Tabla de Contenidos: “…Narrative Fiction as Feminist Refusal: A Utopian Short Story of Lactation in Education -- References -- Methodologies in Action Part -- Making Sense through Letter Writing -- References -- Chapter 8: The Logic of Peace: Practical Lessons from Thematic Analysis and Meditations -- Instrumental Value and Intrinsic Value -- What Meditation Means to Me -- What Thematic Analysis Means to Me -- Practical Lessons Derivable from the Methodologies of Thematic Analysis and Meditation -- References -- Methodologies in Action -- Creative Silence and 'Theme Jumping': Meditation as Thematic Analysis -- References -- Chapter 9: Getting Mixed Up: Arts-Based, Contemplative, and Generative Approaches to Thematic Analysis -- Situating Contemplative Practices -- Context and Insight Building -- The Process -- And So It Is -- References -- Methodologies in Action -- Deliberate Reflections: Unveiling Identities and Insights through Contemplative Data Analysis in Autoethnography -- Contemplation in (Autoethnographic) Action -- Note -- References -- Chapter 10: Recurring Languaging Practices as 'Themes' -- An EMCA Perspective on Analyzing Recurrence -- A Theory of Language as Action and Methodological Practices -- Approach -- Data and Example -- Conclusions -- References -- Appendix A -- Jeffersonian Transcription Symbols -- Methodologies in Action -- Applying Ubuntu in Thematic Analysis for Exploring Black Student Experiences at a Predominately White Institution -- References -- Chapter 11: Composing Poems: Using Poetry as Qualitative Data Analysis -- Poetic Inquiry -- Poetic Inquiry as Data Analysis -- Poetic Portraits as Poetic Analysis -- Poetic Analysis Example -- Using Poetic Analysis -- References -- Methodologies in Action -- Poetry as Thematic Analysis -- References -- Chapter 12: I Have Hated Analysis: Poetic Thematic Analysis…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Summary -- Pop quiz - variables and methods -- Chapter 4: Control Flow and Collection Types -- Selection statements -- The if-else statement -- Using the NOT operator -- Nesting statements -- Evaluating multiple conditions -- The switch statement -- Pattern matching -- Fall-through cases -- Pop quiz 1 - if, and, or but -- Collections at a glance -- Arrays -- Indexing and subscripts -- Range exceptions -- Lists -- Accessing and modifying lists -- Dictionaries -- Working with dictionary pairs -- Pop quiz 2 - all about collections -- Iteration statements -- for loops -- foreach loops -- Looping through key-value pairs -- while loops -- To infinity and beyond -- Summary -- Chapter 5: Working with Classes, Structs, and OOP -- Introducing OOP -- Defining classes -- Instantiating class objects -- Adding class fields -- Using constructors -- Declaring class methods -- Declaring structs -- Understanding reference and value types -- Reference types -- Value types -- Integrating the object-oriented mindset -- Encapsulation -- Inheritance -- Base constructors -- Composition -- Polymorphism -- Applying OOP in Unity -- Objects are a class act -- Accessing components -- Accessing components in code -- Drag and drop -- Summary -- Pop quiz - all things OOP -- Chapter 6: Getting Your Hands Dirty with Unity -- A game design primer -- Game design documents -- The Hero Born one-page -- Building a level -- Creating primitives -- Thinking in 3D -- Materials -- White-boxing -- Editor tools -- Hero's trial - putting up drywall -- Keeping the hierarchy clean -- Working with Prefabs -- Lighting basics -- Creating lights -- Light component properties -- Animating in Unity -- Creating animations in code -- Creating animations in the Unity Animation window -- Recording keyframes -- Curves and tangents -- Summary -- Pop quiz - basic Unity features…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Eb/N0 1.4.4 Complex baseband representation 2 Chapter 2: RF Analog impairments description and modeling 2.1 Introduction 2.2 Thermal Noise 2.2.1 Additive White Gaussian