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Tabla de Contenidos: “…Manual scaling with Python -- Autoscaling with Python based on a trigger -- Containers and where Python fits in with containers -- Simplifying Docker administration with Python -- Managing Kubernetes with Python -- Summary -- Part 2: Sample Implementations of Python in DevOps -- Chapter 5: Manipulating Resources -- Technical requirements -- Event-based resource adjustment -- Edge location-based resource sharing -- Testing features on a subset of users -- Analyzing data -- Analysis of live data -- Analysis of historical data -- Refactoring legacy applications -- Optimize -- Refactor -- Restart -- Summary -- Chapter 6: Security and DevSecOps with Python -- Technical requirements -- Securing API keys and passwords -- Store environment variables -- Extract and obfuscate PII -- Validating and verifying container images with Binary Authorization -- Incident monitoring and response -- Running runbooks -- Pattern analysis of monitored logs -- Summary -- Chapter 7: Automating Tasks -- Automating server maintenance and patching -- Sample 1: Running fleet maintenance on multiple instance fleets at once -- Sample 2: Centralizing OS patching for critical updates -- Automating container creation -- Sample 1: Creating containers based on a list of requirements -- Sample 2: Spinning up Kubernetes clusters -- Automated launching of playbooks based on parameters -- Summary -- Chapter 8: Understanding Event-Driven Architecture -- Technical requirements -- Introducing Pub/Sub and employing Kafka with Python using the confluent-kafka library -- Understanding the importance of events and consequences -- Exploring loosely coupled architecture -- Killing your monolith with the strangler fig -- Summary -- Chapter 9: Using Python for CI/CD Pipelines -- Technical requirements -- The origins and philosophy of CI/CD -- Scene 1 - continuous integration…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…8.2.3.1 Object Recognition -- 8.2.3.2 Object Detection -- 8.2.3.3 Object Tracking -- 8.2.4 Edge Computing, Fog Computing, and Cloud Computing -- 8.2.4.1 Edge Computing -- 8.2.4.2 Fog Computing -- 8.2.4.3 Cloud Computing -- 8.2.5 Benefits of Computer Vision‐Driven Traffic Management -- 8.2.6 Challenges of Computer Vision‐Driven Traffic Management -- 8.2.6.1 Big Data Issues -- 8.2.6.2 Privacy Issues -- 8.2.6.3 Technical Barriers -- 8.3 Research Methodology -- 8.3.1 Research Questions and Objectives -- 8.3.2 Study Design -- 8.3.2.1 Selection Rationale -- 8.3.2.2 Potential Challenges -- 8.3.3 Adapted Study Design Research Approach -- 8.3.4 Selected Hardware and Software -- 8.3.4.1 Hardware: The NVIDIA Jetson Nano Developer Kit and Accompanying Items -- 8.3.5 Hardware Proposed -- 8.3.5.1 Software Stack: NVIDIA Jetpack SDK and Accompanying Requirements (All Iterations) -- 8.3.6 Software Proposed -- 8.4 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 9 Implementation and Evaluation of Computer Vision Prototype for Vehicle Detection -- 9.1 Prototype Setup -- 9.1.1 Introduction -- 9.1.2 Environment Setup -- 9.2 Testing -- 9.2.1 Design and Development: The Default Model and the First Iteration -- 9.2.2 Testing (Multiple Images) -- 9.2.3 Analysis (Multiple Images) -- 9.2.4 Testing (MP4 File) -- 9.2.5 Testing (Livestream Camera) -- 9.3 Iteration 2: Transfer Learning Model -- 9.3.1 Design and Development -- 9.3.2 Test (Multiple Images) -- 9.3.3 Analysis (Multiple Images) -- 9.3.4 Test (MP4 File) -- 9.3.5 Analysis (MP4 File) -- 9.3.6 Test (Livestream Camera) -- 9.3.7 Analysis (Livestream Camera) -- 9.3.8 Redesign -- 9.4 Iteration 3: Increased Sample Size and Change