Tabla de Contenidos: “…. -- The Power of const Correctness -- About Old C-Style in C++ Projects -- Choose C++ Strings and Streams over Old C-Style char* -- Avoid Using printf(), sprintf(), gets(), etc. -- Choose Standard Library Containers over Simple C-Style Arrays -- Use C++ Casts Instead of Old C-Style Casts -- Avoid Macros -- Chapter 5: Advanced Concepts of Modern C++ -- Managing Resources -- Resource Acquisition Is Initialization (RAII) -- Smart Pointers -- Unique Ownership with std::unique_ptr&lt -- T&gt -- -- Shared Ownership with std::shared_ptr&lt -- T&gt -- -- No Ownership, but Secure Access with std::weak_ptr&lt -- T&gt -- -- Atomic Smart Pointers -- Avoid Explicit New and Delete -- Managing Proprietary Resources -- We Like to Move It -- What Are Move Semantics? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- A SYSTEMS APPROACH TO DECARBONIZE THE TRANSPORT SECTOR -- THE STREAM MODEL -- DESCRIPTION OF THE 2050 SCENARIOS -- SCENARIO RESULTS -- WHICH TECHNOLOGICAL PATH SHOULD THE INNOVATION FOLLOW? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Innovation and Consumers' Value Co-Creation Roles -- Emerging Trends in Social Media -- Motivation for Social Media Participation -- Classifying Social Media Users -- Social Media Live Stream, User Stories, and Consumer Decisions…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Defining business networks -- A deeper idea -- Introducing participants -- Types of participant -- Individual participants -- Organizational participants -- System or device participants -- Participants are agents -- Participants and identity -- Introducing assets -- Assets flow between participants -- Tangible and intangible assets -- The structure of assets -- Ownership is a special relationship -- Asset life cycles -- Describing asset's life cycles in detail with transactions -- Introducing transactions -- Change as a fundamental concept -- Transaction definition and instance -- Implicit and explicit transactions -- The importance of contracts -- Signatures -- Smart contracts for multi-party transaction processing -- Digital transaction processing -- Initiating transactions -- Transaction history -- Transaction streams -- Separating transactions into different business networks -- Transaction history and asset states -- A business network as a history of transactions -- Regulators and business networks…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contributors -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Part 1: Connecting Blue Prism to ML Models -- Chapter 1: Machine Learning as a Service: the Digital Exchange and Web APIs -- Technical requirements -- Using the DX -- Accessing the DX -- Machine learning web API fundamentals -- An overview of MLaaS on the DX -- Vendor selection -- Examples -- Example 1 - AWS Comprehend for text entity extraction, key phrase extraction, and sentiment analysis -- Example 2 - Azure Form Recognizer for invoice extraction -- Example 3 - GCP Cloud Vision batch OCR processing -- Summary -- Chapter 2: Predicting from Command Prompt and PowerShell -- Technical requirements -- Command-line basics -- Output streams -- Output redirection -- Blocking versus non-blocking execution -- Predicting from the command line using Utility - Environment -- Example 1 - Running a program using the Start Process -- Example 2 - Running a program using Run Process Until Ended -- Getting prediction results back into BP -- Example 3 - Saving STDOUT and STDERR as Data Items -- Example 4 - Redirecting an internal command (dir) to files -- Timing out long-running predictions -- Example 5 - PS script timeout -- DX VBOs - Utility - PowerShell and Script Execution VBO -- Utility - PowerShell -- Script Execution VBO -- Example 7 - Calling a Python program -- Summary -- Chapter 3: Code Stages -- Technical requirements -- Setting up ML.NET in BP -- Adding references and namespaces to BP -- Example 1 - preparation work before BP -- Porting ML.NET C# into a Code Stage -- Global Code -- Example 2 - porting the source code into BP -- Improving BP integration -- Example 3 - refactoring -- Summary -- Part 2: Designing IA Solutions -- Chapter 4: Reviewing Predictions and Human in the Loop -- Technical requirements -- Why should we review predictions?…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Implications of self and identity for conceptualizing motivation -- Motivation in main stream psychology: An overview -- Is man a perpetually wanting animal? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Preconfiguring mock objects -- assert methods of mock objects -- The unittest.mock patch function -- Using unittest's test discovery -- Unittest's discovery tool -- Command-line options in unit test discovery -- Using nose for unified test discovery and reporting -- Running our tests with nose -- The cover-package option -- Testing multiple worker processes -- Summary -- Chapter 10: Reactive Programming -- The concept of reactive programming -- Building a simple reactive programming framework -- Observers -- Observables -- Emitting events -- Building the observable sequence -- Illustrating a stream of animal events -- Composing an observable sequence -- Using the reactive extensions for Python (RxPY) -- Translating our zoo demo into Rx -- Observable factory methods -- Explaining the observable sequence of events -- Creating an asyncio scheduler -- Combining and processing observable sequences -- Miscellaneous observable factory methods -- The Observable.create method -- The Observable.select_many method -- Empty, return_value, and from_iterable factory methods -- The where factory method -- Summary -- Chapter 11: Microservices -- Microservices and the advantages of process isolation -- Advantages of the microservice architecture -- Applying the microservice architecture to web servers -- Building high-level microservices with Flask -- Installing Flask -- Creating endpoints for a RESTful API in Flask -- Building a microservice to maintain a database -- Making Flask handle a request -- Running and connecting to our microservice using Flask -- Test running the microservice -- Building high-level microservices with nameko -- Installing nameko…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Transport-level multihoming 153 -- 10.7.1. SCTP (Stream Control Transmission Protocol) 153 -- 10.7.2. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Networking with observables -- RxJava and event streams -- Subscribers -- RxJava 2 observable types -- Subscribing to and converting different observables -- What happens when you make a normal network request? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…5.9.1 Role of Individual in Pollution Prevention -- 5.10 Disaster Management -- 5.10.1 Floods -- 5.10.2 Droughts -- 5.10.3 Earthquakes -- 5.10.4 Cyclones -- 5.10.5 Landslides -- 5.10.6 Tsunami -- Summary -- Essay Type Questions -- Short-answer Type Questions -- Multiple Choice Questions -- Answers -- Unit VI: Social Issues and the Environment Learning objectives -- 6.1 Elementary idea on Sustainable Development -- 6.1.1 Concept of Sustainable Development -- 6.2 Urban Problems Related to Energy -- 6.3 Water Conservation -- 6.3.1 Rain Water Harvesting -- 6.3.2 Watershed Management -- 6.4 Wasteland Reclamation -- 6.5 Resettlement and Rehabilitation -- 6.6 Air Pollution and the Biosphere -- 6.6.1 Climate Changes -- 6.7 Nuclear Accidents and the Holocaust -- 6.8 Consumerism and Waste Products -- 6.9 Laws Relating to Environment, Pollution, Forest and Wildlife -- 6.10 Environmental Impact Assessment -- 6.11 Precautionary Principle -- Summary -- Essay Type Questions -- Short-answer Type Questions -- Multiple Choice Questions -- Answers -- Unit VII: Human Population and the Environment -- 7.1 Population Growth Variation among Nations -- 7.2 Family Welfare Programme -- 7.3 Environment and Human Health -- 7.4 HIV/AIDS -- 7.5 Woman and Child Welfare -- 7.6 Role of Information Technology in Environment and Human Health -- Summary -- Essay Type Questions -- Short-answer Type Questions -- Multiple Choice Questions -- Answers -- Unit VIII: Field Work -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 Experiments -- Model Question Papers -- Model Question Paper - 1 -- Model Question Paper - 2 -- Model Question Paper - 3 -- Model Question Paper - 4 -- Model Question Paper - 5 -- Self Assessment Questions -- Multiple Choice Questions (Solved) -- Appendix I -- National River Action Plan -- Ganga Action Plan (GAP) -- Ganga Action Plan (Phase-II) (Main Stream)…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover -- FM -- Copyright -- Contributors -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1: Machine Learning Fundamentals -- Making the Most Out of this Book - Your Certification and Beyond -- Comparing AI, ML, and DL -- Examining ML -- Examining DL -- Classifying supervised, unsupervised, and reinforcement learning -- Introducing supervised learning -- The CRISP-DM modeling life cycle -- Data splitting -- Overfitting and underfitting -- Applying cross-validation and measuring overfitting -- Bootstrapping