Tabla de Contenidos: “…Preface to "Feature Papers of Drones-Volume II" ix -- Pasture Productivity Assessment under Mob Grazing and Fertility Management Using Satellite and UAS Imagery 1 -- A Review of Unmanned System Technologies with Its Application to Aquaculture Farm Monitoring and Management 19 -- The Relationship between Drone Speed and the Number of Flights in RFID Tag Reading for Plant Inventory 61 -- Comparison of RGB and Multispectral Unmanned Aerial Vehicle for Monitoring Vegetation Coverage Changes on a Landslide Area 73 -- Quantifying the Spatial Variability of Annual and Seasonal Changes in Riverscape Vegetation Using Drone Laser Scanning 87 -- UAV-Based Classification of Cercospora Leaf Spot Using RGB Images 109 -- Unmanned Aerial Vehicles for Wildland Fires: Sensing, Perception, Cooperation and Assistance 125 -- Spray Deposition on Weeds (Palmer Amaranth and Morningglory) from a Remotely Piloted Aerial Application System and Backpack Sprayer 151 -- An Approach for Route Optimization in Applications of Precision Agriculture Using UAVs 169 -- High Resolution Geospatial Evapotranspiration Mapping of Irrigated Field Crops Using -- Multispectral and Thermal Infrared Imagery with METRIC Energy Balance Model 193 -- Vegetation Extraction Using Visible-Bands from Openly Licensed Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Imagery 211 -- Comparing UAS LiDAR and Structure-from-Motion Photogrammetry for Peatland Mapping -- and Virtual Reality (VR) Visualization 227 -- Application of Drone Technologies in Surface Water Resources Monitoring and Assessment: A Systematic Review of Progress, Challenges, and Opportunities in the Global South 253 -- Monitoring Dynamic Braided River Habitats: Applicability and Efficacy of Aerial Photogrammetry from Manned Aircraft versus Unmanned Aerial Systems 275 -- Assessing the Potential of Remotely-Sensed Drone Spectroscopy to Determine Live Coral Cover on Heron Reef 293 -- The Use of UAVs for the Characterization and Analysis of Rocky Coasts 313 -- Modeling Streamflow and Sediment Loads with a Photogrammetrically Derived UAS Digital Terrain Model: Empirical Evaluation from a Fluvial Aggregate Excavation Operation 331 -- Temperature Profiling of Waterbodies with a UAV-Integrated Sensor Subsystem 49 -- Implementing Mitigations for Improving Societal Acceptance of Urban Air Mobility 359 -- The Use of Drones in the Spatial Social Sciences 379 -- On the Dominant Factors of Civilian-Use Drones: A Thorough Study and Analysis of Cross-Group Opinions Using a Triple Helix Model (THM) with the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) 391 -- Drone Control in AR: An Intuitive System for Single-Handed Gesture Control, Drone Tracking, and Contextualized Camera Feed Visualization in Augmented Reality 423 -- Demystifying the Differences between Structure-from-MotionSoftware Packages for Pre-Processing Drone Data 449 -- Determining the Optimal Number of Ground Control Points for Varying Study Sites through Accuracy Evaluation of Unmanned Aerial System-Based 3D Point Clouds and Digital Surface Models 471 -- Drone Magnetometry in Mining Research. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Machine generated contents note: Preface: Maybe It's Time We Get Back to the Basics Anti-Fraud Program Design for the Small Business "Small Business" Defined The Anti-Fraud Program Structure Acknowledgments Part I: The Anti-Fraud Environment: The Blueprints, The Foundation, The Ground Floor Chapter 1: The Architect's Blueprint: Establishing the Framework The Elements of Anti-Fraud Program Design Anti-Fraud Environment Fraud Risk Assessment Control Activities Information: Program Documentation Communication: The Company Fraud Training Program Monitoring and Routine Maintenance Chapter 2: Foundational Policies: The Fraud Policy Foundational Policies The Fraud Policy: The Essential Elements of an Effective Fraud Policy Case Presentation Chapter 3: Foundational Policies: The Fraud Reporting Policy The Essential