Tabla de Contenidos: “…On the Traveling and Turns of Being and Becoming a Narrative Inquirer -- Abstract -- Keywords -- 1 My Personal and Professional 'Narrative Turns' -- 2 Turning from Narrative Research to Narrative Inquiry -- 3 Turning towards the World Traveling of Narrative Inquiry -- 3.1 Risten3 -- 3.2 Maria -- 4 Turning towards Embodied Experiences -- 5 Turning towards Silence and Silencing -- 6 Turning Forward -- Notes -- References -- 4. Beyond Personal and Political Boundaries: Being and Becoming a Cross-Cultural Researcher -- Abstract -- Keywords -- 1 Turning Points in Professional Formation -- 2 Threshold Encounters -- 3 Narrative Inquiry -- 4 Narratives from Threshold Encounters -- 4.1 Suffering and Sacrifices -- 4.2 Being on the Right Side -- 4.3 The Relative Relativist -- 4.4 Being an In-Betweener -- 5 Formation of a Cross-Cultural Researcher as an In-Betweener -- References…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Evaluating on test (holdout) data -- Understanding evaluation metrics -- Evaluating regression models -- R-squared -- Root mean squared error -- Mean absolute error -- When and how to use each metric -- Practical evaluation strategies -- Summarizing the evaluation of regression models -- Evaluating classification models -- Classification model evaluation metrics -- Precision, recall, and F1-Score -- Recall -- F1-score -- Methods for explaining machine learning models -- Making sense of regression models - the power of coefficients -- Decoding classification models - unveiling feature importance -- Beyond specific models - universal insights using SHAP values -- Summary -- Common Pitfalls in Machine Learning -- Understanding the complexity -- Dirty data, damaged models - how data quantity and quality impact ML -- The importance of adequate training data -- Dealing with poor data quality -- Conclusion -- Overcoming overfitting and underfitting -- Navigating training-serving skew and model drift -- Ensuring fairness -- Mastering overfitting and underfitting for optimal model performance…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Consumer Protection -- 2 Cracks in the Foundation: ARemerger of the Fields -- a The Statutory Framework: Unfair Commercial Practices Directive -- b The Consolidation of Interests: Depropertization and Desocialization -- c The Practical Picture: A Subtle Recapture -- d The Relicts of Antiquity: Pockets of Resistance -- e The Myth of the Public Samaritan -- 3 Summary -- B The Structural Congruency of Trademark and Unfair Competition Law -- 1 The Common Core: Information Economization -- 2 Beyond Confusion: Alternative Theories of Trademark Protection -- 3 Two Sides of the Coin: Law and Equity in Market Communication -- C Summary -- Section 3 Application-Functional Structures in Trademark and Unfair Competition Doctrine…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- TDE and Backups -- Backup Performance -- Backup Compression -- Backup Compression Issues -- TDE and High Availability -- Summary -- Chapter 5: Backup Encryption -- Setting Up Backup Encryption -- Creating a Test Database -- Create the Database Master Key (DMK) -- Creating the Certificate -- Permissions -- Working with Encrypted Backups -- Taking an Encrypted Backup -- Restoring an Encrypted Backup -- Backup Encryption Performance -- Backup Encryption and Compression -- Summary -- Part III: Column Encryption using Always Encrypted -- Chapter 6: Introducing Always Encrypted -- SQL Server 2016 vs. SQL Server 2019 and Beyond -- How Does Always Encrypted Work? -- Encryption Hierarchy -- Encryption in Practice -- Summary -- Chapter 7: Setting Up Always Encrypted -- Create Keys and Certificates -- Creating the Certificate and Column Master Key -- Creating the Column Encryption Key (CEK) -- Create an Encrypted Column -- Summary -- Chapter 8: Executing Queries Using Always Encrypted -- Performing a Basic Insert and Select -- Connecting to the Database -- Inserting Data -- Reading Data -- Looking at What Happens in the Background -- What Happens with an Insert Query -- What Happens with a Select Query -- Issuing a Query with a Predicate Against an Encrypted Column -- Indexes and Statistics on Encrypted Columns -- Working with Stored Procedures -- Querying Always Encrypted Data from Your Application -- Working with Direct Queries…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Challenges in developing regulatory and strategic frameworks -- 2.2. RBC expectations beyond main contractors and subcontractors -- 2.2.1. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- International mental health strategies recognise the importance of sectors beyond the health system for mental health policy -- OECD countries have made cross-sectoral mental health policy a priority in strategies, but implementation in practice is inconsistent -- Integration of mental health, skills, and work policy is uneven -- Do mental health systems ensure physical health needs are met?