Investments and portfolio performance by Elton, Edwin J.

Table of Contents: “…"Optimum centralized portfolio construction with decentralized portfolio management" / Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis. 19. …”
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Cultivating and keeping committed special education teachers : what principals and district leaders can do by Billingsley, Bonnie S.

Table of Contents: “…Consider Grow Your Own ProgramsMarket Your Special Education Program -- Offer Special Incentives -- Effective Hiring and Assignment Practices -- Centralized Versus Decentralized Hiring -- Recruit and Hire Early -- Identify Desirable Teacher Characteristics -- Carefully Screen Applicants -- Special Education Certification -- Teacher Preparation -- Experience -- Teacher Tests -- References -- Make a Good First Impression -- Assemble the Interview Team and Develop Questions -- Schedule the Interview and Establish the Applicant's Itinerary…”
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The Routledge Handbook of EU-Africa Relations by Haastrup, Toni

Table of Contents: “…-- Colonial legacy, historical amnesia and decentring Europe -- The meaning of partnership: Paternalism and the ontological Other -- Market liberalisation and a changing world order in a postcolonial global economy -- Politicisation and regional actorness: Rearticulating subjectivity -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography…”
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Medical and Care Compunetics 3 : Medical and Care Compunetics 3. by Bos, L.

Table of Contents: “…Improving Uptake of a Breast Screening Programme: A Knowledge Management Approach for Opportunistic InterventionEHR Standards -- A Comparative Study; Developing a Strategic Framework for Healthcare Standards; Lowering the Barrier to a Decentralized NHIN Using the Open Healthcare Framework; Knowledge Management and Electronic Care Records: Incorporating Social, Legal and Ethical Issues; Integrated Electronic Health Records Management System; Standards for Medical Device Communication: X73 PoC-MDC; A Standard Ontology for the Semantic Integration of Components in Healthcare Organizations.…”
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Country experiences in economic development, management and entrepreneurship : proceedings of the 17th Eurasia business and economics society conference

Table of Contents: “…EVIDENCE FROM THE CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPEAN COUNTRIES STOCK MARKETS -- Chapter 44: MANAGING LONGEVITY RISK IN PENSION SYSTEM -- THE CASE STUDY OF POLAND -- Part 8: MANAGEMENT -- Chapter 45: CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK FOR SHARI'AH GOVERNANCE WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO THE MUSLIM FRIENDLY HOTEL SECTOR IN MALAYSIA -- Chapter 46: THE ROLE OF INTERNAL STAKEHOLDERS IN THE PROCESS OF CREATION SOCIAL RESPONSIBLE LONG-TERM CARE SYSTEM IN POLAND -- Chapter 47: IMPLEMENTATION OF HOUSING POLICY IN LITHUANIA BASED ON THE PARADIGM OF SELF-MANAGEMENT -- DECENTRALIZATION -- Chapter 48: ORGANIZATIONAL NETWORK MANAGEMENT SYSTEM -- Chapter 49: EVALUATION OF ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT STRUCTURE OF HEALTH ENTERPRISES: COMPARISON OF PUBLIC, PRIVATE AND UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS IN TURKEY -- Chapter 50: RELIABLE NOKIA -- BRAND PERSONALITY PERCEPTIONS OF THE FINNISH COMMUNICATION GIANT -- Chapter 51: SUCCESSION IN COMPANIES IN THE SEGMENT OF GLASS FACTORIES LOCATED IN THE CITY OF POÇOS DE CALDAS -- Chapter 52: AMBIDEXTROUS LEADERSHIP AS A MULTIDIMENSIONAL CONSTRUCT -- Chapter 53: PERFORMANCE MASUREMENT AS THE BASIS FOR HOSPITALS STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT -- Chapter 54: ON THE ISSUE OF INTERACTION BETWEEN BUSINESS AND ICT IN CONTEMPORARY SOCIETY -- Chapter 55: BRAND PERSONALITY PERCEPTIONS OF A JAPANESE AUTOMOBILE GIANT -- Chapter 56: CONSUMER ENGAGEMENT IN THE CONTEXT OF MOBILE APPLICATIONS' USAGE -- Chapter 57: PROBLEMS OF HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENTIN REGIONAL NONGOVERNMENTAL ORGANISATIONS -- Chapter 58: SOCIAL REPRESENTATIONS OF EMPLOYEE CREATIVITY IN WORKPLACE: ARE MYTHS STILL ALIVE? …”
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ExamInsight for MCP / MCSE certification : security for a Microsoft Windows 2000 network exam 70-220 by Simpson, Patrick

