“…Issue: How can we break the paradigm in which objects are thought of as simple devices or mediators, ontologically distinct from human subjects? A close dialogue with anthropological fieldwork invites to focus on the « presence » of artifacts, as they are given within a « world horizon » (Merleau-Ponty). …”

“…Light's account of how earlier generations distinguished "real life" from role playing reveals a hidden history of child labor in America and offers insights into the deep roots of such contemporary concepts as gamification, play labor, and virtuality…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Characteristic Testing: Key Measures of Consistency -- Model Creation -- PORTFOLIO CONSTRUCTION -- Data Collection -- Creating Security Weights -- Trade -- MONITORING -- Risk Management -- Performance Attribution -- CURRENT TRENDS -- KEY POINTS -- NOTES -- Quantitative Equity Portfolio Management -- TRADITIONAL AND QUANTITATIVE APPROACHES TO EQUITY PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT -- FORECASTING STOCK RETURNS, RISKS, AND TRANSACTION COSTS -- Forecasting Returns -- Forecasting Risks -- Forecasting Transaction Costs -- CONSTRUCTING PORTFOLIOS -- TRADING -- EVALUATING RESULTS AND UPDATING THE PROCESS -- KEY POINTS -- REFERENCES -- Forecasting Stock Returns -- THE CONCEPT OF PREDICTABILITY -- Statistical Concepts of Predictability and Unpredictability -- A CLOSER LOOK AT PRICING MODELS -- PREDICTIVE RETURN MODELS -- Regressive Models -- Linear Autoregressive Models -- Dynamic Factor Models -- Hidden-Variable Models -- IS FORECASTING MARKETS WORTH THE EFFORT? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Navigating workplace politics -- Developing accountability as a leader -- Promoting DEI as a Senior Executive/Board Member -- Fostering DEI as a Middle Manager or Supervisor -- Championing DEI as a Mentor or Sponsor -- Mentorship -- Sponsorship -- Chapter 4 Making the Case for DEI -- Recognizing DEI's Impact on Organizational Success -- Becoming an Employer of Choice -- Leveraging Inclusion to Drive Innovation and Creativity -- Enhancing the Safety, Health, and Wellness of Staff -- Improving the Employee Experience and Encouraging Engagement -- Creating a positive employee experience -- Seeing increased engagement -- Minimizing Employee Complaints and Lawsuits -- Avoiding the Revolving Door and Turnover of Top Performers -- Chapter 5 Hiring a Chief Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Officer -- Tracing the Rise of the Chief Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Officer's Role -- Knowing When It's Time to Hire a CDEIO -- Considering the Best Candidate for Your Organization -- Positioning the Role at the Right Level -- Part 2 Examining DEI in the Workplace -- Chapter 6 Assessing Your Organization's Culture -- Exploring What Culture Is -- Using Benchmarks and Other Industry Standards -- Conducting Document Reviews of Policies, Processes, and Strategies -- Conducting Leadership Assessments -- Conducting a Staff Inclusion and Engagement Survey -- Conducting Employee Focus Groups -- Chapter 7 Exposing Common Organizational Barriers to DEI -- Looking for the Culture Fit -- Resisting the Value and Need for DEI -- Handling resistance -- Overcoming fear -- Perpetuating Microaggressions, Stereotypes, and Prejudices -- Taking a closer look at microaggressions -- Sniffing out stereotypes and prejudices -- Overlooking Hidden Figures Who Are Overperforming but Undervalued -- Minimizing the experiences and contributions of underrepresented talent…”

