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Mesmerized
By Alissa Walser. 2010
Mozart's Vienna. A crucible for scientific experimentation and courtly intrigue, as Europe's finest minds vie for imperial favour. In a…
colourful, chaotic private hospital that echoes with the shrieks of hysterical patients, Franz Anton Mesmer is developing a series of controversial cure-alls for body and mind. When he is asked to help restore the sight of a blind musical prodigy favoured by the Empress herself, he senses that fame, and even immortality, is within his grasp. Mesmer knows that he will have to gain her trust if he is to open her eyes. But at what cost to her fragile talent? And will their intimacy result in scandal?Practical Security Automation and Testing: Tools and techniques for automated security scanning and testing in DevSecOps
By Tony Hsiang-Chih Hsu. 2019
Your one stop guide to automating infrastructure security using DevOps and DevSecOpsKey FeaturesSecure and automate techniques to protect web, mobile…
or cloud servicesAutomate secure code inspection in C++, Java, Python, and JavaScriptIntegrate security testing with automation frameworks like fuzz, BDD, Selenium and Robot FrameworkBook DescriptionSecurity automation is the automatic handling of software security assessments tasks. This book helps you to build your security automation framework to scan for vulnerabilities without human intervention.This book will teach you to adopt security automation techniques to continuously improve your entire software development and security testing. You will learn to use open source tools and techniques to integrate security testing tools directly into your CI/CD framework. With this book, you will see how to implement security inspection at every layer, such as secure code inspection, fuzz testing, Rest API, privacy, infrastructure security, and web UI testing. With the help of practical examples, this book will teach you to implement the combination of automation and Security in DevOps. You will learn about the integration of security testing results for an overall security status for projects.By the end of this book, you will be confident implementing automation security in all layers of your software development stages and will be able to build your own in-house security automation platform throughout your mobile and cloud releases.What you will learnAutomate secure code inspection with open source tools and effective secure code scanning suggestionsApply security testing tools and automation frameworks to identify security vulnerabilities in web, mobile and cloud servicesIntegrate security testing tools such as OWASP ZAP, NMAP, SSLyze, SQLMap, and OpenSCAPImplement automation testing techniques with Selenium, JMeter, Robot Framework, Gauntlt, BDD, DDT, and Python unittestExecute security testing of a Rest API Implement web application security with open source tools and script templates for CI/CD integrationIntegrate various types of security testing tool results from a single project into one dashboardWho this book is forThe book is for software developers, architects, testers and QA engineers who are looking to leverage automated security testing techniques.Understand Gang of Four, architectural, functional, and reactive design patterns and how to implement them on modern Java platforms, such…
as Java 12 and beyondKey FeaturesLearn OOP, functional, and reactive patterns for creating readable and maintainable codeExplore architectural patterns and practices for building scalable and reliable applicationsTackle all kinds of performance-related issues and streamline development using design patternsBook DescriptionJava design patterns are reusable and proven solutions to software design problems. This book covers over 60 battle-tested design patterns used by developers to create functional, reusable, and flexible software. Hands-On Design Patterns with Java starts with an introduction to the Unified Modeling Language (UML), and delves into class and object diagrams with the help of detailed examples. You'll study concepts and approaches to object-oriented programming (OOP) and OOP design patterns to build robust applications. As you advance, you'll explore the categories of GOF design patterns, such as behavioral, creational, and structural, that help you improve code readability and enable large-scale reuse of software. You’ll also discover how to work effectively with microservices and serverless architectures by using cloud design patterns, each of which is thoroughly explained and accompanied by real-world programming solutions. By the end of the book, you’ll be able to speed up your software development process using the right design patterns, and you’ll be comfortable working on scalable and maintainable projects of any size.What you will learnUnderstand the significance of design patterns for software engineeringVisualize software design with UML diagramsStrengthen your understanding of OOP to create reusable software systemsDiscover GOF design patterns to develop scalable applicationsExamine programming challenges and the design patterns that solve themExplore architectural patterns for microservices and cloud developmentWho this book is forIf you are a developer who wants to learn how to write clear, concise, and effective code for building production-ready applications, this book is for you. Familiarity with the fundamentals of Java is assumed.Python Data Mining Quick Start Guide: A beginner's guide to extracting valuable insights from your data
