Download or read book Optimal Outcomes written by Jennifer Goldman-Wetzler and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2020-02-25 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An award-winning conflict consultant offers a new path to take when agreement and collaboration seem impossible, and teaches us that when conflict resolution fails, we can achieve freedom instead—even without others’ cooperation. A founding CEO and his top salesperson are engaged in a heated clash over her compensation package. A mother and daughter are locked in a nasty cycle of blame and attack. A high-profile executive team is struggling with aggressive political infighting. In all these cases, every effort to talk it out has been unsuccessful. Where can you turn when your attempts to resolve conflict fail? Most approaches emphasize collaboration. You are supposed to sit down, calmly talk through your differences, and find a solution. But what if nothing seems to work, no matter what you do? When situations resist resolution, the Optimal Outcomes Method teaches us conflict freedom. This innovative method, based on Dr. Jennifer Goldman-Wetzler’s training at the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School, two decades as a consultant to Fortune 500 and high-growth CEOs and senior teams, grassroots work with Middle East leaders, US government-funded research on terrorism, and her popular course at Columbia University,Optimal Outcomesreveals eight groundbreaking practices proven to help people everywhere free themselves from conflict. With inspiring stories from clients, students, and Dr. Goldman-Wetzler’s own life lighting the way, you’ll learn to observe complex situations with clarity, access your shadow values (things you really care about but have been unwilling to admit), and take bold, simple, surprising action. Optimal Outcomes blends mindfulness, Jungianpsychology, and practical, step-by-step advice to free anyone from seemingly impossible conflict. Applying the practices, you’ll reach your Optimal Outcome—which may be vastly different from what you originally imagined, but more satisfying than you ever dreamed possible.

Download or read book Optimal Tax Administration written by Mr.Michael Keen and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2017-01-20 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper sets out a framework for analyzing optimal interventions by a tax administration, one that parallels and can be closely integrated with established frameworks for thinking about optimal tax policy. Its key contribution is the development of a summary measure of the impact of administrative interventions—the “enforcement elasticity of tax revenue”—that is a sufficient statistic for the behavioral response to such interventions, much as the elasticity of taxable income serves as a sufficient statistic for the response to tax rates. Amongst the applications are characterizations of the optimal balance between policy and administrative measures, and of the optimal compliance gap.

Download or read book Optimal Living 360 written by Sanjay Jain and published by Greenleaf Book Group. This book was released on 2014-02-03 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A program for making the most out of the present and future. The biggest challenge is figuring out how to make decisions that improve your overall quality of life. Dr. Sanjay Jain introduces Integrative Decision Making, an approach that focuses on the big picture and teaches you how to make decisions to receive the highest return on investment in life.

Download or read book Optimal Control Theory written by Suresh P. Sethi and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-11-28 with total page 577 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fully revised 3rd edition offers an introduction to optimal control theory and its diverse applications in management science and economics. It brings to students the concept of the maximum principle in continuous, as well as discrete, time by using dynamic programming and Kuhn-Tucker theory. While some mathematical background is needed, the emphasis of the book is not on mathematical rigor, but on modeling realistic situations faced in business and economics. The book exploits optimal control theory to the functional areas of management including finance, production and marketing and to economics of growth and of natural resources. In addition, this new edition features materials on stochastic Nash and Stackelberg differential games and an adverse selection model in the principal-agent framework. The book provides exercises for each chapter and answers to selected exercises to help deepen the understanding of the material presented. Also included are appendices comprised of supplementary material on the solution of differential equations, the calculus of variations and its relationships to the maximum principle, and special topics including the Kalman filter, certainty equivalence, singular control, a global saddle point theorem, Sethi-Skiba points, and distributed parameter systems. Optimal control methods are used to determine optimal ways to control a dynamic system. The theoretical work in this field serves as a foundation for the book, which the author has applied to business management problems developed from his research and classroom instruction. The new edition has been completely refined and brought up to date. Ultimately this should continue to be a valuable resource for graduate courses on applied optimal control theory, but also for financial and industrial engineers, economists, and operational researchers concerned with the application of dynamic optimization in their fields.

