Tabla de Contenidos: “…Chapter 14 Creating Presentation Documents with LayOutGetting Your Bearings; Getting Set Up; Simplifying Layout with Layers; Bringing in Everything You Need; Presentation-Perfect Images; Living Life after LayOut; Part V The Part of Tens; Chapter 15 Ten SketchUp Traps and Their Workarounds; SketchUp Won't Create a Face Where I Want It To; My Faces Are Two Different Colors; Edges on a Face Won't Sink In; SketchUp Crashed and I Lost My Model; SketchUp Is Sooooo Slooooooooow; I Can't Get a Good View of the Inside of My Model; A Face Flashes When I Orbit; I Can't Move My Component the Way I Want…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Do 49: Writing Articles or ColumnsDo 50: Using a Rent-a-Mentor; Do 51: Sampling the Sweets at Job Fairs; Do 52: Writing the Instant Bio; Do 53: Writing a Press Release; Do 54: Crashing Parties at Hotels; Do 55: Granting Celebrities an Interview; Do 56: Mixing and Matching at the Chamber Mixer; Do 57: Learning to Play Ball from the Blue Crew; Do 58: Promoting Interviews Using Postal Centers; Do 59: Targeting Interviews with the F-O-C-U-S Principle; Do 60: Outerviewing There and Now; Do 61: Uncovering the Office Building Underground Instantly; Do 62: Running the Routes with the Jobjungle Scouts…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Prologue -- Introduction -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1 Fraud and Accounting Manipulations -- 1.1 Fraud and Its Effects -- 1.2 Modifying Companies' Financial Information -- 1.3 Calling Things by Their Name: From Creative Accounting to Big Baths -- References -- Chapter 2 Accounting Fraud: An Ancient Practice -- 2.1 The First Accounting Frauds -- 2.2 Accounting Frauds Continue with the Double Entry -- 2.3 The Crash of 1929 and the Obligation to Audit Accounts -- 2.4 Reinforcement of the Commercial Law and Auditing After the String of Scandals of 2000 -- 2.5 With the Crisis of 2008, History Repeats Itself -- References -- Chapter 3 Problems with Legislation and Those Involved in the Financial Information -- 3.1 How Financial Information Is Generated -- 3.2 Auditing of Accounts: Essential, but Not Infallible -- 3.3 Analysts and Rating Agencies -- 3.4 Regulators and the Limitations of Accounting Regulations -- 3.5 Role of the Media -- References -- Chapter 4 Why Are Accounts Manipulated? …”

“…Active or probing methods to network mapping have traditionally been used, but they have many drawbacks - they can disrupt operations, crash systems, and - most important…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword Paul Fisher -- Foreword Professor Alexander Lipton -- Foreword Rundheersing Bheenick -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- About the Author -- List of Extract Book Titles -- Part I: Principles of Banking, Finance and Financial Products -- Chapter 1: A Primer on Banking, Finance and Financial Instruments -- An Introduction to Banking -- An Introduction to Debt Financial Markets -- An Introduction to Financial Market Products -- Bank Structures and Business Models -- Appendix 1.A: Financial Markets Arithmetic -- Appendix 1.B: Leadership Lessons From The World of Sport -- Appendix 1.C: The Global Master Repurchase Agreement -- Selected Bibliography and References -- Chapter 2: Derivative Instruments and Hedging -- Asset Swaps and Relative Value -- Post-2008 Crash Swap Discounting and Valuation Principles -- Appendix 2.A: The Par Asset Swap Spread -- Selected Bibliography and References -- Chapter 3: The Yield Curve -- Constructing the Bank's Internal Yield Curve -- Market Approach for FTP Curve Construction -- Application of Ordinary Least Squares Method and Nelson-Siegel Family Approaches -- Sonia Yield Curve -- Conclusion -- Appendix 3.A: ALCO Submission Paper -- Selected Bibliography and References -- Chapter 4: Eurobonds, Securitisation and Structured Finance -- Selected Bibliography and References -- Part II: Bank Regulatory Capital and Risk Management -- Chapter 5: Banks and Risk Management -- The Risk Management Universe for