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The Private Collector's Museum Public Good Versus Private Gain

The Private Collector's Museum Public Good Versus Private Gain

The Private Collector’s Museum connects the rising popularity of private museums with evolving models of collecting and philanthropy and new inter-relationships between private and public space. It examines how contemporary collectors construct museums to frame themselves as cultural arbiters of global distinction. By exploring a range of in-depth contemporary case studies the book aims for a more complex understanding of the private collector’s museum assessing how it is realised funded and understood in a broader cultural context. It examines the ways in which this particular museum model has evolved within a historical Western tradition of collecting and museum-building and considers how private museums will endure alongside their public counterparts. It also sheds light on the shifting patterns of collecting such as the transition of personal art collections into the public sphere. The developments are situated within the wider context of private–public engagement in general. Providing a new analysis of philanthropy public access and the museum The Private Collector’s Museum is essential reading for scholars and students interested in the private museum and key reading for those interested in related issues. | The Private Collector's Museum Public Good Versus Private Gain

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Private Policing

Private Policing

The second edition of Private Policing details the substantial involvement of private agents and organisations involved in policing beyond the public police. It develops a taxonomy of policing and explores in depth each of the main categories examining the degree of privateness amongst several other issues. The main categories include the public police; hybrid policing such as state policing bodies specialised police forces and non-governmental organisations; voluntary policing; and the private security industry. This book explores how the public police and many other state bodies have significant degrees of privateness from outright privatisation through to the serving of private interests. The book provides a theoretical framework for private policing building upon the growing base of scholarship in this area. Fully revised this new edition not only brings the old edition up to date with the substantial scholarship since 2002 but also provides more international context and several new chapters on: corporate security management security officers and private investigation. There is also a consideration of what the book calls the ‘new private security industry’ working largely in cyber-space. Bringing together research from a wide range of projects the author has been involved with along with the growing body of private policing scholarship the book shows the substantial involvement of non-public police bodies in policing and highlights a wide range of issues for debate and further research. Private Policing is ideal reading for students of policing and security courses academics with an interest in private policing and security and practitioners from security and policing.

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The Private Sector's Role in Disasters Leveraging the Private Sector in Emergency Management

The Private Sector's Role in Disasters Leveraging the Private Sector in Emergency Management

This book examines the role of the private sector in emergency management and how that role is changing through private sector intersections with government government agencies and the public sectors in all phases of emergency management. It particularly focuses on the areas in which government regulations and guidelines promote or encourage private sector involvement and looks at best practices for public–private partnerships as well as some of the common pitfalls of the contracting model. The private sector now plays a tremendous role in the creation of policies related to emergency management and their implementation at the federal state and local levels. The Private Sector’s Role in Disasters: Leveraging the Private Sector in Emergency Management explores some of the challenges of implementing policies in the current contracting model. It also compares emergency management to other government services that have been privatized. Case studies of recent disasters and examples of the privatization of some emergency management functions are presented to illustrate how to better plan for private sector involvement in future disasters. Given the sometimes dysfunctional relationships that have emerged from public–private partnerships in disaster situations it is important to analyze and improve principles and practices to work toward more effective partnership. This book provides thoughtful guidelines recommendations and best-practice approaches to public–private development implementation and collaboration throughout the disaster cycle. It gives focused directions for cultivating public–private working relationships to make emergency responses quicker and assistance more effective. | The Private Sector's Role in Disasters Leveraging the Private Sector in Emergency Management

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Value-creation in Middle Market Private Equity

Value-creation in Middle Market Private Equity

Value-creation in Middle Market Private Equity by John A. Lanier holistically examines the ecosystem relationships between middle market private equity firms and their portfolio companies. Small business is the job creating engine in the US economy and consequently is a prime target market for private equity investment. Indeed private equity backs over six of each 100 private sector jobs. Both the small businesses in which private equity firms invest and the private equity firms making the investments face inter- and intra-company fiduciary leadership challenges while implementing formulated strategy. The architecture of each private equity firm-portfolio company relationship must be uniquely crafted to capitalize on the projected return on investment that is memorialized in the investment thesis. Given the leveraged capital structure of portfolio companies the cost of a misstep is problematic. Individual private equity professionals are typically members of multiple investment teams for the firm. Not only may each investment team have its own unique leadership style but its diverse members have to assimilate styles for each team in which they participate relative to a specific portfolio company. Acquisitions and their subsequent integrations add exponential complexity for both private equity investment and portfolio company leadership teams; indeed cultural integration ranks among the most chronic acquisition obstacles. Accordingly the stakeholders of private equity transactions do well to embrace leadership best practices in applying value-creation toolbox best practices. The perspectives of both the private equity investment team and the portfolio company leadership team are within the scope of these chapters.

