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Building community resilience to disasters a way forward to enhance national health security /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Definition and application of community resilience -- Wellness : promote population health before and after an incident, including behavioral health -- Access : ensure access to high-quality health, behavioral health, and social resources and services -- Education : ensure ongoing information to the public about preparedness, risks, and resources before, during, and after a disaster -- Engagement : promote participatory decisionmaking in planning, response, and recovery activities -- Self-sufficiency : enable and support individuals and communities to assume responsibility for their preparedness -- Partnership : develop strong partnerships within and between government and other organizations -- Quality : collect, analyze, and utilize data to monitor and evaluate progress on building community resilience -- Efficiency : leverage existing community resources for maximum use and effectiveness -- Future directions : implementation, measurement, and next steps.…”
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Water finance public responsibilities and private opportunities / by Grigg, Neil S.

Table of Contents: “…Water for people and the environment -- A model of the water business -- Dams and reservoirs for multiple purposes -- The water-supply utility business -- Stormwater and flood control -- Industrial water and the water-energy nexus -- Water for food production -- Instrcam flows : competing for water in the cammons -- Drivers of change in the water industry -- Government and politics in the water business -- Financing the water industry -- Public health as a water-industry driver -- Law and regulation in the water industry -- Water-industry workforce : crisis and opportunity -- Private-sector operations in the water industry -- Constructing water-industry infrastructures -- Services to support the water industry -- Equipment for the water industry -- Commodity water : transfers, exchanges, and water banks -- Bottled water and point-of-use treatment -- Safe water for all : the ultimate water business -- Water investments, careers, and business opportunities.…”
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Saving Europe how national politics nearly destroyed the euro / by Bastasin, Carlo, 1959-

Table of Contents: “…Faust saves the euro -- From a new complacency to the Irish crisis -- A sophisticated way to commit suicide -- A fateful fight between the ECB and the heads of governments -- The crisis reaches Italy and Spain -- Berlusconi's moral hazard and the German waterboarding strategy -- Solution or dissolution : political union or the end of the euro -- Epilogue : toward the political union.…”
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The informal sector in Francophone Africa firm size, productivity and institutions / by Benjamin, Nancy C., 1956-

Table of Contents: “…Informal trading networks in West Africa: the Mourides of Senegal/Gambia and the Yoruba of Benin/Nigeria -- Chapter 9. Government policies, smuggling and the informal sector.…”
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The Fourth Amendment select issues and cases /

Table of Contents: “…Protecting the U.S. perimeter : border searches under the Fourth Amendment / Yule Kim -- Border searches of laptop computers and other electronic storage devices / Yule Kim -- Government access to phone calling activity and related records : legal authorities / Elizabeth B. …”
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Application administrators handbook : installing, updating and troubleshooting software / by Bourne, Kelly C.

Table of Contents: “…responsibility for an application -- Change control -- Installing software -- Support software -- Updates and patches -- Supporting your application -- Disaster recover -- Handling problems with the application -- Repetitive activities -- Security -- The server -- Tuning -- The network -- Your organization -- The user's viewpoint -- The vendor -- The government gets involved -- System tools - common -- System tools - microsoft -- System tools - unix -- Tools you can or should develop -- Third party tools -- Troubleshooting tips -- Things to do in advance that pay off -- Things that will happen that you don't want to think about -- The end of days - decommissioning an application -- What every application administrator should know -- Education -- Parting advice, perhaps unsolicited.…”
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Smith, Currie & Hancock's common sense construction law : a practical guide for the construction professional /

Table of Contents: “…The legal context of construction -- Interpreting the contract -- Alternative contracting methods -- Public private partnerships -- International construction contracts -- Working in a new state : pre-proposal & performance considerations -- Competing for the contract -- The uniform commercial code and the construction industry -- Authority and responsibility of the design professional -- Subcontract administration and dispute avoidance -- Contract changes -- Differing site conditions -- Schedules, delays, and acceleration -- Inspection, acceptance, warranties, and commissioning -- Management techniques to limit risks and avoid disputes -- Payment bonds -- Performance bonds and terminations -- Proving costs and damages -- An overview of environmental and safety concerns on the construction site -- Construction insurance -- Labor and employment issues affecting the construction industry -- Bankruptcy in the construction setting -- Resolution of construction disputes -- Federal government construction contracting : an overview.…”
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Anti-fragile ICT Systems by Hole, Kjell Jørgen

