“…The first chapter describes the status of climate planning in large subtropical and tropical cities. The following six chapters discuss hazards (drought, intense precipitations, sea level rise, sea water intrusion) and early warning systems. …”

“…It also covers speech synthesis, especially from text, speech recognition, including speaker and language identification, and spoken language understanding.This book covers the following topics: how to realize speech production and perception systems, how to synthesize and understand speech using state-of-the-art methods in signal processing, pattern recognition, stochastic modelling computational linguistics and human factor st…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- How (and Why) You Can Make Money with Stocks -- Understanding the importance of corporate profits -- Making sense of how you profit with stocks -- Timing Your Stock Buying and Selling -- Following market indexes -- Using price/earnings ratios to value stocks -- Avoiding temptations and hype -- Getting past the gloom -- Sidestepping common investing minefields -- Highlighting How to Invest in Stocks -- Investing in stock mutual funds and exchange-traded funds -- Picking your own stocks -- Maximizing Your Stock Market Returns -- Chapter 9 Securing Investment Income and Principal with Bonds -- Defining Bonds -- Understanding bond issuers -- Considering credit (default) risk -- Making sense of bond maturities -- Using Bonds in a Portfolio -- Finding uses for bonds -- Comparing other lending investments with bonds -- How and Where to Invest in Bonds -- Choosing between bond funds and individual bonds -- Investing in Treasury bonds -- Investing in non-Treasury individual bonds -- Evaluating individual bonds you currently hold -- Chapter 10 Fund Investing: Mutual Funds and Exchange-Traded Funds -- Understanding the Advantages of Funds -- Maximizing Your Chances for Fund Investing Success -- Understanding the importance of performance and risk -- Examining fund management experience -- Keeping costs down -- Understanding and using index funds -- Understanding exchange-traded funds: Index funds that trade -- Creating and Managing a Fund Portfolio -- Identifying the Best Mutual Funds and ETFs -- Investing in the best ETFs -- Picking the best stock funds -- Balancing your act: Funds that combine stocks and bonds -- Finding the best bond funds -- Considering Alternatives to Investing in Funds…”

“…It is informed by the author's two decades of experience building and delivering large, mission-critical live video, webcasts, and radio streaming, online and over private IP networks. Following an overview of the field, the book cuts to the chase with in-depth discussions-laced with good-natured humor-of a wide range of design considerations for different network topologies. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Monetary policy will turn more neutral and fiscal support will moderate -- Growth is to return to its gradually slowing pre-pandemic path -- Turning crisis into an opportunity to initiate key reforms -- Colombia -- A second wave of COVID-19 infections hit Colombia in early 2021 -- Economic activity has slowed following a tightening of mobility restrictions -- Policy support remains significant with a strong focus on the most vulnerable -- The recovery will gain traction in the second half of 2021 -- Tax and benefit reforms could make the recovery more inclusive -- Costa Rica -- Vaccination is progressing gradually -- Activity in the free trade zone remains robust -- Social transfers helped mitigate the social impact of the recession -- The recovery will progress gradually -- Structural reforms should continue -- Czech Republic -- The pandemic has been difficult to control -- A further tightening of containment measures undermined the economic recovery -- Policy remains very accommodative -- Sustained economic recovery should start in mid-2021 -- Policy should facilitate job transition and boost a green recovery -- Denmark -- Denmark has been relaxing its containment measures -- The virus and containment measures interrupted the recovery -- Fiscal stimulus in 2021 is largely focused on green measures -- A rebound is projected in the second half of 2021 -- Targeted and structural measures can underpin future growth -- Estonia -- New measures have been taken to tame the second wave -- The resurgence of the pandemic has damped the recovery -- Effective economic support has been reinstated -- A strong recovery is down the road -- Policies need to address looming poverty and climate challenges -- Euro area -- The epidemiological situation remains difficult -- Activity has remained subdued, held back by services…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…KISR is still far from achieving its objective of becoming the "region's most highly respected STI and knowledge gateway" and an "international centre of excellence" by 2030 -- KISR has undertaken significant steps to counter long-established structural weaknesses, but concrete and significant results are still to materialise - and be evaluated -- KFAS centres have improved following comprehensive evaluations, but there is still room to make them more effective and efficient. -- 1.5.3. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…A comparison of the recoveries following the 1990-92 and 2007-09 recessions -- Figure 3. …”

