“…The book starts with a consideration of the formation, morphology and mechanical properties of the materials and illuminates characteristics concerning working with them. Following chapters discuss the organisation of the industry and trade in such items, including the changing status of the industry over time. …”

“…Chapter 7 introduces the fundamental topic of "processes," which we frequently employ in the following chapters. Chapters 8 and 9 concentrate on the important topics of flow and capacity. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Looking into the basics of the Apriori algorithm -- Implementing the Apriori algorithm -- Extracting association rules -- Evaluating the association rules -- Summary -- Chapter 5: Features and scikit-learn Transformers -- Feature extraction -- Representing reality in models -- Common feature patterns -- Creating good features -- Feature selection -- Selecting the best individual features -- Feature creation -- Principal Component Analysis -- Creating your own transformer -- The transformer API -- Implementing a Transformer -- Unit testing -- Putting it all together -- Summary -- Chapter 6: Social Media Insight using Naive Bayes -- Disambiguation -- Downloading data from a social network -- Loading and classifying the dataset -- Creating a replicable dataset from Twitter -- Text transformers -- Bag-of-words models -- n-gram features -- Other text features -- Naive Bayes -- Understanding Bayes' theorem -- Naive Bayes algorithm -- How it works -- Applying of Naive Bayes -- Extracting word counts -- Converting dictionaries to a matrix -- Putting it all together -- Evaluation using the F1-score -- Getting useful features from models -- Summary -- Chapter 7: Follow Recommendations Using Graph Mining -- Loading the dataset -- Classifying with an existing model -- Getting follower information from Twitter -- Building the network -- Creating a graph -- Creating a similarity graph -- Finding subgraphs -- Connected components -- Optimizing criteria -- Summary -- Chapter 8: Beating CAPTCHAs with Neural Networks -- Artificial neural networks -- An introduction to neural networks -- Creating the dataset -- Drawing basic CAPTCHAs -- Splitting the image into individual letters -- Creating a training dataset -- Training and classifying -- Back-propagation -- Predicting words -- Improving accuracy using a dictionary -- Ranking mechanisms for word similarity…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…. -- There's more... -- See also (follow-up steps) -- Using Pre and Post SQL commands -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- Index -- About Packt -- Other Books You May Enjoy…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Variations in Appraisal Methods -- In Summary -- How to Present Bad News -- Bad News at Work -- Some Commonsense Points About Delivering Bad News -- Top Down Communication of Bad News -- Telling the Boss the Bad News -- In Summary -- Presenting to the Senior Management -- Before the Presentation -- The Presentation Proper -- In Summary -- Phone Etiquette -- What is a Good 'Phone Personality -- Anatomy of a Business Phone Call -- Initial Greetings -- Establishing a Handshake -- Getting Down to Business -- Summarizing -- Following Through with Minutes -- Taking Action Items to Completion -- Conference Call Etiquette -- Some Phone Etiquette for the Modern Day -- Miscellaneous tips about phones and phone -- E-mail Etiquette -- Advantages and Challenges of E-Mails -- Common Types of Mails in Professional Environments -- Common Points About all Types of E-Mails -- Writing Enquiry E-Mails -- Reporting Problems Over E-Mail -- Responding to Problems Over E-Mail -- Sending Minutes of Meeting Over E-Mail -- Status Reports and Other Types of Reports -- Miscellaneous Topics -- Chat, Blogs and Twitters -- In Summary -- Foreign Business Trips -- General Guidelines About Foreign Business Trips -- Before you Leave on your Trip -- Know Your Objectives -- Prepare Well -- During your Trip -- After the Trip -- In Summary -- Visits of Foreign Counterparts -- Preparing for the Visit -- Know Who the Visitors Are -- Preparing the Infrastructure for a Visit -- Preparations for the Business-side of the Visit -- The Actual Visit -- Start of the Meeting -- The Meetings Proper -- Getting to Conclusions and Agreements -- Post-Meeting Review -- Cultural Issues -- In Summary -- The Big Deal About Small Talk -- Why Small Talk -- Some Characteristics of Small Talk -- What is not Small Talk -- Some Small Talk Considerations -- How to be Effective in Small Talk…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Determining How Often to Publish Blog Posts -- Following Blogging Trends -- Chapter 3 Blogging Basics -- Launching Your Blog Quickly -- Choosing a Domain Name -- Understanding the types of domain names and extensions -- Creating a domain name and making sure it's available -- Buying a domain name -- Identifying the Basic Elements of a Blog -- Homepage -- About or profile page -- Posts -- Comments -- Categories or labels -- Sidebar -- Header -- Footer -- Blogroll or links -- Trackbacks, backlinks, and pingbacks -- Tags -- Template or theme -- Chapter 4 Blogging Best Practices -- Avoiding Blogging Don'ts -- Don't plagiarize -- Don't commit libel against someone or something -- Don't