Table of Contents: “…Preface -- Part I: The Concept of Anti-Fragility: 1 Introduction -- 2 Achieving Anti-Fragility -- 3 The Need to Build Trust -- 4 Principles Ensuring Anti-Fragility -- Part II: Anti-Fragility to Downtime: 5 Anti-Fragile Cloud Solutions -- 6 An Anti-Fragile e-Government System -- 7 Anti-Fragile Cloud-Based Telecom Systems -- Part III: Anti-Fragility to Malware: 8 Robustness to Malware Spreading -- 9 Robustness to Malware Reinfections -- 10 Anti-Fragility to Malware Spreading -- Part IV: Anomaly Detection: 11 The Cortical Learning Algorithm -- 12 Detecting Anomalies with the CLA -- Part V: Future Anti-Fragile Systems: 13 Summary and Future Work -- About the Author -- References -- Index.…”
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Bioeconomy Shaping the Transition to a Sustainable, Biobased Economy /

Table of Contents: “….- Part III: Transition to a Sustainable Bioeconomy -- Chapter9:  Modelling and Tools Supporting the Transition to a Bioeconomy -- Chapter 10: Environmental Economics, the Bioeconomy and the Role of Government -- Chapter 11: Economic Growth, Development, and Innovation – The Transformation towards a Knowledge-based Bioeconomy -- Chapter 12: The Bioeconomist.…”
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Nanobrain : the making of an artificial brain from a time crystal / by Bandyopadhyay, Anirban

Table of Contents: “…Philosophical transformation essential to reverse engineer consciousness -- Replacing Turing tape with a fractal tape : fractal information theory (FIT) & geometric musical language (GML) -- Phase prime metric, PPM links all symmetries in our universe, governs nature's intelligence -- Fractal mechanics is not quantum but original : geometric algebra for a dodecanion brain -- Big data in the garden of gardens, GOG of meander flower : universal time crystal -- Unprecedented technologies of nature led by harvesting the geometry of singularity -- A complete, integrated time crystal model of a human brain -- Hinductor not Memristor : synthesis of atoms and crystals made of magnetic light -- Brain jelly to humanoid avatar : fractal reaction kinetics, fractal condensation, and programmable matter for primes -- Uploading consciousness : the evolution of conscious machines of the future.…”
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The cube of strategic management : the distinctive advantage of organizations / by Putz, Mihai V.

Table of Contents: “…Cross-Cultural Management by Eighth-Fold Matrix of Social Versus Personal Values: Lessons from X-Generation -- The Strategic Cube of the Distinctive Advantage: An Epistemological Approach -- The Strategic Cube of the Distinctive Advantage: Networks with Catastrophic Surfaces -- Strategic Innovating Paths for the Distinctive Advantage: The Changing Management Faraway from Equilibrium -- Scientific Entrepreneurship by the Strategic Double Cube of Competitiveness: Knowledge Transfer -- Business Strategies by the Multi-Nodal Logistics within the Cubic Network of Distinctive Advantage -- Risks Management in Nanotechnology Projects Toward Eighth-Fold Ws -- Clustering in and Out Strategies of the Prisoner Dilemmain the Cube of Distinctive Advantage -- Strategic Innovation in the Organization Governance: The Eight-Folding of the Mission Balance -- Global Strategies in the Knowledge Economy: The Case of R&D Sustainability in the European Union -- Cubic Management of Inclusive Scientific Change.…”
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Transgenic mouse models of prion diseases

