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The end and the beginning the revolutions of 1989 and the resurgence of history /

Table of Contents: “…The demise of the Soviet bloc / Mark Kramer ; Gorbachev and the road to 1989 / Vladislav Zubok ; Success was not an orphan: the battle of the Euromissiles in 1983 and the events of 1989 - 1991 / Jeffrey Herf ; "No one is afraid to talk to us anymore": Radio Free Europe in 1989 / A. …”
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Korean screen cultures : interrogating cinema, tv, music and online games /

Table of Contents: “…Green -- Comedy and Ideology in My Family's Problem / Immanuel Kim -- DPRK Film, Order No. 27 and the Acousmatic Voice / Andrew David Jackson -- How Are Historic Events Remembered? North Korean War Films on the Inchon Landing Operation / Hana Lee -- The Global. …”
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Deliberation and democracy : innovative processes and institutions /

Table of Contents: “…: challenging the mission of public service broadcasting in Europe / Kees Brants -- Deliberative polls : recent experiments -- Reviving deliberative democracy : reflections on recent experiments / James Fishkin -- Long lasting effects of the first deliberative poll in Poland / Anna Przybylska, Alice Siu -- Temporary and lasting effects of a deliberative event : the Kaposvár experience / György Lengyel, Borbála Göncz, and Éva Vépy-Schlemmer -- To what extent does deliberative polls promote discursive rationality? …”
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Criticism of religion on Marxism and theology, II / by Boer, Roland, 1961-

Table of Contents: “…-- By way of conclusion : Marxism as a secular and anti-secular project -- The stumbling block of Fredric Jameson -- Supersession versus a dialectic of ideology and utopia -- Sidestepping religion -- Magic and fantasy -- Feuerbach versus Marx -- The politics of fantasy -- Apocalyptic -- By way of conclusion : towards a dialectic of religion -- The Christian communism of Rosa Luxemburg -- Tactics -- A reformer's zeal -- Betraying the spirit -- A little church history -- Anti-clericalism -- Christian communism -- Consumption versus production -- Completing Cristian communism -- Freedom of conscience -- The enticements of Karl Kautsky -- Text, history, context -- The slipperiness of sacred texts -- The Bible as a cultural product -- Reconstructing economic history -- Differentiation and slaves -- Slaves and other modes of production -- The sacred economy : prolegomena to a reconstruction -- Transitions -- Christian communism -- The forgetfulness of Julia Kristeva -- Flushing out Marx -- Monocausality, or, the taboo of the mother -- The apostle, both ways -- Other-than-human love -- Crucifying the pathologies -- Collectives -- The fables of Alain Badiou -- Banishing the one -- Theology and the event -- A generic procedure of religion? -- Pascal's miracle -- Kierkegaard's encounter -- Paul's fable -- Conclusion : necessary fables -- The conundrums of Giorgio Agamben -- The search for Paul -- Christology, or the problem of Jesus Messiah -- Faith, law and grace as placeholder of the void -- Pre-law, or trying to make sense of Paul -- Conclusion : relativising theology -- The self-exorcism of Georg Lukács -- A world abandoned by God -- Leap-frogging Christianity -- Autobiographical exorcism -- The Bible and the beekeeper's manual -- An apparent absence? …”
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The end and the beginning the revolutions of 1989 and the resurgence of history /

Table of Contents: “…The demise of the Soviet bloc / Mark Kramer ; Gorbachev and the road to 1989 / Vladislav Zubok ; Success was not an orphan: the battle of the Euromissiles in 1983 and the events of 1989 - 1991 / Jeffrey Herf ; "No one is afraid to talk to us anymore": Radio Free Europe in 1989 / A. …”
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Korean screen cultures : interrogating cinema, tv, music and online games /

Table of Contents: “…Green -- Comedy and Ideology in My Family's Problem / Immanuel Kim -- DPRK Film, Order No. 27 and the Acousmatic Voice / Andrew David Jackson -- How Are Historic Events Remembered? North Korean War Films on the Inchon Landing Operation / Hana Lee -- The Global. …”
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Deliberation and democracy : innovative processes and institutions /

