Mastering PostgreSQL 10 : Expert techniques on PostgreSQL 10 development and administration. by Schönig, Hans-Jürgen

Table of Contents: “…Checking SSL connections -- Inspecting transactions in real time -- Tracking vacuum progress -- Using pg_stat_statements -- Creating log files -- Configuring the postgresql.conf file -- Defining log destination and rotation -- Configuring syslog -- Logging slow queries -- Defining what and how to log -- Summary -- Chapter 6: Optimizing Queries for Good Performance -- Learning what the optimizer does -- Optimizations by example -- Evaluating join options -- Nested loops -- Hash joins -- Merge joins -- Applying transformations -- Inlining the view -- Flattening subselects -- Applying equality constraints -- Exhaustive searching -- Trying it all out -- Making the process fail -- Constant folding -- Understanding function inlining -- Join pruning -- Speedup set operations -- Understanding execution plans -- Approaching plans systematically -- Making EXPLAIN more verbose -- Spotting problems -- Spotting changes in runtime -- Inspecting estimates -- Inspecting buffer usage -- Fixing high buffer usage -- Understanding and fixing joins -- Getting joins right -- Processing outer joins -- Understanding the join_collapse_limit variable -- Enabling and disabling optimizer settings -- Understanding genetic query optimization -- Partitioning data -- Creating partitions -- Applying table constraints -- Modifying inherited structures -- Moving tables in and out of partitioned structures -- Cleaning up data -- Understanding PostgreSQL 10.0 partitioning -- Adjusting parameters for good query performance -- Speeding up sorting -- Speeding up administrative tasks -- Summary -- Chapter 7: Writing Stored Procedures -- Understanding stored procedure languages -- The anatomy of a stored procedure -- Introducing dollar quoting -- Making use of anonymous code blocks -- Using functions and transactions -- Understanding various stored procedure languages -- Introducing PL/pgSQL.…”
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Project based problem solving and decision making : a guide for project managers by Kerzner, Harold

