Tabla de Contenidos: “…Infrastructure optimizations for accelerators on AWS -- Troubleshooting accelerator performance -- Summary -- References -- Chapter 5: Distribution Fundamentals -- Understanding key concepts - data and model parallelism -- What data parallel is all about -- What model parallel is all about -- Combining model and data parallel -- Distributed training on Amazon SageMaker -- Distributed training software -- SM DDP -- SMP library -- Advanced techniques to reduce GPU memory -- Tensor parallelism -- Optimizer state sharding -- Activation checkpointing -- Sharded data parallelism -- Bringing it all home with examples from models today -- Stable Diffusion - data parallelism at scale -- GPT-3 - model and data parallelism at scale -- Summary -- References -- Chapter 6: Dataset Preparation: Part Two, the Data Loader -- Introducing the data loader in Python -- Building and testing your own data loader - a case study from Stable Diffusion -- Creating embeddings - tokenizers and other key steps for smart features -- Optimizing your data pipeline on Amazon SageMaker -- Transforming deep learning datasets at scale on AWS -- Summary -- References -- Part 3: Train Your Model -- Chapter 7: Finding the Right Hyperparameters -- Hyperparameters - batch size, learning rate, and more -- Key hyperparameters in vision and language -- Tuning strategies -- Hyperparameter tuning for foundation models -- Scaling up as a function of world size with SageMaker -- Tuning on a sample of your data and updating based on world size -- Summary -- References -- Chapter 8: Large-Scale Training on SageMaker -- Optimizing your script for SageMaker training -- Importing packages -- Argument parsing -- Top usability features for SageMaker training -- Warm pools for rapid experimentation -- SSM and SSH into training instances -- Track jobs and experiments to replicate results -- Summary…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- What UX analytics entails -- Quantitative metrics example -- A qualitative metrics example -- Understanding the impact of analytics on successful UX projects -- Exploring the common types of metrics -- Quantitative -- Qualitative -- Quantitative versus qualitative metrics -- Summary -- Chapter 3: Using Analytics Effectively for Successful UX Projects -- Knowing the goal before getting started -- Understanding how analytics is like a roadmap -- Mastering quantitative and qualitative analytics -- Doing the readout - showing stakeholders the findings -- Using visuals is better -- Using a story structure to explain data -- Being succinct and not verbose -- Being prepared to back up everything with more data -- Involving design, development, and engineering teams -- Summary -- Chapter 4: Achieving Success through a Repeatable Process -- Discovering the power of a repeatable process -- People and roles -- Data -- Tools and applications -- Processes -- Understanding how people think -- Laying the groundwork - the importance of a strong foundation -- Documenting it all -- Summary -- Part 2: Goals -- Chapter 5: North Star Statement - Your Greenlit Marching Orders -- The North Star statement writing formula -- Segment definitions for CPR -- Implementing a logical CPR process -- Testing the statement for feasibility -- The need for iteration with research -- Summary…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Part 2: Bringing Brands Front and Center -- 4 -- Building Brand Mock-Ups and Prototypes -- Technical requirements -- Applying branding to perspective -- Adding a logo to a bag in perspective -- Creating a mural mock-up -- Wrapping artwork around curved surfaces -- Applying a cylinder warp -- Warping artwork across book designs -- Replacing device screens with your own artwork -- Creating an iPad mock-up -- Creating a smartphone mock-up -- Adding screen reflections -- Creating clothing and soft furnishing mock-ups -- Applying original designs to a T-shirt -- Adding pattern designs to a cushion -- Summary -- 5 -- Creating Printed Marketing Collateral -- Technical requirements -- Creating new print projects -- Color -- Printers' marks -- Folds -- Setting up a Photoshop grid system -- Building a new A4 poster document -- Creating