JBoss AS 5 Performance Tuning. by Marchioni, Francesco

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The ultimate guide to getting the career you want : and what to do once you have it by Dowd, Karen O.

Table of Contents: “…A Self-InventoryCase Study: The Happiness Factor-Following Her Passion to the New York City Chamber of Commerce; A Budget as a Planning Tool; A Framework for Your Finances; In It Together; Your Reserves-Saving for Breaks and Rainy Days; Flexible Models for Work; Case Study: Right on the Money ... A California Boy's Hard-Won Career Mosaic; Principle 5 Make People a Priority; Cultivate Interdependence; Make Room for Others; Managing Our Careers as though Others Mattered; Involving Others in Our Decisions; Case Study: Susan Higgins and Her Husband ... …”
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The BIM manager's handbook : guidance for professionals in architecture, engineering, and construction by Holzer, Dominik

Table of Contents: “…Lack of Well-Defined Objectives (Client)Overmodeling; Lacking Tool Ecology; Modeling without Understanding; Model Inaccuracy; Über-Hacks; The Tipping Point -- How Do You Become Successful Using BIM?; BIM -- Getting It Right; Benchmarking BIM; Broader Policies; Measuring Day-to-Day Performance; Key Performance Indicators; Endnotes; 2 Change Management; Technology as a Driver for Innovation and Change; The Cultural Dimension of Change ... and Its Management; The Social and Organizational Context to Change; BIM Managers: Facilitators of Change.…”
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Pro SQL Server on Microsoft Azure by Mazumdar, Pranab, Agarwal, Sourabh, Banerjee, Amit

Table of Contents: “…File StorageDesign Decisions; Azure Storage Architecture Internals; Replication Engine; Layers Within a Storage Stamp; Maintaining Availability/Consistency for Read Requests; Load Balancing of Partition Layer; Load Balancing of the DFS Layer; Load Balancing of DFS Capacity; Durability Offerings with Azure Storage; Azure Premium Storage; Creating an Azure VM Machine Using Premium Storage and PowerShell; Inside Premium Storage; Azure Storage Best Practices; Performance Enhancement Using Blobs; Copy/Move Blobs; AzCopy; Choosing the Right Kind of Blob; Performance Enhancement Using Tables.…”
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Real-life distance education : case studies in practice by Piña, Anthony A.

Table of Contents: “…The power of presence : our quest for the right mix of social presence in online courses / Joanna C. …”
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The Architecture of Hunting : The Built Environment of Hunter-Gatherers and Its Impact on Mobility, Property, Leadership, and Labor. by Lemke, Ashley

Table of Contents: “…Barren- ground (left) and woodland (right) caribou antlers to scale (scale bar is 20 cm). …”
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Diversity and Inclusion Matters Tactics and Tools to Inspire Equity and Game-Changing Performance. by Thompson, Jason R.

Table of Contents: “…What Friends Do -- Setting CEO Expectations -- When to Involve the CEO -- Connecting CEO and Leadership Commitment to Diversity -- How to Get CEO Commitment -- Chapter 11 Employee Resource Groups -- Check Your Bias -- Employee Resource Groups -- Define ERG Membership -- Setting Boundaries for ERGs -- Establish Communication Guidelines -- Managing ERG Fundraisers -- Let ERGs Fail -- The How: Suggested Rules and Structures for ERGs -- Chapter 12 DE&I Committees -- Focus on the Right Things -- Why DE&I Committees Fail -- What Happens When Companies Start with a DE&I Committee…”
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Evidence-Based Critical Care A Case Study Approach

