Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Business risk appetite -- Organizational maturity -- Principles to guarantee the success of your information security program -- Business alignment -- Communication strategies -- Information security program plan elements -- Developing an information security program strategy -- Establishing key initiatives -- Defining roles and responsibilities -- Establishing enforcement areas -- Summary -- Chapter 6: Continuous Testing and Monitoring -- Types of technical testing -- SDLC considerations for testing -- Project initiation -- Requirements analysis -- System design -- System implementation -- System testing -- Operations and maintenance -- Disposition -- SDLC summary -- Continuous monitoring -- Information security assessment automation -- Effectively reporting information security metrics -- Alerting to information security weaknesses -- Vulnerability assessment -- Vulnerability scanning process -- Vulnerability resolution -- Penetration testing -- Phases of a penetration test -- Difference between vulnerability assessments and penetration testing -- Summary -- Chapter 7: Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery Planning -- Introduction to BCDR -- Integrating BC planning and DR planning -- Scope of a BCDR plan -- Focus areas for BCDR planning…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Darwinian evolution -- The genetic algorithms analogy -- The theory behind genetic algorithms -- The schema theorem -- Differences from traditional algorithms -- Population-based -- Genetic representation -- Fitness function -- Probabilistic behavior -- Advantages of genetic algorithms -- Global optimization -- Handling complex problems -- Handling a lack of mathematical representation -- Resilience to noise -- Parallelism -- Continuous learning -- Limitations of genetic algorithms -- Special definitions -- Hyperparameter tuning -- Computationally intensive -- Premature convergence -- No guaranteed solution -- Use cases for genetic algorithms -- Summary -- Further reading -- Chapter 2: Understanding the Key Components of Genetic Algorithms -- The basic flow of a genetic algorithm -- Creating the initial population -- Calculating the fitness -- Applying selection, crossover, and mutation -- Checking the stopping conditions -- Selection methods -- Roulette wheel selection -- Stochastic universal sampling -- Rank-based selection -- Fitness scaling -- Tournament selection -- Crossover methods -- Single-point crossover -- Two-point and k-point crossover -- Uniform crossover -- Crossover for ordered lists -- Mutation methods -- Flip-bit mutation -- Swap mutation -- Inversion mutation -- Scramble mutation -- Real-coded genetic algorithms -- Blend crossover -- Simulated binary crossover -- Real mutation -- Understanding elitism -- Niching and sharing -- Serial niching versus parallel niching -- The art of solving problems using genetic algorithms -- Summary -- Further reading -- Part 2: Solving Problems with Genetic Algorithms…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Extensibility -- Platform Implementation -- Component Implementation -- Application Builders -- Distributed Operation -- Prototype -- Evaluation -- The Linear Road Benchmark -- Experiment Setup -- Porting MXQuery and Linear Road -- Overhead of the Exoengine Architecture -- Replacing an Slet at Runtime -- Distributed Deployment -- Developing with the Exoengine -- Heterogeneity -- Related Work -- Discussion and Outlook -- References -- Replication and Caching -- Leader Election for Replicated Services Using Application Scores -- Introduction -- Application Scores -- Background: Replicated Coordination Services -- Request Latency -- Recovery Time -- The POLE Algorithm -- Failure Detection -- Leader Selection Algorithm -- Oracles -- Experimental Evaluation -- Experimental Setup and Methodology -- Request Latency and Random Request Distributions -- Request Latency and Uneven Request Distributions -- Recovery Time -- Extensions -- Related Work -- Conclusion -- References -- PolyCert: Polymorphic Self-optimizing Replication for In-Memory Transactional Grids -- Introduction -- Motivations -- System Architecture -- The PolyCert Replication Protocol -- Replication Protocol Selection Oracle -- Experimental Evaluation -- Related Work -- Conclusions -- References -- A Trigger-Based Middleware Cache for ORMs -- Introduction -- Background and Related Work -- Design -- Caching Abstractions -- Database Triggers -- Consistency Guarantees -- Implementation -- Evaluation -- Experimental Setup -- Programmer Effort -- Microbenchmarks -- Social Networking Workload -- Conclusion -- References -- Security and Interoperability -- Deploy, Adjust and Readjust: Supporting Dynamic Reconfiguration of Policy Enforcement -- Introduction -- Background and Example -- The Reference Enforcement Model -- Illustrative Example -- Attribute Configuration -- Attribute Retrieval…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Pretests -- Cognitive Research Strategies -- Ethnographic Studies -- Examples of Studies Related to HIV Transmission -- Male-Male Sexual Contacts -- Variation in Drug Use Patterns -- Ethnographic Methods -- Ethnographic Methods in AIDS Research -- Findings of Ethnographic Research on AIDS -- Gaps and Deficiencies in Current Ethnographic Research -- Recommendations -- References -- D Sampling and Randomization: Technical Questions about Evaluating CDC's Three Major AIDS Prevention Programs -- Sampling Issues -- Number of Case Studies -- Estimating Sample Sizes -- Controlling Attrition -- Confidentiality Guarantees -- Compensation -- Stabilization Funds -- Cultivating and Tracking Respondents -- Personnel for Tracking Respondents -- Modeling Attrition -- Convenience and Probability Sampling -- Sample Studies of Gay and Bisexual Men -- Sample Studies of Intravenous Drug Users -- Randomization -- Examples of Randomized Experiments -- The Ethics of No-treatment Controls -- References -- E Ancillary, Emerging, and Related Projects -- Evaluating Clearinghouse Materials -- Background and Objectives -- Does It Work? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…4.3 Dealing with external dependencies -- 4.3.1 Integrations with databases -- 4.3.2 Integrations with other APIs -- Summary -- 5 Advanced backend testing techniques -- 5.1 Eliminating nondeterminism -- 5.1.1 Parallelism and shared resources -- 5.1.2 Dealing with time -- 5.2 Reducing costs while preserving quality -- 5.2.1 Reducing overlap between tests -- 5.2.2 Creating transitive guarantees -- 5.2.3 Turning assertions into preconditions -- Summary -- 6 Testing frontend applications -- 6.1 Introducing JSDOM -- 6.2 Asserting on the DOM -- 6.2.1 Making it easier to find elements -- 6.2.2 Writing better assertions -- 6.3 Handling events -- 6.4 Testing and browser APIs -- 6.4.1 Testing a localStorage integration -- 6.4.2 Testing a History API integration -- 6.5 Dealing with WebSockets and HTTP requests -- 6.5.1 Tests involving HTTP requests -- 6.5.2 Tests involving WebSockets -- Summary -- 7 The React testing ecosystem -- 7.1 Setting up a test environment for React -- 7.1.1 Setting up a React application -- 7.1.2 Setting up a testing environment -- 7.2 An overview of React testing libraries -- 7.2.1 Rendering components and the DOM -- 7.2.2 React Testing Library -- 7.2.3 Enzyme -- 7.2.4 The React test renderer -- Summary -- 8 Testing React applications -- 8.1 Testing component integration -- 8.1.1 Stubbing components -- 8.2 Snapshot testing -- 8.2.1 Snapshots beyond components -- 8.2.2 Serializers -- 8.3 Testing styles -- 8.4 Component-level acceptance tests and component stories -- 8.4.1 Writing stories -- 8.4.2 Writing documentation -- Summary -- 9 Test-driven development -- 9.1 The philosophy behind test-driven development -- 9.1.1 What test-driven development is -- 9.1.2 Adjusting the size of your iterations -- 9.1.3 Why adopt test-driven development? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Initial Analysis of Both Entities -- Strategic Rationale -- Valuation Modeling -- Understanding Cost, Operational, and Cultural Differences -- Developing the Integration Plan -- Deal Structure and Negotiations -- Chapter 15 Financing Sources and Capital Structure -- Perspective -- Financing Primer -- Capital Structure -- Factors Shaping the Capital Structure -- Basic Deals -- Buyouts3 -- Recapitalizations -- Acquisitions -- Sources and Types of Funding -- Debt -- Private Equity -- Personal Guarantees -- Chapter 16 Due Diligence -- Due Diligence Process -- The Diligence Team -- Traditional Due Diligence -- Financial Matters -- Quality of Earnings Analysis -- Balance Sheet