Tabla de Contenidos: “…Paul 3.1 -- Introduction 36 -- 3.2 Objectives 36 -- 3.3 Methods 37 -- 3.4 Agricultural -- Informatics: An -- Account 37 3.5 -- Agricultural -- Informatics & -- Technological -- Components: -- Basics & -- Emergence 40 -- 3.6 IoT: Basics -- and -- Characteristics -- 41 3.7 IoT: The -- Applications & -- Agriculture Areas --43 3.8 -- Agricultural -- Informatics & IoT: -- The Scenario 45 -- 3.9 IoT in -- Agriculture: -- Requirement, -- Issues & -- Challenges 49 -- 3.10 -- Development, -- Economy and -- Growth: -- Agricultural -- Informatics -- Context 50 3.11 -- Academic -- Availability and -- Potentiality of IoT -- in Agricultural -- Informatics: -- International -- Scenario & Indian -- Possibilities 51 -- 3.12 Suggestions -- 60 3.13 -- Conclusion 60 4 -- Application of -- Agricultural -- Drones and IoT -- to Understand Food -- Supply Chain -- During Post -- COVID-19 -- 67Pushan Kumar -- Dutta and -- Susanta Mitra 4.1 -- Introduction 68 -- 4.2 Related Work -- 69 4.3 Smart -- Production With -- the Introduction -- of Drones and IoT -- 72 4.4 -- Agricultural -- Drones 75 4.5 -- IoT Acts as a -- Backbone in -- Addressing -- COVID-19 -- Problems in -- Agriculture 77 -- 4.6 Conclusion -- 81 5 IoT and -- Machine --Learning-Based -- Approaches for -- Real Time -- Environment -- Parameters -- Monitoring in -- Agriculture: An -- Empirical Review -- 89Parijata -- Majumdar and -- Sanjoy Mitra 5.1 -- Introduction 90 -- 5.2 Machine -- Learning (ML)- -- Based IoT -- Solution 90 5.3 -- Motivation of the -- Work 91 5.4 -- Literature Review -- of IoT-Based -- Weather and -- Irrigation -- Monitoring for -- Precision -- Agriculture 91 -- 5.5 Literature -- Review of -- Machine -- Learning-Based -- Weather and -- Irrigation -- Monitoring for -- Precision -- Agriculture 92 -- 5.6 Challenges -- 112 5.7 -- Conclusion and -- Future Work 113 -- 6 Deep Neural -- Network-Based -- Multi-Class -- Image -- Classification for -- Plant Diseases -- 117Alok Negi, -- Krishan Kumar -- and Prachi Chauhan 6.1 -- Introduction 117 -- 6.2 Related Work -- 119 6.3 -- Proposed Work -- 121 6.4 Results -- and Evaluation -- 124 6.5 -- Conclusion 127 7 -- Deep Residual -- Neural Network -- for Plant Seedling -- Image -- Classification -- 131Prachi -- Chauhan, -- Hardwari Lal -- Mandoria and -- Alok Negi 7.1 -- Introduction 131 -- 7.2 Related Work -- 136 7.3 -- Proposed Work -- 139 7.4 Result -- and Evaluation -- 142 7.5 -- Conclusion 144 8 -- Development of -- IoT-Based Smart -- Security and -- Monitoring -- Devices for -- Agriculture -- 147Himadri Nath -- Saha, Reek Roy, -- Monojit -- Chakraborty and -- Chiranmay Sarkar -- 8.1 Introduction -- 148 8.2 -- Background & -- Related Works -- 150 8.3 -- Proposed Model -- 155 8.4 -- Methodology -- 160 8.5 -- Performance -- Analysis 165 8.6 -- Future Research -- Direction 166 8.7 -- Conclusion 167 9 -- An Integrated -- Application of -- IoT-Based WSN -- in the Field of -- Indian Agriculture -- System Using -- Hybrid -- Optimization -- Technique and -- Machine -- Learning -- 171Avishek -- Banerjee, Arnab -- Mitra and -- Arindam Biswas -- 9.1 Introduction -- 172 9.2 -- Literature Review -- 175 9.3 -- Proposed Hybrid -- Algorithms (GA- -- MWPSO) 177 -- 9.4 Reliability -- Optimization and -- Coverage -- Optimization -- Model 179 9.5 -- Problem -- Description 181 -- 9.6 Numerical -- Examples, -- Results and -- Discussion 182 -- 9.7 Conclusion - 183 10 -- Decryption and -- Design of a -- Multicopter -- Unmanned Aerial -- Vehicle (UAV) for -- Heavy Lift -- Agricultural -- Operations -- 189Raghuvirsinh -- Pravinsinh -- Parmar 10.1 -- Introduction 190 -- 10.2 History of -- Multicopter -- UAVs 192 10.3 -- Basic -- Components of -- Multicopter UAV -- 193 10.4 -- Working and -- Control -- Mechanism of -- Multicopter UAV -- 207 10.5 Design -- Calculations and -- Selection of -- Components 210 -- 10.6 Conclusion -- 218 11 IoT- -- Enabled -- Agricultural -- System -- Application, -- Challenges and -- Security Issues -- 223Himadri Nath -- Saha, Reek Roy, --Monojit --Chakraborty and -- Chiranmay Sarkar -- 11.1 Introduction -- 224 11.2 -- Background & -- Related Works -- 226 11.3 -- Challenges to -- Implement IoT- -- Enabled Systems -- 232 11.4 -- Security Issues -- and Measures -- 240 11.5 Future -- Research -- Direction 243 -- 11.6 Conclusion -- 244 12 Plane -- Region Step -- Farming, Animal -- and Pest Attack -- Control Using -- Internet of -- Things -- 249Sahadev Roy, -- Kaushal -- Mukherjee and -- Arindam Biswas -- 12.1 Introduction -- 250 12.2 -- Proposed Work -- 254 12.3 -- Irrigation -- Methodology -- 257 12.4 Sensor -- Connection -- Using Internet of -- Things 259 12.5 -- Placement of -- Sensor in the -- Field 263 12.6 -- Conclusion 267 -- References 268 -- Index 271.…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…TAKE THE BEST TEST BEFORE INTERVIEWING ANYONE -- SUMMARY: USE THE BEST TEST TO CONFIRM RATHER THAN PREDICT -- NOTE -- Chapter 6: The Hiring Formula for Success -- WIN-WIN HIRING BEGINS WITH THE END IN MIND -- THE BIG FOUR FIT FACTORS DRIVE MOTIVATION TO EXCEL -- THE FIT FACTORS AND THEIR IMPACT ON JOB PERFORMANCE -- SUMMARY -- NOTES -- Chapter 7: Understanding the Real Job Starts with a Performance Profile -- DEFINE THE WORK BEFORE DEFINING THE PERSON DOING THE WORK -- HIRE FOR PERFORMANCE TO ATTRACT OUTSTANDING TALENT -- THE LEGAL VALIDATION FOR USING PERFORMANCE-BASED HIRING -- DIFFERENT TECHNIQUES TO DEVELOP PERFORMANCE-BASED JOB DESCRIPTIONS -- CONVINCING HIRING MANAGERS TO USE PERFORMANCE PROFILES -- SUMMARY -- NOTES -- Chapter 8: Conducting the Exploratory Phone Screen -- THE EXPLORATORY PHONE SCREEN DRIVES HIRING SUCCESS -- USE THE PHONE SCREEN TO FIND AND RECRUIT SEMIFINALISTS -- SUMMARY: USE THE PHONE SCREEN TO CONTROL YOUR ENTIRE HIRING PROCESS -- Chapter 9: Conducting the Performance-based Interview -- CHECKLIST: THE PERFORMANCE-BASED HIRING INTERVIEWING PROCESS -- THE EIGHT-STEP PERFORMANCE-BASED INTERVIEW GUIDE -- WELL-ORGANIZED PANEL INTERVIEWS INCREASE ASSESSMENT ACCURACY -- KEY HIGHLIGHTS OF THE PERFORMANCE-BASED INTERVIEW PROCESS -- Chapter 10: Making the Assessment Using the Quality of Hire Talent Scorecard -- KEYS FOR CONDUCTING AN EVIDENCE-BASED CANDIDATE ASSESSMENT -- STEP-BY-STEP COMPLETING THE QUALITY OF HIRE TALENT SCORECARD -- ESSENTIAL CORE COMPETENCES -- ADDRESSING THE BALANCING ACT BETWEEN RECRUITABILITY AND COMPETENCY -- ORGANIZING THE INTERVIEW TO MAXIMIZE ASSESSMENT ACCURACY -- SUMMARY -- NOTES -- Chapter 11: Comparing Performance-based Hiring and Behavioral Event Interviewing -- LACK OF JOB ANALYSIS IS THE BIG GAP IN BEI -- BEHAVIORAL FACT-FINDING IS THE KEY TO AN ACCURATE ASSESSMENT…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Human capital -- Human capital can be measured in a number of ways -- It is important to account for both the volume and composition of labour input -- Human capital acts as an engine for technological innovation and diffusion -- Firm-level evidence reinforces the connection between skills and productivity -- Management plays a key role in firm productivity -- A more diverse workforce is generally a more productive one -- Public infrastructure -- Measuring public infrastructure is still challenging -- There is no universally accepted definition nor a single measure of public infrastructure -- Accounting for net capital stocks -- Quantifying the productivity-infrastructure nexus: the empirical framework matters -- Several factors shape the role of public infrastructure