Tabla de Contenidos: “…Understanding DevSecOps in the planning phase -- Understanding threat modeling and its benefits -- Traditional threat modeling frameworks -- Threat modeling in DevSecOps -- Understanding the Mozilla RRA process -- Hands-on exercise 1 - Provisioning the lab VM -- Task 1 - Initializing the template deployment to Azure -- Task 2 - Connecting to the lab VM using Azure Bastion -- Hands-on exercise 2 - Performing threat modeling of an e-commerce application -- Task 1 - Downloading and installing the Microsoft Threat Modeling Tool -- Task 2 - Creating a threat model diagram for the eShop application -- Task 3 - Running a threat analysis on the model -- Implementing continuous code-to-cloud security training -- Summary -- Further reading -- Chapter 4: Implementing Pre-Commit Security Controls -- Technical requirements -- Overview of the pre-commit coding phase of DevOps -- Understanding the developer environment options -- Understanding the security categories in the pre-commit phase -- Securing the development environment -- Risk 1 - IDE vulnerability risks -- Risk 2 - Malicious and vulnerable IDE extensions -- Risk 3 - Working with untrusted code -- Risk 4 - Compromised IDE source code -- Additional thoughts on hardening of the development environment -- Addressing common development security mistakes -- Risk 1 - Addressing in-house code vulnerability risk -- Risk 2 - Open source component risk -- Risk 3 - Exposed secret risk -- Choosing the right developer-first security tooling -- Hands-on exercise 1 - Performing code review, dependency checks, and secret scanning on the IDE -- Task 1 - Connecting to the lab VM using Azure Bastion -- Task 2 - Configuring Snyk on Visual Studio Code -- Task 3 - Importing eShopOnWeb to your Visual Studio Code workspace -- Hands-on exercise 2 - Installing and configuring Git pre-commit hooks on the IDE…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Use Firewall Software -- Secure Network Share Permissions -- Use Encryption -- Secure Applications -- Back Up the System -- Implement ARP Poisoning Defenses -- Create a Computer Security Defense Plan -- Summary -- References -- Chapter 5: Security Policies, Standards, Procedures, and Guidelines -- Security Policies -- Security Policy Development -- Security Policy Contributors -- Security Policy Audience -- Policy Categories -- Frameworks -- Security Awareness -- Importance of Security Awareness -- Objectives of an Awareness Program -- Increasing Effectiveness -- Implementing the Awareness Program -- Enforcement -- Policy Enforcement for Vendors -- Policy Enforcement for Employees -- Software-Based Enforcement -- Example Security Policy Topics -- Acceptable Use Policies -- Computer Policies -- Network Policies -- Data Privacy Policies -- Data Integrity Policies -- Personnel Management Policies -- Security Management Policies -- Physical Security Policies -- Security Standards -- Security Standard Example -- Security Procedures -- Security Procedure Example -- Security Guidelines -- Security Guideline Example -- Ongoing Maintenance -- Summary -- References -- Chapter 6: Security Organization -- Roles and Responsibilities -- Security Positions -- Security Incident Response Team -- Managed Security Services -- Services Performed by MSSPs -- Services That Can Be Monitored by MSSPs -- Security Council, Steering Committee, or Board of Directors -- Interaction with Human Resources -- Summary -- References -- Chapter 7: Authentication and Authorization -- Authentication -- Usernames and Passwords -- Certificate-Based Authentication -- Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP) -- Biometrics -- Additional Uses for Authentication -- Authorization -- User Rights -- Role-Based Authorization (RBAC) -- Access Control Lists (ACLs) -- Rule-Based Authorization…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Practical parallelization with R -- Using C++ and Fortran to accelerate calculations -- Using an old-school approach with Fortran -- Using a modern approach with C++ -- Looking back at what we have achieved -- Other topics of interest to enhance performance -- Preallocating memory to avoid duplication -- Making R code a bit faster with byte code compilation -- Just-in-time (JIT) compilation of R code -- Using memoization or cache layers -- Improving our data and memory management -- Using specialized packages for performance -- Flexibility and power with cloud computing -- Specialized R distributions -- Summary -- Chapter 10: Adding Interactivity with Dashboards -- Required packages…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Text caption generator - sequence-based language model with LSTM -- Encoder-decoder model -- Image feature extraction with transfer learning -- Building a vocabulary for our captions -- Building an image caption dataset generator -- Building our image language