Tabla de Contenidos: “…Private Solutions to Externalities -- Private Solution: Bargaining -- The Coase Theorem -- Private Solution: Doing the Right Thing -- 9.3. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Chapter 6 Financial Markets II: The Extended Model -- 6-1 Nominal versus Real Interest Rates -- Nominal and Real Interest Rates in the United States since 1978 -- Nominal and Real Interest Rates: The Zero Lower Bound and Deflation -- 6-2 Risk and Risk Premia -- 6-3 The Role of Financial Intermediaries -- The Choice of Leverage -- Leverage and Lending -- 6-4 Extending the IS-LM -- Financial Shocks and Policies -- 6-5 From a Housing Problem to a Financial Crisis -- Housing Prices and Subprime Mortgages -- The Role of Financial Intermediaries -- Macroeconomic Implications -- Policy Responses -- The Medium Run -- Chapter 7 The Labor Market -- 7-1 A Tour of the Labor Market -- The Large Flows of Workers -- 7-2 Movements in Unemployment -- 7-3 Wage Determination -- Bargaining -- Efficiency Wages -- Wages, Prices, and Unemployment -- The Expected Price Level -- The Unemployment Rate -- The Other Factors -- 7-4 Price Determination -- 7-5 The Natural Rate of Unemployment -- The Wage-Setting Relation -- The Price-Setting Relation -- Equilibrium Real Wages and Unemployment…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- 6 Naming the "Hidden" Employer and Exposing the "Dummy" Union -- 7 Strike Action and Wage Bargaining -- 8 Women's Earnings and Household Survival -- 9 Citizenship Claims vis-à-vis the State -- 10 Discussion and Conclusion -- Chapter 14 Home-based Workers: Organizing from Local to Global -- 1 Organizing: A Long Journey -- 2 On the Ground and in the Regions -- 3 Reviving HomeNet International -- 4 Conclusion -- 5 Postscript -- Saludo A Las Mujeres Trabajadoras -- Part 4 -- Chapter 15 Introduction Perspectives on Contemporary Home-based Work -- Chapter 16 Contemporary Digital Home Work: Old Challenges, Different Solutions? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Reforming collective bargaining: Evidence from Spain -- Figure 3.14. Adjustment strategies to adverse shocks used by European firms before the crisis -- Figure 3.15. …”

“…I és per això que felicitem els autors. Hem d’agrair-los els seus treballs, perquè us ajudaran a conèixer i estimar més la vostra vila…”

“…I és per això que felicitem els autors. Hem d’agrair-los els seus treballs, perquè us ajudaran a conèixer i estimar més la vostra vila…”

“…Learned skills and behaviors cannot be truly effective until they are engrained, and they can only become engrained through use, encouragement, and measureable progress. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Plenary lectures -- Molecular dynamics-based structural mechanics of buildings' resilience -- Century-long durability of concrete structures: Expansiveness of hydration and chemo-mechanics of autogenous shrinkage and swelling -- Regularized continuum damage formulations acting as localization limiters -- Erection of bridges and shells without formwork-challenges for the computational modelling -- Network modelling of fracture processes in fibre-reinforced quasi-brittle materials -- New damage model to simulate ballistic impact on concrete targets -- Multiscale cement and concrete research: Experiments and modeling -- Fishnet model for failure probability of nacre-like imbricated lamellar materials and Monte Carlo verification -- Phase-field modeling of cement paste: Where particle physics meets continuum mechanics -- Towards a mesoscale model of geopolymers: Interaction potential from the molecular scale -- Nanoscale simulations of cement hydrates precipitation mechanisms: Impact on macroscopic self-desiccation and water sorption isotherms -- Atomistic modeling of early hydration of C3S -- Modeling the evolution of C3S-C3S grain interface over hydration time -- Fracture properties of cement hydrates determined from microbending tests and multiscale modeling -- Testing and modelling of micro cement paste cube under indentation splitting -- An adaptive concurrent two-scale FE model to predicting crack propagation in concrete -- Multi-scale modelling of the mechanics of concrete based on the cement paste properties -- Sensitivity estimation of cement paste properties in the microstructural characteristics -- Elastic-plastic multi scale approach for localization problems-the embedded unit cell…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Front Cover -- Half Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Brief contents -- Contents -- Guided tour -- Introduction -- Acknowledgements -- Part 1 Basics of research -- 1 Role of research in psychology -- Overview -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 The importance of reading -- 1.3 Evaluating the evidence -- 1.4 Inferring causality -- 1.5 Types of research and the assessment of causality -- 1.6 Practice -- 1.7 Conclusion -- Key points -- Activities -- 2 Aims and hypotheses in research -- Overview -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Types of study -- 2.3 Aims of research -- 2.4 Research hypotheses -- 2.5 Four types of hypothesis -- 2.6 Difficulties in formulating aims and hypotheses -- 2.7 Conclusion -- Key points -- Activities -- 3 Variables, concepts and measures -- Overview -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 History of the variable in psychology -- 3.3 Types of variable -- 3.4 Independent and dependent variables -- 3.5 Measurement characteristics of variables -- 3.6 Stevens' theory of scales of measurement -- 3.7 Operationalising concepts and variables -- 3.8 Conclusion -- Key points -- Activities -- 4 Problems of generalisation and decision-making in research: Chance findings and sample size -- Overview -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Universalism -- 4.3 Sampling and generalisation -- 4.4 Statistics and generalisation -- 4.5 Directional and non-directional hypotheses again -- 4.6 More on the similarity between measures of effect (difference) and association -- 4.7 Sample size and size of association -- 4.8 Conclusion -- Key points -- Activities -- 5 Research reports: The total picture -- Overview -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Overall strategy of report writing -- 5.3 Sections of the research report in detail -- 5.4 Conclusion -- Key points -- Activities -- 6 Improving your quantitative write-up -- Overview -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Poorly written quantitative report…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…. -- Chapter 7: Making Asynchronous Programming Great Again -- Introduction -- Executing tasks in the background using threads -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- See also -- Background threads synchronization -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- See also -- Using coroutines for asynchronous, concurrent execution of tasks -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- See also -- Using coroutines for asynchronous, concurrent tasks execution with results handling -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- There's more... -- See also -- Applying coroutines for asynchronous data processing -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- See also -- Easy coroutine cancelation -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- See also -- Building a REST API client with Retrofit and a coroutines adapter -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- See also -- Wrapping third-party callback-style APIs with coroutines -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- See also -- Chapter 8: Best Practices for the Android, JUnit, and JVM UI Frameworks -- Introduction -- Clean and safe view-binding with the Android Extensions plugin -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- There's more... -- Applying coroutines for asynchronous UI programming on Android, JavaFX, and Swing -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- There's more... -- See also -- Easy class serialization on Android using the @Parcelize annotation -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- See also -- Implementing a custom property delegate that provides lifecycle-aware values -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- See also -- Easy operations on SharedPreferences -- Getting ready…”

