Tabla de Contenidos: “…Intro -- Table of Contents -- About the Author -- About the Technical Reviewers -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I: Getting Started with Neural Networks -- Chapter 1: Learning About Neural Networks -- Biological and Artificial Neurons -- Activation Functions -- Summary -- Chapter 2: Internal Mechanics of Neural Network Processing -- Function to Be Approximated -- Network Architecture -- Forward Pass Calculation -- Input Record 1 -- Input Record 2 -- Input Record 3 -- Input Record 4 -- Back-Propagation Pass -- Function Derivative and Function Divergent -- Most Commonly Used Function Derivatives -- Summary -- Chapter 3: Manual Neural Network Processing -- Example: Manual Approximation of a Function at a Single Point -- Building the Neural Network -- Forward Pass Calculation -- Hidden Layers -- Output Layer -- Backward Pass Calculation -- Calculating Weight Adjustments for the Output-Layer Neurons -- Calculating Adjustment for W211 -- Calculating Adjustment for W212 -- Calculating Adjustment for W213 -- Calculating Weight Adjustments for Hidden-Layer Neurons -- Calculating Adjustment for W111 -- Calculating Adjustment for W112 -- Calculating Adjustment for W121 -- Calculating Adjustment for W122 -- Calculating Adjustment for W131 -- Calculating Adjustment for W132 -- Updating Network Biases -- Back to the Forward Pass -- Hidden Layers -- Output Layer -- Matrix Form of Network Calculation -- Digging Deeper -- Mini-Batches and Stochastic Gradient -- Summary -- Part II: Neural Network Java Development Environment -- Chapter 4: Configuring Your Development Environment -- Installing the Java Environment and NetBeans on Your Windows Machine -- Installing the Encog Java Framework -- Installing the XChart Package -- Summary -- Chapter 5: Neural Networks Development Using the Java Encog Framework…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Dimension 3.2 Project Management Tools -- Sub-Dimension 3.2.1 Value Proposition - Business Cases -- Sub-Dimension 3.2.2 Agile Project Management -- Sub-Dimension 3.2.3 Procurement of ICT/Digital Technologies -- Dimension 3.3 Financial Management Mechanisms -- Sub-Dimension 3.3.1 Budgeting/Budget Threshold -- Sub-Dimension 3.3.2 Co-Funding -- Dimension 3.4 Regulation and Standards -- Sub-Dimension 3.4.1 Regulatory Frameworks -- Sub-Dimension 3.4.2 Standards, Principles and Guidelines -- Sub-Dimension 3.4.3 Regulatory Co-operation with Industry Players -- References -- Blank Page…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Example of Step #1-2 - Alicia Focuses on External Customers -- Example of Step #2 WDW - Following up on a Prior Coaching Conversation -- Analyzing the Mechanics of Step #2 -- Step #3: Agree on the Topic -- The Arrow -- Challenges of Step #3 -- Step #4: " How Can I Be Useful (In this conversation)?" …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights -- 2012 EU Data Protection Reform -- 2013 California Department of Justice Agreement -- 2013 UK's Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill with Midata Rights -- 2013 Network Advertising Initiative (NAI) Code of Conduct -- 2012 EU Commission Cloud Computing Report -- 2013 California Department of Justice's "Privacy on the Go" -- 2013 EU's Article 29 Data Protection Working Party Opinion -- 2013 UK's Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB) -- 2013 European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance Campaign -- Pivotal Business Event Time Line -- Notes -- CHAPTER 11 Future Consumer Data Ecosystem -- Consumer as Information Stakeholder -- Mature Consumer/Business Information Sharing Models -- The Collaborative Data