encoder-decoder deep learning model -- Training our image captioning deep learning model -- Evaluating our image captioning deep learning model -- Loading up data and models -- Understanding greedy and beam search -- Implementing a beam search-based caption generator -- Understanding and implementing BLEU scoring -- Evaluating model performance on test data -- Automated image captioning in action! …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Key Reward Rules -- Types of Rewards -- Implementation of the Reward Process -- Don't Turn the Organization Upside Down -- Reward and Recognition Advantages and Disadvantages -- People Want Recognition -- Chapter 8 Project Change Management and Culture Change Management Tools and Methodologies -- Introduction -- Different Approaches to ICM -- Five Types of Change Assessment -- Assessment 1: Innovation Maturity Analysis -- Assessment 2: Change History Analysis -- Assessment 3: Employee Opinion Survey -- Assessment 4: Customer Focus Groups -- Assessment 5: Is/Should Be Analysis -- Assessment Report -- Performance Improvement Management -- Chapter 9 Suggestion Programs -- Problems with U.S. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Chapter 11 Testing -- How Traditional Waterfall Lifecycle Models Inhibit Testing -- Testing with Iterative Lifecycle Models -- Advantages of Testing with Iterative Development -- Prerequisites for Testing with Iterative Lifecycle Models -- The Different Types of Testing -- Functional Testing -- Unit Testing -- Reliability Testing -- Performance/Stress Testing -- Other Types of Testing -- Other Best Practices for Testing -- Involve Testing Expertise During Requirements Elicitation -- Keep Testing Staff in the Loop -- Replicate the Production Environment -- Testing Is Part of the Delivered Product -- Final Thoughts and Philosophies on Staffing for the Testing Discipline -- What if a Separate Team, Perhaps Offshore, Performs the Testing? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- The importance of data-driven insights in business -- An overview of Microsoft Dynamics 365 AI for Business Insights -- The objectives and structure of the book -- Summary -- Questions -- Answers -- Chapter 2: Microsoft Dynamics 365 AI Architecture and Foundations -- An overview of the architecture of Microsoft Dynamics 365 AI -- Cloud-based architecture -- AI technologies integration -- Modular components and microservices -- Data management and storage -- Security and compliance -- API and SDKs -- Real-time analytics engine -- Streamlined user interface -- Infrastructure resilience and fault tolerance -- Extensibility and future-proofing -- The key components and their interactions -- Data storage - the bedrock of AI -- AI models - the analytical engines -- Cognitive services - adding a layer of intelligence -- Integration interfaces - the connective tissue -- Cross-component collaboration - a symphony of interactions -- Business empowerment - the ultimate goal -- Scalability and adaptability - designed for growth -- Security and compliance across components -- Integration considerations and best practices -- Data integration - the starting point -- Security measures - non-negotiable -- Scalability - planning for growth -- Performance optimization - getting the most out of your system -- Documentation and training - the human element -- The iterative nature of integration -- Summary -- Questions -- Answers -- Part 2: Implementing Dynamics 365 AI Across Business Functions -- Chapter 3: Implementing Dynamics 365 AI for Sales Insights -- Leveraging AI for customer segmentation and targeting…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Exploring AKS and its benefits -- Architecting Corda networks on AKS -- Design considerations for Corda network deployment -- Integrating your AKS configuration for Corda with additional Azure services -- Provisioning an AKS cluster for Corda -- Setting up an Azure subscription and preparing the prerequisites -- Deploying an AKS cluster with the appropriate Corda configuration -- Corda Enterprise in the Azure Marketplace -- Securing the AKS cluster and managing access controls -- Managing Corda nodes on AKS -- Scaling Corda nodes as Kubernetes pods -- Testing and validating the resilience of Corda networks on AKS -- Ensuring high availability and disaster recovery -- Performing failover tests in AKS -- Summary -- Further reading -- Chapter 8: Using the Ledger Features of Azure SQL -- Technical requirements -- Introduction to the ledger features of Azure SQL -- Use cases for SQL Ledger -- Creating a ledger in Azure SQL database -- Database ledger versus table ledger -- Benefits of the ledger features of Azure SQL -- Security and integrity -- Performance and scalability -- Using the ledger features of Azure SQL for blockchain solutions -- Supply chain traceability -- Certificate issuance