Elements of an Effective Fraud Reporting Policy Chapter 4: Foundational Policies: The Expense Reimbursement Policy Case: "No Questions Asked" Case: "It Will Never Be Missed" Case: Larry the Chief Financial Officer The Elements of an Effective Expense Reimbursement Policy Appendix 4A: Expense Report Form Appendix 4B: Supplemental Business Meal and Entertainment Charges Form Chapter 5: The Ground Floor: The Fraud Risk Assessment Process Ground Rules for Fraud Risk Assessment An Example of Risk Assessment Procedural Steps for Performing a Fraud Risk Assessment Cash in Bank Case: The Trail is Gone Case: Friends in Low Places Asset Misappropriation Corruption Financial Statement Fraud Section II: Anti-Fraud Control Activities: Raising the Walls Chapter 6: Control Activities: The Absolutes Critical Principles of Control Activity Design Foundational Control Activities Case: The Mail Drop in Las Vegas Appendix 6A: Conflict of Interest Form Appendix 6B: New Vendor Establishment Form Chapter 7: Control Activities: The Segregation of Duties Dilemma But I Only Have Two Employees Prevention verses Detection Controls The Necessary Review Processes Chapter 8: Control Activities: General Processes Two Operational Questions Common Control Activities Case: The Cell Phone Reimbursement Chapter 9: Control Activities: Specific Control Areas Financial Statement Line Item Control Activities Section III: Completing the Anti-Fraud Program: The Ceiling, the Roof, and Routine Maintenance Chapter 10: The Ceiling: Documenting the Anti-Fraud Program Information Documentation - Keeping it Simple The Elements of Quality Documentation Chapter 11: The Ceiling: The Company Fraud Training Program The Elements of Effective Communication The Company Fraud Training Program Chapter 12: The Roof: Monitoring and Routine Maintenance Monitoring and Routine Maintenance Defined The Monitoring and Routine Maintenance Structure Chapter 13: The Sample Anti-Fraud Program Appendix 13A: Fraud Risk Assessment Framework Form Appendix 13B: Control Activities Form Appendix 13C: Documentation of Control Activities Appendix 13D: Compliance Audit Programs and Related Compliance Audit Working Papers Section IV: Appendices Appendix A: The Fraud Policy Sample Fraud Policy Sample Fraud Policy Sample Fraud Policy Appendix B: The Fraud Reporting Policy Sample Fraud Reporting Policy Sample Fraud Reporting Policy Appendix C: The Expense Reimbursement Policy Sample Expense Reimbursement Policy Sample Expense Reimbursement Policy Appendix D: Fraud Risk Assessment Framework Form Appendix E: Control Activities Documentation Form Appendix F: New Vendor Establishment Form Appendix G: Compliance Audit Program Appendix H: Compliance Audit Working Paper Appendix I: Conflict of Interest Form About the Author Index …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Monitoring and tuning of DB2 UDB V8 -- 7.1 Tools for monitoring and tuning -- 7.1.1 Snapshot monitor -- 7.1.2 Event monitor -- 7.1.3 Explain utilities -- 7.1.4 DB2 Diagnostic Log (DB2DIAG.LOG) -- 7.1.5 Health Center/Memory Visualizer -- 7.1.6 Design Advisor -- 7.1.7 Configuration Advisor -- 7.2 Application tuning -- 7.2.1 Database design -- 7.2.2 SQL tuning -- 7.2.3 Stored procedures -- 7.2.4 Declared global temporary tables -- 7.2.5 Concurrency -- 7.3 System tuning -- 7.3.1 Tuning the buffer pools -- 7.3.2 Table management -- 7.3.3 Index management…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Chapter 7: IoT-based smart monitoring topologies for energy-efficient smart buildings -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 IoT-based smart building -- 7.2.1 Basic components of IoT -- 7.2.2 Sensors -- 7.2.3 Gateways -- 7.2.4 Building monitoring systems -- 7.2.5 IoT with integrating AI in smart buildings -- 7.2.6 Building automation systems (BAS) -- 7.2.7 IoT-based indoor localization -- 7.2.8 Lighting system -- 7.2.9 Shielding schedulers -- 7.2.10 Fire management system -- 7.2.11 Heating, ventilation and air conditioning -- 7.2.12 Energy