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Teaching Learning Based Optimization Algorithm
by R. Venkata RaoDescribing a newoptimization algorithm, the "Teaching-Learning-Based Optimization (TLBO)," in aclear and lucid style, this book maximizes reader insights into how the TLBOalgorithm can be used to solve continuous and discrete optimization problemsinvolving single or multiple objectives. As the algorithm operateson the principle of teaching and learning, where teachers influence the qualityof learners' results, the elitist version of TLBOalgorithm (ETLBO) is described along with applications of the TLBO algorithm inthe fields of electrical engineering, mechanical design, thermal engineering,manufacturing engineering, civil engineering, structural engineering, computerengineering, electronics engineering, physics and biotechnology. The book offers a valuableresource for scientists, engineers and practitioners involved in thedevelopment and usage of advanced optimization algorithms.
Teaching Macroeconomics with Microsoft Excel®
by Humberto BarretoHumberto Barreto gives professors a simple way to teach fundamental concepts for any undergraduate macroeconomics course using Microsoft Excel® with Excel workbooks and add-ins and videos freely available on his university website. The Excel files are designed to be used by students with any textbook, and have been used many times by the author in his own teaching. Each Excel workbook contains links to short screencasts, around five to ten minutes, that show the cursor and typing as the file is manipulated with narration that walks the student through the steps needed to complete a task. The book shows professors a simple way to present macroeconomic models and incorporate data into their courses.
Teaching the Last Backpack Generation: A Mobile Technology Handbook for Secondary Educators
by Zachary Walker Kara Rosenblatt Donald McMahonLet mobile devices transform teaching and learning Don’t just know how to use mobile technology. Know how to use it to transform learning. This refreshingly easy-to-use workbook shows educators how to make mobile devices a natural part of their classrooms by optimizing technology, no matter what the content. Discover: practical mobile device management skills such as how to project and use devices as a whiteboard and tools to capture student responses. fun strategies students will love such as teaching vocabulary using text speak and slang or using a digital assistant (like Siri) instead of writing. helpful resources to enhance professional learning.
Teaching the Last Backpack Generation: A Mobile Technology Handbook for Secondary Educators
by Zachary Walker Kara Rosenblatt Donald McMahonLet mobile devices transform teaching and learning Don’t just know how to use mobile technology. Know how to use it to transform learning. This refreshingly easy-to-use workbook shows educators how to make mobile devices a natural part of their classrooms by optimizing technology, no matter what the content. Discover: practical mobile device management skills such as how to project and use devices as a whiteboard and tools to capture student responses. fun strategies students will love such as teaching vocabulary using text speak and slang or using a digital assistant (like Siri) instead of writing. helpful resources to enhance professional learning.
Teaching with Google Classroom
by Michael ZhangPut Google Classroom to work while teaching your students and make your life easier About This Book * This is the first book to guide educators step by step through teaching with Google Classroom * It's focused on you, your students, and providing great learning experiences easily * It's easy to follow, with everything you need to get started and keep going even if you're not a technology fan Who This Book Is For This is a book for educators who want to use Google Classroom to teach better. It's not for geeks. There are rich examples, clear instructions, and enlightening explanations to help you put this platform to work. What You Will Learn * Create a Google Classroom and add customized information for each individual class * Add students to a Google Classroom * Send announcements and questions to students * Create, distribute, collect, and grade assignments through Google Classroom * Add events to and share a Google Classroom's calendar with parents to track a student's progress * Reuse posts, archive classrooms, and perform other administrative tasks in Google Classroom * Use Google Docs Add-ons, and Google Chrome Webstore Apps and Extensions to enhance assignments * Set up Google Classroom's mobile app In Detail Google Classroom helps teachers bring their work online. According to Google Trends, it's already bigger than Moodle after barely a year in the wild. This book is a complete start-to-finish guide for teachers using Google Classroom for the first time. It explains what Google Classroom is, what it can do, how to set it up, and how to use it to enhance student learning while making your life as a teacher easier. It shows you how to place resources and activities online, gather assignments, and develop group and individual activities. It's not just a manual, you'll also discover inspiring, easy ways to put Google Classroom to work for you and your class. Style and approach This is a step-by-step guide to using Google Classroom, the rapidly emerging platform for education, effectively.
