Excel Essentials: A Step-by-Step Guide with Pictures for Absolute Beginners to Master the Basics and Start Using Excel with Confidence by Nigel Tillery (153 Reviews)    Price verified 13 hours ago

SPECIAL BONUS: Only The PAPERBACK VERSION Includes exclusive access to the "Excel Fundamentals" Video Course Are you new to Excel and looking for an easy-to-follow, step-by-step guide? Look no further! Unlock a video course, 'Excel Fundamentals,' when you purchase the paperback version. This exclusive BONUS is your golden ticket to hands-on learning of how to use Excel from the basics. In today's fast-paced digital world, knowing how to use Excel, even at a basic level,is crucial for successin various professional fields. Don't let your lack of Excel knowledge hold you back any longer! With "Excel Essentials: A Step-by-Step Guide with Pictures for Absolute Beginners," you'll master the basics of Excel and gain the confidence to use it effectively. Here's what makes this guide the perfect choice: • Comprehensive coverage of essential Excel topics for beginners • Packed with lots of pictures for easy understanding and learning • Step-by-step guidance to ensure you grasp each concept thoroughly • Tailored specifically for those who have never used Excel before • Expert tips on keyboard shortcuts, utilizing the help function, and organizational best practices • Learn how to create charts and graphs to visualize data effectively • Develop a valuable skill that is in high demand in the job market Don't let the fear of Excel hold you back any longer. Don't miss out on the opportunity to master Excel and unlock its full potential. Grab your copy today and start your journey toward becoming an Excel expert! Scroll up, Click on "Read Now", and Start Today!

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Artificial Intelligence Oceanography by Xiaofeng Li (3 Reviews)    Price verified 14 hours ago

This open access book invites readers to learn how to develop artificial intelligence (AI)-based algorithms to perform their research in oceanography. Various examples are exhibited to guide details of how to feed the big ocean data into the AI models to analyze and achieve optimized results. The number of scholars engaged in AI oceanography research will increase exponentially in the next decade. Therefore, this book will serve as a benchmark providing insights for scholars and graduate students interested in oceanography, computer science, and remote sensing.

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Electronic Voting: 7th International Joint Conference, E-Vote-ID 2022, Bregenz, Austria, October 4–7, 2022, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer ... by Robert Krimmer (Springer) (2 Reviews)    Price verified 13 hours ago

This open access book LNCS 13353 constitutes the proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Electronic Voting, E-Vote-ID 2022, held in Bregenz, Austria, in October 2022. The 10 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 39 submissions. The conference collected the most relevant debates on the development of Electronic Voting, from aspects relating to security and usability through to practical experiences and applications of voting systems, also including legal, social, or political aspects, amongst others.

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Front Matter, Back Matter, and Metadata: Best Practice Guides for Authors by Paul Salvette (BB eBooks) (37 Reviews)    Price verified 11 hours ago

In the modern world of publishing where authors are expected to publish several books a year, standards and literary traditions that have existed for centuries can understandably be overlooked. Additionally, in the rush to place a book on the market, authors often do not adequately utilize the excellent opportunity to promote themselves from within their own books. With modern technology, we can do better. As part of the Best Practice Guides for Authors from BB eBooks, Front Matter, Back Matter, and Metadata is a short guide that will help you: ? Ensure you have front matter and back matter that is organized properly to give your book a professional look ? Understand what metadata can be embedded within an eBook and how it relates to discoverability ? Gain comprehension of how more complicated back matter like an Index and Notes section can function in an eBook ? Utilize vendor-specific buy links to boost your sales and author brand Pick up a copy of Front Matter, Back Matter, and Metadata and improve your publishing level of knowledge to give you a professional edge.

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Big Data and Artificial Intelligence in Digital Finance: Increasing Personalization and Trust in Digital Finance using Big Data and AI by John Soldatos (Springer) (9 Reviews)    Price verified 8 hours ago

This open access book presents how cutting-edge digital technologies like Big Data, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence (AI), and Blockchain are set to disrupt the financial sector. The book illustrates how recent advances in these technologies facilitate banks, FinTech, and financial institutions to collect, process, analyze, and fully leverage the very large amounts of data that are nowadays produced and exchanged in the sector. To this end, the book also describes some more the most popular Big Data, AI and Blockchain applications in the sector, including novel applications in the areas of Know Your Customer (KYC), Personalized Wealth Management and Asset Management, Portfolio Risk Assessment, as well as variety of novel Usage-based Insurance applications based on Internet-of-Things data. Most of the presented applications have been developed, deployed and validated in real-life digital finance settings in the context of the European Commission funded INFINITECH project, which is a flagship innovation initiative for Big Data and AI in digital finance. This book is ideal for researchers and practitioners in Big Data, AI, banking and digital finance.

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Foundations of Robotics: A Multidisciplinary Approach with Python and ROS by Damith Herath (6 Reviews)    Price verified 13 hours ago

This open access book introduces key concepts in robotics in an easy to understand language using an engaging project-based approach. It covers contemporary topics in robotics, providing an accessible entry point to fundamentals in all the major domains. A section is dedicated to introducing programming concepts using Python, which has become a language of choice in robotics and AI. The book also introduces the reader to the Robot Operating System (ROS), the ubiquitous software and algorithmic framework used by researchers and the industry. The book provides an inspired, up-to-date and multidisciplinary introduction to robotics in its many forms, including emerging topics related to robotics on Machine Learning, ethics, Human-Robot Interaction, and Design Thinking. The book also includes interviews with industry experts, providing an additional layer of insight into the world of robotics. The book is made open access through the generous support from Kinova Robotics. The book is suitable as an undergraduate textbook in a relevant engineering course. It is also suitable for students in art and design, high school students, and self-learners who would like to explore foundational concepts in robotics. "This book provides the 'foundation' for understanding how robots work. It is the accessible introduction that artists and engineers have been waiting for." - Ken Goldberg, William S. Floyd Jr. Distinguished Chair in Engineering, UC Berkeley.

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Python For Beginners: A Practical and Step-by-Step Guide to Programming with Python by Daniel Correa (7 Reviews)    Price verified 10 hours ago

Python For Beginners: A Practical and Step-by-Step Guide to Programming with Python Book Description This book is for beginners in programming and Python. The book covers all the basic and fundamental elements of programming in Python, including topics such as computers, programming, algorithms, variables, conditionals, loops, functions, lists, dictionaries, files, and a brief introduction to libraries. It is a short book designed not to overwhelm the reader. You will find hundreds of pieces of code, diagrams, a cheat sheet, exercises, and a very practical approach to learning. You'll be up and running with Python in no time. By the end of the book, you will have acquired knowledge about basic programming concepts and techniques, which can later be applied to more advanced projects. This will allow you to continue your learning journey with greater ease and confidence. What you will learn: • The basic elements of computing and programming. • How to design algorithms. • How to use Colab. • The fundamental elements of Python programming language. • How to solve dozens of programming exercises. • How to manipulate files and perform data analysis. • How to use libraries in Python and create charts with Matplotlib. This book contains the following chapters: • Chapter 01 - Introduction. • Chapter 02 - Computers and programming. • Chapter 03 - Python. • Chapter 04 - Hello world in Colab. • Chapter 05 - Int, float, and str variables. • Chapter 06 - Data input and output. • Chapter 07 - Simple conditionals. • Chapter 08 - Multiple conditionals. • Chapter 09 - While loop. • Chapter 10 - Strings. • Chapter 11 - Lists. • Chapter 12 - Dictionaries. • Chapter 13 - For loop. • Chapter 14 - Functions. • Chapter 15 - Counters, accumulators, and flags. • Chapter 16 - Files. • Chapter 17 - Libraries - Matplotlib. • Chapter 18 - Continue your learning. • Chapter 19 - Exercise solutions. Who is this ...

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From Digital Twins to Digital Selves and Beyond: Engineering and Social Models for a Trans-humanist World by Franz Barachini (Springer) (2 Reviews)    Price verified 8 hours ago

This open access book aims at deepening the understanding of the relation between cyber-physical systems (CPSs) as socio-technical systems and their digital representations with intertwined artificial intelligence (AI). The authors describe why it is crucial for digital selves to be able to develop emotional behavior and why a humanity-inspired AI is necessary so that humans and humanoids can coexist. The introductory chapter describes major milestones in computer science which form the basis for the implementation of digital twins and digital selves. The subsequent Part I then lays the foundation to develop a socio-technical understanding of the nature of digital twins as representations and trans-human development objects. Following the conceptual understanding of digital twins and how they could be engineered according to cognitive and organizational structures, Part II forms the groundwork for understanding social behavior and its modeling. It discusses various perception-based socio-emotional approaches before sketching behavior-relevant models and their simulation capabilities. In particular, it is shown how emotions can substantially influence the collective behavior of artificial actors. Part III eventually presents a symbiosis showing under which preconditions digital selves might construct and produce digital twins as integrated design elements in trans-human ecosystems. The chapters in this part are dedicated to opportunities and modes of co-creating reflective socio-trans-human systems based on digital twin models, exploring mutual control and continuous development. The final epilog is congenitally speculative in its nature by presenting thoughts on future developments of artificial life in computational substrates. The book is written for researchers and professionals in areas like cyber-physical systems, robotics, social simulation or systems engineering, interested to take a speculative look into the future of digital twins and autonomous agents. ...

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Challenges with Distributed Systems by Amazon Builders' Library (42 Reviews)    Price verified 8 hours ago

December 2019 Introducing properties of distributed systems that make them so challenging, including non-determinism and testing. This documentation is offered for free here as a Kindle book, or you can read it in PDF format at https://aws.amazon.com/builders-library/.

