Tabla de Contenidos: “…Opening existing notebooks -- Saving notebooks -- Performing Common Tasks -- Creating code cells -- Creating text cells -- Creating special cells -- Editing cells -- Moving cells -- Using Hardware Acceleration -- Executing the Code -- Getting Help -- Chapter 4 Performing Essential Data Manipulations Using Python -- Performing Calculations Using Vectors and Matrixes -- Understanding scalar and vector operations -- Performing vector multiplication -- Creating a matrix is the right way to start -- Multiplying matrixes -- Defining advanced matrix operations -- Creating Combinations the Right Way -- Distinguishing permutations -- Shuffling combinations -- Facing repetitions -- Getting the Desired Results Using Recursion -- Explaining recursion -- Eliminating tail call recursion -- Performing Tasks More Quickly -- Considering divide and conquer -- Distinguishing between different possible solutions -- Chapter 5 Developing a Matrix Computation Class -- Avoiding the Use of NumPy -- Understanding Why Using a Class is Important -- Building the Basic Class -- Creating a matrix -- Printing the resulting matrix -- Accessing specific matrix elements -- Performing scalar and matrix addition -- Performing multiplication -- Manipulating the Matrix -- Transposing a matrix -- Calculating the determinant -- Flattening the matrix -- Part 2 Understanding the Need to Sort and Search -- Chapter 6 Structuring Data -- Determining the Need for Structure -- Making it easier to see the content -- Matching data from various sources -- Considering the need for remediation -- Stacking and Piling Data in Order -- Ordering in stacks -- Using queues -- Finding data using dictionaries -- Working with Trees -- Understanding the basics of trees -- Building a tree -- Representing Relations in a Graph -- Going beyond trees -- Building graphs -- Chapter 7 Arranging and Searching Data…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Optimizing Existing Business Processes -- Example: Deploying Performance Management to Optimize Existing Processes -- Concept of Performance Management -- Which Process Should We Start With? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Impact of object serialization and local Enterprise JavaBeans on application server performance -- Introduction -- Serialization in J2EE applications -- Uses of serialization -- Using Java serialization -- Serialization algorithm -- Serialization issues -- Related research on improving serialization performance -- Test case implementation -- Application -- Environment -- Results -- Analysis -- Performance considerations for application design -- Remote interface designs -- HTTP session objects -- Reducing serialization costs…”

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Tabla de Contenidos: “…Creating plans using work breakdown structures -- Estimating project times and costs -- Identifying the skills, roles and organisation required -- Choosing the project team -- Other project resources -- Creating a communications plan -- Mobilising a project team and running a kick-off meeting -- Chapter 7 Controlling projects -- Tracking progress and writing a progress report -- Running a project status review session -- Managing dependencies -- Contingency plans -- When and how to escalate for help -- Driving performance in a project team -- Identifying and benefiting from quick wins -- Managing third parties on projects -- Dealing with problems - when and how to change project team members, and when to stop a project -- Reducing a project's duration -- Chapter 8 Completing projects and implementing deliverables -- Implementing deliverables -- Testing deliverables -- Accepting project deliverables and gaining sign-off -- Determining when a project is complete -- Releasing project team members -- Chapter 9 Learning from projects -- Determining if a project is successful or not -- Performing a review of a completed project -- Ensuring lessons are learnt -- Improving an organisation's project performance -- Performing project or programme QA -- Chapter 10 Core project management tools and processes -- Risk management process checklist -- The sources of risk -- Dealing with risks -- Dealing with issues -- Dealing with assumptions -- Change control -- Identifying and managing stakeholders -- Estimating and managing a project budget -- Project performance metrics -- Additional and more advanced project management techniques and tools -- Part 3 Managing multiple projects -- Chapter 11 Multiple projects -- When to break a project into phases -- Programmes -- Core programme management tasks -- Choosing a programme manager -- Programme reporting…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…3.3.2 Leadership Compared to Management -- 3.3.3 Politics, Power, and Getting Things Done -- 3.3.4 Personality -- 3.4 Performing Integration -- 3.4.1 Performing Integration at the Process Level -- 3.4.2 Integration at the Cognitive Level -- 3.4.3 Integration at the Context Level -- 3.4.4 Integration and Complexity -- 4. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Nutrition Issues in Developing Countries -- Copyright -- Contents -- PART I DIARRHEAL DISEASES -- Introduction -- REFERENCES -- 1 Summary -- 2 Feeding Practices and Their Determinants -- FEEDING PRACTICES, FOOD, AND DIARRHEA RISK -- SOCIOCULTURAL DETERMINANTS OF BREASTFEEDING -- Women's Work -- Health Services and Personnel -- Marketing Practices of Infant Formula Manufacturers -- Urbanization -- INITIATING BREASTFEEDING: COLOSTRUM AND PRELACTEAL FEEDS -- INTRODUCTION OF FOODS IN ADDITION TO BREAST MILK -- FEEDING METHODS -- SEVERANCE: THE CESSATION OF BREASTFEEDING -- SPECIFIC DETERMINANTS FOR INTERVENTION PLANNING -- Food Availability to the Community -- Food Availability at the Household Level -- Food Availability to the Child -- Cultural Beliefs -- Allocation of Caretaker Time for Food Preparation -- Availability of Fuel Water, and Other Food Preparation Resources -- Family Food Consumption Patterns -- Child Feeding Methods and Practices -- SUMMARY -- REFERENCES -- 3 Relationships Between Nutrition and Diarrhea -- EVIDENCE THAT MALNUTRITION PREDISPOSES THE HOST TO DIARRHEAL DISEASE -- IMMUNOLOGICAL CONSEQUENCES OF MALNUTRITION -- THE CONTRIBUTION OF DIARRHEA TO MALNUTRITION -- HUMAN MILK AND DIARRHEAL DISEASES -- Protective Factors in Human Milk -- Lactation Performance -- Effects of Maternal Nutritional Status on Lactation Performance -- Effects of Food Supplementation, on Lactation Performance -- Manipulation of Immunologic Protein Factors in Human Milk -- WEANING FOODS -- Nutrient Composition of Common Foods -- Bioavailability of Nutrients -- NUTRIENT REQUIREMENTS OF INFANTS AND YOUNG CHILDREN -- SUMMARY -- REFERENCES -- 4 Feeding Practices, Food, and Diarrhea Risk -- FOOD CONTAMINATION -- FECAL CONTAMINATION OF WEANING FOOD IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES -- Source of Contamination -- Relationship of Weaning Food Contamination to Diarrhea…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Machine generated contents note: Preface Acknowledgments Chapter 1: Discount Rates and Returns Estimating Returns Geometric and Arithmetic Averages Caveats to Return Extrapolation Discounting Present Values of Cash Flow Streams Internal Rate of Return and Yield to Maturity Real and Nominal Returns Summary Chapter 2: Fixed Income Securities Coupon Bearing Bonds Infinite Cash Flow Streams (Perpetuities) General Pricing Formulas for Finite Cash Flow Streams Interest Rate Risk Analysis of Duration Interest Rate Risk Dynamics Immunization and Duration Applications - Liability Discounting and Cash Matching Pension Logic Risky Coupons Inflation Risk and TIPS A Bond Portfolio Strategy (Optional) Summary Appendix 2.1: Solving Infinite and Finite Power Series References Chapter 3: Term Structure Discounting Using Spot Rates Forward Rates NPV revisited Short Rates The Bootstrap Method Duration Redux Summary Chapter 4: Equity The Determination of Stock Prices Discount Rates Redux Price and Dividend Multiples Extrapolating Multiples to Forecast Returns Pitfalls of Trend Analysis The Gordon Growth Model Sources of Return Summary References Chapter 5: Portfolio Construction Stochastic Returns and Risk Diversification The Efficient Frontier Markowitz Portfolio Selection Criteria Capital Market Line and the CAPM Performance Evaluation Summary Appendix 5.1: Statistical Review Appendix 5.2: Risk