“…Dana Spiotta, whom Michiko Kakutani called "wonderfully observant and wonderfully gifted...with an uncanny feel for the absurdities and sadness of contemporary life" (The New York Times), has written a bold and moving novel about a fugitive radical from the 1970s who has lived in hiding for twenty-five years. Eat the Document is a hugely compelling story of activism, sacrifice, and the cost of living a secret. …”
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“…This new edition brings up to date a classic study of the everyday lives of previously institutionalized people with mental retardation. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…The rise of artificial intelligence in healthcare applications 25</p> <p>Adam Bohr and Kaveh Memarzadeh</p> <p>2.1 The new age of healthcare 25</p> <p>2.2 Precision medicine 28</p> <p>2.3 Artificial intelligence and medical visualization 33</p> <p>2.4 Intelligent personal health records 38</p> <p>2.5 Robotics and artificial intelligence-powered devices 43</p> <p>2.6 Ambient assisted living 46</p> <p>2.7 The artificial intelligence can see you now 50</p> <p>References 57</p> <p>3. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Lifecycle management -- vSphere products -- NSX -- vRealize products -- vRealize Operations Manager -- vRealize Log Insight -- vRealize Automation, VMware vRealize Business, and VMware vRealize Orchestrator -- Summary -- Chapter 3: Transforming a Data Center from Silos to Software-Defined Services -- Need for VMware in data center transformation -- Business requirements of customers -- Interoperability and integration -- Logical design -- Orchestrator topology choice -- Orchestrator server mode choice -- vRealize Orchestrator SDDC cluster choice -- Integrated architecture design model for private and public clouds -- Private cloud integrated architecture design with network and security -- Integrated architecture design for virtual machines and applications -- Consumption model of network services components -- Components and processes for logical switching -- vRealize Automation with logical switching consumption overview -- Introduction to DevOps and its benefits -- Building, deploying, and running services in an innovative way -- SDDC object life cycle -- vRealize code stream functionality -- Automating application release without manual intervention -- Advantages of DevOps -- Summary -- Chapter 4: Designing a Mixed Cloud Model with VMware -- Core elements of VMware's Cross-Cloud Architecture -- Cross-Cloud Services -- Choosing suitable applications to move in the cloud -- VMware Cloud on AWS -- Components/technologies used in VMware-AWS partnerships -- Migrating your existing applications to AWS -- Application migration phases with supporting tools -- Migration assessment -- Schema conversion -- Conversion of embedded SQL and application code -- Data migration -- Testing converted code -- Data replication -- Deployment to AWS and Go-Live -- Post-deployment monitoring -- Managing AWS with vCenter -- Managing administrators on the management portal…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Retaining a Relationship with Your Employer Inretirement: An Innovative and Caring Plan Sponsor -- Mutual Benefits: Retaining Retiree Assets May Help Both Retirees and Plan Sponsors -- Turning DC Assets into a Lifetime Paycheck: Evaluating the DC Investment Lineup for Retiree Readiness -- Evaluating Portfolio Longevity -- Turning Defined Contribution Assets into a Lifetime Income Stream: How to Evaluate Investment Choices for Retirees -- Guarding Retiree Assets against a Sudden Market Downturn: Sequencing Risk -- Ways to Manage Market and Longevity Risk . . . without Adding In-Plan Insurance Products -- Living beyond 100: Planning for Longevity -- Managing Longevity Risk: Considerations for Buying an Annuity -- Immediate and Deferred Annuities: Why Out-of-Plan Makes Sense -- In Closing -- Questions for Plan Fiduciaries -- Notes -- Chapter 11 A Global View: The Best Ideas from around the Globe for Improving Plan Design -- DC Plans: Becoming the Dominant Global Model -- Retirement Plan Coverage and Participation -- Investment Default and Growth of Target-Date Strategies -- Retirement Income: The Global Search for Solutions -- Defined Ambition in the Netherlands -- New Solutions in Australia and Beyond: Tontines and Group Self-Annuitization -- "Getting DC Right": Lessons Learned in Chapters 1 through 10 -- Chapter 1: DC Plans Today -- Chapter 2: Aligning DC Investment Design to Meet the PRICE of Retirement -- Chapter 3: Plan Investment Structure -- Chapter 4: Target Date Design and Approaches -- Chapter 5: Capital Preservation Strategies -- Chapter 6: Fixed Income Strategies -- Chapter 7: Designing Balanced DC Menus: Considering Equity Options -- Chapter 8: Inflation Protection -- Chapter 9: Additional Strategies and Alternatives: Seeking Diversification and Return…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…A real-world pen test scenario - the chatty printer -- Configuring our SMB listener -- Authentication capture -- Hash capture with LLMNR/NetBIOS NS spoofing -- Let it rip - cracking Windows hashes -- The two philosophies of password cracking -- John the Ripper cracking with a wordlist -- John the Ripper cracking with masking -- Reviewing your progress with the show flag -- Summary -- Questions -- Further reading -- Chapter 4: Advanced Network Attacks -- Technical requirements -- Binary injection with BetterCAP proxy modules -- The Ruby file injection proxy module - replace_file.rb -- Creating the payload and connect-back listener with Metasploit -- HTTP downgrading attacks with sslstrip -- Removing the need for a certificate - HTTP downgrading -- Understanding HSTS bypassing with DNS spoofing -- HTTP downgrade attacks with BetterCAP ARP/DNS spoofing -- The evil upgrade - attacking software update mechanisms -- Exploring ISR Evilgrade -- Configuring the payload and upgrade module -- Spoofing ARP/DNS and injecting the payload -- IPv6 for hackers -- IPv6 addressing basics -- Local IPv6 reconnaissance and the Neighbor Discovery Protocol -- IPv6 man-in-the-middle - attacking your neighbors -- Living in an IPv4 world - creating a local 4-to-6 proxy for your tools -- Summary -- Questions -- Further reading -- Chapter 5: Cryptography and the Penetration Tester -- Technical requirements -- Flipping the bit - integrity attacks against CBC algorithms -- Block ciphers and modes of operation -- Introducing block chaining -- Setting up your bit-flipping lab -- Manipulating the IV to generate predictable results -- Flipping to root - privilege escalation via CBC bit-flipping -- Sneaking your data in - hash length extension attacks -- Setting up your hash attack lab -- Understanding SHA-1's running state and compression function…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Enabling/disabling column resizing -- Filtering data from a table -- Implementing pagination -- Working with dialogs -- Using the dialog component -- Opening and closing the dialog on an action -- Implementing the logic to delete a user -- Working with checkboxes -- Creating a checkbox with static data -- Creating a checkbox with dynamic data -- Working with List View -- Showing data in the Card Layout view -- Working with visualization components -- Creating a bar chart -- Creating a pie chart -- Creating an area chart -- Summary -- Further reading -- Questions -- Chapter 9: Extending Oracle and Non-Oracle SaaS Applications -- Technical requirements -- Extending a Salesforce application -- Pre-requisites for extending the Salesforce app -- Creating a Service Connection -- Listing and creating accounts -- Listing opportunities -- Creating opportunities -- Extending an Oracle Cloud application -- Adding an accounts REST endpoint -- Listing and updating the accounts -- Adding nomination functionality -- Creating a multilingual application -- Configuring an application to set the selected language locale -- Generating translatable strings -- Downloading and uploading the bundle -- Adding a language switcher -- Summary -- Questions -- Chapter 10: Working with Business Processes -- Technical requirements -- Adding the Process backend -- Registering the business processes -- Initiating the process from the VB application -- Managing process tasks -- Extracting the data object -- Configuring a connection to a process server -- Summary -- Further reading -- Questions -- Chapter 11: Building a Mobile Application with Live Examples -- Technical requirements -- Developing a mobile application -- Developing a doctor's appointment mobile application -- Booking an appointment -- Listing the appointments -- Configuring mobile application settings…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Web