Download or read book Optimal Learning written by Warren B. Powell and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-07-09 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn the science of collecting information to make effective decisions Everyday decisions are made without the benefit of accurate information. Optimal Learning develops the needed principles for gathering information to make decisions, especially when collecting information is time-consuming and expensive. Designed for readers with an elementary background in probability and statistics, the book presents effective and practical policies illustrated in a wide range of applications, from energy, homeland security, and transportation to engineering, health, and business. This book covers the fundamental dimensions of a learning problem and presents a simple method for testing and comparing policies for learning. Special attention is given to the knowledge gradient policy and its use with a wide range of belief models, including lookup table and parametric and for online and offline problems. Three sections develop ideas with increasing levels of sophistication: Fundamentals explores fundamental topics, including adaptive learning, ranking and selection, the knowledge gradient, and bandit problems Extensions and Applications features coverage of linear belief models, subset selection models, scalar function optimization, optimal bidding, and stopping problems Advanced Topics explores complex methods including simulation optimization, active learning in mathematical programming, and optimal continuous measurements Each chapter identifies a specific learning problem, presents the related, practical algorithms for implementation, and concludes with numerous exercises. A related website features additional applications and downloadable software, including MATLAB and the Optimal Learning Calculator, a spreadsheet-based package that provides an introduction to learning and a variety of policies for learning.

Download or read book Optimal Audio and Video Reproduction at Home written by Vincent Verdult and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-04-09 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Optimal Audio and Video Reproduction at Home is a comprehensive guide that will help every reader set up a modern audio-video system in a small room such as a home theater or studio control room. Verdult covers everything the reader needs to know to optimize the reproduction of multichannel audio and high-resolution video. The book provides concrete advice on equipment setup, display calibration, loudspeaker positioning, room acoustics, and much more. Detailed, easy-to-grasp explanations of the underlying principles ensure the reader will make the right choices, find alternatives, and separate the rigid from the more flexible requirements to achieve the best possible results.

Download or read book Optimal written by J.M. Berger and published by J.M. Berger. This book was released on 2020-08-25 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A sharp, gripping story of a bleak future." — Kirkus Reviews The Algorithm Wars have ended, and the world has been optimized. Thanks to the System, everything that happens is recorded, liked, commented, shared and analyzed at scale in order to produce nonstop and ever-improving recommendations about what kind of job you should have, what kind of food you might enjoy, what kind of music you might like, what kind of exercise you need, and what kind of person you might want to sleep with. It is a world of total information and total freedom… although things tend to go more smoothly when you follow the System’s recommendations. In this hyper-networked society, Stanton Lime did the one thing that should have been impossible: He disappeared. Now the System has inexplicably selected Jack, a perfectly ordinary citizen, to find out why. From author J.M. Berger, an expert on the toxic real-world effects of a globally networked society, comes a unique dystopian vision of a total information society built by Silicon Valley, where today’s trends have become tomorrow’s reality.

Download or read book Applied Optimal Control written by A. E. Bryson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-05-04 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This best-selling text focuses on the analysis and design of complicated dynamics systems. CHOICE called it ""a high-level, concise book that could well be used as a reference by engineers, applied mathematicians, and undergraduates. The format is good, the presentation clear, the diagrams instructive, the examples and problems helpful...References and a multiple-choice examination are included.

Download or read book Optimal Thinking written by Rosalene Glickman and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2002-12-25 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The quantum leap beyond positive thinking, Optimal Thinking offers a whole new way of looking at life, business, and relationships. This prescriptive self-improvement book is filled with superlative information for every type of reader."

