“…Install, configure, and customize SQL Server 2012 Create and modify database objects with Transact SQL statements Write stored procedures and user-defined functions Handle backup and recovery Automate administrative tasks Tune your database system for optimal performance, availability, and reliability Implement security measures using authentication, encryption, and authorization Work with SQL Server Analysis Services, SQL Server Reporting Services, and other business intelligence tools Store, display, and query XML documents Manage spatial data Query documents using MS Full-Text Search (FTS)…”

“…Libraries and frameworks help you build web applications quickly and efficiently, but when things go wrong or performance becomes an issue, knowing how and why they work is critical. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Availability; 1.8. Performance Features; 1.8.2. Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence; 1.8.2.2. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Operations -- 5.1 Overview -- 5.1.1 Bringing up the WebSphere BI for FN environment -- 5.2 z/OS operating environment -- 5.2.1 Monitoring operations -- 5.3 WebSphere MQ and WebSphere MQ Integrator -- 5.3.1 Operating workplaces -- 5.3.2 Starting the broker and queues -- 5.3.3 Stopping the broker and queues -- 5.3.4 Monitoring operations -- 5.4 WebSphere BI for FN operating environment -- 5.4.1 Monitoring operations -- 5.4.2 SAG operating environment -- 5.4.3 SWIFTNet FIN logical terminal -- 5.5 Advanced operations and problem determination -- 5.5.1 DB2 tables -- 5.5.2 Internal representation of configuration entities -- 5.5.3 Problem determination facilities -- 5.5.4 Trace -- 5.5.5 WebSphere MQ queues to be observed -- 5.5.6 FAQ -- 5.6 Command Center for WebSphere BI for FN -- 5.6.1 Obtain and install the Command Center -- 5.6.2 Operations with the Command Center -- 5.7 z/OS monitoring tools -- 5.7.1 Resource Management Facility reports -- 5.7.2 DB2 Performance Monitor -- Part 3 Appendixes -- Appendix A. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Sources of External Loss Event Data -- Subscription Databases -- Consortium Data -- Challenges of External Data -- Société Générale and the External Event That Shook the Operational Risk World -- Key Points -- Review Question -- Notes -- Chapter 9 Key Risk Indicators -- Key Risk Indicators -- Key Performance Indicators -- Key Control Indicators -- Metric Types -- Selecting Kris -- Thresholds -- Kri Standards -- Kri Challenges -- Metrics Examples -- People Metrics -- Compliance Metrics -- Technology and Infrastructure Metrics -- Business Continuity Metrics -- Client Metrics -- Trade Execution and Process Management Metrics -- Financial Statement Metrics -- Key Points -- Review Question -- Note -- Chapter 10 Risk and Control Self-Assessments -- The Role of Assessments -- Control Assessments -- Risk and Control Assessments -- RCSAs -- RCSA Methods -- Questionnaire Approach -- Workshop Approach -- Hybrid RCSA Methods -- RCSA Scoring Methods -- Scoring Control Effectiveness -- Risk Impact Scores -- Probability or Frequency -- Risk Severity -- RCSA Best Practices -- Interview Participants Beforehand -- Review Available Background Data from Other Functions -- Review Past RCSAs and Related RCSAs -- Review Internal Loss Data -- Review of External Events -- Carefully Select and Train Participants -- Document Results -- Score Appropriately -- Identify Mitigating Actions -- Implement Appropriate Technology -- Ensure Completeness Using Taxonomies -- Themes Identified -- Leverage Existing Assessments -- Schedule Appropriately -- Backtest or Validate Results -- Key Points -- Review Question -- Note -- Chapter 11 Scenario Analysis -- Role of Scenario Analysis -- Scenario Analysis Approaches -- (a) A Clearly Defined and Repeatable Process -- (b) Background Preparation -- (c) Qualified and Experienced Facilitators with Consistency in the Facilitation Process…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…. -- ...and