“…Written by the industry's leading practitioners, the book provides a country-by-country breakdown of the current state of the Islamic market, including league tables by region and by country. Relevant case studies are used throughout to illustrate the practical aspect of the information presented. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Nudging Clips Frame by Frame -- Adjusting Clip Duration -- Setting the Default Time Stretch Algorithm -- Truncating Overlapping Clips -- Blending the Rerecorded Dialogue into the Scene -- Creating a Cycle Region -- Adjusting Track Volume -- Using Actions to Adjust Clip Volume -- Working with Ambient Noise -- Lesson Review -- Lesson 8 Automated Dialogue Replacement Using the Multitake Editor -- About Multitake Editing -- Setting Up for Multitake Editing -- Creating a Guide Take -- The Multitake Editor -- Converting a Clip into a Multitake Clip -- Naming Takes -- Cycle Recording in the Multitake Editor -- Deleting a Take -- Adding a Prerecorded Take -- Reordering Takes -- Auditioning Takes -- Slipping Takes -- Creating a Composite Take -- Splitting Takes -- Selecting Takes -- Using Transitions -- Adding Transitions -- Working with Fades -- Lesson Review -- Lesson 9 Spotting Sound Effects -- Setting Up for Spotting -- Exploring the Bin and the Browser -- Previewing Files in the Bin -- Opening the Browser -- Locating Files in the Browser -- Adding Browser Files to Your Project -- Using the Multipoint Video HUD -- Spotting with the Multipoint Video HUD -- Three-Point Edits -- Using the Search Tab to Find and Spot Sound Effects -- Setting the End of Project Marker -- Additional Practice -- Lesson Review -- Lesson 10 Scoring Using Loops -- Setting Up for Music Production -- Switching the Project to the Beats-Based Ruler -- Searching the Apple Loops Library -- Opening the Search Tab -- Looping vs. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Shift Operators (>, >=) -- Bitwise Operators (&, |, ^) -- Bitwise Assignment Operators (&=, |=, ^=) -- Bitwise Complement Operator (~) -- Control Flow Statements, Continued -- The while and do/while Loops -- The for Loop -- The foreach Loop -- The switch Statement -- Jump Statements -- The break Statement -- The continue Statement -- The goto Statement -- C# Preprocessor Directives -- Excluding and Including Code (#if, #elif, #else, #endif) -- Defining Preprocessor Symbols (#define, #undef) -- Emitting Errors and Warnings (#error, #warning) -- Turning Off Warning Messages (#pragma) -- nowarn: Option -- Specifying Line Numbers (#line) -- Hints for Visual Editors (#region, #endregion) -- Summary -- 4 Methods and Parameters -- Calling a Method -- Namespace -- Type Name -- Scope -- Method Name -- Parameters -- Method Return -- Statement versus Method Call -- Declaring a Method -- Parameter Declaration -- Method Return Declaration -- The using Directive -- Aliasing -- Returns and Parameters on Main() -- Parameters -- Value Parameters -- Reference Parameters (ref) -- Output Parameters (out) -- Parameter Arrays (params) -- Recursion -- Method Overloading -- Optional Parameters -- Basic Error Handling with Exceptions -- Trapping Errors -- Reporting Errors Using a throw Statement -- Summary -- 5 Classes -- Declaring and Instantiating a Class -- Instance Fields -- Declaring an Instance Field -- Accessing an Instance Field -- Instance Methods -- Using the this Keyword -- Access Modifiers -- Properties -- Declaring a Property -- Automatically Implemented Properties -- Naming Conventions -- Using Properties with Validation -- Read-Only and Write-Only Properties -- Access Modifiers on Getters and Setters -- Properties as Virtual Fields -- Properties and Method Calls Not Allowed as ref or out Parameter Values -- Constructors…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Use of Logical Operators with Conditionals -- Operator Precedence -- The Ternary Operator -- Preprocessor Directives -- Defining Identifiers -- Undefining Identifiers -- #if, #elif, #else, and #endif -- #region -- Classes and Objects -- Defining Classes -- Access Modifiers -- Method Arguments -- Creating Objects -- Constructors -- Initializers -- The ICloneable