By Nathan Greeneltch. 2019
Explore the different data mining techniques using the libraries and packages offered by PythonKey FeaturesGrasp the basics of data loading,…
cleaning, analysis, and visualizationUse the popular Python libraries such as NumPy, pandas, matplotlib, and scikit-learn for data miningYour one-stop guide to build efficient data mining pipelines without going into too much theoryBook DescriptionData mining is a necessary and predictable response to the dawn of the information age. It is typically defined as the pattern and/ or trend discovery phase in the data mining pipeline, and Python is a popular tool for performing these tasks as it offers a wide variety of tools for data mining.This book will serve as a quick introduction to the concept of data mining and putting it to practical use with the help of popular Python packages and libraries. You will get a hands-on demonstration of working with different real-world datasets and extracting useful insights from them using popular Python libraries such as NumPy, pandas, scikit-learn, and matplotlib. You will then learn the different stages of data mining such as data loading, cleaning, analysis, and visualization. You will also get a full conceptual description of popular data transformation, clustering, and classification techniques.By the end of this book, you will be able to build an efficient data mining pipeline using Python without any hassle.What you will learnExplore the methods for summarizing datasets and visualizing/plotting dataCollect and format data for analytical workAssign data points into groups and visualize clustering patternsLearn how to predict continuous and categorical outputs for dataClean, filter noise from, and reduce the dimensions of dataSerialize a data processing model using scikit-learn’s pipeline featureDeploy the data processing model using Python’s pickle moduleWho this book is forPython developers interested in getting started with data mining will love this book. Budding data scientists and data analysts looking to quickly get to grips with practical data mining with Python will also find this book to be useful. Knowledge of Python programming is all you need to get started.Extremes: Life, Death and the Limits of the Human Body
By Kevin Fong. 2012
In anaesthetist Dr Kevin Fong's television programmes he has often demonstrated the impact of extremes on the human body by…
using his own body as a 'guinea pig'. So Dr Fong is well placed to share his experience of the sheer audacity of medical practice at extreme physiological limits, where human life is balanced on a knife edge. Through gripping accounts of extraordinary events and pioneering medicine, Dr Fong explores how our body responds when tested by the extremes of heat and cold, vacuum and altitude, age and disease. He shows how science, technology and medicine have taken what was once lethal in the world and made it survivable. This is not only a book about medicine, but also about exploration in its broadest sense - and about how, by probing the very limits of our biology, we may ultimately return with a better appreciation of how our bodies work, of what life is, and what it means to be human.A Course in In-Memory Data Management: The Inner Mechanics of In-Memory Databases
By Hasso Plattner. 2014
Recent achievements in hardware and software development such as multi-core CPUs and DRAM capacities of multiple terabytes per server…
enabled the introduction of a revolutionary technology in-memory data management This technology supports the flexible and extremely fast analysis of massive amounts of enterprise data Professor Hasso Plattner and his research group at the Hasso Plattner Institute in Potsdam Germany have been investigating and teaching the corresponding concepts and their adoption in the software industry for years This book is based on an online course that was first launched in autumn 2012 with more than 13 000 enrolled students and marked the successful starting point of the openHPI e-learning platform The course is mainly designed for students of computer science software engineering and IT related subjects but addresses business experts software developers technology experts and IT analysts alike Plattner and his group focus on exploring the inner mechanics of a column-oriented dictionary-encoded in-memory database Covered topics include - amongst others - physical