Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- The Ketchup Effect -- Welcome to the Journey -- Chapter 1 Nonverbal: Introduction: Orchestrating the Elements of Nonverbal Communication in Negotiation -- Element 1 Body Language -- The Power of Delivery in Negotiation -- Presentation Skills: Beyond Mere Conversation -- The Power of Verbal Communication -- Aligning with Your Audience's Perspective -- The Impact of Multisensory Engagement -- Start with Facial Expressions -- Element 2 Eye Contact -- Element 3 Gesticulations -- The Do's and Don'ts of Body Posture -- Gesticulation: A Personalized Approach -- Avoiding Distracting Habits -- Illustrating Your Points -- Conveying Confidence and Respect -- Element 4 The Role of Voice -- Volume -- Tone -- Speed -- Breathing -- Element 5 Humor -- Leveraging Humor in the Negotiation -- The Dynamics of Humor in Negotiation -- Practical Humor Strategies in Negotiations -- The Pitfalls of Humor Missteps -- Element 6 Use of Feet -- Element 7 Image -- Good Advice -- Chapter 2 Knowledge: Introduction: Understanding Negotiation as an Art and a Science -- Element 8 The Crucial Role of Mathematics -- Element 9 Negotiating in a Foreign Language -- Individual versus Group -- Status, Titles, Mode of Address, and More -- Religion and Politics -- Should You Blot Out Yourself? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Other graph typologies -- Why we need DAGs in causal science -- Graph representations of variables -- Mathematical interpretation -- Representing graphs in R -- Bayesian networks -- Conditional independence -- Exploring Graphical Causal Models -- Comparison with Bayesian networks -- Assumptions in GCMs -- Case study example of a graph model in R -- Problem to solve using graphs -- Implementing in R -- Interpreting results -- Summary -- References -- Chapter 5: Navigating Causal Inference through Directed Acyclic Graphs -- Technical requirements -- Understanding the flow in Graphs -- Chains and forks -- Colliders -- Adjusting for confounding in graphs -- D-separation -- Do-operator -- The back door adjustment -- The front door adjustment -- Practical R example - back door versus front door -- Synthetic data -- Back door adjustment in R -- Front door adjustment in R -- Summary -- Chapter 6: Employing Propensity Score Techniques -- Technical requirements -- Introduction to propensity scores -- A deep dive into these scores -- Balancing confounding variables -- Check for confounding using propensity scores -- Challenges and caveats -- Stratification and subsampling -- Theory -- Application of propensity scores in R -- Understanding Propensity Score Matching -- Considerations and limitations -- Practical application of PSM in R -- Balancing methods -- Sensitivity analysis -- Visualizing the results -- Weighting in PSM using R -- Summary -- References -- Chapter 7: Employing Regression Approaches for Causal Inference -- Technical requirements -- Role of regression in causality -- Choosing the appropriate regression model -- Understanding the nature of the outcome variable -- Consideration of confounding and interaction effects -- Model complexity, parsimony, and assumptions -- Linear regression for causal inference -- The theory…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Creating a Style Sheet -- Editorial Style Sheet -- 12 Working With Illustrations -- Working With an Illustrator -- Improving Quality and Accelerating Workflow -- Contacting an Illustrator -- Submitting an Illustration Request -- Understanding Illustration Files -- Vector Images -- Raster Images -- Types of Illustrations -- Diagrams -- Line Art -- Screen Captures -- Photographs -- Animations -- Placing Illustrations -- Placement in Relation to Sentences -- Spacing in Print -- Alignment in Print -- Online Alignment and Spacing -- Writing Captions for Illustrations -- When to Use Captions -- Guidelines for Writing Captions -- Writing Callouts for Illustrations -- Callout Style -- Placement of Callouts -- Creating Quality Screen Captures -- Guidelines for Creating Screen Captures -- Using Screen Captures as Guideposts Only -- Creating Leader Lines -- Leader Style -- Additional Guidelines -- Simplifying Online Illustrations -- 13 Writing Alternative Text for Nontext Elements -- Section 508 Requirements Overview -- Assistive Technologies -- Guidelines for Meeting Section 508 Requirements -- General Guidelines for Writing Alternative Text -- Determining the Context of a Nontext Element -- Writing Short Alternative Text -- Writing Long Alternative Text -- Writing About Nontext Elements -- Simple Graphics -- Complex Graphics -- Diagrams -- Mathematical Equations -- Multimedia Content -- 14 Documenting Graphical User Interfaces -- Using GUI Terminology -- Writing About GUIs -- Writing About Mouse Actions -- Using Common GUI Terms -- Writing About Windows, Dialog Boxes, and Menus -- Window Elements -- Window Controls -- Dialog Boxes -- Menus -- Writing About the Web -- Web Terminology -- Referencing URLs -- 15 Creating Screencasts -- Screencast Overview -- Developing a Screencast -- Storyboard Overview -- Definition of Storyboard -- Developing a Storyboard…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…General and vocational schools have separate governance -- Overall spending on education is low compared to