Table of Contents: “…A/B testing tools -- Data warehouses -- Business Intelligence (BI) tools -- Growth-hacking tools -- Managing costs and pricing - AI is expensive -- Summary -- References -- Part 3 - Integrating AI into Existing Non-AI Products -- Chapter 11: The Rising Tide of AI -- Evolve or die - when change is the only constant -- The fourth industrial revolution - hospitals used to use candles -- Working with a consultant -- Working with a third party -- The first hire -- The first AI team -- No-code tools -- Fear is not the answer - there is more to gain than lose (or spend) -- Anticipating potential risks -- Summary -- Chapter 12: Trends and Insights across Industry -- Highest growth areas - Forrester, Gartner, and McKinsey research -- Embedded AI - applied and integrated use cases -- Ethical AI - responsibility and privacy -- Creative AI - generative and immersive applications -- Autonomous AI development - TuringBots -- Trends in AI adoption - let the data speak for itself -- General trends -- Embedded AI - applied and integrated use cases -- Ethical AI - responsibility and privacy -- Creative AI - generative and immersive applications -- Autonomous AI development - TuringBots -- Low-hanging fruit - quickest wins for AI enablement -- Summary -- References -- Chapter 13: Evolving Products into AI Products -- Venn diagram - what's possible and what's probable -- List 1 - value -- List 2 - scope -- List 3 - reach -- Data is king - the bloodstream of the company -- Preparation and research -- Quality partnership -- Benchmarking -- The data team -- Defining success -- Competition - love your enemies -- Product strategy - building a blueprint that works for everyone -- Product strategy -- Red flags and green flags - what to look for and watch out for -- Red flags -- Green flags -- Summary -- Additional resources -- Index -- Other Books You May Enjoy…”

Table of Contents: “…-- BPMS AND BAM -- BPMS, SOA, AND THE CLOUD -- CHOOSING A BPMS PRODUCT -- THE CURRENT BPMS MARKET -- SOME LEADING BPMS VENDORS -- MARKET TRENDS -- PROCESS MODELING TOOLS VS BPMS SUITES -- CREATING A BPMS APPLICATION -- NOTES AND REFERENCES -- Chapter Seventeen - ERP-Driven Redesign -- PROCESSES, PACKAGES, AND BEST PRACTICES -- A CLOSER LOOK AT SAP -- IMPLEMENTING AN ERP-DRIVEN DESIGN -- CASE STUDY: NESTLÉ USA INSTALLS SAP -- USING BPMS TO IMPROVE ERP INSTALLATIONS -- ENTERPRISE RESOURCE PLANNING AND BUSINESS PROCESS MANAGEMENT SUITE -- ERP VS BPMS APPLICATIONS -- NOTES AND REFERENCES -- Chapter Eighteen - The Future of Business Process Management -- Appendix 1 - Business Problem Analysis Checklist -- OUTPUT PROBLEMS -- INPUT PROBLEMS -- GUIDE PROBLEMS -- ENABLER PROBLEMS -- PROCESS ACTIVITY AND FLOW PROBLEMS -- PROBLEMS WITH THE MANAGEMENT OF A PROCESS -- Appendix 2 - Core Business Process Modeling Notation -- AN OVERVIEW OF A BPMN DIAGRAM USED FOR BUSINESS PROCESS ANALYSIS AND REDESIGN -- AN ACTIVITY -- AN EVENT -- A GATEWAY -- A SEQUENCE FLOW -- A MESSAGE FLOW -- A DATA OBJECT -- AN ASSOCIATION -- A POOL WITH SWIMLANES…”

