“…If there is a caveat, amidst such a tremendous success story, it is that the very rapid growth of mobile communications has tended to conceal large performance differences across the OECD area. There is an ongoing need to examine performance against fast moving international benchmarks. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Income and technological performance, 1998""; ""Table 5.2. Flows of R&D funds in Korea, 1997""…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover; Copyright; Credits; About the Authors; About the Reviewer; www.PacktPub.com; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: Installing CentOS; Introduction; Downloading CentOS and confirming the checksum on Windows or OS X; Creating USB installation media on Windows or OS X; Performing an installation of CentOS using the graphical installer; Running a netinstall over HTTP; Installing CentOS 7 using a kickstart file; Getting started and customising the boot loader; Troubleshooting the system in rescue mode; Updating the installation and enhancing…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Technical requirements -- Understanding features and descriptors -- FAST corner detection -- Corner detection using the imcorner function -- Comparing performance -- BRIEF - efficient duplicate detection method -- Identifying image duplicates -- Creating a panorama from many images -- ORB, rotation invariant image matching -- BRISK - scale invariant image matching -- FREAK - fastest scale and rotation invariant matching -- Running face recognition -- Summary -- Questions -- Chapter 6: Introduction to Neural Networks -- Technical requirements -- Introduction -- The need for neural networks -- The need for MXNet -- First steps with the MNIST dataset -- Getting the data -- Preparing the data -- Defining a neural network -- Fitting the network -- Improving the network -- Predicting new images -- Putting it all together -- Multiclass classification with the CIFAR-10 dataset -- Getting and previewing the dataset -- Preparing the data -- Starting with the linear classifier -- Reusing the MNIST architecture -- Improving the network -- Accuracy - why at almost 70 -- Putting it all together -- Classifying cats versus dogs -- Getting and previewing the dataset -- Creating an image data iterator -- Training the model -- Putting it all together -- Reusing your models -- Saving the model -- Loading the model -- Summary -- Questions -- Further reading -- Chapter 7: Using Pre-Trained Neural Networks -- Technical requirements -- Introduction to pre-trained networks -- Transfer learning -- MXNet Model Zoo -- Predicting image classes using Inception V3 -- Setting up the Inception V3 environment -- Loading the network -- Preparing the datasets -- Running predictions -- Expected performance -- Putting it all together -- Predicting an image class using MobileNet V2 -- Setting up the environment -- Loading the network -- Preparing the datasets -- Running the predictions…”

“…WebAssembly in Action teaches you how to write and run high-performance browser-based applications using C++ and other languages supported by WebAssembly. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Optional Instance Constructor ParametersField; Static Field; Instance Field; Readonly Field; Volatile Field; Methods; Types of Methods; Properties; Indexers; Automatically Implemented Properties; Struct; Event; Interfaces; Enum; Delegates; Exception; Summary; CHAPTER 2 C# Objects in Memory; Memory in .NET Applications; The Stack; The Heap; Value and Reference Types; Instantiating an Object; Boxing and Unboxing; Performance in Boxing and Unboxing Operation; Garbage Collection; Generation 0; Generation 1; Generation 2; Summary; CHAPTER 3 Parameters; Parameter; Method State Description Table…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Configuring Karma Test RunnerModifying Our Application to Use AMD; Automating Accessibi lity Testing; Exposing the Local Server to the Outside World; Performance Testing; Performancing Development Environments; Summary; Chapter 7: Optimizing Your Grunt Workflow; Measuring Performance; Loading Plug-ins; Automating Loading with matchdep; Automating Loading with