Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contributors -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Part 1: Concepts of Machine Learning -- Chapter 1: Introduction to Machine Learning with Qlik -- Introduction to Qlik tools -- Insight Advisor -- Qlik AutoML -- Advanced Analytics Integration -- Basic statistical concepts with Qlik solutions -- Types of data -- Mean, median, and mode -- Variance -- Standard deviation -- Standardization -- Correlation -- Probability -- Defining a proper sample size and population -- Defining a sample size -- Training and test data in machine learning -- Concepts to analyze model performance and reliability -- Regression model scoring -- Multiclass classification scoring and binary classification scoring -- Feature importance -- Summary -- Chapter 2: Machine Learning Algorithms and Models with Qlik -- Regression models -- Linear regression -- Logistic regression -- Lasso regression -- Clustering algorithms, decision trees, and random forests -- K-means clustering -- ID3 decision tree -- Boosting algorithms and Naive Bayes -- XGBoost -- Gaussian Naive Bayes -- Neural networks, deep learning, and natural-language models -- Summary -- Chapter 3: Data Literacy in a Machine Learning Context -- What is data literacy? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Cache invalidation -- CPU pipeline -- Branch prediction -- The relevance of branch prediction for our code -- Profiling tools -- Valgrind -- Callgrind -- Cachegrind -- OProfile -- Summary -- Chapter 6: Benchmarking -- Selecting what to benchmark -- Benchmarking in nightly Rust -- Benchmarking in stable Rust -- Continuous integration for benchmarks -- Travis-CI integration -- Benchmark statistics with Criterion -- Summary -- Chapter 7: Built-in Macros and Configuration Items -- Understanding attributes -- Trait derivations -- Crate features -- Configuration attributes -- Macros -- Console printing -- String formatting -- Compilation environment -- Loading byte arrays and strings at compile time -- Code paths -- Checking preconditions and postconditions -- Others -- Nightly Rust -- Conservative trait return -- Constant functions -- Inline assembly and naked functions -- Using bigger integers -- Single instruction multiple data -- Allocation API -- Compiler plugins -- Summary -- Chapter 8: Must-Have Macro Crates -- Working with external data -- Data serialization and deserialization -- Serializing and deserializing complex structures -- Parsing byte streams -- Learning about useful small crates -- Creating lazily evaluated statics -- Avoiding boilerplate code for the builder pattern -- Managing errors -- Logging efficiently in Rust -- Creating command-line interfaces -- Using Rust for web development -- Creating extremely efficient templates -- Connecting with a database -- Creating a complete web server -- Summary -- Chapter 9: Creating Your Own Macros -- Creating your own standard macros -- Macro variants -- Complex macros -- Creating procedural macros -- Implementing a simple trait -- Implementing complex derivations…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Table of Contents Foreword 13 1 Introduction 15 1.1 This Study 15 1.2 Background of the Study 15 1.3 Relevance of the Study 16 1.3.1 Relevance to Special Education 16 1.3.2 Relevance to Inclusion 17 1.3.3 Relevance to Austria 18 1.3.4 Relevance to Research 19 1.3.5 Relevance to Challenges 19 1.3.6 Relevance to Methodology 21 1.4 Purpose of the Study 21 1.5 Significance of the Study 22 1.6 Definitions of Terms 23 2 Guiding Interests 25 2.1 Culture, Cultural Diversity and Multiculturalism 25 2.2 Multicultural Education 26 2.3 Culturally Responsive Teaching 27 2.4 Teacher Education for Diversity 28 2.5 Migration and Integration 