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Tesla’s Bid for SolarCity
by Charles C.Y. Wang Raaj Zutshi"On October 12th, 2016, Tesla announced that shareholders from both Tesla Motors, Inc. (“Tesla”) and SolarCity Corporation (“SolarCity”) would votea to ratify the proposed merger of the two companies. The merger involved a $2.4 billion all-stock offer by Tesla to incorporate SolarCity into one of its subsidiaries, which valued SolarCity at $24.17 per share."
Test Bias in Employment Selection Testing: A Visual Introduction (Classroom Companion: Business)
by Thomas A. StetzThis book provides students with a concise introduction to test bias from a psychometric point-of-view without statistics. It uses easy to understand graphs to explain complex technical approaches to test bias giving readers a highly sought-after knowledge enabling them to be better consumers of tests.Studies performed by the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) consistently show that selection is a key competency for Human Resource (HR) professionals. Knowledge of test bias is a key component to effectively and legally performing this highly valued HR function. Unfortunately, test bias is rarely covered in HR classes or is presented in a highly technical manner geared to individuals with strong statistical and mathematical backgrounds. This book, requiring no previous statistical or mathematical knowledge, can be used as a supplemental textbook for any class that deals with selection, staffing, or measurement at the undergraduate or graduate level.
Test-Drive Your Dream Job: A Step-by-Step Guide to Finding and Creating the Work You Love
by Robin Simons Brian KurthIn TEST-DRIVE YOUR DREAM JOB, you'll discover how you can identify, explore and experience your dream job, and how or if you want to pursue it. Author Brian Kurth, founder of VocationVacations, offers professional, personal and financial perspectives on how to transition into a new career and turn your dream job into a reality without risking your current job or jeopardizing your financial stability. By following this practical and encouraging self-discovery guide, you will gain a better understanding of who you are now; what fulfills you both personally and professionally; how to get from Point A to Point B on the road to your dream job; or perhaps satisfy your curiosity and gain a deeper appreciation for where you are now in your life and your career. Brian Kurth is a sought-after expert on how to pursue and attain one's dream job. He has shared his wit and wisdom in appearances on NBC's TODAY Show, CNN, and FOX News, and has been featured in articles in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and Fortune Magazine. Many more regularly turn to Brian for his comments, advice and insights. A native of Madison, Wisconsin, Kurth lives in Portland, Oregon.
Test-Driven Development
by Lech MadeyskiAgile methods are gaining more and more interest both in industry and in research. Many industries are transforming their way of working from traditional waterfall projects with long duration to more incremental, iterative and agile practices. At the same time, the need to evaluate and to obtain evidence for different processes, methods and tools has been emphasized. Lech Madeyski offers the first in-depth evaluation of agile methods. He presents in detail the results of three different experiments, including concrete examples of how to conduct statistical analysis with meta analysis or the SPSS package, using as evaluation indicators the number of acceptance tests passed (overall and per hour) and design complexity metrics. The book is appropriate for graduate students, researchers and advanced professionals in software engineering. It proves the real benefits of agile software development, provides readers with in-depth insights into experimental methods in the context of agile development, and discusses various validity threats in empirical studies.
TestFrame: An Approach to Structured Testing
by Chris C. SchotanusOver 12 years ago Logica started the development of TestFrame®, a test method which enables organizations to develop and execute their tests in a structured way. Since then many new techniques have been developed, such as, most recently, "Service Oriented Architectures (SOAs)" or "Software as a Service (SaaS)" , requiring updates to test procedures and processes that seemed well-established. These trends have prompted Logica to update and renew the TestFrame® method. Chris Schotanus’ new book takes into account the recent developments and his presentation is focused on supporting daily test practice. Every step within this structured test method is dealt with exhaustively, providing the reader with the necessary details for successful software testing. Yet his book will not only help test personnel to improve effectivity, it will also serve as a way to improve efficiency through its strong focus on reuse. This makes TestFrame the practical guide to testing information systems for everyone involved in software testing – test developers, test managers, and staff charged with quality assurance.
