Tabla de Contenidos: “…Understanding the various loss functions -- Softmax activation -- Building a more complex network in Keras -- Activation functions -- Optimizers -- Increasing the depth of network -- Impact on change in batch size -- Implementing neural networks in TensorFlow -- Using premade estimators -- Creating custom estimators -- Summary -- Chapter 10: Evaluating Results with TensorBoard -- Setting up TensorBoard -- Overview of summary operations -- Ways to debug the code -- Setting up TensorBoard from TensorFlow -- Summaries from custom estimator -- Summary -- Chapter 11: Optimizing the Model through Hyperparameter Tuning -- The intuition of hyperparameter tuning -- Overview of hyperparameter tuning -- Hyperparameter tuning in Google Cloud -- The model file -- Configuration file -- Setup file -- The __init__ file -- Summary -- Chapter 12: Preventing Overfitting with Regularization -- Intuition of over/under fitting -- Reducing overfitting -- Implementing L2 regularization -- Implementing L1 regularization -- Implementing dropout -- Reducing underfitting -- Summary -- Chapter 13: Beyond Feedforward Networks - CNN and RNN -- Convolutional neural networks -- Convolution layer -- Rectified Linear Units -- Pooling layers -- Fully connected layer -- Structure of a CNN -- TensorFlow overview -- Handwriting Recognition using CNN and TensorFlow -- Run Python code on Google Cloud Shell -- Recurrent neural network -- Fully recurrent neural networks -- Recursive neural networks -- Hopfield recurrent neural networks -- Elman neural networks -- Long short-term memory networks -- Handwriting Recognition using RNN and TensorFlow -- LSTM on Google Cloud Shell -- Summary -- Chapter 14: Time Series with LSTMs -- Introducing time series -- Classical approach to time series -- Estimation of the trend component -- Estimating the seasonality component -- Time series models…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Glad, Mad, Sad in Japan -- Fun/Done/Learn: An Alternative for Sprint Retrospective Events19 -- How Building a Strong Product Community Put Astah on the Map23 -- Agile Community Event and Meetup -- Chapter 9: The Philippines -- History -- Asia Pacific College: Bridging the Gap Between Academia and Industry Through Information Technology -- Insights -- Getting On and Around -- Agile Community Events and Meetups -- Chapter 10: Singapore -- History -- Insights -- Eight DON'Ts in Agile Transformation -- PALO IT - Valuing Creativity, Positivism, Team Spirit, and the Capacity to Deliver -- Agile and Consciousness in Organizations -- Midlife Crisis -- The Consciousness Lens -- Agile: The Magic Recipe -- The Role of Leaders -- Fractality and the Role of Leaders -- Beyond Agile: The Dawn of Conscious Leaders -- Goals for Sustainable Development -- The Triple Bottom Line -- Conscious Leadership -- Where to Start? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- About This Book -- Foolish Assumptions -- Icons Used in This Book -- Beyond the Book -- Where to Go from Here -- Part 1 Understanding LinkedIn Basics -- Chapter 1 Looking into LinkedIn -- Understanding Your New Contact Management and Networking Toolkit -- Keeping track of your contacts -- Understanding the different degrees of network connections -- Discovering What You Can Do with LinkedIn -- Building your brand and profile -- Looking for a job now or later -- Finding out all kinds of valuable information -- Expanding your network -- Navigating LinkedIn -- Touring the top navigation bar -- Looking at the Settings &amp -- Privacy page -- Understanding LinkedIn Costs and Benefits -- Weighing free versus paid accounts -- Comparing the paid accounts -- Upgrading to a premium account -- Chapter 2 Signing Up and Creating Your Account -- Joining LinkedIn -- Joining with an invitation -- Joining without an invitation -- Completing the sign-up process -- Building Your Network -- Chapter 3 Completing Your Profile -- Adding a Summary and Basic Information -- Updating the basic information sections -- Writing your summary first -- Completing Your Summary -- Adding More Profile Sections -- Adding a Position -- Reporting Your Education -- Setting Your Profile URL and Public View -- Part 2 Finding Others and Getting Connected -- Chapter 4 Discovering and Building Your Network -- Searching Your First-Degree Connections -- Searching the