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Digitalization of Society and Socio-Political Issues. 1, Digital, Communication, and Culture

Table of Contents: “…Privacy under discussion 62 6.2. The invention of the right to privacy 63 6.3. The emergence of informational self-determination and the privacy of the Modern 65 6.4. …”
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Essential Reviews in Geriatric Psychiatry

Table of Contents: “…A Randomized Controlled Trial in Patients Older Than 59 Years -- Continuation treatment of delusional depression in older adults -- Reducing suicidal ideation and depressive symptoms in depressed older primary care patients: a randomized controlled trial -- Remission in Depressed Geriatric Primary Care Patients: A Report from the PROSPECT Study -- Executive dysfunction and the course of geriatric depression -- Maintenance Treatment of Major Depression in Old Age -- Placebo-Controlled Study of Relapse Prevention With Risperidone Augmentation in Older Patients with Resistant Depression -- Efficacy of Second-Generation Antidepressants in Late-Life Depression: A Meta-Analysis of the Evidence -- A double-blind randomized controlled trial of olanzapine plus sertraline vs olanzapine plus placebo for psychotic depression: the study of pharmacotherapy of psychotic depression (STOP-PD) -- Speed of remission in elderly patients with depression: electroconvulsive therapy v. medication -- A systematic review and meta-analysis of psychotherapy for late-life depression -- A novel strategy for continuation ECT in geriatric depression: phase 2 of the PRIDE Study -- Right Unilateral Ultrabrief Pulse ECT in Geriatric Depression: Phase 1 of the PRIDE Study -- Improvement in Depression is Associated with Improvement in Cognition in Late-Life Psychotic Depression -- Section 6: Electroconvulsive Therapy -- Continuation/Maintenance Treatment with Nortriptyline Versus Combined Nortriptyline and ECT in Late-Life Psychotic Depression: A Two-Year Randomized Study -- Safety and utility of acute electroconvulsive therapy for agitation and aggression in dementia -- Electroconvulsive therapy and risk of dementia in patients with affective disorders: a cohort study -- Electroconvulsive Therapy and Risk of Dementia-A Nationwide Cohort Study in Taiwan -- Section 7: Grief -- Treatment of complicated grief in elderly persons: a randomized clinical trial -- Section 8: Pain Disorders -- Association Between Psychological Interventions and Chronic Pain Outcomes in Older Adults: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis -- Section 9: Psychotic Disorders -- A Randomized, Controlled Trial of Cognitive Behavioral Social Skills Training for Middle-Aged and Older Outpatients with Chronic Schizophrenia -- Safety and tolerability of oral paliperidone extended-release tablets in elderly patients with schizophrenia: a double-blind, placebo-controlled study with six-month open-label extension -- Antipsychotic treatment for elderly people with late-onset schizophrenia -- Schizophrenia and risk of dementia: A meta-analysis study -- Antipsychotic treatment of very late-onset schizophrenia-like psychosis (ATLAS): a randomised, controlled, double-blind trial -- Section 10: Neurocognitive Disorders -- Efficacy and safety of cholinesterase inhibitors in Alzheimer's disease: a meta-analysis -- Depression and risk for Alzheimer disease: Systematic review, Meta-analysis, and Metaregression analysis -- Effectiveness of atypical antipsychotic drugs in patients with Alzheimer’s disease -- Predictors of progression from mild cognitive impairment to Alzheimer disease -- Efficacy and safety of cognitive enhancers for patients with mild cognitive impairment: a systematic review and meta-analysis -- Personality and risk of Alzheimer’s disease: New data and meta-analysis -- Modifiable predictors of dementia in mild cognitive impairment: a systematic review and meta-analysis -- Pharmacological Management of Lewy Body Dementia: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis -- Meta-analysis of modifiable risk factors for Alzheimer’s disease -- Memantine for Alzheimer's Disease: An Updated Systematic Review and Meta-analysis -- Update on the Risk of Motor Vehicle Collision or Driving Impairment with Dementia: A Collaborative International Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis -- Pharmacological interventions for apathy in Alzheimer's disease -- Section 11: Sleep Disorders -- Behavioral and Pharmacological Therapies for Late-Life Insomnia: A Randomized Controlled Trial -- Cognitive behavioral therapy vs zopiclone for treatment of chronic primary insomnia in older adults: a randomized controlled trial -- Suvorexant in Elderly Patients with Insomnia: Pooled Analyses of Data from Phase III Randomized Controlled Clinical Trials -- Cognitive behavior therapy for older adults with insomnia and depression: a randomized controlled trial in community mental health services -- Section 12: Suicides -- Medical Illness and the Risk of Suicide in the Elderly -- The Risk of Suicide with Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors in the Elderly -- Section 13: Substance Use Disorders -- Naltrexone as an Adjunctive Treatment for Older Patients with Alcohol Dependence -- Older adult patients with both Psychiatric and Substance abuse disorders: Prevalence and Health service use -- Five-year alcohol and drug treatment outcomes of older adults versus middle-aged and younger adults in a managed care program -- Treatment of Late-Life Depression Complicated by Alcohol Dependence -- Screening and Brief Intervention for Substance Misuse Among Older Adults: The Florida BRITE Project.…”
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Creating special events by DeLisle, Lee J., 1954-

