Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover -- Exam Voucher -- FM -- Copyright -- Contributors -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- How to Use This Book -- Approach for Navigating Multiple-Choice Queries -- Exercising Caution in Testing -- Advice on Additional Resources - Practical Exercise -- Chapter 1: Operating Systems -- Introduction -- Practice Exam Questions -- 1.1 Identify basic features of Microsoft Windows editions -- 1.2 Given a scenario, use the appropriate Microsoft command-line tool -- 1.3 Given a scenario, use features and tools of the Microsoft Windows 10 operating system (OS) -- 1.4 Given a scenario, use the appropriate Microsoft Windows 10 Control Panel utility -- 1.5 Given a scenario, use the appropriate Windows settings -- 1.6 Given a scenario, configure Microsoft Windows networking features on a client/desktop -- 1.7 Given a scenario, apply application installation and configuration concepts -- 1.8 Explain common OS types and their purposes -- 1.9 Given a scenario, perform OS installations and upgrades in a diverse OS environment -- 1.10 Identify common features and tools of the macOS/desktop OS -- 1.11 Identify common features and tools of the Linux client/desktop OS -- Chapter 2: Security -- Introduction -- Practice Exam Questions -- 2.1 Summarize various security measures and their purposes -- 2.2 Compare and contrast wireless security protocols and authentication methods -- 2.3 Given a scenario, detect, remove, and prevent malware using the appropriate tools and methods -- 2.4 Explain common social-engineering attacks, threats, and vulnerabilities -- 2.5 Given a scenario, manage and configure basic security settings in the Microsoft Windows OS -- 2.6 Given a scenario, configure a workstation to meet best practices for security -- 2.7 Explain common methods for securing mobile and embedded devices…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Case Study: Usability Involvement in the Development of a Privacy Policy Management Tool4.3.2. Step Two: Performing In-Depth Interview Research; 4.3.3. Step Three: Designing and Evaluating a Privacy Policy Prototype; 4.3.4. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…2.3 Detection: the two-class case2.4 Selected bibliography; 2.5 Exercises; 3 Parameter Estimation; 3.1 Bayesian estimation; 3.1.1 MMSE estimation; 3.1.2 MAP estimation; 3.1.3 The Gaussian case with linear sensors; 3.1.4 Maximum likelihood estimation; 3.1.5 Unbiased linear MMSE estimation; 3.2 Performance of estimators; 3.2.1 Bias and covariance; 3.2.2 The error covariance of the unbiased linear MMSE estimator; 3.3 Data fitting; 3.3.1 Least squares fitting; 3.3.2 Fitting using a robust error norm; 3.3.3 Regression; 3.4 Overview of the family of estimators; 3.5 Selected bibliography…”

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Tabla de Contenidos: “…Add Video Clips to Your ProjectTrim a Clip; Add a Transition Between Clips; Add a Photo; Add a Music Track; Record a Voiceover; Add Titles and Credits; Play the Movie; Chapter 9: Customizing Mac OS X to Suit Your Style; Display System Preferences; Change the Desktop Background; Activate the Screen Saver; Set the Mac OS X Sleep Options; Add a User Account; Customize the Dock; Add an Icon to the Dock; Add a Widget to the Dashboard; Chapter 10: Performing Maintenance with Mac OS X; Empty the Trash; Organize Your Desktop; Check Hard Disk Free Space; Uninstall Unused Applications…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Different types of in-home PLC technologies; 4.2.3. Security; 4.2.4. Performances of PLC technologies; 4.2.5. Standards and normalization; 4.3. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…5.3.2 Prototyping Stage of System Testing5.3.3 Pre-Production Stage of System Testing; 5.4 Testing the Running Example Application; 5.4.1 Unit Testing; 5.4.2 Integration Testing; 5.4.3 System Testing; 6 Testing Strategies; 6.1 Event-Based Testing Strategies; 6.2 GUI-Based Testing Strategies; 6.3 Random Testing Strategies; 7 Testing the Non-Functional Requirements of Mobile Applications; 7.1 Performance Testing; 7.2 Stress Testing; 7.3 Security Testing; 7.4 Compatibility Testing; 7.5 Usability Testing; 7.6 Accessibility Testing; 8 Tools and Frameworks for Android Testing Automation…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…; 4.3 Summary of Best Practices; 4.3.1 Volatile data and live forensics; 4.3.2 Preservation best practices; 4.3.3 Acquisition best practices; 4.4 What Really Happens in Many Cases; Summary; 5 Overview of Digital Forensics Tools; Introduction; 5.1 What Makes a Tool Forensically Sound?; 5.2 Who