Analysis -- Ratio Analysis -- Other Risks -- Audited Financial Statements -- GAAP Compliance -- Tax Structuring and Compliance -- Compensation and Benefits -- Legal -- Technical Due Diligence -- Business Due Diligence -- Chapter 17 Tax Provisions Used in M&amp -- A -- Tax Fundamentals -- Transaction Tax Basics -- Asset Transactions -- Stock Transactions -- Stock versus Asset Sale Example -- Asset Transaction Details -- Buyer Tax Issues -- Detailed Tax Structuring -- Installment Sales -- Risk of Forfeiture -- Assets That Qualify for Installment Treatment -- Installment Planning Opportunity -- Partnership M&amp -- A -- General Partnership Doctrine -- Partnership versus S Corporation -- Partnership Gain Tracking Rules -- Purchase Price Allocation for Partnership Buyers -- Corporate M&amp -- A Issues -- Contributions to Corporations -- Stock/Asset Sale Election: Section 338 -- Mergers and Reorganizations -- S Corporation Issues -- Tax Glossary and Reference -- Chapter 18 Legal Documentation -- The Attorney's Role -- Preliminary Legal Documents -- Nondisclosure and Confidentiality Agreement -- Letter of Intent -- Acquisition Agreements -- Structure of the Deal -- Stock Sale/Merger…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Leveraging public sector donor capital to provide guarantees to local investors -- 5.9.2. Using PIDG technical assistance to provide grants to support capacity building workshops for local investors -- 5.9.3. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- How is message delivery guarantee to a source system? -- What is an enterprise resource planning application? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Allowing roles assignments and overrides -- Assigning of default roles -- Moodle role assignment - best practice -- Summary -- Chapter 7: Moodle Look and Feel -- An overview of the look and feel -- Site versus Dashboard -- Customizing your front page -- The front page settings -- Arranging front page blocks -- Logging in from a different website -- Other front page items -- Front page users -- Front page filters -- Front page reports -- The front page backup and restore -- Front page questions -- The default Dashboard and Profile pages -- Customizing navigation -- Replacing the front page -- Moodle themes -- Fixed width versus fluid versus responsive themes -- Selecting a Moodle theme -- Theme types -- Theme settings -- Customizing themes -- Theme customization basics -- The Moodle editor -- Configuring the Atto editor -- Extending the functionality of tables -- Supporting mathematical equations -- Adding some awesomeness -- Accessibility -- Guaranteeing accessibility through Moodle themes -- Accessibility support through the Moodle editor -- Support for a screen reader -- Summary -- Chapter 8: Moodle Plugins -- Plugins - an overview -- Module plugins -- Activity modules -- Configuring blocks -- Configuring filters -- Moodle repositories -- Internal repository plugins -- External repository plugins -- Data storage repositories -- Application repositories -- Moodle portfolios -- Miscellaneous plugins -- Course formats -- Question types and behaviors -- Availability restrictions -- Licences -- Plagiarism prevention -- Installing third-party plugins -- Third-party software - an overview -- Good add-ons and bad add-ons -- Popular add-ons -- Organizational decisions around plugins -- Installing third-party add-ons -- Installing the Collapsed Topics format plugin via the web interface -- Installing the Configurable Reports plugin manually…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Definitions of Terms -- Concepts, Rules, and Examples -- Chapter 28: ASC 420 Exit or Disposal Cost Obligations -- Perspective and Issues -- Definitions of Terms -- Concepts, Rules, and Examples -- Chapter 29: ASC 430 Deferred Revenue -- Chapter 30: ASC 440 Commitments -- Perspective and Issues -- Definitions of Terms -- Concepts, Rules, and Examples -- Chapter 31: ASC 450 Contingencies -- Perspective and Issues -- Definitions of Terms -- Concepts, Rules, and Examples -- Chapter 32: ASC 460 Guarantees -- Perspective and Issues -- Definitions of Terms -- Concepts, Rules, and Examples -- Chapter 33: ASC 470 Debt -- Perspective and Issues -- Definitions of Terms -- Concepts, Rules, and Examples -- Chapter 34: ASC 480 Distinguishing Liabilities from Equity -- Perspective and Issues -- Definitions of Terms -- Concepts, Rules, and Examples -- Chapter 35: ASC 505 Equity -- Perspective and Issues -- Definitions of Terms -- Concepts, Rules, and Examples -- Chapter 36: ASC 605 Revenue Recognition -- Revenue Recognition-General Principles -- Long-Term Construction Contracts (ASC 605-35) -- Perspective and Issues -- Definitions of Terms -- Concepts, Rules, and Examples -- Service Revenues (ASC 605-20 AND ASC 605-45) -- Perspective and Issues -- Definitions of Terms -- Concepts, Rules, and Examples -- Sales When Collection is Uncertain -- Perspective and Issues -- Definitions of Terms -- Concepts, Rules, and Examples -- Revenue Recognition When Right of Return Exists (ASC 605-15) -- Perspective and Issues -- Definitions of Terms -- Concepts, Rules, and Examples -- Revenue Arrangements with Multiple Deliverables (ASC 605-25) -- Perspective and Issues -- Other Special Accounting and Reporting Issues -- Appendix-Overview of ASC 6062 -- Chapter 37: ASC 705 Cost of Sales and Services -- Perspective and Issues -- Definitions of Terms -- Concepts, Rules, and Examples…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Principle #2 - A data lake's immutable data is to remain explorable -- Principle #3 - A data lake's immutable data remains available for analytics -- Principle #4 - A data lake's sources are discoverable -- Principle #5 - A data lake's tooling should be consistent with the architecture -- Principle #6 - A data mesh defines data to be governed by domain-driven ownership -- Principle #7 - A data mesh defines the data and derives insights as a product -- Principle #8 - A data mesh defines data, information, and insights to be self-service -- Principle #9 - A data mesh implements a federated governance processing system -- Principle #10 - Metadata is associated with datasets and is relevant to the business -- Principle #11 - Dataset lineage and at-rest metadata is subject to life cycle governance -- Principle #12 - Datasets and metadata require cataloging and discovery services -- Principle #13 - Semantic metadata guarantees correct business understanding at all stages in the data journey -- Principle #14 - Data big rock architecture choices (time series, correction processing, security, privacy, and so on) are to be handled in the design early -- Principle #15 - Implement foundational capabilities in the architecture framework first -- Summary -- Chapter 5: Architecture Framework - Conceptual Architecture Best Practices -- Conceptual architecture overview -- Best practice organization…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Start-ups and scale-ups in Denmark's sector strongholds and emerging industries -- Introduction -- Key barriers to the success of start-ups and scale-ups -- Access to finance -- Entrepreneurship skills and capabilities gaps -- Access to international markets -- Access to networks -- Cultural attitudes -- Summary -- Policy measures in Denmark -- Access to finance -- Grants -- The Danish Board of Business Development -- Innovation Fund Denmark -- Technology Development and Demonstration Programmes -- European Innovation Council -- Loans and equity investments -- Danish Growth Fund -- Danish Green Investment Fund -- Entrepreneurship skills and capabilities gaps -- Advice, coaching and mentoring -- Danish Business Hubs -- Virksomhedsguiden -- Incubators and accelerators -- Beyond Beta -- Innofounder -- Incubators and accelerators at research institutions -- Other publicly-funded incubators and accelerators -- Access to research and technology -- Open Entrepreneurship -- GTS Institutes -- Technology Transfer Offices -- Access to international markets -- Trade Council -- Innovation Centre Denmark -- Investment Fund for Developing Countries -- EKF (Export Credit Agency) -- EKF Green Accelerator -- Guarantees -- Access to networks -- National cluster organisations -- Regional networks -- Cultural attitudes -- Summary -- Introduction to the national cluster organisations -- Manufacturing Academy of Denmark -- Energy Cluster Denmark -- Food &amp -- Bio Cluster Denmark…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Dealing with blocking code -- Non-blocking REST APIs in the composite services -- Changes in the API -- Changes in the service implementation -- Changes in the integration layer -- Changes