Tabla de Contenidos: “…The Effect of Rim-lightWorking With Harsh Sun; Camper Van Shot Multi-light Setup; Creating Drama in a Stormy Field; Making Three Flashes Look Like Thirty; Creating Contemporary Portraits; Using Blur for Creative Effect; Freezing Motion; Making Black Stand Out Against Black; Lighting a Room to Look Natural; Using Ringflash for Fill; Lighting up a Forest; One Location, One Light, Three Photos; Advanced; Advanced High-speed Sync; Hacking Sync With Power Pack Heads; Tips and Tricks; Reverse Engineering; Glossary; Index; Acknowledgments…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Windows Server 2008 R2 technology primer -- Planning, prototyping, migrating, and deploying Windows Server 2008 R2 best practices -- Installing Windows Server 2008 R2 and Server Core -- Active Directory Domain Services primer -- Designing a Windows Server 2008 R2 Active Directory -- Designing organization unit and group structure -- Active Directory infrastructure -- Creating federated forests and lightweight directories -- Integrating Active Directory in a UNIX environment -- Domain name system and IPv6 -- DHCP/WINS/domain controllers -- Internet information services -- Server-level security -- Transport-level security -- Security policies, network policy server, and network access protection -- Migrating from Windows Server 2003/2008 to Windows Server 2008 R2 -- Compatibility testing -- Windows Server 2008 R2 administration -- Windows Server 2008 R2 group policies and policy management -- Windows Server 2008 R2 management and maintenance practices -- Automating tasks using PowerShell scripting -- Documenting a Windows Server 2008 R2 environment -- Integrating System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 with Windows Server 2008 R2 -- Server-to-client Remote Access and DirectAccess -- Remote desktop services -- Windows Server 2008 R2 administration tools for desktops -- Group policy management for network clients -- File system management and fault tolerance -- System-level fault tolerance (clustering/network load balancing) -- Backing up the Windows Server 2008 R2 environment -- Recovering from a disaster -- Optimizing Windows Server 2008 R2 for branch office communications -- Logging and debugging -- Capacity analysis and performance optimization -- Windows SharePoint services -- Windows media services -- Deploying and using Windows virtualization…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Using Depth of Field for Creative EffectThe Effect of Rim-light; Working With Harsh Sun; Camper Van Shot Multi-light Setup; Creating Drama in a Stormy Field; Making Three Flashes Look Like Thirty; Creating Contemporary Portraits; Using Blur for Creative Effect; Freezing Motion; Making Black Stand Out Against Black; Lighting a Room to Look Natural; Using Ringflash for Fill; Lighting up a Forest; One Location, One Light, Three Photos; Advanced; Advanced High-speed Sync; Hacking Sync With Power Pack Heads; Tips and Tricks; Reverse Engineering; Glossary; Index; Acknowledgments…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Qualis est dilectu / John? Forest. O crux gloriosa / John Dunstable. Gloria / Pycard. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Property rights, privatization and the Indonesian constitution : the electricity law case / Simon Butt and Tim Lindsey -- Ownership models for water services : implications for regulation / Sarah Hendry -- Eminent domain and regulatory changes / Luis Erize -- Restrictions on foreign investment in the energy sector for national security reasons : the case of Japan / Kazuhiro Nakatani -- Ownership unbundling and property rights in the EU energy sector / Iñigo del Guayo, Martha Roggenkamp and Gunther Kühne -- The social obligations of ownership and the regulation of energy utilities in the United Kingdom and the European Union / Aileen McHarg -- The role of the common law in promoting sustainable energy development in the property sector / Adrian Bradbrook -- Governing common resources : environmental markets and property in water / Lee Godden -- The significance of property rights in biotic sequestration of carbon / Al Lucas -- Community based property rights regimes and resource conservation in India's forests / Lavanya Rajamani…”

