Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- About the Companion Website -- Chapter 1 MATLAB Usage and Computational Errors -- 1.1 Basic Operations of MATLAB -- 1.1.1 Input/Output of Data from MATLAB Command Window -- 1.1.2 Input/Output of Data Through Files -- 1.1.3 Input/Output of Data Using Keyboard -- 1.1.4 Two‐Dimensional (2D) Graphic Input/Output -- 1.1.5 Three Dimensional (3D) Graphic Output -- 1.1.6 Mathematical Functions -- 1.1.7 Operations on Vectors and Matrices -- 1.1.8 Random Number Generators -- 1.1.9 Flow Control -- 1.2 Computer Errors vs. Human Mistakes -- 1.2.1 IEEE 64‐bit Floating‐Point Number Representation -- 1.2.2 Various Kinds of Computing Errors -- 1.2.3 Absolute/Relative Computing Errors -- 1.2.4 Error Propagation -- 1.2.5 Tips for Avoiding Large Errors -- 1.3 Toward Good Program -- 1.3.1 Nested Computing for Computational Efficiency -- 1.3.2 Vector Operation vs. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Preface -- Section 1 The Concept of TSE and the TSE Paradigm -- Chapter 1 The Roots and Evolution of the Total Survey Error Concept -- 1.1 Introduction and Historical Backdrop -- 1.2 Specific Error Sources and Their Control or Evaluation -- 1.3 Survey Models and Total Survey Design -- 1.4 The Advent of More Systematic Approaches Toward Survey Quality -- 1.5 What the Future Will Bring -- References -- Chapter 2 Total Twitter Error: Decomposing Public Opinion Measurement on Twitter from a Total Survey Error Perspective -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.1.1 Social Media: A Potential Alternative to Surveys? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- 13.2 Hadoop: The File System and the Processor -- 13.3 Using HDFS -- 13.4 Example PySpark Script -- 13.5 Spark Overview -- 13.6 Spark Operations -- 13.7 Two Ways to Run PySpark -- 13.8 Configuring Spark -- 13.9 Under the Hood -- 13.10 Spark Tips and Gotchas -- 13.11 The MapReduce Paradigm -- 13.12 Performance Considerations -- 13.13 Further Reading -- 13.14 Glossary -- Chapter 14 Databases -- 14.1 Relational Databases and MySQL® -- 14.2 Key-Value Stores -- 14.3 Wide Column Stores -- 14.4 Document Stores -- 14.5 Further Reading -- 14.6 Glossary -- Chapter 15 Software Engineering Best Practices -- 15.1 Coding Style -- 15.2 Version Control and Git for Data Scientists -- 15.3 Testing Code -- 15.4 Test-Driven Development -- 15.5 AGILE Methodology -- 15.6 Further Reading -- 15.7 Glossary -- Chapter 16 Natural Language Processing -- 16.1 Do I Even Need NLP? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…. -- Manual repository creation -- Other version control systems -- See also -- Importing initial files to a local Subversion repository -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- See also -- Checking out files from a Subversion repository -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- There's more... -- Subversion file statuses -- See also -- Committing changes to a Subversion repository -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- There's more... -- Viewing the differences in modified files -- Updating files to latest repository version -- Reverting uncommitted file changes -- Viewing file history -- Installing a dedicated code editor/text editor -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- Chapter 2: Plugin Framework Basics -- Introduction -- Creating a plugin file and header -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- See also -- Adding output content to page headers using plugin actions -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- There's more... -- Action hooks online listings -- Searching