It takes intuitive and fundamentals approach to understanding Electrical Circuits and their response to various signals. In our opinion, this subject is best understood by studying a variety of circuits and analyzing their behaviors. This book takes a practical approach to understanding this very important subject. Some of the highlighting features of the book are *200+ solved problems *Clearly illustrated steps *Extensive diagrams *Quick reference of important formulae *Primer of important calculus concepts *Easy to understand *Useful to all EE, EEE, ET&C Fundamentals *Useful for Gate, IES and other competitive exams *3 Fully solved University papers

Are you planning to start working with big data, analytics or AI, but don't know where to start or what to expect? Have you started your data journey and are wondering how to get to the next level? Want to know how to fund your data journey, how to organize your data team, how to measure the results, how to scale? Don't worry, you are not alone. Many organizations are struggling with the same questions. This book discusses 21 key decisions that any organization faces when travelling its journey towards becoming a data-driven and AI company. It is surprising how much the challenges are similar across different sectors. This is a book for business leaders who must learn to adapt to the world of data and AI and reap its benefits. It is about how to progress on the digital transformation journey of which data is a key ingredient.

Explores new perspectives on social media entertainment There is a new class of cultural producers—YouTube vloggers, Twitch gameplayers, Instagram influencers, TikTokers, Chinese wanghong, and others—who are part of a rapidly emerging and highly disruptive industry of monetized “user-generated� content. As this new wave of native social media entrepreneurs emerge, so do new formations of culture and the ways they are studied. In this volume, contributors draw on scholarship in media and communication studies, science and technology studies, and social media, Internet, and platform studies, in order to define this new field of study and the emergence of creator culture. Creator Culture introduces readers to new paradigms of social media entertainment from critical perspectives, demonstrating both relations to and differentiations from the well-established media forms and institutions traditionally within the scope of media studies. This volume does not seek to impose a uniform perspective; rather, the goal is to stimulate in-depth, globally-focused engagement with this burgeoning industry and establish a dynamic research agenda for scholars, teachers, and students, as well as creators and professionals across the media, communication, creative, and social media industries. Contributors include: Jean Burgess, Zoë Glatt, Sarah Banet-Weiser, Brent Luvaas, Carlos A. Scolari, Damián Fraticelli, José M. Tomasena, Junyi Lv, Hector Postigo, Brooke Erin Duffy, Megan Sawey, Jarrod Walzcer, Sangeet Kumar, Sriram Mohan, Aswin Punathambekar, Mohamed El Marzouki, Elaine Jing Zhao, Arturo Arriagada, Jeremy Shtern, Stephanie Hill

Programmers don't just use Kotlin, they love it. Even Google has adopted it as a first-class language for Android development. With Kotlin, you can intermix imperative, functional, and object-oriented styles of programming and benefit from the approach that's most suitable for the problem at hand. Learn to use the many features of this highly concise, fluent, elegant, and expressive statically typed language with easy-to-understand examples. Learn to write easy-to-maintain, high-performing JVM and Android applications, create DSLs, program asynchrony, and much more. Kotlin is a highly concise, elegant, fluent, and expressive statically typed multi-paradigm language. It is one of the few languages that compiles down to both Java bytecode and JavaScript. You can use it to build server-side, front-end, and Android applications. With Kotlin, you need less code to accomplish your tasks, while keeping the code type-safe and less prone to error. If you want to learn the essentials of Kotlin, from the fundamentals to more advanced concepts, you've picked the right book. Fire up your favorite IDE and practice hundreds of examples and exercises to sharpen your Kotlin skills. Learn to build standalone small programs to run as scripts, create type safe code, and then carry that knowledge forward to create fully object-oriented and functional style code that's easier to extend. Learn how to program with elegance but without compromising efficiency or performance, and how to use metaprogramming to build highly expressive code and create internal DSLs that exploit the fluency of the language. Explore coroutines, program asynchrony, run automated tests, and intermix Kotlin with Java in your enterprise applications. This book will help you master one of the few languages that you can use for the entire full stack - from the server to mobile devices - to create performant, concise, and easy to maintain applications. What You Need: To try out the examples in the book you'll need a computer with Kotlin SDK, JDK, and a text editor or a Kotlin IDE installed in it.