methods -- The variance versus bias trade-off -- Shuffling your training set -- Modeling expectations -- Introducing ML frameworks -- ML in the cloud -- Summary -- Exam Readiness Drill - Chapter Review Questions -- Chapter 2: AWS Services for Data Storage -- Technical requirements -- Storing Data on Amazon S3 -- Creating buckets to hold data -- Distinguishing between object tags and object metadata -- Controlling access to buckets and objects on amazon s3 -- S3 bucket policy -- Protecting data on amazon s3 -- Applying bucket versioning -- Applying encryption to buckets -- Securing s3 objects at rest and in transit -- Using other types of data stores -- Relational Database Service (RDS) -- Managing failover in Amazon RDS -- Taking automatic backups, RDS snapshots, and restore and read replicas -- Writing to Amazon Aurora with multi-master capabilities -- Storing columnar data on Amazon Redshift -- Amazon DynamoDB for NoSQL Database-as-a-Service -- Summary -- Exam Readiness Drill - Chapter Review Questions -- Chapter 3: AWS Services for Data Migration and Processing -- Technical requirements -- Creating ETL jobs on AWS Glue -- Features of AWS Glue -- Getting hands-on with AWS Glue Data Catalog components -- Getting hands-on with AWS Glue ETL components -- Querying S3 data using Athena -- Processing real-time data using Kinesis Data Streams…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Batch processing -- Streaming method -- Cloud-native -- Automating ETL pipelines -- Exploring use cases for ETL pipelines -- Summary -- References -- Chapter 3: Design Principles for Creating Scalable and Resilient Pipelines -- Technical requirements -- Understanding the design patterns for ETL -- Basic ETL design pattern -- ETL-P design pattern -- ETL-VP design pattern -- ELT two-phase pattern -- Preparing your local environment for installations -- Open source Python libraries for ETL pipelines -- Pandas -- NumPy -- Scaling for big data packages -- Dask -- Numba -- Summary -- References -- Part 2: Designing ETL Pipelines with Python -- Chapter 4: Sourcing Insightful Data and Data Extraction Strategies -- Technical requirements -- What is data sourcing? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Unsubscribing from Observables -- Using and creating RxJS operators -- Types of operators -- Flattening multiple Observable streams using flattening operators -- Powerful and useful RxJS operators -- Creating combined and reusable RxJS operators -- Reactive programming using Angular Signals -- Using Signals, computed Signals, and Signals effects -- Combining Signals and RxJS -- Using toSignal -- Using toObservable -- Choosing between Signals and RxJS -- Summary -- Chapter 8: Handling Application State with Grace -- Understanding application state -- Different levels of application state -- Fundamental concepts within state management -- Handling global application state using RxJS -- Building a state management solution using RxJS -- Connecting your state management and view layer with a facade service -- Handling global application state using Signals -- The problem with using RxJS or Signals for global state management -- Handling global application state with NgRx -- Installing the @ngrx/store and @ngrx/effects packages -- Defining your first NgRx actions -- Creating your first NgRx effect -- Creating your initial state and first reducer functions -- Defining NgRx selectors -- Adjusting the facade service so that they use NgRx state management -- Adding additional actions, effects, reducers, and selectors -- Summary -- Part 3: Getting Ready for Production with Automated Tests, Performance, Security, and Accessibility…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…List of Contributors xvii -- Editor Biographies xxi -- Preface xxiii -- Acknowledgement xxvii -- Part I IPTV Delivery Networks Fundamentals 1 -- 1 IPTV: Delivering TV Services over IP Networks 3 /Suliman Mohamed Fati and Putra Sumari -- 1.1 Overview 3 -- 1.2 Internet Protocol Television 4 -- 1.3 Evolution of TV to IPTV 6 -- 1.3.1 IPTV Services 7 -- 1.3.2 IPTV Standardisation 8 -- 1.3.3 General Architecture of IPTV 9 -- 1.4 IPTV Delivery Network 10 -- 1.5 Evolution of the Delivery Network 11 -- 1.5.1 IPTV Delivery Network Characteristics and Challenges 15 -- 1.6 The Key Issues of IPTV Delivery Networks 17 -- 1.7 Conclusion 18 -- References 19 -- 2 IPTV Streaming Classification 25 /Miguel Masciopinto, Pedro Comesaña, and Fernando Pérez-González -- 2.1 Introduction 25 -- 2.2 Framework 29 -- 2.2.1 IPTV Description 30 -- 2.2.2 IPTV Bitrate Footprint 32 -- 2.3 Classification Scheme 33 -- 2.3.1 SVM Classifier 36 -- 2.4 Experimental Setup 36 -- 2.4.1 Database Construction 37 -- 2.4.2 Training/Test Set-Partitioning 38 -- 2.4.3 Classification Performance Measures 41 -- 2.5 Experimental Results 44 -- 2.5.1 TSS vs. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…4.2.2 The Wyner / Ziv Theorem 110 -- 4.2.3 DVC Codec Architecture 111 -- 4.2.4 Input Bitstream Preparation / Quantization and Bit Plane Extraction 112 -- 4.2.5 Turbo Encoder 112 -- 4.2.6 Parity Bit Puncturer 114 -- 4.2.7 Side Information 114 -- 4.2.8 Turbo Decoder 115 -- 4.2.9 Reconstruction: Inverse Quantization 116 -- 4.2.10 Key Frame Coding 117 -- 4.3 Stopping Criteria for a Feedback Channel-based Transform Domain Wyner / Ziv Video Codec 118 -- 4.3.1 Proposed Technical Solution 118 -- 4.3.2 Performance Evaluation 120 -- 4.4 Rate-distortion Analysis of Motion-compensated Interpolation at the Decoder in Distributed Video Coding 122 -- 4.4.1 Proposed Technical Solution 122 -- 4.4.2 Performance Evaluation 126 -- 4.5 Nonlinear Quantization Technique for Distributed Video Coding 129 -- 4.5.1 Proposed Technical Solution 129 -- 4.5.2 Performance Evaluation 132 -- 4.6 Symmetric Distributed Coding of Stereo Video Sequences 134 -- 4.6.1 Proposed Technical Solution 134 -- 4.6.2 Performance Evaluation 137 -- 4.7 Studying Error-resilience Performance for a Feedback Channel-based Transform Domain Wyner / Ziv Video Codec 139 -- 4.7.1 Proposed Technical Solution 139 -- 4.7.2 Performance Evaluation 140 -- 4.8 Modeling the DVC Decoder for Error-prone Wireless Channels 144 -- 4.8.1 Proposed Technical Solution 145 -- 4.8.2 Performance Evaluation 149 -- 4.9 Error Concealment Using a DVC Approach for Video Streaming Applications 151 -- 4.9.1 Proposed Technical Solution 152 -- 4.9.2 Performance Evaluation 155 -- 4.10 Conclusions 158 -- References 159 -- 5 Non-normative Video Coding Tools 161 -- 5.1 Introduction 161 -- 5.2 Overview of the State of the Art 162 -- 5.2.1 Rate Control 162 -- 5.2.2 Error Resilience 164 -- 5.3 Rate Control Architecture for Joint MVS Encoding and Transcoding 165 -- 5.3.1 Problem Definition and Objectives 165 -- 5.3.2 Proposed Technical Solution 166 -- 5.3.3 Performance Evaluation 169 -- 5.3.4 Conclusions 171 -- 5.4 Bit Allocation and Buffer Control for MVS Encoding Rate Control 171.…”

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Tabla de Contenidos: “…Basic Concepts of Cryptography -- 6.1: The Lexicon of Cryptography -- 6.2: Stream Ciphers -- 6.3: Block Ciphers -- 6.4: Secrecy Systems and Cryptanalysis -- 6.5: Symmetric and Two-Key Cryptographic Systems…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Azure Key Vault secrets in ARM templates -- Azure Storage Service Encryption -- Azure Disk Encryption -- Azure SQL Database Security -- Azure Active Directory Managed Service Identity -- Summary -- Questions -- Further reading -- Chapter 11: Governance and Policies -- Technical requirements -- Azure Role-Based Access Control -- Built-in Roles -- Custom Roles -- Creating a Custom Role -- Azure Resource Policies -- Azure AD Privileged Identity Management -- Azure AD Identity Protection -- Azure Security Center -- Advanced Threat Detection -- Azure Endpoint Protection -- Operations Management Suite - Security and Compliance -- Summary -- Questions -- Further reading -- Chapter 12: Artificial Intelligence, IoT, and Media Services -- Technical requirements -- Azure Cognitive Services -- Available services and APIs -- Using the Computer Vision API -- Azure Bot Service -- Creating a Bot from the Azure Portal -- Azure Machine Learning -- Azure IoT Hub -- Azure Event Hub -- Azure IoT Edge -- Azure Stream Analytics -- Azure Time Series Insights -- Azure Media Services -- Azure Media Analytics -- Using the Azure Media Analytics Indexer -- Summary -- Questions -- Further reading -- Chapter 13: Implementing Messaging Solutions -- Technical requirements -- Azure Queue Storage -- Azure Service Bus -- Azure Event Grid -- Routing Events with Azure Event Grid -- Notification Hubs -- Designing an effective messaging architecture -- Summary -- Questions -- Further reading -- Chapter 14: Application Monitoring and Alerting Strategies -- Azure Log Analytics -- Creating a Log Analytics Workspace -- Azure Monitor -- Application Insights -- Azure Service Health -- Azure Advisor -- Address Recommendation from Azure Advisor -- Azure Network Watcher -- Summary -- Questions -- Further reading -- Chapter 15: Exploring Operations Automation Strategies…”