Table of Contents: “…Follow-Up -- Summary -- Discussion Questions -- 7: Marketing -- Chapter Objectives -- Marketing Should Be Fun! -- The Right Person for the Job -- Marketing Success-Two Basic Principles -- 1. …”
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Scala for Data Science. by Bugnion, Pascal

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Enterprise Cloud Security and Governance : Efficiently set data protection and privacy principles. by Vora, Zeal

Table of Contents: “…Best practices to follow -- Conclusion -- Single sign-on -- Idea solution -- Advantages of an SSO solution -- Challenges in the classic method of authentication -- Security Assertion Markup Language -- The high-level overview of working -- Choosing the right identity provider -- Building an SSO from scratch -- Hosted Based Intrusion Detection System -- Exploring OSSEC -- File integrity monitoring -- Log monitoring and active response -- Conclusion -- The hardened image approach -- Implementing hardening standards in scalable environments -- Important to remember -- Conclusion -- Summary -- Chapter 5: Cryptography Network Security -- Introduction to cryptography -- Integrity -- Authenticity -- Real world scenario -- Non-repudiation -- Types of cryptography -- Symmetric key cryptography -- Stream cipher -- The encryption process -- The decryption process -- Advantages of stream ciphers -- Block cipher (AES) -- Padding -- Modes of block ciphers -- Message authentication codes -- The MAC approach -- The challenges with symmetric key storage -- Hardware security modules -- The challenges with HSM in on-premise -- A real-world scenario -- HSM on the cloud -- CloudHSM -- Key management service -- The basic working of AWS KMS -- Encrypting a function in KMS -- Decrypting a function in KMS -- Implementation -- Practical guide -- Configuring AWS CLI -- The decryption function -- Envelope encryption -- The encryption process -- The decryption process -- Implementation steps -- Practical implementation of envelope encryption -- Credential management system with KMS -- Implementation -- Best practices in key management -- Rotation life cycle for encryption keys -- Scenario 1-a single key for all data encryption -- Scenario 2-multiple keys for data encryption -- Protecting the access keys -- Audit trail is important -- Asymmetric key encryption.…”
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CMOS : front-end electronics for radiation sensors by Rivetti, Angelo

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Interventional cardiology : principles and practice