Table of Contents: “…Cardiac Arrest Management -- Post- Cardiac Arrest Management -- Undifferentiated Shock -- Hypovolemic Shock and Massive Transfusion -- Acute Respiratory Failure - NIV Implementation and Intubation -- Diagnosis and Management of Tricyclic Antidepressant Ingestion -- Management of Calcium Channel Blocker Poisoning -- Diagnosis and Management of Ethylene Glycol Ingestion -- Accidental Hypothermia -- Management of Cardiogenic Shock -- Management of Acute Heart Failure -- Management of Acute Coronary Syndrome -- Complications of Myocardial Infarction -- Management of Cardiac Tamponade -- Hypertensive Crises -- Atrial Fibrillation and Other Supraventricular Tachycardias -- Ventricular Arrhythmias -- Management of Acute Aortic Syndromes -- Management of Endocarditis -- Community Acquired Pneumonia -- Management of Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome -- Acute Exacerbation of COPD: Non-Invasive Positive Pressure Ventilation -- Management of Status Asthmaticus -- Immunocompromised Pneumonia -- Venous Thromboembolism in the Intensive Care Unit -- Massive Hemoptysis -- Sedation and Delirium -- Prolonged Mechanical Ventilation -- Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia and Other Complications -- Respiratory Failure in a Patient with Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis -- Weaning from Mechanical Ventilation -- The Post-Intensive Care Syndrome -- Management of Decompensated Right Ventricular Failure in the Intensive Care Unit -- Diffuse Alveolar Hemorrhage -- Acute Stroke Emergency Management -- Bacterial Meningitis in the ICU -- Management of Intracerebral Hemorrhage -- Status Epilepticus -- Neuroleptic Malignant Syndrome -- Traumatic Brain Injury -- Management of Anoxic Brain Injury -- Traditional and Novel Tools for Diagnosis of Acute Kidney Injury -- Management of Acute Kidney Injury -- Rhabdomyolysis -- Hyponatremia -- Management of Severe Hyponatremia and SIADH -- Diabetic Ketoacidosis -- Thyroid Storm -- Adrenal Insufficiency -- Management of Hyperglycemic Hyperosmolar Syndrome -- Management of Myxedema Coma -- Urosepsis -- Management of Sepsis and Septic Shock -- Invasive Aspergillus -- Management of Strongyloides Hyperinfection Syndrome -- Treatment of Viral Hemorrhagic Fever in a Well-Resourced Environment -- Management of Severe Malaria -- Dengue -- Chikungunya -- Leptospirosis -- Management of Acute Upper Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage -- Variceal Hemorrhage -- Acute Pancreatitis -- Management of Acute Liver Failure -- Acute Lower Gastrointestinal Bleeding -- Diagnosis and Management of Clostridium Difficile Infection (CDI) -- Principles of Nutrition in the Critically Ill Patient -- Spontaneous Bacterial Peritonitis -- ICU Management of the Patient with Alcoholic Liver Disease -- Diagnosis and Management of Thrombotic -- Thrombocytopenic Purpura -- Acute Leukemia Presentation with DIC -- Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation -- Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis -- ICU Complications of Hematopoietic Stem Cell -- Transplantation Including Graft vs. …”
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Informal Labor, Formal Politics, and Dignified Discontent in India : Dignifying Discontent. by Agarwala, Rina

Table of Contents: “…4.3 Project from Above: Entrenching PowerReformist Rural Development; Reformist Urban Omission; 4.4 Project from Below: Failing to Fit into State Interests; CITU Unions in West Bengal: Targeting Neither the Employer Nor the State; Non-CITU Unions: Limited Effectiveness; 4.5 Shifting Politics: A Shift for Informal Labor; 4.6 Conclusions; 5 The Minimal Gains of Accommodation; 5.1 Maharashtra: Some State Benefits for Informal Labor; 5.2 Dominant Caste Power; Failed Opposition from the Left and Right; 5.3 Project from Above: Ensuring Economic Growth through Informal Labor.…”
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Joomla! 3 Template Essentials. by Frankowski, Pawel

Table of Contents: “…3.x templates and LESS; Even comics have text content; Show me your badge -- start with logo; Picture in background; Navigation; Layout and backgrounds; Social buttons; Slideshow; Modules on the left side; Modules on the right side; Modules at the bottom; Summary; Chapter 4: Advanced Template and Styling Tricks; Constructing a template; Overriding the default layout.…”
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Implementing Azure Cloud Design Patterns : Implement efficient design patterns for data management, high availability, monitoring and other popular patterns on your Azure Cloud. by Demiliani, Stefano

Table of Contents: “…; Mesosphere DC/OS; Docker Swarm; Kubernetes; PaaS I (Azure App Services); PaaS II (Azure Service Fabric, also known as Azure microservices); Summary; Chapter 3: Data Storing and Processing; Choosing the right data solution; What is variety?; What is volume?…”
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The Regeneration Promise by Hollands, Peter

Table of Contents: “…BONE MARROW STEM CELLS AND AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE -- THE RIGHT STEM CELL AND A HOLISTIC APPROACH -- BONE MARROW STEM CELLS AND OSTEOARTHRITIS -- Clinical Trials -- BONE MARROW AND OTHER DISEASES -- KEY POINTS OF CHAPTER 2 -- A Bouncing Baby! …”
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Integral Methods in Science and Engineering Analytic and Computational Procedures

