Preserving digital information by Gladney, Henry M.

Table of Contents: “…-- Describing information structure : Testable archived information ; Syntax specification with formal languages ; String syntax definition with regular expressions ; BNF for program and file format specification ; ASN.1 Standards definition language ; Schema definitions for XML ; Monographs and collections ; Digital object schema ; Relationships and relations ; Names and identifiers, references, pointers, and links ; Representing value sets ; XML "glue" From ontology to architecture and design ; From the OASI reference model to architecture ; Languages for describing structure ; Semantic interoperability ; Metadata ; Metadata standards and registries ; Dublin Core metadata ; Metadata for Scholarly Works (METS) ; Archiving and preservation metadata -- Part III: Distributed content management : Digital object formats : Character sets and fonts ; Extended ASCII ; Unicode/UCS and UTF-8 ; File formats ; FIle Format identification, validation, and registries ; Text and Office documents ; Still pictures: images and vector graphics ; Audio-visual recordings ; Relational databases ; Describing computer programs ; Multimedia objects ; Perpetually unique resource identifiers ; Equality of digital documents ; Requirements for UUIDs ; Identifier syntax and resolution ; A digital resource identifier ; The "info" URI -- Archiving practices : Security ; PKCS specification ; Audit trail, business controls, and evidence ; Authentication with cryptographic certificates ; Trust structures and key management ; Time stamp evidence ; Access control and digital rights management ; Recordkeeping standards ; Archival best practices ; Repository audit and certification -- Everyday digital content management : Software layering ; A model of storage stack development ; Repository architecture ; Lowest levels of the storage stack ; Repository catalog ; A document storage subsystem ; Archival storage layer ; Institutional repository services ; Archival collection types ; Collections of academic and cultural works ; Bureaucratic file cabinets ; Audio/video archives ; Web page collections ; Personal repositories.…”


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Demystifying deep learning : an introduction to the mathematics of neural networks by Santry, Douglas J.

