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“…Designed for learners with a basic familiarity with CSS, HTML, and JavaScript, this course teaches you how to use CSS transitions, the tool that makes these types of animations possible. Understand the different ways to animate CSS property changes Learn how to control property changes caused by user interactions or by changes in code Explore cubic-bezier timing functions and transition syntax Understand the interplay between transitions and JavaScript Gain experience creating UI animations like smooth sliding menus and more Kirupa Chinnathambi has spent most of his life trying to teach others to love web development as much as he does. …”

“…The RX100 IV’s “stacked” CMOS Exmor R sensor provides fast image capture and processing, making 4K video, fast continuous shooting, and video frame rates up to 960/1000 fps possible. Filled with detailed how-to steps and full-color illustrations, David Busch’s Sony Cyber-shot DSC-RX100 IV Guide to Digital Photography covers every feature of this camera in depth, from taking your first photos through advanced details of setup, exposure, movie making, and more. …”

“…Step into the shoes of a Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) and find out what could possibly go wrong during a breach. Author Alexander J. …”

“…Learn about editor scripting in Unity, including different possible methods of editor customization to fit your custom game workflow or even to create assets that could be published on the Asset Store to earn a passive income. …”

“…There are comprehensive discussions in the text on all possible aspects of Kubernetes, starting from end-user to the fully-automated controller development. …”

“…You’ll also: Understand why lambda expressions are considered a kind of anonymous function Learn how lambda expressions and the behavior parameterization pattern let you write flexible and concise code Discover various operations and data processing patterns possible when using the Streams API Use Collector recipes to write queries that are more sophisticated Consider factors such as data size and the number of cores available when using streams in parallel Work with a practical refactoring example to bring lambda expressions and streams into focus…”

“…To help you consider all of possible ramifications of your work on data projects, this report includes: A sample checklist that you can adapt for your own procedures Five framing guidelines (the Five C’s) for building data products: consent, clarity, consistency, control, and consequences Suggestions for building ethics into your data-driven culture Now is the time to invest in a deliberate practice of data ethics, for better products, better teams, and better outcomes. …”

“…Organizations striving to build applications for streaming data have a new possibility to ponder: the use of ingestion engines at the front end of their Hadoop systems. …”

“…The current approach to characterizing the quality of a regenerative medicine product and the manufacturing process often involves measuring as many endpoints as possible, but this approach has proved to be inadequate and unsustainable.The Forum on Regenerative Medicine of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine convened experts across disciplines for a 2-day virtual public workshop to explore systems thinking approaches and how they may be applied to support the identification of relevant quality attributes that can help in the optimization of manufacturing and streamline regulatory processes for regenerative medicine. …”

“…The new question in relation to drug policy is, however, if and how the Nordic countries will adapt to a situation when several countries all over the world are questioning ‘the war on drugs’ and orienting themselves in the direction of decriminalization and legalization. An analysis of a possible change in drug policies must be undertaken against the background of the existing policies. …”

“…This book introduces unmanned aircraft systems traffic management (UTM) and how this new paradigm in traffic management integrates unmanned aircraft operations into national airspace systems.Exploring how UTM is expected to operate, including possible architectures for UTM implementations, and UTM services, including flight planning, strategic coordination, and conformance monitoring, Unmanned Aircraft Systems Traffic Management: UTM considers the boundaries of UTM and how it is expected to interlace with tactical coordination systems to maintain airspace safety. …”