Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Power Saving -- Hardware Consolidation -- System Recovery -- System Duplication -- Research -- Virtualization in Modern Networks -- Virtual Machine Managers -- Hypervisors -- Virtual Switches -- Virtual PBX -- Network as a Service -- Chapter Review -- Questions -- Answers -- Chapter 18 Network Management -- Test Specific -- Network Configuration Management -- Configuration Management Documentation -- Change Management Documentation -- Monitoring Performance and Connectivity -- Performance Monitor -- Logs and Network Traffic -- Network Performance Optimization -- Caching -- Controlling Data Throughput -- Keeping Resources Available -- Chapter Review -- Questions -- Answers -- Chapter 19 Building a SOHO Network -- Historical/Conceptual -- Test Specific -- Designing a SOHO Network -- Building the Network -- Define the Network Needs -- Network Design -- Compatibility Issues -- Internal Connections -- External Connections -- ISPs and MTUs -- Peripherals -- Security -- Chapter Review -- Questions -- Answers -- Chapter 20 Network Troubleshooting -- Test Specific -- Troubleshooting Tools -- Hardware Tools -- Software Tools -- The Troubleshooting Process -- Identify the Problem -- Establish a Theory of Probable Cause…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Functions Relevant to Lookups -- Basic Lookup Formulas -- The VLOOKUP function -- The HLOOKUP function -- The LOOKUP function -- Combining the MATCH and INDEX functions -- Specialized Lookup Formulas -- Looking up an exact value -- Looking up a value to the left -- Performing a case-sensitive lookup -- Choosing among multiple lookup tables -- Determining letter grades for test scores -- Calculating a grade point average -- Performing a two-way lookup -- Performing a two-column lookup -- Determining the address of a value within a range -- Looking up a value by using the closest match -- Looking up a value using linear interpolation -- Chapter 9: Working with Tables and Lists -- Tables and Terminology -- A list example -- A table example -- Working with Tables -- Creating a table -- Changing the look of a table -- Navigating and selecting in a table -- Adding new rows or columns -- Deleting rows or columns -- Moving a table -- Removing duplicate rows from a table -- Sorting and filtering a table -- Working with the Total row -- Using formulas within a table -- Referencing data in a table -- Converting a table to a list -- Using Advanced Filtering -- Setting up a criteria range -- Applying an advanced filter -- Clearing an advanced filter -- Specifying Advanced Filter Criteria -- Specifying a single criterion -- Specifying multiple criteria -- Specifying computed criteria -- Using Database Functions -- Inserting Subtotals -- Chapter 10: Miscellaneous Calculations -- Unit Conversions -- Rounding Numbers -- Basic rounding formulas…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Loadable Kernel Module (LKM) Basics -- A First LKM Example -- The LKM Makefile -- Building the LKM on a Linux Desktop Machine -- Building the LKM on the RPi -- Testing the First LKM Example -- An Embedded LKM Example -- Interrupt Service Routines (ISRs) -- Performance -- Enhanced Button GPIO Driver LKM -- The kobject Interface…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Consolidating the data -- 7.1 Converting the data -- 7.1.1 Data conversion process -- 7.1.2 Time planning -- 7.1.3 DB2 Migration ToolKit -- 7.1.4 Alternatives for data movement -- 7.1.5 DDL conversion using data modeling tools -- 7.2 Load/unload -- 7.3 Converting Oracle data -- 7.4 Converting SQL Server -- 7.5 Application conversion -- 7.5.1 Converting other Java applications to DB2 UDB -- 7.5.2 Converting applications to use DB2 CLI/ODBC -- 7.5.3 Converting ODBC applications -- 7.6 General data conversion steps -- Chapter 8. Performance and consolidation -- 8.1 Performance techniques -- 8.1.1 Buffer pools -- 8.1.2 DB2 RUNSTATS utility -- 8.1.3 Indexing -- 8.1.4 Efficient SQL -- 8.1.5 Multidimensional clustering tables -- 8.1.6 MQT -- 8.1.7 Database partitioning -- 8.2 Data refresh considerations -- 8.2.1 Data refresh types -- 8.2.2 Impact analysis -- 8.3 Data load and unload -- 8.3.1 DB2 Export and Import utility -- 8.3.2 The db2batch utility -- 8.3.3 DB2 Load utility -- 8.3.4 The db2move utility -- 8.3.5 The DB2 High Performance Unload utility -- Chapter 9. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Quiz -- Planning a Windows Deployment -- Understanding Windows Images -- Understanding Windows PE -- Understanding Answer Files -- Understanding Configuration Passes -- Creating an Answer File -- Using the Answer Files to Perform an Unattended Installation -- Capturing a System Image -- Understanding the System Preparation Tool -- Using Sysprep to Prepare a System for Capture -- Creating a WIM File -- Automated Image Capture -- Manual Image Capture…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Visualizing Model Performance -- Fundamental concepts: Visualization of model performance under various kinds of uncertainty; Further consideration of what is desired from data mining results -- Exemplary techniques: Profit curves; Cumulative response curves; Lift curves; ROC curves -- Ranking Instead of Classifying -- Profit Curves -- ROC Graphs and Curves -- The Area Under the ROC Curve (AUC) -- Cumulative Response and Lift Curves -- Example: Performance Analytics for Churn Modeling -- Summary -- 9. