“…"This book is intended to provide a bottom-up and fundamental understanding of the use of probabilistic methods and reliability analysis techniques in engineering applications. …”

“…You'll learn how to collaborate with finance, procurement, product, and engineering teams to optimize your cloud spend and achieve cost savings that can make a significant impact on your bottom line. The book begins by showing you how to effectively monitor and manage your cloud usage, identify cost-saving opportunities, and implement changes that'll reduce your overall spend. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…34 -- 1.3.2 La plate-forme de lutte pour la souveraineté alimentaire : -- analyse top down ou bottom up ?. 38 -- 1.4 Question de recherche 42 -- 2. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Corporate Reputation and Return on Investment (ROI): Measuring the Bottom-line Impact of Reputation Yungwook Kim and Jungeun Yang 47. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Covert Video; 1.4.3 Security Surveillance Applications; 1.4.4 Safety Applications; 1.4.5 Video Access Control; 1.5 The Bottom Line; Chapter 2 Video Technology Overview; 2.1 Overview; 2.2 The Video System; 2.2.1 The Role of Light and Reflection; 2.2.2 The Lens Function…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Model fitting and evaluation -- Statistical significance of regression outputs -- Generalize estimating equations -- Mixed effects models -- Time series data -- Generalized linear models -- Applying regularization to linear models -- Tree methods -- Decision trees -- Random forest -- Scaling out with PySpark - predicting year of song release -- Summary -- Chapter 5: Putting Data in its Place - Classification Methods and Analysis -- Logistic regression -- Multiclass logistic classifiers: multinomial regression -- Formatting a dataset for classification problems -- Learning pointwise updates with stochastic gradient descent -- Jointly optimizing all parameters with second-order methods -- Fitting the model -- Evaluating classification models -- Strategies for improving classification models -- Separating Nonlinear boundaries with Support vector machines -- Fitting and SVM to the census data -- Boosting: combining small models to improve accuracy -- Gradient boosted decision trees -- Comparing classification methods -- Case study: fitting classifier models in pyspark -- Summary -- Chapter 6: Words and Pixels - Working with Unstructured Data -- Working with textual data -- Cleaning textual data -- Extracting features from textual data -- Using dimensionality reduction to simplify datasets -- Principal component analysis -- Latent Dirichlet Allocation -- Using dimensionality reduction in predictive modeling -- Images -- Cleaning image data -- Thresholding images to highlight objects -- Dimensionality reduction for image analysis -- Case Study: Training a Recommender System in PySpark -- Summary -- Chapter 7: Learning from the Bottom Up - Deep Networks and Unsupervised Features -- Learning patterns with neural networks -- A network of one - the perceptron -- Combining perceptrons - a single-layer neural network -- Parameter fitting with back-propagation…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright and Credits -- Packt Upsell -- Contributors -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1: Getting Started with JuliaImages -- Technical requirements -- Setting up your Julia -- Installing packages -- Reading images -- Reading a single image from disk -- Reading a single image from a URL -- Reading images in a folder -- Saving images -- Using test images -- Previewing images -- Cropping, scaling, and resizing -- Cropping an image -- Resizing an image -- Scaling an image -- Scaling by percentage -- Scaling to a specific dimension -- Scaling by two-fold -- Rotating images -- Summary -- Questions -- Chapter 2: Image Enhancement -- Technical requirements -- Images as arrays -- Accessing pixels -- Converting images into arrays of numbers -- Converting arrays of numbers into colors -- Changing color saturation -- Converting an image to grayscale -- Creating a custom color filter -- Applying image filters -- Padding images -- Padding with a constant value -- Padding by duplicating content from an image -- Blurring images -- Sharpening images -- Summary -- Questions -- Chapter 3: Image Adjustment -- Technical requirements -- Image binarization -- Fundamental operations -- Image erosion -- Object separation using erosion -- Image preparation for text recognition -- Image dilation -- Merging almost-connected objects -- Highlighting details -- Derived operations -- Image opening -- Image closing -- Top-hat and bottom-hat operation -- Adjusting image contrast -- Summary -- Questions -- Chapter 4: Image Segmentation -- Technical requirements -- Supervised methods -- Seeded region growing -- Identifying a simple object -- Identifying a complex object -- Unsupervised methods -- The graph-based approach -- The fast scanning approach -- Helper functions -- Summary -- Questions -- Further reading -- Chapter 5: Image Representation…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- The Important Difference Between Soil and Dirt -- Exporting Nutrients -- The High (Energy) Cost of Low-Cost Fertilizers -- Soil Erosion and Desertification -- Conclusion -- Chapter 23 Parched -- Running Dry -- What Lies Beneath -- Exporting Water-The Food Story -- The Food Bubble -- Energy and Water -- The Future of Water -- Chapter 24 All Fished Out -- The Oxygen You Breathe -- The Great Thiamine (B1) Mystery -- The Bottom Line -- Chapter 25 What Do You Mean We're Running Out of Sand? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright and credits -- Contributors -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Part 1: Working with Motion Graphics -- Chapter 1: Getting to Know the User Interface and Workflow -- Technical requirements -- Customizing the user interface -- Saving an After Effects project -- Importing media files -- Creating compositions and keyframes -- Working with the Timeline panel and layer properties -- Trimming composition duration -- Working with text and animations -- Rendering the composition -- Optimizing After Effects' performance -- Summary -- Chapter 2: Applying Effects and Presets to Create Animated Graphics -- Technical requirements -- Importing footage -- Previewing presets -- Applying presets -- Precomposing -- Modifying the preset -- Summary -- Chapter 3: Deep-Dive into Text Animations -- Technical requirements -- Opening the project and creating the text layer -- Styling text using the Character and Paragraph panels -- Working with text animation -- Saving animation as a preset -- Using multiple text animators -- Offset animation -- Working with the Wiggly Selector -- Animating text on a path -- Adding motion blur -- Summary -- Chapter 4: Animating Shape Layers -- Technical requirements -- Creating shape layers -- Exploring shape tools -- Creating a funnel shape -- Working with Bezier paths -- Creating the bottom section of the funnel -- Creating text layers -- Animating shape and text layers -- Creating an info chart -- Creating a bar graph line -- Using Null for vertex points of Shape layers -- Animating the info chart -- Merging the compositions -- Creating a transition between compositions -- Summary -- Chapter 5: Adding Motion to Photoshop and Illustrator Graphics -- Technical requirements -- Creating a master composition -- Importing Illustrator and Photoshop files -- Importing Illustrator files…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…; 1.5 Implementation and Integration; 1.6 AoIP in Use Today; 1.7 The Bottom Line; Chapter 2 Network Engineering for Audio Engineers; 2.1 TDM Versus IP…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…NAVIGATION AFFECTS SITE CREDIBILITY; 1.2.6. THE BOTTOM LINE; 1.3. WEB NAVIGATION DESIGN; 1.4. SUMMARY; 1.5. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…1.6. Returning a Top or Bottom Number of Records1.6.2. Solution; 1.6.3. Discussion; 1.7. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…1.14.2.13 Solar radiation 1.14.2.14 Sonic velocity and sound channels; 1.14.2.15 Turbidity; 1.14.2.16 Viscosity; 1.14.2.17 Water quality; 1.14.2.18 Water temperature; 1.14.3 Coastal zone classifications and bottom types; 1.15 Ambient air; 1.16 Climatic extremes; 1.17 Marine pollution; References; Chapter 2 Marine vehicle types; 2.1 Overview; 2.2 Merchant ships; 2.2.1 General cargo ships; 2.2.2 Container ships; 2.2.3 Roll-on roll-off ships (Ro-Ro ships); 2.2.4 Car carriers; 2.2.5 Bulk cargo carriers; 2.2.5.1 Tankers; 2.2.5.2 Dry bulk carriers; 2.2.6 Passenger ships; 2.2.7 Tugs…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Sci. 2018, 8, 2679, doi:10.3390/app8122679 -- Georges Fournier, Jean-Pierre Ardouin and Martin Levesque Modeling Sea Bottom Hyperspectral Reflectance, Reprinted from: Appl. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…People in the lower (and mid) middle have low chances of rising to the top, and face a high and rising risk of slipping out towards the bottom…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Discovering Business Processes -- From Implicit to Explicit -- Basis -- Business Process Analysis -- BPA Process -- Roles -- Approach -- Centralized -- Distributed -- Top-Down -- Bottom-Up -- Structured -- Free Form -- Orthogonal Approaches -- 3.4. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Drawings of decorated fragments and bottoms, everything pottery -- 1, 3: SU 21 -- 2, 4-7, 9: SU 20 -- 8, 10: SU 15. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Ethics and Strategy: The Race to the Bottom -- The Value of Cost Leadership -- Cost Leadership and Environmental Threats -- Strategy in Depth: The Economics of Cost Leadership -- Cost Leadership and Sustained Competitive Advantage -- The Rarity of Sources of Cost Advantage -- The Imitability of Sources of Cost Advantage -- Organizing to Implement Cost Leadership -- Organizational Structure in Implementing Cost Leadership -- Summary -- Challenge Questions -- Problem Set -- End Notes -- CHAPTER 5 Product Differentiation -- Who Is Victoria, and What Is Her Secret? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- The multiple-selection structure (switch) -- The expression is tested at the top of the loop (while) -- The expression is tested at the bottom of the loop (do...while) -- Iterate on each object's properties (for...in) -- Iterate values in an iterable (for...of) -- Counter-controlled repetition (for) -- Functions -- Classes -- Interfaces -- Namespaces -- Putting everything together -- Summary -- Chapter 2: Working with Types -- The TypeScript type system's characteristics -- The line between TypeScript and JavaScript -- Type inference -- Optional static type annotations -- Structural type system -- Core features of the TypeScript type system -- Union types -- Type aliases -- Intersection types -- Non-nullable types -- The --strict mode -- The typeof operator -- Type guards -- Custom type guards -- Control flow analysis -- Literal types -- Discriminated unions -- The never type -- Enumerations -- Object literals -- Weak types -- The keyof operator -- Index signature -- Local types -- Type casting -- Advanced features of the TypeScript type system -- Generic types -- Generic constraints -- Mapped types -- Lookup types -- Mapped type modifiers -- Conditional types…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Viewing all allocated interrupt (IRQ) lines -- Understanding and using top and bottom halves -- Specifying and using a tasklet -- Initializing the tasklet -- Running the tasklet -- Understanding the kernel softirq mechanism -- Available softirqs and what they are for -- Understanding how the kernel runs softirqs -- Running tasklets -- Employing the ksoftirqd kernel threads -- Softirqs and concurrency -- Hardirqs, tasklets, and threaded handlers - what to use when -- Fully figuring out the context -- Viewing the context - examples -- How Linux prioritizes activities -- A few remaining FAQs answered -- Load balancing interrupts and IRQ affinity -- Does the kernel maintain separate IRQ stacks? …”