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Artificial Ink: A Study of AI Done By Artificial Minds by Muhammad Khurram (8 Reviews)    Price verified 9 hours ago

Artificial Ink: A Study of AI Done By Artificial Minds presents an insightful exploration of the far-reaching impact of artificial intelligence beyond non-fiction books. From transforming industries to reshaping education and employment, this book delves into the profound effects of AI across various aspects of our lives. With an expert blend of storytelling and technical insights, the book unveils the intricacies of training AI models, curating vast amounts of data, and leveraging machine learning algorithms to generate a coherent and engaging narrative. From scientific research to historical analysis, the author demonstrates how AI has become an indispensable tool in augmenting human intellect and expanding the boundaries of knowledge. Artificial Ink: A Study of AI Done By Artificial Minds not only celebrates the remarkable achievements made possible by AI but also delves into the ethical considerations surrounding its use. By examining the implications of AI-driven content creation, the book prompts readers to reflect on the role of technology in shaping our understanding of the world and its impact on the future of non-fiction writing. Through captivating anecdotes and thought-provoking analysis, this book offers a captivating glimpse into the cutting-edge realm where human creativity intertwines with artificial intelligence to redefine the landscape of non-fiction literature.

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Twining: Critical and Creative Approaches to Hypertext Narratives by Anastasia Salter Price verified 9 hours ago

Hypertext is now commonplace: links and linking structure nearly all of our experiences online. Yet the literary, as opposed to commercial, potential of hypertext has receded. One of the few tools still focused on hypertext as a means for digital storytelling is Twine, a platform for building choice-driven stories without relying heavily on code. In Twining, Anastasia Salter and Stuart Moulthrop lead readers on a journey at once technical, critical, contextual, and personal. The book's chapters alternate careful, stepwise discussion of adaptable Twine projects, offer commentary on exemplary Twine works, and discuss Twine's technological and cultural background. Beyond telling the story of Twine and how to make Twine stories, Twining reflects on the ongoing process of making. "While there have certainly been attempts to study Twine historically and theoretically... no single publication has provided such a detailed account of it. And no publication has even attempted to situate Twine amongst its many different conversations and traditions, something this book does masterfully." -- James Brown, Rutgers University, Camden

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Sonic Interactions in Virtual Environments (Human–Computer Interaction Series) by Michele Geronazzo (1 Review)    Price verified 9 hours ago

This open access book tackles the design of 3D spatial interactions in an audio-centered and audio-first perspective, providing the fundamental notions related to the creation and evaluation of immersive sonic experiences. The key elements that enhance the sensation of place in a virtual environment (VE) are: Immersive audio: the computational aspects of the acoustical-space properties of Virutal Reality (VR) technologies Sonic interaction: the human-computer interplay through auditory feedback in VE VR systems: naturally support multimodal integration, impacting different application domains Sonic Interactions in Virtual Environments will feature state-of-the-art research on real-time auralization, sonic interaction design in VR, quality of the experience in multimodal scenarios, and applications. Contributors and editors include interdisciplinary experts from the fields of computer science, engineering, acoustics, psychology, design, humanities, and beyond. Their mission is to shape an emerging new field of study at the intersection of sonic interaction design and immersive media, embracing an archipelago of existing research spread in different audio communities and to increase among the VR communities, researchers, and practitioners, the awareness of the importance of sonic elements when designing immersive environments.

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Data Communications and Network Technologies by Ltd. Huawei Technologies Co. (Springer) (1 Review)    Price verified 13 hours ago

This open access book is written according to the examination outline for Huawei HCIA-Routing Switching V2.5 certification, aiming to help readers master the basics of network communications and use Huawei network devices to set up enterprise LANs and WANs, wired networks, and wireless networks, ensure network security for enterprises, and grasp cutting-edge computer network technologies. The content of this book includes: network communication fundamentals, TCP/IP protocol, Huawei VRP operating system, IP addresses and subnetting, static and dynamic routing, Ethernet networking technology, ACL and AAA, network address translation, DHCP server, WLAN, IPv6, WAN PPP and PPPoE protocol, typical networking architecture and design cases of campus networks, SNMP protocol used by network management, operation and maintenance, network time protocol NTP, SND and NFV, programming, and automation. As the world's leading provider of ICT (information and communication technology) infrastructure and smart terminals, Huawei's products range from digital data communication, cyber security, wireless technology, data storage, cloud-computing, and smart computing to artificial intelligence.

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Process Mining Handbook (Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing 448) by Wil M. P. van der Aalst (Springer) (1 Review)    Price verified 14 hours ago

This is an open access book. This book comprises all the single courses given as part of the First Summer School on Process Mining, PMSS 2022, which was held in Aachen, Germany, during July 4-8, 2022. This volume contains 17 chapters organized into the following topical sections: Introduction; process discovery; conformance checking; data preprocessing; process enhancement and monitoring; assorted process mining topics; industrial perspective and applications; and closing.

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Building Better Interfaces for Remote Autonomous Systems: An Introduction for Systems Engineers (Human–Computer Interaction Series) by Jacob D. Oury (1 Review)    Price verified 10 hours ago

This 'Open Access' SpringerBrief provides foundational knowledge for designing autonomous, asynchronous systems and explains aspects of users relevant to designing for these systems, introduces principles for user-centered design, and prepares readers for more advanced and specific readings. It provides context and the implications for design choices made during the design and development of the complex systems that are part of operation centers. As such, each chapter includes principles to summarize the design implication that engineers can use to inform their own design of interfaces for operation centers and similar systems. It includes example materials for the design of a fictitious system, which are referenced in the book and can be duplicated and extended for real systems. The design materials include a system overview, the system architecture, an example scenario, a stakeholder analysis, a task analysis, a description of the system and interface technology, and contextualized design guidelines. The guidelines can be specified because the user, the task, and the technology are well specified as an example. Building Better Interfaces for Remote Autonomous Systems is for working system engineers who are designing interfaces used in high throughput, high stake, operation centers (op centers) or control rooms, such as network operation centers (NOCs). Intended users will have a technical undergraduate degree (e.g., computer science) with little or no training in design, human sciences, or with human-centered iterative design methods and practices. Background research for the book was supplemented by interaction with the intended audience through a related project with L3Harris Technologies (formerly Harris Corporation).

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Security in Computer and Information Sciences: Second International Symposium, EuroCybersec 2021, Nice, France, October 25–26, 2021, Revised ... by Erol Gelenbe (Springer) (2 Reviews)    Price verified 9 hours ago

This open access book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the Second International Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences, EuroCybersec 2021, held in Nice, France, in October 2021. The 9 papers presented together with 1 invited paper were carefully reviewed and selected from 21 submissions. The papers focus on topics of security of distributed interconnected systems, software systems, Internet of Things, health informatics systems, energy systems, digital cities, digital economy, mobile networks, and the underlying physical and network infrastructures. This is an open access book.

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Automated Reasoning: 11th International Joint Conference, IJCAR 2022, Haifa, Israel, August 8–10, 2022, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer ... by Jasmin Blanchette (1 Review)    Price verified 10 hours ago

This volume, LNAI 13385, constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Joint Conference on Automated Reasoning, IJCAR 2022, held in Haifa, Israel, in August 2022. The 32 full research papers and 9 short papers presented together with two invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 85 submissions. The papers focus on the following topics: Satisfiability, SMT Solving,Arithmetic; Calculi and Orderings; Knowledge Representation and Jutsification; Choices, Invariance, Substitutions and Formalization; Modal Logics; Proofs System and Proofs Search; Evolution, Termination and Decision Prolems. This is an open access book.

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xxAI - Beyond Explainable AI: International Workshop, Held in Conjunction with ICML 2020, July 18, 2020, Vienna, Austria, Revised and Extended Papers ... by Andreas Holzinger (1 Review)    Price verified 10 hours ago

This is an open access book. Statistical machine learning (ML) has triggered a renaissance of artificial intelligence (AI). While the most successful ML models, including Deep Neural Networks (DNN), have developed better predictivity, they have become increasingly complex, at the expense of human interpretability (correlation vs. causality). The field of explainable AI (xAI) has emerged with the goal of creating tools and models that are both predictive and interpretable and understandable for humans. Explainable AI is receiving huge interest in the machine learning and AI research communities, across academia, industry, and government, and there is now an excellent opportunity to push towards successful explainable AI applications. This volume will help the research community to accelerate this process, to promote a more systematic use of explainable AI to improve models in diverse applications, and ultimately to better understand how current explainable AI methods need to be improved and what kind of theory of explainable AI is needed. After overviews of current methods and challenges, the editors include chapters that describe new developments in explainable AI. The contributions are from leading researchers in the field, drawn from both academia and industry, and many of the chapters take a clear interdisciplinary approach to problem-solving. The concepts discussed include explainability, causability, and AI interfaces with humans, and the applications include image processing, natural language, law, fairness, and climate science.

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Microsimulation Population Projections with SAS: A Reference Guide (SpringerBriefs in Population Studies) by Guillaume Marois (1 Review)    Price verified 9 hours ago

This open access book provides a step-by-step overview on how to build a microsimulation model with SAS. It shows how to convert an already existing multistate projection by age, sex, education and region into a microsimulation model. Two new dimensions are then added, either the labor force participation and the sector of activity, and/or some examples of outputs and alternative scenarios that would not be possible with standard demographic methods. The book also describes how to adapt the model for other countries or other purposes. It also provides details on how to extend and adapt the model for other purposes as well as other use of microsimulation with SAS. The book suggests codes that are easy to understand, so they can be replicated or adapted for other purposes. As such, this book provides a great resource for people with beginner to intermediate knowledge in SAS.

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Programming Languages and Systems: 31st European Symposium on Programming, ESOP 2022, Held as Part of the European Joint Conferences on Theory and ... by Ilya Sergey (1 Review)    Price verified 5 hours ago

This open access book constitutes the proceedings of the 31st European Symposium on Programming, ESOP 2022, which was held during April 5-7, 2022, in Munich, Germany, as part of the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2022. The 21 regular papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 64 submissions. They deal with fundamental issues in the specification, design, analysis, and implementation of programming languages and systems.