for hooks in the WordPress source code -- See also -- Using WordPress path utility functions to load external files and images -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- There's more... -- See also…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Evidence from International Variations in Self-Dealing Transparency -- 14.1 Introduction -- 14.2 Corporate Governance, Transparency, and Transaction Costs -- 14.2.1 The Nature of Corporate Governance -- 14.2.2 Corporate Governance in Asia -- 14.2.3 Corporate Governance Transparency -- 14.2.4 Opportunistic Behavior and Transaction Costs -- 14.2.5 Country Determinants of Governance Transparency -- 14.2.6 Contribution -- 14.3 Methodology -- 14.3.1 Dependent Variable -- 14.3.2 Statistical Specification -- 14.3.3 Independent Control Variables -- 14.3.4 Additional Statistical Correction -- 14.4 Results -- 14.4.1 Descriptive Statistics and Preliminary Analysis -- 14.4.2 Results of Regressions of Bounded Tobit Regressions -- 14.4.3 Discussion -- 14.5 Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- References -- 15 Attitudes Toward Tax Evasion in Korea: A Study in Public Finance -- 15.1 Introduction -- 15.2 Prior Studies -- 15.3 The Present Study -- 15.3.1 Methodology -- 15.3.2 Findings -- 15.3.3 Gender -- 15.3.4 Age -- 15.3.5 Employment Status -- 15.3.6 Marital Status -- 15.3.7 Religion -- 15.3.8 Social Class -- 15.3.9 Confidence in Government -- 15.3.10 Feeling of Happiness -- 15.3.11 Longitudinal -- 15.4 Conclusion -- References -- 16 Attitudes Toward Accepting a Bribe: A Comparative Study of the People's Republic of China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong -- 16.1 Introduction -- 16.2 Prior Studies -- 16.3 The Present Study -- 16.3.1 Methodology -- 16.3.2 Findings -- Gender -- Age -- Marital status -- 16.4 Conclusion -- References -- Part Three: Sovereign Wealth Funds…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- About the Author -- About the Companion Website -- Chapter 1 Foundations of Convective Heat Transfer -- 1.1 Fundamental Concepts -- 1.2 Coordinate Systems -- 1.3 The Continuum and Thermodynamic Equilibrium Concepts -- 1.4 Velocity and Acceleration -- 1.5 Description of a Fluid Motion: Eulerian and Lagrangian Coordinates and Substantial Derivative -- 1.5.1 Lagrangian Approach -- 1.5.2 Eulerian Approach -- 1.6 Substantial Derivative -- 1.7 Conduction Heat Transfer -- 1.8 Fluid Flow and Heat Transfer -- 1.9 External Flow -- 1.9.1 Velocity Boundary Layer and Newton's Viscosity Relation -- 1.9.2 Thermal Boundary Layer -- 1.10 Internal Flow -- 1.10.1 Mean Velocity -- 1.10.2 Mean Temperature -- 1.11 Thermal Radiation Heat Transfer -- 1.12 The Reynolds Transport Theorem: Time Rate of Change of an Extensive Property of a System Expressed in Terms of a Fixed Finite Control Volume -- Problems -- References -- Chapter 2 Fundamental Equations of Laminar Convective Heat Transfer -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Integral Formulation -- 2.2.1 Conservation of Mass in Integral Form -- 2.2.2 Conservation of Linear Momentum in Integral Form -- 2.2.3 Conservation of Energy in Integral Form -- 2.3 Differential Formulation of Conservation Equations -- 2.3.1 Conservation of Mass in Differential Form -- 2.3.1.1 Cylindrical Coordinates -- 2.3.1.2 Spherical Coordinates -- 2.3.2 Conservation of Linear Momentum in Differential Form -- 2.3.2.1 Equation of Motion for a Newtonian Fluid with Constant Dynamic Viscosity μ and Density ρ -- 2.3.2.2 Cartesian Coordinates (x, y, z) -- 2.3.2.3 Cylindrical Coordinates (r, θ, z) -- 2.3.2.4 Spherical Coordinates (r, θ, φ) -- 2.3.3 Conservation of