29 2.6 Immigrants and Education 29 2.7 Educational Equity 30 3 Context 33 3.1 Diversity in Austria 33 3.1.1 Religious Diversity 35 3.1.2 Immigrants in Austria 35 3.2 Education in Austria 36 3.2.1 Historical Background of Education 36 3.2.2 School System in Austria 38 3.2.3 Diversity in Schools 39 3.2.4 Intercultural Learning Principle 40 3.2.5 Educational Statistics 41 3.2.6 Students with a Turkish Background 42 3.2.7 Integration and Education 43 3.3 Special Education in Austria 43 3.3.1 Historical Background of Special Education in Austria 44 3.3.2 Current Special Education in Austria 44 3.3.3 Disability Policy for Inclusion 47 3.3.4 Referral to Special Education 47 3.3.5 School Inspectors and School Psychologists in Austria 48 3.4 Teacher Training in Austria 49 3.4.1 Teacher Training for Special Education 50 4 Methodology and Epistemology 51 4.1 Restatement of Purpose 51 4.2 Qualitative Methodology 51 4.2.1 Assumptions of Qualitative Research 52 4.3 Grounded Theory Research 52 4.3.1 Classic Grounded Theory 54 4.3.2 Straussian Grounded Theory 54 4.3.3 Constructivist Grounded Theory 55 4.3.4 Generalizations in Grounded Theory 59 4.3.5 Abstraction from Time and Space with Grounded Theory 59 4.3.6 Grounded Theory in Educational Research 59 4.4 Research Design and Research Questions 60 4.5 Methodology and Methods 61 4.5.1 Reflexivity 61 4.5.2 Researcher Position 62 4.5.3 Theoretical Sensitivity 63 4.5.4 The Use of Literature in Grounded Theory 65 5 Data and Data Collection 67 5.1 Data and Data Collection in Grounded Theory 67 5.2 Research Site 67 5.3 Otherness versus Nativity 68 5.4 Research Settings 68 5.5 Research Speech 69 5.6 Population and Sampling 70 5.6.1 Criteria for Participation 70 5.6.2 Sampling 71 5.7 Participants 73 5.8 Instrument 75 5.8.1 Intensive Interviews 75 5.9 Data Collection Process 77 5.9.1 Conducting Intensive Interviews 77 5.9.2 Individual Interviews 80 5.9.3 Focus Group Meeting 80 5.10 Importance of Narration 81 5.11 Asking Questions 83 5.11.1 Closed Questions 83 5.11.2 Open Questions 83 5.12 Writing 84 5.12.1 Field Notes 84 5.12.2 Memos 85 5.13 Documents 86 5.14 Language 87 5.15 Collected Data 88 5.16 Ethical Consideration 88 5.17 Problems Encountered in the Data Collection Phase 89 6 Data Analysis and Quality Check 91 6.1 Analysis in Grounded Theory 91 6.2 Data Management and Analysis 92 6.3 Grounded Theory Coding 92 6.3.1 Initial Coding 93 6.3.2 Constant Comparison 95 6.3.3 Focused Coding 95 6.3.4 Theoretical Sampling 98 6.3.5 Categories 99 6.3.6 Theoretical Coding 101 6.3.7 Outliers 103 6.3.8 In Vivos 103 6.3.9 Theoretical Saturation 103 6.3.10 Theoretical Sorting, Diagramming, Integrating 104 6.3.11 Generating a Theory 104 6.4 Research Question Revisited 106 6.5 Research Design Revisited 106 6.6 Quality of the Study 107 6.7 Presentation of the Research Findings 110 7 Categories from Different Perspectives 113 7.1 Research Questions 113 7.2 Collected Data 113 7.3 Participants 114 7.3.1 Parents 114 7.3.2 Teachers 114 7.3.3 Psychologists 114 7.3.4 School Directors and School Inspector 115 7.4 Initial Codes 116 7.5 Categorizing Process 116 7.6 Memoing 117 7.7 Theoretical Codes 118 7.8 Categories 118 7.9 Parents' Categories 119 7.9.1 Rejecting Special Education 120 7.9.2 Taking over the Responsibility 123 7.9.3 In a Battlefield 126 7.9.4 Disassociation 128 7.9.5 Summary for Meaning of the Special Education Referral for Parents 132 7.10 Teachers' Categories 132 7.10.1 An Obscure Journey 133 7.10.2 Regretful Accomplice 137 7.10.3 Passing the Ball 140 7.10.4 Conditional Trust 143 7.10.5 Summary for the Meaning of Special Education Referral for Teachers 144 7.11 Psychologists' Categories 145 7.11.1 There to Test 145 7.11.2 Summary for the Meaning of Special Education Referral