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Ernst Denert Award for Software Engineering 2020: Practice Meets Foundations by Michael Felderer (Springer) (1 Review)    Price verified 9 hours ago

This open access book provides an overview of the dissertations of the eleven nominees for the Ernst Denert Award for Software Engineering in 2020. The prize, kindly sponsored by the Gerlind & Ernst Denert Stiftung, is awarded for excellent work within the discipline of Software Engineering, which includes methods, tools and procedures for better and efficient development of high quality software. An essential requirement for the nominated work is its applicability and usability in industrial practice. The book contains eleven papers that describe the works by Jonathan Brachthäuser (EPFL Lausanne) entitled What You See Is What You Get: Practical Effect Handlers in Capability-Passing Style, Mojdeh Golagha's (Fortiss, Munich) thesis How to Effectively Reduce Failure Analysis Time?, Nikolay Harutyunyan's (FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg) work on Open Source Software Governance, Dominic Henze's (TU Munich) research about Dynamically Scalable Fog Architectures, Anne Hess's (Fraunhofer IESE, Kaiserslautern) work on Crossing Disciplinary Borders to Improve Requirements Communication,Istvan Koren's (RWTH Aachen U) thesis DevOpsUse: A Community-Oriented Methodology for Societal Software Engineering, Yannic Noller's (NU Singapore) work on Hybrid Differential Software Testing, Dominic Steinhofel's (TU Darmstadt) thesis entitled Ever Change a Running System: Structured Software Reengineering Using Automatically Proven-Correct Transformation Rules, Peter Wägemann's (FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg) work Static Worst-Case Analyses and Their Validation Techniques for Safety-Critical Systems, Michael von Wenckstern's (RWTH Aachen U) research on Improving the Model-Based Systems Engineering Process, and Franz Zieris's (FU Berlin) thesis on Understanding How Pair Programming Actually Works in Industry: Mechanisms, Patterns, and Dynamics - which actually won the award. The chapters describe key findings of the respective works, show their relevance and applicability to practice and industrial ...

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Rhetorical Code Studies: Discovering Arguments in and around Code (Sweetland Digital Rhetoric Collaborative) by Kevin Brock (University of Michigan Press) (6 Reviews)    Price verified 13 hours ago

Winner of the 2017 Sweetland Digital Rhetoric Collaborative Book Prize Software developers work rhetorically to make meaning through the code they write. In some ways, writing code is like any other form of communication; in others, it proves to be new, exciting, and unique. In Rhetorical Code Studies, Kevin Brock explores how software code serves as meaningful communication through which software developers construct arguments that are made up of logical procedures and express both implicit and explicit claims as to how a given program operates. Building on current scholarly work in digital rhetoric, software studies, and technical communication, Brock connects and continues ongoing conversations among rhetoricians, technical communicators, software studies scholars, and programming practitioners to demonstrate how software code and its surrounding discourse are highly rhetorical forms of communication. He considers examples ranging from large, well-known projects like Mozilla Firefox to small-scale programs like the "FizzBuzz" test common in many programming job interviews. Undertaking specific examinations of code texts as well as the contexts surrounding their composition, Brock illuminates the variety and depth of rhetorical activity taking place in and around code, from individual differences in style to changes in large-scale organizational and community norms. Rhetorical Code Studies holds significant implications for digital communication, multimodal composition, and the cultural analysis of software and its creation. It will interest academics and students of writing, rhetoric, and software engineering as well as technical communicators and developers of all types of software.

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Autonomic approach for fault tolerance using scaling, replication and monitoring of servers in cloud computing by Ashima Garg (1 Review)    Price verified 10 hours ago

Master's Thesis from the year 2015 in the subject Computer Science - Technical Computer Science, , course: M.Tech (CSE), language: English, abstract: This work introduces an autonomic prospective on managing the fault tolerance which ensure scalability, reliability and availability. HAProxy has been used to provide scaling to the web servers for load balancing in proactive manner. It also monitors the web servers for fault prevention at the user level. Our framework works with autonomic mirroring and load balancing of data in database servers using MySQL master- master replication and Nginx respectively. Here nginx is used to balance the load among the database servers. It shifts the request to the appropriate DB server. Administrator keeps an eye on working of servers through Nagios tool 24X7 monitoring can't be done manually by the service provider. The proposed work has been implemented in the cloud virtualization environment. Experimental results show that our framework can deal with fault tolerance very effectively. Cloud based systems are more popular in today's world but fault tolerance in cloud is a gigantic challenge, as it affects the reliability and availability for the end users. A number of tools have been deployed to minimize the impact of faults. A fault tolerable system ensures to perform continuous operation and produce correct results even after the failure of components up to some extent. More over huge amount of data in the cloud cannot monitor manually by the administrator. Automated tools, dynamic deploying of more servers are the basic requirements of the today's cloud system in order to handle unexpected traffic spikes in the network.

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Architecture of Advanced Numerical Analysis Systems: Designing a Scientific Computing System using OCaml by Liang Wang (Apress) (4 Reviews)    Price verified 5 hours ago

This unique open access book applies the functional OCaml programming language to numerical or computational weighted data science, engineering, and scientific applications. This book is based on the authors' first-hand experience building and maintaining Owl, an OCaml-based numerical computing library. You'll first learn the various components in a modern numerical computation library. Then, you will learn how these components are designed and built up and how to optimize their performance. After reading and using this book, you'll have the knowledge required to design and build real-world complex systems that effectively leverage the advantages of the OCaml functional programming language. What You Will Learn • Optimize core operations based on N-dimensional arrays • Design and implement an industry-level algorithmic differentiation module • Implement mathematical optimization, regression, and deep neural network functionalities based on algorithmic differentiation • Design and optimize a computation graph module, and understand the benefits it brings to the numerical computing library • Accommodate the growing number of hardware accelerators (e.g. GPU, TPU) and execution backends (e.g. web browser, unikernel) of numerical computation • Use the Zoo system for efficient scripting, code sharing, service deployment, and composition • Design and implement a distributed computing engine to work with a numerical computing library, providing convenient APIs and high performance Who This Book Is For Those with prior programming experience, especially with the OCaml programming language, or with scientific computing experience who may be new to OCaml. Most importantly, it is for those who are eager to understand not only how to use something, but also how it is built up.

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The Digital Playbook: A Practitioner’s Guide to Smart, Connected Products and Solutions with AIoT by Dirk Slama (Springer) Price verified 7 hours ago

This open access book is a practitioner's guide to smart, connected products and solutions. As a hands-on playbook, it combines the business and technical execution perspectives to help product companies, OEMs, manufacturers and equipment operators utilize the full potential of digital enablers, especially Artificial Intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT) and Digital Twins. The Digital Playbook provides comprehensive and actionable guidance, helping to address the challenges of creating sustainable and scalable digital business models, managing cocreation and sourcing, setting up the digital organization, and handling the legal aspects. For the technical execution perspective, the playbook includes the AIoT Framework, which explains how to combine data science and AI engineering with Digital Twins, as well as software development for cloud and edge. The integration with physical product development and retrofit integration of existing equipment is included as well. A pragmatic, agile approach is introduced that takes common agile inhibitors into consideration. A holistic AIoT DevOps approach is described, which combines key elements of DevOps for cloud, edge and AI. Enterprise readiness is ensured by looking at trust and security as well as reliability and resilience for AIoT. A large number of real-world examples and case studies help ensure practical relevance. Readers should have a previous, general understanding of digital strategies and technologies. This book offers readers a clear understanding of the opportunities, as well as the challenges related to building and operating smart, connected products and solutions. They are given a set of tools and blueprints, which they can apply to their practical work in this space.

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Hyperparameter Tuning for Machine and Deep Learning with R: A Practical Guide by Eva Bartz (3 Reviews)    Price verified 9 hours ago

This open access book provides a wealth of hands-on examples that illustrate how hyperparameter tuning can be applied in practice and gives deep insights into the working mechanisms of machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL) methods. The aim of the book is to equip readers with the ability to achieve better results with significantly less time, costs, effort and resources using the methods described here. The case studies presented in this book can be run on a regular desktop or notebook computer. No high-performance computing facilities are required. The idea for the book originated in a study conducted by Bartz & Bartz GmbH for the Federal Statistical Office of Germany (Destatis). Building on that study, the book is addressed to practitioners in industry as well as researchers, teachers and students in academia. The content focuses on the hyperparameter tuning of ML and DL algorithms, and is divided into two main parts: theory (Part I) and application (Part II). Essential topics covered include: a survey of important model parameters; four parameter tuning studies and one extensive global parameter tuning study; statistical analysis of the performance of ML and DL methods based on severity; and a new, consensus-ranking-based way to aggregate and analyze results from multiple algorithms. The book presents analyses of more than 30 hyperparameters from six relevant ML and DL methods, and provides source code so that users can reproduce the results. Accordingly, it serves as a handbook and textbook alike.

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Proceedings of the 2020 DigitalFUTURES: The 2nd International Conference on Computational Design and Robotic Fabrication (CDRF 2020) by Philip F. Yuan (Springer) Price verified 14 hours ago

This open access book is a compilation of selected papers from 2020 DigitalFUTURES -- The 2nd International Conference on Computational Design and Robotic Fabrication (CDRF 2020). The book focuses on novel techniques for computational design and robotic fabrication. The contents make valuable contributions to academic researchers, designers, and engineers in the industry. As well, readers will encounter new ideas about understanding intelligence in architecture.

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Artificial Intelligence Technology by Ltd. Huawei Technologies Co. (2 Reviews)    Price verified 10 hours ago

This open access book aims to give our readers a basic outline of today's research and technology developments on artificial intelligence (AI), help them to have a general understanding of this trend, and familiarize them with the current research hotspots, as well as part of the fundamental and common theories and methodologies that are widely accepted in AI research and application. This book is written in comprehensible and plain language, featuring clearly explained theories and concepts and extensive analysis and examples. Some of the traditional findings are skipped in narration on the premise of a relatively comprehensive introduction to the evolution of artificial intelligence technology. The book provides a detailed elaboration of the basic concepts of AI, machine learning, as well as other relevant topics, including deep learning, deep learning framework, Huawei MindSpore AI development framework, Huawei Atlas computing platform, Huawei AI open platform for smart terminals, and Huawei CLOUD Enterprise Intelligence application platform. As the world's leading provider of ICT (information and communication technology) infrastructure and smart terminals, Huawei's products range from digital data communication, cyber security, wireless technology, data storage, cloud computing, and smart computing to artificial intelligence.

