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Software Process Improvement

Software Process Improvement

Mark C. Paulk

IEEE Publications,U.S.
2001
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The creation of quality software on time and within budget has been a major problem facing the software industry for several decades. Consideration of software development and maintenance as an engineering discipline to control the developmental process can help alleviate these obstacles. This new book focuses on the best practices for software process improvement (SPI) and related international standards providing a valuable guide and reference. The text is a collection of original and republished papers providing a significant survey on the use of SPI and software process assessment (SPA) as practiced by companies such as Lockheed Martin, Siemens, and Hewlett Packard. Among the important features of the book are chapters on software process evaluation, how to best perform SPI, ISO 9000 and TickIT-an alternative approach to SPA, as well as the latest information on the CMM integration project. The text also provides vivid descriptions on the most important international and national standards for SPI, in particular ISO 9001, ISO 9000-3, ISO/IEC 9126. ISO/IEC 15504, ISO/IEC 12207. Software Process Improvement benefits software managers who want to learn about the requirements and effects of SPI, software process staff who need to understand the mechanisms of SPA and SPI, software developers who are affected by SPI and need to know how to apply it, and college students who want to understand the various methods of SPA and SPI.
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Esourcing Capability Model for Service Providers

Esourcing Capability Model for Service Providers

Bill Hefley; Keith M. Heston; Elaine Hyder; Mark C. Paulk

van Haren Publishing
2010
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The eSourcing Capability Model for Service Providers (eSCM-SP) is the best practices model that supports sourcing organizations successfully manage and reduce their risks and improve their capabilities across the entire sourcing life-cycle. It addresses the critical issues related to IT-enabled sourcing (eSourcing) for both outsourced and in-sourced (shared services) agreements. Each of the Model's 84 Practice is distributed along three easy to follow dimensions: Sourcing Life-cycle, Capability Area, and Capability Level, and have been applied in IT, BPO, and KPO settings.The eSCM-SP has been designed to complement existing quality models so that service providers can capitalize on their previous improvement efforts. ITIL V3 suggests that ITIL be supplemented with eSCM when service management is performed in the context of a sourcing arrangement. A series of documents comparing the eSCM-SP with other models and standards has been developed.Developed by The IT Services Qualification Center (ITSqc) and endorsed by a number of organizations including IAOP (International Association of Outsourcing Professionals), this title represents a major step forward for professionals looking to implement Best Practice within the Industry.
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Welfare Magnets

Welfare Magnets

Paul E. Peterson; Mark C. Rom

Brookings Institution
1990
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"""The best way of handling the question of how much to give the poor, politicians have discovered, is to avoid doing anything about it at all,"" note Paul Peterson and Mark Rom. The issue of the minimum people need in order to live decently is so difficult that Congress has left this crucial question to the states—even though the federal government foots three-fourths of the bill for about 15 million Americans who receive cash and food stamp benefits.The states differ widely in their assessment of what a family needs to meet a reasonable standard of living, and the interstate differences in welfare benefits cannot be explained by variations in wage levels or costs of living. The states with higher welfare benefits act as magnets by attracting or retaining poor people. In the competition to avoid becoming welfare havens, states have cut welfare benefits in real dollars by more than one-third since 1970. The authors propose the establishment of a minimum federal welfare standard, which would both reduce the interstate variation in welfare benefits and stem their overall decline.Peterson and Rom develop their argument in four steps. First they show how the politics of welfare magnets works in a case study of policymaking in Wisconsin. Second, they present their analysis of the overall magnet effect in American state politics, finding evidence that states with high welfare benefits experiencing disproportionate growth in their poverty rates make deeper welfare cuts. Third, they describe the process by which the current system came into being, identifying the reform efforts and political crises that have contributed to the centralization of welfare policy as well as the regional, partisan, and group interests that have resisted these changes. Finally, the authors propose a practical step that can go a long way toward achieving a national welfare standard; then assess it's cost, benefits, and political feasibility."
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Thomas Merton: God's Messenger on the Road Towards a New World

