Tabla de Contenidos: “…4.2 Estate Taxation with Giving Externalities-Results -- 4.3 Accounting for Inheritance Received -- 4.4 Dynamic Issues and Relationship to Optimal Capital Taxation -- 5 Behavioral Responses to Transfer Taxation -- 5.1 Magnitude of Distortions -- 5.2 Effect on Wealth Accumulation and Reported Estates -- 5.3 Inter Vivos Giving -- 5.4 Labor Supply of Recipients -- 5.5 Entrepreneurship, Family Firms, and Inherited Control -- 6 Tax Avoidance Responses -- 6.1 Trade-Off Between Tax Minimization and Control -- 6.2 Tax Avoidance and Evasion -- 6.3 Unrealized Capital Gains -- 7 Other Topics -- 7.1 Implications for Wealth Distribution and Intergenerational Transmission of Inequality -- 7.2 Charity -- 7.3 Other Issues -- 8 Summary and Conclusions -- References -- 7.Optimal Labor Income Taxation -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Background on Actual Tax Systems and Optimal Tax Theory -- 2.1 Actual Tax Systems -- 2.2 History of the Field of Optimal Income Taxation -- 3 Conceptual Background -- 3.1 Utilitarian Social Welfare Objective -- 3.2 Fallacy of the Second Welfare Theorem -- 3.3 Labor Supply Concepts -- 4 Optimal Linear Taxation -- 4.1 Basic Model -- 4.2 Accounting for Actual Tax Rates -- 4.3 Tax Avoidance -- 4.4 Income Shifting -- 5 Optimal Nonlinear Taxation -- 5.1 Optimal Top Tax Rate -- 5.1.1 Standard Model -- 5.1.2 Rent-Seeking Effects -- 5.1.3 International Migration -- 5.1.4 Empirical Evidence on Top Incomes and Top Tax Rates -- 5.2 Optimal Nonlinear Schedule -- 5.2.1 Continuous Model of Mirrlees -- 5.2.2 Discrete Models -- 5.3 Optimal Profile of Transfers -- 5.3.1 Intensive Margin Responses -- 5.3.2 Extensive Margin Responses -- 5.3.3 Policy Practice -- 6 Extensions -- 6.1 Tagging -- 6.2 Supplementary Commodity Taxation -- 6.3 In-Kind Transfers -- 6.4 Family Taxation -- 6.5 Relative Income Concerns -- 6.6 Other Extensions…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Exercises -- Summary -- Chapter 9: Portfolio Theory -- Introduction to portfolio theory -- A 2-stock portfolio -- Optimization - minimization…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…An LDAP Data Interchange Format File -- Client Profiles -- Extend LDAP to a Network -- LDAP and Other Services -- Summary -- References -- Chapter 12: Solaris 11 Security -- Installation and Initial Configuration Security -- root Is a Role -- Hardening and Minimizing the OS Installation -- Managing File Access -- Basic UNIX File Access Permissions -- Additional File Protections: umask -- Additional File Protections: encryption -- Password Management -- Changing Passwords -- Setting Password Policies -- Role Based Access Control (RBAC) -- The All-Powerful root User -- What's a Role? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…2.3.5 Normal Distributions -- 2.3.6 Normal Approximations -- 2.4 TRANSFORMATIONS -- 2.4.1 One-to-One Transformations of Several Variables -- 2.4.2 Distribution of Sums -- 2.4.3 Distribution of Ratios -- 2.5 VARIANCES AND COVARIANCES OF SAMPLE MOMENTS -- 2.6 DISCRETE MULTIVARIATE DISTRIBUTIONS -- 2.6.1 The Multinomial Distribution -- 2.6.2 Multivariate Negative Binomial -- 2.6.3 Multivariate Hypergeometric Distributions -- 2.7 MULTINORMAL DISTRIBUTIONS -- 2.7.1 Basic Theory -- 2.7.2 Distribution of Subvectors and Distributions of Linear Forms -- 2.7.3 Independence of Linear Forms -- 2.8 DISTRIBUTIONS OF SYMMETRIC QUADRATIC FORMS OF NORMAL VARIABLES -- 2.9 INDEPENDENCE OF LINEAR AND QUADRATIC FORMS OF NORMAL VARIABLES -- 2.10 THE ORDER STATISTICS -- 2.11 t-DISTRIBUTIONS -- 2.12 F-DISTRIBUTIONS -- 2.13 THE DISTRIBUTION OF THE SAMPLE