“…This volume provides new, ground-breaking perspectives on the globally renowned work of the Tanztheater Wuppertal and its iconic founder and artistic director, Pina Bausch. The company's performances, how it developed its productions, the global transfer of its choreographic material and the reactions of audiences and critics are explained as complex, interdependent and reciprocal processes of translation. …”

“…Several promising avenues have been pinpointed while taking into account of the memorization techniques of oral performance in ritual practice…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Aggregating your data -- 15.1 Aggregating data with Spark -- 15.1.1 A quick reminder on aggregations -- 15.1.2 Performing basic aggregations with Spark -- Performing an aggregation using the dataframe API -- Performing an aggregation using Spark SQL -- 15.2 Performing aggregations with live data -- 15.2.1 Preparing your dataset -- 15.2.2 Aggregating data to better understand the schools -- What is the average enrollment for each school? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…., 2014) -- 3.2.5 Hydrodynamics of fluidized bed heat exchanger (Farsi &amp -- Dincer, 2019) -- 3.2.6 Heat recovery heat exchanger in hybrid particle-based concentrated solar power plant (Farsi &amp -- Dincer, 2019) -- 3.3 Heat exchanger performance analysis -- 3.3.1 Performance analysis of IPVTS system with EWHE -- 3.3.2 Performance analysis of BIPVT integrated with earth air heat exchanger -- 3.3.3 Performance analysis of vertical straight and helical coiled pipe HE -- 3.3.4 Performance analysis of submerged heat exchanger for solar absorption -- 3.3.5 Performance analysis of fluidized bed heat exchanger -- 3.4 Problems and solutions on HEs -- References -- 4 - Solar thermal collector -- 4.1 Basic concept of solar thermal collectors -- 4.2 Categorization of solar thermal collectors…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…3.8.1 Introduction3.8.2 Tip-losses; 3.8.3 Prandtl's approximation for the tip-loss factor; 3.8.4 Blade root losses; 3.8.5 Effect of tip-loss on optimum blade design and power; 3.8.6 Incorporation of tip-loss for non-optimal operation; 3.8.7 Alternative explanation for tip-loss; 3.9 Stall delay; 3.10 Calculated results for an actual turbine; 3.11 The performance curves; 3.11.1 Introduction; 3.11.2 The CP - λ performance curve; 3.11.3 The effect of solidity on performance; 3.11.4 The CQ - λ curve; 3.11.5 The CT - λ curve; 3.12 Constant rotational speed operation; 3.12.1 Introduction…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Myth #3: Real Estate Is Merely an Inflation Hedge -- Myth #4: REIT Performance Is Anchored to REIT Property Performance -- Myth #5: REIT Stocks Are Trading Vehicles -- Chapter 10 REITs: Growth and Value Creation -- The Significance of FFO -- Funds from Operations (FFO) -- Adjusted Funds from Operations (AFFO) -- The Dynamics of FFO/AFFO Growth -- Internal Growth -- Rental Revenue Increases -- How to Build Internal Growth into a Lease -- Property Refurbishments -- Capital Recycling -- Technology Upgrades -- NOI and IRR -- External Growth -- Acquisition Opportunities -- The Cost of Equity Capital -- New Developments -- More External Growth Avenues -- Chapter 11 Searching for Blue Chips -- Growth REITs -- Value or "Turnaround" REITs -- The Virtue of Blue-Chip REITs -- The Supreme Importance of Management -- Creating Value in All Types of Climates -- Extra Growth Internally -- The "One-Off" Deal -- Cost Control -- Track Record of Value Creation -- Access to Capital and Its Effective Deployment -- Chapter 12 Breaking Down the REIT Balance Sheet -- Debt Ratios -- Interest Coverage Ratios -- Debt Maturity -- Variable-Rate Debt -- Secured Debt -- Conservative and Consistent Dividends -- Corporate Governance -- Chapter 13 REIT Preferred Stocks: (Contributed by Jay Hatfield) -- Primary Characteristics of REIT Preferred Stocks -- Types of Preferred Stocks -- Credit Ratings and Analysis -- Yield to Call -- Interest Rate Risk -- Stock Market Risk and Recessions -- Types of Preferred Stocks -- Taxation -- ETFs, Mutual Funds, and Closed End Funds -- Conclusion -- Chapter 14 The Quest for Investment Value -- Real Estate Asset Values -- P/FFO Models -- Discounted