Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of contents -- Preface -- 1 Corporate Governance and Sustainability -- Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainability -- Convergence of CSR and Corporate Governance -- Impact of Convergence on Corporate Regulation -- Investor Interest in CSR and Sustainability and Impact on Board Oversight -- Transparency and Disclosure -- Notes -- 2 Sustainability Standards and Instruments -- CSR Initiatives of Governmental or Intergovernmental Bodies -- United Nations Global Compact -- OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises -- G20/OECD Principles of Corporate Governance -- International Labour Organization -- International Finance Corporation -- Principles for Responsible Investment -- United Nations Sustainable Development Goals -- United Nations Human Rights Instruments -- Sectoral CSR Commitments -- International Multi-Stakeholder Processes -- AccountAbility -- CRT Principles for Business -- Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative -- Forest Stewardship Council -- Marine Stewardship Council -- Social Accountability International -- Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil -- International Reporting and Management Standards -- Securities Exchanges and Regulators -- Notes -- 3 Board Oversight of Sustainability -- Directors' Adoption and Oversight of Corporate Sustainability -- Directors' Fiduciary Duties -- Framework for Board Oversight of CSR and Corporate Sustainability -- Board Committees -- Board Composition -- Sustainability Education and Training for Board Members -- Notes -- 4 Governance and Nominating Committee -- Qualifications of Directors -- Independence Requirements -- Financial Expertise -- Charter and Activities of Governance and Nominating Committee -- Statement of Purpose -- Composition, Meetings and Procedures -- Scope of Duties and Responsibilities…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Easing access to jobs: information, distance, placement -- Strengthening activation policies -- Main findings and recommendations -- References -- 2 Strengthening the tax system to reduce inequalities and increase revenues -- The challenges of a tax reform -- Tax revenues remain stable but are slightly tilted toward direct taxes -- Designing tax policy reform -- Broadening the personal income tax base would improve its progressivity -- The base of the personal income tax system is narrow -- Increasing the progressivity of the personal income tax schedule to reduce income inequalities -- Income tax, transfers, and participation to the labour market -- Broadening the corporate income tax base to reduce the tax rate -- Corporate income tax revenues and rate are relatively high -- Reducing tax deductions would allow reducing the headline tax rate -- Tax incentives and investment -- The new international two pillar tax and corporate taxation in South Africa -- Reforming the taxation of SMEs -- Revenues from natural resource extraction could be increased -- Taxes on goods and services are large and effective -- The VAT system performs relatively well -- Other indirect taxes contribute significantly to government revenues -- Excise taxes raise significant revenues -- Trade taxes remain significant -- Strengthening the tax system to cope with new challenges -- Environmental tax policy -- Improving digital economy taxation to avoid revenue leakage -- Strengthening international tax co-operation to fight tax evasion -- Improving the taxation of wealth to reduce inequalities -- Wealth inequalities are high -- Improving tax collection on wealth -- Reforming wealth taxes to reduce inequalities -- Improving the efficiency of the tax administration -- References -- 3 Boosting productivity to improve living standards…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- The Power of Unix -- Batch Renames and Extracting File Lists -- Finding Hidden Files -- Folders or Directories? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…HYPERSPECTRAL DATA PROCESSING: Algorithm Design and Analysis; CONTENTS; PREFACE; 1 OVERVIEW AND INTRODUCTION; 1.1 Overview; 1.2 Issues of Multispectral and Hyperspectral Imageries; 1.3 Divergence of Hyperspectral Imagery from Multispectral Imagery; 1.3.1 Misconception: Hyperspectral Imaging is a Natural Extension of Multispectral Imaging; 1.3.2 Pigeon-Hole Principle: Natural Interpretation of Hyperspectral Imaging; 1.4 Scope of This Book; 1.5 Book's Organization; 1.5.1 Part I: Preliminaries; 1.5.2 Part II: Endmember Extraction; 1.5.3 Part III: Supervised Linear Hyperspectral Mixture Analysis…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- How to create notebooks -- Exploring notebook capabilities -- Basic capabilities -- Advanced capabilities -- Setting a notebook as a utility script or adding utility scripts -- Adding and using secrets -- Using Google Cloud services in Kaggle Notebooks -- Upgrading your Kaggle Notebook to Google Cloud AI Notebooks -- Using a Notebook to automatically update a Dataset -- Using the Kaggle API to create, update, download, and monitor your notebooks -- Summary -- Chapter 3: Starting Our Travel - Surviving the Titanic Disaster -- A closer look at the Titanic -- Conducting data inspection -- Understanding the data -- Analyzing the data -- Performing univariate analysis -- Performing multivariate analysis -- Extracting meaningful information from passenger names -- Creating a dashboard showing multiple plots -- Building a baseline model -- Summary -- References -- Chapter 4: Take a Break and Have a Beer or Coffee in London -- Pubs in England -- Data quality check -- Data exploration -- Starbucks around the world -- Preliminary data analysis -- Univariate and bivariate data analysis -- Geospatial analysis -- Pubs and Starbucks in London -- Data preparation -- Geospatial analysis -- Summary -- References -- Chapter 5: Get Back to Work and Optimize Microloans for Developing Countries -- Introducing the Kiva analytics competition -- More data, more insights - analyzing the Kiva data competition -- Understanding the borrower demographic -- Exploring MPI correlation with other factors…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Scrubbing Data with Non-1NF Tables; 10.1 Repeated Groups; 10.2 Designing Scrubbing Tables; 10.3 Scrubbing Constraints; 10.4 Calendar Scrubs; 10.5 String Scrubbing; 10.6 Sharing SQL Data; 10.7 Extract, Transform, and Load Products; Chapter 11. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Control and datapath extraction -- 4.2.2. Scheduling and binding -- 4.3. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Swift Variables and Constants -- Declaring Swift Variables -- Variables Versus Constants -- Type Inference -- Variable Naming -- Working with Variables -- Tuples -- Creating a Tuple -- Optionals -- Declaring an Optional -- Working with Optionals -- Optional nil Values -- Accessing Optional Values -- Force Unwrapping an Optional -- Conditionally Unwrapping Optionals -- The Swift guard Statement -- Activity: Variable Summary -- Swift Data Types -- Numeric Data Types -- Int on 64-Bit Versus 32-Bit Platforms -- Built-In Numeric Data Types -- Choosing the Appropriate Numeric Data Type -- Declaring and Assigning Integer Variables -- Declaring and Assigning Floating Point Numbers -- Numeric Literal Grouping -- Numeric Type Conversions -- Boolean -- Character -- Assigning a Character -- Constructing a Character Literal -- String -- Instantiating a String -- String Concatenation -- Extracting Characters -- String Length -- Activity: Data Type Summary -- Enums -- Basic Enum Syntax -- Enum with Raw Values -- Activity: Using Swift Enums -- Summary -- Swift Operators and Control Flow -- Swift Operators -- Assignment Operator -- Arithmetic Operators -- Standard Arithmetic Operators -- Remainder Operator -- Unary minus Operator -- Compound Assignment Operators -- Comparison Operators -- Equality -- Inequality -- Comparison between Two Values -- Ternary Conditional Operator -- Logical Operators -- Bitwise Operators -- Nil-Coalescing Operator -- Range Operators -- Closed Range Operator -- Half-Open Range Operator -- One-Sided Range Operator -- Activity: Operators -- Branching -- The if Statement -- Condition Lists -- Optional Unwrapping with if -- The switch Statement -- switch Statement Rules -- The break Keyword -- The fallthrough Keyword -- Matching Non-Scalar Values…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover -- Copyright -- Credits -- About the Author -- Acknowledgments -- About the Reviewer -- www.PacktPub.com -- Customer Feedback -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1: Please Introduce Yourself - Tutorial -- Hello, user -- Creating a project in the Firebase console -- Adding a first entry to the Firebase application database -- Scaffolding a Vue.js application -- Connecting the Vue.js application to the Firebase project -- Adding a Bootstrap-powered markup -- Adding a form using Bootstrap -- Making things functional with Vue.js -- Adding utility functions to make things look nicer -- Exercise -- Extracting message cards to their own component -- Exercise -- Deploying your application -- Extra mile - connecting your Firebase project to a custom domain -- Summary -- Chapter 2: Under the Hood - Tutorial Explained -- Vue.js -- Vue project - getting started -- Including directly in script -- CDN -- NPM -- Vue-cli -- Vue directives -- Conditional rendering -- Text versus HTML -- Loops -- Binding data -- Handling events -- Vue components -- Exercise -- Vue router -- Vuex state management architecture -- Bootstrap -- Bootstrap components -- Bootstrap utilities -- Bootstrap layout -- Combining Vue.js and Bootstrap -- Exercise -- Combining Vue.js and Bootstrap continued -- What is Firebase? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Scene-to-Scene Transitions -- 16 Rites of Passage -- Transitions -- Blacking Out -- Shot Size -- Contrast -- Titles -- The Flashback -- Sound -- The Pre-Lap -- "Back to One" -- Narration -- 17 Imaging -- K vs. mm -- From Taxidermy to Taxonomy -- Less Painful Extractions -- 18 Audiology -- Ambience -- Microsurgery -- Music Editing -- 19 Bedside Manner -- Politics of the Editing Room -- Bedside Manner -- No Surprises -- Screening the Rough Cut -- The Best Policy -- All Ears -- Staying Seated -- Dailies and Rough Cuts -- The Answer Is Yes -- The Poor Craftsman -- What's the Big Deal? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Just Transitions in Extractive Territories (Tara Righetti) -- Chapter 31. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Image Metadata Support; 10.1 Introduction; 10.2 Metadata Schemas; 10.3 Extracting Image Metadata; 10.4 Inserting Image Metadata; 10.5 Indexing Image Metadata; 10.6 DICOM Metadata; 10.7 Summary…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…. -- A Universal Cassette-Based System for the Dissolution of Solid Targets -- Reprinted from: Molecules 2021, 26, 6255, doi:10.3390/molecules26206255 87 -- Martin St ́ıcha, Ivan Jel ́ınek and Mikul ́aˇs Vlk ˇ -- Chemical Conversion of Hardly Ionizable Rhenium Aryl Chlorocomplexes with p-Substituted -- Anilines -- Reprinted from: Molecules 2021, 26, 3427, doi:10.3390/molecules26113427 99 -- Petra Martini, Licia Uccelli, Adriano Duatti, Lorenza Marvelli, Juan Esposito and Alessandra -- Boschi -- Highly Efficient Micro-Scale Liquid-Liquid In-Flow Extraction of 99mTc from Molybdenum -- Reprinted from: Molecules 2021, 26, 5699, doi:10.3390/molecules26185699 111 -- Marco Verona, Sara Rubagotti, Stefania Croci, Sophia Sarpaki, Francesca Borgna and -- Marianna Tosato et al. -- Preliminary Study of a 1,5-Benzodiazepine-Derivative Labelled with Indium-111 for CCK-2 -- Receptor Targeting -- Reprinted from: Molecules 2021, 26, 918, doi:10.3390/molecules26040918 121 -- Markus Blumberg, Karrar Al-Ameed, Erik Eiselt, Sandra Luber and Constantin Mamat -- Synthesis of Ionizable Calix[4]arenes for Chelation of Selected Divalent Cations -- Reprinted from : Molecules 2022, 27, 1478, doi:10.3390/molecules27051478 145 -- Liliana Mou, Petra Martini, Gaia Pupillo, Izabela Cieszykowska, Cathy S. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Profiling with TStopwatch -- Profilers -- Summary -- Chapter .3: Fixing the Algorithm -- Technical requirements -- Writing responsive user interfaces -- Updating a progress bar -- Bulk updates -- Virtual display -- Caching -- Memoization -- Dynamic cache -- Speeding up SlowCode -- Summary -- Chapter 4: Don't Reinvent, Reuse -- Technical requirements -- Spring for Delphi -- Enumerations, collections, and lists -- IEnumerable&lt -- T&gt -- -- ICollection&lt -- T&gt -- -- IList&lt -- T&gt -- -- Other interfaces -- TEnumerable -- Stacks and queues -- Trees -- Red-black trees -- Sets and dictionaries -- ISet&lt -- T&gt -- -- IMultiSet&lt -- T&gt -- -- IDictionary&lt -- TKey, TValue&gt -- -- IBiDiDictionary&lt -- TKey, TValue&gt -- -- Summary -- Chapter 5: Fine-Tuning the Code -- Technical requirements -- Delphi compiler settings -- Code inlining control -- Optimization -- Record field alignment -- Assertions -- Overflow checking -- Range checking -- Extracting common expressions -- The helpful CPU window -- Behind