Banks -- Policy templates -- Selected Bibliography and References -- Chapter 6: Banks and Credit Risk -- Understanding and Managing Credit Risk: Part 1 -- De(re)constructing the B2 Credit Risk Airb Formula -- Understanding and Managing Credit Risk: Part 2 -- Selected Bibliography and References -- Chapter 7: Understanding and Managing Operational Risk…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Creation Implementation -- Saving Changes -- Fetching -- Updating -- Advanced Fetching -- Next Steps -- Putting It All Together -- Exercise -- Summary -- Chapter 11: Adding Features to a Legacy App -- Legacy Code Disclaimer -- A/B Testing -- New Feature -- Kickoff -- UI Tests -- Integration Tests -- Unit Tests and Actual Implementation -- BookViewModel -- BookViewPresenter -- Final Steps -- Summary -- Chapter 12: Handling Production Issues -- Our Tool -- Integration -- Production Bug -- Debugging -- UI Test -- Unit Tests -- Production Crash -- Debugging -- UI Test -- Handle A/B Testing -- Fixing Our Test -- Summary -- Index…”

“…No-Drama Project Management: Avoiding Predictable Problems for Project Success is a book for project managers who want or need to be more effective. Having a project crash and burn is never a great situation, author Bart Gerardi explains, but it’s not a career buster—unless the failure appears on the short list of recurring, avoidable problems that can and will pop up during any project. …”

“…Experienced author Adam Freeman invites you to take a crash course in Windows 8 development. Using the open standards of XAML and C# he ensures you understand the changes that are being made to Windows development practices and puts you on the right course to creating innovative and elegant applications for this latest evolution of the world’s most successful operating system…”

“…The ultimate guide for bank management: how to survive and thrive throughout the business cycle An essential guide for bankers and students of finance everywhere, The Principles of Banking reiterates that the primary requirement of banking-sound capital and liquidity risk management-had been forgotten in the years prior to the financial crash. Serving as a policy guide for market practitioners and regulators at all levels, the book explains the keys to success that bankers need to follow during good times in order to be prepared for the bad, providing in-depth guidance and tech…”

“…There Is More to Assessing Risk Than StatisticsIntroductionPredicting Economic Growth: The Normal Distribution and Its LimitationsPatterns and Randomness: From School League Tables to Siegfried and RoyDubious Relationships: Why You Should Be Very Wary of Correlations andTheir Significance ValuesSpurious Correlations: How You Can Always Find a Silly 'Cause' of ExamSuccessThe Danger of Regression: Looking Back When You Need to Look ForwardThe Danger of AveragesWhen Simpson's Paradox Becomes More WorrisomeUncertain Information and Incomplete Information: Do Not Assume They AreDifferentDo Not Trust Anybody (Even Experts) to Properly Reason about ProbabilitiesChapter SummaryFurther ReadingThe Need for Causal, Explanatory Models in Risk AssessmentIntroductionAre You More Likely to Die in an Automobile Crash When the Weather IsGood Compared to Bad?The Limitations of Common Approaches to Risk AssessmentThinking about Risk Using Causal AnalysisApplying the Causal Framework to ArmageddonSummaryFurther ReadingMeasuring Uncertainty: The Inevitability of SubjectivityIntroductionExperiments, Outcomes, and EventsFrequentist versus Subjective View of UncertaintySummaryFurther ReadingThe Basics of ProbabilityIntroductionSome Observations Leading to Axioms and Theorems of ProbabilityProbability DistributionsIndependent Events and Conditional ProbabilityBinomial DistributionUsing Simple Probability Theory to Solve Earlier Problems and ExplainWidespread MisunderstandingsSummaryFurther ReadingBayes' Theorem and Conditional ProbabilityIntroductionAll Probabilities Are ConditionalBayes' Theorem Using Bayes' Theorem to Debunk Some Probability