Tabla de Contenidos: “…Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- About This Book -- Conventions Used in This Book -- What You're Not to Read -- Foolish Assumptions -- Icons Used in This Book -- Beyond the Book -- Where to Go from Here -- Part 1 Getting Started with Financial Reports -- Chapter 1 Opening the Cornucopia of Reports -- Figuring Out Financial Reporting -- Preparing the reports -- Seeing why financial reporting counts (and who's counting) -- Checking Out Types of Reporting -- Keeping everyone informed -- Following the rules: Government requirements -- Going global -- Staying within the walls of the company: Internal reporting -- Dissecting the Annual Report to Shareholders -- Breaking down the parts -- Getting to the meat of the matter -- Keeping the number crunchers in line -- Chapter 2 Recognizing Business Types and Their Tax Rules -- Flying Solo: Sole Proprietorships -- Keeping taxes personal -- Reviewing requirements for reporting -- Joining Forces: Partnerships -- Partnering up on taxes -- Meeting reporting requirements -- Seeking Protection with Limited Liability Companies -- Taking stock of taxes -- Reviewing reporting requirements -- Shielding Your Assets: S and C Corporations -- Paying taxes the corporate way -- Getting familiar with reporting requirements -- Chapter 3 Public or Private: How Company Structure Affects the Books -- Investigating Private Companies -- Checking out the benefits -- Defining disadvantages -- Figuring out reporting -- Understanding Public Companies -- Examining the perks -- Looking at the negative side -- Filing and More Filing: Government and Shareholder Reports -- Quarterly reports -- Yearly report -- The rules of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act -- Dodd-Frank's impact on financial industry regulation -- Entering a Whole New World: How a Company Goes from Private to Public…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…USB-based authentication -- Chapter 9 Preventing Social Engineering Attacks -- Don't Trust Technology More than You Would People -- Types of Social Engineering Attacks -- Six Principles Social Engineers Exploit -- Don't Overshare on Social Media -- Your schedule and travel plans -- Financial information -- Personal information -- Information about your children -- Information about your pets -- Work information -- Possible cybersecurity issues -- Crimes and minor infractions -- Medical or legal advice -- Your location -- Your birthday -- Your "sins" -- Leaking Data by Sharing Information as Part of Viral Trends -- Identifying Fake Social Media Connections -- Photo -- Verification -- Friends or connections in common -- Relevant posts -- Number of connections -- Industry and location -- Similar people -- Duplicate contact -- Contact details -- Premium status -- LinkedIn endorsements -- Group activity -- Appropriate levels of relative usage -- Human activities -- Cliché names -- Poor contact information -- Skill sets -- Spelling -- Age of an account -- Suspicious career or life path -- Level or celebrity status -- Using Bogus Information -- Using Security Software -- General Cyberhygiene Can Help Prevent Social Engineering -- Part 4 Cybersecurity for Businesses, Organizations, and Government -- Chapter 10 Securing Your Small Business -- Making Sure Someone Is In Charge -- Watching Out for Employees -- Incentivize employees -- Avoid giving out the keys to the castle -- Give everyone separate credentials -- Restrict administrators -- Limit access to corporate accounts -- Implement employee policies -- Enforce social media policies -- Monitor employees -- Dealing with a Remote Workforce -- Use work devices and separate work networks -- Set up virtual private networks -- Create standardized communication protocols -- Use a known network…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Common GCP services to assist in the detection and mitigation of insider threats -- Detecting and mitigating insecure APIs in cloud services -- Common AWS services to assist in the detection and mitigation of insecure APIs -- Common Azure services to assist in the detection and mitigation of insecure APIs -- Common GCP services to assist in the detection and mitigation of insecure APIs -- Detecting and mitigating the abuse of cloud services -- Common AWS services to assist in the detection and mitigation of the abuse of cloud services -- Common Azure services to assist in the detection and mitigation of the abuse of cloud services -- Common GCP services to assist in the detection and mitigation of the abuse of cloud services -- Summary -- Chapter 9: Handling Compliance and Regulation -- Technical requirements -- Compliance and the shared responsibility model -- Introduction to compliance with regulatory requirements and industry best practices -- How to maintain compliance in AWS -- How to maintain compliance in Azure -- How to maintain compliance in GCP -- Summary -- What are the common ISO standards related to cloud computing? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- The Performance Measurement Process -- The Purpose of This Book -- The Role of Performance Analysts -- Book Structure -- 2 The Asset Management Industry -- Asset Classes -- Public Equities -- Bonds (or Fixed Income) -- Cash (and near cash) -- Private Assets -- Real estate -- Private equity -- Private debt -- Infrastructure -- Natural resources -- Commodities -- Derivatives -- Futures -- Forwards -- Swaps -- Options -- Option price sensitivity (the Greeks) -- Warrants -- Convertible bonds -- Contracts for difference (CFDs) -- Overlay strategies -- Currency -- Hedge Funds -- Asset Allocation -- Strategic asset allocation -- Tactical asset allocation -- 3 The Mathematics of Portfolio Return -- Simple Return -- Continuously Compounded (or Logarithmic) Returns -- Money‐weighted Returns (MWRs) -- Internal rate of return (IRR) -- Ex‐ante internal rate of return -- Simple internal rate of return -- Ex‐post internal rate of return -- Simple Dietz -- ICAA method -- Modified Dietz -- Time‐weighted Returns (TWRs) -- True time‐weighted -- Unit price method -- Unit price method with distributions -- Time‐weighted versus Money‐weighted Rates of Return -- Approximations to the Time‐weighted Return -- Index substitution -- Regression method (or β method) -- Analyst's test -- Hybrid Methodologies -- Linked modified Dietz -- BAI method (or linked IRR) -- Which Method to Use? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Case study 1 - Streamlining microservices communication in multi-clouds -- Case study 2 - Managing data consistency in a multi-cloud environment -- Case study 3 - Scaling challenges in a multi-cloud environment -- SRE in multi-cloud environments -- The principles of SRE -- The benefits of SRE -- Chaos engineering -- Summary -- Part 4: Best Practices, Case Studies, and Future Trends for Multi-Cloud and Cloud-Native -- 8 -- Chapter 8: Learning from Pioneers and Case Studies -- Real-world case studies -- Capital One - accelerating decision-making applications with Kubernetes -- Ygrene - using cloud-native tech to bring security and scalability to the finance industry -- T-Mobile - scaling up for peak with Kubernetes -- Uber - cloud-native transformation for agility -- Deployment strategies and best practices -- Deployment strategies -- Lessons learned and recommendations -- Lessons learned -- Recommendations for future projects -- Summary -- 9 -- Chapter 9: Bringing Your Cloud-Native Application to Life -- Project planning -- Designing cloud-native applications for multi-cloud -- Designing a cloud-native application on multi-cloud -- Building your cloud-native application -- Practical examples: building effective cloud-native applications -- Deployment best practices -- Security best practices for deployment -- Load testing and performance optimization -- Performing load testing and performance optimization -- Troubleshooting and optimization -- Optimization and scaling -- Cost-optimization strategies -- Scalability and elasticity -- Performance monitoring and tuning -- Hands-on exercise: e-commerce in multi-cloud architecture -- Summary -- 10 -- Chapter 10: Future-Proofing Your Cloud Computing Skills -- Next-generation cloud-native infrastructure and platforms -- Evolution of platform engineering…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…LA RELACIÓN DE CAUSALIDAD EN EL ÁMBITO DE LA RESPONSABILIDAD POR MEDICAMENTOS DEFECTUOSOS / Mónica Navarro-Michel -- Capítulo 4 CUESTIONES DE CAUSALIDAD EN UNA ACCIÓN ALTERNATIVA POR DAÑO A LA PROPIEDAD INDUSTRIAL / Ricardo Concha Machuca -- Capítulo 5 LA CAUSALIDAD POR OMISIÓN EN EL SISTEMA DE RESPONSABILIDAD EXTRA-CONTRACTUAL DEL ESTADO COLOMBIANO / Frank Yurlian Olivares Torres -- Capítulo 6 PROPUESTA DE SOLUCIÓN CAUSAL A LAS DEMANDAS EN CONTRA DEL ESTADO DE CHILE POR EL TERREMOTO Y TSUNAMI DEL 2010 / Ignacio Ríos Erazo -- III. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Keyframe conventions -- Keyframing in the viewer -- Adding new keyframes -- Selecting linear or smooth curves -- Viewer keyframe controls -- Keyframing video animation -- Ken Burns on steroids -- Summary -- Chapter 14: Understanding the Principles of Color -- Color theory -- Color classification -- Color values -- The color wheel -- Color wheels in Final Cut Pro -- Color Board -- Color wheels -- Highlights wheel -- Color harmony -- Common color schemes -- Color schemes for non-designers -- Online color calculators -- Monitoring color accuracy -- Color-accurate monitors -- Monitor calibration -- Color correction and grading -- Adjusting temperature, tint, and hue -- Subtractive model of color mixing (CMYK model) -- Using HSL tuning for color grading -- Automatic color correction controls in Final Cut Pro -- Summary -- Chapter 15: Using Color Scopes for Advanced Color Correction -- Displaying the scopes -- Waveformmonitor -- Vectorscope -- Histogram -- The Video Scope menu -- Scopes workflow in Final Cut Pro -- Step 1 - exposure correction -- Step 2 - saturation control -- Step 3 - color balance -- Color curves -- Luma curve -- All color curves - RGB -- The eyedropper -- Hue and saturation curves -- HUE vs HUE -- HUE vs SAT -- HUE vs LUMA -- LUMA vs SAT -- SAT vs SAT -- ORANGE vs SAT -- Color and shape masks -- Summary -- Part 4: Outside Final Cut Pro -- Chapter 16: Your Job Role - Collaboration -- Understanding the job roles in video production -- The production team -- The postproduction editing team -- Exploring the industries that require video editors -- Corporate -- Social media -- Movies and TV -- Documentary -- Commercials -- Trailers -- Should you be a freelancer? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- About This Book -- Foolish Assumptions -- Icons Used in This Book -- Beyond the Book -- Where to Go from Here -- Part 1 Deciding to Buy a Business -- Chapter 1 Preparing to Buy a Business -- Figuring Your Financial Fitness -- Assess your financial position and goals -- Measuring your net worth -- Telling good debt from bad debt -- Reducing debt -- Buying insurance -- Planning for the long term -- Shrink your spending -- Build up your cash reserves -- Stabilize income with part time work -- Assessing and Replacing Benefits -- Retirement savings plans and pensions -- Health insurance -- Disability insurance -- Life insurance -- Dental, vision, and other insurance -- Social Security taxes -- Time off -- Understanding Your Time and Financial Commitments to Buy -- Stepping Toward Buying a Business -- Enlisting Help from Top-Notch Professionals -- Start with free/low-cost industry resources -- Finding and interviewing reputable professionals -- Estimating the Cost of Your Search and Business Acquisition -- Calculating a down payment amount -- Tallying search expenses -- Finding funding -- Chapter 2 Is Buying a Business for You? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover -- Copyright -- Contributors -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1: Navigating the ML Life Cycle with ML Solutions Architecture -- ML versus traditional software -- ML life cycle -- Business problem understanding and ML problem framing -- Data understanding and data preparation -- Model training and evaluation -- Model deployment -- Model monitoring -- Business metric tracking -- ML challenges -- ML solutions architecture -- Business understanding and ML transformation -- Identification and verification of ML techniques -- System architecture design and implementation -- ML platform workflow automation -- Security and compliance -- Summary -- Chapter 2: Exploring ML Business Use Cases -- ML use cases in financial services -- Capital market front office -- Sales trading and research -- Investment banking -- Wealth management -- Capital market back office operations -- Net Asset Value review -- Post-trade settlement failure prediction -- Risk management and fraud -- Anti-money laundering -- Trade surveillance -- Credit risk -- Insurance -- Insurance underwriting -- Insurance claim management -- ML use cases in media and entertainment -- Content development and production -- Content management and discovery -- Content distribution and customer engagement -- ML use cases in healthcare and life sciences -- Medical imaging analysis -- Drug discovery -- Healthcare data management -- ML use cases in manufacturing -- Engineering and product design -- Manufacturing operations - product quality and yield -- Manufacturing operations - machine maintenance -- ML use cases in retail -- Product search and discovery -- Targeted marketing -- Sentiment analysis -- Product demand forecasting -- ML use cases in the