Ready to master Python? Learn to write effective code, whether you’re a beginner or a professional programmer. Review core Python concepts, including functions, modularization, and object orientation and walk through the available data types. Then dive into more advanced topics, such as using Django and working with GUIs. With plenty of code examples throughout, this hands-on reference guide has everything you need to become proficient in Python! Highlights include: 1) Functions 2) Methods 3) Attributes 4) Data types 5) GUIs 6) Debugging 7) Network communication 8) Modularization 9) Object orientation 10) Iterators 11) Generators 12) Exception handling

The book is designed to help students build efficient and compact programs. It is a thoroughly revised and extended version of the author s previous title Programming in C, now entitled Problem Solving with C. In addition to the three newly added chapters (Problem Solving using Computers, Programming at Bit Level, and Miscellaneous Features), all other chapters of the previous book have also been thoroughly revised. This book comes with an increased number of examples, example-programs, review questions and programming exercises, and true/false questions in each chapter, and a glossary of key terminologies at the end of the book. The book is eminently suitable for students of Computer Science, Computer Applications, and Information Technology at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. Assuming no previous knowledge of programming techniques, this book is appropriate for all those students who wish to master the C language as a problem solving tool for application in their respective disciplines. It even caters to the needs of those who are first time computer programmers.

A study of the relationship between platform and creative expression in the Atari VCS. The Atari Video Computer System dominated the home video game market so completely that "Atari" became the generic term for a video game console. The Atari VCS was affordable and offered the flexibility of changeable cartridges. Nearly a thousand of these were created, the most significant of which established new techniques, mechanics, and even entire genres. This book offers a detailed and accessible study of this influential video game console from both computational and cultural perspectives. Studies of digital media have rarely investigated platforms-the systems underlying computing. This book (the first in a series of Platform Studies) does so, developing a critical approach that examines the relationship between platforms and creative expression. Nick Montfort and Ian Bogost discuss the Atari VCS itself and examine in detail six game cartridges: Combat, Adventure, Pac-Man, Yars' Revenge, Pitfall!, and Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back. They describe the technical constraints and affordances of the system and track developments in programming, gameplay, interface, and aesthetics. Adventure, for example, was the first game to represent a virtual space larger than the screen (anticipating the boundless virtual spaces of such later games as World of Warcraft and Grand Theft Auto), by allowing the player to walk off one side into another space; and Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back was an early instance of interaction between media properties and video games. Montfort and Bogost show that the Atari VCS-often considered merely a retro fetish object-is an essential part of the history of video games.

Following significant advances in deep learning and related areas interest in artificial intelligence (AI) has rapidly grown. In particular, the application of AI in drug discovery provides an opportunity to tackle challenges that previously have been difficult to solve, such as predicting properties, designing molecules and optimising synthetic routes. Artificial Intelligence in Drug Discovery aims to introduce the reader to AI and machine learning tools and techniques, and to outline specific challenges including designing new molecular structures, synthesis planning and simulation. Providing a wealth of information from leading experts in the field this book is ideal for students, postgraduates and established researchers in both industry and academia.

From Business Strategy to IT Action gives companies of all sizes the tools to effectively link IT to business strategy and produce effective, actionable strategies for bottom-line results. The authors present CEOs, CFOs, CIOs, and IT managers with a powerful and accessible resource packed with such useful material as:
* The Strategy-to-Bottom-Line Value Chain, which integrates the management practices relating to planning, prioritization, alignment, and assessing a company's entire IT budget
* Methods for using IT Impact Management to establish IT culture and performance models for the business/IT connection
* The IT Improvement Zone, which quickly identifies where a company can focus its energies for maximum results
* And much more

An engaging, illustrated collection of insights revealing the practices and principles that expert software designers use to create great software. What makes an expert software designer? It is more than experience or innate ability. Expert software designers have specific habits, learned practices, and observed principles that they apply deliberately during their design work. This book offers sixty-six insights, distilled from years of studying experts at work, that capture what successful software designers actually do to create great software. The book presents these insights in a series of two-page illustrated spreads, with the principle and a short explanatory text on one page, and a drawing on the facing page. For example, "Experts generate alternatives" is illustrated by the same few balloons turned into a set of very different balloon animals. The text is engaging and accessible; the drawings are thought-provoking and often playful. Organized into such categories as "Experts reflect," "Experts are not afraid," and "Experts break the rules," the insights range from "Experts prefer simple solutions" to "Experts see error as opportunity." Readers learn that "Experts involve the user"; "Experts take inspiration from wherever they can"; "Experts design throughout the creation of software"; and "Experts draw the problem as much as they draw the solution." One habit for an aspiring expert software designer to develop would be to read and reread this entertaining but essential little book. The insights described offer a guide for the novice or a reference for the veteran-in software design or any design profession. A companion web site provides an annotated bibliography that compiles key underpinning literature, the opportunity to suggest additional insights, and more.

