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Odyssey --The Business of Consulting: How to Build, Grow, and Transform Your Consulting Business
by Imelda K. Butler Shayne TracyThis book provides consultants with a career framework to build, grow, and transform their consulting businesses by becoming brilliant at the basics. The Odyssey process challenges current thinking and offers a methodology to help readers rise to the top of the profession by applying leading-edge techniques and methodologies.An ideal companion to t
Handbook of Industrial Drying (ISSN)
by Arun S. MujumdarBy far the most commonly encountered and energy-intensive unit operation in almost all industrial sectors, industrial drying continues to attract the interest of scientists, researchers, and engineers. The Handbook of Industrial Drying, Fourth Edition not only delivers a comprehensive treatment of the current state of the art, but also serves as a
Equine Emergency and Critical Care Medicine
by Louise L. Southwood Pamela A. WilkinsEarly recognition of problems by owners, appropriate first aid, and timely referral by field veterinarians improve the chance of survival for horses requiring emergency management and critical care. With a view toward improving patient outcome, Equine Emergency and Critical Care Medicine is written by a team of enthusiastic equine specialists who e
Mass Fatality Management Concise Field Guide
by Mary H. DudleyThis student mainstay continues to be organised around constitutional themes, with new material on local elections, the politics of the centre and the limits of state power. Essential for all introductory students of British politics and current affairs.
Microsoft Azure AI Fundamentals AI-900 Exam Guide: Gain proficiency in Azure AI and machine learning concepts and services to excel in the AI-900 exam
by Steve Miles Aaron GuilmetteGet ready to pass the certification exam on your first attempt by gaining actionable insights into AI concepts, ML techniques, and Azure AI services covered in the latest AI-900 exam syllabus from two industry experts Key FeaturesDiscover Azure AI services, including computer vision, Auto ML, NLP, and OpenAIExplore AI use cases, such as image identification, chatbots, and moreWork through 145 practice questions under chapter-end self-assessments and mock examsPurchase of this book unlocks access to web-based exam prep resources, including mock exams, flashcards, and exam tipsBook DescriptionThe AI-900 exam helps you take your first step into an AI-shaped future. Regardless of your technical background, this book will help you test your understanding of the key AI-related topics and tools used to develop AI solutions in Azure cloud. This exam guide focuses on AI workloads, including natural language processing (NLP) and large language models (LLMs). You’ll explore Microsoft’s responsible AI principles like safety and accountability. Then, you’ll cover the basics of machine learning (ML), including classification and deep learning, and learn how to use training and validation datasets with Azure ML. Using Azure AI Vision, face detection, and Video Indexer services, you’ll get up to speed with computer vision-related topics like image classification, object detection, and facial detection. Later chapters cover NLP features such as key phrase extraction, sentiment analysis, and speech processing using Azure AI Language, speech, and translator services. The book also guides you through identifying GenAI models and leveraging Azure OpenAI Service for content generation. At the end of each chapter, you’ll find chapter review questions with answers, provided as an online resource. By the end of this exam guide, you’ll be able to work with AI solutions in Azure and pass the AI-900 exam using the online exam prep resources.What you will learnDiscover various types of artificial intelligence (AI)workloads and services in AzureCover Microsoft's guiding principles for responsible AI development and useUnderstand the fundamental principles of how AI and machine learning workExplore how AI models can recognize content in images and documentsGain insights into the features and use cases for natural language processingExplore the capabilities of generative AI servicesWho this book is forWhether you're a cloud engineer, software developer, an aspiring data scientist, or simply interested in learning AI/ML concepts and capabilities on Azure, this book is for you. The book also serves as a foundation for those looking to attempt more advanced AI and data science-related certification exams (e.g. Microsoft Certified: Azure AI Engineer Associate). Although no experience in data science and software engineering is required, basic knowledge of cloud concepts and client-server applications is assumed.