Tested Sentences that Sell: Why The Sizzle Sells The Steak
by Elmer WheelerThis book describes the simple but effective methods that Elmer Wheeler has used in making two sales grow where only one grew before.The author is sales consultant for scores of prominent firms. He has tested thousands of word-combinations and selling points on millions of customers at the point of sale.He knows the selling points and techniques that will achieve results. He knows the ones that will fail.The author shows you how the slight twist of a phrase may make a difference between success and failure in selling a product.He shows you how to go about building up your own selling sentences—your own sales presentations—and how to test them on the customer.You will find this book intensely interesting and practical, for the author has filled it with stories of actual sales campaigns that have been built upon the use of tested sentences.The ideas in this book are making money for some of the best-known concerns in the country. They should make money for you.
Testen im Dialogmarketing: KPIs Schritt für Schritt optimieren
by Peter LorscheidDieses Buch zeigt, wie man Tests im Dialogmarketing durchführt, um den Erfolg einer Werbekampagne zu messen. Tests im Dialogmarketing sind ein Schlüssel zur Optimierung der Kommunikation – doch in der Praxis scheitern Tests häufig. Je nach Zielsetzung sind bei den Tests andere Kenngrößen als Testgrößen relevant. Der Autor erläutert, wie man von einer vagen Hypothese zum konkreten Test im Dialogmarketing kommt, den zur KPI passenden Test findet, durchführt und anschließend interpretiert.Im Kapitel zur Durchführung der Tests lässt sich der Rückgriff auf mathematische Formeln nicht vermeiden. Doch auch ohne Formelverständnis lassen sich alle Berechnungen mit Hilfe der verschiedenen Excel-Tools zu diesem Buch einfach nachvollziehen. Diese finden sich unter der Webseite https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783658313333.Der InhaltMit Kennzahlen den Kampagnenerfolg messenVom Optimierungsansatz zum TestdesignA-B-Tests durchführen und interpretierenDer Weg zur praktischen Umsetzung
Testimonials of Tumultuous Times
by Michael Debabrata PatraThis collection of speeches delivered by Michael Debabrata Patra, Deputy Governor of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), captures the dilemmas and trepidations of conducting monetary policy in India. The book covers a wide range of themes critical to central bankers and public policy, while chronicling the journey of the Indian financial system from fragility to resilience.Spread out over five years, these speeches mark a response to the multiple shocks that have impacted the Indian economy since 2020: the COVID-19 pandemic, the Russia-Ukraine war, and the aggressive monetary tightening by advanced economy central banks. It illustrates how India has positioned itself as a leader in many international endeavours and offers a futuristic assessment of two major developments with the potential to reshape humanity: climate change and the advent of the digital revolution and new technologies. The book thus enables readers to explore the complexities of monetary policy in a real-world context, understanding the rationale behind key decisions that have shaped India’s economic trajectory.Essential reading for postgraduate courses on the Indian economy and monetary policy, this book will be useful to students, economists, policymakers, financial market participants, and historians.
Testimonio: Canadian Mining in the Aftermath of Genocides in Guatemala
by Catherine Nolin Grahame RussellWhat is land? A resource to be exploited? A commodity to be traded? A home to cherish? In Guatemala, a country still reeling from thirty-six years of US-backed state repression and genocides, dominant Canadian mining interests cash in on the transformation of land into “property,” while those responsible act with near-total impunity. Editors Catherine Nolin and Grahame Russell draw on over thirty years of community-based research and direct community support work in Guatemala to expose the ruthless state machinery that benefits the Canadian mining industry—a staggeringly profitable juggernaut of exploitation, sanctioned and supported every step of the way by the Canadian government. This edited collection calls on Canadians to hold our government and companies fully to account for their role in enabling and profiting from violence in Guatemala. The text stands apart in featuring a series of unflinching testimonios (testimonies) authored by Indigenous community leaders in Guatemala, as well as wide-ranging contributions from investigative journalists, scholars, lawyers, activists, and documentarians on the ground. As resources are ripped from the earth and communities and environments ripped apart, the act of standing in solidarity and bearing witness—rather than extracting knowledge—becomes more radical than ever.