CORRELATION -- 2.14 EXPONENTIAL TYPE FAMILIES -- 2.15 APPROXIMATING THE DISTRIBUTION OF THE SAMPLE MEAN: EDGEWORTH AND SADDLEPOINT APPROXIMATIONS -- 2.15.1 Edgeworth Expansion -- 2.15.2 Saddlepoint Approximation -- PART II: EXAMPLES -- PART III: PROBLEMS -- PART IV: SOLUTIONS TO SELECTED PROBLEMS -- 3 Sufficient Statistics and the Information in Samples -- PART I: THEORY -- 3.1 INTRODUCTION -- 3.2 DEFINITION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF SUFFICIENT STATISTICS -- 3.2.1 Introductory Discussion -- 3.2.2 Theoretical Formulation -- 3.3 LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS AND MINIMAL SUFFICIENT STATISTICS -- 3.4 SUFFICIENT STATISTICS AND EXPONENTIAL TYPE FAMILIES -- 3.5 SUFFICIENCY AND COMPLETENESS -- 3.6 SUFFICIENCY AND ANCILLARITY -- 3.7 INFORMATION FUNCTIONS AND SUFFICIENCY -- 3.7.1 The Fisher Information -- 3.7.2 The Kullback-Leibler Information -- 3.8 THE FISHER INFORMATION MATRIX -- 3.9 SENSITIVITY TO CHANGES IN PARAMETERS -- 3.9.1 The Hellinger Distance -- PART II: EXAMPLES -- PART III: PROBLEMS -- PART IV: SOLUTIONS TO SELECTED PROBLEMS…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Dynamic Behavior with Partial Pages -- Exercise 7.05: Refactoring a Tag Helper to a Partial Page with Custom Logic -- Activity 7.01: Creating a Page to Edit an Existing Task -- View Components -- Exercise 7.06: Creating a View Component to Display Task Statistics -- Activity 7.02: Writing a View Component to Display Task Log -- Summary -- Chapter 8: Creating and Using Web API Clients -- Introduction -- Browser -- Web API -- RESTful API -- Postman -- Client -- Octokit -- API Key -- Azure Text Analytics -- Exercise 8.01: Performing Sentimental Text Analysis on Any Text -- Your Own Client -- HttpClient -- HttpClient and IDisposable -- OAuth -- Real-life Analogy -- API Analogy -- OAuth App for GitHub -- Authorization Header -- Basic Authentication -- API Key and Personal Access Token -- Third-Party Authentication-OAuth2 -- Request Idempotency -- PUT, PATCH, or POST -- Exercise 8.02: HttpClient Calling a Star Wars Web API -- Activity 8.01: Reusing HttpClient for the Rapid Creation of API Clients -- RestSharp -- Activity 8.02: The Countries API Using RestSharp to List all Countries -- Refit -- Activity 8.03: The Countries API Using Refit to List all Countries -- Other Ways of Making HTTP Requests -- Exercise 8.03: A Strongly Typed HTTP Client for Testing Payments in a PayPal Sandbox -- Activity 8.04: Using an Azure Blob Storage Client to Upload and Download Files -- Summary -- Chapter 9: Creating API Services -- Introduction -- ASP.NET Core Web API -- Creating a New Project -- Web API Project Structure -- An In-Depth Look at WeatherForecastController -- Responding with Different Status Codes -- Exercise 9.01: .NET Core Current Time Service -- Bootstrapping a Web API -- Dependency Injection -- Program.cs and Minimal API -- The Inner Workings of the AddLogging Method -- The Lifetime of an Injected Component -- DI Examples within a Service -- Singleton…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…9.2.4 Component view -- 9.2.5 Minimizing customizations -- 9.2.6 Performance optimization with dynamic caching -- 9.2.7 Scalability -- 9.2.8 Database cleanup -- 9.2.9 Basing development on starter stores -- 9.2.10 Store archive (SAR) migration -- 9.2.11 Delta migration -- 9.2.12 How custom code impacts the process -- 9.2.13 How database customizations impacts the process -- 9.2.14 Migrating your WebSphere Commerce instance or recreating it -- 9.3 Migration approach considerations -- 9.3.1 Switchover migration -- 9.3.2 Coexistence migration -- 9.3.3 In-place migration -- 9.4 Migration planning -- 9.4.1 Planning activities -- 9.4.2 Gathering migration requirements -- 9.4.3 Planning the migration activities -- 9.4.4 Preparing for migration -- 9.4.5 Migrating the site -- 9.4.6 Testing the migrated site -- 9.4.7 Going live -- 9.5 Planning and sizing templates -- Chapter 10. …”