…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Mutable defaults -- Return values -- Returning multiple values -- A few useful tips -- Recursive functions -- Anonymous functions -- Function attributes -- Built-in functions -- One final example -- Documenting your code -- Importing objects -- Relative imports -- Summary -- Chapter 5: Saving Time and Memory -- The map, zip, and filter functions -- map -- zip -- filter -- Comprehensions -- Nested comprehensions -- Filtering a comprehension -- dict comprehensions -- set comprehensions -- Generators -- Generator functions -- Going beyond next -- The yield from expression -- Generator expressions -- Some performance considerations -- Don't overdo comprehensions and generators -- Name localization -- Generation behavior in built-ins -- One last example…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…The interface between the engine and the data warehouse -- The data mining algorithms -- User interface -- Clarity -- Clarity and mystery -- Clarity and simplicity -- Efficiency -- Consistency -- Syntax highlight -- Auto-completion -- How to build a data mining architecture in R -- Data sources -- The data warehouse -- The data mining engine -- The interface between the engine and the data warehouse -- The data mining algorithms -- The user interface -- Further references -- Summary -- Chapter 5: How to Address a Data Mining Problem - Data Cleaning and Validation -- On a quiet day -- Data cleaning -- Tidy data -- Analysing the structure of our data -- The str function -- The describe function -- head, tail, and View functions -- Evaluating your data tidiness -- Every row is a record -- Every column shows an attribute -- Every table represents an observational unit -- Tidying our data -- The tidyr package -- Long versus wide data -- The spread function -- The gather function -- The separate function -- Applying tidyr to our dataset -- Validating our data -- Fitness for use -- Conformance to standards -- Data quality controls -- Consistency checks -- Data type checks -- Logical checks -- Domain checks -- Uniqueness checks -- Performing data validation on our data -- Data type checks with str() -- Domain checks -- The final touch - data merging -- left_join function -- moving beyond left_join -- Further references -- Summary -- Chapter 6: Looking into Your Data Eyes - Exploratory Data Analysis -- Introducing summary EDA -- Describing the population distribution -- Quartiles and Median -- Mean -- The mean and phenomenon going on within sub populations -- The mean being biased by outlier values -- Computing the mean of our population -- Variance -- Standard deviation -- Skewness -- Measuring the relationship between variables -- Correlation…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Keeping the music after the scene transition -- Adding sound effects -- Adding a sound to the buy button -- Muting/unmuting audio -- Going further -- Summary -- Chapter 13: Putting a Bow on It -- Building in-game menu structures -- The screens -- Splash screens -- Loading screens -- The main menu -- Save slots/level selections -- Settings pages -- The About screen -- Privacy policy -- Pause screens -- Additional menus (purchasing, achievements, leaderboards, and so on) -- Social -- The flow -- Finishing our splash screen -- Building our start screen -- Extending the editor -- The property drawers -- Examples property drawers -- Built-in property drawers -- Custom property drawers -- Custom editors -- The editor window -- Gizmos -- Building your editor menus -- Adding a MenuItem attribute -- Enabling/disabling a MenuItem attribute -- Adding shortcut keys to a MenuItem attribute -- Adding contextual MenuItems -- Running scripts in the Editor folder -- Alternative approaches -- The [InitialiseOnLoad] attribute -- Editor application callbacks -- Mixing it up -- Working with settings -- Using PlayerPrefs -- Serializing your data -- Saving data to disk -- Backing up to the Web -- Going further -- Summary -- Chapter 14: Deployment and Beyond -- Handling platform differences -- Preprocessor directives -- Pushing code from Unity -- Processing assets -- Processing the build -- Building your assets -- Packaging gotchas -- Distributing to mobile -- Social network integration -- Monetization -- Paid -- Paid with trial -- Ad supported -- In-app purchases -- In-game currency -- Going further -- Summary -- Index…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover -- Copyright -- Packt Page -- Contributors -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1: Getting Started with Next-Generation Artificial Intelligence through Reinforcement Learning -- Reinforcement learning concepts -- How to adapt to machine thinking and become an adaptive thinker -- Overcoming real-life issues using the three-step