Table of Contents: “…5 -- 1.2 A Brief History 6 -- 1.3 The Genesis of Models 9 -- 1.3.1 Rise of the Empirical Functions 9 -- 1.3.2 The Biological Phenomenon and the Analogue 13 -- 1.4 Numerical Computation–Computer Numbers Are Not Real 14 -- 1.4.1 The IEEE 754 Floating Point System 15 -- 1.4.2 Numerical Coding Tip: Think in Floating Point 18 -- 1.5 Summary 20 -- 1.6 Projects 21 -- 2 Deep Learning and Neural Networks 23 -- 2.1 Feed-Forward and Fully-Connected Artificial Neural Networks 24 -- 2.2 Computing Neuron State 29 -- 2.2.1 Activation Functions 29 -- 2.3 The Feed-Forward ANN Expressed with Matrices 31 -- 2.3.1 Neural Matrices: A Convenient Notation 32 -- 2.4 Classification 33 -- 2.4.1 Binary Classification 34 -- 2.4.2 One-Hot Encoding 36 -- 2.4.3 The Softmax Layer 38 -- 2.5 Summary 39 -- 2.6 Projects 40 -- 3 Training Neural Networks 41 -- 3.1 Preparing the Training Set: Data Preprocessing 42 -- 3.2 Weight Initialization 45 -- 3.3 Training Outline 47 -- 3.4 Least Squares: A Trivial Example 49 -- 3.5 Backpropagation of Error for Regression 51 -- 3.5.1 The Terminal Layer (Output) 54 -- 3.5.2 Backpropagation: The Shallower Layers 57 -- 3.5.3 The Complete Backpropagation Algorithm 61 -- 3.5.4 AWord on the Rectified Linear Unit (ReLU) 62 -- 3.6 Stochastic Sine 64 -- 3.7 Verification of a Software Implementation 66 -- 3.8 Summary 70 -- 3.9 Projects 71 -- 4 Training Classifiers 73 -- 4.1 Backpropagation for Classifiers 73 -- 4.1.1 Likelihood 74 -- 4.1.2 Categorical Loss Functions 75 -- 4.2 Computing the Derivative of the Loss 77 -- 4.2.1 Initiate Backpropagation 80 -- 4.3 Multilabel Classification 81 -- 4.3.1 Binary Classification 82 -- 4.3.2 Training A Multilabel Classifier ANN 82 -- 4.4 Summary 84 -- 4.5 Projects 85 -- 5 Weight Update Strategies 87 -- 5.1 Stochastic Gradient Descent 87 -- 5.2 Weight Updates as Iteration and Convex Optimization 92 -- 5.2.1 Newton's Method for Optimization 93 -- 5.3 RPROP+ 96 -- 5.4 Momentum Methods 99 -- 5.4.1 AdaGrad and RMSProp 100 -- 5.4.2 ADAM 101 -- 5.5 Levenberg–Marquard Optimization for Neural Networks 103 -- 5.6 Summary 108 -- 5.7 Projects 109 -- 6 Convolutional Neural Networks 111 -- 6.1 Motivation 112 -- 6.2 Convolutions and Features 113 -- 6.3 Filters 117 -- 6.4 Pooling 119 -- 6.5 Feature Layers 120 -- 6.6 Training a CNN 123 -- 6.6.1 Flatten and the Gradient 123 -- 6.6.2 Pooling and the Gradient 124 -- 6.6.3 Filters and the Gradient 125 -- 6.7 Applications 129 -- 6.8 Summary 130 -- 6.9 Projects 130 -- 7 Fixing the Fit 133 -- 7.1 Quality of the Solution 133 -- 7.2 Generalization Error 134 -- 7.2.1 Bias 134 -- 7.2.2 Variance 135 -- 7.2.3 The Bias-Variance Trade-off 136 -- 7.2.4 The Bias-Variance Trade-off in Context 138 -- 7.2.5 The Test Set 138 -- 7.3 Classification Performance 140 -- 7.4 Regularization 143 -- 7.4.1 Forward Pass During Training 143 -- 7.4.2 Forward Pass During Normal Inference 145 -- 7.4.3 Backpropagation of Error 146 -- 7.5 Advanced Normalization 148 -- 7.5.1 Batch Normalization 149 -- 7.5.2 Layer Normalization 154 -- 7.6 Summary 156 -- 7.7 Projects 157 -- 8 Design Principles for a Deep Learning Training Library 159 -- 8.1 Computer Languages 160 -- 8.2 The Matrix: Crux of a Library Implementation 164 -- 8.2.1 Memory Access and Modern CPU Architectures 165 -- 8.2.2 Designing Matrix Computations 168 -- 8.2.2.1 Convolutions as Matrices 170 -- 8.3 The Framework 171 -- 8.4 Summary 173 -- 8.5 Projects 173 -- 9 Vistas 175 -- 9.1 The Limits of ANN Learning Capacity 175 -- 9.2 Generative Adversarial Networks 177 -- 9.2.1 GAN Architecture 178 -- 9.2.2 The GAN Loss Function 180 -- 9.3 Reinforcement Learning 183 -- 9.3.1 The Elements of Reinforcement Learning 185 -- 9.3.2 A Trivial RL Training Algorithm 187 -- 9.4 Natural Language Processing Transformed 193 -- 9.4.1 The Challenges of Natural Language 195 -- 9.4.2 Word Embeddings 195 -- 9.4.3 Attention 198 -- 9.4.4 Transformer Blocks 200 -- 9.4.5 Multi-Head Attention 204 -- 9.4.6 Transformer Applications 205 -- 9.5 Neural Turing Machines 207 -- 9.6 Summary 210 -- 9.7 Projects 210 -- Appendix A Mathematical Review 211 -- A.1 Linear Algebra 211 -- A.1.1 Vectors 211 -- A.1.2 Matrices 212 -- A.1.3 Matrix Properties 214 -- A.1.4 Linear Independence 215 -- A.1.5 The QR Decomposition 215 -- A.1.6 Least Squares 215 -- A.1.7 Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors 216 -- A.1.8 Hadamard Operations 216 -- A.2 Basic Calculus 217 -- A.2.1 The Product Rule 217 -- A.2.2 The Chain Rule 218 -- A.2.3 Multivariable Functions 218 -- A.2.4 Taylor Series 218 -- A.3 Advanced Matrices 219 -- A.4 Probability 219 -- Glossary 221 -- References 229 -- Index 243.…”
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Understanding the psychology of diversity by Blaine, Bruce Evan

