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CMMI for development : implementation guide by Chaudhary, Mukund, Chopra, Abhishek

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CRM fundamentals by Kostojohn, Scott, Johnson, Mathew, Paulen, Brian

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Hospital and healthcare security Sixth edition. by York, Tony W.

Contents: “…-- Staff and Line Positions -- Staffing Level Considerations -- References -- Defining Leadership -- Leadership Competencies -- The Security Leadership Role -- Selecting Management -- Succession Planning -- Leadership Development -- Continuous Development -- The Healthcare Security Supervisor -- Selecting Supervisors -- Shift Supervision -- Communication -- Training -- Monitoring of Performance -- Relationship with Officers -- Motivation -- Performance Management -- Performance Documentation -- Handling Problem Employees -- References -- The Security Officer -- Security Officer Authority -- Special Police Commission/Special Constable -- Licensing -- Selecting Security Personnel -- Recruitment -- Selection Criteria -- The Selection Process -- Full-Time Versus Part-Time Security Officers -- Wage Compensation -- Retention -- Performance Expectations -- Positive Reinforcement -- Rules and Regulations -- Disciplinary Action -- References -- Uniforms -- Determining Uniform Style -- Supplying and Maintaining the Uniform -- Use of Firearms -- Considerations in Arming Officers -- Trends in Arming Security Personnel -- Managing the Firearms Program -- Other Security and Defensive Equipment Considerations -- Notepad and Pen -- Communication Devices -- Handcuffs -- Flashlight -- Personal Protective Equipment -- Conducted Electrical Weapons (Tasers) -- Chemical Agents -- Batons -- Protective Vests -- Body Cameras -- The Duty Belt -- Use of Force -- Training -- Security Operations Manual -- References -- Training Concepts -- Types of Training -- New Security Officer Training -- On-the-Job Training -- Critical Task Focused Training -- Key Training Topics for the New Security Officer -- IAHSS Progressive Certification Program -- IAHSS Basic Security Officer Training -- IAHSS Advanced Security Officer Training -- IAHSS Supervisory Training -- Specialized or Supplemental Training -- Contemporary Issues in Healthcare Security Training -- Elective Training -- Training Resources and Records Requirements -- Instructors/Facilitators -- Training Materials -- Records -- References -- Deployment Objectives -- Flexing the Security Staffing Plan -- Scheduling the Security Staff -- Deployment Patterns and Concepts -- Post Assignments -- Basic Patrol Deployment Plans -- Double Coverage -- Operational versus Nonoperational Times -- Patient Care Units/Areas -- Entrances and Exits -- Basic Patrol Concepts -- External Patrol -- External Patrol Vehicles -- External Patrol Services/Considerations -- Canine Patrol -- Internal Patrol -- Importance of the First Patrol Round -- Reporting for Duty -- Shift Rotation -- Patrol Verification -- The Patrol Officer's Key Ring and Access Privileges -- Security Officer Response -- Patrol Problems -- References -- Purpose of Records -- Memory System -- Exchange of Information -- Operational Policy and Procedure -- Need for Administrative Records -- Report Formats -- Electronic Reports -- Report Preparation -- Basic Records -- Security Incident Report -- Security Supplemental Report -- Security Condition Report -- Daily Activity Report -- Parking Violation Notice -- Pass-on Record -- Master Name Index -- Monthly or Periodic Security Report -- Key Performance Indicators -- Annual Security Management Plan and Program Effectiveness Evaluation -- Keeping Departmental Records Current -- Records Retention -- References -- Patients.…”
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Logic, rationality, and interaction : 7th International Workshop, LORI 2019, Chongqing, China, October 18-21, 2019, Proceedings by LORI (Workshop) Chongqing, China), SpringerLink (Online service)

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Virtual, augmented and mixed reality : 13th International Conference, VAMR 2021, held as part of the 23rd HCI International Conference, HCII 2021, Virtual event, July 24-29, 2021,... by VAMR (Conference) Online), SpringerLink (Online service), International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction

Contents: “…Designing and Evaluating VAMR Environments -- Narrative Cognition in Mixed Reality Systems: Towards an Empirical Framework -- Exploratory Study on the Use of Augmentation for Behavioural Control in Shared Spaces -- Pose Estimation and Video Annotation Approaches for Understanding Individual and Team Interaction during Augmented Reality-Enabled Mission Planning -- GazeXR: A General Eye-tracking System Enabling Invariable Gaze Data in Virtual Environment -- SpatialViewer: A Remote Work Sharing Tool that Considers Intimacy Among Workers -- A Review of Virtual Therapists in Anxiety and Phobias Alleviating Applications -- Designing Limitless Path in Virtual Reality Environment -- A Comparative Study of Conversational Proxemics for Virtual Agents -- Real-time Data Analytics of COVID Pandemic using Virtual Reality -- Design Considerations for Interacting and Navigating with 2 Dimensional and 3 Dimensional Medical Images in Virtual, Augmented and Mixed Reality Medical Applications -- Virtual Reality Sickness Evaluation in Exergames for Older Hypertensive Patients: A Comparative Study of Training Methods in a Virtual Environment -- Consistency in Multi-device Service including VR : A Case Study -- Multimodal and Natural Interaction in VAMR -- The Effect of Body-Based Haptic Feedback on Player Experience during VR Gaming -- User Defined Walking-in-place Gestures for Intuitive Locomotion in Virtual Reality -- Exploring Human-to-Human Telepresence and the Use of Vibro-Tactile Commands to Guide Human Streamers -- Pseudo-haptic Perception in Smartphones Graphical Interfaces: a Case Study -- A Research on Sensing Localization & Orientation of Objects in VR with Facial Vibrotactile Display -- HaptMR: Smart Haptic Feedback for Mixed Reality based on Computer Vision Semantic -- Position Estimation of Occluded Fingertip based on Image of Dorsal Hand from RGB Camera -- Head-mounted Displays and VR Glasses -- Usability and User Experience of Interactions on VR-PC, HoloLens 2, VR Cardboard and AR Smartphone in a Biomedical Application -- Simulation of the Field of View in AR and VR Headsets -- Exploring Perspective Switching in Immersive VR for Learning First Aid in Lower Secondary Education -- Beyond Visible Light: User and Societal Impacts of Egocentric Multispectral Vision -- No One is Superman: 3-D Safety Margin Profiles when Using Head-Up display (HUD) for Takeoff in Low Visibility and High Crosswind Conditions -- Robust Camera Motion Estimation for Point-of-View Video Stabilization -- Rendering Tree Roots Outdoors: A Comparison between Optical See Through Glasses and Smartphone Modules for Underground Augmented Reality Visualization -- Using Head-Mounted Displays for Virtual Reality: Investigating Subjective Reactions to Eye-Tracking Scenarios -- Omnidirectional Flick View -- VAMR Applications in Design, the Industry and the Military -- Virtual Fieldwork: Designing Augmented Reality Applications using Virtual Reality Worlds -- Contextually Adaptive Multimodal Mixed Reality Interfaces for Dismounted Operator Teaming with Unmanned System Swarms -- Virtual Solutions for Gathering Consumer Feedback on Food: A Literature Review and Analysis -- Modernizing Aircraft Inspection: Conceptual Design of an Augmented Reality Inspection Support Tool -- The Potential of Augmented Reality for Remote Support -- A Review of Distributed VR Co-Design Systems -- The Mobile Office: A Mobile AR Systems for Productivity Applications in Industrial Environments -- Virtual Reality Compensatory Aid for Improved Weapon Splash-Zone Awareness -- Mixed Reality Visualization of Friendly vs Hostile Decision Dynamics -- Doing versus Observing: Virtual Reality and 360-degree Video for Training Manufacturing Tasks -- VAMR in Learning and Culture -- Design and Research on the Virtual Simulation Teaching Platform of Shanghai Jade Carving Techniques Based on Unity 3d Technology -- IME VR: an MVC Framework for Military Training VR Simulators -- Extended Reality, Pedagogy, and Career Readiness: A Review of Literature -- Development of an AR Training Construction System using Embedded Information in a Real Environment -- LibrARy : Enriching the Cultural Physical Spaces with Collaborative AR Content -- Supporting Embodied and Remote Collaboration in Shared Virtual Environments -- A Survey on Applications of Augmented, Mixed and Virtual Reality for Nature and Environment -- Flexible Low-Cost Digital Puppet System -- Mixed Reality Technology Capabilities for Combat-Casualty Handoff Training.…”
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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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Beginning SQL Server for developers Fourth edition. by Dewson, Robin

