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This book explores the characteristics of the Baltic states as positioned in the northeast corridor in terms of military strife and polity development such as democratization. It then details governments' efforts to abet transparency and trust by way of developing new public and private institutions for advancements like innovation and private wealth creation. The book concludes with a realistic picture of future hurdles for this region, looking at lingering challenges and regional instabilities, policy mistakes not to be made again, and recommendations for national planning and resource management.

This book is the go-to guide for all things Oracle. It provides management-level guidance for successfully navigating and managing the full range of Oracle products. Coverage includes executive-level overviews of the Oracle product line, management best practices, user/developer lessons learned, management considerations, compliance and security considerations, and management metrics. The book provides readers with access to a set of helpful resources on the book¿s page at www.crcpress.com, including cloud procurement best practices, cloud migration tips, a sample project procurement plan template, and various glossaries.

This book explains how to combine two widely known statistical methods¿statistical design and statistical control¿in a manner that can help any business, government, or research organization solve problems quickly, with sustained results. Because the problem-solving strategy employed is based on pure scientific method, it makes integration into any existing problem-solving or research method quite simple. Organizations can immediately apply the concepts discussed with existing staff, releasing latent energy rather than adding to their workload.

This book gathers the latest research with case studies in secure computing from many researchers. It compiles the recent work and findings through case studies, where the growing security attacks and countermeasures in the mobile and networking world has been explained, along with other pertinent security issues with the technology of the application itself. It discusses the challenges faced and solutions proposed by different researchers in this area.

This book gathers important ideas related to combinatorial maps and explains how the maps are applied in geometric modeling and image processing. It focuses on two subclasses of combinatorial maps: n-Gmaps and n-maps. The book presents the data structures, operations, and algorithms that are useful in handling subdivided geometric objects. It shows how to study data structures for the explicit representation of subdivided geometric objects and describes operations for handling the structures. The book also illustrates results of the design of data structures and operations.

This book explains how sports centers factor into downtown economies. Dubious planning decisions surrounding large-scale centers have led to stagnation rather than revitalization. But with the right planning, design, and financing, large-scale centers can be integrated into a development area with successful returns. Combining theory and practice, the book offers insightful, detailed studies of some of the most dramatic cases of city arena projects. The new edition incorporates longer-term data on the original case studies, and adds cases in Denver, Minneapolis, Phoenix, Detroit, Los Angeles, San Diego, as well as information on Canadian development projects.

For some organizations, Lessons Learned (LL) is an informal process of discussing and recording project experiences during the closure phase. For others, LL is a formal process that occurs at the end of each phase of a project. Regardless of when they are performed, if you are a project team member, chances are you will soon be required to present an evaluation of your project using Lessons Learned. Presenting new information that updates the award-winning first edition, The Basics of Project Evaluation and Lessons Learned, Second Edition supplies practical guidance on conducting project Lessons Learned. The first edition won the Project Management Institute's (PMI(R)) David I. Cleland Project Management Literature Award. Following in the footsteps of its popular predecessor, this second edition provides an easy-to-follow, systematic approach to conducting Lessons Learned on a project. Updated to align with the PMBOK(R) Guide, Fifth Edition Includes three new chapters--PRINCE2(R), Agile Retrospectives, and Knowledge Transfer-- in response to information requests from readers of the first edition from around the world Enhanced with valuable new resources in the Project Evaluation Resource Kit (PERK) found on the downloadable resources, including a fully functional MS Access Lessons Learned Database The research in this book is based on four years of doctoral dissertation research and is supported by renowned experts in the field of evaluation. The concepts covered are applicable to all types of organizations that implement projects and need to conduct Lessons Learned. Providing tools and techniques for active engagement, the text is founded on the principles of conducting project evaluations as recommended by the Project Management Institute (PMI), the world's leading not-for-profit membership association for the project management profession, and PRINCE2(R) (Project in Controlled Environments version 2), a major governing body of project management. Simplifying and formalizing the methodology of conducting LL in projects, the contents of this book will help organizations, large and small, more effectively implement processes and systems to support effective LL. The text is supported by a Project Evaluation Resource Kit (PERK), which is found in the downloadable resources.

