Tabla de Contenidos: “…The percentage of people who felt less safe in 2019 than they did in 2014 varies across fragile contexts, underscoring that fragility and conflict, while related, are not synonymous -- Infographic 1.2. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- 20 measuring your truth gap -- step 1 -- step 2 -- step 3 -- step 4 -- step 5 -- step 6 -- step 7 -- step 8 -- step 9 -- step 10 -- 21 you don't have to be perfect, you just have to want to be -- a less-than-perfect example -- 22 commercial viability -- testing viability professionally -- testing viability as you go -- check your toolbox -- testing on meerkats -- 23 the circle as a compass -- TOMS shoes -- one degree matters -- give your compass a spin -- purpose is a long-term play -- 24 the sliding doors effect -- scenario 1: how do i deliver good customer service? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Common strategies to deal with backpressure -- Lossy strategies to deal with backpressure -- The throttle() operator -- The sample() operator -- The debounce() operator -- The pausable() observables -- Loss-less operators to deal with backpressure -- Buffering -- The bufferWithCount() operator -- The bufferWithTime() operator -- The bufferWithTimeOrCount() operator -- Pausable observables (with buffer) -- Controlled observables -- More ways to filter data -- The first() operator -- The take() operator -- The takeLast() operator -- The takeWhile() operator -- The skip() operator -- The skipWhile() operator -- Summary -- Chapter 6: Too Many Sources - Combining Observables -- When do I need to combine observables? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…List of Command-Line Tools -- alias -- awk -- aws -- bash -- bat -- bc -- body -- cat -- cd -- chmod -- cols -- column -- cowsay -- cp -- csv2vw -- csvcut -- csvgrep -- csvjoin -- csvlook -- csvquote -- csvsort -- csvsql -- csvstack -- csvstat -- curl -- cut -- display -- dseq -- echo -- env -- export -- fc -- find -- fold -- for -- fx -- git -- grep -- gron -- head -- header -- history -- hostname -- in2csv -- jq -- json2csv -- l -- less -- ls -- make -- man -- mkdir -- mv -- nano -- nl -- parallel -- paste -- pbc -- pip -- pup -- pwd -- python -- R -- rev -- rm -- rush -- sample -- scp -- sed -- seq -- servewd -- shuf -- skll -- sort -- split -- sponge -- sql2csv -- ssh -- sudo -- tail -- tapkee -- tar -- tee -- telnet -- tldr -- tr -- tree -- trim -- ts -- type -- uniq -- unpack -- unrar -- unzip -- vw -- wc -- which -- xml2json -- xmlstarlet -- xsv -- zcat -- zsh -- Index -- About the Author -- Colophon…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Foreword ix -- Preface xi -- Biography xiii -- 1 Introduction to Satellite Communications 1 -- 1.1 A Brief History of Satellite Communications, 1 -- 1.1.1 Origins of Communications Satellite Technology, 1 -- 1.1.2 Origins of the Communications Satellite Legal Structure - International, 6 -- 1.1.3 Origins of the US Communications Satellite Legal Structure - Domestic, 10 -- 1.1.4 The Merger of Domestic and International Communication Satellite Legal Structures, 12 -- 1.1.5 NASA and Civil Communications Satellites, 12 -- 1.2 Current Major Communications Satellite Systems, 13 -- 1.2.1 Military Communications Satellites, 14 -- 1.2.2 Civil Communications Satellites, 14 -- 1.2.3 Commercial Satellites, 16 -- 2 Overview of the Technology 22 -- 2.1 Introduction, 22 -- 2.2 Radio Frequencies, 24 -- 2.3 Orbits, 31 -- 2.3.1 Low Earth Orbiting Communications Satellites, 31 -- 2.3.2 Geostationary and Geosynchronous Communications Satellites, 34 -- 2.3.3 Intermediate Circular, Medium Earth, and Elliptical Orbiting Communications Satellites, 37 -- 2.4 Satellites and Earth Stations, 39 -- 2.4.1 Basic Components of Communications Satellites, 39 -- 2.4.2 Basic Elements in Satellite Ground Earth Stations, 42 -- 2.5 Channels, Link Analysis, and Networks, 44 -- 2.5.1 Channels, 44 -- 2.5.2 Link Analysis, 46 -- 2.5.3 Networks, 47 -- 3 Early Proposals for Mobile Satellite Communications 51 -- 3.1 Military Interest in Mobile Satellite Communications, 51 -- 3.2 NASA Efforts, 57 -- 3.3 Aerosat, 57 -- 3.4 Maresat, 62 -- 4 Marisat and Marecs: Pioneering Commercial Mobile Satellite Services 65 -- 4.1 Marisat, 66 -- 4.2 Marecs, 69 -- 5 Introduction to INMARSAT 73 -- 5.1 Origins of the INMARSAT Organization, 74 -- 5.2 US Participation in the INMARSAT Organization, 78 -- 5.3 Structure of the INMARSAT Organization, 79 -- 5.4 Ownership of the INMARSAT Organization, 82 -- 5.5 Land Earth Stations (LESs) in INMARSAT, 83 -- 5.6 Mobile Terminals in INMARSAT, 87 -- 5.7 INMARSAT System Services, 90 -- 5.7.1 INMARSAT Maritime Safety Services, 90.