“…As programs designed to teach students social and emotional competencies are being adopted at an ever-increasing rate, new measurements are needed to understand their impact on student attitudes, behaviors, and academic performance. This book integrates standards of fairness, reliability, and validity, and lessons learned from personality and attitude assessment to facilitate the principled development and use of SEL assessments. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Politics as Linguistic Performance: Function and 'Magic' of Communicative Practices ; PART II. …”

“…This volume addresses the most current research and theory on the nature of strategies and performance, mechanisms for unearthing individuals' strategic behaviors, and both long-established and emerging techniques for data analysis and interpretation"…”

“…This enables policy makers and regulators to understand why some parts of the ICT ecosystem are underperforming and what can be done to enhance their performance. The previous edition of The New ICT Ecosystem won the 2008-09 Joseph Schumpeter Prize"…”

“…The answer lies in the mathematical models applied in biology, physics and economics.Soccermatics brings football and mathematics together in a mind-bending synthesis, using numbers to help reveal the inner workings of the beautiful game.This new and expanded edition analyses the current big-name players and teams using mathematics, and meets the professionals working inside football who use numbers and statistics to boost performance.Welcome to the world of mathematical modelling, expressed brilliantly by David Sumpter through the prism of football. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Introducing Pandas objects -- Data indexing and selection -- Operating on data in Pandas -- Handling missing data -- Hierarchical indexing -- Combining datasets: concat and append -- Combining datasets: merge and join -- Aggregation and grouping -- Pivot tables -- Vectorized string operations -- Working with time series -- High-performance Pandas: eval and query -- Part IV: Visualization with Matplotlib -- General Matplotlib tips -- Simple line plots -- Simple scatter plots -- Density and contour plots -- Customizing plot legends -- Customizing colorbars -- Multiple subplots -- Text and annotation -- Customizing ticks -- Customizing Matplotlib: configurations and stylesheets -- Three-dimensional plotting in Matplotlib -- Visualization with Seaborn -- Part V: Machine learning. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Foreword I -- Foreword II -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- 1 Introduction -- Abstract -- 1.1 Ecological and Economic Challenges and the Built Environment -- 1.2 Research Aim and Audience -- 1.3 Research Question -- References -- 2 Modern History of Sustainable Architecture -- Abstract -- 2.1 Historical Background -- 2.2 Towards a New Architectural Design Paradigm -- References -- 3 Definitions and Paradigm Shift -- Abstract -- 3.1 Negative Impact Reduction via Increased Efficiency -- 3.2 Positive Impact via Increased Regenerative Effectiveness -- References -- 4 Design Principles of Regenerative Design -- Abstract -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Guiding Principles -- 4.3 Framework for Regenerative Building Design -- 4.3.1 Regenerative Construction Systems -- 4.3.2 Regenerative Design Elements -- 4.3.3 Regenerative Building Materials and Products -- 4.4 Design Strategies for Regenerative Building Design -- 4.4.1 Design Strategy 1: Selection of a Construction System -- 4.4.2 Design Strategy 2: Defining of Design Elements and Their Performance -- 4.4.3 Enhance Air Quality and Human Health -- 4.4.4 Energy Saving -- 4.4.5 Renewable Energy Production -- 4.4.6 Water Management -- 4.4.7 Design with Nature -- 4.4.8 Design Strategy 3: Choice of Regenerative Materials -- References -- 5 Indicators and Metrics of Regenerative Design -- Abstract -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Life Cycle Standards and System Boundary -- 5.3 Functional Unit, Year, Tools and Indicators -- 5.4 Life Cycle Inventory -- 5.5 Limitations -- References -- 6 Case Studies: Energy Efficiency Versus Regenerative Paradigm -- Abstract -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Case Study 1: Efficiency Paradigm (Office Building) -- 6.3 Case Study 2: Regenerative Paradigm (Office Building) -- 6.4 Case Study 3: Regenerative Paradigm (Office Building)…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Produit intérieur brut trimestriel -- Graphique 1. Performance macroéconomique -- Tableau 2. Produit intérieur brut trimestriel par secteur -- Graphique 2. