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Develop and manage effective real-time streaming solutions by leveraging the power of Microsoft AzureAbout This Book* Analyze your data from various sources using Microsoft Azure Stream Analytics* Develop, manage and automate your stream analytics solution with Microsoft Azure* A practical guide to real-time event processing and performing analytics on the cloudWho This Book Is ForIf you are looking for a resource that teaches you how to process continuous streams of data in real-time, this book is what you need. A basic understanding of the concepts in analytics is all you need to get started with this bookWhat You Will Learn* Perform real-time event processing with Azure Stream Analysis* Incorporate the features of Big Data Lambda architecture pattern in real-time data processing* Design a streaming pipeline for storage and batch analysis* Implement data transformation and computation activities over stream of events* Automate your streaming pipeline using Powershell and the .NET SDK* Integrate your streaming pipeline with popular Machine Learning and Predictive Analytics modelling algorithms* Monitor and troubleshoot your Azure Streaming jobs effectivelyIn DetailMicrosoft Azure is a very popular cloud computing service used by many organizations around the world. Its latest analytics offering, Stream Analytics, allows you to process and get actionable insights from different kinds of data in real-time.This book is your guide to understanding the basics of how Azure Stream Analytics works, and building your own analytics solution using its capabilities. You will start with understanding what Stream Analytics is, and why it is a popular choice for getting real-time insights from data. Then, you will be introduced to Azure Stream Analytics, and see how you can use the tools and functions in Azure to develop your own Streaming Analytics. Over the course of the book, you will be given comparative analytic guidance on using Azure Streaming with other Microsoft Data Platform resources such as Big Data Lambda Architecture integration for real time data analysis and differences of scenarios for architecture designing with Azure HDInsight Hadoop clusters with Storm or Stream Analytics. The book also shows you how you can manage, monitor, and scale your solution for optimal performance.By the end of this book, you will be well-versed in using Azure Stream Analytics to develop an efficient analytics solution that can work with any type of data.Style and approachA comprehensive guidance on developing real-time event processing with Azure Stream Analysis

Royal Flush Peter Russo escaped the full-scale onslaught launched by the Gambini Family, and is hiding out on the outskirts of Devas, hatching the best plan of counterattack his genius mind could offer. The Don of the Gambini crime family, having been defied once by the wily Russo Don, is hell bent on squishing this young foe at all costs, even if it means forging alliances with old enemies. Peter''s counter offensive offers a royal flush victory encased in a bloody web of violence, new alliances and fresh blood vendettas '''' A superb piece of crime fiction.... Through it all, Murphy keeps the heat on and keeps the reader rooting for the antihero in an entertaining style...'' ''- Dankreads blog '''' Well written, Murphy brings the same intimacy and charm to ''Royal Flush'' as he did with ''Russo''s Gambit'''' - Redersk Ekspress '''' Compelling, tense, and entertaining, Murphy''s masterful storytelling has all the hallmarks of a perpetual page turner for the new generation of readers.'''' - Writing Guild.

A student-written guide to Drexel University that provides statistics, facts, and opinions on academics, local atmosphere, campus dining and housing, diversity, athletics, nightlife, Greek life, student organizations, and other topics, and includes a summary of the top ten best and worst things about life on campus.

Two very different girls find out that their parents are engaged.

This book is the accumulation of over 4 years of my trial and error with online marketing.It is not an instruction manual, it is a guide, a manual in the loose sense of something to help you make educated choices, rather than babysitting you through them all.Nothing can give you all the answers, online marketing is too big a subject.What I can do is help you get through the initial learning process, and without making the mistakes I made.Yes, I do want to make money from you. I will not say the same stupid thing the online marketing gurus say, that I don''t need your money and I''m only charging to make sure you are serious because the knowledge is so powerful I can''t just give it away.BS, I know stuff you want to know, I''ve made mistakes and lived and learned and you want to keep from making those mistakes. I wrote and am selling this book to help you while making money.I may not have as good a sales pitch as those guys, but I am honest. I will always shoot straight with you, and not blow sunshine up your backside to make you feel good.You want to make money online? You want to change your life? You''re gonna have to work for it and no guru can tell you anything that makes any of it easier.You want to know how they do things? Easy, the same way anyone with an expanding business does it. They worked hard to get their first few sites making money, then hired people to help them do more. That is the only secret the gurus have. Employees and outsourcing.So if you want to know how to start a website, how to start for free, how to start your own online business. How to do better with what you are already working on even.If those topic interest you, then buy my book. It''s got all the essential knowledge you need, and it''s a damn site cheaper than the guru guys that will sale you a bunch of fluffed out books covering each major topic separately. Probably for more than you will pay for this one alone.Here are the chapters:1. Forward2. Prepare thyself3. Prepare thyself 24. Why me and not some online money guru?5. Free vs Hosted6. Site Solutions7. Dealing with money online8. Affiliate or your own products?9. Coming up with a product10. Topics (aka, what are you going to do the site about)11. The 3 types of sites12. Keyword Research13. My Free Method14. Getting Hosting15. Getting ready for your first site16. Domain Name17. Installing Wordpress18. Wordpress Plug-ins19. Source of content20. Posts vs Pages21. Making Money22. Setting up an e-commerce site23. Social sites24. Backlinks25. The Hats26. Writing27. Building Traffic through content writing28. Demographics29. Sales psychology30. Planning31. Misc32. ExitThe only thing left is for you to ask yourself if you really want to change your life and get a future, or not?That''s your choice. Make the right one for yourself and your loved ones.