in the test code -- Developing event-driven asynchronous services -- Handling challenges with messaging -- Consumer groups -- Retries and dead-letter queues -- Guaranteed order and partitions -- Defining topics and events -- Changes in the Gradle build files -- Consuming events in the core services -- Declaring message processors -- Changes in the service implementations -- Adding configuration for consuming events -- Changes in the test code -- Publishing events in the composite service -- Publishing events in the integration layer -- Adding configuration for publishing events -- Changes in the test code -- Running manual tests of the reactive microservice landscape -- Saving events -- Adding a health API -- Using RabbitMQ without using partitions -- Using RabbitMQ with partitions -- Using Kafka with two partitions per topic -- Running automated tests of the reactive microservice landscape -- Summary -- Questions -- Chapter 8: Introduction to Spring Cloud -- Technical requirements -- The evolution of Spring Cloud -- Using Netflix Eureka for service discovery -- Using Spring Cloud Gateway as an edge server -- Using Spring Cloud Config for centralized configuration -- Using Resilience4j for improved resilience -- Sample usage of the circuit breaker in Resilience4j -- Using Micrometer Tracing and Zipkin for distributed tracing -- Summary -- Questions -- Chapter 9: Adding Service Discovery Using Netflix Eureka -- Technical requirements -- Introducing service discovery -- The problem with DNS-based service discovery -- Challenges with service discovery -- Service discovery with Netflix Eureka in Spring Cloud -- Setting up a Netflix Eureka server…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…. -- 6 Streaming systems review and a glimpse ahead -- Streaming system pieces -- Parallelization and event grouping -- DAGs and streaming jobs -- Delivery semantics (guarantees) -- Delivery semantics used in the credit card fraud detection system -- Which way to go from here -- Windowed computations -- Joining data in real time -- Backpressure -- Stateless and stateful computations -- Part 2. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover -- About the Author -- Brief Contents -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Chapter 1: The Call of Rural India -- Defining Rural Markets -- Rural Myths -- Rapid Urbanization -- Rural India Is an Agrarian Economy -- The Rural Marketing Mix: Challenges -- Affordability -- Availability -- Awarenes -- Acceptability -- The Evolving Rural Consumer -- Rural India: The Exploding Middle Class -- Rural Marketing Snapshot: Changing Rural Settlements -- Rural Marketing Memo: Startling Facts about Rural India -- Review of Objectives -- Discussion and Application -- Rural Marketing Case: Rural Markets -- Chapter 2: The Rural Marketing Environment -- The Evolution of Rural Marketing -- Phase I (Prior to the 1960s) -- Phase II (1960s-1980s) -- Phase III (1990s-2000) -- Phase IV (After 2000) -- The Rural Environment -- The Demographic Environment -- The Physical Environment -- The social and Cultural Environment -- The Political Environment -- The Technological Environment -- The Rural Economic Environment -- The Changing Face of Rural Development -- The Rural Economic Structure -- The Farm Sector: Agriculture and Allied Activities -- The Non-farm Sector and Rural Industries -- Changing Migration Trends -- Incomes and Expenditure -- The Rural Infrastructure -- Road Connectivity -- Electrifi cation -- Rural housing -- Telecommunications -- Drinking Water -- Rural Marketing Snapshot: Rural Infrastructure -- Rural Marketing Insight: Road Connectivity Bringing Rural Economy on Track in Bihar -- Rural Employment Generation Programmes: Government Initiatives -- The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MNREGA) -- The Swarnjayanti Gram Swarozgar Yojna (SGSY) -- The Pradhan Mantri Rojgar Yojna -- Review of Objectives -- Discussion and Application -- Rural Marketing Case: MNREGA -- Chapter 3: Rural Consumer Behaviour…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…The Key Stakeholders in the Development of the Collateralisation Element of ICM and Their Notable Developments in Regularising Collateralisation in ICM Across the 'Value Chain' -- The 'Islamic Repo' and the Need for, and Current Dearth of, HQLA to Meet the Changed