Table of Contents: “…: challenging the mission of public service broadcasting in Europe / Kees Brants -- Deliberative polls : recent experiments -- Reviving deliberative democracy : reflections on recent experiments / James Fishkin -- Long lasting effects of the first deliberative poll in Poland / Anna Przybylska, Alice Siu -- Temporary and lasting effects of a deliberative event : the Kaposvár experience / György Lengyel, Borbála Göncz, and Éva Vépy-Schlemmer -- To what extent does deliberative polls promote discursive rationality? …”
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Innovations in Quantitative Risk Management TU München, September 2013 /

Table of Contents: “…Part I Markets, Regulation, and Model Risk -- A Random Holding Period Approach for Liquidity-Inclusive Risk Management -- Regulatory Developments in Risk Management: Restoring Confidence in Internal Models -- Model Risk in Incomplete Markets with Jumps -- Part II Financial Engineering -- Bid-Ask Spread for Exotic Options Under Conic Finance -- Derivative Pricing Under the Possibility of Long Memory in the supOU Stochastic Volatility Model -- A Two-Sided BNS Model for Multicurrency FX Markets -- Modeling the Price of Natural Gas with Temperature and Oil Price as Exogenous Factors -- Copula-Specific Credit Portfolio Modeling -- Implied Recovery Rates—Auctions and Models -- Upside and Downside Risk Exposures of Currency Carry Trades via Tail Dependence -- Part III Insurance Risk and Asset Management -- Participating Life Insurance Contracts Under Risk Based Solvency Frameworks: How to Increase Capital Efficiency by Product Design -- Reducing Surrender Incentives Through Fee Structure in Variable Annuities -- A Variational Approach for Mean-Variance-Optimal Deterministic Consumption and Investment -- Risk Control in Asset Management: Motives and Concepts -- Worst-Case Scenario Portfolio Optimization Given the Probability of a Crash -- Improving Optimal Terminal Value Replicating Portfolios -- Part IV Computational Methods for Risk Management -- Risk and Computation -- Extreme Value Importance Sampling for Rare Event Risk Measurement -- A Note on the Numerical Evaluation of the Hartman–Watson Density and Distribution Function -- Computation of Copulas by Fourier Methods -- Part V Dependence Modelling -- Goodness-of-fit Tests for Archimedean Copulas in High Dimensions -- Duality in Risk Aggregation -- Some Consequences of the Markov Kernel Perspective of Copulas -- Copula Representations for Invariant Dependence Functions -- Nonparametric Copula Density Estimation Using a Petrov–Galerkin Projection.…”
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Interpretation and method empirical research methods and the interpretive turn /

Table of Contents: “…interroating criteria for knowledge claims in interpretive science / Dvora Yanow -- Judging quality : evaluative criteria and epistemic communities / Peregrine Schwartz-Shea -- Talking our way to meaningful explanations : a practice-centered view of interviewing for interpretive research / Joe Soss -- Ordinary language interviewing / Frederic Charles Schaffer -- Seeing with an ethnographic sensibility : explorations beneath the surface of public policies / Ellen Pader -- High politics and low data : globalization discourses and popular culture / Jutta Weldes -- The numeration of events : studying political protest in India / Dean E. …”
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Innovations in Quantitative Risk Management TU München, September 2013 /