Table of Contents: “…Basics of Antiplatelet and Anticoagulant Therapy for Cardiovascular Disease / Piera Capranzano, Dominick J Angiolillo -- Balance of Ischemia and Bleeding in Selecting Antithrombotic Regimens / Bimmer EPM Claessen, Jose PS Henriques -- Oral Antiplatelet Agents in PCI / Jonathan A Batty, Joseph R Dunford, George D Dangas, Vijay Kunadian -- Parenteral Anticoagulant Agents in PCI / Piera Capranzano, Corrado Tamburino, George D Dangas -- Parenteral Antiplatelet Agents in PCI / Piera Capranzano, Giuseppe Gargiulo, Corrado Tamburino -- Role of Parenteral Agents in PCI for Stable Patients / Joanna Ghobrial, David A Burke, Duane S Pinto -- Vasoactive and Antiarrhythmic Drugs During PCI / Bimmer EPM Claessen, Jose PS Henriques -- The Optimal Duration of Dual Antiplatelet Therapy After PCI / Mikkel Malby Schoos, Roxana Mehran, George D Dangas -- Triple Antiplatelet Therapy and Combinations with Oral Anticoagulants After PCI / Jonathan A Batty, Joseph R Dunford, Roxana Mehran, Vijay Kunadian -- Peri-procedural Platelet Function Testing in Risk Stratification and Clinical Decision Making / Paul A Gurbel, Fang Liu, Gailing Chen, Udaya S Tantry -- Genetics and Pharmacogenetics in Interventional Cardiology / Hillary Johnston-Cox, Johan LM Bjorkegren, Jason C Kovacic -- Monitoring and Reversal of Anticoagulation and Antiplatelet Agents / Gregory W Yost, Steven R Steinhubl -- Hypertension and Structural Heart Disease. Right Heart Catheterization and Pulmonary Hemodynamics / P Christian Schulze -- Treatment of Pulmonary Embolism / Ian Conde, Barry T Katzen -- Renal Denervation for Resistant Hypertension / Hitesh C Patel, Carl Hayward, Sebastian Ewen, Felix Mahfoud -- Antithrombotic Strategies in Valvular and Structural Heart Disease Interventions / Mikkel Malby Schoos, Davide Capodanno, George D Dangas -- Alcohol Septal Ablation for Hypertrophic Obstructive Cardiomyopathy / Amir-Ali Fassa, George D Dangas, Ulrich Sigwart -- Left Atrial Appendage Exclusion / Jorge G Panizo, Jacob S Koruth -- Cryptogenic Stroke, Patent Foramen Ovale, and ASD Closure / Barry Love -- Paravalvular Leak Closure and Ventricular Septal Defect Closure / Saurabh Sanon, Mackram F Eleid, Allison K Cabalka, Charanjit S Rihal -- Aortic Valvuloplasty and Large-Bore Percutaneous Arterial Access / Matthew I Tomey, Annapoorna S Kini, Samin K Sharma, Jason C Kovacic -- Transfemoral Aortic Valve Implantation / Brandon M Jones, Samir R Kapadia, Amar Krishnaswamy, Stephanie Mick, E Murat Tuzcu -- Transthoracic Aortic Valve Implantation / Giuseppe Bruschi, Kaleab N Asrress, Paola Colombo, Vinayak N Bapat -- New Aortic Valve Technologies / Dimytri Alexandre Siqueira, Alexandre AC Abizaid -- Transseptal Puncture / Alec Vahanian, Dominique Himbert, Fabrice Extramiana, Gregory Ducrocq, Eric Brochet -- Principles of Carpentier's Reconstructive Surgery in Degenerative Mitral Valve Disease / Farzan Filsoufi, Alain Carpentier -- Mitral Valve Repair / Ted Feldman, Mohammad Sarraf, Mayra Guerrero, Francesco Maisano -- Balloon Mitral Valvuloplasty / CN Manjunath, Nagaraja Moorthy, Upendra Kaul -- Pulmonary Artery and Valve Catheter-Based Interventions / Kasey Chaszczewski, Damien Kenny, Ziyad M Hijazi -- Imaging for Planning and Guidance for Structural Heart Interventions / Ankit Parikh, Stamatios Lerakis -- Vascular Disease for the Interventionalist. …”
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Analyzing banking risk : a framework for assessing corporate governance and risk management by Greuning, Hennie van, Brajovic Bratanovic, Sonja, 1946-

Table of Contents: “…2.2 Major Developments in Corporate Governance Principles -- 2.3 Ethics: The Basis for Good Governance -- 2.4 Regulatory and Supervisory Authorities: Establishing a Risk-Based Framework -- 2.5 The Shareholders: Appointing the Right Policy Makers -- 2.6 The Board of Directors: Bearing Ultimate Responsibility for a Bank's Affairs -- 2.7 First Line of Defense: Management and Staff, Responsible for Bank Operations and Implementation of Risk Management Policies -- 2.8 Second Line of Defense: Chief Risk Officer and Risk Committee, Responsible for Risk Management Oversight…”
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Creating Fiscal Space for Poverty Reduction in Ecuador : a Fiscal Management and Public Expenditure Review.