spam through comments -- Don't publish spammy posts -- Don't steal bandwidth -- Providing Attribution -- Understanding Copyright and Fair Use -- Using Creative Commons Licenses -- Disclosing Your Policies -- Creating a comment policy -- Disclosing paid content -- Writing a privacy policy -- Developing a Terms and Conditions of Site Use page -- Book 2 Niche Blogging -- Chapter 1 Understanding Niche Blogging -- Determining What Makes a Niche Blog -- Understanding what a niche blog is -- Differentiating what a niche blog is not -- Visiting Niche Blogs -- Petals to Picots -- Six Suitcase Travel -- Small Biz Survival -- The Purse Blog -- 67 Mustang Blog -- Finding Out What Makes Niche Blogs Successful -- Benefiting from the Positives of Niche Blogging -- Loyal readers and community -- Less competition -- Long-tail search engine optimization -- Opportunities beyond the blog -- Targeted advertising opportunities -- Identifying the Drawbacks to Niche Blogs -- Lower traffic and a smaller audience -- The startup curse -- The disappearing niche -- Fewer advertising opportunities -- Chapter 2 Benefiting from a Niche Blog Approach -- Finding Your Focus and Keeping It…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Chapter 3: Using Microsoft Sentinel to Mitigate Lateral Movement Paths -- Understanding the Zero Trust strategy -- Understanding lateral movement -- Leveraging Microsoft Sentinel to improve your security posture -- Collecting data -- Detecting threats -- Investigating anomalies -- Responding to incidents -- Enabling Microsoft Sentinel -- Global prerequisites -- Enabling Microsoft Sentinel using the Bicep language -- Enabling Microsoft Sentinel using the Azure portal -- Setting up data connectors -- Mitigating lateral movements -- An Office 365 impersonation following a suspicious Azure AD sign-in -- Suspicious inbox manipulation rules set following suspicious Azure AD sign-in -- Summary -- Part 2 - Architecting Compute and Network Solutions -- Chapter 4: Understanding Azure Data Solutions -- Technical requirements -- Understanding Azure storage types -- Structured data -- Unstructured data -- Semi-structured data -- Azure storage accounts -- Understanding Azure database options -- Azure SQL -- Azure Cosmos DB -- Creating a Cosmos DB account -- Summary -- Chapter 5: Migrating to the Cloud -- Technical requirements -- Understanding migration options -- Managing servers -- Update management -- VM backups -- Modernizing applications -- Scale sets -- Azure App Service/Web Apps -- Further modernization -- Migrating data -- Summary -- Chapter 6: End-to-End Observability in Your Cloud and Hybrid Environments -- Understanding the importance of a monitoring strategy -- Working on an effective monitoring strategy -- Azure Monitor - a comprehensive solution for observability and efficiency -- Components -- Data sources -- Consumption -- Summary -- Chapter 7: Working with Containers in Azure -- Understanding cloud-native applications -- Understanding the difference between virtual machines and containers -- Terminology -- Azure Container Instances…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Transcribing Mediaeval Science for Electronic Editions: Problems and Solutions1Integrating the Socio-Cultural, the Intercultural and the Electronic Literacies into the EFL Curriculum through the Use of Web-Based Materials; The Strategy of Question Format in the Courtroom; Literary Studies; Vision and Imagery in Theodore Roethke's "Greenhouse Poems"; On the Trail Of Don Quixote: The Route Followed by Romantic Travellers; How She Got Postmodern: A Mormon Memoir. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Vigila quién llama (1996) -- The Ring (El círcu­lo) (1998) -- El proyecto de la bruja de Blair (1999) -- 28 días después (2002) -- Hostel (2005) -- It Follows (2014) -- BIBLIOGRAFÍA -- AUTORÍA…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Maneuvers Surprised and Demoralized the Iraqi Defenders; Chapter Seven - Concluding Observations; The Coalition's Success Was Achieved Rapidly and at a Low Cost; But Decision makers Should Be Careful About the Lessons They Draw from OIF; OIF Set the Stage for the Insurgency That Followed; How OIF May Influence the Behavior of the United States' Future Adversaries; Bibliography…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Literally -- Doing Fieldwork -- Following People Around -- Method Triangulation -- The Researcher as a Learner -- My Interaction Partners in the SEM -- Thinking Through and with Practice Theory: Methodological Limits and Challenges -- References -- 3 Asylum Decision-Making in Switzerland -- Asylum Politics in Switzerland and Beyond -- Changing Law and the Proliferation of Legal Categories -- The SEM: A Specialised Asylum Administration Emerges -- The Decision-Making Procedure -- The Swiss Asylum Act -- References -- 4 Knowledge as Practice: Producing Decisional Certainty -- Ben's Case -- "Country Knowledge" -- Determining Applicants' "Country of Origin" -- Assessing Reasonable Likelihood -- Assessing Demeanour -- Producing Decisional Certainty: The Role of Professional-Practical Knowledge -- Producing On-File Facts: The Asylum Interview -- Writing Asylum Decisions: The Final Creation of Legal Facts -- Managing Uncertainty: The Importance of Credibility Determination -- Concluding Remarks -- References -- 5 Getting in Line with the Office -- Becoming a Member of the Office -- Who Are the Decision-Makers? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…The Road to Election Administration Professionalization: Follow the Bottom Line -- Part III Tools for the Field -- 21. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…., Pinker-Domenig, K.) -- Chapter 14. Follow up of Patients with Breast Cancer: Imaging of Local Recurrence and Distant Metastases (Bick, U., Helbich, T.) -- Chapter 15. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Step 5: Power-Sharing OffersStep 6: Moderation of Insurgent Leadership; Step 7: Third-Party Guarantor; Twelve Additional Cases of Historical Insurgency Settled Through Negotiation; Yemen, 1962-1970; Philippines (MNLF), 1971-1996; Lebanese Civil War, 1975-1990; Western Sahara, 1975-1991; Mozambique (RENAMO), 1976-1995; Indonesia (Aceh), 1976-2005; Kampuchea, 1978-1992; Bosnia, 1992-1995; Tajikistan, 1992-1997; Burundi, 1993-2003; Chechnya I, 1994-1996; Democratic Republic of the Congo (Anti-Kabila), 1998-2003; Following the Master Narrative Toward an End Game in Afghanistan…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…; Leading Learning; Maximizing Impact; This Watershed Moment; The Chapters That Follow; Still Worth a Struggle; Chapter Two: Vices and Virtues; Panic Time?…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- A plan for inclusion -- The Committee of Ten and The cardinal principles -- A particular solution for a specific problem -- Social Darwinism as justification -- White superiority via pseudo empiricism -- Assimilation via Americanism in the classroom -- Personification of duality : Cubberley's life and legacy -- Cubberley's hierarchy -- Structured inequality via perceived ability grouping -- Tracking and segregation endure -- The cycle of segregation, desegregation, and resegregation -- Structured inequality : from political strategy to pedagogical practice -- Courts and the persistence of structured inequality -- The court and "race neutral" diversity -- The Southern strategy -- LBJ : integrate and get funding or stay segregated and get nothing -- Political ambiguity on integration -- Nixon's rise bolstered by the Southern strategy -- Nixon's ambiguity on integration and the courts -- Ford continues Nixonian states' rights policies -- Jimmy Carter, a son of the South, disrupts the Southern strategy -- Reagan nullifies LBJ'S integration legacy via the Southern strategy -- Reagan reverses policies against race discrimination -- Reagan : busing to desegregate : waste of time and public money -- George Herbert Walker Bush and an evolving Southern strategy -- Southern ticket of Clinton and Gore wins as resegregation persists -- Bill Clinton's recognition of resegregation in the 1990s -- George W. Bush follows Reagan's policies as racial isolation builds -- Obama defeats Southern strategy even as school resegregation increases -- Trump triumphant and the spread of the Southern strategy -- From LBJ to Trump : segregation to desegregation to resegregation -- Desegregation of public schools in the twenty-first century -- The pedagogic case for racial integration -- The cognitive benefits of a diverse learning environment -- Affective benefits of a diverse learning environment -- Paradox of segregation and the negligence of scholars -- Solution sets to desegregation in the 2020s -- Vital role of schools and colleges of education -- Gender as a marker of difference -- Culturally relevant teaching and learning -- Dual paradigm of onsite and online -- Hybrid model plus service learning -- Final thoughts…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Progress with structural reform: follow-up to OECD policy recommendations; Annex 3.A3. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Insights on Innovation ; Innovation Takes Work; Innovation Principles and Kickstarters; Chapter 8 Lead or Follow? Guidelines for Leadership Groups ; An Automotive Love Affair; How Easy It Is to Forget: The 250 Million Mistake; Back to Basics: Keeping Your Top Team on Track; Multiplier Top Teams; Chapter 9 Why Are We Here? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…EthernetNetwork forwarding; Using the serial console; Updating your software; The PyBBIO library; The Adafruit_BBIO library; Summary; Chapter 3: Digital Outputs; GPIO modules; Kernel drivers; Pin multiplexing; Interactive GPIO; Calculating resistor values for LEDs; Driving higher currents from GPIO pins; Blink; Taking advantage of the OS; Multiprocessing; Running at startup; Summary; Chapter 4: PWM and ADC Subsystems; PWM; Fading an LED; Servo motors; ADC; Voltage divider; Voltage follower; Your first robot; Summary; Chapter 5: User Input; Buttons; Pull-up/pull-down resistors; Polling…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…19: Telephone Screening Interviews: Formats and Follow-Ups for Swift Information Gathering20: Getting Real Information from Reference Checks; 21: Background Checks; 22: Reinventing Your Company's Employment Application; 23: Recruitment Brochures: Engaging Invitations and Introductions to Your Company; 24: Maximizing Your Recruitment Resources; Interviewer's Checklist: The 96 Questions; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; V; W; About the Author…”