…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Growth by Acquisition -- 8. The Contract -- 9. Less Paper Please -- References and Recommended Reading -- Chapter 2 Management -- 10. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- AI thoughts Extraordinary machine -- Puzzle 11 Reimplementing str.count() (stricter) -- Author thoughts Write a Python function with the restrictions given -- AI thoughts The Horars of War -- Puzzle 12 Finding a name for a function -- Author thoughts Code is read far more often than it is written -- AI thoughts There are two hard problems in computer science -- Puzzle 13 Playing poker (Part 1) -- Author thoughts Functions are a big help in larger programs -- AI thoughts He can't read my poker face -- Puzzle 14 Playing poker (Part 2) -- Author thoughts Large buildings are built from small bricks -- AI thoughts The society for preventing cruelty to humans -- Puzzle 15 Playing poker (Part 3) -- Author thoughts You better cheat, cheat, if you can't win -- AI thoughts Someday machines will learn to count -- Puzzle 16 Playing poker (Part 4) -- Author thoughts You might risk identifying the "dead man's hand" -- AI thoughts Free will is not free -- Puzzle 17 Playing poker (Part 5) -- Author thoughts Remember that three is more than two, but less than four -- AI thoughts Counting to two -- 5 Easy, difficult, and impossible tasks -- Puzzle 18 Identifying equal counts -- Author thoughts Lateral thinking might help you find the answer -- AI thoughts Hic sunt dracones -- Puzzle 19 Matching before duplicate words -- Author thoughts Find a pattern that will fulfill the requirement -- AI thoughts Deep fakes in the Chomsky hierarchy -- Puzzle 20 Testing an IPv4 address -- Author thoughts Ask whether regexen are powerful enough for a problem -- AI thoughts I want to be a machine -- Puzzle 21 Matching a numeric sequence -- Author thoughts Rule out the impossible to be left with the solution -- AI thoughts Wheat and chessboards -- Puzzle 22 Matching the Fibonacci sequence…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…. -- Minus inflation -- Now subtract fees -- And more fees -- Returns − inflation − fees = less than you'd like -- Do the math-not you, your advisor! …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Working Software over Comprehensive Documentation: CCPDS-R -- Customer Collaboration over Contract Negotiation: CCPDS-R -- Responding to Change over Following a Plan: CCPDS-R -- Summary -- Chapter 5 Using Risk to Balance Agility and Discipline -- An Overview of the Method -- An Example Family of Applications: Agent-Based Planning Systems -- An Intermediate Application: Supply Chain Management -- Step 1: SupplyChain.com Project Risk Ratings -- Step 2: Compare the Agile and Plan-Driven Risks -- Step 4a: Individual Risk Resolution Strategies -- Step 4b: Risk-Based Strategy for SupplyChain.com System Development -- Small Application: Event Planning -- Step 1: Event Planning Project Risk Ratings -- Step 2: Compare the Agile and Plan-Driven Risks -- Steps 4a, 4b: Risk-Based Strategy for Event Planning System Development -- Very Large Application: National Information System for Crisis Management (NISCM) -- Step1: NISCM Project Risk Ratings -- Step 2: Compare the Agile and Plan-Driven Risks -- Steps 3 and 4: Risk-Based Strategy for NISCM System Development -- Summary -- Chapter 6 Conclusions -- The Top Six Conclusions -- No Agile or Plan-Driven Method Silver Bullet -- Agile and Plan-Driven Method Home Grounds -- Future Applications Will Need Both Agility and Discipline -- Balanced Agility-Discipline Methods Are Emerging -- Build Your Method Up-Don't Tailor It Down -- Focus Less on Methods-More on People, Values, Communication, and Expectations Management -- What Can You Do Next about Balancing Agility and Discipline? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…9 TEMPORAL PATTERNS AND CYCLES -- Periods Longer than Four Years -- Periods of Four Years or Less -- January Signals -- Events -- Conclusion -- Review Questions -- 10 FLOW OF FUNDS -- Funds in the Marketplace -- Funds Outside the Security Market -- The Cost of Funds -- Fed Policy -- Conclusion -- Review Questions -- Part III: Trend Analysis -- 11 HISTORY AND CONSTRUCTION OF CHARTS -- History of Charting -- What Data Is Needed to Construct a Chart? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Improved Livelihoods on Less Land: The Case of Ilambilole and Ikuwala Villages in Iringa Region, 1996-2017 -- 'Origin of the Story' -- Methods of the Revisit -- Prior Status and Conditions -- Overall Changes -- Trajectories -- Conclusion -- 16. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Chapter 5: Configuration and Control Plane -- Technical requirements -- Controlling costs with sampling -- Head-based sampling -- Tail-based sampling -- Enriching and filtering telemetry -- Span processors -- Customizing instrumentations -- Resources -- Metrics -- Customizing context propagation -- Processing a pipeline with the OpenTelemetry Collector -- Summary -- Questions -- Chapter 6: Tracing Your Code -- Technical requirements -- Tracing with System.Diagnostics or the OpenTelemetry API shim -- Tracing with System.Diagnostics -- Tracing with the OpenTelemetry API shim -- Using ambient context -- Recording events -- When to use events -- The ActivityEvent API -- Correlating spans with links -- Using links -- Testing your instrumentation -- Intercepting activities -- Filtering relevant activities -- Summary -- Questions -- Chapter 7: Adding Custom Metrics -- Technical requirements -- Metrics in .NET - past and present -- Cardinality -- When to use metrics -- Reporting metrics -- Using counters -- The Counter class -- The UpDownCounter class -- The ObservableCounter class -- The ObservableUpDownCounter class -- Using an asynchronous gauge -- Using histograms -- Summary -- Questions -- Chapter 8: Writing Structured and Correlated Logs -- Technical requirements -- Logging evolution in .NET -- Console -- Trace -- EventSource -- ILogger -- Logging with ILogger -- Optimizing logging -- Capturing logs with OpenTelemetry -- Managing logging costs -- Pipelines -- Backends -- Summary -- Questions -- Part 3: Observability for Common Cloud Scenarios -- Chapter 9: Best Practices -- Technical requirements -- Choosing the right signal -- Getting more with less -- Building a new application -- Evolving applications -- Performance-sensitive scenarios -- Staying consistent with semantic conventions -- Semantic conventions for HTTP requests…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Template file locations -- Finding the template file -- Templates and blocks -- Working with template files -- Getting arguments from Layout XML files into blocks -- Summary -- Practical exercises -- Chapter 6: Styling an Adobe Commerce Theme -- Technical requirements -- Location and compilation of CSS files -- A quick introduction to LESS files -- Nested syntax -- Variables -- Mixins -- Modularity -- Functions and operations -- Compilation -- CSS compilation types -- Static content signing -- Server-side compilation -- Client-side compilation -- Working with themes -- Extending parent styles -- Overriding parent styles -- Summary -- Practical exercises -- Chapter 7: Customizing Emails -- Technical requirements -- Email customization process -- Installing the required tools to work with emails -- Email template structure -- Managing email templates in the Admin Panel -- Creating new email templates -- Conditional content rendering -- Customizing Email CSS -- Summary -- Practical exercises -- Chapter 8: Introduction to JavaScript Libraries and Frameworks -- Technical requirements -- Exploring the main JavaScript libraries/frameworks/modules embedded in the platform -- RequireJS -- Knockout JS -- jQuery -- Underscore JS -- The location of JavaScript resources -- The challenges associated with JavaScript libraries -- Summary -- Chapter 9: RequireJS and jQuery -- Technical requirements -- RequireJS and AC -- The shortest RequireJS