Adjusted Performance References Chapter 6: Optimal Portfolios Portfolio 1: Minimum Variance Portfolio (Fully Invested) Portfolio 2: Minimum Variance Portfolios with Targeted Return Portfolio 3: Minimum Variance Portfolios with No Short Sales Portfolio 4: Minimum Variance Portfolios with Capped Allocations Portfolio 5: Maximum Risk-Adjusted Return Performance Attribution The Efficient Frontier (Again) Summary Appendix 6.1: Matrix Operations Chapter 7: Data and Applications Analyzing Returns on a Ten Asset Portfolio Performance Attribution Changing the Investment Horizon Benchmarking to the Market Portfolio The Cost of Constraints A Bond Strategy Summary Chapter 8: Anomalies Deviations from the CAPM Behavioral Finance Summary References Chapter 9: Factor Models Arbitrage Pricing Theory (APT) Factor Selection Model Estimation Principal Components Applications and Examples Summary References Chapter 10: Active Portfolio Management Active Portfolio Construction and Attribution Analysis Performance Attribution Summary Appendix 10.1: Active Space Chapter 11: Risk The Failure of VaR Taxonomy of Risk Visualizing Risk Estimating Volatilities Maximum Likelihood Estimation (Optional) Credit Risk Adjusting for Leverage Adjusting for Illiquidity Other Risks Summary References Chapter 12: Monte Carlo Methods Example 1: Generating Random Numbers - Estimating pi Example 2: Confirming the Central Limit Theorem Example 3: Credit Default Risk Non-Normal Distributions The Gaussian Copula Summary References Chapter 13: Systemic Risk Extreme Value Theory Estimating the Hazards of Downside Risks A Systemic Risk Indicator Summary References Chapter 14: Incorporating Subjective Views Methodological Concepts An Example using Black-Litterman Active Space Risk Attribution Summary References Chapter 15: Futures, Forwards, and Swaps Institutional Detail and Futures Mechanics The Relationship between Spot Prices and Forward (Futures) Prices Hedging Basis Risk Hedging Portfolio Risk Futures Pricing Swaps Summary References Chapter 16: Introduction to Options Option Payoffs and Put-Call Parity Pricing European Call Options Pricing European Put Options Option Strategies Real Options Summary References Chapter 17: Models of Stock Price Dynamics Stock Price Dynamics Ito Processes Lognormal Stock Prices Deriving the Parameters of the Binomial Lattice Black-Scholes-Merton Model The Greek Letters Monte Carlo Methods Summary Appendix 17.1: Derivation of Ito's Lemma Chapter 18: Hedging Portfolio Risk Simple Hedging Strategies S&P 500 Index Puts Selling Volatility VIX Calls Liability Driven Investment Summary References Chapter 19: Private Equity The Private Equity Model Return and Risk Methodology Summary Appendix 19.1: CAPM References Chapter 20: Structured Credit Securitization Credit Enhancement Basics of Pricing Interest Rate Derivatives Interest Rate Dynamics CDO Valuation The Crash of the Housing Bubble Summary References Chapter 21: Optimal Rebalancing Trigger Strategies and No-trade Regions An Optimal Control Problem Implications Optimal Rebalancing in a Static Optimization Model The Comparative Statics of Transactions Costs References Chapter 22: Data Problems* Covariance Estimation An Example Empirical Results Overlapping Observations Conclusions Appendix 22.1: Covariance Matrix Estimation Removing the effects of smoothing References About the Author Index…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Automating LLM interactions -- Lab 4.3 - Generating Splunk SPL content from news -- Summary -- Part 2: Automating Validations within CI/CD Pipelines -- Chapter 5: Implementing Logical Unit Tests -- Technical requirements -- Validating syntax and linting -- Lab 5.1 - CrowdStrike syntax validation -- Performing metadata and taxonomy checks -- Lab 5.2 - Google Chronicle payload validation -- Performing data input checks -- Lab 5.3 - Palo Alto signature limitation tests -- Lab 5.4 - Suricata simulation testing -- Lab 5.5 - Git pre-commit hook protections -- Summary -- Further reading -- Chapter 6: Creating Integration Tests -- Technical requirements -- Mapping and Using Synthetic Payloads -- Lab 6.1 - Splunk SPL Detection Testing -- Testing In-Line Payloads -- Lab 6.2 - AWS CloudTrail