LinkedIn Network -- Starting with basic search options -- Advanced searching with filters -- Performing advanced searches -- Saving searches for future use -- Chapter 5 Growing Your Network -- Building a Meaningful Network -- Importing Contacts into LinkedIn -- Importing a contacts list from your email system -- Checking for members…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Investment Flow Methodology in the Agriculture Sector -- Findings from Different Indicators -- Underinvestment in Food and Agriculture Relative to Needs -- Nutrition Financing -- The Dramatically Changed External Environment for Assistance of International Institutions: The New Actors -- Remittances -- Foreign Direct Investment: Inflows and Outflows -- Increased Role of Philanthropic Foundations -- IDA Graduation and Likely Implications for Aid to Food and Agriculture -- New and Innovative Sources of Financing beyond Official Development Assistance -- Future Sources of Financing -- Part II International Organizations -- 8. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…A range of efforts are undertaken to prevent school failure and facilitate students' transitions beyond school -- Challenges -- The education system lacks a clear vision to guide and lend coherence to reform initiatives -- The limited availability of data on student and school performance reduces transparency and makes it difficult to monitor and evaluate educational quality and equity -- There is limited transparency over the levels of funding across schools and school networks -- The school funding mechanisms serve overlapping purposes and create a high administrative burden for schools and central authorities -- The main school funding allocation mechanisms do not compensate for socio-economic disadvantage -- A lack of systematic co-ordination and communication between key actors in the system limits synergies and the spread of good practices -- Students' transitions across levels of education could benefit from a more systematic and sustained collaboration among educators -- Despite a strong VET system, the status of vocational education remains low and there are concerns that students are oriented away from vocational training -- Career guidance could benefit from greater co-ordination among its providers and a better integration into schools -- Policy options -- Use the development process of the Gesamtvision to provide a renewed vision for the education system, strategic guidance on education policy reforms and a basis for an actionable implementation strategy -- Articulate an overarching vision for the education system -- Identify challenges in key policy areas and formulate specific goals aligned with the overarching vision -- Link the goals to specific policy actions and turn the Gesamtvision into a implementation strategy based on meaningful stakeholder engagement…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- About This Book -- Foolish Assumptions -- Icons Used in This Book -- Beyond the Book -- Where to Go from Here -- 1 Getting to Know Your Apple Watch -- Chapter 1 Buying Your Apple Watch -- Discover the Newest Apple Watch Models and watchOS 9 -- Choose the Right Apple Watch for You -- Understand What You Need to Use Your Apple Watch -- Find Out Where to Buy Your Apple Watch -- See What's in the Box -- Take a First Look at Apple Watch -- Get Further Help for Your Apple Watch -- Chapter 2 Setting Up -- Set Up a New Apple Watch -- Put on your Apple Watch -- Turn on and pair your Watch -- Navigating your Apple Watch -- Keep Your Apple Watch Running -- Charge your Apple Watch -- Keep tabs on the battery power -- What to do when the battery power is low -- Optimize battery charging -- Connecting Apple Watch to Wi-Fi -- Connect Bluetooth Devices to Apple Watch -- Pair a Bluetooth device -- Select an audio output source -- Meet the Apple Watch App -- The My Watch tab -- Change or add Watches -- Manage your watch faces -- Customize device settings -- Customize app settings -- Add more apps -- The Face Gallery tab -- The Discover tab -- Wake Up and Turn Off Apple Watch -- Wake up, Apple Watch! …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Front Cover -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Figures and Tables -- Abbreviations -- Notes on Contributors -- Part 1 Introducing the Thematic Volume: Key