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Parameters 84 -- 2.7 Radiation Efficiency of Electrically Small Versus Electrically Large Antenna 85 -- 2.7.1 What is an Electrically Small Antenna (ESA)? 86 -- 2.7.2 Performance of Electrically Small Antenna Versus Large Resonant Antennas 86 -- 2.8 Challenges in Designing a Matched ESA 90 -- 2.9 Near?] …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Software Engineering Integration with HTML Sprinkling PHP within an HTML Document Using PHP to Output All HTML Separating HTML from PHP Creating <SELECT> Fields Passing Arrays in Forms Design Writing Requirements Specifications Writing Design Documents Using CVS Modularization Using include FreeEnergy FastTemplate Midgard Ariadne Preserving State and Providing Security Cloaking URLs Friendly to Search Engines Running a Script Regularly Efficiency and Debugging Measuring Performance Fetching Database Query Results When to Store Content in a Database In-Line Debugging Remote Debugging Simulating HTTP Connections…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…. -- See also -- Using the switchMap and debounceTime operators with autocompletes for better performance -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- See also -- Creating a custom RxJS operator -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- See also -- Retrying failed HTTP calls with RxJS -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- See also -- Chapters 6: Reactive State Management with NgRx -- Technical requirements -- Creating your first NgRx store with actions and reducers -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- See also -- Using NgRx Store Devtools to debug state changes -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- There's more... -- See also -- Using NgRx selectors to select and render state in components -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- See also -- Using NgRx effects to fetch data from API calls -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- See also -- Using NgRx Component Store to manage the state of a component -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- See also -- Chapters 7: Understanding Angular Navigation and Routing -- Technical requirements -- Creating routes in an Angular (standalone) app -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- See also -- Lazily loaded routes in Angular -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- See also -- Preloading route strategies -- Getting ready…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Chapter 10: Bells and Whistles-Special Features of OLAP Cubes -- Where No Cube Has Gone Before -- Deploying and Processing -- Deploying -- Processing -- Deploying from SQL Server Data Tools -- Learn By Doing-Deploying the MaxMinManufacturingDM Project Using SQL Server Data Tools -- Deploying from the Analysis Services Deployment Wizard -- Learn By Doing-Deploying the MaxMinSalesDM Project Using the Analysis Services Deployment Wizard -- Additional Cube Features -- Linked Objects -- Creating a Linked Measure -- The Business Intelligence Wizard -- Key Performance Indicators -- Creating a Key Performance Indicator -- Key Performance Indicators and Client Software -- Learn By Doing-Adding a KPI to the Max Min Manufacturing DM Cube -- Actions -- Types of Actions -- Creating an Action -- Creating Drillthrough Actions -- Creating Reporting Actions -- Actions and Client Software -- Partitions -- Measure Groups and Partitions -- Multiple Partitions for a Measure Group -- Learn By Doing-Creating Multiple Partitions from a Single Table -- Partitions and Storage Options -- Learn By Doing-Setting Storage Options for a Cube Partition -- Writeback -- Aggregation Design -- Manual Aggregation Design -- Perspectives -- Creating Perspectives -- Translations -- Creating Translations -- More Sophisticated Scripting -- Chapter 11: Writing a New Script-MDX Scripting -- Terms and Concepts -- Where Are We? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…2.2 Specimen Fabrication and Steam-Curing Procedure -- 2.3 Expansion Measurements -- 2.4 Mechanical Property Testing -- 2.5 Load Carrying Capacity Testing Under Four-Point Loading -- 3 Results and Discussion -- 3.1 Cracking of Specimens -- 3.2 Expansion of Concrete Prisms -- 3.3 Mechanical Properties of Concrete Under Accelerated ASR Test Conditions -- 3.4 Load Carrying Capacity of Reinforced Concrete Beams -- 4 Conclusions -- References -- 3D printed Ultra-High Performance Concrete: Preparation, Application, and Challenges -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Preparation of 3DP-UHPC -- 2.1 Design of UHPC for 3DCP -- 2.2 Manufacturing of 3DP-UHPC -- 2.3 Mechanical Anisotropy of 3DP-UHPC -- 3 Applications of 3DP-UHPC -- 3.1 Large-Scale Special Components -- 3.2 As the Reinforcement Materials -- 3.3 As Protection Against Explosion and Impact -- 4 Challenges of 3DP-UHPC -- 4.1 Standardization of Materials -- 4.2 Flexible Design of Structures -- 5 Summary and Outlook -- References -- Nanosilica-Modified Hydrogels Encapsulating Bacterial Spores for Self-healing Concrete -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Methods -- 2.1 Preparation of Bacterial Spores -- 2.2 Preparation of Hydrogels Encapsulating Bacterial Spores -- 2.3 Observation of Interface Between Hydrogel and Cement Matrix -- 2.4 Revival of Bacterial Spores Encapsulated in Hydrogels After Exposure to Alkali Environments -- 3 Results and Discussion -- 4 Conclusions -- References -- Reusing Alum Sludge as Cement Replacement to Develop Eco-Friendly Concrete Products -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Methodology -- 2.1 Materials -- 2.2 Sample Preparation -- 2.3 Experimental Methods -- 3 Results and Discussion -- 3.1 Material Characterization -- 3.2 Reaction Degree and Hydration Mechanism of Sludge -- 3.3 Chemo-Mechanical Properties of Pastes and Strength of Blocks -- 4 Conclusions -- References…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…. -- 12.1 Introduction -- 12.1.1 The impact that having attention deficit hyperactivity disorder has on a student's ability to succeed academically -- 12.1.2 The use of interventions for students diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder -- 12.1.3 Interventions performed in a clinic -- 12.1.4 Technology in education -- 12.1.5 The environments for virtual reality education -- 12.2 Method -- 12.2.1 Participants -- 12.2.2 Materials…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Analyzing current trends -- Extortion attacks -- Data manipulation attacks -- IoT device attacks -- Backdoors -- Mobile device attacks -- Hacking everyday devices -- Hacking the cloud -- Phishing -- Exploiting a vulnerability -- Zero-day -- Fuzzing -- Source code analysis -- Types of zero-day exploits -- Buffer overflows -- Structured exception handler overwrites -- Performing the steps to compromise a system -- Deploying payloads -- Installing and using a vulnerability scanner -- Using Metasploit -- Compromising operating systems -- Compromising systems using Kon-Boot or Hiren's BootCD -- Compromising systems using a Linux Live CD -- Compromising systems using preinstalled applications -- Compromising systems using Ophcrack -- Compromising a remote system -- Compromising web-based systems -- SQL injection -- Cross-site scripting -- Broken authentication -- DDoS attacks -- References -- Summary -- Chapter 6: Chasing a User's Identity -- Identity is the new perimeter -- Strategies for compromising a user's identity -- Gaining access to the network -- Harvesting credentials -- Hacking a user's identity -- Brute force -- Social engineering -- Pass the hash -- Other methods to hack identity -- References -- Summary -- Chapter 7: Lateral Movement -- Infiltration -- Network mapping -- Avoiding alerts -- Performing lateral movement -- Port scans -- Sysinternals -- File shares -- Remote Desktop -- PowerShell -- Windows Management Instrumentation -- Scheduled tasks -- Token stealing -- Pass-the-hash -- Active Directory -- Remote Registry -- Breached host analysis -- Central administrator consoles -- Email pillaging -- References -- Summary -- Chapter 8: Privilege Escalation -- Infiltration -- Horizontal privilege escalation -- Vertical privilege escalation -- Avoiding alerts -- Performing privilege escalation -- Exploiting unpatched operating systems…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…. -- Chapter 6: SSIS Performance and Scalability -- Introduction -- Using SQL Server Management Studio to execute an SSIS package -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- Using T-SQL to execute an SSIS package -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- Using the DTExec command-line utility to execute an SSIS package -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- There's more... -- Scheduling an SSIS package execution -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- Using the cascading lookup pattern -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- Using the lookup cache -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- Using lookup expressions -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- Determining the maximum number of worker threads in a data flow -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- Using the master package concept -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- Requesting an execution tree in SSDT -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- Monitoring SSIS performance -- Establishing a performance monitor session -- How to do it... -- How it works…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Creating a Data Explorer pool using the Azure CLI -- Summary -- Chapter 3: Exploring Azure Synapse Studio -- Technical requirements -- Exploring the user interface of Azure Synapse Studio -- Running your first query -- Creating a database -- Loading the data -- Verifying whether your data has loaded successfully -- Working with data in Azure Synapse notebooks -- Saving your work and configuring source control -- Managing and monitoring Data Explorer pools -- Scaling Data Explorer pools -- Pausing and resuming pools -- Monitoring Data Explorer pools -- Summary -- Chapter 4: Real-World Usage Scenarios -- Technical requirements -- Building a multi-purpose end-to-end analytics environment -- Sources -- Ingest -- Store -- Process -- Enrich -- Serve -- User -- Summary -- Managing IoT data -- Processing and analyzing geospatial data -- Enabling real-time analytics with big data -- Performing time series analytics -- Summary -- Part 2: Working with Data -- Chapter 5: Ingesting Data into Data Explorer Pools -- Technical requirements -- Understanding the data loading process -- Defining a retention policy -- Choosing a data load strategy -- Streaming ingestion -- Batching ingestion -- Performing data ingestion -- Using KQL control commands -- Building an Azure Synapse pipeline -- Implementing continuous ingestion -- Using other data ingestion mechanisms -- Summary -- Chapter 6: Data Analysis and Exploration with KQL and Python -- Technical requirements -- Analyzing data with KQL -- Selecting data -- Working with calculated columns -- Plotting charts -- Obtaining percentiles -- Creating a time series -- Detecting outliers -- Using linear regression -- Exploring Data Explorer pool data with Python -- Creating an Apache Spark pool -- Working with Azure Synapse notebooks -- Reading data from Data Explorer pools -- Plotting charts…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…. -- See also -- Analyzing population structure -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- See also -- Performing a PCA…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Risk Management and Patching -- Building a Patch Management Program -- People -- Process -- Technology -- Summary -- Chapter 3 Secure Configuration -- Regulations, Frameworks, and Laws -- NSA and CISA Top Ten Cybersecurity Misconfigurations -- Default Configurations of Software and Applications -- Improper Separation of User/Administrator Privilege -- Insufficient Internal Network Monitoring -- Lack of Network Segmentation -- Poor Patch Management -- Bypass of System Access Controls -- Weak or Misconfigured Multifactor Authentication Methods -- Lack of Phishing-Resistant MFA -- Insufficient Access Control Lists on Network Shares and Services -- Poor Credential Hygiene -- Unrestricted Code Execution -- Mitigations -- Default Configurations of Software Applications -- Improper Separation of User/Administration Privilege -- Insufficient Network Monitoring -- Poor Patch Management -- Wrapping up the CIS Misconfigurations Guidance -- CIS Benchmarks -- DISA Security Technical Implementation Guides -- Summary -- Chapter 4 Continuous Vulnerability Management -- CIS Control 7-Continuous Vulnerability Management -- Establish and Maintain a Vulnerability Management Process -- Establish and Maintain a Remediation Process -- Perform Automated Operating System Patch Management -- Perform Automated Application Patch Management -- Perform Automated Vulnerability Scans of Internal Enterprise Assets -- Perform Automated Vulnerability Scans of Externally Exposed Enterprise Assets -- Remediate Detected Vulnerabilities -- Continuous Monitoring Practices -- Summary -- Chapter 5 Vulnerability Scoring and Software Identification -- Common Vulnerability Scoring System -- CVSS 4.0 at a Glance -- Base Metrics -- Exploitability Metrics -- Threat Metrics -- Environmental Metrics -- Supplemental Metrics -- Qualitative Severity Rating Scale -- Vector String…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Building a Robust People Pipeline -- Performance without Potential -- Potential without Performance -- 3. …”