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Boyce-Codd Normal Form (BCNF) -- Fourth Normal Form (4NF) -- Fifth Normal Form (5NF) -- Domain/Key Normal Form (DKNF) -- Essential Redundancy -- The Best Level of Normalization -- NoSQL Normalization -- Summary -- Chapter 8 Designing Databases to Support Software -- Plan Ahead -- Document Everything -- Consider Multi-tier Architecture -- Convert Domains into Tables -- Keep Tables Focused -- Use Three Kinds of Tables -- Use Naming Conventions -- Allow Some Redundant Data -- Don't Squeeze in Everything -- Summary -- Chapter 9 Using Common Design Patterns -- Associations -- Many-to-Many Associations -- Multiple Many-to-Many Associations -- Multiple-Object Associations -- Repeated Attribute Associations -- Reflexive Associations -- One-to-One Reflexive Associations -- One-to-Many Reflexive Associations -- Hierarchical Data -- Hierarchical Data with NoSQL -- Network Data -- Network Data with NoSQL -- Temporal Data -- Effective Dates -- Deleted Objects -- Deciding What to Temporalize -- Logging and Locking -- Audit Trails -- Turnkey Records -- Summary -- Chapter 10 Avoiding Common Design Pitfalls -- Lack of Preparation -- Poor Documentation -- Poor Naming Standards -- Thinking Too Small -- Not Planning for Change -- Too Much Normalization -- Insufficient Normalization -- Insufficient Testing -- Performance Anxiety -- Mishmash Tables -- Not Enforcing Constraints -- Obsession with IDs -- Not Defining Natural Keys -- Summary -- Part 3 A Detailed Case Study -- Chapter 11 Defining User Needs and Requirements -- Meet the Customers -- Pick the Customers' Brains -- Determining What the System Should Do -- Determining How the Project Should Look -- Determining What Data Is Needed for the User Interface -- Determining Where the Data Should Come From -- Determining How the Pieces of Data Are Related -- Determining Performance Needs -- Determining Security Needs…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Part II-monosymmetric (R) and double symmetric built-up box cross-sections -- Comparison of two different innovative solutions for IPE beam to CHS column connections -- Performances of moment resisting frames with slender steel and composite sections in low and moderate seismic areas -- Laser technology for innovative connections in steel construction: An overview of the project LASTEICON -- Analytical assessment of CFS wall-panels sheathed with MgO board -- Direct Strength Method (DSM) design of simply supported short-to-intermediate hot-rolled steel equal-leg angle columns -- Stability of ring stiffened steel liners under external pressure-comparison of the existing design concept with 3D-FEM analysis -- Numerical investigation of steel built-up columns composed of track and channel cold-formed sections…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…kurtosis -- skewness -- Variance -- Standard deviation -- Covariance -- groupBy -- Rollup -- Cube -- Window functions -- ntiles -- Joins -- Inner workings of join -- Shuffle join -- Broadcast join -- Join types -- Inner join -- Left outer join -- Right outer join -- Outer join -- Left anti join -- Left semi join -- Cross join -- Performance implications of join -- Summary -- Chapter 7: Real-Time Analytics with Apache Spark -- Streaming -- At-least-once processing -- At-most-once processing -- Exactly-once processing -- Spark Streaming -- StreamingContext -- Creating StreamingContext -- Starting StreamingContext -- Stopping StreamingContext -- Input streams -- receiverStream -- socketTextStream -- rawSocketStream -- fileStream -- textFileStream -- binaryRecordsStream -- queueStream -- textFileStream example -- twitterStream example -- Discretized Streams -- Transformations -- Windows operations -- Stateful/stateless transformations -- Stateless transformations -- Stateful transformations -- Checkpointing -- Metadata checkpointing -- Data checkpointing -- Driver failure recovery -- Interoperability with streaming platforms (Apache Kafka) -- Receiver-based -- Direct Stream -- Structured Streaming -- Getting deeper into Structured Streaming -- Handling event time and late date -- Fault-tolerance semantics -- Summary -- Chapter 8: Batch Analytics with Apache Flink -- Introduction to Apache Flink -- Continuous processing for unbounded datasets -- Flink, the streaming model, and bounded datasets -- Installing Flink -- Downloading Flink -- Installing Flink -- Starting a local Flink cluster -- Using the Flink cluster UI -- Batch analytics -- Reading file -- File-based -- Collection-based -- Generic -- Transformations -- GroupBy -- Aggregation -- Joins -- Inner join -- Left outer join -- Right outer join -- Full outer join -- Writing to a file -- Summary…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Évolution macroéconomique et perspectives -- Vue d'ensemble -- Le cycle portugais dans le contexte européen -- Graphique 1. Performances macroéconomiques -- Tableau 1. Portugal et zone euro : principaux indicateurs -- Tableau 2. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…. -- Creating and using key performance indicators -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- There's more... -- Chapter 6: Security -- Introduction -- Creating privileges -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- There's more... -- Impact on licensing -- See also -- Creating duties -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- There's more... -- Creating security roles -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- See also... -- Creating policies -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- There's more... -- See also... -- Chapter 7: Leveraging Extensibility -- Introduction -- Extending standard tables without customization footprint -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- There's more... -- Creating data-event handler methods -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- There's more... -- How to customize a document layout without an over-layer -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- There more... -- Creating event handler methods -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- Extending standard forms without customization footprint -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- There's more... -- Using a form event handler to replace a lookup -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- Creating your own query functions -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- Chapter 8: Data Management, OData, and Office -- Introduction -- Creating a data entity -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- There's more... -- See also -- Extending standard data entities -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- There's more... -- Importing data through Data Import/Export Framework -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- See also…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Robustness -- Security -- Ease of use -- Extensibility -- Performance and concurrency -- Scalability -- SQL and NoSQL -- Popularity -- Commercial support -- Research and development funding -- Getting PostgreSQL -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- There's more... -- Connecting to the PostgreSQL server -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- There's more... -- See also -- Enabling access for network/remote users -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- There's more... -- See also -- Using graphical administration tools -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- See also -- Using the psql query and scripting tool -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- There's more... -- See also -- Changing your password securely -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- Avoiding hardcoding your password -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- There's more... -- Using a connection service file -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- Troubleshooting a failed connection -- How to do it... -- There's more... -- Chapter 2: Exploring the Database -- Introduction -- What version is the server? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…. -- Construct a pipeline -- Construct a parameter grid for a pipeline -- Provide a cross-validation scheme -- Perform a grid search -- There's more... -- Randomized grid search alternative -- Visualize the nonlinear RBF decision boundary -- More meaning behind C and gamma -- Multiclass classification with SVM -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- OneVsRestClassifier -- Visualize it -- How it works... -- Support vector regression -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- Chapter 9: Tree Algorithms and Ensembles -- Introduction -- Doing basic classifications with decision trees -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- Visualizing a decision tree with pydot -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- There's more... -- Tuning a decision tree -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- There's more... -- Using decision trees for regression -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- There's more... -- Reducing overfitting with cross-validation -- How to do it... -- There's more... -- Implementing random forest regression -- Getting ready -- How to do it…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Version Two - The Revised Executive Coaching PrepForm -- Are You Reviewing Results or Performance? -- Hindsight is Blindsight -- Enter the Coaching Action Plan -- Chapter Six: Transforming Critical Conversations into Positive Change and Measurable Results -- The Hard Truth -- Coach and Be Happy -- Resign as Chief Problem Solver -- Control Freak? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…The Components of a Database System -- The database -- The database engine -- The DBMS front end -- The database application -- The user -- The System Development Life Cycle -- Definition phase -- Requirements phase -- Evaluation phase -- Design phase -- Implementation phase -- Final Documentation and Testing phase -- Maintenance phase -- Chapter 2 Building a Database Model -- Finding and Listening to Interested Parties -- Your immediate supervisor -- The users -- The standards organization -- Upper management -- Building Consensus -- Gauging what people want -- Arriving at a consensus -- Building a Relational Model -- Reviewing the three database traditions -- Knowing what a relation is -- Functional dependencies -- Keys -- Being Aware of the Danger of Anomalies -- Eliminating anomalies -- Examining the higher normal forms -- The Database Integrity versus Performance Tradeoff -- Chapter 3 Balancing Performance and Correctness -- Designing a Sample Database -- The ER model for Honest Abe's -- Converting an ER model into a relational model -- Normalizing a relational model -- Handling binary relationships -- A sample conversion -- Maintaining Integrity -- Entity integrity -- Domain integrity -- Referential integrity -- Avoiding Data Corruption -- Speeding Data Retrievals -- Hierarchical storage -- Full table scans -- Working with Indexes -- Creating the right indexes -- Indexes and the ANSI/ISO standard -- Index costs -- Query type dictates the best index -- Data structures used for indexes -- Indexes, sparse and dense -- Index clustering -- Composite indexes -- Index effect on join performance -- Table size as an indexing consideration -- Indexes versus full table scans -- Reading SQL Server Execution Plans -- Robust execution plans -- A sample database -- Chapter 4 Creating a Database with SQL -- First Things First: Planning Your Database…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Task.Delay -- Task.WhenAll -- Task.WhenAll, Error Handling -- Task.WhenAny -- async/await Mechanics -- Summary -- Chapter 8: Everything a Task -- TaskCompletionSource -- Worked Example: Creating a Foreground Task -- Unit Testing and Stubbing Asynchronous Methods -- Building Task-Based Combinators -- Improved WhenAny -- Alternative WhenAll, WhenAllOrFail -- Summary -- Chapter 9: Server-Side Async -- Natural Parallelism -- The Problem of I/O -- ASP.NET WebForms -- A Synchronous WebForms Implementation -- Asynchronous Pages in WebForms 4.0 -- Mark the Page As Asynchronous -- Registering the Asynchronous Methods -- Implementing the "Begin" Method -- Implementing the "End" Method -- Dealing with Multiple Asynchronous I/O Requests -- Handling Errors in Asynchronous Pages Using APM -- Asynchronous Pages in WebForms 4.5 -- ASP.NET MVC -- Asynchronous MVC Processing in .NET 4.0 -- Implementing IndexAsync -- Implementing the IndexCompleted Method -- Take Care with APM -- Performing Multiple Async I/O Operations Within an Asynchronous Action -- Asynchronous MVC Processing in .NET 4.5 -- ASP.NET Web API -- Asynchronous Web API Operations in .NET 4.0.…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…11.4 Fiscal drivers -- 11.5 Reliefs and allowances -- 11.6 Subsidies and incentives -- 11.7 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 12 Environmental Assessment Tools: An Overview of the UK's BREEAM and the US's LEED -- 12.1 Introduction -- 12.2 Context and the need to design to reduce carbon emission -- 12.3 Key features of environmental assessment tools -- 12.4 The Breeam tool -- 12.5 The leed tool -- 12.6 Concluding remarks -- References -- Chapter 13 Space Planning and Organisational Performance -- 13.1 Introduction -- 13.2 Organisational performance and innovative work settings -- 13.3 Hypotheses and test results -- 13.4 Discussion -- 13.5 Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 14 Achieving Zero Carbon in Sustainable Communities -- 14.1 Introduction -- 14.2 Key concepts and principles -- 14.3 Key features of decentralised energy networks -- 14.4 Activity-based design approach -- 14.5 Key steps in the design process -- 14.6 Evaluating energy, space and land requirements -- 14.7 Concluding remarks -- References -- Chapter 15 Flood Risk Mitigation: Design Considerations and Cost Implications for New and Existing Buildings -- 15.1 Introduction -- 15.2 Increasing challenges of flooding due to global warming and urban development -- 15.3 Flood mitigation -- 15.4 Flood mitigation consideration for new buildings at design stage -- 15.5 Implications of mitigation measures in terms of building cost -- 15.6 Implications of mitigation measures in terms of property value and insurance cost -- 15.7 Conclusions -- References -- Part II Industry Perspective, Case Studies and Implications for Curriculum Development -- Chapter 16 Reusing Knowledge and Leveraging Technology to Reduce Design and Construction