for Psychologists 147 7.12 School Inspector and Directors' Categories 147 7.12.1 Proving Prominence 147 7.12.2 Prominent but Neutral 149 7.12.3 Summary for the Meaning of Special Education Referral for Directors 150 8 Defining the Core Category 151 8.1 Core Category 151 8.2 The Core Category 'Disassociation' 151 8.2.1 Ways of Disassociation 152 8.2.2 Disassociation and Parents 153 8.2.3 Disassociation and Teachers 154 8.2.4 Disassociation and School Psychologists 155 8.2.5 Disassociation and School Directors and Inspector 156 8.3 Process of Disassociation 157 9 Theory Generation 159 9.1 Brief Revisit to Research Process 159 9.2 From Categories to Theory 159 9.3 Core Category 'Disassociation' 161 9.4 Relating Participant Groups 162 9.4.1 Reciprocity 162 9.4.2 Involvement of the Parents and Externals 163 9.4.3 Suspicion in the Process 165 9.4.4 Ambiguity 166 9.5 Developing a Theory 167 9.6 Theory 'Building on Mutual Distrust' 168 9.6.1 Distrust by Parents 168 9.6.2 Distrust by Teachers 169 9.6.3 Distrust by School Directors and the Inspector 170 9.6.4 Distrust by School Psychologists 170 9.6.5 Place of Mutual Distrust 171 9.6.6 Extended Mutual Distrust 172 9.6.7 Theory 'Building on Mutual Distrust' 175 9.6.8 Summary 177 10 Discussion 179 10.1 Educational Equity 179 10.2 Special Education and Immigrants 180 10.3 Language and Employment 181 10.4 Embeddedness in Social Group 183 10.5 Family Involvement 185 10.6 Power in School 187 10.7 Trust in School 189 10.8 Institutional Discrimination 190 10.9 Cultural Responsiveness 191 10.10 Gender and Religion 192 11 Conclusion 193 11.1 Review of the Study 193 11.2 Review of the Findings 194 11.3 Conclusion of the Study 196 11.4 Implications of the Study 197 11.5 Critical Reflections 198 Directories 201…”

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Tabla de Contenidos: “…Deafness -- Emotion recognition skills in children with hearing loss -- Introduction -- Deficits in emotion recognition in children with hearing loss -- Language and emotion recognition in children with hearing loss -- Methodology -- Participants -- Materials -- Procedure -- Results -- Descriptive statistics -- Correlations between emotion recognition and language -- Predictors of emotion recognition -- Discussion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Executive functions and eye fixations in children with Cochlear Implant -- Introduction -- Methodology -- Participants -- Materials -- Procedure -- Data Analysis -- Results -- Language -- Executive Functions -- Visual Fixation Patterns -- Discussion -- References -- Genetic syndromes with intellectual disabilities -- The relationship between the lexicon and grammar in Spanish-speaking children with Down syndrome -- Introduction -- Lexical-grammatical relationships in children with Down Syndrome (DS) -- Method -- Participants -- Instruments -- Procedure -- Data analysis -- Results -- Associations between vocabulary and grammar -- Vocabulary composition and vocabulary levels -- Grammatical word types relationships to grammatical structures in Group 2 -- Discussion -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Profiles of grammatical morphology in Spanish-speaking adolescents with Williams Syndrome and Down Syndrome -- Introduction -- Methodology -- Participants -- Procedure -- Results -- Discussion -- Conclusions -- References -- Evaluative language and component structure of oral narratives in Williams Syndrome -- Introduction -- Method -- Participants -- Procedure and coding -- Results -- Narrative structure…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Access to Health Care in America -- Copyright -- Contents -- Summary -- GENERAL CONCLUSIONS ON THE STATE OF ACCESS -- DEFINING ACCESS -- THE COMMITTEE'S INDICATORS