Table of Contents: “…Understanding obesity stereotypes and weightism -- Obesity stereotypes -- The role of weight controllability in the obese stereotype -- Obesity stereotypes depend on the ethnicity of the perceiver and the target -- Weightism : weight-based prejudice and discrimination -- Weightism at school -- Weightism at work -- Weightism in the health care system -- Weightism on television -- The psychological and social consequences of obesity -- Attributing negative outcomes to prejudice -- Devaluing negative outcome dimensions -- Strategic self-presentation -- Summary -- Diversity issue 7.1 : lookism -- Diversity issue 7.2 : size acceptance -- 8. …”


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Double-diffusive convection by Radko, Timour

Table of Contents: “…3.4 Phenomenological and empirical modelsSimilarity solutions; The growth rate balance; Empirical parameterizations; 3.5 Numerical simulations; 3.6 Laboratory experiments; 4 The two-layer system; 4.1 Interfacial flux laws; 4.2 Salt-finger interfaces; 4.3 Diffusive interfaces; 5 The bounded layer model; 5.1 Diffusive layer; 5.2 Salt-finger layer; Planform selection; Vertical transport; Height of the finger zone; 6 Collective instability; 6.1 Approaches; 6.2 Parametric flux-gradient model; 6.3 Physical interpretation; 6.4 Specific solutions; 6.5 Nonlinear effects; 7 Thermohaline intrusions.…”
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Foundation Game Design with HTML5 and JavaScript by Van der Spuy, Rex

Table of Contents: “…Linking to something on the same pagePrefetching pages; Adding images; Making comments; Character encoding; More about HTML; Make it prettier with CSS; Font styles; Font family; Embedding custom fonts; Font sizes; Font colors; More about colors; Bold, italic, and underline font styles; List styles; Highlighting links; Borders, padding, height, and width; Cascading styles; Using elements; Using an id; Using a class; Using an id and class together; Loading background images into HTML elements; Positioning elements with CSS; Inline and block elements; Floating elements.…”
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Technological Innovation for Applied AI Systems 12th IFIP WG 5.5/SOCOLNET Advanced Doctoral Conference on Computing, Electrical and Industrial Systems, DoCEIS 2021, Costa de Capari...

Table of Contents: “…Collaborative Networks -- AI and Simulation for Performance Assessment in Collaborative Business Ecosystems -- The Benefits of Applying Social Network Analysis to Identify Collaborative Risks -- A Mixed Method for Assessing the Reliability of Shared Knowledge in Mass Collaborative Learning Community -- Smart Manufacturing -- Characteristics of Adaptable Control of Production Systems and the Role of Self-Organization To-wards Smart Manufacturing -- Predictive Manufacturing: Enabling Technologies, Frameworks and Applications -- Control of Manufacturing Systems by HMS / EPS Paradigms Orchestrating I4.0 Components Based on Capabilities -- A Framework for Self-Configuration in Manufacturing Production Systems -- Cyber-Physical Systems and Digital Twins -- Verification of the Boundedness Property in a Petri Net-based Specification of the Control Part of Cyber-Physical Systems -- Collaborative Cyber-Physical Systems Design Approach: Smart Home Use Case -- Digital Twin for Supply Chain Master Planning in Zero-Defect Manufacturing -- Intelligent Decision Making -- Matheuristic Algorithms for Production Planning in Manufacturing Enterprises -- Assessment of Sentinel-2 Spectral Features to Estimate Forest Height with the New GEDI Data -- Assessing Normalization Techniques for TOPSIS Method -- How Can e-grocers Use Artificial Intelligence Based on Technology Innovation to Improve Supply Chain Management? …”
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Practical Responsive Typography. by Calonaci, Dario

