Tabla de Contenidos: “…Differences in Energy Intensity and CO 2 Emissions across CountriesEnergy Efficiency Potentials; Chapter 8 NON-FERROUS METALS; Introduction; Global Importance and Energy Use; Aluminium Production; Copper Production; Energy Efficiency and CO 2 Reduction Potentials; Chapter 9 SYSTEMS OPTIMISATION; Introduction; Industrial Systems; Combined Heat and Power; Chapter 10 LIFE CYCLE IMPROVEMENT OPTIONS; Introduction; Indicator Issues; Trends in the Efficiency of Materials and Product Use; Recycling and Reuse; Energy Recovery; Annexes; Annex A Process Integration…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Overview of the OECD-FAO Agricultural Outlook 2012; Introduction; The setting - A large rebound in supplies to calm markets; Food price inflation slowing across the world; Figure 1.1. Food price inflation rates are higher in developing countries; Table 1.1. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Leaning into Divine Epiphanies -- Spirituality Is Essence -- Nonnegotiables Across My Pillars -- Chapter 6 Protection -- She Walked Ahead of Me So I Could Walk Ahead of Others -- Protected by Angels, the Story of Troy Alexander -- We All Win Together -- A Reason, a Season, a Lifetime -- Chapter 7 Jungle Gym versus a Ladder -- Climbing Your Own Jungle Gym -- Sit at the Top, Don't Get Stuck Looking Up from the Bottom -- Chapter 8 Intention of Time: Balancing What's Important -- Tackling Important Moments Every Day -- Chapter 9 Stand in Your Power -- Define, Claim, and Own Your Power…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Advanced Data Operations -- Recipe 1 - handling multi-valued cells -- Recipe 2 - alternating between rows and records mode -- Recipe 3 - clustering similar cells -- Recipe 4 - transforming cell values -- Recipe 5 - adding derived columns -- Recipe 6 - splitting data across columns -- Recipe 7 - transposing rows and columns -- Summary -- 4. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Roadmap audience -- Building the roadmap -- Roadmaps and other artefacts -- Presenting your roadmap -- Roadmap timescales -- Integrating roadmaps across teams -- Your roadmap will never be perfect -- Case study: example roadmaps -- Key takeaways -- 5. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Judge and Ryan Klinger -- Comparing subjective well-being across cultures and nations: the "what" and "why" questions / Eunkook Suh and Jayoung Koo -- Making people happier -- Interventions for enhancing subjective well-being : can we make people happier and should we? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…The Transboundary Management Regime of the Virunga Conservation Area across the Congolese, Rwandese and Ugandan Borders: Challenges and Opportunities (Birabi Allan Kenneth) -- Chapter 8. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Ageing actively in focus Ageing and care Care responsibilities Badanti (care workers) Case di riposo, case di cura (retirement and care homes) Midlife and retirement: time, desire, freedom and money Time and freedom Money, time and financial precarity The bridge generation Conclusion: ageing at present Notes -- 3 Everyday life, activities and activisms Introduction Seasonal rhythms Individual rituals and routines Space and place Activities Being together online and offline Conclusion Notes -- 4 Social relations: social availability Introduction Kinships and social practices: traditional and contemporary perspectives La famiglia (the family) Casa (house/home) Nonna (grandmother) Vivere da sola/o (living alone) Privacy and autonomy Public and private lives Conclusion Notes -- 5 Smartphones: constant companions Introduction Introductory portraits Local infrastructure and information Smartphone discourses Disinformation and misinformation Apps WhatsApp Talking without talking (parlare senza parlare) Audio messages Visual communication: memes and stickers Talking and expressing care Objects of everyday life Conclusion Notes -- 6 Health and care in digital times Introduction The national healthcare system in Italy and in Lombardy The development of digital health in Italy Health apps Self-sufficiency and digital technologies Care and communication Googling for health Conclusion Notes -- 7 Coming of age with smartphones Introduction Mahmood's victory Dina Dina and Noor Seconde generazioni and '2G' youth in Milan Digital connections and identities across borders Conclusion Notes -- 8 Life purpose: narratives of ageing Introduction Awareness and awakenings Ugo Augustina Umberta Transnational mobilities and well-being Crises and contradiction Conclusion: the moving self and the smartphone The existential object Notes -- 9 Conclusion: threading together Introduction Being and becoming together Age(ing) and beyond Ageing with smartphones: a 'constant companion' for the contemporary world -- Conclusion: ageing together, differently -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Back Cover…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Executive summary -- Quantifying the "cognitive extent" of science and how it has changed over time and across countries -- Robot scientists: From Adam to Eve to Genesis -- The end of Moore's Law? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Chapter Outline and Threads across the Chapters -- ‎Part 1. Spiritual Institutions -- ‎Chapter 1. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Intro -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Executive summary -- Part I Anticipatory innovation governance model -- 1 Need for a new future-oriented model of governance -- References -- Note -- 2 Anticipatory innovation governance -- Anticipatory innovation governance mechanisms -- References -- 3 Revised model of anticipatory innovation governance -- Learnings from the Finnish government system -- Learnings from the conducted pilots -- Updated anticipatory innovation governance model -- References -- Notes -- Part II Assessment of the Finnish Government system and its ability to anticipate -- 4 Finland - a country where governance matters -- References -- Notes -- 5 Methodology and purpose of the assessment -- References -- 6 Assessment of the Finnish Governance system and its anticipatory capacity -- Futures and foresight -- Impact gap -- Closed process and predictability -- Section findings and key considerations -- Public interest and participation -- User centricity -- Section findings and key considerations -- Alternatives exploration -- Experimentation -- Innovation -- Section findings and key considerations -- Individual and organisational capacities -- Leadership skills and capacities -- Individual factors and cognitive biases -- Tools and methods -- Section findings and key considerations -- Budget and resource allocation -- Phenomenon-based budgeting -- Section findings and key considerations -- Policy cycles and continuity of reforms -- Strategies do not lead to action -- Section findings and key considerations -- Co-ordination across government challenges -- Section findings and key considerations -- Conclusions of the assessment -- References -- Notes -- Part III Pilot case studies -- 7 Pilot selection and methodology -- References -- 8 Summary findings and comparison of the pilot case studies -- Continuous learning…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Real‐World Applications -- Challenges and Future Research -- Analysis Challenges -- Scale Challenges -- Sensitivity Challenge -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgment -- Locations, Events, Actions, Participants, and Things in the Three Little Pigs -- Edges in the Three Little Pigs Graph -- References -- Chapter 7 A Neural Network Model of Motivated Decision‐Making in Everyday Social Behavior -- Introduction -- Overview -- Constraint Satisfaction Processing -- Theoretical Background -- Motivational Systems -- Situations -- Interoceptive or Bodily State -- Wanting -- Competition Among Motives -- Motivation Changes Dynamically -- Neural Network Implementation -- General Processing in the Network -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 8 Dealing with Culture as Inherited Information -- Galton's Problem as a Core Feature of Cultural Theory -- How to Correct for Treelike Inheritance of Traits Across Groups -- Early Attempts to Correct Galton's Problem -- More Recent Attempts to Correct Galton's Problem -- Example Applications -- Dealing with Nonindependence in Less Treelike Network Structures -- Determining Which Network Is Most Important for a Cultural Trait -- Correcting for Network Nonindependence When Testing Trait-Trait Correlations -- Example Applications -- Future Directions for Formal Modeling of Culture -- Improved Network Autoregression Implementations -- A Global Data Set of Expected Nonindependence to Solve Galton's Problem -- Better Collection of Behavioral Trait Variation Across Populations -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter 9 Social Media, Global Connections, and Information Environments: Building Complex Understandings of Multi‐Actor Interactions -- A New Setting of Hyperconnectivity -- The Information Environment -- Social Media in the Information Environment -- Integrative Approaches to Understanding Human Behavior -- Muddy the Waters…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Intro -- Foreword -- Abbreviations and acronyms -- Executive summary -- Introduction -- Key findings -- Governing and designing education systems to promote equity and inclusion -- Resourcing education systems to foster equity and inclusion -- Building capacity to foster equity and inclusion -- Promoting equity and inclusion through school-level interventions -- Monitoring and evaluating equity and inclusion in education -- 1 An overview of diversity, equity and inclusion in education -- Introduction -- Contextual developments shaping diversity, equity and inclusion in school education -- Ageing population and urbanisation -- Increasing migration and refugee crises -- Rising inequalities -- Digitalisation -- Weakening trust and social cohesion -- Well-being and mental health -- COVID-19 -- Climate change and environmental crises -- Developments in the area of equity and inclusion -- Conceptualising diversity, equity and inclusion in education -- Most jurisdictions across the OECD have a definition of equity and inclusion -- Equity -- Inclusion -- Why it is relevant to differentiate between equity and inclusion -- Why equity and inclusion in education matter -- Diversity -- Migration -- Ethnic groups, national minorities and Indigenous peoples -- Gender -- Gender identity and sexual orientation -- Special education needs -- Giftedness -- The role of socio-economic condition and geographical location -- OECD education systems focus on different dimensions of diversity, depending on their national context -- Intersectionality -- Holistic framework for diversity, equity and inclusion -- Issue 1: Governing diversity, equity and inclusion in education -- Issue 2: Resourcing diversity, equity and inclusion in education -- Issue 3: Developing capacity for managing diversity, equity and inclusion in education…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…The state of integrated service delivery across OECD countries -- The health sector is a common centre for ISD to address IPV -- Hospitals -- Mental health support…”

