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Tabla de Contenidos: “…6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Potential of forest restoration to contribute to climate change mitigation -- 6.3 Risks of forest restoration as a mitigation strategy -- 6.4 Climate change adaptation -- 6.5 Linking mitigation and adaptation -- 6.6 Conclusion -- Notes -- 7 Forest restoration, biodiversity, and ecosystem services -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 The role of biodiversity -- 7.3 Recovery of ecosystem services by means of forest restoration -- 7.4 Trade-offs and disservices: One's gain can be another's loss -- 7.5 Restoration across scales of time and space -- 7.6 Opportunities for further research and restoration projects -- 8 Making forest landscape restoration work for livelihoods and well-being of local communities -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 FLR potential to provide local livelihoods and well-being benefits -- 8.3 Challenges and trade-offs in linking restoration to local livelihoods and well-being -- 8.4 Leveraging points and recommendations for FLR to deliver livelihoods and well-being for local communities -- 8.5 Conclusion -- References -- 9 An economic view on the costs and benefits of forest restoration -- 9.1 Introduction -- 9.2 Costs and benefits of forest restoration -- 9.3 Economic and financial costs and benefits -- 9.4 Discussion -- 9.5 Conclusion -- 10 Financial, ecological, political, and social feasibility of forest restoration targets -- 10.1 Introduction -- 10.2 Context and related studies -- 10.3 What is forest restoration? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Simulation of a real-time feed using historical data -- Parsing the data -- Looking up of the zip code and preparing for the windowing operation -- Windowed operator configuration -- Serving the data with WebSocket -- Running the application -- Running the application on GCP Dataproc -- Summary -- Chapter 8: Example Project - ETL Using SQL -- The application pipeline -- Building and running the application -- Application configuration -- The application code -- Partitioning -- Application testing -- Understanding application logs -- Calcite integration -- Summary -- Chapter 9: Introduction to Apache Beam -- Introduction to Apache Beam -- Beam concepts -- Pipelines, PTransforms, and PCollections -- ParDo - elementwise computation -- GroupByKey/CombinePerKey - aggregation across elements -- Windowing, watermarks, and triggering in Beam -- Windowing in Beam -- Watermarks in Beam -- Triggering in Beam -- Advanced topic - stateful ParDo -- WordCount in Apache Beam -- Setting up your pipeline -- Reading the works of Shakespeare in parallel -- Splitting each line on spaces -- Eliminating empty strings -- Counting the occurrences of each word -- Format your results -- Writing to a sharded text file in parallel -- Testing the pipeline at small scale with DirectRunner -- Running Apache Beam WordCount on Apache Apex -- Summary -- Chapter 10: The Future of Stream Processing -- Lower barrier for building streaming pipelines -- Visual development tools -- Streaming SQL -- Better programming API -- Bridging the gap between data science and engineering -- Machine learning integration -- State management -- State query and data consistency -- Containerized infrastructure -- Management tools -- Summary -- Index…”

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Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- DevSecOps on Track -- DevSecOps As a First Principle Strategy -- Final Thoughts About Automation As a Strategy -- Compliance: A First Principle Tactic That Cuts Across All Strategies -- Compliance Industry -- Two Compliance Categories: Ticket to Ride, Penalties, and Fines -- The Probability of Material Impact Due to Noncompliance -- Is Compliance a First Principle Tactic? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Copyleft, Licensing Concerns, and "As-Is" Code -- Open Source Program Offices -- Consistency Across Product Teams -- Manual Effort vs. Automation and Accuracy -- Summary -- Chapter 11 Practical Guidance for Consumers -- Thinking Broad and Deep -- Do I Really Need an SBOM? …”

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