Landscape -- Personal Data Flows in an Ecosystem -- Walking through the Model -- Personal Zone -- Personal Zone Connects Individual to Organizations -- Infomediaries Work on the Individual's Behalf for Businesses/Markets -- Data Aggregators in the Personal Data Ecosystem -- Three Key Components Enabling the Personal Data Ecosystem -- Frameworks: The Major Ecosystem Governance Mechanism -- Governance Manages Risk -- Recap -- Volunteered Customer Information Service Characteristics -- Personal Information as a Sovereign/Monetized Asset -- Personal Data Ecosystem -- PDE Data Elements -- PDE Roles and Flows -- PDE Data Sovereignty and Interoperability -- New Customer's Voice Feeds New Business Intelligence -- Notes -- About the Author -- Index -- EULA…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Preface; About the Authors; Chapter 1 Network Security Overview; 1.1 Mission and Definitions; 1.2 Common Attacks and Defense Mechanisms; 1.2.1 Eavesdropping; 1.2.2 Cryptanalysis; 1.2.3 Password Pilfering; 1.2.4 Identity Spoofing; 1.2.5 Buffer-Overflow Exploitations; 1.2.6 Repudiation; 1.2.7 Intrusion; 1.2.8 Traffic Analysis; 1.2.9 Denial of Service Attacks; 1.2.10 Malicious Software; 1.3 Attacker Profiles; 1.3.1 Hackers; 1.3.2 Script Kiddies; 1.3.3 Cyber Spies; 1.3.4 Vicious Employees; 1.3.5 Cyber Terrorists; 1.3.6 Hypothetical Attackers…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Granger and Sajid Shahul Sustained Elevated Circulating Activin A Impairs Global Longitudinal Strain in Pregnant Rats: A Potential Mechanism for Preeclampsia-Related Cardiac Dysfunction -- Talitha Abraham and Andrea M. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Psychological and Economic Consequences of Employment Discrimination -- Summary -- 7 "They're Just Mentally and Physically Unfit": Discrimination in Education and Health Care -- Discrimination in Education -- Mechanisms Producing Poor Academic Achievement -- Some Qualifying Conditions -- Social Status and Health -- The Social Status-Health Gradient -- Discrimination in the Health Care System -- Does Racism Make You Sick? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Decision-making Systems 10.1 Introduction to Decision-making Systems 10.2 Mechanisms of Organization Influence 10.3 Roles in Decision-making Systems 10.4 Information Flow 10.5 The Structure of Decision-making Systems 10.6 Product Development Organizations 10.7 Information Flow in Product Development 10.8 The Design Factory Exercises References 11. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…4.3 Valorization of Mine Waste for Construction Applications -- 4.3.1 Recycling of Mining Solid Waste for Construction Materials -- 4.3.2 CE Concept Implementation in Mining Sector -- 4.3.3 Technical Advances and Future Perspectives -- 4.4 Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 5: Sustainable Geopolymer Bricks Manufacturing Using Rice Husk Ash: An Alternative to Fired Clay Bricks -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Methodology -- 5.3 Results and Discussion -- 5.3.1 Bulk Density and Strength Behavior of Geopolymer Bricks -- 5.3.2 Water Absorption Capacity of Geopolymer Bricks -- 5.3.3 Micro-Structural Behavior of Geopolymer Bricks -- 5.3.4 Sustainability Aspects of Geopolymer Bricks -- 5.4 Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 6: Façade Fires in High-Rise Buildings: Challenges and Artificial Intelligence Solutions -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Fire Growth: From Internal (Enclosure) Fires to External Spread -- 6.3 Façade Systems and Types -- 6.4 Design Fire Scenarios for Façades - Internal and External Fires -- 6.4.1 Internal