Energy in Differential Form -- 2.3.3.1 Mechanical Energy Equation -- 2.3.3.2 Thermal Energy Equation…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…12.3.2 Feedback Linearization -- 12.3.3 Pre-Distortion Linearization -- 12.4 Example of Analog Pre-Distortion-Based Class EFJ Power Amplifier -- Conclusion and Future Scope -- References -- Chapter 13 Design of Control Circuit for Mitigation of Shadow Effect in Solar Photovoltaic System -- 13.1 Introduction -- 13.2 Proposed Methodology -- 13.3 Results and Discussion -- 13.4 Conclusion -- Acknowledgement -- References -- Part IV: RF Circuit Modeling -- Chapter 14 HBT High-Frequency Modeling and Integrated Parameter Extraction -- 14.1 HBT High-Frequency Modeling and Integrated Parameter Extraction -- 14.2 High-Frequency HBT Modeling -- 14.2.1 DC and Small Signal Models -- 14.2.2 Linearized T-Model -- 14.2.3 Linearized Hybrid ð model -- 14.3 Integrated Parameters Extraction -- 14.3.1 Formulation of Integrated Parameter Extraction -- 14.3.2 Optimization of Model -- 14.4 Noise Model Validation -- 14.5 Parameters Extraction of an HBT Model -- Acknowledgement -- References -- Chapter 15 Non-Linear Microwave Circuit Design Using Multi-Harmonic Load-Pull Simulation Technique -- 15.1 Introduction -- 15.2 Multi-Harmonic Load-Pull Simulation Using Harmonic Balance -- 15.2.1 Formulation of Multi-Harmonic Load-Pull Simulation -- 15.2.2 Systematic Design Procedure -- 15.3 Application of Multiharmonic Load-Pull Simulation -- 15.3.1 Narrowband Power Amplifier Design -- 15.3.2 Frequency Doubler Design -- References -- Chapter 16 Microwave RF Designing Concepts and Technology -- 16.1 Introduction -- 16.1.1 Gain -- 16.1.2 Noise -- 16.1.3 Non Linearity -- 16.1.4 Sensitivity -- 16.2 Microwave RF Device Technology and Characterization -- 16.2.1 Characterization and Modeling -- 16.2.2 Modeling -- 16.2.3 Cut-Off Frequency -- 16.2.4 Maximum Oscillation Frequency -- 16.2.5 Input Limited Frequency -- 16.2.6 Output Limited Frequency -- 16.2.7 Maximum Available Frequency…”

“…Aimed at researchers, students, and policymakers, it serves as a comprehensive resource on the intersection of nanoscience and environmental engineering, emphasizing the importance of sustainable solutions for pollution control and resource recovery…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Data management considerations -- 4.1 Data criteria -- 4.1.1 Individual/separated data per job -- 4.1.2 Shared data access -- 4.1.3 Locking -- 4.1.4 Temporary data spaces -- 4.1.5 Size of data -- 4.1.6 Network bandwidth -- 4.1.7 Time-sensitive data -- 4.1.8 Data topology -- 4.1.9 Data types -- 4.1.10 Data volume and grid scalability -- 4.1.11 Encrypted data -- 4.2 Data management techniques and solutions -- 4.2.1 Shared file system -- 4.2.2 Databases -- 4.2.3 Replication (distribution of files across a set of nodes) -- 4.2.4 Mirroring -- 4.2.5 Caching -- 4.2.6 Transfer agent -- 4.2.7 Access Control System -- 4.2.8 Peer-to-peer data transfer -- 4.2.9 Sandboxing -- 4.2.10 Data brokering -- 4.2.11 Global file system approach -- 4.2.12 SAN approach -- 4.2.13 Distributed approach -- 4.2.14 Database solutions for grids -- 4.2.15 Data brokering -- 4.3 Some data grid projects in the Globus community -- 4.3.1 EU DataGrid -- 4.3.2 GriPhyn -- 4.3.3 Particle Physics Data Grid -- 4.4 Summary -- Chapter 5. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Reducing Your Data -- Section 10.6. Understanding Your Control -- Section 10.7. Statistical Significance Without Practical Significance -- Section 10.8. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Creating Inline Styles -- Styling Small Selections -- Setting the Font Family for the Entire Document -- Styling Links (Also Known As Getting Rid of the Blue Underline) -- Css Tools in Expression Web 4 -- The Quick Tag Tools -- The Css Properties Panel -- The Apply Styles Panel -- The Manage Styles Panel -- Using Various Css Tools to Apply and Change Styles -- Summary -- Q&A -- Workshop -- Quiz -- Answers -- Exercise -- Hour 11 Getting Boxed In, Part 2: Knee Deep in Css -- Introduction -- Css Classes-Because Not All Content Should Be Treated Equally -- Create a Class and Apply It to the Content -- Using Css Classes to Center An Image -- Using Boxes to Separate Content -- Creating a Div and Placing It Around Content -- Introducing Id-Class'S Almost Identical Twin -- Creating a Sidebar Using An Id -- Using An Id to Center the Page -- Creating Custom Styles Within Ids and Classes -- Classes Within Classes: Micromanaging the Content -- Using Classes to Control Ids -- Pseudoclasses -- Use Pseudoclasses to Style Links -- Understanding the Box Model -- Summary -- Q&A -- Workshop -- Quiz -- Answers -- Exercise -- Hour 12 Styling With Code: Fully Immersed in Css -- Introduction -- Introducing Css: The Code Version -- The Value of Separation -- Understanding Inline Styles -- Applying Classes to Tags in Code View -- Using Divs and Spans to Separate Content -- Rename Styles and Apply the Change to All Tags in a Page -- Creating Divs in Code View -- Creating External Style Sheets -- Moving Styles to and From the External Style Sheet -- Applying External Styles to a Page -- Summary -- Q&A -- Workshop -- Quiz -- Answers -- Exercise -- Hour 13 Getting Visual, Part 3: Images As Design Elements With Css -- Introduction -- Images As Backgrounds: A Crash Course -- Use An Image As a Background With Css -- The Background Attributes…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- GLOBAL FINANCE IN PRACTICE 4.3 Italian Cross-Shareholding and the End of the Salatto Buono -- GLOBAL FINANCE IN PRACTICE 4.4 Corporate Governance Models -- Summary Points -- MINI-CASE: Volkswagen's Defeat Devices and Stakeholder Control -- Questions -- Problems -- Internet Exercises -- PART 2 Foreign Exchange Theory and Markets -- Chapter 5 The Foreign Exchange Market -- 5.1 Functions of the Foreign Exchange Market -- 5.2 Structure of the Foreign Exchange Market -- GLOBAL FINANCE IN PRACTICE 5.1 Bankhaus Herstatt and Herstatt Risk -- GLOBAL FINANCE IN PRACTICE 5.2 Malware, Bangladesh Bank, and Banker's Hours-2016 -- 5.3 Transactions in the Foreign Exchange Market -- GLOBAL FINANCE IN PRACTICE 5.3 The FX Global Code of Conduct 2016 -- 5.4 Foreign Exchange Rates and Quotations -- Summary Points -- MINI-CASE: The Venezuelan Bolivar Black Market -- Questions -- Problems -- Internet Exercises -- Chapter 6 International Parity Conditions -- 6.1 Prices and Exchange Rates -- GLOBAL FINANCE IN PRACTICE 6.1 The Immiseration of the North Korean People-The "Revaluation" of the North Korean Won -- 6.2 Interest Rates and Exchange Rates -- GLOBAL FINANCE IN PRACTICE 6.2 Was 2016 the Year of Textbook Failure? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…12.2.2.1 Cinema video player plugin -- 12.2.2.2 Virtual reality-based teaching material -- 12.2.2.2.1 Equipment used -- 12.2.2.2.2 Preparing the learning environment -- 12.2.2.2.3 Adaptation to virtual reality -- 12.2.3 Intervention procedure -- 12.2.4 Limitations -- 12.2.5 Validity -- 12.2.5.1 Experimental control/internal validity -- 12.2.5.2 Inter-rater agreement -- 12.2.5.3 Fidelity -- 12.2.5.4 Social validity -- 12.3 Results -- 12.4 Conclusion -- References -- 13 BERT-IDS: an intrusion detection system based on