Projects that flow : more projects in less time by Techt, Uwe

Table of Contents: “…4 Variability, Murphy's Law, and harmful management mechanisms5 WIP and resource allocation; 5.1 The matrix (resources/projects); 5.2 Scarce resources/efficient use; 5.3 Fighting for resources; 5.4 The resource manager's pressure to decide; 5.5 Bad multitasking; 5.6 Thinly spread resources; 5.7 Desynchronization; 5.8 Lack of focus and multitasking in management and support functions; 5.9 High WIP creates long project durations and high costs; 5.10 Immediate project launches; 5.11 WIP vicious circle; 5.12 Poor preparation and mistakes; 5.13 Ailing projects have priority…”
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Who cloned my cat? fun adventures in biotechnology by Reinhard, Renneberg

Table of Contents: “…Academic dog-catching -- ch. 52. Fighting infection with beer -- ch. 53. The secret of the sour barrels -- ch. 54. …”
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Muslim-Christian polemics across the Mediterranean : the splendid replies of Shihab al-Din al-Qarafi (d. 684/1285) by Sarrió Cucarella, Diego R.

Table of Contents: “…; 3.2 The Falsification of the Torah; 4 Miscellanea; 4.1 The Ḥadīth of the Pen and Paper; 4.2 The Physical Pleasures of Paradise; 4.3 Fighting for God's Cause: Virtue or Vice?; 5 Concluding Remarks; Chapter 5 Christianity and the Innovation of A Wretched God; 1 The Christian Creed: Viler than Treachery; 2 Christian Innovated Practice and Behavior; 2.1 Christians and Circumcision; 2.2 Consumption of Pork; 2.3 The Offering of Bread and Wine.…”
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Facing Trajectories from School to Work Towards a Capability-Friendly Youth Policy in Europe

Table of Contents: “…FOREWORD -- Fighting Social Inequality for Vulnerable Youth – A European Case, Hans-Uwe Otto -- CAPABILITY PERSPECTIVES ON VULNERABLE YOUTH IN EUROPE -- Chapter 1 Towards a Capabilities Perspective on Vulnerable Young People in Europe – An Introduction -- Holger Ziegler, Thierry Berthet, Roland Atzmüller, Jean-Michel Bonvin & Christian C. …”
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The Arab world unbound tapping into the power of 350 million consumers by Mahajan, Vijay, 1948-

Table of Contents: “…Machine generated contents note: Foreword Preface Introduction Part I Discovering the Arab World Chapter 1 Drinking Red Bull in Dahiye The Arab market is vibrant and globally interconnected Arab consumers control more spending power than you think The shadow economy Shades of India and China Arab wealth beyond the crude oil Arab wealth beyond the abaya Household spending in the Arab World Consumer brands in both Israel and the Arab countries Chicken fights: Local competition in the Arab market The global emergence of Arab brands A worldwide hub: The Arab world is globally connected The Arab world is neither CNN's nor Al Jazeera's Chapter 2 The Diversity of the Arab World No harm in haram Not all the consumers in Arab countries are Arab The diversity of Arab consumers Segmenting the Arab consumer markets Embracing the diverse habits of Arab consumers The language differences The market dominance of Saudi Arabia and the GCC Think regional, act local Chapter 3 Islam Matters: How the Five Pillars of Islam impact consumers in the Arab World The difference between culture and religion Why shahada matters Why salah matters Why sawm matters Why zakat matters Why hajj and umrah matter Islam in the everyday Part II Tapping the well of Arab consumers Chapter 4 The shabab: tapping the Arab youth market The shabab demographic dividend The shabab crave the best brands, wherever they come from The shabab generation is molding the consumer market The shabab generation is changing the Arab workforce The shabab and education The shabab and marriage Chapter 5 Tapping the Arab Middle Class The rise of the middle class is changing the Arab consumer markets Identifying the Arab middle class Tapping into Arabia Two Tapping into Arab consumer power at all levels Urbanization, modern trade and Arabia Two Arabia Two and the balance between tradition and modernity Chapter 6 Tapping into the Arab women market Arab women have money to spend Educated women are reshaping the Arab market The Arab woman as a consumer Inside and outside: The dual identities of Arab women Tapping into the Arab beauty market The Arab woman as wife and mother The veil doesn't hide the Arab woman's mind Arab women as business leaders Arab women are reshaping the region on their own terms Chapter 7 Tapping into the Arab technology market The spread of Internet use opens up new paths to consumers The rise of social media Tapping into Arab e-commerce Using technology to recapture a Golden Age On the go: The market for mobile phones Building the high-tech industry in Jordan The technological Arab spring Chapter 8 Tapping into the Arab media and entertainment market Television advertising in the Arab world Arab cinema and film Dancing in the desert: Music in the Arab world Art in the Arab world Books and bookstores The birth of an Arab superhero Chapter 9 Tapping into the Arab diaspora Linking the diaspora to the Arab world Remittances constitute a critical piece of many Arab economies Tapping into the Arab diaspora The Arab diaspora has made a name for itself Tapping into opportunities around the world You can go home again The diaspora is bringing different worlds together Part III Conclusion Rebranding the Arab World Yalla Arabia! …”
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Pictures that storm inside my head : poems for the inner you