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La guía del ligue (capítulo de regalo): Cómo salir bien librado en el complejo mundo del amor (Spanish Edition) by Gabriel Montiel Guitérrez (Werevertumorro) (382 Reviews)    Price verified 13 hours ago

Un libro que retrata las situaciones más cómicas, complicadas y desesperantes de las parejas actuales, con todo el humor que caracteriza al Werevertumorro. Descarga este capítulo de forma gratuita y descubre los consejos del Werevertumorro para salir bien librado en el complicado mundo del amor. Con más de 10 millones de seguidores en su canal, Werevertumorro fue el primer youtuber latino en tener 1 millón de suscriptores. Con todo el humor que caracteriza a W2M, este libro retrata las situaciones más cómicas, complicadas y desesperantes de las parejas actuales. Werevertumorro nos da su punto de vista sobre el flechazo, la friendzone, el truene, y hasta el efectivo uso del whatsapp. Una guía completa y divertida en la que el famoso youtuber mexicano nos ayuda a sobrellevar el difícil arte de ligar.

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Static Stability Using Availability Zones by Amazon Builders' Library (21 Reviews)    Price verified 5 hours ago

December 2019 Architecting to use multiple availability zones for high availability and ensuring systems are statically stable. This documentation is offered for free here as a Kindle book, or you can read it in PDF format at https://aws.amazon.com/builders-library/.

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Deployment and Operation of Complex Software in Heterogeneous Execution Environments: The SODALITE Approach (SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and ... by Elisabetta Di Nitto (1 Review)    Price verified 52 minutes ago

This open access book provides an overview of the work developed within the SODALITE project, which aims at facilitating the deployment and operation of distributed software on top of heterogeneous infrastructures, including cloud, HPC and edge resources. The experts participating in the project describe how SODALITE works and how it can be exploited by end users. While multiple languages and tools are available in the literature to support DevOps teams in the automation of deployment and operation steps, still these activities require specific know-how and skills that cannot be found in average teams. The SODALITE framework tackles this problem by offering modelling and smart editing features to allow those we call Application Ops Experts to work without knowing low level details about the adopted, potentially heterogeneous, infrastructures. The framework offers also mechanisms to verify the quality of the defined models, generate the corresponding executable infrastructural code, automatically wrap application components within proper execution containers, orchestrate all activities concerned with deployment and operation of all system components, and support on-the-fly self-adaptation and refactoring.

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Designing Digital Work: Concepts and Methods for Human-centered Digitization by Stefan Oppl (Palgrave Macmillan) (12 Reviews)    Price verified 5 hours ago

Combining theory, methodology and tools, this open access book illustrates how to guide innovation in today's digitized business environment. Highlighting the importance of human knowledge and experience in implementing business processes, the authors take a conceptual perspective to explore the challenges and issues currently facing organizations. Subsequent chapters put these concepts into practice, discussing instruments that can be used to support the articulation and alignment of knowledge within work processes. A timely and comprehensive set of tools and case studies, this book is essential reading for those researching innovation and digitization, organization and business strategy.

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Ethics of Artificial Intelligence: Case Studies and Options for Addressing Ethical Challenges (SpringerBriefs in Research and Innovation Governance) by Bernd Carsten Stahl (2 Reviews)    Price verified 8 hours ago

This open access collection of AI ethics case studies is the first book to present real-life case studies combined with commentaries and strategies for overcoming ethical challenges. Case studies are one of the best ways to learn about ethical dilemmas and to achieve insights into various complexities and stakeholder perspectives. Given the omnipresence of AI ethics in academic, policy and media debates, the book will be suitable for a wide range of audiences, from scholars of different disciplines (e.g. AI science, ethics, politics, philosophy, economics) to policy-makers, lobbying NGOs, teachers and the educated public.

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(Part 1) You Must Learn VBScript for QTP/UFT: Don't Ignore The Language For Functional Automation Testing by Rex Allen Jones II (96 Reviews)    Price verified 14 hours ago

Are You Interested in QTP/UFT? This is one of the best VBScript books specifically for QTP/UFT Note: The Kindle Edition is free. Book available on your kindle device, tablet, phone, PDF, PC, Mac, and paperback (Black/White & Color). You will find details of downloading the PDF document inside the book. 3 Tips To Master QTP/UFT Within 30 Days Copy and paste this URL http://tinyurl.com/3-Tips-For-QTP-UFT into your browser to receive your tips Why Read Part 1 - You Must Learn VBScript for QTP/UFT? Most VBScript books provide a great deal of VBScript information that is not necessary for QTP/UFT. On the other hand, there are QTP/UFT books that do not provide enough VBScript information. This disparity of information causes automation engineers to struggle with automation projects involving VBScript. This book offers applicable VBScript information for QTP/UFT via screenshots and code that can be used with all VBScript Editors or QTP/UFT. Is Communication Important? Absolutely, communication is important. People all over the world express their thoughts, feelings, and information through communication. VBScript is a lightweight programming language that communicates to QTP/UFT. It is impossible to effectively test an Application Under Test (AUT) using QTP/UFT without learning VBScript. Target Audience Beginners (Minimum to no knowledge of programming) Don't Miss Out! You Need To Read This Book Because You Will Learn: Variables and Data Types Hungarian Naming Convention Operators Arrays Flow Control Procedures/Functions Objects Scroll Up and Download Your Copy

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Cyber Security: 19th China Annual Conference, CNCERT 2022, Beijing, China, August 16–17, 2022, Revised Selected Papers (Communications in Computer ... by Wei Lu (Springer) Price verified 7 hours ago

This open access book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 18th China Annual Conference on Cyber Security, CNCERT 2022, held in Beijing, China, in August 2022. The 17 papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 64 submissions. The papers are organized according to the following topical sections: ??data security; anomaly detection; cryptocurrency; information security; vulnerabilities; mobile internet; threat intelligence; text recognition.

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Intelligent Systems for Sustainable Person-Centered Healthcare (Intelligent Systems Reference Library Book 205) by Dalia Kriksciuniene (1 Review)    Price verified 13 hours ago

This open access book establishes a dialog among the medical and intelligent system domains for igniting transition toward a sustainable and cost-effective healthcare. The Person-Centered Care (PCC) positions a person in the center of a healthcare system, instead of defining a patient as a set of diagnoses and treatment episodes. The PCC-based conceptual background triggers enhanced application of Artificial Intelligence, as it dissolves the limits of processing traditional medical data records, clinical tests and surveys. Enhanced knowledge for diagnosing, treatment and rehabilitation is captured and utilized by inclusion of data sources characterizing personal lifestyle, and health literacy, and it involves insights derived from smart ambience and wearables data, community networks, and the caregivers' feedback. The book discusses intelligent systems and their applications for healthcare data analysis, decision making and process design tasks. The measurement systems and efficiency evaluation models analyze ability of intelligent healthcare system to monitor person health and improving quality of life.

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Excel Tips and Tricks by M.L. Humphrey (5 Reviews)    Price verified 8 hours ago

Microsoft Excel is an incredibly powerful program that allows for the storage and manipulation of vast amounts of data. But it's much easier to use if you know the tricks and shortcuts that will speed your data input and manipulation. That's what this short book contains. Control shortcuts, tricks, and tips that will help you input data the way you want it and then quickly move through that data and analyze it.

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Passive Income: Proven Ideas Of Side Hustles To Make Money Online (Get Financial Freedom With Blogging, Ecommerce, Dropshipping And Affiliate ... by Mark Johns (3 Reviews)    Price verified 6 hours ago

Use this ideas to immediately start your journey to financial freedom and apply it today! This book contains proven steps and strategies on the secret to financial independence, numerous ways to make money while you sleep, proven ideas of side hustles that will get your time and freedom back. You picked up a book on passive income, probably a little skeptical, but you obviously want freedom, but you are in a situation that constrains you. Doesn't allow you to fully be you and share some awesome with the world. In fact, the millennials are struggling to save 20% of their first home deposit. A large number of people will retire having less than $100,000 in their bank accounts. The easiest solution is to create passive income streams. The author saved more than $100,000 in less than three years, bought his first home, and bought a rental property. This success was possible as the author created passive income streams along with a busy day job. The author wrote this book to discuss numerous solid battle-tested passive income ideas that work today. Each of these ideas has the potential to make you rich. It doesn't take a lot of commitment and high investment. Here Is A Preview Of What You'll Learn... • Create your own automatic money machine • Misunderstanding of passive income recognition • Unexpected form of passive income • Create your portfolio income model • Passive income ideas • A New Way of Thinking If you have never tried generating passive income, you'll find this guide very resourceful and give you a robust start. If you have already tried earlier and failed, don't fret. You need a step-by-step blueprint to start generating passive income. Passive Income is your essential guide to generate multiple passive income stream, so you can work less and earn more. Download your copy today!

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Bootstrap 4 Quick Start: Responsive Web Design and Development Basics for Beginners (Bootstrap 4 Tutorial Book 1) by Jacob Lett (80 Reviews)    Price verified 8 hours ago

Learn Bootstrap 4 and Responsive Web Design... Fast! Code examples updated to v4.2.1 Jan. 2019 Want to improve the design of your web application or website without having to write CSS styles from scratch? Learning web development (html & css) is a lot more challenging than it used to be. Responsive web design adds more layers of complexity to design and develop websites. In this book you will become familiar with the new cards component, setting up the new flexbox grid layout, customizing the look and feel, how to follow the mobile-first development workflow, and more! Web designer and developer Jacob Lett has built 100+ websites and WordPress themes. Let him show you exactly how to build responsive layouts that look great in every browser and device. He shares what you can't learn from the official documentation... the process of actually building a full web design layout. This book is focused on the workflow and does not duplicate what you can already find in the official documentation. This book will show you how to reference the documentation and use it effectively in your projects. BONUS: Includes a link to download a free cheat sheets bundle and a 1 hour training video. Who is this for? • You're a web development beginner and want to learn how to become a developer. • You're an experienced backend developer or programmer (Python, Perl, Node.js, PHP, ASP.NET / .Net Core, Ruby on Rails, SQL etc.) and you want to improve your frontend design skills. • You learned HTML5 & CSS3 but are new to responsive web design basics. • You have used Bootstrap before but want to learn new techniques and workflow. What will I learn? • Learn what responsive web design is, the history behind it, and how the Bootstrap 4 frontend framework makes it easier to implement. • Learn the web design process and how to build a website using Bootstrap 4. • Learn what's new in Bootstrap 4 with a deep focus on CSS3 Flexbox, Cards, and the responsive grid ...

