Tabla de Contenidos: “…Application Self-Service across Clouds…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…; Features of OpenStack Networking; Switching; Routing; Load balancing; Firewalling; Virtual private networks; Preparing the physical infrastructure; Types of network traffic; Management network; API network; External network; Guest network; Physical server connections; Single interface; Multiple interfaces; Bonding; Separating services across nodes; A single controller with one or more compute nodes…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Step 2: Draft a Career Story and Understand a Personal Development ArcStep 3: Identify Potential Development Experiences; Step 4: Create an Experience-Based Development Plan; Step 5: Use Ongoing Reflection to Gain the Most Out of Experience; Additional Applications of the FrameBreaking Model; Resources; 2: A Leadership Experience Framework; The Leadership Experience Framework; Experiences Across Organizational Levels; Conclusion; References; 3: Identifying Development-in-Place Opportunities; Resources; 4: Leadership Maps: Identifying Developmental Experiences in Any Organization…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Case of Two Equally Spaced SupportCase of a Single Lateral Support, Effect of Initial Deflection; Case of a Single Lateral Support, Effect of Elasticity of the Testing Machine; Stability of the Equilibrium Positions Under Infinitesimal Disturbance; Conclusion; References; A Theory for the Buckling of Thin Shells; Summary; Introduction; The Criterions for Buckling; Column with a Nonlinear Elastic Lateral Support; Thin Uniform Cylindric Shell Under Axial Compression; Spherical Shells under External Pressure; Concluding Remarks; References; Heat Conduction across a Partially Insulated Wall…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Household BehaviorGovernment Saving; Financial Globalization and China's High Saving; Conclusion; See also; Acknowledgments; Glossary; Further Reading; Chapter 2: Emerging Markets Politics and Financial Institutions; Introduction; Analytical Framework; Testing the Abiad-Mody Results on a Wider Sample; Differing Influences, Across Types of Countries and Types of Reform; Advanced Versus Nonadvanced Economies; Domestic Financial Reform Versus Opening up the Capital Account; Conclusion; Appendix; References; Chapter 3: The Political Economy of Exchange-Rate Policy; Introduction…”

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Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover; Doing Business Successfully in China; Copyright; Contents; List of figures; About the author; 1 Introduction; The importance of doing business with China; The lure of 1.3 billion consumers; A little knowledge can be dangerous; Current and constant change; 2 Communicating with Chinese by understanding them better; Communication models; Context of culture and cross-cultural communication; Building relationships at all levels; Questions and answers not always straightforward; Limitations in practical situations; Miscommunication across cultures; The Glass Wall Effect…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Preparing to Create a FamilyExamining the Tool Chest; The Bigger Picture and Advanced Concepts; Dissecting Some Practical Examples; Chapter 18: Revisions; Numbering Revisions; Drawing Revision Clouds; Issuing a Revision; Chapter 19: Collaboration; Coordinating Work Across Disciplines; Exporting to Non-Revit Formats; Index…”

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Tabla de Contenidos: “…Data managementData navigation; Other tasks; More on Lookup records; Setting additional search criteria; More examples on the use of Zoom Across; Field context menu; Zoom; ReQuery; Value preference; Summary; Chapter 3: Exploring Company Structures and the Initial Client Setup; Sample apparel company structure; ADempiere company structures; Managing the Chart of accounts template; Exploring the accounting format template files; Account editor tools; Creating a new ADempiere client; Reviewing your new ADempiere client creation; Setting additional organizations; Creating the organization type…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…The Phases Can Be Interpreted in Relationship to the EconomyAsset Class Performance Varies across the Phases; Incorporating Cyclicality into Valuations; Appendix: Dates and Returns of the Phases; Key Points; Questions; Chapter 6: An Architecture for Equity Portfolio Management; Architectural Building Blocks; Traditional Active Management; Passive Management; Engineered Management; Expanding Opportunities; The Risk-Return Continuum; The Ultimate Objective; Key Points; Questions; Chapter 7: Equity Analysis in a Complex Market; An Integrated Approach to a Segmented Market; Disentangling…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Successful Collaboration Across the OrganizationDeveloping a Portfolio of Work; CHAPTER 9 Evangelizing UX; Communication Plan; Group Branding; Managing Up; Books to Share With Senior Managers; Corporate Community Building; Managing Up: It's About Speaking Their Language and Taking Their Perspective; CHAPTER 10 Conclusion; Leadership; Should you be Managing?