Table of Contents: “…In the beginning was the-Lillian Morrison; From a nineteenth-century Kansas painter's notebook-David Etter; The snake-Robert Penn Warren; Car fights cat-Alan Sillitoe; The pardon-Richard Wilbur; One day in August-William Stafford; The survivor-David Wagoner; Caring for animals-Jon Silkin; Sometimes running-John Ciardi; Counting on flowers-John Ciardi; Who are you, little i-E.E. …”


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Perceiving war and the military in early Christian Gaul (ca. 400-700 A.D.) by Sarti, Laury

Table of Contents: “…Beeing Male in a Spiritual Setting; 3.2. Spiritual Fighting; 3.3. Summary; 4. Conclusion; VII Final Analysis and Results; Bibliography; Sources.…”
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USDA Forest Service Experimental Forests and Ranges Research for the Long Term by Hayes, Deborah C.

Table of Contents: “…Research Trajectories in Fire -- Chapter 21. From Fighting Bad Fires to Fire-Dependent Ecosystems -- Chapter 22. …”
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Progress in modern hydrology : past, present and future by Rodda, John C.

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Table of Contents; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; List of Contributors; Chapter Reviewers; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgements; Acronyms; Chapter 1: Introduction; 1.1 Starting Point; 1.2 Setting the Scene; 1.3 Early Days at Wallingford; 1.4 NERC's Role in Promoting Hydrological Research; 1.5 Countering Water Problems; 1.6 The Beginnings of Experimental Hydrology; 1.7 Fighting Floods; 1.8 Gaining International Recognition; 1.9 Governmental Turbulence; 1.10 An Expanding Role; 1.11 Extending Hydrological Research into the Eighties; 1.12 Into the Nineties.…”
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Feminist frontiers

Table of Contents: “…-- Straight girls kissing -- Doing gender, doing heteronormativity : "gender normals," transgender people , and the social maintenance of heterosexuality -- Bodies -- The bare bones of sex : part I--Sex and gender -- "A way outa no way" : eating problems among African-American, Latina, and White women -- Loose lips sink ships -- Google babies : race, class, and gestational surrogacy -- Beyond pro-choice versus pro-life : women of color and reproductive justice -- Violence against women -- Violence against girls provokes girls' violence : from private injury to public harm -- "My strength is not for hurting" : men's anti-rape websites and their construction of masculinity and male sexuality -- Fraternities and rape on campus -- Mapping the margins : intersectionality, identity politics, and violence against women of color -- Global politics and the state -- Stratified reproduction and poor women's resistance -- From the third world to the "third world within" : Asian women workers fighting globalization -- Gendered selves and identities of information technology professionals in global software organizations in India -- Contesting militarization : global perspectives -- Do Muslim women really need saving? …”


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The complete book of chess strategy : grandmaster techniques from A to Z by Silman, Jeremy

Table of Contents: “…-- Overprotection -- Pawn Center -- Pawn Chain -- Pawn Structure -- Backward Pawns -- Doubled Pawns -- Isolated Pawns -- Isolated Pawn Couple -- Hanging Pawns -- Strategy (White) -- Strategy (Black) -- Hanging squares -- Passed Pawns -- Pawn Islands -- Tripled Pawns -- Pawn Tension -- Perpetual Check -- Piece Activity -- Plan -- Principle of Two Weaknesses -- Prophylaxis -- Queenside Pawn Majority -- Queenside Majority Versus Kingside Majority -- Queenside Majority Versus Central Majority -- Restriction -- Space -- Squares -- Static Versus Dynamic Advantages -- Support Points -- Trading Pieces -- Traps -- Middlegame Quizzes -- The Endgame -- Bishop and Wrong Rook Pawn -- Cat and Mouse -- Exchanging -- Minor Pieces in the Endgame -- Passed Pawns in the Endgame -- Passed Pawns in a Queen Endgame -- Pawn Majority and Outside Passed Pawn -- Promotion and Underpromotion -- Queen and Minor Piece Fights -- Stalemate -- Using the King -- King and Pawn verses King -- Opposition -- Saving Pawn Moves -- Square of the Pawn -- Triangulation -- Using the Rooks -- Active Rook -- Lucena Position -- Philidor Position -- Rooks Behind Passed Pawns -- Short and Long Side of the Board -- Two Hogs on the Seventh -- Endgame Quizzes -- Practical Matters -- Blunder -- Draw Offer -- Point Count -- Psychology -- Time Pressure.…”


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Case studies in multicultural counseling and therapy

