Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Generic Finite-State Machines -- The init Function -- The StateName Function -- The handle_event Function -- The handle_sync_event Function -- The code_change and terminate Functions -- A Trading System Specification -- Show Me Your Moves -- Defining the State Diagrams and Transitions -- Game Trading Between Two Players -- The Public Interface -- FSM-to-FSM Functions -- The gen_fsm Callbacks -- That Was Really Something -- Fit for the Real World? -- 16. Event Handlers -- Handle This! …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- INTRODUCTION -- DEFINITION AND RESEARCH -- INSIGHTS GAINED -- BPM Is Not About Automation of Processes -- BPM Is Done by People Concerned Primarily with Improvement of the Process -- Misrepresentations of BPM -- BPM Is Not a Product -- BPM Is Not a Market Segment -- An Application Does Not Do BPM -- BPM As a Service Is Not Application Hosting -- Entire Organizational Units Do Not Do BPM -- BPM Is Not Merely Anything that Improves Business -- BPM Is Not All Activities Supported by a BPMS -- Just Because You Can Do Something with a BPMS Does Not Mean It Is BPM -- Participating in a Process Is Not Doing BPM -- Implementation (Coding) of the Process Application Is Not BPM -- Making a Suggestion for Process Improvement Is Not BPM -- Improving a Single Step of a Process Is Not BPM -- CONCLUSION: ONE COMMON DEFINITION -- End Notes -- The BPM Way of Thinking -- INTRODUCTION -- The Value of Ontology -- INTRODUCTION -- WHAT IS ONTOLOGY?…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Function parameters -- Filters -- The concept of scope -- Parent and child scopes -- Scope modifiers -- Exploring scriptblocks -- How to run a scriptblock -- Lambdas -- Let's do something useful -- Summary -- Further reading -- Exercises -- Chapter 10: Error Handling - Oh No! …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Hardware-aware quantum compiler -- Logic-level compiler and optimizer -- Algorithm-driven applications -- Cloud-based quantum service and software development kit -- Considering the Annealing Alternative -- Annealing in the medieval mode -- Identifying the problem annealing solves -- Moving on to quantum annealing -- Identifying where quantum annealers succeed -- Identifying where quantum annealers fail -- Choosing a Type of Quantum Computer -- Chapter 10 Racing for the Perfect Qubit -- Identifying Three Levels of Qubit Achievement -- Winning the Race for Focused Quantum Advantage -- Visiting the Qubit Zoo -- Deconstructing qubits -- Defining quantum computing modalities -- Mapping Out the Modalities Landscape -- Figuring Out What's Next -- Chapter 11 Choosing a Qubit Type -- Telling the Players Apart with a Scorecard -- Trapped ion qubits -- Superconducting qubits -- Photonic qubits -- The best of the rest -- Choosing a Strategy for Quantum Computing -- Taking advantage of the cloud -- Sharing a quiet word about companies -- Part 3 Getting Entangled with Quantum Computing -- Chapter 12 Programming a Quantum Computer -- Figuring Out What We Are Doing -- Figuring Out How to Do It -- Getting Down to the BASICs -- Writing the Requirements for a Quantum Program -- Components of a quantum programming environment -- Components of a quantum program -- Thinking Like a Developer -- Tips for becoming an awesome software developer -- Setting Up a Development Environment -- Finding Where to Get Your Quantum On -- Getting started with the Strangeworks Python SDK -- Installation -- Authentication -- Let's optimize something -- Singing QAOA-ooooo -- Getting started with QAOA -- Breaking Down a Quantum Algorithm -- Asking Where Do We Go Now? …”

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 The ABCs of 401(k)s and IRAs -- Chapter 1 Explaining IRAs and 401(k)s -- Exploring the Basics of Retirement Savings Plans -- Getting down to 401(k) basics -- Introducing IRAs -- Comparing and Contrasting IRAs and 401(k)s -- Accentuating the Positive -- Saving up -- Getting employer contributions -- Chapter 2 Taxing Issues -- Realizing the Reasons for Tax Breaks -- What the government gains -- What you gain -- Talking Tax Terms -- Earning your income -- Combining your income -- Adjusting your income with AGI -- Figuring your marginal tax rate -- Getting Credit for Contributions -- Deducting IRA contributions -- Paying attention if your spouse has a plan -- Earning extra credit according to income -- Taxing Income at Retirement -- Staying Alert to Changes in Tax Law -- Chapter 3 Naming Beneficiaries and Planning for the Future -- Deciding Who Gets Your Savings When You're Gone -- Detailing the Distribution -- Talking