The Handbook of the Neuropsychology of Language. by Faust, Miriam

Table of Contents: “…; 19: Cognitive Neuroscience of Creative Language: The Poetic and the Prosaic; 20: The Brain Behind Nonliteral Language: Insights From Brain Imaging; 21: Thinking outside the Left Box: The role of the Right Hemisphere in Novel Metaphor Comprehension; Part V: The Multilingual Brain; 22: Word Recognition in the Bilingual Brain.…”
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Creative writing in the community : a guide by Thaxton, Terry Ann

Table of Contents: “…8 Doing Creative WritingRight to your life (and your voice); Why do creative writing?…”
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Loss Models Further Topics. by Klugman, Stuart A.

Table of Contents: “…4.9.7 Exercises -- 5 Analytic and related methods for aggregate claim models -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Elementary approaches -- 5.3 Discrete analogues -- 5.4 Right-tail asymptotics for aggregate losses -- 5.4.1 Exercises -- 6 Computational methods for aggregate models -- 6.1 Recursive techniques for compound distributions -- 6.2 Inversion methods -- 6.2.1 Fast Fourier transform -- 6.2.2 Direct numerical inversion -- 6.3 Calculations with approximate distributions -- 6.3.1 Arithmetic distributions -- 6.3.2 Empirical distributions -- 6.3.3 Piecewise linear cdf -- 6.3.4 Exercises…”
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Microsoft System Center 2012 configuration manager : administration cookbook. by Mason, Brian (Computer engineer)

Table of Contents: “…. ; Using multiple sites; Re-migrating objects; DP sharing; See also; Installing SQL the right way; Getting ready; How to do it ... ; How it works ... ; There's more ... ; Installing SQL with an unattend file; Setting some limits; SQL file layout; Helping SQL; See also; Managing Internet-facing clients.…”
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Mastering Spark for data science by Morgan, Andrew

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Copyright; Credits; Foreword; About the Authors; About the Reviewer; www.PacktPub.com; Customer Feedback; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: The Big Data Science Ecosystem; Introducing the Big Data ecosystem; Data management; Data management responsibilities; The right tool for the job; Overall architecture; Data Ingestion; Data Lake; Reliable storage; Scalable data processing capability; Data science platform; Data Access; Data technologies; The role of Apache Spark; Companion tools; Apache HDFS; Advantages; Disadvantages; Installation; Amazon S3; Advantages; Disadvantages.…”
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Small Stocks, Big Money : Interviews With Microcap Superstars. by Gentry, Dave

Table of Contents: “…Look for Stocks with Insider BuyingValue Investing; What Is Beta: RedChip Nation Stocks' Beta Rankings; Capital Gains; Symbols with 5 Letters; 97% of Fund Managers Don't Generate Enough Returns to Cover the Expenses They Charge; Financial Reporting Requirements; Analysts Can't Be Right All the Time; Buy When No One Is Paying Attention; The Misbehavior of Markets; Map Your Course; Understand and Reduce Your Risk; Appendix D: Microcap Indexes; Appendix E: Glossary of Wall Street Terms; Appendix F: Twenty-Five Financial and Business Books Worth Reading; About the Author; Index; EULA.…”
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Hands-on exploratory data analysis with Python : perform EDA techniques to understand, summarize, and investigate your data by Mukhiya, Suresh Kumar, Ahmed, Usman

Table of Contents: “…Applying descriptive statistics -- Data refactoring -- Dropping columns -- Refactoring timezones -- Data analysis -- Number of emails -- Time of day -- Average emails per day and hour -- Number of emails per day -- Most frequently used words -- Summary -- Further reading -- Chapter 04: Data Transformation -- Technical requirements -- Background -- Merging database-style dataframes -- Concatenating along with an axis -- Using df.merge with an inner join -- Using the pd.merge() method with a left join -- Using the pd.merge() method with a right join -- Using pd.merge() methods with outer join…”
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Accelerating Digital Transformation 10 Years of Software Center

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Public-Private Partnerships in Emerging Economies. by Arimoro, Augustine Edobor

Table of Contents: “…1.6 PPP distinguished from other similar types of procurement -- 1.6.1 PPPs vs public-sector procurement -- 1.6.2 PPPs vs privatisation -- 1.6.3 Outsourcing vs PPP -- 1.7 Advantages and disadvantages of PPPs -- 1.8 The critical success factors for PPPs -- 1.8.1 A favourable framework for PPP -- 1.8.2 Transparency and anticorruption -- 1.8.3 Ensuring a healthy investment environment for PPPs -- 1.9 The PPP project cycle -- 1.10 Selecting the right projects for PPPs -- 1.10.1 The scope of the project and requirements -- 1.10.2 Is the project PPP viable?…”
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The hungry tide

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Six Sigma for Managers, Second Edition (Briefcase Books Series) by Brue, Greg

Table of Contents: “…s Checklist for Chapter 2 -- 3. The Right Way to Implement Six Sigma -- Six Sigma: The Early Years and Implementation Flaws -- A More Realistic Approach to Six Sigma -- Readying the Organization -- Key Players -- Executive Leaders and Champions -- Champions -- Master Black Belts -- Black Belts -- Green Belts -- Communicate! …”
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Doctor Strange and philosophy : the other book of forbidden knowledge

Table of Contents: “…; There Is No Other Way; Do Two Wongs Make a Right?; What if I Told You That Reality Is One of Many?…”
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Maximizing Project Value : a Project Manager's Guide. by Goodpasture, John