Thomas Merton: God's Messenger on the Road Towards a New World

Paul R Dekar; Christine M Bochen; Mark C Meade

Wipf Stock Publishers
2021
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Thomas Merton: God's Messenger on the Road towards a New World highlights the contribution of the best-selling North American writer between the Second World War and 1968. The Cistercian monk called people to act justly, love kindness, and walk humbly. By his critique of technology, a major impediment for people to follow Jesus; by his writing on contemplative prayer; by his interfaith outreach; and through his witness against racism, war, and degradation of nature, Merton still matters. This book uses Micah 6:8 to organize Merton's focus on justice, lovingkindness, and humility, as well as his dialogue with Rachel Carson, Ernesto Cardinal, Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Jr., Thich Nhat Hahn, and others.
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Thomas Merton: God's Messenger on the Road Towards a New World

Thomas Merton: God's Messenger on the Road Towards a New World

Paul R Dekar; Christine M Bochen; Mark C Meade

Wipf Stock Publishers
2021
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Thomas Merton: God's Messenger on the Road towards a New World highlights the contribution of the best-selling North American writer between the Second World War and 1968. The Cistercian monk called people to act justly, love kindness, and walk humbly. By his critique of technology, a major impediment for people to follow Jesus; by his writing on contemplative prayer; by his interfaith outreach; and through his witness against racism, war, and degradation of nature, Merton still matters. This book uses Micah 6:8 to organize Merton's focus on justice, lovingkindness, and humility, as well as his dialogue with Rachel Carson, Ernesto Cardinal, Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Jr., Thich Nhat Hahn, and others.
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Gnosticism as Revelation: From St. Paul to C.G. Jung

Gnosticism as Revelation: From St. Paul to C.G. Jung

Mark Roberts-Seymour Ofs

Independently Published
2018
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Gnosticism weathered more than two millennia of outright hostility from those who sought notoriety and feared for the security of their Church-Cleric fiefdoms, misunderstood the orally transmitted wisdom of the Gnostic adepts, sought land and power from land holdings confiscated from Gnostics and (likely) genuinely believed in the terms of disaffection engendered against personalities who opted to practice as Gnostics. The ascetism associated with arduous religious practice across history has universally been predicated on a rejection of materialism and comfort, withdrawal from pleasure 'of the flesh' and abstinence. By its nature this rejection assumes a bad or evil nature to material creation and a favouring of the spiritual. This is in fact a description of the material-divine dualism of Gnosticism. Abrahamic Gnosticism is not a grafting onto or a repudiation of Christianity; in point of fact it's origin is an early (primitive) Judeo-Christian approach to Religion that prospered and then declined under the pressure of Institutional Western (Latin) Church cleric-opponents, only to surface again throughout the history of the Abrahamic manifestations through Paulicians, Bogomils, Cathars and Western Esotericism. The de-emphasizing of ritual, repudiation of clericalism and of sacramental practice among all Gnostics of the early age disturbed the growing consolidation of clerical lordship over Christians, particularly in North Africa and Italy. Gnostic "Religion" in its various clothing has been considered an initiate growth and restorative process targetted towards wisdom. It is parallel to concepts occurring in Neo-Platonist, Buddhist, Proto-Christian, Kabbahlist, Judaic, Manichean, Mandaean, Eastern Orthodox, Catholic Mystic, Coptic, Theosophist, Islamicist (Sufic and Ismaili), Bahai, New Age and Modern Protestantism.
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Paul Ricoeur's Hermeneutics and the Discourse of Mark 13

Paul Ricoeur's Hermeneutics and the Discourse of Mark 13

Peter C. de Vries

Lexington Books
2016
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The apocalyptic discourse of Mark 13 predicts that cataclysmic events will occur within the generation of Jesus’ contemporaries, but readers today know these events have not taken place. Paul Ricoeur’s hermeneutics enables a reader to understand this text as a presentation of truth rather than as a failed prediction. Ricoeur argues that the meaning of a text is not defined by the author’s intention nor by the reader’s reception, but by the text itself. Therefore, although Mark 13 was originally understood literally, today’s reader is able to read it as metaphor, and to discern latent meaning that is present in the text. As Ricoeur explains, metaphor associates previously unrelated concepts and creates new, multiple meanings. In doing, metaphor is able to present truth, not as a verifiable presentation of the world, but as a novel manifestation of the world. Mark 13 functions as metaphor because of a double dissonance: first between the configured world of the text and the lived world of the reader, and second between claim that Jesus is able to predict when the events will take place (v. 30) and the assertion that he is not able to do so (v. 32). One option for the metaphorical meaning that Mark 13 offers for today’s reader is the perception of the presence of forces that challenge and subvert powers which appear to be dominant, and which deceive, destroy, and persecute. This book will appeal to two sets of readers. First, scholars who study New Testament apocalyptic texts and the eschatological expectations of the early church will appreciate a new approach to a challenging subject matter. Second, Ricoeur scholars who focus upon the religious aspects of his work will enjoy the employment of his interpretive approach on a Biblical genre that has heretofore receive only cursory attention.
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An Inside Look at External Affairs During the Trudeau Years