Findings and Recommendations -- Chapter 1 Curbing Illicit Financial Flows in Commodity Trade and Beyond -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Why Trade-Related IFF s Matter -- 3 Policy Context and Scholarly Debate -- 3.1 Global Tax Governance Reform -- 3.2 Assessing Trade Mispricing -- 4 'Curbing IFF s in Commodity Trade': Research Project Set-Up and Findings -- 4.1 Analytical Frameworks -- 4.2 Specific Findings and Policy Recommendations for Home and Host States -- 4.2.1 Recommendations for Host States -- 4.2.2 Recommendations for Home States -- 4.3 Implications for Future Research -- 5 Introducing the Thematic Volume -- 6 Concluding Reflections -- References -- Part 2 Definition, Measurement, and Drivers of Trade-Related IFFs -- Chapter 2 Measuring Illicit Financial Flows: New Data and Methods -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Evolving IFF Definitions -- 3 New Data and Methods -- 3.1 Trade-Based IFF s -- 3.2 Profit Shifting -- 3.3 Offshore Wealth -- 4 Concluding Remarks: Policies to Measure and Reduce IFFs -- References -- Chapter 3 Trade-Related Illicit Financial Flows in Southeast Asia: Evidence from Extractive and Agricultural Commodities in Laos -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Trade Mispricing Values in ASEAN -- 3 Laws and Regulatory Frameworks Combating IFFs in ASEAN -- 3.1 The General Legal Environment for Addressing Trade-Related IFF s in ASEAN -- 3.2 The Implementation of Transfer Pricing Rules in ASEAN -- 4 Production of Extractive and Agricultural Commodities in Lao PDR: Measuring Export Mispricing -- 4.1 The Extractive and Agricultural Sectors -- 4.1.1 Gold and Copper -- 4.1.2 Rubber and Coffee -- 4.2 Measuring Export Mispricing in Lao PDR…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover -- Logic and Computer Design Fundamentals -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1: Digital Systems and Information -- Information Representation -- The Digital Computer -- Beyond the Computer -- More on the Generic Computer -- Abstraction Layers in Computer Systems Design -- An Overview of the Digital Design Process -- Number Systems -- Binary Numbers -- Octal and Hexadecimal Numbers -- Number Ranges -- Arithmetic Operations -- Conversion from Decimal to Other Bases -- Decimal Codes -- Alphanumeric Codes -- ASCII Character Code -- Parity Bit -- Gray Codes -- Chapter Summary -- References -- Problems -- Chapter 2: Combinational Logic Circuits -- Binary Logic and Gates -- Binary Logic -- Logic Gates -- HDL Representations of Gates -- Boolean Algebra -- Basic Identities of Boolean Algebra -- Algebraic Manipulation -- Complement of a Function -- Standard Forms -- Minterms and Maxterms -- Sum of Products -- Product of Sums -- Two-Level Circuit Optimization -- Cost Criteria -- Map Structures -- Two-Variable Maps -- Three-Variable Maps -- Map Manipulation -- Essential Prime Implicants -- Nonessential Prime Implicants -- Product-of-Sums Optimization -- Don't-Care Conditions -- Exclusive-Or Operator and Gates -- Odd Function -- Gate Propagation Delay -- HDLs Overview -- Logic Synthesis -- HDL Representations-VHDL -- HDL Representations-Verilog -- Chapter Summary -- References -- Problems -- Chapter 3: Combinational Logic Design -- Beginning Hierarchical Design -- Technology Mapping -- Combinational Functional Blocks -- Rudimentary Logic Functions -- Value-Fixing, Transferring, and Inverting -- Multiple-Bit Functions -- Enabling -- Decoding -- Decoder and Enabling Combinations -- Decoder-Based Combinational Circuits -- Encoding -- Priority Encoder -- Encoder Expansion -- Selecting -- Multiplexers -- Multiplexer-Based Combinational Circuits…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Barriers to Connection -- Barriers to Talent -- Case Study: Ultranauts -- Toward Neuroinclusive Human Connection -- Social Inclusion -- Cognitive Inclusion -- Emotional Inclusion -- Sensory Inclusion -- Biography -- References -- 23 Inclusion Is the Foundation for Human Connection -- Biography -- References -- 24 Beyond the Individual: The Power of Community -- Cultivating Trust -- Establishing a Solidarity-driven Culture -- Redefining Metrics of Success -- Enhancing Empathy and Understanding -- Promoting Transparent and Inclusive Communication -- Biography -- References -- 25 Empathy -- Biography -- References -- Part VI