…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…eXtensible Markup Language Introduction to Meaning; Namespaces and the Aggregation of Meaningful Assertions; Resource Description Framework Triples; Reflection; Use Case: Trusted Time Stamp; Summary; Chapter 5: Data Integration and Software Interoperability; Background; The Committee to Survey Standards; Standard Trajectory; Specifications and Standards; Versioning; Compliance Issues; Interfaces to Big Data Resources; Chapter 6: Immutability and Immortality; Background; Immutability and Identifiers; Data Objects; Legacy Data; Data Born from Data; Reconciling Identifiers across Institutions…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Part II: Managing Variability and RiskChapter 6: Forecasting Demand; Getting Savvy about Forecasts; Building a Forecast to Predict Demand; Acknowledging the Error of Your Ways; Chapter 7: Planning Capacity; Considering Capacity; Balancing Capacity and Inventory; Addressing Wait Time for Services; Chapter 8: Managing Inventory; Dealing with the Business of Inventory; Managing Inventory; Getting Baseline Data on Performance; Reducing Inventory without Sacrificing Customer Service; Managing Inventory across the Supply Chain; Chapter 9: Planning for Successful Operations…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright and Credits -- Packt Upsell -- Contributors -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1: Time Series Modeling in the Financial Industry -- Time series illustration -- The importance of time series -- Forecasting across industries -- Characteristics of time series data -- Seasonality -- Trend -- Outliers and rare events -- Disruptions -- Challenges in data -- Influencer variables -- Definition changes -- Granularity required -- Legacy issues -- System differences -- Source constraints -- Vendor changes -- Archiving policy -- Good versus bad forecasts -- Use of time series in the financial industry -- Predicting stock prices and making portfolio decisions -- Adhering to Basel norms -- Demand planning -- Inflation forecasting -- Managing customer journeys and maintaining loyalty -- Summary -- References -- Chapter 2: Forecasting Stock Prices and Portfolio Decisions using Time Series -- Portfolio forecasting -- A portfolio demands decisions -- Forecasting process -- Visualization of time series data -- Business case study -- Data collection and transformation -- Model selection and fitting -- Part A - Fit statistics -- Part B - Diagnostic plots -- Part C - Residual plots -- Dealing with multicollinearity -- Role of autocorrelation -- Scoring based on PROC REG -- ARIMA -- Validation of models -- Model implementation -- Recap of key terms -- Summary -- Chapter 3: Credit Risk Management -- Risk types -- Basel norms -- Credit risk key metrics -- Exposure at default -- Probability of default -- Loss given default -- Expected loss -- Aspects of credit risk management -- Basel and regulatory authority guidelines -- Governance -- Validation -- Data -- PD model build -- Genmod procedure -- Proc logistic -- Proc Genmod probit -- Summary -- Chapter 4: Budget and Demand Forecasting -- The need for the Markov model…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Starting the More Detailed ExplorationLooking Across the Whole Map to Identify All Statements Having to Do with Writers; Drawing the First Workshop to a Close; Providing Written Feedback on the First Workshop; Holding the Second Half-Day Workshop; Laddering Up from "Writing as a Craft"; Drawing the Second Workshop to a Close; Refining Strategies, Goals (Purposes), and Performance Indicators; Finalizing the Goals System; Building the Strategic Framework Document; Summary; Part 3: Doing Strategy Mapping (ViSM); Step One: What Do We Have to Change to Create Strategic Success?…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Hardware; The Range of Devices; The Minimum Practical Target; Cutting-Edge Devices; The Future: Next Generation; Compatibility Across All Devices; Mobile Gaming Is Different; A Gaming Machine in Every Pocket; Always Connected; Casual and Hardcore; Big Market, Small Developers; Summary; Chapter 2 First Steps with the Android SDK; Setting Up the Development Environment; Setting Up the JDK; Setting Up the Android SDK; Installing Eclipse; Installing the ADT Eclipse Plug-In; A Quick Tour of Eclipse; Helpful Eclipse Shortcuts…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Price Premium AdvantagesCost and Capital Efficiency Advantages; Sustainability of Return on Invested Capital; Length of Product Life Cycle; Persistence of Competitive Advantage; Potential for Product Renewal; An Empirical Analysis of Returns on Invested Capital; ROIC Trends; ROIC by Industry; Stability of ROIC; Effect of Acquisitions on ROIC; Summary; 7 Growth; Drivers of Revenue Growth; Growth and Value Creation; Why Sustaining Growth Is Hard; Empirical Analysis of Corporate Growth; Growth Trends; Growth across Industries; Sustaining Growth; Summary; Part Two Core Valuation Techniques…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Unattractive businesses you own, where you are subtracting value, but which can only be sold at below NPV Running the numbers; PART III: Ways of Adding and Subtracting Value from Corporate Headquarters; Chapter Seven: Ten Sources of Value from Direct Influence; People decisions; Strategies; Targets; Performance management; Policies and standards; Relationships; Technology or products; Expertise; Brand; Financial engineering; Vertical value mirages; When added value is real; Chapter Eight: Nine Sources of Value from Coordinating across Business Divisions; One face to the customer; Cross-selling…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Creating and destroying threads -- Creating managed threads -- Pausing thread execution -- Destroying managed threads -- Handling threading exceptions -- Synchronizing data across threads -- Synchronizing code regions…”