“…Subsequent decades saw many further developments and today we are surrounded by polyurethane applications in every aspect of our everyday lives. While polyurethane is a product that most people are not overly familiar with, as it is generally ""hidden"" behind covers or surfaces made of other materials, it would be hard to imagine life without polyurethanes…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Accentuating the Positive a Little Too Much…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…; Campus Recruiting; Industry Recruiting; Learning How to Be a Microsoft SDET; The Engineering Career at Microsoft; Career Paths in the Test Discipline; The Test Architect; The IC Tester; Becoming a Manager is Not a Promotion; Test Managers; Summary; Chapter 3: Engineering Life Cycles; Software Engineering at Microsoft; Traditional Software Engineering Models; Milestones; Agile at Microsoft; Putting It All Together…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Introduction : marginal symmetry -- Of means and ends: I: 1 and I: 57 -- The less said: I: 1 and I: 56 -- Something to hide: I: 3 and I: 55 -- Frivolous and vain: I: 4 and I: 54 -- In or out: I: 5 and I: 53 -- Trouble back home: I: 6 and I: 52 -- Words, in effect: I: 7 and I: 51 -- Of idleness and horses: I: 8 and I: 50 -- Lying, after a fashion: I: 9 and I: 49 -- Excess baggage: I: 10 and I: 48 -- Enough already: I: 11 and I: 47 -- Anagrams: I: 12 and I: 46 -- A waiting game: I: 13 and I: 45 -- More than one port in a storm: I: 14 and I: 44 -- Custom and princely grandeur: I: 15 and I: 43 -- Judging Julian judging: I: 16 and I: 42 -- Glory, given and taken: I: 17 and I: 41 -- Empty signs: I: 18 and I: 40 -- Prolonging life: I: 19 and I: 39 -- Unmasking masks: I: 20 and I: 38 -- Powers of attraction: I: 21 and I: 37 -- Complementarities and buried allusions: I: 22 and I: 36 -- Here and there: I: 23 and I: 35 -- How to paint a dog: I: 24 and I: 34 -- Well-nourished daughters: I: 25 and I: 33 -- God's wrath and the weather: I: 26 and I: 32 -- Things to come: I: 27 and I: 31 -- Of immoderation: I: 28 and I: 30 -- Sorting out the pieces: II: 1 and II: 37 -- Slipping it in: II: 2 and II: 36 -- Suicide is painless: II: 3 and II: 35 -- Caesar the procrastinator: II: 4 and II: 34 -- Suffering innocence: II: 5 and II: 33 -- Parallel deaths: II: 6 and II: 32 -- Rewards and punishments: II: 7 and II: 31 -- Hidden monsters: II: 8 and II: 30 -- Only when you need it: II: 9 and II: 29 -- Act your age: II: 10 and II: 28 -- Doubly cruel: II: 11 and II: 27 -- Opposable thumbs: II: 12 and II: 26 -- Eyes wide shut: II: 13 and II: 25 -- Equivalent equivalents: II: 14 and II: 24 -- Civil war vs. civil war: II: 15 and II: 23 -- Spreading the news: II: 16 and II: 22 -- Spitting images: II: 17 and II: 21 -- Consubstantial consubstantiality: II: 18 and II: 20 -- Distant harmonies: III: 1 and III: 13 -- Distant theft: III: 2 and III: 12 -- Intercourse with the lame: III: 3 and III: 11 -- The little things: III: 4 and III: 10 -- Sexual vanity, vain sex: III: 5 and III: 9 -- Borrowed wealth: III: 5 and III: 8 -- Journey to the center of the book: I: 29, II: 19, and III: 7 -- Epilogue: the playful text…”