overall, children of immigrants fare poorly in Flanders, highlighting the persistent nature of integration challenges -- Gaps in educational performance already manifest themselves at an early age, despite high participation in Early Childhood Education and Care -- Flanders employs an inclusive approach to enhance the educational chances of pupils with migrant parents, yet outcomes still leave much to be desired... -- Youth born abroad face difficulties transitioning from reception education -- The employment gap between immigrant and native-born offspring is among the widest in the OECD, regardless of level of education -- The large public sector plays an important role-model function, but immigrants and their offspring remain strongly underrepresented -- A comprehensive action plan on integration should be considered -- 2 The context of integration policy in Flanders -- Characteristics of immigrants -- The immigrant population is rapidly increasing and diversifying -- The share of the immigrant population with (very) low levels of education is high -- Labour market integration of immigrants -- Despite improvement, non-EU immigrants' employment outcomes remain poor in international comparison…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Introduction to data analysis at scale -- Data analysis on AWS -- AWS services -- Analysis on the cloud and outside -- Third-party data services -- Designing AWS flow diagrams with data analysis -- Practical - smart home insights with AWS IoT Analytics -- Industrial data analytics -- Evaluating performance -- Use cases within industry -- A case study for data analytics -- Practical - creating a data pipeline for end-to-end data ingestion and analysis -- Creating a channel -- Creating a data store -- Creating a pipeline -- Ingesting data -- Monitoring ingested data -- Creating a dataset from the data -- Summary -- Further reading -- Chapter 11: Examining Security and Privacy in IoT -- Technical requirements -- The current state of risk and security within IoT -- Challenges within security on IoT networks -- Security recommendations -- Security and privacy controls within the cloud management landscape -- Types of attacks -- Security on AWS -- Automated security remediation with AWS IoT Device Defender -- Risk management within the IoT landscape -- Threat modeling for IoT systems -- Security controls -- IR -- Privacy and compliance within IoT networks -- Cryptography controls for the IoT landscape -- Schneider Electric's implementation of an IoT solution security architecture -- Practical - Creating a secure smart lock system -- Materials -- Part 1 - Setting up the Arduino board and RFID reader -- Part 2 - Arduino code for encrypted RFID communication -- Part 3 - AWS server-side setup -- Configuring the Lambda function to be triggered by AWS IoT Core -- Updating the Arduino code to receive the authentication result from AWS IoT Core -- Summary -- Further reading -- Chapter 12: Exploring and Innovating with Open Source IoT -- Technical requirements -- Introduction to community innovations within IoT -- Open source as a standard…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Modeling data for operational performance -- Nodes, edges, and aggregates -- Sharding and partition keys -- Single table design examples -- Restaurant service -- Customer service -- Cart service -- Delivery service -- Leveraging change data capture -- Database-first event sourcing -- Soft deletes -- Latching -- Summary -- Chapter 6: A Best Friend for the Frontend -- Focusing on user activities -- A BFF service is responsible for a single user activity -- A BFF service is owned by the frontend team -- A BFF service is decoupled, autonomous, and resilient -- Dissecting the Backend for Frontend pattern -- Datastore -- API gateway -- Query and command functions -- Listener function -- Trigger function -- Dissecting function-level nano architecture -- Models -- Connectors -- Handlers -- Choosing between REST and GraphQL -- REST -- GraphQL -- Implementing