Political instability is often exacerbated in periods of aggregate demand shortfall, with both short and long-term implications for economic institutions. It has been conjectured that inadequate policy responses to recessions may be inimical to free economic institutions. This paper uses the Economic Freedom of the World index as its measure of economic institutions, and finds that the change in economic freedom in the following five, ten, and fifteen years is negatively impacted by an aggregate demand shortfall as measured by negative NGDP growth. The result is (largely) robust upon the exclusion of the monetary policy variables from Economic Freedom of the World, but is not robust if economic institutions are measured as trade openness.

This paper undertakes a descriptive analysis of changes in economic institutions across countries from 2000-2016, using Economic Freedom of the World and the “State Economic Modernity” index. This latter index is a recent creation, similar conceptually to state capacity, measuring what can variously be thought of as state building, effectiveness, and economic power. State Economic Modernity can also be thought of as the economic institutions associated with social democracy. These two indexes are used in concert with one another to classify countries into eight directions of institutional change. Despite recent pessimism, countries besides those at the top income bracket have continued to liberalize, while wealthy countries have merely stagnated. At the high level aggregates, there is little movement in “State Economic Modernity” over this period, although there is considerably heterogeneity among individual countries. Rwanda is the single country to make the greatest movement towards the development benchmark of “Getting to Denmark,” while, directionally, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Benin, Guinea-Bissau, and Indonesia have made significant positive movements as well.

Rentfrow et al. (2013) constructs a cross-section of the “Big Five” personality traits and demonstrates their relationship with outcomes variables for the continental United States and the District of Columbia. Hyatt et al. (Forthcoming) creates a means of describing psychopathy in terms of the Big Five personality traits. When these two findings are combined, a state-level estimate of psychopathy is produced. Among the typical predictions made regarding psychopathy, the variable with the closest univariate relationship with this new statistical aggregate is the percentage of the population in the state living in an urban area. There is not a clear univariate relationship with homicide rates.

A large empirical literature has found positive effects of economic freedom on economic outcomes, such as output and per capita growth. However, several variables in the index are very likely to decline in conjunction with recessions. In the absence of these variables, does the well-studied positive relationship between economic freedom and economic output hold? This paper makes use of a dynamic panel to compare the performance of economic freedom with and without these variables, which pertain to levels of government spending, rates of inflation, government borrowing, and interest rates. Two specifications fall in their statistical significance from the 1% to the 10% level when variables relating to inflation are omitted. The worst case considered finds one specification size of the effect is still 66.3% of the effect size of the standard measure of economic freedom. These findings are consistent with this kind of endogeneity being a minor problem with the data set when imperfect identification strategies are employed, but the issue should be strongly considered when business cycles are pertinent to a research question using economic freedom data.

The free movement of capital is one of the four fundamental freedoms ofthe European Union internal market. This thesis seeks to examine how the European Court of Justice has interpreted the grounds under which a Member State may derogate from the full free movement of capital within the European Union. These Treaty derogations are found within Article 65 TFEU and include: certain residence-based taxation measures; national rules concerned with preventing abuse of the financial system; public policy and public security measures; information gathered for statistical or administrative purposes. The argument put forward in this thesis is that the Court should adopt a "contextually sensitive" approach to interpreting these exceptions to the free movement of capital. The reason for this approach stems from the unique and distinctive characteristics of capital, which makes it a volatile and (potentially) dangerous factor of production. This, as a matter of necessity, requires the Court to be sympathetic to national measures which seek to restrict the free movement of capital. The thesis argues that the Court can (and should) adopt such a differentiated approach, whilst maintaining consistency and coherence within its more general internal market jurisprudence. Early on, the thesis identifies the proportionality review as the tool through which a flexible and context driven approach could be achieved. The thesis also demonstrates and explores the different factors (e.g. economic, political, pragmatic, international) that influence how the Court undertakes the interpretative task and how these may be used to ensure consistency amongst freedoms. The overall conclusion of the thesis is that not only is it possible (and desirable) for the Court to adopt a differential and context orientated approach to the exceptions, but that the Court is already doing this in a number of important areas (including restrictions on third country tax movements and in areas concerned with public policy).

