Good Is the Enemy of Great -- #19 Avoid Drama -- #20 Review Your Data Daily -- #21 New Data = New Decisions…”

“…However, despite significant advances in these experimental approaches, many limitations exist such as false-positives/false-negatives, difficulty in obtaining crystal structures of proteins, challenges in the detection of transient PPI, among others. To overcome these limitations, many computational approaches have been developed which are becoming increasingly widely used to facilitate the investigation of PPIs. …”

“…<div>Alejandro Magariños Cervantes' <I>Caramurú</I> was the first Uruguayan gaucho novel. It is an epic novel set in Uruguay and a testimony to American wars of the 19th century. …”

“…This paper suggests avenues for strengthening the governance and management of the Japanese Government Pension Investment Fund (GPIF), the largest single pool of pension assets in the world. …”

“…A Story of Conquest and Adventure: The Large Faramarzname presents a poem from the Persian epic cycle dated to the late eleventh century in an English prose translation for the first time. …”

“…Illuminated manuscripts of the Koran, epic poetry, and scientific works from the Egyptian, Syrian, Persian, Mogul, and Ottoman Empires await discovery. …”

“…Simon Schama presents an epic 5 part series exploring the story of the Jewish experience from ancient times to the present day…”

“…The second round of the OECD Survey on Environmental Policy for Individual Behaviour Change (EPIC) was implemented in 2011. A publication providing an overview of the survey data from over 12 000 households in eleven countries (Australia, Canada, Chile, France, Israel, Japan, Korea, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland) is available.1 Follow-up econometric analyses were conducted in each of the thematic areas covered (energy, food, transport, waste and water), as well as on cross-domain comparisons in environmental attitudes and behaviours.2 This report presents a synthesis of main results from econometric analysis using the data from the 2011 EPIC survey, as well as policy implications…”

“…Valerius Flaccus' Argonautica is one of the most significant surviving works of Flavian epic, which has recently become much more popular as a field of study and teaching in Latin literature. …”

“…Apollonius' epic, the Argonautica, is not just a masterpiece of Hellenistic poetry drawing on the entire tradition of previous Greek literature, but was enormously influential on Latin epic, especially Virgil's Aeneid. …”