Tabla de Contenidos: “…Viewing the Entire Spectrum of Environmental Impact -- Defining degenerative lifecycles -- Defining sustainable lifecycles -- Defining regenerative lifecycles -- Understanding the Ellen MacArthur Foundation's Butterfly Diagram -- Examining the circular economy's structure: The bones of the operation -- Renewables flow management: Harnessing biological cycles -- Stock management: Optimizing technical cycles -- Promoting environmental restoration: Investing now to obtain even more later -- Chapter 11 Analyzing Material Lifecycle Processes -- Looking at Material Processes -- Fostering transparency -- Instituting chemical management -- Rewarding innovation -- The Lifecycle Principles: Identifying Where Change Can Happen -- Preserving natural capital -- Enhancing the usefulness of products, components, and raw materials -- Developing effective systems that minimize negative externalities -- Looking at Opportunities for Optimization -- Refusing the new: Reusing the old -- Employing the remaining factor: Remanufacturing -- Biochemical extraction for the win -- Chapter 12 Improving the Material Lifecycle -- Improving How Material Lifecycles Function -- Looking at Materials in a New Way -- Getting to know your lifecycle -- Refuse before you reduce, reuse, and recycle -- Examining Operations in a New Way -- Looking at human capital -- You can be everywhere -- Connecting Sourcing, Suppliers, and Customers -- Chapter 13 It All Comes Down to Selecting the Right Materials -- The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Exploring Materials -- Oil or Plastics - They're Really Much the Same Thing -- What's Harder than Rock? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…But Also Obstacles -- Executive Summary -- Further Reading -- Embrace dynamic artifacts -- Can We Minimize the USB Driver Test Suite? -- Yes, Lets Observe Interactions -- Why Did Our Solution Work? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Maximize Insight, Minimize Investment -- Discovery Through Agility -- Moving Fast While Staying Real -- Get Real -- Real Is in the Eye of the Stakeholder -- Risk Factors -- The Need for Design Thinking…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Using Your Findings to Make Decisions -- Following up on variances -- Judging the effectiveness of your employees -- Tying supply chain concepts to variance analysis -- Attaching ABC costing concepts to variance analysis -- Chapter 8 Focusing on Overhead Costs -- Using Cost Allocation to Minimize Overhead -- Paying for the Security Guard: Fixed Overhead Costs -- Planning fixed overhead costs -- Allocating fixed overhead costs -- Assessing potential causes of fixed overhead variances -- Those Vexing Variable Manufacturing Costs -- Working with variable overhead costs -- Implementing variance analysis -- Finding the reasons for a variable overhead variance -- Chapter 9 What's on the Shelf? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Evaluating Your Performance Independent of the Group's Results -- Colluding with the Group -- Dealing with Collusion -- Summary -- Chapter Three: How You Think Is How You Facilitate: How Unilateral Control Undermines Your Ability to Help Groups -- How You Think: Your Mindset as an Operating System -- Two Mindsets: Unilateral Control and Mutual Learning -- How You Think Is Not How You Think You Think -- The CIO Team Survey Feedback Case -- Barbara's Contribution to the Team's Problems -- The Unilateral Control Approach -- Values of the Unilateral Control Mindset -- Win, Don't Lose -- Be Right -- Minimize Expression of Negative Feelings -- Act Rational -- Assumptions of the Unilateral Control Mindset -- I Understand the Situation -- Those Who Disagree Don't -- I Am Right -- Those Who Disagree Are Wrong -- My Motives Are Pure -- Those Who Disagree Have Questionable Motives -- My Feelings and Behaviors Are Justified -- I Am Not Contributing to the Problem -- Unilateral Control Behaviors -- Results of Unilateral Control -- Lackluster Performance -- Strained Working Relationships -- Less Individual Well-Being -- Give-Up-Control Approach -- How Unilateral Control Reinforces Itself -- How Did We Learn Unilateral Control? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…. -- See also -- Chapter 5: Network and EC2 Security with VPCs -- Technical requirements -- Setting up VPC plus VPC resources with minimal effort -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- There's more... -- See also -- Creating a bare VPC and setting up public and private subnets -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- There's more... -- See also…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Tomcat JDBC connection pool versus HikariCP -- Reliability -- Performance -- Features -- Ease of use -- Database interaction best practices -- Using Statement versus PreparedStatement versus CallableStatement -- Using Batch instead of PreparedStatement -- Minimizing the use of database metadata methods -- Using get methods effectively -- When to avoid connection pooling -- Choose commit mode carefully -- Summary -- Chapter 6: Hibernate Performance Tuning and Caching -- Introduction to Spring Hibernate and Spring Data -- Spring Hibernate -- Spring Data -- Spring Hibernate configuration -- Spring with JPA using Hibernate -- Spring Data configuration -- Common Hibernate traps -- Hibernate n + 1 problem -- The open session in view anti-pattern -- Unknown Id.generator exception -- Hibernate performance tuning -- Approaches to avoid the n + 1 problem -- Fetch join using JPQL -- Join fetch in Criteria API -- Named entity graph -- Dynamic entity graph -- Finding performance issues with Hibernate statistics -- Using query-specific fetching -- Caching and its best practices -- First level cache -- Second level cache -- Query cache -- Performing updates and deletes in bulk -- Hibernate programming practices -- Caching -- Miscellaneous -- Summary -- Chapter 7: Optimizing Spring Messaging -- What is messaging? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover -- Copyright -- Credits -- About the Authors -- About the Reviewers -- www.PacktPub.com -- Packt is Searching for Authors Like You -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1: Giving Computers the Ability to Learn from Data -- Building intelligent machines to transform data into knowledge -- The three different types of machine learning -- Making predictions about the future with supervised learning -- Classification for predicting class labels -- Regression for predicting continuous outcomes -- Solving interactive problems with reinforcement learning -- Discovering hidden structures with unsupervised learning -- Finding subgroups with clustering -- Dimensionality reduction for data compression -- Introduction to the basic terminology and notations -- A roadmap for building machine learning systems -- Preprocessing - getting data into shape -- Training and selecting a predictive model -- Evaluating models and predicting unseen data instances -- Using Python for machine learning -- Installing Python and packages from the Python Package Index -- Using the Anaconda Python distribution and package manager -- Packages for scientific computing, data science, and machine learning -- Summary -- Chapter 2: Training Simple Machine Learning Algorithms for Classification -- Artificial neurons - a brief glimpse into the early history of machine learning -- The formal definition of an artificial neuron -- The perceptron learning rule -- Implementing a perceptron learning algorithm in Python -- An object-oriented perceptron API -- Training a perceptron model on the Iris dataset -- Adaptive linear neurons and the convergence of learning -- Minimizing cost functions with gradient descent -- Implementing Adaline in Python -- Improving gradient descent through feature scaling -- Large-scale machine learning and stochastic gradient descent -- Summary…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- A bit of history -- R's points of strength -- Open source inside -- Plugin ready -- Data visualization friendly -- Installing R and writing R code -- Downloading R -- R installation for Windows and macOS -- R installation for Linux OS -- Main components of a base R installation -- Possible alternatives to write and run R code -- RStudio (all OSs) -- The Jupyter Notebook (all OSs) -- Visual Studio (Windows users only) -- R foundational notions -- A preliminary R session -- Executing R interactively through the R console -- Creating an R script -- Executing an R script -- Vectors -- Lists -- Creating lists -- Subsetting lists -- Data frames -- Functions -- R's weaknesses and how to overcome them -- Learning R effectively and minimizing the effort -- The tidyverse -- Leveraging the R community to