People Pleasers -- 26 How to Avoid Burnout Through the Power of Human Connection -- Join a Professional Group of Likeminded, Trusted Supporters -- Identify and Form Relationships with Resilient Role Models -- Ask for Help -- Offer Help -- Align Yourself with Positive, Optimistic Colleagues -- Seek One-on-one Support -- Regularly Connect with People Outside of Work -- Biography -- References -- 27 Leading Gen Z -- Major Trends Impacting Gen Z -- Gen Z in the Workplace -- Cultivating Human-centric Mindsets and Essential Skills -- Autonomy -- New Leadership Paradigm in Action -- Mastery -- New Leadership Paradigm in Action -- Purpose -- New Leadership Paradigm in Action -- Connect with Gen Z for Success…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…API Gateway pricing -- Lambda pricing -- SimpleDB pricing -- DynamoDB -- Total pricing -- Summary -- Chapter 3: Using the Serverless Framework -- Serverless Framework -- Understanding the Serverless Framework -- Other frameworks -- Installing the framework -- Configuring the framework -- Managing permissions in a team -- Creating a new project -- The handler.js file -- The serverless.yml file -- Configuring the Lambda limits -- Deploying a service -- Invoking a function -- Retrieving logs -- Adding endpoints -- Cross-Origin Resource Sharing -- Removing a service -- Going beyond the basics -- Using npm packages -- Accessing other AWS resources -- Events -- The S3 event -- Schedule events -- Serving HTML pages with Lambda -- Using configuration variables -- Plugins -- Showing deployment information -- Scaffolding -- Summary -- Chapter 4: Hosting the Website -- Serving static files with Amazon S3 -- Creating a bucket -- Enabling web hosting -- Handling errors -- Using redirection rules -- Using an error document -- Delegating to CloudFront -- Prerendering pages -- Supporting www anchors -- Uploading static files -- Automating website publishing -- Serving gzip files -- Setting up Route 53 -- Creating a hosted zone -- Creating record sets -- Setting up CloudFront -- Creating a distribution -- Handling CloudFront caching -- Invalidating server-side cache -- Invalidating client-side cache -- Updating Route 53 to use CloudFront -- Supporting HTTPS -- Creating a mail exchange record -- Requesting free certificates with AWS Certificate Manager -- Configuring CloudFront to support HTTPS connections -- Summary -- Chapter 5: Building the Frontend -- Getting started with React -- React principles -- The Flux pattern -- React hello-world -- Building a shopping cart -- Preparing the development environment -- Organizing the solution -- Composing components…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Summary -- Chapter 4: Wireless Connectivity, the Nervous Pathway to Delivering IoT Data -- 10 knowledge points about wireless data communication -- OSI model -- Signal processing -- Electromagnetic waves -- Frequency and wavelength -- dB, dBm, and dBi -- Signal strength and quality -- Shannon's Law and theoretical channel capacity -- Modulation -- Antenna technology -- Propagation distance -- BLE -- History and current status -- Bluetooth 1.0 to 3.0 - the age of Bluetooth Classic -- Bluetooth 4.0 to 5.3 and beyond - the era of BLE -- Wi-Fi -- History and current status -- Wi-Fi 6 -- Wi-Fi 6E -- Wi-Fi 7 -- 4G/LTE and 5G -- History and current status -- NB-IoT -- LTE CAT-M -- Standard organization -- Ecosystem players -- Summary -- Chapter 5: The Cloud, IoT's "Superpower Brain" -- Important tips -- Why is the cloud essential for IoT? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- The Puzzle of the 'Head Count' -- Poverty Beyond the 'Poverty Line' -- Poverty as Capability Deprivation and Lack of Social Opportunity -- Poverty, Hunger and Food Insecurity -- Poverty and Unemployment -- State Planning and the Fight Against Poverty -- Public Distribution System -- Employment Guarantee Schemes -- Economic Growth, Inequality of Opportunity and Regional Disparity -- Exclusion and Social Conflict -- Suggested Readings -- Questions…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Expressions of The Public Interest -- Accounting and Human Rights -- Part VII Multinational Corporations and Globalization -- 32 The Globalization of Business Ethics -- Business Ethics Emerges In Us Business Schools -- A Focus on Business Ethics Emerges In Us Corporations -- Interest In Business Ethics Beyond The United States -- Globalization Becomes An Economic Reality -- The Growth of Corporate Global Ethics Programs -- Defining a Global Ethic for Business: Challenges -- 33 Cross-Cultural Management Ethics In Multinational Commerce -- Foundations: Hofstede'S Cultural Values Approach In International Management Studies -- Building on Hofstede'S Foundations -- World Values Survey and Modernization Theory -- Ethical Judgments, Algorithms, and Codes of Ethics -- 34 Corruption, Bribery, and Moral Norms Across National Boundaries -- Bribery and Gifts -- Bribery: Inherent Characteristics -- Bribery: a Complex Social, Economic, and Political Reality -- Addressing The Paradox of Bribery Through Legal Reform -- The Pursuit of Integrity In Business and Government: Lessons and Challenges -- The Character of Corruption -- Part VIII Business Ethics Across The Globe -- 35 Business Ethics In China -- The New Era in China and The Rise of Business Ethics -- Theoretical Trends in Chinese Business Ethics -- The Future Challenges of Business Ethics in China -- 36 Business Ethics in South Asia: Gandhian Trusteeship and Its Relevance for The Twenty-First Century -- Business Ethics in South Asia: Scholarship, Teaching, and Practice -- Gandhi'S Trusteeship Framework -- Trusteeship: a Critical Appraisal -- Applicability of Gandhian Trusteeship in The Twenty-First Century -- 37 Business Ethics in Africa -- Business Ethics Developments in Sub-Saharan Africa -- Business in Africa: Contextual Considerations and Challenges -- Towards An African Business Ethics…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Maternal-Infant Transmission -- POPULATION GROUPS AT INCREASED RISK OF HIV INFECTION -- Homosexual Men -- Intravenous Drug Users -- Hemophiliacs -- Recipients of Blood Transfusions -- Heterosexual Contacts of HIV-Infected Persons -- Infants and Children -- Health Care Workers -- EPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES AND FINDINGS -- Surveillance -- National Disease Reporting -- Epidemiologic Research -- Case-Control Studies -- Prospective Cohort Studies -- Serologic Surveys -- Findings of Epidemiologic Studies -- The Prevalence of HIV Infection -- AIDS Cases By Risk Group -- AIDS Case Trends by Geographic Area -- AIDS Case Trends by Sex, Race, and Age -- AIDS Case Trends in Disease Presentation and Mortality -- HIV INFECTION AND AIDS OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES -- African Countries -- Other Countries -- REFERENCES -- 3 The Future Course of the Epidemic and Available National Resources -- PROJECTIONS BY THE PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE -- PROBLEMS IN MAKING PROJECTIONS -- THE EPIDEMIC WITHIN AND BEYOND HIGH-RISK GROUPS -- THE PROPORTION OF SEROPOSITIVE INDIVIDUALS WHO WILL DEVELOP AIDS -- LONG-TERM PROSPECTS -- NATIONAL RESOURCES FOR DEALING WITH AIDS AND HIV -- Impediments to Involvement -- Mechanisms for Coordinating Activities -- REFERENCES -- 4 Opportunities for Altering the Course of the Epidemic -- PUBLIC EDUCATION -- What Should Be the Content of Public Education? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- About This Book -- How This Book Is Organized -- Part 1: Getting Started with Lightroom Classic -- Part 2: Managing Your Photos with Lightroom Classic -- Part 3: Working in Lightroom Classic's Digital Darkroom -- Part 4: Sharing Your Work with the World -- Part 5: The Part of Tens -- Conventions Used in This Book -- Icons Used in This Book -- Beyond the Book -- Where to Go from Here -- Part 1: Getting Started with Lightroom Classic -- Chapter 1: Getting to Know Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Classic -- The Two Versions of Lightroom -- Understanding the Creative Cloud -- Creative Cloud Photography Plan -- Figuring out whether Lightroom Classic is right for you -- Knowing whether you need the new Lightroom -- Introducing the Lightroom Classic Interface -- Getting what makes each module unique -- What the Lightroom Classic modules have in common -- Controlling the Lightroom Classic interface -- Using Lightroom Classic's secondary display view -- Getting Up and Running -- Preparing for installation -- Chapter 2: Working with Catalogs -- Understanding How the Catalog Works -- One catalog to rule them all -- Knowing where the catalog is located -- Choosing which