This title includes a number of Open Access chapters.This new volume on gene expression and epigenetics discusses environmental effects related to specific gene expression. The book also shows methods for bioinformatic analysis of the epigenome. The book is divided into two sections: the first looks at eukaryotic DNA methylation and the second addresses how to integrate genomic medicine into clinical practice.

This comprehensive desktop reference addresses the diverse terms and acronyms that form the backbone of 21st century energy technologies, applications of those technologies, and the sustainability sector of the U.S. economy. The convergence of these disciplines has resulted in an explosion of specialized terms, acronyms, and jargon. The references encompass a wide range of legacy as well as emerging renewable energy technologies including the finance and sustainable segments of business that form an integral part of those technologies.

Explaining how to avoid common vendor traps, this book will help readers better control the negotiation of IT products and services and, ultimately, better manage the lifecycle of those purchases. Illustrating the types of problems typically experienced during product use, the book describes how to better control the useful life of your equipment, and supplies tips on how to avoid excessive charges from predatory vendors. The book concludes by delving into issues of product end of life.

Tradecraft is a term used within the intelligence community to describe the methods, practices, and techniques used in espionage and clandestine investigations. This book reveals how intelligence officers and investigators conduct their tradecraft. Readers will learn how to plan an operation, how to build an identity and cover story for deep cover operations, and how to detect those who have created false identities for illegal purposes. They will also get insight into the technical aspects of intelligence, counterintelligence, and criminal investigations, and legal considerations for conducting intelligence investigations.

The Lefaivre Rainbow Effect is a groundbreaking treatment for those suffering from a traumatic brain injury. This textbook is the culmination of more than 25 years of successfully implementing this transformative treatment pioneered by the author. The book demonstrates how rehabilitation professionals, including occupational therapists, doctors, nurses, social workers, speech pathologists, and neuropsychologists, can use the Lefaivre Rainbow Effect in their practices to improve the therapeutic outcome for their clients. It discusses the dual role healthcare providers have of delivering care to maximize recovery, coupled with the necessity to submit medical legal reports to an adversarial system.

This book describes how a multinational company developed a global structure for learning around the TWI program in order to create and sustain standardized work across multiple language and cultural platforms. Shingo Prize-winning author Patrick Graupp collaborates with two practitioners who performed the planning and implementation of LEGO's worldwide Learning Organization. Complete with the organization and implementation models used by the LEGO Group, this book describes the critical elements that made the implementation a success as well as the stumbling blocks encountered and how they were overcome.

Immunoglobulin genetics perspectives from species such as sea lamprey, cattle, marsupial, bat, rat, rabbit, and swine are relevant to antibody design and engineering. These new perspectives find direct application in the cutting-edge areas of antibody design, engineering and therapeutics, antibody-drug conjugates, and novel antibody-based vaccines. Covering significant knowledge that has emerged during the last two decades, this book provides novel antibody phylogenetic perspectives relevant to the development of new antibody-based therapeutics and vaccines.

In this book, developers from DreamWorks Animation, Pixar, Side Effects, Intel, and AMD share their successes and failures in the messy real-world application area of production software. They provide practical advice on multithreading techniques and visual effects used in popular visual effects libraries, one of the industry¿s leading visual effects packages, and proprietary animation systems. This information is valuable not just to those in the visual effects arena, but also to developers of high performance software looking to increase performance of their code.

This book provides a theoretical and technical basis for advanced research on visual data compression and communication. It presents the results of the author's research on visual data compression and transmission. Studying scalable video coding (SVC), it considers the fundamental problem to be solved in SVC-motion compensation. It explores directional transforms, extends the current coding framework by visual synthesis and reconstruction, and explains how to apply compressive sensing to solve the compression problems in transmission. It also develops the pseudo-analog transmission for image and video.

Requiring no prior hacking experience, Ethical Hacking and Penetration Testing Guide supplies a complete introduction to the steps required to complete a penetration test, or ethical hack, from beginning to end.

