“…New chapters added to this edition include: UIPopoverController and UISplitViewController Blocks and Categories UIGestureRecognizers and Advanced UIScrollView, CATiledLayer Key-Value Coding and Key-Value Observing Push Notifications Unit Testing…”

“…Learn how Backbone.js brings MVC benefits to the client-side Write code that can be easily read, structured, and extended Work with the Backbone.Marionette and Thorax extension frameworks Solve common problems you’ll encounter when using Backbone.js Organize your code into modules with AMD and RequireJS Paginate data for your Collections with the Backbone.Paginator plugin Bootstrap a new Backbone.js application with boilerplate code Use Backbone with jQuery Mobile and resolve routing problems between the two Unit-test your Backbone apps with Jasmine, QUnit, and SinonJS…”

“…As the words “at work” suggest, the authors focus on how their interviewees tackle the day-to-day work of the CTO while revealing much more: how they got there, how they manage and allocate projects, and how they interact with business units and ensure that their companies take advantage of technologies, teamwork, and software development practices to respond to organizational needs and improve employee productivity. …”

“…Most populations are accepting of this fact, but some are not, especially in the United States. In our society, we view biometrics as a violation of our privacy rights and civil liberties. …”

“…Master built-in primitive and composite data structures Create, develop and publish libraries, using the Leiningen tool Interact with the local computer that’s running your application Manage network communication protocols and libraries Use techniques for connecting to and using a variety of databases Build and maintain dynamic websites, using the Ring HTTP server library Tackle application tasks such as packaging, distributing, profiling, and logging Take on cloud computing and heavyweight distributed data crunching Dive into unit, integration, simulation, and property-based testing Clojure Cookbook is a collaborative project with contributions from some of the world’s best Clojurians, whose backgrounds range from aerospace to social media, banking to robotics, AI research to e-commerce…”

“…Comprising eight chapters, new theoretical frameworks for the analysis of IPV are provided to guide practitioners and policy makers in improving services for vulnerable people in abusive relationships, and a range of studies into the experiences of a diverse range of survivors, including mothers in Portugal, women who experienced child marriage in Uganda, and refugees in the United States of America, generate findings which elucidate perspectives from marginalised and under-researched groups…”

“…United Nation Department of Human Affairs (UNDHA) assesses that there are more than 100 million mines that are scattered across the world and pose significant hazards in more than 68 countries. …”

“…The book gives a broad overview of the issue and also conveys research and experiences from the Netherlands, the United States and Canada. The book has a clear tenor - in the form of a critical stance toward legalization. …”

“…Spanning the period from Constantine's foundation of a New Rome in the fourth century to the contemporary aftermath of the Lebanese civil war, this book integrates perspectives from scholars typically separated by the disciplinary boundaries of late antique, Islamic, medieval, Byzantine, Ottoman and modern Middle Eastern studies, but whose work is united by their study of a region characterized by resilience rather than rupture. …”

“…This valuable reference describes the increasingly varied number of sensors that can be integrated into arrays, and examines the growing availability and computational power of communication devices that support the algorithms needed to reduce the raw sensor data from multiple sensors and convert it into the information needed by the sensor array to enable rapid transmission of the results to the required point. Using both SI and US units, the text:Provides a fundamental and analytical understanding of the underlying technology for smart sensorsDiscusses groundbreaking software and sensor systems as well as key issues surrounding sensor fusionExemplifies the richness and diversity of development work in the world of smart sensors and sensor fusionOffering fresh insight into the sensors of the future, Technologies for Smart Sensors and Sensor Fusion not only exposes readers to trends but also inspires innovation in smart sensor and sensor system development…”

“…Use Python without previous programming knowledge Get started with modern tools, including Jupyter notebooks and Visual Studio Code Use pandas to acquire, clean, and analyze data and replace typical Excel calculations Automate tedious tasks like consolidation of Excel workbooks and production of Excel reports Use xlwings to build interactive Excel tools that use Python as a calculation engine Connect Excel to databases and CSV files and fetch data from the internet using Python code Write unit tests in Python to build solid spreadsheets…”

“…Complete with ready-to-use code and discussions about how and why solutions work, these recipes help you: Get up to speed on concurrency and async and parallel programming Use async and await for asynchronous operations Enhance your code with asynchronous streams Explore parallel programming with .NET’s Task Parallel Library Create dataflow pipelines with .NET’s TPL Dataflow library Understand the capabilities that System.Reactive builds on top of LINQ Utilize threadsafe and immutable collections Learn how to conduct unit testing with concurrent code Make the thread pool work for you Enable clean, cooperative cancellation Examine scenarios for combining concurrent approaches Dive into asynchronous-friendly object-oriented programming Recognize and write adapters for code using older asynchronous styles…”

“…Learn Vue.js basics, including its use of templates to display data on a page Set up Vue projects from scratch, or use vue-cli to set up from a template Create a maintainable codebase by splitting code into self-contained components Discover how Vue.js works with CSS to style your websites and applications Use render functions and JSX, rather than templates, to determine what Vue displays Control how code is executed and displayed with vue-router Manage state in one centralized place with the Vuex library Write unit tests to ensure your Vue components don’t break in the future…”

“…In this edition, he presents new and updated case studies from the United States and around the world, demonstrating what’s working and what isn’t. …”

“…This IBM® Redbooks® publication introduces the IBM System z® Personal Development Tool (zPDT®), which runs on an underlying Linux system based on an Intel processor. zPDT provides a System z system on a PC capable of running current System z operating systems, including emulation of selected System z I/O devices and control units. It is intended as a development, demonstration, and learning platform and is not designed as a production system. …”

“…The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is the primary agency of the United States government responsible for biomedical and public health research. …”

“…High rates of fertility in these countries are likely to contribute to continued rapid population growth: the United Nations projects that the region's population will increase by 1.2 billion by 2050, the highest growth among the regions for which there are projections. …”

“…The contributions are united by their focus on agency. Rather than seeing youth as vulnerable and possible victims of decisions by others, they illustrate the diverse avenues that youth pursue to achieve a good life in the Arctic. …”

“…Par le biais de l’auteur classique, il interroge l’unité et les spécificités des idéaux politiques de cet espace institutionnel en mobilisant un large corpus : sources normatives, florilèges, dictamina, traités de regimine, traductions invitent à reconsidérer le regard « républicain » qu’aurait porté le lecteur médiéval sur ce modèle antique…”

“…In order to help students understand the ways that government, society, and individuals interconnect, the revision includes more examples and details regarding the lived experiences of diverse groups and communities within the United States. The authors and reviewers sought to strike a balance between confronting the negative and harmful elements of American government, history, and current events, while demonstrating progress in overcoming them. …”