approach -- Step 1 - describing a problem to solve: MDP in natural language -- Watching the MDP agent at work -- Step 2 - building a mathematical model: the mathematical representation of the Bellman equation and MDP -- From MDP to the Bellman equation -- Step 3 - writing source code: implementing the solution in Python -- The lessons of reinforcement learning -- How to use the outputs -- Possible use cases -- Machine learning versus traditional applications -- Summary -- Questions -- Further reading -- Chapter 2: Building a Reward Matrix - Designing Your Datasets -- Designing datasets - where the dream stops and the hard work begins -- Designing datasets -- Using the McCulloch-Pitts neuron -- The McCulloch-Pitts neuron -- The Python-TensorFlow architecture -- Logistic activation functions and classifiers -- Overall architecture -- Logistic classifier -- Logistic function -- Softmax -- Summary -- Questions -- Further reading -- Chapter 3: Machine Intelligence - Evaluation Functions and Numerical Convergence -- Tracking down what to measure and deciding how to measure it -- Convergence -- Implicit convergence -- Numerically controlled gradient descent convergence -- Evaluating beyond human analytic capacity -- Using supervised learning to evaluate a result that surpasses human analytic capacity -- Summary -- Questions -- Further reading -- Chapter 4: Optimizing Your Solutions with K-Means Clustering -- Dataset optimization and control -- Designing a dataset and choosing an ML/DL model…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…3 Health Sector Developments and Interventions -- 3.1 Agenda 2063: The Africa We Want -- 3.2 Health Financing -- 3.3 Research and Innovation -- 3.4 Vaccine Access and Production -- 3.5 Coordination and Partnerships -- 3.6 2022: The Year of Nutrition -- 4 An Analysis of the AU's Health Performance and Interventions -- Sources -- Literature -- Websites -- 8 Infrastructure -- 1 Background -- 2 Decision-Making and Implementation -- 3 Major Developments in 2021 -- 3.1 The Launch of the African Single Electricity Market -- 3.2 The Programme for Infrastructure Development in Africa (PIDA) -- 4 Belts, Gateways and Better Worlds: The AU's Growing Brokerage Role in Global Connectivity Initiatives -- 5 Outlook -- Sources -- Literature -- Websites -- 9 Peace and Security -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Regional Overview of the AU's Peace and Security Engagement -- 2.1 The Horn and East Africa -- 2.1.1 Ethiopia -- 2.1.2 Somalia -- 2.1.3 Sudan -- 2.1.4 South Sudan -- 2.1.5 The Comoros -- 2.2 Southern Africa -- 2.3 North Africa -- 2.4 West Africa -- 2.4.1 The Gambia and Guinea -- 2.4.2 The LCB Region and the Threat of Boko Haram -- 2.4.3 The Sahel: Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger -- 2.5 Central Africa -- 2.5.1 Central African Republic -- 2.5.2 Chad -- 2.5.3 Burundi -- 2.5.4 Cameroon -- 2.5.5 Democratic Republic of Congo -- 3 Outlook -- Sources -- Literature -- Websites -- 10 Regional Integration and Trade -- 1 Background -- 2 Decision-Making and Implementation Structures -- 2.1 AfCFTA Secretariat Establishment -- 2.2 Division of Labour with Regional 'Building Blocks' -- 3 Key Developments in 2021 -- 3.1 AfCFTA Ratifications -- 3.2 AfCFTA Negotiation Status: Tariff Offers and RoOs -- 3.3 Trade in Services and Beyond -- 3.4 Phase II Negotiations -- 3.5 Adjustment Fund and Payment System -- 3.6 External Relations -- 3.7 The AfCFTA and the Private Sector -- 3.8 Women and Youth…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Evaluating Model Performance -- Measuring performance for classification -- Working with classification prediction data in R -- A closer look at confusion matrices -- Using confusion matrices to measure performance -- Beyond accuracy - other measures of performance -- The kappa statistic -- Sensitivity and specificity -- Precision and recall -- The F-measure -- Visualizing performance tradeoffs -- ROC curves -- Estimating future performance -- The holdout method -- Cross-validation -- Bootstrap sampling -- Summary -- 11. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Encrypting Within the Application Tier -- Moving From Plain Text to Encrypted Values in an Existing Application -- Encrypting data at rest -- TDE and Filestream -- Log Shipping, Database Mirroring and AlwaysOn Availability Groups -- Key Protection -- Encrypting data on the wire -- SQL Server Over SSL -- SQL Server 7 and 2000 -- SQL Server 2005 and Up -- Certificate Strength Differences -- Managing SSL Certificates -- Hiding the Instance -- IP Sec -- Encrypting data with MPIO drivers -- PowerPath Encryption with RSA Requirements and Setup -- Encrypting data via HBAs -- Summary -- References -- Chapter 5 - SQL Password Security -- Information in this chapter: -- Login types -- SQL Authentication Login -- Windows Authentication Login -- Domain Accounts -- Local