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Drupal for Education and ELearning (2nd Edition)
by James G. Robertson Bill FitzgeraldWith clear instructions and plenty of screenshots, this book provides all the support and guidance you will need as you begin to create your classroom website. Step-by-step tutorials show you how to use Drupal in the most efficient and effective ways possible. People new to Drupal will find a good introduction of the basics; while more experienced users will learn useful tips and tricks for using Drupal in a classroom context.If you are an teacher, tutor or an educator who wants to build a website for your classroom, be it elementary or any higher education, "Drupal 7 for Education and E-Learning (2nd Edition)" will guide you in achieving your goal at every step. No experience with programming languages, HTML, or CSS is needed to understand the examples in this book.
Drupal: Creating Blogs, Forums, Portals, and Community Websites
by David MercerThis book will suit anyone who has a need to create a content rich website. Whether you are: Adding a personal web page Building a forum Writing a collaborative book Retailing goods Creating a blog Launching a community Website This book will prove to be an indispensable companion. Both experts and beginners to computing alike will find the information contained herein to be accessible and easy to intuit.
Drush User’s Guide
by Juan Pablo RequenaA practical guide full of examples and step-by-step instructions to start using Drush right from chapter 1. Drupal developers or themers who understand Drupal administration's basic concepts. Drush can make building any kind of website quicker and easier, no matter if it is a development environment, beta, a simple blog or a complex system.
Drush for Developers - Second Edition
by Juampy Novillo RequenaThis book is a best fit for backend developers with a basic knowledge of Drupal's APIs and some experience using the command line. Perhaps you already worked on one or two Drupal projects, but have never dived deep into Drush's toolset. In any case, this book will give you a lot of advice by covering real-world challenges in Drupal projects that can be solved using Drush.
Du bist, was Dich stresst!: Tabula Rasa für chronisch Gestresste im digitalen Zeitalter (Über/Strom: Wegweiser durchs digitale Zeitalter)
by Kathrin MarterViele Menschen nutzen täglich die Vorteile des digitalen Zeitalters: wenn sie mal eben ihr Zugticket mit dem Smartphone buchen, sich von ebendiesem zum vereinbarten Treffpunkt navigieren lassen und dann per Textnachricht erfahren, dass die werten Kolleg*innen ein paar Minuten zu spät kommen, der Tisch im Restaurant online schon reserviert wurde und das „Tisch-Ticket“ per QR-Code gleich mitsenden. Viele Menschen erfahren sich bei aller Erleichterung zunehmend reizüberflutet, überfordert und in der Folge gestresst.Der Begriff und Zustand „Stress“ (heutzutage im Sprachjargon als diffus definierter Normalzustand verankert und schon lange in der Mitte der Gesellschaft angekommen) ist allerdings tatsächlich ein Zustand, der vielfältigen Leidensdruck verursacht und krank macht.Die Autorin unterstützt allgemeinverständlich, anschaulich sowie naturwissenschaftlich und psychologisch fundiert bei der Auseinandersetzung mit Stress, Stressoren und Prozessen der Langzeitgedächtnisbildung. Letztere sind nicht unwesentlich an unserem chronischen Stresslevel beteiligt. Langzeitgedächtnisse, die, häufig schon in der Kindheit geformt, starke negative Glaubenssätze beinhalten. Diese negativen Glaubenssätze erfahren durch die Herausforderungen der digitalen Welt permanente Verstärkung und begünstigen dadurch chronischen Stress - mit seinen für viele Menschen spürbaren Folgen.Das Buch lädt ein, klärt auf und gibt fundierte, anschauliche und handlungsorientierte Ansätze zur Selbstreflexion und Entwicklung einer gesunden Handlungskompetenz gegenüber dem eigenen Stresslevel, folglich der eigenen Gesundheit und dem eigenen Glück.