Table of Contents: “…Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright and Credits -- Packt Upsell -- Contributors -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1: Review of TCP/IP Protocol Suite and Python -- An overview of the internet -- Servers, hosts, and network components -- The rise of data centers -- Enterprise data centers -- Cloud data centers -- Edge data centers -- The OSI model -- Client-server model -- Network protocol suites -- The transmission control protocol -- Functions and characteristics of TCP -- TCP messages and data transfer -- User datagram protocol -- The internet protocol -- The IP NAT and security -- IP routing concepts -- Python language overview -- Python versions -- Operating system -- Running a Python program -- Python built-in types -- The None type -- Numerics -- Sequences -- Mapping -- Sets -- Python operators -- Python control flow tools -- Python functions -- Python classes -- Python modules and packages -- Summary -- Chapter 2: Low-Level Network Device Interactions -- The challenges of the CLI -- Constructing a virtual lab -- Cisco VIRL -- VIRL tips -- Cisco DevNet and dCloud -- GNS3 -- Python Pexpect library -- Pexpect installation -- Pexpect overview -- Our first Pexpect program -- More Pexpect features -- Pexpect and SSH -- Putting things together for Pexpect -- The Python Paramiko library -- Installation of Paramiko -- Paramiko overview -- Our first Paramiko program -- More Paramiko features -- Paramiko for servers -- Putting things together for Paramiko -- Looking ahead -- Downsides of Pexpect and Paramiko compared to other tools -- Idempotent network device interaction -- Bad automation speeds bad things up -- Summary -- Chapter 3: APIs and Intent-Driven Networking -- Infrastructure as code -- Intent-Driven Networking -- Screen scraping versus API structured output -- Data modeling for infrastructure as code -- The Cisco API and ACI…”

Table of Contents: “…Cover -- Copyright -- Credits -- Foreword -- About the Author -- About the Reviewer -- www.PacktPub.com -- Customer Feedback -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1: Review of TCP/IP Protocol Suite and Python Language -- The internet overview -- Servers, hosts, and network components -- The rise of datacenter -- Enterprise datacenters -- Cloud datacenters -- Edge datacenters -- The OSI model -- Client server models -- Network protocol suites -- The Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) -- Functions and Characteristics of TCP -- TCP messages and data transfer -- User Datagram Protocol (UDP) -- The Internet Protocol (IP) -- The IP NAT and security -- IP routing concepts -- Python language overview -- Python versions -- Operating system -- Running a Python program -- Python built-In types -- The None type -- Numerics -- Sequences -- Mapping -- Sets -- Python operators -- Python control flow tools -- Python functions -- Python classes -- Python modules and packages -- Summary -- Chapter 2: Low-Level Network Device Interactions -- The challenges of CLI -- Constructing a virtual lab -- Cisco Virtual Internet Routing Lab (VIRL) -- VIRL tips -- Cisco DevNet and dCloud -- GNS3 -- Python Pexpect Library -- Installation -- The Pexpect overview -- Our first Expect program -- More Pexpect features -- Pexpect and SSH -- Putting things together for Pexpect -- The Python Paramiko library -- Installating Paramiko -- The Paramiko overview -- Our first Paramiko program -- More Paramiko features -- Paramiko for Servers -- Putting things together for Paramiko -- Looking ahead -- Downsides of Pexpect and Paramiko compared to other tools -- Idempotent network device interaction -- Bad automation speeds bad things up -- Summary -- Chapter 3: API and Intent-Driven Networking -- Infrastructure as the Python code -- Screen scraping versus API structured output…”

Table of Contents: “…-- 2.8 Format and scope of the input dataset -- 2.9 The destination: An end-to-end solution -- 2.10 More details on the code that makes up the solutions -- 2.11 Development environments: Vanilla vs. deep-learning-enabled -- 2.12 A deeper look at the objections to deep learning -- 2.13 How deep learning has become more accessible -- 2.14 A first taste of training a deep learning model -- Summary -- 3 Preparing the data, part 1: Exploring and cleansing the data -- 3.1 Code for exploring and cleansing the data -- 3.2 Using config files with Python -- 3.3 Ingesting XLS files into a Pandas dataframe -- 3.4 Using pickle to save your Pandas dataframe from one session to another -- 3.5 Exploring the data…”

Table of Contents: “…Precedent and the Competing Incentives of International Courts -- 2.1 The Use of Precedent and the Judicial Path -- 2.2 Exploring the Judicial Path through Non-compliance -- 2.3 Change and Adaptation of Precedent -- 3. Testing Change by Looking at Adaptation -- 3.1 Design -- 3.2 Results -- 4. …”