Fires -- 6.4.2 External Fires -- 6.5 Vertical Fire Propagation Mechanism over Façades -- 6.6 Dynamics of Cavity Fires -- 6.7 Façade Materials - Fire Safety and Toxicity -- 6.8 Artificial Intelligence/Deep Learning Framework for Early Warning and Fire Risk Assessment -- 6.9 Concluding Remarks -- References -- Chapter 7: Experimental Study on Self-Healing of Micro-Cracks in Concrete with Combination of Environmentally Friendly Bacteria -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Materials -- 7.2.1 Cement, Aggregates, and Water -- 7.2.2 Selection of Bacteria -- 7.2.3 Preparation of Bacterial Solution -- 7.2.4 Preparation of Bacterial Concrete -- 7.2.4.1 Mix Design -- 7.2.4.2 Mixing -- 7.2.4.3 Casting -- 7.3 Experimental Investigation -- 7.4 Results and Discussion -- 7.4.1 Slump Value -- 7.4.2 Compressive Strength -- 7.4.3 Splitting Tensile Strength…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…CorreiaPart 2: Enabling Mechanisms and Governance of Land and Resource GrabbingChapter 5. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Chapter 3 Roles and Responsibilities -- ID the IP -- Help Design the Golden Path -- Establish Structure -- Establish Characters and Worlds -- Identify Story Mechanisms and Devise Their Rulesets -- Plan and Manage the Content -- Reinforce the Theme -- Write, Revise, and Polish the Content -- Assist in the Localization of the Written and Spoken Content -- Direct Voice-Over Sessions and Filmed Content -- Voice-Over -- Filmed Content -- Other -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 4 Game Writing at the Ground Level -- Example Spreadsheet for Narrative Content -- Asset ID -- Category -- Character -- Line -- Character Count -- Notes -- Pipeline -- Chapter 5 Conflict -- The Engine of a Story -- Conflict in the Home World -- Conflict in the New World -- Conflict Vs. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Transformations -- Parser -- Filter -- Enrichment -- Map transform -- Custom functions -- Windowed transformations -- Windowing -- Global Window -- Time Windows -- Sliding Time Windows -- Session Windows -- Window propagation -- State -- Accumulation -- Accumulation Mode -- State storage -- Watermarks -- Allowed lateness -- Triggering -- Merging of streams -- The windowing example -- Dedup -- Join -- State Management -- Summary -- Chapter 4: Scalability, Low Latency, and Performance -- Partitioning and how it works -- Elasticity -- Partitioning toolkit -- Configuring and triggering partitioning -- StreamCodec -- Unifier -- Custom dynamic partitioning -- Performance optimizations -- Affinity and anti-affinity -- Low-latency versus throughput -- Sample application for dynamic partitioning -- Performance - other aspects for custom operators -- Summary -- Chapter 5: Fault Tolerance and Reliability -- Distributed systems need to be resilient -- Fault-tolerance components and mechanism in Apex -- Checkpointing -- When to checkpoint -- How to checkpoint -- What to checkpoint -- Incremental state saving -- Incremental recovery -- Processing guarantees -- Example - exactly-once counting -- The exactly-once output to JDBC -- Summary -- Chapter 6: Example Project - Real-Time Aggregation and Visualization -- Streaming ETL and beyond -- The application pattern in a real-world use case -- Analyzing Twitter feed -- Top Hashtags -- TweetStats -- Running the application -- Configuring Twitter API access -- Enabling WebSocket output -- The Pub/Sub server -- Grafana visualization -- Installing Grafana -- Installing Grafana Simple JSON Datasource -- The Grafana Pub/Sub adapter server -- Setting up the dashboard -- Summary -- Chapter 7: Example Project - Real-Time