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Supercomputing Frontiers: 6th Asian Conference, SCFA 2020, Singapore, February 24–27, 2020, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science Book ... by Dhabaleswar K. Panda (1 Review)    Price verified 14 hours ago

This open access book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th Asian Supercomputing Conference, SCFA 2020, which was planned to be held in February 2020, but unfortunately, the physical conference was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.The 8 full papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 22 submissions. They cover a range of topics including file systems, memory hierarchy, HPC cloud platform, container image configuration workflow, large-scale applications, and scheduling.

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Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering: 22nd International Conference, FASE 2019, Held as Part of the European Joint Conferences on Theory ... by Reiner Hähnle (Springer) (8 Reviews)    Price verified 13 hours ago

This book is Open Access under a CC BY licence. This book constitutes the proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering, FASE 2019, which took place in Prague, Czech Republic in April 2019, held as Part of the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2019.The 24 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 94 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections named: software verification; model-driven development and model transformation; software evolution and requirements engineering; specification, design, and implementation of particular classes of systems; and software testing.

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Technologies and Applications for Big Data Value by Edward Curry (2 Reviews)    Price verified 5 hours ago

This open access book explores cutting-edge solutions and best practices for big data and data-driven AI applications for the data-driven economy. It provides the reader with a basis for understanding how technical issues can be overcome to offer real-world solutions to major industrial areas. The book starts with an introductory chapter that provides an overview of the book by positioning the following chapters in terms of their contributions to technology frameworks which are key elements of the Big Data Value Public-Private Partnership and the upcoming Partnership on AI, Data and Robotics. The remainder of the book is then arranged in two parts. The first part "Technologies and Methods" contains horizontal contributions of technologies and methods that enable data value chains to be applied in any sector. The second part "Processes and Applications" details experience reports and lessons from using big data and data-driven approaches in processes and applications. Its chapters are co-authored with industry experts and cover domains including health, law, finance, retail, manufacturing, mobility, and smart cities. Contributions emanate from the Big Data Value Public-Private Partnership and the Big Data Value Association, which have acted as the European data community's nucleus to bring together businesses with leading researchers to harness the value of data to benefit society, business, science, and industry. The book is of interest to two primary audiences, first, undergraduate and postgraduate students and researchers in various fields, including big data, data science, data engineering, and machine learning and AI. Second, practitioners and industry experts engaged in data-driven systems, software design and deployment projects who are interested in employing these advanced methods to address real-world problems.

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Technical, Economic and Societal Effects of Manufacturing 4.0: Automation, Adaption and Manufacturing in Finland and Beyond by Mikael Collan (1 Review)    Price verified 6 hours ago

This open access book is among the first cross-disciplinary works about Manufacturing 4.0. It includes chapters about the technical, the economic, and the social aspects of this important phenomenon. Together the material presented allows the reader to develop a holistic picture of where the manufacturing industry and the parts of the society that depend on it may be going in the future. Manufacturing 4.0 is not only a technical change, nor is it a purely technically driven change, but it is a societal change that has the potential to disrupt the way societies are constructed both in the positive and in the negative. This book will be of interest to scholars researching manufacturing, technological innovation, innovation management and industry 4.0.

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Automatic Java Code Generator for Regular Expressions and Finite Automata by Suejb Memeti (31 Reviews)    Price verified 14 hours ago

Programming and resolving problems within automata theory is a complex process, which is time consuming and still the results may not be reliable (because of the great possibility to make mistakes while doing the required traversing steps). This project is an introduction of a tool that automatically generates Java Source Code for a given RE or Finite Automata, which significantly reduces complexity and increases productivity in a very short time. This is also a learning process tool, that can be used as a starting point to better understand the automata theory. Regular Expression Code Generator tool provides support for auto generating Java code for programming and executing (deterministic) finite automatons. It takes as input a regular expression and converts it into an equivalent nondeterministic and deterministic finite automaton, then automatically generates Java Source Code with the implementation of the DFA for the given RE. Regular Expression Code Generator is an interactive software for visualizing finite automata, and converting these automatons in Java executable Source Code in a quick, fast and effective way. It can be found very helpful tool within any course in Automata Theory or some Compiler courses. We intend Regular Expression Code Generator to be used by Students, Teachers and Programmers. For students it will be a good starting point to better understand RE, FA and how these FA are implemented in Java in different ways. For teachers it will be a perfect tool to check and correct student's assignments. Programmers could find it very useful to generate source code in a quick and fast way providing accessibility, performance, and improved programmer productivity while reducing time consumption.

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SQLite Database Programming for Xamarin: Cross-platform C# database development for iOS and Android using SQLite.XM by Anthony Serpico (23 Reviews)    Price verified 6 hours ago

SQLite is the native database for iOS and Android applications. Xamarin is the development framework of choice for creating cross-platform mobile apps. Together, this powerful duo allows you to write a common, shared data persistence layer that works across OS's. This can greatly simplify your mobile development effort. However, you still need to learn to effectively use SQLite. That's where SQLite.XM steps in. 'SQLite Database Programming for Xamarin' will show you how to leverage the power of SQLite.XM to both accelerate and simplify database programming for your mobile applications. SQLite.XM is a freely available SQLite wrapper written in C# and designed to be used with apps developed using Xamarin. SQLite.XM makes using SQLite with Xamarin a snap. It shields your application from the details of working directly with SQLite. Instead, you app interfaces with a high level, cross-platform layer that provides database CRUD functionality. In addition to providing an abstraction layer that greatly simplifies database search and record retrieval. SQLite.XM also takes care of organizing your SQL, initializing your apps schema, performing schema updates, and synchronizing data to a server-side datastore. In Part 1 of this book, I spend some time talking in general terms about data persistence along with issues specific to mobile app development. I also go over the various technologies used in the book to build a data persistence layer. I then go on to discuss database design and challenges specific to designing for mobile apps. Part 2 is dedicated to explaining how to use SQLite.XM for data persistence on the device. This is the heart of the book. Part 3 is where I explain SQLite.XM and cloud replication; how to set up a server-side database and how to get data moved, or copied, from the device to your cloud server.

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The Boost C++ Libraries by Boris Schäling (31 Reviews)    Price verified 14 hours ago

The second edition of "The Boost C++ Libraries" introduces 72 Boost libraries that provide a wide range of useful capabilities. They help you manage memory and process strings more easily. They provide containers and other data structures that go well beyond what the standard library offers. They make it easy to build platform-independent network applications. Simply put, these 72 libraries greatly expand your C++ toolbox. The second edition contains more than 430 examples. All examples are as short as possible, but they are complete, so you can compile and run them as is. They show you what the Boost libraries offer and give you a head start on using the libraries in your own applications. The goal of this book is to increase your efficiency as a C++ developer and to simplify software development with C++. The Boost libraries introduced in this book will help you write less code with fewer bugs and finish projects faster. You code will be more concise and self-explanatory and more easily adapted when requirements change. The second edition is based on the Boost libraries 1.55.0 and 1.56.0 with the latter version having been released in August 2014. The examples are based on C++11 and have been tested with Visual Studio 2013, GCC 4.8 and Clang 3.3 on various platforms. For Boost libraries which were incorporated into the C++11 standard library, differences between Boost and the standard library are highlighted. The Boost libraries are one of the most important and influential open source C++ libraries. Their source code is available under a permissive free software license. Several Boost libraries have been incorporated into the C++11 standard library. The Boost libraries are developed and supported by the Boost community - a worldwide developer community with a strong interest in pushing C++ boundaries further.

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Social Capitalism: An Essay on the Economics of Technology by Robert Harken (5 Reviews)    Price verified 13 hours ago

Imagine a world where technology understands the human condition -- a world that values relationships more than diamonds -- a place where people earn a living, not from selling, but from compassion. We stand on the threshold of such a world. The door is open.

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Metalearning: Applications to Automated Machine Learning and Data Mining (Cognitive Technologies) by Pavel Brazdil (Springer) (7 Reviews)    Price verified 7 hours ago

This open access book offers a comprehensive and thorough introduction to almost all aspects of metalearning and automated machine learning (AutoML), covering the basic concepts and architecture, evaluation, datasets, hyperparameter optimization, ensembles and workflows, and also how this knowledge can be used to select, combine, compose, adapt and configure both algorithms and models to yield faster and better solutions to data mining and data science problems. It can thus help developers to develop systems that can improve themselves through experience. As one of the fastest-growing areas of research in machine learning, metalearning studies principled methods to obtain efficient models and solutions by adapting machine learning and data mining processes. This adaptation usually exploits information from past experience on other tasks and the adaptive processes can involve machine learning approaches. As a related area to metalearning and a hot topic currently, AutoML is concerned with automating the machine learning processes. Metalearning and AutoML can help AI learn to control the application of different learning methods and acquire new solutions faster without unnecessary interventions from the user. This book is a substantial update of the first edition published in 2009. It includes 18 chapters, more than twice as much as the previous version. This enabled the authors to cover the most relevant topics in more depth and incorporate the overview of recent research in the respective area. The book will be of interest to researchers and graduate students in the areas of machine learning, data mining, data science and artificial intelligence.

