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Corporate Governance

A Board Director's Pocket Guide : Leadership, Diligence, and Wisdom

Over the last few years, corporate leadership and governance have received greater attention in the media. Given the significant failures in the boardroom from companies such as Enron, WorldCom, and Tyco, the board of director position has become a pivotal role. Navigating this potential minefield is difficult but not impossible thanks to Corporate Governance, an essential guide for any board director. This edition of the pocket guide not only provides simple access to vital information on corporate governance but also offers a source of the best critical practices for the director. Eric Yocam and Annie Choi present the corporate governance principles in a brief yet complete and accessible manner. Organized in a convenient and easy-to-use format, this guide covers numerous topics in corporate governance, including: Board characteristics Director effectiveness Compliance Risk management Capability maturity models Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) technique Corporate Governance promotes corporate governance awareness to a broad audience beyond the active corporate director for profit and nonprofit companies. Investors, instructors, students, governance practitioners, lawyers, international readers, as well as anyone interested in corporate governance can achieve greater understanding of a topic essential to today s business success. Yocam and Choi tender a handy overview to the salient aspects of corporate governance. In the wake of Enron et al., corporate governance has received its rightful share of scrutiny concerning the set of processes, customs, policies, laws and institutions affecting the way a corporate [sic] is directed, administered or controlled. Yocam and Choi provide a summary of the key aspects to governance, from transparency in the decision-making process as addressed by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act to the characteristics of a good director, risk analysis and quality constraints convenient is an appendix of relevant books that squires directors to recent literature that more thoroughly assesses specific areas of administration, such as dividend policy, capital flows, political determinants and crisis management. A helpful point of departure for deeper study. Kirkus Discoveries"

This edition of the pocket guide not only provides simple access to vital information on corporate governance but also offers a source of the best critical practices for the director.

EVOLVE - A Bridge between Probability, Set Oriented Numerics, and Evolutionary Computation IV

International Conference Held at Leiden University, July 10-13, 2013

Numerical and computational methods are nowadays used in a wide range of contexts in complex systems research, biology, physics, and engineering. Over the last decades different methodological schools have emerged with emphasis on different aspects of computation, such as nature-inspired algorithms, set oriented numerics, probabilistic systems and Monte Carlo methods. Due to the use of different terminologies and emphasis on different aspects of algorithmic performance there is a strong need for a more integrated view and opportunities for cross-fertilization across particular disciplines. These proceedings feature 20 original publications from distinguished authors in the cross-section of computational sciences, such as machine learning algorithms and probabilistic models, complex networks and fitness landscape analysis, set oriented numerics and cell mapping, evolutionary multiobjective optimization, diversity-oriented search, and the foundations of genetic programming algorithms. By presenting cutting edge results with a strong focus on foundations and integration aspects this work presents a stepping stone towards efficient, reliable, and well-analyzed methods for complex systems management and analysis.

The overarching goal of the EVOLVE international conference series is to build a
bridge between probability, statistics, set oriented numerics and evolutionary
computing, as to identify new common and challenging research aspects and
solve ...

EVOLVE - A Bridge between Probability, Set Oriented Numerics, and Evolutionary Computation V

This volume encloses research articles that were presented at the EVOLVE 2014 International Conference in Beijing, China, July 1–4, 2014. The book gathers contributions that emerged from the conference tracks, ranging from probability to set oriented numerics and evolutionary computation; all complemented by the bridging purpose of the conference, e.g. Complex Networks and Landscape Analysis, or by the more application oriented perspective. The novelty of the volume, when considering the EVOLVE series, comes from targeting also the practitioner’s view. This is supported by the Machine Learning Applied to Networks and Practical Aspects of Evolutionary Algorithms tracks, providing surveys on new application areas, as in the networking area and useful insights in the development of evolutionary techniques, from a practitioner’s perspective. Complementary to these directions, the conference tracks supporting the volume, follow on the individual advancements of the subareas constituting the scope of the conference, through the Computational Game Theory, Local Search and Optimization, Genetic Programming, Evolutionary Multi-objective optimization tracks.