Table of Contents: “…Security Requirements for the End User: -- Pop quiz 1.5 -- VII Analyze the Structure of IT Management -- Centralized Administration: -- Decentralized Administration: -- The Funding Model: -- Outsourcing: -- The Decision Making Process: -- The Change Management Process: -- Pop quiz 1.6 -- VIII Analyzing the Companies Current Model -- Physical Model: -- Information Security Model: -- IX Analyze Security Risks -- Pop Quiz 1.7 -- X Chapter 1: Summary -- XI Chapter 1: Post-Assessment (Answers appear in Appendix A.) -- Chapter 2: Analyzing Technical Requirements -- I Introduction -- Information.…”
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The CQ Press Guide to Urban Politics and Policy in the United States. by Palus, Christine Kelleher

Table of Contents: “…Part v- the dynamics of service deliverychapter 29- local government bureaucracy: changing forms and function; chapter 30- budgeting and financing for city services; chapter 31- emergency management and local services during disasters; chapter 32- decentralizing city services through urban informatics; chapter 33- benchmarking the performance of city governments; part vi- balancing economic development and social justice; chapter 34- coping with urban inequality; chapter 35- urban economic development policy; chapter 36- economic development, federal policy, and community organizations.…”
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Blockchain for Enterprise : Build Scalable Blockchain Applications with Privacy, Interoperability, and Permissioned Features. by Prusty, Narayan

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Title Page; Copyright and Credits; Packt Upsell; Contributors; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: What are Decentralized Applications?; What is a DApp?; What is a blockchain?…”
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The nature essay : ecocritical explorations by Schröder, Simone, 1986-

Table of Contents: “…Versuch über Natur4 ""Animal Farm"": The Ethical Episteme -- Animal Ethics, Stories of Decline, and Writing Entangled Agencies; 1 Aesthetics of Empathy and Shock: Animal Ethics; 2 Stories of Decline: The Apocalypse Template; 3 Decentred Perspectives: Writing Entangled Agencies; Conclusion: Paradigm Shifts in the Nature Essay; 1 Panoramic Outlook; Bibliography; Index…”
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The Clash of Economic Ideas : the Great Policy Debates and Experiments of the Last Hundred Years. by White, Lawrence H.

Table of Contents: “…; markets coordinate decentralized plans through price signals.…”
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Where have all the textbooks gone? : toward sustainable provision of teaching and learning materials in Sub-Saharan Africa by Read, Tony

Table of Contents: “…A Summary of Key IssuesNote; References; Chapter 2 Current Trends in National Teaching and Learning Materials Policies in Sub-Saharan Africa; Trends in National Teaching and Learning Materials Provision; The Transition to Private Sector Involvement in Textbook Provision; The Growth in African Publishing; Competing Alternative Textbooks and the Introduction of Textbook Evaluation Systems; Centralized versus Decentralized Funding and Selection; Enrollment Growth; Comparisons between Anglophone and Francophone Approaches; The Growth in Learner-Centered and Outcomes-Based Curricula.…”
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Puppet 5 Cookbook : Jump Start Your Puppet 5. x Deployment Using Engaging and Practical Recipes, 4th Edition. by Uphill, Thomas

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CISSP. by Stewart, James M.

Table of Contents: “…Centralized versus Decentralized Access ControlSingle Sign-On; AAA Protocols; Authorization Mechanisms; Identity and Access Provisioning Life Cycle; Provisioning; Account Review; Account Revocation; Summary; Exam Essentials; Written Lab; Review Questions; Chapter 2: Access Control Attacks and Monitoring; Understanding Access Control Attacks; Introduction to Risk Elements; Asset Valuation; Threat Modeling; Vulnerability Analysis; Common Access Control Attacks; Preventing Access Control Attacks; Logging and Monitoring; Assessing Effectiveness of Access Controls; Handling Audit Reports; Summary.…”
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Blocks and chains : introduction to Bitcoin, cryptocurrencies, and their consensus mechanisms by Judmayer, Aljosha, Stifter, Nicholas, Krombholz, Katharina, Weippl, Edgar R.