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Digital Interaction and Machine Intelligence: Proceedings of MIDI’2021 – 9th Machine Intelligence and Digital Interaction Conference, December ... by Cezary Biele (1 Review)    Price verified 13 hours ago

This book is open access, which means that you have free and unlimited access. This book presents the Proceedings of the 9th Machine Intelligence and Digital Interaction Conference. Significant progress in the development of artificial intelligence (AI) and its wider use in many interactive products are quickly transforming further areas of our life, which results in the emergence of various new social phenomena. Many countries have been making efforts to understand these phenomena and find answers on how to put the development of artificial intelligence on the right track to support the common good of people and societies. These attempts require interdisciplinary actions, covering not only science disciplines involved in the development of artificial intelligence and human-computer interaction but also close cooperation between researchers and practitioners. For this reason, the main goal of the MIDI conference held on 9-10.12.2021 as a virtual event is to integrate two, until recently, independent fields of research in computer science: broadly understood artificial intelligence and human-technology interaction.

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Data-Driven Fault Detection and Reasoning for Industrial Monitoring (Intelligent Control and Learning Systems Book 3) by Jing Wang (2 Reviews)    Price verified 9 hours ago

This open access book assesses the potential of data-driven methods in industrial process monitoring engineering. The process modeling, fault detection, classification, isolation, and reasoning are studied in detail. These methods can be used to improve the safety and reliability of industrial processes. Fault diagnosis, including fault detection and reasoning, has attracted engineers and scientists from various fields such as control, machinery, mathematics, and automation engineering. Combining the diagnosis algorithms and application cases, this book establishes a basic framework for this topic and implements various statistical analysis methods for process monitoring. This book is intended for senior undergraduate and graduate students who are interested in fault diagnosis technology, researchers investigating automation and industrial security, professional practitioners and engineers working on engineering modeling and data processing applications. This is an open access book.

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Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme Programming: 22nd International Conference on Agile Software Development, XP 2021, Virtual Event, ... by Peggy Gregory (2 Reviews)    Price verified 14 hours ago

This open access book constitutes the proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Agile Software Development, XP 2021, which was held virtually during June 14-18, 2021. XP is the premier agile software development conference combining research and practice. It is a unique forum where agile researchers, practitioners, thought leaders, coaches, and trainers get together to present and discuss their most recent innovations, research results, experiences, concerns, challenges, and trends.? XP conferences provide an informal environment to learn and trigger discussions and welcome both people new to agile and seasoned agile practitioners. This year's conference was held with the theme "Agile Turns Twenty While the World Goes Online". The 11 full and 2 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 38 submissions. They were organized in topical sections named: agile practices; process assessment; large-scale agile; and short contributions.

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Concepts in Action: Representation, Learning, and Application (Language, Cognition, and Mind Book 9) by Lucas Bechberger (Springer) (10 Reviews)    Price verified 9 hours ago

This open access book is a timely contribution in presenting recent issues, approaches, and results that are not only central to the highly interdisciplinary field of concept research but also particularly important to newly emergent paradigms and challenges. The contributors present a unique, holistic picture for the understanding and use of concepts from a wide range of fields including cognitive science, linguistics, philosophy, psychology, artificial intelligence, and computer science. The chapters focus on three distinct points of view that lie at the core of concept research: representation, learning, and application. The contributions present a combination of theoretical, experimental, computational, and applied methods that appeal to students and researchers working in these fields.

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Contextual Process Digitalization: Changing Perspectives – Design Thinking – Value-Led Design by Albert Fleischmann (Springer) (2 Reviews)    Price verified 14 hours ago

This open access book presents an overview and step-by-step explanation of process management. It starts with the individual participants' perspectives on their work in a process and its structuring and harmonization, and then moves on to its specification in a model and how it is embedded in the organizational and IT environment of the company. Lastly, the book examines the joint processing of instances in the resulting socio-technical systems. A corresponding illustration, which expands with the overview, enables readers to gain a comprehensive understanding of business process management. The book presents various facets of business process management from the perspective of the participants, and introduces a selection of models that have proved useful in practice. The design of such models supports the transition from a more-or-less unstructured or unsatisfactory way of working to a structured process that corresponds to the ideas of the company and its customers. The book is intended for professionals in industry as well as students in the field of business information systems who are looking for guidelines on how to discover, create and implement real-world processes.

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Implementing Health Checks by Amazon Builders' Library (25 Reviews)    Price verified one hour ago

December 2019 Automatically detecting and mitigating server failures without unintended consequences from fleet-wide false positives. This documentation is offered for free here as a Kindle book, or you can read it in PDF format at https://aws.amazon.com/builders-library/.

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Cyber Security: 18th China Annual Conference, CNCERT 2021, Beijing, China, July 20–21, 2021, Revised Selected Papers (Communications in Computer ... by Wei Lu Price verified 5 hours ago

This open access book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th International Annual Conference on Cyber Security, CNCERT 2021, held in Beijing, China, in AJuly 2021. The 14 papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 51 submissions. The papers are organized according to the following topical sections: ?data security; privacy protection; anomaly detection; traffic analysis; social network security; vulnerability detection; text classification.

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Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems: 28th International Conference, TACAS 2022, Held as Part of the European Joint ... by Grigore Rosu (Springer) (1 Review)    Price verified 9 hours ago

This open access book constitutes the proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems, TACAS 2022, which was held during April 2-7, 2022, in Munich, Germany, as part of the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2022. The 46 full papers and 4 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 159 submissions. The proceedings also contain 16 tool papers of the affiliated competition SV-Comp and 1 paper consisting of the competition report. TACAS is a forum for researchers, developers, and users interested in rigorously based tools and algorithms for the construction and analysis of systems. The conference aims to bridge the gaps between different communities with this common interest and to support them in their quest to improve the utility, reliability, exibility, and efficiency of tools and algorithms for building computer-controlled systems.

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Write a Book in Two Hours: How to Write a Book, Novel, or Children’s Book in Far Less than 30 Days (Authorship 1) by Jonathan Green (371 Reviews)    Price verified 7 hours ago

Who else wants their dream book written today? If you can speak out loud, then YOU have what it takes to become a lightning-fast, bestselling author. Most people dream of writing a book, but those manuscripts end up shoved away in dusty drawers, half-finished and abandoned to be eaten by moths. Many of them are great writers, many of them have great ideas. Yet so many people come to the conclusion that they'll never finish their books. Why? Because they aren't following a proven system. Maybe this is you right now. Maybe you believe that you're not good enough, that you'll never have enough time, or that it's a terrible book idea. You wonder how on earth other people manage to find time to write alongside their jobs, family and other commitments. But the assumption that writing is a slow process and books take six months or years to write is outdated. You can easily increase your efficiency three to four times MORE by using this system. As much value as there is in quality, quantity also plays a significant factor. The days where you need to have access to expensive or special equipment are gone. And one of the fastest ways to become profitable as an author nowadays is to write faster. Let me show you how you can hit the finish line at record speed.Every. Single. Time. This is the same system that allows me to spend more time with my family, earn more money and accomplish four times the amount of work in the same eight hours a day. It's allowed me to release books on an exponential scale, to set goals of writing fifty books per year. This book was written using the same strategy. It can be done. And now you can do the same.This ISN'T a book you read for inspiration and walk away feeling good. This is a book about taking ACTION. I want you to be generating MORE CONTENT THAN YOU EVEN NEED. What you will walk away with... • Learn The Conveyor Belt Method: The step-by-step process which will give you an unshakeable FOUNDATION for your writing career • ...

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Towards a Common Software/Hardware Methodology for Future Advanced Driver Assistance Systems by Guillermo Payá-Vayá (1 Review)    Price verified 9 hours ago

The European research project DESERVE (DEvelopment platform for Safe and Efficient dRiVE, 2012-2015) had the aim of designing and developing a platform tool to cope with the continuously increasing complexity and the simultaneous need to reduce cost for future embedded Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS). For this purpose, the DESERVE platform profits from cross-domain software reuse, standardization of automotive software component interfaces, and easy but safety-compliant integration of heterogeneous modules. This enables the development of a new generation of ADAS applications, which challengingly combine different functions, sensors, actuators, hardware platforms, and Human Machine Interfaces (HMI). This book presents the different results of the DESERVE project concerning the ADAS development platform, test case functions, and validation and evaluation of different approaches. The reader is invited to substantiate the content of this book with the deliverables published during the DESERVE project. Technical topics discussed in this book include:Modern ADAS development platforms;Design space exploration;Driving modelling;Video-based and Radar-based ADAS functions;HMI for ADAS;Vehicle-hardware-in-the-loop validation systems

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Reflections on Intelligence by Magnus Vinding (3 Reviews)    Price verified 14 hours ago

A lot of people are talking about "superintelligent AI" these days. But what are they talking about? Indeed, what is "intelligence" in the first place? This question is generally left unanswered, even unasked, in discussions about the perils and promises of artificial intelligence, which tends to make these discussions more confusing than enlightening. More clarity and skepticism about this term "intelligence" is desperately needed. Hence this book. 'Reflections on Intelligence' aims to look deeper into the concept of "intelligence", and to question common assumptions about the phenomenon, or rather phenomena, that we refer to with the word "intelligence". Based on such an examination, it proceeds to criticize some of the views and ideas commonly discussed in relation to the future of artificial intelligence, and to draw some general conclusions about the future of "intelligence".

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Affiliate Marketing: Build Passive Income And Sell Through Affiliate Networks (Master Social Media, Grow Your Brand, Get Customers And Make Profit) by Zack Ackers (20 Reviews)    Price verified 10 hours ago

Are you looking to understand affiliate marketing strategy but tired with all those "shiny objects" and 'gurus' shoving their brand new (and costly) products on you? Getting email after email pitching the latest and greatest thing since sliced bread you can end up wasting weeks, months, or years working on some affiliate system which turns out to fail miserably. Not to mention all the money thrown down the tubes along the way. This book guarantees to give you the 20,000 foot view of affiliate marketing the right way, starting from the beginning all the way through to owning and operating a highly successful and profitable Internet business. Here is a short preview of what is included in this book: • What is affiliate marketing? • Different types of affiliate products • Niche • How to market and get sales for free • How to market with ads • Social media affiliate • How to have the right mindset • Product creation • How to put it together So what are you waiting for? It's now or never! Make sure you grab your own copy to learn precisely how affiliate marketing can change your life. Even if this is the first time that you've considered the ways of online marketing, in this step-by-step guide, you will find everything you need to start from scratch. The beauty is that you will get your first results sooner than you think! Start Now!! Scroll up and get the book today!!