automotive industry -- Autonomous vehicles -- Perception and localization -- Decision and planning -- Control…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Value - the LLM advantage -- Impact - changing the landscape -- NLP and LLMs in the business world -- Business sectors -- Customer interactions and service - the early adopter -- Change management driven by AI's impact -- Behavioral trends induced by AI and LLMs - the social aspect -- Personal assistants becoming indispensable -- Ease in communication and bridging language barriers -- Ethical implications of delegated decisions -- Ethics and risks - growing concerns around the implementation of AI -- Summary -- Chapter 11: Exclusive Industry Insights: Perspectives and Predictions from World Class Experts -- Overview of our experts -- Nitzan Mekel-Bobrov, PhD -- David Sontag, PhD -- John D. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- 1.2 Classifications of Matter -- States of Matter -- Pure Substances -- Elements -- Compounds -- Mixtures -- 1.3 Properties of Matter -- Physical and Chemical Changes -- Separation of Mixtures -- 1.4 The Nature of Energy -- Kinetic Energy and Potential Energy -- 1.5 Units of Measurement -- SI Units -- Length and Mass -- Temperature -- Derived SI Units -- Volume -- Density -- Units of Energy -- 1.6 Uncertainty in Measurement -- Precision and Accuracy -- Significant Figures -- Significant Figures in Calculations -- 1.7 Dimensional Analysis -- Conversion Factors -- Using Two or More Conversion Factors -- Conversions Involving Volume -- Chapter Summary and Key Terms -- Learning Outcomes -- Key Equations -- Exercises -- Additional Exercises -- Chemistry Put to Work Chemistry and the Chemical Industry…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- 1.2 Classifications of Matter -- States of Matter -- Pure Substances -- Elements -- Compounds -- Mixtures -- 1.3 Properties of Matter -- Physical and Chemical Changes -- Separation of Mixtures -- 1.4 The Nature of Energy -- Kinetic Energy and Potential Energy -- 1.5 Units of Measurement -- SI Units -- Length and Mass -- Temperature -- Derived SI Units -- Volume -- Density -- Units of Energy -- 1.6 Uncertainty in Measurement -- Precision and Accuracy -- Significant Figures -- Significant Figures in Calculations -- 1.7 Dimensional Analysis -- Conversion Factors -- Using Two or More Conversion Factors -- Conversions Involving Volume -- Chapter Summary and Key Terms -- Learning Outcomes -- Key Equations -- Exercises -- Additional Exercises -- Chemistry Put to Work Chemistry and the Chemical Industry…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Achieve diverse social impact outcomes across different industries amid rapid change -- ... Find a home within your organization and among your peers at last -- How translation has served my social impact journey so far -- Key Questions -- Chapter 3: Secret #3: Highly effective social impact communicators ... leverage the strength of personal and organizational values to tell compelling stories -- The place where values come from is the workshop inside your head-and inside your organization -- What power do values really have? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Corporate First Responder Scheme -- 7.5.2.4. Industry Safety and Security Watch Group Scheme -- 7.6. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Using parallel structure -- Punctuating a list -- Avoiding laundry lists -- Chapter 8 Honing the Tone -- Using AI as Your Assistant for the Proper Tone -- Tone: The Secret to Captivating Your Audience -- Being conversational, formal, or persuasive -- Keeping it short -- Keeping it simple -- Avoiding expressions on steroids -- Choosing Positive Words -- Being Active or Passive -- Using the active voice -- Using the passive voice -- Remembering It's Not All About You -- Being Consistent and Clear -- Using Gender-Neutral Pronouns -- Using Industry-Related Jargon Appropriately -- Thinking Seriously about Being Funny -- Chapter 9 Polishing the Prose -- Using AI as Your Assistant for Proofreading and Editing -- Not Getting Lost in Translation -- Editing for Content -- Proofreading for Accuracy and Consistency -- Turning Your Brain Off when Turning Your Computer On -- Making a List and Checking It Twice -- Determining the Readability of Your Documents -- Understanding the importance of readability -- Using AI readability tools -- Part 3 Writing Click-Worthy E-Content -- Chapter 10 Turning Emails from Blah to Brilliant -- Using AI as Your Assistant for Writing Emails -- Generating Precise Prompts -- Navigating Email Boundaries -- Knowing when email is appropriate -- Knowing when email isn't appropriate -- Timing is everything -- Crafting Seductive Subject Lines -- Including key information at a glance -- Delivering the message in the subject line -- Changing the subject line when replying -- Using Cc and Bcc Appropriately -- Cc: -- Bcc: -- Creating Visual Appeal -- Including informative headlines -- Including graphics -- Using other visual cues -- Starting and Ending your Message Professionally -- Including a salutation and closing -- Creating a signature block -- Replying to Messages -- Eliminating Spam -- Applying the Art of Email Finesse…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Whatever Works for You -- The People Who Make It All Happen -- The Artist -- Studio Musicians and Arrangers -- The Producer -- The Engineer -- Assistant Engineer -- Maintenance Engineer -- Mastering Engineer -- Studio Management -- Music Law -- Women and Minorities in the Industry -- Behind the Scenes -- Career Development -- Self-Motivation -- Networking: "Showing Up Is Huge" -- So, What Are Some Good Ways to Get Started? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Persona-driven network automation -- Industry trends -- Understanding SoT -- Defining SoT -- Approaches to SoT -- SoT tools and products -- Nautobot overview -- Nautobot use cases -- Network SoT -- Network automation platform -- Nautobot ecosystem -- Summary -- Chapter 2: Nautobot Data Models -- Nautobot data models overview -- Data model summary -- Network device inventory data models -- Devices -- Device components -- Device types -- Manufacturer -- Roles and statuses -- Platform -- Virtual chassis -- Device redundancy groups -- Interface redundancy groups -- Racks -- Locations -- Location type -- Tenants -- IPAM data models -- Namespaces -- Prefixes -- IP addresses -- RIRs -- VRFs -- Route targets -- VLANs and VLAN groups -- Circuits data models -- Circuits -- Circuit terminations -- Circuit types -- Circuit providers -- Provider networks -- Data model extensibility -- Custom fields -- Computed fields -- Relationships -- Config contexts -- Custom data models -- Summary -- Part 2: Getting Started with Nautobot -- Chapter 3: Installing and Deploying Nautobot -- Nautobot architecture overview -- Installing Nautobot -- Getting Nautobot up and ready on Ubuntu -- Installing dependencies -- Installing the Nautobot application -- Launching Nautobot -- Nautobot worker -- Nautobot web service -- Running Nautobot as Linux services -- Loading data into Nautobot -- Using the graphical user interface -- Summary -- Chapter 4: Understanding the User Interface and Bootstrapping Nautobot -- Understanding the navigation and UI…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- 5.1.4 Electricity for PHEV Use -- 5.2 PHEV Architectures -- 5.3 Equivalent Electric Range of Blended PHEVs -- 5.4 Fuel Economy of PHEVs -- 5.4.1 Well‐to‐Wheel Efficiency -- 5.4.2 PHEV Fuel Economy -- 5.4.3 Utility Factor -- 5.5 Power Management of PHEVs -- 5.6 PHEV Design and Component Sizing -- 5.7 Component Sizing of EREVs -- 5.8 Component Sizing of Blended PHEVs -- 5.9 HEV to PHEV Conversions -- 5.9.1 Replacing the Existing Battery Pack -- 5.9.2 Adding an Extra Battery Pack -- 5.9.3 Converting Conventional Vehicles to PHEVs -- 5.10 Other Topics on PHEVs -- 5.10.1 End-of-Life Battery for Electric Power Grid Support -- 5.10.2 Cold Start Emissions Reduction in PHEVs -- 5.10.3 Cold Weather/Hot Weather Performance Enhancement in PHEVs -- 5.10.4 PHEV Maintenance -- 5.10.5 Safety of PHEVs -- 5.11 Vehicle-to-Grid Technology -- 5.11.1 PHEV Battery Charging -- 5.11.2 Impact of G2V -- 5.11.3 The Concept of V2G -- 5.11.4 Advantages of V2G -- 5.11.5 Case Studies of V2G -- 5.12 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 6 Special Hybrid Vehicles -- 6.1 Hydraulic Hybrid Vehicles -- 6.1.1 Regenerative Braking in HHVs -- 6.2 Off-Road HEVs -- 6.2.1 Hybrid Excavators -- 6.2.2 Hybrid Excavator Design Considerations -- 6.3 Diesel HEVs -- 6.4 Electric or Hybrid Ships, Aircraft, and Locomotives -- 6.4.1 Ships -- 6.4.2 Aircraft -- 6.4.3 Locomotives -- 6.5 Other Industrial Utility Application Vehicles -- References -- Further Reading -- Chapter 7 HEV Applications for Military Vehicles -- 7.1 Why HEVs Can Be Beneficial for Military Applications -- 7.2 Ground Vehicle Applications -- 7.2.1 Architecture - Series, Parallel, Complex -- 7.2.2 Vehicles That Are of Most Benefit -- 7.3 Non-Ground-Vehicle Military Applications…”