“…In an increasing number of countries, it is at the top of the policy and research agenda ranking among the possible ways to redress the glaring lack of relevant academic and vocational qualifications and to promote the development of competences and certification procedures which recognise different types of learning, including formal, non-formal and informal learning. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…SAT and SMT -- Decomposing Farkas Interpolants -- Parallel SAT Simplification on GPU Architectures -- Encoding Redundancy for Satisfaction-Driven Clause Learning -- WAPS: Weighted and Projected Sampling -- Building Better Bit-Blasting for Floating-Point Problems -- The Axiom Profiler: Understanding and Debugging SMT Quantifier Instantiations -- On the Empirical Time Complexity of Scale-Free 3-SAT at the Phase Transition -- Modular and Efficient Divide-and-Conquer SAT Solver on Top of the Painless Framework -- SAT Solving and Theorem Proving -- Quantitative Verification of Masked Arithmetic Programs against Side-Channel Attacks -- Incremental Analysis of Evolving Alloy Models -- Extending a Brainiac Prover to Lambda-Free Higher-Order Logic -- Verification and Analysis LCV: A Verification Tool for Linear Controller Software -- Semantic Fault Localization and Suspiciousness Ranking -- Computing Coupled Similarity -- Reachability Analysis for Termination and Confluence of Rewriting -- Model Checking -- VoxLogicA: a Spatial Model Checker for Declarative Image Analysis -- On Reachability in Parameterized Phaser Programs -- Abstract Dependency Graphs and Their Application to Model Checking -- Tool Demo -- nonreach – A Tool for Nonreachability Analysis -- The Quantitative Verification Benchmark Set -- ILAng: A Modeling Platform for SoC Verification using Instruction-Level Abstractions -- MetAcsl: Specification and Verification of High-Level Properties -- ROLL 1.0: !…”

“…The World's Leading Business Minds on Today's Most Critical Challenges Featuring VJ Govindarajan, Linda Hill, Clay Christensen, and many more "Thinkers50 is now established as the definitive ranking of global thought leaders." -- Professor Costas Markides, London Business School Innovation used to separate extraordinary companies from average companies. …”

“…SEO is not merely trying to improve your website ranking on Google, but it can spark and optimize ideas. …”

“…He delves deeply into a wide range of topics, offering the answers to important questions, such as: How does the college ranking system really work? Can an obesity measure solve America's biggest healthcare crisis? …”