Costs -- 16.1 Introduction -- 16.2 Knowledge reuse in construction processes and projects -- 16.3 Knowledge reuse in construction projects…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Centralized Splitting -- An Even More Practical Centralized Splitting Architecture -- Greenfields -- Brownfields -- CABLE COLOR CODES -- AERIAL OR UNDERGROUND: A DECISION MADE FOR YOU -- Aerial Plant -- Optical Ground Wire -- Snowshoes in the Summer -- Underground Plant -- New Developments -- Existing Developments -- To Conduit or Not to Conduit -- Trace Your Cable -- CONNECTING FIBERS -- Fusion Splicing -- Connectorization -- Preterminated Drop Cable -- INSIDE CABLING -- Bend Radius -- Fiber for Indoor Installation -- Ribbon Fibers -- OPTICAL PERFORMANCE OF THE FTTX NETWORK -- DESIGN METHODOLOGIES -- EPON Optics -- PX20 Optics at OLT and at ONT -- PX20 OLT, PX10 ONT -- More on the Penalty -- GPON Optics -- Class B+ Optics at the OLT and ONT -- TESTING OPTICAL NETWORKS -- Visible Light Source -- Optical Level Meter -- Optical Time Domain Reflectometer -- THE DUMB, SIMPLE, STUPID STUFF -- Mixing Green and Blue -- Lesson Learned -- Fiber is Fiber is Fiber -- Lesson Learned -- What, Mark My Cable Route Accurately? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Integration with Spark -- Scala compatibility -- Serialization issues -- Creating a scalable, production-ready library -- Build once, read many -- Exception handling -- Performance tuning -- Named entity recognition -- Scala libraries -- NLP walkthrough -- Extracting entities -- Abstracting methods -- Building a scalable code -- Build once, read many -- Scalability is also a state of mind -- Performance tuning -- GIS lookup -- GeoNames dataset -- Building an efficient join -- Offline strategy - Bloom filtering -- Online strategy - Hash partitioning -- Content deduplication -- Context learning -- Location scoring -- Names de-duplication -- Functional programming with Scalaz -- Our de-duplication strategy -- Using the mappend operator -- Simple clean -- DoubleMetaphone -- News index dashboard -- Summary -- Chapter 7: Building Communities -- Building a graph of persons -- Contact chaining -- Extracting data from Elasticsearch -- Using the Accumulo database -- Setup Accumulo -- Cell security -- Iterators -- Elasticsearch to Accumulo -- A graph data model in Accumulo -- Hadoop input and output formats -- Reading from Accumulo -- AccumuloGraphxInputFormat and EdgeWritable -- Building a graph -- Community detection algorithm -- Louvain algorithm -- Weighted Community Clustering (WCC) -- Description -- Preprocessing stage -- Initial communities -- Message passing -- Community back propagation -- WCC iteration -- Gathering community statistics -- WCC Computation -- WCC iteration -- GDELT dataset -- The Bowie effect -- Smaller communities -- Using Accumulo cell level security -- Summary -- Chapter 8: Building a Recommendation System -- Different approaches -- Collaborative filtering -- Content-based filtering -- Custom approach -- Uninformed data -- Processing bytes -- Creating a scalable code -- From time to frequency domain -- Fast Fourier transform…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Task 3: Configure settings for VPN clients -- Task 4: Verify connectivity between the remote PC and the Azure VNet -- Troubleshoot Azure VPN Gateway using diagnostic logs -- Hands-on exercise - clean up resources -- Summary -- Chapter 6: Designing and Implementing Hybrid Network Connectivity with the ExpressRoute Gateway -- Technical requirements -- Understanding what ExpressRoute is and its main use cases -- Choosing between private peering and public peering -- Understanding ExpressRoute components -- Deciding on an ExpressRoute connectivity model -- Understanding the provider model -- Understanding the ExpressRoute direct model -- Selecting the right ExpressRoute circuit SKU -- Selecting the right ExpressRoute gateway SKU -- Implementing ExpressRoute with zone redundancy -- Modifying a gateway SKU -- Implementing the gateway subnet -- Improving data path performance with ExpressRoute FastPath -- Understanding FastPath unsupported scenarios -- Configuring FastPath for new or existing connections -- Designing and implementing cross-network connectivity over ExpressRoute -- Enhancing cross-network connectivity using VNet peering -- Enhancing cross-network connectivity using multiple ExpressRoute VNet connections -- Enhancing cross-network connectivity using ExpressRoute Global Reach -- Understanding the implementation of encryption over ExpressRoute -- Understanding the implementation of BFD -- Hands-on exercise - implementing an ExpressRoute gateway -- Task 1 - create a VNet and gateway subnet -- Task 2 - deploy the ExpressRoute VNet gateway service -- Task 3 - create and provision an ExpressRoute circuit -- Task 4 - retrieve your service key (you need to send this to your SP) -- Task 5 - check serviceProviderProvisioningState status -- Task 6 - connect the ExpressRoute gateway to the ExpressRoute circuit…”