AND PROGRESS TOWARD ACCESS OBJECTIVES -- Objective 1: Promoting Successful Birth Outcomes -- Objective 2: Reducing the Incidence of Vaccine-Preventable Childhood Diseases -- Objective 3: Early Detection and Diagnosis of Treatable Diseases -- Objective 4: Reducing the Effects of Chronic Disease and Prolonging Life -- Objective 5: Reducing Morbidity and Pain through Timely and Appropriate Treatment -- RECOMMENDATIONS -- 1 Introduction -- BACKGROUND -- DEVELOPING A SET OF INDICATORS -- RELATIONSHIP OF ACCESS MONITORING TO OTHER RELEVANT ACTIVITIES -- MAJOR DATA SOURCES: THEIR USES AND LIMITATIONS -- Strengths and Weaknesses -- Vital Statistics -- Surveys -- Hospital Discharge Data -- Tumor Registries -- Reportable Diseases -- Claims Data -- CROSSCUTTING ISSUES -- Race/Ethnicity -- Timeliness -- REFERENCES -- 2 A Model for Monitoring Access -- DEFINING ACCESS -- MEASURING ACCESS -- Indicators -- Utilization Indicators -- Outcome Indicators -- Utilization and Its Relationship to Health Care -- Mediating Factors -- Barriers to Access -- Structural Barriers -- Financial Barriers -- Personal and Cultural Barriers -- The Relationship of Access Barriers to Indicators -- REFERENCES -- 3 Using Indicators to Monitor National Objectives for Health Care -- OBJECTIVE 1: PROMOTING SUCCESSFUL BIRTH OUTCOMES -- Utilization Indicator: Adequacy of Prenatal Care -- Measuring the Indicator -- Trends in the Data -- Recommendations -- Outcome Indicator: Infant Mortality -- Measuring the Indicator -- Trends in the Data -- Recommendations -- Outcome Indicator: Low Birthweight -- Measuring the Indicator -- Trends in the Data -- Recommendations -- Outcome Indicator: Congenital Syphilis -- Measuring the Indicator…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Instrumentation and Techniques-I (Ongoing Projects) -- RECENT PROGRESS ON GRBS WITH SWIFT -- THE INTERPLANETARY NETWORK -- STATUS AND PERSPECTIVES OF MINI-MEGATORTORA WIDE-FIELD MONITORING SYSTEM WITH HIGH TEMPORAL RESOLUTION -- STATUS OF THE BOOTES-IR PROJECT AT OSN FOR GRB NEAR-IR FOLLOW-UP -- PHOTOMETRIC OBSERVATIONS OF GRB080605 BY BOOTES-1B AND BOOTES-2 -- STATUS OF PI OF THE SKY TELESCOPES IN SPAIN AND CHILE -- GLORIA - THE GLOBAL ROBOTIC TELESCOPES INTELLIGENT ARRAY FOR E-SCIENCE -- STATUS UPDATE OF THE WA -- SWIFT PUBLICATION STATISTICS AND THE COMPARISON WITH OTHER MAJOR OBSERVATORIES -- ASTRONOMICAL HOSTING IN CENTRAL ASIA -- Chapter XI. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Method -- 2.2.1 Subjects -- 2.2.2 Decision scenarios -- 2.2.3 Experimental procedure -- 2.3 Results -- 2.3.1 Data classification -- 2.3.2 Hypothesis testing -- 2.4 Discussion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Appendices -- Appendix A: Experimental scenarios -- Appendix B: Virus infection scenario (warm-up task) from Bär and Huber (2008) -- Appendix C: Choice list for the Holt and Laury (2002) task -- Appendix D: Question for general risk taking assessment -- Appendix E: Significance of Mann-Whitney U statistics (all tests are one-sided) -- Appendix F: Statistics by gender (means are weighted by the corresponding group sizes) -- Chapter 3: Overweighting versus underweighting of small probabilities -- 3.1 Underweighting and Overweighting of Small Probabilities -- 3.2 When do People Tend to Overweight Small Probabilities? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Dynamic management -- How to use dynamic management -- Data collection -- Setting up MDW -- Collecting performance data -- Viewing data collection reports -- Query Store -- Indexes and maintenance -- Types of indexes -- Heap -- Non-clustered B-tree index -- Clustered B-tree index -- Non-clustered and clustered index cooperation -- Columnstore indexes -- Other index types -- Indexing considerations -- Summary -- Chapter 7: Troubleshooting SQL Server Environment and Internals -- SQL Server protocols -- Query processor -- The storage engine layer -- Performance monitoring and tuning -- SQL Server memory monitoring and troubleshooting -- SQL Server storage monitoring and troubleshooting -- Troubleshooting wait statistics -- PAGEIOLATCH -- PAGELATCH -- CXPACKET -- Summary -- Chapter 8: Migration and Upgrade -- Why migration is necessary -- Planning the upgrade -- Upgrade scenarios -- SQL Server in-place upgrade -- Side-by-side migration -- Rolling upgrade -- Pre-upgrade checks -- Data Migration Assistant -- SQL Server system configuration checker -- Performing the upgrade -- Upgrading Reporting Services 2017 -- Migration from other platforms -- Migration example from MS Access -- Summary -- Chapter 9: Automation - Using Tools to Manage and Monitor SQL Server 2017 -- Using SQL Server Agent -- SQL Server Agent service setup -- Setting up SQL Server Agent Properties -- Database mail setup -- Sending emails from SQL Server -- Maintenance plans -- Maintenance plan wizard -- Check database integrity -- Shrink database -- Reorganize index -- Rebuild index -- Update statistics -- Clean up history -- Execute SQL Server Agent job -- Backup tasks -- Maintenance cleanup task -- Maintenance plan designer -- SQL Server Agent objects -- Operators -- Jobs -- Job definition -- Job steps definition -- Schedule definition -- Notification definition…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Anomalies in the Wild -- Finance -- Medicine -- Sports Analytics -- A 23 Million Mistake -- A Persistent Anomaly -- Web Analytics -- And Many More -- Classes of Anomaly Detection -- Statistical Anomaly Detection -- Clustering Anomaly Detection -- Model-Based Anomaly Detection -- Building an Anomaly Detector -- Key Goals -- How Do Humans Handle Anomalies? …”

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Tabla de Contenidos: “…Drinking Water and Health -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Historical Note -- Importance of Water Filtration -- Chlorination, The Most Significant Advance in Water Treatment -- Summary -- REFERENCES -- I Approach to the Study -- INTRODUCTION -- WATER CONSUMPTION -- RISK AND SAFETY -- MICROBIOLOGICAL CONTAMINANTS -- PARTICULATE CONTAMINANTS -- INORGANIC SOLUTES -- ORGANIC SOLUTES -- RADIOACTIVE CONTAMINANTS -- SUSCEPTIBLE SUBGROUPS AND OTHER CONSIDERATIONS -- REFERENCES -- II Chemical Contaminants: Safety And Risk Assessment -- EFFECTS ON HEALTH -- Reversibility of Chemical Injury -- Perspectives and Perceptions of Effects -- Irreversible (Self-Propagating) Effects -- Nonreversible Effects -- Reversible Effects -- IRREVERSIBLE TOXICITY -- Summary of Principles for Extrapolating Animal Toxicity To Humans -- The General Problem of Extrapolation -- Specific Problems in Extrapolation -- Size of Animals -- Number of Animals -- Environmental Differences -- Absorption -- Distribution and Storage -- Metabolic Differences -- Excretion and Reabsorption -- Differences in Receptor Sites -- Design of Laboratory Experiments on Animals -- Current Capability to Extrapolate -- THRESHOLDS -- Biological Considerations -- Consideration of the Dose-Response Relationship -- Examination of Experimental Dose-Response Curves -- Heterogeneity of the Population -- Statistical Considerations -- HIGH-DOSE TO LOW-DOSE EXTRAPOLATION -- Dose-Response Models -- Appropriateness of Data for Low-Dose Extrapolation -- INTERACTIONS -- SUMMARY-CHEMICAL CONTAMINANTS: SAFETY AND RISK ASSESSMENT -- Principle 1 -- Effects in Animals, Properly Qualified, are Applicable to Man -- Principle 2 -- Methods do not Now Exist to Establish a Threshold for Long-Term Effects of Toxic Agents -- Principle 3.…”