data storage and access basic database operators compression mechanisms and parallel join algorithms Beyond that implications for future enterprise applications and their development are discussed Step by step readers will understand the radical differences and advantages of the new technology over traditional row-oriented disk-based databases In this completely revised 2nd edition we incorporate the feedback of thousands of course participants on openHPI and take into account latest advancements in hard- and software Improved figures explanations and examples further ease the understanding of the concepts presented We introduce advanced data management techniques such as transparent aggregate caches and provide new showcases that demonstrate the potential of in-memory databases for two diverse industries retail and life sciencesRescue Me: Last Chance Rescue Book 1 (Last Chance Rescue)
By Christy Reece. 2009
For fans of Maya Banks, Nina Bruhns, Pamela Clare and Julie Ann Walker. The first novel in New York Times…
bestselling author Christy Reece's addictive Last Chance Rescue series of sexy suspense and thrilling adventure. A covert operative of Last Chance Rescue Enterprises, Eden St. Claire has made secrets her life's work. Seven years ago, her life was almost destroyed. Now Eden conceals any hint of vulnerability beneath an unbreakable shell of strength and beauty. That is, until the daring rescue of an innocent girl leads Eden to Jordan Montgomery.Jordan has been looking for Eden, but he doesn't recognise the girl he knew in the dazzling woman before him. As the two join forces to bring down a ruthless international abduction network, Eden must decide if Jordan's love will be enough to rescue her from the demons of her past...Don't miss the other pulse-pounding novels in the Last Chance Rescue series, Return To Me, Run To Me, No Chance, Second Chance, Last Chance, Sweet Justice, Sweet Revenge, and Sweet Reward, or the steamy southern suspense of the Wildefire series by Christy's alter-ego Ella Grace which begins with Midnight Secrets.Culturing Life: How Cells Became Technologies
By Hannah Landecker. 2010
How did cells make the journey, one we take so much for granted, from their origin in living bodies to…
something that can be grown and manipulated on artificial media in the laboratory, a substantial biomass living outside a human body, plant, or animal? This is the question at the heart of Hannah Landecker's book. She shows how cell culture changed the way we think about such central questions of the human condition as individuality, hybridity, and even immortality and asks what it means that we can remove cells from the spatial and temporal constraints of the body and "harness them to human intention." Rather than focus on single discrete biotechnologies and their stories--embryonic stem cells, transgenic animals--Landecker documents and explores the wider genre of technique behind artificial forms of cellular life. She traces the lab culture common to all those stories, asking where it came from and what it means to our understanding of life, technology, and the increasingly blurry boundary between them. The technical culture of cells has transformed the meaning of the term "biological," as life becomes disembodied, distributed widely in space and time. Once we have a more specific grasp on how altering biology changes what it is to be biological, Landecker argues, we may be more prepared to answer the social questions that biotechnology is raising.Peak 40: The New Science of Mid-Life Health for a Leaner, Stronger Body and a Sharper Mind
By Dr Marc Bubbs. 2021
Work smarter, not harder. The first guide to truly holistic health and fitness for those in their 40s From Tom…
Brady to Serena Williams, Tiger Woods and Roger Federer athletes are increasingly peaking later in their careers. Let Dr Marc Bubbs be your personal trainer in this accessible guide— aimed exclusively at those in their 40s. Create a customized program that works for YOU—from diet, to sleep, type of training and mindset, this book has all the tools you need. Peak 40 is for anyone wanting to rediscover the best version of themselves coming into their 40s. Author Dr Marc Bubbs is a performance nutritionist with a portfolio of professional and Olympic athletes - but he is also the dad of three girls, all under 7! Dr. Bubbs is here with you, in the eye of the mid-life storm, and he has created the ultimate book to help you through it. For fans of Joe Wicks and Michael Mosley, Dr. Bubbs offers simple, evidence-based and time-efficient strategies to help you reignite your energy and passion. His realistic, grown-up and non-judgemental approach is to explain the effect some food groups and lack of exercise and sleep have on our body. The information presented is easy to digest and he offers advice that can be tailored to your body and personality type. In his expert opinion, small changes such as ‘not eating after 8pm for five out of