Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Tips and tricks for running your code on Cloud Run -- Choosing the best serverless option for each use case -- Summary -- Further reading -- Chapter 6: Running Containerized Applications with Google Kubernetes Engine -- Introducing Google Kubernetes Engine -- Deep diving into GKE - key concepts and best practices -- GKE cluster architecture -- Advanced cluster management features -- GKE operation modes -- Cluster types based on availability -- Node pools and node taints for easier management -- Best practices for cost efficiency in GKE -- Storage in GKE -- Networking in GKE -- Security in GKE -- Deploying applications on GKE -- Scaling an app in GKE -- Monitoring GKE applications -- Comparing GKE and Cloud Run - when to use which -- GKE hands-on example -- Summary -- Further reading -- Chapter 7: Managing the Hybrid Cloud with Anthos -- The pitfalls of choosing a cloud provider -- Introducing hybrid cloud computing -- Anthos, the hybrid cloud management platform -- Computing environment -- Simplified management using fleets -- Service Mesh for microservice architectures -- Networking in Anthos -- Centralized configuration management -- Securing containerized workloads -- Binary Authorization for a secure software supply chain -- Consolidated logging and monitoring -- Unified UI -- Making hybrid cloud simple with Cloud Run for Anthos -- Third-party application marketplace -- Anthos usage and pricing options -- Anthos hands-on example -- Running our example on Microsoft Azure -- Cleaning up -- Summary -- Further reading -- Part 3: Extending Your Code - Using Google Cloud Services and Public APIs -- Chapter 8: Making the Best of Google Cloud Networking -- Introducing Google Cloud networking -- Understanding regions and zones -- Choosing the best region and zone -- Connecting to our cloud resources…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Chapter 6 Figuring Out How Much the Business is Worth -- Exploring Valuation Methods: Multiple of Earnings and Book Value -- Getting a Professional Appraisal -- Tracking Businesses You've Explored That Have Sold -- Tapping the Knowledge of Advisors Who Work with Similar Companies -- Consulting Research Firms and Publications -- Turning to Trade Publications -- Enlisting the Services of a Business Broker -- Chapter 7 Financing Your Deal -- Outsourcing Financing -- Taking advantage of seller financing -- Banking on banks -- Getting money from nonbanks -- The Small Business Administration (SBA) -- Small Business Investment Companies (SBICs) -- Certified Development Companies (CDCs) -- Your state's Economic Development Department -- Angels: Investors with heart -- Venture capital -- Crowdfunding -- Minority funding resources -- Financing Yourself: Bootstrapping -- Chapter 8 Preparing a Purchase Offer -- Writing a Letter of Intent or an Indication of Interest (IOI) -- Drafting an Indication of Interest (IOI) -- Writing a Letter of Intent (LOI) -- Developing Purchase Offer Contingencies -- Allocating the Purchase Price -- Doing More Due Diligence -- Think about income statement issues -- Consider legal and tax concerns -- Part 4 Managing a Smooth Transition -- Chapter 9 Moving into Your Business -- Getting Important Things Down on Paper -- Considering the Business Entity -- Sole proprietorships -- Understanding the "solo" advantages -- Weighing the disadvantages of operating "solo" -- C corporations -- Getting a handle on liability protection -- Investigating liability insurance -- Understanding corporate taxes -- Examining other incorporation considerations -- Knowing where to get advice -- S corporations -- S corporation tax specifics -- S corporation requirements -- Partnerships -- Limited liability companies (LLCs) -- Gaining Insight from Others…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Interest rates that never change -- Variable interest rates -- The annual percentage rate -- The prime rate -- Repayment terms…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- n-gram models -- Hidden Markov models (HMMs) -- Recurrent neural networks (RNNs) -- How LLMs stand out -- Motivations for developing and using LLMs -- Improved performance -- Broad generalization -- Few-shot learning -- Understanding complex contexts -- Multilingual capabilities -- Human-like text generation -- Challenges in developing LLMs -- Amounts of data -- Computational resources -- Risk of bias -- Model robustness -- Interpretability and debugging -- Environmental impact -- Different types of LLMs -- Transformer models -- Example designs of state-of-the-art LLMs -- GPT-3.5 and ChatGPT -- LM pretraining -- Training the reward model -- How to fine-tune the model using reinforcement learning -- GPT-4 -- LLaMA -- PaLM -- Open-source tools for RLHF -- Summary -- References -- Chapter 8: Accessing the Power of Large Language Models: Advanced Setup and Integration with RAG -- Technical requirements -- Setting up an LLM application - API-based closed source models -- Choosing a remote LLM provider -- Prompt engineering and priming GPT -- Experimenting with OpenAI's GPT model -- Setting up an LLM application - local open source models -- About the different aspects that distinguish between open source and closed source -- Hugging Face's hub of models -- Employing LLMs from Hugging Face via Python -- Exploring advanced system design - RAG and LangChain -- LangChain's design concepts -- Data sources…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Providing Community Access and Security -- Chapter 7 Cranking It Up: Developing Your Music Collection -- Building a Physical Library -- Thinking about shelving (and space) -- Choosing an organizational method -- Collecting your materials and getting to work -- Venturing into vinyl -- Learning CD selectivity -- Tangling with tapes -- Programming albums -- Marking materials for safekeeping -- Developing a Digital Library -- Seeking digital selections -- Managing digital files -- Using software to keep the music going -- Archiving Original In-House Productions -- Chapter 8 Going for the Gold: Developing Station Income -- Making Friends and Creating Opportunities -- Organizing a Capital Campaign -- Building Station Membership -- Developing Partnerships and Sponsorships -- Working with Underwriters -- Finding Government Money -- Considering Incentive Programs -- Driving Vehicle Donations -- Maximizing Merch Sales -- Hosting Fundraising Events -- Chapter 9 Holding the Line: Managing Station Expenses -- Maintaining Your Home-Base -- Factoring in The Price of Technology -- Internet service -- Webhosting -- Remote access -- Video conferencing -- Licensing Music -- FM transmission -- Digital transmission -- Hiring Personnel and Growing a Happy Team -- Showing staff and donor appreciation -- Funding continuing education -- Joining Professional Organizations -- Budgeting for Communications -- Keeping Financial Records -- Bookkeeping -- Filing annual taxes -- Maintaining transparency -- Remembering Everything Else, Too -- Saving up for sundries -- Buying merch -- Launching events -- Saving for station updates -- Part 4 Star Systems: (Low) Power to the People! …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright and Credits -- Foreword -- Contributors -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Part 1: Refactoring with C# inVisual Studio -- Chapter 1: Technical Debt, Code Smells, and Refactoring -- Understanding technical debt and legacy code -- Where technical debt comes from -- Identifying code smells -- Introducing refactoring -- Refactoring tools in Visual Studio -- Case study - Cloudy Skies Airlines -- Summary -- Questions -- Further reading -- Chapter 2: Introduction to Refactoring -- Technical requirements -- Refactoring a baggage price calculator -- Converting properties to auto properties -- Introducing locals -- Introducing constants -- Introducing parameters -- Removing unreachable and unused code -- Extracting methods -- Refactoring manually -- Testing refactored code -- Refactoring in other editors -- Refactoring in Visual Studio Code with the C# Dev Kit -- Refactoring in JetBrains Rider -- Refactoring in Visual Studio with ReSharper -- Summary -- Questions -- Further reading -- Chapter 3: Refactoring Code Flow and Iteration -- Technical requirements -- Refactoring the boarding app -- Controlling program flow -- Inverting if statements -- Dropping else statements after return statements -- Restructuring if statements -- Using ternary operators -- Converting if statements into switch statements -- Converting to switch expressions -- Instantiating objects -- Replacing var with explicit Types -- Simplifying creation with target-typed new -- Using object initializers -- Iterating over collections -- Introducing foreach -- Converting to for loops -- Converting to LINQ -- Refactoring LINQ statements -- Choosing the correct LINQ method -- Combining LINQ methods -- Transforming with Select -- Reviewing and testing our refactored code -- Summary -- Questions -- Further reading -- Chapter 4: Refactoring at the Method Level…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…. -- How it works... -- Using probes and creating a custom health check -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- See also -- Implementing distributed tracing -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- There's more... -- Accessing standard metrics -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- See also -- Creating your own metrics -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- There's more... -- Integrating your application with Prometheus and Grafana -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- Changing the settings of a running application -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- There's more... -- Chapter 4: Microservices with Spring Cloud -- Technical requirements -- Setting up Eureka Server -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- Integrating an application in Eureka Server -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- There's more... -- Scaling out the RESTful API -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- Setting up Spring Cloud Gateway -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- See also -- Testing Spring Cloud Gateway -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- Setting up Spring Cloud Config -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- There's more... -- See also -- Integrating distributed tracing with Spring Cloud -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- Deploying Spring Boot Admin -- Getting ready…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Overseeing Risk -- Chapter 24 The Intricacies of Subsidiary/Holding Governance -- Structures -- Culture -- Chapter 25 Fostering Entrepreneurship from the Board -- 'Best Practice' Governance vs Entrepreneurship -- Boards Should Actively Encourage Entrepreneurship -- Innovativeness and Autonomy -- Passion and Risk Taking -- Chapter 26 The Board's Oversight Framework for M&amp -- As -- Creating a Deal-making Mindset -- Seeing the Bigger Picture -- Staging Deals with Maximum Precision -- Strategy Fit Review -- Risk Analysis -- Due Diligence -- Deal Structure and Pricing -- Integration -- Post-integration Analysis -- Confronting Litigation Involving M&amp -- As -- Conflicts of Interest -- Lack of Disclosure -- Hostile and Friendly Takeover -- Pre-acquisition Mismanagement -- Post-acquisition Mismanagement -- Acknowledgement -- Chapter 27 Boards and Oversight of KPIs -- KPIs are a Language - and are Indispensable for Boards -- KPIs Need to be Credible to be Useful -- Zooming in on the KPIs that Matter - and that Tell a Story of How the Company Creates Value -- KPIs Should Measure What is Critical -- A Keen Focus on Value Creation -- KPIs Help Diminish Substantial Business Risks Linked to ESG -- KPIs and Human Capital -- A Dynamic Approach to KPIs -- Hi-tech Display and Review of KPIs -- A Renaissance of the Balanced Scorecard -- KPIs for Board Members -- Appendix 27A -- Checklist -- Chapter 28 The Talent Pipeline -- The Board's Responsibility for Talent Management -- From succession plans to transitioning leaders, boards have a role to play…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover -- Copyright -- Contributors -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1: Priming the System -- A word about software architecture -- What are Design Patterns? …”