Contents: “…-- SQL Server Editions -- The Example -- Installation -- Install -- Setup Role -- Choosing the Features to Install -- Naming the Instance -- Service Accounts -- Authentication Mode -- Defining the Data Directories -- FILESTREAM Options -- Creating the Reporting Services Database -- Distributed Replay Options -- Security -- Services Accounts -- Looking at the Authentication Mode -- Windows Authentication Mode -- Administrators on a Machine -- Mixed Mode -- The sa Login -- Summary -- Chapter 2: SQL Server Management Studio -- A Quick Overview of SSMS -- Query Editor -- sqlcmd -- Summary -- Chapter 3: Database Design and Creation -- Defining a Database -- Prebuilt Databases Within SQL Server -- master -- tempdb -- model -- msdb -- AdventureWorks/AdventureWorksDW -- Choosing the Database System Type -- OLTP -- Backups -- Indexes -- In-memory data -- BI/OLAP -- Example System Choice -- Gathering the Data -- Determining the Information to Store in the Database -- Financial Products -- Customers -- Customer Addresses -- Shares -- Transactions -- External and Ignored Information -- Building Relationships -- Using Keys -- Primary Key -- Foreign/Referencing Key -- Candidate/Alternate Key -- A Unique Constraint Instead of a Primary Key -- Creating Relationships -- Relationships and Referential Integrity -- Types of Relationships -- One-to-One -- One-to-Many -- Many-to-Many -- More on Foreign Keys -- Normalization -- Assign Each Entity a Unique Identifier -- Store Only Information That Directly Relates to That Entity -- Avoid Repeating Values or Columns -- Normal Forms -- First Normal Form -- Customers -- Shares -- Second Normal Form -- Third Normal Form.…”
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Agile marketing by Accardi-Petersen, Michelle

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Marketing analytics roadmap : methods, metrics, and tools by Rackley, Jerry

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Sport marketing Fourth edition. by Mullin, Bernard James

Contents: “…Chapter 1 The Special Nature of Sport Marketing -- The NBA and Global Marketing Strategy -- Weathering Recessions -- The Competitive Marketplace -- Sport Marketing Defined -- Marketing Myopia in Sport -- Change in the Profession -- Uniqueness of Sport Marketing -- Chapter 2 Strategic Marketing Management -- Sport Strategy Is More Than Locker Room Talk -- Marketing Planning Process -- Strategic Step 1 -- Develop Vision, Position, and Purpose -- Strategic Step 2 -- Develop Strategic Goals and Objectives -- Strategic Step 3 -- Develop a Ticket Marketing, Sales, and Service Plan -- Strategic Step 4 -- Integrate the Marketing Plan Into a Broader, Strategic Resource Allocation -- Strategic Step 5 -- Control and Evaluate Implementation of the Plan -- Eight-Point Ticket Marketing, Sales, and Service Plan Model -- Chapter 3 Understanding the Sport Consumer -- Socialization, Involvement, and Commitment -- Environmental Factors -- Individual Factors -- Decision Making -- Chapter 4 Market Research in the Sport Industry -- Sources of Information -- Users of Market Research in Sport and Entertainment -- Application of Market Research in the Sport Industry -- Performing the Right Research -- Chapter 5 Market Segmentation -- What Is Market Segmentation? …”

