Tabla de Contenidos: “…The size of the population with disability varies hugely across cultures -- 2.2. Education improvement is not enough to close the education gap -- 2.2.1. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Adopt a housing and habitat policy geared towards sustainable and inclusive urbanisation -- Modernise land use planning to manage urban development -- Shift the focus from urban mobility to urban accessibility -- Leverage digitalisation for more productive, innovative and inclusive cities -- Harness urban policy to advance equity and social justice -- Strengthening the urban governance framework -- Reinforcing inter-municipal co-ordination mechanisms -- Facilitating metropolitan governance -- Strengthening co-ordination across levels of government -- Leveraging fiscal instruments to reinforce urban finance and investment -- Building the capacity and capability of subnational governments -- 1 Colombia's urbanisation trends and challenges -- Introduction -- Colombia's urbanisation trends -- A highly urbanised and polycentric country -- A young but ageing urban population -- Densification and urban expansion -- Informal settlements -- Economic performance of Colombian cities -- Colombian cities are the main engines of economic growth and hubs of employment -- The informal economy is widespread in Colombian cities -- Productivity in Colombian cities is low and agglomeration economies limited -- Living in Colombian cities -- The quantitative and qualitative housing deficit in cities drive low housing affordability -- While social indicators have improved in urban areas, urban inequality remains an issue -- Colombian cities remain unsafe despite recent improvements -- Congestion, fatalities and pollution are the main mobility challenges in Colombian cities -- While air pollution remains high, Colombian cities fare relatively well in other environmental indicators -- References -- Notes -- Annex 1.A. …”

“…The next part covers built-in, GPU-enabled features of MATLAB, including options to leverage GPUs across multicore or different computer systems. Finally, advanced material includes CUDA code in MATLAB and optimizing existing GPU applications. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Managing courses in bulk -- Forms of enrolment -- Internal enrolment -- Manual enrolment -- Self enrolment -- Guest access -- Cohort enrolment and synchronization -- Database-driven enrolment -- LDAP -- External databases -- Flat files -- The IMS Enterprise file -- Meta courses - sharing enrolment across courses -- Enrolment with payment -- PayPal -- Summary -- Chapter 5: User Management -- User profiles -- Profile fields -- General category -- User picture category -- Additional names -- Interests category -- Optional category -- Creating user-defined profile fields -- Profile categories -- Profile fields -- User preferences -- Standard user actions -- Browsing users -- Filtering users -- Bulk user actions -- Manual accounts -- Adding individual users -- Bulk uploading and updating of users and their pictures -- The text file format -- Uploading users -- Setting default values and templates -- Loading of data -- Uploading user pictures -- Manual account settings -- Cohorts -- User authentication -- Common authentication settings -- Email-based self-registration -- The LDAP server -- The LDAP server settings -- Data mapping -- External databases -- Connection settings -- Data mapping -- Other authentication mechanisms -- External Moodle authentication methods -- Internal Moodle authentication methods -- Usernames - best practice -- Summary -- Chapter 6: Managing Permissions - Roles and Capabilities -- Moodle predefined roles -- Contexts -- Assigning roles -- The System context -- The Course Category context -- The Course context -- The Module context -- The Block context -- The User context -- The Front page context -- Multiple roles -- Capabilities -- Role definitions -- Modifying roles -- Overriding roles -- Creating custom roles -- Example roles -- The parent/mentor role -- Testing new roles -- Roles management…”