Regulatory Environment for Islamic Banks -- Developing Market Practice and Identifying and Mitigating Risk in Collaterals, Guarantees and Collateral Management -- Risks Specifically Associated with Islamic Collateralisation in ICM -- Disclosure Risk, IOSCO Core Principle 16 and International Debt Disclosure Principles -- Further Aspects of Risks Specifically Associated with Islamic Collateralisation in ICM -- Conclusion -- Chapter 9: Eligible Capital and Capital Instruments -- Flaws in the Basel II Regime -- The Definition of Capital -- Quality of Capital Under Basel III -- Hybrid Debt Instruments -- Deductions from Capital -- Deferred Tax Assets and Minority Interest Assets -- Provisions -- Quantity of Capital -- Capital Weights -- Pillar 2 Capital -- Effect of Basel III on Total Capital -- Stress Testing -- Resolution -- Value at Risk vs. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Extending the IntIterator to bidirectional -- Practical example - iterating floating point values within a range -- Illustrated usage examples -- Utility functions -- How to construct a linear range iterator -- Iterator usage example -- Generalizing the iterator pair to a range -- The make_linear_range convenience function -- Linear range usage examples -- Summary -- Chapter 6: STL Algorithms and Beyond -- Using STL algorithms as building blocks -- STL algorithm concepts -- Algorithms operate on iterators -- Implementing a generic algorithm that can be used with any container -- Iterators for a range point to the first element and the element after the last -- Algorithms do not change the size of the container -- Algorithms with output require allocated data -- Algorithms use operator== and operator&lt -- by default -- Custom comparator function -- General-purpose predicates -- Algorithms require move operators not to throw -- Algorithms have complexity guarantees -- Algorithms perform just as well as C library function equivalents -- STL algorithms versus handcrafted for-loops -- Readability and future-proofing -- Real-world code base example -- Usage examples of STL algorithms versus handcrafted for-loops -- Example 1 - Unfortunate exceptions and performance problems -- Example 2 - STL has subtle optimizations even in simple algorithms -- Sorting only for the data you need to retrieve -- Use cases -- Performance evaluation -- The future of STL and the ranges library -- Limitations of the iterators in STL -- Introduction to the ranges library -- Composability and pipeability -- Actions, views, and algorithms -- Actions -- Views -- Algorithms -- Summary -- Chapter 7: Memory Management -- Computer memory -- The virtual address space -- Memory pages -- Thrashing -- Process memory -- Stack memory -- Heap memory -- Objects in memory…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Ethereum: The Open-Source World Wide Computer -- Decentralized applications: Welcome to the future -- The power of decentralized autonomous organizations -- Hacking a Blockchain -- Understanding smart contracts -- Discovering the cryptocurrency Ether -- Getting Up and Running on Ethereum -- Mining for Ether -- Building your first decentralized autonomous organization -- Uncovering the Future of DAOs -- Putting money in a DAO -- Building smarter smart contracts -- Finding bugs in the system -- Creating Your Own ERC-20 Token -- Chapter 6 Getting Your Hands on Hyperledger -- Getting to Know Hyperledger -- Identifying Key Hyperledger Projects -- Focusing on Fabric -- Investigating the Iroha project -- Diving into Sawtooth -- Building Your System in Fabric -- Building Asset Tracking with Hyperledger Composer -- Working with Smart Contracts on Hyperledger -- Chapter 7 Financial Technology -- Hauling Out Your Crystal Ball: Future Banking Trends -- Moving money faster: Across borders and more -- Creating permanent history -- Going International: Global Financial Products -- Border-free payroll -- Faster and better trade -- Guaranteed payments -- Micropayments: The new nature of transactions -- Squeezing Out Fraud -- Book 3 Bitcoin -- Chapter 1 Bitcoin Tech Explained -- Understanding That There Is No Bitcoin! …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Barriers to entrepreneurship, 2013 -- Box 1.4. The Czech-Moravian Guarantee and Development Bank -- Box 1.5. SME financing programmes -- Figure 1.22. …”