Tabla de Contenidos: “…Order Batching -- Product Rationing -- Product Pricing -- Performance Incentives -- Supply Chain Product Data Standards -- Global Data Synchronization Network -- Product Classification -- Collaborative Planning, Forecasting, and Replenishment -- CPFR in Action -- How to Start Supply Chain Collaboration -- Sales and Operations Planning -- Chapter Summary -- Chapter 7: Supply Chain Innovation for the Real-Time Economy -- Supply Chain Performance Depends on Timely Data -- Urgent Need for Simple and Robust Data Connections -- End-to-End Supply Chain Visibility Improves Forecasting and Efficiency -- Power of the Self-Correcting Feedback Loop -- Coordination and Collaboration in Supply Chains -- Excessive Focus on Efficiency Can Cause Problems -- Use Collaboration to Reinvent Supply Chain Operations -- Collaboration Depends on Common Understanding -- Simulations Build Common Understanding -- Process for Collaborative Supply Chain Operations -- The Right Combination of People and Technology -- Simulations Support Collaboration by Driving Consensus -- Example of Collaborative Supply Chain Planning -- Modular and Flexible Technical Architecture Makes It Possible -- Chapter Summary -- Chapter 8: Defining Supply Chain Opportunities -- The Supply Chain as a Competitive Advantage -- Identify the Business Opportunity and Define the Goal -- Create the Strategy -- Use Brainstorming to Generate Ideas -- Create a Conceptual System Design -- Strategic Guidelines for Designing Systems -- Define Project Objectives -- Create an Initial Project Plan and Budget -- Estimate the Project Budget and ROI -- Define the Specific Costs and Benefits -- System Costs -- System Benefits -- Chapter Summary -- Chapter 9: Creating Supply Chains for Competitive Advantage -- Charlie Supply, Inc.…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Unit tests are fast -- Unit tests are deterministic -- Assertions should be as simple as possible -- Unit tests are isolated -- Unit tests cover the code -- Refactor the test -- Collections with wrong elements -- Handling exceptions -- Generics -- Test Driven Development -- Implementing QuickSort -- The partitioning class -- Recursive sorting -- Non-recursive sorting -- Implementing the API class -- Creating modules -- Why modules are needed -- What is a Java module -- Summary -- Chapter 4: Mastermind - Creating a Game -- The Game -- The model of the game -- Java collections -- Interface collection -- Set -- Hash functions -- Method equals -- Method hashCode -- Implementing equals and hashCode -- HashSet -- EnumSet -- LinkedHashSet -- SortedSet -- NavigableSet -- TreeSet -- List -- LinkedList -- ArrayList -- Queue -- Deque -- Map -- HashMap -- IdentityHashMap -- Dependency injection -- Implementing the game -- ColorManager -- The class color -- JavaDoc and code comments -- Row -- Table -- Guesser -- UniqueGuesser -- GeneralGuesser -- The Game class -- Creating an integration test -- Summary -- Chapter 5: Extending the Game - Run Parallel, Run Faster -- How to make Mastermind parallel -- Refactoring -- Processes -- Threads -- Fibers -- java.lang.Thread -- Pitfalls -- Deadlocks -- Race conditions -- Overused locks -- Starving -- ExecutorService -- ForkJoinPool -- Variable access -- The CPU heartbeat -- Volatile variables -- Synchronized block -- Wait and notify -- Lock -- Condition -- ReentrantLock -- ReentrantReadWriteLock -- Atomic classes -- BlockingQueue -- LinkedBlockingQueue -- LinkedBlockingDeque -- ArrayBlockingQueue -- LinkedTransferQueue -- IntervalGuesser -- ParallelGamePlayer -- Microbenchmarking -- Summary -- Chapter 6: Making Our Game Professional - Do it as a Webapp -- Web and network -- IP -- TCP/IP -- DNS -- The HTTP protocol…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- About the Author -- About the Technical Editor -- Credits -- Acknowledgments -- Contents at a glance -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Coming Full Circle -- Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) -- Next Generation Technology -- "Hackers" -- Forget Everything You Think You Know About Penetration Testing -- How This Book Is Organized -- Chapter 1: Medical Records (In)security -- An Introduction to Simulating Advanced Persistent Threat -- Background and Mission Briefing -- Payload Delivery Part 1: Learning How to Use the VBA Macro -- How NOT to Stage a VBA Attack -- Examining the VBA Code -- Avoid Using Shellcode -- Automatic Code Execution -- Using a VBA/VBS Dual Stager -- Keep Code Generic Whenever Possible -- Code Obfuscation -- Enticing Users -- Command and Control Part 1: Basics and Essentials -- The Attack -- Bypassing Authentication -- Summary -- Exercises -- Chapter 2: Stealing Research -- Background and Mission Briefing -- Payload Delivery Part 2: Using the Java Applet for Payload Delivery -- Java Code Signing for Fun and Profit -- Writing a Java Applet Stager -- Create a Convincing Pretext -- Signing the Stager -- Notes on Payload Persistence -- Microsoft Windows -- Linux -- OSX -- Command and Control Part 2: Advanced Attack Management -- Adding Stealth and Multiple System Management -- Implementing a Command Structure -- Building a Management Interface -- The Attack -- Situational Awareness -- Using AD to Gather Intelligence -- Analyzing AD Output -- Attack Against Vulnerable Secondary System -- Credential Reuse Against Primary Target System -- Summary -- Exercises -- Chapter 3: Twenty-First Century Heist -- What Might Work? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Start with Goal Stories -- Slice the Cake -- Write Closed Stories -- Put Constraints on Cards -- Size the Story to the Horizon -- Keep the UI Out as Long as Possible -- Some Things Aren't Stories -- Include User Roles in the Stories -- Write for One User -- Write in Active Voice -- Customer Writes -- Don't Number Story Cards -- Don't Forget the Purpose -- Summary -- Questions -- PART II: Estimating and Planning -- Chapter 8: Estimating User Stories -- Story Points -- Estimate as a Team -- Estimating -- Triangulate -- Using Story Points -- What If We Pair Program? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Taking advantage of model serializers -- Understanding accepted and returned content types -- Making unsupported HTTP OPTIONS requests with command-line tools -- Understanding decorators that work as wrappers -- Using decorators to enable different parsers and renderers -- Taking advantage of content negotiation classes -- Making supported HTTP OPTIONS requests with command-line tools -- Working with different content types -- Sending HTTP requests with unsupported HTTP verbs -- Test your knowledge -- Summary -- Chapter 5: Understanding and Customizing the Browsable API Feature -- Understanding the possibility of rendering text/HTML content -- Using a web browser to work with our web service -- Making HTTP GET requests with the browsable API -- Making HTTP POST requests with the browsable API -- Making HTTP PUT requests with the browsable API -- Making HTTP OPTIONS requests with the browsable API -- Making HTTP DELETE requests with the browsable API -- Test your knowledge -- Summary -- Chapter 6: Working with Advanced Relationships and Serialization -- Defining the requirements for a complex RESTful Web Service -- Creating a new app with Django -- Configuring a new web service -- Defining many-to-one relationships with models.ForeignKey -- Installing PostgreSQL -- Running migrations that generate relationships -- Analyzing the database -- Configuring serialization and deserialization with relationships -- Defining hyperlinks with serializers.HyperlinkedModelSerializer -- Working with class-based views -- Taking advantage of generic classes and viewsets -- Generalizing and mixing behavior -- Working with routing and endpoints -- Making requests that interact with resources that have relationships -- Test your knowledge -- Summary -- Chapter 7: Using Constraints, Filtering, Searching, Ordering, and Pagination…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Shor's Algorithm -- Classical Algorithm for Factorization -- Shor's Algorithm for Integer Factorization -- Applications of Shor's Algorithm -- Grover's Search Algorithm -- Classical Algorithm for Unsorted DB Search -- Possible Applications of Grover's Search Algorithm -- Variational Quantum Algorithm -- Purpose to Estimate the Ground State? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Installing the Oracle Libraries -- 3.1 Obtaining the CD-ROMs -- 3.2 Using the Oracle documentation -- 3.3 Set up your system for X Windows -- 3.4 Checking to see if you are ready to install -- 3.5 Connecting with the User ID to install Oracle -- 3.6 Running the Universal Installer -- 3.6.1 Inventory directory panel -- 3.6.2 File locations -- 3.6.3 Available products -- 3.6.4 Select High Level Qualifier (HLQ) -- 3.6.5 Allocate partitioned data sets -- 3.6.6 Exit -- 3.6.7 Some possible problem areas…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Mystère Kerviel -- Risk is our business -- Free money -- Credit's fatal attraction -- Post-modern contradictions -- Derivative deconstruction -- Piñata parties -- Woodstock for hedge funds -- Keeping up with the Joneses -- In search of Moby Dick -- Style gurus -- Magic