Tabla de Contenidos: “…Chapter 6: Vibration Response-Based Damage Detection -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 The Rationale of Vibration-Based Methods -- 6.3 Environmental and Operational Influences -- 6.4 Modal-Based Methods and Damage Features -- 6.4.1 Natural Frequencies -- 6.4.2 Mode Shapes -- 6.4.3 Modal Slope -- 6.4.4 Modal Curvature -- 6.4.5 Strain Energy -- 6.4.6 Damping -- 6.4.7 Interpolation Error -- 6.5 Time Series Methods -- 6.5.1 Autoregressive Parameters -- 6.5.2 Intrinsic Mode Function and Hilbert Spectrum -- 6.5.3 Signal Components -- 6.5.4 Damage Indices Based on Extracted Features…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Speech Processing; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Speech Recognition; 3.2.1 Feature Extraction; 3.2.2 Acoustic Modelling; 3.2.3 Language Modelling; 3.2.4 Decoding; 3.2.5 Multiple Sensors; 3.2.6 Confidence Measures; 3.2.7 Robustness; 3.3 Speaker Recognition; 3.3.1 Overview; 3.3.2 Robustness; 3.4 Text-to-Speech Synthesis; 3.4.1 Natural Language Processing for Speech Synthesis; 3.4.2 Concatenative Synthesis with a Fixed Inventory; 3.4.3 Unit Selection-Based Synthesis…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Chapter 9: Scaling Data Science -- Apache Hadoop -- Hadoop MapReduce -- Common Crawl -- Apache Spark -- Link prediction -- Reading the DBLP graph -- Extracting features from the graph -- Node features -- Negative sampling -- Edge features -- Link Prediction with MLlib and XGBoost -- Link suggestion -- Summary -- Chapter 10: Deploying Data Science Models -- Microservices -- Spring Boot -- Search engine service -- Online evaluation -- A/B testing -- Multi-armed bandits -- Summary -- Index…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…1.9 KYOTO PROTOCOL: JOURNEY AND CURRENT DEVELOPMENTS1.10 CONCLUSION; REFERENCES; 2 - Environmental Policies Post the Kyoto Protocol on Climate Change: Evidence from the US and Japan; 2.1 INTRODUCTION; 2.2 ACID RAIN; 2.3 ASBESTOS; 2.4 AGRICULTURE; 2.5 ELECTRIC UTILITIES; 2.6 CLIMATE CHANGE; 2.7 OIL AND GAS EXTRACTION SECTOR; 2.8 TOXIC RELEASE INVENTORY; 2.9 CONSTRUCTION SECTOR; 2.10 TRANSPORTATION SECTOR; 2.11 OIL SPILLS AND HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCE RELEASES; 2.12 RISK MANAGEMENT PLAN RULE; 2.13 WATER; 2.14 JAPANESE ENVIRONMENTAL POLICIES (MOE ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY); 2.14.1 Basic Environment Plan…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Loading Data into the Warehouse; 5.1 The ETL Process; 5.2 Extracting Data from the Operational Systems; 5.3 Transforming the Data into a Common Representation; 5.4 Loading the Warehouse…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Color in Computer Vision; Contents; Preface; 1 Introduction; 1.1 From Fundamental to Applied; 1.2 Part I: Color Fundamentals; 1.3 Part II: Photometric Invariance; 1.3.1 Invariance Based on Physical Properties; 1.3.2 Invariance By Machine Learning; 1.4 Part III: Color Constancy; 1.5 Part IV: Color Feature Extraction; 1.5.1 From Luminance to Color; 1.5.2 Features, Descriptors, and Saliency; 1.5.3 Segmentation; 1.6 Part V: Applications; 1.6.1 Retrieval and Visual Exploration; 1.6.2 Color Naming; 1.6.3 Multispectral Applications; 1.7 Summary; PART I Color Fundamentals; 2 Color Vision…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Bistatic point target reference spectrum based on Loffeld's bistatic formula; 1.5.3. Target parameters extraction; CHAPTER 2. BSAR GEOMETRY…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…4.3.5.3 Passing Objects Around: The Handle Class4.3.5.4 Summary; 4.4 Taming Errors; 4.4.1 An Introduction to the Debugger; 4.4.2 Logging; 4.4.3 Edge Cases and Unit Testing; 4.4.4 A Few Words about Precision; 4.4.5 Suggestions for Optimization; 4.4.5.1 Vectorizing Matrix Operations; 4.4.5.2 Conditional Expressions; 4.4.5.3 Extracting Subsets from Arrays; MATLAB Functions, Commands, and Operators Covered in This Chapter; 5 Visualization and Documentation Tutorial; 5.1 Goals of This Chapter; 5.2 Visualization; 5.3 Documentation; MATLAB Functions, Commands, and Operators Covered in This Chapter…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Reverse engineering DMA peripherals -- Emulating UART with Avatar2 for firmware debugging - visualizing output -- Summary -- Part 3: Advanced Concepts -- Chapter 7: Real-Life Case Study: Samsung Exynos Baseband -- A crash course on mobile phone architecture -- Baseband -- Baseband CPU family -- Application processor and