“…The new edition of this Shingo Prize-winning bestseller provides critical insights and approaches to make any Lean transformation an ongoing success. …”

“…L'ouvrage éclaire les prises de positions des élites sur les grands problèmes que pose le travail des enfants : la protection légale, l'obligation scolaire, la formation, la politique d'assistance, la réinsertion sociale. …”

“…Lebanon is the prisoner of its geography and its history, a prize for invaders since ancient times, a small multi-denominational state still recovering from a bloody civil war in its search for political autonomy and stability. …”

“…Si le don est avant tout une notion étudiée par les sociologues et les anthropologues, elle se trouve également présente en droit, principalement en droit privé mais aussi en droit public, où elle peut se rencontrer disséminée dans différentes branches du droit et sous des formes très variées. …”

“…En quoi les fonds publics et privés investis dans les infrastructures locales peuvent-ils permettre de mieux répondre aux besoins locaux et promouvoir le développement économique ? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Houghton 17.1 Introduction 443 17.2 Beginnings: Valence Bond and Ligand Field Theories 443 17.3 Quantum Chemistry 446 17.4 Empirical Methods 449 17.5 Conclusions 452 18 Theoretical Descriptions of Spin-Transitions in Bulk Lattices 455 Cristian, Enachescu, Masamichi Nishino and Seiji Miyashita 18.1 Introduction 455 18.2 Elastic Interaction Models for Spin-Crossover Systems 457 18.3 Mechano-Elastic Model 463 18.4 Conclusions 471 19 Optimizing the Stability of Trapped Metastable Spin States 475 Jean-Francois Letard, Guillaume Chastanet, Philippe Guionneau and Cedric Desplanches 19.1 Introduction 475 19.2 Light-Induced Excited Spin-State Trapping (LIESST) Effect 476 19.3 The T(LIESST) Approach: The Case of Mononuclear Compounds 479 19.4 The T(LIESST) Approach: An Extension to Polynuclear Iron(II) Complexes 487 19.5 Simulation and Extrapolation of a T(LIESST) Experiment 495 19.6 Conclusions 500 20 Piezo- and Photo-Crystallography Applied to Spin-Crossover Materials 507 Philippe Guionneau and Eric Collet 20.1 Introduction 507 20.2 Spin-Crossover and Piezo-Crystallography 507 20.3 Crystallography of Photoexcited SCO Materials 512 21 Spin-Transitions in Metal Oxides 527 Jean-Pascal RUEFF 21.1 Introduction 527 21.2 RIXS: A Probe of the 3d Electronic Properties 530 21.3 Experimental Results 533 21.4 Conclusions and Perspectives 538 References 540 Index…”

“…Ce large choix de 150 textes, dont les auteurs s'étagent entre le ier siècle avant notre ère et le xiiie siècle, permet de voir comment les principaux événements qui ont marqué l'histoire de cette cité sont rapportés au gré des époques. …”

“…The planned expansion in housing construction in the capital region will reduce upward pressure on house prices. However, other policies aimed at reducing “speculative” demand and lowering house prices, such as the price ceiling on new houses, are likely to constrain supply and result in stronger price pressures in the longer term. …”

“…This report examines the relationship between the prices for mobile communication services and some of the most popular handsets used to access these services, focusing on smartphones. …”

“…This paper contributes to the scarce literature on the macroeconomic effects of property taxes, in particular on the relationships between property taxes, house prices and the wider economy. The paper first estimates a fiscal reaction function which analysis the reaction of property tax revenues to house prices. …”

“…This new case study challenges students to identify the optimal pricing strategy to maximize profitability for both a soda manufacturer and its exclusive distributor: a price strategy that will resolve excess capacity and inventory problems caused by higher-than-necessary retail prices. …”