Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Working at the strategic level -- Working at the team level -- Using agile frameworks to organize projects -- Scrum -- Lean Kanban -- Getting to Know the IIBA BABOK -- Pursuing Business Analysis Certification -- Chapter 2 Breaking Down Different Levels of Business Analysis -- Checking out an Overview of the Levels -- Going to the Top: The Enterprise Level -- Doing business analysis activities at the enterprise level -- Overcoming challenges at the enterprise level -- Moving to the Organizational Level -- Fulfilling duties at the organizational level -- Dealing with organizational-level obstacles -- Drilling Down to the Operational Level -- Knowing your tasks at the operational level -- Taking on operational-level challenges -- Getting a Handle on the Project Level -- Tackling activities at the project level -- Rising above project-level hurdles -- Chapter 3 Identifying and Working with Stakeholders -- Identifying the Participants -- Objective characteristics…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Chapter 1 Quiz -- Answers to Chapter 1 Quiz -- Chapter 2: Deciphering Signs in Expressions -- Assigning Numbers Their Place -- Using the number line -- Comparing positives and negatives with symbols -- Zeroing in on Zero -- Going in for Operations -- Sorting out types of operations -- Tackling the Basic Binary Operations -- Adding signed numbers -- Making a Difference with Signed Numbers -- Multiplying Signed Numbers -- Dividing Signed Numbers -- Working with Nothing: Zero and Signed Numbers -- Practice Questions Answers and Explanations -- Whaddya Know? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Responsible business conduct -- Use real cases of sector-specific partnerships to demonstrate the power of partnerships -- Ensure private financing and investment supports sustainable development needs -- Use accountability mechanisms to ensure companies deliver on their promises -- The role of governments is to tackle market failures -- Recommendations for private sector partnerships for sustainable development -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 5. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- The philosophy of tackling the hard tasks first -- How data engineers can prioritize difficult tasks -- Implementing difficult data tasks -- Synergy with other data best practices -- Conclusion -- SBP 7 - avoid premature optimization -- The true cost of premature optimization -- Recognizing and avoiding the trap in data engineering -- Balancing performance needs and over-optimization in data engineering -- Synergy with other data best practices -- SBP 8 - automate cloud code snippet deployments with standard deployment scripted wrappers -- The importance of deployment automation…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Extending connectivity by easing barriers to infrastructure deployment and complementing measures through local bottom-up approaches -- Making the most out of existing funding and programmes for broadband connectivity -- Supporting students in skills development and entrepreneurship training -- Improving skills needed for the local labour market and for higher education -- Promoting education for entrepreneurship -- Tackling the challenge of measuring innovation in rural areas -- References -- Notes -- 2 Understanding innovation in rural United States -- Setting the scene for rural innovation in the United States -- Understanding economic activities and rural well-being in the United States -- Sector dynamics across US territories -- Innovation in the United States -- Individuals as drivers of innovation -- Firm-based innovation: Competition, higher education and research institutions -- Promoting equitable opportunities for innovation -- Innovation, inequalities and demographic change -- Trends in inequalities -- Trends in population and demography -- Population and employment -- Aging workers -- Gender diversity -- Foreign-born workers -- Persistently poor counties -- Innovation outcomes for non-metropolitan counties -- Drivers of high-tech innovation, employment and productivity -- Annex 2.A. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Integrating transport and land use through transit-oriented development (TOD) in FUAs -- Greening cities: Linking climate mitigation and adaptation in FUAs -- Decarbonising buildings while addressing the affordability challenge in urban areas -- Managing water through metropolitan arrangements -- Tackling sustainable mobility in rural areas -- Accelerating the deployment of renewable energy sources in remote rural areas -- Policy implications -- Supporting neighbourhood projects generating co-benefits and synergies beyond climate -- Prioritising investment in integrated development at the neighbourhood scale that can generate co-benefits and synergies -- Using neighbourhood-scale projects for innovative solutions -- Supporting vulnerable residents and communities with a participatory approach -- Policy implications -- Enabling and scaling up local climate action and resilience -- Creating a legal and institutional environment for local climate action and resilience -- Reviewing national regulatory frameworks -- Clarifying roles and responsibilities for climate action across levels of government -- Aligning and co-ordinating climate action across levels of government -- Building local technical and human capacity -- Enhancing funding and financing mechanisms for local climate action and resilience -- The state of SNG climate finance -- Diversifying sources of funding for climate actions at the subnational level -- Own-source revenue to fund climate action -- Grants and subsidies as a major funding instrument for subnational climate action -- Accelerating local climate action through better access to external financing -- Supporting new budgetary and investment approaches for subnational climate action -- Mobilising the private sector through climate-related public-private partnerships and green public procurement -- Policy implications…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Evaluating parallelism in software design - balancing performance and complexity -- Summary -- Questions -- Chapter 4: Java Concurrency Utilities and Testing in the Cloud Era -- Technical requirements -- Uploading your JAR file to AWS Lambda -- Introduction to Java concurrency tools - empowering cloud computing -- Real-world example - building a scalable application on AWS -- Taming the threads - conquering the cloud with the Executor framework -- The symphony of cloud integration and adaptation -- Real-world examples of thread pooling and task scheduling in cloud architectures -- Example 1 - keeping data fresh with scheduled tasks -- Example 2 - adapting to the cloud's dynamics -- Utilizing Java's concurrent collections in distributed systems and microservices architectures -- Navigating through data with ConcurrentHashMap -- Processing events with ConcurrentLinkedQueue -- Best practices for using Java's concurrent collections -- Advanced locking strategies for tackling cloud concurrency -- Revisiting lock mechanisms with a cloud perspective -- Advanced concurrency management for cloud workflows -- Sophisticated Java synchronizers for cloud applications -- Utilizing tools for diagnosing concurrency problems -- Thread dumps - the developer's snapshot -- Lock monitors - the guardians of synchronization -- The quest for clarity - advanced profiling techniques -- Weaving the web - integrating profiling tools into CI/CD pipelines -- Service mesh and APM - your cloud performance powerhouse -- Incorporating concurrency frameworks -- Mastering concurrency in cloud-based Java applications - testing and debugging tips -- Summary -- Questions -- Chapter 5: Mastering Concurrency Patterns in Cloud Computing -- Technical requirements -- Core patterns for robust cloud foundations -- The Leader-Follower pattern…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…I Don't Remember -- Ads That Say Less: Fewer People and Places Say More, Say It Louder, and Say It Better -- How Deep Tones Convey Wisdom: Finding Meaning in the Timbre of Voiceovers -- No Surprise, Women Are Tired of "Mansplaining" -- The Decelerated Delight - Slow Motion and the Mesmerized Mind -- The Neuroscience of Contact: Touch, Hug, and Hold to Connect -- First Impressions Are All That Matter - First Five Seconds of Advertising -- The Awe of the Unveil: Neuroscience Behind the Curtain Rise -- Tackling Territorial Transitions: Navigating the Mind's Map in 30 Seconds -- Chapter 17 scriptGPT - Writing Entire TV Shows, Plots, and Dialogue -- The