Technical Analysis and Chart Interpretations: A Comprehensive Guide to Understanding Established Trading Tactics for Ultimate Profit (Wiley Trading)
by Ed PonsiEd Ponsi's straightforward guide to understanding technical analysis Technical Analysis and Chart Interpretations delivers simple explanations and easy-to-understand techniques that demystify the technical analysis process. In his usual straightforward style, bestselling author Ed Ponsi guides you through the twists and turns to show you what really matters when it comes to making money. Whether you trade stocks, currencies, or commodities, you'll develop invaluable skills as you master difficult concepts and the tools of the trade. Technical analysis translates to any form of trading, and this book delivers clear, jargon-free guidance toward interpreting the various charts you'll see in the field. Technical analysis can be confusing. Volatility, cycles, Elliot waves, Fibonacci, trends—it's easy to get lost, and most of the available literature is incomprehensible to all but the experts. This book is different—it's technical analysis for the rest of us. You'll see through the language to understand the underlying concepts, and how to apply them correctly. Learn what true technical analysis entails Discover the tools that simplify accurate analysis Master the tactics and strategies used by the pros Develop a valuable trading skill that transcends markets Simply recognizing the vocabulary isn't nearly enough, and a passing acquaintance with the topic is guaranteed to do more harm than good. When technical analysis methods are used incorrectly, they are ineffective at best, and actively destructive to your bottom line at worst. Technical Analysis and Chart Interpretations cuts through the confusion to give you a firm understanding and the skills to apply it correctly.
Techniques and Environments for Big Data Analysis
by Bhabani Shankar Prasad Mishra Satchidananda Dehuri Euiwhan Kim Gi-Name WangThis volume is aiming at a wide range of readers andresearchers in the area of Big Data by presenting the recent advances in the fieldsof Big Data Analysis, as well as the techniques and tools used to analyze it. The book includes 10 distinct chaptersproviding a concise introduction to Big Data Analysis and recent Techniques and Environments forBig Data Analysis. It gives insightinto how the expensive fitness evaluation of evolutionarylearning can play a vital role in big data analysis by adopting Parallel, Grid, and Cloud computing environments.
Techniques for Building Timing-Predictable Embedded Systems
by Nan GuanThis book describes state-of-the-art techniques for designing real-time computer systems. The author shows how to estimate precisely the effect of cache architecture on the execution time of a program, how to dispatch workload on multicore processors to optimize resources, while meeting deadline constraints, and how to use closed-form mathematical approaches to characterize highly variable workloads and their interaction in a networked environment. Readers will learn how to deal with unpredictable timing behaviors of computer systems on different levels of system granularity and abstraction.
Techno-Resiliency in Education
by Rob GrahamThis book formulates a greater understanding of how to enable a capacity for building social professional practice related to technology-enriched teaching and learning (TETL) specific, but not limited to, educational settings. This book comes at a time when many in education are struggling to provide a technology enriched learning experience for students who are entering classrooms with high expectations for such an experience. The focus on the protective factors and identified resilient professional practices, instead of on well documented and commonly cited risk factors and barriers that impede the effective integration of TETL, represents a distinguishing feature of this work. By attempting to better understand and document how two schools that were classified as resilient in their use of technology have been able to overcome risk factors (e. g. , budgetary constraints, a lack of resources, a lack of training, technological support issues), this book will offer the unique concept of techno-resiliency and some of its deeper insights and strategies.
Technological Challenges and Management: Matching Human and Business Needs (Manufacturing Design And Technology Ser. #2)
by J. Paulo Davim Carolina MachadoToday's organizations find themselves in a race to adopt new technologies in order to keep up with their competition. However, two questions must be answered: Are these organizations ready for new technological advancements, and are these new technologies appropriate for every organization? Technological Challenges and Management: Matching Human an
Technological Innovation for Cyber-Physical Systems
by Shirin Najdi Nazanin Vafaei António J. Falcão Luis M. Camarinha-MatosThis book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th IFIP WG 5. 5/SOCOLNET Advanced Doctoral Conference on Computing, Electrical and Industrial Systems, DoCEIS 2016, held in Costa de Caparica, Portugal, in April 2016. The 53 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 112 submissions. The papers present selected results produced in engineering doctoral programs and focus on research, development, and application of cyber-physical systems. Research results and ongoing work are presented, illustrated and discussed in the following areas: enterprise collaborative networks; ontologies; Petri nets; manufacturing systems; biomedical applications; intelligent environments; control and fault tolerance; optimization and decision support; wireless technologies; energy: smart grids, renewables, management, and optimization; bio-energy; and electronics.