wand -- Lucky man -- Sharpe practice -- Embedded -- In the long run, we are all dead -- The game -- The more things change -- Hedgestock -- Minsky machines -- Affinities and curses -- Crowded hours -- Crime without punishment -- Fast cars, slow hedge funds -- Fast cornering -- Children of privilege -- Make money not war -- Part 4: Oligarchy -- War games -- Borrowed times -- Liquidity factory -- Six degrees of separation -- Paper chains -- Toxic pathologies -- Relying on the Zohar -- Blind capital -- Rent collectors -- Best in best possible world -- Shell games -- Central bank republics -- Games of old maid -- Protection rackets -- Stockholm Syndrome -- Free speech -- No accounting for values -- Mark to make believe -- Out of sight -- Creeping crumble -- Management by neglect -- Directing traffic -- Cult of risk -- Growth for all seasons -- Financial groupthink -- Celebrity central banking -- Dealing with dissent -- Noneofuscouldanode -- Je ne regrette rien! …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Internationalization of Higher Education -- Reference -- Further Readings -- Part III: Privatization and Public-Private Partnership -- Chapter 13: Private Sector in Education: Trends, Causes and Consequences* -- Trends -- Current Position -- Within the Private Sector -- Private Expenditure on Education -- Factors Responsible for Privatization -- School Education -- Higher Education -- Consequences and Impact -- The Way Forward -- Starting at the Base: The Schools -- The Issue of Equity -- Conclusion -- Further Readings -- Chapter 14: Implications of a Landmark Judgement for Higher Education and Minority Rights -- Change of Perception on Higher Education -- Earlier Perceptions of the Apex Court -- Factors Contributing to Change of Perception -- A Fundamental Shift -- Minority Rights -- Some Critical Issues -- Proposals -- Notes -- Chapter 15: Public-Private Partnership and the Prospects of Inclusive Growth in Higher Education -- Education Plan -- Reform Agenda: The Planning Commission -- Reform Agenda: National Knowledge Commission -- Reform Agenda: MHRD -- Public Purse Private Returns -- References -- Chapter 16: Globalization and Changing Nature of Education in India: Case of Public-Private Partnership -- Changes in Education Policy -- Public-Private Partnership: Conceptual Discussion -- Critical Audit -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Further Readings -- Chapter 17: Educational Access and Public-Private Partnership: Possibilities and Pitfalls -- Notes -- Part IV: International Experience -- Chapter 18: Internationalization of China's Higher Education and its Bearing on China's National Development -- A Brief Historic Review -- Internationalization of China's Higher Education -- Drawing on the Experience of Education Management from Foreign Counterparts…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Chapter 15: Build a Team: Recruit and Manage People -- 10 Questions to Ask When Recruiting -- 10 Positive Ways to Deal With Employment Legislation -- 10 Things That Will Make You a Better Boss -- 10 Ways to Delegate and Share the Work -- Chapter 16: Be Motivating: Get the Best From Yourself and Others -- 10 Ways to Motivate Yourself -- 10 Things to Do That Will Make You More Motivating -- 10 Training Opportunities Most Overlooked -- 10 Common People Problems and How to Solve Them -- 10 Ways to Manage Stress in Yourself and Others -- Chapter 17: Avoid Surprises: Predict and Overcome Those Unexpected Hurdles -- 10 Staff Surprises -- 10 Customer Surprises -- 10 Supplier Surprises -- 10 Unlikely But Possible Surprises -- Chapter 18: Be Generous: How to Help Yourself By Helping Others -- 10 Ways to Build Your Business By Helping Others -- 10 Ways to Entertain Your Customers for Free -- 10 Lessons You Can Learn From Social Entrepreneurs -- 10 Benefits of Making a Philanthropic Gesture -- Chapter 19: Sell Your Business: How to Realise the Value -- 10 Ways to Decide That it's Time to Move on -- 10 Things That Add Value to Your Business -- 10 Ways to Find a Buyer -- 10 Reasons to Merge Your Business With Another -- 10 Things You'Ll Do Differently the Second Time Around -- Useful Document Templates: Shortcuts for You to Copy, Adapt and Use -- Sales Letters -- Follow-Up Letters -- Getting-Paid Letters -- The Business Plan -- Confidentiality and Intellectual Property…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Unit tests are deterministic -- Assertions should be as simple as possible -- Unit tests are isolated -- Unit tests cover the code -- Refactoring the test -- Collections with wrong elements -- Handling exceptions -- Generics -- Test-Driven Development -- Implementing QuickSort -- The partitioning class -- Recursive sorting -- Non-recursive sorting -- Implementing the API class -- Creating modules -- Why modules are needed -- What is a Java module? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Selecting, Prioritizing and Balancing: Portfolio Management Resource Management: Is it Possible to Defy the Laws of Physics? What Will You Say No To? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- The First US Army Group Deception -- Russian Maskirovka -- Deception Maxims -- "Magruder's Principle"-Exploitation of a COG's Perception or Bias -- "Limitations to Human Information Processing" -- "Multiple Forms of Surprise" -- "Jones' Dilemma" -- "Choice of Types of Deception" -- "Husbanding of Deception Assets" -- "Sequencing Rule" -- "Importance of Feedback" -- "Beware of Possible Unwanted Reactions" -- "Care in the Design of Planned Placement of Deceptive Material"…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- What Deep Time Perspectives Can Offer to Contemporary Debates -- Possibilistic Reasoning, Counterfactuals and Scenario Modelling -- Policy Implications -- The Problems of Sustainability, Resilience, Transformation -- Conclusion -- References -- Climate Change -- Geoengineering and the Middle Ages: Lessons from Medieval Volcanic Eruptions for the Anthropocene -- Geoengineering and the Anthropocene -- Volcanic Cooling and Solar Radiation Management -- All Kinds of Uncertainties -- The Role of Medieval History: More Precision -- Dating Uncertainty and Historical Sources -- Clarifying the Conditions of a Possible Future: Let Frankenstein Sleep -- References -- A Perfect Tsunami? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- 7 Assessing spiritual relationships -- 8 Three relational categories -- 19 Impersonal (or Manipulative) Relationships -- 1 The category of impersonal (or manipulative) human relationships -- 2 Impersonal or manipulative spiritual relationships: magic and determinism -- 3 Exploring the potential for therapeutic change in impersonal spiritual relationships -- 4 Latent possibilities for spiritual and therapeutic change within determinism -- 5 Looking for counterbalancing elements in a manipulative spiritual relationship -- 6 Composite relationships -- 20 Predestination and Double Predestination -- 1 Predestination as a theoretical problem…”

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Tabla de Contenidos: “…Chapter 6 Supply Chain Coordination and Risk Management -- The Bullwhip Effect -- Coordination in the Supply Chain -- Demand Forecasting -- Order Batching -- Product Rationing -- Product Pricing -- Performance Incentives -- Supply Chain Product Data Standards -- Global Data Synchronization Network -- Product Classification -- Sales and Operations Planning -- How to Start Supply Chain Collaboration -- Supply Chain Risk Management -- Efficiency versus Responsiveness -- Chapter Summary -- Chapter 7 Supply Chain Innovation for the Real-Time Economy -- Supply Chain Performance Depends on Timely Data -- Urgent Need for Simple and Robust Data Connections -- End-to-End Supply Chain Visibility Improves Forecasting and Efficiency -- Power of the Self-Correcting Feedback Loop -- Coordination and Collaboration in Supply Chains -- Excessive Focus on Efficiency Can Cause Problems -- Use Collaboration to Reinvent Supply Chain Operations -- Collaboration Depends on Common Understanding -- Simulations Build Common Understanding -- Process for Collaborative Supply Chain Operations -- The Right Combination of People and Technology -- Simulations Support Collaboration by Driving Consensus -- Example of Collaborative Supply Chain Planning -- Modular and Flexible Technical Architecture Makes It Possible -- Chapter Summary -- Chapter 8 Defining Supply Chain Opportunities -- The Supply Chain as a Competitive Advantage -- Identify the Business Opportunity and Define the Goal -- Create the Strategy -- Use Brainstorming to Generate Ideas -- Create a Conceptual System Design -- Strategic Guidelines for Designing Systems -- Define Project Objectives -- Create an Initial Project Plan and Budget -- Estimate the Project Budget and ROI -- Define the Specific Costs and Benefits -- System Costs -- System Benefits -- Chapter Summary…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…The Finance Industry Attracts Less-Trustworthy People -- References -- Chapter 19 Peer Pressure Productivity: Employees Are Influenced by the Productivity of Others Around Them -- References -- Chapter 20 Employees Who Don't Support the Company Mission Are 50% Less Productive