different kinds of BFF services -- CRUD BFF services -- List-of-values (Lov) BFF services -- Task BFF services -- Search BFF services -- Action BFF services -- Dashboard BFF services -- Reporting BFF services -- Archive BFF services -- Summary -- Chapter 7: Bridging Intersystem Gaps -- Creating an anti-corruption layer -- Macro-level ports and adapters -- Substitution principle -- External bulkhead -- Dissecting the External Service Gateway pattern -- Connectivity -- Semantic transformation -- Ingress -- Egress -- Packaging -- Separate cloud accounts -- Integrating with third-party systems -- Egress - API call -- Ingress - webhook -- Asynchronous request response -- Synchronous ESG/BFF hybrid -- Integrating with other subsystems -- Egress - upstream subsystem -- Ingress - downstream subsystem -- Integrating across cloud providers -- Integrating with legacy systems -- Ingress - Change Data Capture -- Egress - Direct SQL -- Egress - circuit breaker -- Ingress - relay -- Providing an open API and SPI…”

“…By leveraging time series analysis and forecasting, these organizations can make informed decisions and optimize their performance. Accurate forecasts help reduce uncertainty and enable better planning of operations. …”

“…You'll learn about the game-changing server-side rendering (SSR), a hybrid hosting model blending the strengths of Blazor Server and Blazor WebAssembly, as well as streaming rendering, a new technique that boosts the performance and user experience of Blazor apps. By the end of this book, you'll have the confidence you need to create and deploy production-ready Blazor applications using best practices, along with a big-picture view of the Blazor landscape…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Quality Assurance testing -- System integration testing -- User Acceptance Testing -- Translating Users' Stories into Test Cases -- Other testing -- Performance Testing -- Summary -- Further reading -- Chapter 9: Executing Training -- Supporting tools and information -- Training in practice -- Developing your Training Plan -- Creating training materials -- Delivering training -- Instructor-led -- Self-paced -- Summary -- Further reading -- Part 3: Beyond the Fundamentals -- Chapter 10: Deployment Planning -- Supporting tools and information -- Deciding how and when to deploy -- Creating a deployment plan -- Deployment checklist -- Deployment communication plan -- Going live -- Post-go-live support -- In practice -- Summary -- Further reading -- Chapter 11: Territory Management -- Supporting tools and information -- What are sales territories? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…7.1 RBPS Element 3: Process Safety Competency -- 7.2 RBPS Element 12: Training and Performance Assurance -- 8 Workforce Involvement and Stakeholder Outreach in the LAPP -- 8.1 RBPS Element 4: Workforce Involvement -- 8.2 RBPS Element 5: Stakeholder Outreach -- Part 3 - Understanding Hazards and Risks -- 9 Process Safety Knowledge Management in the LAPP -- 9.1 RBPS Element 6: Process Knowledge Management -- 9.2 Overview of Information and Data Needs -- 9.3 Sources of Information and Data -- 9.4 Process Safety Information during Scale-up -- 10 Types of Hazards -- 10.1 Reactive Chemistry Hazards -- 10.2 Toxicity Hazards -- 10.3 Flammability and Combustibility Hazards -- 10.4 Temperature Hazards -- 10.5 Overpressure Hazards -- 10.6 Other Common LAPP Hazards -- 11 Hazard Identification and Risk Analysis (HIRA) in the LAPP -- 11.1 RBPS Element 7: Hazard Identification and Risk Analysis -- 11.2 HIRA Team Members -- 11.3 HIRA Approaches Used in LAPPs -- 11.4 Qualitative versus Quantitative Analysis of Risks in LAPPs -- 11.5 ACS Hazard Analysis Tools -- 11.6 Evaluating the Effort Level for HIRAs -- 11.7 Determining the Extent of the HIRAs -- Part 4 - Managing Risk: Engineered Controls -- 12 Spill and Leak Protection -- 12.1 Containment -- 12.2 Flexible hose and tubing -- 13 Fire and Over-Temperature Protection -- 13.1 Fire Prevention -- 13.2 Fire