“…No longer the hidden genius of scientists, nanotechnology is now appearing in products manufactured for everyday life-products that can heal, save lives, be more durable, and last longer. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Multivariate Time Series as Images: Imputation Using Convolutional Denoising Autoencoder -- Dual Sequential Variational Autoencoders for Fraud Detection -- A Principled Approach to Analyze Expressiveness and Accuracy of Graph Neural Networks -- Efficient Batch-Incremental Classification Using UMAP for Evolving Data Streams -- GraphMDL: Graph Pattern Selection Based on Minimum Description Length -- Towards Content Sensitivity Analysis -- Gibbs Sampling Subjectively Interesting Tiles -- Even Faster Exact k-Means Clustering -- Ising-Based Consensus Clustering on Special Purpose Hardware -- Transfer Learning by Learning Projections from Target to Source -- Computing Vertex-Vertex Dissimilarities Using Random Trees: Application to Clustering in Graphs -- Towards Evaluation of CNN Performance in Semantically Meaningful Latent Spaces -- Vouw: Geometric Pattern Mining Using the MDL Principle -- A Consensus Approach to Improve NMF Document Clustering -- Discriminative Bias for Learning Probabilistic Sentential Decision Diagrams -- Widening for MDL-Based Retail Signature Discovery -- Addressing the Resolution Limit and the Field of View Limit in Community Mining -- Estimating Uncertainty in Deep Learning for Reporting Confidence: An Application on Cell Type Prediction in Testes Based on Proteomics -- Adversarial Attacks Hidden in Plain Sight -- Enriched Weisfeiler-Lehman Kernel for Improved Graph Clustering of Source Code -- Overlapping Hierarchical Clustering (OHC) -- Digital Footprints of International Migration on Twitter -- Percolation-Based Detection of Anomalous Subgraphs in Complex Networks -- A Late-Fusion Approach to Community Detection in Attributed Networks -- Reconciling Predictions in the Regression Setting: an Application to Bus Travel Time Prediction -- A Distribution Dependent and Independent Complexity Analysis of Manifold Regularization -- Actionable Subgroup Discovery and Urban Farm Optimization -- AVATAR - Machine Learning Pipeline Evaluation Using Surrogate Model -- Detection of Derivative Discontinuities in Observational Data -- Improving Prediction with Causal Probabilistic Variables -- DO-U-Net for Segmentation and Counting -- Enhanced Word Embeddings for Anorexia Nervosa Detection on Social Media -- Event Recognition Based on Classification of Generated Image Captions -- Human-to-AI Coach: Improving Human Inputs to AI Systems -- Aleatoric and Epistemic Uncertainty with Random Forests -- Master your Metrics with Calibration -- Supervised Phrase-Boundary Embeddings -- Predicting Remaining Useful Life with Similarity-Based Priors -- Orometric Methods in Bounded Metric Data -- Interpretable Neuron Structuring with Graph Spectral Regularization -- Comparing the Preservation of Network Properties by Graph Embeddings -- Making Learners (More) Monotone -- Combining Machine Learning and Simulation to a Hybrid Modelling Approach -- LiBRe: Label-Wise Selection of Base Learners in Binary Relevance for Multi-Label Classification -- Angle-Based Crowding Degree Estimation for Many-Objective Optimization…”

“…Certain attributes of American life hold a special attraction to people all over the world, regardless of their social or political beliefs. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Introduction Why Is Fuzzing Important to Include in a Software Development Cycle?; Security Testing Workload; Setting Expectations for Fuzzers in a Software Development Lifecycle; Fuzzing as a Panacea; Fuzzing Tools versus ...; Setting the Plan for Implementing Fuzzers into a Software Development Lifecycle; Setting Goals; Building and Executing on the Plan; Understanding How to Increase Effectiveness of Fuzzers, and Avoiding Any Big Gotchas; Hidden Costs; Finding More Vulnerabilities; Summary; Solutions Fast Track; Frequently Asked Questions; Chapter 8: Standardization and Certification…”