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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Aquatic habitat assessment : common methods

Ubiquitous computing application and wireless sensor : UCAWSN-14 by FTRA International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing Application and Wireless Sensor Network Cheju-do, Korea, SpringerLink (Online service)

Contents: “…Lin, P.-H. Wang -- A New Distributed Grid Scheme utilizing Node-based Preprocessing Technique for Supporting k-NN Queries; H. …”
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Computational collective intelligence : 15th International Conference, ICCCI 2023, Budapest, Hungary, September 27-29, 2023, Proceedings by ICCCI (Conference) Budapest, Hungary ; Online), SpringerLink (Online service)

Contents: “…Collective Intelligence and Collective Decision-Making -- Hybrid Genetic Algorithms to Determine 2-Optimality Consensus for a Collective of Ordered Partitions -- From Fragmented Data to Collective Intelligence: A Data Fabric Approach for University Knowledge Management -- An Architecture for Enabling Collective Intelligence in IoT Networks -- Self-Organizing Maps for Data Purchase Support in Data Marketplaces -- Agent based model of elementary school group learning - a case study -- Deep Learning Techniques -- Deep Reinforcement Learning for Jointly Resource Allocation and Trajectory Planning in UAV-assisted Networks -- DNGAE: Deep Neighborhood Graph Autoencoder for robust blind hyperspectral unmixing -- Unlocking the Potential of Deep Learning and Filter Gabor for Facial Emotion Recognition -- Graph Convolution Collaborative Filtering with Dense Embeddings -- Automatic Quantization for Convolutional Neural Networks Based on Enhanced Bare-Bones Particle Swarm Optimization for Chest X-ray Image Classification -- A Convolutional Autoencoder Approach for Weakly Supervised Anomaly Video Detection -- Sparsity-invariant Convolution for Forecasting Irregularly Sampled Time Series -- Efficient Sparse Networks from Watts-Strogatz Network Priors -- Natural Language Processing -- Exploring the Role of Monolingual Data in Cross-Attention Pre-Training for Neural Machine Translation -- Development of a dictionary for preschool children with weak speech skills based on the Word2Vec method -- An abstractive automatic summarization approach based on a text comprehension model of cognitive psychology -- Detecting Duplicate Multiple Choice Questions in The Large Question Bank -- A Context-Aware Approach for Improving Dialog Act Detection in a Multilingual Conversational Platform -- Data Minning and Machine learning -- Efficient Association Rules Minimization Using a Double-Stage Quine-McCluskey-Based Approach -- Complexity-Based Code Embeddings -- Differentially Private Copulas, DAG and Hybrid Methods: a Comprehensive Data Utility Study -- Analysing Android Apps Classification and Categories Validation by using Latent Dirichlet Allocation -- Staircase Recognition based on Possibilistic Feature Quality Assessment Method -- Social Networks and Intelligent Systems -- Toward effective link prediction based on local information in organizational social networks -- A new topic modeling method for tweets comparison -- Measuring gender: A machine learning approach to social media demographics and author profiling -- Crisis Detection by Social and Remote Sensing Fusion: A selective Attention Approach -- Educational Videos Recommendation System Based On Topic Modeling -- Cybersecurity, Blockchain Technology and Internet of Things -- A Two-hop Neighborhood Based Berserk Detection Algorithm for Probabilistic Model of Consensus in Distributed Ledger Systems -- Trust Assessment on Data Stream Imputation in IoT Environments -- Optimizing Merkle Tree Structure for Blockchain transactions by a DC Programming approach -- Wearable Tag for Indoor Localization in the context of Ambient Assisted Living -- Hyperledger blockchain-enabled cold chain application for flower logistics -- A Fully Decentralized Privacy-Enabled Federated Learning System -- Cooperative Strategies for Decision Making and Optimization -- Two-dimensional Pheromone in Ant Colony Optimization -- Analysis of different reinsertion strategies in Steady State Genetic Algorithm -- Traffic Optimization by Local Bacterial Memetic Algorithm -- Optimizing Fire Control Monitoring System in Smart Cities -- Computational Intelligence for Digital Content Understanding -- Desertification Detection in Satellite Images using Siamese Variational Autoencoder with Transfer Learning -- Speaker Identification Enhancement Using Emotional Features -- Classification of punches in Olympic boxing using static RGB cameras -- Learning Human Postures using Lab-Depth HOG Descriptors -- SemiMemes: A Semi-supervised Learning Approach for Multimodal Memes Analysis -- Extrinsic Calibration Framework for Camera-Lidar Fusion using Recurrent Residual Network -- GAN-based Data Augmentation and Pseudo-Label Refinement for Unsupervised Domain Adaptation Person Re-Identification -- Intelligent Automated Pancreas Segmentation using U-Net Model Variants -- Knowledge Engineering and Apllication for Industry 4.0 -- Energy and Congestion Awareness Traffic Scheduling in Hybrid Software-Defined Network with Flow Splitting -- "Is Proton good enough?" …”
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Remediation in medical education : a mid-course correction Second edition. by SpringerLink (Online service)