Table of Contents: “…Here There Be Dragons: Reflect, Unsafe, and Cgo -- Reflection Lets Us Work with Types at Runtime -- Types, Kinds, and Values -- Making New Values -- Use Reflection to Check If an Interface's Value Is nil -- Use Reflection to Write a Data Marshaler -- Build Functions with Reflection to Automate Repetitive Tasks -- You Can Build Structs with Reflection, but Don't -- Reflection Can't Make Methods -- Only Use Reflection If It's Worthwhile -- unsafe Is Unsafe -- Use unsafe to Convert External Binary Data -- unsafe Strings and Slices -- unsafe Tools -- Cgo Is for Integration, Not Performance -- Wrapping Up -- Chapter 15. A Look at the Future: Generics in Go -- Generics Reduce Repetitive Code and Increase Type Safety -- Introducing Generics in Go -- Use Type Lists to Specify Operators -- Generic Functions Abstract Algorithms -- Type Lists Limit Constants and Implementations -- Things That Are Left Out -- Idiomatic Go and Generics -- Further Futures Unlocked -- Wrapping Up -- Index -- About the Author -- Colophon…”

Table of Contents: “…Understanding storage concepts -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Storage management issues -- 1.2.1 Growth -- 1.2.2 IT management costs -- 1.2.3 Storage consolidation -- 1.3 On demand -- 1.3.1 The IBM on demand strategy -- 1.3.2 What an on demand business looks like -- 1.3.3 Storage on demand -- 1.4 Storage Area Networks -- 1.4.1 Storage topologies -- 1.4.2 Communication and storage protocols -- 1.4.3 File sharing protocols -- 1.4.4 SMI: a storage management initiative -- 1.4.5 Moving from LAN to SAN -- 1.5 Storage consolidation -- 1.5.1 Disk consolidation -- 1.5.2 Enterprise Storage Server (ESS) and on demand -- 1.5.3 Network Attached Storage (NAS) -- 1.5.4 Shared tape resources -- 1.6 Storage virtualization -- 1.6.1 A definition of virtualization -- 1.6.2 Terminology -- 1.6.3 Levels of virtualization -- 1.6.4 Benefits of virtualization -- 1.6.5 Deployment of virtualization -- 1.7 Hierarchical Storage Management -- Chapter 2. …”

Table of Contents: “…19.4 Conclusions and Future Work -- References -- 20 Artificial Intelligence in Wireless Communication -- 20.1 Introduction -- 20.2 Artificial Intelligence: A Grand Jewel Mine -- 20.3 Wireless Communication: An Overview -- 20.4 Wireless Revolution -- 20.5 The Present Times -- 20.6 Artificial Intelligence in Wireless Communication -- 20.6.1 How the Two Worlds Collided -- 20.6.2 Cognitive Radios -- 20.7 Artificial Neural Network -- 20.8 The Deployment of 5G -- 20.9 Looking Into the Features of 5G -- 20.10 AI and the Internet of Things (IoT) -- 20.11 Artificial Intelligence in Software-Defined Networks (SDN) -- 20.12 Artificial Intelligence in Network Function Virtualization -- 20.13 Conclusion -- References -- Index -- Also of Interest -- End User License Agreement…”

Table of Contents: “…Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Part 1 When Everything Changed -- Chapter 1 My Reboot -- My Broken Brain -- Then It All Changed -- My Brain Reboot Phase 1: Restarting My Perception -- My Brain Reboot Phase 2: Gaining Internal Perspective -- My Brain Reboot Phase 3: Fixing My Priorities -- My Brain Reboot Phase 4: Living in the Present -- The Outcome of My Reboot -- Chapter 2 Doing Your Own Reboot -- Chapter 3 The Brain You Were Born With -- Looking in the Mirror at the "You" of Your Youth -- Letting Go of the Fear of Failing -- Chapter 4 What Goes Wrong with Our Brain and Why? …”

Table of Contents: “…-- What an Omnichannel Experience Looks Like: H&amp -- R Block -- The Elements of an Omnichannel Experience -- How a CDP Works -- Subaru: Combining the Front End and Back End for an Omnichannel Experience -- Managerial Considerations When Leading an Omnichannel Transformation Implementation -- Conclusion -- Author Biography -- Chapter 19 Sales as Storytelling -- Sales and Marketing -- Why Story? …”