Table of Contents: “…Nakamoto consensus -- 6.1 The problem Bitcoin strives to solve -- 6.1.1 Trusted third parties -- 6.1.2 Placing trust in a distributed system -- 6.1.3 Decentralizing trust -- 6.2 Consensus and fault tolerance in distributed systems -- 6.2.1 Consensus -- 6.2.2 System models and their impact -- 6.2.3 Byzantine fault tolerance -- 6.2.4 Randomized consensus protocols -- 6.3 A closer look at Nakamoto consensus -- 6.3.1 Defining Nakamoto consensus.…”
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Austrian Economics : the Next Generation. by Horwitz, Steven

Table of Contents: “…Epistemic-Institutional Consequences of Platforms; 3.3.1. Decentralized Coordination for Mutual Benefit; 3.3.2. …”
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FileNet : a consultant's guide to enterprise content management by Groff, Todd R.

Table of Contents: “…FileNet Risks and Opportunities -- Key Objectives 3 -- Organizational Change -- The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 -- Key Sarbanes-Oxley Sections Relating to Records and Process Management -- The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 -- HIPAA Civil and Criminal Penalties -- Informational Responsibilities -- Optical Versus Magnetic Storage -- Centralized Versus Decentralized Capture -- Disaster Recovery -- Lost Cost of Paper Retrieval -- Content Management's Impact on Attention -- Intellectual Assets -- Records Retention -- Defining Deocument Life Cycles -- The Process of Destruction -- Success Story 3 -- 4. …”
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Intelligent autonomous systems 7

Table of Contents: “…An Integrated Connectionist Approach to Reinforcement Learning for Robotic Control: Extension to Three Dimensions Biologically Inspired Visual Odometer for Navigation of a Flying Robot; CPG Model for Autonomous Decentralized Multi-Legged Robot System; Interactive Evolutionary Computation for Real Robot from a Viewpoint of Observation; A Study on Low-Invasive Measurement System from Motor and Somato-Sensory Cortex of Rat for Prosthetic Application; Modular Fuzzy-Reinforcement Learning in Multi-Agent Systems; Finding Sub-Optimal Policies Faster in Multi-Agent Systems: FQ-Learning…”
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Optimization of Computer Networks Modeling and Algorithms: a Hands-On Approach. by Pavón Mariño, Pablo

Table of Contents: “…Chapter 9: Primal Gradient Algorithms -- 9.1 Introduction -- 9.2 Penalty Methods -- 9.3 Adaptive Bifurcated Routing -- 9.4 Congestion Control using Barrier Functions -- 9.5 Persistence Probability Adjustment in MAC Protocols -- 9.6 Transmission Power Assignment in Wireless Networks -- 9.7 Notes and Sources -- 9.8 Exercises -- References -- Chapter 10: Dual Gradient Algorithms -- 10.1 Introduction -- 10.2 Adaptive Routing in Data Networks -- 10.3 Backpressure (Center-Free) Routing -- 10.4 Congestion Control -- 10.5 Decentralized Optimization of CSMA Window Sizes -- 10.6 Notes and Sources…”
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Participatory research and development for sustainable agriculture and natural resource management. Volume 1, Understanding participatory research and development : a sourcebook