Table of Contents: “…-- 1.5 Information Overload -- 1.6 Getting Access to the Right Information -- 1.7 The Lack of Information -- Discussion Questions -- References -- 2 Understanding the Project Environment and the Impact on Problem Solving -- 2.0 Understanding the Project Environment -- 2.1 Project Versus Business Problem-Solving and Decision-Making -- 2.2 Problem-Solving and Decision-Making in the Project Management Environment -- 2.3 The Impact of Constraints on Project Problem-Solving and Decision-Making -- 2.4 The Impact of Assumptions on Project Problem-Solving and Decision-Making -- 2.5 Understanding the Project Environment's Complexities -- 2.6 Selecting the Right Project Manager -- 2.7 The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Project Management -- 2.8 Differences Between Program and Project Problem-Solving and Decision-Making -- 2.9 Problem-Solving in Matrix Management Organizational Structures -- 2.10 The Impact of Methodologies on Problem-Solving -- 2.11 The Need for Problem-Solving Procedural Documentation -- Discussion Questions -- References -- 3 Understanding the Problem -- 3.0 The Definition of a Problem -- 3.1 The Time Needed to Identify a Problem -- 3.2 Not All Problems Can Be Solved -- 3.3 The Complexities of the Problems -- 3.4 Techniques for Problem Identification -- 3.5 Individual Problem-Solving Conducted in Secret -- 3.6 Team Problem-Solving Conducted in Secret -- 3.7 Decisions That Can Convert Failures into Successes -- Discussion Questions -- References -- 4 Data Gathering -- 4.0 Understanding Data Gathering -- 4.1 Reasons for Data Gathering -- 4.2 Data-Gathering Techniques -- 4.3 Metrics and Early Warning Indicators -- 4.4 Questions to Ask -- 4.5 Establishing Structure for Data Gathering, Problem-Solving, and Decision-Making -- 4.6 Determining the Steps -- Discussion Questions -- 5 Meetings -- 5.0 Problem Analysis Characteristics -- 5.1 Real Problems Versus Personality Problems -- 5.2 Determining Who Should Attend the Problem-Solving Meeting -- 5.3 Determining Who Should Attend the Decision-Making Meeting -- 5.4 Creating a Framework for the Meeting -- 5.5 Setting Limits on Problem-Solving and Decision-Making -- 5.6 Identifying Boundary Conditions -- 5.7 Understanding How People React in Meetings -- 5.8 Working with Participants During the Meetings -- 5.9 Leadership Techniques During Meetings -- 5.10 Handling Problem-Solving and Decision-Making Conflicts -- 5.11 Continuous Solutions Versus Enhancement Project Solutions -- 5.12 Problem-Solving Versus Scope Creep -- 5.13 Problem-Solving and Decision-Making During Crisis Projects -- 5.14 Presenting Your Decision to the Customer -- Discussion Questions -- Reference -- 6 Developing Alternatives -- 6.0 Finding Alternatives -- 6.1 Variables to Consider During Alternative Analyses -- 6.2 Understanding the Features That Are Part of the Alternatives -- 6.3 Developing Hybrid Alternatives -- 6.4 Phantom Alternatives -- 6.5 Tradeoffs -- 6.6 Common Mistakes When Developing Alternatives -- 6.7 Decision-Making for Managing Scope Changes on Projects -- Discussion Questions -- Reference -- 7 Problem-Solving Creativity and Innovation -- 7.0 The Need for Problem-Solving Creativity -- 7.1 Creativity and Creative Thinking -- 7.2 Creativity and Innovation Thinking -- 7.3 Creativity, Innovation, and Value -- 7.4 Negative Innovation -- 7.5 Types of Innovation -- 7.6 Problem-Solving and Decision-Making Attributes That Are Difficult to Learn -- 7.7 Creativity Roadblocks -- Discussion Questions -- 8 Problem-Solving Tools and Techniques -- 8.0 Root Cause Analysis -- 8.1 General Principles of Root Cause Analysis -- 8.2 Corrective Actions Using Root Cause Analysis -- 8.3 Root Cause Analysis Techniques -- 8.4 Brainstorming -- 8.5 Rules for Brainstorming -- 8.6 Critical Steps in Brainstorming -- 8.7 Conducting the Brainstorming Session: The Process -- 8.8 Conducting the Brainstorming Session: Evaluation -- 8.9 Brainstorming Sessions: Nominal Group Technique -- 8.10 Brainstorming Sessions: Group Passing Technique -- 8.11 Brainstorming Sessions: Team Idea Mapping Method -- 8.12 Brainstorming Sessions: Electronic Brainstorming -- 8.13 Brainstorming Sessions: Directed Brainstorming -- 8.14 Brainstorming Sessions: Individual Brainstorming -- 8.15 Question Brainstorming -- 8.16 Reasons for Brainstorming Failure -- 8.17 Virtual Brainstorming Sessions -- Discussion Questions -- 9 Decision-Making Concepts -- 9.0 Decision-Making Alternatives -- 9.1 Decision-Making Characteristics -- 9.2 Decision-Making Participation -- 9.3 Understanding How Decisions Are Made -- 9.4 Cultures and Problem Solving -- 9.5 Routine Decision-Making -- 9.6 Adaptive Decision-Making -- 9.7 Innovative Decision-Making -- 9.8 Pressured Decision-Making -- 9.9 Judgmental Decision-Making -- 9.10 Rational Decision-Making -- 9.11 Certainty/Uncertainty Decision-Making -- 9.12 Controllable/Noncontrollable Decision-Making -- 9.13 Programmed/Nonprogrammed Decision-Making -- 9.14 Decision-Making Meetings -- 9.15 Decision-Making Stages -- 9.16 Decision-Making Steps -- 9.17 Conflicts in Decision-Making -- 9.18 Advantages of Group Decision-Making -- 9.19 Disadvantages of Group Decision-Making -- 9.20 Rational Versus Intuitive Thinking -- 9.21 Divergent Versus Convergent Thinking -- 9.22 The Fear of Decision-Making: Mental Roadblocks -- 9.23 Decision-Making Personal Biases -- 9.24 The Danger of Hasty Decisions -- 9.25 Decision-Making Styles -- 9.26 The Autocratic Decision-Maker -- 9.27 The Fearful Decision-Maker -- 9.28 The Circular Decision-Maker -- 9.29 The Democratic Decision-Maker -- 9.30 The Self-Serving Decision-Maker -- 9.31 Delegation of a Decision-Making Authority -- 9.32 Choice Elements of Decision-Making -- 9.33 Decision-Making Challenges -- 9.34 Examples of Decision-Making Challenges -- Discussion Questions -- References -- 10 Decision-Making Tools -- 10.0 Decision-Making Tools in Everyday Life -- 10.1 Use of Operations Research and Management Science Models -- 10.2 SWOT Analysis -- 10.3 Pareto Analysis -- 10.4 Multiple Criteria Decision Analysis -- 10.5 Paired Comparison Analysis -- 10.6 Decision Trees -- 10.7 Influence Diagrams -- 10.8 Affinity Diagrams -- 10.9 Game Theory -- 10.10 Cost-Benefit Analysis -- 10.11 Nominal Work Groups -- 10.12 Delphi Technique -- 10.13 Other Decision-Making Tools -- 10.14 Artificial Intelligence -- 10.15 Risk Management -- Discussion Questions -- References -- 11 Predicting the Impact -- 11.0 Evaluating the Impact of a Decision -- 11.1 Creating a Consequence Table -- 11.2 Performing Impact Analysis -- 11.3 The Time to Implement a Solution -- 11.4 The Definitions for Project Success and Failure Are Changing -- 11.5 Project Decision-Making and Politics -- Discussion Questions -- 12 The Need for Effective or Active Listening Skills -- 12.0 Active Listening -- 12.1 Active Listening Body Language and Communications -- 12.2 Active Listening Barriers Created by the Speaker -- 12.3 Active Listening Barriers Created by the Listener -- 12.4 Overcoming Active Listening Barriers -- 12.5 Techniques for Effective Listening -- Discussion Questions -- 13 Barriers -- 13.0 The Growth of Barriers -- 13.1 Lack of Concern for the Workers Barriers -- 13.2 Legal Barriers -- 13.3 Project Sponsorship Barriers -- 13.4 Cost of Implementation Barriers -- 13.5 Culture Barriers -- 13.6 Project Management Office (PMO) Barrier -- 13.7 Conclusion -- Discussion Questions -- References -- Appendix: Using the PMBOK? …”
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Psychology of prejudice and discrimination by Whitley, Bernard E., Jr., 1946-