and verification -- Asset ownership transfer -- Integrating the ledger features of Azure SQL with other Azure services -- Azure Functions -- Azure Logic Apps -- Azure Event Grid -- Azure Analysis Services -- Azure Machine Learning -- Power BI -- Azure API Management -- Azure Data Factory -- Best practices for implementing blockchain solutions with the ledger features of Azure SQL -- Summary -- Further reading -- Chapter 9: Leveraging Azure Confidential Ledger -- Technical requirements -- An introduction to ACL -- Use cases -- The features and benefits of ACL -- Using ACL for blockchain solutions -- Connecting and sending data to ACL…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Converting text into tidy data using unnest_tokens() -- Working with a document-term matrix -- Summary -- Chapter 4: Data Visualization with ggplot2 -- Technical requirements -- Introducing ggplot2 -- Building a scatter plot -- Understanding the grammar of graphics -- Geometries in graphics -- Understanding geometry in scatter plots -- Introducing bar charts -- Introducing line plots -- Controlling themes in graphics -- Adjusting themes -- Exploring ggthemes -- Summary -- Chapter 5: Exploratory Data Analysis -- Technical requirements -- EDA fundamentals -- Analyzing categorical data -- Summarizing categorical variables using counts -- Converting counts into proportions -- Marginal distribution and faceted bar charts -- Analyzing numerical data -- Visualization in higher dimensions -- Measuring the central concentration -- Measuring variability -- Working with skewed distributions -- EDA in practice -- Obtaining the stock price data -- Univariate analysis of individual stock prices -- Correlation analysis -- Summary -- Chapter 6: Effective Reporting with R Markdown -- Technical requirements -- Fundamentals of R Markdown -- Getting started with R Markdown -- Getting to know the YAML header -- Formatting textual information -- Writing R code -- Generating a financial analysis report -- Getting and displaying the data -- Performing data analysis -- Adding plots to the report -- Adding tables to the report -- Configuring code chunks -- Customizing R Markdown reports -- Adding a table of contents -- Creating a report with parameters -- Customizing the report style -- Summary -- Part 2: Fundamentals of Linear Algebra and Calculus in R -- Chapter 7: Linear Algebra in R -- Technical requirements -- Introducing linear algebra -- Working with vectors -- Working with matrices -- Matrix vector multiplication -- Matrix multiplication -- The identity matrix…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…The inverse transform sampling method -- The acceptance-rejection method -- Random number generation using Python -- Introducing the random module -- Generating real-value distributions -- Randomness requirements for security -- Password-based authentication systems -- Random password generator -- Cryptographic random number generator -- Introducing cryptography -- Randomness and cryptography -- Encrypted/decrypted message generator -- Summary -- Chapter 3: Probability and Data Generation Processes -- Technical requirements -- Explaining probability concepts -- Types of events -- Calculating probability -- Probability definition with an example -- Understanding Bayes' theorem -- Compound probability -- Bayes' theorem -- Exploring probability distributions -- The probability density function -- Mean and variance -- Uniform distribution -- Binomial distribution -- Normal distribution -- Generating synthetic data -- Real data versus artificial data -- Synthetic data generation methods -- Data generation with Keras -- Data augmentation -- Simulation of power analysis -- The power of a statistical test -- Power analysis -- Summary -- Part 2: Simulation Modeling Algorithms and Techniques -- Chapter 4: Exploring Monte Carlo Simulations -- Technical requirements -- Introducing the Monte Carlo simulation -- Monte Carlo components -- First Monte Carlo application -- Monte Carlo applications -- Applying the Monte Carlo method for Pi estimation -- Understanding the central limit theorem -- Law of large numbers -- The central limit theorem -- Applying the Monte Carlo simulation -- Generating probability distributions -- Numerical optimization -- Project management -- Performing numerical integration using Monte Carlo -- Defining the problem -- Numerical solution -- Min-max detection -- The Monte Carlo method -- Visual representation…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “….) -- RATIONALE FOR THE BOOK -- EPISTEMOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONS -- LANGUAGE TEACHERS AS INTELLECTUALS -- LANGUAGE TEACHERS AS ACADEMICS -- LANGUAGE TEACHERS AS EDUCATORS -- NODAL SYSTEM AND BOOK STRUCTURE -- OVERVIEW OF CHAPTERS -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 1 RETHINKING UNIVERSITY ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE FROM A SOCIOCULTURAL (...) -- INTRODUCTION -- LITERATURE REVIEW -- RESEARCH ANTECEDENTS -- THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK -- REPORT ON RESEARCH PROJECTS -- STUDY 1: HOW LINGUISTIC DISCRIMINATION INFLUENCES LOW-PROFICIENT STUDENTS' (...) -- STUDY 2: SOCIO-CULTURAL FACTORS THAT INFLUENCE MIGRANT STUDENTS' ACADEMIC (...) -- DISCUSSION -- CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 2 REFLECTION AND ANALYSIS OF COLOMBIAN OFFICIAL LANGUAGE POLICIES AS A (...) -- INTRODUCTION -- LITERATURE REVIEW -- EDUCATION REFORMS AND LANGUAGE POLICIES IN COLOMBIA: A BRIEF SUMMARY -- THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK -- REPORT ON RESEARCH STUDIES -- STUDY 1: ENGLISH-ONLY OR LANGUAGE ECOLOGY -- STUDY 2: REFLECTION ON LANGUAGE POLICES: RAISING CRITICAL AWARENESS -- DISCUSSION -- TEACHERS AS POLITICAL SUBJECTS -- A CONTEXTUALIZED PRACTICE: TEACHERS FOR COLOMBIA -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 3 ABOUT READING AND WRITING: CONTEMPORARY TASKS FROM DIVERSE ACADEMIC (...) -- INTRODUCTION -- LITERATURE REVIEW -- THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK -- RESEARCH ANTECEDENTS -- REPORT ON RESEARCH STUDIES -- STUDY 1: EARLY CHILDHOOD TEACHERS' CONCEPTIONS ABOUT READING COMPETENCE (...) -- STUDY 2: EARLY CHILDHOOD TEACHERS AND THEIR LINGUISTIC REGISTERS -- DISCUSSION -- CONCLUSIONS -- RECOMMENDATIONS -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 4 READING DIDACTICS FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF CRITICAL THINKING IN THE EFL (...) -- INTRODUCTION…”

“…¿Qué se espera de las obras creadas por mujeres, cualquiera que sea su soporte artístico o forma (performance, escritos, poemas, ilustraciones, videoarte...)? …”

“…Liability effects on the economic performance of the pharmaceutical industry play a prominent role in the debate about the economic effects of product liability in the United States. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover -- PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION -- Chapter I The Fundamental Issue: Efficiency in Market Economies -- 1 The Separability of Market Systems into an Allocation System and an Information System -- 1.1 The Allocation System -- 1.1.1 PARETO's Paradigm -- 1.1.2 Extension: Market Costs -- 1.1.2.1 Transaction Costs -- 1.1.2.2 Coordination Costs -- 1.1.2.3 Transaction Costs versus Coordination Costs -- 1.1.3 Factor Earnings -- 1.1.3.1 Input Costs -- 1.1.3.2 Managerial Reward -- 1.2 The Information System -- 1.2.1 The Concept of an Information System -- 1.2.2 Entrepreneurial Activity and Managerial Performance -- 1.2.2.1 The Mode of Interaction -- 1.2.2.2 Entrepreneurial Profit -- 1.2.2.3 Structures of Organization and Efficiency -- 1.2.3 The Process of Diffusion of Information -- 1.2.3.1 Profit Erosion as an Indication of Diffusion of Information -- 1.2.3.2 A Simple Model of Profit Erosion -- 1.2.4 Allocation versus Information Processes -- 1.2.5 Possession versus Property -- 2 The Concept of Allocational Efficiency and Informational Efficiency -- 2.1 Efficiency and Rationality in Economic Science -- 2.2 The Concept of Allocational Efficiency -- 2.3 The Concept of Informational Efficiency -- 3 An Efficiency-Preference Function -- Chapter II The Empirical Reference System: Futures Markets -- 1 Definition and Institutional Setup -- 2 Transaction Possibilities with Particular Reference to Conflicting Theories of Hedging -- 2.1 Arbitrage -- 2.2 Hedging -- 2.2.1 Hedging for Risk-Shifting -- 2.2.2 Hedging for Profit-Making -- 2.3 Speculation -- 2.4 Spreading -- 3 Economic Functions of Futures Markets -- 3.1 Microeconomic Functions -- 3.2 Macroeconomic Functions -- 4 Institutional Properties of Futures Markets as an Aid to Theoretical Analysis -- Chapter III The 'Neoclassical' Perspective of Informational Efficiency -- 1 Introductory Notes…”

“…Was passiert, wenn man das Funktionsprinzip des menschlichen Ohrs in den Nanometerbereich übersetzt, eine wissensarchitektonische Karte in einer Lecture Performance entworfen wird oder sich Forschende aus mehr als 25 Disziplinen mit Strukturen und Modellen auseinandersetzen? …”

“…This report, the second of five that will result from the study, looks at how summer programs affected student performance on math, reading, and social and emotional assessments in fall 2013.…”

“…It can also be extended to indicate the performance measurement of manufacturing equipment. …”

“…Jean Gomes reviews the latest brain research revealing that our mindset is the interplay of feeling, thinking, and seeing, and how we can build it to significantly increase our wellbeing and performance. For over 30 years Jean Gomes has worked with many of the world's most successful leaders in the corporate and sporting world, helping them to harness the emerging science of mindset. …”