“…However, it is an important contribution more generally to all those who question the way in which the structures of social and gender hierarchies are constructed and maintained through time and space Pourquoi les grands alpinistes se détournent-ils de l'Everest ? Pourquoi refusent-ils l'oxygène artificiel sur certains sommets himalayens ? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Loading and preparing the dataset -- Implementing the OneR algorithm -- Testing the algorithm -- Summary -- Chapter 2: Classifying with scikit-learn Estimators -- scikit-learn estimators -- Nearest neighbors -- Distance metrics -- Loading the dataset -- Moving towards a standard workflow -- Running the algorithm -- Setting parameters -- Preprocessing -- Standard pre-processing -- Putting it all together -- Pipelines -- Summary -- Chapter 3: Predicting Sports Winners with Decision Trees -- Loading the dataset -- Collecting the data -- Using pandas to load the dataset -- Cleaning up the dataset -- Extracting new features -- Decision trees -- Parameters in decision trees -- Using decision trees -- Sports outcome prediction -- Putting it all together -- Random forests -- How do ensembles work? -- Setting parameters in Random Forests -- Applying random forests -- Engineering new features -- Summary -- Chapter 4: Recommending Movies Using Affinity Analysis -- Affinity analysis -- Algorithms for affinity analysis -- Overall methodology -- Dealing with the movie recommendation problem -- Obtaining the dataset -- Loading with pandas -- Sparse data formats -- Understanding the Apriori algorithm and its implementation…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Implementing a macro using the Jinja2 templating engine -- Adding style via CSS -- Creating the result page -- Turning the movie review classifier into a web application -- Files and folders - looking at the directory tree -- Implementing the main application as app.py -- Setting up the review form -- Creating a results page template -- Deploying the web application to a public server -- Creating a PythonAnywhere account -- Uploading the movie classifier application -- Updating the movie classifier -- Summary -- Chapter 10: Predicting Continuous Target Variables with Regression Analysis -- Introducing linear regression -- Simple linear regression -- Multiple linear regression -- Exploring the Housing dataset -- Loading the Housing dataset into a data frame -- Visualizing the important characteristics of a dataset -- Looking at relationships using a correlation matrix -- Implementing an ordinary least squares linear regression model -- Solving regression for regression parameters with gradient descent -- Estimating coefficient of a regression model via scikit-learn -- Fitting a robust regression model using RANSAC -- Evaluating the performance of linear regression models -- Using regularized methods for regression -- Turning a linear regression model into a curve - polynomial regression -- Adding polynomial terms using scikit-learn -- Modeling nonlinear relationships in the Housing dataset -- Dealing with nonlinear relationships using random forests -- Decision tree regression -- Random forest regression -- Summary -- Chapter 11: Working with Unlabeled Data - Clustering Analysis -- Grouping objects by similarity using k-means -- K-means clustering using scikit-learn -- A smarter way of placing the initial cluster centroids using k-means++ -- Hard versus soft clustering -- Using the elbow method to find the optimal number of clusters…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Evaluating classification performance -- Tuning models with cross-validation -- Summary -- Exercises -- References -- Chapter 3: Predicting Online Ad Click-Through with Tree-Based Algorithms -- A brief overview of ad click-through prediction -- Getting started with two types of data - numerical and categorical -- Exploring a decision tree from the root to the leaves -- Constructing a decision tree -- The metrics for measuring a split -- Gini Impurity -- Information gain -- Implementing a decision tree from scratch -- Implementing a decision tree with scikit-learn -- Predicting ad click-through with a decision tree -- Ensembling decision trees - random forests -- Ensembling decision trees - gradient-boosted trees -- Summary -- Exercises -- Chapter 4: Predicting Online Ad Click-Through with Logistic Regression -- Converting categorical features to numerical - one-hot encoding and ordinal encoding -- Classifying data with logistic regression -- Getting started with the logistic function -- Jumping from the logistic function to logistic regression -- Training a logistic regression model -- Training a logistic regression model using gradient descent -- Predicting ad click-through with logistic regression using gradient descent -- Training a logistic regression model using stochastic gradient descent (SGD) -- Training a logistic regression model with regularization -- Feature selection using L1 regularization -- Feature selection using random forest -- Training on large datasets with online learning -- Handling multiclass classification -- Implementing logistic regression using TensorFlow -- Summary -- Exercises -- Chapter 5: Predicting Stock Prices with Regression Algorithms -- What is regression? …”

“…"Addressing the energy crisis and climate change notions would entail dramatic policy changes in areas such as energy, global warming, and forest management. Energy and climate are also discussed together as the global economy was fuelled by fossil fuels, which could change the environment since the industrial revolution. …”