Dual Learning
by Tao QinMany AI (and machine learning) tasks present in dual forms, e.g., English-to-Chinese translation vs. Chinese-to-English translation, speech recognition vs. speech synthesis,question answering vs. question generation, and image classification vs. image generation. Dual learning is a new learning framework that leverages the primal-dual structure of AI tasks to obtain effective feedback or regularization signals in order to enhance the learning/inference process. Since it was first introduced four years ago, the concept has attracted considerable attention in multiple fields, and been proven effective in numerous applications, such as machine translation, image-to-image translation, speech synthesis and recognition, (visual) question answering and generation, image captioning and generation, and code summarization and generation. Offering a systematic and comprehensive overview of dual learning, this book enables interested researchers (both established and newcomers) and practitioners to gain a better understanding of the state of the art in the field. It also provides suggestions for further reading and tools to help readers advance the area. The book is divided into five parts. The first part gives a brief introduction to machine learning and deep learning. The second part introduces the algorithms based on the dual reconstruction principle using machine translation, image translation, speech processing and other NLP/CV tasks as the demo applications. It covers algorithms, such as dual semi-supervised learning, dual unsupervised learning and multi-agent dual learning. In the context of image translation, it introduces algorithms including CycleGAN, DualGAN, DiscoGAN cdGAN and more recent techniques/applications. The third part presents various work based on the probability principle, including dual supervised learning and dual inference based on the joint-probability principle and dual semi-supervised learning based on the marginal-probability principle. The fourth part reviews various theoretical studies on dual learning and discusses its connections to other learning paradigms. The fifth part provides a summary and suggests future research directions.
Dual Mode Logic: A New Paradigm for Digital IC Design
by Alexander Fish Itamar LeviThis book presents Dual Mode Logic (DML), a new design paradigm for digital integrated circuits. DML logic gates can operate in two modes, each optimized for a different metric. Its on-the-fly switching between these operational modes at the gate, block and system levels provide maximal E-D optimization flexibility. Each highly detailed chapter has multiple illustrations showing how the DML paradigm seamlessly implements digital circuits that dissipate less energy while simultaneously improving performance and reducing area without a significant compromise in reliability. All the facets of the DML methodology are covered, starting from basic concepts, through single gate optimization, general module optimization, design trade-offs and new ways DML can be integrated into standard design flows using standard EDA tools. DML logic is compatible with numerous applications but is particularly advantageous for ultra-low power, reliable high performance systems, and advanced scaled technologies Written in language accessible to students and design engineers, each topic is oriented toward immediate application by all those interested in an alternative to CMOS logic.Describes a novel, promising alternative to conventional CMOS logic, known as Dual Mode Logic (DML), with which a single gate can be operated selectively in two modes, each optimized for a different metric (e.g., energy consumption, performance, size);Demonstrates several techniques at the architectural level, which can result in high energy savings and improved system performance;Focuses on the tradeoffs between power, area and speed including optimizations at the transistor and gate level, including alternatives to DML basic cells;Illustrates DML efficiency for a variety of VLSI applications.
Dual Quaternions and Their Associated Clifford Algebras
by Ronald GoldmanClifford algebra for dual quaternions has emerged recently as an alternative to standard matrix algebra as a computational framework for computer graphics. This book presents dual quaternions and their associated Clifford algebras in a new light, accessible to and geared toward the computer graphics community. Collecting all the associated formulas and theorems in one place, this book provides an extensive and rigorous treatment of dual quaternions, as well as showing how two models of Clifford algebra emerge naturally from the theory of dual quaternions. Each section comes complete with a set of exercises to help readers sharpen and practice their understanding. This book is accessible to anyone with a basic knowledge of quaternion algebra and is of particular use to forward-thinking members of the computer graphics community.
