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Tabla de Contenidos: “…The ConcurrentServer class -- The RequestTask class -- The client part -- Second example - executing periodic tasks -- The common parts -- The basic reader -- The advanced reader -- Additional information about executors -- Summary -- Chapter 5: Getting Data from Tasks - The Callable and Future Interfaces -- Introducing the Callable and Future interfaces -- The Callable interface -- The Future interface -- First example - a best-matching algorithm for words -- The common classes -- A best-matching algorithm - the serial version -- The BestMatchingSerialCalculation class -- The BestMachingSerialMain class -- A best-matching algorithm - the first concurrent version -- The BestMatchingBasicTask class -- The BestMatchingBasicConcurrentCalculation class -- A best-matching algorithm - the second concurrent version -- Word exists algorithm - a serial version -- The ExistSerialCalculation class -- The ExistSerialMain class -- Word exists algorithm - the concurrent version -- The ExistBasicTasks class -- The ExistBasicConcurrentCalculation class -- The ExistBasicConcurrentMain class -- Comparing the solutions -- Best-matching algorithms -- Exist algorithms -- The second example - creating an inverted index for a collection of documents -- Common classes -- The Document class -- The DocumentParser class -- The serial version -- The first concurrent version - a task per document -- The IndexingTask class -- The InvertedIndexTask class -- The ConcurrentIndexing class -- The second concurrent version - multiple documents per task -- The MultipleIndexingTask class -- The MultipleInvertedIndexTask class -- The MultipleConcurrentIndexing class -- Comparing the solutions -- Other methods of interest -- Summary -- Chapter 6: Running Tasks Divided into Phases - The Phaser Class -- An introduction to the Phaser class -- Registration and deregistration of participants…”

“…Practical Audio Electronics is a comprehensive introduction to basic audio electronics and the fundamentals of sound circuit building, providing the reader with the necessary knowledge and skills to undertake projects from scratch. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Calling Built-In Ruby Methods -- Calling attr_reader and attr_writer -- Method Dispatch Optimizes attr_reader and attr_writer -- Experiment 4-2: Exploring How Ruby Implements Keyword Arguments -- Summary -- 5. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Conclusion -- References -- Notes -- Part II Country profiles -- 7 Reader's guide -- Reader's guide -- SME sector structure and performance -- Entrepreneurship and business dynamics -- SME indebtedness -- Women in trade and gender gap -- SME integration in GVCs, linkages with foreign markets and multinationals -- SME networks for innovation, growth and resilience -- Upskilling, reskilling and finding talent: the role of SME ecosystems -- Caveats and caution in interpretation -- References -- 8 Country Profiles -- Australia -- SME sector structure and performance -- Entrepreneurship and business dynamics -- SME indebtedness -- Women in trade and gender export gap -- Knowledge and innovation networks -- Upskilling, reskilling and finding talent: the role of SME ecosystems -- Austria -- SME sector structure and performance -- Entrepreneurship -- Women in trade and gender export gap -- Global production networks and value chains -- Knowledge and innovation networks -- Upskilling, reskilling and finding talent: the role of SME ecosystems -- Belgium -- SME sector structure and performance -- Entrepreneurship and business dynamics -- SME indebtedness -- Women in trade and gender export gap -- Global production networks and value chains -- Knowledge and innovation networks -- Upskilling, reskilling and finding talent: the role of SME ecosystems -- Canada -- SME sector structure and performance -- Entrepreneurship and business dynamics -- SME indebtedness -- Women in trade and gender export gap -- Global production networks and value chains -- Knowledge and innovation networks -- Upskilling, reskilling and finding talent: the role of SME ecosystems -- Chile -- Entrepreneurship -- SME indebtedness -- Women in trade and gender export gap -- Knowledge and innovation networks -- Colombia -- Entrepreneurship -- SME indebtedness…”

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Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- The electrical lines -- PWMs on the BeagleBone Black -- PWMs on the SAMA5D3 Xplained -- PWMs on the Wandboard -- PWM devices in Linux -- Managing a servo motor -- Summary -- Chapter 19: Miscellaneous Devices -- Digital sensors -- Water sensor -- Infrared sensor -- Analog sensors -- Moisture sensor -- Pressure sensor -- Light sensor -- GSM/GPRS modem -- Smart card reader -- RFID reader -- Z-Wave -- Z-Wave controllers -- The Z-Wave wall plug sensor -- The Z-Wave multi sensor -- Summary -- Index…”