Table of Contents: “…RoweAnd Still I Rise: The Story of NiaRedefined: The Story of Andre Chapter 2 Clinical Applications with American Indians and Alaska NativesJoseph Stone and Connie HuntTreating "Depression" in a Dying Native Relative: The Story of WillTreating "Depression" in a Deeply Bereaved and Traumatized Client: The Story of MaryChapter 3 Clinical Applications with Asian AmericansMichi FuFighting Chance: The Story of DonnaIntergenerational Effects of War: The Story of WadeChapter 4 Clinical Applications with Latina/o AmericansMelba Vasquez, Martha Ramos Duffer, and Cynthia de las FuentesMargaret Can't Do It All (by herself) AnymoreMultiple Roles, Multiple Identities: The Story of ElisandroChapter 5 Clinical Applications with Individuals of Middle Eastern and Northern African Descent Sylvia C. …”
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SYNER-G: systemic seismic vulnerability and risk assessment of complex urban, utility, lifeline systems and critical facilities : methodology and applications

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Bioinformatics Research and Applications 20th International Symposium, ISBRA 2024, Kunming, China, July 19–21, 2024, Proceedings, Part I

Table of Contents: “…. -- VM-UNET-V2: Rethinking Vision Mamba UNet for Medical Image Segmentation. -- Fighting Fire with Fire: Medical AI Models Defend Against Backdoor Attacks via Self-Learning. -- An In-depth Assessment of Sequence Clustering softares in Bioinformatics. -- Novel Fine-tuning Strategy on Pre-trained Protein Model Enhances ACP functional Type Classfication. -- Enhancing Privacy and Preserving Accuracy in Medical Image Classification with Limited Labeled Samples. -- gaBERT: an Interpretable Pretrained Deep Learning Framework for Cancer Gene Marker Discovery. -- Hybrid CNN and Low-Complexity Transformer Network with Attention-based Feature Fusion for Predicting Lung Cancer Tumor after Neoadjuvant Chemoimmunotherapy. -- Deep Hyper-Laplacian Regularized Self-Representation Learning based Structured Association Analysis for Brain Imaging Genetics. -- IntroGRN: Gene Regulatory Network Inference from single-cell RNA Data Based on Introspective VAE. -- Identification of Potential SARS-CoV-2 Main Protease Inhibitors Using Drug Repurposing and Molecular Modeling. -- An Ensemble Learning Model for Predicting Unseen TCR-Epitope Interactions. -- Deep Learning Approach to Identify Protein’s Secondary Structure Elements. -- Modeling single-cell ATAC- seq data based on contrastive learning. -- Continuous Identification of Sepsis-Associated Acute Heart Failure Patients: An Integrated LSTM-Based Algorithm. -- A novel approach for subtype identification via multi-omics data using adversarial autoencoder.…”
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McGraw-Hill's national electrical code handbook by Hartwell, Frederic P.

Table of Contents: “…Luminaires, lampholders, and lamps -- Article 411. Lighting systems operating at 30 v or less and lighting equipment connected to class 2 power sources -- Article 422. …”
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McGraw-Hill's national electrical code handbook by Hartwell, Frederic P., McPartland, Joseph F., McPartland, Brian J.

Table of Contents: “…Luminaires, lampholders, and lamps -- Article 411. Lighting systems operating at 30 v or less and lighting equipment connected to class 2 power sources -- Article 422. …”
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The new visual neurosciences

Table of Contents: “…The Perceptual Organization of Depth, Lightness, Color, and Opacity / Barton L. Anderson -- 47. …”
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The world in world wars experiences, perceptions and perspectives from Africa and Asia

Table of Contents: “…Ardour and anxiety : politics and literature in the Indian homefront / Santanu Das -- Radio and society in Tunisia during World War II / Morgan Corriou -- Peripheral experiences : everyday life in Kurd Dagh (northern Syria) during the Allied occupation in the Second World War / Katharina Lange -- Military collaboration, conscription and citizenship rights in the four communes of Senegal and in French West Africa (1912-1946) / Francesca Bruschi -- "Our victory was our defeat" : race, gender and liberalism in the Union Defence Force, 1939-1945 / Suryakanthie Chetty -- The impact of the East Africa campaign, 1914-1918 on South Africa and beyond / Anne Samson -- From the Great War to the Syrian armed resistance movement (1919-1921) : the military and the mujahidin in action / Nadine Meouchy -- Still behind enemy lines? …”
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North Korea under Kim Jong Il : from consolidation to systemic dissonance by Kim, Sung Chull, 1956-

Table of Contents: “…The Fluctuation of Economic Institutions and the Emergence of Entrepreneurship; Institutions of Economic Management:Traditions and Their Dislocation; Increased Local Latitude; The Emergence of Private Entrepreneurs; Informal Transition of Property Rights; Implications for Systemic Dissonance; 7. The Changing Roles of Intellectuals; Socialist Transformation and Persecution of Intellectuals.…”
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Introduction to Global Health Promotion. by Zimmerman, Rick S.

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