Tabla de Contenidos: “…State of the Art -- 2.2. Thread Progress Equalization -- 2.2.1. TPEq Design and Implementation -- 2.2.1.1. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- 8.3 Business Cycle Facts -- The Cyclical Behavior of Economic Variables: Direction and Timing -- Production -- Expenditure -- Employment and Unemployment -- Application The Job Finding Rate and the Job Loss Rate -- Average Labor Productivity and the Real Wage -- Money Growth and Inflation -- Financial Variables -- International Aspects of the Business Cycle -- In Touch with Data and Research: Coincident and Leading Indexes -- 8.4 Business Cycle Analysis: A Preview -- In Touch with Data and Research: The Seasonal Cycle and the Business Cycle -- Aggregate Demand and Aggregate Supply: A Brief Introduction -- Chapter 9 The IS-LM/AD-AS Model: A General Framework for Macroeconomic Analysis -- 9.1 The FE Line: Equilibrium in the Labor Market -- Factors That Shift the FE Line -- 9.2 The IS Curve: Equilibrium in the Goods Market -- Factors That Shift the IS Curve -- 9.3 The LM Curve: Asset Market Equilibrium -- The Interest Rate and the Price of a Nonmonetary Asset -- The Equality of Money Demanded and Money Supplied -- Factors That Shift the LM Curve -- 9.4 General Equilibrium in the Complete IS-LM Model -- Applying the IS-LM Framework: A Temporary Adverse Supply Shock -- Application The Oil Price Shock of 2008 -- In Touch with Data and Research: Econometric Models and Macroeconomic Forecasts for Monetary Policy Analysis -- 9.5 Price Adjustment and the Attainment of General Equilibrium -- The Effects of a Monetary Expansion -- Classical Versus Keynesian Versions of the IS-LM Model -- 9.6 Aggregate Demand and Aggregate Supply -- The Aggregate Demand Curve -- The Aggregate Supply Curve -- Equilibrium in the AD-AS Model -- Monetary Neutrality in the AD-AS Model -- Appendix 9.A Worked-Out Numerical Exercise for Solving the IS-LM/AD-AS Model…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Carve‐outs -- Sub‐portfolios -- Cash sectors -- Individual security returns -- Multi‐period component returns -- Abnormal returns -- Short positions -- Contribution to Return -- Composite Returns -- 4 Benchmarks -- Benchmarks -- Benchmark attributes -- Best benchmark practice -- The Role of Benchmarks -- Types of Benchmarks -- Commercial Indexes -- Calculation methodologies -- Aggregate price index (price‐weighted index or Carli type) -- Geometric (or Jevons type) index -- Market capitalisation index -- Laspeyres index -- Paasche index -- Marshall-Edgeworth index -- Fisher index -- Equal‐weighted indexes -- Fundamental indexes -- Optimised indexes (efficient or minimum variance indexes) -- Style‐ and factor‐based indexes -- Fixed income indexes -- Index providers -- Choice of index provider -- Self‐indexing -- Benchmark regulation -- Choice of index -- Currency effects in benchmarks -- Hedged indexes -- Customised Indexes -- Capped indexes -- Peer Groups and Universes -- Percentile rank -- Random Portfolios -- Exchange‐traded Funds (ETFs) -- Target Returns -- Blended Benchmarks (or Balanced Benchmarks) -- Fixed‐weight and dynamised benchmarks -- Spliced Indexes -- Money‐weighted Benchmarks (or Public Market Equivalents) -- Normal Portfolio -- Benchmark Statistics…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Figuring out your organization's values -- Workforce Planning: Aligning Talent Needs with Business Strategy -- Being strategic with workforce planning -- Developing potential within the current team -- Finding Inner Peace: Filling Jobs from within the Organization -- Recognizing the pros (and cons) -- Creating a successful internal hiring process -- Developing an employee skills inventory -- Knowing where to look for internal talent -- New Horizons: Attracting Talent from Outside Your Organization -- A Wide World of Talent: Understanding Worker Classification -- Employees -- Contingent workers -- Independent contractors -- Benefitting from Contingent Workers -- Noting the pros to contingent workers -- Determining whether they're the right fit -- Asking the right questions -- Engaging a contingent workforce -- Documenting performance and offering feedback to the staffing firm -- Looking at your legal responsibility -- Equal coverage -- Workplace injuries -- Chapter 5 Kicking Off the Hiring Process -- Engaging the Hiring Manager -- Creating the Position Success Profile -- Laying the foundation: Why you need to create a position success profile -- Knowing what to include -- Looking ahead, not behind -- Considering educational requirements and qualifications -- Making sure that outcomes are doable -- Accurately describing success outcomes -- Being specific -- Setting a salary range -- Being Clear When Writing Job Titles -- Defining Core Competencies for Success -- Chapter 6 Attracting Great Talent -- Being Intentional throughout the Process -- Kicking Off the Process -- Identifying Key Considerations for the Job Posting -- Implementing Sourcing Strategies -- Current team members/employee referrals -- Online job boards -- Your company website -- Social media and online networking -- Making info available to candidates in the early stages…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover -- Copyright -- Contributors -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1: Architecting for Innovation -- Continuously delivering business value -- By the skin of our teeth -- Through high-velocity teamwork -- Dissecting lead time -- Risk mitigation -- Decision making -- Software development life cycle methodology -- Hardware provisioning -- Deployments -- Software structure -- Testing and confidence -- Dependencies and inter-team communication -- Dissecting integration styles -- Batch integration -- Spaghetti integration -- Real-time integration -- Enterprise application integration -- Shared database -- Service-oriented architecture -- Microservices -- Enabling autonomous teams with autonomous services -- Autonomous services - creating bulkheads -- Asynchronous inter-service communication -- Fortified boundaries -- Event-first - valuing facts -- Inversion of responsibility -- Events as first-class citizens -- Idempotence and ordered tolerance -- Serverless-first - creating knowledge -- Self-service -- Disposable architecture -- Data life cycle - fighting data gravity -- Micro frontends - equalizing tiers -- Observability - optimizing everything -- Organic evolution - embracing change -- Summary -- Chapter 2: Defining Boundaries and Letting Go -- Learning the hard way -- Building on proven concepts -- Domain-driven design -- Bounded context -- Domain aggregate -- Domain event -- SOLID principles -- Single Responsibility Principle -- Open-Closed Principle -- Liskov Substitution Principle -- Interface Segregation Principle -- Dependency Inversion Principle -- Hexagonal Architecture -- Function-level (nano) -- Service-level (micro) -- Subsystem-level (macro) -- Thinking about events first -- Start with event storming -- Focus on verbs instead of nouns -- Treat events as facts instead of ephemeral messages…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Which method of object comparison in C# is better to use, "==" or "Equals()", and why?…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…5.4 Results and Analysis -- 5.5 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 6 AI-Powered Drones for Healthcare Applications -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.1.1 Role of Artificial Intelligence in Drone Technology -- 6.1.2 Unmanned Aerial Vehicle-Drone Technology -- 6.2 Kinds of Drones Used by Medical Professionals -- 6.2.1 Multirotor -- 6.2.2 Only One Rotor -- 6.2.3 Permanent-Wing Drones -- 6.2.4 Drones for Passenger Ambulances -- 6.3 Medical and Public Health Surveillance -- 6.3.1 Telemedicine -- 6.3.2 Drones as Medical Transportation Devices -- 6.3.3 Advanced System for First Aid for the Elderly People -- 6.4 Potential Benefits of Drones in the Healthcare Industry -- 6.4.1 Top Medical Drone Delivery Services -- 6.4.2 Limitations of Drones in Healthcare -- 6.4.3 The Influence of COVID on Drones -- 6.4.4 Limitations of Drone Technology in the Healthcare Industry -- 6.4.4.1 Privacy -- 6.4.4.2 Legal Concerns -- 6.4.4.3 Rapid Transit-One of the Biggest Drawbacks of Drones is Time -- 6.4.4.4 Bugs in the Technology -- 6.4.4.5 Dependence on Weather -- 6.4.4.6 Hackable Drone Technology -- 6.5 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 7 An Approach for Avoiding Collisions with Obstacles in Order to Enable Autonomous Cars to Travel Through Both Static and Moving Environments -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.1.1 A Brief Overview of Driverless Cars -- 7.1.2 Objectives -- 7.1.3 Possible Uses for a Car Without a Driver -- 7.2 Related Works -- 7.3 Methodology of the Proposed Work -- 7.4 Experimental Results and Analysis -- 7.5 Results and Analysis -- 7.6 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 8 Drivers' Emotions' Recognition Using Facial Expression from Live Video Clips in Autonomous Vehicles -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 Related Work -- 8.2.1 Face Detection -- 8.2.2 Facial Emotion Recognition -- 8.3 Proposed Method -- 8.3.1 Dataset -- 8.3.2 Preprocessing -- 8.3.3 Grayscale Equalization…”

