Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Becoming One with Your Battery -- Chapter 5 A Nerd's Guide to System Preferences -- An Explanation - without Jargon, No Less -- Locating That Certain Special Setting -- Popular Preferences Panes Explained -- The Displays pane -- The Desktop &amp -- Screen Saver pane -- Mission Control preferences -- The General pane -- The Battery pane -- The Dock &amp -- Menu Bar pane -- The Sharing pane -- The Time Machine pane -- Apple ID preferences -- Notifications preferences -- Chapter 6 Sifting Through Your Stuff -- Doing a Basic Search -- How Cool Is That? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Letting the Pros Work for You -- Protecting Your Money -- Meeting minimum standards -- Avoiding losses in bankruptcy -- Watching Out for Potential Pitfalls -- Earning more may mean contributing less -- Being at the mercy of your plan -- Chapter 5 Signing Up for a 401(k) -- Exploring Your Eligibility -- Sometimes you play a waiting game -- Sometimes you can't join at all -- Sometimes you're automatically in -- Making Your Entry Date -- Deciding How to Invest Your Money -- Chapter 6 Paying Attention to Administrative Issues -- Figuring on the Fees -- Finding the fees -- Understanding the fees -- Paying the fees -- Paying extra for extra services -- Checking on small business challenges -- Considering Funding Issues -- Making a mutual decision -- Unwrapping wrap fees -- Prospecting in the prospectus -- Knowing What You Can Know -- Working to Improve Your Plan -- Upgrading investment performance -- Searching out information -- Questioning investment strategy -- Chapter 7 Weighing Your Options When You Leave Your Employer -- Taking Your Savings with You -- A Rolling 401(k) Gathers No Taxes -- Realizing that account size matters -- Moving your money to your new employer's plan -- Waiting for the money to transfer -- Leaving Money with Your Old Employer -- Taking a Lump Sum -- Taking Stock into Account -- Part 3 undefined -- Chapter 8 Investing in an IRA -- Looking at the Basics of Your IRA -- Staying traditional -- Touching on Roth IRAs -- Benefiting from a spousal IRA -- Starting an IRA for a child -- Setting Up Your IRA -- Deciding where to invest your money -- Opening your account -- Maintaining Your IRA -- Moving Your IRA -- Chapter 9 To Roth or Not to Roth -- Predicting Future Tax Rates -- Calculating accurately -- Talking tax breaks -- The "Or Not to Roth" Section…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Real wage growth has been less affected by the crisis than nominal wage growth, due to slowing price inflation -- Figure 1.7. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Luxembourg's healthcare system is robust, but faces some structural inequality and risk factors -- An effective and efficient health system supported by strong infrastructure -- However, some structural weaknesses in the health system may have presented challenges in the run-up to the crisis -- Health inequalities that affect the less affluent and educated…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…The business sector is gradually becoming less dynamic -- Figure 1.11. Increases in small business collateral requirements during the crisis have not been reversed -- Figure 1.12. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Financial conditions in advanced economies have become less supportive -- Figure 1.4. GDP growth projections for the major economies -- Figure 1.5. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…CO2 emissions from transport fuel use are taxed less than in most other countries -- 3.3. Vehicle taxes…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Payable public charges of employers offered by the Job Protection Act -- Upgrading skills of elderly in order to increase their labour market participation -- Improving labour market prospects for low skilled -- Figure 2.10. The less educated have lower chances of finding a job -- Box 2.2. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- 2.9 CONCLUSIONS -- SUGGESTED READINGS -- Chapter 3 Online Relationships -- 3.1 TRADITIONAL RELATIONSHIPS: OFFLINE REALM -- 3.1.1 Social evolutionary theory -- 3.1.2 Social penetration theory -- 3.1.3 Exchange and equity theories -- 3.2 APPLYING OLD THEORIES TO ONLINE RELATIONSHIPS -- 3.2.1 Social evolutionary theory -- 3.2.2 Social penetration theory -- 3.2.3 Exchange theory and equity theory -- 3.3 NEW THEORIES TO EXPLAIN ONLINE RELATING -- 3.3.1 Disinhibition effect -- 3.3.2 Social presence theory -- 3.3.3 Social information processing theory -- 3.3.4 Hyperpersonal communication -- 3.3.5 Real Me -- 3.4 A BRIEF HISTORY OF ONLINE RELATING -- 3.4.1 Bulletin board systems: Line-by-line relationships -- 3.4.2 MUDs and MOOs: A place for real relationship formation -- 3.4.3 Chat rooms: Less means more -- 3.4.4 Discussion groups and Usenet newsgroups: A place for the 'Real Me' -- 3.5 CONTEMPORARY ONLINE SPACES -- 3.5.1 MMORPGs: Still a very social space -- 3.5.2 Social networking sites: Face-to-face and virtual friends -- 3.6 INTERACTING IN VARIOUS SPACES -- 3.7 FUTURE DEVELOPMENT IN THE FIELD -- 3.8 CONCLUSIONS -- SUGESTED READINGS -- Chapter 4 Online Dating…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- About This Book -- Foolish Assumptions -- How This Book Is Organized -- Part I: Getting Started With Outlook 2016 -- Part II: Taming the Email Beast -- Part III: Managing Contacts, Dates, Tasks, and More -- Part IV: Beyond the Basics: Tips and Tricks You Won't Want to Miss -- Part V: Outlook at Work -- Part VI: The Part of Tens -- Conventions Used in This Book -- Dialog boxes -- Ribbons and tabs -- Keyboard shortcuts -- Icons Used in This Book -- Part I Getting Started With Outlook 2016 -- Chapter 1 Outlook Features You Really Need to Know -- Explaining Why So Many People Use Outlook -- Doing Anything in Outlook the Easy Way -- Using Email: Basic Delivery Techniques -- Reading email -- Answering email -- Creating new email messages -- Sending a File -- Maintaining Your Calendar -- Entering an appointment -- Managing your schedule -- Adding a Contact -- Entering a Task -- Taking Notes -- Chapter 2 Inside Outlook: Getting More Done With Less Effort -- Outlook and Other Programs -- There's No Place Like Home: Outlook's Main Screen -- Looking at modules -- Using the Folder pane -- The Information Viewer: Outlook's hotspot -- Navigating folders -- Tying It All Together: The Ribbon -- Viewing ScreenTips -- Using the New Items button -- Finding Things in a Flash With Instant Search -- Taking Peeks -- Getting Help in Outlook -- Chapter 3 On the Fast Track: Drag 'Til You Drop -- Dragging -- Dispatching Tasks in a Flash -- Making Time Stand Still With Calendar Wizardry -- Keeping Friends Close and Enemies Closer -- Creating Instant Email Messages -- Creating email from a name in your Contacts list -- Creating an email from an appointment -- Expanding Your Outlook Workspace -- Zen of the Right Button -- Part II Taming the Email Beast -- Chapter 4 The Essential Secrets of Email…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Getting over the hedge -- The truth about speculators -- Contract specs: Keeping track of all the moving pieces -- Underlying asset -- Underlying quantity -- Product grade -- Price quote -- Price limits -- Trading months -- Delivery location -- Last trading day -- Trading hours -- For a Few Dollars Less: Trading Futures on Margin -- Taking a Pulse: Figuring Out Where the Futures Market Is Heading -- Contango: It takes two to tango -- Backwardation: One step forward, two steps back -- Keeping Your Options Open: Trading with Options -- Following options in action -- Understanding trader talk -- Selecting option characteristics -- Call options: Calling all investors…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Why Google Plus Is Important for Your Business -- Check Out My LinkedIn Profile -- Tweet Your Thoughts to the World -- Social Networking and Personal Branding -- The CIA Joins Twitter -- The Sharing More Than Selling Rule -- Make 85 Percent Sharing and Engaging -- Make 10 Percent Original Content -- Make 5 Percent or Less a Promotion about What You Do -- Connecting with Fans -- How Amanda Palmer Raised a Million Dollars via Social Networking -- Which Social Networking Site Is Right for You? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright and Credit -- Dedicated -- Contributors -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Part 1: Introducing the Fundamentals -- Chapter 1: Introducing React Anti-Patterns -- Technical requirements -- Understanding the difficulty of building UIs -- Understanding the state management -- Exploring "unhappy paths" -- Errors thrown from other components -- Learning the unexpected user behavior -- Exploring common anti-patterns in React -- Props drilling -- In-component data transformation -- Complicated logic in views -- Lack of tests -- Duplicated code -- Long component with too much responsibility -- Unveiling our approach to demolishing anti-patterns -- Summary -- Chapter 2: Understanding React Essentials -- Technical requirements -- Understanding static components in React -- Creating components with props -- Breaking down UIs into components -- Managing internal state in React -- Understanding the rendering process -- Exploring common React Hooks -- useState -- useEffect -- useCallback -- The React Context API -- Summary -- Chapter 3: Organizing Your React Application -- Technical requirements -- Understanding the problem of a less-structured project -- Understanding the complications of frontend applications -- Exploring common structures in React applications -- Feature-based structure -- Component-based structure -- Atomic design structure -- The MVVM structure -- Keeping your project structure organized -- Implementing the initial structure -- Adding an extra layer to remove duplicates -- Naming files -- Exploring a more customized structure -- Summary -- Chapter 4: Designing Your React Components -- Technical requirements -- Exploring the single responsibility principle -- Don't repeat yourself -- Using composition -- Combining component design principles -- Summary -- Part 2: Embracing Testing Techniques…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…1 1.2 End-to-End 3D Visual Ecosystem 3 1.2.1 3D Modeling and Representation 5 1.2.2 3D Content Creation 6 1.2.3 3D Video Compression 7 1.2.4 3D Content Delivery 8 1.2.5 3D Display 9 1.2.6 3D QoE 9 1.3 3D Visual Communications 10 1.4 Challenges and Opportunities 11 References 15 2 3D Graphics and Rendering 17 2.1 3DTV Content Processing Procedure 19 2.2 3D Scene Representation with Explicit Geometry - Geometry Based Representation 22 2.2.1 Surface Based Representation 23 2.2.2 Point Based Representation 37 2.2.3 Point Based Construction 38 2.2.4 Point Based Compression and Encoding for Transmission 38 2.2.5 Point Based Rendering: Splatting 39 2.2.6 Volumetric Representation 40 2.2.7 Volumetric Construction 40 2.2.8 Volumetric Compression and Encoding for Transmission 41 2.2.9 Volumetric Rendering 42 2.3 3D Scene Representation without Geometry - Image-Based Representation 43 2.3.1 Plenoptic Function 43 2.3.2 Single Texture Representation 46 2.3.3 Multiple Texture Representation 48 2.3.4 Image Based Animation 51 2.4 3D Scene Representation with Implicit Geometry - Depth-Image-Based Representation 51 2.4.1 History of Depth-Image-Based Representation 52 2.4.2 Fundamental Concept Depth-Image-Based Representation 53 2.4.3 Depth Construction 56 2.4.4 Depth-Image-Based Animation 57 References 57 3 3D Display Systems 63 3.1 Depth Cues and Applications to 3D Display 63 3.1.1 Monocular Depth Cues 63 3.1.2 Binocular Depth Cues 64 3.2 Stereoscopic Display 65 3.2.1 Wavelength Division (Color) Multiplexing 65 3.2.2 Polarization Multiplexing 69 3.2.3 Time