Table of Contents: “…Cover -- Table of Contents -- Participatory Research and Development58; A Sourcebook Overview -- Acknowledgements -- User8217;s Guide -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- I -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z -- VOLUME 158; UNDERSTANDING PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT -- Volume Overview -- Typologies and Concepts -- 1 Definitions44; Assumptions44; Characteristics and Types of Farmer Participatory Research -- 2 Prototypical Approaches to Innovation Development -- 3 Participatory Approaches to Agricultural Research and Extension -- 4 The Quality of Participation58; Critical Reflections on Decision Making44; Context and Goals -- 5 An Agroecological Basis for Natural Resource Management Among Poor Farmers in Fragile Lands -- 6 Participatory Research and Development in Natural Resource Management58; Towards Social and Gender Equity -- 7 Understanding and Getting the Most from Farmers8217; Local Knowledge -- 8 Indigenous Knowledge58; A Conceptual Framework and a Case from Solomon Islands -- 9 Participatory Research Approaches58; Some Key Concepts -- 10 Property Rights44; Collective Action and Technologies for Natural Resource Management -- 11 Innovation Systems Perspective58; From Measuring Impact to Learning Institutional Lessons -- 12 Participatory Development Communication58; Reinforcing the Participatory NRM Research and Action Process -- 13 Monitoring and Evaluating Participatory Research and Development58; Some Key Elements -- 14 Participatory Monitoring and Evaluation with Pastoralists -- 15 Outcome Mapping58; Striking a Balance Between Accountability and Learning -- Approaches -- 16 Beyond the Problem45;Solving Approach to Sustainable Rural Development -- 17 Participatory Methods in the Analysis of Poverty -- 18 Rethinking the Development44; Dissemination and Adoption of Agricultural Technologies -- 19 Importance of Methodological Diversity in Research and Development Innovation Systems -- Participatory Technology Development -- 20 Farmer Innovation as Entry Point to Participatory Research and Extension -- 21 Participatory Technology Development Where There is No Researcher -- 22 Developing Agricultural Solutions with Smallholder Farmers58; How to Get Started with Participatory Approaches -- 23 Participatory Market Chain Approach -- 24 Participatory Varietal Selection and Participatory Plant Breeding58; The Last Ten Years -- 25 Decentralized Participatory Plant Breeding58; A Case from Syria -- Participatory Natural Resource Management -- 26 Participatory Natural Resource Management Research58; A New Integration Domain in the Agricultural Sciences -- 27 A Livelihood Systems Framework for Participatory Agricultural Research58; The Case of UPWARD -- 28 Challenges of Participatory Natural Resource Management Research -- 29 Research Through Action with Nomadic Pastoralists in Iran -- 30 Action Research as a Strategy for Advancing Community45;Based Natural Resource Management -- 31 Adaptive Collaborative Management -- Last Page.…”
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Reflections of a political economist : selected articles on government policies and political processes by Niskanen, William A., 1933-2011

Table of Contents: “…Bringing power to knowledge : choosing policies to use decentralized knowledge -- 21. On the origin and identification of government failures -- 22. …”
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Change leadership in higher education : a practical guide to academic transformation by Buller, Jeffrey L.

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; About the Author; Introduction; Chapter 1 The Only Thing We Have to Change Is-Change Itself; The Kübler-Ross Model of Change Management; The Krüger Model of Change Management; The Kotter Model of Change Management; The Role of Organizational Culture in Change Processes; Hierarchical Organizations; Decentralized Organizations; Distributed Organizations; The IKEA Effect; Why Change Must Change; What about Other Stakeholders?…”
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Performance-based contracting for health services in developing countries : a toolkit by Loevinsohn, Benjamin

Table of Contents: “…Box 3.1 Establishing Worker-Controlled Health Cooperatives in Costa RicaBox 3.2 Paying for Performance in Haiti; Box 3.3 Accuracy of the Routine Administrative Records Part of the HMIS; Box 3.4 Lot Quality Assurance Sampling; Box 3.5 Collaborating with Private Practitioners to Treat Tuberculosis; Box 3.6 Results of a Government Maintaining Control of Staff Assignments; Box 3.7 Attracting Health Workers to Underserved Areas; Box 3.8 Decentralizing Drug Procurement in Afghanistan; Box 5.1 Contractor versus Government Performance in Industrial and Middle-Income Countries; Figures.…”
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Place and the politics of identity