Application Vulnerability Scanning -- Developing a Remediation Workflow -- Prioritizing Remediation -- Testing and Implementing Fixes -- Overcoming Barriers to Vulnerability Scanning -- Summary -- Exam Essentials -- Lab Exercises -- Activity 4.1: Installing a Vulnerability Scanner -- Activity 4.2: Running a Vulnerability Scan -- Activity 4.3: Developing a Penetration Test Vulnerability Scanning Plan -- Review Questions -- Chapter 5 Analyzing Vulnerability Scans -- Reviewing and Interpreting Scan Reports -- Understanding CVSS -- Validating Scan Results -- False Positives -- Documented Exceptions -- Understanding Informational Results -- Reconciling Scan Results with Other Data Sources -- Trend Analysis -- Common Vulnerabilities -- Server and Endpoint Vulnerabilities -- Network Vulnerabilities -- Virtualization Vulnerabilities -- Internet of Things (IoT) -- Web Application Vulnerabilities -- Summary -- Exam Essentials -- Lab Exercises -- Activity 5.1: Interpreting a Vulnerability Scan -- Activity 5.2: Analyzing a CVSS Vector -- Activity 5.3: Developing a Penetration Testing Plan -- Review Questions -- Chapter 6 Exploiting and Pivoting -- Exploits and Attacks -- Choosing Targets -- Enumeration -- Identifying the Right Exploit -- Exploit Resources -- Exploitation Toolkits -- Metasploit -- PowerSploit -- BloodHound -- Exploit Specifics -- RPC/DCOM -- PsExec -- PS Remoting/WinRM -- WMI -- Fileless Malware and Living Off the Land -- Scheduled Tasks and cron Jobs -- SMB -- DNS -- RDP -- Apple Remote Desktop -- VNC -- SSH -- Network Segmentation Testing and Exploits -- Leaked Keys -- Leveraging Exploits -- Common Post-Exploit Attacks -- Cross Compiling -- Privilege Escalation -- Social Engineering -- Escaping and Upgrading Limited Shells -- Persistence and Evasion -- Scheduled Jobs and Scheduled Tasks -- Inetd Modification -- Daemons and Services…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Inviting Stakeholders to the Planning Table -- Encouraging and embracing stakeholder input -- Working together to finalize your statements -- Living by Your Mission and Staying Fixed on the Vision -- Chapter 5 Incorporating and Applying for Tax-Exemption Status -- Creating a New Entity: The Nonprofit Corporation -- Following your state's or territory's laws -- Understanding the required governing documents -- Deciding whether to have members in your corporation -- Finding the best name -- Writing the Articles of Incorporation -- Crafting a heading -- Article I -- Article II -- Article III -- Article IV -- Article V -- Article VI -- Article VII -- Article VIII -- Signed, sealed, and delivered -- Securing Your Employer Identification Number (EIN) -- Writing Your Organization's Bylaws -- Holding Your First Board Meeting -- Applying for Tax Exemption -- Tackling Form 1023 online…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Defining your private Docker registry in Azure -- Summary -- Questions -- Further reading -- Chapter 6: Azure Kubernetes Service -- Technical requirements -- Kubernetes basics -- .yaml files -- ReplicaSets and Deployments -- StatefulSets -- Services -- Ingresses -- Interacting with Azure Kubernetes clusters -- Using Kubectl -- Deploying the demo Guestbook application -- Advanced Kubernetes concepts -- Requiring permanent storage -- Kubernetes secrets -- Liveness and readiness checks -- Autoscaling -- Helm - Installing an Ingress Controller -- Summary -- Questions -- Further reading -- Chapter 7: Interacting with Data in C# - Entity Framework Core -- Technical requirements -- Understanding ORM basics -- Configuring Entity Framework Core -- Defining DB entities -- Defining the mapped collections -- Completing the mapping configuration -- Entity Framework Core migrations -- Understanding stored procedures and direct SQL commands -- Compiled models -- Querying and updating data with Entity Framework Core -- Returning data to the presentation layer -- Issuing direct SQL commands -- Handling transactions -- Deploying your data layer -- Understanding Entity Framework Core advanced features -- Summary -- Questions…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Reducing air pollution is important for the environment and Czechs' health -- Fostering productivity for better living standards -- Figure 16. Stalled convergence of the Czech Republic -- Figure 17. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Annotated tags -- Signed tags -- Publishing tags -- Tag verification -- Signed commits -- Merging signed tags (merge tags) -- Summary -- Chapter 6: Advanced Branching Techniques -- Types and purposes of branches -- Long-running, perpetual branches -- Integration, graduation, or progressive-stability branches -- Per-release branches and per-release maintenance -- Hotfix branches for security fixes -- Per-customer or per-deployment branches -- Automation branches -- Mob branches for anonymous push access -- The orphan branch trick -- Short-lived branches -- Topic or feature branches -- Bugfix branches -- Detached HEAD - the anonymous branch -- Branching workflows and release engineering -- The release and trunk branches workflow -- The graduation, or progressive-stability branches workflow -- The topic branches workflow -- Graduation branches in a topic branch workflow -- Branch management for a release in a topic branch workflow -- Git-flow - a successful Git branching model -- Fixing a security issue -- Interacting with branches in remote repositories -- Upstream and downstream -- Remote-tracking branches and refspec -- Remote-tracking branches -- Refspec - remote to local branch mapping specification -- Fetching and pulling versus pushing -- Pull - fetch and update current branch -- Pushing to the current branch in a nonbare remote repository -- The default fetch refspec and push modes -- Fetching and pushing branches and tags -- Fetching branches -- Fetching tags and automatic tag following -- Pushing branches and tags -- Push modes and their use -- The simple push mode - the default -- The matching push mode for maintainers -- The upstream push mode for the centralized workflow -- The current push mode for the blessed repository workflow -- Summary -- Chapter 7: Merging Changes Together -- Methods of combining changes -- Merging branches…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Acknowledging what money can't buy -- Managing the balancing act -- Prioritizing Your Savings Goals -- Knowing what's most important to you -- Valuing retirement accounts -- Dealing with competing goals -- Building Emergency Reserves -- Saving to Buy a Home or Business -- Funding Kids' Educational Expenses -- Saving for Big Purchases -- Preparing for Retirement/Financial Independence -- Figuring out what you need for retirement/ financial independence -- Understanding retirement building blocks -- Crunching numbers for your retirement -- Making up for lost time -- Part 2 Spending Less, Saving More -- Chapter 5 Dealing with Debt -- Using Savings to Reduce Your Consumer Debt -- Understanding how you gain -- Finding the funds to pay down consumer debts -- Decreasing Debt When You Lack Savings -- Reducing your credit card's interest rate -- Understanding all credit-card terms and conditions -- Cutting up your credit cards -- Discovering debit cards: The best of both worlds -- Turning to Credit Counseling Agencies -- Beware biased advice at credit counseling agencies -- Ask questions and avoid debt management programs -- Filing Bankruptcy -- Understanding bankruptcy benefits -- Coming to terms with bankruptcy drawbacks -- Deciphering the bankruptcy laws -- Choosing between Chapter 7 and 13 -- Seeking bankruptcy advice -- Stopping the Spending/ Consumer Debt Cycle -- Resisting the credit temptation -- Identifying and treating a compulsion -- Chapter 6 Reducing Your Spending -- Unlocking the Keys to Successful Spending -- Living within your means -- Looking for the best values -- Eliminating the fat from your spending -- Turning your back on consumer credit -- Budgeting to Boost Your Savings -- Reducing Your Spending -- Managing food costs -- Saving on shelter -- Cutting transportation costs -- Lowering your energy costs -- Controlling clothing costs…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- The High and the Low -- Living in the Moments -- A teachable moment -- Back to descriptives -- Skewness -- Kurtosis -- Tuning in the Frequency -- Nominal variables: table() et al. -- Numerical variables: hist() -- Cumulative frequency -- Step by step: The empirical cumulative distribution function -- Numerical variables: stem() -- Summarizing a Data Frame -- Chapter 6 What's Normal? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…The Receiver (Loudspeaker) -- Batteries -- User Operated Controls -- Dispenser Operated Controls -- Filters -- Output Controls and AGC -- Other Types of AGC -- Descriptive Questions -- Multiple Choice Questions -- Fill in the Blanks -- Chapter 4: Loudspeakers -- Ideal Loudspeaker -- Basic Loudspeaker -- Crystal Loudspeakers -- Electrostatic (Condenser/Capacitor) Loudspeakers -- Dynamic Loudspeakers -- Permanent Magnet Loudspeakers -- Loudspeaker Construction -- Permanent Magnet -- Voice Coil -- Loudspeaker Impedance -- Acoustic Impedance and Resonance -- Woofers -- Mid-range and Extended-range Speakers -- High Frequency Loudspeakers -- Cone Type Tweeters -- Dome Type Tweeters -- Horn Type Tweeters -- High Fidelity -- Multispeaker Systems -- Crossover Networks -- Impedance Matching -- Descriptive Questions -- Multiple Choice Questions -- Fill in the Blanks -- Chapter 5: Speaker Baffles and Enclosures -- Acoustic doublets -- Baffles -- Infinite Baffle Systems -- Bass-reflex systems -- Acoustic Labyrinth Systems -- Folded-horn Systems -- Corner Folded Horn Systems -- Descriptive Questions -- Multiple Choice Questions -- Fill in the Blanks -- Chapter 6: Acoustics -- Reflection of Sound -- Reverberation -- Absorption of Sound -- Sabin's Equation -- Listening Room Characteristics -- Live Rooms -- Dead Rooms -- Absorbent Materials -- Acoustic Design of Auditoriums -- Acoustics of Studios -- Sound Insulation -- Noise -- Descriptive Questions -- Multiple Choice Questions -- Fill in the Blanks -- Chapter 7: Loudspeaker Systems -- Horns -- Indoor Acoustics -- Stereo Systems -- Cost and Efficiency -- Multiway Systems -- Descriptive Questions -- Fill in the Blanks -- Chapter 8: Disc Recording and Reproduction -- Making the Tape -- Making the Record -- Professional Record Manufacture (FIG. 8.3) -- Stereo Pickup Techniques -- Stereo Recording Systems…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…. -- See also -- Debugging live C# Azure Function hosted on the Microsoft Azure Cloud environment using Visual Studio -- Getting ready…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Garbage Collection in MRI, JRuby, and Rubinius -- Garbage Collectors Solve Three Problems -- Garbage Collection in MRI: Mark and Sweep -- The Free List -- Marking -- How Does MRI Mark Live Objects? -- Sweeping -- Lazy Sweeping -- Disadvantages of Mark and Sweep -- Experiment 12-1: Seeing MRI Garbage Collection in Action -- Seeing MRI Perform a Lazy Sweep -- Seeing MRI Perform a Full Collection…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…6.1.1 A Convolutional Neural Network -- 6.1.2 CNN's Operation -- 6.1.3 Recurrent Neural Network -- 6.1.4 Text-to-Speech Conversion -- 6.1.5 Long Short-Term Memory Network -- 6.2 Literature Survey -- 6.3 Smart Stick for Blind People -- 6.3.1 Hardware Requirements -- 6.4 System Development Requirements -- 6.4.1 Captioning of Images -- 6.4.2 YOLO (You Only Look Once) Model -- 6.5 Features of the Proposed Smart Stick -- 6.6 Code -- 6.7 Results -- 6.8 Conclusion -- References -- 7 Accessibility in Disability: Revolutionizing Mobile Technology -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Existing Accessibility Features for Mobile App and Devices -- 7.2.1 Basic Accessibility Features and Services for Visually Impaired -- 7.2.2 Basic Accessibility Features and Services for Deaf -- 7.2.3 Basic Accessibility Features and Services for Cognitive Disabilities -- 7.2.4 Basic Accessibility Features and Services for Physically Disabled -- 7.3 Services Offered by Wireless Service Provider -- 7.3.1 Digital Libraries for Visual -- 7.3.2 GPS -- 7.3.3 Relay Services -- 7.3.4 Living With Independent -- 7.3.5 Emergency Phone Services -- 7.3.6 Customer Service -- 7.4 Mobile Apps for People With Disabilities -- 7.5 Technology Giants Providing Services -- 7.5.1 Japan: NTT DoCoMo -- 7.6 Challenges and Opportunities for Technology Giants to Provide Product &amp -- Service -- 7.6.1 Higher Illiteracy Rate -- 7.6.2 Reach out to Customers With Disabilities -- 7.6.3 Higher Cost of Mobile Phones With Accessibility Features -- 7.6.4 Increasing Percentage of Disability -- 7.6.5 Unavailability of Assistive Technology in Regional Languages -- 7.6.6 Lack of Knowledge Concerning Assistive Solutions -- 7.7 Good Practices for Spreading Awareness -- 7.8 Conclusion -- References -- 8 Smart Solar Power-Assisted Wheelchairs For the Handicapped -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 Power Source…”