Table of Contents: “…. -- See also -- Creating an arch viz scene with realistic-looking glass and virtual textures -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- See also -- Varnishing wood through the Clear Coat Shading Model -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- See also -- Chapter 5: Working with Advanced Material Techniques -- Technical requirements -- Using vertex colors to adjust the appearance of a material -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- See also -- Adding decals to our scenes -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- See also -- Creating a brick wall using Parallax Occlusion Mapping -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- See also -- Taking advantage of mesh distance fields in our materials -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- See also -- Lighting the scene with emissive materials -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- See also -- Orienting ourselves with a logic-driven compass -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- See also -- Driving the appearance of a minimap through Blueprint logic…”

Table of Contents: “…-- GPT Models in Medicine -- Radiology -- Patient Self-Care Management and Informed Decision-Making -- Public Health -- Conclusion -- Part V Summary, Looking Forward, and Additional Resources -- Epilogue: Getting Good at AI for Good -- Communication -- Setting Realistic Expectations for AI -- Confronting Technical Limitations -- Project Scoping and Implementation -- Data -- Adapting to Previously Collected Datasets -- Creating Training and Test Sets with the Application Scenario in Mind -- Modeling -- Incorporating Domain Expertise -- Model Development with Resource Constraints -- Evaluation and Metrics -- Humans in the Loop -- Impact -- Uphill Path to Deployment and Adoption -- Measuring Impact -- Conclusion -- Key Takeaways -- AI and Satellites: Critical Tools to Help Us with Planetary Emergencies -- Amazing Things in the Amazon -- Quick Help Saving Lives in Disaster Response -- Additional Resources…”

Table of Contents: “…Assess -- Plan -- Deploy -- Optimize -- Various hybrid cloud and multi-cloud deployment patterns -- Tiered hybrid cloud pattern -- Partitioned multi-cloud pattern -- Edge computing deployment pattern -- Redundant hybrid deployment pattern -- Foundational network blueprints for hybrid and multi-cloud deployment architectures -- Meshed hybrid cloud network topology -- Multi-cloud network topology -- Gated egress hybrid cloud topology -- Gated ingress hybrid-cloud topology -- Shared network topology -- Private hybrid topology -- Network peering topology -- Edge network topology -- Security foundations for enterprises -- Shared security models of major CSPs -- Designing a security-first cloud architecture -- Network security -- Identity and access management -- Infrastructure security -- Application security -- Cloud-native anti-patterns -- Monolith castles in the cloud -- Ignoring resource and cost optimization -- Undifferentiated heavy lifting -- Bloated containers -- Mutable infrastructure -- Summary -- Further readings -- Chapter 7: Hybrid Cloud Use Cases -- Airbnb - leading business transformation through technology -- Disrupting the hospitality industry -- A business born in the cloud -- The first architecture -- Evolution to microservices -- Multi-cloud adoption and transformation -- The pandemic and economic slowdown - the optimization phase -- Carrefour's sustainable digital transformation journey -- The Carrefour omnichannel strategy -- A bold initiative augmented by cloud transformation -- Transforming legacy IT to the modern cloud -- Carrefour's IT architecture strategy -- Looking ahead - Carrefour's digital retail 2026 strategy -- Wendy's transforming consumer experiences -- Global Next Gen -- Reimagining the restaurant experience through technology -- Capital One - transforming banking through technology…”

Table of Contents: “…Verifying block production -- Summary -- Part 5: The Future of Blockchains -- Chapter 11: Future of Rust for Blockchains -- What the future looks like for Rust blockchains -- Popular blockchains -- Upcoming blockchains -- Upcoming Rust Web3 projects -- The Rust community -- Jobs in the Web3 space -- Popular job roles -- How to find Web3 jobs -- Building a career -- Going beyond this book -- Summary -- Index -- Other Books You May Enjoy…”

Table of Contents: “…-- Know your rights -- Interacting with the system -- Process this -- Looking for something? -- Let's be manipulative -- Summary -- Exercises -- Resources -- Chapter 3: Intermediate Linux -- Technical requirements -- Globs -- Automating repetitive tasks -- Cron jobs -- Systemd timer -- Software installation -- Debian and Ubuntu -- CentOS, RHEL, and Fedora -- Alpine Linux -- Managing users -- Adding users -- Modifying users -- Removing users -- Managing groups -- Secure Shell (SSH) protocol -- Configuring OpenSSH -- Creating and managing SSH keys -- Summary -- Exercises -- Chapter 4: Automating with Shell Scripts -- Technical requirements -- Backing up a database -- Understanding scripting -- Understanding Bash built-ins and grammar -- Variables -- Parameters -- Loops -- Conditional execution - if statement -- Understanding the backup script - first steps -- Handling errors and debugging -- Summary -- Exercises -- Part 2: Your Day-to-Day DevOps Tools -- Chapter 5: Managing Services in Linux -- Technical requirements -- Understanding Linux services in detail -- The history of Linux service management -- systemd -- OpenRC -- SysV init…”