seven days’ can have a big impact on weight loss and positive mood. Rather than eliminating certain food groups like fats and carbohydrates, he looks at ‘turning the dial’ on them depending on individual needs. If life has become too sedentary, he provides ways to increase suppleness so that you can start to reintroduce movement into your life without causing pain. Guiding us through the myriad of confusion lifestyle messages, Dr. Bubbs teaches us: How to increase flexibility How to train with achy joints, knees, back, shoulders... Whether a plant-based diet is right How to maintain bone health Whether to lift weights Who should do HIIT (and who shouldn’t) The importance of glucose control in your diet Advice on dealing with anxiety and low mood How to set realistic expectations "[Bubbs] dives into the nutrition and science—where it’s been and where it’s heading."—Zack Bitter, world record-holding ultra marathoner, as heard on "The Joe Rogan Experience" "Dr. Bubbs's advice on nutrition, health, and recovery for peak performance has been a game changer!"—Kevin Pangos, point guard, Barcelona FC BasketballInnovations for Community Services: 21st International Conference, I4CS 2021, Bamberg, Germany, May 26–28, 2021, Proceedings (Communications in Computer and Information Science #1404)
By Günter Fahrnberger, Gerald Eichler, Christian Erfurth, Udo R. Krieger. 2021
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Innovations for Community Services, I4CS 2021, held in…
Bamberg, Germany, in May 2021 as a hybrid event. The 14 full papers and 2 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 43 submissions. One short invited paper is also included. The papers focus on topics such as services for critical infrastructure; network architecture for communities; applications and services supporting work and life; community data and visualization; technology empowers industry processes; and future community support.Web Engineering: 21st International Conference, ICWE 2021, Biarritz, France, May 18–21, 2021, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #12706)
By Richard Chbeir, Marco Brambilla, Flavius Frasincar, Ioana Manolescu. 2021
This book constitutes the proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Web Engineering, ICWE 2021, which was supposed to be…
held in Biarritz, France, in May 2021. Due to the corona pandemic the conference changed to a virtual format.The total of 22 full and 13 short contributions presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 128 submissions. The book also contains 6 demonstration, 1 poster, 3 PhD, and 3 tutorial papers. The papers were organized in topical sections named: Semantic Web; social Web; Web modeling and engineering; Web big data and data analytics; Web mining and knowledge extraction; Web of Things; Web programming; Web user interfaces; PhD symposium; posters and demonstrations; and tutorials.How to Enhance Morality (SpringerBriefs in Ethics)
By Vojin Rakić. 2021
This book offers an innovative approach to moral enhancement. We, as humans, have a moral duty to be as good…
as we can be. Hence, moral bio-enhancement (MBE), if effective and safe, is our moral duty. However, it has to be voluntary because if it is made compulsory, human freedom (of the will) would be curtailed. As freedom (of the will) is an essential component of humanness, compulsory MBE would infringe upon our humanness.An essential question is; what will motivate humans to subject themselves voluntarily to MBE?The book argues - and supports by using empirical/experimental evidence - that morality and happiness operate in a circularly supportive relationship that applies to most humans most of the time: the better they are, the happier they will be; the happier they are, the better they will be. Hence, the grounding rationale for MBE ought not to be the prevention of “ultimate harm” based on compulsory MBE (as argued by Persson and Savulescu), but human happiness based on voluntary MBE. The primary objective of the book is to provide the readers with an original view on moral enhancement, whilst proposing a novel conception of moral enhancement that is informed by new biotechnological developments.This bookis devoted to one of the most famous examples of automation handling tasks -the bin-picking problem …
To pick up objects scrambled in a box is aneasy task for humans but its automation is very complex In this book threedifferent approaches to solve the bin-picking problem are described showinghow modern sensors can be used for efficient bin-picking as well as how classicsensor concepts can be applied for novel bin-picking techniques 3D pointclouds are firstly used as basis employing the known Random Sample Matchingalgorithm paired with a very efficient depth map based collision avoidancemechanism resulting in a very robust bin-picking approach Reducing thecomplexity of the sensor data all computations are then done on depth maps This allows the use of 2D image analysis techniques to fulfill the tasks andresults in real time data analysis Combined with force torque and accelerationsensors a near time optimal bin-picking system emerges Lastly surface normalmaps are employed as a basis for pose estimation In contrast to knownapproaches the normal maps are not used for 3D data computation but directlyfor the object localization problem enabling the application of a new class ofsensors for bin-pickingThe worst woman in Sydney: the life and crimes of Kate Leigh