Table of Contents: “…The perils of spatial relativism -- 'THIS LAND IS OUR LAND': TERRITORIALIZED POLITICS IN LONDON'S DOCKLANDS -- A dog's breakfast: the political economy of regenerating the docks -- The resistances of Docklands' people: different spaces, different politics -- DIASPORIC POLITICS AND POST-COLONIAL AUTHORITY -- FROM IMAGINATION TO POLITICS TO REALITY AND ALL THE WAY BACK AGAIN -- 2 INTRODUCTION PART 2 -- MAPPING THE SATANIC VERSES -- ROUTE 1: THE CASE FOR MULTIPLE SPATIALITIES -- ROUTE 2: 'TAKING PLACE'-THEORIZING CONTINGENCY AND RADICAL CONTEXTUALIZATION -- SESTINATION: MULTIPLE SPATIALITIES, RADICAL CONTEXTUALIZATION, INCOMPLETE IDENTITIES, AMBIVALENT EPISTEMOLOGIES -- ARENAS OF DEBATE (IN THIS COLLECTION) -- Locations of struggle -- Communities of resistance -- Political spaces -- REFERENCES -- 3 CLASS RELATIONS, SOCIAL JUSTICE AND THE POLITICS OF DIFFERENCE -- HAMLET, NORTH CAROLINA -- THE POSTMODERN DEATH OF JUSTICE -- THE RESURRECTION OF SOCIAL JUSTICE -- Breaking out of the local -- Situating 'situated knowledges' -- CLASS RELATIONS, SOCIAL JUSTICE AND THE POLITICS OF DIFFERENCE -- CONCLUSIONS -- POSTSCRIPT -- REFERENCES -- 4 GROUNDING METAPHOR -- THE REASSERTION OF SPACE -- METAPHOR AND FAMILIARITY -- SOURCES OF METAPHOR -- Althusser and Foucault -- Underdevelopment of spatial discourse -- Absolute space -- THE POWER OF SPATIAL METAPHOR -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- 5 LOCATING IDENTITY POLITICS -- IDENTITY POLITICS: PROGRESSIVE CHALLENGE OR REACTIONARY CELEBRATION? -- FREUD AND MARX: DECENTRED SUBJECTS OR POLITICAL AGENTS?…”
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Truffle Quick Start Guide : Learn the Fundamentals of Ethereum Development. by Bhaskar, Nikhil

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Title Page; Copyright and Credits; Packt Upsell; Contributors; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: Truffle for Decentralized Applications; Technical requirements; What is Truffle?…”
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Puppet 3 cookbook : build reliable, scalable, secure, and high-performance systems to fully utilize the power of cloud computing by Arundel, John

Table of Contents: “…. ; There's more ... ; Creating a decentralized Puppet architecture; Getting ready; How to do it ... ; How it works ... ; There's more ... ; Writing a papply script; How to do it ... ; How it works ... ; Running Puppet from cron; Getting ready ... ; How to do it ... ; How it works ... ; There's more ... ; Deploying changes with Rake; Getting ready; How to do it ... ; How it works ... ; There's more ... ; Bootstrapping Puppet with Rake; Getting ready ... ; How to do it ... ; How it works ... ; Automatic syntax checking with Git hooks.…”
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Node Cookbook - Third Edition. by Clements, David Mark

Table of Contents: “…. ; Detecting Vulnerabilities; Extraneous dependencies; Prepublish; Decentralized publishing; See also; Using a private repository; Getting ready; How to do it ... ; How it works ... ; There's more ... ; Module caching; Scope registries; See also.…”
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What a waste 2.0 : a global snapshot of solid waste management to 2050 by Kaza, Silpa, Yao, Lisa, Bhada-Tata, Perinaz, Van Woerden, Frank, Ionkova, Kremena

Table of Contents: “…Central Reforms to Stabilize the Waste Sector and Engage the Private Sector in Senegal; 6. Decentralized Organic Waste Management by Households in Burkina Faso; 7. …”
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Native Docker Clustering with Swarm. by Soppelsa, Fabrizio

Table of Contents: “…Swarm, yesterdayBoot2Docker; Create 4 cluster nodes with Docker Machine; Configuring the Docker hosts; Starting Docker Swarm; Test your Swarm cluster; Swarm, today; Summary; Chapter 2: Discover the Discovery Services; A discovery service; Token; Re-architecting the example of Chapter 1 with token; Token limitations; Raft; Raft theory; Raft in practice; Etcd; Re architecting the example of Chapter 1 with Etcd; ZooKeeper; Consul; Re architecting the example of Chapter 1 with Consul; Towards a decentralized discovery service; Summary; Chapter 3: Meeting Docker Swarm Mode; Swarmkit.…”
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Old-Age Income Support in the 21st Century : an International Perspective on Pension Systems and Reform. by Holzmann, Robert