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Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Services for databases -- Playfab in Unity -- Downloading the SDK from the website -- Importing and setting the SDK in Unity for databases -- Creating a login system for your users -- Exchanging data -- Summary -- Chapter 9: Graduating Your Project to Completion -- Finishing the application -- Optimizing the project for a mobile platform -- Processing the power -- For 2D games -- For 3D games -- Other considerations -- Test, test, and test again -- Don't have access to many devices? Not a problem -- Getting it ready to publish -- Don't be modest, promote your game! …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Rule 32 You have to work hard to get rich enough not to have to work hard -- Rule 33 Learn the art of deal making -- Rule 34 Learn the art of negotiating -- Rule 35 Small economies won't make you wealthy but they will make you miserable -- Rule 36 Real wealth comes from deals not fees -- Rule 37 Understand that working for others won't necessarily make you rich - but it might -- Rule 38 Don't waste time procrastinating - make money decisions quickly -- Rule 39 Work as if you didn't need the money -- Rule 40 Spend less than you earn -- Rule 41 Don't borrow money - unless you really, really have to -- Rule 42 Consider consolidating debts -- Rule 43 Cultivate a skill and it'll repay you over and over again -- Rule 44 Pay off your loans and debts as a priority -- Rule 45 Don't be too busy earning a living to make some money -- Rule 46 Save in big chunks - or should you? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…</LI><P></P><P><LI>The attention generation: How to get their attention; keep it; then get it again.</LI><P></P><P><LI>Solving a Problem is not the Problem.…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Chapter 8 Quiz -- Answers to Chapter 8 Quiz -- Chapter 9: Specializing in Multiplication Matters -- Distributing One Factor Over Many -- Distributing Signs -- Mixing It up with Numbers and Variables -- Negative exponents yielding fractional answers -- Working with Fractional Powers -- Distributing More Than One Term -- Distributing binomials -- Distributing trinomials -- Curses, Foiled Again - Or Not -- Squaring Binomials -- Multiplying the Sum and Difference of the Same Two Terms -- Powering Up Binomials -- Cubing binomials -- Raising Binomials to Higher Powers -- Creating the Sum and Difference of Cubes -- Multiplying Conjugates -- Practice Questions Answers and Explanations -- Whaddya Know? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- The Meaning Transfer Model -- Brand Resonance -- Archetypes (Again) -- Spokescharacters -- Congruence between Consumer and Brand -- Lifestyle Brands and Lifestyle Brand Constellations -- Selling Authenticity -- Brand Storytelling -- Chapter Summary -- Key Terms -- Review -- Consumer Behavior Challenge -- Case Study. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Connecting microservices to a Netflix Eureka server -- Setting up the configuration for development use -- Eureka configuration parameters -- Configuring the Eureka server -- Configuring clients to the Eureka server -- Trying out the discovery service -- Scaling up -- Scaling down -- Disruptive tests with the Eureka server -- Stopping the Eureka server -- Starting up an extra instance of the product service -- Starting up the Eureka server again -- Summary -- Questions -- Chapter 10: Using Spring Cloud Gateway to Hide Microservices behind an Edge Server -- Technical requirements -- Adding an edge server to our system landscape -- Setting up Spring Cloud Gateway -- Adding a composite health check -- Configuring Spring Cloud Gateway -- Routing rules -- Trying out the edge server -- Examining what is exposed outside the Docker engine -- Trying out the routing rules -- Calling the product composite API through the edge server -- Calling the Swagger UI through the edge server -- Calling Eureka through the edge server -- Routing based on the host header -- Summary -- Questions -- Chapter 11: Securing Access to APIs -- Technical requirements -- Introduction to OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect -- Introducing OAuth 2.0 -- Introducing OpenID Connect -- Securing the system landscape -- Protecting external communication with HTTPS -- Replacing a self-signed certificate at runtime -- Securing access to the discovery server -- Changes in the Eureka server -- Changes in Eureka clients -- Adding a local authorization server -- Protecting APIs using OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect -- Changes in both the edge server and the product-composite service -- Changes in the product-composite service only -- Changes to allow Swagger UI to acquire access tokens -- Changes in the test script -- Testing with the local authorization server -- Building and running the automated tests…”