By Leigh Straw. 2016
Matriarch of the criminal underworld ...or the Robin Hood of inner Sydney? The legend of Kate Leigh, Sydney's famed brothel…
madam, sly grog seller and drug dealer, has loomed large in TV's Underbelly and every other account of Sydney's criminal history from the 1920s to the 1960s. But she has never had a biography of her own. Despite having more than 100 criminal convictions to her name, Kate Leigh is also remembered as a local hero, giving money to needy families and supporting her local community through the hard times of Depression and war. Here, novelist and historian Leigh Straw teases out the full story of how this wayward Reformatory girl from Dubbo made a fortune in eastern Sydney and defied the gender stereotyping of the time to become a leading underworld figure.Relating Software Requirements and Architectures
By John Grundy, Ivan Mistrík, Jon G. Hall, Patricia Lago, Paris Avgeriou. 2011
Why have a book about the relation between requirements and software architecture? Understanding the relation between requirements and architecture is…
important because the requirements, be they explicit or implicit, represent the function, whereas the architecture determines the form. While changes to a set of requirements may impact on the realization of the architecture, choices made for an architectural solution may impact on requirements, e.g., in terms of revising functional or non-functional requirements that cannot actually be met.Although research in both requirements engineering and software architecture is quite active, it is in their combination that understanding is most needed and actively sought. Presenting the current state of the art is the purpose of this book. The editors have divided the contributions into four parts: Part 1 “Theoretical Underpinnings and Reviews” addresses the issue of requirements change management in architectural design through traceability and reasoning. Part 2 “Tools and Techniques” presents approaches, tools, and techniques for bridging the gap between software requirements and architecture. Part 3 “Industrial Case Studies” then reports industrial experiences, while part 4 on “Emerging Issues” details advanced topics such as synthesizing architecture from requirements or the role of middleware in architecting for non-functional requirements. The final chapter is a conclusions chapter identifying key contributions and outstanding areas for future research and improvement of practice.The book is targeted at academic and industrial researchers in requirements engineering or software architecture. Graduate students specializing in these areas as well as advanced professionals in software development will also benefit from the results and experiences presented in this volume.Bereiden en aseptisch handelen: Verdieping voor apothekersassistenten (Basiswerk AG)
By Y.M. Groot-Padberg. 2021
Het bereiden van geneesmiddelen is met ingang van het nieuwe Kwalificatiedossier mbo Apothekersassistent geen kerntaak meer, maar een keuzedeel. In het…
kwalificatiedossier wordt de kennis beschreven die apothekersassistenten moeten hebben over het bereiden van alle toedieningsvormen. Met die kennis kunnen zij voorlichting en advies aan cliënten geven. In het keuzedeel gaat het om de daadwerkelijke uitvoering van bereiden en aseptisch handelen. Alhoewel het aantal apotheken dat zelf bereidt afneemt, blijft er ook in de toekomst behoefte aan gekwalificeerde en ervaren bereidende apothekersassistenten. Apothekersassistenten met een certificaat op het gebied van bereiden zijn breder inzetbaar en vergroten daarmee hun kansen op de arbeidsmarkt.Dit boek is een herziening van het boek Productzorg - Bereiden in de apotheek (4e druk) en sluit aan op het Keuzedeel mbo Bereiden en aseptische handelingen. Het bereiden van geneesmiddelen in de apotheek is arbeidsintensief werk en moet voldoen aan strenge kwaliteitsnormen. Met dit boek leren studenten en beginnende beroepsbeoefenaren zorgvuldig en hygiënisch bereiden volgens de nieuwste FNA- en LNA-procedures. De actuele kennis over de verschillende bereidingsvormen is in dit boek bijeengebracht. Bereiden en aseptisch handelen (1e druk) is een basiswerk voor studenten die zich willen verdiepen in het bereiden van geneesmiddelen. Ook kan het boek uitstekend als naslagwerk in de praktijk worden gebruikt.Yvonne Groot-Padberg studeerde farmacie in Amsterdam. Na het behalen van haar apothekersdiploma in 1988 is zij werkzaam geweest in de farmaceutische industrie als productontwikkelaar en farmaceutisch projectleider. Sinds 2002 is zij werkzaam in het mbo-onderwijs, waar zij naast haar werk als teamleider lessen in productzorg verzorgt.The Dark Threads