catalog to open -- Caring for the Catalog -- Backing up your catalog -- Optimizing your catalog -- Managing the preview cache files -- Exploring the Metadata options -- Working with Multiple Catalogs -- Transferring data between catalogs -- Chapter 3: Lightroom Classic Basics That You Should Know -- Configuring Lightroom Classic Preferences -- General preferences -- The Presets preferences -- The External Editing preferences -- Setting up additional external editors -- The File Handling preferences -- The Interface preferences -- The Performance preferences -- The Lightroom Sync preferences -- The Display preferences…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…From a liquid society, through technological imagination, to beyond the knowledge society -- Opening lecture: Digital spaces and the material culture -- Part 1: Innovation -- Innovation for the digitization process of the AECO sector -- The digital revolution and the art of co-creation -- Towards a new humanism of technological innovation in design of the built environment -- A bim-based approach to energy analysis of existing buildings in the Italian context -- Short-term wind speed forecasting model using hybrid neural networks and wavelet packet decomposition -- COGNIBUILD: Cognitive digital twin framework for advanced building management and predictive maintenance -- Design of CCHP system with the help of combined chiller system, solar energy, and gas microturbine -- Digital construction and management the public’s infrastructures -- An innovative multi-objective optimization digital workflow for social housing deep energy renovation design process -- Digital information management in the built environment: Data-driven approaches for building process optimization -- Immersive facility management – A methodological approach based on BIM and mixed reality for training and maintenance operations -- A digital information model for coastal maintenance and waterfront recovery -- Sustainable workplace: Space planning model to optimize environmental impact -- Digital twin models supporting cognitive buildings for ambient assisted living -- Less automation more information: A learning tool for a post-occupancy operation and evaluation -- A prosumer approach for feeding the digital twin. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover -- FM -- Copyright -- Contributors -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1: Machine Learning Fundamentals -- Making the Most Out of this Book - Your Certification and Beyond -- Comparing AI, ML, and DL -- Examining ML -- Examining DL -- Classifying supervised, unsupervised, and reinforcement learning -- Introducing supervised learning -- The CRISP-DM modeling life cycle -- Data splitting -- Overfitting and underfitting -- Applying cross-validation and measuring overfitting -- Bootstrapping methods -- The variance versus bias trade-off -- Shuffling your training set -- Modeling expectations -- Introducing ML frameworks -- ML in the cloud -- Summary -- Exam Readiness Drill - Chapter Review Questions -- Chapter 2: AWS Services for Data Storage -- Technical requirements -- Storing Data on Amazon S3 -- Creating buckets to hold data -- Distinguishing between object tags and object metadata -- Controlling access to buckets and objects on amazon s3 -- S3 bucket policy -- Protecting data on amazon s3 -- Applying bucket versioning -- Applying encryption to buckets -- Securing s3 objects at rest and in transit -- Using other types of data stores -- Relational Database Service (RDS) -- Managing failover in Amazon RDS -- Taking automatic backups, RDS snapshots, and restore and read replicas -- Writing to Amazon Aurora with multi-master capabilities -- Storing columnar data on Amazon Redshift -- Amazon DynamoDB for NoSQL Database-as-a-Service -- Summary -- Exam Readiness Drill - Chapter Review Questions -- Chapter 3: AWS Services for Data Migration and Processing -- Technical requirements -- Creating ETL jobs on AWS Glue -- Features of AWS Glue -- Getting hands-on with AWS Glue Data Catalog components -- Getting hands-on with AWS Glue ETL components -- Querying S3 data using Athena -- Processing real-time data using Kinesis Data Streams…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Dealing with invalidation in multi-threaded scenarios -- Summary -- Chapter 5: Making a Case