FallaciesSecond-Order ProbabilitySummaryFurther ReadingFrom Bayes' Theorem to Bayesian NetworksIntroductionA Very Simple Risk Assessment ProblemAccounting for Multiple Causes (and Effects)Using Propagation to Make Special Types of Reasoning PossibleThe Crucial Independence AssumptionsStructural Properties of BNsPropagation in Bayesian NetworksUsing BNs to Explain Apparent ParadoxesSteps in Building and Running a BN ModelSummaryFurther ReadingTheoretical UnderpinningsBN ApplicationsNature and Theory of CausalityUncertain Evidence (Soft and Virtual)Defining the Structure of Bayesian NetworksIntroductionCausal Inference and Choosing the Correct Edge DirectionThe IdiomsThe Problems of Asymmetry and How to Tackle ThemMultiobject Bayesian Network ModelsThe Missing Variable FallacyConclusionsFurther ReadingBuilding and Eliciting Node Probability TablesIntroductionFactorial Growth in the Size of Probability TablesLabeled Nodes and Comparative ExpressionsBoolean Nodes and FunctionsRanked NodesElicitationSummaryFurther ReadingNumeric Variables and Continuous Distribution FunctionsIntroductionSome Theory on Functions and Continuous DistributionsStatic DiscretizationDynamic DiscretizationUsing Dynamic DiscretizationAvoiding Common Problems When Using Numeric NodesSummaryFurther ReadingHypothesis Testing and Confidence IntervalsIntroductionHypothesis TestingConfidence IntervalsSummaryFurther ReadingModeling Operational RiskIntroductionThe Swiss Cheese Model for Rare Catastrophic EventsBow Ties and HazardsFault Tree Analysis (FTA)Event Tree Analysis (ETA)Soft Systems, Causal Models, and Risk ArgumentsKUUUB FactorsOperational Risk in FinanceSummaryFurther ReadingSystems Reliability ModelingIntroductionProbability of Failure on Demand for Discrete Use SystemsTime to Failure for Continuous Use SystemsSystem Failure Diagnosis and Dynamic Bayesian NetworksDynamic Fault Trees (DFTs)Software Defect PredictionSummaryFurther ReadingBayes and the LawIntroductionThe Case for Bayesian Reasoning about Legal EvidenceBuilding Legal Arguments Using IdiomsThe Evidence IdiomThe Evidence Accuracy IdiomIdioms to Deal with the Key Notions of "Motive" and "Opportunity"Idiom for Modeling Dependency between Different Pieces of EvidenceAlibi Evidence IdiomPutting it All Together: Vole ExampleUsing BNs to Expose Further Fallacies of Legal ReasoningSummaryFurther ReadingAppendix A: The Basics of CountingAppendix B: The Algebra of Node Probability TablesAppendix C: Junction Tree AlgorithmAppendix D: Dynamic DiscretizationAppendix E: Statistical Distributions…”

“…A detailed crash course in business management for value creation Corporate Value Creation provides an operations framework that management can use to optimize the impact decisions have on creating value by growing revenue and profitability. …”

“…Experienced author Adam Freeman invites you to take a crash course in Windows 8 development. Using the open standards of HTML5 and JavaScript, he ensures you understand the changes that are being made to Windows development practices and puts you on the right course to creating innovative and elegant applications for this latest evolution of the world’s most successful operating system…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Determine the economic value of your data -- Three areas where data can drive growth -- Using data to improve decision making -- Improving operations -- Monetising data as a valuable asset -- Chapter summary -- CHAPTER 5 Platforms -- The network effect of platforms -- A platform crash course -- The birth of platform companies -- The power of aggregation -- Complements and openness -- From pipeline to platform -- Building the platform -- Managing inside out -- 1. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Workspace -- Layout And Story Windows -- Managing Multiple Windows -- Indesign'S Panels -- Using The Tools Panel -- Other Panels -- Context Menus -- Keyboard Shortcuts -- Customizing Menus -- Customizing The Control Panel -- Saving And Loading Workspaces -- Setting Preferences -- Setting Defaults -- Publication Navigation -- Place Icons -- Managing Indesign'S Plug-Ins -- On With The Tour -- Chapter 2 Page Layout -- Creating A New Publication -- Opening Publications -- Saving Publications -- Crash Recovery -- Setting Basic Layout Options -- Pages And Spreads -- Adding Pages -- Arranging Pages -- Creating Pages Of Different Sizes -- Rotating Spreads -- Defining Sections -- Numbering Pages -- Adding Section Marker Text -- Working With Master Pages -- Applying Master Pages And Master Spreads -- Overriding Master Items -- Adjusting Layouts -- Selecting And Deselecting -- Guides -- Grids -- Stacking Objects -- Layers -- Grouping Objects -- Locking Object Positions -- Deleting Objects -- Finding And Changing Objects -- A Good Foundation -- Chapter 3 Text -- Creating Text Frames -- Setting Text Frame Options -- Spanning And Splitting Columns -- Linking And Unlinking Text Frames -- Flowing Text -- Entering Text -- Text Variables -- Cross References -- Importing Text -- Importing And Exporting Buzzword Files -- Text Files And File Linking -- Exporting Text -- Editing Text -- Story Editor -- Track Changes -- Notes -- Using Adobe Incopy -- Checking Spelling -- Footnotes -- Conditional Text -- Find And Change -- Working With Indesign Tagged Text -- After Words -- Chapter 4 Type -- Character Formatting -- Opentype Fonts -- Find Font -- Filling And Stroking Characters -- Paragraph Formatting -- Bullets And Numbering -- Styles -- Copying Styles From Other Publications -- Optical Margin Alignment…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Prioritize relationship building -- Get to know your boss -- Get to know your team -- Summary -- References and further reading -- 6. A crash course in strategic planning -- Why strategic planning is important -- How strategic planning is different from managing a project -- Developing a strategy -- Step 1: understand the problem or opportunity -- Step 2: analyze the environment -- Step 3: form the plan -- Step 4: getting support for your plan -- Step 5: execute, monitor, and measure -- Culture eats strategy for breakfast -- Summary -- References and further reading -- 7. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…4.2 Reproducing the Problem Environment4.3 Reproducing Program Execution; 4.3.1 Reproducing Data; 4.3.2 Reproducing User Interaction; 4.3.3 Reproducing Communications; 4.3.4 Reproducing Time; 4.3.5 Reproducing Randomness; 4.3.6 Reproducing Operating Environments; 4.3.7 Reproducing Schedules; 4.3.8 Physical Influences; 4.3.9 Effects of Debugging Tools; 4.4 Reproducing System Interaction; 4.5 Focusing on Units; 4.5.1 Setting Up a Control Layer; 4.5.2 A Control Example; 4.5.3 Mock Objects; 4.5.4 Controlling More Unit Interaction; 4.6 Reproducing Crashes; 4.7 Concepts…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Storage Management; 3.1 Disk fundamentals; 3.2 Data operations; 3.3 SAME; 3.4 Oracle Managed Files; 3.5 Storage options for RAC; 3.6 Automatic storage management (ASM); 3.7 Migration to ASM; 3.8 ASM performance monitoring using EM; 3.9 ASM implementations; 3.10 ASM instance crash; 3.11 ASM disk administration; 3.12 Client connection to an ASM instance; 3.13 Conclusion…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Summary -- 3 Basic Rendering -- The Basic Graphics Pipeline -- Setting Up Your Coordinate System -- Using the Stock Shaders -- Connecting The Dots -- Blending -- Summary -- 4 Basic Transformations: A Vector/Matrix Primer -- Is This the Dreaded Math Chapter? -- A Crash Course in 3D Graphics Math -- Understanding Transformations -- The Modelview Matrix -- More Objects -- Projection Matrix -- The Transformation Pipeline -- Moving Around Using Cameras and Actors -- Summary -- 5 Basic Texturing -- Raw Image Data -- Loading Textures -- Texture Application -- Mipmapping -- Anisotropic Filtering -- Texture Compression -- Summary -- 6 Thinking Outside the Box, Nonstock Shaders -- GLSL 101 -- Shader Uniforms -- Built-In Functions -- Simulating Light -- Accessing Textures -- Summary -- 7 More