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Between the Public and Private in Mobile Communication

Between the Public and Private in Mobile Communication

Mobile devices’ impact on daily life has raised relevant questions regarding public and private space and communication. Both the technological environment (operating systems platforms apps) and media ecosystems (interface design participatory culture social media) influence how users deal with the public and private intimate and personal spheres. Leading researchers in communication art computer engineering education law sociology philosophy and psychology here explore current methodologies for studying the dichotomy of the public and private in mobile communication providing a foundation for further research. | Between the Public and Private in Mobile Communication

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Software Testing A Craftsman’s Approach Fifth Edition

Software Testing A Craftsman’s Approach Fifth Edition

This updated and reorganized Fifth edition of Software Testing: A Craftsman's Approach continues to be a valuable reference for software testers developers and engineers by applying the strong mathematics content of previous editions to a coherent treatment of software testing. Responding to instructor and student survey input the authors have streamlined chapters and examples. The Fifth Edition: Has a new chapter on feature interaction testing that explores the feature interaction problem and explains how to reduce tests Uses Java instead of pseudo-code for all examples including structured and object-oriented ones Presents model-based development and provides an explanation of how to conduct testing within model-based development environments Explains testing in waterfall iterative and agile software development projects Explores test-driven development reexamines all-pairs testing and explains the four contexts of software testing Thoroughly revised and updated Software Testing: A Craftsman’s Approach Fifth Edition is sure to become a standard reference for those who need to stay up to date with evolving technologies in software testing. | Software Testing A Craftsman’s Approach Fifth Edition

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Private Risks and Public Dangers

Private Risks and Public Dangers

Private Risk and Public Dangers is comprised of a collection of chapters which were originally papers presented in the 1991 British Sociological Association Conference on Health and Society and they address a range of private risks and public dangers. Issues covered vary from the response to HIV and AIDS and ‘foetal alcohol syndrome’ to the nature of accidents. These seemingly diverse social situations within which emerges is that we need a more sociologically informed understanding of the personal shading the public dangers they are expected to manage.

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The Economics of U.S. Nonindustrial Private Forests

The Economics of U.S. Nonindustrial Private Forests

The nonindustrial private forests are a large and valuable national resource and the best possible understanding of their characteristics capabilities and potentials is useful for the formation of national policy on natural resources. In this title originally published in 1979 Marion Clawson presents an informative description and analysis of the nonindustrial private forests of the United States and offers his best judgement as to the economic potential of these forests to produce wood and other forest outputs. This book is directed to foresters economists policy makers conservationists and students interested in environmental issues. | The Economics of U. S. Nonindustrial Private Forests

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Automated Software Testing with Cypress

Automated Software Testing with Cypress

Unit Integration Testing (UIT) had been a challenge because there was no tool that could help in XHR programming and unit integration validations in an efficient way until Cypress arrived. Cypress started releasing versions in 2015 and became popular in 2018 with version 2. 0. 0. This book explores Cypress scripts that help implement ‘shift left testing’ which is a dream come true for many software testers. Shift left occurs in the majority of testing projects but could not be implemented fully because tools were unavailable and knowledge was lacking about the possibilities of testing early in the life cycle. Shift left is a key testing strategy to help testing teams focus less on defect identifications and more on developing practices to prevent defects. Cypress scripts can help front-end developers and quality engineers to work together to find defects soon after web components are built. These components can be tested immediately after they are built with Cypress Test Driven Development (TDD) scripts. Thus defects can be fixed straight away during the development stage. Testing teams do not have to worry about finding these same defects in a later development stage because Cypress tests keep verifying components in the later stages. Defect fixing has become much cheaper with Cypress than when other tools are used. The book also covers Behaviour Driven Development (BDD)-based Gherkin scripts and the Cypress Cucumber preprocessor which can improve test scenario coverage. Automated Software Testing with Cypress is written to fulfil the BDD and TDD needs of testing teams. Two distinct open source repositories are provided in Github to help start running Cypress tests in no time!