“…Moreover, translations are the prime instrument in the distribution of literature across linguistic and cultural borders; thus, they pave the way for gaining prestige in the world of literature. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…General Assessment of the Macroeconomic Situation -- Introduction -- Recent developments -- The outlook is for a significant but uneven recovery -- The global recovery is projected to strengthen as vaccination deployment becomes widespread -- Inflation is expected to increase temporarily but the longer-term outlook remains uncertain, with upside risks -- Trade prospects are improving, but imbalances may widen -- The outlook is subject to upside and downside risks -- Significant uncertainty remains about the pace of vaccine deployment and the evolution of the virus -- Excess saving poses upside risks to household consumption -- Companies have resisted well, but performance has varied across sectors and company sizes -- Pandemic-related risks are still high in some emerging-market economies -- Policy requirements -- The pace of vaccine production and deployment needs to be accelerated -- Monetary policy -- Fiscal policy -- Structural reforms are needed to improve resilience, facilitate reallocation and strengthen growth prospects -- Bibliography -- Annex 1.A. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…3 Germany's financing for development -- Overall ODA volume -- Germany has provided over USD 20 billion in ODA annually since 2016 and reached 0.73% ODA-to-GNI target in 2020 -- While Germany has increased ODA investment in least developed countries, these still fall short of international commitments and there is a risk contributions may decrease -- Germany's financial and technical co-operation adapts to partner country contexts -- Bilateral ODA allocations -- Bilateral ODA more than doubled in volume since 2010, with the largest increases to the Middle East and the African continent -- Germany's share of aid spent in partner countries is increasing, as is support for policy reforms and budget support -- Germany could strengthen the focus on gender equality across its programming, building on good work on environment and climate change mitigation and adaptation -- Multilateral ODA allocations -- Germany is a strong multilateralist and very significant multilateral donor and partner -- Germany is broadening its multilateral support to new players and has increased its core contributions to UN funds and programmes -- Financing for sustainable development -- Germany has many financial sector instruments at its disposal, and could leverage these more -- Germany has the architecture and instruments to further support domestic resource mobilisation -- More detailed reporting by KfW DEG is welcome, but further transparency is desirable -- References -- Notes -- 4 Germany's structure and systems -- Authority, mandate and co-ordination -- A dedicated ministry for development co-operation focuses attention on sustainability, migration and development co-operation in the German political agenda -- Germany faces ongoing challenges in ensuring a whole-of-government approach…”

“…Data has always been considered as an essential part of the IT infrastructure across most organizations in supporting their business operations. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Building a free version -- Building a pro version -- Building to enable pprof on the pro version -- Testing CLI commands -- Mocking the HTTP client -- Handling test configuration -- Creating a test for a command -- Running the tests -- Summary -- Questions -- Answers -- Further reading -- Chapter 12: Cross-Compilation across Different Platforms -- Technical requirements -- Manual compilation versus build automation tools -- Using GOOS and GOARCH -- Compiling for Linux, macOS, and Windows -- Building using tags -- Building using the GOOS environment variable -- Building using the GOARCH environment variable -- Installing using tags and GOOS env va -- Installing using tags and GOARCH env var -- Scripting to compile for multiple platforms -- Creating a bash script to compile in Darwin or Linux -- Creating a PowerShell script in Windows -- Summary -- Questions -- Answers -- Further reading -- Chapter 13: Using Containers for Distribution -- Technical requirement -- Why use containers? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Intro -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations and acronyms -- Executive summary -- Realising the Middle Corridor's potential requires to transform it into a major trade route -- Regional integration: creating traffic and demand on the route will largely stem from increased regional economic and trade integration -- Trade facilitation: reforms should focus on advancing digitalisation and harmonisation of border procedures and permit requirements -- Infrastructure: additional investments are needed to improve multimodality across the route and port and vessel capacity in the Caspian Sea -- Transnational co-operation: a common regional approach is required to implement these reforms, and deepen regional economic and trade integration -- 1 The Context: Growing interest in the Middle Corridor -- Central Asia, the South Caucasus and Türkiye can play a central role in intensifying regional co-operation and opening new trade routes -- Türkiye represents a central East-West and North-South trade hub -- Central Asia and the South Caucasus could benefit from a possible shift in China's regional trade and transit strategy -- The Middle Corridor constitutes a promising alternative to the Northern route, but much remains to be done to realise its potential -- The Middle Corridor is a viable, albeit complex, route connecting Asia to Europe through Central Asia and the South Caucasus -- This report assesses challenges and identifies reform priorities in relation to infrastructure, trade facilitation and stakeholder co-ordination along the Middle-Corridor -- Infrastructure bottlenecks and inadequate trade facilitation increase costs and transit times along the Middle Corridor -- Limited regional trade and economic integration in Central Asia and the South Caucasus further reduce the route's trade competitiveness…”