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Advances in information systems and technologies by World Conference on Information Systems and Technologies Olhão, Portugal, SpringerLink (Online service)

Contents: “…Analyzing Website Content for Improved R & T Collaboration Planning /…”
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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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Management of uncertainty : theory and application in the design of systems and organizations by Grote, Gudela

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Forest recreation 3rd ed. by Douglass, Robert W.

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Managing downside risk in financial markets : theory, practice and implementation by ScienceDirect (Online service)

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Small satellite missions for Earth observation : new developments and trends by International Academy of Astronautics. International Symposium, SpringerLink (Online service)

Contents: “…S (Vegetation and Environment Monitoring on a New Micro Satellite) -- The "Ulingo" Mid-Low Latitudes Observation (MILO) Mission -- The Italian Precursor of an Operational Hyperspectral Imaging Mission -- Earth Environment Missions -- Space System "Radiomet" for GLONASS/GPS Navigation Signal Radio Occultation Monitoring of Lower Atmosphere and Ionosphere Based on Super-Small Satellites -- The Study of Electromagnetic Parameters of Space Weather, Micro-Satellite "Chibis-M" -- SEPSAT -- A Nanosatellite to Observe Parameters of Space Weather -- Small Satellite Constellations for Measurements of the Near-Earth Space Environment -- Distributed Space Systems -- Satellite Formation for a Next Generation Gravimetry Mission -- EO Small Satellite Missions and Formation Flying -- Relative Trajectory Design for Bistatic SAR Missions -- Conceptual Design of the FAST-D Formation Flying Spacecraft -- Earth Observation Using Japanese/Canadian Formation Flying Nanosatellites -- A Bi/Multi-Static Microsatellite SAR Constellation -- Mission Design of the Dutch-Chinese FAST Micro-Satellite Mission -- University Satellites -- SPRITE-SAT: A University Small Satellite for Observation of High-Altitude Luminous Events -- SwissCube: The First Entirely-Built Swiss Student Satellite with an Earth Observation Payload -- German Russian Education Satellite -- Mission Outline and Objectives -- University Microsatellites Equipped with an Optical System for Space Debris Monitoring -- A First-MOVE in Satellite Development at the TU-München -- Design of a Small Educational Satellite for the Italian High School Students: The EduSAT Project -- Testing of Critical Pico-Satellite Systems on the Sounding Rocket Rexus-4 -- Laboratory Facility for Simulation and Verification of Formation Motion Control Algorithms -- Asynchronous Parallel Reactive System for Intelligent Small Satellite on-Board Computing Systems -- NanoSiGN -- Nanosatellite for scientific interpretation of GNSS dual-frequency signals in the low Earth orbit -- Instruments and Technologies -- The Vegetation Instrument for the PROBA-V Mission -- Software Defined LFM CW SAR Receiver for Microsatellites -- PhytoMapper -- Compact Hyperspectral Wide Field of View Instrument -- Development of Spaceborne Small Hyperspectral sensor HSC-III for Micro Satellite -- Towards a Miniaturized Photon Counting Laser Altimeter and Stereoscopic Camera Instrument Suite for Microsatellites -- A Plan of Spaceborne ISAR Satellite Imaging System Aiming at Space Objects -- Increasing the Data Volume Returned from Small Satellites -- Integrated Design Based Plug-and-Play Small SAR Satellite Project -- Attitude Control Systems -- Star Sensor Development Based on the TUBSAT Experience -- Small Sensors Big Choices -- Robust and Fault Tolerant AOCS of the TET Satellite -- Implementation of the T3?…”
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Research and management practices for conservation of the Persian leopard in Iran by SpringerLink (Online service)

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Software engineering for embedded systems : methods, practical techniques, and applications First edition. by ScienceDirect (Online service)

Contents: “…-- Certification killers -- Project planning strategies -- Strategy 1: determine the project certification scope early -- Strategy 2: determine feasibility of certification -- Strategy 3: select an independent assessor (if used) -- Strategy 4: understand your assessor's role (if used) -- Strategy 5: assessment communication is key -- Strategy 6: establish a basis of certification -- Strategy 7: establish a "fit and purpose" for your product -- Strategy 8: establish a certification block diagram -- Strategy 9: establish communication integrity objectives -- Strategy 10: identify all interfaces along the certification boundary -- Strategy 11: identify the key safety defensive strategies -- Strategy 12: define built in test (BIT) capability -- Strategy 13: define fault annunciation coverage -- Strategy 14: define reliance and expectation of the operator/user -- Strategy 15: define plan for developing software to appropriate integrity level -- Strategy 16: define artifacts to be used as evidence of compliance -- Strategy 17: plan for labor-intensive analyses -- Strategy 18: create user-level documentation -- Strategy 19: plan on residual activity -- Strategy 20: publish a well-defined certification plan -- Faults, failures, hazards, and risk analysis -- Faults, errors, and failures -- Availability and reliability -- Fault handling -- Hazard analysis -- Risk analysis -- Safety-critical architectures -- "Do-er"/"Check-er" -- Two processors -- "Voter" -- Software implementation strategies -- Strategy 1: have a well-defined, repeatable peer-review process -- Strategy 2: consider using existing safety coding standards -- Strategy 3: handle all combinations of input data -- Strategy 4: specific variable value checking -- Strategy 5: mark safety-critical code sections -- Strategy 6: timing execution checking -- Strategy 7: stale data -- Strategy 8: comparison of outputs -- Strategy 9: initialize data to least permissive state -- Strategy 10: order of execution -- Strategy 11: volatile data checking -- Strategy 12: non-volatile data checking -- Strategy 13: make sure the entire system can run -- Strategy 14: remove "dead" code -- Strategy 15: fill unused memory -- Strategy 16: static code analysis -- Background -- Is that software yours? …”
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Road vehicle automation 10 by SpringerLink (Online service), Automated Road Transportation Symposium

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Big data and the internet of things : enterprise information architecture for a new age by Stackowiak, Robert, Licht, Art, Mantha, Venu, Nagode, Louis

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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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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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Lake Charles CCS Project. Phase 2. Final technical report by Leib, Thomas J., Cole, Dan E.

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

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Practical, Healthy Cooking by Films for the Humanities & Sciences (Firm), Infobase, Meridian Education Corporation

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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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Desired future conditions for southwestern riparian ecosystems : bringing interests and concerns together, September 18-22, 1995, Albuquerque, New Mexico by New Mexico Riparian Council, Rocky Mountain Forest and Range Experiment Station (Fort Collins, Colo.)

Contents: “…Clary -- Insects of the riparian / Terrence J. Rogers -- Distribution of Rio Grande cutthroat trout and its co-occurrence with the Rio Grande sucker and Rio Grande chub on the Carson and Santa Fe national forests / Bob Calamusso and John N. …”

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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Local government and the COVID-19 pandemic : a global perspective by SpringerLink (Online service)

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Survival and sustainability : environmental concerns in the 21st century by International Conference on Environment: Survival and Sustainability Nicosia, Cyprus, SpringerLink (Online service)

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