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COVID-19 and World Order : The Future of Conflict, Competition, and Cooperation /

Table of Contents: “…Steinberg -- Part VI: Grand strategy and American statecraft. Maybe it won't be so bad: A modestly optimistic take on COVID and world order / Hal Brands, Peter Feaver, and William Inboden ; COVID-19's impact on great-power competition / Thomas Wright ; Building a more globalized order / Kori Schake ; Could the pandemic reshape world order, American security, and national defense? …”
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Transforming government and empowering communities the Sri lankan experience with e-development / by Hanna, Nagy

Table of Contents: “…Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Acronyms and abbreviations -- Introduction -- E-development as a holistic vision -- The eSri Lanka program -- Learning from eSri Lanka -- Developing e-leadership institutions -- An institutional innovation in e-leadership: the ICT Agency of Sri lanka -- The institutional model -- Evolution of the authorizing environment and governance model -- Mandate -- Paths to sustainability -- Core competencies -- Partnerships -- A learning organization -- Role of aid agencies -- Lessons and conclusions -- Annex 2.1 The ICT agency in search of a corporate identity -- Annex 2.2 The ICT policy framework & the organizational structure of the ICT agency -- Annex 2.3 Internal and external risks facing the ICT agency at inception -- Managing results -- Objectives of monitoring and evaluation for eSri Lanka -- Framework for monitoring and evaluation -- Arrangements for monitoring and evaluation -- Emerging lessons -- Annex 3.1 Results framework for monitoring and evaluation -- Outcome indicator -- ICT human resource development and industry promotion -- Transforming government -- Best practices and options for planning and implementing e-government -- Approaches to planning e-government -- Implementation of e-government: four phases -- Leadership, partnership, and change management -- Providing leadership, building partnerships -- Conclusions and implications -- Readiness for e-government: a historical perspective -- History of e-government in Sri Lanka -- Analysis of the situation -- Findings and recommendations -- A vision of e-government -- Motivations and aspirations -- Challenges to realizing the vision -- Lessons learned: a postscript -- A strategy for e-government: initial priorities and lessons -- Planning for e-services -- Building e-governance -- Implementation agenda -- Early experience and lessons -- Annex 7.1 Criteria for determining impact & feasibility of offering services online -- Determining impact -- Determining feasibility -- Empowering communities -- Innovation in ICT use for poverty reduction -- Bottom-up planning and participatory development -- Serving the bottom of the pyramid -- The user innovation revolution -- Demand-driven ICT-enabled development -- Financing ICT innovation: lessons from InfoDev -- Conditions for ensuring impact by small grants -- Strategies for soliciting and funding good proposals -- Evaluating proposals and making funding decisions -- Good practices in managing a small-grant program -- E-society: design and early experience -- Overview of the fund -- Practices in soliciting and funding proposals -- Arrangements for implementation and monitoring -- Early operation and lessons learned -- Key lessons of eSri Lanka -- Designing and implementing a holistic framework for e-development -- Developing e-leadership institutions -- Transforming government -- Empowering communities -- Appendix 1 Main program components of eSri Lanka -- ICT policy, leadership, and institutional development program -- Information infrastructure program -- Reengineering government program -- ICT human resource capacity-building program -- ICT investment and private sector development program -- E-society program -- Appendix 2 Selected indicators for Sri Lanka and comparators -- Bibliography -- About the author.…”
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The new science of the mind from extended mind to embodied phenomenology / by Rowlands, Mark

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Border security barriers along the U.S. international border / by Nunez-Neto, Blas

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Proceedings of the International Conference on Social Modeling and Simulation, plus Econophysics Colloquium 2014

Table of Contents: “…Chapter 1 Financial Market -- Influence Networks in the Foreign Exchange Market -- Entropy and Transfer Entropy: The Dow Jones and the build up to the 1997 Asian Crisis -- Execution and Cancellation Lifetimes in Foreign Currency Market -- Signs of market orders and human dynamics -- Damped oscillatory behaviors in the ratios of stock market indices -- Exploring Market Making Strategy for High Frequency Trading: an Agent-based Approach -- Effect of Cancel Order on Simple Stochastic Order-Book Model -- Chapter 2 Robustness and Fragility -- Cascading failures in interdependent economic networks -- Do connections make systems robust?…”
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Poverty Reduction Policies and Practices in Developing Asia

Table of Contents: “…-- Chapter 6: Housing Poverty and Inequality in Urban India -- Part Four: Rural Poverty Reduction Policies -- Chapter 7: Evaluation of the Policy of Crop Diversification as a Strategy for Reduction of Rural Poverty in India -- Chapter 8: Conflict and Livelihood Decisions in the Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh -- Part Five: Dimensions of Poverty and its Reductions -- Chapter 9: Decomposing Spatial Inequality in Sri Lanka: A Quantile Regression Approach -- Chapter 10: Non-Income Dimensions, Prevalence, Depth and Severity of Poverty: Spatial Estimation with Household Level Data in India -- Chapter 11: Is Poverty Comparable Across Varying Size of Population Among Indian States? …”
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Creatively lean : how to get out of your own way and drive innovation throughout your organization / by Englebach, Bella (Isabella)

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Micro Irrigation Scheduling and Practices / by Goyal, Megh R.