“…The book then discusses Finite Difference Method (FDM), Finite Element Method (FEM), Finite Volume Method (FVM), and Boundary Element Method (BEM). Following that, analytical/semi analytic methods like Akbari Ganji's Method (AGM) and Exp-function are used to solve nonlinear differential equations. …”

“…Readers will get started by following fundamental topics such as an introduction to Machine Learning and Data Science. …”

“…Secure, Resilient, and Agile Software Development was written for the following professionals: AppSec architects and program managers in information security organizations Enterprise architecture teams with application development focus Scrum teams DevOps teams Product owners and their managers Project managers Application security auditors With a detailed look at Agile and Scrum software development methodologies, this book explains how security controls need to change in light of an entirely new paradigm on how software is developed. …”

“…Becoming Lean requires the following: the continual pursuit to identify and eliminate waste; the establishment of efficient flow of both information and process; and an unwavering top-level commitment. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Validating the value of the solution -- Taking your audience into consideration -- Setting Your Solution Up For Success: Getting Clear Objectives -- Eliciting and articulating clear objectives -- Getting clear with SMART objectives -- Part 3 Selling the Plan and Keeping It on Track -- Chapter 9 Making the (Business) Case -- Before You Dive In: Breaking Down Business Case Basics -- Looking at the benefits of writing a business case -- Playing to the crowd: Knowing your audience -- Following basic business case structure -- Defining and Presenting the Opportunity -- Executive summary -- Mission statement -- Setting SMART objectives -- Using key performance indicators -- Description of the approach used -- Justifying the Recommendation -- Identifying and prioritizing alternative solutions -- Including a cost/benefit analysis -- Understanding financial terminology and metrics -- Estimating techniques -- Quantifying ongoing/operating costs and benefits -- Quantifying implementation costs -- The Devil Is in the Details: Providing Supporting Materials -- Addressing supporting documentation -- Noting your assumptions -- Documenting risk -- Presenting the Business Case -- Chapter 10 Creating and Maintaining Scope -- Making Sure You're Scoping the Right Solution -- Recognizing Relevant Stakeholders -- Uncovering stakeholders by asking project-specific questions -- Discovering key stakeholders in different parts of the organization -- Ensuring that the Scope Aligns with Key Business Drivers -- Identifying Interfaces that Are Part of the Project -- User interfaces -- System interfaces -- Hardware interfaces -- Defining Scope with a Data Flow Diagram -- Identifying parties and systems that will be impacted by the project -- Identifying information (data) flows among the parties or systems -- Gaining consensus on the scope for the project…”

“…This new edition features the following enhancements: Chapter 12, Logistic Regression, is expanded to reflect the increased use of the logit models in statistical analysis A new chapter entitled Further Topics discusses advanced areas of regression analysis Reorganized, expanded, and upgraded exercises appear at the end of each chapter A fully integrated Web page provides data sets Numerous graphical displays highlight the significance of visual appeal Regression Analysis by Example, Fourth Edition is suitable for anyone with an understanding of elementary statistics. …”

“…Each team can have its own development and deployment life cycle, allowing every part of an application to be shipped in isolation. Following the strategies outlined in this book, you can avoid complexity while increasing resilience for your frontend. …”

“…IT service management automation at your fingertips About This Book Learn to leverage ServiceNow's capabilities for improved IT automation by following step-by-step, practical instructions Build core administration, development, and maintenance skills with IT service management in ServiceNow Improve your workflow efficiency by designing and creating responsive and automated workflows, business logic, and front-end automation Who This Book Is For This book is for IT professionals and administrators who are planning to or are already trying to implement ServiceNow in their organization for Enterprise IT service management tasks. …”

“…What You Will Learn Building UI/UX following best industry practices Development of Zomato Clone Measure and improve app performance Improving app using test mechanisms Bringing the app live on the play store In Detail Android O brings a number of important changes for the users as well as the developers. …”

“…Instead, by using the following three simple, yet brilliant, techniques that make it just an incredible learning tool, this book shows you how to create your own photography workflow using Lightroom: Throughout the book, Scott shares his own personal settings and studiotested techniques. …”

“…Readers should be familiar with the following topics: - Storage management concepts - Network topologies - Distributed systems architectures and configuration This book does not cover whole IBM Tivoli Storage Manager components or other discussions for the planning and sizing experience…”

“…However, the success you can achieve when following the Clients First program can only be reached when all three keys are used in coordination. …”

“…Level II CAIA exam takers have to work through the following agenda: asset allocation & portf…”