“…Make the right choices between the various configurations in order to realize your performance requirements. Manage and monitor the appliance to meet business requirements. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- DTSC'S CURRENT CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM -- DTSC'S PROPOSED CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM -- THE NRC COMMITTEE'S FINDINGS AND RECOMMENDATIONS -- Risk-Based Waste Classification -- Exposure Pathway Integration -- Protection Goals and Exposure Scenarios -- Model Components and Parameters -- Model Performance -- Analytical Issues -- Risk for Entire Waste -- Chronic Toxicity Data and Irritation Testing -- Transparency of the Proposed Approach -- Flexibility Goals -- CONCLUSIONS -- 1 Introduction -- THE COMMITTEE'S TASK AND APPROACH -- REPORT ORGANIZATION -- OVERVIEW OF CALIFORNIA'S APPROACH TO CLASSIFYING HAZARDOUS WASTE -- Statutory Framework -- Current Waste-Classification System -- Need for Change in Waste-Classification System -- Proposed Waste-Classification System -- Toxicity Criteria -- Total Threshold Limit Concentrations -- Soluble or Extractable Regulatory Thresholds -- Other Toxicity Criteria -- Exposure Models -- CalTOX Model -- Preliminary Endangerment Assessment Model -- Lead Risk-Assessment Spreadsheet Model -- Potential Regulatory Impacts -- 2 DTSC's Proposed Overall Approach -- STATEMENT OF GOALS -- MULTIMEDIA AND MULTIPATHWAY RISK ASSESSMENT -- REALISTIC EXPOSURE SCENARIOS -- VALID SCIENCE -- TRANSPARENCY -- FLEXIBILITY -- IMPLEMENTATION PRACTICALITY AND EVALUATION -- 3 Scenario Selection and Modeling -- EXPOSURE SCENARIOS: PURPOSE -- MODELING: PURPOSE -- SUMMARY OF DTSC EXPOSURE SCENARIOS -- Adjacent Resident Scenario -- Waste Worker Scenario -- Land Conversion Scenario -- Ecological Effects Scenario -- MODELING USED IN THE SCENARIOS…”

“…Will your incenitive plan measure and reward the performance of individuals, or teams? How can you devote enough time and energy to both your family and your coworkers? …”

“…Together, Rust and WebAssembly provide a way to create robust and performant web applications. They help make your web applications blazingly fast and have small binaries. …”

“…Substituting existing products based on bulk materials, in fields such as automotive, environment, food, robotics, medicine, biotechnology, communications, and other technologies, with reduced size, lower cost, and higher performance, is now possible, with potential for manufacturing using advanced silicon integrated circuits technology or alternative additive techniques from the mili- to the nano-scale. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Understanding how AWS Nitro impacts container performance -- Learning about AWS container orchestrators -- Summary -- Part 2: Windows Containers on Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) -- Chapter 3: Amazon ECS - Overview -- Technical requirements -- Amazon ECS - fundamentals -- Amazon ECS - task networking -- Deploying an Amazon ECS cluster with Terraform -- Why Terraform? …”

“…Build robust and performant applications by developing SvelteKit applications using automated testing and TDD techniques, including unit and end-to-end testing, custom matchers, component mocking, and authentication Purchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free PDF eBook Key Features Understand and master the test-driven development (TDD) workflow Explore the principles of unit testing with Vitest and end-to-end testing using Playwright and Cucumber.js Leverage practical examples of unit tests covering a range of SvelteKit framework features Book Description Svelte is a popular front-end framework used for its focus on performance and user-friendliness, and test-driven development (TDD) is a powerful approach that helps in creating automated tests before writing code. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Logic Function Representation and Minimization; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 SOP and POS Forms; 4.3 Introduction to Logic Function Graphics; 4.4 Karnaugh Map Function Minimization; 4.5 Multiple Output Optimization; 4.6 Entered Variable K-map Minimization; 4.7 Function Reduction of Five or More Variables; 4.8 Minimization Algorithms and Application; 4.9 Factorization, Resubstitution, and Decomposition Methods; 4.10 Design Area vs Performance; 4.11 Perspective on Logic Minimization and Optimization…”

“…Personal branding and personal knowledge are critical assets of knowledge workers and key drivers of their development and innovative performance. Both strongly influence the individual success of knowledge workers in the networked and knowledge-driven economy. …”

