Tabla de Contenidos: “…""Front Matter""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgment of Reviewers""; ""Contents""; ""Summary""; ""1 Introduction and Fundamental Concepts""; ""2 Engineering Biometric Systems""; ""3 Lessons from Other Large-Scale Systems""; ""4 Cultural, Social, and Legal Considerations""; ""5 Research Opportunities and the Future of Biometrics""; ""Appendixes""; ""Appendix A: Biosketches of Committee Members and Staff""; ""Appendix B: Watch-List Operational Performance and List Size: A First-Cut Analysis""; ""Appendix C: Statement of Task""; ""Appendix D: Testing and Evaluation Examples""…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…; 2 - Meeting the Client at Relational Depth; 3 - Central Dynamics in Person-Centred Counselling Training; 4 - Selecting and Supporting Trainers; 5 - Selecting Course Members; 6 - Counselling Experience Supported by Supervision; 7 - Personal Development during Training; 8 - Skill Development; 9 - Understanding Theory; 10 - The Large Group Meeting; 11 - Professional Issues; 12 - Variations for Counselling Skills Courses; 13 - Looking Back and Looking Forward; References; Index…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Distributed cellular automata : large-scale simulation of natural phenomena -- Parallel implementations of evolutionary algorithms -- Towards hybrid biologically inspired heuristics -- Nature-inspired optimization algorithms for parallel simulations -- An introduction to genetic-based scheduling in parallel-processor systems -- Mapping tasks onto distributed heterogenous computing systems using genetic algorithm approach -- Evolving cellular automata-based algorithms for multiprocessor scheduling -- Parallel task mapping with biological computing models -- Scheduling parallel prgrams using genetic algorithms -- Applications of neural networks to mobile communication systems…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Neural Networks on Hypergraph -- Chapter 8. Large Scale Hypergraph Computation -- Chapter 9. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Determining Capacity Credit for Wind Used in MISO Resource Adequacy -- Wind Power Scenario Tree Tool: Development and Methodology -- Probabilistic Ramp Detection and Forecasting for Wind Power Prediction -- Application of Hourly Time Series Models in Day Ahead Wind Power Commitment -- Probabilistic Guarantees for the N-1 Security of Systems with Wind Power Generation -- Adequacy and Security Measures in Integrated Intermittent Renewable Generation -- Representation of Wind and Load Correlation in Non-Sequential Monte Carlo Reliability Evaluation -- Composite Reliability Assessment of Power Systems with Large Penetration of Renewable Sources…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Intro -- Series Foreword -- Preface -- Symbols and Notation -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Chapter 2 Regression -- Chapter 3 Classification -- Chapter 4 Covariance functions -- Chapter 5 Model Selection and Adaptation of Hyperparameters -- Chapter 6 Relationships between GPs and Other Models -- Chapter 7 Theoretical Perspectives -- Chapter 8 Approximation Methods for Large Datasets -- Chapter 9 Further Issues and Conclusions -- Appendix A Mathematical Background -- Appendix B Gaussian Markov Processes -- Appendix C Datasets and Code -- Bibliography -- Author Index -- Subject Index…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Vehicle-To-Anything: The Trend of Internet of Vehicles in Future Smart Cities -- 6. Prediction of Large Scale Spatio-temporal Traffic Flow Data with New Graph Convolution Model -- 7. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Decay of the false vacuum; 7. Large orders in perturbation theory; 8. Quantum electrodynamics in 1+1 dimensions; 9. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Decay of the false vacuum; 7. Large orders in perturbation theory; 8. Quantum electrodynamics in 1+1 dimensions; 9. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…The rise of foundational dualism and the eclipse of the body -- "Body am I entirely, and nothing else": non-reductive materialism and the struggle against dualism -- Toward a materialist phenomenology of religion -- The phenomenology of embodiment and the study of religion -- Religious bodies as social artifacts -- Holding social constructionism in check: the recovery of the active, lived body -- A cultural neurophenomenology of religion: enter the embodied mind -- The eclipse of practice: textualism at large -- "Ceci n'est pas un texte": from textualism to practice -- Expanding the conversation on emplaced religion -- Mobility, networks, and ecology…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover -- Copyright -- Credits -- About the Author -- About the Reviewer -- www.PacktPub.com -- Customer Feedback -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1: Configuring HBase -- Introduction -- Configuring and deploying HBase -- Using the filesystem -- Administering clusters -- Managing clusters -- Chapter 2: Loading Data from Various DBs -- Introduction -- Extracting data from Oracle -- Loading data using Oracle Big data connector -- Bulk utilities -- Using Hive with Apache HBase -- Using Sqoop -- Chapter 3: Working with Large Distributed Systems Part I -- Introduction -- Scaling elastically or Auto Scaling with built-in fault tolerance -- Auto Scaling HBase using AWS -- Works on different VM/physical, cloud hardware -- Chapter 4: Working with Large Distributed Systems Part II -- Introduction -- Read path -- Write Path -- Snappy -- LZO compression -- LZ4 compressor -- Replication -- Chapter 5: Working with Scalable Structure of tables -- Introduction -- HBase data model part 1 -- HBase data model part 2 -- How HBase truly scales on key and schema design -- Chapter 6: HBase Clients -- Introduction -- HBase REST and Java Client -- Working with Apache Thrift -- Working with Apache Avro -- Working with Protocol buffer -- Working with Pig and using Shell -- Chapter 7: Large-Scale MapReduce -- Introduction -- Chapter 8: HBase Performance Tuning -- Introduction -- Working with infrastructure/operating systems -- Working with Java virtual machines -- Changing the configuration of components -- Working with HDFS -- Chapter 9: Performing Advanced Tasks on Hbase -- Machine learning using Hbase -- Real-time data analysis using Hbase and Mahout -- Full text indexing using Hbase -- Chapter 10: Optimizing Hbase for Cloud -- Introduction -- Configuring Hbase for the Cloud -- Connecting to an Hbase cluster using the command line…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Title description -- About this title - Geological Disposal of Radioactive Waste in Deep Clay Formations: 40 Years of RD&D in the Belgian URL HADES -- Introduction -- Geological disposal of radioactive waste in deep clay formations: celebrating 40 years of RD&D in the Belgian URL HADES -- Supporting ONDRAF/NIRAS' safety statements -- The role of the HADES URL in better understanding of the Boom Clay pore water geochemistry -- Forty years of investigation into the thermo-hydromechanical behaviour of Boom Clay in the HADES URL -- Characterization of Boom Clay anisotropic THM behaviour based on two heating tests at different scales in the HADES URL -- Gas transport in Boom Clay: the role of the HADES URL in process understanding -- Lessons learned from in situ corrosion experiments in the HADES URL -- CP1 and Tribicarb-3D: unique long-term and large-scale in situ migration tests in Boom Clay at the HADES Underground Research Laboratory -- Coupled flow and transport modelling of a large-scale in situ migration experiment with 14C-labelled natural organic matter colloids in Boom Clay -- Supporting ONDRAF/NIRAS' feasibility statements -- The construction of the HADES underground research laboratory and its role in the development of the Belgian concept of a deep geological repository -- Stability analysis and long-term behaviour of deep tunnels in clay formations -- Assessment of long-term sensor performance based on a large THM experiment in the HADES URL -- Supporting international RD&D programmes -- Forty-five years of joint research programmes on geological disposal of radioactive waste and the pioneering role of the HADES Underground Research Laboratory -- Contribution of HADES URL to the development of the Cigéo project, the French industrial centre for geological disposal of high-level and long-lived intermediate-level radioactive waste in a deep clay formation -- 25 years of cross-fertilization between HADES and Mont Terri rock laboratory -- Underground research laboratories, an important support to the Belgian Regulatory Body's Research and Development programme and the management of uncertainties -- Important roles of underground research laboratories for the geological disposal of radioactive wastes: an international perspective -- Perspectives -- Making the future in the present: using Science and Technology Studies to reflect on 40 years of research in the HADES Underground Research Laboratory…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Inactivity and unemployment traps are large; Reforming the financing of health care; Box 3. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Series Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Education in the Twenty-First Century -- Problems with Current Assessments -- Assessment Writ Large -- Traditional Classroom Assessments Are Detached Events -- Traditional Classroom Assessments Rarely Influence Learning -- Traditional Assessment and Validity Issues -- Digital Games, Assessment, and Learning -- Assessment in Games -- Stealth Assessment -- Stealth Assessment in Newton's Playground -- Conscientiousness Review and Competency Model -- Creativity Review and Competency Model -- Conceptual Physics Review and Competency Model -- Relation of Physics Indicators to Conscientiousness and Creativity Indicators -- Newton's Playground Study Procedure -- Discussion and Future Research -- Appendixes -- References…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…The production, availability, and use of national large-scale assessment dataNelli Piattoeva et al. / chapter 7 Effects of quality assurance and evaluation on schools’ room for action / chapter 8 Alternative views of the future of quality assurance and evaluation / chapter 9 Conclusion…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Introducing free innovation -- Scale and self-rewarding nature of free innovation -- Viability of individual and collaborative free innovation -- Innovation pioneering by free innovators -- Diffusion shortfall in free innovation -- Free and producer paradigm interactions -- Competition for free innovator resources -- Large scope of free innovation -- Factors promoting free innovator success -- Preserving free innovatorsa' strong legal rights -- Next steps in free innovation research, policy, and practice -- Appendix 1: Household sector innovation survey questionnaire -- Appendix 2: Model of the user innovation paradigm : impacts on markets and welfare -- References -- Index…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Using Operations Research Methods for Homeland Security Problems -- Operations Research and Homeland Security: Overview and Case Study of Pandemic Influenza -- Deployed Security Games for Patrol Planning -- Interdiction Models and Applications -- Time Discrepant Shipments in Manifest Data -- Achieving Realistic Levels of Defensive Hedging Based on Non-MOnotonic and Multi-Attribute Terrorist Utility Functions -- Mitigating the Risk of an Anthrax Attack with Medical Countermeasures -- Service Networks for Public Health and Medical Preparedness: Medical Countermeasures Dispensing and Large-scale Disaster Relief Efforts -- Disaster Response Planning in the Private Sector and the Role of Operations Research…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…1: Introduction 2: Introduction to R Programming 3: Reproducible Analysis 4: Data Manipulation 5: Visualizing Data 6: Working with Large Data Sets 7: Supervised Learning 8: Unsupervised Learning 9: Project 1: Hitting the Bottle 10: Deeper into R Programming 11: Working with Vectors and Lists 12: Functional Programming 13: Object-Oriented Programming 14: Building an R Package 15: Testing and Package Checking 16: Version Control 17: Profiling and Optimizing 18: Project 2: Bayesian Linear Progression 19: Conclusions…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Front Cover; Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: Role of the Board of Directors; Chapter 2: Role of the CEO; Chapter 3: Creating the Business Plan; Chapter 4: Corporate Culture; Chapter 5: Communications; Chapter 6: Organization of Large Corporations; Chapter 7: Manufacturing Strategies; Chapter 8: Manufacturing; Chapter 9: Quality Control; Chapter 10: Controlling Overhead; Chapter 11: Wage and Salary Administration; Chapter 12: Performance Reviews; Chapter 13: Motivation and Productivity; Chapter 14: Benefits and Incentives; Chapter 15: Role of Engineering; Chapter 16: Marketing and Sales…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover -- Title -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Tools &amp -- Materials -- The Basics of Cross Stitch -- Planning Your Design -- Main Designs -- Graduation Cap &amp -- Scroll -- Standing Graduate -- Sitting Graduate -- Graduate Tossing Hat -- Books -- Laptop -- Medal -- Border Patterns -- Sparkle Confetti -- Celebration Streamers -- Fancy Scroll -- Books -- Tassels -- Ribbon -- Mini Motifs -- Alphabets -- Varsity Alphabet -- Playful Alphabet -- Serif Alphabet -- Extra-Large Numbers -- Scroll Wall Hanging -- Mortarboard -- Pennant -- Greeting Card -- Gifting Your Creations -- Grid Paper -- About the Author -- Copyright…”