Technology and Practice of Passwords
by Per Thorsheim Graeme Jenkinson Stig F. Mjølsnes Frank StajanoThis book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Passwords, PASSWORDS 2015, held in Cambridge, UK, in December 2015. The 6 revised full papers presented together with 3 revised short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 32 initial submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on human factors, attacks, and cryptography.
Technology In Action Complete, 13th Edition
by Alan Evans Kendall Martin Maryanne PoatsyFor introductory courses in computer concepts, digital literacy, or computer literacy, often including instruction in Microsoft Office. Explore, discover, and experience technology with the interactive and adaptive Technology in Action --the book that uses technology to teach technology! This book offers a learning system that pushes the envelope of what is possible in technology, and what is helpful in teaching. Although students are more comfortable with the digital environment than ever, their knowledge of the devices they use every day is still limited. The authors focus on tasks that students can accomplish with their devices, and skills they can apply immediately in the workplace, the classroom, and at home. This book fits the way students are learning today. Note: You are purchasing a standalone product; MyITLab does not come packaged with this content. Students, if interested in purchasing this title with MyITLab, ask your instructor for the correct package ISBN and Course ID. Instructors, contact your Pearson representative for more information
Temporal Logics in Computer Science
by Stéphane Demri Valentin Goranko Martin LangeThis comprehensive text provides a modern and technically precise exposition of the fundamental theory and applications of temporal logics in computer science. Part I presents the basics of discrete transition systems, including constructions and behavioural equivalences. Part II examines the most important temporal logics for transition systems and Part III looks at their expressiveness and complexity. Finally, Part IV describes the main computational methods and decision procedures for model checking and model building - based on tableaux, automata and games - and discusses their relationships. The book contains a wealth of examples and exercises, as well as an extensive annotated bibliography. Thus, the book is not only a solid professional reference for researchers in the field but also a comprehensive graduate textbook that can be used for self-study as well as for teaching courses.
Ten Laws for Security
by Eric DiehlIn this book the author presents the key laws governing information security. He addresses topics such as attacks, vulnerabilities, threats, designing security, identifying key IP assets, authentication, and social engineering. The informal style draws on his experience in the area of video protection and DRM, while the text is supplemented with introductions to the core formal technical ideas. It will be of interest to professionals and researchers engaged with information security.
Terror on a Treasure Hunt: An Unofficial Minetrapped Adventure, #3 (The Unofficial Minetrapped Adventure #3)
by Winter MorganAfter trapping Mr. Anarchy, the evil master griefer who’s been tormenting them, Lily, Simon, and Michael can finally concentrate on trying to escape the Overworld and getting to know their new friends on the server. So when one of their friends invites them along on a treasure hunt, they couldn’t be more thrilled!But when the gang’s absence from Lisimi Village gives Mr. Anarchy a chance to escape, their hunt for treasure is cut short and Lily, Simon, and Michael must make a hard decision: do they continue their much-anticipated treasure hunt, or do they band together with their new friends to find and recapture Mr. Anarchy, and whatever team of griefers he might be working with?Nothing is as it seems-and no one can be trusted-in this thrilling third book in bestselling author Winter Morgan’s Unofficial Minetrapped Adventure series.Sky Pony Press, with our Good Books, Racehorse and Arcade imprints, is proud to publish a broad range of books for young readers-picture books for small children, chapter books, books for middle grade readers, and novels for young adults. Our list includes bestsellers for children who love to play Minecraft; stories told with LEGO bricks; books that teach lessons about tolerance, patience, and the environment, and much more. In particular, this adventure series is created especially for readers who love the fight of good vs. evil, magical academies like Hogwarts in the Harry Potter saga, and games like Minecraft, Terraria, and Pokemon GO. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.