efficiency toward smart buildings -- 7.2.13 Monitoring -- 7.2.14 Information management -- 7.2.15 Automation system -- 7.2.16 Feedback -- 7.2.17 User participation -- 7.3 Smart building architecture -- 7.3.1 Building Energy Management System (BEMS) -- 7.3.2 Protective lock system -- 7.3.3 Fire safety system -- 7.3.4 HVAC -- 7.3.5 Movement monitoring system -- 7.3.6 Cloud infrastructure -- 7.4 Monitoring techniques for smart buildings -- 7.4.1 Occupancy detection -- 7.4.2 Occupancy counting -- 7.4.2.1 Counting by whole -- 7.4.2.2 Counting at a specific place or zone -- 7.4.3 Occupancy tracking -- 7.4.4 Occupancy event recognition -- 7.4.5 Sensor network-based occupancy monitoring technique -- 7.4.6 CO 2 sensors -- 7.4.6.1 Nondispersive infrared sensors -- 7.4.6.2 Electrochemical sensors -- 7.4.6.3 Metal oxide semiconductor sensors -- 7.4.7 Humidity sensors -- 7.4.8 Temperature sensor -- 7.4.9 Microphone -- 7.4.10 Data fusion for occupancy tracking -- 7.4.11 Camera-based monitoring -- 7.5 Opportunities and challenges -- 7.5.1 Connectivity -- 7.5.2 Security -- 7.5.3 Poor testing -- 7.5.4 Weak password -- 7.5.5 Lack of visibility -- 7.6 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 8: Soft computing techniques for renewable energy systems -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 The soft computing - development history -- 8.3 Fuzzy Logic (FL)…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…6.5.3 Step 3: Collect topology and configuration information -- 6.5.4 Step 4: Set up user IDs, privileges, and database servers -- 6.5.5 Step 5: Configure WebSphere MQ -- 6.5.6 Step 6: Configure and activate Q replication using GUI -- 6.5.7 Step 6: Configure and activate Q replication using commands -- 6.5.8 Step 7: Set up monitoring environment using the GUI -- 6.5.9 Step 7: Set up monitoring environment using commands -- 6.6 Failover considerations -- 6.7 Switchback considerations -- Appendix A. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Partitioning method using DB2 utilities -- 6.1 Planning steps for partitioning Siebel tables -- 6.2 Identifying candidate tables and partition columns -- 6.3 Planning for REXX procedures -- 6.4 Unloading the tables -- 6.4.1 Reference table -- 6.4.2 Unloading the data -- 6.5 Creating new tables with partitions -- 6.6 Loading the tables -- 6.7 Reorganizing the tables -- Chapter 7. Monitoring dynamic SQL -- 7.1 Monitoring dynamic SQL in the DSC -- 7.1.1 DB2 PM Workstation Online Monitor tool…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Planning Run with MRP Live -- Production Planning Run -- Product View in PP/DS -- Convert Planned Orders -- Detailed Scheduling Board -- PP/DS Optimizer -- Fiori Application for Production Scheduling Board -- Resource Planning Table -- Alert Monitor -- Plan Monitor -- Summary -- Chapter 12: Demand-Driven Material Requirements Planning (DDMRP) -- What Is Demand-Driven Material Requirements Planning (DDMRP)? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Security governance through principles and policies -- Personnel security and risk management concepts -- Business continuity planning -- Laws, regulations, and compliance -- Protecting security of assets -- Cryptography and symmetric key algorithms -- PKI and cryptographic applications -- Principles of security models, design and capabilities -- Security vulnerabilities, threats, and countermeasures -- Physical security requirements -- Secure network architecture and securing network components -- Secure communications and network attacks -- Managing identity and authentication -- Controlling and monitoring access -- Security assessment and testing -- Managing security operations -- Preventing and responding to incidents -- Disaster recovery planning -- Investigations and ethics -- Software development security -- Malicious code and application attacks -- Appendix A. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- 2 Mediation and peer mediation (by Hilary Stacey) -- 3 Elliott Durham School's Anti-Bullying Peer Support System: -- a case study of good practice in a secondary school -- (by Paul Naylor) -- Part II DEVELOPING A PEER SUPPORT SERVICE -- 4 Planning a peer support service -- 5 Setting up a peer support service -- Part III TRAINING IN PEER SUPPORT -- 6 Core skills for peer support -- 7 Further skills for peer support -- Part IV MONITORING AND EVALUATING THE SYSTEM -- 8 Ethics and the law -- 9 Supervision -- 10 Evaluation -- References -- Index…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Front Cover; Contents; Foreword to the First Edition; Preface; About the Author; Chapter 1 - Introduction; Chapter 2 - Laying the Foundation; Chapter 3 - Business Analysis Planning and Monitoring; Chapter 4 - Elicitation; Chapter 5 - Requirements Management and Communication; Chapter 6 - Enterprise Analysis; Chapter 7 - Requirements Analysis; Chapter 8 - Solution Assessment and Validation; Chapter 9 - Preparing for the Test; Chapter 10 - Swede-Mart Case Study; Chapter 11 - Answers to Test Questions; Chapter 12 - Activity Solutions for Swede-Mart Case Study; Appendix A: Acronyms…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Editorial on: bacterial pathogens in the non-clinical environment --Management of the 2012 Legionella crisis in Quebec City: need for a better communication between resources and knowledge transfer --Short-sighted evolution of bacterial opportunistic pathogens with an environmental origin --4 Monitoring occurrence and persistence of Listeria monocytogenes in foods and food processing environments in the Republic of Ireland --Botulism outbreaks in natural environments – an update --The many forms of a pleomorphic bacterial pathogen—the developmental network of Legionella pneumophila -- Potential role of bacteria packaging by protozoa in the persistence and transmission of pathogenic bacteria -- Life on the outside: role of biofilms in environmental persistence of Shiga-toxin producing Escherichia coli --The importance of the viable but non-culturable state inhuman bacterial pathogens --The role of metabolism in bacterial persistence…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Introduction: Internet of Things: Notion -- Technicity of the Internet of Things -- Economics Environment of the Internet of Things -- General Approaches for a Legal Framework: Introduction -- Self-Regulation -- International Legal Framework -- Security and Privacy: Definitions -- Security and Privacy Needs -- Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PET) -- Legal Challenges for a Privacy Framework -- Responsibility for Violations of Privacy -- Outlook -- Governance of the Internet of Things: Establishment of a Governing Structure -- Legitimacy and Inclusion of Stakeholders -- Accountability -- Allocation of Critical Resources -- Internet of Things as Tool of Global Welfare: Bridging the Digital Divide -- Implementing Search Engines -- Combating Product Counterfeiting -- Tackling Environmental Concerns -- Improving Health Conditions -- Securing Food Supply -- Monitoring Compliance with Labor Standards -- Concluding Observations…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Diverse, dynamic, and enduring : ancient households of the north coast of Peru / New directions in household archaeology : case studies from the north coast of Peru / Cercaduras and domestic urban life in Early Horizon Nepeña, coastal Ancash / Communities in motion : peripatetic households in the Late Moche Jequetepeque Valley, Peru / Figures of Moche past : examining identity and gender in domestic artifacts / Pillars of the community : Moche ceremonial architecture as symbolic household at Huaca Colorada, Jequetepeque Valley, Peru / Households and urban inequality in 14th century Peru / Continuity and change in Late Intermediate Period households on the north coast of Peru / Enduring collapse : households and local autonomy at Talambo, Jequetepeque, Perú / Diversity in north coast households : rethinking the politics of the