load-grunt-tasks; Deferring Automating Loading; Organizing Your Gruntfile; Using Modules; Using Groups; Extracting Common Configuration Options; Running Tasks in Parallel; Running Things on Changes…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…; Characteristics of Different Currencies; The World Economy-The Macro View and Forex Trading; Chapter 8 The Personality and Performance of the US Dollar; Structure of the USDX; US Foreign Debt and Who Buys US Assets; Chapter 9 Conducting Your Own Fundamental Analysis; Detecting Market Emotions: Sentiment Analysis; Balance of Fears; Direct Emotional Search Terms; Developing a Sentiment-Based Outlook; Sentiment Outlook Checklist…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…; Game Silo BPM - departmental workflows; Oracle BPM Suite 11g is made for playing Game Silo BPM; Oracle BPM Suite models processes in BPMN; Game Enterprise BPM; Still wide open - the business/IT divide; Oracle BPM Suite 12c tackles Game Enterprise BPM; Using business architect features; Properties of BA models; Depicting organizational units; Value chains; Strategy models; Key performance indicators; KPIs in the value chain step level…”

“…After reviewing the performance limitations introduced by physical aspects of active control, Stephen Elliott presents the calculation of the optimal performance and the implementation of adaptive real time controllers for a wide variety of active control systems.Active sound and vibration control are technologically important problems with many applications. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…The Point-To-Point Messaging Paradigm -- JMS interfaces -- Developing a JMS application -- Publish-Subscribe (topic) programming -- Point-To-Point (queue) programming -- Web services -- Web service architectures -- SOAP web services -- RESTful web services -- Building a SOAP web service using the JAX-WS API in RPC Style -- Building SOAP web service using the JAX-WS API in Document style -- Building a RESTful web service using the JAX-RS API (using the Jersey implementation) -- Enterprise integration patterns -- Summary -- Chapter 5: HPC Cluster Computing -- Era of computing -- Commanding parallel system architectures -- MPP -- SMP -- Distributed systems -- Clusters -- Network of workstations -- Cluster computer architecture -- Cluster system software and tools -- HPCC -- Java support for high-performance computing -- Java support for parallel programming models -- Multithreading -- Parallelism -- Synchronization -- JOMP -- Java message passing -- The Spliterator interface -- Parallel stream processing -- Java 9 updates for processing an API -- Summary -- Chapter 6: Distributed Databases -- Distributed and decentralized databases -- Motivation for distributed databases -- Distributed database environments -- Homogeneous distributed database environment -- Heterogeneous distributed database environment -- Distributed database setup methodologies -- Replication -- Horizontal partitioning -- Vertical partitioning -- Hybrid setup -- Distributed DBMS architecture -- Java Database Connectivity -- JTA for distributed transactions -- Switching between the transaction modes -- Sample program for the XA transaction -- Summary -- Chapter 7: Cloud and Distributed Computing -- What is cloud computing? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Apache CGI Handling with mod_cgiThe Apache 1.3 Server Model; Forking; CGI Scripts Under the Forking Model; Performance Drawbacks of Forking; The Development of mod_perl 1.0; Running CGI Scripts with mod_perl; Apache 1.3 Request Processing Phases; Apache 1.3 Modules and the mod_perl 1.0 API; mod_perl 1.0 and the mod_perl API; References; Getting Started Fast; Installing mod_perl 1.0 in Three Steps; Installing mod_perl on Unix Platforms; Obtaining and Unpacking the Source Code; Building mod_perl; Installing mod_perl; Configuring and Starting the mod_perl Server; Installing mod_perl for Windows…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Test to Learn -- 4.1 Exploring JavaScript with Unit Tests -- 4.2 Performance Tests -- 4.3 Summary -- Part II: JavaScript for Programmers -- 5. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…AND -- EOR -- ORR -- BIC -- MVN -- TST -- Design Patterns -- Converting Integers to ASCII -- Using Expressions in Immediate Constants -- Storing a Register to Memory -- Why Not Print in Decimal? -- Performance of Branch Instructions -- Summary -- Exercises -- Chapter 6: Thanks for the Memories -- How to Define Memory Contents -- How to Align Data -- How to Load a Register -- How to Load a Register with an Address -- How to Build the Address Directly -- PC Relative Addressing -- How to Load Data from Memory -- Optimizing Small Read-Only Data Access -- Indexing Through Memory -- How to Store a Register -- How to Convert to Uppercase -- How to Load and Store Multiple Registers -- Summary -- Exercises -- Chapter 7: How to Call Functions and Use the Stack -- About Stacks on the RP2040 -- How to Branch with Link -- About Nesting Function Calls -- About Function Parameters and Return Values -- How to Manage the Registers -- Summary of the Function Call Algorithm -- More on the Branch Instructions -- About the X Factor -- Uppercase Revisited -- About Stack Frames -- Stack Frame Example -- How to Define Symbols -- How to Create Macros -- About Include Directive -- How to Define a Macro -- About Labels -- Why Macros? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Performance indicators -- 1.5.2. Evaluation and optimization -- 1.6. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…; UNDERSTANDING CDOs; CREDIT STRUCTURES; A CDO STRUCTURAL MATRIX; CDOs BEING OFFERED TODAY; PARTIES TO A CDO; Chapter 2: Cash Flow CDOs; DISTRIBUTION OF CASH FLOWS; RESTRICTIONS ON MANAGEMENT: SAFETY NETS; CREDIT RATINGS; CALL PROVISIONS IN CDO TRANSACTIONS; Part II: Loans and CLOs; Chapter 3: High-Yield Loans: Structure and Performance; THE LOAN MARKET; THE SYNDICATION PROCESS; LOAN STRUCTURE AND LEADERS…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…String functionsOuter Joins; Unions; Batch Processing; Command-line loads; The LOAD command; Pulling data from MySQL; Database Administration; Configuration; File Locations; File Content; Server Startup and Shutdown; Unix/Linux; SVR4; Other Unix; Mac OS X; Windows NT/2000; Logging; The Error Log; The Binary Log; The Slow Query Log; Log Rotation; Backup; mysqldump; mysqlhotcopy; Recovery; mysqldump Recovery; mysqlhotcopy Recovery; Table Maintenance and Crash Recovery; Checking a Table; Repairing a Table; Scheduled Table Checking; Part II; Performance Tuning; An Approach to Performance Tuning…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…IIS 6.0 Benefits and FeaturesInternet and Intranet Applications on IIS 6.0; Determining Application Compatibility with IIS 6.0; Moving from IIS 5.0 Isolation Mode to Worker Process Isolation Mode; Reviewing Application Isolation Modes; Benefits of Moving to Worker Process Isolation Mode; Security Enhancements; Default process identity for Web sites and applications set to NetworkService; Performance and Scaling Enhancements; Support for processor affinity for worker processes in an application pool; Elimination of inactive worker processes and reclamation of unused resources…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…SC Resistor SimulationsThe Advantages of SC Resistor Simulations; Capacitance Ratios versus Circuit Parameters; 3.3 Switched-Capacitor Integrators; Parasitic-Sensitive SC Integrators; Parasitic-Insensitive SC Integrators; Fully Differential Integrators; 3.4 CMOS Sample-and-Hold Circuits; Performance Parameters; Testing S&H Circuits; CMOS S&H Circuits; 3.5 Switched-Capacitor Interpolators and Decimators; SC Interpolators; SC Decimators; 3.6 Signal-Flow-Graph Analysis of Switched-Capacitor Circuits; Signal-Flow-Graph Analysis; Mason's Rule; Appendix 3.1; References…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…; 1.2 Technology Trends; 1.3 SoC Objectives and NoC Needs; 1.4 Once Over Lightly; 1.5 Perspectives; 2 Network Architecture: Principles and Examples; 2.1 Network Architecture; 2.2 Network Architectures for On-Chip Realization; 2.3 Ad Hoc Network Architectures; 2.4 Component Design for NoCs; 2.5 Properties of Network Architectures; 2.6 Summary; 3 Physical Network Layer; 3.1 Interconnection in DSM SoC; 3.2 High-Performance Signaling…”