Table of Contents: “…-- Policy Recommendations -- An Estimation of the Potential Output And the Structural Fiscal Balance in Ecuador -- Summary of the Budget Process -- Major Budgetary Issues in Priority Social Programs -- Budgetary Framework of Decentralization in Ecuador -- Budgetary Framework of Decentralization in Ecuador -- Potential Sources of Fiscal Space and Estimated Annual Impact -- Volatility of NFPS Variables, 1993-2003 -- Ecuador: Actual and Structural Fiscal Balance, Fiscal Stance and Fiscal Impulse -- Total Revenue of the Non-Financial Public Sector and Central Government -- The Structure of the Tax System -- Selected Tax Administration Indicators, 2001-03 -- "Optimal" Fund vs FEIREP Flows for Debt Reduction -- Evaluation of Compliance with the Fiscal Rules -- Ecuador: Social Expenditure of Central Government as a Percentage of GDP -- Pro-Poor and Non Pro-Poor Social Expenditures -- Social Expenditure and Energy Subsidies, by Income Quintile -- Basic Services Subsidies by Expenditure Quintile -- Rigidity of the Central Government Budget, 2001-04 -- Ecuador: Personnel Involved in Defense and Security -- Estimated Tax Expenditures of the Internal VAT Exemptions -- Progress by Ecuador in Meeting the Millennium Development Goals -- Estimated Fiscal Cost of Attaining Key MDGs and Social Targets -- Potential Sources of Fiscal Space -- Basic Elements of Public Expenditure Management: The "Three-level Analysis" -- Allocation of Public Spending by Tiers -- Review of Ecuador's Public Expenditure Management and Benchmarks -- Ranking of Ecuador's PEM in Relation to Peru, Bolivia, and HIPC Indicators -- Sources of Government Financing -- Budgetary Assumptions and Actuals -- Level of Budget Execution of Sector Expenditures -- Changes in the Budget Share between Executed and Approved -- Forms of Local Participation within Selected Priority Social Programs -- Budget of Priority Social Programs Grouped by Social Sector -- Budget Approved and Executed for Priority Social Programs -- Budget Execution and Tracking Survey of Transactional Delays within PSPs -- Positive Qualifications per Country -- Oil Prices, Growth, and the Fiscal Deficit -- Debt Sustainability under the Fiscal Rule -- Incidence of Social Expenditure and Energy Subsidies, 1999 -- Total Public Sector Net Work -- Non-Financial Public Sector Balances -- Tax and Non-Tax Revenue of the Central Government and Important Tax Reform Efforts 1964-2004 -- Total and Primary Expenditures -- Trends in NFPS and Central Government Expenditures -- Public Expenditure by Selected Functions -- Composition of Wages by Selected Sectors -- Institutional Composition of Public Fixed Investment -- "Optimal" and Actual Stabilization Accumulation Scenarios -- Base Case for Debt Sustainability -- Incidence of Social Expenditure and Energy Subsidies -- Telephone Penetration by Household Income Quintile -- Rigid Compared to Flexible Public Expenditure -- Military Expenditure, 1998-2001 -- Decomposition of Budget and Off-Budget Financing Sources -- Chile: Fondo Concursable -- Changes in Shareof NFPS Expenditures, by Government Tier -- Emergency Decrees -- Stock of Arrears -- Budget Execution of Social Programs -- Seasonal Patterns in Budget for Social Programs -- Planned Compared to Executed Transfers of the 15-Percent Law, 1997-2003 -- Transfers and Payments of the 15-Percent Law to Municipalities -- Transfers of the 15-Percent Law and the New Subnational Budget Cycle -- LAC Index of Budgetary Transparency -- Revenue Base for the 15-Percent Law with/without Oil Revenue -- The Costs and Benefits of Dollarization -- Ecuador's Political Economy -- The Civil Service and the Wage Unification Law: A Step in the Right Direction -- Ecuador's Oil Funds -- The Base Case Scenario -- Teacher Absenteeism in Primary Schools -- Household Expenditures on Water: The Case of Machala, El Oro -- Main Conclusions of the World Bank Ecuador Poverty Assessment -- The Chilean Competitive (Concursable) Fund for Public Programs -- The Six Stages of a Comprehensive Multiyear Budgeting Framework -- Main Recommendations of the IMF-ROSC -- Ecuador-Institutionalizing a Virtual Poverty Fund: A Look at Best-Practice in Uganda -- Structural Fiscal Balance -- Budget Execution at BDH, by Financing Source -- Budget Execution at PAI, by Financing Source -- Budget Execution at LMG, by Financing Source -- Budget Execution at PRADEC, by Financing Source -- Budget Execution at PAE, by Financing Source -- Current and Capital Spending of Municipalities and Provincial Councils -- Priorities of Subnational Investment Spending -- Capital Spending of Municipalities and Provincial Councils in the Health and Education Sectors -- Administration of Schools, Teachers, and Students in The Education Sector, School Year 2000-01 -- Public Spending in Health Sector -- Subsidy Distribution by Consumption Deciles -- Distribution of the Cooking-Gas Subsidy by Ethnic Group -- Effect of Various Reform Scenarios for the Cooking-Gas Subsidy -- Actual and Potential GDP -- Primary Balance -- Flow of Budgetary Funds -- Organization of the BDH Operating in 14 Provinces -- Organization of PAI Operating Nationwide -- Organization of LMG Operating in 40 Municipios -- Organization of PRADEC Operating in 443 Juntas Parroquiales -- Organization of PAE Operating in the Coast and Sierra -- Intergovernmental Transfers, 1996-2003 -- Sources of Revenue for Transfers to Subnational Governments -- Own Revenue and Expenditures per Level of Government and Veritcal Fiscal Imbalances, 1997 and 2002 -- Distribution of the Gas Subsidy Retargeted with SelBen.…”
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Business innovation : a case study approach by Pandiarajan, Vijay