Performs Tool Testing?; 5.3 Computer Forensics Tools: An Overview; 5.4 Classes of Forensics Tools…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…4.6 Application: Color-Based Object Recognition4.6.1 Dataset and Performance Measure; 4.6.2 Robustness Against Noise: Simulated Data; 4.7 Summary; 5 Photometric Invariance from Color Ratios; 5.1 Illuminant Invariant Color Ratios; 5.2 Illuminant Invariant Edge Detection; 5.3 Blur-Robust and Color Constant Image Description; 5.4 Application: Image Retrieval Based on Color Ratios; 5.4.1 Robustness to Illuminant Color; 5.4.2 Robustness to Gaussian Blur; 5.4.3 Robustness to Real-World Blurring Effects; 5.5 Summary; 6 Derivative-Based Photometric Invariance; 6.1 Full Photometric Invariants…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Analyzing Liquidity Ratios -- Analyzing Activity Ratios -- PART II: FINANCIAL PLANNING AND CONTROL -- 8 Budgeting and Planning Cycle -- Creating Pro Forma Financial Statements -- Using Excel to Manage the Analysis -- Moving from the Pro Forma to the Budget -- 9 Forecasting and Projections -- Making Sure You Have a Useful Baseline -- Moving Average Forecasts -- Forecasting with Excel's Regression Functions -- Forecasting with Excel's Smoothing Functions -- Using the Box-Jenkins ARIMA Approach: When Excel's Built-In Functions Won't Do -- 10 Measuring Quality -- Monitoring Quality Through Statistical Process Control -- Performing Acceptance Sampling -- Using Worksheet Functions for Quality Control -- Sampling Units from a Nonfinite Population -- PART III: INVESTMENT DECISIONS -- 11 Examining a Business Case: Investment -- Developing a Business Case -- Developing the Excel Model -- 12 Examining Decision Criteria for a Business Case -- Understanding Payback Periods -- Understanding Future Value, Present Value, and Net Present Value -- 13 Creating a Sensitivity Analysis for a Business Case -- Reviewing the Business Case -- Managing Scenarios -- Measuring Profit -- Varying the Discount Rate Input -- Using the Goal Seek Tool -- 14 Planning Profits -- Understanding the Effects of Leverage -- Analyzing Operating Leverage -- Analyzing Financial Leverage -- 15 Making Investment Decisions Under Uncertain Conditions -- Using Standard Deviations -- Understanding Confidence Intervals -- Using Regression Analysis in Decision Making -- 16 Fixed Assets -- Determining Original Cost -- Depreciating Assets -- PART IV: SALES AND MARKETING -- 17 Importing Business Data into Excel -- Creating and Using ODBC Queries -- Working with External Data Ranges -- Creating and Using Web Queries -- Using Parameterized Web Queries -- 18 Exporting Business Data from Excel…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…New Challenges for Civic Universities -- Academic Journals' Performance: Opportunities for Research Visibility -- Urban Natural Areas, from Nature Conservation to Well-being Assets -- Civic Universities and Their Impact on Green Infrastructure Governance in Cities: A Principles-Based Framework for Human Well-Being -- Internationalisation of Higher Education -Overview of Recent Developments -- Innovative Technopreneurship and Sustainable Business Models -- COVID-19 Pandemic and Future Business Prospects: A Conceptual Study -- The National Policy Environment for Starting a Business: An Assessment in Vietnam -- Needs for Remodeling the Entrepreneurship Education for the Post-COVID-19 Era -- The Evolution of Innovative Entrepreneurship Indicators in Europe. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…95 -- The spirit world is not used as a practical tool 97 -- Truth and responses to the world 104 -- Living with a diversity of responses 111 -- The belief in the spirit world responds to the -- same one world 113 -- No need for mediation between different responses 117 -- Conclusion 120 -- Chapter 4: Power: In things and words 123 -- Introduction 123 -- The symbolic quality of things 126 -- The power of anointing oil and anointed pens 128 -- Things as part of a symbolic context 134 -- Symbolic things are treated differently 140 -- Enchantment 146 -- The material quality of words 152 -- Positive confession and speaking into someone's life 155 -- Performative or perlocutionary language? 