for std::vector -- Performance considerations -- Comparison with other containers -- The memory advantage -- The takeaway -- Practical use cases -- A resizable dynamic array at heart -- Data processing and analytics -- Graphics and game development -- Beyond just containers -- Versatility and efficiency -- A testament to versatility -- Efficiency isn't just about speed -- A safe default, but not the only option -- Summary -- Part 2: Understanding STL Data Structures -- Chapter 6: Advanced Sequence Container Usage -- Technical requirements -- std::array -- Purpose and suitability -- Ideal use cases -- Performance -- Memory management -- Thread safety -- Extensions and variants -- Sorting and searching complexity -- Interface and member functions -- Comparisons -- Interactions with algorithms -- Exceptions -- Customization -- Example -- Best practices -- std::vector -- Purpose and suitability -- Ideal use cases -- Performance -- Memory management -- Thread safety -- Extensions and variants -- Sorting and searching complexity -- Special interface and member functions -- Comparisons -- Interactions with algorithms -- Exceptions -- Customization -- Example -- Best practices -- std::deque -- Purpose and suitability -- Ideal use cases -- Performance -- Memory management -- Thread safety -- Extensions and variants -- Sorting and searching complexity -- Interface and member functions -- Comparisons -- Interactions with algorithms -- Exceptions -- Customization -- Example -- Best practices -- std::list -- Purpose and suitability -- Ideal use cases -- Performance -- Memory management -- Thread safety -- Extensions and variants -- Sorting and searching complexity -- Interface and member functions -- Comparisons -- Interactions with algorithms -- Exceptions…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Document classification -- N-grams -- Selecting a subset of n-grams -- Using genetic algorithms to search for a fixed-size subset -- Python implementation -- Summary -- Further reading -- Chapter 12: Explainable AI, Causality, and Counterfactuals with Genetic Algorithms -- Technical requirements -- Unlocking the black box - XAI -- Unraveling cause and effect - causality in AI -- What-if scenarios - counterfactuals -- Genetic algorithms in counterfactual analysis - navigating alternative scenarios -- The German Credit Risk dataset -- Exploring counterfactual scenarios for credit risk prediction -- The Applicant class -- The CreditRiskData class -- Counterfactuals with genetic algorithms -- The genetic algorithm solution -- More "what-if" scenarios -- Extending to other datasets -- Summary -- Further reading -- Part 4: Enhancing Performance with Concurrency and Cloud Strategies -- Chapter 13: Accelerating Genetic Algorithms - the Power of Concurrency -- Technical requirements -- Long runtimes in real-world genetic algorithms -- Parallelizing genetic algorithms -- Multithreading -- Multiprocessing -- Back to the OneMax problem -- A baseline benchmark program -- Simulating computational intensity -- Multiprocessing using the Pool class -- Increasing the number of processes -- Multiprocessing using the SCOOP library -- Distributed computing with SCOOP -- Summary -- Further reading -- Chapter 14: Beyond Local Resources - Scaling Genetic Algorithms in the Cloud -- Technical requirements -- The next level in genetic algorithm performance -embracing a client-server architecture -- Implementing a client-server model -- Using a separate environment -- Revisiting the One-Max problem, yet again -- Creating the server component -- Creating the client component -- Running the asynchronous client -- Using a production-grade app server…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…. -- ... to Complex Trajectories: Stages, Styles and Dynamics -- Narrative and Identity Across the Adult Life Span -- Identity as development task of adolescence and beyond -- Narrative as life story and layer of personality -- Research Method: The Faith Development Interview -- "Interfaces" to current (narrative) approaches in Psychology -- Looking back on looking back: Double diachronicity -- Following Narrative Religious Identities or Worldviews -- Changing Narrative Religious Identities in Changing Social and Historical Contexts -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 4 Mixed‐Method and Longitudinal. …”