of Accuracy Analysis (Images) -- 9.4.1 Design and Development -- 9.4.2 Testing -- 9.4.3 Analysis -- 9.4.3.1 Confusion Matrices -- 9.4.3.2 Precision, Recall, and F‐score -- 9.5 Findings and Discussion…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…11.6 Models 228 -- 11.7 Analysis 231 -- 11.8 Visionary Thoughts for Practitioners 236 -- 11.9 Future Research Directions 238 -- 11.10 Conclusion 239 -- References 239 -- 12 BEYOND CDN: CONTENT PROCESSING AT THE EDGE OF THE CLOUD 243 /Salekul Islam and Jean-Charles Gŕegoire -- 12.1 Introduction 243 -- 12.2 Existing Content Delivery Platforms 244 -- 12.3 Comparison of Existing Content Delivery Platforms 247 -- 12.4 An Edge Cloud-Based Model 251 -- 12.5 Results and Insights 255 -- 12.6 Future Research Directions 256 -- 12.7 Conclusion 257 -- References 257 -- 13 DYNAMIC RECONFIGURATION FOR ADAPTIVE STREAMING 259 /Norihiko Yoshida -- 13.1 Introduction 259 -- 13.2 Background and Related Work 260 -- 13.3 Dynamic Server Deployment 262 -- 13.4 From Content Delivery to Streaming 263 -- 13.5 Future Research Directions 267 -- 13.6 Conclusion 269 -- Acknowledgments 269 -- References 269 -- 14 MINING DISTRIBUTED DATA STREAMS ON CONTENT DELIVERY NETWORKS 273 /Eugenio Cesario, Carlo Mastroianni, and Domenico Talia -- 14.1 Introduction 273 -- 14.2 Background and Related Work 275 -- 14.3 A Hybrid Multidomain Architecture 277 -- 14.4 A Prototype for Stream Mining in a CDN 281 -- 14.5 Visionary Thoughts for Practitioners 285 -- 14.6 Future Research Directions 285 -- 14.7 Conclusion 286 -- References 286 -- 15 CDN CAPACITY PLANNING 289 /Phil Davies and Mukaddim Pathan -- 15.1 Introduction 289 -- 15.2 Capacity Planning Process 290 -- 15.3 Undertaking the Capacity Planning Process 295 -- 15.4 CDN Capacity Planning Case Study 300 -- 15.5 Recent Developments and Challenges 302 -- 15.6 Summary and Conclusion 303 -- References 303 -- PART III CASE STUDIES AND NEXT GENERATION CDNs 305 -- 16 OVERLAY NETWORKS: AN AKAMAI PERSPECTIVE 307 /Ramesh K. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…6.3.2.1 Data augmentation based on domain knowledge of optical communication -- 6.3.2.1.1 Data augmentation on polarization state -- 6.3.2.1.2 Data augmentation on the frequency offset -- 6.3.2.2 Transfer learning for adaptation of DNNs -- 6.3.2.3 Federated learning for collaborative DNN training over multiple operators -- 6.3.3 Inference mode of DL-based optical monitors -- 6.3.4 Advanced topics for inference modes of DL-based optical monitors -- 6.3.4.1 Cloud-based vs. edge-based implementations -- 6.3.4.1.1 Cloud-based implementation of inference mode -- 6.3.4.1.2 Edge-based implementation of inference mode -- 6.3.4.2 Estimating the model uncertainty in inference mode -- 6.4 Tips for designing DNNs for DL-based optical monitoring -- 6.4.1 Shallow vs. deep network -- 6.4.2 DNN architecture for optical monitoring -- 6.4.2.1 Fully-connected DNNs -- 6.4.2.2 Convolutional neural networks -- 6.4.2.3 DNN architecture for the optical monitoring -- 6.5 Experimental verifications -- 6.5.1 Experimental setup for data collection -- 6.5.2 Neural network architecture for OSNR estimation task -- 6.5.2.1 DNN used in this experiment -- DNN #1 (FC-DNN): -- DNN #2 (CNN-1): -- 6.5.2.2 Results and discussion -- 6.5.3 Detailed experimental evaluation of CNN-based OSNR estimators -- 6.5.3.1 DNN used in this section -- DNN #3 (CNN-2): -- 6.5.3.2 Results and discussion -- 6.5.4 Versatile monitoring using DNN -- 6.5.4.1 DNN architecture used in this experiment -- DNN #4 (CNN-3): -- 6.5.4.2 Results and discussion -- 6.5.5 Data augmentation based on domain knowledge of optical transceivers -- 6.5.5.1 DNN