“…Level up your Godot 4 networking skills with this comprehensive guide featuring dedicated servers and persistent worlds, illustrated with key images in color Key Features Ensure player synchronization and coexistence in a game world Mitigate latency in your multiplayer games to design a seamless shared experience Optimize and debug your games using profilers and monitors to visualize performance Purchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free PDF eBook Book Description The Essential Guide to Creating Multiplayer Games with Godot 4.0 guides you in exploring the built-in network API for online multiplayer games, offering practical knowledge through concrete use cases. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Observe the Millennials as a Way to Figure Out How to Teach Them -- Listen to Students' Account of Their Progress and Goals for the Session and Adjust Accordingly -- Listen and Respond as an Expert -- Listen First for Students' Draft Story of Next-Stage Development for an Organization-and Then Respond -- Establish a "Clearing" for Listening and Responding to Emerging Stories -- Apply My Work in Translation Theory and Practice to Teaching -- Apply Genre Theory -- View Persuasion as Performance -- Be Entrepreneurial -- From E.M. Forster's Howard's End to T.S. …”

“…Unlock the potential of Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations apps by creating innovative solutions that can enhance the performance of your projects Key Features Learn how to leverage Power Platform tools with Dynamics 365 Finance & Operations Work on real-world use cases and discover ways to maximize the potential of Power Platform Adopt a low-code approach to expedite the development process and enhance the overall maintainability of F&O projects Purchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free PDF eBook Book Description Uncover the synergy between Microsoft Power Platform and its integration with Dynamics 365 Finance & Operations (F&O) with this essential guide to implementing low-code and no-code concepts to not only extend and enhance F&O but also improve maintainability and speed up development. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Financial Measures -- Comparing Returns -- Summary -- Discussion Questions -- Chapter 11: Prioritizing Desirability -- Kano Model of Customer Satisfaction -- Relative Weighting: Another Approach -- Summary -- Discussion Questions -- Chapter 12: Splitting User Stories -- When to Split a User Story -- Splitting across Data Boundaries -- Splitting on Operational Boundaries -- Removing Cross-Cutting Concerns -- Don't Meet Performance Constraints -- Split Stories of Mixed Priority -- Don't Split a Story into Tasks -- Avoid the Temptation of Related Changes -- Combining Stories -- Summary -- Discussion Questions -- Part IV: Scheduling -- Chapter 13: Release Planning Essentials -- The Release Plan -- Updating the Release Plan -- An Example -- Summary -- Discussion Questions -- Chapter 14: Iteration Planning -- Tasks Are Not Allocated During Iteration Planning -- How Iteration and Release Planning Differ -- Velocity-Driven Iteration Planning -- Commitment-Driven Iteration Planning -- My Recommendation -- Relating Task Estimates to Story Points -- Summary -- Discussion Questions -- Chapter 15: Selecting an Iteration Length -- Factors in Selecting an Iteration Length -- Making a Decision -- Two Case Studies -- Summary -- Discussion Questions -- Chapter 16: Estimating Velocity -- Use Historical Values -- Run an Iteration -- Make a Forecast -- Which Approach Should I Use? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Health/Medicine -- Frontier Technologies and the Human Body -- Digitizing Human Senses -- Integrating Computer Technology into the Human Body -- Nanotechnology and Genetic Engineering -- The Future of the Human Body -- Key Takeaways -- Part II The Impact and Implications on Humanity of Disruptive Technologies -- Chapter 5 Reinventing the Economy -- Money, Banking, Spending, and the Future of Finance -- Programmable Money and Assets -- Self-Custodying -- Self-Driving Banks -- Asset Tokenization -- Manufacturing and Production -- Labor Substitution -- National Security Considerations -- Public Policy Initiatives -- Nanofactories -- Physical Real Estate -- Energy -- Longer-Term Behavioral Change -- Entertainment -- Content Creation -- Content Delivery -- Movies -- Live Performance -- Traditional Television/Radio -- Cable/Satellite/Cellular -- Virtual -- Content Ownership -- Gaming -- The Metaverse -- Key Takeaways -- Chapter 6 Reinventing Work -- Setting the Scene -- Productivity -- What Jobs Will Be Lost? …”