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Private Rented Housing in the United States and Europe

Private Rented Housing in the United States and Europe

Originally published in 1985 this book analyses the development of private rented housing in Britain France the former West Germany the Netherlands and the USA. The book shows that the changing fortunes of the private rented sector are seen in some measure to be connected with the social economic and political conditions which surrounded the rapid industrialisation and urbanisation of the 19th Century. | Private Rented Housing in the United States and Europe

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Private Security and the Modern State Historical and Comparative Perspectives

Private Security and the Modern State Historical and Comparative Perspectives

Based on extensive research in several international contexts this volume provides a nuanced assessment of the historical evolution of private security and its fluid contested and mutually constitutive relationship with state agencies public policing and the criminal justice system. This book provides an overview of the history of private security provision in its multiple forms including detective agencies insurance companies moral campaigners employers’ associations paramilitary organizations self-protection and vigilantism. It also explores the historical evolution of private policing and security provision in a diverse set of temporal national and international contexts and compares the interactions between public and private security bodies structures strategies and practices in different countries cultures and settings. In doing so the volume fills the existing gaps in historical knowledge about the emergence of private and public security organizations and provides a more robust understanding of changes in the division of responsibility for security provision law enforcement and punishment between public and private institutions. This wide-ranging volume will be of great interest to scholars and students of history criminology sociology political science international relations security studies surveillance studies policing criminal justice and law. | Private Security and the Modern State Historical and Comparative Perspectives

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The Introduction to Private Cloud using Oracle Exadata and Oracle Database

The Introduction to Private Cloud using Oracle Exadata and Oracle Database

Private clouds allow for managing multiple databases under one roof avoiding unnecessary resource management. Private cloud solutions can be applied in sectors such as healthcare retail and software. The Introduction to Private Cloud using Oracle Exadata and Oracle Database will explore the general architecture of private cloud databases with a focus on Oracle’s Exadata database machine. The book describes the private cloud using fundamental-level Exadata and database. Exadata has been Oracle’s pioneer product for almost a decade. In the last few years Oracle has positioned Exadata for customers to consume as a cloud service. This book will provide a timely introduction to Exadata for current and potential Oracle customers and other IT professionals.

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A History of Private Bill Legislation (2 Volume Set)

A History of Private Bill Legislation (2 Volume Set)

This is Volume II of two of a history of the private bill legislation originally published in 1887. Meant by the author as serving as a Jubilee record of the Queen Victoria’s reign it covers the topics of highways the water supply of London from the seventeenth century local authorities before and after the Conquest corporation of the City of London Marine life and fire insurance the Docks on the Thames Fees on private bills and preliminary inquiries and public legislation. | A History of Private Bill Legislation (2 Volume Set)

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Doing Public Good? Private Actors Evaluation and Public Value

Doing Public Good? Private Actors Evaluation and Public Value

This book examines the contributions of non-public organizations such as foundations philanthropies charities non-governmental organizations private businesses and entrepreneurs to public goods and services. Too often the impact of the contributions of such private actors are overlooked. However they are playing an increasing role in meeting societal needs across the developing world. Doing Public Good? lays out key elements that need to be considered in evaluating the net results achieved by these private actors. It uses case studies and analysis to show how to answer such questions as: Is it working? How do they and the public know they are doing good? And how to improve? Such questions are particularly important since little is known about the net results of private avenues for delivering public value. The contributors conclude that doing good organizations need to be more transparent and accountable regarding their operations and achievements. The book suggests perspectives on how better monitoring and evaluation systems can improve their accountability. | Doing Public Good? Private Actors Evaluation and Public Value

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Regulating Private Military Companies Conflicts of Law History and Governance

Regulating Private Military Companies Conflicts of Law History and Governance

This work examines the ability of existing and evolving PMC regulation to adequately control private force and it challenges the capacity of international law to deliver accountability in the event of private military company (PMC) misconduct. From medieval to early modern history private soldiers dominated the military realm and were fundamental to the waging of wars until the rise of a national citizen army. Today PMCs are again a significant force performing various security logistics and strategy functions across the world. Unlike mercenaries or any other form of irregular force PMCs acquired a corporate legal personality a legitimising status that alters the governance model of today. Drawing on historical examples of different forms of governance the relationship between neoliberal states and private military companies is conceptualised here as a form of a ‘shared governance'. It reflects states’ reliance on PMCs relinquishing a degree of their power and transferring certain functions to the private sector. As non-state actors grow in authority wielding power and making claims to legitimacy through self-regulation other sources of law also become imaginable and relevant to enact regulation and invoke responsibility. | Regulating Private Military Companies Conflicts of Law History and Governance