By Jean Davison. 2012
Teenage life in the swinging sixties, hanging out in coffee bars talking fashion and pop music, who could wish for…
more? But in August 1968, growing pains started to kick hard for 18-year-old office worker Jean Davison and adolescent idealism quickly turns to angst and emptiness.With her home life in chaos, Jean turns to a psychiatrist hoping for a sensible adult to talk to. That’s where her problems really begin: a week’s voluntary psychiatric rest is the start of one long nightmare of drugs, electric shock treatment and abuse which turn her into a zombie.Losing five years of her young life to the mental health system, Jean finally finds the courage to say “no” to drugs and turns her life around, finds love and returns to the mental health service as a worker.Balancing quotes from case number 10826, her actual case notes which reveal a diagnosis of chronic schizophrenia, with her own account of interviews with doctors, this memoir raises disturbing questions on the treatment of psychiatric patients, which are still relevant todayJean Davison, was born in 1950 into a working class family in Yorkshire She left school at 15 to work in a factory. After leaving the psychiatric system she returned to education to study for GCEs. She has worked as a secretary for the NSPCC and within the health service. In 1979 she met Ian who she later married. She later graduated from university with a first-class degree in literature and psychology. Still living in Yorkshire with Ian, she now works in mental health. The Dark Threads is her first book.The One World Schoolhouse: Education Reimagined
By Salman Khan. 2012
A free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere: this is the goal of the Khan Academy, a passion project that grew…
from an ex-engineer and hedge funder's online tutoring sessions with his niece, who was struggling with algebra, into a worldwide phenomenon. Today millions of students, parents, and teachers use the Khan Academy's free videos and software, which have expanded to encompass nearly every conceivable subject; and Academy techniques are being employed with exciting results in a growing number of classrooms around the globe.Like many innovators, Khan rethinks existing assumptions and imagines what education could be if freed from them. And his core idea - liberating teachers from lecturing and state-mandated calendars and opening up class time for truly human interaction - has become his life's passion. Schools seek his advice about connecting to students in a digital age, and people of all ages and backgrounds flock to the site to utilise this fresh approach to learning.In THE ONE WORLD SCHOOLHOUSE, Khan presents his radical vision for the future of education, as well as his own remarkable story, for the first time. More than just a solution, THE ONE WORLD SCHOOLHOUSE serves as a call for free, universal, global education, and an explanation of how Khan's simple yet revolutionary thinking can help achieve this inspiring goal.From Traditional Fault Tolerance to Blockchain
By Wenbing Zhao. 2021
This book covers the most essential techniques for designing and building dependable distributed systems, from traditional fault tolerance to the…
blockchain technology. Topics include checkpointing and logging, recovery-orientated computing, replication, distributed consensus, Byzantine fault tolerance, as well as blockchain. This book intentionally includes traditional fault tolerance techniques so that readers can appreciate better the huge benefits brought by the blockchain technology and why it has been touted as a disruptive technology, some even regard it at the same level of the Internet. This book also expresses a grave concern on using traditional consensus algorithms in blockchain because with the limited scalability of such algorithms, the primary benefits of using blockchain in the first place, such as decentralization and immutability, could be easily lost under cyberattacks.Coping with Liver Disease
By Mark Greener. 2013
Liver disease is the leading cause of death after heart, cancer, stroke and respiratory disease, and kills more people than…
diabetes and road deaths combined. But, there is hope. The liver is a uniquely regenerative organ, and some European countries have dramatically cut liver disease in recent years. This book looks at lifestyle factors and medical interventions that can help. Topics include: About the liver and gall bladder; Types of liver disease including hepatitis, cirrhosis, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFL) and hepatitis; Tests and checks; Treatment including medication; Diet; Alcohol; 'Cleansing' the liver; Obesity and other lifestyle considerations; Coping with increased vulnerability to infections.