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A Study of Crisis by Michael Brecher (University of Michigan Press) (3 Reviews)    Price verified 6 hours ago

As the twentieth century draws to a close, it is time to look back on an epoch of widespread turmoil, including two world wars, the end of the colonial era in world history, and a large number of international crises and conflicts. This book is designed to shed light on the causes and consequences of military-security crises since the end of World War I, in every region, across diverse economic and political regimes, and cultures. The primary aim of this volume is to uncover patterns of crises, conflicts and wars and thereby to contribute to the advancement of international peace and world order. The culmination of more than twenty years of research by Michael Brecher and Jonathan Wilkenfeld, the book analyzes crucial themes about crisis, conflict, and war and presents systematic knowledge about more than 400 crises, thirty-one protracted conflicts and almost 900 state participants. The authors explore many aspects of conflict, including the ethnic dimension, the effect of different kinds of political regimes--notably the question whether democracies are more peaceful than authoritarian regimes, and the role of violence in crisis management. They employ both case studies and aggregate data analysis in a Unified Model of Crisis to focus on two levels of analysis--hostile interactions among states, and the behavior of decision-makers who must cope with the challenge posed by a threat to values, time pressure, and the increased likelihood that military hostilities will engulf them. This book will appeal to scholars in history, political science, sociology, and economics as well as policy makers interested in the causes and effects of crises in international relations. The rich data sets will serve researchers for years to come as they probe additional aspects of crisis, conflict and war in international relations. Michael Brecher is R. B. Angus Professor of Political Science, McGill University. Jonathan Wilkenfeld is Professor and Chair of the Department of ...

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Multimedia Forensics (Advances in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition) by Husrev Taha Sencar (Springer) (1 Review)    Price verified 14 hours ago

This book is open access. Media forensics has never been more relevant to societal life. Not only media content represents an ever-increasing share of the data traveling on the net and the preferred communications means for most users, it has also become integral part of most innovative applications in the digital information ecosystem that serves various sectors of society, from the entertainment, to journalism, to politics. Undoubtedly, the advances in deep learning and computational imaging contributed significantly to this outcome. The underlying technologies that drive this trend, however, also pose a profound challenge in establishing trust in what we see, hear, and read, and make media content the preferred target of malicious attacks. In this new threat landscape powered by innovative imaging technologies and sophisticated tools, based on autoencoders and generative adversarial networks, this book fills an important gap. It presents a comprehensive review of state-of-the-art forensics capabilities that relate to media attribution, integrity and authenticity verification, and counter forensics. Its content is developed to provide practitioners, researchers, photo and video enthusiasts, and students a holistic view of the field.

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Brain-Inspired Computing: 4th International Workshop, BrainComp 2019, Cetraro, Italy, July 15–19, 2019, Revised Selected Papers (Lecture Notes in ... by Katrin Amunts (2 Reviews)    Price verified 10 hours ago

This open access book constitutes revised selected papers from the 4th International Workshop on Brain-Inspired Computing, BrainComp 2019, held in Cetraro, Italy, in July 2019. The 11 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in this book. They deal with research on brain atlasing, multi-scale models and simulation, HPC and data infra-structures for neuroscience as well as artificial and natural neural architectures.

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From Opinion Mining to Financial Argument Mining (SpringerBriefs in Computer Science) by Chung-Chi Chen (1 Review)    Price verified 12 hours ago

Opinion mining is a prevalent research issue in many domains. In the financial domain, however, it is still in the early stages. Most of the researches on this topic only focus on the coarse-grained market sentiment analysis, i.e., 2-way classification for bullish/bearish. Thanks to the recent financial technology (FinTech) development, some interdisciplinary researchers start to involve in the in-depth analysis of investors' opinions. These works indicate the trend toward fine-grained opinion mining in the financial domain. When expressing opinions in finance, terms like bullish/bearish often spring to mind. However, the market sentiment of the financial instrument is just one type of opinion in the financial industry. Like other industries such as manufacturing and textiles, the financial industry also has a large number of products. Financial services are also a major business for many financial companies, especially in the context of the recent FinTech trend. For instance, many commercial banks focus on loans and credit cards. Although there are a variety of issues that could be explored in the financial domain, most researchers in the AI and NLP communities only focus on the market sentiment of the stock or foreign exchange. This open access book addresses several research issues that can broaden the research topics in the AI community. It also provides an overview of the status quo in fine-grained financial opinion mining to offer insights into the futures goals. For a better understanding of the past and the current research, it also discusses the components of financial opinions one-by-one with the related works and highlights some possible research avenues, providing a research agenda with both micro- and macro-views toward financial opinions.

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Special Topics in Information Technology (SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology) by Angelo Geraci (Springer) (3 Reviews)    Price verified 10 hours ago

This open access book presents thirteen outstanding doctoral dissertations in Information Technology from the Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering, Politecnico di Milano, Italy. Information Technology has always been highly interdisciplinary, as many aspects have to be considered in IT systems. The doctoral studies program in IT at Politecnico di Milano emphasizes this interdisciplinary nature, which is becoming more and more important in recent technological advances, in collaborative projects, and in the education of young researchers. Accordingly, the focus of advanced research is on pursuing a rigorous approach to specific research topics starting from a broad background in various areas of Information Technology, especially Computer Science and Engineering, Electronics, Systems and Control, and Telecommunications. Each year, more than 50 PhDs graduate from the program. This book gathers the outcomes of the thirteen best theses defended in 2019-20 and selected for the IT PhD Award. Each of the authors provides a chapter summarizing his/her findings, including an introduction, description of methods, main achievements and future work on the topic. Hence, the book provides a cutting-edge overview of the latest research trends in Information Technology at Politecnico di Milano, presented in an easy-to-read format that will also appeal to non-specialists.

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Powering the Digital Economy: Opportunities and Risks of Artificial Intelligence in Finance (Departmental Papers) by Mr. Alin T Mirestean (INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND) (2 Reviews)    Price verified 14 hours ago

This paper discusses the impact of the rapid adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) in the financial sector. It highlights the benefits these technologies bring in terms of financial deepening and efficiency, while raising concerns about its potential in widening the digital divide between advanced and developing economies. The paper advances the discussion on the impact of this technology by distilling and categorizing the unique risks that it could pose to the integrity and stability of the financial system, policy challenges, and potential regulatory approaches. The evolving nature of this technology and its application in finance means that the full extent of its strengths and weaknesses is yet to be fully understood. Given the risk of unexpected pitfalls, countries will need to strengthen prudential oversight.

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Invitation to Quantum Informatics by Ulla Aeschbacher (2 Reviews)    Price verified 9 hours ago

The present text covers the connections between information and its processing on the one hand, and physics on the other. In the spirit of Rolf Landauer's slogan "Information is physical," consequences of physical laws for communication and computation are discussed, e.g. the second law of thermodynamics. In the second part, the pessimism of the first part is overcome and new possibilities offered by the laws of quantum physics for information processing are discussed: cryptography, teleportation, dense coding, and algorithms such as Grover's. The culmination point is Shor's miraculous method for efficiently factoring integers. The epilogue is an extended version of the third author's closing lecture of the seminar "Information & Physics (& Science Sociology)," in which Landauer's sentence is contrasted with John Archibald Wheeler's "It from Bit."

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LETTURA VELOCE 3X. Tecniche di Lettura Rapida, Memoria e Memorizzazione, Apprendimento per Triplicare la Tua Velocità. (Autore Bestseller Vol. 2) ... by Giacomo Bruno (Bruno Editore) (260 Reviews)    Price verified 7 hours ago

"Il libro sulle tecniche di Lettura Veloce più venduto in Italia! Con più di 100.000 vendite in 15 anni, la versione ebook è diventata Bestseller n.1 su Amazon." Giudizio: ESERCIZI E TECNICHE PRATICHE PER SVILUPPARE L'APPRENDIMENTO E LA MEMORIA Triplicare la tua velocità di lettura con un innovativo metodo di apprendimento rapido. Perchè le tecniche classiche di lettura veloce sono sorpassate dalle ultime tecniche e dal metodo lettura veloce 3x. Perchè la scuola ti ha insegnato che apprendimento = dolore, e come usare il metodo lettura veloce 3x per creare la nuova associazione apprendimento = piacere. IL METODO "LETTURA VELOCE 3X": ESERCIZI PER LEGGERE RAPIDAMENTE Perchè il sistema di lettura veloce basato su punti di fissità è noioso, difficile da imparare, necessita di tanta pratica, ed oggi è completamente superato. La trappola del dialogo interiore: come utilizzarlo, senza eliminarlo, per migliorare comprensione e memorizzazione. Le 5 fasi del metodo lettura veloce 3x per triplicare la tua velocità di lettura. I 2 STRUMENTI FONDAMENTALI DELL'APPRENDIMENTO: MAPPE MENTALI E ANTEPRIMA Le mappe mentali: uno strumento molto efficace che sfrutta entrambi gli emisferi del cervello. Come sfruttare le mappe nella creatività e nella memorizzazione di informazioni e nella memoria fotografica. Come usare le mappe nella lettura veloce 3x e come sfruttarle per creare schemi prima ancora di leggere. TECNICHE DI LETTURA VELOCE ULTRA RAPIDA Leggere 1 pagina/secondo: come e perchè la lettura veloce 3x funziona meglio delle tecniche classiche . Il più grande trucco dei bambini per leggere velocemente che la scuola ci insegna a non usare. I segreti della Lettura Orizzontale e come far adattare il dialogo interiore alla tua velocità. I segreti della Lettura Verticale per decuplicare la tua velocità di lettura con poco allenamento. STRUMENTI PER IL RIPASSO, LO STUDIO E LA MEMORIA Come memorizzare a lungo termine senza alcuno sforzo. Perchè la ripetizione è ...