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A Director's Guide to Governance in the Boardroom Across the Private Public and Voluntary Sectors

A Director's Guide to Governance in the Boardroom Across the Private Public and Voluntary Sectors

This book is a practical guide for executive and non-executive directors and aspiring directors to lead govern and steer UK-based organisations to long-term sustainable success. In today’s turbulent environment corporate governance is increasingly scrutinised and this book will consider how directors can ‘bring the future forward’ with respect to responsible and ethical governance and leadership against the challenging political environmental and economic backdrop. While other books discuss UK corporate governance this one uniquely demonstrates how the work of directors can build an organisation’s antifragility and offers a view of stewardship approaches to every sector and type of UK organisation from large premium listed companies to start-ups the public sector not-for-profits partnerships and family-owned and private-equity-backed organisations. Aspiring and experienced directors will each benefit from this book as well as those who provide board evaluation services professional advisers auditors and those who provide training and other support for board members. | A Director's Guide to Governance in the Boardroom Across the Private Public and Voluntary Sectors

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Thermal-Aware Testing of Digital VLSI Circuits and Systems

Thermal-Aware Testing of Digital VLSI Circuits and Systems

This book aims to highlight the research activities in the domain of thermal-aware testing. Thermal-aware testing can be employed both at circuit level and at system levelDescribes range of algorithms for addressing thermal-aware test issue presents comparison of temperature reduction with power-aware techniques and include results on benchmark circuits and systems for different techniquesThis book will be suitable for researchers working on power- and thermal-aware design and the testing of digital VLSI chips | Thermal-Aware Testing of Digital VLSI Circuits and Systems

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Assessment and Testing An Introduction

Assessment and Testing An Introduction

Originally published in 1972 there were many ‘classics’ dealing with assessment and testing on the market at the time but most of these left the inexperienced reader bewildered in the early stages because of their size and insufficient explanation of the many technical terms used. There were a distinct lack of books which gave students in Colleges of Education dealing with psychology for the first time a simple explanation of basic terms in assessment and testing and which introduced them briefly to the different types of tests available. Assessment and Testing aimed to fill this large gap. It looks at such key psychological terms as ‘sample’ ‘objectivity’ ‘subjectivity’ and such basic statistical terms such as ‘mean’ ‘standard deviation’ and ‘normal curve of distribution’. Because it assumes that the reader has no knowledge of such terms it gives careful and simply illustrated explanations of each. In the same way in simple language with any technical terms explained and illustrated it explains intelligence and personality tests questionnaires sociometric measures projection techniques and other areas of assessment and testing which every practising teacher will meet. The book aims to be essentially practical. It is appreciated all the time that the readers are those who will teach children. It is designed to provide a solid foundation upon which the reader can build later to augment his own experience of identifying children’s particular needs. | Assessment and Testing An Introduction

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Unequal By Design High-Stakes Testing and the Standardization of Inequality

Unequal By Design High-Stakes Testing and the Standardization of Inequality

This new edition of Unequal By Design: High-Stakes Testing and the Standardization of Inequality critically examines the deep and enduring problems within systems of education in the U. S. in order to illuminate what is really at stake for students teachers and communities negatively affected by such testing. Updates to the new edition include new chapters that focus on: the role of schools and standardized testing in reproducing social cultural and economic inequalities; the way high-stakes testing is used to advance neoliberal market-based educational schemes that ultimately concentrate wealth and power among elites; how standardized testing became the dominant tool within our educational systems; the numerous technical and ideological problems with using standardized tests to evaluate students teachers and schools; the role that high-stakes testing plays in the maintenance of white supremacy; and how school communities have resisted high-stakes testing and used better assessments of student learning. Parents teachers university students and scholars will find Unequal By Design useful for gaining a broad critical understanding of the issues surrounding our over-reliance on high-stakes standardized testing in the U. S. through up-to-date research on testing historical and contemporary examples of the struggles over such tests and information about how testing has fostered the privatization of public education in the U. S. | Unequal By Design High-Stakes Testing and the Standardization of Inequality