Table of Contents: “…Part I Markets, Regulation, and Model Risk -- A Random Holding Period Approach for Liquidity-Inclusive Risk Management -- Regulatory Developments in Risk Management: Restoring Confidence in Internal Models -- Model Risk in Incomplete Markets with Jumps -- Part II Financial Engineering -- Bid-Ask Spread for Exotic Options Under Conic Finance -- Derivative Pricing Under the Possibility of Long Memory in the supOU Stochastic Volatility Model -- A Two-Sided BNS Model for Multicurrency FX Markets -- Modeling the Price of Natural Gas with Temperature and Oil Price as Exogenous Factors -- Copula-Specific Credit Portfolio Modeling -- Implied Recovery Rates—Auctions and Models -- Upside and Downside Risk Exposures of Currency Carry Trades via Tail Dependence -- Part III Insurance Risk and Asset Management -- Participating Life Insurance Contracts Under Risk Based Solvency Frameworks: How to Increase Capital Efficiency by Product Design -- Reducing Surrender Incentives Through Fee Structure in Variable Annuities -- A Variational Approach for Mean-Variance-Optimal Deterministic Consumption and Investment -- Risk Control in Asset Management: Motives and Concepts -- Worst-Case Scenario Portfolio Optimization Given the Probability of a Crash -- Improving Optimal Terminal Value Replicating Portfolios -- Part IV Computational Methods for Risk Management -- Risk and Computation -- Extreme Value Importance Sampling for Rare Event Risk Measurement -- A Note on the Numerical Evaluation of the Hartman–Watson Density and Distribution Function -- Computation of Copulas by Fourier Methods -- Part V Dependence Modelling -- Goodness-of-fit Tests for Archimedean Copulas in High Dimensions -- Duality in Risk Aggregation -- Some Consequences of the Markov Kernel Perspective of Copulas -- Copula Representations for Invariant Dependence Functions -- Nonparametric Copula Density Estimation Using a Petrov–Galerkin Projection.…”
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The health care data guide learning from data for improvement / by Provost, Lloyd P.

Table of Contents: “…Other Tools for Learning from Variation.Frequency Plots.Pareto Charts.Scatter Plot.5 Understanding Variation Using Shewhart Charts.Selecting the Type of Shewhart Chart.Chart Selection Guide.Shewhart Charts for Continuous Data.I Charts.Examples of Shewhart Charts for Individual Measurements.Rational Ordering with an Individual Chart.Effect of the Distribution of the Measurements Example of Individual Chart for Deviations from a Target.X-Bar and S Chart.Shewhart Charts for Attribute Data.Subgroup Size For Attribute Charts.The P Chart for Classification Data.Examples of P Charts.Creation of Funnel Limits for P chart.C and U Charts for Counts of Nonconformities.C Charts.U Charts.Creation of Funnel Limits for a U chart.Process Capability.Process Capability from an I Chart.Capability of a Process from X-bar and S Chart (or R chart).Capability of a Process from Attribute Control Charts.Capability from a P Chart.Capability from a C or U Chart.Appendix 5.1: Calculating Shewhart Limits.Part II Advanced Theory and Methods with Data.6 Shewhart Chart Savvy: Dealing with Some Issues.Designing Effective Shewhart Charts.Typical Problems with Software for Calculating Shewhart Charts.Some Cautions when Using I Charts.7 More Shewhart-Type Charts.Other Shewhart-Type Charts.NP Chart.X-Bar and Range Chart.Median Chart.Shewhart Charts for Rare Events.G Chart for Opportunities Between Rare Events.T Chart for Time Between Rare Events.Some Alternatives to Shewhart-Type Charts.Moving Average Chart.Cumulative Sum (CUSUM) Chart.Exponentially Weighted Moving Average (EWMA) Chart.Standardized Shewhart Charts.Multivariate Shewhart-Type Charts.8 Special Uses for Shewhart Charts.Shewhart Charts with a Changing Center Line.Shewhart Charts with Sloping Center Line.Shewhart Charts with Seasonal Effects.Transformation of Data with Shewhart Charts.Shewhart Charts for Autocorrelated Data.Shewhart Charts for Attribute Data with Large Subgroup Sizes (Over-Dispersion).Prime Charts (P&' and U').Comparison Charts.Confidence Intervals and Confidence Limits.Shewhart Charts for Case-Mix Adjustment.9 Drilling Down into Aggregate Data for Improvement.What are Aggregate Data?…”
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The health care data guide learning from data for improvement / by Provost, Lloyd P.