a new business card template -- Building a new z-fold brochure -- Importing artwork and formatting types -- Creating a business card design using only vector assets -- Synchronizing fonts from Creative Cloud -- Adding a type to the z-fold brochure -- Creating and applying paragraph styles -- Adding artwork to the brochure -- Exporting documents for professional print -- Exporting to Adobe PDF -- Export to the Tag Image File Format -- Saving as a JPG -- Summary -- 6 -- From Pixels to Post: Images for Social Media -- Technical requirements -- Creating new documents for screen and web -- Creating artwork for Facebook -- Creating artwork for Twitter -- Creating artwork for Instagram -- Creating artwork for Pinterest -- Creating artwork for LinkedIn -- Social media sizes -- Working with artboards -- Adding a header image -- Creating a tweet template -- Adding text to the artboard -- Duplicating artboards -- Exporting and scheduling posts -- Batch export artboards -- Scheduling posts with Adobe Express -- Summary -- 7.…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…AIX Security Planning and Implementation Worksheet -- Abbreviations and acronyms -- Related publications -- IBM Redbooks -- Other publications -- Online resources -- How to get IBM Redbooks -- Help from IBM -- Index -- Back cover…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Additional material -- Locating the Web material -- Using the Web material -- System requirements for downloading the Web material -- How to use the Web material -- Related publications -- IBM Redbooks -- Online resources -- How to get IBM Redbooks -- Help from IBM -- Index -- Back cover…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Surrounding initiatives -- World Community Grid -- Globus Alliance -- Global Grid Forum -- OASIS and WSRF TC -- W3C -- TeraGrid -- Appendix B. World Community Grid -- Motivations -- Technical features -- Organization -- High level design -- Products used -- More information -- World Community Grid Agent -- Example of the World Community Grid Screen Saver -- www.worldcommunitygrid.org -- Conclusion -- Appendix C. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Materialized view syntax elements -- Materialized view main syntax elements -- Related publications -- IBM Redbooks -- Other resources -- Referenced Web sites -- How to get IBM Redbooks -- IBM Redbooks collections -- Index -- Back cover…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- What Is Scientific Proof? -- Back to the Scientific Method -- Unit Cost-Centric Efficiency-A Deep and Universal Truth -- Chapter 6: Efficiency, Flow, and the Right Measures -- The "Right" Measures -- Defining Cost -- Chapter 7: Our Current Accounting Measuring Mess -- Reason 1: The Proliferation of ERP/MRP II -- Reason 2: The Growing Distance between the Front Office and Operations -- Reason 3: The Fading Away of Management Accounting -- Gap Explanation 1: An Increase in Complexity -- Gap Explanation 2: The Shift from Linear to Nonlinear Systems -- Silo Thinking -- Challenging a Deep Truth by Definition Shakes Up the Status Quo -- Chapter 8: The Evolution of Flow and ROI as Strategy -- The Birth of Product Costing -- The Birth of Decentralized Management -- An Accelerant-Andrew Carnegie -- The Rise of Wholesale Distribution and Large-Scale Retail -- The Birth of Conglomerates and Management Accounting -- Automation and the Death of the Craftsman -- Ford versus General Motors-A Lesson of Relevancy -- How Did GM Beat Ford? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Communicate -- Growing the Next Generation-Succession Planning -- Investing in Employees -- First Things -- The Road Ahead -- Challenges -- The Plan -- Possibilities -- Flight Departments in Trouble -- Normal Operations -- Warning Signs -- Bottom Line -- Staying Connected -- It's a Business -- Reasons to Be Connected -- Relationships -- Opportunities -- Giving Back -- Is It Worth It? -- Lessons Learned -- A Sense of Mission -- Standards -- Leadership -- Rapport with the Company -- Teamwork -- Chapter 6. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- 66 Control spending impulses -- 67 Don't answer ads that promise get-rich-quick schemes - it won't be you who gets rich quick -- 68 There are no secrets -- 69 Don't just read this - do something -- Get even wealthier -- 70 Carry out a finance health check regularly -- 71 Get some money mentors -- 72 Play your hunches -- 73 Don't sit back…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Create and configure the AWS environment -- Microsoft Azure -- Digital Ocean -- Summary -- Chapter 11: Popular Node.js Web Frameworks -- Koa -- Meteor -- Sails -- Flatiron -- total.js -- LoopBack -- Hapi -- Kick starting Hapi.js -- Scaffolding the Hapi app -- Setting up a server -- Creating APIs -- Creating a configuration-based architecture -- Summary -- Chapter 12: Single Page Applications with Popular Frontend Frameworks -- Why use a frontend framework? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Building and Installing -- Using BusyBox -- User Space Initialization -- Stage 1 Boot Loader -- Stage 2 MLO -- U-Boot -- Linux Kernel -- Systemd -- User Space Initialization, the "Old Way" -- Resources -- 15 U-boot boot loader and getting ready to ship -- U-Boot -- Background -- Installing and Configuring U-Boot -- Testing a New U-Boot -- The "Sandbox" -- Device Trees -- Putting the Application in eMMC Flash -- Resources -- 16 Source code control - GIT -- Background -- Introducing git -- File states and life cycle -- Branching and merging -- Configuring git -- Graphical git -- Creating a new repository -- Resources -- 17 Linux and real-time -- Hard versus Soft Real-Time -- Why Linux is Not Real-Time -- Measuring Latency: Cyclictest -- Improving Linux Latency -- Two Approaches -- Preemption Improvement -- Interrupt Abstraction -- A Third Way: Xenomai -- Working With PREEMPT_RT -- Wrap Up -- Resources -- Appendix A: U-boot Commands -- Information Commands -- Memory Commands -- NAND Flash Memory Commands -- Execution Control Commands -- Download Commands -- Environment Variable Commands -- Environment Variables -- Appendix B: Why Software Should Not Have Owners -- Index -- Back Cover…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover -- Copyright and Credits -- Dedication -- Packt Upsell -- Foreword -- Contributors -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1: Getting Started with Mobile TensorFlow -- Setting up TensorFlow -- Setting up TensorFlow on MacOS -- Setting up TensorFlow on GPU-powered Ubuntu -- Setting up Xcode -- Setting up Android Studio -- TensorFlow Mobile vs TensorFlow Lite -- Running sample TensorFlow iOS apps -- Running sample TensorFlow Android apps -- Summary -- Chapter 2: Classifying Images with Transfer Learning -- Transfer learning - what and why -- Retraining using the Inception v3 model -- Retraining using MobileNet models -- Using the retrained models in the sample iOS app -- Using the retrained models in the sample Android app -- Adding TensorFlow to your own iOS app -- Adding TensorFlow to your Objective-C iOS app -- Adding TensorFlow to your Swift iOS app -- Adding TensorFlow to your own Android app -- Summary -- Chapter 3: Detecting Objects and Their Locations -- Object detection-a quick overview -- Setting up the TensorFlow Object Detection API -- Quick installation and example -- Using pre-trained models -- Retraining SSD-MobileNet and Faster RCNN models -- Using object detection models in iOS -- Building TensorFlow iOS libraries manually -- Using TensorFlow iOS libraries in an app -- Adding an object detection feature to an iOS app -- Using YOLO2-another object-detection model -- Summary -- Chapter 4: Transforming Pictures with Amazing Art Styles -- Neural Style Transfer - a quick overview -- Training fast neural-style transfer models -- Using fast neural-style transfer models in iOS -- Adding and testing with fast neural transfer models -- Looking back at the iOS code using fast neural transfer models -- Using fast neural-style transfer models in Android -- Using the TensorFlow Magenta multi-style model in iOS…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Step 4-Install the Profile and Print the 21-step Digital Negative -- Step 5-Adjust Ink Density to Get Dmax and Paper White -- Step 6-Linearize the Profile -- Linearizing with the CURVE_K -- Linearizing with the LINEARIZE= -- Chapter 6 Making