“…The authors bring perspectives from Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, and North America, their chapters engaging with the concept of transnational democracy by tracing its development in the past, assessing its performance in the present, and considering its potential for survival in this century and beyond. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Chapter 5: Big Data Processing with Apache Spark -- Technical requirements -- Getting started with Spark -- Installing Spark locally -- Spark architecture -- Spark executors -- Components of execution -- Starting a Spark program -- The DataFrame API and the Spark SQL API -- Transformations -- Actions -- Lazy evaluation -- Data partitioning -- Narrow versus wide transformations -- Analyzing the titanic dataset -- Working with real data -- How Spark performs joins -- Joining IMDb tables -- Summary -- Chapter 6: Building Pipelines with Apache Airflow -- Technical requirements -- Getting started with Airflow -- Installing Airflow with Astro -- Airflow architecture -- Airflow's distributed architecture -- Building a data pipeline -- Airflow integration with other tools -- Summary -- Chapter 7: Apache Kafka for Real-Time Events and Data Ingestion -- Technical requirements -- Getting started with Kafka -- Exploring the Kafka architecture -- The PubSub design -- How Kafka delivers exactly-once semantics -- First producer and consumer -- Streaming from a database with Kafka Connect -- Real-time data processing with Kafka and Spark -- Summary -- Part 3: Connecting It All Together -- Chapter 8: Deploying the Big Data Stack on Kubernetes -- Technical requirements -- Deploying Spark on Kubernetes -- Deploying Airflow on Kubernetes -- Deploying Kafka on Kubernetes -- Summary -- Chapter 9: Data Consumption Layer -- Technical requirements -- Getting started with SQL query engines -- The limitations of traditional data warehouses -- The rise of SQL query engines -- The architecture of SQL query engines -- Deploying Trino in Kubernetes -- Connecting DBeaver with Trino -- Deploying Elasticsearch in Kubernetes -- How Elasticsearch stores, indexes and manages data -- Elasticsearch deployment -- Summary -- Chapter 10: Building a Big Data Pipeline on Kubernetes…”

“…Begin your generative AI journey with Python as you explore large language models, understand responsible generative AI practices, and apply your knowledge to real-world applications through guided tutorials Key Features Gain expertise in prompt engineering, LLM fine-tuning, and domain adaptation Use transformers-based LLMs and diffusion models to implement AI applications Discover strategies to optimize model performance, address ethical considerations, and build trust in AI systems Purchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free PDF eBook Book Description The intricacies and breadth of generative AI (GenAI) and large language models can sometimes eclipse their practical application. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…2.4 Proposal Binding Period -- 2.5 Omissions -- 2.6 Payment Conditions -- 2.7 Warranty and Support -- 2.8 AMC (Annual Maintenance Contract) -- 2.9 Acceptance and Title -- 2.10 Price Quotations -- 2.11 Price Stability -- 2.12 Project Team Composition -- 2.13 Changes in Team -- 2.14 The Vendor Qualifications -- 2.15 Codes, Standards and Ordinances -- 2.16 Performance and Payment Bonding -- 2.17 Bid Evaluation Criteria -- 2.18 Right to Reject -- 3. …”

“…Radio networking is creating revolutions in volcano monitoring, performance art, clean energy, and consumer electronics. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…4.7 Asynchronous PPRC Utilities for Open System Environment -- 4.8 Planning for PPRC -- 4.8.1 Asynchronous PPRC Bandwidth Estimator -- 4.8.2 Defining TSO commands to RACF -- 4.8.3 Considerations for z/VM and VSE/ESA -- 4.8.4 z/VM -- 4.8.5 Configuring for VM -- 4.8.6 VSE/ESA -- 4.8.7 Software information resources -- 4.8.8 Capacity planning -- 4.8.9 Performance considerations -- 4.8.10 ESS Copy Services server -- 4.8.11 Production considerations -- 4.9 Monitoring Asynchronous PPRC -- 4.9.1 RMF enhancements: performance statistics reports for ESS links -- 4.9.2 RMF Exception report and Overview report -- 4.9.3 Using Asynchronous PPRC Utilities for ICKDSF Users -- 4.9.4 Example for starting and monitoring an Asynchronous PPRC Session -- Chapter 5. …”