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“…Moreover, recent developments in cognitive neuroscience point to a sensorimotor basis for many concrete concepts, and raise the issue of whether these mechanisms are ever recruited to process more abstract concepts [10]. …”

“…On the other, even as they seek a more self-conscious and scripture-based profession of faith, many educated youth aspire to personal relationships similar to those seen among youth elsewhere—a greater measure of informality, openness, and intimacy than was typical for their parents’ and grandparents’ generations. …”

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“…The didactic and episodic nature of many professional development activities does not adequately support the multifaceted and idiosyncratic nature of authentic professional learning, as lived by professionals in practice. …”

“…Jean-Marcel Jeanneney undeniably belongs in the inner circle of the great servants of de Gaulle’s Republic and the story of his life from 1958 to 1969, as told by Eric Kocher-Marbœuf in this historical biography, addresses many aspects of France’s recent history. This extremely well-documented book draws on Jean-Marcel Jeanneney’s public action to explore questions with echoes still on the agenda today: industrial change and restructuring, including the coal mines; creation of the Union Générale des Pétroles, the forerunner to Elf; launch of the project to build the Rance Tidal Power Station; reform of the chambers of commerce and industry; French-Algerian relations in the early months of Algeria’s independence; the planned international cooperation policy reform; extension of welfare coverage to non-wage earners; the 1967 reform of the welfare system; the hospital system reform, the Grenelle negotiations during the 1968 protest movement; the...…”

“…Essays and notes based on meticulous research in a wide range of sources, many only recently available, provide a rich context for the documents…”

“…To accomplish all this Edison greatly enlarged his staff to as many as sixty experimenters, machinists, carpenters, and office workers. …”

“…National governments saw military service as evidence that Indigenous peoples wished to assimilate, but wartime experiences confirmed many communities' commitment to their home cultures and opened new avenues for activism. …”

“…What You Will Learn Set up your Red environment to achieve the highest productivity Get grounded in Red, gaining experience and insight through many examples and exercises Build simple, compact, and portable applications Analyze streams of data through Parse Compose GUI applications with View and Draw Get prepared for smart contract blockchain programming in Red In Detail A key problem of software development today is software bloat, where huge toolchains and development environments are needed in software coding and deployment. …”

“…Next, you'll explore the CPython interpreter, which is a treasure trove of secret hacks that not many programmers are aware of. We'll take you through the depths of the PyPy project, where you'll come across several exciting ways that you can improve speed and concurrency. …”

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“…The text is intended to be read cover-to-cover or used as a reference tool to instruct, inspire, deliver, and evaluate software quality. A common fault in many software development environments is a focus on functional requirements—the what and how —to the detriment of performance requirements, which specify instead how well software should function (assessed through software execution) or how easily software should be maintained (assessed through code inspection). …”

“…What You Will Learn Understand how AWS Lambda and Microsoft Azure Functions work and use them to create an application Explore various triggers and how to select them, based on the problem statement Build deployment packages for Lambda functions Master the finer details about building Lambda functions and versioning Log and monitor serverless applications Learn about security in AWS and Lambda functions Scale up serverless applications to handle huge workloads and serverless distributed systems in production Understand SAM model deployment in AWS Lambda In Detail Serverless architectures allow you to build and run applications and services without having to manage the infrastructure. Many companies have adopted this architecture to save cost and improve scalability. …”

“…The authors discuss why so many companies fail after attempting to implement or improve their product reliability and software quality program. …”

“…Explore the true root causes of M&A failures of the past Analyze the personality traits that drive suboptimal outcomes Implement new practices to avoid mistakes and close successful deals Learn why common-sense errors are repeated over and over again The M&A market has grown to become a major factor in the global economy, yet many buyers do less investigation than consumers making everyday purchases. …”

“…Kotlin meets these requirements with its immense support for concurrency. Many concurrent primitives of Kotlin, such as channels and suspending functions, are designed to be non-blocking and efficient. …”

“…A highly detailed guide to performing powerful attack vectors in many hands-on scenarios and defending significant security flaws in your company's infrastructure About This Book Advanced exploitation techniques to breach modern operating systems and complex network devices Learn about Docker breakouts, Active Directory delegation, and CRON jobs Practical use cases to deliver an intelligent endpoint-protected system Who This Book Is For If you are a system administrator, SOC analyst, penetration tester, or a network engineer and want to take your penetration testing skills and security knowledge to the next level, then this book is for you. …”

“…What You Will Learn How to break monolithic application into microservices Implement caching strategies, CQRS and event sourcing, and circuit breaker patterns Incorporate different microservice design patterns, such as shared data, aggregator, proxy, and chained Utilize consolidate testing patterns such as integration, signature, and monkey tests Secure microservices with JWT, API gateway, and single sign on Deploy microservices with continuous integration or delivery, Blue-Green deployment In Detail Microservices are a hot trend in the development world right now. Many enterprises have adopted this approach to achieve agility and the continuous delivery of applications to gain a competitive advantage. …”

“…Throughout this book, we will be using the GeoPackage format, and we will also discuss how QGIS can support many different types of data. Finally, you will learn where to get help and how to become engaged with the GIS community. …”