Supports for Single and Double Transfer Carbon Printing -- Introduction -- Preparing Fixed-out Photographic Paper -- Sizing Watercolor Paper -- Sizing Watercolor Paper with Polyvinyl Acetate or Acrylic Medium -- Sizing Watercolor Paper with Hardened Gelatin -- Sizing the Paper -- Light Hardening of Watercolor Papers Sized with Gelatin or Albumen Plus Hardener -- The Albumen Solution -- Prepare the Gelatin Sizing Mixture and Coat the Paper -- Surface Prepping of Temporary Plastic Supports for Double Transfer -- Sizing Temporary Plastic Supports for Double Transfer -- Preparation of Final Paper Supports for Double Transfer -- Steps -- Sizing for Glass as a Carbon Transfer Support -- Classic Glass Sizing -- Modern Adhesion Promoter as a Sizing Agent -- Other Methods -- Chapter 7 Making Carbon Tissue -- Introduction -- How to Make Carbon Tissue -- Making Pigmented Gelatin -- Selecting a Gelatin -- Preparing the Pigmented Gelatin -- Coating Tissue -- Tip: Annotate the Back of Your Tissues -- The Laydown Method for Coating -- Preparation for Coating -- Basic Hand Coating -- Hand Coating the Tissue -- Tip: Calculating Volumes for Coating Height -- Using a Magnetic Frame and Rod -- Coating the Tissue with a Rod -- Using a Mayer Rod -- Coating with a Mayer Rod -- Selecting and Using Pigments -- Inks -- Watercolor Pigments -- Pigment Dispersions -- Dry Pigments -- Using an Improvised Ball Mill Storing Tissue -- Chapter 8 Basic Working Procedures for Single Carbon -- Overview -- Preparing a Printing Session -- Sensitizing the Tissue -- Mixing the Sensitizer with a Spirit -- Details of the Procedures…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Working with Text Boxes -- Adding Images to Slides -- Adding SmartArt Graphics -- Working with Placeholders -- Slide Backgrounds -- Changing Theme Colors or Fonts -- Saving and Reusing a Custom Design -- Saving Presentations -- Chapter 18 Charts and Tables -- Creating a Chart -- Chart Appearance Options -- Formatting Chart Elements -- Exploding a Pie Chart -- Creating Stock Charts -- Adding a Table to a Slide -- Chapter 19 Wrapping up a Presentation -- Using the Slide Sorter -- Adding Transitions -- Within-Slide Animation -- Adding Audio -- Creating Handouts and Speaker Notes -- Rehearsing the Presentation -- Running a Slide Show -- Using Presenter View -- Broadcasting a Presentation -- Saving a Presentation as a Movie -- Saving a Presentation to iPhoto -- PART V: MICROSOFT OUTLOOK -- Chapter 20 Introducing Outlook -- The Outlook Interface -- Navigating Outlook -- Outlook and the Toolbox -- Filtering and Searching -- Chapter 21 Email -- Setting up an Account -- Creating and Sending Mail -- Sending Attachments -- Incoming Email -- Replying to Email -- Forwarding Messages -- Checking Spelling -- Organizing the Mail -- Managing Mailing Lists -- Handling Junk Mail -- Email Security -- Backing up Email and Other Outlook Data -- Printing Messages -- Chapter 22 Contacts -- Adding Contacts -- Adding a Photo to a Contact Record -- Deleting Contacts -- Exchanging Contact Information -- Addressing Mail from Contacts View -- Creating Contact Groups -- Printing the Contacts List -- Synchronizing Contacts with an iPod, iPhone, or iPad -- Chapter 23 Calendar -- Viewing the Calendar -- Adding Events and Appointments -- Modifying Events and Appointments -- Deleting Events and Appointments -- Responding to Reminders -- Creating Meetings -- Adding and Removing Holidays -- Printing a Calendar -- Chapter 24 Tasks -- Creating Tasks -- Flagging Items for Follow-Up…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Textures, Vertex Colors, and Fog -- Using the Effect Interfaces -- Using DualTextureEffect -- Using AlphaTestEffect -- Using EnvironmentMapEffect -- Using SkinnedEffect -- Summary -- 7 States, Blending, and Textures -- Device States -- BlendState -- DepthStencilState -- Render Targets -- Faking a Shadow with a Depth Buffer and Render Targets -- Back to Device States -- The Stencil Buffer -- RasterizerState -- SamplerStates -- Other Texture Types -- Summary -- 8 Introduction to Custom Effects -- What Is a Custom Effect? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Updating the product -- Staying up-to-date with Update Manager -- Searching for new product updates -- Abbreviations and acronyms -- Related publications -- IBM Redbooks -- Online resources -- How to get IBM Redbooks -- Help from IBM -- Index -- Back cover…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cognition Distributed -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Dedication page -- Table of contents -- About the Authors -- Offloading cognition onto cognitive technology -- Introductory overview -- Part I: What distributed cognition is not -- Meaning: Narrow and wide. -- Performance capacity. -- Distributed perception? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Collecting data into a new array -- Summary -- Chapter 7: Customizing and Optimizing Karate Tests -- Technical requirements -- Using Karate hooks -- Implementing a new hook class -- Overriding handler methods -- Registering a hook class in the runner -- Running a test using the hook class -- Defining hooks inside feature files -- Defining and calling Java functions -- Understanding the basics -- Working with databases -- Using Karate as a mock server -- Authoring a mock scenario -- Firing up the mock server from within a test -- Using a standalone mock server -- Making your tests more concise -- Reducing code by calling other feature files -- Data-driven tests with scenario outline -- Avoiding code duplication with background scenarios -- Summary -- Chapter 8: Karate in Docker and CI/CD pipelines -- Technical requirements -- Triggering Karate tests from shell scripts -- Creating a batch script for Windows -- Creating a Bash script -- Running Karate tests in a Docker container -- Understanding Docker -- Installing Docker -- Starting and verifying a Docker installation -- Downloading a Docker image -- Running a Maven command in a Maven Docker container -- Running Karate tests inside a Maven Docker container -- Running our shell script inside Docker -- Customizing our tests -- Passing database credentials as system properties -- Using the system properties in the database connection class -- Passing parameters from Docker -- Environment variables -- Integrating Karate tests into GitHub workflows -- Understanding GitHub workflows -- Managing secrets -- Adding a GitHub workflow to a repository -- Setting up the Docker-based GitHub workflow -- Using Karate in a GitHub workflow without Docker -- Summary -- Chapter 9: Karate UI for Browser Testing -- Technical requirements -- What Karate UI is for -- Related testing capabilities…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…About the Special Issue Editors -- Zhanping You, Qingli Dai and Feipeng Xiao Advanced Paving Materials and Technologies doi: 10.3390/app8040588 -- Aboelkasim Diab, Zhanping You, Xu Yang and Mohd Rosli Mohd Hasan Towards an Alternate Evaluation of Moisture-Induced Damage of Bituminous Materials doi: 10.3390/app7101049 -- Hui Yao, Qingli Dai, Zhanping You, Andreas Bick, Min Wang and Shuaicheng Guo Property Analysis of Exfoliated Graphite Nanoplatelets Modified Asphalt Model Using Molecular Dynamics (MD) Method doi: 10.3390/app7010043 -- Jie Ji, Hui Yao, Luhou Liu, Zhi Suo, Peng Zhai, Xu Yang and Zhanping You Adhesion Evaluation of Asphalt-Aggregate Interface Using Surface Free Energy Method doi: 10.3390/app7020156. -- Federico Leonelli, Paola Di Mascio, Antonello Germinario, Francesco Picarella, Laura Moretti, Mauro Cassata and Alberto De Rubeis Laboratory and On-Site Tests for Rapid Runway Repair doi: 10.3390/app7111192 -- Miao Yu, Guoxiong Wu, Lingyun Kong and Yu Tang Tire-Pavement Friction Characteristics with Elastic Properties of Asphalt Pavements doi: 10.3390/app7111123 -- Henrikas Sivilevicius, Justas Bražiunas and Olegas Prentkovskis Technologies and Principles of Hot Recycling and Investigation of Preheated Reclaimed Asphalt Pavement Batching Process in an Asphalt Mixing Plant doi: 10.3390/app7111104 -- Mohammad Al-Assi and Emad Kassem Evaluation of Adhesion and Hysteresis Friction of Rubber-Pavement System doi: 10.3390/app7101029 -- Lei Geng, Tao Ma, Junhui Zhang, Xiaoming Huang and Pengsen Hu Research on Performance of a Dense Graded Ultra-Thin Wearing Course Mixture doi: 10.3390/app7080800 -- Sara Fernandes, Joana Peralta, M. …”