Tabla de Contenidos: “…/ Progress in proficiency and participation: an adult learning approach to support social integration of migrants in Western societies / Networks and super connectors / Integration of migrants, from language proficiency to knowledge of society: the Italian case / Mobile language learning experiences for migrants beyond the classroom / Creating a dynamic and learner-driven online environment for practising second language skills: guiding principles from second language acquisition and online education / 5 Language testing and assessment for integration / Evaluation des compétences en langues pour l'intégration -- Language tests for access, integration and citizenship: an outline for policymakers from the ALTE perspective / All a question of the "right" capital? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Linear regression and beyond -- Linear regression revisited for a real dataset -- Summary -- Chapter 3: Feed-Forward Neural Networks with TensorFlow -- Feed-forward neural networks (FFNNs) -- Feed-forward and backpropagation -- Weights and biases -- Activation functions -- Using sigmoid -- Using tanh -- Using ReLU -- Using softmax -- Implementing a feed-forward neural network -- Exploring the MNIST dataset -- Softmax classifier -- Implementing a multilayer perceptron (MLP) -- Training an MLP -- Using MLPs…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Front Cover -- Half Title page -- RIVER PUBLISHERS SERIES IN ELECTRONIC MATERIALS AND DEVICES -- Title Page - Silicon-Germanium Heterojunction Bipolar Transistors for mm-Wave Systems: Technology, Modeling and Circuit Applications -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- List of Contributors -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Motivation and Objectives of the DOTSEVEN Project -- Approach toward Achieving the Ambitious Goals -- Overview of Results and Their Impact -- References -- Chapter 1 - SiGe HBT Technology -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 HBT Performance Factors -- 1.3 HBT Device and Process Architectures Explored in the DOTSEVEN Project -- 1.3.1 Selective Epitaxial Growth of the Base -- 1.3.1.1 DPSA-SEG device architecture -- 1.3.1.2 Approaches to overcome limitations of the DPSA-SEG architecture -- 1.3.2 Non-selective Epitaxial Growth of the Base -- 1.4 Optimization of the Vertical Doping Profile -- 1.5 Optimization towards 700 GHz fMAX -- 1.6 Summary -- References -- Chapter 2 - Device Simulation -- 2.1 Numerical Simulation -- 2.2 Device Simulation -- 2.2.1 TCAD Device Optimization -- 2.2.2 Deterministic BTE Solvers -- 2.2.3 Drift-diffusion and Hydrodynamic Transport Models -- 2.2.4 Simulation Examples -- 2.2.4.1 DD simulation -- 2.2.4.2 HD simulation -- 2.2.4.3 Effects beyond DD and HD transport -- 2.2.4.4 Comparison with experimental data -- 2.3 Advanced Electro-thermal Simulation -- 2.3.1 Carrier-Phonon System in SiGe HBTs -- 2.3.2 Deterministic and Self-consistent Electrothermal Simulation Approach -- 2.3.3 Hot Phonon Effects in a Calibrated System -- 2.3.4 Thermal Resistance Extraction from the Simulated DC Characteristics -- 2.4 Microscopic Simulation of Hot-carrier Degradation -- 2.4.1 Physics of Hot-carrier Degradation -- 2.4.2 Modeling of Hot-carrier Effects…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Expanding the range of inclusion interventions to go beyond emergencies -- 7.3.5. Closing gaps in family and child protection services -- 7.4. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover -- Copyright -- Credits -- About the Author -- Acknowledgement -- About the Reviewers -- www.PacktPub.com -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1: The Era of Big Data -- Big Data - The monster re-defined -- Big Data toolbox - dealing with the giant -- Hadoop - the elephant in the room -- Databases -- Hadoop Spark-ed up -- R - The unsung Big Data hero -- Summary -- Chapter 2: Introduction to R Programming Language and Statistical Environment -- Learning R -- Revisiting R basics -- Getting R and RStudio ready -- Setting the URLs to R repositories -- R data structures -- Vectors -- Scalars -- Matrices -- Arrays -- Data frames -- Lists -- Exporting R data objects -- Applied data science with R -- Importing data from different formats -- Exploratory Data Analysis -- Data aggregations and contingency tables -- Hypothesis testing and statistical inference -- Tests of differences -- Independent t-test example (with power and effect size estimates) -- ANOVA example -- Tests of relationships -- An example of Pearson's r correlations -- Multiple regression example -- Data visualization packages -- Summary -- Chapter 3: Unleashing the Power of R from Within -- Traditional limitations of R -- Out-of-memory data -- Processing speed -- To the memory limits and beyond -- Data transformations and aggregations with the ff and ffbase packages -- Generalized linear models with the ff and ffbase packages -- Logistic regression example with ffbase and biglm -- Expanding memory with the bigmemory package -- Parallel R -- From bigmemory to faster computations -- An apply() example with the big.matrix object -- A for() loop example with the ffdf object -- Using apply() and for() loop examples on a data.frame -- A parallel package example -- A foreach package example -- The future of parallel processing in R -- Utilizing Graphics Processing Units with R.…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Estimating probabilities from an ensemble -- Sequences of models - AdaBoost -- Gradient tree boosting (GTB) -- XGBoost -- LightGBM -- CatBoost -- Dealing with big data -- Creating some big datasets as examples -- Scalability with volume -- Keeping up with velocity -- Dealing with variety -- An overview of Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD) -- A peek into natural language processing (NLP) -- Word tokenization -- Stemming -- Word tagging -- Named entity recognition (NER) -- Stopwords -- A complete data science example - text classification -- An overview of unsupervised learning -- K-means -- DBSCAN - a density-based clustering technique -- Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) -- Summary -- Chapter 5: Visualization, Insights, and Results -- Introducing the basics of matplotlib -- Trying curve plotting -- Using panels for clearer representations -- Plotting scatterplots for relationships in data -- Histograms -- Bar graphs -- Image visualization -- Selected graphical examples with pandas -- Working with boxplots and histograms -- Plotting scatterplots -- Discovering patterns by parallel coordinates -- Wrapping up matplotlib's commands -- Introducing Seaborn -- Enhancing your EDA capabilities -- Advanced data learning representation -- Learning curves -- Validation curves -- Feature importance for RandomForests -- Gradient Boosting Trees partial dependence plotting -- Creating a prediction server with machine-learning-as-a-service -- Summary -- Chapter 6: Social Network Analysis -- Introduction to graph theory -- Graph algorithms -- Types of node centrality -- Partitioning a network -- Graph loading, dumping, and sampling -- Summary -- Chapter 7: Deep Learning Beyond the Basics -- Approaching deep learning -- Classifying images with CNN -- Using pre-trained models -- Working with temporal sequences -- Summary -- Chapter 8: Spark for Big Data…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover -- Copyright -- Foreword -- Contributors -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Part 1: Introduction to Automotive IoT -- Chapter 1: Automotive Technology Trends -- Overview of current automotive trends -- CASE -- SDV and SOA -- Mobile apps and the cloud -- Modern software development -- Standards and regulations -- Introduction to automotive IoT -- Automotive IoT -- Automotive IoT use case examples -- Data management for automotive IoT use cases -- Summary -- References -- Chapter 2: Introducing Automotive IoT Use Cases -- Phone as a key -- Personalized in-car experience -- Connected car services -- Enhanced driver experience and safety -- Optimized fleet management -- Real-time vehicle tracking and telematics -- Driver performance monitoring -- Predictive maintenance -- Connected mobility revolution -- Smart parking solutions -- Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X) communication -- Connected supply chain and manufacturing -- Summary -- References -- Advanced driver-assistance systems -- Part 2: Vehicle Architectures -- Chapter 3: Vehicle Architecture and Frameworks -- The scale of vehicle architecture -- Distributed architecture -- Centralized zonal domain architecture -- A central computer with multiple domain-specific SoCs -- A central computer with a single SoC -- Standard frameworks to support vehicle architecture and IoT -- A high-level overview of the domain controller -- Summary -- References -- Chapter 4: Vehicle Diagnostics -- UDS -- UDS message structure -- DoIP -- DoIP message format -- DoIP example message flow -- Diagnostic communication workflow in Classic AUTOSAR -- Diagnostic service management in Adaptive AUTOSAR -- Reflecting on the application of remote diagnostics -- Summary -- References -- Chapter 5: Next Wave of Vehicle Diagnostics -- Technical requirements -- Needs beyond UDS -- SOVD -- REST…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Jews and Christians in the Middle Ages and beyond. Polysystem and Piyyut: the poetics of a Yotzer by R. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Joint Model Training -- 3.7 Summary -- References -- Chapter 4: Processing in the feature and model domains -- 4.1 Feature-Space Approaches -- 4.1.1 Noise-Resistant Features -- Auditory-based features -- Temporal processing -- Neural network approaches -- 4.1.2 Feature Moment Normalization -- Cepstral mean normalization -- Cepstral mean and variance normalization -- Histogram equalization -- 4.1.3 Feature Compensation -- Spectral subtraction -- Wiener filtering -- Advanced front-end -- 4.2 Model-Space Approaches -- 4.2.1 General Model Adaptation for GMM -- 4.2.2 General Model Adaptation for DNN -- Low-footprint DNN adaptation -- Adaptation criteria -- 4.2.3 Robustness via Better Modeling -- 4.3 Summary -- References -- Chapter 5: Compensation with prior knowledge -- 5.1 Learning from Stereo Data -- 5.1.1 Empirical Cepstral Compensation -- 5.1.2 SPLICE -- 5.1.3 DNN for Noise Removal Using Stereo Data -- 5.2 Learning from Multi-Environment Data -- 5.2.1 Online Model Combination -- Online model combination for GMM -- Online model combination for DNN -- 5.2.2 Non-Negative Matrix Factorization -- 5.2.3 Variable-Parameter Modeling -- Variable-parameter modeling for GMM -- Variable-component DNN -- 5.3 Summary -- References -- Chapter 6: Explicit distortion modeling -- 6.1 Parallel Model Combination -- 6.2 Vector Taylor Series -- 6.2.1 VTS Model Adaptation -- 6.2.2 Distortion Estimation in VTS -- 6.2.3 VTS Feature Enhancement -- 6.2.4 Improvements over VTS -- 6.2.5 VTS for the DNN-Based Acoustic Model -- 6.3 Sampling-Based Methods -- 6.3.1 Data-Driven PMC -- 6.3.2 Unscented Transform -- 6.3.3 Methods Beyond the Gaussian Assumption -- 6.4 Acoustic Factorization -- 6.4.1 Acoustic Factorization Framework -- 6.4.2 Acoustic Factorization for GMM -- 6.4.3 Acoustic Factorization for DNN -- 6.5 Summary -- References…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Intro -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- PART I: GETTING STARTED -- Chapter 1 Introducing Microsoft Office 2011 -- About Word -- About Excel -- About PowerPoint -- About Outlook -- Office 2011 Editions -- Chapter 2 Office Basics -- Launching Office Applications -- Using Galleries -- Creating a New Document -- Using Templates -- Opening Saved Documents -- Saving Your Work -- Common Office Elements -- Working with Text -- Using the Format Painter -- Undoing and Redoing Actions -- Setting Magnification -- Managing Windows -- Customizing Office -- Working in Other Languages -- Flagging Documents for Follow-Up -- Getting Help -- Quitting an Office Application -- Chapter 3 Working with Graphics -- About Adding Images and Objects -- Inserting Photos and Pictures -- Adding Clip Art -- Drawing Shapes and Lines -- Inserting Movies -- Creating WordArt -- Resizing, Moving, and Rotating Objects -- Aligning and Distributing Objects -- Object Layers and Dynamic Ordering -- Setting Text Wrap -- Image Editing -- PART II: MICROSOFT WORD -- Chapter 4 Introducing Word 2011 -- The Word Interface -- Entering Text -- Editing: Beyond the Basics -- Proofing Your Work -- Tracking Changes -- Printing Word Documents -- Chapter 5 Document Formatting -- Paper Size and Orientation -- Margins -- Headers and Footers -- Page Numbers -- Inserting Page Breaks -- Creating Multiple Sections -- Multiple Columns -- Chapter 6 Text Formatting -- Character Formatting -- Paragraph Formatting -- Using Word Styles -- Chapter 7 Creating Tables -- Creating a Basic Table -- Creating a Table from Scratch -- Editing the Table Structure -- Entering Data -- Aligning Table Data -- Working with Numeric Data -- Deleting Cells -- Merging and Splitting Cells -- Adding Rows and Columns -- Nesting Tables -- Borders and Cell Shading -- Converting Text to a Table -- Chapter 8 Working in Other Views…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Intro -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Transliteration, Translation, and Citation Style -- Praise for Emotions in Korean Philosophy and Religion -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- Chapter 1: Introduction: Emotions (Jeong/Qing 情) in Korean Philosophy and Religion -- 1.1 Emotions in General, East and West -- 1.1.1 Theories of Emotions -- 1.1.2 A Fundamental Issue with Conventional Theories -- 1.1.3 Dichotomy of Emotion and Reason -- 1.1.4 Diversity of Emotions -- 1.2 Emotions (Jeong/Qing 情) in the Chinese Tradition: Textual, Philosophical, Ethical, and Religious -- 1.2.1 Emotions in Early (Pre-Buddhist) China -- 1.2.2 Emotions in Classical Chinese Confucianism -- 1.2.2.1 Confucius: True Emotions and Human Character -- 1.2.2.2 The Book of Rites and the Doctrine of the Mean on the Seven Emotions -- 1.2.2.3 Mencius: Four Beginnings, Moral Emotions, and Self-cultivation -- 1.2.3 Zhu Xi Neo-Confucianism on Emotions, Human Nature, and the Four-Seven Relationship -- 1.2.4 Wang Yangming on Selfish Emotions, Essence of Heart-Mind, and Moral Practice -- 1.3 Emotions in the Buddhist Tradition -- 1.3.1 The Buddha's Teaching and Theravada -- 1.3.2 Indian Mahāyāna Perspectives: Great Compassion and Ultimate Joy -- 1.3.3 Chinese and Korean Mahāyāna Perspectives: Tiantai, Chan, Pure Land, Wonhyo, and Jinul -- 1.4 Emotions (Jeong/Qing 情) in Korean Philosophy and Religion -- 1.4.1 Korean Confucian Perspectives -- 1.4.1.1 The Holistic Nature, Role, and Problem of Jeong: Emotions, Self-cultivation, Human Relationships, Ethics, and Beyond -- 1.4.1.2 An Introduction to Part I, Chaps. 2 -5: Korean Confucian Perspectives -- 1.4.2 Comparative Korean Confucian Perspectives -- 1.4.2.1 An Introduction to Part II, Chaps. 6 and 7: Comparative Confucian Perspectives…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Step 7: Be Patient -- The Publication Process -- Responding to Reviewers -- What Not To Do -- What To Do -- Five Simple Rules for Writing a Response to Reviewers -- Activities Post Case Acceptance -- 9: Teaching with Compact Cases -- The Case for Teaching with Cases -- Cases Encourage the Development of Effective Communication Skills -- Cases Stick with Students Beyond the Classroom -- Design, Assign, and Align -- Case Teaching Modalities -- Teaching with Cases Online -- Motivating Case Preparation Regardless of Modality -- Tools for Teaching Cases Online -- Best Practices for Online Case Pedagogy -- Challenges for Online Case Pedagogy -- Teaching Tips for Compact Cases -- What Have We Learned about Case Teaching? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Notes -- Chapter 8 Mass Media Publishers: When Old-School Advertising Doesn't Work Anymore -- Beyond PR and Advertising: A New Way to Work with Mass Media Publishers -- How Does Commerce Content Work? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- What's New for 2021 -- Tax News for 2021 -- Key Tax Numbers for 2021 -- Tax-Saving Opportunities for 2021 and Beyond -- Pending Tax Rule Changes -- Expiring Provisions -- Part 1 Filing Basics -- Do You Have to File a 2021 Tax Return? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- 1.3 Social Work with Groups -- 1.4 Social Workers and Beyond -- 1.5 Concerning Psychodramatists -- 1.6 How to Read This Book -- References -- Part IHistory of Social Work with Groups and Moreno's Methods -- 2 History of Social Work with Groups in Practice and Education -- 2.1 Brief History of the Social Work Profession -- 2.2 History of Group Work in Social Work -- 2.3 Social Group Work Defined -- 2.4 Group Work's Increased Demand in Practice -- 2.5 Placing Group Work Within the Historical Context of Social Work Education -- 2.6 Conclusion -- References -- 3 History of Sociometry, Psychodrama, Group Psychotherapy, and Jacob L. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…8.3 IoF2020 - Internet of Food and Farm 2020 -- 8.3.1 Introduction -- 8.3.2 Trials and Use cases -- 8.3.3 Technical Architectural Approach -- 8.3.4 Lean Multi-Actor Approach -- 8.3.5 Conclusion and Outlook -- 8.4 MONICA - Management of Networked IoT Wearables - Very Large Scale Demonstration of Cultural Societal Applications -- 8.4.1 Introduction -- 8.4.2 The MONICA Ecosystems -- 8.4.2.1 The Security Ecosystem -- 8.4.2.2 The Acoustics Ecosystem -- 8.4.2.3 The Innovation Ecosystem -- 8.4.3 User-Driven Pilots -- 8.4.4 The MONICA Technical Concept -- 8.4.4.1 The MONICA architecture -- 8.4.4.2 The MONICA IoT Infrastructure -- 8.4.5 Conclusion and Outlook -- 8.5 SynchroniCity: Delivering a Digital Single Market for IoT-enabled Urban Services in Europe and Beyond -- 8.5.1 Introduction -- 8.5.2 Technical and Non-Technical Barriers of Creating a Smart City Eco-System -- 8.5.3 SynchroniCity Technical Approach -- 8.5.4 SynchroniCity Applications -- 8.5.5 Impact Creation -- 8.5.6 Conclusions and Outlook -- 8.6 AUTOPILOT - Automated Driving Progressed by Internet of Things -- 8.6.1 Project Overview -- 8.6.1.1 Objective -- 8.6.1.2 Partners -- 8.6.2 Project Approach -- 8.6.2.1 AUTOPILOT's IOT Platform -- 8.6.2.2 Project Sites and Applications -- 8.6.2.3 Services the intersection of IoT and automation -- 8.6.3 Project Impact -- 8.7 CREATE-IoT Cross Fertilisation through Alignment, Synchronisation and Exchanges for IoT -- 8.7.1 Introduction -- 8.7.2 Conceptual Approach -- 8.7.3 Impact -- 8.8 U4IoT - User Engagement for Large Scale Pilots in the Internet of Things -- 8.8.1 Introduction -- 8.8.2 Engaging End-Users throughout the Life of the LSPs -- 8.8.3 Embedding Personal Data Protection by Design -- 8.8.4 Developing an Ad Hoc Toolkit for End-User Engagement -- 8.8.5 Supporting and Mobilising End-User Engagement…”

“…The main task of ELGRA is to foster the scientific community in Europe and beyond in conducting gravity and space-related research.This publication is dedicated to the science community, and especially to the next generation of scientists and engineers interested in space research and in the means to use Earth to reproduce the space environment. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Le tutorat-investissement dans les pays émergents - Regards sur le Chili -- Le tutorat-investissement produit un retour sur investissement conséquent mais asymétrique, et est d'une grande utilité pour les entreprises ainsi financées -- Le co-investissement est devenu la norme -- Encadré 2.3. La plateforme Go Beyond Investing -- Le profil des investisseurs-tuteurs se diversifie -- Réussir à sortir du capital au bon moment est essentiel au dynamisme du marché du tutorat-investissement -- Mesures à l'appui du tutorat-investissement -- Encadré 2.4. …”

“…Based on more than 40 years of practice, this book goes beyond the simple testing of an application - already extensively covered by other authors - to focus on methodologies, techniques, continuous improvement processes, load estimates, metrics and reporting, which are illustrated by a case study. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Introduction to Lotus Workplace Web Content Management -- 1.1 Overview of Lotus Workplace Web Content Management -- 1.1.1 What is Web content management -- 1.1.2 Importance of content management -- 1.1.3 What is Lotus Workplace Web Content Management -- 1.1.4 Benefits of using Lotus Workplace Web Content Management -- 1.2 Key concepts -- 1.3 The Lotus Workplace Web Content Management product -- 1.3.1 Domino edition -- 1.3.2 Java edition -- 1.3.3 What is content -- 1.4 The importance of data modelling -- 1.5 Future outlook -- 1.5.1 Beyond 2.0 -- 1.6 Using IBM developerWorks® as a reference site -- 1.7 Structure of this book -- Part 2 Deployment, planning, and installation -- Chapter 2. …”