“…This dynamic field encompasses a variety of key factors that collectively contribute to its power and effectiveness. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright and Credits -- Packt Upsell -- Contributors -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1: Introduction to Hadoop -- Hadoop Distributed File System -- High availability -- Intra-DataNode balancer -- Erasure coding -- Port numbers -- MapReduce framework -- Task-level native optimization -- YARN -- Opportunistic containers -- Types of container execution -- YARN timeline service v.2 -- Enhancing scalability and reliability -- Usability improvements -- Architecture -- Other changes -- Minimum required Java version -- Shell script rewrite -- Shaded-client JARs -- Installing Hadoop 3 -- Prerequisites -- Downloading -- Installation -- Setup password-less ssh -- Setting up the NameNode -- Starting HDFS -- Setting up the YARN service -- Erasure Coding -- Intra-DataNode balancer -- Installing YARN timeline service v.2 -- Setting up the HBase cluster -- Simple deployment for HBase -- Enabling the co-processor -- Enabling timeline service v.2 -- Running timeline service v.2 -- Enabling MapReduce to write to timeline service v.2 -- Summary -- Chapter 2: Overview of Big Data Analytics -- Introduction to data analytics -- Inside the data analytics process -- Introduction to big data -- Variety of data -- Velocity of data -- Volume of data -- Veracity of data -- Variability of data -- Visualization -- Value -- Distributed computing using Apache Hadoop -- The MapReduce framework -- Hive -- Downloading and extracting the Hive binaries -- Installing Derby -- Using Hive -- Creating a database -- Creating a table -- SELECT statement syntax -- WHERE clauses -- INSERT statement syntax -- Primitive types -- Complex types -- Built-in operators and functions -- Built-in operators -- Built-in functions -- Language capabilities -- A cheat sheet on retrieving information -- Apache Spark -- Visualization using Tableau -- Summary…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Globular Proteins: Tertiary Structure and Functional Diversity -- Different Folding for Different Functions -- Different Modes of Display Aid Our Understanding of Protein Structure -- Varieties of Globular Protein Structure: Patterns of Main-Chain Folding -- 6.4. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Supporting your mission with fundraising -- Chapter 2 Understanding What It Takes to Start a Nonprofit -- Weighing the Pros and Cons of Starting a Nonprofit -- Doing Your Homework First -- Analyzing the competition -- Identifying the right people to help you -- Figuring out how you'll survive financially -- Acknowledging the reality of what's ahead -- Planning, plotting, and projecting -- Understanding Nonprofit Ownership -- Benefiting the public for the greater good -- Being accountable and transparent -- Looking at the Many Varieties of Nonprofits -- Identifying nonprofits by their numbers -- Adding rules and regulations to add to your file -- Comparing Nonprofits and For-Profits -- How they're alike -- How they differ -- Using a Fiscal Sponsor: An Alternative Approach -- Examining common details of a fiscal sponsorship relationship -- Finding a fiscal sponsor -- Chapter 3 Prioritizing Building Your Board of Directors -- Appreciating the Duties of a Nonprofit Board of Directors -- Primary role: Preserving public trust -- Secondary role: Dealing with planning, hiring, and other board tasks -- Sharing responsibilities among the board, staff, and volunteers…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Seeing the Big Picture -- It's all about your connections -- Looking at a simple battery circuit -- Recognizing Symbols of Power -- Showing where the power is -- Marking your ground -- Labeling Circuit Components -- Analog electronic components -- Digital logic and IC components -- Miscellaneous components -- Knowing Where to Take Measurements -- Exploring a Schematic -- Alternative Schematic Drawing Styles -- Chapter 15 Building Circuits -- Taking a Look at Solderless Breadboards -- Exploring a solderless breadboard -- Sizing up solderless breadboard varieties -- Building Circuits with Solderless Breadboards -- Preparing your parts and tools -- Saving time with prestripped wires -- Laying out your circuit -- Avoiding damaged circuits -- Soldering 101 -- Preparing to solder -- Soldering for success -- Inspecting the joint -- Desoldering when necessary -- Cooling after soldering -- Practicing safe soldering -- Creating a Permanent Circuit -- Exploring a printed circuit board -- Relocating your circuit to a perfboard -- Making a custom circuit board -- Chapter 16 Mastering Your Multimeter to Measure Circuits -- Multitasking with a Multimeter -- It's a voltmeter! …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…La expresión de las formas protocolarias en la correspondencia epistolar del setecientos / Alberto Angulo -- Varieties of cultural history / Peter Burke -- Diffusion vs. discourse : conceptual shifts in intellectual history and the historiography of French Revolution / Robert Darnton -- Propuestas metodológicas para una historia cultural de lo social. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Types of Online Authentication -- Strengthening Authentication by Combining Techniques -- Authentication and Webbots -- Example Scripts and Practice Pages -- Basic Authentication -- Session Authentication -- Authentication with Cookie Sessions -- Authentication with Query Sessions -- Final Thoughts -- 22: Advanced Cookie Management -- How Cookies Work -- PHP/CURL and Cookies -- How Cookies Challenge Webbot Design -- Purging Temporary Cookies -- Managing Multiple Users' Cookies -- Further Exploration -- 23: Scheduling Webbots and Spiders -- The Windows Task Scheduler -- Preparing Your Webbots to Run as Scheduled Tasks -- Scheduling a Webbot to Run Daily -- Complex Schedules -- Non-Calendar-Based Triggers -- Final Thoughts -- Determine the Webbot's Best Periodicity -- Avoid Single Points of Failure -- Add Variety to Your Schedule -- PART IV: Larger Considerations -- 24: Designing Stealthy Webbots and Spiders -- Why Design a Stealthy Webbot? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Booting from the USB Disk -- B: Ubuntu Desktop CDs for AMD64, Opteron, or Intel Core 2 Users -- Downloading and Burning Ubuntu Desktop CD ISOs to CD -- Ordering an Install Disc from Ubuntu -- Ordering an Install Disc from Other Online Sources -- C: Manually Partitioning Your Hard Disk -- Creating and Deleting Partitions -- Editing Existing Partitions -- Varieties of Paritions -- Example Partition Layouts -- Finishing Up -- D: Resources -- Forums -- Linux Reference -- Blogs -- Hardware Compatibility Issues -- Wireless Connections -- Free Downloads -- News and Information -- Magazines -- Books -- Ubuntu CDs -- Index…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Duplicate One or More Slides -- Move or Copy Slides -- Copy a Design Using Browse -- Use Zoom -- Use a Keyboard with Slides -- Change the Look and Feel of Slides -- Change a Theme -- Create a Custom Theme -- Copy Attributes with the Format Painter -- Work with Hyperlinks -- Use Footers on Slides -- Work with Text -- Use a Text Layout -- Insert a New Text Box -- Change Regular Text to WordArt Styles -- Work with Text Boxes -- Use Lists -- Use the Font Dialog Box -- Align Text -- Spiff Up Your Presentation with SmartArt -- Use Transitions and Animations -- Work with Transitions -- Add Animations to Your Slides -- Chapter 10: Polishing and Publishing Your Presentations -- Work with Master Slides -- Edit a Slide Master or Layout Master -- Perform Additional Slide Master Tasks -- Understand the Slide Master Ribbon -- Work with the Notes Master -- Change the Handout Master -- Work with Notes -- Display the Notes Pane -- Preview Speaker Notes -- Use Headers and Footers on Notes and Handouts -- Print Notes and Handouts -- Share Your Presentation -- Share in a Variety of Ways -- Export Your Presentation -- Present a Slide Show -- Set Controls for Two Monitors -- Set Up Your Slide Show -- Use a Presenter View Slide Show -- Start the Slide Show -- Set Up an Automated Slide Show -- Record Narrations and Timings -- Rehearse Your Timing -- Chapter 11: Using Outlook -- Set Up E-mail -- Set Up Your Outlook Account -- Upgrade to Outlook -- Explore Outlook -- Explore the Outlook Window -- Change Views -- Use the Navigation Pane -- Receive E-mail -- Check for E-mail -- Read E-mail -- Filter Junk Mail -- Write Messages -- Create a Message -- Address a Message -- Add Carbon and Blind Copies -- Edit a Message -- Attach Files -- Send Messages -- Reply to Messages -- Forward Messages -- Handle E-mail Messages -- Find a Message -- Delete Messages -- Manage Attachments…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- References -- Discussing with oneself -- Debating with myself and debating with others -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Varieties and sources of self-debate -- 3. Intra-personal and inter-personal debates: Metonymic relations -- 4. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Considering the characteristics of the literary novel -- Exploring experimental fiction -- Creating Entertaining Commercial Fiction -- Romancing the fiction -- Conforming to the basic requirements of romantic fiction -- Playing with variations on the romantic theme -- Uncovering crime and detective fiction -- Increasing the excitement with thrillers and adventure stories -- Imagining science fiction and fantasy -- Categorizing science fiction -- Focusing on fantasy -- Embracing horror -- Trying erotic fiction -- Chapter 13 Once Upon a Time: Writing for Children -- Dispelling the "It's Easy to Write for Kids" Myth -- Before Schooling Begins: Writing for the Under 5s -- Following the three "Rs" -- Feeling the rhythm -- Taking time to rhyme -- Repeating yourself -- Sounding out words -- Making objects come to life -- Showing coping skills -- Learning to Read Alone: Writing for 5- to 9-Year-Olds -- Captivating the Confident Reader: Age 9 to 13 -- Moving Toward More Mature Themes: Teenage Readers -- Crossover fiction -- Retelling old tales -- Exploring the Variety of Books for Children -- Crafting comic books -- Considering nonfiction for children -- Chapter 14 Penning Plays -- Setting Up the Dramatic Structure -- Going over some ground rules -- Sticking with the classic three-act structure -- Getting Started and Developing Your Play -- Putting a Play Together: The Artistic Process -- Sorting Out Types of Play -- Formatting Your Script -- Seeing Theater Spaces -- Writing for Radio -- Creating interest with sound -- Conveying mood with music -- Getting Your Work Out There -- Chapter 15 Writing Screenplays -- Writing a Screenplay: The Stages -- Crafting an enticing logline -- Expanding on your idea with the synopsis -- Giving your idea the full treatment -- Preparing for the Collaborative Process -- Adapting an Existing Story -- Securing options…”

