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Did you ever have a conversation with someone that so intrigued you
that when you walked away you longed to know more? .The kind of
stimulating conversation that in the ensuing days your mind
exploded with deeper thoughts and questions? .Where there was a
divine bond that you knew God was up to something big? What began
as a casual lunch between two women resulted in a divine invitation
from God. God gave Kyle Roberts and Beverly Plimpton the ultimate
invitation to fulfill His call on their lives. The invitation to:
.a friendship orchestrated by a sovereign God .the deeper life in
Christ .lock arms to disciple and spiritually direct others .follow
God's call to teach women how to disciple and spiritually direct
others onto maturity in Christ We invite you to accept God's
invitation to more! You're personally invited to live out your
divine calling to depth, dignity, and delight in Christ.
This book consists of eight chapters, authored by distinguished
researchers and practitioners, that highlight the state of the art
and recent trends in addressing the project portfolio selection and
scheduling problem (PPSSP) across a variety of domains,
particularly defense, social programs, supply chains, and finance.
Many organizations face the challenge of selecting and scheduling a
subset of available projects subject to various resource and
operational constraints. In the simplest scenario, the primary
objective for an organization is to maximize the value added
through funding and implementing a portfolio of projects, subject
to the available budget. However, there are other major
difficulties that are often associated with this problem such as
qualitative project benefits, multiple conflicting objectives,
complex project interdependencies, workforce and manufacturing
constraints, and deep uncertainty regarding project costs,
benefits, and completion times. It is well known that the PPSSP is
an NP-hard problem and, thus, there is no known polynomial-time
algorithm for this problem. Despite the complexity associated with
solving the PPSSP, many traditional approaches to this problem make
use of exact solvers. While exact solvers provide definitive
optimal solutions, they quickly become prohibitively expensive in
terms of computation time when the problem size is increased. In
contrast, evolutionary and memetic computing afford the capability
for autonomous heuristic approaches and expert knowledge to be
combined and thereby provide an efficient means for high-quality
approximation solutions to be attained. As such, these approaches
can provide near real-time decision support information for
portfolio design that can be used to augment and improve existing
human-centric strategic decision-making processes. This edited book
provides the reader with a broad overview of the PPSSP, its
associated challenges, and approaches to addressing the problem
using evolutionary and memetic computing.
This new handbook is the definitive resource on advanced topics
related to multilevel analysis. The editors assembled the top minds
in the field to address the latest applications of multilevel
modeling as well as the specific difficulties and methodological
problems that are becoming more common as more complicated models
are developed. Each chapter features examples that use actual
datasets. These datasets, as well as the code to run the models,
are available on the book's website http: //www.hlm-online.com .
Each chapter includes an introduction that sets the stage for the
material to come and a conclusion. Divided into five sections, the
first provides a broad introduction to the field that serves as a
framework for understanding the latter chapters. Part 2 focuses on
multilevel latent variable modeling including item response theory
and mixture modeling. Section 3 addresses models used for
longitudinal data including growth curve and structural equation
modeling. Special estimation problems are examined in section 4
including the difficulties involved in estimating survival
analysis, Bayesian estimation, bootstrapping, multiple imputation,
and complicated models, including generalized linear models,
optimal design in multilevel models, and more. The book's
concluding section focuses on statistical design issues encountered
when doing multilevel modeling including nested designs, analyzing
cross-classified models, and dyadic data analysis. Intended for
methodologists, statisticians, and researchers in a variety of
fields including psychology, education, and the social and health
sciences, this handbook also serves as an excellent text for
graduate and PhD level courses in multilevel modeling. A basic
knowledge of multilevel modeling is assumed.
This book consists of eight chapters, authored by distinguished
researchers and practitioners, that highlight the state of the art
and recent trends in addressing the project portfolio selection and
scheduling problem (PPSSP) across a variety of domains,
particularly defense, social programs, supply chains, and finance.
Many organizations face the challenge of selecting and scheduling a
subset of available projects subject to various resource and
operational constraints. In the simplest scenario, the primary
objective for an organization is to maximize the value added
through funding and implementing a portfolio of projects, subject
to the available budget. However, there are other major
difficulties that are often associated with this problem such as
qualitative project benefits, multiple conflicting objectives,
complex project interdependencies, workforce and manufacturing
constraints, and deep uncertainty regarding project costs,
benefits, and completion times. It is well known that the PPSSP is
an NP-hard problem and, thus, there is no known polynomial-time
algorithm for this problem. Despite the complexity associated with
solving the PPSSP, many traditional approaches to this problem make
use of exact solvers. While exact solvers provide definitive
optimal solutions, they quickly become prohibitively expensive in
terms of computation time when the problem size is increased. In
contrast, evolutionary and memetic computing afford the capability
for autonomous heuristic approaches and expert knowledge to be
combined and thereby provide an efficient means for high-quality
approximation solutions to be attained. As such, these approaches
can provide near real-time decision support information for
portfolio design that can be used to augment and improve existing
human-centric strategic decision-making processes. This edited book
provides the reader with a broad overview of the PPSSP, its
associated challenges, and approaches to addressing the problem
using evolutionary and memetic computing.
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Matthew (Paperback)
Jeannine K. Brown, Kyle Roberts
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In this latest addition to the Two Horizons New Testament
Commentary series, biblical scholar Jeannine Brown and theologian
Kyle Roberts together illuminate the Gospel of Matthew for pastors,
scholars, and serious students of Scripture. Including an original
translation of the text along with section-by-section commentary,
this volume features chapters on "thinking theologically with
Matthew" about such themes as kingdom, Christology, the Holy
Spirit, and discipleship. Brown and Roberts also offer constructive
theological engagement with a number of contemporary viewpoints,
including feminist, global, political, and ethical (post-Holocaust)
perspectives. At once interdisciplinary and insightful, their
commentary will appeal to a wide readership.
Did you ever have a conversation with someone that so intrigued you
that when you walked away you longed to know more? .The kind of
stimulating conversation that in the ensuing days your mind
exploded with deeper thoughts and questions? .Where there was a
divine bond that you knew God was up to something big? What began
as a casual lunch between two women resulted in a divine invitation
from God. God gave Kyle Roberts and Beverly Plimpton the ultimate
invitation to fulfill His call on their lives. The invitation to:
.a friendship orchestrated by a sovereign God .the deeper life in
Christ .lock arms to disciple and spiritually direct others .follow
God's call to teach women how to disciple and spiritually direct
others onto maturity in Christ We invite you to accept God's
invitation to more! You're personally invited to live out your
divine calling to depth, dignity, and delight in Christ.
The purpose of this book is to be a practical and biblical guide to
help women learn the following: The goal of discipleship Biblical
examples of discipleship Biblical traits of a discipler
Requirements of the discipler and the disciple How to get to know
the disciple How to set expectations and limits for healthy
relationships How to encourage and pray for the disciple How to
listen prayerfully How to be a good steward of your time, health,
and resources How to know when you are finished Practical tools to
disciple another Our prayer is that individuals invest in
discipling a younger believer in the faith in one-on-one
relationships. The Bible has called us to come alongside others and
help them grow in the faith and in their personal walk and intimacy
with the Lord Jesus Christ. We have written Two, Please to help
women learn how to disciple young believers to maturity in the
faith and help disciples receive Christ's invitation to the truly
joy-filled, abundant life. Sadly, joy and the abundant life are all
too often missing in the busy 21st-century Christian. The biblical
command to make disciples is waning in our individual lives. What
is at stake if we do nothing differently?
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