“…Explains electronics from fundamentals to applications - no other book has such breadth of coverage Approachable, clear writing style with minimal math - no previous knowledge of electronics required! …”

“…Look for these innovative design features to help you navigate through each page: Key Terms: Clear definitions of key terms and concepts Smart Managing: Tactics and strategies for managing crises Tricks of the Trade: Tips for executing the tactics in the book Mistake Proofing: Practical advice for minimizing the possibility of error Caution: Warning signs for when things are about to go wrong For Example: Examples of successful crisis management Tools: Specific planning procedures, tactics, and hands-on techniques…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…; Management of controllable risk; Minimal start-up costs; Initial and ongoing returns; Chapter 3: Why Don''t More Organizations Use Agile?…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Create a Linked List -- Search a Linked List -- Removing a Node from a Linked List -- Reverse a Linked List -- Finding a Linked List Cycle -- Vocabulary -- Challenges -- Chapter 11 Stacks -- When to Use Stacks -- Creating a Stack -- Using Stacks to Reverse Strings -- Min Stack -- Stacked Parentheses -- Vocabulary -- Challenges -- Chapter 12 Queues -- When to Use Queues -- Creating a Queue -- Python's Built-In Queue Class -- Create a Queue Using Two Stacks -- Vocabulary -- Challenge -- Chapter 13 Hash Tables -- When to Use Hash Tables -- Characters in a String -- Two Sum -- Vocabulary -- Challenge -- Chapter 14 Binary Trees -- When to Use Trees -- Creating a Binary Tree -- Breadth-First Tree Traversal -- More Tree Traversals -- Invert a Binary Tree -- Vocabulary -- Challenges -- Chapter 15 Binary Heaps -- When to Use Heaps -- Creating a Heap -- Connecting Ropes with Minimal Cost -- Vocabulary -- Challenge -- Chapter 16 Graphs -- When to Use Graphs -- Creating a Graph -- Dijkstra's Algorithm -- Vocabulary -- Challenge -- Chapter 17 Self-Taught Inspiration: Elon Musk -- Chapter 18 Next Steps -- What's Next? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Strategic Misalignment Between Intercultural NegotiatorsHigh Joint Gains May Be Possible; Advice for Negotiating Interculturally; Moving on to Resolving Disputes; 4: Resolving Disputes; The Difference Between Negotiating Deals and Resolving Disputes; BATNAs Are Linked; Minimizing Costs; Emotions; Conflict and Confrontation in Dignity, Face, and Honor Cultures; Conflict and Confrontation in Dignity Cultures; Conflict and Confrontation in Face Cultures; Conflict and Confrontation in Honor Cultures; Interests, Rights, and Power: Three Strategic Approaches to Resolving Disputes; Interests; Rights…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…The Military Prevails-Germany LosesWhy Were the Risks Minimized?; The Worst of All Options; CHAPTER SIX: Woodrow Wilson's Decision to Enter World War I, 1917; Ending American Neutrality; Wilson Hesitates, Maneuvers, Then Decides; Realism and Idealism; Reluctant but Right; CHAPTER SEVEN: Hitler's Decision to Invade the USSR, 1941; Hitler's Momentous Mistake; Reversing Defeat and Gazing to the East; The Decision for Operation Barbarossa; From Victory to Defeat; Understanding Hitler and His Environment; A Flawed Theory of Success; Conclusion; CHAPTER EIGHT: Japan's Attack on Pearl Harbor, 1941…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Examples of Great Career ActionsExamples of Great Personal/Social Actions; Keeping Balance Between Work and Personal Life; Capitalize on Your Strengths and Minimize Weaknesses; Translating Goals into Actions; Organizing Career Actions into a Calendar of Events; How Technologies, Products, and Industries Impact Long-Range Career Planning; Stress Relief Planning; Dealing with Changing Supervisors-Reboot Time; Summary; Assignments and Discussion Topics; Reference; 3 CAREER STRATEGIES: WHAT WORKS AND WHAT DOESN'T?…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Choosing a Brokerage or Proprietary Trading Firm -- Physical Infrastructure -- Summary -- References -- Chapter 5 ExecutionSystems -- What an Automated Trading System Can Do for You -- Building a Semiautomated Trading System -- Building a Fully Automated Trading System -- Minimizing Transaction Costs…”

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Tabla de Contenidos: “…Passing complex data to included tasksConditional task includes; Tagging included tasks; Including handlers; Including variables; vars_files; Dynamic vars_files inclusion; include_vars; extra-vars; Including playbooks; Roles; Role structure; Tasks; Handlers; Variables; Modules; Dependencies; Files and templates; Putting it all together; Role dependencies; Role dependency variables; Tags; Role dependency conditionals; Role application; Mixing roles and tasks; Role sharing; Ansible Galaxy; Summary; Chapter 6: Minimizing Downtime with Rolling Deployments; In-place upgrades…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…See It from the Distributor's PerspectiveSet Minimal and Ideal Criteria; Focus on Potential Complementors; Explicitly Spell Out Responsibilities; Construct the Relationship; Constantly Scrutinize the Relationship; Manage Communication; Incentivize the Relationship; You Get Only One Chance in a Market; Chapter 10: Staying Local and Independent; The Battle Is Joined; A Dying Idea; Back to History; Smaller Is Better; The