Advanced Texture Topics -- Rectangle Textures -- Cube Maps -- Multitexture -- Point Sprites -- Texture Arrays -- Texture Proxies -- Summary -- PART II: Intermediate to Advanced Ideas -- 8 Buffer Objects: Storage Is Now in Your Hands -- Buffers -- Framebuffer Objects, Going Beyond the Window…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- About the Author -- About the Contributors -- Introduction -- Part I Building Wealth Through Business Ownership -- Chapter 1 Own Good Businesses -- Business Ownership -- Active versus Passive Investing -- The Pitfalls of Investing -- Characteristics of a Good Business -- Own the Best and Leave the Rest -- Part II The Global Investment Opportunity -- Chapter 2 The GlobalEconomy -- Global Economic Evolution -- The Digital Economy -- Economic Growth Rates -- Wealth Creation -- Effects of Wealth Creation -- Global Scope Provides Flexibility -- Chapter 3 Global Trade -- Advancements in Global Shipping -- Air Freight -- Trends in Global Trade -- Global Trade Routes -- Trade Agreements -- Intergovernmental Organizations -- Supply Chains -- Chapter 4 The Global Financial Markets -- Global Financial Markets -- Global Equity Markets -- Initial Public Offerings -- Financial Market Interaction -- Credit Spreads -- Currency Markets -- Part III Risks of Investing Globally -- Chapter 5 Market Cycle Risk -- Economic Cycles -- Market Cycles -- Market Contagions -- Bear Market Warning Signs -- Bear Market Bottoms -- Managing Cycle Risk -- Chapter 6 Currency Risk -- Currency Market Overview -- Exchange Rate Dynamics -- How Currencies Affect Investment Returns -- Currency Debasement and Crashes -- Managing Currency Risk -- Chapter 7 Geopolitical Risk -- Types of Geopolitical Risk -- Geopolitical Hotspots -- Managing Geopolitical Risk -- Part IV Buying Global Businesses -- Chapter 8 Company Analysis -- Profitability -- Earnings Sustainability -- Balance Sheet Strength -- Growth Prospects -- Investment Risk -- Valuation -- Estimating Share Value -- Summary -- Part V Global Sectors and Industries -- Chapter 9 Communication Services -- Advertising -- Broadband Services…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Visualizing Control Flow with OllyFlow -- Closing Thoughts -- Chapter 3: Reconnaissance with Process Monitor and Process Explorer -- Process Monitor -- Logging In-Game Events -- Inspecting Events in the Process Monitor Log -- Debugging a Game to Collect More Data -- Process Explorer -- Process Explorer's User Interface and Controls -- Examining Process Properties -- Handle Manipulation Options -- Closing Thoughts -- Part 2: Game Dissection -- Chapter 4: From Code to Memory: A General Primer -- How Variables and Other Data Manifest in Memory -- Numeric Data -- String Data -- Data Structures -- Unions -- Classes and VF Tables -- x86 Assembly Crash Course -- Command Syntax -- Processor Registers -- The Call Stack -- Important x86 Instructions for Game Hacking -- Closing Thoughts -- Chapter 5: Advanced Memory Forensics -- Advanced Memory Scanning -- Deducing Purpose -- Finding the Player's Health with OllyDbg -- Determining New Addresses After Game Updates -- Identifying Complex Structures in Game Data -- The std::string Class -- The std::vector Class -- The std::list Class -- The std::map Class -- Closing Thoughts -- Chapter 6: Reading from and Writing to Game Memory -- Obtaining the Game's Process Identifier -- Obtaining Process Handles -- Working with OpenProcess() -- Accessing Memory -- Working with ReadProcessMemory() and WriteProcessMemory() -- Accessing a Value in Memory with ReadProcessMemory() and WriteProcessMemory() -- Writing Templated Memory Access Functions -- Memory Protection -- Differentiating x86 Windows Memory Protection Attributes -- Changing Memory Protection -- Address Space Layout Randomization -- Disabling ASLR to Simplify Bot Development -- Bypassing ASLR in Production -- Closing Thoughts -- Part 3: Process Puppeteering -- Chapter 7: Code Injection -- Injecting Code Caves with Thread Injection -- Creating an Assembly Code Cave…”