Download or read book Optimal Energy Management Strategies for Reconfigurable Batteries written by Nejmeddine Bouchhima and published by Cuvillier Verlag. This book was released on 2021-05-10 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lithium-Ionen-Batterien werden aufgrund ihrer hohen Energie- und Leistungsdichte häufig in Elektrofahrzeugen und stationären Speichersystemen eingesetzt. Allerdings müssen die Batteriezellen aufgrund der Kapazitätsstreuung ausgeglichen werden. Die Einzelzellschalter Topologie, die die Aktivierung und Deaktivierung jeder Batteriezelle basierend auf ihrem aktuellen Zustand ermöglicht, gilt als vielversprechende Lösung, um die Inhomogenität der Batteriezellen zu überwinden. Ziel dieser Arbeit ist die Entwicklung von optimalen Energiemanagement-Strategien für die Einzelzellschalter Batterie, um die Energieeffizienz des Systems zu maximieren. Für die Berechnung des globalen Optimums wird ein Optimierungsalgorithmus, basierend auf der dynamischen Programmierung Methode, entwickelt. Diese Strategie ist eine nicht-kausale Strategie, da die Batterieleistungsanforderungen über den Optimierungshorizont für die Strategie bekannt sein müssen. In einer Simulationsumgebung werden diese Informationen eines vorgegebenen Fahrprofils entnommen. Als nächster Schritt werden zwei statische Optimierungsprobleme von dem dynamischen Optimierungsproblem abgeleitet, damit die Entwicklung von kausalen Energiemanagement-Strategien ermöglicht werden kann. Diese Strategien berechnen ein lokales Optimum, da sie keine Informationen über den gesamten Fahrzyklus verwenden.

Download or read book Health Illness and Optimal Aging written by Carolyn M. Aldwin, PhD and published by Springer Publishing Company. This book was released on 2017-10-28 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Health, Illness, and Optimal Aging: Biological and Psychosocial Perspectives, Third Edition shows the continuity and advancements in our understanding of human life-span development... It offers a solid foundation for exploring the art and science of successful aging.- Robert M. Kaplan, Stanford University

Download or read book Computer Aided Methods in Optimal Design and Operations written by Ian David Lockhart Bogle and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2006 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book covers different topics on optimal design and operations with particular emphasis on chemical engineering applications. A wide range of optimization methods OCo deterministic, stochastic, global and hybrid OCo are considered. Containing papers presented at the bilateral workshop by British and Lithuanian scientists, the book brings together researchers'' contributions from different fields OCo chemical engineering including reaction and separation processes, food and biological production, as well as business cycle optimization, bankruptcy, protein analysis and bioinformatics. Sample Chapter(s). Chapter 1: Hybrid Methods for Optimisation (520 KB). Contents: Hybrid Methods for Optimisation (E S Fraga); An MILP Model for Multi-Class Data Classification (G Xu & L G Papageorgiou); Studying the Rate of Convergence of the Steepest Descent Optimisation Algorithm with Relaxation (R J Haycroft); Optimal Estimation of Parameters in Market Research Models (V Savani); A Redundancy Detection Approach to Mining Bioinformatics Data (H Camacho & A Salhi); Optimal Open-Loop Recipe Generation for Particle Size Distribution Control in Semi-Batch Emulsion Polymerisation (N Bianco & C D Immanuel); Multidimensional Scaling Using Parallel Genetic Algorithm (A Varoneckas et al.); Evaluating the Applicability of Time Temperature Integrators as Process Exploration and Validation Tools (S Bakalis et al.); Optimal Deflection Yoke Tuning (V Vaitkus et al.); and other papers. Readership: Academics, researchers, practitioners and postgraduates students in operations research and engineering."