Test-Driven iOS Development with Swift
by Dr Dominik HauserCreate fully-featured and highly functional iOS apps by writing tests first About This Book • Learn test-driven principles to help you build apps with fewer bugs and better designs • Become more efficient while working with Swift to move on to your next project faster! • Learn how to incorporate all of the principles of test-driven development (TDD) in to your daily programming workflow Who This Book Is For If debugging iOS apps is a nerve-racking task for you and you are looking for a fix, this book is for you. What You Will Learn • Implement TDD in swift application development • Get to know the fundamentals, life cycle, and benefits of TDD • Explore the tools and frameworks to effectively use TDD • Develop models and controllers driven by tests • Construct the network layer using stubs • Use functional tests to ensure the app works as planned • Automate and streamline the building, analysing, testing, and archiving of your iOS apps In Detail Test-driven development (TDD) is a proven way to find software bugs early. Writing tests before your code improves the structure and maintainability of your app. Test-Driven iOS Development with Swift will help you understand the process of TDD and how it impacts your applications written in Swift. Through practical, real-world examples, you'll start seeing how to implement TDD in context. We will begin with an overview of your TDD workflow and then deep-dive into unit testing concepts and code cycles. We will showcase the workings of functional tests, which will help you improve the user interface. Finally, you will learn about automating deployments and continuous integration to run an environment. Style and approach This is an easy-to-follow example-driven tutorial, packed with lots of tips and tricks that explore TDD bit-by-bit in the process of making an iOS application.
Test-Driven iOS Development with Swift
by Dr Dominik HauserCreate fully-featured and highly functional iOS apps by writing tests first About This Book * Learn test-driven principles to help you build apps with fewer bugs and better designs * Become more efficient while working with Swift to move on to your next project faster! * Learn how to incorporate all of the principles of test-driven development (TDD) in to your daily programming workflow Who This Book Is For If debugging iOS apps is a nerve-racking task for you and you are looking for a fix, this book is for you. What You Will Learn * Implement TDD in swift application development * Get to know the fundamentals, life cycle, and benefits of TDD * Explore the tools and frameworks to effectively use TDD * Develop models and controllers driven by tests * Construct the network layer using stubs * Use functional tests to ensure the app works as planned * Automate and streamline the building, analysing, testing, and archiving of your iOS apps In Detail Test-driven development (TDD) is a proven way to find software bugs early. Writing tests before your code improves the structure and maintainability of your app. Test-Driven iOS Development with Swift will help you understand the process of TDD and how it impacts your applications written in Swift. Through practical, real-world examples, you'll start seeing how to implement TDD in context. We will begin with an overview of your TDD workflow and then deep-dive into unit testing concepts and code cycles. We will showcase the workings of functional tests, which will help you improve the user interface. Finally, you will learn about automating deployments and continuous integration to run an environment. Style and approach This is an easy-to-follow example-driven tutorial, packed with lots of tips and tricks that explore TDD bit-by-bit in the process of making an iOS application.
Test-Driving JavaScript Applications: Rapid, Confident, Maintainable Code
by Venkat SubramaniamDebunk the myth that JavaScript is not easily testable. Whether you use Node.js, Express, MongoDB, jQuery, AngularJS, or directly manipulate the DOM, you can test-drive JavaScript. Learn the craft of writing meaningful, deterministic automated tests with Karma, Mocha, and Chai. Test asynchronous JavaScript, decouple and properly mock out dependencies, measure code coverage, and create lightweight modular designs of both server-side and client-side code. Your investment in writing tests will pay high dividends as you create code that's predictable and cost-effective to change.Design and code JavaScript applications with automated tests. Writing meaningful tests is a skill that takes learning, some unlearning, and a lot of practice, and with this book, you'll hone that skill. Fire up the editor and get hands-on through practical exercises for effective automated testing and designing maintainable, modular code.Start by learning when and why to do manual testing vs. automated verification. Focus tests on the important things, like the pre-conditions, the invariants, complex logic, and gnarly edge cases. Then begin to design asynchronous functions using automated tests. Carefully decouple and mock out intricate dependencies such as the DOM, geolocation API, file and database access, and Ajax calls to remote servers.Step by step, test code that uses Node.js, Express, MongoDB, jQuery, and AngularJS. Know when and how to use tools such as Chai, Istanbul, Karma, Mocha, Protractor, and Sinon. Create tests with minimum effort and run them fast without having to spin up web servers or manually edit HTML pages to run in browsers. Then explore end-to-end testing to ensure all parts are wired and working well together.Don't just imagine creating testable code, write it.What You Need:A computer with a text editor and your favorite browser. The book provides instructions to install the necessary automated testing-related tools.