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An Overview of the AWS Cloud Adoption Framework (AWS Whitepaper) by AWS Whitepapers (48 Reviews)    Price verified 10 hours ago

November 2021 As the proliferation of digital technologies continues to disrupt market segments and industries, adopting Amazon Web Services (AWS) can help you transform your organization to meet the changing business conditions and evolving customer needs. As the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform, AWS can help you lower costs, reduce business risks, improve operational efficiency, become more agile, innovate faster, create new revenue streams, and reinvent customer and employee experience. The AWS Cloud Adoption Framework (AWS CAF) leverages AWS experience and best practices to help you digitally transform and accelerate your business outcomes through innovative use of AWS. Use the AWS CAF to identify and prioritize transformation opportunities, evaluate and improve your cloud readiness, and iteratively evolve your transformation roadmap. This documentation is offered for free here as a Kindle book, or you can read it in HTML or PDF format at https://docs.aws.amazon.com/whitepapers/latest/overview-aws-cloud-adoption-framework/welcome.html

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SAP Business One, version for SAP HANA, on AWS (AWS Quick Start) by AWS Whitepapers (Amazon Web Services) (69 Reviews)    Price verified 9 hours ago

This Quick Start enables you to automatically deploy SAP Business One, version for SAP HANA, on the AWS cloud. SAP Business One, version for SAP HANA, is an integrated enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution designed for dynamically growing small and midsize businesses. This solution is powered by SAP HANA, which is an in-memory database management system that provides fast, predictable performance. You can use the AWS CloudFormation templates included with the Quick Start to deploy SAP Business One either into a new Amazon VPC or into an existing Amazon VPC in your AWS account. The Quick Start configures the Amazon VPC with two subnets (public and private), and sets up Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) and network address translation (NAT) instances in the public subnet. On the private subnet, the Quick Start deploys SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) and Microsoft Windows Server instances, configures storage and other AWS resources, and installs the SAP HANA database and SAP Business One application components. Review the deployment guide for architectural considerations and step-by-step deployment instructions. This documentation is offered for free here as a Kindle book, or you can read it online or in PDF format at https://aws.amazon.com/quickstart/.

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The Magic of BookBub: Breaking down the wall to winning a Featured Deal by Peter Ralph (14 Reviews)    Price verified 3 hours ago

For authors, winning a BookBub Featured Deal is almost a license to print money. However, getting a book selected by BookBub's editorial team is a major feat. Some self-published authors have been rejected up to 28 times, and are still trying. The Magic of BookBub is a warts and all procedural that seeks to help authors make winning submissions. It highlights successful tactics, and the most favored categories for self-published authors - the categories where self-published authors have an advantage over traditional publishers. No one can precisely decipher BookBub's selection process but The Magic of BookBub answers many previously unanswered questions.

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Computer Aided Verification: 32nd International Conference, CAV 2020, Los Angeles, CA, USA, July 21–24, 2020, Proceedings, Part II (Lecture Notes ... by Shuvendu K. Lahiri (Springer) (1 Review)    Price verified 9 hours ago

The open access two-volume set LNCS 12224 and 12225 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 32st International Conference on Computer Aided Verification, CAV 2020, held in Los Angeles, CA, USA, in July 2020.* The 43 full papers presented together with 18 tool papers and 4 case studies, were carefully reviewed and selected from 240 submissions. The papers were organized in the following topical sections: Part I: AI verification; blockchain and Security; Concurrency; hardware verification and decision procedures; and hybrid and dynamic systems. Part II: model checking; software verification; stochastic systems; and synthesis. *The conference was held virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Workload Isolation Using Shuffle-Sharding by Amazon Builders' Library (25 Reviews)    Price verified 12 hours ago

December 2019 Shuffle Sharding is one of our core techniques for drastically limiting the scope of impact of operational issues. This documentation is offered for free here as a Kindle book, or you can read it in PDF format at https://aws.amazon.com/builders-library/.

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The Impact of Digital Technologies on Public Health in Developed and Developing Countries: 18th International Conference, ICOST 2020, Hammamet, ... by Mohamed Jmaiel (Springer) (2 Reviews)    Price verified 9 hours ago

This open access book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 18th International Conference on String Processing and Information Retrieval, ICOST 2020, held in Hammamet, Tunisia, in June 2020.* The 17 full papers and 23 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 49 submissions. They cover topics such as: IoT and AI solutions for e-health; biomedical and health informatics; behavior and activity monitoring; behavior and activity monitoring; and wellbeing technology. *This conference was held virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme Programming – Workshops: XP 2021 Workshops, Virtual Event, June 14–18, 2021, Revised Selected ... by Peggy Gregory (2 Reviews)    Price verified 10 hours ago

This open access book constitutes papers from the 5 research workshops, the poster presentations, as well as two panel discussions which were presented at XP 2021, the 22nd International Conference on Agile Software Development, which was held online during June 14-18, 2021. XP is the premier agile software development conference combining research and practice. It is a unique forum where agile researchers, practitioners, thought leaders, coaches, and trainers get together to present and discuss their most recent innovations, research results, experiences, concerns, challenges, and trends. XP conferences provide an informal environment to learn and trigger discussions and welcome both people new to agile and seasoned agile practitioners. The 18 papers included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from overall 37 submissions. They stem from the following workshops: • 3rd International Workshop on Agile Transformation • 9th International Workshop on Large-Scale Agile Development • 1st International Workshop on Agile Sustainability • 4th International Workshop on Software-Intensive Business • 2nd International Workshop on Agility with Microservices Programming

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The Elements of Big Data Value: Foundations of the Research and Innovation Ecosystem by Edward Curry (3 Reviews)    Price verified 9 hours ago

This open access book presents the foundations of the Big Data research and innovation ecosystem and the associated enablers that facilitate delivering value from data for business and society. It provides insights into the key elements for research and innovation, technical architectures, business models, skills, and best practices to support the creation of data-driven solutions and organizations. The book is a compilation of selected high-quality chapters covering best practices, technologies, experiences, and practical recommendations on research and innovation for big data. The contributions are grouped into four parts: · Part I: Ecosystem Elements of Big Data Value focuses on establishing the big data value ecosystem using a holistic approach to make it attractive and valuable to all stakeholders. · Part II: Research and Innovation Elements of Big Data Value details the key technical and capability challenges to be addressed for delivering big data value. · Part III: Business, Policy, and Societal Elements of Big Data Value investigates the need to make more efficient use of big data and understanding that data is an asset that has significant potential for the economy and society. · Part IV: Emerging Elements of Big Data Value explores the critical elements to maximizing the future potential of big data value. Overall, readers are provided with insights which can support them in creating data-driven solutions, organizations, and productive data ecosystems. The material represents the results of a collective effort undertaken by the European data community as part of the Big Data Value Public-Private Partnership (PPP) between the European Commission and the Big Data Value Association (BDVA) to boost data-driven digital transformation.

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Affiliate Marketing For Beginners: Build Your Own Six Figure Business With Clickbank Products, Internet Marketing And Affiliate Links (Earn Passive ... by Mark Glazer (115 Reviews)    Price verified 9 hours ago

You cannot fail to be impressed by the thrilling world of affiliate marketing. Affiliate marketing is a field that gives you the option to promote anything without having to actually own it. The choices you have to work with are endless. The networks and companies you can start an affiliate enterprise with are also diverse. However, you should choose carefully which program will be an asset to you. In this day and age, having a passive income stream is mandatory. Previously, passive income was exclusive to those who were wealthy enough to pay the requirements to start up a passive income source. In this book, you´ll discover: • How to start an affiliate marketing business from scratch with zero background knowledge • The same formula used by top affiliate marketer to make $7 million in affiliate marketing revenue in a single year • Why you don´t even need a product to sell to make money while you sleep • Why once you set "it" up you never have to work for more than 4 hours a week • How to offer huge value for your followers on social media and turn your hobby into a business • Why one size does not fit all and how to find your perfect product niche • All you need to kick start your business and make your first sale within your first week • And much more. I have dedicated the last 10 years to becoming an expert in affiliate marketing so I know what works and what doesn't work, the in's and the out's and the do's and the don'ts. You do not need to make the same mistakes that many other new affiliate marketers make, because I will show you how to do it properly. Join me on this incredible journey of becoming an affiliate marketer and your dream of running a profitable online business can truly become a reality

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Robotics, AI, and Humanity: Science, Ethics, and Policy by Joachim von Braun (26 Reviews)    Price verified 14 hours ago

This open access book examines recent advances in how artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics have elicited widespread debate over their benefits and drawbacks for humanity. The emergent technologies have for instance implications within medicine and health care, employment, transport, manufacturing, agriculture, and armed conflict. While there has been considerable attention devoted to robotics/AI applications in each of these domains, a fuller picture of their connections and the possible consequences for our shared humanity seems needed. This volume covers multidisciplinary research, examines current research frontiers in AI/robotics and likely impacts on societal well-being, human - robot relationships, as well as the opportunities and risks for sustainable development and peace. The attendant ethical and religious dimensions of these technologies are addressed and implications for regulatory policies on the use and future development of AI/robotics technologies are elaborated.

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15 Stories 180,000 Views: Read and learn how to write high-performing stories by Marx D. (5 Reviews)    Price verified 10 hours ago

A magician never reveals his tricks and a writer (usually) never reveals how much money they've made from a story or how many views a story has received. Fortunately for you, this book does just that. This book is a compilation of stories that have performed extremely well on Medium.com. If you didn't already know, Medium pays writers to publish stories on their platform for their readers. These 15 stories have garnered nearly 200,000 views and earned thousands of dollars in the process. They are real stories that were seen by real readers and have earned real money. And now they are available for you to read. Read them and find out whether or not writing on Medium is right for you. If nothing else you'll be reading stories that 180,000 other readers have (hopefully) enjoyed.

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Trinket: A Feyland Tale by Anthea Sharp (86 Reviews)    Price verified 2 hours ago

High-tech gaming and ancient magic collide when an immersive VR game opens a gateway to the treacherous Realm of Faerie ~ Violet Yamaguchi can't wait to play the immersive new computer game, Feyland -- but she doesn't suspect the game wants something in return... A short story of approximately 5,000 words (20 pages) set in the USA Today bestselling world of Feyland.

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