learn R -- Where to find the R community -- Engaging with the community to learn R -- Handling large datasets with R -- Further references -- Summary -- Chapter 2: A First Primer on Data Mining Analysing Your Bank Account Data -- Acquiring and preparing your banking data -- Data model -- Summarizing your data with pivot-like tables -- A gentle introduction to the pipe operator -- An even more gentle introduction to the dplyr package -- Installing the necessary packages and loading your data into R -- Installing and loading the necessary packages -- Importing your data into R -- Defining the monthly and daily sum of expenses -- Visualizing your data with ggplot2 -- Basic data visualization principles -- Less but better -- Not every chart is good for your message -- Scatter plot -- Line chart -- Bar plot -- Other advanced charts…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Step 4: Verify the Hardware -- Step 5: Are the Firmware Levels At Least Minimally Supported? -- Step 6: Is the System and Peripheral Bios Correctly Set? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Monitoring VM and Linux -- 8.1 Oracle measurements -- 8.2 Configuration guidelines -- 8.2.1 Minimize Total Storage Footprint® -- 8.2.2 SGA must fit in memory -- 8.2.3 Use Oracle direct I/O -- 8.2.4 Use virtual disk for swap -- 8.2.5 Enable the timer patch -- 8.2.6 Use virtual switch -- 8.2.7 Use expanded storage for paging -- 8.2.8 Ensure sufficient page space -- 8.3 Storage analysis -- 8.3.1 Detecting storage problems - Paging -- 8.3.2 Detecting 2 GB storage problems - Paging -- 8.3.3 Detecting 2 GB problems - Demand scan -- 8.3.4 Detecting 2 GB problems - State analysis -- 8.4 I/O subsystem -- 8.4.1 LVM -- 8.5 Processor analysis -- 8.6 LPAR weights and options -- 8.6.1 Physical LPAR overhead -- 8.6.2 Converting weights to logical processor speed -- 8.6.3 LPAR analysis example -- 8.6.4 LPAR options -- 8.6.5 Shared versus dedicated processors…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Stress Testing -- Scenario Analysis -- Verifying the Measurements: Back-Testing -- Conditional Value-at-Risk (CVaR) or Expected Shortfall -- Two Useful Rules of Thumb -- Market Risk Management -- Policies -- Best Practices in Market Risk Management -- Basic Practice -- Standard Practice -- Best Practice -- Case Study: Market Risk Management at Chase -- Risk Measurement and Management -- Obstacles and Successes -- A Look to the Future -- Chapter 14 Operational Risk Management -- Operational Risk-Definition and Scope -- Process Risk -- People Risk -- System Risk -- Event Risk -- Business Risk -- The Operational Risk Management Process -- Risk Policy and Organization -- Risk Identification and Assessment -- Capital Allocation and Performance Measurement -- Risk Mitigation and Control -- Risk Transfer and Finance -- Best Practice in Operational Risk Management -- Basic Practice -- Standard Practice -- Best Practice -- Emerging IT Risks -- Cyber Security -- Cloud Computing -- Social Media -- Case Study: Heller Financial -- Changes Within the Organization -- ERM and Operational Risk Management -- Heller's Evolving Risk Profile -- Objectives of ERM -- Organizational Changes -- Components of the ERM Project -- Implementation Phase -- Post Note -- Chapter 15 Business Applications -- Stage I: Minimizing the Downside -- Stage II: Managing Uncertainty -- Stage III: Performance Optimization -- The Further Evolution of Risk Management -- Chapter 16 Financial Institutions -- Industry Trends -- Consolidation -- Deregulation -- Competition -- Convergence -- Risk Management Requirements -- Risks by Industry Sector -- Cross-sector Risks -- Systemic Risk -- A Look to the Future -- Case Study: CIBC -- Chapter 17 Energy Firms -- Industry Trends -- Risk Management Requirements -- Price and Volume Risks -- Event and Weather Risks -- Risk Sharing -- Optionality -- Basis Risk…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover -- Contents -- 1 Introduction to the Linux Kernel -- History of Unix -- Along Came Linus: Introduction to Linux -- Overview of Operating Systems and Kernels -- Linux Versus Classic Unix Kernels -- Linux Kernel Versions -- The Linux Kernel Development Community -- Before We Begin -- 2 Getting Started with the Kernel -- Obtaining the Kernel Source -- Using Git -- Installing the Kernel Source -- Using Patches -- The Kernel Source Tree -- Building the Kernel -- Configuring the Kernel -- Minimizing Build Noise -- Spawning Multiple Build Jobs -- Installing the New Kernel -- A Beast of a Different Nature -- No libc or Standard Headers -- GNU C -- No Memory Protection -- No (Easy) Use of Floating Point -- Small, Fixed-Size Stack -- Synchronization and Concurrency -- Importance of Portability -- Conclusion -- 3 Process Management -- The Process -- Process Descriptor and the Task Structure -- Allocating the Process Descriptor -- Storing the Process Descriptor -- Process State -- Manipulating the Current Process State -- Process Context -- The Process Family Tree -- Process Creation -- Copy-on-Write -- Forking -- vfork() -- The Linux Implementation of Threads -- Creating Threads -- Kernel Threads -- Process Termination -- Removing the Process Descriptor -- The Dilemma of the Parentless Task -- Conclusion -- 4 Process Scheduling -- Multitasking -- Linux's Process Scheduler -- Policy -- I/O-Bound Versus Processor-Bound Processes -- Process Priority -- Timeslice -- The Scheduling Policy in Action -- The Linux Scheduling Algorithm -- Scheduler Classes -- Process Scheduling in Unix Systems -- Fair Scheduling -- The Linux Scheduling Implementation -- Time Accounting -- Process Selection -- The Scheduler Entry Point -- Sleeping and Waking Up -- Preemption and Context Switching -- User Preemption -- Kernel Preemption -- Real-Time Scheduling Policies…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Monitoring MongoDB -- Monitoring Memory Usage -- Introduction to Computer Memory -- Tracking Memory Usage -- Tracking Page Faults -- Minimizing Btree Misses -- IO Wait -- Tracking Background Flush Averages -- Calculating the Working Set -- Some Working Set Examples -- Tracking Performance -- Tracking Free Space -- Monitoring Replication -- Chapter 22. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Critical Path -- Project Schedule -- Activity Slack -- Analyzing Cost-Time Trade‐Offs -- Cost to Crash -- Minimizing Costs -- Assessing and Analyzing Risks -- Risk‐Management Plans -- Managerial Practice 7.1 San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge -- Statistical Analysis -- Analyzing Probabilities -- Near‐Critical Paths -- Monitoring and Controlling Projects -- Monitoring Project Status -- Monitoring Project Resources -- Controlling Projects -- Learning Goals in Review -- MyLab Operations Management Resources -- Key Equations -- Key Terms -- Solved Problems -- Discussion Questions -- Problems -- Active Model Exercise -- Video Case Project Management at Choice Hotels International -- Case The Pert Mustang -- PART 2 Managing Customer Demand -- 8 FORECASTING -- Kimberly‐Clark -- Managing Demand -- Demand Patterns -- Demand Management Options -- Key Decisions on Making Forecasts -- Deciding What to Forecast -- Choosing the Type of Forecasting Technique -- Forecast Error -- Cumulative Sum of Forecast Errors -- Dispersion of Forecast Errors -- Mean Absolute Percent Error -- Computer Support -- Judgment Methods -- Causal Methods: Linear Regression -- Time‐Series Methods -- NaÏve Forecast -- Horizontal Patterns: Estimating the Average -- Trend Patterns: Using Regression -- Seasonal Patterns: Using Seasonal Factors -- Criteria for Selecting Time‐Series Methods -- Insights into Effective Demand Forecasting -- Big Data -- Managerial Practice 8.1 Big Data and Health Care Forecasting -- A Typical Forecasting Process -- Using Multiple Forecasting Methods -- Adding Collaboration to the Process -- Forecasting as a Nested Process -- Learning Goals in Review -- MyLab Operations Management Resources -- Key Equations -- Key Terms -- Solved Problems -- Discussion Questions -- Problems -- Video Case Forecasting and Supply Chain Management at Deckers Outdoor Corporation…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- About This Book -- Foolish Assumptions -- Icons Used in This Book -- Beyond This Book -- Where to Go from Here -- Part 1 Embracing the Evolving Role of HR -- Chapter 1 Peeking into the World of HR -- Recognizing Key HR Responsibilities -- Building Your Team: Attracting Talent -- Retaining and Engaging Talent: Creating a Positive Employee Experience -- Developing Talent: Providing Opportunities for Growth -- Minimizing Organizational Risk -- Chapter 2 Setting the Stage: Trends in the HR and Talent Space -- Working from Anywhere: The Hybrid Work Model -- Recognizing different types