Mitigation -- 13.3 Over-Temperature Protection -- 14 Overpressure Prevention and Protection -- 14.1 Pressure Protection for Equipment -- 14.2 Pressure and Vacuum Relief for Atmospheric Pressure Vessels -- 14.3 Process Conditions/Situations to Consider in Pressure Relief Device Design -- 14.4 Blast Containment Cells and Pressure Relief for Building Areas -- 14.5 Venting Location and Downstream Treatment of Material Vented -- 15 Ventilation Controls -- 15.1 Ventilation Systems -- 15.2 Laboratory Chemical Fume Hoods…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Impact of introducing uncertainty -- 3.3.2. Performance fees -- 3.3.3. Impact of the volatility in the rate of return -- 3.4. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Understanding invalid data, specification mismatch, and data type validation -- Invalid data -- Specification mismatch -- Data type validation -- Understanding non-parametric data -- Finding outliers -- Summary -- Practice questions -- Questions -- Answers -- Chapter 5: Data Wrangling and Manipulation -- Merging data -- Key variables -- Joining -- Blending -- Concatenation and appending -- Calculating derived and reduced variables -- Derived variables -- Reduction variables -- Parsing your data -- Recoding variables -- Recoding numbers into categories -- Recoding categories into numbers -- Shaping data with common functions -- Working with dates -- Conditional operators -- Transposing data -- System functions -- Summary -- Practice questions -- Questions -- Answers -- Part 2: Analyzing Data -- Chapter 6: Types of Analytics -- Technical requirements -- Exploring your data -- Common types of EDA -- EDA example -- Checking on performance -- KPIs -- Project management -- Process analytics -- Discovering trends -- Finding links -- Choosing the correct analysis -- Why is choosing an analysis difficult? …”

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Tabla de Contenidos: “…. -- References -- A Method for Wandering Trajectory Detection in Video Monitor -- Introduction -- Algorithm Description -- Target Detection -- Determine the Initial Half-Line -- Calculate the Angle -- Judge the Type of Trajectory -- Experimental Results and Analysis -- Conclusion -- References -- The Design of a Vision-Based Motion Performance System -- Introduction -- Related Work -- System Overview -- Initialization -- Feature Detection -- Feature Tracking -- 3D Point Reconstruction and Display -- Experiments and Analysis -- Conclusion -- References -- Window Function for EEG Power Density Estimation and Its Application in SSVEP Based BCIs -- Introduction -- Experiment Setting -- Subjects -- EEG Recording -- Experimental Paradigms -- EEG Signal and Window Function -- Application in SSVEP -- Method -- Result -- Conclusion -- References -- Efficient Multi-resolution Plane Segmentation of 3D Point Clouds -- Introduction -- Related Work -- Efficient Multi-resolution Segmentation into Planar Segments -- Efficient Normal Estimation through Multiple Resolutions -- Pre-segmentation in Hough-Space -- Segmentation into Connected Components -- Accurate Segmentation through RANSAC -- Coarse-to-Fine Segmentation -- Post-Processing -- Experiments -- Conclusion and Future Work -- References -- 3D Body Pose Estimation Using an Adaptive Person Model for Articulated ICP -- Introduction -- Related Work -- Basic Algorithm -- Human Body Model -- Articulated Iterative Closest Point Algorithm -- Proposed Extensions -- Data Segmentation -- Data Assignment -- Model Adaption -- Self-collision Checking -- Model Initialization -- Experiments -- Conclusions -- References -- Self-optimising Production Systems…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…7.1.3 Format of an Assembly Language Statement -- 7.1.4 Pseudoinstructions -- 7.2 MACROS -- 7.2.1 Macro Definition, Call, and Expansion -- 7.2.2 Macros with Parameters -- 7.2.3 Advanced Features -- 7.2.4 Implementation of a Macro Facility in an Assembler -- 7.3 THE ASSEMBLY PROCESS -- 7.3.1 Two-Pass Assemblers -- 7.3.2 Pass One -- 7.3.3 Pass Two -- 7.3.4 The Symbol Table -- 7.4 LINKING AND LOADING -- 7.4.1 Tasks Performed by the Linker -- 7.4.2 Structure of an Object Module -- 7.4.3 Binding Time and Dynamic Relocation -- 7.4.4 Dynamic Linking -- 7.5 SUMMARY -- 8 PARALLEL COMPUTER ARCHITECTURES -- 8.1 ON-CHIP PARALELLISM -- 8.1.1 Instruction-Level Parallelism -- 8.1.2 On-Chip Multithreading -- 8.1.3 Single-Chip Multiprocessors -- 8.2 COPROCESSORS -- 8.2.1 Network Processors -- 8.2.2 Graphics Processors -- 8.2.3 Cryptoprocessors -- 8.3 SHARED-MEMORY MULTIPROCESSORS -- 8.3.1 Multiprocessors vs. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…P 500 Returns -- 6.4.1.2 Linear Regression for Predicting S&amp -- P 500 Returns -- 6.4.2 Prediction of 10‐Year Bond Returns -- 6.4.2.1 10‐Year Bond Returns -- 6.4.2.2 Linear Regression for Predicting 10‐Year Bond Returns -- Part II Risk Management -- Chapter 7 Volatility Prediction -- 7.1 Applications of Volatility Prediction -- 7.1.1 Variance and Volatility Trading -- 7.1.2 Covariance Trading -- 7.1.3 Quantile Estimation -- 7.1.4 Portfolio Selection -- 7.1.5 Option Pricing -- 7.2 Performance Measures for Volatility Predictors -- 7.3 Conditional Heteroskedasticity Models -- 7.3.1 GARCH Predictor -- 7.3.1.1 Predicting the Squared Returns -- 7.3.1.2 Predicting the Realized Volatility -- 7.3.1.3 S&amp -- P 500 Volatility Prediction with GARCH(1,1) -- 7.3.2 ARCH Predictor -- 7.3.2.1 Predicting the Squared Returns -- 7.3.2.2 S&amp -- P 500 Volatility Prediction with ARCH(p) -- 7.4 Moving Average Methods -- 7.4.1 Sequential Sample Variance -- 7.4.2 Exponentially Weighted Moving Average -- 7.4.2.1 Asymmetric Exponentially Weighted Moving Average -- 7.5 State Space Predictors -- 7.5.1 Linear Regression Predictor -- 7.5.1.1 Prediction with Volatility and Mean -- 7.5.1.2 Prediction with Past Squared Returns -- 7.5.2 Kernel Regression Predictor -- Chapter 8 Quantiles and Value‐at‐Risk -- 8.1 Definitions of Quantiles -- 8.2 Applications of Quantiles -- 8.2.1 Reserve Capital -- 8.2.1.1 Value‐at‐Risk of a Portfolio -- 8.2.1.2 Decomposition of the Loss of a Portfolio -- 8.2.1.3 Losses over Several Periods -- 8.2.2 Margin Requirements -- 8.2.3 Quantiles as a Risk Measure -- 8.3 Performance Measures for Quantile Estimators -- 8.3.1 Measuring the Probability of Exceedances -- 8.3.1.1 Cross‐Validation -- 8.3.1.2 Probability Differences -- 8.3.1.3 Confidence of the Performance Measure -- 8.3.1.4 Probability Differences Over All Time Intervals…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- 1.1.2 The Internet brings increased risks -- 1.1.3 Planning for business continuity -- 1.2 Using a SAN for business continuance -- 1.2.1 SANs and business continuance -- 1.3 SAN business benefits -- 1.3.1 Storage consolidation and sharing of resources -- 1.3.2 Data sharing -- 1.3.3 Nondisruptive scalability for growth -- 1.3.4 Improved backup and recovery -- 1.3.5 High performance -- 1.3.6 High availability server clustering -- 1.3.7 Improved disaster tolerance -- 1.3.8 Allow selection of best of breed storage -- 1.3.9 Ease of data migration -- 1.3.10 Reduced total costs of ownership -- 1.3.11 Storage resources match e-business enterprise needs -- Chapter 2. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Introduction to Debug Tool Coverage Utility -- 4.1 Start by validating your software levels -- 4.2 Overview -- 4.2.1 What does DTCU require -- 4.2.2 Running DTCU consists of the following steps -- 4.3 Using DTCU -- 4.3.1 Starting the DTCU ISPF dialog -- 4.3.2 Modifying your DTCU defaults -- 4.3.3 Compiling the program to be measured -- 4.3.4 Setting up your control file -- 4.3.5 Create the setup JCL -- 4.3.6 Create JCL to start a monitor session -- 4.3.7 Create JCL for a report -- 4.3.8 What did we generate up to now -- 4.3.9 Perform the setup step -- 4.3.10 Perform the link step -- 4.3.11 Start the monitor session -- 4.3.12 Start your program -- 4.3.13 Display statistics online -- 4.3.14 Stop the monitor -- 4.3.15 Create the summary report…”