on productivity -- Competition -- Competition is a complex notion that is difficult to measure -- Market concentration -- Policy measures of competition -- Performance indicators to measure competition…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…The Strategy pattern and the Decorator pattern -- The Strategy pattern explained -- The Decorator pattern explained -- The Component Object Model explained -- Implementing the Component Object Model -- Implementing components -- Creating and removing objects and components -- Performance concerns -- Summary -- Chapter 4: Artificial Intelligence Using the State Pattern -- Chapter overview -- Your objectives -- The State pattern explained -- Introduction to State Machines -- An overview of enumerations -- Acting on states -- Issues with conditionals -- Expanding on the State Machine -- The State pattern in action - the M5StateMachine class -- The State pattern in action - StageManager -- Issues with FSMs -- Summary -- Chapter 5: Decoupling Code via the Factory Method Pattern -- Chapter overview -- Your objective -- The trouble with switch statements -- The Dependency Inversion Principle -- The Factory method pattern -- The Static Factory -- The Dynamic Factory -- Creating our Stage Builders -- The template builder -- Creating the Dynamic Factory class -- Using the Dynamic Factory -- Creating a component and Object Factory -- The Templated Factory -- Architecting versus over-architecting -- Summary -- Chapter 6: Creating Objects with the Prototype Pattern -- Your objectives -- The trouble with using a factory for game objects -- Using builders with objects -- Solution - reading from files -- The Prototype pattern explained -- The virtual constructor -- The problem with constructors -- The benefits of a virtual constructor -- We don't need to know the type -- No need to subclass -- It's easy to make exact copies -- Examples of the clone method in Mach5 -- The Gfx and collider components -- Cloning an object -- Choosing a copy constructor -- Covariant return types -- Loading archetypes from a file -- Archetype files -- The object manager -- Summary…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Overhead Staff Layers -- Executive Request -- Value Stream Managers in the Lean Organization -- Roles and Responsibilities Matrix -- Lean Implementation Cycle -- Communication, Communication, and More Communication -- Board of Directors Training -- Leaders Should Empower Their Team -- Focusing on True North -- Seeing Is Knowing -- What Questions Can You Ask When Doing a Gemba Walk? -- Think-See-Act Lean -- You Are What You Measure -- Measurements to Drive Outcomes -- Stop Blaming, Start Fixing…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Conté : Volum 1 : Actes du Symposium du Centre de recherche et d'anthropologie des vocations -- Discours d'ouverture du Symposium: "Pour une théologie fondamentale du sacerdoce" / Cardinal Marc Ouellet -- Discours d'un Pape François au Symposium / Pape François -- Religion et sacerdoce. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Be My Guest: Dinner in Three Acts -- 48. I'm Not Eating That! Business Meals and Dietary Concerns -- 49. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…More importantly, today's investors will look back from 5, 10, or 20 years into the future and congratulate themselves for acting while the majority waited in idle worry and procrastination. 