Testing Autonomy in Pittsburgh
by Mitchell B. Weiss Brittany UrickPittsburgh's mayor had been among the first to welcome self-driving vehicles, but was now one of many needing to react after a pedestrian fatality involving an autonomous Uber in Arizona. He had originally preferred to roll out "the red carpet" instead of the "red tape". Now he found himself needing to balance technological advancement and the city's economic trajectory against public health and safety concerns and, simply, citizens' fears. Post-Arizona, should he allow AV firms to double down on experimentation? When it came to testing new technology, how safe was safe enough?
Testing Business Ideas
by Alexander Osterwalder David J. BlandA practical guide to effective business model testing 7 out of 10 new products fail to deliver on expectations. Testing Business Ideas aims to reverse that statistic. In the tradition of Alex Osterwalder’s global bestseller Business Model Generation, this practical guide contains a library of hands-on techniques for rapidly testing new business ideas. Testing Business Ideas explains how systematically testing business ideas dramatically reduces the risk and increases the likelihood of success for any new venture or business project. It builds on the internationally popular Business Model Canvas and Value Proposition Canvas by integrating Assumptions Mapping and other powerful lean startup-style experiments. Testing Business Ideas uses an engaging 4-color format to: Increase the success of any venture and decrease the risk of wasting time, money, and resources on bad ideas Close the knowledge gap between strategy and experimentation/validation Identify and test your key business assumptions with the Business Model Canvas and Value Proposition Canvas A definitive field guide to business model testing, this book features practical tips for making major decisions that are not based on intuition and guesses. Testing Business Ideas shows leaders how to encourage an experimentation mindset within their organization and make experimentation a continuous, repeatable process.
Testing and Inspection Using Acceptance Sampling Plans
by Muhammad Aslam Mir Masoom AliThis book introduces a number of new sampling plans, such as time truncated life tests, skip sampling plans, resubmitted plans, mixed sampling plans, sampling plans based on the process capability index and plans for big data, which can be used for testing and inspecting products, from the raw-materials stage to the final product, in every industry using statistical process control techniques. It also presents the statistical theory, methodology and applications of acceptance sampling from truncated life tests. Further, it discusses the latest reliability, quality and risk analysis methods based on acceptance sampling from truncated life, which engineering and statisticians require in order to make decisions, and which are also useful for researchers in the areas of quality control, lifetime analysis, censored data analysis, goodness-of-fit and statistical software applications. In its nine chapters, the book addresses a wide range of testing/inspection sampling schemes for discrete and continuous data collected in various production processes. It includes a chapter on sampling plans for big data and offers several illustrative examples of the procedures presented. Requiring a basic knowledge of probability distributions, inference and estimation, and lifetime and quality analysis, it is a valuable resource for graduate and senior undergraduate engineering students, and practicing engineers, more specifically it is useful for quality engineers, reliability engineers, consultants, black belts, master black belts, students and researchers interested in applying reliability and risk and quality methods.
Testing and Tuning Market Trading Systems: Algorithms in C++
by Timothy MastersBuild, test, and tune financial, insurance or other market trading systems using C++ algorithms and statistics. You’ve had an idea and have done some preliminary experiments, and it looks promising. Where do you go from here? Well, this book discusses and dissects this case study approach. Seemingly good backtest performance isn't enough to justify trading real money. You need to perform rigorous statistical tests of the system's validity. Then, if basic tests confirm the quality of your idea, you need to tune your system, not just for best performance, but also for robust behavior in the face of inevitable market changes. Next, you need to quantify its expected future behavior, assessing how bad its real-life performance might actually be, and whether you can live with that. Finally, you need to find its theoretical performance limits so you know if its actual trades conform to this theoretical expectation, enabling you to dump the system if it does not live up to expectations.This book does not contain any sure-fire, guaranteed-riches trading systems. Those are a dime a dozen... But if you have a trading system, this book will provide you with a set of tools that will help you evaluate the potential value of your system, tweak it to improve its profitability, and monitor its on-going performance to detect deterioration before it fails catastrophically. Any serious market trader would do well to employ the methods described in this book.What You Will LearnSee how the 'spaghetti-on-the-wall' approach to trading system development can be done legitimatelyDetect overfitting early in developmentEstimate the probability that your system's backtest results could have been due to just good luckRegularize a predictive model so it automatically selects an optimal subset of indicator candidatesRapidly find the global optimum for any type of parameterized trading systemAssess the ruggedness of your trading system against market changesEnhance the stationarity and information content of your proprietary indicatorsNest one layer of walkforward analysis inside another layer to account for selection bias in complex trading systemsCompute a lower bound on your system's mean future performanceBound expected periodic returns to detect on-going system deterioration before it becomes severeEstimate the probability of catastrophic drawdown Who This Book Is For Experienced C++ programmers, developers, and software engineers. Prior experience with rigorous statistical procedures to evaluate and maximize the quality of systems is recommended as well.