Future Is Brighter Than Ever Before; Our Last Thought; Index; About the Authors; Acknowledgments; Preface; Other Apress Business Titles You Will Find Useful…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Measurement of Risk and Return Efficient Market Hypothesis; The Role of the Portfolio in Risk Reduction; The Capital Asset Pricing Model; Generalization of the Model; Conclusion; References; Chapter 23: A Risk Minimizing Strategy for Portfolio Immunization; Abstract; Introduction; Immunization Risk; Appendix: Proof of the Theorem; References; Chapter 24: The Trade off between Return and Risk in Immunized Portfolios; Abstract; Introduction; Portfolio Value and Interest Rate Changes; Immunization Risk; Confidence Intervals; Risk and Return; References…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Regressing with Scikit-learnMinimizing the cost function; Explaining the reason for using squared errors; Pseudoinverse and other optimization methods; Gradient Descent at work; Summary; Chapter 3: Multiple Regression in Action; Using multiple features; Model building with Statsmodels; Using formulas as an alternative; The correlation matrix; Revisiting gradient descent; Feature scaling; Unstandardizing coefficients; Estimating feature importance; Inspecting standardized coefficients; Comparing models by R-squared; Interaction models; Discovering interactions; Polynomial regression…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Phase Transitions Entropy; The Boltzmann Distribution; The Minimization of Free Energy; References; 7: The Calculus of Variations; The Brachistochrone Problem; Catenary and Suspension; The Euler-Lagrange Equation; Deeper Meanings of the Euler-Lagrange Equation; References; 8: The Mean Field; Ideal Gas in Crystal Lattice; Long Rod Models; The Composite Electric Field and Average Index of Refraction; The Dipole Mean Field Is Born; References; 9: Maier-Saupe Theory; The Nematic to Isotropic Phase Transition Calculation; Dielectric Anisotropy Calculation; Near Neighbor Correlation; References…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Deleting Unnecessary User Accounts and Restricting Shell AccessRestricting Access to Known Users; Running Services in chrooted Filesystems; Minimizing Use of SUID root; Identifying and dealing with SUID root files; Using su and sudo; Using su; Using sudo; Configuring, Managing, and Monitoring Logs; Every System Can Be Its Own Firewall: Using iptables for Local Security; Using iptables: Preparatory steps; How netfilter works; Using iptables; Checking Your Work with Scanners; Types of scans and their uses; Why we (good guys) scan; nmap, world champion port scanner; Getting and installing nmap…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Kernel sourcesKernel configuration; Kernel compile and install; Linux kernel cross-compile; Devices and modules; Debugging of a kernel; The Yocto Project reference; Summary; Chapter 5: Linux Root Filesystem; Interacting with the root filesystem; Delving into the filesystem ; Device drivers; Filesystems options; Understanding BusyBox; Minimal root filesystem; The Yocto Project; Summary; Chapter 6: Components of the Yocto Project; Poky; Eclipse ADT plug-ins; Hob and Toaster; Autobuilder; Lava; Wic; Summary; Chapter 7: ADT Eclipse Plug-ins; The Application Development Toolkit; Environment setup…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Looking at the Source CodeIntroducing Go; How the Demo App Works; Building a Container; Understanding Dockerfiles; Minimal Container Images; Running docker image build; Naming Your Images; Port Forwarding; Container Registries; Authenticating to the Registry; Naming and Pushing Your Image; Running Your Image; Hello, Kubernetes; Running the Demo App; If the Container Doesn't Start; Minikube; Summary; 3. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…; The if and unless statements; Iterative (Looping) Constructs; The while and until statements; The for statement; The foreach statement; Breaking out: next and last; Regular Expressions; Quantifiers; Minimal Matching; Nailing Things Down; Backreferences; List Processing; What You Don't Know Won't Hur t You(Much); Part 2: The Gory Details…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Optimization of parameters of the recognition method and quality analysis of images fine structuresMinimization of pump energy losses in dynamic automatic control of pressure in the main oil pipeline; A study on flower image recognition service of wildflowers in Gwacheon nature-learning places; Data processing method of fault samples in analog circuits; A scheduling scheme based on cognition for UWB wireless personal area network; A data replica consistency maintenance scheme for cloud storage under healthcare IoT environment…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Design fire risk assessment index system of large public buildings in ChinaThe risk analysis of fuzzy inversion neural network and crime dark number space; Comparing the performance of different artificial intelligence based clustering algorithms in healthcare waste disposal location; A survey of fuzzy risk analysis; Minimizing environmental risks using fuzzy TOPSIS: Location selection for ITU faculty of management; A fuzzy assessment model for river ecological vulnerability: A case study in Yangtze river basin; Using game theory for SAR response after devastating earthquakes and tsunamis…”