Table of Contents: “…-- Choosing Go -- Concurrency and goroutines -- Concurrency -- Goroutines -- CSP-inspired model -- Share by communication -- Interacting with the OS -- Tooling -- go build -- go test -- go run -- go vet -- go fmt -- Cross-platform development with Go -- Summary -- Chapter 2: Refreshing Concurrency and Parallelism -- Technical requirements -- Understanding goroutines -- WaitGroup -- Changing shared state -- Managing data races -- Atomic operations -- Mutexes -- Making sense of channels -- How to use channels -- An unbuffered channel -- Buffered channels -- The guarantee of delivery -- Latency -- State and signaling -- State -- Signaling -- Choosing your synchronization mechanism -- Summary -- Part 2: Interation with the OS -- Chapter 3: Understanding System Calls -- Technical requirements -- Introduction to system calls -- The catalog of services and identification -- Information exchange -- The syscall package -- A closer look at the os and x/sys packages -- x/sys package - low-level system calls -- Operating system functionality -- Portability -- Everyday system calls -- Tracing system calls -- Tracing specific system calls -- Developing and testing a CLI program -- Standard streams -- File descriptors -- Creating a CLI application -- Redirections and standard streams -- Making it testable -- Summary -- Chapter 4: File and Directory Operations -- Technical requirements -- Identifying unsafe file and directory permissions -- Files and permissions -- Scanning directories in Go -- Understanding file paths -- Using the path/filepath package -- Traversing directories -- Symbolic links and unlinking files -- Symbolic links - the shortcut of the file world -- Unlinking files - the great escape act…”

Table of Contents: “…Heading, weight, and balance -- Motion paths as a visual guide -- Tilting while turning -- Leaning into it -- Copying keyframes to another channel -- Copying keyframes -- Keying a single property -- Pasting keyframes -- Scaling keyframe values -- Summary -- Questions -- Chapter 4: Looking into Object Relationships -- Technical requirements -- Understanding object origins -- The truth about objects and origins -- Centering the origin -- Grabbing the origin -- Parenting objects -- The parent/child relationship -- Understanding constraints -- Adding a constraint -- World space versus local space -- Copying constraints -- Following a path -- Editing the animation path -- Adding a Follow Path constraint -- Animating the path -- Drivers -- Adding a driver -- Editing a driver -- Driver F-curves -- The final chart of object relationships -- Summary -- Questions -- Chapter 5: Rendering an Animation -- Technical requirements -- Setting up the camera -- Adding a camera to the scene -- Camera view-finding -- The animated camera -- Rendering basics -- What is rendering, really? …”

Table of Contents: “…How to Build a Dataset -- What Does a Dataset Look Like? -- The Ideal Dataset -- Datasets and Domain Expertise -- Data, Ethics, and Responsible AI -- Minimizing Unknowns -- Ensuring Domain Expertise -- Data-Centric Machine Learning -- Estimating Data Requirements -- A Practical Workflow for Estimating Data Requirements -- Getting Your Hands on Data -- The Unique Challenges of Capturing Data at the Edge -- Storing and Retrieving Data -- Getting Data into Stores -- Collecting Metadata -- Ensuring Data Quality -- Ensuring Representative Datasets -- Reviewing Data by Sampling -- Label Noise -- Common Data Errors -- Drift and Shift -- The Uneven Distribution of Errors -- Preparing Data -- Labeling -- Formatting -- Data Cleaning -- Feature Engineering -- Splitting Your Data…”

“…Se muestra una diversidad compleja de discursos femeninos, pertenecientes a una época en la que las mujeres dejaban oír su voz The contributions gathered in this volume take a fresh look at the medieval history of women, revealing the many faces of female reality during an extremely dynamic period-while individuality was on the rise, new linguistic codes (vernacular languages) and innovative literary genres were emerging, and the political situation was undergoing deep changes. …”