Welcome to your in-depth professional guide to the open source Eclipse Jakarta EE 10 platform. This book will help you build more complex native enterprise Java-based cloud and other applications that can run in corporate and other mission-critical settings. The majority of the key Jakarta EE 10 APIs or features are dissected in this book, including JSF, JSP, JPA, CDI, REST, Microprofiles, WebSockets, and many more. Along the way, various open source Apache, Eclipse, and other projects are integrated and used for more complete workflows and treatment in general.   Jakarta EE 10 comes with a significant number of improvements over Java EE 9 technologies and adopts a series of new technologies. This book starts out with a concise development procedure proposal and shows NetBeans as an alternative IDE to Eclipse. It also talks about versioning, software repositories, and continuous integration techniques. The web tier of enterprise application architectures is covered, including state-of-the-art techniques such as web sockets and front end (JavaScript) related frameworks. The book presents a survey of architecture-related advanced topics, including micro profiles. In a supporting technologies chapter, JSON and XML processing methods are revisited and deepened, and the usage of scripting engines is introduced.  A resources chapter discusses enterprise resource integration, such as resource adapters and Hibernate as a mapper between the SQL and the Java world. Also covered is the usage of no-SQL databases. A security chapter shows advanced security enhancement techniques for use of Jakarta EE in corporate environments. The last chapter talks about advanced logging and monitoring techniques, serving both developers and operations staff. What You Will Learn Build complex Jakarta EE applications that run in corporate or other enterprise settings Create a professional development workflow using Jakarta EE Build more advanced web development applications Work with more advanced supporting technologies to increase application maturity and stability in a corporate environment    Do enterprise resource integration, including custom resource adapters Utilize security enhancements of enterprise-level Jakarta EE applications Leverage techniques to monitor and log in a corporate environment, including memory usage and performance troubleshooting Who This Book is For Experienced Java programmers and web developers, especially those with some prior experience with the Java EE platform 

IT is the subject of today. The industry continues to grow at record speed, this encyclopaedia has bee designed in the following five volumes keeping the new curriculum released by the national council of education research and training

The main topic of this book is unconventional superconductors which include the metal hydrides, organic superconductors, graphite and other carbon-based systems. Graphite and carbon-based materials are currently considered most intriguing in that they show both superconductivity (including the possibility of high or even extra high temperature superconductivity) and magnetism and they are of considerable topical interest. The book carries extended articles on tunnelling and magno-tunelling studies giving new insights into superconductivity of curates and of unconventional systems. The five chapters comprising the book have been contributed by active and renowned researchers from six countries.

Section 1: Introduction to servlets and JSPsBegin with the concepts and terms that you need for Java web programming, then learn how to use the Tomcat web server on your own PC and take a crash course in HTML.Section 2: The essence of web programmingLearn how to develop JSPs and servlets and how to get the best from both by using the Model 2 architecture. Then, learn how to use sessions, cookies, JavaBeans, and custom JSP tags.Section 3: Essential database skillsLearn how to use JDBC for database operations, and learn the specifics for working with MySQL, a popular open-source database that's often used with Java web applications.Section 4: Advanced servlet and JSP skillsMaster the special skills that you need for some applications: JavaMail, SSL, security, HTTP, XML, and EJBs.Section 5: The Music Store web siteStudy a complete e-commerce web site that uses all of the skills presented in the book, and use the source code on the CD as the starting point for your own web applications.

Computer Fraud & Abuse Laws An Overview Of Federal Criminal Laws

Dieses Aufbauset enthält sieben Bände der Bibliothek der Mediengestaltung aus dem Bereich Printmedien. Die Auswahl der Bände ist abgestimmt auf die Themen der Ausbildung zum/zur Mediengestalter/in Digital und Print im Schwerpunkt Printmedien und bietet als Ergänzung zum Basisset Mediengestaltung eine optimale Prüfungsvorbereitung. Die folgenden Bände sind im Set enthalten:• Digitale Farbe• Digitales Bild• Printdesign• Druckvorstufe• Druck• Crossmedia Publishing• PDF Für die Bibliothek der Mediengestaltung wurden die Themen des Kompendiums der Mediengestaltung neu strukturiert, vollständig überarbeitet und in ein handliches Format gebracht. Leitlinien waren hierbei die Anpassung an die Entwicklungen in der Werbe- und Medienbranche sowie die Berücksichtigung der aktuellen Rahmenpläne und Studienordnungen sowie Prüfungsanforderungen der Ausbildungs- und Studiengänge.  Alle Bände enthalten zahlreiche praxisorientierte Aufgaben mit Musterlösungen und eignen sich als Lehr- und Arbeitsbücher an Schulen sowie Hochschulen und zum Selbststudium.