the scenes -- A plethora of types -- Simple types -- Strings -- Arrays -- Records -- Classes -- Interfaces -- Optimizing method calls -- Parameter passing -- Method inlining -- The magic of pointers -- Going the assembler way -- Returning to SlowCode -- Summary -- Chapter 6: Memory Management -- Technical requirements -- Optimizing strings and array allocations…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…3.4.6 Injiziere einen Fake unmittelbar vor einem Methodenaufruf3.5 Variationen der Refactoring-Technik; 3.5.1 Die Verwendung von Extract and Override, um Fake-Resultate zu erzeugen; 3.6 Die Überwindung des Kapselungsproblems; 3.6.1 Die Verwendung von internal und [InternalsVisibleTo]; 3.6.2 Die Verwendung des Attributs [Conditional]; 3.6.3 Die Verwendung von #if und #endif zur bedingten Kompilierung; 3.7 Zusammenfassung; Kapitel 4: Interaction Testing mit Mock-Objekten; 4.1 Wertbasiertes Testen versus zustandsbasiertes Testen versus Testen versus Interaction Testing…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of extracts -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1 Schools, the transition, students and teachers -- Introduction -- The transition and the context of this research -- Issues at transition -- Social, psychological and emotional issues -- Academic issues -- Language and the transition -- The voices of students in our project schools -- Aims of this book -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 2 Academic language and the school transition -- Introduction -- Perspectives on the language of school -- Bernstein's language codes and the language of school -- The Systemic-Functional Linguistics approach -- BICS and CALP -- CALS -- Academic language and function -- Academic language and social prestige -- Function: Academic language to facilitate and express academic thought -- Register and genre -- Features of academic language -- Overview -- Disciplinary language -- The vocabulary of school -- Polysemy and homonymy -- Tiers -- Grammar and discourse -- Specific issues at the transition -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 3 Corpus data and methods -- Introduction -- Constructing our corpus -- Characteristics of our partner schools -- Corpus design and representativeness -- The written corpus -- Representativeness and data gathering -- Composition of the written corpus -- Sub-registers -- The spoken corpus -- Corpus analytical methods used -- Quantitative data analysis procedures -- Multi-dimensional analysis -- Dimension 1: Involved versus informational discourse -- Dimension 2: Narrative versus non-narrative discourse -- Dimension 3: Situation-dependent versus elaborated reference -- Dimension 4: Overt expression of persuasion -- Dimension 5: Abstract versus non-abstract information -- Mixed and qualitative data analysis…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Stern, Nelson Morgan -- 8.1 Introduction 193 -- 8.2 Some Attributes of Auditory Physiology and Perception 194 -- 8.2.1 Peripheral Processing 194 -- 8.2.2 Processing at more Central Levels 200 -- 8.2.3 Psychoacoustical Correlates of Physiological Observations 202 -- 8.2.4 The Impact of Auditory Processing on Conventional Feature Extraction 206 -- 8.2.5 Summary 208 -- 8.3 “Classic” Auditory Representations 208 -- 8.4 Current Trends in Auditory Feature Analysis 213 -- 8.5 Summary 221 -- Acknowledgments 222 -- References 222 -- 9 Feature Compensation 229 / Jasha Droppo -- 9.1 Life in an Ideal World 229 -- 9.1.1 Noise Robustness Tasks 229 -- 9.1.2 Probabilistic Feature Enhancement 230.…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Adding a price filter -- Adding a screen size filter -- Adding the remaining color, OS, and feature filters -- Scaffolding the filters component behavior -- Defining the filters component computed properties -- Defining the filters component methods -- Styling the filters component -- Adding the filters component to the catalog page -- Updating the catalog page template -- Adding the catalog page filter behavior -- Tidying up our existing components -- Testing the completed filtering logic -- Refactoring the filters component -- Highlighting duplication in our existing implementation -- Extracting a common multi-select filter component -- Extracting a common range filter component -- Rendering the new multi-select and range filter components -- Testing that everything still works -- Client-side sorting -- Building a sort component -- Adding the sort component to the catalog page -- Creating a search bar component -- Triggering API requests using watchers -- Debouncing API requests to limit how often they fire -- Summary -- Chapter 6: Building a Shopping Cart -- Evaluating our options -- Persisting to the database -- Persisting to session state -- Persisting to local storage -- Finishing the product details page -- Creating the gallery component -- Adding variants to the product details component -- Introduction to Vuex -- What is Vuex? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Web Application Proxies -- Burp Proxy -- Customizing client interception -- Modifying requests on the fly -- Burp Proxy with HTTPS websites -- Zed Attack Proxy -- ProxyStrike -- Web Crawlers and Directory Bruteforce -- DIRB -- DirBuster -- Uniscan -- Web Vulnerability Scanners -- Nikto -- w3af -- Skipfish -- Other tools -- OpenVAS -- Database exploitation -- Web application fuzzers -- Using Tor for penetration testing -- Vulnerable applications and servers to practice on -- OWASP Broken Web Applications -- Hackazon -- Web Security Dojo -- Other resources -- Summary -- Chapter 3: Reconnaissance and Profiling the Web Server -- Reconnaissance -- Passive reconnaissance versus active reconnaissance -- Information gathering -- Domain registration details -- Whois - extracting domain information -- Identifying related hosts using DNS -- Zone transfer using dig -- DNS enumeration -- DNSEnum -- Fierce -- DNSRecon -- Brute force DNS records using Nmap -- Using search engines and public sites to gather information -- Google dorks -- Shodan -- theHarvester -- Maltego -- Recon-ng - a framework for information gathering -- Domain enumeration using Recon-ng -- Sub-level and top-level domain enumeration -- Reporting modules -- Scanning - probing the target -- Port scanning using Nmap -- Different options for port scan -- Evading firewalls and IPS using Nmap -- Identifying the operating system -- Profiling the server -- Identifying virtual hosts -- Locating virtual hosts using search engines -- Identifying load balancers -- Cookie-based load balancer -- Other ways of identifying load balancers -- Application version fingerprinting -- The Nmap version scan -- The Amap version scan -- Fingerprinting the web application framework -- The HTTP header -- The WhatWeb scanner -- Scanning web servers for vulnerabilities and misconfigurations…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Step 7 - Dimensionality reduction with hidden layers -- Step 8 - Anomaly detection -- Step 9 - Pre-trained supervised model -- Step 10 - Model evaluation on the highly-imbalanced data -- Step 11 - Stopping the Spark session and H2O context -- Auxiliary classes and methods -- Hyperparameter tuning and feature selection -- Summary -- Chapter 10: Human Activity Recognition using Recurrent Neural Networks -- Working with RNNs -- Contextual information and the architecture of RNNs -- RNN and the long-term dependency problem -- LSTM networks -- Human activity recognition using the LSTM model -- Dataset description -- Setting and configuring MXNet for Scala -- Implementing an LSTM model for HAR -- Step 1 - Importing necessary libraries and packages -- Step 2 - Creating MXNet context -- Step 3 - Loading and parsing the training and test set -- Step 4 - Exploratory analysis of the dataset -- Step 5 - Defining internal RNN structure and LSTM hyperparameters -- Step 6 - LSTM network construction -- Step 7 - Setting up an optimizer -- Step 8 - Training the LSTM network -- Step 9 - Evaluating the model -- Tuning LSTM hyperparameters and GRU -- Summary -- Chapter 11: Image Classification using Convolutional Neural Networks -- Image classification and drawbacks of DNNs -- CNN architecture -- Convolutional operations -- Pooling layer and padding operations -- Subsampling operations -- Convolutional and subsampling operations in DL4j -- Configuring DL4j, ND4s, and ND4j -- Convolutional and subsampling operations in DL4j -- Large-scale image classification using CNN -- Problem description -- Description of the image dataset -- Workflow of the overall project -- Implementing CNNs for image classification -- Image processing -- Extracting image metadata -- Image feature extraction -- Preparing the ND4j dataset -- Training the CNNs and saving the trained models…”