“…Key Features: An innovative six 'I' theoretical framework for strategy has been introduced A leader or an aspiring leader can get an insight into what is strategy through a quick reading of the material on the side columns The book focuses on imagination with intention as a conditional precedent for durability of success Strategy Live: Real examples of crafting and implementing strategy Strategy Stars: The academicians and practitioners who have illuminated strategy Strategy Show: Introducing ideas-at-work in very chapter, with featuring real business organizations Strategy Practice: A brief business case at the end of every chapter illustrating a concept Projects, exercises, questions, models, learning capsules and full-length cases to add to the learning experience. Inspiring quotes across chapters to trigger the imaginative process Introduction of New Topics: Strategy for Special Situations and Institutions, Strategy for Family Business, Organizational Effectiveness Evaluation, Embedding Environmental and Social Consideration in Strategy have also been added…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…4.4 Evaluation of the Fuzzy Rules -- 4.5 Aggregation of Output Fuzzy Sets Across the Rules -- 4.6 Defuzzification of the Resultant Aggregate Fuzzy Set -- 4.6.1 Centroid Method -- 4.6.2 Centre-of-Sums (CoS) Method -- 4.6.3 Mean-of-Maxima (MoM) Method -- 4.7 Fuzzy Controllers -- 4.7.1 Fuzzy Air Conditioner Controller -- 4.7.2 Fuzzy Cruise Controller -- Chapter Summary -- Solved Problems -- Test Your Knowledge -- Answers -- Exercises -- Bibliography and Historical Notes -- Chapter 5: Rough Sets -- 5.1 Information Systems and Decision Systems -- 5.2 Indiscernibility -- 5.3 Set Approximations -- 5.4 Properties of Rough Sets -- 5.5 Rough Membership -- 5.6 Reducts -- Application -- Chapter Summary -- Solved Problems -- Test Your Knowledge -- Answers -- Exercises -- Bibliography and Historical Notes -- Chapter 6: Artificial Neural Networks:Basic Concepts -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.1.1 The Biological Neuron -- 6.1.2 The Artificial Neuron -- 6.1.3 Characteristics of the Brain -- 6.2 Computation in Terms of Patterns -- 6.2.1 Pattern Classification -- 6.2.2 Pattern Association -- 6.3 The McCulloch-Pitts Neural Model -- 6.4 The Perceptron -- 6.4.1 The Structure -- 6.4.2 Linear Separability -- 6.4.3 The XOR Problem -- 6.5 Neural Network Architectures -- 6.5.1 Single Layer Feed Forward ANNs -- 6.5.2 Multilayer Feed Forward ANNs -- 6.5.3 Competitive Network -- 6.5.4 Recurrent Networks -- 6.6 Activation Functions -- 6.6.1 Identity Function -- 6.6.2 Step Function -- 6.6.3 The Sigmoid Function -- 6.6.4 Hyperbolic Tangent Function -- 6.7 Learning by Neural Nets -- 6.7.1 Supervised Learning -- 6.7.2 Unsupervised Learning -- Chapter Summary -- Solved Problems -- Test Your Knowledge -- Answers -- Exercises -- Bibliography and Historical Notes -- Chapter 7: Pattern Classifiers -- 7.1 Hebb Nets -- 7.2 Perceptrons -- 7.3 Adaline -- 7.4 Madaline -- Chapter Summary…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…On Rating a Disintegrating Academic Field (by Barbara Korte) -- References -- Research Assessment in a Philological Discipline: Criteria and Rater Reliability -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Assessing Research Quality in English Departments: Methods and Procedures -- 3 Reliability of the Ratings -- 3.1 Rater Reliability -- 3.2 Rating Variation Across Different Criteria -- 4 Rating Categories: What Do They Really Tell Us? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…. -- See also -- Sending data across threads -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- There's more... -- See also -- Accessing resources in parallel with RwLocks -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- There's more... -- See also -- Atomically accessing primitives -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- There's more... -- See also -- Putting it all together in a connection handler -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- There's more... -- Chapter 8: Working with Futures -- Introduction -- Providing futures with a CPU pool and waiting for them -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- Handling errors in futures -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- See also -- Combining futures -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- See also -- Using Streams -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- Using Sinks -- How to do it…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Reallocate public space for transforming the different territories across Ireland -- 4.3.1. Create a nationwide narrative for streets and roads -- Develop a new framework for road classification and planning -- Create indicators to measure progress, set targets and track benefits -- Embed the new narrative and tools in planning practice…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Reducing methane emissions across the LNG value chain -- 1.2.5. Reducing methane emissions from coal mining -- 1.2.6. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…The Chillón, Rímac and Lurín River Basins (Chirilú) -- Key facts and features -- Water challenges -- Institutional features -- Key water governance challenges -- Ways forward to strengthen water governance -- Improve policy coherence across sectors -- Improve the collection of data and information -- Building capacities -- Engaging stakeholders…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Build capacity for people across the system to thrive among disruption and change -- 3. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Writing our first servlet -- Testing the web application -- Processing HTML forms -- Request forwarding and response redirection -- Request forwarding -- Response redirection -- Persisting application data across requests -- Passing initialization parameters to a servlet via annotations -- Servlet filters -- Servlet listeners -- Pluggability -- Configuring web applications programmatically -- Asynchronous processing -- HTTP/2 server push support -- Summary -- Appendix: Configuring and Deploying to GlassFish -- Obtaining GlassFish -- Installing GlassFish…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…References -- Notes -- 4 Carbon management technologies -- A fresh look at bioproduction -- Biotechnologies coming of age -- Engineering biology, the missing link in biomanufacturing -- Technologies for smart and precision agriculture -- The enigma of meat -- Fertilizer and its alternatives -- Soil, the forgotten resource -- Soil microbiomes -- Carbon farming -- Biochar and CCS -- Compostable plastics and soil amendments -- Recycled and atmospheric carbon -- Recycling of wet organic material -- Treatment and recycling of dry solid waste -- Mechanical recycling of polymers -- Chemical recycling of polymers and other dry waste -- Technologies for utilisation of industry flue gases (CCU) -- C1 pathways, especially methanol -- C2 - C4 pathways -- Fossil feedstocks: electrifying the process -- Microbial single cell protein for food and feed -- Technologies for capturing and use of atmospheric CO2 (DAC) -- Liquid solvent-based DAC -- Solid sorbent-based DAC -- Carbon sequestration for compensation and removal -- Sequestration in building materials -- Solid wood construction -- Injecting CO2 in cement -- Geological storage -- Capture in sediments (between strata) -- Mineralisation -- BECCS and DACCS -- Further technological enablers in carbon-based value chains -- Nanotechnology: potential across many CCU areas -- Nanotechnology in plant agriculture - opportunities and challenges -- Automated synthetic chemistry -- Hydrogen as enabler in carbon-based value chains -- Production of hydrogen -- Green hydrogen -- Blue hydrogen -- National hydrogen strategies -- Hydrogen policies for chemicals, materials, and fuels -- References -- Notes -- 5 Case study summaries and their main policy points -- Austria: Carbon2Product Austria (C2PAT) -- Summary -- Public intervention and supporting policies -- Canada 1: Embedding carbon in the built environment -- Summary…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Memory locations for collections -- C.3.2. Memory locations across updates -- C.3.3. Memory locations for functions -- C.3.4. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Addressing barriers to ATI across the public administration -- 4.2.3. Ensuring ATI is inclusive -- 4.3. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Types of drones and their relevance to applications -- Types of drones and their specifications -- System composition of a UAV -- Major mechanical and structural components of a drone -- Airframe -- Avionics systems and subsystems of drones -- The propulsion system or drive train of a drone -- The power system of drones -- Command and control system -- Summary -- Chapter 2: Understanding Flight Terminologies and the Physics of Motion -- Introduction to thrust, weight, lift, drag, and cruise -- Thrust -- Weight -- Lift -- Drag -- Cruise -- Introduction to the flight axis and its terminologies -- Roll movement -- Pitch movement -- Yaw movement -- Throttle -- Thrust-to-weight ratio (TWR) -- Introduction to the flight physics of a quadcopter -- Engineering to achieve movements across all three axes of rotation -- Hover motion -- Horizontal movements -- Pitch movement or forward-backward movement -- Summary -- Chapter 3: Learning and Applying Basic Command and Control Interfaces -- Introduction to GCS hardware and software -- GCS hardware -- GCS software -- Types of GCS -- Introduction to MAVLink and other open source telemetry protocols -- Introduction to RCs and the different available options -- Components of the RC transmitter system -- Modes of working of an RC controller -- Major RC protocols -- Transmitter protocols -- Receiving protocols -- SBUS protocol -- Summary -- Chapter 4: Knowing UAV Systems, Sub-Systems, and Components…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Understanding Azure at a high level -- Understanding Azure's approach to availability and resiliency -- Looking at redundancy in Azure -- Looking briefly at Azure SLAs and the nines of availability -- Looking at redundancy within a region -- Looking at redundancy across regions -- Looking at Azure's approach to IaaS -- Looking at IaaS for data -- Looking at IaaS for applications -- Discussing firewalls versus network security groups -- Using Azure PaaS features -- Looking at database PaaS -- Looking at PaaS for applications…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Corruption is low in New Zealand but ethics rules could be further strengthened -- Findings and recommendations -- References -- 4 Ensuring the tide lifts all boats: Improving quality and equity in schools across New Zealand -- 4.1. Declining school education performance and ongoing inequity are a serious threat to New Zealand's prosperity -- 4.2. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Gottlieb -- Pt. 3. Positive psychology across the lifespan -- 12. Resilience in development / Ann S. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Logical configuration planning -- 3.1 Principles for performance optimization: balance, isolation and spread -- 3.1.1 Isolation -- 3.1.2 Resource sharing -- 3.1.3 Spreading -- 3.1.4 Using isolation, resource-sharing and spreading to optimize the DS6000 performance -- 3.2 Isolation requirements -- 3.2.1 Review the application workload characteristics to determine the isolation requirements -- 3.3 Plan assignment of DS6000 hardware resources to workloads -- 3.3.1 Plan DS6000 hardware resources for isolated workloads -- 3.3.2 Plan DS6000 hardware resources for resource-sharing workloads -- 3.3.3 Spread volumes and host connections across available hardware -- 3.4 Logical configuration - components and terminology -- 3.5 Configuring for performance -- 3.5.1 Mixing drive geometries -- 3.5.2 Mixing open and zSeries logical disks -- 3.5.3 Arrays and Array Sites -- 3.5.4 Select a Rank format -- 3.5.5 Extent Pool implications -- 3.5.6 Number of Ranks in an Extent Pool -- 3.5.7 LSS design -- 3.5.8 Preferred paths -- 3.6 Performance and sizing considerations…”

“…Delving into more technical topics, this book equips readers with advanced data mining methods that are needed to successfully translate raw data into smart decisions across various fields of research including business, engineering, finance, and the social sciences. …”

“…In PowerPoint 2019 For Dummies , expert Doug Lowe shows you how to use this popular tool to make show-stopping presentations that will get your message across — and your audience excited. Create a slide presentation with special effects Work with master slides and templates Collaborate with other users in the cloud Add charts, clip art, sound, and video Want to learn to use PowerPoint quickly and efficiently? …”

“…What You Will Learn Get a deep understanding of vSphere 6.5 functionalities Design and plan a virtualization environment based on vSphere 6.5 Manage and administer a vSphere 6.5 environment and resources Get tips for the VCP6-DCV and VCIX6-DCV exams (along with use of the vSphere 6 documentation) Implement different migration techniques to move your workload across different environments. Save your configuration, data and workload from your virtual infrastructure. …”