everyday…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Getting Started with Azure Implementation -- Azure Resource Manager and Tools -- Deploying and Synchronizing Azure Active Directory -- Implementing Azure Networks -- Implementing Azure Storage -- Implementing Azure-Managed Kubernetes and Azure Container Service -- Azure Hybrid Data Center Services -- Azure Web Apps Basics -- Managing Azure Web Apps -- Basics of Azure SQL Database -- Managing Azure SQL Database -- Microservices 2013; Getting to Know the Buzzword -- Understanding Azure Service Fabric -- Hands-on with Service Fabric – Guest Executables -- Hands on with Service Fabric – Reliable Services -- Reliable Actors -- Microservices Architecture Patterns Motivation -- Microservices Architectural Patterns -- Securing and Managing Your Microservices -- Diagnostics and Monitoring -- Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment -- Serverless Microservices…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Introduction; 1 Risk asset class horizon and time; 2 Competing financial market hypotheses; 3 Stable scaling distributions in finance; 4 Persistence of financial risk; 5 Frequency analysis of financial risk; 6 Fourier time frequency analysis of risk; 7 Wavelet time scale analysis of risk; 8 Multiresolution analysis of local risk; 9 Chaos nonunique equilibria processes; 10 Measuring term structure dynamics; 11 Simulation of financial turbulence; 12 Managing VaR and extreme values; Appendix A original scaling in financial economics…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…1: Introducing Blockchain Applications Through Distributed Systems -- 2: Introduction to Blockchain -- 3: Bitcoin -- 4: Ethereum -- 5: Proof of Stake: Consensus of the Future -- 6: Hyperledger Fabric -- 7: Consensus Algorithms for Blockchains -- 8: Sample Project Exercise: Consensus Algorithms for Blockchains -- 9: Real-Time Systems -- 10: Scheduling in Real-Time Systems -- 11: Engineering Based on Models -- 12: Blockly 4 SOS -- 13: Project: Cyber Physical Systems -- 14: Project Using MATLAB: Smart Farm -- 15: Platoon Project -- 16: Blockchain Technology and Distributed Systems Future Scope and B-Coin Project -- 17: AI and Blockchain: Monitoring Autonomous Vehicles Management Project -- 18: Summary…”

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Tabla de Contenidos: “…Table of Contents An Overview of Amazon EMR Exploring the Architecture and Deployment Options Common Use Cases and Architecture Patterns Big Data Applications and Notebooks Available in Amazon EMR Setting Up and Configuring EMR Clusters Monitoring, Scaling, and High Availability Understanding Security in Amazon EMR Understanding Data Governance in Amazon EMR Implementing Batch ETL Pipeline with Amazon EMR and Apache Spark Implementing Real-Time Streaming with Amazon EMR and Spark Streaming Implementing UPSERT on S3 Data Lake with Apache Spark and Apache Hudi Orchestrating Amazon EMR Jobs with AWS Step Functions and Apache Airflow/MWAA Migrating On-Premises Hadoop Workloads to Amazon EMR Best Practices and Cost Optimization Techniques…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Conflict Management, International Parliamentary Assemblies and Small States: The Cases of Georgia and Moldova -- Financing Peacebuilding in the OSCE Region -- OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine -- The Implications of China’s Xinjiang Policies for OSCE -- China’s Emerging Political and Economic Dominance in the OSCE Region -- Islamization in OSCE Region, the Case of Kyrgyzstan -- Organized Crime in Kyrgyzstan -- The 2020 Violent Change in Government in Kyrgyzstan -- IRPT in Tajikistan -- From Landlocked to Land-linked? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Foreword; Acknowledgements; Table of contents; Acronyms and abbreviations; Prefrace; Executive summary; Overview; Part 1. Regional economic monitor; Chapter 1. Medium-term economic outlook for Southeast Asia, China and India: Prospects and assessments; Part 2. …”