“…The people you work with may be from a different generation, different culture, different race, different gender, or just a different philosophy toward work and life in general, but you need to work together toward a common goal. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Memory management functions -- Dynamic record allocation -- FastMM4 internals -- Memory allocation in a parallel world -- Replacing the default memory manager -- Logging memory manager -- FastMM4 with release stack -- FastMM5 -- TBBMalloc -- Comparing memory managers -- There is no silver bullet -- Fine-tuning SlowCode -- Summary -- Chapter 7: Getting Started with the Parallel World -- Technical requirements -- Processes and threads -- Multithreading -- Multitasking -- When to parallelize code -- The most common problems -- Never access the UI from a background thread -- Simultaneous reading and writing -- Sharing a variable -- Hidden behavior -- Synchronization -- Critical sections -- Other locking mechanisms -- A short note on coding style -- Shared data with built-in locking -- Interlocked operations -- Object life cycle -- Communication -- Windows messages -- Synchronize and Queue -- Polling -- Performance -- Third-party libraries -- Summary -- Chapter 8: Working with Parallel Tools -- Technical requirements -- TThread -- Automatic life cycle management -- Advanced TThread -- Setting up a communication channel -- Sending messages from a thread -- Using TCommThread -- Implementing a timer -- Synchronizing with multiple workers -- WaitForMultipleObjects -- Condition variables -- Comparing both approaches -- Summary -- Chapter 9: Exploring Parallel Practices -- Technical requirements -- Tasks and patterns -- Variable capturing -- Tasks -- Exceptions in tasks -- Parallelizing a loop -- Thread pooling -- Async/Await -- Join -- Join/Await -- Future -- Parallel for -- Pipelines -- Web spider -- The filter stage -- The downloader stage -- The parser stage -- Summary -- Chapter 10: More Parallel Patterns -- Technical requirements -- Using OmniThreadLibrary -- Blocking collections -- Using blocking collections with TThread-based threads -- Async/Await…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Understanding Java threads -- D.1 What is a thread? -- D.2 A thread's life cycle -- D.3 Synchronizing threads -- D.3.1 Synchronized blocks -- D.3.2 Using wait(), notify(), and notifyAll() -- D.3.3 Joining threads -- D.3.4 Blocking threads for a defined time -- D.3.5 Synchronizing threads with blocking objects -- D.4 Common issues in multithreaded architectures -- D.4.1 Race conditions -- D.4.2 Deadlocks -- D.4.3 Livelocks -- D.4.4 Starvation -- D.5 Further reading -- Appendix E. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Frontmatter -- Preface -- TABLE OF CONTENT -- Semantic Preferences of Indonesian Words Hitam and Putih -- The Stylistic Analysis of Indonesian Online News in The Five Websites -- Proto Austronesian Language Sound Changes To Mandailing Language -- The Use of Verb + Noun Collocations by English Learners of Indonesian -- An Examination of Islamic Verbal and Non-Verbal Communication in Retail Stores -- Proto Malayic Reflection at Isolect of Malay Jambi Seberang and Malay Sabak at Jambi Province -- Otographis Approach Toward Language Resilience Study on Japanese LanguageLexicons in Indonesia Historical Documents -- The Cultural Values in The Culinary Ecolexicon of the Asahan Malay Society -- Bioacoustics Analysis With Speech Analyzer Spectogram As A Testing Method For Speech Ability Improvement of Dysarthria Patient -- Speech, Writing Disorder and Therapy of Dyslexic Patient -- The Variations of Speech in Opening and Closing TV Program Uttered by MTV Singapore VJ -- Delivering The Message of Local Spirit "Bakureh" Through The Language of Dance -- Contribution of Biological Knowledge in Understanding the Ulterior Teaching of Life within the Minangkabau Poems and Proverbs -- Social Practice In Facebook: Critical Discourse Analysis In The Process of Text Production -- Pakpak Dairi Language: Typology Study -- Speech Act of Advice toward the Victims of Domestic Violence in West Sumatera -- A Fallacy Analysis on Political Statements in the Transcript of the First Indonesia Presidential Debate 2019 -- Are the Phonological Disorders of Down Syndrome Children the Same? …”

“…First published in 2011, You Can Help Your Country: English children's work during the Second World War reveals the remarkable, hidden history of children as social agents who actively participated in a national effort during a period of crisis. …”

“…The advantage of Azure ML is that it provides a UI-based interface and pre-defined algorithms that can be used to create a training model. …”

“…Authored by Anne Maczulak, a microbiologist who’s hunted and worked with an extraordinary array of bacteria, this book offers a powerful new perspective on Earth’s oldest creatures. …”

“…Until recently their contributions, both to the saving of lives and to our understanding of warfare, have remained largely hidden from view. By combining biographical research with textual analysis, Nurse writers of the great war opens a window onto their insights into the nature of nursing and the impact of war Examining the experiences of First World War nurses through their own writings, this book offers fresh insights into the reality of industrial warfare…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…the Key to Your Digital Life; Mobile Law; Insecure Background Wireless Networks; Don't Trust a Wireless Network Based on Its Name; Don't Trust Your Phone to Connect for You; Bluetooth Hacking; Malware Apps; Operating System Updates; Additional Reading; Chapter 8: Don't Use Dinosaurs; Software: It Has an Expiration Date; The "Good Old Days" of Software; New Software for a New Era; Don't Forget About Mobile Apps; Windows XP; Not Just Windows; Not Just Operating Systems; Not Just Desktops and Laptops…”