used in this section -- DNN #5 (CNN-4): -- 6.5.5.2 Results and discussion -- 6.5.6 Estimating uncertainty by dropout at inference -- 6.5.6.1 DNN used in this experiment -- DNN #6 (CNN-5): -- 6.5.6.2 Results and discussion…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…bio ethics for beginners: 60 CASES AND CAUTIONS FROM THE MORAL FRONTIER OF HEALTHCARE; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Caution 1: Tip-Toe When Walking on the Bleeding Edge; Case 1 The Dangers of Creating Life in the Lab; Case 2 Design: More Intelligent Every Day; Case 3 "Shroom" Science: Safe and Effective?…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…4.3.1 Climate Change and Extreme Events -- 4.3.2 Other Covariate and Idiosyncratic Risks -- 4.3.3 Socio-economic Characteristics of Household and Household Head -- 4.3.4 Farm Characteristics -- 4.3.5 Access to Institutions -- 4.3.6 Risk Attitude Behaviour and Other Variables -- 4.4 Factors Influencing Farmer's Adaptive Behaviour: Qualitative Papers -- 4.5 Concluding Remarks -- Appendix: Summary of Major Findings from the Qualitative Studies -- References -- 5 A Resilience Framework for Climate Adaptation: The Shyamnagar Experience -- 5.1 The Old Guard -- 5.2 Shyamnagar: Life on the Edge…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Free bonus resources -- Author's note -- Introduction: The vertical growth imperative -- Horizontal skills and knowledge versus vertical growth -- Vertical growth within organisations -- Vertical growth cuts through image management -- Why self-awareness is critical -- Becoming deliberately developmental -- Cultivating inner psychological safety -- Research on vertical growth and mindful leadership -- Part I Developing a vertical growth mindset -- Chapter 1 The Mindful Leader Matrix -- How to use the matrix -- Fast brain, slow brain -- Chapter 2 Why leaders struggle with walking their talk -- Stages of human development -- A self-examined life requires courage, but it's worth it -- Leadership and the self-examining mind -- Chapter 3 How values helpus grow -- Values to increase engagement and commitment -- Quadrant 1: growth values -- The most important leadership values -- Honesty as a foundational value to a growth mindset -- Chapter 4 Choose your growth values -- Find your growth edge -- Places to explore growth values -- Results, goals and strategies versus values -- Statement of aspiration -- Chapter 5 Commit to action -- Four steps for taking conscious, committed action -- Using the Mindful Leader Matrix -- Part II Developing self-awareness and resolving the shadow -- Chapter 6 The role of mindfulness in personal growth -- The research on mindfulness -- Two types of mindfulness training -- Mindfulness and the Mindful Leader Matrix -- Mindfulness cultivates distress tolerance -- Chapter 7 How to practiseself-awareness -- The four foundations of mindfulness -- The four foundations in practice -- Mindfulness and subject-object theory -- Chapter 8 Overcome numbness and denial -- To see our shadow, we must first overcome numbness and denial -- How the inner judge triggers numbness…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…About the Authors -- Introduction -- List of Contributors -- Further Reading -- Abbey of Theleme -- Agora -- Alternative Geopolitics -- Amazons -- America -- Amish -- Anabaptists -- Anarchism -- Anti-Capitalism -- Appropriate Technology -- Arcadia -- Arts and Crafts -- Atlantis -- Attac -- Auroville -- Auto-Didacticism -- Autonomia -- Bakunin, Mikhail -- Ball, John -- Bartering -- Battle of Seattle -- Blac(k) Bloc -- Blake, William -- Bookchin, Murray -- Bournville -- Bray, John Francis -- Brethren