Kay is transported from the confines of her music appreciation class to a mysterious land where a man-boy named Rabenold wants nothing more than to fulfill his life''s mission to defeat the dreaded Trauermarsch. Also includes The Factory and The Suncatcher.

Recent research has explored the determinants of economic freedom, an important measure of institutional quality. Elsewhere, some scholars have posited a negative relationship between the quality of economic institutions and democracy, at very high levels of democracy. This paper disaggregates the Polity IV index into a vector of twenty dummy variables to understand how differing degrees of democracy and autocracy may impact economic freedom, thereby leaving open the possibilities for non-linearities to express themselves in the analysis. Little evidence is found of any relationship in the long run, except possibly that very autocratic political institutions may have a negative effect.

We modify the standard nutritional efficiency wage model to allow for the fact that employers can directly provide calories to their workers rather than paying a higher wage to induce employees to spend more on their own caloric consumption. We derive the various theoretical outcomes that are possible depending on the assumptions about the transaction costs of directly providing calories. We argue that in most real-world situations the ability of employers to directly provide calories undermines the traditional efficiency wage theory as a cause of equilibrium unemployment.

I use matched county pairs on either side of US state borders to investigate the causal effects of the Economic Freedom of North America index (EFNA) on local outcomes. This method is similar to Dube et al. (2010). I construct a panel of county pairs running from 1981-2012 and four measures of outcomes, logged real incomes, logged real per capita incomes, employment, and logged real wages, employing single year and five year differences-in-differences. I find small, but precisely estimated, effects on incomes but mixed effects on wages and employment. All regressions show low R^2. This supports the hypothesis that state-level economic freedom improves capital income or that it attracts capital income across state borders.

The index published in Economic Freedom of the World measures the degree to which the policies and institutions of countries are supportive of economic freedom. The cornerstones of economic freedom are personal choice, voluntary exchange, freedom to enter markets and compete, and security of the person and privately owned property. Forty-two data points are used to construct a summary index, along with a Gender Legal Rights Adjustment to measure the extent to which women have the same level of economic freedom as men. The degree of economic freedom is measured in five broad areas: Size of Government: As government spending, taxation, and the size of government-controlled enterprises increase, government decision-making is substituted for individual choice and economic freedom is reduced. Legal System and Property Rights: Protection of persons and their rightfully acquired property is a central element of both economic freedom and civil society. Indeed, it is the most important function of government. Sound Money: Inflation erodes the value of rightfully earned wages and savings. Sound money is thus essential to protect property rights. When inflation is not only high but also volatile, it becomes difficult for individuals to plan for the future and thus use economic freedom effectively. Freedom to Trade Internationally: Freedom to exchange - in its broadest sense, buying, selling, making contracts, and so on - is essential to economic freedom, which is reduced when freedom to exchange does not include businesses and individuals in other nations. Regulation: Governments not only use a number of tools to limit the right to exchange internationally, they may also impose onerous regulations that limit the right to exchange, gain credit, hire or work for whom you wish, or freely operate your business. Since the Fraser Institute''s first publication in 1996, numerous studies have used the data published in Economic Freedom of the World to examine the impact of economic freedom on investment, economic growth, income levels, and poverty rates. Virtually without exception, these studies have found that countries with institutions and policies more consistent with economic freedom have higher investment rates, more rapid economic growth, higher income levels, and a more rapid reduction in poverty rates. The most recent comprehensive data available are from 2019. Hong Kong remains in the top position. The apparent increased insecurity of property rights and the weakening of the rule of law caused by the interventions of the Chinese government during 2020 and 2021 will likely have a negative impact on Hong Kong''s score, especially in Area 2, Legal System and Property Rights, going forward. Singapore, once again, comes in second. The next highest scoring nations are New Zealand, Switzerland, Georgia, United States, Ireland, Lithuania, Australia, and Denmark. Rankings of other major countries The rankings of some other major countries are Canada (14th), Japan (18th), Germany (22nd), Italy (47th), France (53rd), Mexico (75th), Russia (100th), India (108th), Brazil (109th), and China (116th). Ten lowest-rated countries The ten lowest-rated countries are: Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo, Syria, Republic of Congo, Iran, Zimbabwe, Algeria, Libya, Sudan, and, lastly, Venezuela. Nations that are economically free out-perform non-free nations in indicators of well-being. In the top quartile, the average income of the poorest 10 per cent was $14,400, compared to $1,549 in the bottom quartile (PPP constant 2017, international$). Interestingly, the average income of the poorest 10 per cent in the most economically free nations is more than twice the average per-capita income in the least free nations. In the top quartile, 0.9. per cent of the population experience extreme poverty (US$1.90 a day) compared to 34.1 per cent in the lowest quartile. Life expectancy is 81.1 years in the top quartile compared to 65.9 years in the bottom quartile.