158 -- The material quality of words 164 -- Conclusion 167 -- Part Two 171 -- Chapter 5: Community: In society 173 -- Introduction 173 -- Social harmony as greatest good 175 -- Inclusiveness 176 -- Harmony of the community as a moral principle 182 -- Hiding behind the community 184 -- Giving in to power 185 -- Looking for the best policy 186 -- Avoiding punishment 187 -- Avoiding shame and dishonour 188 -- The concrete community 190 -- Vulnerable individuals 196 -- Exposed individuals 197 -- Group pressure 203 -- A community of strangers 209 -- Relationships over freedom 216 -- Conclusion 221 -- Chapter 6: Community: In Christianity 223 -- Introduction 223 -- The purpose of religious meetings: From shared -- worship to obtaining a service 225 -- 'Not really communities' 225 -- No worship groups 228 -- Focus on needs 231 -- The role of the pastor: From facilitator to big man 237 -- Authoritarian big man 237 -- And egalitarianism? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…3.6.3 An R Function that Computes the p-Value for the Adaptive Test3.6.4 R Code to Perform the Adaptive Test; 3.7 Level of Significance of the Adaptive Test; 3.8 Power of the Adaptive Test; 3.9 Sample Size Estimation; 3.10 A SAS Macro for the Adaptive Test; 3.11 Modifications for One-Tailed Tests; 3.12 Justification of the Weighting Method; 3.13 Comments on the Adaptive Two-sample Test; Exercises; 4 Permutation Tests with Linear Models; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Notation; 4.3 Permutations with Blocking; 4.4 Linear Models in Matrix Form; 4.5 Permutation Methods; 4.5.1 The Permute-Errors Method…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…7.7 PSYCHOLOGY AND INVESTIGATION7.7.1 Verbal Cues; 7.7.2 Vocal Cues; 7.7.3 Visual Cues; 7.7.4 Experiments Increasing Cognitive Load; 7.8 CONCLUSION; FURTHER READING; END NOTES; 8 Sanctioning Fraudsters and Pursuing Redress; 8.1 INTRODUCTION; 8.2 UNDERSTANDING FRAUDSTERS AND THE PLACE OF DETERRENCE; 8.3 THE SANCTIONS TOOL BOX; 8.3.1 Quasi-Sanctions; 8.3.2 The Main Formal Sanctions; 8.3.3 Possible Parallel Sanctions; 8.4 PUBLICISING SANCTIONS; 8.5 CONCLUSION; FURTHER READING; END NOTES; 9 Enhancing Performance through Counter-Fraud Metrics; 9.1 INTRODUCTION…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…A new approach to programmatic research -- From efficacy to effectiveness -- Generating knowledge to sustain HIV treatment -- Strengthening local knowledge -- Endnotes -- Chapter 3: Using knowledge for a better future -- Designing more effective programs to prevent HIV transmission -- Focusing prevention programs where they are most needed -- Finding synergies in HIV prevention -- Addressing key social forces and structural factors -- Sustaining HIV/AIDS treatment -- Minimizing treatment costs -- Maximizing treatment gains: a new approach to HIV treatment -- Enhancing treatment adherence -- An enabling environment for a sound programmatic response -- Building sustainable national and local capacity -- Transitioning to local control -- Strengthening national systems -- Building AIDS-resilient communities -- Investing in medical education -- Managing programs to enhance their long-term efficiency and effectiveness -- Ensuring quality -- Promoting the efficient use of finite resources -- Placing people living with HIV at the center of AIDS efforts -- Cultivating a new generation of AIDS leaders -- Political leadership for an effective response -- Endnotes -- Chapter 4: Financing AIDS programs over the next generation -- Covering AIDS costs over the next generation -- Diversifying AIDS funding -- Domestic AIDS financing -- The future of international AIDS assistance -- Philanthropy and the future of AIDS -- Innovative financing mechanisms for AIDS -- Performance-based incentives -- Incentives to promote efficiency and effectiveness -- Prioritizing HIV prevention -- Endnotes -- Chapter 5: The way forward: recommendations for long-term success -- 1. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Fundamental Tools for Mathematical Computing; 2.1 C++ for High-Performance Computing; 2.2 Dynamic Memory Allocation; 2.3 Matrix Reduction Problems; 2.4 Matrix Algebra; 2.5 Algebra of Complex Numbers; 2.6 Number Sorting; 2.7 Summary; Programming Challenges; 3. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Jahrhundert . 74 -- Perspektive 4: Edinburgh - City of (the) Enlightenment . 85 -- Leben in der Stadt 89 -- Kulturelles Leben und schottische Aufklärung in Edinburgh . 95 -- Perspektive 5: Musik und Musikkultur in Schottland und Edinburgh - über die »complex situation in the music of Scotland« . 104 -- Von der Nicht-Existenz des Theaters 106 -- Schottland und ›das Singen‹ . 108 -- Instrumentales Musizieren . 115 -- Die Edinburgh Musical Society - Eine Musikgeschichte vergessener Musiker in einer ›verlorenen Residenz‹ 139 -- Eine musikalische Gesellschaft als Ausdruck aufgeklärten Zeitgeistes 139 -- »[F]or the performance of concerts of Musick« - Zum musikalischen Alltag der Edinburgh Musical Society 149 -- Urbaner Wandel und die Folgen für das Musikleben Edinburghs 155 -- Der Wandel Edinburghs und die Bedeutung der Edinburgh Musical Society . 