Noise 2.2.2 Noise Figure and Sensitivity 2.2.3 Cascaded noise voltage in IC design 2.2.4 AWGN in simulations 2.2.5 Flicker Noise and AWGN modeling 2.3 Oscillator Phase Noise 2.3.1 Description and Impact on the system 2.3.2 Phase Noise Modeling in Frequency Domain 2.3.3 Simulation in Temporal Domain 2.3.4 SNR limitation due to the phase noise 2.3.5 Impact of phase noise in OFDM 2.4 Sampling jitter 2.4.1 Jitter definitions 2.4.2 Sampling jitter and phase noise relationship 2.4.3 SNR limitation due to sampling jitter 2.4.4 Impact of sampling jitter in OFDM 2.4.5 Sampling jitter modeling 2.5 Carrier Frequency Offset 2.5.1 Description 2.5.2 Impact of Carrier Frequency Offset in OFDM 2.6 Sampling Frequency Offset 2.6.1 Description 2.6.2 Impact of Sampling Frequency Offset in OFDM 2.7 I&Q mismatch 2.7.1 Description 2.7.2 IQ mismatch modeling 2.7.3 SNR limitation due to IQ mismatch 2.7.4 Impact of IQ mismatch in OFDM 2.8 DAC/ADC quantization noise and clipping 2.8.1 SNR limitation due to the quantization noise and clipping level 2.8.2 Impact of converter clipping level in OFDM 2.8.3 DAC and ADC dynamic range in OFDM 2.8.4 DAC and ADC modeling 2.9 IP2 and IP3: 2nd and 3rd Order non-linearities 2.9.1 Harmonics (Single-tone test) 2.9.2 Intermodulation Distortion (Two-tone test) 2.9.3 Receiver performance degradation due to the non-linearities 3 Chapter 3: Simulation of the RF Analog impairments impact on real OFDM-based transceivers performance 3.1 Introduction 3.2 WLAN and mobile WIMAX PHY overview 3.2.1 WLAN: Standard IEEE 802.11a/g 3.2.2 Mobile WiMAX: Standard IEEE 802.16e 3.3 Simulation bench overview 3.3.1 WiFi and WiMAX OFDM transceiver modeling 3.3.2 EVM estimation as performance metric 3.3.3 EVM vs. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Emin Kutay Three Dimensional Digital Sieving of Asphalt Mixture Based on X-ray Computed Tomography doi: 10.3390/app7070734 -- Cheng Li, Jeramy Ashlock, David White and Pavana Vennapusa Permeability and Stiffness Assessment of Paved and Unpaved Roads with Geocomposite Drainage Layers doi: 10.3390/app7070718 -- Shaopeng Wu, Zhijie Zhao, Yuanyuan Li, Ling Pang, Serji Amirkhanian and Martin Riara Evaluation of Aging Resistance of Graphene Oxide Modified Asphalt doi: 10.3390/app7070702 -- Pengfei Liu, Qinyan Xing, Yiyi Dong, Dawei Wang, Markus Oeser and Si Yuan Application of Finite Layer Method in Pavement Structural Analysis doi: 10.3390/app7060611 -- Liliana M. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…7.3 SOME MORE CONCEPTS -- 7.4 MODELING TECHNIQUES -- 7.5 THE UNIFIED APPROACH TO MODELING -- 7.6 UNIFIED MODELING LANGUAGE -- SUMMARY -- EXERCISES -- Ch.8: Object-Oriented Analysis -- 8.1 USE-CASE MODELING -- 8.2 ACTIVITY DIAGRAM AND STATE DIAGRAM -- 8.3 INTERACTION DIAGRAMS -- 8.4 TYPES OF CLASSES -- 8.5 CLASS CLASSIFICATION APPROACHES -- 8.6 RELATIONSHIP, ATTRIBUTES AND METHOD IDENTIFICATION -- CASE STUDY-I: THE ATM SYSTEM OF A BANK -- CASE STUDY-II: THE MILK DISPENSER -- SUMMARY -- EXERCISES -- Ch.9: Object-Oriented Design -- 9.1 SYSTEM CONTEXT AND ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN -- 9.2 PRINCIPLES OF CLASS DESIGN -- 9.3 TYPES OF DESIGN CLASSES -- 9.4 COMPONENT DIAGRAM AND DEPLOYMENT DIAGRAM -- 9.5 PATTERNS -- 9.6 FRAMEWORK -- SUMMARY -- EXERCISES -- Ch.10: User Interface Design -- 10.1 TYPES OF USER INTERFACE -- 10.2 CHARACTERISTICS OF USER INTERFACE -- 10.3 TEXTUAL USER INTERFACE -- 10.4 GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE -- 10.5 WIDGET-BASED GUI -- 10.6 USER INTERFACE DESIGN -- SUMMARY -- EXERCISES -- Ch.11: Coding and Documentation -- 11.1 CODING STANDARDS -- 11.2 CODING GUIDELINES -- 11.3 SOFTWARE DOCUMENTATION -- 11.4 DOCUMENTATION STANDARD AND GUIDELINES -- 11.5 CASE TOOLS -- SUMMARY -- EXCERCISES -- Ch.12: Software Testing -- 12.1 TESTING FUNDAMENTALS -- 12.2 BLACK BOX TESTING -- 12.3 WHITE BOX TESTING -- 12.4 UNIT TESTING -- 12.5 INTEGRATION TESTING -- 12.6 OBJECT-ORIENTED TESTING -- 12.7 SYSTEM TESTING -- 12.8 