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Advances in Computational Intelligence and Communication Technology : proceedings of CICT 2019 by International Conference on Computational intelligence and Communication Technology Ghāziabād, India, SpringerLink (Online service)

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Agile marketing by Accardi-Petersen, Michelle

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VMware cloud on AWS insights on the first VMware enterprise-proven SaaS solution by Lombard, Christophe

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The new public health Third edition. by Tulchinsky, Theodore H., Varavikova, Elena

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Saving for development : how Latin America and the Caribbean can save more and better by Inter-American Development Bank

Contents: “…The Last Resort: Taking Care of Grandma; Act Today, for a Better Tomorrow; Notes; 7 Saving for the Future: Pension Systems; Newer Systems for Older Populations; PAYG/Defined-Benefit Systems: Promises, Promises; Sustainability; Adequacy and Redistribution; Institutional Arrangements; Recommendations; Defined Contribution Systems: A Work in Progress; Transition Costs; Investments, Returns, and Costs; Retirement Products and Insurance Arrangements; Financial Literacy, Legitimacy, and Confidence; Appropriate Regulation and Supervision; Recommendations; When All Else Fails: Noncontributory Pensions.…”
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Healthcare information privacy and security : regulatory compliance and data security in the age of electronic health records by Robichau, Bernard Peter

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Logic, Rationality, and Interaction : Second International Workshop, LORI 2009, Chongqing, China, October 8-11, 2009. Proceedings by LORI 2009 Chongqing, China, SpringerLink (Online service)

Contents: “…Contributed Papers -- Expressing Properties of Coalitional Ability under Resource Bounds -- Dynamic Context Logic -- Toward a Dynamic Logic of Questions -- A General Family of Preferential Belief Removal Operators -- Computing Compliance -- Attributing Distributed Responsibility in Stit Logic -- Characterizations of Iterated Admissibility Based on PEGL -- Can Doxastic Agents Learn? …”
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Managing downside risk in financial markets : theory, practice and implementation by ScienceDirect (Online service)

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Lighter than air robots : guidance and control of autonomous airships by Bestaoui Sebbane, Yasmina

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Management of uncertainty : theory and application in the design of systems and organizations by Grote, Gudela

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Collaborative genomics projects : a comprehensive guide First edition. by Sheth, Margi, Zhang, Jiashan, Zenklusen, Jean C.

Contents: “…Establishing a Data Generation Pipeline and Quality Control MeasuresProper Tracking of Data Generation; Conclusion; References; 6 Pipeline: Data Storage and Dissemination; Introduction; Creation of Centralized Data Management Center; Define Standard Data and Metadata Formats; Collect, Store, and Version Data and Metadata; Implement Quality Control Measures for Submitted Data; Put in Place Appropriate Security and Access Controls; Redistribute Data and Metadata Tailored to Diverse Project Stakeholders and End Users; Conclusion; References; 7 Pipeline: Data Analysis; Introduction.…”
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Configuration management for senior managers : essential product configuration and lifecycle management for manufacturing by Watts, Frank B.

Contents: “…FUNCTION NAMERESPONSIBILITIES; REENGINEER OR CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT; PLAN TO IMPROVE; SUMMARY; Chapter Four -- CM and Software; SOFTWARE'S CURRENT CONDITION; MODERN TREND; PROCESS REDESIGN BEFORE SOFTWARE; CM'S ROLL IN SOFTWARE; WHAT CM SHOULD CONTROL-AND NOT; SOFTWARE (SW) AND FIRMWARE (FW) CONTROL; SUMMARY; Chapter Five -- Standard Foundation Blocks; STANDARDS WRITING; GENERAL STANDARDS; ACRONYMS AND DEFINITIONS; PART NUMBERS-SIGNIFICANT OR NOT; CLASS CODING; INTERCHANGEABILITY AND THE PART NUMBER; INTERCHANGEABILITY/PART NUMBER/REV CHANGE; ITEM/DOCUMENT NUMBERING.…”
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How to validate a pharmaceutical process by Ostrove, Steve

Contents: “…II: Stage I-Process Development4 Getting Started; Before It All Starts; Example; Getting Started (After the Equipment Specifications); The Validation Master Plan; Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) Preparation; Quality Programs; Training; Basic Risk Approach; Putting it Together; Notes; 5 Basic Equipment and Utility Qualification; Introduction; Determining the Level of Qualification; Factory Acceptance Test and Site Acceptance Test; Commissioning; Qualification Protocols-Installation Qualification (IQ) and Operational Qualification (OQ); Performance Qualification.…”
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Product-focused software process improvement : 8th International conference, PROFES 2007, Riga, Latvia, July 2-4, 2007 : proceedings by PROFES 2007 Rīga, Latvia, SpringerLink (Online service)