Multiplexing 69 3.3 Autostereoscopic Display 71 3.3.1 Occlusion-Based Approach 71 3.3.2 Refraction-Based Approach 75 3.4 Multi-View System 78 3.4.1 Head Tracking Enabled Multi-View Display 79 3.4.2 Automultiscopic 79 3.5 Recent Advances in Hologram System Study 83 References 84 4 3D Content Creation 85 4.1 3D Scene Modeling and Creation 85 4.1.1 Geometry-Based Modeling 86 4.1.2 Image-Based Modeling 86 4.1.3 Hybrid Approaches 87 4.2 3D Content Capturing 87 4.2.1 Stereo Camera 87 4.2.2 Depth Camera 88 4.2.3 Multi-View Camera 88 4.2.4 3D Capturing with Monoscopic Camera 89 4.3 2D-to-3D Video Conversion 101 4.3.1 Automatic 2D-to-3D Conversion 103 4.3.2 Interactive 2D-to-3D Conversion 111 4.3.3 Showcase of 3D Conversion System Design 112 4.4 3D Multi-View Generation 125 References 126 5 3D Video Coding and Standards 129 5.1 Fundamentals of Video Coding 129 5.2 Two-View Stereo Video Coding 142 5.2.1 Individual View Coding 142 5.2.2 Inter-View Prediction Stereo Video Coding 143 5.3 Frame-Compatible Stereo Coding 144 5.3.1 Half-Resolution Frame-Compatible Stereo Coding 144 5.3.2 Full-Resolution Frame-Compatible Layer Approach 146 5.4 Video Plus Depth Coding 148 5.5 Multiple View Coding 156 5.6 Multi-View Video Plus Depth (MVD) Video 160 5.7 Layered Depth Video (LDV) 163 5.8 MPEG-4 BIFS and AFX 165 5.9 Free-View Point Video 166 References 167 6 Communication Networks 171 6.1 IP Networks 171 6.1.1 Packet Networks 171 6.1.2 Layered Network Protocols Architecture 172 6.2 Wireless Communications 174 6.2.1 Modulation 175 6.2.2 The Wireless Channel 177 6.2.3 Adaptive Modulation and Coding 191 6.3 Wireless Networking 193 6.4 4G Standards and Systems 193 6.4.1 Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access Network (E-UTRAN) 195 6.4.2 Evolved Packet Core (EPC) 200 6.4.3 Long Term Evolution-Advance (LTE-A) 201 6.4.4 IEEE 802.16 - WiMAX 202 References 203 7 Quality of Experience 205 7.1 3D Artifacts 205 7.1.1 Fundamentals of 3D Human Visual System 205 7.1.2 Coordinate Transform for Camera and Display System 206 7.1.3 Keystone Distortion 211 7.1.4 Depth-Plane Curvature 212 7.1.5 Shear Distortion 212 7.1.6 Puppet-Theater Effect 213 7.1.7 Cardboard Effect 215 7.1.8 Asymmetries in Stereo Camera Rig 216 7.1.9 Crosstalk 217 7.1.10 Picket-Fence Effect and Lattice Artifacts 217 7.1.11 Hybrid DCT Lossy Compression Artifact 218 7.1.12 Depth Map Bleeding and Depth Ringing 219 7.1.13 Artifacts Introduced by Unreliable Communication Networks 219 7.1.14 Artifacts from New View Synthesis 219 7.1.15 Summary of 3D Artifacts 220 7.2 QoE Measurement 220 7.2.1 Subjective Evaluations 222 7.2.2 2D Image and Video QoE Measurement 226 7.2.3 3D Video HVS Based QoE Measurement 235 7.2.4 Postscript on Quality of Assessment 246 7.3 QoE Oriented System Design 247 7.3.1 Focus Cues and Perceptual Distortions 247 7.3.2 Visual Fatigue 249 References 250 8 3D Video over Networks 259 8.1 Transmission-Induced Error 259 8.2 Error Resilience 267 8.3 Error Concealment 270 8.4 Unequal Error Protection 275 8.5 Multiple Description Coding 279 8.6 Cross-Layer Design 282 References 286 9 3D Applications 289 9.1 Glass-Less Two-View Systems 289 9.1.1 Spatially Multiplexed Systems 290 9.1.2 Temporally Multiplexed Systems 290 9.2 3D Capture and Display Systems 291 9.3 Two-View Gaming Systems 294 9.4 3D Mobile 298 9.4.1 HTC EVO 3D 298 9.4.2 Mobile 3D Perception 299 9.5 Augmented Reality 302 9.5.1 Medical Visualization 304 9.5.2 Mobile Phone Applications 306 References 309 10 Advanced 3D Video Streaming Applications 313 10.1 Rate Control in Adaptive Streaming 313 10.1.1 Fundamentals of Rate Control 313 10.1.2 Two-View Stereo Video Streaming 318 10.1.3 MVC Streaming 318 10.1.4 MVD Streaming 319 10.2 Multi-View Video View Switching 321 10.3 Peer-to-Peer 3D Video Streaming 325 10.4 3D Video Broadcasting 328 10.5 3D Video over 4G Networks 329 References 331 Index 335…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Creating composite