“…Readers will also find: Updated source code repositories on GitHub with instructive practice exercises Strategies for improving collaboration and automating your code-to-cloud workflows Techniques for securing your code with advanced capabilities An essential resource for Azure novices who hope to learn about the myriad possibilities unlocked by Azure DevOps tools, Beginning Azure DevOps will also earn a place in the libraries of software professionals familiar with other cloud platforms who hope to gain a foothold in the Azure cloud environment…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- About the Authors -- Acknowledgments -- Contents at a Glance -- Contents -- Foreword -- Reality -- Does Your Organization Have the Best Talent? -- Courage -- Hope -- Introduction: How the Concept of "Innovating for Diversity" Was Born -- Why We Wrote This Book -- How to Use This Book -- Chapter 1 Why Are We (Still) Here? …”

“…Some of these products are not specific for grid, but they can be used in a grid computing environment. We hope that this book helps you select functions and products and shows you how grid can fit into your IT picture as new products and services for grid are introduced. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Delivery Coaches -- Discovery Coaches -- Product Leadership Coaches -- Transformation Coaches -- Finding a Product Coach -- Product Coach: Gabrielle Bufrem -- Path to Product -- Journey to Coaching -- Product Coach: Hope Gurion -- Path to Product -- Journey to Coaching -- Product Coach: Margaret Hollendoner -- Path to Product -- Journey to Coaching -- Product Coach: Stacey Langer -- Path to Product -- Journey to Coaching -- Product Coach: Dr. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Constraints/opportunities related to research orientation -- 1.6. A hopeful conclusion within an organization that learns -- 1.6.1. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Assess yourself -- Making sense of all the choices -- Whom can you trust? -- There is hope! -- Chapter 4: If You Don't Know Where You're Going, Any Investment Will Get You There -- Inflation, returns, and fees -- Returns: Wouldn't it be nice if . . . -- 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: “…Ramirez -- Phil Ryan -- Ron Shevlin -- Scarlett Sieber -- Shari Storm -- Lee Wetherington -- Chapter 5: Finishing Move -- An Introduction to the End -- We Expect More with Each Passing Day -- The Future of Retail Banking Will Be Optimized -- There Is No Doubt: Modern Retail Banking Is Dreadful -- If I Have to Think about My Banking, You're Doing It Wrong -- As an Accountholder, I Know I'm Getting Messed Over with My Money-Somewhere -- The Year Is 2030, and No One Thinks about Banking -- There's at Least a Decade until 2030 -- Here's the Tough List -- I Hope That's Enough to Get You Started -- About the Author -- About the Companion Website -- Index -- EULA…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Why Appraisal Fails-Its Underlying Assumptions -- Generally Applicable Assumptions of Appraisal -- Conclusion -- Review of Chapter Assumptions -- 2 The REAL Goal: Improving the Performance of the Organization -- A Tool for Mechanistic Organizations -- Management-By-Objective (MBO) -- High Hopes End In Frustration -- Emergence of the New Models of Thinking -- The Clash of Appraisal and the New Thinking -- Assumptions Around Improvement -- Conclusion -- Review of Chapter Assumptions -- 3 Appraisal As a Rating Tool: Fair or Foul? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Contributors -- Introduction -- Athlete Activism: Contemporary Perspectives -- Outline of the Book -- Chapter Outline -- References -- Chapter 1 Athlete Activism and the Olympic Games: A Dialectic of Resistance and Restriction -- Introduction -- IOC and Political Dissent -- Olympian Dissent -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 2 Educated Activism: A Focus Group Study of High School Athletes' Perceptions of Athlete Activism -- Introduction -- Stakeholder Theory -- Identity -- Methods -- Results and Discussion -- (Semi)educated Activism -- Agency, Inspiration, and LeBron -- Hopeful for Change -- Implications and Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 3 "It's Our Duty to Utilize the Platform That We Have": Motivations for Activism Among U.S. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Hanna Posti-Ahokas, Josephine Moate (University of Jyväskylä, Finland) and Elina Lehtomäki (University of Oulu, Finland) 18.Globality and Internationalisation in Vienna: An Exploration of a Research Seminar using Transformative Processes in Global Education Helmuth Hartmeyer (Vienna University, Austria) 19.Learning with 'Generation Like' about Digital Global Citizenship: A Case Study from Spain Eloisa Nos Aldas (Jaume I University, Spain) 20.Global Citizenship Education at Home in Higher Education: Researching Values in Professional Education Phil Bamber (Liverpool Hope University, UK) V. Global Education and Learning within Schools 21.Development Education or Global Learning? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…China, intercambios críticos con Occidente" -- Norman Foster, Aeropuerto Internacional, Pekín -- Herzog & de Meuron, Estadio Nacional Olímpico, Pekín -- PTW, Centro Nacional de Natación, Pekín -- Paul Andreu, Gran Teatro Nacional, Pekín -- OMA/Rem Koolhaas & Ole Scheeren, Sede de la CCTV, Pekín -- Steven Holl, Complejo residencial Linked Hybrid, Pekín -- Atelier FCJZ/Yung Ho Chang, Centro de I+D UF Soft, Pekín -- In+of Architecture/Wang Lu, Escuela Primaria Hope, Leiyang, Hunan -- Amateur Studio/Wang Shu & Lu Wenyu, Museo de Historia, Ningbo, Zhejiang -- Zhang Lei, Dos casas de ladrillo, Gaochun, Jiangsu -- Zaha Hadid, Teatro de la Ópera, Guangzhou, Guangdong -- Studio Pei Zhu, Museo Yue Minjun, Qingcheng, Sichuan -- Ai Weiwei, Ordos 100, Ordos, Mongolia Interior" - Casa Asia…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…4 The Future, a Machine -- A past turned silent -- Anton Pannekoek and Huizinga's historical materialism in 1917-18 -- Frederik van Eeden and Huizinga's experience of generations -- Tocqueville's America: a social phenomenon -- Huizinga's America: a mechanical phenomenon -- Man's land and no man's land -- Conclusion -- 5 The Delay of the 'Grotian Hour' -- Huizinga and the 'Peace Palace generation' -- Huizinga and the Peace Palace -- Spengler's critique of Kosmopolitismus -- Huizinga's hope -- Huizinga's critique of Spengler in 1921 -- Huizinga's critique of Spengler after 1935 -- Spengler's Rembrandt versus Huizinga's Rembrandt -- Conclusion -- 6 The Looming Loss of a Democratic Order -- The autumntide of democracy: Huizinga's experience of the political in the 1930s -- Schmitt's Ernstfall: an agonistic term? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Billy Beane -- Bill James -- Stats Take Over -- 6 Human Behavior -- Prospect Theory -- Emotional Intelligence -- Neuro-Linguistic Programming -- Trading Tribe -- Curiosity, Not PhDs -- Commitment -- 7 Decision Making -- Occam's Razor -- Fast and Frugal Decision Making -- Innovator's Dilemma -- Process versus Outcome versus Gut -- 8 The Scientific Method -- Critical Thinking -- Linear versus Nonlinear -- Compounding -- 9 Holy Grails -- Buy and Hope -- Warren Buffett -- Losers Average Losers -- Avoiding Stupidity -- 10 Trading Systems -- Risk, Reward, and Uncertainty -- Five Questions -- What Do You Buy or Sell? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- The "Aha" Moment -- Breaking the Mold -- Endnotes -- Chapter 6: Millennials: Facts and Fictions -- It's Not a Generational Issue -- Raging Hormones -- The Most Educated -- Accustomed to Diversity -- Raised to Be Confident -- Independently Minded -- How Much the Same We Really Are -- Why Women Are Needed in the Tech Industry -- It's Not a Generational Issue -- Endnotes -- Chapter 7: What Works and What Doesn't -- We're over the Tipping Point -- Caring and Hoping Isn't Going to Cut It -- How to Create Sustainable Change -- What Works and Why -- Leadership Accountability -- Gender Coaching and Training -- Male Sponsorship -- Succession Planning -- What Doesn't Work and Why -- Diversity and Compliance Training -- Training for Women -- Women's Networks -- Work-Life Flexibility Programs -- Other Best Practices -- Role Models for Women and Men -- Gender Intelligent Sourcing and Recruitment -- Critical Mass and Critical Mindset -- Endnotes -- Chapter 8: The Role of the Board -- Lack of Mentoring -- Stereotypes in Business -- Richard's Story: Boards in the 2008 Financial Crisis and Their Gender Composition -- What Were the Seven Men and Four Women on the Merrill Lynch Board of Directors Doing? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…An Invitation -- A Hands-On Example -- Hoping for the Best -- Establishing Control -- Adding It Up -- Summary -- Code to Play With -- 2.Feedback Systems -- Systems and Signals -- Tracking Error and Corrective Action -- Stability, Performance, Accuracy -- The Setpoint -- Uncertainty and Change -- Feedback and Feedforward -- Feedback and Enterprise Systems -- Code to Play With -- 3.System Dynamics -- Lags and Delays -- Forced Response and Free Response -- Transient Response and Steady-State Response -- Dynamics in the Physical World and in the Virtual World -- Dynamics and Memory -- The Importance of Lags and Delays for Feedback Loops -- Avoiding Delays -- Theory and Practice -- Code to Play With -- 4.Controllers -- Block Diagrams -- On/Off Control -- Proportional Control -- Why Proportional Control Is Not Enough -- Integral Control -- Integral Control Changes the Dynamics -- Integral Control Can Generate a Constant Offset -- Derivative Control -- Problems with Derivative Control -- The Three-Term or PID Controller -- Code to Play With -- 5.Identifying Input and Output Signals -- Control Input and Output -- Directionality of the Input/Output Relation -- Examples -- Thermal Control 1 Heating -- Item Cache -- Server Scaling -- Controlling Supply and Demand by Dynamic Pricing -- Thermal Control 2 Cooling -- Criteria for Selecting Control Signals -- For Control Inputs -- For Control Outputs -- A Note on Multidimensional Systems -- 6.Review and Outlook -- The Feedback Idea -- Iteration -- Process Knowledge -- Avoiding Instability -- The Setpoint -- pt. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Webster's definition of success -- Joshua Wooden's definition of success -- Preparation is the prize -- A successful journey is the destination -- Failures and mistakes -- Blaming others -- The desire to win -- The infection of success -- Underdogs -- The opinion of others -- Pressure -- Hindsight -- The realistic optimist -- Details create success -- Hopes and dreams -- Paying the price -- The worthy opponent -- Follow your bliss? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Delinquent Excitement and Subculture -- Delinquency as a sign of hope -- Working with delinquent excitement and subculture in groups of children -- Working with excitement in the group about drugs -- How do we work with aspectsofyouth culturethat maybe offensive? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Using transpilers -- Working online -- A step further - TypeScript -- Testing -- Summary -- Questions -- Chapter 2: Thinking Functionally - A First Example -- Our problem - doing something only once -- Solution 1 - hoping for the best! -- Solution 2 - using a global flag -- Solution 3 - removing the handler -- Solution 4 - changing the handler -- Solution 5 - disabling the button -- Solution 6 - redefining the handler -- Solution 7 - using a local flag -- A functional solution to our problem -- A higher-order solution -- Testing the solution manually -- Testing the solution automatically -- Producing an even better solution -- Summary -- Questions -- Chapter 3: Starting Out with Functions - A Core Concept -- All about functions -- Of lambdas and functions -- Arrow functions - the modern way -- Functions as objects -- Using functions in FP ways -- Injection - sorting it out -- Callbacks and promises -- Continuation-passing style -- Polyfills -- Stubbing -- Immediate invocation (IIFE) -- Summary -- Questions -- Chapter 4: Behaving Properly - Pure Functions -- Pure functions -- Referential transparency -- Side effects -- Advantages of pure functions -- Impure functions -- Avoiding impure functions -- Is your function pure? …”

“…This collection of 58 papers represents a wide variety of topics, including on granite permeability investigation, grouting, coal mining, roadway, and concrete, to name but a few. We sincerely hope that the papers published in this Special Issue will be an invaluable resource for our readers…”

“…This collection of 58 papers represents a wide variety of topics, including on granite permeability investigation, grouting, coal mining, roadway, and concrete, to name but a few. We sincerely hope that the papers published in this Special Issue will be an invaluable resource for our readers…”