Table of Contents: “…Chapter 13 - Sustainability-focused Innovation13.1 Introduction13.2 Evolving Market Orientation Towards Sustainability - Gen Z 13.3 Sustainability - A New Secular Growth Driver 13.4 Success Stories - Sustainability Focused Innovation 13.4.1 The Procter & Gamble Company (P&G) 13.4.2 Patagonia 13.4.3 Braskem (Brazil)13.4.4 Colorifix (UK) 13.5 Concluding Remarks13.6 References Part VIII - Case StudiesCase 1: Amgen - Biosimilar Innovations - By Kavya Sivan Case 2: FedEx: Innovation Through Sustained Adaptability - By Alaina GregoryCase 3: Reliance Jio: From 4G to Digital Innovation - By Hursh MotwaniCase 4: Stryker Case Study: Design Thinking Response to COVID-19 - By Kyle Geiger Case 5: Whirlpool - A History of Sustained Innovation from Within - By Malik AbbasiCase 6: Apple's Swift: A Programming Language Innovation for the Future - By Maxwell CornellierCase 7: Microsoft: The Age of Nadella - By Serena Wang and Minnie SunCase 8: The Procter & Gamble Company - A Unique Innovation Approach - By Minnie Sun and Serena WangCase 9: Timberland - Sustainable Innovation - By Drew ArnsonCase 10: Zara-Inditex - Fast-Fashion Done Right - By Rocco Pel?aCase 11: Patagonia - Leader of a Sustainable Business - By Suzanna Yik Case 12: Amazon - Head in the Cloud: Transformation Through Leadership's Lens - By William McCroneCase 13: Ericsson's Innovation through M&A - By Derek KuoCase 14: Samsung's New Age Innovation Using Organization and Culture - By Derek KuoCase 15: Sun Pharma Industries - Innovation through Specialty acquisition strategy, technology, leadership, and culture - By Katie KuhlmanCase 16: Ecovative Design - Sustainable Business - By Daniel Meeks…”
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Family trusts : a guide for beneficiaries, trustees, trust protectors, and trust creators by Goldstone, Hartley, Hughes, James E., Whitaker, Keith

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Learning Responsive Data Visualization. by Korner, Christoph

Table of Contents: “…-- Conditional CSS with Media Queries -- Understanding Breakpoints -- Having the right viewport -- Relative Units -- %, REM, and EM -- Designing for mobile devices first -- Bootstrap -- a popular mobile first CSS framework -- Including Bootstrap -- Finding additional resources -- Understanding grid layouts -- Hiding elements on different screen resolutions -- Using Bootstrap's Media Queries in LESS -- Vector graphics in the browser with SVG -- Raster/Pixel graphics with Canvas -- Hardware-accelerated Pixel Graphics with WebGL -- Vector graphics with SVG -- Creating graphics with D3.js -- Including D3.js -- Finding additional resources -- Summary -- Chapter 2: Creating a Bar Chart Using D3.js and SVG -- Getting started with D3.js -- Selecting and manipulating DOM elements -- Manipulating SVG elements -- Data-driven transformations -- Data Binding and Dynamic Properties -- Data Join -- next-level data binding -- Using the update pattern -- Defining an Identifier for the elements -- Drawing shapes with D3 -- Drawing Lines and Curves -- Drawing Areas between curves -- Drawing arcs -- Creating Scales and Axis -- Mapping data values to a Pixel Range with scales -- Linear Scales for linear Mappings -- Ordinal scale for Mapping non-numeric data -- Time scales for Mapping time series data -- Creating Axis -- A simple bar chart -- Summary -- Chapter 3: Loading, Filtering, and Grouping Data -- Preprocessing data -- Filtering data to remove outliers -- Mapping data to access inner properties -- Aggregate data to extract valuable information -- Reduce functions in D3.js -- Loading and parsing remote data -- Parsing any string data.…”
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Adaptive control design and analysis by Tao, Gang