course on the planet -- JavaScript initialization in template files -- Wrapping up -- jQuery -- Using jQuery inside your scripts -- jQuery UI and jQuery Widgets -- JavaScript customization -- Overriding a file -- Extending modules with mixins -- Summary -- Practical exercises…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Intro -- Table of Contents -- About the Author -- About the Technical Reviewer -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I: The Fit Between Your Creativity and Your Activities -- Chapter 1: Four Types of Creators -- When There's Hope, There Are Opportunities to Craft Your Role As a Creator -- Chapter 2: Definitions of Personal Creativity -- The Outside-In View: How Researchers Study Creativity -- Creativity As a Type of Thinking -- Creativity As a Process -- Creativity As an Outcome -- The Inside-Out View: How Recognized Creators Talk About Their Creativity -- Chapter 3: For an Updated View on Your Creativity, Make the Implicit Biases Explicit -- Two Ways to Relate to Your Creativity -- When Trust in Your Creative Capacity Outlasts Authority -- Gender Stereotypes That Confuse You About the Roles That Suit Your Creativity -- Flexing Creativity Archetypes -- Touching Base with the Creativity Formed in School Years -- Opening Up to Your Inner Creative Diversity -- To Be Creative Is to Think Twice About What You Deem to Be an Appropriate Curiosity to Follow -- Chapter 4: Impulses to Create -- Four Possible Temptations Toward Creative Activities -- Explore Your Creative Drive by Harmonizing the Importance of Creativity for Your Sense of Well-Being and Your Work Role -- Narrative 1: Being a Conformist -- Narrative 2: You Feel Misunderstood -- Narrative 3: You Compare Your Creativity with Others' Creativity -- Big-C Creativity -- Pro-C Creativity -- Little-c Creativity -- Mini-c Creativity -- Narrative 4: Creativity Achieved -- Chapter 5: Three Pathways to the Discovery of New Creative Impulses -- Emotional Availability Is Not Only for Artists -- Disrupt Your Patterns of Curiosities -- Childhood Activities -- Step Outside the Professional Sphere -- Use More of the Less Used Senses -- Take the Risk to Invest Time in Disruptive Activities…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…SELECTED FEATURES OF AMERICAN INDIAN FAMILIES -- Children Living with Two Parents -- Possible Factors Associated with the Prevalence of Single-Parent Families -- Women Who Have Never Married -- Divorce -- Interracial Marriage -- SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- 10 Demography of American Indian Elders: Social, Economic, and Health Status -- INTRODUCTION -- MARITAL STATUS AND HOUSEHOLD COMPOSITION -- ECONOMIC STATUS -- Poverty -- Sources of Income -- SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION -- MORTALITY AND DISABILITY -- Life Expectancy at Birth -- Comparative Mortality Rates -- Trends in Mortality: 1977-1988 -- Disability Status -- DISCUSSION -- References -- IV Health Issues and Health Care Access and Utilization -- 11 Overview of Alcohol Abuse Epidemiology for American Indian Populations -- STEREOTYPES OF INDIAN DRINKING -- EPIDEMIOLOGY OF INDIAN YOUTH SUBSTANCE ABUSE FROM SURVEYS -- ADULT ALCOHOL ABUSE SURVEYS -- Patterns of Heavy Use -- Less-Problematic Patterns -- LONGITUDINAL FOLLOW-UP STUDIES OF ADULT INDIAN DRINKERS -- CURRENT DATA ON ALCOHOL-INVOLVED MORTALITY -- Mortality Rates -- Male And Female Alcohol-Involved Deaths As A Percentage Of All Deaths -- Age-Adjusted Rates -- Alcohol-Related Versus Alcohol-Specific Mortality -- Explanations of Tribal Variations in Rates -- FETAL ALCOHOL SYNDROME -- PREVENTION OF ALCOHOL PROBLEMS -- Primary Prevention -- Secondary Prevention -- Tertiary Prevention -- SUMMARY OF FINDINGS AND AREAS FOR FUTURE RESEARCH -- References -- 12 Diabetes Mellitus in Native Americans: The Problem and Its Implications -- INTRODUCTION -- PIMA INDIAN STUDY -- MAGNITUDE OF THE PROBLEM OF NIDDM IN NATIVE AMERICANS -- Prevalence -- Incidence -- DETERMINANTS OF NIDDM -- Genetic Factors -- Environmental Factors -- Obesity -- Diet -- Physical Activity -- COMPLICATIONS OF NIDDM -- Mortality -- End-Stage Renal Disease (ESRD)…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…At the same