primary keys -- Indexing Access Tables -- The importance of indexes -- Multiple-field indexes -- When to index tables -- Printing a Table Design -- Saving the Completed Table -- Manipulating Tables -- Renaming tables -- Deleting tables -- Copying tables in a database -- Copying a table to another database -- Adding Records to a Database Table -- Understanding Attachment Fields -- Chapter 4: Understanding Table Relationships -- Building Bulletproof Databases -- Data Normalization and Denormalization -- First normal form -- Second normal form -- Identifying entities -- Less obvious entities -- Breaking the rules -- Third normal form -- Denormalization -- Table Relationships -- Connecting the data -- One-to-one -- One-to-many -- Many-to-many -- Integrity Rules -- No primary key can contain a null value -- All foreign key values must be matched by corresponding primary keys -- Keys -- Deciding on a primary key -- Looking at the benefits of a primary key -- Designating a primary key -- Single-field versus composite primary keys -- Natural versus surrogate primary keys -- Creating primary keys -- Creating relationships and enforcing referential integrity -- Specifying the join type between tables -- Enforcing referential integrity -- Viewing all relationships -- Deleting relationships -- Following application-specific integrity rules -- Chapter 5: Working with Access Tables -- Understanding Datasheets -- Looking at the Datasheet Window -- Moving within a datasheet -- Using the Navigation buttons -- Examining the Datasheet Ribbon -- Views -- Clipboard -- Sort &amp -- Filter -- Records -- Find -- Window -- Text Formatting -- Opening a Datasheet -- Entering New Data -- Saving the record -- Understanding automatic data-type validation -- Knowing how properties affect data entry -- Standard text data entry -- Date/Time data entry…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Branding Gone AmokTM -- Effective Writing for Marketing and PR -- The Power of Writing Feedback (from Your Blog) -- Injecting Humor into Product Descriptions -- Brand Journalism at Boeing -- 12 Social Networking as Marketing -- How to Use Facebook to Market Your Product or Service -- Increase Engagements with Facebook Groups -- Check Out My LinkedIn Profile -- Tweet Your Thoughts to the World -- Social Networking and Personal Branding -- Write Your Biography in First Person -- The Sharing More Than Selling Rule -- Make 85 Percent Sharing and Engaging -- Make 10 Percent Original Content -- Make 5 Percent or Less a Promotion About What You Do -- Which Social Networking Site Is Right for You? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Widgets Invade Your Desktop -- Safari Profiles Keep You Organized -- Ramp Up Your Gaming -- Put Your MacBook on Lockdown -- Screen Savers Go Hollywood -- Chapter 5 A Nerd's Guide to System Settings -- An Explanation - without Jargon, No Less -- Locating That Certain Special Setting -- Popular System Settings Panes Explained -- The Displays pane -- The Desktop &amp -- Dock pane -- Dock settings -- Desktop &amp -- Stage Manager settings -- Widgets settings -- Windows settings -- Mission Control settings…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Building with Java and Spring Boot -- Introducing Java -- Writing a Java app -- Introducing JSPs and servlets -- Introducing Spring and Spring Boot -- A simple Spring Boot web app -- Introducing .NET -- Generating a Hello World web app -- Using Python web app frameworks -- Django -- Flask -- Reviewing the roadmap -- Summary -- Chapter 8: Writing Less Code - CMSs, No-Code Solutions, and Generative AI -- Introducing WordPress -- Key features -- Understanding the technical perspective -- Getting to know Drupal -- Key features -- Understanding the technical perspective -- Throwing away coding altogether - "no-code" solutions -- Introducing some popular no-code solutions -- Utilizing artificial intelligence -- Generative AI -- GitHub