baseband interface -- A talk with Shannon -- A note on GSM/3GPP/LTE protocol specifications -- Setting up FirmWire for vulnerability validation -- CVE-2020-25279 - emulator fuzzing -- CVE-2020-25279 - OTA exploitation -- Summary -- Chapter 8: Case Study: OpenWrt Full-System Fuzzing -- OpenWrt -- Building the firmware -- Testing the firmware in QEMU -- Extracting and preparing the kernel -- Fuzzing the kernel -- Post-crash core dump triaging -- Summary -- Chapter 9: Case Study: OpenWrt System Fuzzing for ARM -- Emulating the ARM architecture to run an OpenWrt system -- Installing TriforceAFL for ARM -- Running TriforceAFL in OpenWrt for ARM -- Obtaining a crash -- Summary -- Chapter 10: Finally Here: iOS Full System Fuzzing -- A brief history of iOS emulation -- iOS basics -- What it takes to boot iOS -- Code signatures -- Plist files and entitlements -- Binaries compilation -- IPSW formats and research kernels -- Setting up an iOS emulator -- Preparing the environment -- Building the emulator -- Boot prepping -- Booting iOS in QEMU -- Preparing your harness to start fuzzing -- Triforce's driver mod for iOS -- Summary -- Chapter 11: Deus Ex Machina: Fuzzing Android Libraries -- Introducing the Android OS and its architecture -- The Android architecture -- Fuzzing Android libraries with Sloth -- Introducing Sloth's mechanisms -- Introducing AFL coverage -- Running the ELF linker -- Running LibFuzzer -- Addressing issues with the Sloth fuzzing method -- Running Sloth -- Summary -- Chapter 12: Conclusion and Final Remarks -- Index…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Resources available to digital forensic investigators -- Conclusion -- References -- 2 Digital forensic approaches and best practices -- Introduction -- First response -- Responding to a case -- Conclusion -- References -- Other useful resources -- 3 Digital forensics tool kit -- Introduction -- Computer forensics -- Write blockers -- Imaging -- Add-ons and other technologies -- Tools -- Mobile forensics tools -- Visual analysis -- Secured storage -- Damaged media -- Summary -- References -- 4 Internet and e-mail examinations -- Introduction -- E-mail -- Chat and messaging logs -- Peer-to-peer -- Search engine activity -- Internet history -- Social networking and gaming -- Malware and viruses -- Summary -- 5 Mobile forensics -- Introduction -- Mobile phone technology -- How a call is made -- Forensic challenges -- Forensic process -- Digital cell phone investigation -- Geographic positioning systems -- Cameras -- Common extraction types -- Information sources and location information -- Summary -- Cellular communications technology overview -- References -- 6 Cloud computing and digital forensics -- Introduction -- Infrastructure as a service -- Platform as a service -- Software as a service -- Service and deployment models -- Customer versus cloud provider responsibilities -- Other service models -- Multi-tenancy -- User access and provisioning -- Data protection and breaches…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Understanding responsible AI -- Microsoft's journey toward responsible AI -- Azure OpenAI and responsible AI -- Summary -- References -- Chapter 10: Trending Use Cases for Enterprises -- Technical requirements -- How Azure OpenAI is being used in enterprises -- Contract analyzer and generator -- Identifying key clauses -- Analyzing language -- Flagging potential issues -- Providing contract templates -- Frontend with Streamlit -- Understanding call center analytics -- Parameter extraction -- Sentiment analysis -- Classification of customers' requests -- Implementing the frontend with Streamlit -- Exploring semantic search -- Document embedding using LangChain modules -- Creating a frontend for Streamlit -- Summary -- References -- Chapter 11: Epilogue and Final Thoughts -- Recap of what we have learned so far -- This is just the beginning -- The advent of multimodal large language models…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- About This Book -- Foolish Assumptions -- Icons Used in This Book -- Where to Go from Here -- Chapter 1 Data, Statistics, and Decisions -- The Statistical (and Related) Notions You Just Have to Know -- Samples and populations -- Variables: Dependent and independent -- Types of data -- A little probability -- Inferential Statistics: Testing Hypotheses -- Null and alternative hypotheses -- Two types of error -- Chapter 2 Introducing R -- Downloading R and RStudio -- A Session with R -- The working directory -- So let's get started, already -- Missing data -- R Functions -- User-Defined Functions -- R Structures -- Vectors -- Numerical vectors -- Matrices -- Factors -- Lists -- Lists and statistics -- Data frames -- Extracting data from a data frame -- for Loops and if Statements -- Chapter 3 Digging Deeper Into R -- Packages -- More on Packages -- R Formulas -- Reading and Writing -- Spreadsheets -- CSV files -- Text files -- Chapter 4 Finding Your Center -- Means: The Lure of Averages -- The Average in R: mean() -- What's your condition? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- About the Authors -- Acknowledgements -- How to Read this Book -- Part I Setting the Scene -- Chapter 1 A Brief Introduction -- 1.1 The Systems Engineering Approach to Artificial Intelligence (AI) -- 1.2 Chapter Summary -- Questions -- Chapter 2 Defining a Neural Network -- 2.1 Biological Networks -- 2.2 From Biology to Mathematics -- 2.3 We Came a Full Circle -- 2.4 The Model of McCulloch‐Pitts -- 2.5 The Artificial Neuron of Rosenblatt -- 2.6 Final Remarks -- 2.7 Chapter Summary -- Questions -- Sources -- Chapter 3 Engineering Neural Networks -- 3.1 A Brief Recap on Systems Engineering -- 3.2 The Keystone: SE4AI and AI4SE -- 3.3 Engineering Complexity -- 3.4 The Sport System -- 3.5 Engineering a Sports Club -- 3.6 Optimization -- 3.7 An Example of Decision Making -- 3.8 Futurism and Foresight -- 3.9 Qualitative to Quantitative -- 3.10 Fuzzy Thinking -- 3.11 It Is all in the Tools -- 3.12 Chapter Summary -- Questions -- Sources -- Part II Neural Networks in Action -- Chapter 4 Systems Thinking for Software Development -- 4.1 Programming Languages -- 4.2 One More Thing: Software Engineering -- 4.3 Chapter Summary -- Questions -- Source -- Chapter 5 Practice Makes Perfect -- 5.1 Example 1: Cosine Function -- 5.2 Example 2: Corrosion on a Metal Structure -- 5.3 Example 3: Defining Roles of Athletes -- 5.4 Example 4: Athlete's Performance -- 5.5 Example 5: Team Performance -- 5.5.1 A Human‐Defined‐System -- 5.5.2 Human Factors -- 5.5.3 The Sports Team as System of Interest -- 5.5.4 Impact of Human Error on Sports Team Performance -- 5.5.4.1 Dataset -- 5.5.4.2 Problem Statement -- 5.5.4.3 Feature Engineering and Extraction -- 5.5.4.4 Creation of Computed Columns -- 5.5.4.5 Explorative Data Analysis (EDA) -- 5.5.4.6 Extension ‐ Sampling Method for an Imbalanced Dataset…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…250 11.1 Discourse stability and discourse change 255 11.2 The BMBF's sustainability concept vs. global sustainable development 262 11.3 Global development as opportunity for German science policy 267 11.4 Further research questions 274 Appendix A-1: Overview of data collected in interviews and from participant observation 277 Appendix A-2: Overview of interview partners 279 Appendix A-3: Example of guidelines used for a semistructured interview 286 Appendix A-4: Example of coverpage and first page of transcription of a semi-structured interview 288 Appendix A-5: Exemplary page of fieldnotes 291 Appendix A-6: Extract from list of codes 292 Appendix B-1: Developing countries and emerging economies with bilateral science, technology and innovation cooperation agreements with Germany 293 Appendix B-2: Overview of main BMBF funding measures for cooperation with developing countries and emerging economies 294 Appendix B-3a: Overview over types of applied project outcomes in the IWRM funding priority 297 Appendix B-3b: Overview over types of applied project outcomes in the Megacities funding initiative 300 Bibliography 303…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- Chapter 1: Pollutants in groundwater -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Pollution Sources -- 1.3 Relevant Classes of Contaminants -- 1.3.1 Inorganic species -- 1.3.1.1 Arsenic -- 1.3.1.2 Fluoride -- 1.3.1.3 Nitrogen species -- 1.3.1.4 Metals -- 1.3.2 Organic pollutants -- 1.3.2.1 Aromatic hydrocarbons (BTEX) -- 1.3.2.2 Chlorinated hydrocarbons -- 1.3.2.3 Pesticides -- 1.3.2.4 Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons -- 1.3.2.5 Polychlorinated biphenyls -- 1.3.3 Chemicals of emerging concern -- 1.3.3.1 Pharmaceuticals -- 1.3.3.2 Endocrine disrupting compounds (EDCs) -- 1.4 References -- Chapter 2: Filtration materials for groundwater treatment -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Extraction of Ions of Toxic Metals from Groundwater by Sorbents, Ion Exchangers -- 2.3 Reactive Materials -- 2.4 The Use of Production Wastes in Groundwater Treatment -- 2.5 Biological Active Media -- 2.6 References -- Chapter 3: Technologies for ground water treatment -- 3.1 Pump-and-treat technologies -- 3.1.1 Introduction -- 3.1.2 Site Characterizations -- 3.1.3 Treatment Methods -- 3.1.3.1 Membrane filtration -- 3.1.3.2 Forward osmosis -- 3.1.3.3 Nanotechnologies -- 3.1.3.4 Electrocoagulation -- 3.1.3.5 Electrodialysis -- 3.1.3.6 Adsorption -- 3.1.3.7 Chemical oxidation -- 3.1.3.7.1 Ozone chemistry -- 3.1.3.8 Metal precipitation -- 3.1.3.8.1 Hydroxide precipitation -- 3.1.3.8.2 Sulfide precipitation -- 3.1.3.8.3 Carbonate precipitation -- 3.1.3.9 Ion exchange -- 3.1.3.10 UV treatment -- 3.1.3.11 Biodegradation -- 3.1.4 Summary -- 3.1.5 Conclusion -- 3.1.6 References -- 3.2 Near-well subsurface treatment technologies for sustainable drinking water production -- 3.2.1 Introduction -- 3.2.2 The Challenge and Potential for OMP Removal Using Subsurface Reactors -- 3.2.3 Subsurface Reactors: Characteristics and Specifics…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Separation of Solid Matter; 3.2.2.1 Filtration; 3.2.2.2 Centrifugation; 3.2.2.3 Extraction; 3.2.2.4 Flocculation and Flotation; 3.2.3 Concentration; 3.2.3.1 Thermal Methods; 3.2.3.2 Precipitation; 3.2.3.3 Ultrafiltration; 3.2.4 Purification; 3.2.4.1 Crystallization; 3.2.4.2 Electrophoresis; 3.2.4.3 Chromatography; 3.2.5 Product Formulation; 3.2.6 Waste Disposal; 3.3 Immobilization; 3.3.1 Definitions…”

“…What You Will Learn Understand Robotic Process Automation technology Learn UiPath programming techniques to deploy robot configurations Explore various data extraction techniques Learn about integrations with various popular applications such as SAP and MS Office Debug a programmed robot including logging and exception handling Maintain code version and source control Deploy and control Bots with UiPath Orchestrator In Detail Robotic Process Automation (RPA) enables automating business processes using software robots. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Snowball stemming -- Lancaster stemming -- Lovins stemming -- Dawson stemming -- Lemmatization -- N-grams -- Feature extraction -- One hot encoding -- TF-IDF -- CountVectorizer -- Word2Vec -- CBOW -- Skip-Gram model -- Applying NLP techniques -- Text classification -- Introduction to Naive Bayes' algorithm -- Random Forest -- Naive Bayes' text classification code example -- Implementing sentiment analysis -- Frequently asked questions -- Summary -- Chapter 7: Fuzzy Systems -- Fuzzy logic fundamentals -- Fuzzy sets and membership functions -- Attributes and notations of crisp sets -- Operations on crisp sets -- Properties of crisp sets -- Fuzzification -- Defuzzification -- Defuzzification methods -- Fuzzy inference -- ANFIS network -- Adaptive network -- ANFIS architecture and hybrid learning algorithm -- Fuzzy C-means clustering -- NEFCLASS -- Frequently asked questions -- Summary -- Chapter 8: Genetic Programming -- Genetic algorithms structure -- KEEL framework -- Encog machine learning framework -- Encog development environment setup -- Encog API structure -- Introduction to the Weka framework -- Weka Explorer features -- Preprocess -- Classify -- Attribute search with genetic algorithms in Weka -- Frequently asked questions -- Summary -- Chapter 9: Swarm Intelligence -- Swarm intelligence -- Self-organization -- Stigmergy -- Division of labor -- Advantages of collective intelligent systems -- Design principles for developing SI systems -- The particle swarm optimization model -- PSO implementation considerations -- Ant colony optimization model -- MASON Library -- MASON Layered Architecture -- Opt4J library -- Applications in big data analytics -- Handling dynamical data -- Multi-objective optimization -- Frequently asked questions -- Summary -- Chapter 10: Reinforcement Learning -- Reinforcement learning algorithms concept…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Science, technology and innovation policy formulation and funding -- In the absence of dedicated STI public authorities, government support to STI activities is bottom-up and led by the research supply side -- The government's investment in STI activities is not consistent with its ambition to develop a diversified knowledge-based economy by 2035 -- There is no direct mechanism for mobilising some of the financial surplus generated from oil extraction towards fostering the knowledge economy -- The necessary increase of the STI budget will require significant reforms of the budgetary framework -- 1.4.4. …”