time, people need companies less than ever. -- This system stems from the experience of a great many organizations. -- How We Structured the Book -- Part 1: The "Why" -- Part 2: The "What" -- Part 3: The "How" -- Structured Hiring Framework -- Chapter 2: From Chaos to Confidence: The Hiring Maturity Curve -- Never‐Never Land -- Skills versus Competencies -- Cause and Effect -- Stage 1: Chaos -- What the Hiring Experience Looks Like in Chaos -- What Talent Finding Looks Like at the Bottom of the Curve -- Trust Is the Issue -- What Decision Making Looks Like in Chaos -- Operations in Chaos -- Stage 4: Strategic Organizations -- What the Hiring Experience Looks Like in Strategic Organizations -- What Talent Finding Looks Like in Strategic Organizations -- What Recruiting and DE&amp -- I Look Like in Strategic Organizations -- Pipeline and Confidence -- What Decision Making Looks Like in Strategic Organizations -- Operational Excellence in Strategic Organizations -- "I don't have the luxury of being able to afford such specialists to improve my operation." -- Characteristics of the Inconsistent and Systematic Stages -- No Excuses -- Online Assessment -- Chapter 2: Takeaways…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Intro -- Table of Contents -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Foreword -- NOTE -- Introduction: Performance-based Hiring, Four Editions Later -- A SHORT HISTORY ON THE IMPORTANCE OF HIRING TOP TALENT -- BEING MORE EFFICIENT DOING THE WRONG THINGS IS NOT PROGRESS -- CREATING A WIN-WIN HIRING CULTURE -- THE BIG THREE HIRING CHALLENGES -- CLARIFYING JOB EXPECTATIONS UP FRONT IS THE KEY TO HIRING OUTSTANDING PEOPLE -- WHY PERFORMANCE-BASED HIRING IS THE RIGHT BUSINESS PROCESS FOR HIRING -- NOTE -- Chapter 1: Define Your Talent Strategy Before You Design Your Hiring Process -- STOP MAKING TACTICAL EXCUSES FOR A STRATEGIC PROBLEM -- WIN-WIN HIRING: HIRING FOR THE ANNIVERSARY DATE, NOT THE START DATE -- NEGOTIATE WITH THE END IN MIND -- MORE HIGH TOUCH AND LESS HIGH TECH: CONVERT STRANGERS INTO ACQUAINTANCES -- NOTES -- Chapter 2: Step-by-Step Through the Performance-based Hiring Process -- WIN-WIN HIRING: HIRE FOR THE ANNIVERSARY DATE, NOT THE START DATE -- HIRING A GREAT PERSON STARTS WITH A GREAT JOB -- SUMMARY -- NOTES -- Chapter 3: The Best Candidates Are Often Not the Best Hires -- THE WORST CANDIDATES ARE OFTEN THE BEST HIRES -- SOME GREAT CANDIDATES BECOME GREAT HIRES, BUT MANY MORE DON'T -- WOULD YOU RATHER HIRE A GREAT CANDIDATE, OR SOMEONE WHO DELIVERS GREAT RESULTS? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…. -- Improving data culture and related skills, first in focus -- Improving data use and valorisation, second in focus -- Protecting data and closing the digital "back door" -- ...and less attention on access, infrastructural and interoperability issues... -- ...with some nascent policy efforts to leverage data as a way toward more sustainable business models -- If dedicated data policies are rare, public action in the field remains relatively targeted -- International policy initiatives are advancing in parallel to national ones -- The EU impulse -- Cross-border partnerships -- Conclusion -- References -- Notes…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Building microservices -- Container-less deployment -- Self-contained microservices -- In-container deployment -- Summary…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Terminal Emulators -- Making Your First Keystrokes -- Try Some Simple Commands -- Ending a Terminal Session -- Summing Up -- 2 NAVIGATION -- Understanding the File System Tree -- The Current Working Directory -- Listing the Contents of a Directory -- Changing the Current Working Directory -- Summing Up -- 3 EXPLORING THE SYSTEM -- More Fun with ls -- Determining a File's Type with file -- Viewing File Contents with less -- Taking a Guided Tour -- Symbolic Links -- Hard Links -- Summing Up -- 4 MANIPULATING FILES AND DIRECTORIES -- Wildcards -- mkdir-Create Directories -- cp-Copy Files and Directories -- mv-Move and Rename Files -- rm-Remove Files and Directories -- ln-Create Links -- Building a Playground -- Summing Up -- 5 WORKING WITH COMMANDS -- What Exactly Are Commands? …”