Testmanagement in der Praxis
by Oliver Droste Christina MerzDieses Praxisbuch soll ein Handwerkszeug für Testmanager von Software-Implementierungsprojekten sein. Es richtet sich zudem an Projektleiter und alle, die sich mit dem Thema Testmanagement auseinandersetzen wollen oder müssen. Die Autoren haben oft festgestellt, dass in Projekten viele Vorgaben zum Testmanagement existieren, die praxisfern sind und zudem nur mit viel bürokratischem Aufwand umgesetzt werden können. Die Energie wird so oftmals in die Umsetzung eines komplexen Rahmenwerks gesteckt, ohne einen quantifizierbaren Nutzen zu stiften.Hier setzt dieses Buch an. Mit Fokussierung auf das Wesentliche, was für eine erfolgreiche Umsetzung eines Testvorhabens relevant ist, soll es auch als Sparringspartner dienen und dem Testmanager bei seiner Standortbestimmung Hilfe und Unterstützung geben sowie Denkanstöße auslösen.Der Aufbau dieses Buches orientiert sich am Lebenszyklus eines klassischen Projektes (V-Modell / Wasserfall-Modell). Der Praxisbezug wird von den Autoren anhand eines fiktiven Projektes hergestellt, welches mit tatsächlichen Erfahrungen ergänzt wird.
Teuflisch gutes Webdesign: Wie Sie Ihre Kunden in Versuchung führen
by Chris Nodder»Lesen Sie besser dieses Buch, bevor Sie jemand über den Tisch zieht. Wenn diese Angst nicht reicht, wird Gier vielleicht den Zweck erfüllen: Durch die Regeln dieses Buchs wird jede Website eine Menge Geld machen, selbst wenn Sie nicht vollständig dem Bösen verfallen.« Jakob Nielsen, Autor von »Designing Web Usability« und »Mobile Usability« »Aufschlussreich, lustig und spannend … Dieses Buch zeigt Ihnen, wie Sie schon ausgetrickst worden sind und, noch viel besser, wie Sie selbst andere Menschen dazu bringen, etwas zu tun – sei es zum Bösen oder (wenn es denn unbedingt sein muss) zum Guten.« Bruce »Tog« Tognazzini, Mitinhaber der Nielsen Norman Group und ehemaliger Apple-Mitarbeiter Nr. 66 Erfolgreichere Websites durch die Kunst der Verführung Ihre Kunden sollen Ihre Website lieben? Sich dort so richtig wohlfühlen – und dabei das tun, was Sie von ihnen möchten? In einer furiosen Mischung aus Psychologie, Marketing und Design zeigt Ihnen Chris Nodder, wie Sie das erreichen. Die einfach umzusetzenden Designmuster, die er Ihnen an die Hand gibt, bauen auf den kleinen Schwächen auf, die wir alle haben: Wir möchten dazugehören, uns nicht allzu sehr anstrengen, Schnäppchen machen, nicht Nein sagen müssen und vieles mehr. An unzähligen Beispielen aus allen Schlupfwinkeln des Internets lernen Sie, wie Sie die Usability Ihrer Website verbessern, indem Sie diese Schwächen berücksichtigen – oder wie Sie Ihre Kunden dadurch verleiten können. Der Erfolg ist Ihnen in jedem Fall sicher, es liegt also an Ihnen: Wie werden Sie Ihr neues Wissen einsetzen? Zum Guten oder zum Bösen? Stolz: Den Wunsch nach Zugehörigkeit nutzen Trägheit: Verhalten durch Auswahlhilfen lenken Völlerei: Mit Belohnungen arbeiten Zorn: Ärger vermeiden und entschärfen Neid: Begehrlichkeiten wecken Lust: Sympathie erzeugen und erhalten Gier: Gewünschtes Verhalten bestärken
Teva Pharmaceutical Industries, Ltd.