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Business Basics for Private Practice A Guide for Mental Health Professionals

Business Basics for Private Practice A Guide for Mental Health Professionals

Business Basics for Private Practice is a step-by-step guide to developing a successful practice from initial conceptualization and business plan to future growth for the true entrepreneur. Dr. Bartolucci draws from interviews with fellow mental health practitioners and experts in business-related fields to make even the most intimidating parts of practice easy to understand. Business Basics is written to give the feel of mentorship and the author talks about lessons learned the hard way. She’s also included checklists and worksheets to help you stay organized and ready to meet the challenges of opening a private practice. | Business Basics for Private Practice A Guide for Mental Health Professionals

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Multiple Testing Problems in Pharmaceutical Statistics

Multiple Testing Problems in Pharmaceutical Statistics

Useful Statistical Approaches for Addressing Multiplicity IssuesIncludes practical examples from recent trials Bringing together leading statisticians scientists and clinicians from the pharmaceutical industry academia and regulatory agencies Multiple Testing Problems in Pharmaceutical Statistics explores the rapidly growing area of multiple comparison research with an emphasis on pharmaceutical applications. In each chapter the expert contributors describe important multiplicity problems encountered in pre-clinical and clinical trial settings. The book begins with a broad introduction from a regulatory perspective to different types of multiplicity problems that commonly arise in confirmatory controlled clinical trials before giving an overview of the concepts principles and procedures of multiple testing. It then presents statistical methods for analyzing clinical dose response studies that compare several dose levels with a control as well as statistical methods for analyzing multiple endpoints in clinical trials. After covering gatekeeping procedures for testing hierarchically ordered hypotheses the book discusses statistical approaches for the design and analysis of adaptive designs and related confirmatory hypothesis testing problems. The final chapter focuses on the design of pharmacogenomic studies based on established statistical principles. It also describes the analysis of data collected in these studies taking into account the numerous multiplicity issues that occur. This volume explains how to solve critical issues in multiple testing encountered in pre-clinical and clinical trial applications. It presents the necessary statistical methodology along with examples and software code to show how to use the methods in practice.

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IET Wiring Regulations: Inspection Testing and Certification

IET Wiring Regulations: Inspection Testing and Certification

This popular guide clarifies the requirements for inspection and testing explaining in clear language those parts of the IET Wiring Regulations that most need simplifying. In addition to the descriptive and diagrammatic test methods that are required explanations of the theory and reasoning behind test procedures are given together with useful tables for the comparison of test results. The book also provides essential information on the completion of electrical installation certificates with a step-by-step guide on the entries that need to be made and where to source data. With the content suitable for both City & Guilds and EAL Inspection and Testing courses and containing a sample MCQ paper and answers it is also an ideal revision guide. Fully up to date with the latest amendments to the 18th Edition of the IET Wiring Regulations. Simplifies the advice found in the Wiring Regulations explaining how they apply to working practice for inspection testing and certification. Expert advice from an engineering training consultant supported with colour diagrams examples and key data. | IET Wiring Regulations: Inspection Testing and Certification

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Public and Private Welfare in Modern Europe Productive Entanglements

Public and Private Welfare in Modern Europe Productive Entanglements

Since the 1980s neoliberals have openly contested the idea that the state should protect the socio-economic well-being of its citizens making ‘privatization’ their mantra. Yet as historians and social scientists have shown welfare has always been a ‘mixed economy’ wherein private and public actors dynamically interacted collaborating or competing with each other in the provision of welfare services. This book will be of interest to students scholars and practitioners of welfare by developing three innovative approaches. Firstly it illuminates the productive nature of public/private entanglements. Far from amounting to a zero-sum game the interactions between the two sectors have changed over time what welfare encompasses its contents and targets often engendering the creation of new fields of intervention. Secondly this book departs from a well-established tradition of comparison between Western nation-states by using and mixing various scales of analysis (local national international and global) and by covering case studies from Spain to Poland and France to Greece in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Thirdly this book goes beyond state centrism in welfare studies by bringing back a host of public and private actors from municipalities to international organizations from older charities to modern NGOs. The Open Access version of this book available at www. taylorfrancis. com has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4. 0 license. | Public and Private Welfare in Modern Europe Productive Entanglements

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