Cash Flow and Dividend Growth Models -- Valuing REITs as a Group -- Chapter 15 Building a REIT Portfolio -- Modest Risks and Sustainable Retirements -- Looking for the "Holy Grail" Allocation…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…3.6 Anti-abrasive SiO2 film in application: self-assembling covalently bonded nanocoating3.7 Abrasive test; 3.8 Anti-abrasive performance of sol-gel nanocoatings; 3.8.1 The process of obtaining sol-gel nanocoatings; 3.8.2 Cross-sectional morphology; 3.8.3 Surface morphology; 3.8.4 Mechanical performance; 3.9 Conclusion; Acknowledgments; References; 4 Self-cleaning glass; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 History of glass; 4.3 Self-cleaning glass; 4.4 Hydrophilic coating; 4.5 Anti-reflective coating; 4.6 Porous materials; 4.7 Photocatalytic activity of TiO2; 4.8 Hydrophobic coatings…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Indicateurs de bien-être actuel permettant de mesurer à la fois la performance moyenne et les inégalitésGraphique 1.4. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Figure 4.2 Comparison of NPV profiles for traditional (dashed) and Agile (solid) projects -- Figure 4.3 Decision point analysis of Agile projects -- 4.4 Worked example -- Table 4.4 Anticipated project costs and revenues -- Table 4.5 Discounted cash flows for Agile and phased project approaches -- 4.4.1 Net present value -- Figure 4.4 Discounted Agile cash flows -- 4.4.2 Profitability index -- 4.4.3 Payback period -- 4.4.4 Financial performance summary -- Table 4.6 Summary of financial performance metrics -- 4.5 Concluding remarks -- 5 Value and benefits realization -- 5.1 Understanding value -- 5.2 Social value -- 5.3 Communicating value -- 5.4 Earned value management -- Figure 5.1 Example of a burn-up chart showing schedule variance during an iteration -- Table 5.1 Project tracking metrics -- 5.5 Benefits realization and assessment -- 5.6 Concluding remarks -- 6 Managing uncertainty -- 6.1 Understanding risk -- 6.2 Agile risk management -- Figure 6.1 Mapping of risk exposure (including ranges) to risk response strategies -- Figure 6.2 Illustrative risk burn-down chart -- 6.3 Costing risk -- 6.4 Sensitivity analysis -- Table 6.1 Scenario-based project and operational cash flows -- Table 6.2 Sensitivity analysis of project cash flows -- 6.5 Foreign exchange risk -- Figure 6.3 Hedging against foreign currency risk -- Table 6.3 Transaction costs and exchange rates -- Table 6.4 Strategies for managing exchange rate risk -- 6.6 Credit risk -- 6.7 Decision point analysis -- 6.8 Concluding remarks -- Appendix A Analytical treatment of cash flows -- A.1 Project NPV and operational annuities -- A.2 Incremental rates of return -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- How to create notebooks -- Exploring notebook capabilities -- Basic capabilities -- Advanced capabilities -- Setting a notebook as a utility script or adding utility scripts -- Adding and using secrets -- Using Google Cloud services in Kaggle Notebooks -- Upgrading your Kaggle Notebook to Google Cloud AI Notebooks -- Using a Notebook to automatically update a Dataset -- Using the Kaggle API to create, update, download, and monitor your notebooks -- Summary -- Chapter 3: Starting Our Travel - Surviving the Titanic Disaster -- A closer look at the Titanic -- Conducting data inspection -- Understanding the data -- Analyzing the data -- Performing univariate analysis -- Performing multivariate analysis -- Extracting meaningful information from passenger names -- Creating a dashboard showing multiple plots -- Building a baseline model -- Summary -- References -- Chapter 4: Take a Break and Have a Beer or Coffee in London -- Pubs in England -- Data quality check -- Data exploration -- Starbucks around the world -- Preliminary data analysis -- Univariate and bivariate data analysis -- Geospatial analysis -- Pubs and Starbucks in London -- Data preparation -- Geospatial analysis -- Summary -- References -- Chapter 5: Get Back to Work and Optimize Microloans for Developing Countries -- Introducing the Kiva analytics competition -- More data, more insights - analyzing the Kiva data competition -- Understanding the borrower demographic -- Exploring MPI correlation with other