Detection Tests -- Executing Live-Fire Asynchronous Tests -- Lab 6.3 - CrowdStrike Falcon Payload Testing -- Lab 6.4 - Deploying Caldera BAS -- Summary -- Further reading -- Chapter 7: Leveraging AI for Testing -- Technical requirements -- Synthetic testing with LLMs -- Lab 7.1 - Poe Bot synthetic CI/CD unit testing -- Evaluating data security and ROI -- Lab 7.2 - CodeRabbit augmented peer review -- Implementing multi-LLM model validation -- Summary -- Part 3: Monitoring Program Effectiveness -- Chapter 8: Monitoring Detection Health -- Technical requirements -- Identifying telemetry sources -- Measuring use case performance -- Upstream detection performance -- Downstream detection performance -- Lab 8.1 - Google Chronicle detection insights -- Extending dashboard use cases -- Lab 8.2 - Mock SOAR disable excessive firing rule -- Summary -- Further reading -- Chapter 9: Measuring Program Efficiency -- Technical requirements -- Creating program KPIs -- Locating data for metrics -- Signal to Noise Ratio -- MITRE ATT&amp -- CK coverage…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Las nuevas tecnologías de información y comunicación como recursos y arenas de lo público / Ex facto ius oritur Procesos de escándalo y el derecho mundial emergente / Estrategias intergalácticas o de cómo trascender lo propio. Performance y visibilidad de los Zapatistas en la escena global / V. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Part IV: The Basis of a High-Performance CultureChapter 23: Teamwork vs. Team Performance; Chapter 24: Mistakes of Leadership; Chapter 25: Middle Management Malaise; Chapter 26: Coaching to the Bell Curve; Chapter 27: Culture of Grit and Determination; Chapter 28: Battling Stagnation; Chapter 29: The Team Is Not the Sum of Its Parts; Chapter 30: Facing Reality in the Mirror; Chapter 31: Stocking the Credibility Bank; Chapter 32: Discipline and Accountability; Chapter 33: Understanding Your Organizational DNA; The Passive-Aggressive Organization; The Fits and Starts Organization…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Appendix C: People, Process, TechnologyAppendix D: Root Cause, Corrective Action Process; Appendix E: Iometer: Performance Testing in the Lab; Glossary; A; B; C; D; F; G; H; I; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; W; Z…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Does the Data Suffer from Survivorship Bias? -- How Did the Performance of the Strategy Change over the Years? -- Does the Strategy Suffer from Data-Snooping Bias? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Part IV: Server Tuning and MaintenanceChapter 15: Tuning and Monitoring Performance; Analyze Server Roles; View Server Performance Data; View Server Events; Chapter 16: Keeping Your Servers Up-to-Date; Work with Windows Updates; Work with Windows Server Update Services; Index…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Share of non-performing exposures for different types of loans; Figure 14. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Selected monetary and financial performance indicators""; ""Table 9. The behaviour of inflation and growth""…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Macroeconomic performance has been solid; The short-term outlook is expected to improve…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Key Practice 2: Effective managerial coaches provide honest, ongoing, balanced performance feedback to junior managers…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Machine learning: Scalability and PerformanceToo many data points or instances; Too many attributes or features; Shrinking response time windows - need for real-time responses; Highly complex algorithm; Feed forward, iterative prediction cycles; Model selection process; Potential issues in large-scale Machine learning; Algorithms and Concurrency; Developing concurrent algorithms; Technology and implementation options for scaling-up Machine learning; MapReduce programming paradigm; High Performance Computing (HPC) with Message Passing Interface (MPI)…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…The Skill-Share Fest -- 4 Performance and Flow Rituals -- When Would You Use a Performance Ritual? …”