Accounts -- Certificate Authentication -- Asymmetric Key Login -- Credentials -- SQL server password security -- Extended Protection -- Service Principal Names -- Strong passwords -- Password change policies -- Renaming the SA account -- Disabling the SA account -- Users versus logins -- Contained database users in SQL server 2012 and beyond -- Schemas -- SQL Server 2000 and Below -- SQL Server 2005 and Above -- Domain Groups and Default Schemas -- Setting the Default Schema -- Encrypting client connection strings -- SQL Reporting Services -- Application roles -- Using windows domain policies to enforce password length -- Windows Authentication Group Policies -- Windows Domain Requirements to Use Domain Policies to Manage SQL Authentication Logins -- Contained users -- Contained Databases and Auto-close -- db_owners Can Now Add New Users to the Instance -- Password Policies and Contained Users -- Summary -- References -- Chapter 6 - Securing the Instance -- Information in this chapter -- What to install, and when? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Distribunomicon -- This Is My Boomstick -- Fallacies of Distributed Computing -- The Network Is Reliable -- There Is No Latency -- Bandwidth Is Infinite -- The Network Is Secure -- Topology Doesn't Change -- There Is Only One Administrator -- Transport Cost Is Zero -- The Network Is Homogeneous -- Fallacies in a Nutshell -- Dead or Dead-Alive -- My Other Cap Is a Theorem -- Consistency -- Availability -- Partition Tolerance -- Zombie Survivors and CAP -- Setting Up an Erlang Cluster -- Through the Desert on a Node with No Name -- Connecting Nodes -- More Tools -- Cookies -- Remote Shells -- Hidden Nodes -- The Walls Are Made of Fire, and the Goggles Do Nothing -- The Calls from Beyond -- The net_kernel Module -- The global Module -- The rpc Module -- Burying the Distribunomicon -- 27. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Factors/properties and categorization of spatial entities -- References -- Containment, support, and beyond -- Introduction -- 1. Cognitive foundations of spatial semantic development -- 2. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Linear Thinking -- The Problems with Command-and-Control Leadership and Management -- The Beyond Budgeting Movement -- Leadership Principles to Instill Intrinsic Motivation…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…. -- Leaders aren't candid about the difficulties they face -- Employee temperaments are resistant to change -- Following a release checklist -- Successful releases go far beyond following a checklist -- Exploring 10 common pitfalls of DevOps release management -- A lack of support from leadership -- Thinking DevOps is mainly about tools -- Treating DevOps and CI/CD as the same thing -- Quality as an afterthought -- Lacking dashboarding and reporting, or having too much -- Selecting the wrong metrics to measure project success -- Leaving others behind as you move forward with DevOps -- Converting to microservices from old infrastructure and design…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Docker as a container platform -- Scaling containerized deployments beyond simple use cases -- Key responsibilities of container platforms -- AWS services that support running containers in the cloud…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Panning -- How stereo works -- Pan controls -- The pan-pot -- The pan clock -- Panning laws -- The balance pot -- Types of track -- Mono tracks -- Stereo pairs -- Multiple mono tracks -- Combinations -- Panning techniques -- Panning and masking -- The sound stage -- Effect panning -- Beyond pan-pots -- Autopanners -- 15. Equalizers -- Applications -- Balanced frequency spectrum -- Shaping the presentation and timbre of instruments -- Separation -- Definition -- Conveying feelings and mood -- Creative use -- Interest -- Depth enhancements -- More realistic effects -- Stereo enhancements -- Fine-level adjustments -- Better control over dynamic processors -- Removing unwanted content -- Compensating for a bad recording -- The frequency spectrum -- Spectral content -- Bands and associations…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Risk functions -- There are many loss functions -- Different loss functions = different end results -- Loss functions for anything -- A loss function by any other name -- What we learned -- Least Squares -- The squared-loss function -- OLS regression -- OLS, outliers, and robust regression -- What we learned -- Linear models -- Practical issues -- The model residuals -- OLS regression code example -- What we learned -- Gradient descent -- Locating the minimum of a simple risk function -- Gradient descent code example -- Gradient descent is a general technique -- Beyond simple gradient descent -- What we learned -- Summary -- Exercises -- Chapter 5: Probabilistic Modeling…”