“…Foster your NLP applications with the help of deep learning, NLTK, and TensorFlow Key Features Weave neural networks into linguistic applications across various platforms Perform NLP tasks and train its models using NLTK and TensorFlow Boost your NLP models with strong deep learning architectures such as CNNs and RNNs Book Description Natural language processing (NLP) has found its application in various domains, such as web search, advertisements, and customer services, and with the help of deep learning, we can enhance its performances in these areas. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…From a standalone machine to a bunch of nodes -- Making sense of why we need a distributed framework -- The Hadoop ecosystem -- Hadoop architecture -- Hadoop Distributed File System -- MapReduce -- Introducing Apache Spark -- PySpark -- Starting with PySpark -- Setting up your local Spark instance -- Experimenting with Resilient Distributed Datasets -- Sharing variables across cluster nodes -- Read-only broadcast variables -- Write-only accumulator variables -- Broadcast and accumulator variables together-an example -- Data preprocessing in Spark -- CSV files and Spark DataFrames -- Dealing with missing data -- Grouping and creating tables in-memory -- Writing the preprocessed DataFrame or RDD to disk -- Working with Spark DataFrames -- Machine learning with Spark -- Spark on the KDD99 dataset -- Reading the dataset -- Feature engineering -- Training a learner -- Evaluating a learner's performance -- The power of the machine learning pipeline -- Manual tuning -- Cross-validation -- Final cleanup -- Summary -- Appendix: Strengthen Your Python Foundations -- Your learning list -- Lists -- Dictionaries -- Defining functions -- Classes, objects, and object-oriented programming -- Exceptions -- Iterators and generators -- Conditionals -- Comprehensions for lists and dictionaries -- Learn by watching, reading, and doing -- Massive open online courses (MOOCs) -- PyCon and PyData -- Interactive Jupyter -- Don't be shy, take a real challenge -- Other Books You May Enjoy -- Index…”

“…This book harnesses the author’s 15 years of experience to show you a standardized way to work with tabular data across various programming languages and environments, enabling high-performance data processing and exchange. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Reusing lifecycle functions in Svelte components -- Exercise 1 - Update counter -- Composing lifecycle functions into reusable hooks -- Coordinating lifecycle functions across components -- Exercise 2 - Scroll blocker -- Summary -- Chapter 2: Implementing Styling and Theming -- Technical requirements -- Styling Svelte components in six different ways -- Styling with the style attribute -- Using style: directives -- Adding the &lt -- style&gt -- block -- Adding the class attribute -- Simplifying the class attribute with the class: directive -- Applying styles from external CSS files -- Choosing which method to style Svelte components -- Styling Svelte with Tailwind CSS -- Setting up Tailwind CSS -- Theming Svelte components with CSS custom properties -- Defining CSS custom properties -- Example - implementing a dark/light theme mode -- Allowing users to change the styles of a component -- Aligning the fallback value -- Summary -- Chapter 3: Managing Props and State -- Technical requirements -- Defining props and state -- Defining props -- Defining state -- Props versus state -- Understanding bindings -- One-way versus two-way data flow -- Deriving states from props with a reactive declaration -- Managing complex derived states -- Updating props using derived states -- Summary -- Chapter 4: Composing Components -- Technical requirements…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Relocate the SMTP Queue Database (Optional) -- Relocate IIS Log Files (Optional) -- Enter a Product Key -- Add Additional Mailbox Databases -- High Availability -- Mailbox Service High Availability -- Cluster Nodes and the File Share Witness -- Cluster Administrative Access Point -- Replication -- File Mode Replication -- Block Mode Replication -- Seeding -- Replication (Copy) Queue and Replay Queue -- Lagged Copies -- Active Manager -- DAG Across (Active Directory) Sites -- DAG Networks -- DAG Creation -- Creating the Database Availability Group Object -- Adding Exchange Servers -- Adding the Mailbox Database Copies -- Configuring the DAG Networks -- Exchange Transport -- Transport Pipeline -- Routing Destinations -- Delivery Groups -- Queues -- Shadow Redundancy -- Managing Queues -- Safety Net -- Send and Receive Connectors -- Send Connectors -- Receive Connectors -- SMTP Relay -- Create a New Receive Connector -- Modify Permissions on the Receive Connector -- Message Tracking -- Edge Transport Server -- Installing and Configuring Edge Transport Servers -- Prepare the Edge Transport Server -- Unattended Installation of the Edge Transport Server -- Create an Edge Subscription -- Relocate the Transport Database -- Test the Edge Transport Server -- Export and Import Edge Configuration -- Protocol Logging -- SSL Certificates -- Load-Balancing the Edge Transport Servers -- Upgrading from Exchange 2013 or Exchange 2016 -- Moving to Exchange 2019 -- Installing Exchange 2019 -- Namespaces with Exchange -- Virtual Directories -- SSL Certificates -- SMTP Mail in a Coexistence Scenario -- Using an Edge Transport Server -- Continuing with the Previous Edge Transport Server -- Introducing a New Exchange 2019 Edge Transport Server -- Moving Resources to Exchange 2019 -- Moving Mailboxes to Exchange 2019 -- Address Lists in Exchange 2019.…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Figures and Tables -- Figures -- Tables -- Notes on Contributors -- Enhancing the Value of Teacher Education Research: Introduction and Key Messages -- Abstract -- Keywords -- 1 The Context of Teacher Education Research in the 21st Century -- 2 Research In, On and For Teacher Education -- 3 The Contribution and Structure of This Book -- 4 Key Messages on Enhancing the Value of Teacher Education Research -- 4.1 Promoting Research-Informed Teacher Education across the Continuum of Teacher Learning -- 4.2 Empowering Teachers and Teacher Educators as Critically Reflective Professionals -- 4.3 Combining Large-Scale and Small-Scale Studies in a Productive Way -- 4.4 Developing Innovative Research Methodologies for Teacher Education -- 4.5 Creating Synergies between Teacher Education Stakeholders -- 4.6 Providing Supportive Structures and Resources -- 5 Conclusion: Implications for Teacher Education Policy and Practice -- References -- Part 1: The Role and Value of Research in Teacher Education -- 1. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Asserting Yourself -- How Assertiveness Impacts Leaders across Cultures -- Becoming More Independent -- Part III: Interpersonal Abilities and Leadership -- Chapter 7: Interpersonal: Creating the Bonds of Trust -- Developing Your Interpersonal Skills -- The Importance of Influence -- What Leaders Need to Know about Empathy -- How Important Is Empathy in a Leader? …”