bidirectional encoder representations from transformers -- 13.1 Introduction -- 13.2 Review of related works -- 13.3 Dataset -- 13.4 Method -- 13.5 Results and analysis -- 13.6 Conclusion -- References -- 14 Internet of Things and the electrocardiogram using artificial intelligence-a survey -- 14.1 Introduction -- 14.2 Literature study on electrocardiogram -- 14.2.1 What is electrocardiogram -- 14.2.2 Diseases the electrocardiogram detects -- 14.3 Electrocardiogram signal -- 14.4 Review of technique used in electrocardiogram -- 14.4.1 Genetic algorithm-back propagation neural network -- 14.4.2 Back propagation neural network -- 14.4.3 Artificial neural network -- 14.5 Conclusion -- References -- 15 Evaluation of artificial intelligence in education and its applications according to the opinions of school administrators -- 15.1 Introduction -- 15.2 Method -- 15.2.1 Model of the research -- 15.2.2 Data collection tool -- 15.2.3 Working group -- 15.2.4 Data collection -- 15.2.5 Analysis of data -- 15.3 Findings and comments -- 15.4 Conclusion and recommendations -- References -- 16 Evaluation of tourism developments with artificial intelligence according to the opinions of tourism hotel managers -- 16.1 Introduction -- 16.2 Artificial intelligence in tourism -- 16.3 Use of artificial intelligence in hotels -- 16.4 Methodology…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Nails are Scale-Like Modifications of the Epidermis -- 5.7. Sweat Glands Help Control Body Temperature, and Sebaceous Glands Secrete Sebum -- 5.8. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Front Cover -- Technologies for Solar Thermal Energy -- Technologies for Solar Thermal Energy: Theory, Design, and Optimization -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of contributors -- 1 - Fundamentals of thermal energy and solar system integration -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Foundation of thermodynamics -- 1.2.1 Basics of thermodynamics -- System and control volume -- Properties of a system -- Temperature -- Pressure -- 1.2.2 Basic energy conversion -- Fossil fuel energy conversion -- Renewable energy conversion -- 1.3 Thermal energy demand and supply -- 1.3.1 Sector wise thermal energy demand -- 1.4 Conventional thermal energy supply technologies -- 1.4.1 Boiler -- Classification of steam boiler -- Fire-tube boiler -- Water-tube boiler -- Modern boiler -- Heat recovery steam generators -- Recovery boilers -- Boiler mountings and accessories -- Superheaters and reheaters -- Economizers -- Air preheater -- 1.4.2 Combined heat and power -- Gas turbine CHP plants -- Solar energy conversion and integrated CHP plants -- CHP plants for district heating -- Selection factor for cogeneration systems -- The potential of CHP in industrial sectors -- 1.5 Solar thermal integration -- 1.5.1 Integration of supply level -- 1.5.2 Integration on process level -- References -- 2 - Solar thermal energy conversion -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 The geometry of solar radiation -- 2.2.1 Latitude -- 2.2.2 Declination angle -- 2.2.3 Solar noon -- 2.2.4 Hour angle -- 2.2.5 Elevation/altitude angle -- 2.2.6 Zenith angle (θz) -- 2.2.7 Sunset hour angle (ωs) and daylight hours -- 2.2.8 Solar azimuth angle (γS) -- 2.2.9 Tilt angle or inclination angle (β) -- 2.2.10 Surface azimuth angle (γ) -- 2.2.11 Angle of incidence (θ) -- 2.2.12 Geometric factor (Rb) -- 2.3 Components and types of solar radiation -- 2.3.1 Irradiance -- 2.3.2 Irradiation or insolation…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Chapter 5: The Cloud Native Philosophy -- 5.1 Cloud-Level Operating