An Inside Look at External Affairs During the Trudeau Years

Mark MacGuigan; Paul C. Martin

University of Calgary Press
2002
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"Between these covers, you will read about the life of an individual - Mark MacGuigan - who dedicated his life to bettering Canadaâ|. From his fascination with the law to his interest in politics and international affairs, Mark made a lasting impact on virtually every area to which he turned his efforts." - Paul C. Martin, from the Foreword Mark MacGuigan was appointed Canada's Secretary of State for External Affairs in a tumultuous period of renewed East-West tensions, challenging Canadian-American relations, and regional conflict in the early 1980s. In this perceptive mélange of autobiography and study of foreign policy under Pierre Elliott Trudeau, MacGuigan surveys a wide range of bilateral and multilateral issues, weaves together an intriguing cast of national and international characters, and offers important insights into the making of foreign policy from a ministerial perspective. In chronicling the events in which he participated, MacGuigan describes his motivations, reactions, and decisions which illuminate Trudeau's approach to foreign policy and governance. An Inside Look at External Affairs during the Trudeau Years reflects on the interplay between domestic and international agendas and individual personalities in caucus that ultimately shape foreign policy.
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Implications of an Air Force Budget Downturn on the Aircraft Industrial Base

Implications of an Air Force Budget Downturn on the Aircraft Industrial Base

Mark V. Arena; John C. Graser; Paul DeLuca

RAND
2014
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The U.S. Air Force is facing a number of challenges as a result of the current defense budget downturn along with the uncertainty of its timing and magnitude. RAND examined the challenge of modernizing the Air Force s aircraft fleet while trying to sustain the industrial base with limited funding, considering six budget strategies for aircraft procurement: from a new high-tech fleet to sustaining and modifying the existing one."
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Becoming AI Native

Becoming AI Native

Terence C.M. Tse; Mark Esposito; Danny Goh; Paul Lee

TAYLOR FRANCIS LTD
2026
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This engaging guide is designed to demystify artificial intelligence (AI) in the business world, no advanced maths degrees or robotic companions are necessary. It tackles everything from traditional AI to the exciting realm of Generative AI, clearly distinguishing between what is genuinely beneficial and what is merely hype, all while demonstrating how to leverage AI to address real-world business challenges. The first half of the book serves as an essential playbook for businesses eager to understand AI’s potential. It cuts through the jargon, illuminating what AI can achieve and showcasing how organisations are already harnessing it to save time, enhance efficiency, and secure a competitive advantage. The second half introduces the concept of the "AI Native"—a future where AI is seamlessly integrated into business operations and daily life. This transformation opens thrilling opportunities, including new markets and creative work methods. It also prompts critical questions, like what happens when AI falters? The book carefully balances optimism with caution, offering insights that inspire thoughtful reflection. Whether you’re leading a team, launching a startup, or gearing up for a technology-driven career, this book equips readers to make informed decisions about AI. It is an essential resource for executives, entrepreneurs, and graduate students alike, stripping away the buzzwords to deliver actionable insights.
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Becoming AI Native

Becoming AI Native

Terence C.M. Tse; Mark Esposito; Danny Goh; Paul Lee

TAYLOR FRANCIS LTD
2026
sidottu
This engaging guide is designed to demystify artificial intelligence (AI) in the business world, no advanced maths degrees or robotic companions are necessary. It tackles everything from traditional AI to the exciting realm of Generative AI, clearly distinguishing between what is genuinely beneficial and what is merely hype, all while demonstrating how to leverage AI to address real-world business challenges. The first half of the book serves as an essential playbook for businesses eager to understand AI’s potential. It cuts through the jargon, illuminating what AI can achieve and showcasing how organisations are already harnessing it to save time, enhance efficiency, and secure a competitive advantage. The second half introduces the concept of the "AI Native"—a future where AI is seamlessly integrated into business operations and daily life. This transformation opens thrilling opportunities, including new markets and creative work methods. It also prompts critical questions, like what happens when AI falters? The book carefully balances optimism with caution, offering insights that inspire thoughtful reflection. Whether you’re leading a team, launching a startup, or gearing up for a technology-driven career, this book equips readers to make informed decisions about AI. It is an essential resource for executives, entrepreneurs, and graduate students alike, stripping away the buzzwords to deliver actionable insights.
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Introduction to Electromagnetic Compatibility