by Tarun Khanna Krishna G. Palepu Claudine MadrasHow do companies develop a strategy that is both low-cost and differentiated without becoming squeezed in the middle? Describes how Teva, Israel's first and largest multinational, achieved its globally dominant position in generic pharmaceuticals, an industry that has undergone significant change over the last 20 years. Examines its strategies to defend itself against both low-cost competitors from India and other emerging markets as well as Big Pharma companies, which are adopting increasingly aggressive tactics in genetics.
Texas BBQ Adventure Guide: A Road Trip Through the History & How-to of Lone Star 'Que (American Palate)
by Jason WeemsFrom backroad barns to big city spots with a line around the block, Jason Weems sets Texans up with the recipe for a successful barbecue-centric adventureFrom the bayous of the east to the dusty deserts of the west, embark on a journey through the countless smokehouses, roadhouses, and BBQ food trucks that line the backroads and main streets of Texas. Dive into a history that dates back to treasure hungry conquistadors and swashbuckling buccaneers. Learn what divides the state into five main flavor regions and read your plate of BBQ like a roadmap through history. Author Jason Weems journeyed over 3500 miles around the highways and byways of Texas to bring you a guide that's dripping with pro-tips and sizzling with backstory.
Texas Boomtowns: A History of Blood and Oil
by Bartee HaileOn January 10, 1901, Beaumont awoke to the historic roar of the Spindletop gusher. A flood of frantic fortune seekers heard its call and quickly descended on the town. Over the next three decades, Texas's first oil rush transformed the sparsely populated rural state practically beyond recognition. Brothels, bordellos and slums overran sleepy towns, and thick, black oil spilled over once-green pastures. While dreams came true for a precious few, most settled for high-risk, dangerous jobs in the oilfields and passed what spare time they had in the vice districts fueled by crude. From the violent shanties of Desdemona and Mexia to Borger and beyond, wildcat speculators, grifters and barons took the land for all it was worth. Author Bartee Haile explores the story of these wild and wooly boomtowns.
Texas Children's Hospital: Congenital Heart Disease Care
by Michael E. Porter Justin M. Bachmann Zachary C. LandmanIn 2014, Dr. Charles D. Fraser Jr., Surgeon-in-Chief of Texas Children's Hospital in Houston, was contemplating the future direction of the congenital heart disease program. The nation's largest pediatric hospital, Texas Children's was ranked by U.S. News & World Report as #4 in the nation in 2012-2013. It was ranked #3 in pediatric heart care and heart surgery, following Boston Children's and Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP). Texas Children's had some of the highest volumes in the nation, seeing more than 20,000 congenital heart disease patients and performing over 800 cardiac surgeries annually. Fraser led the reorganization of Texas Children's care for congenital heart disease conditions beginning in 1995, and had initiated universal outcome measurement. In 2014, the challenge was to continue to improve care in a complicated patient population, and take outcome measurement to a new level. Also, Texas Children's had recently formed partnerships with pediatric hospitals in Temple, San Antonio and Mexico City, and how to structure these partnerships was under active discussion.