Table of Contents: “…Individual differences and prejudice -- Personal Values -- Value Orientations -- Individualism -- Egalitarianism -- Perceived Value Differences -- The Attribution-Value Model -- Terror Management Theory -- Religion -- Religious Involvement -- Intrinsic and Extrinsic Religious Orientation -- Quest Orientation -- Religious Fundamentalism -- Conclusions -- Social Ideologies -- Authoritarianism -- The Authoritarian Personality -- Right-Wing Authoritarianism -- Social Dominance Orientation -- Social dominance Orientation and Prejudice -- Social Dominance Orientation and Authoritarianism -- Political Orientation -- Right-Wing Authoritariansim and Social Dominance Orientation -- Personal Values -- Value Conflicts and Bipartisan Prejudice -- Emotions -- Emotions and Stereotyping -- Emotions and Prejudice -- From Stereotypes to Emotions -- From Emotions to Behavior -- Individual Differences in Emotions -- Intergroup Anxiety -- Empathy…”


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The blended workbook : learning to design the schools of our future by Horn, Michael B., Staker, Heather

Table of Contents: “…View rubric and benchmarks -- Sizing up SMART goals -- Practice evaluating -- Score these SMART goals -- Draft your plan -- Articulate your SMART goals -- Appendix -- Module 2.2 Organize to Innovate -- Content summary -- Getting the team right -- Check for understanding -- Match the team to the task -- Content summary -- How to pick the right type of team -- View rubric and benchmarks -- Selecting the type of team -- Practice evaluating -- Score these team selections -- Draft your plan -- Select your type of team -- Content summary -- How to select team members -- View rubric and benchmarks -- Selecting team members and a project manager -- Practice evaluating -- Team member and project manager selection -- Draft your plan -- Identify your team members and project manager -- Appendix -- Module 2.3 Motivate the Students -- Content summary -- Why motivation matters -- Understanding the jobs-to-be-done theory in education -- Check for understanding -- Understanding a student's motivation -- Content summary -- Identifying students' jobs to be done -- Three levels in the architecture of a job -- Apply the learning -- Design using the jobs-to-be done theory -- Content summary -- Creating day-in-the-life stories -- View rubric and benchmarks -- Articulating the student experience -- Practice evaluating -- Day-in-the-life stories -- Draft your plan -- Write your day-in-the-life story -- Practice evaluating -- Week-in-the-life story -- Draft your plan -- Write your week-in-the-life story -- Appendix -- Module 2.4 Elevate Teaching -- Content summary -- Teaching still matters-but will look different -- Check for understanding -- Analyze the teacher roles -- Check for understanding -- Integrate teachers' roles to deliver the ideal student experience -- Draft your plan -- Revising the student experience part of the plan -- Content summary.…”
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Tests & measurement for people who (think they) hate tests & measurement by Salkind, Neil J.