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Prions represent a new biological paradigm of protein-mediated information transfer -- Prions are the cause of fatal, transmissible neurodegenerative diseases, often referred to as transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs) -- Many unresolved issues remain including the exact molecular nature of the prion, the detailed mechanism of prion propagation, and the mechanism by which prion diseases can be both genetic and infectious -- The factors governing the transmission of prions between species remain unclear, in particular the means by which prion strains and PrP primary structure interact to affect inter-species prion transmission -- Dramatic advances in our understanding of prions have occurred because of their transmissibility to experimental animals and the development of transgenic (Tg) mouse models has done much to further our understanding about various aspects of prion biology.…”
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Introduction to geophysical fluid dynamics physical and numerical aspects / by Cushman-Roisin, Benoit, 1954-

Table of Contents: “…Part 1, Fundamentals: Introduction ; The Coriolis force ; Equations of fluid motion ; Equations governing geophysical flows ; Diffusive processes ; Transport and fate -- Part 2, Rotation effects: Geostrophic flows and vorticity dynamics ; The Ekman layer ; Barotropic waves ; Barotropic instability -- Part 3, Stratification effects: Stratification ; Layered models ; Internal waves ; Turbulence in stratified fluids -- Part 4, Combined rotation and stratification effects: Dynamics of stratified rotating flows ; Quasi-geostrophic dynamics ; Instabilities of rotating stratified flows ; Fronts, jets and vortices -- Part 5, Special topics: Atmospheric general circulation ; Oceanic general circulation ; Equatorial dynamics ; Data assimilation -- Part 6, Web site information: Elements of fluid mechanics ; Wave kinematics ; Recapitulation of numerical schemes.…”
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Investigating Srebrenica institutions, facts, responsibilities /

Table of Contents: “…: the parliament of Bosnia-Herzegovina and the question of Bosniak responsibilities / Xavier Bougarel -- The long way to admission : the report of the government of the Republika Srpska / Mich�ale Picard and Asta Zinbo -- Facts, responsibility, intelligibility : comparing the investigations and reports / Isabelle Delpla.…”
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Doctoral Education in South Africa / by Cloete, Nico, Sheppard, C. J. (Charles Johannes), 1960-, Mouton, J. (Johann)

Table of Contents: “…Current trends in PhD studies : a review of articles published on the University World News website (2013) -- Appendix 4. Government steering of doctoral production -- Appendix 5. …”
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Secret wars and secret policies in the Americas, 1842-1929 by Schuler, Friedrich Engelbert, 1960-

Table of Contents: “…Before European and Japanese governments manipulated immigrants in the Americas -- Becoming useful : the first Japanese and German experiments with ethnic manipulations in the West -- Mexico discovers Japan as a potential strategic wedge against the United States -- [pt.] …”
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Deliberation and democracy : innovative processes and institutions /

Table of Contents: “…: some evidences from a deliberative poll on reframing regional governments held at Kanagawa prefecture, Japan / Tatsuro Sakano -- The deliberation quality -- How to measure the quality of deliberation? …”
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Entrepreneurship in China : the Emergence of the Private Sector / by Atherton, Andrew

Table of Contents: “…Chinese business culture and entrepreneurship -- Introduction -- Philosophical and ideological influences on Chinese culture -- Key dimensions of Chinese culture -- Holistic approaches to the study of Chinese culture -- Geographical and generational diversity -- Influence of culture on the business practices adopted by Chinese entrepreneurs -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 8. Dealing with the government -- Introduction -- The nature of government in China -- The five-year plan as a key planning framework for the state -- Enterprise policy in China -- Creating the right conditions for entrepreneurship -- Innovation and high-tech businesses -- Relations between entrepreneurs and the government -- Corruption and expropriation by officials -- 'Guanxi' relationships between officials and entrepreneurs -- The political roles and significance of entrepreneurs in China -- Notes -- 9. …”
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The Irish War of Independence by Hopkinson, Michael

Table of Contents: “…Beginning: Outline of the War January 1919-June 1920 -- British administration 1919-April 1920 -- The D?ail government -- British security forces -- British policy at the crossroads, April-August 1920 -- pt. 3. …”
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A course in monetary economics sequential trade, money, and uncertainty / by Eden, Benjamin

Table of Contents: “…Overview -- Money in the utility function -- The welfare cost of inflation in a growing economy -- Government -- More explicit models of money -- Optimal fiscal and monetary policy -- Money and the business cycle: does money matter? …”
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