Table of Contents: “…: 1.1 Feedback in Control Systems -- 1.2 System Modeling -- 1.2.1 Continuous-Time Systems -- 1.2.2 Discrete-Time Systems -- 1.3 Feedback Control -- 1.4 Adaptive Control System Prototypes -- 1.5 Simple Adaptive Control Systems -- 1.5.1 Direct Adaptive Control -- 1.5.2 Indirect Adaptive Control -- 1.5.3 Discrete-Time Designs -- 1.5.4 Backstepping Nonlinear Design -- 1.5.5 Adaptive Control versus Fixed Control -- 1.5.6 Summary -- Problems -- 2.1 Dynamic System Models -- 2.1.1 Nonlinear Systems -- 2.1.2 Linear Systems -- 2.2 System Characterizations -- 2.3 Signal Measures -- 2.3.1 Vector and Matrix Norms -- 2.3.2 Signal Norms -- 2.4 Lyapunov Stability -- 2.4.1 Stability Definitions -- 2.4.2 Positive Definite Functions -- 2.4.3 Direct Method Lyapunov -- 2.4.4 Linear Systems -- 2.4.5 Lyapunov Indirect Method -- 2.5 Input-Output Stability -- 2.5.1 Lemma -- 2.5.2 Small-Gain Lemma -- 2.5.3 Operator Stability -- 2.5.4 Positive Real Strictly -- 2.6 Signal Convergence Lemmas -- 2.7 Discrete-Time Systems -- 2.7.1 System Modeling -- 2.7.2 Norms and Signal Spaces -- 2.7.3 Stability -- 2.8 Operator Norms -- 2.9 Pole Placement -- Problems -- 3.1 A Parametrized System Model -- 3.2 Linear Parametric Models -- 3.3 Normalized Gradient Algorithm -- 3.4 Normalized Least-Squares Algorithm -- 3.5 Parameter Convergence -- 3.5.1 Persistency of Excitation -- 3.5.2 Convergence of the Gradient Algorithm -- 3.5.3 Convergence of the Least-Squares Algorithm -- 3.6 Discrete-Time Algorithms -- 3.6.1 Linear Parametric Models -- 3.6.2 Normalized Gradient Algorithm -- 3.6.3 Normalized Least-Squares Algorithm -- 3.6.4 Parameter Convergence -- 3.7 Robustness of Adaptive Algorithms -- 3.7.1 Continuous-Time Algorithms -- 3.7.2 Discrete-Time Algorithms -- 3.8 Robust Adaptive Lans -- 3.8.1 Continuous-Time Algorithms -- 3.8.2 Discrete-Time Algorithms -- 3.8.3 Summary -- 3.9 Discussion -- Problems -- 4.1 Design for State Tracking -- 4.1.1 Design Example -- 4.1.2 Control System Structure -- 4.1.3 Adaptive Laws -- 4.1.4 Adaptive System Properties -- 4.2 Design for Output Tracking -- 4.2.1 Introductory Example -- 4.2.2 Control System Structure -- 4.2.3 Adaptive Laws -- 4.3 Disturbance Rejection -- 4.3.1 State Tracking -- 4.3.2 Output Tracking -- 4.4 Parametrization of State Feedback -- 4.4.1 Parametrization with Full-Order Observer -- 4.4.2 Parametrization with Reduced-Order Observer -- 4.5 Discrete-Time Adaptive Control -- 4.5.1 Design Example -- 4.5.2 Output Tracking Design -- 4.5.3 Disturbance Rejection -- 4.5.4 Parametrizations of State Feedback -- Problems -- 5.1 Control System Structure -- 5.2 Model Reference Control -- 5.3 Adaptive Control -- 5.3.1 Tracking Error Equation -- 5.3.2 Lyapunov Design for Relative Degree 1 -- 5.3.3 Alternative Design for Relative Degree 1 -- 5.3.4 Lyapunov Design for Arbitrary Relative Degrees -- 5.3.5 Gradient Design for Arbitrary Relative Degrees -- 5.3.6 Summary -- 5.4 Robustness of MRAC -- 5.4.1 Lyapunov Designs for Relative Degree 1 -- 5.4.2 Gradient Algorithms -- 5.5 Robust MRAC -- 5.5.1 Modeling Errors -- 5.5.2 Robustness of MRC -- 5.5.3 Robust Adaptive Laws -- 5.5.4 Robust Stability Analysis -- 5.5.5 Summary -- 5.6 Design for