“…It presents recent developments of such extensions involving reliability modelling theory, reliability evaluation methods, and features numerous case studies based on real-world examples. The presented dynamic reliability theory can enable a more accurate representation of actual complex system behavior, thus more effectively guiding the reliable design of real-world critical systems. …”

“…Get the steps you need to discover the world of Java 9 programming using real-world examples About This Book We bridge the gap between “learning” and “doing” by providing real-world examples that will improve your software development Our example-based approach will get you started quickly with software programming, get you up-to-speed with Java 9, and improve your Java skills This book will show you the best practices of Java coding and improve your productivity Who This Book Is For This book is for anyone who wants to learn the Java programming language. …”

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Tabla de Contenidos: “…in Poker -- The Good Chasing the Bad -- Zombies Make you Skinnier -- Flipping other Core Drives Off -- Ultimate Loss vs Executable Loss -- A Caveat: Avoiding the Avoidance -- Game Techniques in Loss and Avoidance -- Core Drive 8: The Big Picture -- Chapter 13: Left Brain vs Right Brain Core Drives -- Using Octalysis in the Real World -- Left Brain vs. Right Brain Core Drives -- Extrinsic vs Intrinsic Motivation -- Slight Semantic Differences with the Self-Determination Theory -- Motivation Traps in Gamification Campaigns -- The Problem with Educational Systems -- Pay to Not Play -- How Market Settings Reverse Social Settings -- The Advantages of Extrinsic Motivation Design -- How to Make an Experience More Intrinsic -- Left Brain vs Right Brain Core Drives: the Bigger Picture -- Chapter 14: The Mysteries of White Hat and Black Hat Gamification -- Origins of the Theory -- The Nature of White Hat vs Black Hat Core Drives -- Zynga and Black Hat Gamification -- Black Hat with a Clear Conscious -- Gamification, Manipulation, and Ethics -- When to Use White Hat Gamification Design -- Careful Transitioning between White Hat and Black Hat -- No Buyer's Remorse from TOMS -- What about Core Drives 4 and 5? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Managing packages -- Dependencies -- Bootstrap dependency -- A better Hello World -- Modules -- Components -- Handling events -- Data binding -- One way -- Two way -- Services -- Routes -- routerLinkActive -- Building a project -- Setup and run sample -- Introduction to PrimeNG -- Summary -- Chapter 10: Angular Forms -- Two approaches to forms -- Template-driven forms -- Reactive forms -- Understanding forms with an example -- Building custom forms with validations -- Checking the state of a form -- Forms with NgModel -- Reactive forms -- Setting up forms with FormBuilder -- Adding validations -- Creating a custom validator -- Grouping controls -- Setting and patching values -- Handling forms in Angular -- Gaining more control with reactive forms -- Summary -- Chapter 11: Building a Real-World Application -- Building an Issue Management System frontend -- Setup -- Structuring the project -- Working independently of the backend -- Data models -- Securing the application -- Issue lists and details -- Rendering data with templates -- Injectable service -- Issue creation and updates -- Reactive forms -- Validation -- Issue comments -- Chatting on an issue -- Production-ready build -- Summary -- Chapter 12: Connecting Angular to Java EE Microservices -- Integration with microservices -- Docker - focusing made easy -- Verifying the running services -- Cross Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) -- JSON communication -- Observables in Angular -- Dynamic updates using Observables -- Going to production -- Deploying on the cloud using AWS -- Launching the Amazon EC2 instance -- Installing Docker on Amazon EC2 -- Docker release -- Summary -- Chapter 13: Testing Java EE Services -- Testing strategies for microservices -- Understanding the testing pyramid -- Unit testing -- Integration testing -- End-End testing -- Microservice testing challenges -- Contract testing…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Creating a normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) -- Setting