Table of Contents: “…-- Further readings -- And on the Internet -- 3. Getting it right every time : reliability and its importance -- Test scores : truth or dare -- Getting conceptual -- If you know about rxy, skip this section ... -- Different flavors of reliability -- Test-retest reliability -- Parallel forms reliability -- Internal consistency reliability -- Interrater reliability -- How big is big? …”


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The acquisition of referring expressions : a dialogical approach

Table of Contents: “…Number of occurrences of prosodic contours in left dislocations and right dislocations, produced by the children and their mothers -- Table 6. …”
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Free trade : risks and rewards

Table of Contents: “…HILLS -- NAFTA and the Mexican Economy / JAIME SERRA PUCHE -- Free Trade : Then and Now / MICHAEL H. WILSON -- PART EIGHT: NAFTA AND THE ENVIRONMENT -- Five Windows for the Future of NAFTA 'S Environment Commission / PIERRE MARC JOHNSON -- NAFTA and the Environment : Five Years After / VICTOR LICHTINGER -- NAFTA and the Environment : A Review of the Basic Issues / DAVID K. …”
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The Promises of God : the Background of Paul's Exclusive Use of 'epangelia' for the Divine Pledge. by Conway, Kevin P.

Table of Contents: “…Word Groups with Regard to Key Texts Highlighting the Abrahamic Promises; 3.2.1 Genesis 12:1-3,7 -- God's Seven (Eight) Promises to Abraham; 3.2.2 General Speech Terms for the Divine Promise in the Rest of the Abrahamic Narrative; 3.2.3 Genesis 22 -- The Lord Swears with an Oath to Abraham.…”
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Urban recycling and the search for sustainable community development by Weinberg, Adam S.

Table of Contents: “…-- Seven The Treadmill of Production: Toward a Political-Economic Grounding of Sustainable Community Development -- Revisiting the Treadmill of Production -- The Globalizing Treadmill -- The States Ambivalent Role in Managing the Treadmill -- Grounding Sustainable Community Development in the Treadmill of Production -- Conclusion: Relationships in the Treadmill -- Eight The Search for Sustainable Community Development: Final Notes and Thoughts -- The Political Economy of Solid Waste Management -- Critical Social Science: Power, Education, Community, and Politics -- The Economic Geography of Waste: Generalizing beyond Chicago and beyond Recycling -- Final Reflections.…”
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Fit for growth : a guide to strategic cost cutting, restructuring, and renewal by Couto, Vinay

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The world transformed : 1945 to the present : a documentary reader

Table of Contents: “…The backlash against globalization -- (Global inequalities -- "The Siena Declaration" on fundamental structural flaws, 1998 -- Multinational corporations ride roughshod -- Dueling over globalization: irresistible juggernaut or dangerous dogma, 1999) -- Confronting climate change -- (Intergovernmental panel on climate change -- India's "National Action Plan on Climate Change," 2008 -- International attitudes toward global warming, 2009) -- Human rights spoken here-and everywhere -- (Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1948 -- Debating women's rights, 1995 -- Regional reservations -- Human rights and the environment, 1994).…”


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Understanding troubled and troubling youth

Table of Contents: “…Leone -- Protecting the rights of troubled and troubling youth : understanding attorney's perspectives / Loren M. …”


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Too close to heaven : history of gospel music

Table of Contents: “…Brewster (4:17) -- Gospel Recordings (3:30) -- Soul Stirrers of Texas (3:46) -- Sam Cooke: From Gospel to Pop (5:05) -- Aretha Franklin (3:36) -- Crossing Over to Pop Music (3:27) -- Civil Rights Movement and Gospel (3:51) -- Gospel's Influence in the 1960s (4:33) -- Gospel Music Workshop and Choirs (3:53) -- Dr. …”
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Out of the woods : essays in environmental history

Table of Contents: “…Stewart"Damned at Both Ends and Cursed in the Middle": The "Flowage" of the Concord River Meadows, 1798-1862 / Brian Donahue; Irrigation, Water Rights, and the Betrayal of Indian Allotment / Donald J. …”
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View from a Grain of Sand Portrait of a Divided Afghanistan