the OECD average but higher for upper secondary education -- Participation in upper secondary education -- Attainment of upper secondary education is very high -- Participation in upper secondary education is high -- Transitions through upper secondary are comparatively smooth -- Participation in upper secondary vocational education is lower than national targets -- Completion of upper secondary education is high but lower for VET programmes -- The gender gap in participation and completion of upper secondary education is slightly more pronounced than across the OECD on average -- Teaching, learning and the curriculum in upper secondary education -- Lithuania is implementing a new competency-based curriculum in general education -- The upper secondary curriculum aims to promote breadth of student choice -- There are two types of teachers at the upper secondary level in Lithuania: general and vocational teachers -- Certification at the end of upper secondary education in Lithuania -- The Matura determines upper secondary certification and tertiary entrance -- There is no separate certification for upper secondary vocational students -- Certification at the end of upper secondary education is not currently promoting student engagement or the acquisition of higher order skills -- Learning outcomes in upper secondary education -- On entry to upper secondary education, 15-year-olds in Lithuania score below the OECD average -- Girls outperform boys in both reading and mathematics -- The socio-economic gap between regions puts students from rural areas at a disadvantage -- Adults in Lithuania score above the OECD average -- Upper secondary education seems to play little role in contributing to adult skills -- VET graduates have low skill levels…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “….) -- The using Keyword -- Case Sensitivity -- The static Keyword -- Developing "Hello World" -- Editing "Hello World" -- Compiling and Running "Hello World" -- Using the Visual Studio .NET Debugger -- C# Language Fundamentals -- Types -- Working with Built-in Types -- Choosing a built-in type -- Converting built-in types -- Variables and Constants -- Definite Assignment -- Constants -- Enumerations -- Strings -- Identifiers -- Expressions -- Whitespace -- Statements -- Unconditional Branching Statements -- Conditional Branching Statements -- if...else statements -- Nested if statements -- switch statements: an alternative to nested ifs -- Switch on string statements -- Iteration Statements -- The goto statement -- The while loop -- The do...while loop -- The for loop -- The foreach statement -- The continue and break statements -- Operators -- The Assignment Operator (=) -- Mathematical Operators -- Simple arithmetical operators (+, -, *, /) -- The modulus operator (%) to return remainders -- Increment and Decrement Operators -- Calculate and reassign operators -- The prefix and postfix operators -- Relational Operators…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Literate programming as a content creation methodology -- Reproducibility as a benefit of literate programming -- The basic tools for an automation pipeline -- A gentle introduction to Markdown -- Text -- Headers -- Header Level 1 -- Header Level 2 -- Header Level 3 -- Header Level 4 -- Lists -- Tables -- Links -- Images -- Quotes -- Code -- Mathematics -- Extending Markdown with R Markdown -- Code chunks -- Tables -- Graphs -- Chunk options -- Global chunk options -- Caching -- Producing the final output with knitr -- Developing graphs and analysis as we normally would -- Building our presentation with R Markdown -- Summary -- Chapter 8: Object-Oriented System to Track Cryptocurrencies -- This chapter's required packages…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Prediction -- Experiment -- Analysis -- Understanding the most common statistical methods -- Percentages -- Mean, average, and standard deviation -- Quantiles and percentiles -- Histograms -- Using other mathematical models in observability -- Visualizing histograms with Grafana -- In practice - applying what you've learned -- Lab architecture -- Lab contents -- Lab instructions -- Summary -- Further reading -- Part 3 - Applying Architecture for Reliability -- Chapter 8: Reliable Architecture - Systems Strategy and Design -- Technical requirements -- Designing for reliability -- Architectural aspects -- Reliability equations -- Design patterns -- Modern applications -- Splitting and balancing the workload -- Splitting -- Balancing -- Failing over - almost as good -- Scaling up and out - horizontal versus vertical -- Horizontal -- Vertical -- Autoscaling -- In practice - applying what you've learned -- Lab architecture -- Lab contents -- Lab instructions -- Summary -- Further reading -- Chapter 9: Valued Automation - Toil Discovery and Elimination -- Technical requirements -- Eliminating toil -- Toil redefined -- Why toil is bad -- Handling toil the right way -- Treating automation as a software problem -- Document -- Algorithm -- Code -- Automating the (in)famous CI/CD pipeline -- Continuous integration -- Continuous delivery -- Production releases -- In practice - applying what you've learned -- Lab architecture -- Lab contents -- Lab instructions -- Summary -- Further reading -- Chapter 10: Exposing