Contents: “…Goal 1E: Promote the Availability of Remediation Resources to All Learners and Health Professions Education Community Members -- Goal 1F: Support Faculty Development Initiatives for All Steps of the Remediation Process, Including Early Identification, Intervention, and Referral -- Phase 2: Structural Elements of the Remediation Process -- Goal 2A: Tailor Remediation Plans to Individual Learners' Needs -- Goal 2B: Construct Effective and Nonjudgmental Processes to Share Evolving Information About Learners Who Struggle -- Goal 2C: Avoid Conflicts of Interest When Distributing Remediation Roles.…”
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Configuration management for senior managers : essential product configuration and lifecycle management for manufacturing by Watts, Frank B.

Contents: “…Front Cover; Configuration Management for Senior Managers; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; Preface; Policies and Critical Practices; POLICIES; CRITICAL PRACTICES; PLATINUM POLICY; Chapter One -- Introduction; Chapter Two -- Why CM; THE DIRTY HALF DOZEN; PROCESS SPEED; THROW IT OVER THE WALL; QUALITY CONTROL FOR ENGINEERING; SUMMARY; Chapter Three -- CM System, Where to Start; PROCESS MEASUREMENTS; DISTRIBUTED CM; ORGANIZATION; CHAIN OF COMMAND; CM MANAGER; ISO STANDARDS AND CERTIFICATION; DOD/MILITARY STANDARDS; BEST OF THE BEST PRACTICES; STANDARDS RESPONSIBILITY; PEOPLE REQUIRED.…”
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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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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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Geospatial challenges in the 21st century by SpringerLink (Online service)

Contents: “…Ferreira, Inês Boavida-Portugal and Jorge Rocha -- Contribution of GIS and hydraulic modeling to the management of water distribution network / Chérifa Abdelbaki, Bénina Touaibia, Abdelhadi Ammari, Hacène Mahmoudi and Mattheus Goosen -- Remote sensing technology for evaluation of variations in land surface temperature, and case study analysis from southwest Nigeria / Adebayo Oluwole Eludoyin, Iyanuoluwa Omotoso, Oyenike Mary Eludoyin and Kehinde Solomon Popoola -- Web map application to support spatial planning, decision-making and transition toward climate-smart landscapes in the Taita Hills, Kenya / Tino Johansson, Janne Heiskanen, Mika Siljander and Petri Pellikka -- The role of geographic technologies in the measure of spatial equity. …”
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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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