16.2 Personal Opportunity…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Concluding Part 1 -- Part 2: A Grammar of Western Consciousness -- Introducing Part 2 -- 7 The Past Complicates the Present -- 1 Exploring the discrepancy between religious and secular subcultures -- 2 Plausibility structures -- 3 Losing our sense of unity -- 4 The break-up between spirituality and theology -- 5 The impoverishment of religious language -- 6 Symbolic miscommunication -- 7 The problematic situation of the contemporary religious believer -- 8 Bringing the Background to the Fore -- 1 The Foundation Matrix -- 2 A group acting out themes of the foundation matrix -- 3 Foundation matrix and spiritual concerns -- 4 Metacommunication -- 5 Why concern ourselves with the foundation matrix? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Or Not -- Assessing the Value of Regulation -- Leaning Permitting Processes -- Leaning Food Inspections -- Goldilocks Regulation for the FDA -- Discussion -- Lean View of Regulation -- 8 Moving to Results-Based State Government -- Mission Matters -- The "Night Shift" Persists in New Hampshire -- Commitment and Resilience at NHDES -- An Enduring Community of Practice -- Profiles of Robust State CI Programs -- Colorado -- CDOT's Innovation, Improvement, and Engagement Hub -- Vermont -- Vermont's Continuous Improvement Training Program -- Washington -- Highlights of Lean Principles -- 9 A Model for CI in State Government -- Sustainability in State CI Programs -- A Success Story in Arizona -- Essential Components for Results-Driven Government -- Ohio -- Nebraska -- A Standard Structure for State CI Programs -- SECTION III LEANING GOVERNMENT POLICY -- 10 The Three Ps: Politics, Policy Making, and Public Administrators -- Cycles of Crisis Response -- Leaning the Thickening -- Does It Take an Act of Congress? -- Accountability, Personal Responsibility, and Trust -- Reducing Bureaucratic Burdens -- Leaning Hiring -- Leaning Regulation -- Leaning the Silos of Government -- Public Administrators as Conservators of Mission -- "Run Government Like a Business": A Public Policy Parable -- 11 A Case Study of Unlean Public Policy: U.S. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…MINIMIZATION OF TENORM -- NONRADIOLOGIC IMPACTS -- CONCLUSIONS -- 4 Role of Exposure and Dose or Risk Assessments in Developing Radiation Standards -- RISK ASSESSMENT OF CARCINOGENS -- Hazard Identification -- Estimation of Dose-Response Relationship -- Exposure Assessment -- Risk Characterization -- ELEMENTS OF RADIATION RISK ASSESSMENT -- USE OF DOSE OR RISK ASSESSMENT IN DEVELOPING RADIATION STANDARDS -- SUITABLE APPROACHES TO RISK ASSESSMENT IN DEVELOPING STANDARDS -- 5 Basic Approaches to Regulating Radiation Exposures of the Public -- JUDGMENTS ABOUT ACCEPTABILITY OF HEALTH RISKS -- JUDGMENTS ABOUT ACCEPTABILITY OF HEALTH RISKS -- OTHER CONSIDERATIONS IN DEVELOPING STANDARDS -- Justification of Practices -- Measurability of Radioactivity In the Environment -- Natural Background Radiation -- SUMMARY -- 6 Organizations Concerned with Radiation Protection of the Public -- INTRODUCTION -- ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY -- Federal Guidance On Radiation Protection of the Public -- Environmental Radiation Standards Developed Under Atomic Energy Act -- Environmental Radiation Standards Developed Under Other Laws -- Guidance and Regulations for Indoor Radon -- NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION -- DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY -- STATE GOVERNMENTS -- NATIONAL COUNCIL ON RADIATION PROTECTION AND MEASUREMENTS -- HEALTH PHYSICS SOCIETY -- INTERNATIONAL COMMISSION ON RADIOLOGICAL PROTECTION -- INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY -- COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES -- 7 Environmental Protection Agency Guidances and Regulations for Naturally Occurring Radionuclides -- GUIDANCE ON RADIATION PROTECTION OF THE PUBLIC -- GUIDANCE AND REGULATIONS FOR SPECIFIC SOURCES OR PRACTICES -- Standards for Operations of Uranium Fuel Cycle -- Standards for Radioactivity in Drinking Water -- Standards for Radioactivity in Liquid Discharges…”

