“…Almost any meaningful enterprise software market will have communities of like-minded users. As a product manager, it's your job to find them and learn as much as you can. …”

“…Expect More is a rallying call to communities to raise the bar, and their expectations, for great libraries."…”

“…Then, as now, low school attendance, poor English literacy scores and the educational and social disengagement of young people in remote Indigenous communities was portrayed as a 'crisis'. While they acknowledge that mainstream education is an effective learning pathway for some, their combined experience in working with Indigenous communities in remote Australia suggested that there were many Indigenous young people in those communities for whom mainstream education appeared not to hold the answers to their visions of the future. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “….) -- A COMPARISON OF ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE BETWEEN COMMUNITY COLLEGE TRANSFER (...) -- CAPÍTULO 5: CIENCIAS SOCIALES -- BUILDING PEACE IN DIVIDES SOCIETIES. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Creating your own fund -- Robo advisors -- Unit investment trusts -- Brokerage managed accounts -- Hedge funds for the wealthier -- Chapter 11 Understanding Investment Brokers -- Getting Your Money's Worth: Discount Brokers -- Assessing the high-commission salespeople's arguments -- Selecting a discount broker -- Checking Out Online Brokers -- Considering "free" online trades -- Examining your online trading motives -- Taking other costs into account -- Looking at service quality -- Listing the best online brokers -- Part 4 Investing in Real Estate, Small Business, and Other Investments -- Chapter 12 Seeking Shelter and Appreciation in Real Estate -- Comparing Owning a Home to Renting -- Weighing financial considerations -- Considering costs and your time frame -- Deciding when to buy -- Figuring Your Home-Buying Budget -- Getting your financial house in order -- Determining your down payment -- Doing lenders' calculations -- Shopping for Your Home -- Understanding your housing options -- Researching communities -- Checking out and valuing a home -- Investing in Investment Real Estate -- Understanding real estate investment's appeal -- Sizing up real estate investment options -- Conducting real estate investing research -- Chapter 13 Financing and Putting Together Real Estate Investment Deals -- Financing Your Real Estate Deals -- Achieving loan approval -- Debating fixed-rate versus adjustable-rate mortgages -- Deciding between fixed and adjustable mortgages -- Finding your best fixed-rate mortgage -- Landing an appropriate adjustable-rate mortgage -- Understanding other mortgage fees -- Finding the best lenders -- Refinancing for a better deal -- Working with Real Estate Agents -- Recognizing agent conflicts of interest -- Selecting a good agent -- Putting Your Deal Together -- Negotiating basics -- Inspecting the property…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…12.3.1 Occupation taxes -- 12.3.2 Transfer and wealth taxes -- 12.3.3 Betterment taxation -- 12.4 Land and property taxation in England and Wales -- 12.4.1 Occupation taxes -- 12.4.2 Transfer and wealth taxes -- 12.4.3 Betterment taxation in England -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 13 Valuations for Expropriation -- 13.1 Introduction -- 13.2 Valuation for expropriation -- 13.2.1 Valuing property rights that are to be taken or extinguished -- 13.2.2 Valuing retained property rights -- 13.2.3 Valuing compensation for disturbance -- 13.2.4 Valuing customary and informal land for expropriation purposes -- 13.2.5 Expropriation and non-market value -- 13.3 Valuations for compulsory purchase and planning compensation in England -- 13.3.1 Legal background -- 13.3.2 Compensation for land2 taken (compulsorily acquired) -- 13.3.3 Identifying the planning position -- 13.3.4 Compensation for severance and injurious affection -- 13.3.5 Compensation for disturbance and other losses -- 13.4 Planning compensation in England -- 13.4.1 Revocation, modification and discontinuance orders -- 13.4.2 Purchase notices -- 13.4.3 Blight compensation -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 14 Valuation Variance, Risk and Optionality -- 14.1 Introduction -- 14.2 Valuation accuracy and valuation variance -- 14.3 Analysing risk -- 14.3.1 Sensitivity analysis -- 14.3.2 Scenario modelling -- 14.3.3 Simulation -- 14.4 Flexibility and options -- 14.5 Uncertainty -- References -- Appendix: Land Uses and Valuation Methods -- A.1 Agriculture and fisheries -- A.2 Forests and woodland -- A.3 Natural resource extraction - water, minerals and other materials -- A.4 Recreation and leisure -- A.5 Utilities and infrastructure -- A.6 Residential -- A.7 Community services -- A.8 Land and buildings with (Re)development potential -- Notes -- References -- Glossary -- Index -- EULA…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Follow Up and Debrief -- Conclusion -- Do's and Don'ts -- About the Experts -- Resource Review -- Chapter 13 Runs, Walks, and Rides: Community-Based Fundraising -- Introduction -- Critical Skills and Competencies -- 1. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…The New Rules of Marketing &amp -- PR: How to Use Social Media, Online Video, Mobile Applications, Blogs, News Releases, and Viral Marketing to Reach Buyers Directly -- Contents -- Introduction -- The New Rules -- Life with the New Rules -- What's New -- Writing Like on a Blog, But in a Book -- Showcasing Success -- I: How the Web Has Changed the Rules of Marketing and PR -- 1: The Old Rules of Marketing and PR Are Ineffective in an Online World -- Advertising: A Money Pit of Wasted Resources -- One-Way Interruption Marketing Is Yesterday's Message -- The Old Rules of Marketing -- Public Relations Used to Be Exclusively about the Media -- Public Relations and Third-Party Ink -- Yes, the Media Are Still Important -- Press Releases and the Journalistic Black Hole -- The Old Rules of PR -- Learn to Ignore the Old Rules -- 2: The New Rules of Marketing and PR -- The Most Important Communications Revolution in Human History -- Open for Business -- The Long Tail of Marketing -- Tell Me Something I Don't Know, Please -- Bricks-and-Mortar News -- The Long Tail of PR -- The New Rules of Marketing and PR -- The Convergence of Marketing and PR on the Web -- 3: Reaching Your Buyers Directly -- The Right Marketing in a Wired World -- Let the World Know about Your Expertise -- Develop Information Your Buyers Want to Consume -- Big Birge Plumbing Company Grows Business in a Competitive Market -- Buyer Personas: The Basics -- Think Like a Publisher -- Staying Connected with Members and the Community -- Know the Goals and Let Content Drive Action -- Real-Time Business at American Airlines Reaches Buyers Directly -- II: Web-Based Communications to Reach Buyers Directly -- 4: Social Media and Your Targeted Audience -- What Is Social Media, Anyway? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Max pooling and subsampling -- Hidden layers and formal description on forwarding propagation -- CNN examples -- CNN training and backpropagation -- RNN -- Training and inference for IoT -- IoT data analytics and machine learning comparison and assessment -- Summary -- Chapter 12: IoT Security -- Cyber security vernacular -- Attack and threat terms -- Defense terms -- Anatomy of IoT cyber attacks -- Mirai -- Stuxnet -- Chain Reaction -- Physical and hardware security -- Root of Trust -- Key management and trusted platform modules -- Processor and memory space -- Storage security -- Physical security -- Cryptography -- Symmetric cryptography -- Asymmetric cryptography -- Cryptographic hash (authentication and signing) -- Public Key Infrastructure -- Network stack - Transport Layer Security -- Software defined perimeter -- Software-Defined Perimeter architecture -- Blockchains and cryptocurrencies in IoT -- Bitcoin (blockchain-based) -- IOTA (directed acyclical graph-based) -- Government regulations and intervention -- US Congressional Bill -Internet of Things (IoT) Cybersecurity Improvement Act of 2017 -- Other governmental bodies -- IoT security best practices -- Holistic security -- Security checklist -- Summary -- Chapter 13: Consortiums and Communities -- PAN consortia -- Bluetooth SIG -- Thread Group -- Zigbee Alliance -- Miscellaneous -- Protocol consortia -- Open Connectivity Foundation and Allseen Alliance -- OASIS -- Object Management Group -- IPSO Alliance -- Miscellaneous -- WAN consortia -- Weightless -- LoRa Alliance -- Internet Engineering Task Force -- Wi-Fi Alliance -- Fog and edge consortia -- OpenFog -- EdgeX Foundry -- Umbrella organizations -- Industrial Internet Consortium -- IEEE IoT -- Miscellaneous -- US government IoT and security entities -- Summary -- Other Books You May Enjoy…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Creating a project -- Getting to know the Unity Editor and installing packages -- The Unity Package Manager -- Introducing the GameObject - All about Transform and components -- Adding GameObjects to the scene -- The Transform component -- Components -- 2D sprites with Sprite Creator - Understanding the Sprite Renderer and draw ordering -- Creating a new scene -- Creating a sprite using Sprite Creator -- Navigating the scene View -- Creating our player character -- Using Manipulation Tools -- Sprite Layers and Ordering -- Game Design Document (GDD) - Introducing the 2D collection game -- Summary -- Image sources -- Part 2: 2D Game Design -- Chapter 2: Creating a 2D Collection Game -- Technical requirements -- Creating a 2D, top-down game environment with Tilemap -- Level design - Guiding the player -- Creating Tile Palettes -- Building the collection game environment with Tilemap -- Making the level playable - Tilemap Collider 2D -- Introduction to creating scripts in C# - IDE, SOLID principles, and design patterns -- The IDE - Visual Studio Community 2022 -- The C# Language - Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) -- SOLID principles -- Design patterns -- Coding a simple player controller with the new Input System -- New Input System -- Player controller script -- Summary -- Chapter 3: Completing the Collection Game -- Technical requirements -- Using CM to follow the Player and playtesting -- Creating a Player Prefab -- Creating a 2D follow camera -- Playtesting the level…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Data management considerations -- 4.1 Data criteria -- 4.1.1 Individual/separated data per job -- 4.1.2 Shared data access -- 4.1.3 Locking -- 4.1.4 Temporary data spaces -- 4.1.5 Size of data -- 4.1.6 Network bandwidth -- 4.1.7 Time-sensitive data -- 4.1.8 Data topology -- 4.1.9 Data types -- 4.1.10 Data volume and grid scalability -- 4.1.11 Encrypted data -- 4.2 Data management techniques and solutions -- 4.2.1 Shared file system -- 4.2.2 Databases -- 4.2.3 Replication (distribution of files across a set of nodes) -- 4.2.4 Mirroring -- 4.2.5 Caching -- 4.2.6 Transfer agent -- 4.2.7 Access Control System -- 4.2.8 Peer-to-peer data transfer -- 4.2.9 Sandboxing -- 4.2.10 Data brokering -- 4.2.11 Global file system approach -- 4.2.12 SAN approach -- 4.2.13 Distributed approach -- 4.2.14 Database solutions for grids -- 4.2.15 Data brokering -- 4.3 Some data grid projects in the Globus community -- 4.3.1 EU DataGrid -- 4.3.2 GriPhyn -- 4.3.3 Particle Physics Data Grid -- 4.4 Summary -- Chapter 5. …”