Introduction to Electromagnetic Compatibility

Clayton R. Paul; Robert C. Scully; Mark A. Steffka

JOHN WILEY SONS INC
2022
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INTRODUCTION TO ELECTROMAGNETIC COMPATIBILITY The revised new edition of the classic textbook is an essential resource for anyone working with today’s advancements in both digital and analog devices, communications systems, as well as power/energy generation and distribution. Introduction to Electromagnetic Compatibility provides thorough coverage of the techniques and methodologies used to design and analyze electronic systems that function acceptably in their electromagnetic environment. Assuming no prior familiarity with electromagnetic compatibility, this user-friendly textbook first explains fundamental EMC concepts and technologies before moving on to more advanced topics in EMC system design. This third edition reflects the results of an extensive detailed review of the entire second edition, embracing and maintaining the content that has “stood the test of time”, such as from the theory of electromagnetic phenomena and associated mathematics, to the practical background information on U.S. and international regulatory requirements. In addition to converting Dr. Paul’s original SPICE exercises to contemporary utilization of LTSPICE, there is new chapter material on antenna modeling and simulation. This edition will continue to provide invaluable information on computer modeling for EMC, circuit board and system-level EMC design, EMC test practices, EMC measurement procedures and equipment, and more such as: Features fully-worked examples, topic reviews, self-assessment questions, end-of-chapter exercises, and numerous high-quality images and illustrations Contains useful appendices of phasor analysis methods, electromagnetic field equations and waves. The ideal textbook for university courses on EMC, Introduction to Electromagnetic Compatibility, Third Edition is also an invaluable reference for practicing electrical engineers dealing with interference issues or those wanting to learn more about electromagnetic compatibility to become better product designers.
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Genetic Management of Fragmented Animal and Plant Populations

Genetic Management of Fragmented Animal and Plant Populations

Richard Frankham; Jonathan D. Ballou; Katherine Ralls; Mark Eldridge; Michele R. Dubash; Charles B. Fenster; Robert C. Lacy; Paul Sunnucks

Oxford University Press
2017
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One of the greatest unmet challenges in conservation biology is the genetic management of fragmented populations of threatened animal and plant species. More than a million small, isolated, population fragments of threatened species are likely suffering inbreeding depression and loss of evolutionary potential, resulting in elevated extinction risks. Although these effects can often be reversed by re-establishing gene flow between population fragments, managers very rarely do this. On the contrary, genetic methods are used mainly to document genetic differentiation among populations, with most studies concluding that genetically differentiated populations should be managed separately, thereby isolating them yet further and dooming many to eventual extinction! Many small population fragments are going extinct principally for genetic reasons. Although the rapidly advancing field of molecular genetics is continually providing new tools to measure the extent of population fragmentation and its genetic consequences, adequate guidance on how to use these data for effective conservation is still lacking. This accessible, authoritative text is aimed at senior undergraduate and graduate students interested in conservation biology, conservation genetics, and wildlife management. It will also be of particular relevance to conservation practitioners and natural resource managers, as well as a broader academic audience of conservation biologists and evolutionary ecologists.
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Genetic Management of Fragmented Animal and Plant Populations

Genetic Management of Fragmented Animal and Plant Populations

Richard Frankham; Jonathan D. Ballou; Katherine Ralls; Mark Eldridge; Michele R. Dubash; Charles B. Fenster; Robert C. Lacy; Paul Sunnucks