165 -- Erzählung 2: Musikgeschichte in Mikrogeschichten - Hannover und seine vergessenen Musiker . 169 -- Geschichte 1: Eine Person und ein Ort - Heinrich Raacke und sein Konzertsaal 177 -- Exkurs: Konstruierte Musikgeschichte in Hannover 179 -- Hofmusiker und Hofkapelle - Musik, Hof und Stadt . 186 -- Musikliebhaber und musikalische Aktivitäten 213 -- Geschichte 2: Musikalischer Alltag - Musikgeschichte und Fiktion . 234 -- Vorüberlegungen . 234 -- Ein Tag im Leben Heinrich Raackes . 239 -- Geschichte 3: Musikgeschichte durch den Filter eines regionalen Intelligenzblattes . 255 -- Exkurs: Öffentlichkeit 258 -- Hintergrund: Anzeigen, von allerhand Sachen, deren -- Bekanntmachung dem gemeinen Wesen nöthig und nützlich 260 -- Ergänzende Vorüberlegungen 278 -- Konzerte und Konzertleben in Hannover - mehr als nur -- Geschichten aus einem Intelligenzblatt 280 -- Beispiel 1 - Konzerte oder ›nur‹ alltägliche Musikdarbietungen? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Jensen Hydrogen Storage Stability of Nanoconfined MgH2 upon Cycling Reprinted from: Inorganics 2017, 5, 57, doi: 10.3390/inorganics5030057 -- Nicola Patelli, Marco Calizzi and Luca Pasquini Interface Enthalpy-Entropy Competition in Nanoscale Metal Hydrides Reprinted from: Inorganics 2018, 6, 13, doi: 10.3390/inorganics6010013 -- Lei Wang and Kondo-Francois Aguey-Zinsou Synthesis of LiAlH, Nanoparticles Leading to a Single Hydrogen Release Step upon Ti Coating Reprinted from: Inorganics 2017, 5, 38, doi: 10.3390/inorganics5020038 -- Salma Sleiman and Jacques Huot Microstructure and Hydrogen Storage Properties of TiVoCr11 Alloy with Addition of x wt % Zr (x=0, 2, 4, 8, and 12), Reprinted from: Inorganics 2017, 5, 86, doi: 10.3390/inorganics5040086 -- Shuo Yang, Hui Wang, Liuzhang Ouyang, Jiangwen Liu and Min Zhu Improvement in the Electrochemical Lithium Storage Performance of MgH2, Reprinted from: Inorganics 2018, 6, 2, doi: 10.3390/inorganics6010002 -- Jason A. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Explain your understanding of the security considerations for cloud-based systems -- Explain some tools or methods used to monitor and optimize performance -- Summary -- Chapter 8: Don't Forget to Give Back -- The importance of giving back -- Giving back to technical communities -- Sharing knowledge -- Mentoring -- Contributing to open source projects -- Participating in forums and discussions -- Giving back to society -- Leveraging personal skills and passions -- Teaching and mentoring -- Financial contributions -- Volunteering -- The role of companies in giving back…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…A Change in Architecture - The Rise of Cloud Infrastructure -- Origin of a Market for Digital Resources -- When Cloud Infrastructure Became Cloud Services -- When Microsoft and Google Joined the Party -- Kubernetes and the Next Layer of Abstraction -- How Traditional Hosting Companies Have Been Left Behind -- How the New Paradigm of Cloud Infrastructure Is Changing How Data Centres Are Built -- Central Role of Connectivity in the Future of Data Centre Architectures -- Problem of an Old IT Philosophy -- Chapter 5 Overview of Infrastructure -- Power -- Cooling -- BMS -- Fire -- Security -- Chapter 6 Building a Data Centre: Stakeholders, Design, Construction, and Commissioning -- Stakeholders and Project Stages -- Pre-project -- Pre-design -- Design -- Bricks and Mortar versus Modular Build -- Procurement -- Construction -- Commissioning -- Handover (see also Chapter 7) -- Operation -- Chapter 7 Operational Issues -- Handover -- Legacy Facilities -- Operations Team -- Uptime and Failures -- Maintenance Processes and Procedures -- Managing Change -- Capacity Management -- Training -- Performance Optimisation - Beyond Reactive Maintenance -- Chapter 8 Economics, Investment, and Procurement of Data Centres -- Enterprise -- Colocation -- Retail Colocation -- Wholesale Colocation -- Retail versus Hyper-scale Data Centres -- Retail Data Centres -- Hyper-Scale Data Centres -- Investment and Procurement -- Investment in Colocation Facilities -- Power Supply Arrangements -- Other Complexities -- Valuation -- Colocation Leases -- Wholesale Colocation -- Retail Colocation -- Service-Level Agreements (SLAs) -- Managed Hosting and Cloud Services -- Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) -- Merger and Acquisition -- Chapter 9 Sustainability -- Corporate Sustainability -- Energy Consumption and Energy Efficiency -- Renewable Energy -- Generators -- Water Usage -- Heat Recovery…”