This paper presents a study on the application of evolutionary computation and
artificial intelligence techniques to forecast inflows into the Vanderkloof reservoir,
South Africa for the purpose of planning and management of available water ...

Genetic and Evolutionary Computation--GECCO 2003

Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, Chicago, IL, USA, July 12-16, 2003 : Proceedings

The set LNCS 2723 and LNCS 2724 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionaty Computation Conference, GECCO 2003, held in Chicago, IL, USA in July 2003. The 193 revised full papers and 93 poster papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 417 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on a-life adaptive behavior, agents, and ant colony optimization; artificial immune systems; coevolution; DNA, molecular, and quantum computing; evolvable hardware; evolutionary robotics; evolution strategies and evolutionary programming; evolutionary sheduling routing; genetic algorithms; genetic programming; learning classifier systems; real-world applications; and search based softare engineering.

Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, Chicago, IL, USA, July 12-16
, 2003 : Proceedings Erick Cantú-Paz ... We explore the advantages of DNA-like
genomes for evolutionary computation in silico. Coupled with simulations of ...

101 Successful Interviewing Strategies

Now job seekers or any professional pursuing advancement can masterthe skills needed to prepare for and win interviews with Kramer’s 101 SUCCESSFUL INTERVIEWING STRATEGIES. Written by an expert career coach and clinical psychologist, this unique book appl

... your presentation with the interviewer; it's an excellent leave-behind, which no
interviewer refuses. Be More Persuasive with a Printed Presentation 102. Use
Your 101 Successful Interviewing Strategies 101. Ask for Permission to Present.

Overgeneral Autobiographical Memory in Major Depressive Disorder is Associated with Abnormal Neural Activity During Retrieval

Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) is a psychiatric mood disorder that is associated with abnormal cognitive processes, including overgeneral memory (OGM) for autobiographical events. When asked to produce memories from their own lives, depressed individuals produce fewer specific memories than do their nondepressed peers. The neural basis of OGM in MDD, however, is not yet clear. Specifically, we do not know if depressed individuals exhibit normal memory-related neural activation during encoding; we also do not know if individuals with MDD show neural signatures that have been found to be related to retrieval of content, i.e. cortical reinstatement. To address these questions, depressed and nondepressed adults completed a standard measure of autobiographical memory specificity and, inside a Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) scanner, a paired-associates learning task. At the behavioral level, depressed individuals showed evidence of decreased specificity of autobiographical memory relative to healthy controls, but did not exhibit impairment in associative learning. At the neural level, depressed and nondepressed participants did not differ during encoding. During retrieval, a predicted difference between depressed and nondepressed participants in neural activity in the hippocampus was also not obtained. Importantly, however, compared to their nondepressed peers, depressed individuals showed less activity in the right prefrontal cortex during the successful retrieval of images. In addition, and also counter to hypotheses, there was robust evidence of cortical reinstatement of image category information in both depressed and nondepressed individuals. Together, these findings suggest that OGM in MDD is not related to an inability to reactivate visual information or to an inability to form or encode associative memories. Instead, it seems that if OGM in MDD is related to some systematic aberrant neural function, this abnormality is a subtle difference between depressed and nondepressed individuals in retrieval processes that is mediated by the prefrontal cortex.

Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) is a psychiatric mood disorder that is associated with abnormal cognitive processes, including overgeneral memory (OGM) for autobiographical events.

The Scientific American Reader to Accompany Abnormal Psychology

Drawn from Scientific American, this full-color collection of articles enhances coverage of important topics within the course. The selections have been hand picked by Ron Comer, who provides a preview and discussion questions for each article.

Drawn from Scientific American, this full-color collection of articles enhances coverage of important topics within the course.

Away We Go

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A supplementary program band book from the First Division Band Course.

AWAY WE GO by FRANK EMCKSON, JAMES D. PLOYHAR and FRED WEBER
INSTRUMENTATION A Note to Teachers ... introduced in the FIRST DIVISION
BAND METHOD BOOK 1 in the following manner: Numbers on pages 3-4-5-6 .