up the framework -- Loading the data -- Rasterizing the shapefile -- Clipping the bands -- Using the NDVI formula -- Classifying the NDVI -- Creating a flood inundation model -- The flood fill function -- Creating a color hillshade -- Performing least cost path analysis -- The real-world example -- Converting the route to a shapefile -- Routing along streets -- Geolocating photos -- Calculating satellite image cloud cover -- Summary -- Questions -- Further reading -- Chapter 10: Working with Real-Time Data -- Technical requirements -- Limitations of real-time data -- Using real-time data -- Tracking vehicles -- Getting a vehicle location -- Mapping a vehicle location -- Storm chasing -- Gathering reports from the field -- Summary -- Questions -- Further reading -- Chapter 11: Putting It All Together -- Technical requirements -- Understanding a typical GPS report -- Building a GPS reporting tool -- Importing libraries -- Setting up logging -- Helper functions -- Program variables -- Parsing the GPX file -- Downloading the basemap and elevation data -- Hillshading the elevation data -- Creating a map -- Adding a photo marker -- Creating an elevation profile chart -- Creating a weather report -- Generating a PDF report -- Summary -- Questions -- Further reading -- Assessments -- Chapter 1 - Learning about Geospatial Analysis with Python -- Chapter 2 - Learning about Geospatial Data -- Chapter 3 - The Geospatial Technology Landscape -- Chapter 4 - Geospatial Python Toolbox -- Chapter 5 - Python and Geospatial Algorithms -- Chapter 6 - Creating and Editing GIS Data -- Chapter 7 - Python and Remote Sensing -- Chapter 8 - Python and Elevation Data -- Chapter 9 - Advanced Geospatial Modeling -- Chapter 10 - Working with Real-Time Data -- Chapter 11 - Putting It All Together -- Index…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover -- Macroeconomics -- Copyright -- About the Author -- Brief Contents -- Contents -- MacroFocus Boxes: Tying Theory to the Real World -- Preface -- The Development of This Book -- A Word of Thanks -- Macroeconomics: what is it About? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Understanding Problems that Docker Solves -- Containerization Through the Years -- 1979: chroot -- 2000: FreeBSD Jails -- 2005: OpenVZ -- 2006: cgroups -- 2008: LXC -- Containers and Virtual Machines -- Container Runtimes -- OCI and CRI -- Docker and Kubernetes -- Summary -- Chapter 2: Docker 101 -- Installing Docker -- Installing Docker on Windows -- Installing Docker on Windows Using WSL2 Backend -- About WSL -- Requirements for Installing and Enabling WSL2 -- Installing on macOS -- Installing on Linux -- Additional Steps -- Understanding Jargon Around Docker -- Layers -- Docker Image -- Docker Tags -- Docker Container -- Bind Mounts and Volumes -- Docker Repository -- Docker Registry -- Dockerfile -- Docker Engine -- Docker Daemon -- Docker CLI -- Docker API -- Docker Compose -- Docker Machine -- Hands-on Docker -- Working with Docker Images -- Working with a Real-World Docker Image -- Summary -- Chapter 3: Building the Python App -- About the Project -- Setting Up Telegram Messenger -- BotFather: Telegram's Bot Creation Interface -- Creating the Bot with BotFather -- Newsbot: The Python App -- Getting Started with Newsbot -- Running Newsbot -- Sending Messages to Newsbot -- Summary -- Chapter 4: Understanding the Dockerfile -- Dockerfile Primer -- Build Context -- Dockerignore -- BuildKit -- Building Using Docker Build -- Tags -- Dockerfile Instructions -- FROM -- WORKDIR -- ADD and COPY -- RUN -- Layer Caching -- CMD and ENTRYPOINT -- ENV -- VOLUME -- EXPOSE -- LABEL -- Guidelines and Recommendations for Writing Dockerfiles -- Using Multi-Stage Builds -- Exercises -- Summary -- Chapter 5: Understanding Docker Volumes -- Data Persistence…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…StudentsPractitioners; Origins of the Book; Real-World Experience; Research and Literature; Arousing the Design ""Stickler"" in You; Further Information on Our Website; About the Authors; Acknowledgments; Guiding Principles for the UXPractitioner; Contents; Chapter 1: Introduction; 1.1. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Creating an AWS accountSigning up for the necessary services; Time for action - WordCount on EMR using the management console; Other ways of using EMR; AWS credentials; The EMR command-line tools; The AWS ecosystem; Comparison of local versus EMR Hadoop; Summary; Chapter 3: Understanding MapReduce; Key/value pairs; What does it mean; Why key/value data?; Some real-world examples; MapReduce as a series of key/value transformations; The Hadoop Java API for MapReduce; The 0.20 MapReduce Java API; The Mapper class; The Reducer class; The Driver class; Writing MapReduce programs…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Mastery matters -- Learn from the pros -- Own your genius -- Reflect and refresh -- Mind the gap: Replacing filler words -- PART III How we practise Authentic Leadership -- CHAPTER 9 USE REAL WORDS -- When a biscuit is not a biscuit -- Real passion -- Never forget to make them feel -- Their frame of understanding, not yours -- When jargon works -- CHAPTER 10 DEAL WITH WHAT'S REAL -- Real-world problems -- Dealing with excuses -- It's just not cricket -- A fucking monumental stuff-up -- Your feet need to follow your mouth -- CHAPTER 11 SHOW WHAT'S REAL TO YOU -- Australia takes to the skies -- A new zeal -- Your 'version 2.0' -- Who is in your corner of the court? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright and Credits -- Packt Upsell -- Contributors -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1: Getting Started with Regression -- Going back to the origin of regression -- Regression in the real world -- Understanding regression concepts -- Regression versus correlation -- Discovering different types of regression -- The R environment -- Installing R -- Using precompiled binary distribution -- Installing on Windows -- Installing on macOS -- Installing on Linux -- Installation from source code -- RStudio -- R packages for regression -- The R stats package -- The car package -- The MASS package -- The caret package -- The glmnet package -- The sgd package -- The BLR package -- The Lars package -- Summary -- Chapter 2: Basic Concepts - Simple Linear Regression -- Association between variables - covariance and correlation -- Searching linear relationships -- Least squares regression -- Creating a linear regression model -- Statistical significance test -- Exploring model results -- Diagnostic plots -- Modeling a perfect linear association -- Summary -- Chapter 3: More Than Just One Predictor - MLR -- Multiple linear regression concepts -- Building a multiple linear regression model -- Multiple linear regression with categorical predictor -- Categorical variables -- Building a model -- Gradient Descent and linear regression -- Gradient Descent -- Stochastic Gradient Descent -- The sgd package -- Linear regression with SGD -- Polynomial regression -- Summary -- Chapter 4: When the Response Falls into Two Categories - Logistic Regression -- Understanding logistic regression -- The logit model -- Generalized Linear Model -- Simple logistic regression -- Multiple logistic regression -- Customer satisfaction analysis with the multiple logistic regression -- Multiple logistic regression with categorical data…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Taking Existing Excel BI and Sharing ItDelivering Geodata; Delivering Excel BI to Mobile Devices; To Learn the Product Suite Following a Real-World Path; The Self-Service Business Intelligence Universe; Conclusion; Chapter 2: Power View and Tables; The Power View Experience; Adding a Power View Sheet to an Excel Workbook; The Power View Interface; The Power View Ribbon; The Field List; Using the Field List; Renaming or Deleting a Power View Report; Tables in Power View; Adding a Table; Deleting a Table; Changing the Table Size and Position; Changing Column Order; Removing Columns from a Table…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…""5.4.1 A Simulation Study""""5.4.2 A Geotagging Case Study""; ""5.4.3 A Real World Application""; ""5.5 Discussion""; ""Chapter 6: Confidence bounds in social sensing""; ""6.1 The Reliability Assurance Problem""; ""6.2 Actual Cramer-Rao Lower Bound""; ""6.3 Asymptotic Cramer-Rao Lower Bound""; ""6.4 Confidence Interval Derivation""; ""6.5 Examples and Results""; ""6.5.1 Evaluation of Confidence Interval""; ""6.5.2 Evaluation of CRLB""; ""Scalability study""; ""Trustworthiness and assertiveness study""; ""Robustness study""…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover -- Copyright -- Credits -- About the Authors -- About the Reviewer -- www.PacktPub.com -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1: Preparing Your Working Environment -- Introduction -- Installing matplotlib, NumPy, and SciPy -- Installing virtualenv and virtualenvwrapper -- Installing matplotlib on Mac OS X -- Installing matplotlib on Windows -- Installing Python Imaging Library (PIL) for image processing -- Installing a requests module -- Customizing matplotlib's parameters in code -- Customizing matplotlib's parameters per project -- Chapter 2: Knowing Your Data -- Introduction -- Importing data from CSV -- Importing data from Microsoft Excel files -- Importing data from fixed-width data files -- Importing data from tab-delimited files -- Importing data from a JSON resource -- Exporting data to JSON, CSV, and Excel -- Importing and manipulating data with Pandas -- Importing data from a database -- Cleaning up data from outliers -- Reading files in chunks -- Reading streaming data sources -- Importing image data into NumPy arrays -- Generating controlled random datasets -- Smoothing the noise in real-world data -- Chapter 3: Drawing Your First Plots and Customizing Them -- Introduction -- Defining plot types - bar, line, and stacked charts -- Drawing simple sine and cosine plots -- Defining axis lengths and limits -- Defining plot line styles, properties, and format strings -- Setting ticks, labels, and grids -- Adding legends and annotations -- Moving spines to the center -- Making histograms -- Making bar charts with error bars -- Making pie charts count -- Plotting with filled areas -- Making stacked plots -- Drawing scatter plots with colored markers -- Chapter 4: More Plots and Customizations -- Introduction -- Setting the transparency and size of axis labels -- Adding a shadow to the chart line…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- ABOUT THE AUTHOR -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Acronyms -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Toward 6G: A New Era of Convergence -- 1.2 Fusion of Digital and Real Worlds: Multiverse vs. Metaverse -- 1.3 The Big Picture: Narratives for 2030 and Beyond -- 1.4 Purpose and Outline of Book -- References -- Chapter 2 Metaverse: The New North Star -- 2.1 Origins -- 2.2 Early Deployments -- 2.3 Key Enabling Technologies -- 2.4 Definition(s) of the Metaverse -- 2.5 Metaverse Economy and Community: Gamified Experiences -- References -- Chapter 3 The Multiverse: Infinite Possibility -- 3.1 Experience Innovation on the Digital Frontier -- 3.2 The Multiverse -- 3.3 Beyond the Metaverse Origins: Into the Future -- References -- Chapter 4 6G Vision and Next G Alliance Roadmap -- 4.1 6G Vision: Recent Progress and State of the Art -- 4.2 NSF: Next G Research -- 4.3 Next G Alliance Roadmap -- References -- Chapter 5 6G Post‐Smartphone Era: XR and Hybrid‐Augmented Intelligence -- 5.1 XR in the 6G Post‐Smartphone Era -- 5.2 Hybrid‐Augmented Intelligence -- References -- Chapter 6 Web3 and Token Engineering -- 6.1 Emerging Web3 Token Economy -- 6.2 Backend Revolution -- 6.3 Technology‐Enabled Social Organisms -- 6.4 Tokens -- 6.5 Mechanism Design and Token Engineering -- References -- Chapter 7 From Robonomics to Tokenomics -- 7.1 Robonomics -- 7.2 Blockchain Oracles and On‐Chaining -- 7.3 Blockchain‐Enabled Trust Game -- 7.4 On‐Chaining Oracle for Networked N‐Player Trust Game -- 7.5 Playing the N‐Player Trust Game with Persuasive Robots -- 7.6 Tokenomics -- References -- Chapter 8 Society 5.0: Internet As If People Mattered -- 8.1 Human Nature: Bounded Rationality and Predictable Irrationality -- 8.2 Society 5.0: Human‐Centeredness -- 8.3 The Path (DAO) to a Human‐Centered Society…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Can VPAC Targeted Cu-67-TP3805 Play a Theranostic Role for Prostate Cancer?: A Quest -- 33. REAL-WORLD EVIDENCE: CLINICAL OUTCOMES IN PRECISION RADIONUCLIDE ONCOLOGY. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Sex, abuse, and the eternal content moderation challenge ; Ever-perennial metaverse problems : sex, trolling and harassment and underage users ; Building a better moderated metaverse -- Chapter 10. Metaverse real-world use cases - separating substance from hype ; Understanding real metaverse use cases -- Chapter 11. …”