Ride Service Data Processing -- The goal -- Datasource -- The pipeline…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…The Mapping of Inheritance Relationships to the Database -- Primary Key -- The Use of SQL Formula-Based Properties -- Mandatory and Unique Constraints -- Summary -- Chapter 6: Mapping with Annotations -- Creating Hibernate Mappings with Annotations -- The Drawbacks of Annotations -- The Benefits of Annotations -- Choosing Which Mapping Mechanism to Use -- JPA 2 Persistence Annotations -- Entity Beans with @Entity -- Primary Keys with @Id and @GeneratedValue -- Generating Primary Key Values with @SequenceGenerator -- Generating Primary Key Values with @TableGenerator -- Compound Primary Keys with @Id, @IdClass, or @EmbeddedId -- Database Table Mapping with @Table and @SecondaryTable -- Persisting Basic Types with @Basic -- Omitting Persistence with @Transient -- Mapping Properties and Fields with @Column -- Modeling Entity Relationships -- Mapping an Embedded (Component) One-to-One Association -- Mapping a Conventional One-to-One Association -- Mapping a Many-to-One or One-to-Many Association -- Mapping a Many-to-Many Association -- Cascading Operations -- Collection Ordering -- Inheritance -- Single Table -- Joined Table -- Table per Class -- Choosing Between Inheritance Types When Modeling Inheritance -- Other JPA 2 Persistence Annotations -- Temporal Data -- Element Collections -- Large Objects -- Mapped Superclasses -- Ordering Collections with @OrderColumn -- Named Queries (HQL or JPQL) -- Named Native Queries (SQL) -- Configuring the Annotated Classes -- Hibernate-Specific Persistence Annotations -- @Immutable -- Natural IDs -- Summary -- Chapter 7: JPA Integration and Lifecycle Events -- The Java Persistence API -- The Project Object Model -- Introducing Lombok -- The JPASessionUtil Class -- Testing JPASessionUtil -- Lifecycle Events -- External Entity Listeners -- Data Validation -- Summary -- Chapter 8: Using the Session -- Sessions…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…5.7 COMMENT ON THE SIMPLE METHODS -- 5.8 ADVANCED CALCULATION METHODS -- 5.9 A WORD OF CAUTION -- 5.10 AMMONIA -- 5.11 ACETONE -- 5.12 INHIBITOR VAPORIZATION -- 5.13 A COMMENT ON INJECTION RATES -- 5.14 SAFETY CONSIDERATIONS -- 5.15 PRICE FOR INHIBITOR CHEMICALS -- 5.16 LOW DOSAGE HYDRATE INHIBITORS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 6 - Dehydration of Natural Gas -- 6.1 WATER CONTENT SPECIFICATION -- 6.2 GLYCOL DEHYDRATION -- 6.3 MOLE SIEVES -- 6.4 REFRIGERATION -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 7 - Combating Hydrates Using Heat and Pressure -- 7.1 PLUGS -- 7.2 THE USE OF HEAT -- 7.3 DEPRESSURIZATION -- 7.4 MELTING A PLUG WITH HEAT -- 7.5 HYDRATE PLUG LOCATION -- 7.6 BUILDINGS -- 7.7 CAPITAL COSTS -- 7.8 CASE STUDIES -- APPENDIX 7A OUTPUT FROM PIPE HEAT LOSS PROGRAM FOR THE EXAMPLES IN THE TEXT -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 8 - Physical Properties of Hydrates -- 8.1 MOLAR MASS -- 8.2 DENSITY -- 8.3 ENTHALPY OF FUSION -- 8.4 HEAT CAPACITY -- 8.5 THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY -- 8.6 MECHANICAL PROPERTIES -- 8.7 VOLUME OF GAS IN HYDRATE -- 8.8 ICE VERSUS HYDRATE -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 9 - Phase Diagrams -- 9.1 PHASE RULE -- 9.2 COMMENTS ABOUT PHASES -- 9.3 SINGLE COMPONENT SYSTEMS -- 9.4 BINARY SYSTEMS -- 9.5 PHASE BEHAVIOR BELOW 0°C -- 9.6 MULTICOMPONENT SYSTEMS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 10 - Water Content of Natural Gas -- 10.1 DEW POINT -- 10.2 EQUILIBRIUM WITH LIQUID WATER -- 10.3 EQUILIBRIUM WITH SOLIDS -- 10.4 LOCAL WATER CONTENT MODEL -- APPENDIX 