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 -- Unit 1: Getting Started with Pre-Calculus -- Chapter 1: Preparing for Pre-Calculus -- Recapping Pre-Calculus: An Overview -- Checking in on Number Basics and Processes -- Understanding the multitude of number types: Terms to know -- Looking at the fundamental operations you can perform on numbers -- Knowing the properties of numbers: Truths to remember -- Looking at Visual Statements: When Math Follows Form with Function -- Using basic terms and concepts -- Graphing linear equalities and inequalities -- Gathering information from graphs -- Getting Yourself a Graphing Calculator -- Practice Questions Answers and Explanations -- Whaddya Know? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Total versus individual (independent) efficiency -- Eliminating waste, unevenness, and overburden versus forcing work -- Waste or "Muda" -- Waste of overproduction -- Waste of waiting -- Waste in conveyance -- Waste in processing -- Waste of inventory -- Waste of motion -- Waste of correction -- Unevenness or "Mura" -- Equal capacity -- Simple flow -- Bends -- Tributaries -- Kanban size -- Overburden or "Muri" -- Safety -- Cycle time -- Overtime -- Mental burden -- Machine overburden -- True versus apparent efficiency -- Congruency between profit and cash flow -- Re-humanization of labor -- Economic and environmental benefits -- Summary of managing efficiency -- TPS metrics: Measuring and managing the 4M of the shop floor -- Rate of operation -- Overtime -- Less expensive, more reliable, and flexible equipment -- Operational availability: A keystone operational measure -- What counts as output toward operational availability? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Technical requirements -- Refactoring the flight tracker -- Refactoring methods -- Changing method access modifiers -- Renaming methods and parameters -- Overloading methods -- Chaining methods -- Refactoring constructors -- Generating constructors -- Chaining constructors -- Refactoring parameters -- Reordering parameters -- Adding parameters -- Introducing optional parameters -- Removing parameters -- Refactoring to functions -- Using expression-bodied members -- Passing functions as parameters with actions -- Returning data from Actions with Funcs -- Introducing static methods and extension methods -- Making methods static -- Moving static members to another type -- Creating extension methods -- Reviewing and testing our refactored code -- Summary -- Questions -- Further reading -- Chapter 5: Object-Oriented Refactoring -- Technical requirements -- Refactoring the flight search system -- Organizing classes via refactoring -- Moving classes to individual files -- Renaming files and classes -- Changing namespaces -- Avoiding partial classes and regions -- Refactoring and inheritance -- Overriding ToString -- Generating equality methods -- Extracting a base class -- Moving interface implementations up the inheritance tree -- Controlling inheritance with abstract -- Communicating intent with abstract -- Introducing abstract members -- Converting abstract methods to virtual methods -- Refactoring for better encapsulation -- Encapsulating fields -- Wrapping parameters into a class -- Wrapping properties into a class -- Favoring composition over inheritance -- Improving classes with interfaces and polymorphism -- Extracting interfaces -- Providing default interface implementations -- Introducing polymorphism -- Reviewing and testing our refactored code -- Summary -- Questions -- Further reading -- Part 2: Refactoring Safely -- Chapter 6: Unit Testing…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Chapter 2: Working with the Node.js Tools -- Getting ready -- Installing Git -- Selecting a code editor -- Using Node.js -- Understanding the npm tool -- Initializing a project -- Managing packages -- Installing development packages -- Listing packages -- Checking for package security vulnerabilities -- Executing packages -- Using the npx command -- Using script commands -- Defining custom commands -- Summary -- Chapter 3: JavaScript and TypeScript Primer -- Preparing for this chapter -- Understanding JavaScript confusion -- Using the JavaScript features to express type expectations -- Using JavaScript to check type expectations -- Using a