factors…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Using Flash Inside a Larger Website -- Uploading Files to a Web Server -- Summary -- Q&A -- Workshop -- HOUR 20 Designing a Website to Be Modular -- Loading Movies or Images -- Determining When a Movie Is Fully Loaded -- Playing External Sounds -- Loading External Text -- Summary -- Q&A -- Workshop -- HOUR 21 Minimizing File Size -- File Size Considerations -- Summary -- Q&A -- Workshop -- HOUR 22 Optimizing Performance -- Measuring Performance -- Impacts on Performance -- Summary -- Q&A -- Workshop -- HOUR 23 Advanced Animation Techniques -- It's the Result, Not the Technology -- Applying Conventional Techniques -- Summary -- Q&A -- Workshop -- HOUR 24 Publishing a Creation -- How to Publish -- Adding Metadata to Your Flash Creation…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Practice: Daily Team Integration Meetings -- Objective -- Discussion -- Practice: Participatory Decision Making -- Objective -- Discussion -- Decision Framing -- Decision Making -- Decision Retrospection -- Leadership and Decision Making -- Set- and Delay-Based Decision Making -- Practice: Daily Interaction with the Customer Team -- Objective -- Discussion -- Stakeholder Coordination -- Explore Summary -- Chapter 8: The Adapt and Close Phases -- Progress -- Phase: Adapt -- Practice: Product, Project, and Team Review and Adaptive Action -- Objective -- Discussion -- Customer Focus Groups -- Technical Reviews -- Team Performance Evaluations -- Project Status Reports -- Adaptive Action -- Phase: Close -- Adapt and Close Summary -- Chapter 9: Building Large Adaptive Teams -- An Achilles' Heel? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Seek the Wisdom of Balance; 4.7. 7. Promote Performance Incentives; 4.7.2. Tie Performance Reviews to Program Proficiency; 4.7.2.2. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Priorities and vectorsInterrupt overhead; Interrupts in ARM; Interrupts in C55x; Interrupts in PIC16F; 3.3 Supervisor mode, exceptions, and traps; 3.3.1 Supervisor mode; 3.3.2 Exceptions; 3.3.3 Traps; 3.4 Co-processors; 3.5 Memory system mechanisms; 3.5.1 Caches; 3.5.2 Memory management units and address translation; 3.6 CPU performance; 3.6.1 Pipelining; 3.6.2 Cache performance; 3.7 CPU power consumption; 3.8 Design example: Data compressor; 3.8.1 Requirements and algorithm; 3.8.2 Specification; 3.8.3 Program design; 3.8.4 Testing; 3.9 Summary; What we learned; Further reading; Questions…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…4.3.2 Operator and Third-Party Services4.3.3 Network Performance and QoE Improvements; 4.4 Edge Computing: 5G Standards and Industry Groups; 4.4.1 3GPP Standardization Status; 4.4.2 Industry Groups; 4.4.3 The Role of ETSI MEC in 5G; 4.5 MEC and Network Slicing; Annex 4.A -- IMT2020 Systems: Minimum Technical Performance Requirements [51]; Notes; PART 2 MEC AND THE MARKET SCENARIOS; CHAPTER 5 THE MEC MARKET: THE OPERATOR'S PERSPECTIVE; 5.1 What Does MEC Mean to Operators?…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Improving network connectivity using a VPN -- IPSec-based VPN -- OpenVPN -- Configuring a VPN client with the Control Center -- Network performance monitoring -- nmon -- bpytop -- Summary -- Further reading -- Part 3: Productivity Tools -- Chapter 6: Sandbox Applications -- Technical requirements -- Inspecting sandbox applications -- SELinux sandbox -- Diving deep into AppImage apps -- Running an AppImage -- Developing AppImages -- Examining Flatpak applications -- Using Flatpak applications -- Building Flatpak applications -- Summary -- Further reading -- Chapter 7: Text Editors -- Technical requirements -- Text editors and the command line -- Emacs overview -- The basics -- Mastering GNU Emacs -- Nano basics -- The mighty vim -- The basics -- Mastering vim -- Summary -- Further reading -- Chapter 8: LibreOffice Suite -- Technical requirements -- Exploring office tools on Fedora Linux -- WPS Office -- ONLYOFFICE -- Calligra -- Fonts -- LibreOffice -- Getting used to Writer and Calc -- Writer -- Calc -- Creating slides and image management -- Summary -- Further reading -- Chapter 9: Mail Clients and Browsers -- Technical requirements -- Mailing with Evolution -- Mailing with