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Artificial Intelligence and the Two Singularities / by Chace, Calum

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Improving Sustainability in the Hospitality Industry by Melissen, F. W. (Frans)

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Solids level measurement and detection handbook by Lewis, Joe

Table of Contents: “…Introduction to contents measurement -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Choosing a measuring strategy -- 5.3 Application considerations -- 5.4 Conclusion --…”
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Quality recognition and prediction smarter pattern technology with the Mahalanobis-Taguchi system / by Teshima, Shoichi

Table of Contents: “…Supplementary considerations concerning mathematical formulas -- D. Strategy to use when data incorporates unmeasured values -- E. …”
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Control system migrations : a practical project management handbook / by Roessler, Daniel

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Bayesian cost-effectiveness analysis of medical treatments / by Moreno, Elías, Vázquez Polo, Francisco José, Negrín-Hernández, Miguel Angel

Table of Contents: “…<OL><B><LI>Health economics evaluation </LI></B><P>Introduction </P><P>Conventional types of economic evaluation </P><P>The variables of cost-effectiveness analysis </P><P>Sources of uncertainty in cost-effectiveness analysis </P><P>Conventional tools for cost-effectiveness analysis </P><P>The incremental cost-effectiveness ratio </P><P>The incremental net benefit </P><P>Cost-effectiveness acceptability curve </P><P>Conventional subgroup analysis </P><P>An outline of Bayesian cost-effectiveness analysis </P><B><P></P><P><LI>Statistical inference in parametric models </LI><P></P></B><P>Introduction </P><P>Parametric sampling models </P><P>The likelihood function </P><P>Likelihood sets </P><P>The maximum likelihood estimator </P><P>Proving consistency and asymptotic normality </P><P>Reparametrization to a subparameter </P><P>Parametric Bayesian models </P><P>Subjective priors </P><P>Conjugate priors </P><P>Objective priors </P><P>The predictive distribution </P><P>Bayesian model selection </P><P>Intrinsic priors for model selection </P><P>The normal linear model </P><P>Maximum likelihood estimators </P><P>Bayesian estimators </P><P>An outline of variable selection </P><P></P><B><P><LI>Statistical decision theory </LI><P></P></B><P>Introduction </P><P>Elements of a decision problem </P><P>Ordering rewards </P><P>Lotteries </P><P>The Utility function </P><P>Axioms for the existence of the utility function </P><P>Criticisms to the utility function </P><P>Lotteries that depend on a parameter </P><P>The minimax strategy </P><P>The Bayesian strategy </P><P>Comparison </P><P>Optimal decisions in the presence of sampling information</P><P>The frequentist procedure </P><P>The Bayesian procedure </P><P></P><B><P><LI>Cost-effectiveness analysis. …”
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Law in the documents of the Judaean desert

Table of Contents: “…Jull -- Marriage payments and succession strategies in the documents from the Judaean desert / Michael L. …”
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Social dimensions of climate change equity and vulnerability in a warming world /

Table of Contents: “…Equity and vulnerability in a warming world : introduction and overview / Robin Mearns and Andrew Norton -- Vulnerability does not fall from the sky : toward multiscale, pro-poor climate policy / Jesse Ribot -- Implications of climate change for armed conflict / Halvard Buhaug, Nils Petter Gleditsch, and Ole Magnus Theisen -- Climate change and migration : emerging patterns in the developing world / Clionadh Raleigh and Lisa Jordan -- The gender dimensions of poverty and climate change adaptation / Justina Demetriades and Emily Esplen -- The role of indigenous knowledge in crafting adaptation and mitigation strategies for climate change in Latin America / Jakob Kronik and Dorte Verner -- Local institutions and adaptation to climate change / Arun Agrawal -- Climate change for agrarian societies in drylands : implications and future pathways / Simon Anderson, John Morton, and Camilla Toulmin -- Toward pro-poor adaptation to climate change in the urban centers of low- and middle-income countries / Caroline Moser and David Satterthwaite -- Social policies for adaptation to climate change / Rasmus Heltberg, Paul Bennett Siegel, and Steen Lau Jorgensen -- Seeing people through the trees and the carbon : mitigating and adapting to climate change without undermining rights and livelihoods / Andy White ... …”
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Prostate cancer

Table of Contents: “…Kaplan -- Stereotactic body radiation therapy for prostate cancer / Thomas Boike and Robert Timmerman -- Proton beam radiotherapy for prostate cancer / Andrew Lee and Quynh Nguyen -- Image-guided strategies for prostate cancer / Matthew Stenmark and Daniel Hamstra -- Treatment of intermediate-risk prostate cancer / John A. …”
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The changing identity of rural India a socio-historic analysis /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Capital and labour transformations in shaping rural development in India / Elisabetta Basile and Ishita Mukhopadhyay -- Identifying livelihoods in rural India / Ishita Mukhopadhyay -- The institutional embeddedness of Indian rural capitalism / Elisabetta Basile -- Social capital and poverty reduction strategies : the case of rural India / Claudio Cecchi, Luca Molinas, and Fabio Sabatini -- An overview of Indian microfinance / Shirsendu Mukherjee and Sukanta Bhattacharya -- Income-based estimates vs. consumption-based estimates of poverty : evidence from rural Tamil Nadu after liberalization / Marco Cavalcante -- Occupational diversification of the rural workers : some results from field surveys in West Bengal / Sankar K. …”
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Advancing the culture of teaching on campus how a teaching center can make a difference /

Table of Contents: “….] -- Role play and beyond: strategies for incorporating theatre into faculty development / Matthew Kaplan, Jeffrey Steiger -- Conclusion: responding to challenges faced by teaching centers at research universities / Matthew Kaplan with contributions from Terry Aladjem ... …”
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