“…This book explores the body language we use in a wide-range of business and personal-life scenarios, from delivering a presentation at work to how you should act on a first date! …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- 6 Naming the "Hidden" Employer and Exposing the "Dummy" Union -- 7 Strike Action and Wage Bargaining -- 8 Women's Earnings and Household Survival -- 9 Citizenship Claims vis-à-vis the State -- 10 Discussion and Conclusion -- Chapter 14 Home-based Workers: Organizing from Local to Global -- 1 Organizing: A Long Journey -- 2 On the Ground and in the Regions -- 3 Reviving HomeNet International -- 4 Conclusion -- 5 Postscript -- Saludo A Las Mujeres Trabajadoras -- Part 4 -- Chapter 15 Introduction Perspectives on Contemporary Home-based Work -- Chapter 16 Contemporary Digital Home Work: Old Challenges, Different Solutions? …”

“…What You Will Learn Use a wide variety of tools to scrape any website and data—including BeautifulSoup, Scrapy, Selenium, and many more Master expression languages such as XPath, CSS, and regular expressions to extract web data Deal with scraping traps such as hidden form fields, throttling, pagination, and different status codes Build robust scraping pipelines with SQS and RabbitMQ Scrape assets such as images media and know what to do when Scraper fails to run Explore ETL techniques of build a customized crawler, parser, and convert structured and unstructured data from websites Deploy and run your scraper-as-aservice in AWS Elastic Container Service In Detail Python Web Scraping Cookbook is a solution-focused book that will teach you techniques to develop high-performance scrapers and deal with crawlers, sitemaps, forms automation, Ajax-based sites, caches, and more.You'll explore a number of real-world scenarios where every part of the development/product life cycle will be fully covered. …”

“…Using powerful algorithms and techniques offered by machine learning you can automate any analytical model. This book examines a variety of machine learning models including popular machine learning algorithms such as k-nearest neighbors, logistic regression, naive Bayes, k-means, decision trees, and artificial neural networks. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Everything's an Object -- The Life Cycle of an Object -- Static and Instance Class Members -- OOP Techniques -- Interfaces -- Inheritance -- Polymorphism -- Relationships between Objects -- Operator Overloading -- Events -- Reference Types versus Value Types -- OOP in Desktop Applications -- Chapter 9: Defining Classes -- Class Definitions in C# -- Interface Definitions -- System.Object -- Constructors and Destructors -- Constructor Execution Sequence -- OOP Tools in Visual Studio -- The Class View Window -- The Object Browser -- Adding Classes -- Class Diagrams -- Class Library Projects -- Interfaces versus Abstract Classes -- Struct Types -- Shallow Copying versus Deep Copying -- Chapter 10: Defining Class Members -- Member Definitions -- Defining Fields -- Defining Methods -- Defining Properties -- Refactoring Members -- Automatic Properties -- Additional Class Member Topics -- Hiding Base Class Methods -- Calling Overridden or Hidden Base Class Methods -- Using Nested Type Definitions -- Interface Implementation -- Implementing Interfaces in Classes -- Partial Class Definitions -- Partial Method Definitions -- Example Application -- Planning the Application -- Writing the Class Library -- A Client Application for the Class Library -- The Call Hierarchy Window -- Chapter 11: Collections, Comparisons, and Conversions -- Collections -- Using Collections -- Defining Collections -- Indexers -- Adding a Cards Collection to CardLib -- Keyed Collections and IDictionary -- Iterators -- Iterators and Collections -- Deep Copying -- Adding Deep Copying to CardLib -- Comparisons -- Type Comparisons -- Value Comparisons -- Conversions -- Overloading Conversion Operators -- The as Operator…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…4.2 Primary Drivers, 4.2.1 Internal and External Drivers, 4.3 Secondary Drivers, 4.4 Practical Issues with Drivers, 4.4.1 