Table of Contents: “…Other Tools for Learning from Variation.Frequency Plots.Pareto Charts.Scatter Plot.5 Understanding Variation Using Shewhart Charts.Selecting the Type of Shewhart Chart.Chart Selection Guide.Shewhart Charts for Continuous Data.I Charts.Examples of Shewhart Charts for Individual Measurements.Rational Ordering with an Individual Chart.Effect of the Distribution of the Measurements Example of Individual Chart for Deviations from a Target.X-Bar and S Chart.Shewhart Charts for Attribute Data.Subgroup Size For Attribute Charts.The P Chart for Classification Data.Examples of P Charts.Creation of Funnel Limits for P chart.C and U Charts for Counts of Nonconformities.C Charts.U Charts.Creation of Funnel Limits for a U chart.Process Capability.Process Capability from an I Chart.Capability of a Process from X-bar and S Chart (or R chart).Capability of a Process from Attribute Control Charts.Capability from a P Chart.Capability from a C or U Chart.Appendix 5.1: Calculating Shewhart Limits.Part II Advanced Theory and Methods with Data.6 Shewhart Chart Savvy: Dealing with Some Issues.Designing Effective Shewhart Charts.Typical Problems with Software for Calculating Shewhart Charts.Some Cautions when Using I Charts.7 More Shewhart-Type Charts.Other Shewhart-Type Charts.NP Chart.X-Bar and Range Chart.Median Chart.Shewhart Charts for Rare Events.G Chart for Opportunities Between Rare Events.T Chart for Time Between Rare Events.Some Alternatives to Shewhart-Type Charts.Moving Average Chart.Cumulative Sum (CUSUM) Chart.Exponentially Weighted Moving Average (EWMA) Chart.Standardized Shewhart Charts.Multivariate Shewhart-Type Charts.8 Special Uses for Shewhart Charts.Shewhart Charts with a Changing Center Line.Shewhart Charts with Sloping Center Line.Shewhart Charts with Seasonal Effects.Transformation of Data with Shewhart Charts.Shewhart Charts for Autocorrelated Data.Shewhart Charts for Attribute Data with Large Subgroup Sizes (Over-Dispersion).Prime Charts (P&' and U').Comparison Charts.Confidence Intervals and Confidence Limits.Shewhart Charts for Case-Mix Adjustment.9 Drilling Down into Aggregate Data for Improvement.What are Aggregate Data?…”
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BACnet the global standard for building automation and control networks / by Newman, H. Michael, 1942-

Table of Contents: “…BACnet processes and procedures -- 10.1 BACnet alarm and event processing -- 10.1.1 Alarm and event basics -- 10.1.2 COV reporting -- 10.1.3 Event reporting -- 10.2 Command prioritization -- 10.3 Backup and restore -- 10.3.1 Backup -- 10.3.2 Restore -- 10.4 Device restart procedure --…”
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BACnet the global standard for building automation and control networks / by Newman, H. Michael, 1942-

Table of Contents: “…BACnet processes and procedures -- 10.1 BACnet alarm and event processing -- 10.1.1 Alarm and event basics -- 10.1.2 COV reporting -- 10.1.3 Event reporting -- 10.2 Command prioritization -- 10.3 Backup and restore -- 10.3.1 Backup -- 10.3.2 Restore -- 10.4 Device restart procedure --…”
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Applications of social research methods to questions in information and library science / by Wildemuth, Barbara M.

Table of Contents: “…Wildemuth -- Descriptive statistics -- Frequencies, cross-tabulation, and the chi square statistic -- Analyzing sequences of events -- Correlation -- Comparing means : t tests and analysis of variance / Abe J. …”

Reopening public facilities after a biological attack a decision making framework /