Table of Contents: “…Sass and LESS: A comparisonInstalling Sass; Your small Sass tutorial; More Sass properties; Sass for responsive typography; Too many breakpoints; Adding line-height; Summary; Chapter 8: Three Step Responsive; It actually takes more than three steps; A Sass powered one page website; Another solution using JRibbble; Sass stylizing our carousel; Modular typography scale with Sass; Sass Mixin for easy responsiveness; A Sass generated responsive grid; Summary; Chapter 9: Future Responsive -- Hinting; What is font hinting?…”
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Bootstrap Site Blueprints. by Cochran, David

Table of Contents: “…The modular file organizationCustomizing Bootstrap's LESS according to our needs; Customizing variables; Importing our new variables; Editing navbar variables; Adding the logo image; Adjusting nav item padding; Adding icons; Adding Font Awesome icons; Adjusting the navbar icon color; Adjusting the responsive navbar breakpoint; Styling the carousel; Setting Font Awesome icons for the controls; Adding top and bottom padding; Forcing images to their full width; Constraining the carousel height; Repositioning the carousel indicators; Styling the indicators; Tweaking the columns and their content.…”
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Bronze Age monuments and Bronze Age, Iron Age, Roman and Anglo-Saxon landscapes at Cambridge Road, Bedford by Chapman, Andy, 1951-, Chapman, Pat

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Microsoft XNA 4.0 Game Development Cookbook : over 35 intermediate-advanced recipes for taking your XNA development arsenal further by Drumm, Luke

Table of Contents: “…. ; How it works ... ; Generating 3D height maps; Getting ready; How to do it ... ; How it works ... ; There's more ... ; Creating block worlds within the Reach profile.…”
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Personality Theories : A Global View by Shiraev, Eric

Table of Contents: “…Personality Theories in the 21st Century; Case 1: "Hacking" Living Cells for a Good Cause; Case 2: Understanding Multimorbidity; Case 3: Height, Masculinity, and Self-Esteem; Case 4: A Personality Profile of the Internet Troll; Understanding an Individual's Personality;…”
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Exact methods in low-dimensional statistical physics and quantum computing : École d'été de physique des Houches, session LXXXIX, 30 June-1 August 2008, École thématique du CNRS...

Table of Contents: “…2 Conformal field theory and statistical mechanics2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Scale invariance and conformal invariance in critical behavior -- 2.3 The role of the stress tensor -- 2.4 Radial quantization and the Virasoro algebra -- 2.5 CFT on the cylinder and torus -- 2.6 Height models, loop models, and Coulomb gas methods -- 2.7 Boundary conformal field theory -- 2.8 Further reading -- 3 The quantum Hall effect -- 4 Topological phases and quantum computation -- 4.1 Introduction: The quest for protected qubits…”
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Backbase 4 RIA Development. by Emde Boas, Ghica van

Table of Contents: “…Abstract element inheritance structureelement; visualElement; positionElement; dimensionElement; cardStack and card; The layout widgets; Accordion; Box; deck; navBox; panelSet; tabBox; The BTL utility elements; codeHighlighter; label; populator; skinSettings; xhtml and xml; Styling techniques for GUI widgets; Using CSS; Skinning; The BTL skinSettings widget; Height problems; A BTL Exerciser; The application structure; index.html; app.xml; Tab panel content; The menu in each tab panel; Summary; 3. …”
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Mastering Bootstrap 4 - Second Edition : Master the latest version of Bootstrap 4 to build highly customized responsive web apps, 2nd Edition. by Jakobus, Benjamin