Sub-Classification of Primary Drivers, 4.4.2 Avoid Pseudo-Drivers, 4.4.3 Things are rarely Black or White, 4.5 Accuracy and Precision of Primary and Secondary Drivers, 4.5.1 Accuracy, Precision and Drivers - A Pareto Perspective, 4.5.2 Cone of Uncertainty, 4.6 3-Point Estimates as a Measure of Relative Accuracy and Uncertainty, 4.7 Precision as an Expression of Appropriate or Inappropriate Exactness, 4.8 Chapter Review, References, 5 Factors, Rates, Ratios, and Estimating by Analogy, 5.1 Estimating Metrics, 5.1.1 Where to use them, 5.1.2 The Views of Others, 5.1.3 Underlying Linear Relationship, 5.2 Rates, 5.3 Factors, 5.4 Ratios, 5.5 Dealing with Multiple Rates, Factors (and Ratios), 5.5.1 Anomalous Analogies, 5.5.2 Analogies with an Additive Model, 5.5.3 Analogies with a Multiplicative Model, 5.6 Sensitivity Analysis on Factors, Rates and Ratios, 5.6.1 Choosing a Sensitivity Range Quantitatively, 5.6.2 Choosing a Sensitivity Range around a Measure of Central Tendency, 5.6.3 The Triangulation Option, 5.6.4 Choosing a Sensitivity Range around a High-end or Low-end Metric, 5.6.5 Choosing a Sensitivity Range when all else fails, 5.7 Chapter Review, References, 6 Data Normalisation - Levelling the Playing Field, 6.1 Classification of Data Sources - Primary, Secondary and Tertiary Data, 6.1.1 Primary Data, 6.1.2 Secondary Data, 6.1.3 Tertiary Data, 6.1.4 Quarantined Data, 6.2 Types of Normalisation Methods and Techniques, 6.3 Normalisation can be a Multi-Dimensional Problem, 6.3.1 Error Related, 6.3.2 Volume, Quantity or Throughput Related - Economies of Scale, 6.3.3 Scale Conversion - Fixed and Variable Factors, 6.3.4 Date or Time Related, 6.3.5 Life Cycle Related, 6.3.6 Key Groupings - Role Related, 6.3.7 Scope Related (Subjective), 6.3.8 Complexity - Judgement Related (Subjective), 6.4 The Estimator as a Time Traveller, 6.4.1 Use of Time-based Indices Now and Then, 6.4.2 Time-based Weighted Indices, 6.4.3 Time-based Chain-Linked Weighted Indices, 6.4.4 The Doubling Rule for Escalation, 6.4.5 Composite Index: Is that not just a Weighted Index by another Name? …”

“…You will: Find specific areas in code to target for performance gains Identify pain points quickly and understand why they are problematic Rewrite legacy T-SQL to reduce or eliminate hidden performance issues Write modern code with an awareness of readability and maintainability Recognize and correlate T-SQL anti-patterns with techniques for better solutions Make a positive impact on application user experience in your organization…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- 1.10.1 Command-line utilities -- 1.10.2 Data processing -- 1.10.3 Extending applications -- 1.10.4 Resource-constrained environments -- 1.10.5 Server-side applications -- 1.10.6 Desktop applications -- 1.10.7 Desktop -- 1.10.8 Mobile -- 1.10.9 Web -- 1.10.10 Systems programming -- 1.11 Rust's hidden feature: Its community -- 1.12 Rust phrase book -- Summary -- Part 1 Rust language distinctives -- 2 Language foundations -- 2.1 Creating a running program -- 2.1.1 Compiling single files with rustc -- 2.1.2 Compiling Rust projects with cargo -- 2.2 A glance at Rust's syntax -- 2.2.1 Defining variables and calling functions -- 2.3 Numbers -- 2.3.1 Integers and decimal (floating-point) numbers -- 2.3.2 Integers with base 2, base 8, and base 16 notation -- 2.3.3 Comparing numbers…”