Pipelines - GitOps and Testing Essentials -- A basic pipeline - building automation to deploy infrastructure as code architecture and code -- Pipelines in chronological order -- Pipeline templates -- Errors or breaks in pipelines -- Using containers in pipelines -- Pipeline artifacts -- Pipeline troubleshooting tips…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Basics of shell scripting -- Creating a shell script file -- Variables in shell scripts -- Using mathematical expressions in shell scripts -- Using programming structures -- Using arrays in Bash -- Reading input data -- Formatting output data -- Understanding exit statuses and testing structures -- Using conditional if statements -- Using looping statements -- Working with functions -- Using sed and (g)awk commands -- Using scripts to showcase interprocess communication -- Shared storage -- Unnamed pipes -- Named pipes -- Sockets -- Scripting for administrative tasks -- Creating scripts for system administrative tasks -- Packaging scripts -- Summary -- Questions -- Further reading -- Chapter 9: Securing Linux -- Technical requirements -- Understanding Linux security -- Introducing SELinux -- Working with SELinux -- Introducing AppArmor -- Working with AppArmor -- Final considerations -- Working with firewalls -- Understanding the firewall chain -- Introducing Netfilter -- Working with iptables -- Introducing nftables -- Using firewall managers -- Summary -- Exercises -- Further reading -- Chapter 10: Disaster Recovery, Diagnostics, and Troubleshooting -- Technical requirements -- Planning for disaster recovery -- A brief introduction to risk management -- Risk calculation -- Designing a DRP -- Backing up and restoring the system -- Disk cloning solutions -- Introducing common Linux diagnostic tools for troubleshooting -- Tools for troubleshooting boot issues -- Tools for troubleshooting general system issues -- Tools for troubleshooting network issues -- Tools for troubleshooting hardware issues -- Summary -- Questions -- Further reading -- Part 3: Server Administration -- Chapter 11: Working with Virtual Machines -- Technical requirements -- Introduction to virtualization on Linux -- Efficiency in resource usage -- Introduction to hypervisors…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Henry -- 4.2. G.D. Birkhoff's mathematical approach -- 4.3. Those who followed G.D. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Properties of indefinite integrals -- Integration by parts -- Definite integrals -- Working with calculus in R -- Plotting basic functions -- Working with derivatives -- Using symbolic parameters -- Working with the second derivative -- Working with partial derivatives -- Working with integration in R -- More on antiderivatives -- Evaluating the definite integral -- Summary -- Part 3: Fundamentals of Mathematical Statistics in R -- Chapter 10: Probability Basics -- Technical requirements -- Introducing probability distribution -- Exploring common discrete probability distributions -- The Bernoulli distribution -- The binomial distribution -- The Poisson distribution -- Poisson approximation to binomial distribution -- The geometric distribution -- Comparing different discrete probability distributions -- Discovering common continuous probability distributions -- The normal distribution -- The exponential distribution -- Uniform distribution -- Generating normally distributed random samples -- Understanding common sampling distributions -- Common sampling distributions -- Understanding order statistics -- Extracting order statistics -- Calculating the value at risk -- Summary -- Chapter 11: Statistical Estimation -- Statistical inference for categorical data -- Statistical inference for a single parameter -- Introducing the General Social Survey dataset -- Calculating the sample proportion -- Calculating the confidence interval -- Interpreting the confidence interval of the sample proportion -- Hypothesis testing for the sample proportion -- Inference for the difference in sample proportions -- Type I and Type II errors -- Testing the independence of two categorical variables -- Introducing the contingency table -- Applying the chi-square test for independence between two categorical variables -- Statistical inference for numerical data…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Using Data Interpreter in Tableau Desktop -- Organizing the Data Source -- Creating a Folder -- Cleaning Data in Tableau Prep -- Using Tableau Prep's Data Cleaning Functionality -- Transforming Data -- Tableau Desktop Transformations -- Splitting a Field in Tableau Desktop -- Pivoting Fields in Tableau Desktop -- Aggregating Data in Tableau Prep -- Aggregating Data -- Pivoting Data in Tableau Prep -- Pivoting Rows to Columns in Tableau Prep -- Pivoting Columns to Rows in Tableau Prep -- Combining Data -- Tableau Desktop Joins -- Creating a Join in Tableau Desktop -- Tableau Desktop Unions -- Creating a Union in Tableau Desktop -- Relationships -- Creating a Relationship in Tableau Desktop -- Blending -- Creating a Blend Relationship in Tableau -- Primary versus Secondary Data Source Choice -- Tableau Prep Joins -- Creating a Join in Tableau Prep -- Tableau Prep Unions -- Creating a Union in Tableau Prep -- Summary -- Exam Readiness Drill - Chapter