Thunderbird -- Trusty old Firefox -- Customizing Firefox -- Expanding browsing with Google Chrome -- Summary -- Further reading -- Part 4: System Administration Tools -- Chapter 10: System Administration -- Technical requirements -- The three laws of the SysAdmin -- The KISS principle -- Knowing the basic tasks -- A little bit of Git and programming -- Bash scripting -- Git -- The basics -- Don't forget to back up -- Archiving and compression -- Version management with Git -- Automating with Ansible -- The basics -- First steps -- Never-ending study -- Summary -- Chapter 11: Performance Tuning Best Practices -- Technical requirements…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Popular alternatives to TensorFlow -- GPU requirements for TensorFlow and Keras -- Installing Nvidia CUDA Toolkit and cuDNN -- Installing Python -- Installing TensorFlow and Keras -- Building datasets for deep learning -- Bias and variance errors in deep learning -- The train, val, and test datasets -- Managing bias and variance in deep neural networks -- K-Fold cross-validation -- Summary -- Chapter 2: Using Deep Learning to Solve Regression Problems -- Regression analysis and deep neural networks -- Benefits of using a neural network for regression -- Drawbacks to consider when using a neural network for regression -- Using deep neural networks for regression -- How to plan a machine learning problem -- Defining our example problem -- Loading the dataset -- Defining our cost function -- Building an MLP in Keras -- Input layer shape -- Hidden layer shape -- Output layer shape -- Neural network architecture -- Training the Keras model -- Measuring the performance of our model -- Building a deep neural network in Keras -- Measuring the deep neural network performance -- Tuning the model hyperparameters -- Saving and loading a trained Keras model -- Summary…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…. -- Chapter 7: Text Wrangling and Analysis -- Introduction -- Installing NLTK -- How to do it -- Performing sentence splitting -- How to do it -- There's more... -- Performing tokenization -- How to do it -- Performing stemming -- How to do it -- Performing lemmatization…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…The new Civil Service Act -- Focussing on performance to evaluate and reinforce improved processes -- Figure 2.8. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Child Partitions -- Hardware Emulation and Support -- Kernel Transaction Manager -- Hotpatch Support -- Kernel Patch Protection -- Code Integrity -- Conclusion -- Management Mechanisms -- The Registry -- Viewing and Changing the Registry -- Registry Usage -- Registry Data Types -- Registry Logical Structure -- Transactional Registry (TxR) -- Monitoring Registry Activity -- Registry Internals -- Services -- Service Applications -- The Service Control Manager -- Service Startup -- Startup Errors -- Accepting the Boot and Last Known Good -- Service Failures -- Service Shutdown -- Shared Service Processes -- Service Tags -- Service Control Programs -- Windows Management Instrumentation -- Providers -- The Common Information Model and the Managed Object Format Language -- Class Association -- WMI Implementation -- WMI Security -- Windows Diagnostic Infrastructure -- WDI Instrumentation -- Diagnostic Policy Service -- Diagnostic Functionality -- Conclusion -- Processes, Threads, and Jobs -- Process Internals -- Data Structures -- Kernel Variables -- Performance Counters -- Relevant Functions -- Protected Processes -- Flow of CreateProcess -- Stage 1: Converting and Validating Parameters and Flags -- Stage 2: Opening the Image to Be Executed -- Stage 3: Creating the Windows Executive Process Object (PspAllocateProcess) -- Stage 4: Creating the Initial Thread and Its Stack and Context -- Stage 5: Performing Windows Subsystem-Specific Post-Initialization -- Stage 6: Starting Execution of the Initial Thread -- Stage 7: Performing Process Initialization in the Context of the New Process -- Thread Internals -- Data Structures -- Kernel Variables -- Performance Counters -- Relevant Functions -- Birth of a Thread -- Examining Thread Activity -- Limitations on Protected Process Threads -- Worker Factories (Thread Pools) -- Thread Scheduling…”