Table of Contents: “…Human Rights Abuses (2:00) -- Shapiray (1:45) -- Dr. Roeena (1:16) -- Urban Reforms in Afghanistan During the 1960s-70s (2:39) -- Rural Afghanistan During the 1960s-70s (0:41) -- Wajia (2:12) -- Revolutionary Association of Women in Afghanistan (0:47) -- Events Leading to the Afghanistan-Soviet War (1:51) -- Afghanistan Under Soviet Rule (0:55) -- Fleeing the War in Afghanistan (2:57) -- Religious-Based Struggle in Afghanistan (1:51) -- Jihad: Made in America (1:13) -- Beginnings of Gender Oppression (0:54) -- Russia Defeated (0:30) -- A Modern Afghan Woman (1:45) -- A Traditional Afghan Woman (2:23) -- Afghan Civil War (1:55) -- Violent Suppression of Women (0:49) -- Women's Perspectives on Islam (2:56) -- Rise of the Taliban (1:19) -- Life Under the Taliban (Viewer Discretion Advised) (1:49) -- Fleeing Afghanistan for Their Lives (0:30) -- Events of 2001 (2:14) -- War Criminals to Govern (1:32) -- Life After the Taliban (1:50) -- Return to Afghanistan (4:05) -- Picking Up the Pieces (1:49) -- Uneasy Gender Progress in Afghanistan (1:55) -- Afghanistan's Division (1:20) -- Female Self-Mutilation (Viewer Discretion Advised) (2:14) -- War Survivors (2:13) -- Living in Fear (1:34) -- Credits: View from a Grain of Sand: Portrait of a Divided Afghanistan (1:12)…”
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Human Data Interaction, Disadvantage and Skills in the Community Enabling Cross-Sector Environments for Postdigital Inclusion

Table of Contents: “…-- Part IV Resistance -- 12.The Datafication of Education in England: A Children’s Rights-Based Approach to Human Data Interaction Theory -- 13.Primary School Reading Diaries, Digital Enclosure and the Common Good: Exploring an Alternative Postdigital Commons Based on Data Cooperatives -- 14.The Datafication of Teaching and Learning in UK Higher Education: Towards Postdigital Pedagogies? …”
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Sleeping Tigers : The Asahi Baseball Story

Table of Contents: “…Asahi: Heroes in the Japanese Community (1:10) -- Little Tokyo: Buoyed by Sports (1:06) -- Baseball: a Perfect Cultural Fit for Japan (1:44) -- Japanese Baseball Infatuation (1:10) -- A Community Determined to Prove Itself (1:12) -- Building a Japanese Dream Team (1:24) -- Using Brainpower: New Baseball Strategies (0:58) -- Japanese Baseball: Skill, not Strength (1:53) -- Leveling the Baseball Playing Field (1:24) -- Overcoming Adversity to Achieve Social Acceptance (2:08) -- A Baseball Dream Ends Suddenly (1:44) -- World War II: Mass Expulsion of Enemy Aliens (2:21) -- A Betrayal of Canada's Japanese Community (1:09) -- Life in Internment (1:55) -- Facing Segregation in Canada (1:56) -- Stripped of Rights as Enemy Aliens (2:07) -- Lifting Spirits through Sports (2:32) -- Finding Common Ground through Sports (2:06) -- Organizing a Baseball Tournament (1:31) -- Slocan Valley Championship (1:43) -- End of the Vancouver Japanese Community (2:50) -- A Dispersed Baseball Team (1:35) -- A Forgotten Japanese Canadian Baseball Team (2:46) -- Reviving Baseball in the Japanese-Canadian Community (2:13) -- Acknowledging the Asahi Team's Contribution (1:46) -- Attending the Big League (3:30) -- Keeping a Japanese Community Spirit Alive (0:58) -- Credits: Sleeping Tigers: The Asahi Baseball Story (1:38)…”
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Violence : 'mercurial gestalt'

Table of Contents: “…Breston, and Linda Anne Valle -- Creative writing of FGM as an act of violence and human rights abuse / Tobe Levin -- Re-constructing South African identity after 1994 : Museums and public history / M.K. …”
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China's emerging cities : the making of new urbanism

Table of Contents: “…Cities as emerging institution -- Beyond gradualism: China's urban revolution and emerging cities / Fulong Wu -- Land property rights regime in China: a comparative study of Suzhou and Dongguan / You-Ren Yang and Hung-Kai Wang -- Public-private partnership in the urban water sector of Shanghai / Seungho Lee -- The dialectics of urban planning in China / Daniel B. …”


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Preventing partner violence : research and evidence-based intervention strategies

Table of Contents: “…Whitaker and Phyllis Holditch Niolon -- Expanding our vision : using a human rights framework to strengthen our service response to female victims of male intimate partner violence / Nancy Glass, Chiquita Rollins, and Tina Bloom -- Criminal justice responses to partner violence : history, evaluation, and lessons learned / N. …”


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