This how-to guide to intrapreneurship and entrepreneurship explores what constitutes entrepreneurial timber and the leadership skills required to raise all the needed capital. Demystifying the process of founding a firm from scratch, the book provides aspiring entrepreneurs with concrete action plans and detailed guidance written in plain English. Identifying the unique set of characteristics that are shared by successful entrepreneurs, this guide will be especially helpful to those seeking to start new ventures that require a high degree of scientific knowledge.

The world is becoming increasingly mobile. Smartphones and tablets have become more powerful and popular, with many of these devices now containing confidential business, financial, and personal information. This has led to a greater focus on mobile software security. Establishing mobile software security should be of primary concern to every mobile application developer. This book explains how you can create mobile social applications that incorporate security throughout the development process. Although there are many books that address security issues, most do not explain how to incorporate security into the building process. Secure Development for Mobile Apps does exactly that. Its step-by-step guidance shows you how to integrate security measures into social apps running on mobile platforms. You'll learn how to design and code apps with security as part of the process and not an afterthought. The author outlines best practices to help you build better, more secure software. This book provides a comprehensive guide to techniques for secure development practices. It covers PHP security practices and tools, project layout templates, PHP and PDO, PHP encryption, and guidelines for secure session management, form validation, and file uploading. The book also demonstrates how to develop secure mobile apps using the APIs for Google Maps, YouTube, jQuery Mobile, Twitter, and Facebook. While this is not a beginner's guide to programming, you should have no problem following along if you've spent some time developing with PHP and MySQL.

This book combines the knowledge, skills, and risks taken by a young entrepreneur with those acquired by a senior entrepreneur. Dr. Harrington is well-known for his work with many organizations around the world at refining and improving their manufacturing and business processes, organizational structure, and strategic planning. The two authors have combined their experiences to define the process to roadmaps that minimize the risk of failure and cycle time required to go from concept to an established profitable organization. This newly defined entrepreneurial process provides a breakthrough in thinking on activity-by-activity root to entrepreneurial success.

This book is the proceedings of the 40th annual Graphics Interface conference-the oldest continuously scheduled conference in the field. The book includes high-quality papers on recent advances in interactive systems, human computer interaction, and graphics from around the world. It covers the following topics: shading and rendering, geometric modeling and meshing, image-based rendering, image synthesis and realism, computer animation, real-time rendering, non-photorealistic rendering, interaction techniques, human interface devices, augmented reality, data and information visualization, mobile computing, haptic and tangible interfaces, and perception.

This title includes a number of Open Access chapters.This book provides a valuable and informative overview of the field of bioinformatics and statistical methodology. The chapters show various approaches to bias correction and error estimation, as well as quantitative methods for genome and proteome analysis. The text covers RNA-Seq, microarrays, various genome-wide association studies, and proteomics. It demonstrates approaches to bias correction and error estimation and presents quantitative methods for genome and proteome analysis.

This title includes a number of Open Access chapters.Carbon capture and storage (CCS) refers to a set of technologies and methods for the mitigation, remediation, and storage of industrial CO2 emissions, the most imminent and virile of the greenhouse gases (GHG). The book addresses the methods and technologies currently being applied, developed, and most in need of further research. It discusses methods of carbon capture in industrial settings, presents biological and geological approaches to carbon sequestration, covers ionic liquids as a method of carbon capture, and introduces new approaches to capturing CO2 from ambient air.

This new book, Sustainable Practices in Surface and Subsurface Micro Irrigation, offers a vast amount of knowledge and techniques necessary to develop and manage a drip/trickle or micro irrigation system. The information covered has worldwide applicability to irrigation management in agriculture.

This new book is the first in the new series on micro irrigation, which offers a vast amount of knowledge and techniques necessary to develop and manage a drip/trickle or micro irrigation system. Written by experienced scientists from various parts of the world, the chapters in this book offer basic principles, knowledge, and techniques of micro irrigation management, which are essential in designing, developing, and evaluating an agricultural irrigation management system. The methods and techniques have worldwide applicability to irrigation management in agriculture.