Table of Contents: “…DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION ISSUES -- 5 General and Country-Specific Options for the Reform of Pension Systems -- General Options for Reform -- Country-Specific Options for Reform: Policy Progression and Path Dependency -- Conclusions -- 6 Key Reform Issues: Firm Positions and Open Questions -- Pillar Design, Poverty Relief, and Redistribution -- Financial Sustainability Issues -- Management of Public Pension Funds -- Administrative and Implementation Issues -- Readiness and Regulatory and Supervisory Financial Market Issues -- Political Economy and Organization of Pension Reforms -- Examples of Reform Dilemmas and Questions -- 7 Regional Experiences: Developments and First Evaluation of Reform -- Latin America and the Caribbean -- Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia -- South Asia -- Sub-Saharan Africa -- Middle East and North Africa -- East Asia -- 8 Final Remarks -- Appendix: Tables on Old-Age Income Poverty -- Endnotes -- Glossary -- References -- Contributors -- FIGURES -- 4.1 Timing of World Bank Loans to Multipillar Schemes, by Number of Loans -- 4.2 Timing of World Bank Loans to Multipillar Schemes, by Amount of Loans -- 6.1 Parallel and Integrated Civil Service Pensions, by Region -- 6.2 Distribution and Importance of Public Pension Funds, by Region -- 6.3 Combined Collection and Clearinghouse -- 6.4 Decentralized Funded Pillar in Chile and Hungary -- TABLES -- 1 Multipillar Pension Taxonomy -- 4.1 World Bank Lending with Pension Components, Fiscal 1984-2004 -- 4.2 Regional Distribution of World Bank Lending Activities, 1984-2004 -- 4.3 World Bank Pension-Related Lending Classified by Pillar Support, 1984-2004 -- 4.4 Proportion of Pension-Related Lending for Second-Pillar Implementation, 1984-2004 -- 4.5 World Bank Lending for Reforms with a Dominant Second Pillar, 1984-2004 -- 5.1 Multipillar Pension Taxonomy -- 5.2 Stylized Reform Choices for Countries: Matching Reform Needs with Constraints and Opportunities -- 7.1 Principal Features of Structural Reforms to Social Security Systems (Old-Age Disability and Death) in Latin America, 1980s and 1990s -- 7.2.…”
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Puppet cookbook : jump-start your Puppet deployment using engaging and practical recipes by Uphill, Thomas, Arundel, John

Table of Contents: “…Using regular expressions in if statementsUsing selectors and case statements; Using the in operator; Using regular expression substitutions; Using the future parser; Chapter 2: Puppet Infrastructure; Introduction; Installing Puppet; Managing your manifests with Git; Creating a decentralized Puppet architecture; Writing a papply script; Running Puppet from cron; Bootstrapping Puppet with bash; Creating a centralized Puppet infrastructure; Creating certificates with multiple DNS names; Running Puppet from passenger; Setting up the environment; Configuring PuppetDB; Configuring Hiera.…”
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Coordination in Heterarchical Supply Chains : a Framework for the Design and Evaluation of Collaborative Planning Concepts. by Küppers, Peer

Table of Contents: “…5.1 Identifying and Selecting Coordination Mechanisms5.2 Modeling, Simulating and Implementing Decentralized Systems; 5.3 Software Engineering Methods; 6 Framework Fundamentals; 6.1 Method for the Design and Evaluation of Collaborative Planning Concepts; 6.2 Collaborative Planning Artifacts; 7 Applicability Assessment for Collaborative Planning Concepts and Artifacts; 7.1 Overview and Approach of the Assessment Component; 7.2 Classification of Supply Chains Coordination Problems and Solutions; 7.2.1 Classification Structure; 7.2.2 Classification Attributes.…”
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Multi-agent machine learning : a reinforcement approach

Table of Contents: “…2.12 Eligibility TracesReferences; Chapter 3: Learning in Two-Player Matrix Games; 3.1 Matrix Games; 3.2 Nash Equilibria in Two-Player Matrix Games; 3.3 Linear Programming in Two-Player Zero-Sum Matrix Games; 3.4 The Learning Algorithms; 3.5 Gradient Ascent Algorithm; 3.6 WoLF-IGA Algorithm; 3.7 Policy Hill Climbing (PHC); 3.8 WoLF-PHC Algorithm; 3.9 Decentralized Learning in Matrix Games; 3.10 Learning Automata; 3.11 Linear Reward-Inaction Algorithm; 3.12 Linear Reward-Penalty Algorithm; 3.13 The Lagging Anchor Algorithm; 3.14 L R-I Lagging Anchor Algorithm; References.…”
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Control Systems : Theory and Applications