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 -- Book 1 Understanding WordPress Basics -- Chapter 1 Exploring Basic WordPress Concepts -- Discovering Blogging -- Understanding WordPress Technologies -- Archiving your publishing history -- Interacting with your readers through comments -- Feeding your readers -- Tracking back -- Dealing with comment and trackback spam -- Using WordPress as a Content Management System -- Chapter 2 Exploring the World of Open-Source Software -- Defining Open-Source -- Understanding WordPress Licensing -- Applying WordPress Licensing to Your Projects -- Chapter 3 Understanding Development and Release Cycles -- Discovering WordPress Release Cycles -- Upgrading your WordPress experience -- Understanding the cycles of a release -- Finding WordPress release archives -- Keeping Track of WordPress Development -- Downloading Nightly Builds -- Chapter 4 Meeting the WordPress Community -- Finding Other WordPress Users -- Finding WordPress news and tips on community websites -- Locating users on social networks -- Users Helping Users -- WordPress support forums -- WordPress user manual -- Make WordPress -- Discovering Professional WordPress Consultants and Services -- WordPress designers -- Developers -- Consultants -- Contributing to WordPress -- Participating in Live and Virtual WordPress Events -- Chapter 5 Discovering Different Versions of WordPress -- Comparing the Two Versions of WordPress -- Choosing the hosted version from WordPress.com -- Self-hosting with WordPress.org -- Hosting Multiple Sites with One WordPress Installation -- Discovering WordPress VIP Services -- Book 2 Setting Up the WordPress Software -- Chapter 1 Understanding the System Requirements…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…3.5.3 The barbershop problem: introducing fairness -- 3.5.4 Readers-writers -- 3.5.4.1 A solution favoring the readers -- 3.5.4.2 Giving priority to the writers -- 3.5.4.3 A fair solution -- 3.6 Monitors -- 3.6.1 Design approach 1: critical section inside the monitor -- 3.6.2 Design approach 2: monitor controls entry to critical section -- 3.7 Applying monitors in classical problems -- 3.7.1 Producers-consumers revisited -- 3.7.1.1 Producers-consumers: buffer manipulation within the monitor -- 3.7.1.2 Producers-consumers: buffer insertion/extraction exterior to the monitor -- 3.7.2 Readers-writers -- 3.7.2.1 A solution favoring the readers -- 3.7.2.2 Giving priority to the writers -- 3.7.2.3 A fair solution -- 3.8 Dynamic vs. static thread management -- 3.8.1 Qt's thread pool -- 3.8.2 Creating and managing a pool of threads -- 3.9 Debugging multithreaded applications -- 3.10 Higher-level constructs: multithreaded programming without threads -- 3.10.1 Concurrent map -- 3.10.2 Map-reduce -- 3.10.3 Concurrent filter -- 3.10.4 Filter-reduce -- 3.10.5 A case study: multithreaded sorting -- 3.10.6 A case study: multithreaded image matching -- Exercises -- Chapter 4: Shared-memory programming: OpenMP -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Your First OpenMP Program -- 4.3 Variable Scope -- 4.3.1 OpenMP Integration V.0: Manual Partitioning -- 4.3.2 OpenMP Integration V.1: Manual Partitioning Without a Race Condition -- 4.3.3 OpenMP Integration V.2: Implicit Partitioning with Locking -- 4.3.4 OpenMP Integration V.3: Implicit Partitioning with Reduction -- 4.3.5 Final Words on Variable Scope -- 4.4 Loop-Level Parallelism -- 4.4.1 Data Dependencies -- 4.4.1.1 Flow Dependencies -- 4.4.1.2 Antidependencies -- 4.4.1.3 Output Dependencies -- 4.4.2 Nested Loops -- 4.4.3 Scheduling -- 4.5 Task Parallelism -- 4.5.1 The sections Directive -- 4.5.1.1 Producers-Consumers in OpenMP…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Preface: A Roadmap for Readers -- Chapter 1. Learning from Data Journeys (Sabina Leonelli) -- Part I: Origins: Data Collection, Preparation and Reporting -- Chapter 2. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…; Who This Book Is For; Readers New to Visual Basic; VB and VBScript Developers New to .NET; Existing .NET Developers; How This Book Is Structured; About the Third Edition; Using Code Examples; Conventions Used in This Book; Safari® Enabled; How to Contact Us; Acknowledgments; I; Introduction; Why Visual Basic .NET?…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Foreword; Table of Contents; Editorial; Introduction: The Indicators and their Framework; Reader's Guide; Chapter A - The Output of Educational Institutions and the Impact of Learning; Indicator A1 - To what level have adults studied?…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Foreword; Table of Contents; Reader's guide; Levels of education; Country coverage; Notes to tables and figures; 1. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Foreword; Table of contents; Executive summary; Reader's guide; Indicators; Size-class breakdown; Activity breakdown; EIP Framework; 1. …”