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Tabla de Contenidos: “…How is the principle of atom economy used to minimize waste in a chemical synthesis? -- Study Guide -- Key Terms -- Key Equations -- Practice Test -- Conceptual Problems -- Section Problems -- Multiconcept Problems -- 4 Reactions in Aqueous Solution -- 4.1 Solution Concentration: Molarity -- 4.2 Diluting Concentrated Solutions -- 4.3 Electrolytes in Aqueous Solution -- 4.4 Types of Chemical Reactions in Aqueous Solution -- 4.5 Aqueous Reactions and Net Ionic Equations -- 4.6 Precipitation Reactions and Solubility Guidelines -- 4.7 Acids, Bases, and Neutralization Reactions -- 4.8 Solution Stoichiometry -- 4.9 Measuring the Concentration of a Solution: Titration -- 4.10 Oxidation-Reduction (Redox) Reactions -- 4.11 Identifying Redox Reactions -- 4.12 The Activity Series of the Elements -- 4.13 Redox Titrations -- 4.14 Some Applications of Redox Reactions -- INQUIRY? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Identifying Key Components -- Structural framework -- Extruders -- Build plates -- Control interface electronics -- Software -- Slic3r and its successors Prusaslicer &amp -- Super Slic3r -- Cura -- Netfabb -- Pronterface &amp -- Printrun -- Repetier-Host -- ReplicatorG -- Part 5 Understanding and Using Your 3D Printer -- Chapter 12 Assembling Kits and Reviewing Machine Setup -- Sourcing a Kit 3D Printer -- Working with kits -- Know before you go -- Obtaining Printed Parts for Machine Assembly -- Printing your own -- Asking the community -- Understanding the Machine Motion -- Z-axis motion -- X and Y motion -- Building the Printer Frame -- Assembling the Moving Axis -- Connecting the Y Carriage to the X and Z Assembly -- Sensing the Home Position -- Chapter 13 Understanding 3D Printer Control Electronics -- 3D Printer Control Electronics -- Adding RAMPS -- Going the RAMBo route -- Selecting Sanguinololu -- Minimizing with Minitronics -- Rolling with RUMBA -- Expanding with Elefu-RA V3 -- Total control with Megatronics -- Prusa i3 electronics -- Advanced 32-bit, arm-based electronics -- Adding Electronics to Your 3D Printer -- Preparing for electronics assembly -- Connecting up cables and wiring -- Moving axis positional sensors -- Checking and fitting the filament sensor -- Connecting to the control electronics -- Doing Your First Power On Check -- Selecting position-sensing modules -- Understanding power-supply requirements -- Configuring Firmware -- Looking at one configuration example (Prusa i3 firmware) -- Editing the Marlin configuration.h file -- Setting the switches -- Uploading Marlin firmware to RAMPS electronics -- Chapter 14 Understanding, Using, and Servicing 3D Printers -- Examining Thermoplastic Extrusion -- The filament drive mechanism -- The idler wheel -- Working with the Prusa MINI Bowden Extruder and Hot-End Assembly…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- 8.3 Historical Returns -- 8.4 Standard Deviation as a Measure of Risk -- Normal Distributions -- 8.5 Returns in an Uncertain World (Expectations and Probabilities) -- Finance Follies "Scam of the Century": Bernie Madoff and the 50 Billion Fraud -- Determining the Probabilities of All Potential Outcomes -- 8.6 The Risk-and-Return Trade-Off -- Investment Rules -- 8.7 Diversification: Minimizing Risk or Uncertainty -- When Diversification Works -- Adding More Stocks to the Portfolio: Systematic and Unsystematic Risk -- 8.8 Beta: The Measure of Risk in a Well-Diversified Portfolio -- 8.9 The Capital Asset Pricing Model and the Security Market Line -- The Capital Asset Pricing Model -- Application of the SML -- Key Terms -- Questions -- Prepping for Exams -- Problems -- Advanced Problems for Spreadsheet Application -- Mini-Case Lawrence's Legacy: Part 2 -- Part 3: Capital Budgeting -- Chapter 9. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Supplementary data -- Acknowledgments -- References -- 8 - Optimization of rural indoor kitchen structure and minimizing the pollution load: a sustainable environmental m ... -- 1. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Benefits -- Progressive development of smart contracts -- Improving smart contract error detection -- Minimizing smart contract development cost -- 7.2. Limitations -- Need careful analysis in modeling and implementation -- Need powerful theorem provers for smart contracts -- No standard in the generated smart contracts -- 8. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…5.4 Instruction optimization -- 5.4.1 Device intrinsics -- 5.4.1.1 Directed rounding -- 5.4.1.2 C intrinsics -- 5.4.1.3 Fast math intrinsics -- 5.4.1.4 Compiler options -- 5.4.2 Divergent warps -- 6 Porting tips and techniques -- 6.1 CUF kernels -- 6.2 Conditional inclusion of code -- 6.3 Renaming variables -- 6.3.1 Renaming via use statements -- 6.3.2 Renaming via the associate construct -- 6.4 Minimizing memory footprint for work arrays -- 6.5 Array compaction -- 7 Interfacing with CUDA C code and CUDA libraries -- 7.1 Calling user-written CUDA C code -- 7.1.1 The ignore"80"137tkr directive -- 7.2 cuBLAS -- 7.2.1 Legacy cuBLAS API -- 7.2.2 New cuBLAS API -- 7.2.3 Batched cuBLAS routines -- 7.2.4 GEMM with tensor cores -- 7.3 cuSPARSE -- 7.4 cuSOLVER -- 7.5 cuTENSOR -- 7.5.1 Low-level cuTENSOR interfaces -- 7.6 Thrust -- 8 Multi-GPU programming -- 8.1 CUDA multi-GPU features -- 8.1.1 Peer-to-peer communication -- 8.1.1.1 Requirements for peer-to-peer communication -- 8.1.2 Peer-to-peer direct transfers -- 8.1.3 Peer-to-peer transpose -- 8.2 Multi-GPU programming with MPI -- 8.2.1 Assigning devices to MPI ranks -- 8.2.2 MPI transpose -- 8.2.3 GPU-aware MPI transpose -- 2 Case studies -- 9 Monte Carlo method -- 9.1 CURAND -- 9.2 Computing π with CUF kernels -- 9.2.1 IEEE-754 precision -- 9.3 Computing π with reduction kernels -- 9.3.1 Reductions with SHFL instructions -- 9.3.2 Reductions with atomic locks -- 9.3.3 Reductions using the grid"80"137group cooperative group -- 9.4 Accuracy of summation -- 9.5 Option pricing -- 10 Finite difference method -- 10.1 Nine-point 1D finite difference stencil -- 10.1.1 Data reuse and shared memory -- 10.1.2 The x-derivative kernel -- 10.1.2.1 Performance of the x-derivative kernel -- 10.1.3 Derivatives in y and z -- 10.1.4 Nonuniform grids -- 10.2 2D Laplace equation…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Understanding dB levels -- Setting your levels -- Noises Off: Capturing Ambient Noise -- Identifying ambient noise -- Minimizing ambient noise -- Take Your Time and Hurry Up: Pacing and Clock Management…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…10.6 RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES -- 10.7 Suggested Reading -- Chapter 11 Medical Optical Imaging -- 11.1 INTRODUCTION -- 11.2 DATA ACQUISITION STRATEGIES -- 11.3 COMPARISONS WITH OTHER IMAGING MODALITIES -- 11.4 POSSIBLE APPLICATIONS OF OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY -- 11.5 RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES -- 11.6 Suggested Reading -- Chapter 12 Image-Guided Minimally Invasive Diagnostic and Therapeutic Interventional Procedures -- 12.1 THERAPEUTIC INTERVENTION EXPERIENCE WITH DIFFERENT IMAGING MODALITIES -- 12.1.1 X-Ray Imaging -- 12.1.2 Computed Tomography -- 12.1.3 Ultrasound -- 12.1.4 Endoscopy -- 12.1.5 Magnetic Resonance Imaging -- 12.2 THE ROLES OF IMAGING IN THERAPY -- 12.2.1 Planning -- 12.2.2 Guidance -- 12.2.3 Monitoring and Localization -- 12.2.4 Control -- 12.3 THERMAL SURGERY -- 12.3.1 Interstitial Laser Therapy -- 12.3.2 Cryotherapy -- 12.3.3 Focused Ultrasound -- 12.4 RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITIES -- Planning -- Guidance and Localization -- Monitoring -- Control -- Instruments and Systems -- 12.5 Suggested Reading -- Chapter 13 Frontiers of Image Processing for Medicine -- 13.1 IMAGE SEGMENTATION -- 13.2 COMPUTATIONAL ANATOMY -- 13.3 REGISTRATION OF MULTIMODALITY IMAGES -- 13.4 SYNTHESIS OF PARAMETRIC IMAGES -- 13.5 DATA VISUALIZATION -- 13.6 TREATMENT PLANNING -- 13.7 RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES -- 13.8 Suggested Reading -- Chapter 14 A Cross-Cutting Look at the Mathematics of Emerging Biomedical Imaging -- 14.1 MATHEMATICAL MODELS FOR PARTICULAR IMAGING MODALITIES -- 14.1.1 Transmission Computed Tomography -- 14.1.2 Emission Computed Tomography -- 14.1.3 Ultrasound Computed Tomography -- 14.1.4 Optical Tomography -- 14.1.5 Electrical Impedance Tomography -- 14.1.6 Magnetic Resonance Imaging -- 14.1.7 Vector Tomography -- 14.1.8 Tensor Tomography -- 14.1.9 Magnetic Source Imaging -- 14.1.10 Electrical Source Imaging -- 14.2 FORWARD PROBLEMS…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- About the Author -- Chapter 1: Fundamentals of Integrated Circuits -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 History -- 1.3 Introduction to ICs -- 1.4 Classification of ICs -- 1.5 Advantages of IC Over Discrete Components -- 1.6 Basic Concepts of IC Fabrication Using Monolithic IC Technology -- 1.7 Fabrication Process of a Simple N-type MOSFET -- 1.8 Basic Structural Details of MOSFET (MOSFET Fabrication in IC Form) -- 1.9 Semiconductor Diode -- 1.10 Integrated Circuit (IC) Resistors and Capacitors -- 1.11 Junction Field Effect Transistor (n-Channel Fet) -- 1.12 Bipolar Junction Transistor -- 1.13 Application-specific IC -- 1.14 IC Assembly and Packaging -- 1.15 Overview and Interpretation of Data Sheets of Operational Amplifiers -- 1.16 Device Identification -- 1.17 Pin Identification and Temperature Ranges -- Summary -- Questions for Practice -- Chapter 2: Fundamentals of Operational Amplifiers -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Introduction to Operational Amplifier -- 2.3 Block Diagram of an Operational Amplifier -- 2.4 BJT (Bipolar Junction Transistor) Differential Amplifier -- 2.5 Different Methods to Improve CMRR of Differential Amplifier -- 2.6 Basic Building Blocks of an Operational Amplifier -- 2.7 Analysis of Ideal Operational Amplifier -- 2.8 Pin Configuration of Operational Amplifiers μA 741 IC -- 2.9 Schematic Diagram of Operational Amplifier -- 2.10 Characteristic Features of an Ideal Operational Amplifier -- 2.11 Common-Mode Rejection Ratio (CMRR) -- 2.12 Input Bias and Offset Current -- 2.13 Output Offset Voltage -- 2.14 Minimization (Elimination) of Output Offset Voltage -- 2.15 Maximum Ratings of Operational Amplifier -- 2.16 Frequency Responses of Operational Amplifiers -- 2.17 Effect of Finite GBP on Integrated Circuits -- 2.18 Powering OP Amps…”