Unknown High Frequency Gain -- 5.6.1 Adaptive Control Designs Using Nussbaum Gain -- 5.6.2 An Adaptive Control System -- 5.7 Discussion -- Problems -- 6.1 Control System Structure -- 6.2 Model Reference Control -- 6.3 Adaptive Control Systems -- 6.3.1 Adaptive Control for Disturbance d(t)=0 -- 6.3.2 Robustness of MRAC with d(t) ∈ L2 -- 6.3.3 Robust Adaptation for Bounded d(t) -- 6.4 Robustness of MRAC with L1+a Errors -- 6.4.1 Plant with Modeling Errors -- 6.4.2 Adaptive Control Scheme -- 6.4.3 Robustness Analysis -- 6.4.4 Discussion -- Problems -- 7.1 Model Reference Designs -- 7.1.1 Simple Adaptive Control Systems -- 7.1.2 General Design Procedure -- 7.2 Pole Placement Designs -- 7.2.1 Control System Structure -- 7.2.2 Pole Placement Control -- 7.2.3 Controller Parameter Adaptation -- 7.3 Discrete-Time Adaptive Control Systems -- 7.3.1 Model Reference Designs -- 7.3.2 Pole Placement Designs -- 7.4 Discussion -- Problems -- 8.1 Benchmark Example -- 8.2 Direct Adaptive Control Designs -- 8.2.1 State Feedback Design -- 8.2.2 Output Feedback Design -- 8.3 Indirect Adaptive Control Design -- 8.4 Direct-Indirect Adaptive Control Design -- 8.4.1 Direct Adaptive Control for Motor Dynamics -- 8.4.2 Indirect Adaptive Control for Load Dynamics -- 8.4.3 Simulation Results -- 8.5 Adaptive Backstepping Design -- Problems -- 9.1 Adaptive State Feedback Control -- 9.1.1 Design for State Tracking -- 9.1.2 Design Based on LDU Parametrization -- 9.1.3 System Identification -- 9.2 Model Reference Adaptive Control -- 9.2.1 Description of Multivariable Systems -- 9.2.2 Plant and Controller Parametrizations -- 9.2.3 Robust Model Reference Control -- 9.2.4 Error Model -- 9.2.5 Adaptive Laws -- 9.2.6 Stability and Robustness Analysis -- 9.2.7 MRAC Using Right Interactor Matrices -- 9.2.8 Continuous-Time Lyapunov Designs -- 9.2.9 MRAC Designs for Input and Output Delays -- 9.2.10 Adaptation and High Frequency Gain Matrix -- 9.2.11 Designs Based on Decompositions of Kp -- 9.3 Adaptive Backstepping Control -- 9.3.1 Plant Parametrization -- 9.3.2 State Observer -- 9.3.3 Design Procedure for Bm Nonsingular -- 9.3.4 Design Based on SDU Decomposition of Bm -- 9.3.5 Design Procedure for Bm Singular -- 9.4 Adaptive Control of Robotic Systems -- 9.4.1 Robotic System Modeling -- 9.4.2 Illustrative Example -- 9.4.3 Design for Parameter Variations -- 9.4.4 Design for Unmodeled Dynamics -- 9.5 Discussion -- Problems -- 10.1 Actuator Nonlinearity Compensation -- 10.1.1 Actuator Nonlinearities -- 10.1.2 Parametrized Nonlinearity Inverses -- 10.2 State Feedback Inverse Control -- 10.3 Output Feedback Inverse Control -- 10.4 Designs for Multivariable Systems -- 10.5 Designs for Unknown Linear Dynamics -- 10.5.1 Designs for SISO Plants -- 10.5.2 Designs for MIMO Plants -- 10.6 Designs for Nonlinear Dynamics -- 10.6.1 Design for Feedback Linearizable Systems -- 10.6.2 Design for Parametric-Strict-Feedback Systems -- 10.6.3 Design for Output-Feedback Systems -- 10.7 Discussion -- Problems.…”
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Global supply chain ecosystems : strategies for competitive advantage in a complex, connected world by Millar, Mark (Supply Chain Consultant)