of the Free Spirit -- Brook Farm -- Bureaucracy -- Captain Swing -- Carnival -- Cathars -- Centri Sociali -- Chipko Movement -- Christiania -- Christianopolis -- City of the Sun -- City State -- Cockaigne (or Cockaygne) -- Collectivism -- Commons -- Commonwealth -- Commune -- Communism -- Communitarianism -- Community -- Community Credit -- Community Gardens -- Community-Supported Agriculture -- Cooperative City -- Cooperatives -- Credit Unions -- Crystal Waters -- Cuba -- Cult -- Decroissance / Degrowth -- Deep Ecology -- Democracy -- Diggers -- Direct Action -- Disobbedienti -- Dispossessed, The -- Dissenters -- Dissenting Academies -- Dystopia -- Ecofeminism -- Ecotopia -- Ecovillages -- Eden -- El Dorado -- Employee Ownership -- Empowerment -- Environmentalism -- Erewhon -- Esop -- Fair Trade -- Farmers' Markets -- Fascism -- Federalism -- Feminism -- Feminist Utopias -- Findhorn -- Focolare -- Fourier, Charles -- Free Schools -- Free State Project -- Freeland -- Freire, Paulo -- Friendly Societies -- Gandhi, Mohandas K -- Garden Cities -- Godwin, William -- Golden Age -- Goldman, Emma -- Grameen Bank -- Grassroots -- Guerrilla -- Guilds -- Gulliver's Travels -- Hayden, Dolores -- Herland -- Illich, Ivan -- Industrial Democracy -- Indymedia (Independent Media Centre) -- Intentional Community -- Internationals -- Islamic Finance -- Island -- Isle of Pines -- John Lewis Partnership -- Kalmar -- Kibbutz -- Kingdom of Heaven On Earth -- Kropotkin, Peter -- Le Corbusier -- Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich -- Lets (Local Exchange and Trading Schemes) -- Levellers -- Liberalism -- Libertarianism -- Llano Del Rio -- Localization -- Looking Backward -- Luddites -- Luxemburg, Rosa -- Management -- Mao Tse-Tung -- Markets -- Marx, Karl -- Massachusetts Bay Colony -- Mechanics' Institutes and Mutual Improvement Societies -- Millenarianism -- Minarchism or Minimal Statism -- Monasticism -- Mondragòn -- MST (Movimento Dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra) -- Multitude -- Mutualism -- Network -- New Atlantis -- New Discovery of Terra Incognita Australis -- New Jerusalem -- New Lanark -- New Model Army -- News from Nowhere -- Non-Conformism -- Non-Violent Resistance -- Nozick, Robert -- Oceana -- Oneida -- Open Source Software -- Owen, Robert -- Paradise -- Paris Commune -- Peasants' Revolt -- Permaculture -- Pirate Utopia -- Plutarch -- Polis -- Port Sunlight -- Porto Alegre -- Protectionism -- Proudhon, Pierre-Joseph -- Quakers -- Quality of Working Life (QWL) -- Rand, Ayn -- Ranters -- Rawls, John -- Republic, The -- Revolution -- Robinson Crusoe -- Rochdale Pioneers -- Romanticism -- Rousseau, Jean-Jacques -- Ruskin, John -- Sade, Marquis De -- Saint-Simon, Claude-Henri de Rouvroy, Comte de -- Saltaire -- Schumacher, E.F -- Science Fiction -- Scott Bader Commonwealth -- Secret Societies -- Self-Sufficiency -- Shakers -- Shangri-La -- Situationist -- Slow Food -- Small States -- Smallness -- Smith, Adam -- Social Capital -- Social Ecology -- Social Economy -- Socialism -- Soviet Union -- Soviets -- Spanish Anarchist Militias -- Squatting -- Stirner, Max -- Subsistence Work -- Suma -- Summerhill -- Supplement to Bougainville's Voyage -- Sustainability -- Syndicalism -- Terrorism -- Therapeutic Communities -- Time Banks -- Tolstoy (or Tolstoi), Leo -- Tower Colliery -- Trade Unions -- Travellers -- Tute Bianche -- Twin Oaks -- Utopia -- Via Campesina -- Villages -- Voyage to Icaria -- Walden -- Walden Two -- Wells, Herbert George -- Wikipedia -- Woman On the Edge of Time -- Worker Self-Management -- World Social Forum -- Zakât (or Zakaat, or Zakah) -- Zapatistas…”