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Handbook of public policy evaluation by Nagel, Stuart S., 1934-

Table of Contents: “…42 -- Super-Optimization: A New Approach to National Environmental Policymaking43 -- Win-Win Decentralizing; 44 -- Win-Win Justice; Section III: POLICY EVALUATION BIBLIOGRAPHIES; Part 1: POLICY EVALUATION IN GENERAL; 45 -- Core Bibliography and Background; 46 -- Policy Problems or Subfields; Part 2: POLICY STUDIES ORGANIZATION BOOKS; 47 -- Policy Studies Organization Policy Books; 48 -- Recent Policy Studies Organization Policy Books; 49 -- The Impact of Policy Studies Organization Books; Part 3: ALTERNATIVE DISPUTE RESOLUTION (ADR) AND SUPER-OPTIMUM SOLUTION (SOS).…”
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From compliance to learning : a system for harnessing the power of data in the state of Maryland by Abdul-Hamid, Husein, Mintz, Sarah, Saraogi, Namrata

Table of Contents: “…Prioritizing Professional DevelopmentReaching a Data-Driven Culture; Notes; Chapter 2 Aligning the Pieces to Deliver Value; Data Coverage and Integration Are Key; Streamlining a Highly Decentralized Education System; Leadership, Strategy, and a Commitment to Continuous Improvement; The Future of Data Systems: Linking Data from K-12 to Workforce; Unique Identifiers Amplify Data System Capabilities; Notes; Chapter 3 The Path to Quality Data: Building Confidence in Your Data; Achieving Coordination across the Education System; Knowing Your Data Are Safe and Accurate; Notes.…”
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Creative Management of Complex Systems by Heraud, Jean-Alain

Table of Contents: “…The entrepreneur, harbinger of decentralized creativity; 4.2.2. The entrepreneur according to Jean-Baptiste Say: the assembler of factors; 4.2.3. …”
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Sensor management in ISR by Hintz, Kenneth J.

Table of Contents: “…5.5 Descriptive Decision Theoretic Approaches -- 5.6 Sensor Management Architecture-Based Approaches -- 5.6.1 Decentralized Management -- 5.6.2 Game Theory-Based Approaches -- 5.6.3 Market Theory-Based Approaches -- 5.6.4 Hybrid Approaches -- References -- 6 Artificial Intelligence for Sensor Management -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Resurgence of AI -- 6.3 Specific Mapping of AI Capabilities to IBSM Functions -- 6.4 Supervised Machine Learning -- 6.5 Unsupervised Machine Learning -- 6.6 Data Fusion -- 6.6.1 Implementing Data Fusion Within IBSM -- 6.7 Ontologies for Storage and Reasoning…”
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Faith-based schools in Latin America : case studies on Fe y Alegría

Table of Contents: “…References; Part I Evaluation of Fe y Alegría Programs in República Bolivariana de Venezuela, Colombia and Peru; 2 The Performance of Decentralized School Systems: Evidence from Fe y Alegría in República Bolivariana de Venezuela; 1. …”
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Predictive control : fundamentals and developments by Xi, Yugeng, 1946-, Li, Dewei (Computer scientist)

Table of Contents: “…5.2.3 Constrained Optimization Algorithm Based on QP5.3 Decomposition of Online Optimization for Multivariable Predictive Control; 5.3.1 Hierarchical Predictive Control Based on Decomposition-Coordination; 5.3.2 Distributed Predictive Control; 5.3.3 Decentralized Predictive Control; 5.3.4 Comparison of Three Decomposition Algorithms; 5.4 Summary; References; Chapter 6 Synthesis of Stable Predictive Controllers; 6.1 Fundamental Philosophy of the Qualitative Synthesis Theory of Predictive Control; 6.1.1 Relationships between MPC and Optimal Control…”
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Geopositioning and Mobility. by Nait-Sidi-Moh, Ahmed

Table of Contents: “…The universalism decentralizing of the Internet; 1.3.2. The trend toward "service" of the electronic communication economy.…”
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