“…She has the experience, the firsthand knowledge, and the credibility to help you find a personal financial advisor you can trust. In ways no other author could, she helps you navigate the oftentimes treacherous world of personal financial advice and helps you learn how to find someone you can trust with your money, your financial plan, and your life’s goals.” — Robert Powell , Editor, Retirement Weekly ; Retirement Columnist, MarketWatch.com/retirement “ This book is a must read for those consumers thinking about hiring a financial advisor and for those who have one already. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…6.7.5 - Damage Evaluation and Life Prediction -- 6.8 - Conclusions -- Chapter 7 - Inspection Interval Optimization for Aircraft Composite Structures Considering Dent Damage -- 7.1 - Introduction -- 7.2 - Damage tolerance philosophy of composite structures -- 7.2.1 - Properties of Aircraft Composite Structures -- 7.2.2 - Maintenance Model of Composite Structures -- 7.3 - Damage characterization -- 7.3.1 - Data Statistics and Category -- 7.3.2 - Damage Size Distribution -- 7.3.3 - Probability of Detection (POD) -- 7.4 - Probabilistic method -- 7.4.1 - Reliability Formulation -- 7.4.2 - Monte Carlo Simulation -- 7.5 - Case study -- 7.5.1 - Average Damages Per Life Cycle (Nd) -- 7.5.2 - Load Cases -- 7.5.3 - Damage Size and Occurrence Time -- 7.5.4 - Inspection Efficiency -- 7.5.5 - Residual Strength Reduction and Recovery -- 7.5.6 - Other Assumptions and Definitions to Facilitate the Simulation -- 7.6 - Simulation results and discussion -- 7.7 - Conclusions -- Chapter 8 - Repair Tolerance for Composite Structures Using Probabilistic Methodologies -- 8.1 - Introduction -- 8.2 - Repair tolerance -- 8.3 - Probabilistic method -- 8.4 - Case study -- 8.4.1 - Load Case -- 8.4.2 - Average Damage Per Life Cycle (Nd) -- 8.4.3 - Damage Size Distribution -- 8.4.4 - Probability of Detection (POD) -- 8.4.5 - Inspection Schedule -- 8.4.6 - Residual Strength Reduction and Recovery -- 8.4.7 - Repair Policy -- 8.4.8 - Factor of Safety -- 8.4.9 - Probability of Failure (POF) -- 8.4.10 - Maintenance Cost -- 8.5 - Results and discussion -- 8.6 - Conclusions -- Chapter 9 - Structural Health Monitoring and Influence on Current Maintenance -- 9.1 - Structural health monitoring technology -- 9.2 - SHM applications in aircraft -- 9.3 - Influence of SHM on current maintenance -- 9.4 - Integration of SHM with MSG-3 analysis -- A - Scheduled Maintenance -- B - Scheduled SHM…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Intro -- Table of Contents -- About the Author -- Introduction -- Part I: Troubleshooting Fundamentals -- Chapter 1: Introducing Troubleshooting in Windows 11 -- How Windows 11 Came About -- How Windows 11 Differs from Windows 10 -- How Windows 11 Will Change During Its Life -- Where Will All the Little Applets Go? -- Windows 11 Editions -- Windows 11 Update Channels -- Windows 11 Home -- Windows 11 Pro (Stand-Alone PC) -- Windows 11 Pro and Enterprise -- Windows 11 LTSC -- Windows 11 IoT Editions -- Windows 11 Lifecycle -- Useful Windows 11 Features -- Snap Layouts -- Quick Settings -- The Windows Insider Program -- How to Use This Book -- Linux on Windows -- The Fundamentals of Providing High-Quality Support -- Summary -- Chapter 2: Tools and Utilities Used Throughout This Book -- Settings -- Control Panel -- Windows Security -- Windows Tools -- Windows Terminal -- Windows Subsystem for Linux -- Recovery Console -- Command Prompt -- Microsoft Sysinternals Suite -- Other Third-Party Tools -- Support Websites -- Hardware Driver and Support Websites -- Cloud and Online Service Status Websites -- Summary -- Chapter 3: Building a Robust and Secure PC Ecosystem -- Understanding System Restore -- Configuring System Restore -- Configuring System Restore Using Scripting -- Restoring System Restore Backups -- The USB Recovery Drive -- USB Drives and Fast Boot -- Creating a USB Recovery Drive -- File Backup and Restore -- Group Policy -- Displaying Detailed Status Messages -- Hide Specific Control Panel Items -- Configure Remote Desktop Access -- Block Inbound Connections for Public Networks -- Enable Firewall Logging -- Disable Removable Storage -- Troubleshooting and Diagnostics -- Deactivate AutoPlay -- Managing Event Logging and Error