Machine Learning with PyTorch and Scikit-Learn: Develop machine learning and deep learning models with Python
by Sebastian Raschka Vahid Mirjalili Yuxi (Hayden) LiuThis book of the bestselling and widely acclaimed Python Machine Learning series is a comprehensive guide to machine and deep learning using PyTorch s simple to code framework. Purchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free eBook in PDF format.Key FeaturesLearn applied machine learning with a solid foundation in theoryClear, intuitive explanations take you deep into the theory and practice of Python machine learningFully updated and expanded to cover PyTorch, transformers, XGBoost, graph neural networks, and best practicesBook DescriptionMachine Learning with PyTorch and Scikit-Learn is a comprehensive guide to machine learning and deep learning with PyTorch. It acts as both a step-by-step tutorial and a reference you'll keep coming back to as you build your machine learning systems. Packed with clear explanations, visualizations, and examples, the book covers all the essential machine learning techniques in depth. While some books teach you only to follow instructions, with this machine learning book, we teach the principles allowing you to build models and applications for yourself. Why PyTorch? PyTorch is the Pythonic way to learn machine learning, making it easier to learn and simpler to code with. This book explains the essential parts of PyTorch and how to create models using popular libraries, such as PyTorch Lightning and PyTorch Geometric. You will also learn about generative adversarial networks (GANs) for generating new data and training intelligent agents with reinforcement learning. Finally, this new edition is expanded to cover the latest trends in deep learning, including graph neural networks and large-scale transformers used for natural language processing (NLP). This PyTorch book is your companion to machine learning with Python, whether you're a Python developer new to machine learning or want to deepen your knowledge of the latest developments.What you will learnExplore frameworks, models, and techniques for machines to learn from dataUse scikit-learn for machine learning and PyTorch for deep learningTrain machine learning classifiers on images, text, and moreBuild and train neural networks, transformers, and boosting algorithmsDiscover best practices for evaluating and tuning modelsPredict continuous target outcomes using regression analysisDig deeper into textual and social media data using sentiment analysisWho this book is forIf you have a good grasp of Python basics and want to start learning about machine learning and deep learning, then this is the book for you. This is an essential resource written for developers and data scientists who want to create practical machine learning and deep learning applications using scikit-learn and PyTorch. Before you get started with this book, you’ll need a good understanding of calculus, as well as linear algebra.
The System of Comics
by Thierry GroensteenThis edition of Thierry Groensteen’s The System of Comics makes available in English a groundbreaking work on comics by one of the medium’s foremost scholars. In this book, originally published in France in 1999, Groensteen explains clearly the subtle, complex workings of the medium and its unique way of combining visual, verbal, spatial, and chronological expressions. The author explores the nineteenth-century pioneer Rodolphe Töpffer, contemporary Japanese creators, George Herriman’s Krazy Kat, and modern American autobiographical comics. The System of Comics uses examples from a wide variety of countries including the United States, England, Japan, France, and Argentina. It describes and analyzes the properties and functions of speech and thought balloons, panels, strips, and pages to examine methodically and insightfully the medium’s fundamental processes. From this, Groensteen develops his own coherent, overarching theory of comics, a “system” that both builds on existing studies of the “word and image” paradigm and adds innovative approaches of his own. Examining both meaning and appreciation, the book provides a wealth of ideas that will challenge the way scholars approach the study of comics. By emphasizing not simply “storytelling techniques” but also the qualities of the printed page and the reader’s engagement, the book’s approach is broadly applicable to all forms of interpreting this evolving art.
George Ohr: Sophisticate and Rube
by Ellen J. LippertThe late nineteenth-century Biloxi potter, George Ohr (1857–1918), was considered an eccentric in his time but has emerged as a major figure in American art since the discovery of thousands of examples of his work in the 1960s. Currently, Ohr is celebrated as a solitary genius who foreshadowed modern art movements. While an intriguing narrative, this view offers a narrow understanding of the man and his work that has hindered serious consideration. Ellen J. Lippert, in her expansive study of Ohr and his Gilded Age context, counters this fable. The tumultuous historical moment that Ohr inhabited was a formative force in his life and work. Using primary documentation, Lippert identifies specific cultural changes that had the most impact on Ohr. Developments in visual display and the altered role of artists, the southerner redefined in the wake of the Civil War, interest in handicraft as an alternative to rampant mass production, emerging tenets of social thought seeking to remedy worker exploitation, and new assessments of morals and beauty as a result of collapsed ideals all played into the positioning Ohr purposefully designed for himself. The second part of Lippert's study applies these observations to Ohr's body of work, interpreting his stylistic originality to be expressions of the contradictions and oppositions particular to late nineteenth-century America. Ohr threw his inspiration into being both the sophisticate and the “rube,” the commercial huckster and the selfless artist, the socialist and the individualist, the “old-fashioned” craftsman and the “artist-genius.” He created art pottery as both a salable commodity and a priceless creation. His work could be ugly and deformed (or even obscene) and beautiful. Lippert reveals that far from isolated, Ohr and his creations were very much products of his inspired engagement with the late nineteenth century.
Exploring Psychology and Christian Faith: An Introductory Guide
by Paul Moes and Donald J. TellinghuisenDrawn from more than sixty years of classroom experience, this introductory guide provides students with a coherent framework for considering psychology from a Christian perspective. Now revised and updated throughout.
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