“…In this book, top researchers from around the world explore the characteristics of clustering problems in a variety of application areas. …”

“…Whether the reasons involve the organization's leadership, employees, environment, or any other factor, the authors explain that if managers lead people properly, they can create a great workplace. The authors explore how managers can interrupt their own negative thought patterns and instead create lasting change, and they describe how great workplaces have surmounted very real difficulties with aplomb. …”

“…Packed with examples andsample cases illustrating pertinent concepts in practice, this book also explores the two majordata analytics providers: ACL and IDEA. …”

“…The book begins with a general introduction to machine learning algorithms and their analysis; then explores the core theory of boosting, especially its ability to generalize; examines some of the myriad other theoretical viewpoints that help to explain and understand boosting; provides practical extensions of boosting for more complex learning problems; and finally presents a number of advanced theoretical topics. …”

“…The mechanisms by which selenium status, selenoprotein expression, and inherited genetic variations in the selenium pathway interact to affect molecular pathways involved in disease development are explored in human cohorts [2,3,5-7], and in animal [4] and in vitro models [8]. …”

“…Solutions of water problems in the form of prediction models, flow simulations, engineering systems, monitoring, management strategies covering scientific investigations and/or experimental or field studies of flow behaviour, hydrodynamics, and climate changes effects and adaptation, new design solutions, innovative approaches in the field of environment, hydraulics, techniques, methods, and analyses to address the new challenges in environmental hydraulics are alo presented and explored. This topic is studied both from a technical and environmental point of view, with the objective of protecting and enhancing the quality of the environment. …”

“…The volume includes an introduction and eighteen contributions from historians, archaeologists and art historians who explore the historical and cultural complexity of eastern Mediterranean cities. …”

“…Linux Command Line and Shell Scripting Techniques begins by taking you through the basics of the shell and command-line utilities. You'll start by exploring shell commands for file, directory, service, package, and process management. …”

“…The book also delves into transforming Karaf into a JSP host, distributing containers using Apache Karaf Cellar, and providing persistence to your applications. Finally, you'll explore the world of Big Data with Apache Cassandra and Hadoop, setting the stage for your Karaf deployment to handle today's large datasets. …”

“…At the end of each lesson alternative options and other enhancement possibilities are discussed to allow you to do further exploration. You will: Implement functional test automation of Windows and web applications Use Visual Studio for load and performance testing Configure and run cloud-based load testing Integrate testing with deployment pipelines…”

“…Learn the steps necessary to prepare your environment for automation Understand how Salt works when running commands from the CLI Dive into Salt’s configuration management and the advanced templating capabilities Tackle advanced configuration management with Salt’s state subsystem Learn how Salt’s event bus internally sends messages from one process to another Explore Beacon modules and how they perform a variety of tasks by interacting with the event bus Import external events or export Salt events with bidirectional engines…”

“…Create continuous delivery pipelines as code with the Jenkins domain-specific language Get practical guidance on how to migrate existing jobs and pipelines Harness best practices and new methods for controlling access and security Explore the structure, implementation, and use of shared pipeline libraries Learn the differences between declarative syntax and scripted syntax Leverage new and existing project types in Jenkins Understand and use the new Blue Ocean graphical interface Take advantage of the capabilities of the underlying OS in your pipeline Integrate analysis tools, artifact management, and containers…”

“…The book provides an analysis of default, liquidity, and operational risks as well as the failures of LTCM, ENRON, and financial institutions that occurred during the financial crisis. The author also explores Conditional Value at Risk (CVaR), which is central to the debate on the measurement of market risk under Basel III. …”

“…This report helps you: Understand how Agile’s values, principles, and methods enable teams to respond quickly to changing conditions Learn the difference between being agile and doing Agile Examine the 15 traits that characterize a servant leader, including leading by example and inspiring action through vision and purpose Explore these leadership traits through a series of illuminating stories Learn five steps for building a culture of servant leadership in your agile organization…”

“…Learning, Unlearning and Re-learning Curves (Volume IV of the Working Guides to Estimating & Forecasting series) focuses in on Learning Curves, and the various tried and tested models of Wright, Crawford, DeJong, Towill-Bevis and others. It explores the differences and similarities between the various models and examines the key properties that Estimators and Forecasters can exploit.A discussion about Learning Curve Cost Drivers leads to the consideration of a little used but very powerful technique of Learning Curve modelling called Segmentation, which looks at an organisation’s complex learning curve as the product of multiple shallower learning curves. …”

“…Understand how facilitation is increasingly becoming part of mapping efforts, shifting the focus from a deliverable (a map) to one of actionability. Explore the possibilities of applying mapping of all kinds to noncommercial settings, from fighting violent extremism to helping victims of domestic violence to confronting homelessness and more. …”

“…You will: Install and configure Webpack beyond the default settings Efficiently work with plugins and loaders Optimize Webpack for production Use instant refreshing with the Webpack dev server and hot module replacement Explore how to install some common JavaScript libraries…”

“…In addition, it exams Funds transferring pricing (FTP) in detail, first introducing the basic concepts of FTP and then explores two major approaches in FTP, the pool method and match maturity method, for fixed-rate, floating-rate and non-maturing products,"--…”

“…Getting Started with Containers in Azure will equip you to deploy, manage and secure containerized applications using Azure tools and services for containers. You will: • Explore containers on Microsoft Azure. • Store Docker images on Azure Container Registry Automate deployment of container services using Azure CLI and Azure Cloud Shell Use Azure Container Instances (ACI) for smaller deployment…”

“…Identifies key problems and offers solution approaches and tools that have been developed or are necessary for model management and analytics Explores basic theory and background, current research topics, related challenges and the research directions for model management and analytics Provides a complete overview of model management and analytics frameworks, the different types of analytics (descriptive, diagnostics, predictive and prescriptive), the required modelling and method steps, and important future directions…”