Interface -- The this Keyword -- Using Static Members -- Invoking Static Methods -- Using Static Constructors -- Static Classes -- Using Static Fields -- Destroying Objects -- The C# Destructor -- Destructors Versus Dispose -- Implementing the Close() Method -- The using Statement -- Passing Parameters -- Passing by Reference -- Overcoming Definite Assignment with out Parameters -- Overloading Methods and Constructors -- Encapsulating Data with Properties -- The get Accessor -- The set Accessor -- Property Access Modifiers -- readonly Fields -- Inheritance and Polymorphism -- Specialization and Generalization -- Inheritance -- Implementing Inheritance -- Polymorphism -- Creating Polymorphic Types -- Creating Polymorphic Methods -- Calling Base Class Constructors -- Controlling Access -- Versioning with the new and override Keywords -- Abstract Classes -- Limitations of Abstract -- Sealed Class -- The Root of All Classes: Object -- Boxing and Unboxing Types -- Boxing Is Implicit -- Unboxing Must Be Explicit -- Nesting Classes -- Operator Overloading -- Using the operator Keyword -- Supporting Other .NET Languages -- Creating Useful Operators -- Logical Pairs -- The Equality Operator -- Conversion Operators -- Structs -- Defining Structs -- Creating Structs -- Structs as Value Types -- Creating Structs Without new -- Interfaces -- Defining and Implementing an Interface -- Implementing More Than One Interface -- Extending Interfaces -- Combining Interfaces -- Casting to extended interfaces…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Message batch -- Kafka and the sendfile operation -- Compression -- Kafka streams -- Stream processing topology -- Notion of time in stream processing -- Samza's stream processing API -- The scheduler/executor component of the streaming architecture -- Processing concepts and tradeoffs -- Processing guarantees -- Micro-batch stream processing -- Windowing -- Types of windows -- Summary -- References -- Chapter 11: Let Us Store the Data -- The data explosion problem -- Relational Database Management Systems and Big data -- Introducing Hadoop, the Big Elephant -- Apache YARN -- Hadoop Distributed Filesystem -- HDFS architecture principles (and assumptions) -- High-level architecture of HDFS -- HDFS file formats -- HBase -- Understanding the basics of HBase -- HBase data model -- HBase architecture -- Horizontal scaling with automatic sharding of HBase tables -- HMaster, region assignment, and balancing -- Components of Apache HBase architecture -- Tips for improved performance from your HBase cluster -- Graph stores -- Background of the use case -- Scenario -- Solution discussion -- Bank fraud data model (as can be designed in a property graph data store such as Neo4J) -- Semantic graph -- Linked data -- Vocabularies -- Semantic Query Language -- Inference -- Stardog -- GraphQL queries -- Gremlin -- Virtual Graphs - a Unifying DAO -- Structured data -- CVS -- BITES - Unstructured/Semistructured document store -- Structured data extraction -- Text extraction -- Document queries -- Highly-available clusters -- Guarantees -- Scaling up -- Integration with SPARQL -- Data Formats -- Data integrity and validating constraints -- Strict parsing of RDF -- Integrity Constraint Validation -- Monitoring and operation -- Performance -- Summary -- Further reading -- Chapter 12: When Data Dissemination is as Important as Data Itself -- Data dissemination…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- KPI creation process -- Types of KPIs -- Objectives and key results -- Using KPIs for FinOps practices -- Example of a FinOps KPI in Azure - region placement -- More FinOps examples -- Summary -- Chapter 11: Defining New FinOps Roles and Processes -- Target operating model and FinOps -- FinOps operational model -- Organizational model -- Rollout and execution plan -- Functions, capabilities, and processes -- Roles and responsibilities -- Governance -- Summary -- Part 5: Hands-On Cost Optimization with Real-Life Use Cases and More -- Chapter 12: Case Studies for Cost Optimization -- IaaS case study - multi-tiered application migrated to the cloud -- Solution description -- Initiatives covered -- Summary of initiatives and final results -- PaaS case study - storage, serverless, and database optimization -- Solution description -- Initiatives covered -- Summary of initiatives and final results -- Summary -- Chapter 13: Wrapping up and Looking ahead -- FinOps summary and future challenges - how to keep up -- Inform (Chapters 3, 4, and 5) -- Optimize (Chapters 6, 7, 8, and 9) -- Operate (Chapters 10 and 11) -- Case studies -- FinOps future challenges -- Cloud sustainability and FinOps -- How environmental sustainability policies work -- Public cloud and sustainability - GreenOps…”