“…Ensure Basel III compliance with expert analysis specific to Islamic Finance Islamic Capital Markets and Products provides a thorough examination of Islamic capital markets (ICM), with particular attention to the products that they offer and the legal and regulatory infrastructure within which they operate. Since Islamic banks act as asset managers, attention is paid to the regulatory challenges which they face in the light of Basel III, as regards both eligible capital and liquidity risk management. …”

“…The flexibility and power of the built-in features offered by WordPress has made developers turn their attentions to the possibility of using it as a web development framework. This book will act as a comprehensive resource for building web applications with this amazing framework. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- How to Use This Book -- Part 1: Context (the Why) -- Part 2: Principles and Risks (the What) -- Part 3: How-To Manual and Recipes (the How) -- Appendices -- On a Personal Note -- Acknowledgments -- Part 1 - Context -- Chapter 1 - Introducing Presumptive Design -- Overview -- This Book's Value Proposition -- A Twist to the Familiar -- Agile Culture -- Participatory -- A High-Wire Act -- Rapid Prototyping -- The Five Principles of Presumptive Design -- Design to Fail -- Create, Discover, Analyze -- Create -- Discover -- Analyze -- Make Assumptions Explicit -- Iterate, Iterate, Iterate -- The Faster You Go, the Sooner You'll Know -- Have Fun! …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Compliance -- E. U.S. Export Control Laws -- Chapter 4. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Chapter 1: Introducing DevSecOps -- Product development processes -- The Waterfall model -- The Agile methodology -- Understanding the shift from DevOps to DevSecOps -- The new processes within DevSecOps -- DevSecOps maturity levels -- Maturity level 1 -- Maturity level 2 -- Maturity level 3 -- Maturity level 4 -- KPIs -- DevSecOps - the people aspect -- Summary -- Think and act -- Part 2: DevSecOps Principles and Processes -- Chapter 2: DevSecOps Principles -- DevSecOps principles -- Unifying the CI/CD pipeline -- Fail fast -- Automation and innovation in DevSecOps -- Introducing compliance checks -- Empowering teams to make decisions -- Cross-skilling and educating teams and the cultural aspect approach -- Proper documentation -- Relevant checkpoints -- Building and managing secure Dev environments and toolchains -- Challenges within the DevSecOps pipeline that principles can resolve -- Continuous application changes -- The developer knowledge gap -- Lack of AppSec tool integration -- Summary -- Chapter 3: Understanding the Security Posture -- Understanding your security posture -- Regular meetings -- Managing pipelines -- Testing pipelines -- Tools involved in pipelines -- Why and what measures we take to secure the environment -- Building the vulnerabilities inventory -- Addressing vulnerabilities -- Parameters to define the security posture -- Discovering the third-party component -- Measuring the effectiveness of the technologies used -- Managing workflows -- What measures can we take to monitor an environment? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Short-termism in der Entstehungsgeschichte des Companies Act 2006 -- a) Einführung und Vorgeschichte -- b) Short-termism als Thema der CLR Steering Group (1999-2001) -- c) Short-termism als Thema der Regierungsantwort und des parlamentarischen Gesetzgebungsprozesses -- aa) White Paper 2002 -- bb) White Paper 2005 -- cc) Company Law Reform Bill 2005 -- 5. …”