Timing and Taxes -- Passing along Company Stock -- Starting the Roth Clock -- Qualifying Your Charitable Giving -- Giving a good QCD -- Linking RMDs and QCDs (and minding your Ps and Qs) -- Giving tax free -- Being a Beneficiary -- Deciding - or being told - what to do with the money -- Saying no to the money -- Stretching an inherited IRA -- Part 2 401(k) Basics -- Chapter 4 Checking the Benefits of a 401(k) -- Realizing What a 401(k) Does for You -- Lowers how much tax you pay -- Gets you matching funds from your employer -- Makes room for a little something extra: Employer non-matching contribution -- Allows you to save without tears -- Vesting: When Your Employer's Contribution Is Yours to Keep -- Vesting of employer contributions…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Viewing two accounts -- Managing Your Out of Office Message -- About Address Books -- Scheduling a Skype Meeting -- Setting up a Skype meeting -- Joining a Skype meeting -- Chapter 15 Outlook for the iPad and Android Phones -- Understanding the Mobile Difference -- Accessing Mobile Email -- Reading email -- Replying to email -- Composing email -- Archiving, scheduling, and deleting email messages -- Deleting messages -- Managing groups of messages -- Using Your Mobile Calendar -- Navigating the mobile calendar -- Creating a new appointment -- Chapter 16 Telecommuting With Outlook.com and the Outlook Web App -- Exploring Outlook.com -- Getting Caught Up on Web Email Basics -- Reading messages -- Sending a message -- Flagging messages -- Setting individual message options -- Organizing Contacts -- Viewing your contacts -- Adding contacts -- Using Your Calendar -- Entering an appointment -- Moving an appointment -- Viewing your calendar -- Using Mobile Collaboration -- Inviting attendees to a meeting -- Responding to a meeting request -- Exploring Your Options -- Automated vacation replies/ out of office message -- Creating a signature -- Understanding Outlook Web App -- Knowing when it's handy -- Logging on and off -- Part VI The Part of Tens -- Chapter 17 Ten Shortcuts Worth Taking -- Using the New Items Tool -- Sending a File to an Email Recipient -- Sending a File From a Microsoft Office Application -- Turning a Message Into a Meeting -- Finding Something -- Undoing Your Mistakes -- Using the Go to Date Command -- Adding Items to List Views -- Sending Repeat Messages -- Resending a Message -- Chapter 18 Ten Accessories for Outlook -- Smartphones -- A Tablet Computer -- For Dummies E‐Learning -- Microsoft Office -- A Business‐Card Scanner -- Online Backup -- Skype -- Microsoft SharePoint -- Microsoft Exchange -- OneDrive…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Air power -- Airplane mode -- In-flight Wi-Fi -- Arriving at your destination -- Café Computing -- Find a good seat -- Other tips 'n' stuff -- In a Hotel Room -- Mind the Laptop's Temperature -- Chapter 20 A More Secure Laptop -- The Hot Laptop -- Before Your Laptop Is Stolen -- Attaching the laptop to something sturdy -- Marking your laptop -- Registering the laptop and its software -- Paying attention to your environment -- Protect Your Data with a Strong Password -- The Laptop Reset -- Part 5 Security and Maintenance -- Chapter 21 System Security -- The Windows Security Center -- The Malware Scourge -- Doing a virus scan -- Dealing with a quarantined file -- Paying attention to the UAC warnings -- Keep Windows Up-to-Date -- Checking the update status -- Postponing a Windows update -- Exploring other updates and upgrades -- Your Privacy -- Locking the screen -- Reviewing Windows privacy settings -- Chapter 22 An All-Important Safety Copy -- Back Up Your Data -- Obtaining backup storage -- Configuring File History -- Checking the backup schedule -- Using cloud backup -- The Restore Operation -- Restoring an older version…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Barcode Recognition -- A Little Bit About Barcodes -- EAN-13 Encoding -- Introducing Arrays -- Arrays and Laziness -- Folding over Arrays -- Modifying Array Elements -- Encoding an EAN-13 Barcode -- Constraints on Our Decoder -- Divide and Conquer -- Turning a Color Image into Something Tractable -- Parsing a Color Image -- Grayscale Conversion -- Grayscale to Binary and Type Safety -- What Have We Done to Our Image? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- 4.1.Viewing projects -- Writing a feature -- The Factory Girl -- Adding a link to a project -- 4.2.Editing projects -- The edit action -- The update action -- 4.3.Deleting projects -- Writing a feature -- Adding a destroy action -- Looking for what isn't there -- 4.4.Summary -- 5.Nested resources -- 5.1.Creating tickets -- Nested routing helpers -- Creating a tickets controller -- Defining a has_many association -- Creating tickets within a project -- Finding tickets scoped by project -- Ticket validations -- 5.2.Viewing tickets -- Listing tickets -- Culling tickets -- 5.3.Editing tickets -- Adding the edit action -- Adding the update action -- 5.4.Deleting tickets -- 5.5.Summary -- 6.Authentication and basic authorization -- 6.1.What Devise does -- Installing Devise -- 6.2.User signup -- 6.3.Confirmation link sign-in -- Testing email -- Confirming confirmation -- 6.4.Form sign-in -- 6.5.Linking tickets to users -- Attributing tickets to users -- We broke something! -- Fixing the Viewing Tickets feature -- Fixing the Editing Tickets feature -- Fixing the Deleting Tickets feature -- 6.6.Summary -- 7.Basic access control -- 7.1.Projects can be created only by admins -- 7.2.Adding the admin field to the users table -- 7.3.Restricting actions to admins only -- Fixing three more broken scenarios -- Hiding the New Project link -- Hiding the edit and delete links -- 7.4.Namespace routing -- 7.5.Namespace-based CRUD -- Adding a namespace root -- The index action -- The new action -- The create action -- 7.6.Creating admin users -- 7.7.Editing users -- The show action -- The edit and update actions -- 7.8.Deleting users -- Ensuring you can't delete yourself -- 7.9.Summary -- 8.More authorization -- 8.1.Restricting read access -- 8.2.Restricting by scope -- 8.3.Fixing what you broke -- Fixing Editing Projects -- Fixing the four failing features -- One mare thing -- Fixing Signing Up -- 8.4.Blocking access to tickets -- Locking out the bad guys -- 8.5.Restricting write access -- Rewriting a feature -- Blocking creation -- What is CanCan? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Summary -- Chapter 17: Examining Multiple Variable Values with Switch Blocks -- Inserting DropBox and Label -- Populating the drop-down list -- Adding information to display about each drop-down item -- Replicating cases -- Running your program -- Summary -- Chapter 18: Improving Input Processing with TryParse -- Inserting a button and a textbox -- Inserting the label -- Introducing the TryParse method -- Using TryParse to convert input into a numerical value -- Running your program -- Summary -- Chapter 19: Replacing If/Else Blocks with the Ternary Operator -- Inserting two text boxes and a button -- Creating the interface -- Combining the ternary operator with TryParse -- The Boolean power of TryParse -- Running your program -- Summary -- Chapter 20: Operators That Evaluate and Assign in Place -- Inserting Button and Label -- Introducing operators -- Incrementing the value of a variable by 1 with ++ -- Incrementing the value of a variable by 2 with +&amp -- #61 -- -- Working with the -- operator -- Working with the &amp -- #61 -- &amp -- #61 -- operator -- Summary -- Chapter 21: Checking Two Conditions with the Logical AND Operator -- Setting up the project -- Building your simulation -- Determining if there is something in the text boxes -- Displaying the results -- Summary -- Chapter 22: Checking Two Conditions with the Logical OR Operator -- Working with check boxes -- Introducing the logical || (OR) operator -- Experimenting with the logical || (OR) operator -- Summary -- Chapter 23: Declaring, Setting, and Reading Arrays -- Setting up the basic interface -- Creating the array -- Setting up an index -- Using arrays to do addition -- Using arrays to display an average -- Viewing the page source -- Summary -- Chapter 24: Iterating Over Arrays with foreach Loops -- Setting up the beginning interface -- Creating an array of strings…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- C# Language Versioning -- .NET and C# Compilation Process -- Compile Time and Runtime -- Framework and Library -- Library -- Framework -- Managed and Unmanaged Code -- Chapter Summary -- Chapter 2: Software Installation -- About the .NET Framework -- Installing the .NET Framework -- Verify the .NET Framework Installation -- Installing Visual Studio -- Verify the Visual Studio Installation -- Chapter Summary -- Chapter 3: Introduction -- Computer Program -- Programming Languages -- A Computer Program: A Recipe -- Type in C# -- The Basic Operations of a Computer -- C# Program Application Formats -- Format 1: Console Application -- Format 2: .NET MAUI -- Format 3: ASP.NET Web Applications -- The Structure of a C# Program -- Namespaces -- Classes -- Naming a Class: Class Identifiers -- Chapter Summary -- Chapter 4: Input and Output -- Write to and Read from the Console -- Change Console Display Settings -- Chapter Summary -- Chapter 5: Commenting Code -- C# Single-Line Comments -- New .NET 6 Templates -- C# Multiple-Line Comments -- Chapter Summary -- Chapter 6: Data Types -- Data Types, Variables, and Conversion -- Data Types -- Conversion from One Data Type to Another -- Converting -- Something a Little Different with Our Variables -- C# 8 Nullable Reference Types -- Chapter Summary -- Chapter 7: Casting and Parsing -- Data Types, Casting, and Parsing -- Chapter Summary -- Chapter 8: Arithmetic -- Arithmetic Operations -- Common Arithmetic Operators -- Integer Division -- Solution Explorer and Project Analysis -- Other Operators -- Plus Equals ( +=) -- Minus Equals ( -=) -- Multiply Equals ( *=) -- Divide Equals ( /=) -- Square Root -- Chapter Summary -- Chapter 9: Selection -- Arithmetic Operations…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Don't Get Above Your Business -- 9. Learn Something Useful -- 10. Let Hope Predominate But Be Not Too Visionary -- 11. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Stress can affect anyone -- The cost of commitment -- We can all do something to help others -- Exercise reduces stress -- References for Chapter 10 -- Chapter 11 Our Brain and Leadership -- About this chapter -- Part 1: The science explained -- Neuroscience and leadership -- Are there chemicals of leadership? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Introduction to Sametime Java applets -- 5.1 Sametime applet basics -- 5.1.1 QuickStart Class -- 5.1.2 init() -- 5.1.3 start() -- 5.1.4 stop() -- 5.1.5 destroy() -- 5.1.6 Using the LoginListener interface -- 5.2 Entering a place -- 5.2.1 STError: If something goes wrong -- 5.3 Summary…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…11.1.4 Public import Declarations -- 11.1.5 Static import Declarations -- 11.1.6 Selective imports -- 11.1.7 Renaming in imports -- 11.1.8 The module Declaration -- 11.1.9 Module Summaries -- 11.2 Safety -- 11.2.1 Defined and Undefined Behavior -- 11.2.2 The @safe, @trusted, and @system Attributes -- 11.3 Module Constructors and Destructors -- 11.3.1 Execution Order within a Module -- 11.3.2 Execution Order across Modules -- 11.4 Documentation Comments -- 11.5 Interfacing with C and C++ -- 11.6 Deprecated -- 11.7 Version Declarations -- 11.8 Debug Declarations -- 11.9 D's Standard Library -- 12 Operator Overloading -- 12.1 Overloading Operators -- 12.2 Overloading Unary Operators -- 12.2.1 Using mixin to Consolidate Operator Definitions -- 12.2.2 Postincrement and Postdecrement -- 12.2.3 Overloading the cast Operator -- 12.2.4 Overloading Ternary Operator Tests and if Tests -- 12.3 Overloading Binary Operators -- 12.3.1 Operator Overloading [sup(2)] -- 12.3.2 Commutativity -- 12.4 Overloading Comparison Operators -- 12.5 Overloading Assignment Operators -- 12.6 Overloading Indexing Operators -- 12.7 Overloading Slicing Operators -- 12.8 The Operator -- 12.9 Overloading foreach -- 12.9.1 Foreach with Iteration Primitives -- 12.9.2 Foreach with Internal Iteration -- 12.10 Defining Overloaded Operators in Classes -- 12.11 And Now for Something Completely Different: opDispatch -- 12.11.1 Dynamic Dispatch with opDispatch -- 12.12 Summary and Quick Reference -- 13 Concurrency -- 13.1 Concurrentgate -- 13.2 A Brief History of Data Sharing -- 13.3 Look, Ma, No (Default) Sharing -- 13.4 Starting a Thread -- 13.4.1 Immutable Sharing -- 13.5 Exchanging Messages between Threads -- 13.6 Pattern Matching with receive -- 13.6.1 First Match -- 13.6.2 Matching Any Message -- 13.7 File Copying-with a Twist -- 13.8 Thread Termination -- 13.9 Out-of-Band Communication…”

“…Growth occurs when learning is internalized, when we try something new and invest the effort to move it from being something we do, to something we are…”

“…What propels this journey is Hoffmeyer's attempt to discover how nature could come to mean something to someone. In fact, "someone" is a principal character of this book, while we confront the question of how "something" could become "someone."…”

“…Appel shows how ethnography provides a vital method for understanding capitalism's everyday reassertion and recreation of its own power as something that must be made and remade every day."--Provided by publisher…”

“…The message is that something big is going on all around us. Something bigger than one person's accidental and quixotic experience through the halls of power. …”

“…Drawing on political, feminist, and postcolonial theory, Unconditional Equals argues that we should understand equality not as something grounded in shared characteristics but as something people enact when they refuse to be considered inferiors. …”