Penetration testers simulate cyber attacks to find security weaknesses in networks, operating systems, and applications. Information security experts worldwide use penetration techniques to evaluate enterprise defenses.In Penetration Testing, security expert, researcher, and trainer Georgia Weidman introduces you to the core skills and techniques that every pentester needs. Using a virtual machine-based lab that includes Kali Linux and vulnerable operating systems, you'll run through a series of practical lessons with tools like Wireshark, Nmap, and Burp Suite. As you follow along with the labs and launch attacks, you'll experience the key stages of an actual assessment - including information gathering, finding exploitable vulnerabilities, gaining access to systems, post exploitation, and more.Learn how to: Crack passwords and wireless network keys with brute-forcing and wordlistsTest web applications for vulnerabilitiesUse the Metasploit Framework to launch exploits and write your own Metasploit modulesAutomate social-engineering attacksBypass antivirus softwareTurn access to one machine into total control of the enterprise in the post exploitation phaseYou'll even explore writing your own exploits. Then it's on to mobile hacking - Weidman's particular area of research - with her tool, the Smartphone Pentest Framework.With its collection of hands-on lessons that cover key tools and strategies, Penetration Testing is the introduction that every aspiring hacker needs.

Multimodal interface systems make it possible to interact with computers using speech and hearing, touch and gesture. The role of vision in human computer interaction could therefore be brought back to its natural place in communication. In many applications, non-visual presentation methods could be used efficiently to provide more natural human-computer interfaces. This evolution is of particular relevance for the visually handicapped. The purpose of this book is to provide a complete understanding of state-of-the-art research in non-visual human-computer interaction. The book is aimed at all researchers and developers interested in improving the accessibility of software applications, especially for people with disabilities.

Engineering Computations and Modeling in MATLAB(R)/Simulink(R) provides a broad overview of The MathWorks' MATLAB(R)/Simulink(R)/GUIDE development and modeling environment. This textbook shows how to use these software tools effectively in a variety of engineering applications, including modeling real-world dynamic systems. Concepts Discussed: Major concepts of MATLAB(R), Symbolic Math ToolboxA', Simulink(R), and GUIDE * Development of effective foolproof M-file scripts and functions * Use of the 2D and 3D plotting functions and handle graphics * Creation of interactive user interfaces and animations * Presentation of numerical methods, coded in MATLAB(R) functions * Accuracy of digital computations Special Features: * Numerous examples * Derivation of fundamental formulas using symbolic math computations * Dynamic systems modeling in MATLAB(R) and Simulink(R) * Development of user-friendly standalone GUIs * Introduction of aerospace engineering tools This book is used as a textbook by undergraduate and graduate students taking introductory and advanced courses in applied programming, and also as a reference for working professionals using MATLAB(R)/Simulink(R).

Ob in der Ausbildung oder im Studium – das professionelle Aufbereiten und Darstellen von Information stellt eine berufliche Kernkompetenz dar. In der Arbeitswelt muss sowohl betriebsintern als auch im Kontakt mit Kunden ständig präsentiert werden. Hierbei ist es längst nicht mehr ausreichend, "irgendwie" zu präsentieren. Professionelles Präsentieren will gelernt sein! In den ersten Kapiteln erfahren Sie, wie Sie Texte, Bilder, Diagramme und multimediale Elemente für eine Präsentation aufbereiten. Dabei kommt auch das Urheber- und Nutzungsrecht zur Sprache. Mithilfe von Schritt-für-Schritt-Anleitungen können Sie das Erstellen professioneller Präsentationen auch ohne Vorkenntnis nachvollziehen. Entscheiden Sie selbst, ob Sie Ihre Präsentationen mit PowerPoint oder mit kostenloser Open-Source-Software erstellen. In diesem Buch kommen nicht nur digitale Präsentationen zu Sprache. Je nach Anlass kann es besser sein, analoge Medien wie Flipchart oder Metaplan einzusetzen. Darüber hinaus lernen Sie, wie Sie Ihr Publikum durch eine gute Rhetorik und angemessene Körpersprache für sich gewinnen. Selbst zur Bekämpfung von Lampenfieber hält das Buch Tipps bereit. Zahlreiche Checklisten helfen Ihnen bei der Vorbereitung Ihrer Präsentationen und dienen zur Kontrolle der Ergebnisse. Das Buch eignet sich ideal zum Selbststudium, kann aber auch als Lehrbuch im Unterricht eingesetzt werden.