“…The reduction in aircraft noise is therefore a very important engineering task that would require the careful identification of different acoustic sources around the airplane, the understanding of noise source behavior and ranking along flight trajectories, sophisticated measurement techniques, and robust and accurate numerical tools aimed at predicting the generation of noise, the propagation through the atmosphere, and the resulting noise impact along approach and departure flights. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright and Credits -- Packt Upsell -- Contributors -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1: Jira Software Basics -- Introducing Jira Software -- Installing Jira Software -- Obtaining and installing Jira Software -- Setting up Jira Software -- Creating a sample project -- Understanding Jira and its agile features -- Agile board -- Card -- Issues and issue types -- Fields -- Workflows -- Filters and JQL -- Using Jira agile project templates for agile -- Summary -- Chapter 2: Jira Software for Scrum -- Scrum -- Roles in Scrum -- The product owner -- The Scrum master -- The delivery team -- Understanding the Scrum process -- Creating a new Scrum board -- Understanding the Scrum board -- Creating new issues -- Creating new epics -- Estimating your work -- Ranking and prioritizing your issues -- Creating new versions -- Planning sprints -- Starting a sprint -- Running parallel sprints -- Working on a sprint -- Completing a sprint -- Reporting a sprint's progress -- The sprint report -- The burndown chart -- The velocity chart -- Summary -- Chapter 3: Jira Software for Kanban -- Kanban -- Creating a new Kanban board -- Understanding the Kanban board -- Customizing your Kanban board -- Visualizing workflow with Kanban -- Setting up column constraints -- Controlling which issues to show on the board -- Organizing your Kanban board with swimlanes -- Creating custom views with quick filters -- Releasing a version in Kanban -- Improving your team's performance -- Improving the process with charts and reports -- Cumulative flow diagram -- Control chart -- Customizing the control chart -- Summary -- Chapter 4: Using Jira Software Your Way -- Managing your board -- Controlling board scope -- Managing board permissions -- Enabling ranking -- Customizing your board's layout -- Working with columns -- Jira and workflow…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…; Site Popularity and Ranking; How People Are Finding My Competitors; Relative Site Performance; Competitor Activity; Where Are My Risks?…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Calculate Straight-Line DepreciationCalculate Declining Balance Depreciation; Calculate Double-Declining Balance Depreciation; Calculate Sum-of-the-Years-Digits Depreciation; Chapter 7: Using Statistical Functions and Tools; Calculate an Average; Calculate a Conditional Average; Calculate the Median or the Mode; Calculate Rank; Determine the Nth Largest Value; Calculate Frequency; Calculate Variance and Standard Deviation; Find the Correlation; Install Excel Add-Ins; Calculate a Moving Average; Compare Variances; Using the Data Analysis Toolpak to Determine Rank and Percentile…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…How Search Engines WorkThe Difference Between Organic And Paid Results; How Search Engines Rank Results; How Search Engines Are Using Data About Searcher Intent; Search Engine Suggestions and Prompts; Personalization; Anatomy of a Search Engine Result; The Evolution of Organic Search Results: Beyond Web Pages; Blended Search: Images; Blended Search: Video; How Do Universal Results Impact Searcher Behavior?…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Adaptive direction-of-arrival estimation based on rank and subspace tracking; Chapter 28. Multiple subspace ULV algorithm and LMS tracking; PART 4: APPLICATIONS; Chapter 29. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…An overall difference in mean ranks test of the market-related quality attributes across main varieties. ; 7. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Evolutionary Computation and Genetic Algorithm -- Evolutionary strategy -- Genetic algorithm -- Initialization -- Selection methods -- Tournament selection -- Linear ranking selection -- Proportionate roulette wheel selection -- Exponential ranking selection -- Crossover (recombination) operators -- Crossover operators for binary encoding -- Crossover operators for real-coded genetic algorithms -- Mutation operators -- Gaussian mutation -- Cauchy mutation -- Diversity mutation -- Lévy flight mutation -- Power mutation -- Termination conditions -- Fitness limit -- Maximum number of generations -- Maximum stall time -- Maximum runtime -- Best fitness value -- Adaptive genetic algorithm -- Differential evolution -- Mutation -- Crossover -- Selection -- Chaotic differential evolution -- Differential evolution example -- Ackley function approximation -- References -- 3. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…RMSE calculation with MLlib -- RMSE calculation with R -- Explanations of the results -- Biggest influencers -- Visualizing trends -- The rules of sending out alerts -- Scores to rank city zones -- Summary -- Chapter 10: Learning Telco Data on Spark -- Spark for using Telco Data -- The use case -- Spark computing -- Methods for learning from Telco Data -- Descriptive statistics and visualization -- Linear and logistic regression models -- Decision tree and random forest -- Data and feature development -- Data reorganizing -- Feature development and selection -- Model estimation -- SPSS on Spark - SPSS Analytics Server -- Model evaluation -- RMSE calculations with MLlib -- RMSE calculations with R -- Confusion matrix and error ratios with MLlib and R -- Results explanation -- Descriptive statistics and visualizations -- Biggest influencers -- Special insights -- Visualizing trends -- Model deployment -- Rules to send out alerts -- Scores subscribers for churn and for Call Center calls -- Scores subscribers for purchase propensity -- Summary -- Chapter 11: Modeling Open Data on Spark -- Spark for learning from open data -- The use case -- Spark computing -- Methods for scoring and ranking -- Cluster analysis -- Principal component analysis -- Regression models -- Score resembling -- Data and feature preparation -- Data cleaning -- Data merging -- Feature development -- Feature selection -- Model estimation -- SPSS on Spark - SPSS Analytics Server -- Model evaluation -- RMSE calculations with MLlib -- RMSE calculations with R -- Results explanation -- Comparing ranks -- Biggest influencers -- Deployment -- Rules for sending out alerts -- Scores for ranking school districts -- Summary -- Index…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…DB2 UDB's statistics, analytic, and OLAP functions -- 3.1 DB2 UDB's statistics, analytic, and OLAP functions -- 3.2 Statistics and analytic functions -- 3.2.1 AVG -- 3.2.2 CORRELATION -- 3.2.3 COUNT -- 3.2.4 COUNT_BIG -- 3.2.5 COVARIANCE -- 3.2.6 MAX -- 3.2.7 MIN -- 3.2.8 RAND -- 3.2.9 STDDEV -- 3.2.10 SUM -- 3.2.11 VARIANCE -- 3.2.12 Regression functions -- 3.2.13 COVAR, CORR, VAR, STDDEV, and regression examples -- 3.3 OLAP functions -- 3.3.1 Ranking, numbering and aggregation functions -- 3.3.2 GROUPING capabilities ROLLUP &amp -- CUBE -- 3.3.3 Ranking, numbering, aggregation examples -- 3.3.4 GROUPING, GROUP BY, ROLLUP and CUBE examples -- Chapter 4. …”

“…The author, known to posterity as Michitsuna’s Mother, a member of the middle-ranking aristocracy of the Heian period (794–1185), wrote an account of 20 years of her life (from 954–74), and this autobiographical text now gives readers access to a woman’s experience of a thousand years ago. …”

“…The crime has also gained notoriety in Germany through the indictment of high-ranking politicians in Italy. The provision has a turbulent history and has been the subject of intense scientific debate in Italy. …”

“…The consistency measuring and ranking methods of interval number reciprocal judgment matrix and interval number complementary judgment matrix are discussed in Chapter 2. …”