of hybrid work -- Making the hybrid model work for all employees -- Workplace Skills: Upskilling -- Leveraging People Analytics and Data-Driven HR -- Shifting HR leadership from administrative to strategic -- Recognizing what you can do -- Leading Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) in the Workplace -- Considering the pros to a DEI workplace -- Creating a DEI workplace -- Prioritizing Employee Well-Being and Workforce Health -- Chapter 3 Leveraging HR Technology -- Looking at the Growth of HR Technology -- Identifying the Categories of HR Tech -- Human resources information systems -- Applicant tracking systems -- Employee experience systems -- Performance management systems -- Employee engagement software -- Learning management systems -- Employee recognition software -- Succession management systems -- Choosing the Systems That Are Right for You -- Sourcing and Purchasing HR Technology: The How-To -- Communicating the Value of HR Tech -- Identifying Technology Skills You Need -- Part 2 Putting the Right People in the Right Roles -- Chapter 4 Creating a Talent Strategy Aligned with Business Strategy -- Getting Clear on Your Employer Brand -- Recognizing what core values are…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Three Metaphors for Learning -- Principles and Processes of Learning -- Guiding the Learner's Cognitive Processing During Learning -- Selecting Information -- Organizing Information -- Integrating Information -- Core Goals for Instructional Design in e-Learning -- Minimize Extraneous Processing -- Manage Essential Processing -- Foster Generative Processing -- How e-Lessons Affect Learning -- Methods for Helping Learners Focus on Important Information During e-Learning -- Methods for Helping Learners Cope with Limited Capacity in Working Memory -- Methods for Helping Learners Make Sense of the Presented Material -- Methods for Helping Learners Develop Positive Feelings and Social Connections -- Methods for Helping Learners Prepare for Retrieval and Transfer -- Summary of Learning Processes -- What We Don't Know About Learning -- Chapter Reflection…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…66 Papillomas -- 67 Pulmonary Adenomas -- 68 Inflammatory Myofibroblastic Tumor -- 69 Hamartoma and Chondroma -- 70 Meningothelial-Like Nodule -- 71 PEComatous Tumors -- SECTION THIRTEEN: CARCINOMAS OF THE LUNG -- 72 Carcinomas of the Lung: Classification and Genetics -- 73 Staging of Lung Cancer -- 74 Atypical Adenomatous Hyperplasia, Adenocarcinoma In Situ, and Minimally Invasive Adenocarcinoma (Nonmucinous) -- 75 Adenocarcinoma, Nonmucinous -- 76 Mucinous Adenocarcinoma -- 77 Fetal and Enteric Carcinoma -- 78 Squamous Cell, Basaloid, and Lymphoepithelial-Like Carcinoma -- 79 Small Cell Carcinoma -- 80 Large Cell Neuroendocrine Carcinoma -- 81 Diffuse Idiopathic Pulmonary Neuroendocrine Cell Hyperplasia and Carcinoid Tumor -- 82 Large Cell Carcinoma -- 83 Adenosquamous Carcinoma -- 84 Salivary Gland-Type Tumors of the Lung -- 85 Sarcomatoid Carcinoma -- 86 The Evaluation of Small Biopsies for Lung Cancer -- 87 Non-Small Cell Lung Carcinoma Evaluation of Pleural and Vascular Invasion, Resection Margins, and Treatment Effect -- SECTION FOURTEEN: LYMPHOID LUNG LESIONS -- 88 Primary Extranodal Marginal Zone Lymphoma -- 89 Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma -- 90 Lymphomatoid Granulomatosis -- 91 Hodgkin Lymphoma -- 92 Histiocytic Tumor Proliferations of the Lung -- SECTION FIFTEEN: OTHER MALIGNANT LUNG TUMORS -- 93 Pulmonary Sarcomas -- 94 Metastases to the Lung and Pleura -- SECTION SIXTEEN: DISORDERS OF THE PLEURA -- 95 Nonneoplastic Diseases of the Pleura -- 96 Mesenchymal Tumors of the Pleura -- 97 Mesothelioma of the Pleura -- PART 2 Mediastinum -- SECTION ONE: THYMOMAS -- 98 Thymomas: Classification and Staging -- 99 Type A Thymoma (Spindle Cell or Medullary Thymoma) -- 100 Type B1 Thymoma (Lymphocyte-Rich or Predominantly Cortical Thymoma) -- 101 Type B2 Thymoma (Lymphoepithelial or Cortical Thymoma)…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…&gt -- = Condition -- Avoid Operations on Columns -- Custom Scalar UDF -- Minimize Optimizer Hints -- JOIN Hint -- INDEX Hints -- Using Domain and Referential Integrity -- NOT NULL Constraint -- User-Defined Constraints -- Declarative Referential Integrity -- Summary -- Chapter 15: Reduce Query Resource Use…”