Table of Contents: “…-- Supply chain visibility is about 'connecting the right dots' -- Visibility enables agility -- Collaboration essential to achieve full visibility -- How business leaders view visibility -- Technology -- friend or foe? …”
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Learning Continuous Integration with Jenkins. : a beginner's guide to implementing Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery using Jenkins 2. by Pathania, Nikhil

Table of Contents: “…Adding Artifactory credentials inside Jenkins -- Installing the Artifactory plugin in Jenkins -- Configuring the Artifactory Plugin -- Summary -- Chapter 7: Continuous Integration Using Jenkins -- Jenkins CI design -- Branching strategy -- The master branch -- The integration branch -- The feature branch -- The CI pipeline -- Toolset for CI -- Creating the CI pipeline -- Creating a new repository on GitHub -- Using the SonarQube scanner for Maven -- Writing the Jenkinsfile for CI -- Spawning a Docker container -- build agent -- Downloading the latest source code from VCS -- Pipeline code to perform the build and unit test -- Pipeline code to perform static code analysis -- Pipeline code to perform integration testing -- Pipeline code to publish built artifacts to Artifactory -- Combined CI pipeline code -- Using a Jenkinsfile -- Creating a Multibranch Pipeline in Jenkins -- Re-registering the Webhooks -- Continuous Integration in action -- Viewing static code analysis in SonarQube -- Accessing SonarQube analysis right from Jenkins -- Viewing artifacts in Artifactory -- Failing the build when quality gate criteria are not met -- Summary -- Chapter 8: Continuous Delivery Using Jenkins -- Jenkins CD design -- Branching strategy -- The release branch -- CD pipeline -- Toolset for CD -- Creating a Docker image -- performance testing -- Adding Docker container credentials in Jenkins -- Updating the Docker settings inside Jenkins -- Creating a performance test using JMeter -- Installing Java -- Installing Apache JMeter -- Starting JMeter -- Creating a performance test case -- Creating a thread group -- Creating a sampler -- Adding a listener -- The CD pipeline -- Writing the Jenkinsfile for CD -- Revisiting the pipeline code for CI -- Pipeline code to stash the build artifacts -- Spawning a Docker container -- performance testing.…”
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Chemistry : Our Past, Present, and Future by Choon H. Do

Table of Contents: “…Medication: Curing -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.1.1 Examples of the Impact of Chemistry on Medicine-in Raw Numbers and in Social Terms -- 8.1.2 Chapter Aim -- 8.1.3 Versatility of Medicinal Chemistry -- 8.1.4 Current Trends in Drug Development -- 8.1.5 Drug Safety: A Lesson from the Past -- 8.1.6 Where Next -- 8.2 Pain Management -- 8.2.1 Aspirin -- 8.2.2 Morphine -- 8.3 Inflammation Management -- 8.3.1 Glucocorticoids -- 8.3.2 The Steroid Story -- 8.3.3 Closing Remarks -- 8.4 Psychotherapeutic Agents -- 8.4.1 Antidepressants -- 8.4.2 Closing Remarks -- 8.5 Hormonal Contraceptives -- 8.5.1 Pearls on the Pill -- 8.5.2 Prelude to the Pill -- 8.5.3 Conceiving the Pill -- 8.5.4 Closing Remarks: The Power of the Pill -- 8.6 Insulin -- 8.6.1 Insulin and Diabetes -- 8.6.2 Life with Diabetes in the Past -- 8.6.3 Prelude to the Discovery of Insulin -- 8.6.4 Discovery of Insulin -- 8.6.5 Making the Experiments Work -- 8.6.6 Getting the Elixir Right -- 8.6.7 First Diabetes Patients on Insulin -- 8.6.8 Getting the Nobel Prize: Resentments Resolved.…”
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Building Dashboards with Microsoft Dynamics GP 2016 - Second Edition. by Allen, Belinda

Table of Contents: “…-- Using Replace Values -- Transforming data -- Trim a little off the top, the right, the left, etc. -- Formatting with Case -- Working with dates and times -- Merging columns -- Splitting columns -- Merging queries -- Appending queries -- Summarizing with Group By -- Formulating with DAX -- Summary -- Chapter 14: Bonus Chapter -- Recap -- Excel 2016 -- Sharing Excel reports via IM -- Sharing Excel reports via live presentation -- Jet Express for GP -- Eliminating values that should be zero -- Refreshing with an option window -- Microsoft Power BI -- Map of customer balances.…”
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Introduction to statistics through resampling methods and R by Good, Phillip I.

Table of Contents: “…-- 5.5.1 p-Values and Significance Levels -- 5.5.2 Test Assumptions -- 5.5.3 Robustness -- 5.5.4 Power of a Test Procedure -- 5.6 Summary and Review -- Chapter 6: Designing an Experiment or Survey -- 6.1 The Hawthorne Effect -- 6.1.1 Crafting an Experiment -- 6.2 Designing an Experiment or Survey -- 6.2.1 Objectives -- 6.2.2 Sample from the Right Population -- 6.2.3 Coping with Variation -- 6.2.4 Matched Pairs -- 6.2.5 The Experimental Unit -- 6.2.6 Formulate Your Hypotheses -- 6.2.7 What Are You Going to Measure? …”
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Real-Time Big Data Analytics. by Gupta, Sumit, Saxena, Shilpi

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