Table of Contents: “…CHAPTER 3 Balancing investment, Returns, and RiskSelecting Projects for Investment; Financial Scorecard; Goals Scorecard; Measurable Criteria for Value Decisions; Decision Policy for Selecting Projects; Decision Tools for Selecting Projects; Understanding the Project Balance Sheet: Implementing the Project Equation; The Project Balance Sheet Concept; The Left Side of the Project Balance Sheet; The Right Side of the Project Balance Sheet; Resolving Balance Sheet Issues; The Project Equation and the Project Managerâ#x80;#x99;s Mission; CHAPTER 4 Estimating the Future; Scoping the Future.…”
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Cultural Diversity Management in Organizations. by Romanenko, Alena

Table of Contents: “…2.1.5 Issues of Race, Ethnicity, and Culture2.2 Inevitability of Diversity in the HR World; 2.2.1 Target Group Companies for Diversity Management; 2.2.2 Current Cultural Diversity Popularity Trends; 2.2.3 The Role of HR -- Allocation of Cultural Diversity Management; 2.3 Business Case: Diversity as the Right Thing to Do; 2.4 Diversity Outcomes -- What Could Companies Expect?…”
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Essential Maths for Geoscientists : An Introduction. by Palmer, Paul I.

Table of Contents: “…6.4 Correlations -- 6.5 Exercises -- 7 Trigonometry -- 7.1 Some geoscience applications of trigonometry -- 7.2 Anatomy of a triangle -- 7.3 Angles: degrees and radians -- 7.4 Calculating angles given a trigonometric ratio -- 7.5 Cosine and sine rules for non-right-angled triangles -- 7.6 Exercises -- 8 Vectors -- 8.1 What is a vector? …”
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Supporting students with emotional and behavioral problems : prevention and intervention strategies by Kern, Lee, George, Michael P., Weist, Mark D.

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Conflicted memories : Europeanizing contemporary histories

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Memorizing medicine : a revision guide by Bentley, Paul, Dr

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Fetal and Hybrid Procedures in Congenital Heart Diseases

Table of Contents: “…Part I-Introductory aspects in fetal procedures/Ethical aspects of fetal heart interventions -- Tools in fetal heart procedures -- Role of Multicenter Registries to Assess Outcomes of Fetal Interventions -- Role of Counseling in Fetal Congenital Heart Diseases -- Part II - Aortic valve disease/Fetal Anatomy: the aortic valve in the fetal aortic valve diseases -- Fetal aortic stenosis – natural history and echocardiographic evaluation -- Fetal Aortic Valvuloplasty (FAV) -- Fetal aortic valvuloplasty: state of art -- Part III - Pulmonary valve disease/Fetal anatomy: the pulmonary valve in the fetal pulmonary valve disease -- Fetal pulmonary valvuloplasty: Natural history and echocardiographic evaluation of Critical Pulmonary stenosis/ Pulmonary atresia with intact ventricular septum -- Indications for fetal pulmonary valvuloplasty -- Center experience and step-by-step approach for fetal pulmonary valvuloplasty -- Pulmonary valvuloplasty: Fetal, neonatal and follow up outcomes -- Literature on fetal therapy after pulmonary valvuloplasty -- Future perspectives on fetal pulmonary valvuloplasty -- Part IV – Procedures on the interatrial septum/The embryology of the interatrial septum -- Fetal anatomy: the inter atrial septum in the fetus with congenital heart disease -- Literature on fetal therapy on interatrial septum -- Procedures on the Atrial Septum -- Part V - Fetal procedures: Other treatments and approaches/Perspectives On Fetal Pacing -- Alternative vascular access in fetus -- Part VII - Introductory aspects in hybrid procedures/Physician’s Perspective -- Parents’ Perspective on the Hybrid Approach -- The Hybrid Catheterization Laboratory -- Part VIII - Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome (HLHS)/Hypoplastic left heart syndrome natural and surgical history -- The engineering perspective -- General principles of the hybrid approach in Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome -- Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome: The Giessen approach - history, technique and results -- Hybrid Approach: The Columbus way -- The Brazilian Hybrid Approach for Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome -- Canadian approach to hybrid HLHS.-Prolonged Right Ventricle To Left Ventricle Support (Hybrid Or Surgical) To Delay Decision Making In Borderline Left Ventricles -- The Anatomical or Functional Borderline Left Ventricle and Strategies for Staged Rehabilitation -- Part IX - Pulmonary Arteries/Pulmonary arteries: surgical point of view -- Exit Angiography -- Role of 3-Dimensional Rotational Angiography in Imaging the Pulmonary Arteries -- Hybrid Approach to Pulmonary Artery Stenosis -- Literature and Results -- Part X - Ventricular Septal Defect/Hybrid Closure of Muscular Ventricular Septal Defects: anatomy, clinical scenarios and techniques -- Hybrid Muscular Ventricular Septal Defect Closure: Literature And Results -- Perimembranous VSD -- Part XI - Other Hybrid Procedures/Hybrid Atrial Septal Defect Closure -- Treatment of RV Outflow Tract Dysfunction: New Valve Technologies -- Mitral Valve Replacement with Melody Valve Prosthesis -- A Hybrid Approach to Aortic Stent Implantation -- Other hybrid treatments: tetralogy of Fallot -- Other hybrid treatments: RV-to-PA hybrid conduit -- Hybrid VSD creation or enlargement.…”
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Profit & purpose : how social innovation is transforming business for good by Westaway, Kyle

Table of Contents: “…; Is There a Better Way for the Glasses Industry to Operate?; Recognizing the Right Problem for You; The Real Challenge.…”
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