“…Do you ever feel as though your message hasn't gotten across? Do details get lost along the way? Have tense situations ever escalated unnecessarily? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- The Solution -- Adding Structure -- Engaging Partners -- Improving the Apprenticeship Selection Process -- First Pilot Outcomes -- The Importance of Consistency to a Good Start -- The Role of Battle Buddies -- The Citi Salutes Impact -- Glitches Along the Way -- Unsuccessful Recruitment Choices -- Supervisor Limitations -- Skill Mismatches -- Two-Year Outcomes at Citi -- From Pilot to Operationalizing: Expanding Irving Success across Citi -- Conclusion -- Chapter 5 Creating High-Impact Mentoring Programs -- Coca-Cola's Journey to DEI Success -- The Costs of Inaction and Not Listening to Employees -- Positivity from Turmoil -- Measurable Results -- Moving on from the Past -- Mentoring Innovation at Zendesk -- Zendesk's Women Mentorship Program: Initial Pilot Program -- Application and Matching Process -- Support -- Measurements for Success and Feedback -- Pilot Observations: What Worked and What Didn't…”

“…The recommendations, advice, and code samples in this book will help you pretrain and fine-tune your own foundation models from scratch on AWS and Amazon SageMaker, while applying them to hundreds of use cases across your organization. With advice from seasoned AWS and machine learning expert Emily Webber, this book helps you learn everything you need to go from project ideation to dataset preparation, training, evaluation, and deployment for large language, vision, and multimodal models. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Challenges introducing values and attitudes into school and its environment -- Variation in the levels of engagement among schools in designing and managing curriculum content on values -- Dissonance between teachers' own values and beliefs and those values in the curriculum -- Strategies to overcome challenges of introducing values and attitudes into school and its environment -- Providing guidelines to schools on the type of values to embed and how, either as part of legislation or in national curriculum -- Embedding values into subject-specific content -- Rewarding good design and implementation practices that promote values learning across different schools -- What are the challenges and strategies related to alignment with other policies? …”