This textbook focuses on distributed ledger technology (DLT) and its potential impact on society at large. It aims to offer a detailed and self-contained introduction to the founding principles behind DLT accessible to a well-educated but not necessarily mathematically oriented audience. DLT allows solving many complicated problems arising in economics, banking, and finance, industry, trade, and other fields. However, to reap the ultimate benefits, one has to overcome some of its inherent limitations and use it judiciously. Not surprisingly, amid increasing applications of DLT, misconceptions are formed over its use. The book thoroughly dispels these misconceptions via an impartial assessment of the arguments rooted in scientific reasoning.Blockchain and Distributed Ledgers: Mathematics, Technology, and Economics offers a detailed and self-contained introduction to DLT, blockchains, and cryptocurrencies and seeks to equip the reader with an ability to participate in the crypto economy meaningfully.

Researchers will find "Neurocomputing" an essential guide to the concepts employed in this field that have been taken from disciplines as varied as neuroscience, psychology, cognitive science, engineering, and physics. A number of these important historical papers contain ideas that have not yet been fully exploited, while the more recent articles define the current direction of neurocomputing and point to future research. Each article has an introduction that places it in historical and intellectual perspective.

Included among the 43 articles are the pioneering contributions of McCulloch and Pitts, Hebb, and Lashley; innovative work by Von Neumann, Minsky and Papert, Cooper, Grossberg, and Kohonen; exciting new developments in parallel distributed processing.

WebAssembly fulfills the long-awaited promise of web technologies: fast code, type-safe at compile time, execution in the browser, on embedded devices, or anywhere else. Rust delivers the power of C in a language that strictly enforces type safety. Combine both languages and you can write for the web like never before! Learn how to integrate with JavaScript, run code on platforms other than the browser, and take a step into IoT. Discover the easy way to build cross-platform applications without sacrificing power, and change the way you write code for the web. WebAssembly is more than just a revolutionary new technology. It's reshaping how we build applications for the web and beyond. Where technologies like ActiveX and Flash have failed, you can now write code in whatever language you prefer and compile to WebAssembly for fast, type-safe code that runs in the browser, on mobile devices, embedded devices, and more. Combining WebAssembly's portable, high-performance modules with Rust's safety and power is a perfect development combination. Learn how WebAssembly's stack machine architecture works, install low-level wasm tools, and discover the dark art of writing raw wast code. Build on that foundation and learn how to compile WebAssembly modules from Rust by implementing the logic for a checkers game. Create wasm modules in Rust to interoperate with JavaScript in many compelling ways. Apply your new skills to the world of non-web hosts, and create everything from an app running on a Raspberry Pi that controls a lighting system, to a fully-functioning online multiplayer game engine where developers upload their own arena-bound WebAssembly combat modules. Get started with WebAssembly today, and change the way you think about the web. What You Need: You'll need a Linux, Mac, or Windows workstation with an Internet connection. You'll need an up-to-date web browser that supports WebAssembly. To work with the sample code, you can use your favorite text editor or IDE. The book will guide you through installing the Rust and WebAssembly tools needed for each chapter.

This book presents the breakthrough discovery of a new business performance metric that enables global enterprises to finally answer the important question: How well does it use information to improve business? The Information Orientation (10)^TM metric measures 'business intelligence' by showing how effective management of information and IT, and people's behaviour with information are directly linked to business performance.
'Information is a forceful weapon in creating competitive advantages to increase customer satisfaction, employee morale and shareholder value'. — Puis Baschera, CEO, Hilti Corporation, Liechenstein
'The technology and processes to capture and analyze information are available to us all. However, this book vividly demonstrates the link between information capabilities and business performance and provides valuable guidance to unlock the potential.' — John S. Boardman, CEO, Dubai Aluminium Company, United Arab Emirates
'By applying the Information Orientation framework and guidelines to our business and improving our information, people and IT capabilities for customers, we have demonstrable proof that established basic industry companies can excel at growth and innovation and leverage e-business opportunities in a developing market. A recommended read for senior managers getting their companies "e-business ready" in practice, not just in theory.' — Paul Hugentobler, Vice Chairman, Siam City Cement Company, Thailand
'The ability to visualize the relation between Information, People and IT is a key factor for improving business performance in order to maintain competitive strength.' — Göran Lenkel, Managing Director, Skandiabanken, Sweden
'The IT industry is now representing a global $1.4 trillion marketplace - it is about time that we start to look at real performance and pay back of IT investments.' — Peter Ohnemus, Co-Founder and Vice Chairman, The Fantastic Corporation, Switzerland