Texas Children's Hospital: Congenital Heart Disease Care
by Michael E. Porter Justin M. Bachmann Zachary C. LandmanIn 2014, Dr. Charles D. Fraser Jr., Surgeon-in-Chief of Texas Children's Hospital in Houston, was contemplating the future direction of the congenital heart disease program. The nation's largest pediatric hospital, Texas Children's was ranked by U.S. News & World Report as #4 in the nation in 2012-2013. It was ranked #3 in pediatric heart care and heart surgery, following Boston Children's and Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP). Texas Children's had some of the highest volumes in the nation, seeing more than 20,000 congenital heart disease patients and performing over 800 cardiac surgeries annually. Fraser led the reorganization of Texas Children's care for congenital heart disease conditions beginning in 1995, and had initiated universal outcome measurement. In 2014, the challenge was to continue to improve care in a complicated patient population, and take outcome measurement to a new level. Also, Texas Children's had recently formed partnerships with pediatric hospitals in Temple, San Antonio and Mexico City, and how to structure these partnerships was under active discussion.
Texas DTPA Forms and Practice Guide
by David G. TekellRevisions to the Deceptive Trade Practices-Consumer Protection Act continue to give consumers more hurdles to overcome. The courts are strict in determining which DTPA cases fit within the "laundry list" pleading provisions. A "knowing" violation is required for all mental anguish damages. And in some cases, damage caps may eliminate DTPA protection altogether. Overcome DTPA defenses and win tough Insurance Code cases with Tekell's Texas DTPA Forms and Practice Guide. This useful guide includes over 290 forms, from custom Insurance Code interrogatories and pattern deposition questions through jury charges to laundry list questions and trial objection checklists. You will also find detailed legal discussions and step-by-step procedures in every major consumer law category, including: * Purchase of goods and services * Investments and business opportunities * Home and land purchases * Assisted living facilities * Commercial property leases * Construction defects * Lender liability
Texas Eastman Co.
by Robert S. KaplanThe company as part of a commitment to Total Quality Management has installed a computer system that accumulates 30,000 observations on its processes every 2-4 hours. Operating people have found the monthly summaries of financial performance not too useful in this environment. Recently a department manager has created a daily income statement for his operators. Case explores role for financial summary information in an environment where extensive, timely data on product processes and products already exist.
Texas Employment Law
by John Hagan Justin Smith James Tanner Rogge Dunn Kristi Taylor Jane Matheson Rani Garcia John Browning Steven Clark Wade Forsman Joel Gomez Steven Ladik Laura Franze Bryan NealTexas-Specific Answers to Employment Law Questions The first and best place to look for employment advice is Laura Franze's Texas Employment Law. It provides well-supported answers to both common and difficult questions, annotating its suggestions with 3,800 cases and 156 forms. The book includes over 60 substantive discovery and pleading forms, omission-preventing checklists and outlines, time-saving letters, authoritative jury instructions, dispute-avoiding employment agreements, and artfully-drafted motions. There are nine well-supported chapters covering all types of employment discrimination - disability, sexual harassment, FMLA, race, sex, and age. It also includes substantive and procedural analysis of the Texas Commission on Human Rights Act and its remedies, over 150 pages on workplace torts, with comprehensive coverage of interference with business interests, violations of business covenants, trade secret and privacy issues, defamation, negligence, intentional infliction of emotional distress, fraud and more. Authoritative coverage of the traditional issues of wages, hours, and overtime, along with safety and health, employee benefits, unemployment compensation, employer record-keeping and internal policies. Additionally, Texas Employment Law includes the law of employment agreements - written, oral, and implied. Constructive discharge and the Sabine Pilot doctrine. Proper and improper methods of employee selection. Employment-oriented immigration laws and much more. The first and best place to look for employment answers is Laura Franze's Texas Employment Law Authoritative guidance is provided in this detailed analysis of local and federal cases and statutes covering: Employment contracts, Wages, hours & overtime, Employee safety & health, Immigration issues, Pension, Health & welfare benefits, Privacy issues, FMLA Wrongful discharge, Constructive discharge, Sexual harassment, Disability discrimination, Race, sex, and age discrimination, Arbitration of employment claims, and a thorough discussion of whistleblower protection under Sarbanes-Oxley, as well as practical advice on the impact of the law for employers and employees.