“…The Many Paths of Change in International Law analyses drivers, conditions, and consequences of change across the different fields of international law. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…WebSphere Studio Application Monitor - installation, configuration and administration -- 4.1 Planning and installation -- 4.1.1 Installation plan -- 4.1.2 Staffing -- 4.1.3 Prerequisites -- 4.1.4 Installation verification -- 4.1.5 Managing Server installation -- 4.1.6 z/OS Data Collector installation -- 4.1.7 AIX Data Collector installation -- 4.1.8 Windows Data Collector installation -- 4.1.9 Managing Server installation on multiple servers -- 4.1.10 Test and production servers -- 4.1.11 Integration with other products -- 4.2 Configuration -- 4.2.1 Managing Server sizing -- 4.2.2 Managing Server topology -- 4.2.3 Managing Server tuning considerations -- 4.2.4 Using Request Mapper -- 4.2.5 Using SMF records on z/OS -- 4.2.6 Synchronizing clocks across servers -- 4.3 Administration -- 4.3.1 Users and roles -- 4.3.2 Server groups -- 4.3.3 Application Monitor database management -- 4.3.4 Monitoring levels -- 4.3.5 Changing monitoring levels -- 4.3.6 Traps and alerts -- 4.3.7 Logs -- 4.3.8 Self diagnosis -- Chapter 5. …”

“…This new and unique book demonstrates that Excel and VBA can play an important role in the explanation and implementation of numerical methods across finance. Advanced Modelling in Finance provides a comprehensive look at equities, options on equities and options on bonds from the early 1950s to the late 1990s. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…6.1 Relationship to the Architecture Business Cycle -- 6.2 Requirements and Qualities -- 6.3 Architectural Solution -- 6.4 Summary -- 6.5 For Further Reading -- 6.6 Discussion Questions -- CHAPTER 7 Designing the Architecture -- 7.1 Architecture in the Life Cycle -- 7.2 Designing the Architecture -- 7.3 Forming the Team Structure -- 7.4 Creating a Skeletal System -- 7.5 Summary -- 7.6 For Further Reading -- 7.7 Discussion Questions -- CHAPTER 8 Flight Simulation: A Case Study in an Architecture for Integrability -- 8.1 Relationship to the Architecture Business Cycle -- 8.2 Requirements and Qualities -- 8.3 Architectural Solution -- 8.4 Summary -- 8.5 For Further Reading -- 8.6 Discussion Questions -- CHAPTER 9 Documenting Software Architectures -- 9.1 Uses of Architectural Documentation -- 9.2 Views -- 9.3 Choosing the Relevant Views -- 9.4 Documenting a View -- 9.5 Documentation across Views -- 9.6 Unified Modeling Language -- 9.7 Summary -- 9.8 For Further Reading -- 9.9 Discussion Questions -- CHAPTER 10 Reconstructing Software Architectures -- 10.1 Introduction -- 10.2 Information Extraction -- 10.3 Database Construction -- 10.4 View Fusion -- 10.5 Reconstruction -- 10.6 Example -- 10.7 Summary -- 10.8 For Further Reading -- 10.9 Discussion Questions -- PART THREE: ANALYZING ARCHITECTURES -- CHAPTER 11 The ATAM: A Comprehensive Method for Architecture Evaluation -- 11.1 Participants in the ATAM -- 11.2 Outputs of the ATAM -- 11.3 Phases of the ATAM -- 11.4 The Nightingale System: A Case Study in Applying the ATAM -- 11.5 Summary -- 11.6 For Further Reading -- 11.7 Discussion Questions -- CHAPTER 12 The CBAM: A Quantitative Approach to Architecture Design Decision Making -- 12.1 Decision-Making Context -- 12.2 The Basis for the CBAM -- 12.3 Implementing the CBAM -- 12.4 Case Study: The NASA ECS Project -- 12.5 Results of the CBAM Exercise…”

“…The various media that fly across the network including voice, video, and data have different idiosyncrasies that try the dimensions of the network. …”