USABILITY TESTING -- SUMMARY -- EXERCISES -- Ch.13: Software Metrics -- 13.1 SOFTWARE METRICS AND ITS CLASSIFICATION -- 13.2 SOFTWARE SIZE METRICS -- 13.3 QUALITY METRICS -- 13.4 PROCESS METRICS -- 13.5 DESIGN METRICS -- 13.6 OBJECT-ORIENTED METRICS -- SUMMARY -- EXERCISES -- Ch.14: Software Project Estimation -- 14.1 SOFTWARE PROJECT PARAMETERS -- 14.2 APPROACHES TO SOFTWARE ESTIMATION -- 14.3 PROJECT ESTIMATION TECHNIQUES…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…5.1 Key Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOx) Elements -- Title I: Public Company Accounting Oversight Board -- Title II: Auditor Independence -- Title III: Corporate Responsibility -- Title IV: Enhanced Financial Disclosures -- Title V: Analyst Conflicts of Interest -- Titles VI through X: Fraud Accountability and White‐Collar Crime -- Title XI: Corporate Fraud Accountability -- 5.2 Performing Section 404 Reviews under AS5 -- 5.3 AS5 Rules and Internal Audit -- 5.4 Impact of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act -- Notes -- Chapter 6: COBIT and Other ISACA Guidance -- 6.1 Introduction to COBIT -- 6.2 COBIT Framework -- 6.3 Principle 1: Meeting Stakeholder Needs -- 6.4 Principle 2: Covering the Enterprise End to End -- 6.5 Principle 3: A Single Integrated Framework -- 6.6 Principle 4: Enabling a Holistic Approach -- 6.7 Principle 5: Separating Governance from Management -- 6.8 Using COBIT to Assess Internal Controls -- 6.9 Mapping COBIT to COSO Internal Controls -- Notes -- Chapter 7: Enterprise Risk Management: COSO ERM -- 7.1 Risk Management Fundamentals -- Risk Identification -- Key Risk Assessments -- Probability and Uncertainty -- Risk Interdependencies -- Risk Ranking -- Quantitative Risk Analysis: Expected Values and Response Planning -- Quantitative Risk Analysis: Risk Monitoring -- 7.2 COSO ERM: Enterprise Risk Management -- 7.3 COSO ERM Key Elements -- COSO ERM: The Internal Environment Component -- COSO ERM Objective Setting -- COSO ERM Event Identification -- COSO ERM Risk Assessment -- COSO ERM Risk Response Elements -- COSO ERM Control Activities -- COSO ERM Information and Communication -- COSO ERM Monitoring -- 7.4 Other Dimensions of COSO ERM: Enterprise Risk Objectives -- Operations Risk Management Objectives -- Reporting Risk Management Objectives -- Legal and Regulatory Compliance Risk Objectives -- 7.5 Entity-Level Risks…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Time for action - black and white -- What just happened? -- Time for action - sepia -- What just happened? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…AI has made the most progress performing non-routine, cognitive tasks -- 3.1.3. High-skilled, white-collar occupations have been most exposed to recent progress in AI -- 3.2. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Working with indentation in text blocks -- Shifting the closing delimiter and/or the content -- Using indentation methods -- 4. Removing incidental white spaces in text blocks -- 5. Using text blocks just for readability -- 6. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Introduction -- Figure 1.1: The central east coast of Scotland showing Moncreiffe Hill, Abernethy, sites from the Atlas of Hillforts of Britain and Ireland (Lock and Ralston 2017) and the extent of Figure 1.6 in white. -- Figure 1.2: Some of the 338 project volunteers with staff from Perth and Kinross Heritage Trust and AOC Archaeology Group in 2017 (George Logan/PKHT). -- Figure 1.3: Moncreiffe Hill dominating head of the Tay estuary: a late 19th-century view from Newburgh (Culture Perth and Kinross Local and Family History). -- Figure 1.4: The solid geology of the area showing all three sites occurring on outcrops of the Ochil Volcanic Formation above Old Red Sandstone deposits of the Glenvale Formation (Contains British Geological Survey materials © UKRI 2023). -- Figure 1.5: Complex drift geology with mainly glacifluvial sand and gravel overlain by late glacial estuarine deposits at more than one height level, fronted on the lower ground by latest Devensian pink silts and sands. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…important -- Determining the Cascade Order -- Putting It All Together -- Chapter 5 Font Properties -- Understanding Typography on the Web -- Specifying the character set -- Generic font families -- Dingbats -- HTML character entities -- Setting a Font-Stack -- Finding Fonts -- Web-safe fonts -- Downloadable Webfonts -- Setting a better font stack -- Setting the Font Size -- NEW IN CSS3: Adjusting Font Size for Understudy Fonts -- Making Text Italic -- Setting Bold, Bolder, Boldest -- Creating Small Caps -- Setting Multiple Font Values -- Putting It All Together -- Chapter 6 Text Properties -- Adjusting Text Spacing -- Adjusting the space between letters (tracking) -- Adjusting space between words -- Adjusting space between lines of text (leading) -- Setting Text Case -- NEW IN CSS3: Adding a Text Drop Shadow -- Aligning Text Horizontally -- Aligning Text Vertically -- Indenting Paragraphs -- Controlling White Space -- Decorating Text -- Coming Soon! -- Putting It All Together -- Chapter 7 Color and Background Properties -- Choosing Color Values -- Color keywords -- RGB hex values -- RGB decimal values -- Percentage values -- New in CSS3: HSL values -- New in CSS3: Color alpha values -- New in CSS3: Color Gradients in Backgrounds -- Internet Explorer gradients -- Mozilla gradients -- Webkit gradients -- Choosing Your Color Palette -- Color wheel basics -- Online color scheme tools -- Setting Text Color -- Setting a Background Color -- Setting a Background Image -- Using Background Shorthand -- Putting It All Together -- Chapter 8 List and Table Properties -- Setting the Bullet Style -- Creating Your Own Bullets -- Setting Bullet Positions -- Setting Multiple List Styles -- Setting the Table Layout -- Setting the Space Between Table Cells…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Veterans and Agent Orange -- Copyright -- Foreword -- Preface -- CONDUCT OF THE STUDY -- Contents -- 1 Executive Summary -- ORGANIZATION AND FRAMEWORK -- CONCLUSIONS ABOUT HEALTH OUTCOMES -- Health Outcomes with Sufficient Evidence of an Association -- Health Outcomes with Limited/Suggestive Evidence of an Association -- Health Outcomes with Limited/Suggestive Evidence of No Association -- Health Outcomes with Inadequate/Insufficient Evidence to Determine Whether an Association Exists -- Increased Risk in Vietnam Veterans -- RESEARCH RECOMMENDATIONS -- Epidemiologic Studies of Vietnam Veterans -- Mandated Research Efforts -- REFERENCES -- 2 History of the Controversy Over the Use of Herbicides -- MILITARY USE OF HERBICIDES IN VIETNAM -- Herbicide Development and Testing -- Use of Herbicides in Vietnam -- EARLY CONCERNS ABOUT THE USE OF HERBICIDES IN VIETNAM -- Early Accounts of Dioxin (TCDD) -- Concerns Over the Long-Term Use of Herbicides -- CONCERNS ABOUT EXPOSURE TO AGENT ORANGE -- Vietnam Veterans Return Home -- The Beginning of the Controversy -- AGENT ORANGE PRODUCT LIABILITY LITIGATION -- Class Action Suit -- CONCERNS ABOUT OTHER EXPOSURES TO 2,4,5-T AND TCDD -- Occupational Exposure -- Production Workers -- Agricultural and Forestry Workers -- Pulp and Paper Mill Workers -- Major Event Associated with Occupational Exposure to Dioxin (TCDD) -- Environmental Exposures -- Domestic Use of Herbicides -- Major Events Associated with Environmental Exposure to Dioxin (TCDD) -- THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT'S RESPONSE TO PUBLIC CONCERNS -- White House -- U.S. Congress -- Hearings -- Legislation on Agent Orange -- Office of Technology Assessment -- General Accounting Office -- Department of the Air Force -- Department of Veterans Affairs -- Health Care -- Research Efforts -- Compensation and Benefits -- Outreach Activities…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…6.3 Block Diagrams and Their Description -- 6.3.1 Block Diagram