Aging populations continue to put strain on government finances, as such demographic shifts cause fewer tax dollars and more citizens on pension programs. What effect does this have on the size of government across countries worldwide? We study this using the Economic Freedom of the World (EFW) index published by the Fraser Institute. One fifth of the index is comprised of measures of the size of government. We investigate whether the share of the population over 65 has a negative impact on this measure of the size of government, as well as whether it has a negative impact on the narrower measure of subsidies and transfers published in EFW. Using standard panel methods we find support for this hypothesis. These results are supported by the use of the aged dependency ratio as a robustness check.

What are the effects of culture on economic institutions? Many see an essential role for culture in institutional development. This paper systematically considers twelve dimensions of culture on two dimensions of economic institutions: liberal economic institutions and the building of large, effective states. Dimensions of culture adjacent to one another are shown to correlate differently with the two measures of institutions. This analysis is, in part, framed in terms of the debate regarding the relationship between migration, culture, and institutions, and it casts doubts on positions that these variables are as tightly or as consistently related as is at times portrayed.

This paper constructs an index to study two questions within a growing school of macroeconomic thought, Market Monetarism. This school argues that the central bank has full control over all nominal variables in the economy and is solely responsible for aggregate demand management. To manage aggregate demand, Market Monetarism argues the central bank should target Nominal GDP. This paper constructs an index that hopes to answer two questions. First, it attempts to determine size of the optimal NGDP target. Second, it attempts to determine the extent to which central banks should engage in level targeting, that is, whether it should correct past errors in hitting its target. We find evidence consistent with a five percent level target but are unable to find evidence regarding level targeting.

Can a central bank accidentally provoke changes to a country''s political regime? Sumner (2015) proposes that macroeconomic mismanagement on the part of central bank authorities, leading to declines in nominal output, can cause voters to respond with populism at the ballot box. Murphy and Smith (2018) have found evidence for this hypothesis, with populism interpreted as movements away from liberal market institutions. This article extends the hypothesis to macroeconomic mismanagement and its relationship with democratic political institutions. It finds both that recessions foreshadow a lower probability of a dictatorship becoming a democracy, and that a democracy is more likely to become a dictatorship. The relationship with autocratisation is most visible after 15 years, while the negative relationship with democratisation is far more persistent over time. These findings, it must be stressed, are historical and descriptive, not necessarily causal.

The economics literature generally finds a positive, but small, gain in income to native-born populations from immigrants and potentially large gains in world incomes. But immigrants can also impact a recipient nation''s institutions. A growing empirical literature supports the importance of strong private property rights, a rule of law, and an environment of economic freedom for promoting long run prosperity. Comparatively little work has tried to explain economic freedom as a dependent variable. This paper empirically examines how immigration impacts a region''s policies and institutions. We find small but positive increases in institutional quality as a result of immigration.

Though counterintuitive, rates of business failure are effective proxies for entrepreneurship. We find that the foreign born population within US states is predictive of business failure ten years later. A one standard deviation increase in foreign born population corresponds to a 1.09 standard deviation increase in entrepreneurship thusly measured. We argue this is evidence that immigration leads to entrepreneurship and economic growth. The importance of entrepreneurship to economic growth is widely accepted. The role of immigration is more controversial. Concerns over potential costs of immigrants are making headlines in the popular press (Tumulty and Costa 2014; Debenedetti 2014) and some of the scholarly literature (Collier 2012; Borjas 2014). Most prominently, discussions of immigration center on its effects on labor markets and more recently, institutional quality. Less attention is given to their impact on entrepreneurship.

This study assesses the origins of Arizona''s state-sponsored immigration policy. It attempts to identify the social dynamics within Arizona that contributed to the overwhelming public support for SB 1070. Since it has been two years after the law was passed, this analysis determines what impact the law has had thus far within the state. Finally, it postulates the future of Arizona''s immigration policy.

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