Table of Contents: “…Army Biological Warfare laboratories -- Development of Superfund and remediation plans -- Remediation experiences in the U.S. nuclear weapons complex -- Anthrax decontamination after the 2001 attacks: social and political context -- Uncertain science, certain social division -- Case study selection -- Framework for event management -- Hazard identification and assessment -- Identification of the agent -- Evaluating the state of the agent -- Evaluating the state of the contaminated building -- Factors influencing exposure to harmful biological agents in indoor environments -- Exposure -- Sources -- Building design and operations -- Heating, ventilating, and air conditioning systems -- Transport and fate of harmful biological agents -- Deposition -- Resuspension -- Preparing and operating buildings for a bioterrorism attack and subsequent operation -- Analyzing health risks -- Assessment of risks posed by a biological hazard -- Dose-response: principles and uncertainties -- Sampling strategies and technologies -- Sampling and identification -- General sampling plan for quantifying the extent of cleanup -- Decontamination practices and principles -- Processes for decontamination of harmful biological agents and other response options --Decontamination of harmful biological agents by chemical and physical methods -- Examples of decontamination: Hart Senate Office Building and American Media International Building…”
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European elections & domestic politics lessons from the past and scenarios for the future /

Table of Contents: “…Wüst and Hermann Schmitt -- Locating support for European integration / Angelika Scheuer and Wouter van der Brug -- The media and European Parliament elections: second-rate coverage of a second-order event? / Claes H. de Vreese, Edmund Lauf, and Jochen Peter -- Media effects on attitudes toward European integration / Jochen Peter -- Non-voting in European Parliament elections and support for European integration / Hermann Schmitt and Cees van der Eijk -- EU support and party choice / Wouter van der Brug, Cees van der Eijk, and Mark N. …”
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Opera and sovereignty transforming myths in eighteenth-century Italy / by Feldman, Martha

Table of Contents: “…Opera seria, sovereignty, performance ; Ritual and event ; Magic and myth ; Public opinion ; Evolutions ; Crisis and involution -- Arias : form, feeling, exchange. …”
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Organic synthesis the disconnection approach / by Warren, Stuart G.

Table of Contents: “…The disconnection approach -- Basic principles : synthons and reagents synthesis of aromatic compounds -- Strategy I : the order of events -- One-group C-X disconnections -- Strategy II : chemoselectivity -- Two-group C-X disconnections -- Strategy III : reversal of polarity, cyclisations, summary of strategy -- Amine synthesis -- Strategy IV : protecting groups -- One group C-C disconnections I : alcohols -- General strategy A : choosing a disconnection -- Strategy V : stereoselectivity A -- One group C-C disconnections II : carbonyl compounds -- Strategy VI : regioselectivity -- Alkene synthesis -- Strategy VII : use of acetylenes (alkines) -- Two-group C-C disconnections I : Diels-Alder reactions -- Strategy VIII : introduction to carbonyl condensations -- Two-group C-C disconnections II : 1,3-difunctionalised compounds -- Strategy IX : control in carbonyl condensations -- Two-group C-C disconnections : 1,5-difunctionalised compounds -- Strategy X : aliphatic nitro compounds in synthesis -- Two-group disconnections IV : 1,2-difunctionalised compounds -- Strategy XI : radical reactions in synthesis -- Two-group disconnection V : 1,4-difunctionalised compounds -- Strategy XII : reconnection -- Two-group C-C disconnections VI : 1,6-diCarbonyl compounds -- General strategy B : strategy of carbonyl disconnections -- Strategy XIII : introduction to ring synthesis : saturated heterocycles -- Three-membered rings -- Strategy XIV : rearrangements in synthesis -- Four-membered rings : photochemistry in synthesis -- Strategy XV : the use of ketenes in synthesis -- Five-membered rings -- Strategy XVI : pericyclic reactions in synthesis : special methods for five-membered rings -- Six-membered rings -- General strategy C : strategy of ring synthesis -- Strategy XVII : stereoselectivity B -- Aromatic heterocycles -- General strategy D : advanced strategy.…”
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Sons of anarchy and philosophy brains before bullets /

Table of Contents: “…Aarons -- Mothers of Anarchy: Power, Control, and Care in the Feminine Sphere / Leigh C. Kolb -- "Each Savage Event was a Catalyst for the Next": The Historic and the Homeric Sons of History: How SAMCRO Lost and Found Its Way / Peter S. …”
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