Download or read book Optimal Design and Efficiency Improvement of Fluid Machinery and Systems written by Ramesh K. Agarwal and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2023-07-19 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book How to Live an Optimal Life written by Anthony Ekanem and published by Anthony Ekanem. This book was released on 2016-06-30 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many people speak about their problems in life. In fact, this is one of the hottest topics of conversations. It doesn't really matter where you meet someone, all it takes is a friendly smile to start pouring out your life's woes to them. Everyone does the same. The result is that no one really knows how happy one is. Since everyone is talking about their miseries, it does seem that no one around is leading an optimal life. This is where the problem lies. We think that the term 'optimal life' should have a definition. We think that we should be able to peg down someone's life entirely and say, "Ah, now his is an optimal life!" But it doesn't happen that way. You might think that someone with a lot of money or someone with a beautiful wife must have an optimal life. But when you get to know them better, you begin to see the problems that lie behind the exterior façade of theirs and you realize that their life is not what you thought it to be. There's a great saying that "If everyone were to throw their problems in a pile, and see everyone else's, they would grab their own right back". This is true. We think the neighbours are always happier than we are. We think they are leading a more optimal life than we are. But if we were really to sit down and make comparisons, quite likely, we would find our problems to be the least. So, where are we heading with this? The point here is that our lives are only as optimal as we want them to be. We have it entirely in our hands how beautiful we want to make our lives. If we want to sit and brood that life is toying with us in every way possible, it is. But if we plan to take things in our hands and not let life jerk us around, it won't. We have to plan just how much control we want to give our lives. An optimal life is a very individualistic thing. For us, an optimal life would be one in which we are completely contented and satisfied with whatever we have.

Download or read book Optimal Modified Continuous Galerkin CFD written by A. J. Baker and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2014-03-10 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covers the theory and applications of using weak form theory in incompressible fluid-thermal sciences Giving you a solid foundation on the Galerkin finite-element method (FEM), this book promotes the use of optimal modified continuous Galerkin weak form theory to generate discrete approximate solutions to incompressible-thermal Navier-Stokes equations. The book covers the topic comprehensively by introducing formulations, theory and implementation of FEM and various flow formulations. The author first introduces concepts, terminology and methodology related to the topic before covering topics including aerodynamics; the Navier-Stokes Equations; vector field theory implementations and large eddy simulation formulations. Introduces and addresses many different flow models (Navier-Stokes, full-potential, potential, compressible/incompressible) from a unified perspective Focuses on Galerkin methods for CFD beneficial for engineering graduate students and engineering professionals Accompanied by a website with sample applications of the algorithms and example problems and solutions This approach is useful for graduate students in various engineering fields and as well as professional engineers.

Download or read book Optimal and Adaptive Signal Processing written by Peter M. Clarkson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-11-01 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Optimal and Adaptive Signal Processing covers the theory of optimal and adaptive signal processing using examples and computer simulations drawn from a wide range of applications, including speech and audio, communications, reflection seismology and sonar systems. The material is presented without a heavy reliance on mathematics and focuses on one-dimensional and array processing results, as well as a wide range of adaptive filter algorithms and implementations. Topics discussed include random signals and optimal processing, adaptive signal processing with the LMS algorithm, applications of adaptive filtering, algorithms and structures for adaptive filtering, spectral analysis, and array signal processing. Optimal and Adaptive Signal Processing is a valuable guide for scientists and engineers, as well as an excellent text for senior undergraduate/graduate level students in electrical engineering.

Download or read book The Economics of Optimal Growth Pathways written by S. Niggol Seo and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-02-25 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every society aspires to be prosperous. It also endeavors to minimize the side effects of economic growth. This book entitled The Economics of Optimal Growth Pathways addresses numerous trade-offs faced by society to achieve prosperity and explores the best possible growth pathways. The theories explored in this book serve as a springboard to better understand key challenges and aspects of the economy, including food security, land use, forest and resource management, capital markets and interest rates, oil and gas extraction, fish and marine resources, saving and investment, and climate change. This book elucidates the concept of optimal economic growth pathways while addressing the challenges faced in natural resources and life on the planet. It will be relevant to students and researchers interested in resource and environmental economics.