Copilot -- Reviewing the roadmap -- Summary -- Part 3: Getting and Keeping a Job and Growing a Career -- Chapter 9: Landing Your First Job -- Understanding the FAANG/non-FAANG divide -- Calibrating your FAANG expectations -- Comparing tech companies to non-tech companies -- Using the web to become a web developer! …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Introducing Structured Query Language (SQL) -- Using SQL*Plus -- Starting SQL*Plus -- Starting SQL*Plus from the Command Line -- Performing a SELECT Statement Using SQL*Plus -- Using SQL Developer -- Creating the Store Schema -- Examining the Script -- Running the Script -- Examining the Store Data Definition Language Statements -- Adding, Modifying, and Removing Rows -- Adding a Row to a Table -- Modifying an Existing Row in a Table -- Removing a Row from a Table -- Connecting to and Disconnecting from a Database -- Quitting SQL*Plus -- Introducing Oracle PL/SQL -- Summary -- Chapter 2: Retrieving Information from Database Tables -- Performing Single Table SELECT Statements -- Retrieving All Columns from a Table -- Limiting Rows to Retrieve Using the WHERE Clause -- Row Identifiers -- Row Numbers -- Performing Arithmetic -- Performing Date Arithmetic -- Using Columns in Arithmetic -- Arithmetic Operator Precedence -- Using Column Aliases -- Combining Column Output Using Concatenation -- Null Values -- Displaying Distinct Rows -- Comparing Values -- Using the Not Equal Operator -- Using the Greater Than Operator -- Using the Less Than or Equal to Operator -- Using the ANY Operator -- Using the ALL Operator -- Using the SQL Operators -- Using the LIKE Operator -- Using the IN Operator -- Using the BETWEEN Operator -- Using the Logical Operators -- Using the AND Operator -- Using the OR Operator -- Logical Operator Precedence -- Sorting Rows Using the ORDER BY Clause -- Performing SELECT Statements That Use Two Tables -- Using Table Aliases -- Cartesian Products -- Performing SELECT Statements That Use More than Two Tables -- Join Conditions and Join Types…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright and Credits -- Packt Upsell -- Contributors -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1: Unleashing React Applications with MERN -- MERN stack -- Node -- Express -- MongoDB -- React -- Relevance of MERN -- Consistency across the technology stack -- Less time to learn, develop, deploy, and extend -- Widely adopted in the industry -- Community support and growth -- Range of MERN applications -- MERN applications developed in this book -- Social media platform -- Online marketplace -- Media streaming application -- VR game for the web -- Book structure -- Getting started with MERN -- Building MERN from the ground up - a skeleton application -- Developing basic web applications with MERN -- Advancing to complex MERN applications -- Going forward with MERN -- Getting the most out of this book -- Summary -- Chapter 2: Preparing the Development Environment -- Selecting development tools -- Workspace options -- Local and cloud development -- IDE or text editors -- Chrome Developer Tools -- Git -- Installation -- Remote Git hosting services -- Setting up MERN stack technologies -- MongoDB -- Installation -- Running the mongo shell -- Node -- Installation -- Upgrading npm versions -- Node version management with nvm -- npm modules for MERN -- Key modules -- devDependency modules -- Checking your development setup -- Initializing package.json and installing npm modules -- Configuring Babel, Webpack, and Nodemon -- Babel -- Webpack -- Client-side Webpack configuration for development -- Server-side Webpack configuration -- Client-side Webpack configuration for production -- Nodemon -- Frontend views with React -- Server with Express and Node -- Express app -- Bundle React app during development -- Serving static files from the dist folder -- Rendering templates at the root -- Connecting the server to MongoDB…”