Tabla de Contenidos: “…. -- Creating and visualizing conversation paths with Rasa -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- Creating actions for the Rasa chatbot -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- See also -- Chapter 8: Visualizing Text Data -- Technical requirements -- Visualizing the dependency parse -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- Visualizing parts of speech -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- Visualizing NER -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- Constructing word clouds -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- There's more... -- See also -- Visualizing topics -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- See also -- Why subscribe?…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…13 Electronic Materials -- 13.1 Charge Carriers and Conduction -- 13.2 Energy Levels and Energy Bands -- 13.3 Conductors -- THERMOCOUPLES -- SUPERCONDUCTORS -- 13.4 Insulators -- FERROELECTRICS -- PIEZOELECTRICS -- 13.5 Semiconductors -- INTRINSIC, ELEMENTAL SEMICONDUCTORS -- EXTRINSIC, ELEMENTAL SEMICONDUCTORS -- COMPOUND SEMICONDUCTORS -- PROCESSING OF SEMICONDUCTORS -- SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES -- 13.6 Composites -- 13.7 Electrical Classification of Materials -- 14 Optical and Magnetic Materials -- 14.1 Optical Materials -- OPTICAL PROPERTIES -- OPTICAL SYSTEMS AND DEVICES -- 14.2 Magnetic Materials -- FERROMAGNETISM -- FERRIMAGNETISM -- METALLIC MAGNETS -- CERAMIC MAGNETS -- 15 Materials in Engineering Design -- 15.1 Material Properties-Engineering Design Parameters -- 15.2 Selection of Structural Materials-Case Studies -- MATERIALS FOR HIP-AND KNEE-JOINT REPLACEMENT -- METAL SUBSTITUTION WITH COMPOSITES -- 15.3 Selection of Electronic, Optical, and Magnetic Materials-Case Studies -- LIGHT-EMITTING DIODE -- GLASS FOR SMART PHONE AND TABLET TOUCH SCREENS -- AMORPHOUS METAL FOR ELECTRIC-POWER DISTRIBUTION -- 15.4 Materials and Our Environment -- ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION OF MATERIALS -- ENVIRONMENTAL ASPECTS OF DESIGN -- RECYCLING -- APPENDIX 1 Physical and Chemical Data for the Elements -- APPENDIX 2 Atomic and Ionic Radii of the Elements -- APPENDIX 3 Constants and Conversion Factors -- APPENDIX 4 Properties of the Structural Materials -- APPENDIX 5 Properties of the Electronic, Optical, and Magnetic Materials -- APPENDIX 6 Glossary -- Answers to Practice Problems (PP) and Odd-Numbered Problems -- Index…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- The four types of marketing -- Mass marketing -- Hope marketing -- Hunting vs farming -- Relationship-based marketing -- Chapter 5 Building your marketing machine -- Understanding your audience -- The Desires vs Frustrations Matrix -- How to research your audiences -- Speak to people -- Surveys -- Analytics -- The Online Eco-System -- Your website -- Traffic -- Conversions -- Relationships -- Reactivation -- The customer journey -- Chapter 6 Creating your brand strategy -- What is a brand? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Proven techniques to capture the current state -- Identifying gaps and improvement/automation opportunities -- Developing the future state - "to-be" -- Future state swim lane process flow diagram -- Benefits of creating process flows -- Summary -- Questions -- Further reading -- Chapter 5: Business Requirements Document -- Reviewing the need for business requirements documentation -- Understanding user requirements and use cases -- Exploring functional and non-functional requirements -- Functional requirements -- Non-functional requirements -- Learning what level of detail is sufficient -- Requirements matrix (prioritized product backlog) -- Explaining a typical business requirement document and its key attributes -- Practical tips for success -- Summary -- Questions -- Further reading -- Part 2: Design, Development, and Testing - Iterative Cycles with Prototypes and Conference Room Pilots -- Chapter 6: Solution Design and Functional Document -- Understanding solution design -- Identifying functional requirements -- Identifying non-functional requirements -- Reviewing data conversion requirements -- Understanding the functional requirements matrix -- Developing the function document -- Practical tips for success -- Summary -- Questions -- Further reading -- Chapter 7: Demonstrate Functionality Using Prototypes -- The need for prototyping and its categories -- Categories of prototype -- When to do prototyping -- Prototype stages -- What and how do you prototype? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- the non-purpose-driven solution -- the purpose-driven solution -- 25 ten tips for staying on-purpose -- convention is like gravity -- you're now the rebels, not the government -- warning: purpose polarises -- naysayers can't help themselves -- value the good feedback -- you'll be tempted to go the wrong way -- financial pressure -- financial windfall -- ditch the cookie-cutter stuff -- don't compare yourself -- heads up: effort hurts -- life is about trade-offs -- a final word -- coaching and conversation -- recommended reading -- that other name on the cover -- about the author -- index -- EULA…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Creating a delegate type using lambda expresions -- Expression trees and lambda expressions -- Subscribing for events using lambda expressions -- Using the event keyword -- Using EventHandler or EventHandler&lt -- T&gt -- -- The advantages of using lambda expression in functional programming -- First-class functions -- Closure -- Summary -- Chapter 4: Extending Object Functionality with Extension Methods -- Getting closer to extension methods -- Creating an extension method -- Extension methods in the code IntelliSense -- Calling extension methods in the other assemblies -- Referencing a namespace -- Piggybacking a namespace -- Leveraging the interface, collection, and object -- Extending the interface -- Extending the collection -- Extending an object -- Advantages of using extension methods in functional programming -- Limitations of the extension method -- Extending a static class -- Modifying the method implementation in the existing class or type -- Summary -- Chapter 5: Querying Any Collection Easily with LINQ -- Getting started with LINQ -- Deferring LINQ execution -- Choosing between fluent syntax and query expression syntax -- Understanding the LINQ fluent syntax -- Understanding the LINQ query expression syntax -- Enumerating standard query operators -- Filtering -- Projection -- Joining -- Ordering -- Grouping -- The set operation -- Conversion methods -- Element operation -- Summary -- Chapter 6: Enhancing the Responsiveness of the Functional Program with Asynchronous Programming -- Building a responsive application -- Running a program synchronously -- Applying threads in the program -- Creating threads using thread pool -- The asynchronous programming model pattern -- Using the synchronous Read() method -- Using the BeginRead() and EndRead() methods -- Adding LINQ to the BeginRead() method invocation…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Flat Files -- Database Models -- Database Design Considerations -- Chapter 2: SQL Fundamentals -- What SQL Is and Isn't -- A (Very) Little History -- SQL Statements -- Reserved Words -- Data Types -- Null Values -- Constraints -- Using SQL in a Client/Server System -- Using SQL on the Internet or an Intranet -- Chapter 3: The Components of SQL -- Data Definition Language -- Data Manipulation Language -- Data Control Language -- Part 2: Using SQL to Build Databases -- Chapter 4: Building and Maintaining a Simple Database Structure -- Using a RAD Tool to Build a Simple Database -- Building POWER with SQL's DDL -- Portability Considerations -- Chapter 5: Building a Multi-table Relational Database -- Designing a Database -- Working with Indexes -- Maintaining Data Integrity -- Normalizing the Database -- Part 3: Storing and Retrieving Data -- Chapter 6: Manipulating Database Data -- Retrieving Data -- Creating Views -- Updating Views -- Adding New Data -- Updating Existing Data -- Transferring Data -- Deleting Obsolete Data -- Chapter 7: Handling Temporal Data -- Understanding Times and Periods -- Working with Application-Time Period Tables -- Working with System-Versioned Tables -- Tracking Even More Time Data with Bitemporal Tables -- Formatting and Parsing Dates and Times -- Chapter 8: Specifying Values -- Values -- Value Expressions -- Functions -- Chapter 9: Using Advanced SQL Value Expressions -- CASE Conditional Expressions -- CAST Data-Type Conversions -- Row Value Expressions…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contributors -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Part 1 - Introduction to Embedded Systems Development -- Chapter 1: Embedded Systems - A Pragmatic Approach -- Domain definition -- Embedded Linux systems -- Low-end 8-bit microcontrollers -- Hardware architecture -- Understanding the challenges -- Multithreading -- RAM -- Flash memory -- General-purpose input/output (GPIO) -- ADC and DAC -- Timers and PWM -- Interfaces and peripherals -- Asynchronous UART-based serial communication -- SPI -- I2C -- USB -- Connected systems -- Challenges of distributed systems -- Introduction to isolation mechanisms -- The reference platform -- ARM reference design -- The Cortex-M microprocessor -- Summary -- Chapter 2: Work Environment and Workflow Optimization -- Workflow overview -- The C compiler -- Linker -- Make: a build automation tool -- Debugger -- Embedded workflow -- Text editors versus integrated environments -- The GCC toolchain -- The cross compiler -- Compiling the compiler -- Linking the executable -- Binary format conversion -- Interacting with the target -- The GDB session -- Validation -- Functional tests -- Hardware tools -- Testing off-target -- Emulators -- Summary -- Part 2 - Core System Architecture -- Chapter 3: Architectural Patterns -- Configuration management -- Revision control -- Tracking activities -- Code reviews -- Continuous integration -- Source code organization -- Hardware abstraction -- Middleware -- Application code -- Security considerations -- Vulnerability management -- Software cryptography -- Hardware cryptography -- Running untrusted code -- The life cycle of an embedded project -- Defining project steps -- Prototyping -- Refactoring -- API and documentation -- Summary -- Chapter 4: The Boot-Up Procedure -- Technical requirements -- The interrupt vector table -- Startup code…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Lotz -- From monologue to dialogue in conversations with nonbelievers, or the difficult search for partners in dialogue / Bernd Groth -- Human rights and freedom within official atheism / Ivan Fucek -- Interreligious dialogue in the Church's evangelizing mission: twenty years of evolution of a theological concept / Jacques Dupuis -- Evangelization and dialogue in Vatican II and in the 1974 Synod / Mariasusai Dhavamony -- The Catholic Church and the jewish people / Reinhard Neudecker -- The Church looks at muslims / Ary A. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Front Cover -- Bio-inspired Algorithms for Engineering -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Bio-inspired Algorithms -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.1.1 Bio-inspired and evolutionary algorithms -- 1.2 Particle Swarm Optimization -- 1.3 Arti cial Bee Colony Algorithm -- 1.4 Micro Arti cial Bee Colony Algorithm -- 1.5 Differential Evolution -- 1.6 Bacterial Foraging Optimization Algorithm -- References -- 2 Data Classi cation Using Support Vector Machines Trained with Evolutionary Algorithms Employing Kernel Adatron -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Support Vector Machines -- 2.3 Evolutionary algorithms -- 2.4 The Kernel Adatron algorithm -- 2.5 Kernel Adatron trained with evolutionary algorithms -- 2.6 Results using benchmark repository datasets -- 2.7 Application to classify electromyographic signals -- 2.8 Conclusions -- References -- 3 Reconstruction of 3D Surfaces Using RBF Adjusted with PSO -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Radial basis functions -- 3.3 Interpolation of surfaces with RBF and PSO -- 3.3.1 Ellipsoid of covariance -- 3.3.2 RBF-PSO and ellipsoid of covariance to interpolate 3D point-clouds -- 3.3.3 Experimental results -- 3.4 Conclusion -- References -- 4 Soft Computing Applications in Robot Vision -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Image tracking -- 4.2.1 Normalized cross correlation -- 4.2.2 Continuous plane to image plane conversion -- 4.2.3 Algorithm implementation -- 4.2.4 Experiments -- 4.3 Plane detection -- 4.3.1 Description of the method -- 4.3.2 Simulations results -- 4.3.2.1 Outliers test -- 4.3.3 Noise test -- 4.3.4 Experiments -- 4.4 Conclusion -- References -- 5 Soft Computing Applications in Mobile Robotics -- 5.1 Introduction to mobile robotics -- 5.2 Nonholonomic mobile robot navigation -- 5.2.1 2D projective geometry -- 5.2.1.1 Representation of points -- 5.2.1.2 Representation of lines -- 5.2.1.3 Point line distance…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…No silver bullet: choosing the best trade-off -- 4.5.1. Conversion errors and artifacts -- 4.5.2. Performances of typical converters -- 4.6. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Case study 2 - creating a Chrome extension using AI -- Summary -- Chapter 8: AI for Chatbots -- Technical requirements -- How to use GPT-4 APIs and other LLM APIs to create chatbots -- Building conversational interfaces with LLM APIs -- How to use AI for customer support -- Case study - a chatbot using AI to assist users in ordering products -- Case study - creating interactive quizzes/assessments and deploying them as chatbot flows -- Summary -- Chapetr 9: Building Smarter Systems - Advanced LLM Integrations -- Automating bulk prompting with spreadsheets -- Integrating LLMs into your tech stack using Zapier and Make -- Creating and translating product descriptions -- Moving beyond APIs - building custom LLM pipelines with LangChain -- LangChain's building blocks -- LangChain's no-code tools - Langflow and Flowise -- LangSmith - debug, test, and monitor your LLM workflows -- The future of LLM integration - plugins, agents, assistants, GPTs, and multimodal models -- Summary -- Part 4: Ethics, Limitations, and Future Developments -- Chapter 10: Generative AI - Emerging Issues at the Intersection of Ethics and Innovation -- Exploring the ethical challenges of generative AI -- Trust and accountability challenges of generative AI -- Economic impact considerations -- Environmental sustainability issues -- Societal risks and reflections -- Broader societal impacts -- What machine creativity reveals about cognition -- Concerns in defense and healthcare -- The path forward - solutions and safeguards -- Summary -- Chapter 11: Conclusion -- Recap of the book's content -- Expanding possibilities - innovative prompt engineering applications -- Achieving intended outcomes - prompt engineering goals -- Understanding limitations and maintaining oversight -- Summary -- Index -- Other Books You May Enjoy…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Lead Capture Process -- 2. Sales Conversations -- 3. Servicing Process -- The Complete ATM -- What Happens when You don't have a Product Ecosystem? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…14.11 References -- 14.12 Problems -- Appendix A: Useful formulae, identities, units and constants -- Appendix B: 4-port Conversions between T and S-parameters -- Appendix C: Critical values of the F-statistic -- Appendix D: Critical values of the t-statistic -- Appendix E: Derivation of the internal inductance using the Hilbert Transform…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…3.4.3.1.3 SAML Bindings3.4.3.1.4 SAML Profiles; 3.4.3.2 The Evolution of SAML; 3.4.3.2.1 SAML v1.0; 3.4.3.2.2 SAML v1.1; 3.4.3.2.3 SAML 2.0; 3.4.3.2.3.1 SAML 2.0 Assertions; 3.5 Web Service Specifications; 3.5.1 WS-Security; 3.5.2 WS-SecurityPolicy; 3.5.3 WS-SecureConversation; 3.5.4 WS-Trust; 3.5.5 WS-Federation; 3.6 Windows Identity Foundation; 3.6.1 WIF Features; 3.6.1.1 Claims-Aware Applications; 3.6.1.2 Identity Delegation; 3.6.1.3 Custom Token Servers; 3.6.1.4 Step-Up Authentication; 3.7 Claims-Based Identity; 3.7.1 CBA Description and Overview; 3.7.1.1 Claims; 3.7.1.2 Token…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…75 -- Conclusion 80 -- Chapter 6: Mothering as sacred duty and metaphor: The theology of Mercy Oduyoye 81 -- Introduction 81 -- The distinction between motherhood and mothering 82 -- Oduyoye as mother 83 -- Mothering as metaphor 85 -- Anowa as mother 87 -- Mothering and a doctrine of creation 88 -- Oduyoye's concept of mothering, creation and reproductive loss 91 -- Conclusion 93 -- Part Two: Biblical reflections -- Chapter 7: Reproduction and the responsibility of royal -- representation: A reading of Genesis 1:26-28 97 -- Introduction 97 -- Translation of Genesis 1:26-28 103 -- Interpretive comments on Genesis 1:26-28 104 -- Conclusion 124 -- Chapter 8: Pauline uterine discourse in context 125 -- Introduction 125 -- The womb in antiquity 126 -- The womb in the Bible 130 -- The womb in the Pauline letters 133 -- Kοιλία [womb, belly, stomach]; γαστήρ [womb, belly]; μήτρα [womb] 133 -- The mothering Paul 135 -- Unproductive and misbehaving wombs: Paulus abortivus 136 -- Discursive uterine strategies in Paul 138 -- Conclusion 143 -- Chapter 9: An attempt to liberate the womb from divine overburdening - In conversation with Mary and Elizabeth (Luke 1:5-45) 145 -- Introduction 145 -- Divine conception 149 -- Luke 1:35 152 -- Reducing 'being' to 'wombing' 156 -- The imperfection of the womb 161 -- Conclusion 166 -- Part Three: Ethical reflections -- Chapter 10: Whose womb is it anyway? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Python and Geographic Information Systems -- Measuring distance -- Pythagorean theorem -- Haversine formula -- Vincenty formula -- Coordinate conversion -- Reprojection -- Editing shapefiles -- Accessing the shapefile -- Reading shapefile attributes -- Reading shapefile geometry -- Changing a shapefile -- Adding fields -- Merging shapefiles -- Splitting shapefiles -- Subsetting spatially -- Performing selections -- Point in polygon formula -- Attribute selections -- Creating images for visualization -- Dot density calculations -- Choropleth maps -- Using spreadsheets -- Using GPS data -- Summary -- 6. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- 1.3 THE COMMITTEE'S APPROACH -- 1.4 ECONOMIC IMPACT OF BIOTECHNOLOGY -- 1.5 ROLE OF BIOPROCESS ENGINEERING -- 1.6 BARRIERS TO EXPLOITATION OF BIOTECHNOLOGY -- 2 The Challenge -- 2.1 TRANSLATING SCIENCE INTO PRODUCTS -- 2.2 BIOPHARMACEUTICALS -- 2.2.1 New Technology Required for Biopharmaceuticals -- 2.2.2 Bioprocess Engineering Requires Many Disciplines -- 2.2.3 Opportunities -- 2.3 THE ENVIRONMENT -- 2.4 CONVERSION OF RENEWABLE AND NONRENEWABLE RESOURCES -- 2.4.1 Renewable Resources -- 2.4.2 Nonrenewable Resources -- 2.4.3 Coupled Synthesis Gas -- 2.4.4 Enhanced Oil Recovery -- 2.4.5 Opportunities -- 2.5 SPACE -- 2.6 BIOTECHNOLOGY-RESEARCH INITIATIVE GIVEN BY FEDERAL COORDINATING COUNCIL FOR SCIENCE, ENGINEERING, AND TECHNOLOGY (FCCSET) -- 2.7 SUMMARY -- 2.8 REFERENCES -- 3 Benchmarking: Status of U.S. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover -- Endorsement -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Contributors -- 1 Introduction -- Why the Essay -- Why the Journey -- Questions for the Rising Generation of Teacher-Scholars in Business Communication and in Other Academic Disciplines -- Lessons Learned From the Essays -- Collaborative Work -- An "Unending Conversation" -- References -- 2 Take Two Xanax and Call Me in the Morning -- Or, Career Tension in Business Communication -- First Conference and First Academic Job -- Assistant Professor -- Associate Professor With Tenure -- Full Professor-A New Set of Tensions -- A 17-Year Administrative Aside-1988-2005 -- The Final Chapters: 2005- -- Wrap Up -- References -- 3 Cultivating a Liberal Arts Perspective On Workplace Communication -- The Journey -- A Writing-Centered Career -- Material Culture and Rhetoric -- The Journal -- Business Communication at the University of Delaware -- Material Culture Studies: A New Position -- Rhetoric and Material Culture Studies: Research On the Workplace -- From Context to Community: Revisiting a Textbook After 20 Years -- This Is Not a Box -- Learn With Your Students -- Learn With Your Colleagues -- Work Smart -- Integrate Your Teaching and Research -- Write, Read, and Support the Writing of Colleagues -- Take a Broad Perspective -- References -- 4 "Only Connect" Between Personal Life and Professional Choice, Scholarship and Teaching, My Generation and the Next -- Connections Between the Personal and the Professional -- Links Between a Business School's Mission and the Discipline of Business Communication -- An Entrepreneurial Frame of Mind and Moment -- Translation as Cross-Cultural Communication and Political Act -- Connections Between My Students and My Work as a Teacher-Scholar: Observe, Listen, Respond, and be Entrepreneurial…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…challenge -- Summary -- Chapter 4: Getting Started with a Data Quality Initiative -- The first few weeks after budget approval -- Key activities in those early weeks -- Understanding data quality workstreams -- Workstreams required early on -- Identifying the right people for your team -- Mapping resources to the workstreams -- Summary -- Part 2 - Understanding and Monitoring the Data That Matters -- Chapter 5: Data Discovery -- An overview of the data discovery process -- Understanding business strategy, objectives, and challenges -- Approaches to stakeholder identification -- Content of stakeholder conversations -- The hierarchy of strategy, objectives, processes, analytics, and data -- Prioritizing using strategy -- Linking challenges to processes, data, and reporting -- Basics of data profiling -- Typical tool data profiling capabilities -- Using these capabilities -- Connecting to data -- Summary -- Chapter 6: Data Quality Rules -- An introduction to data quality rules -- Rule scope -- The key features of data quality rules -- Rule weightings -- Rule dimensions -- Rule priorities -- Rule thresholds -- Cost per failure -- Implementing data quality rules -- Designing rules -- Building data quality rules -- Testing data quality rules -- Summary -- Chapter 7: Monitoring Data Against Rules -- Introduction to data quality reporting -- Different levels of reporting -- Data security considerations -- Designing a high-level data quality dashboard -- Dimensions and filters -- Designing a Rule Results Report -- Typical features of the Rule Results Report -- Designing Failed Data Reports -- Typical features of the Failed Data Reports -- Re-using Failed Data Reports -- Multiple Failed Data Reports -- Exporting Failed Data Reports…”