Table of Contents: “…Computational modelling based on RIBEM method for the numerical solution of convection-diffusion equations (Al-Bayati) -- Two-operator Boundary-Domain Integral Equations for Variable-Coefficient Dirichlet Problem in 2D with General Right-Hand Side (Ayele) -- Implementation of Thermal Effects in Neutron Interactions in a Physical Monte Carlo Simulator (Bodmann) -- On the Parameter Significance in Pandemic Modelling (Bodmann) -- On a Variational Principle for Equilibrium Free Energy Functional of Simple Liquids (Brikov) -- Use of variants of seismic signal approximations by proposed sets of functions for statistical structural analysis (Brikov) -- Topics on Space Weather: Operational Numerical Prediction for Electron Content (de Campos Velho) -- Ray-tracing the Ulam way (Chappell) -- The Robin Boundary Value Problem for an Unbounded Plate with a Hole (Constanda) -- A Mathematical Model Of Cell Clustering (Harris) -- A revisit to a double-periodic perforated Neumann waveguide: opening spectral gaps (Pérez-Martínez) -- Spectral homogenization problems in linear elasticity: the averaged Robin reaction matrix (Pérez-Martínez) -- Time harmonic oscillations of a porous-elastic body with an application to modelling the spinal cord (Harris) -- The Poly-Cauchy Operator, Whitney Arrays, and Fatou Theorems for Polyanalytic Functions in Uniformly Rectifiable Domains (Mitrea) -- The influence of the refractive index and absorption coefficients in the solution of the radiative conductive transfer equation in Cartesian geometry (Ladeia) -- Boundary Value Problems for Elliptic Systems onWeighted Morrey Spaces in Rough Domains (M. …”
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Mastering Drupal 8 Views. by Marshall, Gregg

Table of Contents: “…Reverse relationshipsAutomatic reverse relationships; Adding realtor information to the property listings; Adding new fields; Debugging when you forget to specify the relationship; Adding an open house attachment display to the property listings view; Defining what to attach a view to; Adding the relationship; Cleaning up what is displayed; Adding Open House fields to display; Adding exposed filters to the attachment; Other relationship considerations; Picking the right View Type; Lynn's next assignment; Summary; Chapter 6: Add-on Modules; Adding a rotating carousel to the front page.…”
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Ezra Pound : the Contemporary Reviews. by Erkkila, Betsy

Table of Contents: “…Cover; EZRA POUND; THE AMERICAN CRITICAL ARCHIVES; Title; Copyright; Contents; Series editor's preface; Introduction; Beginnings; The Pound Revolution; Imagism and Vorticism; Criticism from Right to Left; American Renaissance; From Aesthetics to Epic and Economics; Conflicting Modernisms; The Cantos and the Literary Avant-Garde; Literature, Politics, and the Great Depression; Pound and Fascism; The Pisan Cantos and the Bollingen Controversy; Reconstructing Pound and Modernism; The Cantos and Academic Criticism; New Directions; Acknowledgments; To the memory of Thomas Parkinson (1920-1992).…”
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The no B.S. guide to direct marketing by Kennedy, Dan S., 1954-, Proctor, Craig, Glass, Ben

Table of Contents: “…Rules of Direct Marketing for Non-Direct Marketing Businesses (My Ten Commandments)Chapter 2: An OFFER They Can't Refuse; Rule #1: There Will ALWAYS Be an Offer or Offers; "Shined Shoes Save Lives, "; Two Types of Offers; The Important Concept of Threshold Resistance; The Hybrid Approach; Rule #2: There Will Be a Reason to Respond Right Now; Chapter 3: Make Them OBEY ORDERS; Rule #3: You Will Give Clear Instructions; The Clearer the Marching Orders, the Happier the Customer; The Power of Good Directions; Chapter 4: No Freeloaders.…”
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Apache Solr 4 cookbook : over 100 recipes to make Apache Solr faster, more reliable, and return better results by Kuć, Rafał

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Copyright; Credits; About the Author; Acknowledgement; About the Reviewers; www.PacktPub.com; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: Apache Solr Configuration; Introduction; Running Solr on Jetty; Running Solr on Apache Tomcat; Installing a standalone ZooKeeper; Clustering your data; Choosing the right directory implementation; Configuring spellchecker to not use its own index; Solr cache configuration; How to fetch and index web pages; How to set up the extracting request handler; Changing the default similarity implementation; Chapter 2: Indexing Your Data; Introduction.…”
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Explaining reading : a resource for explicit teaching of the common core standards by Duffy, Gerald G.

Table of Contents: “…Synthesizing (Integration of Knowledge and Ideas-RI Standard 9) -- Examples for Explaining Foundational Skills -- Example 21. Front-Back/Left-Right/Top-Bottom (Print Concepts-RF Standard 1) -- Example 22. …”
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PostgreSQL High Availability Cookbook - Second Edition. by Thomas, Shaun M.

Table of Contents: “…. ; Configuration -- getting it right the first time; Getting ready; How to do it ... ; How it works ... ; There's more ... ; See also; Configuration -- managing scary settings; Getting ready; How to do it ... ; How it works ... ; There's more ...…”
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Gap years for grown ups by Griffith, Susan, 1954-

Table of Contents: “…-- Pursuing a dream: Is a gap year right for me? -- Who can take a gap year? -- The determination to realize your dream -- Reasons to be tempted -- Triggers and motives: Burn-out -- Excess and affluence -- Sensory overload -- Bereavement and depression -- The danger age -- Property ladder pressures -- Freedom from responsibilities -- Turning 50 -- Retirement -- Overcoming reluctance -- Relationship issues -- Shaking out the cobwebs -- How will a break affect my career? …”


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