10A OUTPUT FROM AQUALIBRIUM -- HYDRATE BOOK EXAMPLE 10.4: 100PSI -- HYDRATE BOOK EXAMPLE 10.4: 250PSI -- HYDRATE BOOK EXAMPLE 10.4: 500PSI -- HYDRATE BOOK EXAMPLE 10.4: 1000PSI -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 11 - Additional Topics -- 11.1 JOULE-THOMSON EXPANSION -- 11.2 THEORETICAL TREATMENT -- 11.3 IDEAL GAS -- 11.4 REAL FLUIDS -- 11.5 SLURRY FLOW -- 11.6 HYDRATE FORMATION IN THE RESERVOIR DURING PRODUCTION -- 11.7 FLOW IN THE WELL…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Introducing example-based machine translation -- Introducing statistical machine translation -- Modeling the translation problem -- Creating the models -- Introducing sequence-to-sequence learning -- Deciphering the encoder/decoder architecture -- Understanding long short-term memory units -- Putting seq2seq in action -- Measuring translation performance -- Summary -- Chapter 7: Summarizing Wikipedia Articles -- Technical requirements -- Understanding text summarization -- Introducing web scraping -- Scraping popular quotes -- Scraping book reviews -- Scraping Wikipedia articles -- Performing extractive summarization -- Performing abstractive summarization -- Introducing the attention mechanism -- Introducing transformers -- Putting the transformer into action -- Measuring summarization performance -- Summary -- Chapter 8: Detecting Hateful and Offensive Language -- Technical requirements -- Introducing social networks -- Understanding BERT -- Pre-training phase -- Fine-tuning phase -- Putting BERT into action -- Introducing boosting algorithms -- Understanding AdaBoost -- Understanding gradient boosting -- Understanding XGBoost -- Creating validation sets -- Learning the myth of Icarus -- Extracting the datasets -- Treating imbalanced datasets -- Classifying with BERT -- Training the classifier -- Applying early stopping -- Understanding CNN -- Adding pooling layers -- Including CNN layers -- Summary -- Chapter 9: Generating Text in Chatbots -- Technical requirements -- Understanding text generation -- Creating a retrieval-based chatbot -- Understanding language modeling -- Understanding perplexity -- Building a language model -- Creating a generative chatbot -- Using a pre-trained model -- Creating the GUI -- Creating the web chatbot -- Fine-tuning a pre-trained model -- Summary -- Chapter 10: Clustering Speech-to-Text Transcriptions…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1 Historical Development of Construction Materials - From Stone Age to Modern Age -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Chronological Development of Construction -- 1.2.1 Neolithic Age -- 1.2.2 Copper Age and Bronze Age -- 1.2.3 Iron Age and Steel Age -- 1.2.4 Ancient Mesopotamia -- 1.2.5 Ancient Egypt -- 1.2.6 Ancient Greece and Rome -- 1.2.7 Ancient China -- 1.2.8 The Middle Ages -- 1.2.9 The Renaissance -- 1.2.10 The Seventeenth Century -- 1.2.11 The Eighteenth Century -- 1.2.12 The Nineteenth Century -- 1.2.13 The Twentieth Century -- 1.3 Different Types of Ash Used in Construction -- 1.3.1 Wood Ash -- 1.3.2 Rice Husk Ash -- 1.3.3 Cigar Ash -- 1.3.4 Volcanic Ash -- 1.3.5 Quarry Dust -- 1.3.6 Coconut Shell Ash -- 1.3.7 Coal Ash and Fly Ash -- 1.3.8 Fly Ash Generation -- 1.3.9 Nature and Composition of Thermal Power Plant Ashes -- 1.3.10 Pond Ash -- 1.3.11 Various Uses of Pulverized Fuel Ash -- 1.3.12 Importance of Pond Ash Management -- 1.4 Physical Characteristics of Coal Ashes -- 1.5 Coal Ash Utilization -- 1.6 Slag -- 1.6.1 Generation of Slag -- 1.6.2 Slag Properties and Utilization -- 1.7 Geopolymers -- 1.7.1 Constituents of Geopolymers -- 1.7.2 Geopolymer Properties -- 1.8 Durability of Concrete -- 1.9 Accelerated Durability Testing -- 1.10 Conclusion(S) -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter 2 Fundamentals of Geopolymer Cementitious Materials -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Parameters of Geopolymer Concrete -- 2.3 Geopolymer Formation Mechanism -- 2.4 Conclusions -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter 3 Pond Ash (PA)-Based Geopolymer Cementitious Materials -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Experimental Details -- 3.2.1 Materials -- 3.2.1.1 Pond Ash -- 3.2.1.2 Physical Properties of Pond Ash -- 3.2.1.3 Chemicals -- 3.2.2 Preparation of Geopolymer from Pond Ash…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…BODY WEIGHT AND COMPOSITION -- Maternal Energy Expenditure and Energy Balance -- Potential Energy-Sparing Mechanisms -- Blood Volume and Composition -- Undernutrition, Blood Volume Expansion, and Placental Blood Flow in Animal Models -- GESTATIONAL EFFECTS ON ORGAN SYSTEMS IN PREGNANT WOMEN -- Pregnancy-Related Changes in Maternal Metabolism -- Metabolic Adaptations -- Oxygen -- Glucose -- Lactic Acid -- Other Substrates -- Undernutrition in Pregnancy: ''Accelerated Starvation'' -- METABOLIC AND TRANSPORT FUNCTION OF THE PLACENTA -- Placental Transport in Malnourished Women and Animals -- Effect on Nutrient Flux -- FETAL METABOLISM AND NUTRITION -- Iron Status and Work Performance -- References -- 4 Nutrient Metabolism and Physical Activity -- ENERGY -- Resting or Basal Energy Requirements -- Energy Requirements for Activity -- Sources of Energy -- PROTEIN -- IRON -- PREGNANCY AND OXYGEN CONSUMPTION -- PREGNANCY, WORK, AND SUBSTRATE METABOLISM -- Hormonal Changes -- Temperature -- EFFECT OF MATERNAL UNDERNUTRITION OR PHYSICAL ACTIVITY ON THE FETUS -- EFFECTS OF UNDERNUTRITION ON PHYSICAL ACTIVITY -- Productivity -- Discretionary Physical Activity -- Physical Work Capacity (PWC) -- REFERENCES -- 5 Effects of Diet and Physical Activity in Pregnant Human Populations -- EFFECT OF ENERGY INTAKE -- Background -- Gestational Duration -- Fetal Growth -- Spontaneous Abortion -- Congenital Anomalies -- Maternal Mortality -- Other Pregnancy Complications -- EFFECTS OF MATERNAL WORK AND PHYSICAL ACTIVITY -- Background -- Gestational Duration -- Fetal Growth -- Spontanous Abortion -- Congenital Anomalies -- Maternal Mortality -- Other Pregnancy Complications -- COMBINED EFFECTS OF MATERNAL NUTRITION AND PHYSICAL ACTIVITY -- Background -- Gestational Duration -- Fetal Growth -- Other Pregnancy Outcomes -- DIRECT EVIDENCE OF COMBINED EFFECTS -- REFERENCES…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Chapter 15 Trust -- CEOs and Business Fill the Vacuum of Trust -- Trustworthy Leadership Is Essential to Your Brand -- A Lack of Inclusion, a Lack of Trust -- The Mechanics of Building Trust -- Chapter 16 Partnerships…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Summary of Transition Mechanisms; 4.2. Obtaining IPv6 Address Space and Connectivity; 4.2.2. 6to4; 4.2.3. 6Bone; 4.2.4. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover; Programmable Logic Controllers; Contents; Preface; Changes from third edition; Aims; Structure of the book; 1 Programmable logic controllers; 1.1 Controllers; 1.1.1 Microprocessor controlled system; 1.1.2 The programmable logic controller; 1.2 Hardware; 1.3 Internal architecture; 1.3.1 The CPU; 1.3.2 The buses; 1.3.3 Memory; 1.3.4 Input/output unit; 1.3.5 Sourcing and sinking; 1.4 PLC systems; 1.4.1 Programming PLCs; Problems; 2 Input-output devices; 2.1 Input devices; 2.1.1 Mechanical switches; 2.1.2 Proximity switches; 2.1.3 Photoelectric sensors and switches; 2.1.4 Encoders…”