Persona Palette: Neuronal Narratives in Archetypal Depictions -- The Neural Alchemy of Storytelling: Decoding Narrative Twists in Screenwriting -- Orchestrating Words, Sounds, and Emotion in Screenwriting Crafting Words that Resonate -- Character Interactions and Audience Appeal -- Chapter 18 luxuryGPT - Premiumize Products Using Brain Codes of Luxury -- The Paradox of Plenty: Perceived Luxury in the Economics of More or Less…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Benefits -- Shortcomings -- Communication -- Microservice architectures -- Sharing data and technology in enterprises -- Shared-nothing architectures -- Interdependent systems -- 12-factor and cloud native applications -- When to use and when not to use microservices -- Implementing microservices with Java EE -- Zero-dependency applications -- Application servers -- Implementing application boundaries -- Implementing CQRS -- System interfaces -- Example scenario using Apache Kafka -- Integrating Java EE -- CDI events -- Event handlers -- State representation -- Consuming Kafka messages -- Producing Kafka messages -- Application boundaries -- Integrating further CQRS concepts -- Java EE in the age of distribution -- Discovering services -- Communicating resiliently -- Validating responses -- Breaking timeouts and circuits -- Bulkheads -- Shaking hands and pushing back -- More on being resilient -- Summary -- Chapter 9: Monitoring, Performance, and Logging -- Business metrics -- Collecting business metrics -- Emitting metrics -- Enter Prometheus -- Realization with Java EE -- Integrating the environment -- Meeting performance requirements in distributed systems -- Service level agreements -- Achieving SLAs in distributed systems -- Tackling performance issues -- Theory of constraints -- Identifying performance regression with jPDM -- Subsystems -- Actors -- Application -- JVM -- Operating system and hardware -- jPDM instances - production situations -- Analyzing the jPDM instances -- Dominating consumer - OS -- Dominating consumer - none -- Dominating consumer - JVM -- Dominating consumer - application -- Conclusion -- Technical metrics -- Types of technical metrics -- High frequency monitoring versus sampling -- Collecting technical metrics -- Boundary metrics -- Logging and tracing -- Shortcomings of traditional logging -- Performance -- Log levels…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Knowing How Attitude Affects Outcome -- Discovering Your Attitudes to Mindfulness -- Developing Helpful Attitudes -- Understanding acceptance -- Discovering patience -- Seeing afresh -- Finding trust -- Cultivating curiosity -- Letting go -- Developing kindness -- Appreciating 'Heartfulness' -- Developing an Attitude of Gratitude -- Letting go through forgiveness -- Tackling Unhelpful Attitudes -- Avoiding quick-fix solutions -- Overcoming perfectionism -- Finding out from failure -- Chapter 5 Humans Being Versus Humans Doing -- Delving into the Doing Mode of Mind -- Embracing the Being Mode of Mind -- Combining Being and Doing -- Overcoming Obsessive Doing: Distinguishing Wants from Needs -- Being in the Zone: The Psychology of Flow -- Understanding the factors of mindful flow -- Discovering your flow experiences -- Encouraging a Being Mode of Mind -- Dealing with emotions using being mode -- Finding time to just be -- Living in the moment -- Part 3 Practising Mindfulness -- Chapter 6 Getting Into Formal Mindfulness Meditation Practise -- Preparing Your Body and Mind for Mindfulness Meditation -- Savouring Mindful Eating Meditation -- Calming with Mindful Breathing Meditation -- Engaging in Mindful Movement -- Trying Out the Body Scan Meditation -- Practising the body scan -- Appreciating the benefits of the body scan meditation -- Overcoming body scan obstacles -- Enjoying Sitting Meditation -- Finding a posture that's right for you -- Practising sitting meditation -- Overcoming sitting meditation obstacles -- Stepping Out with Walking Meditations -- Examining your walking habits -- Practising formal walking meditation -- Trying alternative walking meditations -- Overcoming walking meditation obstacles -- Generating Compassion: Metta Meditations -- Practising loving kindness meditation -- Overcoming metta meditation obstacles…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- About This Book -- Foolish Assumptions -- Icons Used in This Book -- Beyond the Book -- Where to Go from Here -- Part 1 Getting Started with Inclusive Leadership -- Chapter 1 Establishing the Basics of Leadership and Inclusion -- Knowing Why Inclusive Leadership is Important -- Summarizing Key Workforce Shifts -- Understanding Inclusive Terminology -- Belonging -- BIPOC -- Diversity -- Equity and Equality -- Implicit bias -- Inclusion -- Intersectionality -- Microaggressions -- Neurodiversity -- Phobias and -isms -- Looking at Leadership Models and Frameworks -- Chapter 2 Revealing What the New Generation of Talent Needs at Work -- Understanding the Workforce Demographics of the Future -- Addressing the Needs of the Changing Workforce -- Honing the Competencies and Key Traits of an Inclusive Leader -- Tackling the Challenges of Leading a More Diverse Workforce -- Unconscious bias -- Communication barriers -- Cultural differences impeding teamwork -- Retaining diverse talent -- Developing inclusive leaders from within -- Recognizing the Benefits that Top Talent of the Future Brings -- Chapter 3 Making the Business Case for More Inclusive Leaders -- Accessing a Larger Talent Pool -- Enhancing Financial Performance and Company Reputation -- Boosting Employee Engagement, Productivity, and Retention -- Driving Innovation and Creativity -- Growing Customer Loyalty and Expanding New Markets -- Digging into Examples of Inclusive Leadership in Action -- Biases and lack of visible diversity -- Microaggressions and a hostile work environment -- Chapter 4 How Inclusive Are You? …”

“…Les Canadiens attachent de plus en plus d’importance à la santé, à la sécurité et à l’environnement, et cherchent à concilier divers objectifs dans les domaines de l’économie, de la compétitivité et des questions sociales. La tâche est ardue : en matière de commerce extérieur, moteur essentiel de l’économie, le Canada doit veiller à ménager l’équilibre des efforts de libéralisation bilatéraux et multilatéraux. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Objectif : constituer un corps enseignant et de chefs d'établissement motivés et efficaces qui remplissent des conditions de travail satisfaisantes -- Objectif : soutenir un effectif dynamique -- Notes -- Références -- Chapitre 2 - Enseigner et apprendre pour l'avenir -- Introduction -- Ce que les enseignants font dans leur classe et ce qu'ils en pensent -- Stratégies d'enseignement efficaces -- Pratiques d'évaluation des enseignants -- Utilisation du temps en classe par les enseignants -- Lien entre l'enseignement et les caractéristiques de la classe et de l'enseignant -- Efficacité personnelle des enseignants -- Ce que les enseignants et les chefs d'établissement font en dehors de la classe pour se préparer à enseigner -- Planification, préparation et notation -- Temps consacré par les chefs d'établissement aux programmes et aux tâches liées à l'enseignement -- Dans quelle mesure les enseignants et les établissements peuvent-ils innover ? …”

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Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Measuring variability with IQR -- Picking out the center using the median -- Investigating Old Faithful's boxplot -- Denoting outliers -- Making mistakes when interpreting a boxplot -- Tackling Time Charts -- Interpreting time charts -- Understanding variability: Time charts versus histograms -- Spotting misleading time charts -- Watching the scale and start/end points -- Simplifying excess data -- Practice Questions Answers and Explanations -- Whaddya Know? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Fill layers -- Shape layers -- Type layers -- Tackling Layer Basics -- Creating a new layer from scratch -- Using Layer via Copy and Layer via Cut -- Duplicating layers -- Dragging and dropping layers -- Using the Paste into Selection command -- Moving a Layer's Content -- Transforming Layers -- Adding Layer Masks -- Flattening and Merging Layers -- Flattening layers -- Merging layers -- Chapter 10 Simple Image Makeovers -- Cropping and Straightening Images -- Cutting away with the Crop tool -- Fixing distortion with the Perspective Crop tool -- Cropping with a selection border -- Straightening images -- Recomposing Images -- Employing One-Step Auto Fixes -- Auto Smart Tone -- Auto Smart Fix -- Auto Levels -- Auto Contrast -- Auto Haze Removal -- Auto Color Correction -- Auto Shake Reduction -- Auto Sharpen -- Auto Red Eye Fix -- Editing in Quick Mode -- Fixing Small Imperfections with Tools -- Cloning with the Clone Stamp tool -- Retouching with the Healing Brush -- Zeroing in with the Spot Healing Brush -- Repositioning with the Content-Aware Move tool -- Lightening and darkening with Dodge and Burn tools -- Smudging away rough spots -- Softening with the Blur tool -- Focusing with the Sharpen tool -- Sponging color on and off -- Replacing one color with another -- Chapter 11 Correcting Contrast, Color, and Clarity -- Editing Your Photos Using a Logical Workflow -- Adjusting Lighting -- Fixing lighting with Shadows/Highlights -- Using Brightness/Contrast -- Pinpointing proper contrast with Levels -- Adjusting Color -- Removing color casts automatically -- Adjusting with Hue/Saturation -- Eliminating color with Remove Color -- Switching colors with Replace Color -- Correcting with Color Curves -- Adjusting skin tones -- Defringing layers -- Eliminating haze -- Adjusting color temperature with photo filters -- Mapping your colors -- Adjusting Clarity…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Intro -- Preface -- The OECD can help development actors navigate a changing landscape -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Editorial -- Development co-operation in 2023: The times, they are a-changing -- Abbreviations and acronyms -- Executive summary -- Crises and geopolitical shifts are challenging the aid system but also opening an opportunity for it to change -- Staying relevant requires delivering on past commitments and responding to new calls for change -- With priorities changing, development actors must be more agile and adaptable -- Ways forward for the aid system (Infographic) -- Overview: Keeping development co-operation relevant and impactful amid daunting challenges -- Development co-operation under pressure to meet new demands amid crises -- Aid budgets and capacity are under unprecedented pressure as progress falters on the 2030 Agenda -- Reflections on the aid system point to constraints and opportunities to better address shared global challenges -- Ways forward for keeping development co-operation relevant and impactful -- Meeting finance commitments, unlocking progress -- Support locally led transformation in partner countries -- Modernise business models and financial management practices to align strategies, budgets and delivery -- Rebalance power relations and find common ground for partnerships -- References -- Notes -- Part I The political economy of aid -- Part I The political economy of aid -- 1 In my view: Development co-operation must tackle complex challenges better and protect the most vulnerable -- References -- Note -- 2 Development Strategies in a changing global political economy -- Key messages -- The problem: Challenges to international development co-operation -- Geopolitical effects -- The debt-infrastructure-sustainability nexus -- Security and stability threats -- Threats to multilateralism…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Regions and Cities Must Lead the Way -- False Narratives and Tackling Climate Change -- The Luntz Memo's Deleterious Effect -- Beware the Danger of False Narratives and Rabbit Holes -- Social Media and Amoral, Unthinking Algorithms -- Talk About It: How Conversations Can Change Minds and Advance the Green Consensus -- Sewerage, Libraries, and Taxation -- Pension Demographics and Longevity -- Scotland's Big Climate Conversation -- Talking Together Changes Our Story and Our Outcomes -- Create Narratives That Resonate With a Locale and With Your Community -- Narrative Shifts Can Be Slow Until They Are Sudden -- The Greta Effect -- Extinction Rebellion's Direct Effect -- Climate Change Narratives Are Also Spiritual -- Declaring an Emergency Shifts the Narrative -- Americans Are Changing Their Climate Story -- The End of the Luntz Effect -- The Biden Administration Policy Shift Supports a Global Climate Break Point -- Devolution of the Climate Change Dialogue and the Ability to Act -- The UK Example -- Cities as Hubs of Green Innovation and Sustainable Liveability -- Cities and the Built Environment -- Transport, Mobility, and Our Cityscapes -- Powering Our Communities -- A Better, Localized, Green, Sustainable, Liveable Future -- Constructing New Tales and Travelling With Them Into the Future -- References -- 8 On Decarbonization, Economic Growth, and a Just Transition -- Growth Or No Growth -- Optimism Or Doom and Disaster - a False Choice -- New Contours for a Green Tomorrow -- Constructing Green Globalization 2.0 -- Green New Deals for All of Us -- Governments Can Afford to Invest in Green Reseeding -- A Greener, More Productive Economy -- But What of the Cost of GNDs? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Chapter 8 Social Engineering in Cybersecurity-Threats and Defenses -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 The Evolution of Social Engineering in the Context of Cybersecurity -- 8.3 Phases of Social Engineering -- 8.3.1 Discovery and Investigation -- 8.3.2 Deception and Hook -- 8.3.3 Attack -- 8.3.4 Retreat -- 8.4 Social Engineering Threats -- 8.4.1 Data Breaches -- 8.4.2 Risky Hybrid or Remote Work Environments -- 8.4.3 Mobile Attacks -- 8.4.4 Phishing -- 8.4.5 Ransomware -- 8.4.6 Crypto Jacking -- 8.4.7 Cyber-Physical Attacks -- 8.4.8 State-Sponsored Attacks -- 8.4.9 The Internet of Things (IoT) Attacks -- 8.5 Social Engineering Attacks -- 8.6 Social Engineering Defenses -- 8.6.1 Train Everybody in Your Organization -- 8.6.2 Determine Your Company's Valuable Assets -- 8.6.3 Set Up and Enforce Good Security Policies -- 8.6.4 Update Your Software Regularly -- 8.6.5 Do Not Share Private Information with Strangers -- 8.6.6 Implement Access Control Within Your Company -- 8.6.7 Watch Out for Pretexting and Strange Requests -- 8.6.8 Enforcement of Strong Passwords -- 8.7 Conclusion -- Chapter 9 A Machine Learning Algorithm to Tackle Chat Messages -- 9.1 Introduction -- 9.2 Social Engineering Attacks -- 9.3 Background -- 9.3.1 Backpropagations Algorithm -- 9.3.2 Apriori Algorithm -- 9.4 Literature Survey -- 9.5 Previous Work -- 9.6 Proposed Work -- 9.6.1 Accuracy -- 9.6.2 Context-Awareness -- 9.7 Future Scope -- 9.8 Conclusion -- Chapter 10 A Survey on a Security Model for the Internet of Things Environment -- 10.1 Introduction -- 10.2 Literature Survey -- 10.2.1 Supervised Learning-Based Attack Detection Methodologies -- 10.2.2 Data Integrity through the Fusion Mechanism -- 10.2.3 Ensemble Learning for Concept Drift -- 10.2.4 Ensemble Learning for Imbalance Data -- 10.2.5 Software Defined Networking (SDN) of Loading Security…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Chapter 3: A Tour of Machine Learning Classifiers Using scikit-learn -- Choosing a classification algorithm -- First steps with scikit-learn - training a perceptron -- Modeling class probabilities via logistic regression -- Logistic regression intuition and conditional probabilities -- Learning the weights of the logistic cost function -- Converting an Adaline implementation into an algorithm for logistic regression -- Training a logistic regression model with scikit-learn -- Tackling overfitting via regularization -- Maximum margin classification with support vector machines -- Maximum margin intuition -- Dealing with a nonlinearly separable case using slack variables -- Alternative implementations in scikit-learn -- Solving nonlinear problems using a kernel SVM -- Kernel methods for linearly inseparable data -- Using the kernel trick to find separating hyperplanes in high-dimensional space -- Decision tree learning -- Maximizing information gain - getting the most bang for your buck -- Building a decision tree -- Combining multiple decision trees via random forests -- K-nearest neighbors - a lazy learning algorithm -- Summary -- Chapter 4: Building Good Training Sets - Data Preprocessing -- Dealing with missing data -- Identifying missing values in tabular data -- Eliminating samples or features with missing values -- Imputing missing values -- Understanding the scikit-learn estimator API -- Handling categorical data -- Nominal and ordinal features -- Creating an example dataset -- Mapping ordinal features -- Encoding class labels -- Performing one-hot encoding on nominal features -- Partitioning a dataset into separate training and test sets -- Bringing features onto the same scale -- Selecting meaningful features -- L1 and L2 regularization as penalties against model complexity -- A geometric interpretation of L2 regularization…”