Review Questions -- Chapter 3: Calculations -- Introduction -- Defining Calculations -- Calculated Fields -- Aggregated Calculated Fields -- Measure Aggregation -- Using the SUM and MIN Functions -- Math Functions -- Using the MEDIAN and STDEV Functions -- Fixed Level of Detail Calculations -- Creating a Fixed Level of Detail Calculation -- Numeric Calculated Fields -- Transformational Mathematical Functions -- Using the SQUARE and SQRT Functions -- Field Format Functions -- Using the ROUND and ABS Functions -- Trigonometry -- Using the SIN and RADIANS Functions -- String Calculated Fields -- Positional Functions -- Using the RIGHT, LEFT, and MID Functions -- Searching -- Using the CONTAINS, STARTSWITH, and REPLACE Functions -- Case -- Using the UPPER and LOWER Functions -- Other -- Using the SPLIT and LEN Functions -- Date Calculated Fields -- Date Parts…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright and Credits -- Contributors -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Part 1: Understanding Data Science and Its Foundations -- Introducing Data Science -- Data science, AI, and ML - what's the difference? -- The mathematical and statistical underpinnings of data science -- Statistics and data science -- What is statistics? …”

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Tabla de Contenidos: “…Real world examples of metaprogramming -- Example 1 - Reflection -- Making a class reflect its members -- C++ libraries which simplifies reflection -- Using the reflection -- Evaluating the assembler output of the reflection -- Conditionally overloading global functions -- Testing reflection capabilities -- Example 2 - Creating a generic safe cast function -- Example 3 - Hash strings at compile time -- The advantages of compile-time hash sum calculation -- Implement and verify a compile-time hash function -- Constructing a PrehashedString class -- Forcing PrehashedString to only accept compile time string literals -- Evaluating PrehashedString -- Evaluating get_bitmap_resource() with PrehashedString -- Summary -- Chapter 9: Proxy Objects and Lazy Evaluation -- An introduction to lazy evaluation and proxy objects -- Lazy versus eager evaluation -- Proxy objects -- Comparing concatenated strings using a proxy -- Implementing the proxy -- Performance evaluation -- The r-value modifier -- Assigning a concatenated proxy -- Postponing an sqrt computation when comparing distances -- A simple two-dimensional point class -- The underlying mathematics -- Implementing the DistProxy object -- Expanding DistProxy to something more useful -- Comparing distances with DistProxy -- Calculating distances with DistProxy -- Preventing the misuse of DistProxy -- Performance evaluation -- Creative operator overloading and proxy objects -- The pipe operator as an extension method -- The pipe operator -- The infix operator -- Further reading -- Summary -- Chapter 10: Concurrency -- Understanding the basics of concurrency -- What makes concurrent programming hard? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- About This Book -- Foolish Assumptions -- Icons Used in This Book -- Beyond the Book -- Where to Go from Here -- Part 1 Getting Started with Data Science -- Chapter 1 Wrapping Your Head Around Data Science -- Seeing Who Can Make Use of Data Science -- Inspecting the Pieces of the Data Science Puzzle -- Collecting, querying, and consuming data -- Applying mathematical modeling to data science tasks -- Deriving insights from statistical methods -- Coding, coding, coding - it's just part of the game -- Applying data science to a subject area -- Communicating data insights -- Exploring Career Alternatives That Involve Data Science -- The data implementer -- The data leader -- The data entrepreneur -- Chapter 2 Tapping into Critical Aspects of Data Engineering -- Defining Big Data and the Three Vs -- Grappling with data volume -- Handling data velocity -- Dealing with data variety -- Identifying Important Data Sources -- Grasping the Differences among Data Approaches -- Defining data science -- Defining machine learning engineering -- Defining data engineering -- Comparing machine learning engineers, data scientists, and data engineers -- Storing and Processing Data for Data Science -- Storing data and doing data science directly in the cloud -- Storing big data on-premise -- Processing big data in real-time -- Part 2 Using Data Science to Extract Meaning from Your Data -- Chapter 3 Machine Learning Means . . . …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Set Theory and Predicate Logic -- Undefined Terms -- Equality, Identity, and Sameness -- Mathematical Conventions -- Numbers -- Context -- Alphabetical Order -- Functions, Parameters, and Variables -- Instructions and Algorithms -- Set Theory -- Set-Builder Notation -- Well-Definedness of Sets -- Domains of Discourse -- Domains and Modeling -- Faithfulness -- Russell's Paradox -- Ordered Pairs, Tuples, and Cartesian Products -- The Cartesian Product -- The Empty Set(s) -- The Characteristic Function of a Set -- Cardinality -- Order -- Alphabetical Order -- Trichotomy -- Induced Order -- Ordinal Numbers -- Set Operators -- Set Difference -- Set Partitions -- Generalizations of Set Theory -- Predicate Logic -- Propositions and Predicates -- Proposition or Predicate? …”