type union -- Understanding the basic TypeScript/JavaScript features -- Defining variables and constants -- Dealing with unassigned and null values -- Using the JavaScript primitive types -- Working with booleans -- Working with strings -- Using template strings -- Working with numbers -- Working with null and undefined values -- Using the JavaScript operators -- Using conditional statements -- The equality operator vs. the identity operator -- Using the null and nullish coalescing operators -- Using the optional chaining operator -- Defining and using functions -- Defining optional function parameters -- Defining default parameter values -- Defining rest parameters -- Defining functions that return results…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Intro -- Cover -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- About the Author -- Chapter 1: Business Environment -- Introduction -- Meaning and Definition -- Salient Features -- Importance of the Study -- Environmental Factors -- Social Factors -- Economic Factors -- Cultural Factors -- Geographical Factors -- Technological Factors -- Political Factors -- Legal Factors -- Ecological Factors -- The Government Policies -- Labour Factors -- Competitive Market Condition -- Locational Factors -- Business Environment and Strategic Management -- Risk Overview -- Methods of Assessing Environment Risk -- Managing Environment Risk -- Market Opportunities -- Distribution of Household by Income, 1990-2000 -- Recent Political Environment -- Relations with China -- Other Developments -- Domestic Developments in Trade -- Recent Economic and Financial Environment -- India Food and Drink -- Indian Automotives -- Global Economic Environment -- Multilateral Initiatives and Policies -- Case -- Summary -- Key Words -- Questions -- References -- Chapter 2: Planning in India -- The Emergence of Planning -- The Planning Commission -- The National Development Council -- Functions -- Objectives of Planning in India -- Economic Growth -- Attaining Economic Equality and Social Justice -- Achieving Full Employment -- Attaining Economic Self-reliance -- Modernisation of Various Sectors -- Redressing Imbalances in the Economy -- Five-Year Plans -- First Five-Year Plan (1951-52 to 1952-56) -- Second Five-Year Plan (1956-57 to 1960-61) -- Third Five-Year Plan (1961-62 to 1965-66) -- Fourth Five-Year Plan (1969-70 to 1973-74) -- Fifth Five-Year Plan (1974-75 to 1978-79) -- Sixth Five-Year Plan (1980-81 to 1984-85) -- Seventh Five-Year Plan (1985-86 to 1989-90) -- Annual Plans (1990-91 and 1991-92) -- Eighth Five-Year Plan (1992-93 to 1996-97) -- Ninth Five-Year Plan (1997-98 to 2001-02)…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Exploring the not equals operator -- Designing control statements -- Overdraft program -- Exploring the CASE statement -- State machines and CASE statements -- Implementing the state machine -- Flowcharting and CASE statements -- Real-world applications for the CASE statement -- Final project -- Requirements -- Program design -- Code implementation -- Final challenge -- Summary -- Questions -- Chapter 12: Unlocking Advanced Control Statements -- Technical requirements -- Nested control statements -- ELSE statements -- ELSIF statements -- Challenge -- Logical operators -- Exploring the OR operator -- Exploring the XOR operator -- Exploring the NOT operator -- Final project -- Requirements -- Variables -- Color and shape sorter logic -- Testing conditions -- Summary -- Further reading -- Questions -- Chapter 13: Implementing Tight Loops -- Technical requirements -- Exploring the different types of loops -- Counter loop -- Precheck loops -- Post check loops -- Infinite loops -- Exploring loops in pseudocode and flowcharts -- Exploring loops with pseudocode -- Representing a loop in a flowchart…”

“…A study funded by the European Commission, relating to gender specific differences in learning achievements, shows among other things that whilst gender equality is a hot topic in many countries a general equality policy is not always advocated. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Solved Problem 2.6 -- APPLICATION Subsidizing Ethanol -- The Similar Effects of Ad Valorem and Specific Taxes -- 2.7 Quantity Supplied Need Not Equal Quantity Demanded -- Price Ceiling…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…. -- How it works... -- Equality-based label selector -- Set-based label selector -- There's more... -- Linking Service to Pods or ReplicaSets using label selectors -- Linking Deployment to ReplicaSet using the set-based selector -- See also -- Chapter 3: Playing with Containers -- Introduction -- Scaling your containers -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- Scale up and down manually with the kubectl scale command -- Horizontal Pod Autoscaler (HPA) -- How it works... -- There is more... -- See also -- Updating live containers -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- Deployment update strategy - rolling-update -- Rollback the update -- Deployment update strategy - recreate -- How it works... -- There's more... -- See also -- Forwarding container ports -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- Container-to-container communication -- Pod-to-Pod communication -- Working with NetworkPolicy -- Pod-to-Service communication -- External-to-internal communication -- Working with Ingress -- There's more... -- See also -- Ensuring flexible usage of your containers -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- Pod as DaemonSets -- Running a stateful Pod -- How it works... -- Pod recovery by DaemonSets -- Pod recovery by StatefulSet -- There's more... -- See also -- Submitting Jobs on Kubernetes -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- Pod as a single Job -- Create a repeatable Job -- Create a parallel Job -- Schedule to run Job using CronJob -- How it works... -- See also -- Working with configuration files -- Getting ready -- YAML -- JSON -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- Pod -- Deployment -- Service -- See also…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Specifying the data type for elements in an array -- Creating an empty array with a given shape -- Creating arrays of zeros and ones with a single value -- Creating arrays with equally spaced values -- Creating an array by repeating elements -- Creating an array by tiling another array -- Creating an array with the same shape as another array -- Using object arrays to store heterogeneous data -- See also -- Querying and changing the shape of an array -- How to do it... -- Storing and retrieving NumPy arrays -- How to do it... -- Storing a NumPy array in text format -- Storing a NumPy array in CSV format -- Loading an array from a text file -- Storing a single array in binary format -- Storing several arrays in binary format -- Loading arrays stored in NPY binary format -- Indexing -- How to do it... -- Accessing sub arrays using slices -- Selecting subarrays using an index list -- Indexing with Boolean arrays -- Operations on arrays -- How to do it... -- Computing a function for all elements of an array -- Doing array operations -- Computing matrix products -- Using masked arrays to represent invalid data -- How to do it... -- Creating a masked array from an explicit mask -- Creating a masked array from a condition -- Using object arrays to store heterogeneous data -- How to do it... -- Defining, symbolically, a function operating on arrays -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- Chapter 3: Using Matplotlib to Create Graphs -- Introduction -- Creating two-dimensional plots of functions and data -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- Generating multiple plots in a single figure -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- Setting line styles and markers -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- Using different backends to display graphs -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works...…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…. -- See also -- Histogram equalization -- How to do it... -- Detecting corners in images -- How to do it... -- Chapter 7: Creating 3D Graphics -- Introduction -- Getting started with 3D coordinates and vertices -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- There's more... -- Camera -- Shaders -- Lights -- Textures -- Creating and importing 3D models -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- There's more... -- Creating or loading your own objects -- Changing the object's textures and .mtl files -- Taking screenshots -- Creating a 3D world to explore -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- Building 3D maps and mazes -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- There's more... -- The Building module -- Using SolidObjects to detect collisions -- Chapter 8: Building Face Detector and Face Recognition Applications -- Introduction -- Building a face detector application -- How to do it... -- Building a face recognition application -- How to do it…”