Table of Contents: “…Alignment helpersBorders; Context colors; Margins and padding; Floating; Fixing; Toggling visibility; Text alignment and transformation; Highlighting text; Reducing text size; Lists; Unstyled lists; Inline lists; Width and height; Code; Sub and sup; Formatting user input; Formatting user output; Clearfix; Summary; Chapter 9: List Groups and Accordions; List groups; Interacting with list items; Applying badges; Applying context classes; Collapsing content; Accordions; Summary; Chapter 10: Optimizing Your Website; CSS optimization; Inline styles; Long identifier and class names; Shorthand rules.…”
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Flora of the USSR : alphabetical indexes to Volumes I - XXX

Table of Contents: “…Mediterranean (including North Africa) -- chapter var. varietas, raznovidnost variety bornch. bolsheyu chastyu mostly bornm. bolee ili menee more or less vys. vysota height d l dlina length shir. shirina width grech. grecheskii Greek lat. latinskii Latin m. metr meter sm. santimetr centimeter mm. millimetr millimeter odnoletnik annual.…”
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A Practical Approach to Data Structures and Algorithms by Pahuja, Sanjay

Table of Contents: “…7.5 Threaded Binary Tree Traversal7.6 General Tree and Its Conversion; 7.7 Binary Search Tree (BST); 7.8 Height Balanced Trees: AVL; 7.9 B-Trees; 7.10 Applications of Trees; Chapter 8: Non-Linear Data Structure: Graphs; 8.1 Properties of Graphs; 8.2 Representation of Graphs; 8.3 Traversal Algorithms-Depth First Search, Breadth First Search; 8.4 Minimum Cost Spanning Tree; 8.5 Biconnectivity; 8.6 Strong Connectivity; 8.7 Transitive Closure Algorithm; 8.8 Shortest Path Algorithms; 8.9 Applications of Graph; Chapter 9: Sorting Algorithms and Their Analysis; 9.1 Internal and External Sorting…”
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Learning Bootstrap 4 by Lambert, Matt

Table of Contents: “…Setting up the blog projectcss; fonts; img; js; partial; EJS files; Setting up the JSON files; Creating the data JSON file; Setting up the layout; Setting up the header; Setting up the footer; Creating our first page template; Compiling your project; Running your project; Viewing your project; A note about Sass; Summary; Chapter 3: Jumping into Flexbox; Flexbox basics and terminology; Ordering your Flexbox; Stretching your child sections to fit the parent container; Changing the direction of the boxes; Wrapping your Flexbox; Creating equal-height columns.…”
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The Visual FoxPro Report Writer : pushing it to the limit and beyond by Pountney, Cathy

Table of Contents: “…Title and Summary bands -- Group Header and Footer bands -- Column Header and Footer bands -- Changing the height of a band -- On Entry and On Exit -- Running the report -- Wrapping up -- Chapter 4 The Data Source -- Normalized vs. …”
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Thermospheric circulation

Table of Contents: “…Their Characteristics and Interpretation -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 The Height -- 5.3 Latitudes of Observation -- 5.4 Seasonal Distribution -- 5.5 Spatial Extent -- 5.6 Duration -- 5.7 Drift Motion -- 5.8 Wave Structure…”
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QGIS python programming cookbook : over 140 recipes to help you turn QGIS from a desktop GIS tool into a powerful automated geospatial framework by Lawhead, Joel

Table of Contents: “…Deleting a vector layer attributeReprojecting a vector layer -- Converting a shapefile to KML -- Merging shapefiles -- Splitting a shapefile -- Generalizing a vector layer -- Dissolving vector shapes -- Performing a union on vector shapes -- Rasterizing a vector layer -- Chapter 4: Using Raster Data -- Introduction -- Loading a raster layer -- Getting the cell size of a raster layer -- Obtaining the width and height of a raster -- Counting raster bands -- Swapping raster bands -- Querying the value of a raster at a specified point…”
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