“…With its independent chapter structure and rich choice of topics, a variety of syllabi for different courses at the junior, senior, and graduate levels can be supported. …”

“…The second provides an overview of the wide variety of materials that can be used for laser transfer processing, while the final section comprehensively discusses a number of practical uses, including printing of electronic materials, printing of 3D structures as well as large-area, high-throughput applications. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…8.4.1 Internet Infrastructure -- 8.4.2 High Hardware and Software Cost -- 8.4.3 Less Qualified Workforce -- 8.5 Conclusion and Discussion -- References -- Chapter 9 Application of High-Performance Computing in Synchrophasor Data Management and Analysis for Power Grids -- 9.1 Introduction -- 9.2 Applications of Synchrophasor Data -- 9.2.1 Voltage Stability Analysis -- 9.2.2 Transient Stability -- 9.2.3 Out of Step Splitting Protection -- 9.2.4 Multiple Event Detection -- 9.2.5 State Estimation -- 9.2.6 Fault Detection -- 9.2.7 Loss of Main (LOM) Detection -- 9.2.8 Topology Update Detection -- 9.2.9 Oscillation Detection -- 9.3 Utility Big Data Issues Related to PMU-Driven Applications -- 9.3.1 Heterogeneous Measurement Integration -- 9.3.2 Variety and Interoperability -- 9.3.3 Volume and Velocity -- 9.3.4 Data Quality and Security -- 9.3.5 Utilization and Analytics -- 9.3.6 Visualization of Data -- 9.4 Big Data Analytics Platforms for PMU Data Processing -- 9.4.1 Hadoop -- 9.4.2 Apache Spark -- 9.4.3 Apache HBase -- 9.4.4 Apache Storm -- 9.4.5 Cloud-Based Platforms -- 9.5 Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 10 Intelligent Enterprise-Level Big Data Analytics for Modeling and Management in Smart Internet of Roads -- 10.1 Introduction -- 10.2 Fully Convolutional Deep Neural Network for Autonomous Vehicle Identification -- 10.2.1 Detection of the Bounding Box of the License Plate -- 10.2.2 Segmentation Objective -- 10.2.3 Spatial Invariances -- 10.2.4 Model Framework -- 10.2.4.1 Increasing the Layer of Transformation -- 10.2.4.2 Data Format of Sample Images -- 10.2.4.3 Applying Batch Normalization -- 10.2.4.4 Network Architecture -- 10.2.5 Role of Data -- 10.2.6 Synthesizing Samples -- 10.2.7 Invariances -- 10.2.8 Reducing Number of Features -- 10.2.9 Choosing Number of Classes -- 10.3 Experimental Setup and Results -- 10.3.1 Sparse Softmax Loss…”

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“…The book also provides worked out examples and solved problems for a wide variety of transportation engineering challenges. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Capacity solutions for records-variety trouble -- 2.5.2. Image Mining and Processing With Big Data -- 2.5.3. …”

“… Valuation: Theories and Concepts provides an understanding on how to value companies that employ non-standard accounting procedures, particularly companies in emerging markets and those that require a wider variety of options than standard texts provide. The book offers a broader, more holistic perspective that is perfectly suited to companies and worldwide markets. …”

“…Statistics can be applied to a wide variety of fields, including science, medicine, economics, engineering, social sciences, and more…”

“…The content incorporates a wide variety of problems with various levels of difficulty and covers many application areas to engage and motivate students. …”