Testing Software and Systems
by Franz Wotawa Mihai Nica Natalia KushikThis book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 278th IFIP WG 6. 1 International Conference on Testing Software and Systems, ICTSS 2016, held in Graz, Austria, in October 2016. The 12 revised full papers and 6 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 41 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on testing methodologies, heuristics and non-determinism in testing, practical applications, and short contributions.
Tests and Proofs
by Bernhard K. Aichernig Carlo A. FuriaThis book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Tests and Proofs, TAP 2016, held as part of STAF 2016, in Vienna, Austria, in July 2016. The 8 full papers, 2 short papers, and 1 tool demonstration paper presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 19 submissions. The book also contains one invited talk in full-paper length. The TAP conference promotes research in verification and formal methods that targets the interplay of proofs and testing: the advancement of techniques of each kind and their combination, with the ultimate goal of improving software and system dependability.
The Tetris Effect: The Game that Hypnotized the World
by Dan AckermanThe definitive story of a game so great, even the Cold War couldn't stop itTetris is perhaps the most instantly recognizable, popular video game ever made. But how did an obscure Soviet programmer, working on frail, antiquated computers, create a product which has now earned nearly 1 billion in sales? How did a makeshift game turn into a worldwide sensation, which has been displayed at the Museum of Modern Art, inspired a big-budget sci-fi movie, and been played in outer space?A quiet but brilliant young man, Alexey Pajitnov had long nurtured a love for the obscure puzzle game pentominoes, and became obsessed with turning it into a computer game. Little did he know that the project that he labored on alone, hour after hour, would soon become the most addictive game ever made.In this fast-paced business story, reporter Dan Ackerman reveals how Tetris became one of the world's first viral hits, passed from player to player, eventually breaking through the Iron Curtain into the West. British, American, and Japanese moguls waged a bitter fight over the rights, sending their fixers racing around the globe to secure backroom deals, while a secretive Soviet organization named ELORG chased down the game's growing global profits.The Tetris Effect is an homage to both creator and creation, and a must-read for anyone who's ever played the game—which is to say everyone.
The Tetris Effect: The Cold War Battle for the World's Most Addictive Game
by Dan Ackerman21 February 1989. Three men fly into Moscow, representing software giants from Britain, America, and Japan. Each of them is determined to undercut the others in order to secure a technology so powerfully addictive it has brought the government department that created it to a standstill. In a country on the brink of seismic change, where spycraft is about to give way to cut-throat capitalism, Tetris has become the grand prize. Featuring corporate espionage, unmarked government organizations, courtroom drama and international conspiracies, the origin of the world&’s most popular video game is a gripping, fast-paced thriller of the highest order. Not only this, but it is also the tale of a one-in-a-million software start-up – a unique example of an idea, a product, and an era coming together at exactly the right moment. Tetris was perfectly (if accidentally) crafted to hit primal triggers in our minds and in Ackerman&’s hands its story is unputdownable.
Text Analytics with Python
by Dipanjan SarkarDerive useful insights from your data using Python. You will learn both basic and advanced concepts, including text and language syntax, structure, and semantics. You will focus on algorithms and techniques, such as text classification, clustering, topic modeling, and text summarization. Text Analytics with Python teaches you the techniques related to natural language processing and text analytics, and you will gain the skills to know which technique is best suited to solve a particular problem. You will look at each technique and algorithm with both a bird's eye view to understand how it can be used as well as with a microscopic view to understand the mathematical concepts and to implement them to solve your own problems. What You Will Learn: Understand the major concepts and techniques of natural language processing (NLP) and text analytics, including syntax and structure Build a text classification system to categorize news articles, analyze app or game reviews using topic modeling and text summarization, and cluster popular movie synopses and analyze the sentiment of movie reviews Implement Python and popular open source libraries in NLP and text analytics, such as the natural language toolkit (nltk), gensim, scikit-learn, spaCy and Pattern Who This Book Is For : IT professionals, analysts, developers, linguistic experts, data scientists, and anyone with a keen interest in linguistics, analytics, and generating insights from textual data
Theoretical Aspects of Computing – ICTAC 2016
by Augusto Sampaio Farn WangThis book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th International Colloquium on Theoretical Aspects of Computing, ICTAC 2016, held in Taipei, Taiwan, in October 2016. The 23 revised full papers presented together with two short papers, two invited papers and one abstract of an invited paper were carefully reviewed and selected from 60 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on program verification; design, synthesis and testing; calculi; specifications; composition and transformation; automata; temporal logics; tool and short papers.