System -- 5.2 Declarative Infrastructure -- 5.3 Containers Are "Cattle" Not "Pets" -- 5.4 A Note on Costs -- 5.5 Summary -- Chapter 6: Getting Started with Kubernetes -- 6.1 Setting Up Your First Cluster -- 6.2 Deploying Your First Application -- 6.3 Looking Around the Kubernetes Dashboard -- 6.4 Summary -- Chapter 7: Managing Kubernetes with kubectl -- 7.1 Setting Up Your Connection -- 7.2 Basic kubectl Commands -- 7.3 Playing with kubectl -- 7.4 Creating Another Deployment with kubectl -- 7.5 Accessing Multiple Clusters -- 7.6 Summary -- Chapter 8: An Overview of the Kubernetes Environment -- 8.1 Basic Kubernetes Components -- 8.1.1 The Control Plane -- 8.1.2 Nodes and Pods -- 8.1.3 Workloads -- 8.1.4 Kubernetes Services -- 8.1.5 CoreDNS -- 8.1.6 The Structure of a Pod -- 8.2 Kubernetes Storage -- 8.3 Configuring a Kubernetes Cluster -- 8.4 Application Interaction with Kubernetes -- 8.5 Summary -- Chapter 9: Basic Kubernetes Management -- 9.1 Infrastructure as Code -- 9.2 A Short Introduction to YAML -- 9.3 Defining Kubernetes Objects in YAML Manifest Files -- 9.4 Kubernetes Files for Our Walkthrough Deployment -- 9.4.1 Organizing Your Kubernetes Files -- 9.5 Deleting Kubernetes Objects -- 9.6 Summary -- Chapter 10: A Full Kubernetes Cloud Example -- 10.1 The Application Code -- 10.2 The Memcache Service -- 10.3 The Database Service -- 10.4 The Front-End Service -- 10.5 The Message Board API Server -- 10.6 Configurations and Secrets -- 10.7 Making an Ingress -- 10.8 Final Thoughts -- 10.9 Summary -- Chapter 11: Going Further in Kubernetes -- 11.1 Cluster Namespaces -- 11.2 Helm -- 11.3 Capacity Management and Autoscaling -- 11.4 DaemonSets -- 11.5 Jobs -- 11.6 Cluster Security -- 11.7 Customizing Kubernetes -- 11.8 Additional Information -- 11.9 Summary…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- 11.2 Seven Tips to Convince an Investor -- 11.2.1 Assess Your Needs before Going into a Negotiation -- 11.2.2 Never Lie -- 11.2.3 Be Authentic and Know How to Listen -- 11.2.4 Know When to Walk Away -- 11.2.5 Stay Focused -- 11.2.6 Be Resilient -- 11.2.7 Find a Lead -- 11.3 Some Key Issues that Will Require Negotiations -- 11.3.1 The Challenge of Valuing Your Business -- 11.3.2 The Issue of Control -- 11.3.3 Founders' Obligations after an Investment -- 11.4 Closing Words -- 12 Eight Classic Mistakes Life Science Entrepreneurs Make -- 12.1 They Underestimate (or Overestimate) Their Pitch Deck -- 12.2 They Believe that Narrative Is Not Everything -- 12.3 They Believe There Is No Competition to Their Innovation -- 12.4 They Raise Funds Only When They Need Them -- 12.5 They Underestimate (or Overestimate) the Protection and Value of Intellectual Property (IP) -- 12.6 They Overestimate the Value of Their PhD or Business Experience -- 12.7 They Neglect Cash Flow Management -- 12.8 They Neglect Their Brand -- 12.9 Key Learnings on Key Takeaways -- 13 How the World Changed Following COVID-19 -- 13.1 How Has the Discovery Stage Shifted? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…L'Ènova, La Ribera Alta -- 92. Montroi, La Ribera Alta -- 93. Vilallonga, La Safor -- 94. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “….) -- 7.10 PERMITIR A USUARIOS MODIFICAR RANGOS -- 7.11 CONTROL DE CAMBIOS -- 7.11.1 RESALTAR CAMBIOS -- 7.11.2 ACEPTAR O RECHAZAR CAMBIOS -- 8. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Problemas y decisiones gerenciales -- El reto de controlar el trabajo con redes en empresas grandes -- Pérdida de control gerencial -- Necesidad de cambios en la organización -- Costos ocultos de la computación cliente/servidor -- Fiabilidad y seguridad de redes…”