of SONY Progressive Scan Analog Camera -- 6.3.2 Block Diagram of Color Camera with Digital Image Processing -- 6.4 mvBlueCOUGAR-X Line of Cameras -- 6.4.1 Black and White Digital Camera mvBlueCOUGAR-X Camera Series -- 6.4.2 Color Camera mvBlueCOUGAR-X Family -- 6.4.3 Controlling Image Capture -- 6.4.4 Acquisition and Trigger Modes -- 6.4.5 Data Transmission -- 6.4.6 Pixel Data -- 6.4.7 Camera Connection -- 6.4.8 Operating the Camera -- 6.4.9 HiRose Jack Pin Assignment -- 6.4.10 Sensor Frame Rates and Bandwidth -- 6.5 Configuration of a GigE Vision Camera -- 6.6 Qualifying Cameras and Noise Measurement (Dr. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…8.9 Nonlinear Instrumental Variables Estimation -- 8.10 Natural Experiments and the Search for Causal Effects -- 8.11 Summary and Conclusions -- Part II: Generalized Regression Model and Equation Systems -- CHAPTER 9 The Generalized Regression Model and Heteroscedasticity -- 9.1 Introduction -- 9.2 Robust Least Squares Estimation and Inference -- 9.3 Properties of Least Squares and Instrumental Variables -- 9.3.1 Finite-Sample Properties of Least Squares -- 9.3.2 Asymptotic Properties of Least Squares -- 9.3.3 Heteroscedasticity and Var[b|X] -- 9.3.4 Instrumental Variable Estimation -- 9.4 Efficient Estimation by Generalized Least Squares -- 9.4.1 Generalized Least Squares (GLS) -- 9.4.2 Feasible Generalized Least Squares (FGLS) -- 9.5 Heteroscedasticity and Weighted Least Squares -- 9.5.1 Weighted Least Squares -- 9.5.2 Weighted Least Squares with Known Ω -- 9.5.3 Estimation When Ω Contains Unknown Parameters -- 9.6 Testing for Heteroscedasticity -- 9.6.1 White's General Test -- 9.6.2 The Lagrange Multiplier Test -- 9.7 Two Applications -- 9.7.1 Multiplicative Heteroscedasticity -- 9.7.2 Groupwise Heteroscedasticity -- 9.8 Summary and Conclusions -- CHAPTER 10 Systems of Regression Equations -- 10.1 Introduction -- 10.2 The Seemingly Unrelated Regressions Model -- 10.2.1 Ordinary Least Squares And Robust Inference -- 10.2.2 Generalized Least Squares -- 10.2.3 Feasible Generalized Least Squares -- 10.2.4 Testing Hypotheses -- 10.2.5 The Pooled Model -- 10.3 Systems of Demand Equations: Singular Systems -- 10.3.1 Cobb-Douglas Cost Function -- 10.3.2 Flexible Functional Forms: The Translog Cost Function -- 10.4 Simultaneous Equations Models -- 10.4.1 Systems of Equations -- 10.4.2 A General Notation for Linear Simultaneous Equations Models -- 10.4.3 The Identification Problem -- 10.4.4 Single Equation Estimation and Inference…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…2.4.3 Forecasting the Future Value of an MA(q) Process -- 2.4.4 Evaluating the Accuracy of a Forecast Function -- References -- Appendix 2.A -- 3 Vector Autoregressive Moving Average (VARMA) Models -- 3.1 Foundations of Multivariate Time Series Analysis -- 3.1.1 Weak Stationarity of Multivariate Time Series -- 3.1.2 Cross-Covariance and Cross-Correlation Matrices -- 3.1.3 Sample Cross-Covariance and Cross-Correlation Matrices -- 3.1.4 Multivariate Portmanteau Tests -- 3.1.5 Multivariate White Noise Process -- 3.2 Introduction to Vector Autoregressive Analysis -- 3.2.1 From Structural to Reduced-Form Vector Autoregressive Models -- 3.2.2 Stationarity Conditions and the Population Moments of a VAR(1) Process -- 3.2.3 Generalization to a VAR(p) Model -- 3.2.4 Estimation of a VAR(p) Model -- 3.2.5 Specification of a Vector Autoregressive Model and Hypothesis Testing -- 3.2.6 Forecasting With a Vector Autoregressive Model -- 3.3 Structural Analysis With Vector Autoregressive Models -- 3.3.1 Impulse Response Functions -- 3.3.2 Variance Decompositions -- 3.3.3 Granger Causality -- 3.4 Vector Moving Average and Vector Autoregressive Moving Average Models -- 3.4.1 Vector Moving Average Models -- 3.4.2 Vector Autoregressive Moving Average Models -- References -- 4 Unit Roots and Cointegration -- 4.1 Defining Unit Root Processes -- 4.1.1 What Happens If One Incorrectly Detrends a Unit Root Series? …”