“…The first chapter focuses on characterizing nomads and nomadism through examples ranging from the Aka pygmies, hunter-gatherers in the Central African forest, Yakut and Kazakh herders from the Central Asian steppes, or “nomads of contemporary globalization”. …”

“…The first part deals with assessment of soil erosion that covers historical sediment dating to understand past environmental impacts due to tillage; laboratory simulation to clarify the effect of soil surface microtopography; integrated field observation and the random forest machine learning algorithm to assess watershed-scale soil erosion assessment; and developing the sediment delivery distributed (SEDD) model for sub-watershed erosion risk prioritization. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Shirley -- A new politics of uncertainty : towards convivial development in Africa / Ian Scoones -- Twenty-first century conservation in Africa : contemporary dilemmas, future challenges / Michael Bollig -- Forest crime in Africa : actors, moarkets and complexities / Eric M. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Jean-Luc Gilles: Origin, Foundations, Objectives, and Original Aspects of the PEERS Program Linking Research and Training in Internationalization of Teacher Education -- Gilles Grin: The Building of Europe: A Humanist Undertaking -- Gerry O'Reilly: Preparing Critically and Globally Conscious Teachers -- Denis Gay/Célestin Razafimbelo: Learning Through Experiences of Otherness in Malagasy Schools: Exchanges Between the ENS in Antananarivo, HEP Vaud, and the Zazakely Association -- Emilia Afonso Nhalevilo: Cultural Issues in Teacher Education: From Multicultural Context to Inter/Cultural Journeys -- Emilio Aliss/Rebecca Hsieh/Rachel Silva/David Morimoto/Jean-Luc Gilles: Conservation of Native Biodiversity (Polylepis and Compsospiza) and Improving the Quality of Life in two Andean Communities of Bolivia -- Maria de los Ángeles Zurita/Sofia Vargas: Promoting and Evaluating Polylepis Forest Protection as a Way to Improve Living Conditions in the Communities of San Miguel, Janko Khala, and Ch'aqui Potrero -- Lucy Clavel/Fulgence Idani: Learning Sequences About Water -- Moira Laffranchini Ngoenha: The Added Value of an International and Intercultural Exchange: The PEERS-Mozambique Project -- Zachary Walker, Rachel Sermier Dessemontet/Chantal Tieche Christinat: The Shared Experiences of International Special Educators -- Antoine Breau/Vanessa Lentillon-Kaestner/Dolors Ribalta Alcade: Football, Dance, Dolls and Toy Cars: Comparative Analysis Between Switzerland and Spain in Relation to Gender Stereotypes Among Primary School Pupils -- Alain Pache: Teaching food practices and sustainability in an international context -- Vanessa Lentillon-Kaestner/Sheila Alicea/Rock Braithwaite: A Comparative Analysis between Physical Education Physical Fitness, Motivation, & Self-Concept in Middle School Swiss and US Students -- Shannon Morago/Sveva Grigioni Baur: Intercultural Competence and Teaching Diverse Learners -- Philippe Hertig: Teaching Urban Ecology in Schools in Switzerland and the United States: Considering the Design of an Ecodistrict -- Rosanna Margonis-Pasinetti: Ideology, Culture and Language Preparing International and Critically Conscious Teachers: Difficulties and Advantages of a PEERS Project Focusing on Interculturalism -- Jean-Luc Gilles/Emilio Aliss/Albert Kasanda/Gerry O'Reilly: The PEERS Program: a New Way to Internationalize Teacher Education…”

“…Based on an archaeological source critique, changes in land use on the Baar and in adjacent natural areas of the southeastern slopes of the Middle Black Forest and the Swabian Alb are recorded by means of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and discussed with findings from other regions under investigation. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Persello -- Marine oil slick detection using synthetic aperture radar remote sensing techniques / Vaishali Chaudhary and Shashi Kumar -- Spaceborne C-band PolSAR backscatter and PolInSAR coherence-based modelling for forest aboveground biomass estimation / Ritwika Mukhopadhyay, Shashi Kumar, Hossein Aghababaei and Anurag Kulshrestha -- Analysis of polarimetric techniques for characterization of glacial feature / Shashwati Singh, Shashi Kumar, Praveen K. …”