Reporting -- Additional Group Policy Settings -- Local Security Policy -- Biometrics and Two-Factor Authentication…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Comment First -- Write Self-Documenting Code -- Keep It Small -- Stay Focused -- Avoid Side Effects -- Validate Results -- Practice Offensive Programming -- Use Exceptions -- Write Exception Handlers First -- Don't Repeat Code -- Defer Optimization -- Summary -- What You Learned in This Chapter -- Chapter 11 Algorithms -- Algorithm Study -- Algorithmic Approaches -- Decision Trees -- Knapsack -- The Eight Queens Problem -- Exhaustive Search -- Backtracking -- Pruning Trees -- Branch and Bound -- Heuristics -- Greedy -- Divide and Conquer -- Recursion -- Dynamic Programming -- Caching -- Randomization -- Monte Carlo Algorithms -- Las Vegas Algorithms -- Atlantic City Algorithms -- State Diagrams -- Design Patterns -- Creational Patterns -- Structural Patterns -- Behavioral Patterns -- Design Pattern Summary -- Parallel Programming -- Artificial Intelligence -- Definitions -- Learning Systems -- Natural Language Processing -- Artificial Neural Network -- Deep Learning -- Expert System -- Artificial General Intelligence -- Algorithm Characteristics -- Summary -- What You Learned in This Chapter -- Chapter 12 Programming Languages -- The Myth of Picking a Language -- Language Generations -- First Generation -- Second Generation -- Third Generation (3GL) -- Fourth Generation -- Fifth Generation -- Sixth Generation -- IDEs -- Language Families -- Assembly -- Imperative -- Procedural -- Declarative -- Object-Oriented -- Functional -- Specialized -- Language Family Summary -- The Best Language -- Summary -- What You Learned in This Chapter -- Chapter 13 Testing -- Testing Goals -- Reasons Bugs Never Die -- Diminishing Returns -- Deadlines -- Consequences -- It's Too Soon -- Usefulness -- Obsolescence -- It's Not a Bug -- It Never Ends -- It's Better Than Nothing -- Fixing Bugs Is Dangerous -- Which Bugs to Fix -- Levels of Testing -- Unit Testing…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- -- List of Contributors xix -- Foreword xxiii -- Preface xxvii -- Acknowledgments xxix -- Part I INTERNET OF THINGS 1 -- 1 Internet of Things and Data Analytics in the Cloud with Innovation and Sustainability 3 /Hwaiyu Geng -- 1.1 Introduction 3 -- 1.2 The IoT and the Fourth Industrial Revolution 4 -- 1.3 Internet of Things Technology 6 -- 1.4 Standards and Protocols 11 -- 1.5 IoT Ecosystem 11 -- 1.6 Definition of Big Data 13 -- 1.7 IoT, Data Analytics, and Cloud Computing 18 -- 1.8 Creativity, Invention, Innovation, and Disruptive Innovation 18 -- 1.9 Polya's “How to Solve it” 20 -- 1.10 Business Plan and Business Model 20 -- 1.11 Conclusion and Future Perspectives 23 -- 2 Digital Services and Sustainable Solutions 29 /Rikke Gram-Hansen -- 2.1 Introduction 29 -- 2.2 Why IoT is not Just “Nice to Have” 30 -- 2.3 Services in a Digital Revolution 32 -- 2.4 Mobile Digital Services and the Human Sensor 32 -- 2.5 Not Just Another App 33 -- 2.6 The Hidden Life of Things 34 -- 2.7 The Umbrellas are not what they Seem 35 -- 2.8 Interacting with the Invisible 36 -- 2.9 Society as Open Source 36 -- 2.10 Learn from your Hackers 37 -- 2.11 Ensuring High-Quality Services to Citizens 37 -- 2.12 Government as a Platform 38 -- 2.13 Conclusion 38 -- 3 The Industrial Internet of Things (Iiot): Applications and Taxonomy 41 /Stan Schneider -- 3.1 Introduction to the IioT 41 -- 3.2 Some Examples of Iiot Applications 43 -- 3.3 Toward a Taxonomy of the Iiot 52 -- 3.4 Standards and Protocols for Connectivity 66 -- 3.5 Connectivity Architecture for the Iiot 73 -- 3.6 Data-Centricity Makes Dds Different 79 -- 3.7 The Future of the Iiot 80 -- 4 Strategic Planning for Smarter Cities 83 /Jonathan Reichental -- 4.1 Introduction 83 -- 4.2 What is a Smart City? …”