Oxford University Press
2017
nidottu
One of the greatest unmet challenges in conservation biology is the genetic management of fragmented populations of threatened animal and plant species. More than a million small, isolated, population fragments of threatened species are likely suffering inbreeding depression and loss of evolutionary potential, resulting in elevated extinction risks. Although these effects can often be reversed by re-establishing gene flow between population fragments, managers very rarely do this. On the contrary, genetic methods are used mainly to document genetic differentiation among populations, with most studies concluding that genetically differentiated populations should be managed separately, thereby isolating them yet further and dooming many to eventual extinction! Many small population fragments are going extinct principally for genetic reasons. Although the rapidly advancing field of molecular genetics is continually providing new tools to measure the extent of population fragmentation and its genetic consequences, adequate guidance on how to use these data for effective conservation is still lacking. This accessible, authoritative text is aimed at senior undergraduate and graduate students interested in conservation biology, conservation genetics, and wildlife management. It will also be of particular relevance to conservation practitioners and natural resource managers, as well as a broader academic audience of conservation biologists and evolutionary ecologists.
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A Practical Guide for Genetic Management of Fragmented Animal and Plant Populations

A Practical Guide for Genetic Management of Fragmented Animal and Plant Populations

Richard Frankham; Jonathan D. Ballou; Katherine Ralls; Mark Eldridge; Michele R. Dudash; Charles B. Fenster; Robert C. Lacy; Paul Sunnucks

Oxford University Press
2019
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The habitats of most species have been fragmented by human actions, isolating small populations that consequently develop genetic problems. Millions of small, isolated, fragmented populations are likely suffering from inbreeding depression and loss of genetic diversity, greatly increasing their risk of extinction. Crossing between populations is required to reverse these effects, but managers rarely do so. A key reason for such inaction is that managers are often advised to manage populations in isolation whenever molecular genetic methods indicate genetic differences among them. Following this advice will often doom small populations to extinction when the habitat fragmentation and genetic differences were caused by human activities. A paradigm shift is required whereby evidence of genetic differentiation among populations is a trigger to ask whether any populations are suffering genetic problems, and if so, whether they can be rescued by augmenting gene flow. Consequently, there is now an urgent need for an authoritative practical guide to facilitate this paradigm shift in genetic management of fragmented populations.
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A Practical Guide for Genetic Management of Fragmented Animal and Plant Populations

A Practical Guide for Genetic Management of Fragmented Animal and Plant Populations

Richard Frankham; Jonathan D. Ballou; Katherine Ralls; Mark Eldridge; Michele R. Dudash; Charles B. Fenster; Robert C. Lacy; Paul Sunnucks

Oxford University Press
2019
nidottu
The habitats of most species have been fragmented by human actions, isolating small populations that consequently develop genetic problems. Millions of small, isolated, fragmented populations are likely suffering from inbreeding depression and loss of genetic diversity, greatly increasing their risk of extinction. Crossing between populations is required to reverse these effects, but managers rarely do so. A key reason for such inaction is that managers are often advised to manage populations in isolation whenever molecular genetic methods indicate genetic differences among them. Following this advice will often doom small populations to extinction when the habitat fragmentation and genetic differences were caused by human activities. A paradigm shift is required whereby evidence of genetic differentiation among populations is a trigger to ask whether any populations are suffering genetic problems, and if so, whether they can be rescued by augmenting gene flow. Consequently, there is now an urgent need for an authoritative practical guide to facilitate this paradigm shift in genetic management of fragmented populations.
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Archaeology of the Moundville Chiefdom

Archaeology of the Moundville Chiefdom

Christopher S. Peebles; Lauren M. Michals; M.L. Powell; C.Margaret Scarry; Margaret J. Schoeninger; Mark R. Schurr; Paul D. Welch

The University of Alabama Press
2006
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Built on a flat terrace overlooking the Black Warrior River in Alabama, the Moundville ceremonial center was at its height a densely occupied town of approximately 1,000 residents with at least 29 earthen mounds surrounding a central plaza. Today Moundville is not only one of the largest and best-preserved Mississippian sites in the United States but also one of the most intensively studied. This volume brings together nine Moundville specialists who trace the site's evolution and eventual decline.
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The Polysynthesis Parameter

The Polysynthesis Parameter

Mark C. Baker

Oxford University Press Inc
1996
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Baker argues that polysynthetic languages - in which verbs are built up of many parts and where one verb can act as a whole sentence - are more than an accidental collection of morphological processes; rather they adopt a systematic way of representing predicate-argument relationships, parallel to but distinct from the system used for English.
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