“…The chronological and geographical scope of the book is focused on the Western tradition from the High Middle Ages up to the present, specifically in the territory of Central Europe and Spain along with its overseas colonies. The region of Central Europe was interconnected with the Spanish Empire through the Austrian and Spanish Habsburgs, allowing the given topic to be studied in a broader international context, and to involve the Central European and Spanish territories in the global flow of information, thus incorporating the regional and national histories of individual European countries into global history. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- What Is the MySQL Database Service? -- MDS in OCI -- Region Availability -- Required Identity and Access Management Policy -- Data Security -- MDS and Audit Service -- MDS Versions and Storage Engines -- Shape -- DB System -- MySQL HeatWave -- Use Cases -- Limitations -- Cloud Services Cost Expectations -- Summary -- Chapter 2: Oracle Cloud Infrastructure -- A Brief Tour of Services -- Terminology -- Virtualization -- Tenancy -- Compartments -- Security Zone -- OCI Resource Allocation -- Virtual Cloud Network -- Oracle Cloud Identifier (OCID) -- Compute -- Virtual Machine -- Bare Metal Host -- Shapes -- Images -- Provisioning -- OCI User Interfaces -- Core Services -- Networking Services -- Compute Services -- Storage Services -- Block Volume -- Local NVMe -- File Storage -- Object Storage -- Identity and Access Management Services -- Setting Up Your Account -- Always Free Resources -- Service Usage and Limits -- OCI Tutorial -- Create a New Compartment -- Create the Virtual Cloud Network -- Create the Compute Instance -- Add Block Storage to the Compute Instance -- Terminate the Resources -- Summary -- Chapter 3: A Brief Tutorial of MySQL -- Getting Started -- Connecting with MySQL Shell -- Features -- Modes Supported -- Making Connections -- Using a URI -- Using Individual Options -- Using SSL Connections -- Connecting with the MySQL Client -- Basic SQL Commands -- How to Get and Install MySQL -- Configuring and Managing Access to MySQL -- Configuration Files -- Creating Users and Granting Access -- Basic SQL Commands…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Taux d'investissement et d'épargne dans certaines régions -- Graphique 2.2. Investissement et épargne par secteur d'origine, 2006 -- Les déterminants du faible niveau des taux d'épargne -- Graphique 2.3. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Protein intrinsically disordered regions and SARS-CoV-2 -- 7. Protein-protein interactions and SARS-CoV-2 -- References -- Characterization of Anonymous Physician Perspectives on COVID-19 Using Social Media Data -- 1. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- 8.2.1 Location Does Matter -- 8.2.2 Moving Goods and People is Still Costly -- 8.3 The Drivers of Regional Agglomeration -- 8.3.1 The Home-Market Effect -- 8.3.2 Agglomeration Economies and the Emergence of Asymmetric Clusters -- 8.3.3 The Core-Periphery Structure -- 8.3.4 Input-Output Linkages and the Bell-Shaped Curve of Spatial Development -- 8.3.5 Communication Costs and the Relocation of Plants -- 8.4 Does the Market Yield Over or Under-agglomeration? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- 16.1 Introduction -- 16.1.1 Ethnicity -- 16.1.2 Economic -- 16.1.3 Housing -- 16.1.4 Chapter Outline -- 16.2 Inequality and Occupational Segregation -- 16.3 Location Quotient Maps -- 16.4 Maps of Typologies -- 16.4.1 Location of the Top Occupational Group -- 16.5 Contrasting Dimensions of Segregation -- 16.6 Conclusions -- References -- 17 Income Inequality and Segregation in the Paris Metro Area (1990-2015) -- 17.1 Introduction -- 17.2 Background -- 17.2.1 The Role of Immigrant Residential Segregation -- 17.2.2 The Role of Urban Policy and Public Housing -- 17.2.3 The Role of Rising Income Inequality -- 17.3 Data and Methods -- 17.4 Results -- 17.4.1 Changes in Occupational Structure and Inequality -- 17.4.2 Residential Patterns of Occupational Groups in the Paris Metro Area -- 17.4.3 Occupational and Immigrant Segregation -- 17.5 Conclusion -- References -- Part VI North America -- 18 Growing Income Inequality and Socioeconomic Segregation in the Chicago Region -- 18.1 Introduction -- 18.2 The Chicago Region -- 18.2.1 The Economy -- 18.2.2 The Welfare System -- 18.2.3 Demographics -- 18.2.4 The Housing System -- 18.3 Analysis and Results -- 18.3.1 Income Inequality -- 18.3.2 Occupational Structure -- 18.3.3 Dissimilarity Index -- 18.3.4 Location of Top Occupational Groups -- 18.3.5 Location Quotients (LQs)…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…The size of the middle-income group varies substantially between regions in Germany, and it has declined much more strongly in cities than in rural areas -- 2.5. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Composition des échanges par région -- Tableau 3. Balance des paiements courants -- Graphique 2. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Emploi, production et investissement dans le secteur manufacturier -- L'impact de la libéralisation commerciale a été très inégal selon les régions... -- Tableau 12. Indicateurs régionaux -- Graphique 22. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Emploi et chômage, par régions -- L'inflation recule après s'être accélérée au début de 2001 -- Graphique 6. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Indicateurs concernant le personnel du service public de l'emploi, par région -- Secteur public -- Graphique 19. Dépenses pour la santé -- Tableau 31. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Les processus de développement durable à l'échelon régional -- Encadré 6. Les initiatives de développement durable en Saxe-Anhalt -- Le rôle du secteur non gouvernemental -- Encadré 7. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- 4.1 INTRODUCTION -- 4.2 ENERGY SECURITY IN THE INTERNATIONAL DEBATE -- 4.2.1 The Global Energy Consumption Growth and the Depletion of Energy Resources -- 4.2.2 Energy Security Threats -- 4.2.3 Environmental Pressure and Long-Term Targets -- 4.2.4 Energy Policies and Beyond -- 4.3 THE MACROREGIONAL GEOPOLITICS OF ENERGY SECURITY -- 4.3.1 Towards a New Energy World Order -- 4.3.2 The Role of Oil in the World and in Europe -- 4.3.3 The Role of Natural Gas in the World and in Europe -- 4.3.4 The Role of Coal in the World and in Europe -- 4.4 EUROPEAN ENERGY GEOPOLITICS: KEY REGIONS -- 4.4.1 The Persian Gulf -- 4.4.2 The Caspian Sea -- 4.4.3 Africa -- 4.5 CONCLUSIONS AND FUTURE PERSPECTIVES -- REFERENCES -- 5 - Reshaping Equilibria: Renewable Energy Mega-Projects and Energy Security -- 5.1 INTRODUCTION: ASSESSING THE CONTRIBUTION OF LARGE-SCALE RENEWABLE ENERGY PROJECTS TO LOW-CARBON ENERGY SECURITY -- 5.2 TAPPING THE DESERT FOR SUSTAINABLE POWER: MOROCCO AND NORTH AFRICA -- 5.2.1 DESERTEC and Noor Project Backgrounds -- 5.2.2 Middle East and North Africa Region and Moroccan Energy Policies and Support Mechanisms -- 5.2.3 Energy Security Implications -- 5.2.4 Assessing the Potential Contribution to Low-Carbon Energy Security…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Le fonds souverain du Brésil -- Recommandations -- Améliorer le rapport coût-efficacité de l'achat et de la prestation des services -- Optimiser le financement du développement régional -- Améliorer la gestion des ressources humaines -- Améliorer l'efficience au stade de l'élaboration et de la planification du budget -- Orienter les mécanismes de contrôle sur l'évaluation des performances -- Se préparer à la hausse attendue des recettes pétrolières et gazières au cours des prochaines années -- Encadré 4.6. …”