Employees -- References -- Chapter 21 The More Collaborative Your Team Members, the More Fish You Will Catch -- References -- Chapter 22 Empowering Employees Saves Lives: The Co-Determination Bonus -- References -- Chapter 23 Good Leaders Model the Behavior They Want to See in Others-and Employees Imitate It -- References -- Chapter 24 Selfish Leaders End Up with Selfish Followers -- References -- Part IV Behavioral Economic Research on Gender Differences and Unequal Pay: Women Are More Risk Averse (and Men Overestimate Themselves) -- Chapter 25 An Argument for Gender Quotas in Employment: They Can Help Attract Highly Qualified Women -- References -- Chapter 26 The More Competitive Your Attitude, the Higher Your Lifetime Earnings -- References -- Chapter 27 Willingness to Compete Starts by Early Childhood: The Pivotal Role of the Family -- References -- Chapter 28 Cultural Conditioning Helps Explain Differing Male and Female Attitudes Toward Competition -- References -- Chapter 29 A "Nudge" for Reducing the Male/Female Wage Gap -- References -- Chapter 30 Women Leaders Earn More and Revenue per Employee Goes Up When Women Are on the Board -- References -- Part V The Economic Benefits of Fairness and Trust -- Chapter 31 Trust Is an Economic Asset -- Lack of Trust Is Expensive -- References -- Chapter 32 A Little Accountability Goes a Long Way: Trust Works Best When Monitoring Is Possible but Not Used -- References…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Overview of Chef's architecture -- Chef server -- Chef server components -- Cookbooks and recipes -- Chef workstation -- Development workflow -- Managing environments and roles -- Chef nodes -- Node registration -- Communication with the Chef server -- Cookbook development -- Cookbook structure and components -- Writing recipes and resources -- Managing infrastructure with Chef -- Configuration management -- Chef client-server interaction -- Reporting and monitoring -- Data synchronization -- Benefits of automating infrastructure with Chef in Linux -- Consistency and scalability -- Reduced human error -- Enhanced security -- Challenges and best practices -- Best practices for effective Chef implementation -- Summary -- Chapter 15: Security Guidelines and Best Practices -- Common threats and attack types -- The motivation of attackers and the possible consequences -- Information security properties and attacks on them -- Keeping your system secure -- Reducing the attack surface -- Compartmentalization and privilege separation -- Preventing credential theft and brute-force attacks -- Reducing the risk of software vulnerabilities -- Summary -- Further reading -- Index -- Other Books You May Enjoy…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…API Tests from the Trenches -- API Test Examples -- Mixed API/GUI Scenarios -- Chapter 13: Gherkin and Behavior Driven Development -- Behavior Driven Development -- Applying BDD for COTS Integration Projects -- Gherkin Without BDD: Pros and Cons -- Gherkin Language: Readability Above All, If Possible -- Scenario Readability -- Some Good and Bad Examples -- Example 1 -- Example 2 -- Example 3 -- Chapter 14: JIRA with Boozang via XRay -- Using JIRA with XRay -- Xray for Test Automation -- Boozang Integration with XRay -- Importing Features Files -- Pushing Test Results Back to XRay -- Chapter 15: Jenkins and the Boozang Runner -- Continuous Delivery and the Need for Automating Acceptance Tests -- Puppeteer and the Boozang Runner -- How to Use the Docker Runner -- Keeping Execution Time Low with Parallel Runs -- Parallel Execution and Workers Setup -- Boozang Workers Concepts -- Boozang Workers Setup in the Jenkins Pipeline -- Launching the Workers -- Launching the Master -- Reports and Log Files -- Execution Reports -- Log Files and the Log Formatter -- Root Cause Analysis Report -- Publishing Reports on Jenkins and JIRA -- Cucumber Reports -- HTML Reports -- JIRA Reports -- Complete Working Pipeline -- Test Users Setup -- Set Variables -- Define Job Parameters -- Set Build Information -- Execute Smoke Tests -- Launch Boozang Workers and Master -- Aggregate JSON Reports and Log Files -- Download and Execute RCA Script -- Publish Cucumber Reports -- Get Currently Deployed Version -- Import Results into XRay -- HTML Publisher -- Docker in Docker Setup -- Chapter 16: Boozang for Teams -- Team Collaboration -- Explicit Lock -- Concurrent Development and Safe Refactoring with Branches -- Working with Branches -- Using a Feature Branch Approach -- Branch Naming Convention -- Adding a Develop Branch -- Merging Process -- Tests Map -- Quality Control…”