Contents: “…Keynote Addresses -- Software Development and Globalization -- Software Development Globalization from the Baltic Perspective -- Experiences in Applying Agile Software Development in F-Secure -- People Side of IT Globalization -- Global Software Development -- An Industrial Survey of Software Outsourcing in China -- Understanding Lacking Trust in Global Software Teams: A Multi-case Study -- Utilization of a Set of Software Engineering Roles for a Multinational Organization -- Software Process Improvement -- Software Verification Process Improvement Proposal Using Six Sigma -- Software Development Improvement with SFIM -- SPI-KM -- Lessons Learned from Applying a Software Process Improvement Strategy Supported by Knowledge Management -- Organisational Readiness and Software Process Improvement -- Software Process Improvement Through Teamwork Management -- De-motivators of Software Process Improvement: An Analysis of Vietnamese Practitioners' Views -- Software Process Modeling and Evolution -- Defining Software Processes Through Process Workshops: A Multicase Study -- Improving an Industrial Reference Process by Information Flow Analysis: A Case Study -- Connecting the Rationale for Changes to the Evolution of a Process -- Industrial Experiences -- Use of Non-IT Testers in Software Development -- Requirements Management Practices as Patterns for Distributed Product Management -- SPI Consulting in a Level 1 Company: An Experience Report -- Agile Software Development -- On the Effects of Pair Programming on Thoroughness and Fault-Finding Effectiveness of Unit Tests -- An Agile Toolkit to Support Agent-Oriented and Service-Oriented Computing Mechanisms -- Achieving Success in Supply Chain Management Software by Agility -- Software Measurement -- Software Measurement Programs in SMEs -- Defining Software Indicators: A Methodological Framework -- Smart Technologies in Software Life Cycle -- Convertibility Between IFPUG and COSMIC Functional Size Measurements -- A Framework for Measuring and Evaluating Program Source Code Quality -- Software Fault Prediction with Object-Oriented Metrics Based Artificial Immune Recognition System -- Simulation and Decision Support -- Operational Planning, Re-planning and Risk Analysis for Software Releases -- Project Cost Overrun Simulation in Software Product Line Development -- E-Service Architecture Selection Based on Multi-criteria Optimization -- Processes and Methods -- A Component-Based Process for Developing Automotive ECU Software -- A Systematic Approach to Service-Oriented Analysis and Design -- Improving the Problem Management Process from Knowledge Management Perspective -- Workshop -- Experience on Applying Quantitative and Qualitative Empiricism to Software Engineering -- Tutorials -- Using Metrics to Improve Software Testing -- Increase ICT Project Success with Concrete Scope Management -- Agile Software Development: Theoretical and Practical Outlook.…”
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Lean Six Sigma : methods for production optimization by Niemann, Jörg

Contents: “…5.3.3 Solution proposal and blank templates -- References -- 6 Line Balancing -- 6.1 Classification of the Method -- 6.2 Description of the Method -- 6.2.1 Actual Analysis -- 6.2.1.1 Activities -- 6.2.1.2 Customer Cycle -- 6.2.1.3 OEE -- Overall Equipment Effectiveness -- 6.2.1.4 Cycle and Takt Time -- 6.2.2 Presentation of Analysis Results -- 6.2.2.1 Work Distribution Diagram -- 6.2.2.2 Operation List -- 6.2.2.3 Network Planning Technique -- 6.3 Workshop 9: "Aircraft Manufacturing" -- 6.3.1 Production Round 1 -- 6.3.1.1 Execution of the First Production Round -- 6.3.1.2 Round 1: Evaluation.…”
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Wireless and satellite systems : 11th EAI international conference, WiSATS 2020, Nanjing, China, September 17-18, 2020 : proceedings. Part I by WiSATS (Conference) Online), SpringerLink (Online service)

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Software and data technologies : Second International Conference, ICSOFT/ENASE 2007, Barcelona, Spain, July 22-25, 2007, revised selected papers by ICSOFT 2007 Barcelona, Spain, SpringerLink (Online service), ICSOFT (Conference), ENASE (Conference)

Contents: “…Invited Papers -- Benefits of Enterprise Ontology for the Development of ICT-Based Value Networks -- SOA Pragmatism -- Software and Data Technologies -- A Simple Language for Novel Visualizations of Information -- Generic Components for Static Operations at Object Level -- A Visual Dataflow Language for Image Segmentation and Registration -- A Debugger for the Interpreter Design Pattern -- Concepts for High-Performance Scientific Computing -- A Model Driven Architecture Approach to Web Development -- Reverse-Architecting Legacy Software Based on Roles: An Industrial Experiment -- A Supporting Tool for Requirements Elicitation Using a Domain Ontology -- Pattern Detection in Object-Oriented Source Code -- Testing the Effectiveness of MBIUI Life-Cycle Framework for the Development of Affective Interfaces -- Developer Stories: Improving Architecture in Agile Practice -- An Ontological SW Architecture Supporting Agile Development of Semantic Portals -- The Vcodex Platform for Data Compression -- Classification of Benchmarks for the Evaluation of Grid Resource Planning Algorithms -- A Disconnection-Aware Mechanism to Provide Anonymity in Two-Level P2P Systems -- Approximation and Scoring for XML Data Management -- Quantitative Analysis of the Top Ten Wikipedias -- A Semantic Web Approach for Ontological Instances Analysis -- Aspects Based Modeling of Web Applications to Support Co-evolution -- Recommending Trustworthy Knowledge in KMS by Using Agents -- Recent Developments in Automated Inferencing of Emotional State from Face Images -- Inconsistency-Tolerant Integrity Checking for Knowledge Assimilation -- Improving Cutting-Stock Plans with Multi-objective Genetic Algorithm -- Knowledge Purpose and Visualization -- Empirical Experimentation for Validating the Usability of Knowledge Packages in Transferring Innovations -- An Ontological Investigation in the Field of Computer Programs -- Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering -- Formal Problem Domain Modeling within MDA -- Model Based Testing for Agent Systems -- A Metamodel for Defining Development Methodologies.…”
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Forest recreation 3rd ed. by Douglass, Robert W.

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Beginning backup and restore for SQL Server : data loss management and prevention techniques by Beard, Bradley

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Small satellites for earth observation : selected contributions by International Academy of Astronautics. International Symposium, SpringerLink (Online service)

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