Dual-Control-Design: TP and TS Fuzzy Model Transformation Based Control Optimisation and Design (Topics in Intelligent Engineering and Informatics #17)
by Péter BaranyiThe TP and TS Fuzzy model transformation based control design has revolutionized the field of control design by introducing a highly effective approach. Through the TP model transformation, it has become evident that the design of controllers and observers, as well as the effectiveness of applied LMIs, are greatly influenced by the shape of the antecedent Fuzzy sets and the number and location of the consequent systems.Furthermore, the TP model transformation has revealed that the sensitivity of controller and observer design differs in nature. This implies that the overseer and controller design require different TS Fuzzy model representations of the system at hand. This book offers a comprehensive exploration of this phenomenon.The book introduces several new theoretical advancements in the TP or TS Fuzzy model transformation based control design framework. It presents a complete framework for TP and TS Fuzzy model transformation and offers various tools based on this approach to enhance control design effectiveness. The book introduces novel theoretical concepts, such as interpolation between alternative TS Fuzzy model representations, which leads to a new optimization framework. It also explores methods to achieve further complexity reduction beyond rank minimization. Additionally, the book addresses the execution of TS Fuzzy model transformation for large-sized problems and demonstrates how to reinforce various properties of antecedent Fuzzy sets through manipulation.Practical hints and guidance for control design is provided throughout the book, with examples illustrating the application of novel solutions. Matlab codes are also included to facilitate the implementation of the proposed methods.
DuckDB in Action (In Action)
by Michael Hunger Mark Needham Michael SimonsDive into DuckDB and start processing gigabytes of data with ease—all with no data warehouse.DuckDB is a cutting-edge SQL database that makes it incredibly easy to analyze big data sets right from your laptop. In DuckDB in Action you&’ll learn everything you need to know to get the most out of this awesome tool, keep your data secure on prem, and save you hundreds on your cloud bill. From data ingestion to advanced data pipelines, you&’ll learn everything you need to get the most out of DuckDB—all through hands-on examples. Open up DuckDB in Action and learn how to: • Read and process data from CSV, JSON and Parquet sources both locally and remote • Write analytical SQL queries, including aggregations, common table expressions, window functions, special types of joins, and pivot tables • Use DuckDB from Python, both with SQL and its "Relational"-API, interacting with databases but also data frames • Prepare, ingest and query large datasets • Build cloud data pipelines • Extend DuckDB with custom functionality Pragmatic and comprehensive, DuckDB in Action introduces the DuckDB database and shows you how to use it to solve common data workflow problems. You won&’t need to read through pages of documentation—you&’ll learn as you work. Get to grips with DuckDB's unique SQL dialect, learning to seamlessly load, prepare, and analyze data using SQL queries. Extend DuckDB with both Python and built-in tools such as MotherDuck, and gain practical insights into building robust and automated data pipelines. About the technology DuckDB makes data analytics fast and fun! You don&’t need to set up a Spark or run a cloud data warehouse just to process a few hundred gigabytes of data. DuckDB is easily embeddable in any data analytics application, runs on a laptop, and processes data from almost any source, including JSON, CSV, Parquet, SQLite and Postgres. About the book DuckDB in Action guides you example-by-example from setup, through your first SQL query, to advanced topics like building data pipelines and embedding DuckDB as a local data store for a Streamlit web app. You&’ll explore DuckDB&’s handy SQL extensions, get to grips with aggregation, analysis, and data without persistence, and use Python to customize DuckDB. A hands-on project accompanies each new topic, so you can see DuckDB in action. What's inside • Prepare, ingest and query large datasets • Build cloud data pipelines • Extend DuckDB with custom functionality • Fast-paced SQL recap: From simple queries to advanced analytics About the reader For data pros comfortable with Python and CLI tools. About the author Mark Needham is a blogger and video creator at @?LearnDataWithMark. Michael Hunger leads product innovation for the Neo4j graph database. Michael Simons is a Java Champion, author, and Engineer at Neo4j.
DuckDB: Fast Data Analytics and Reporting
by Wei-Meng LeeDuckDB, an open source in-process database created for OLAP workloads, provides key advantages over more mainstream OLAP solutions: It's embeddable and optimized for analytics. It also integrates well with Python and is compatible with SQL, giving you the performance and flexibility of SQL right within your Python environment. This handy guide shows you how to get started with this versatile and powerful tool.Author Wei-Meng Lee takes developers and data professionals through DuckDB's primary features and functions, best practices, and practical examples of how you can use DuckDB for a variety of data analytics tasks. You'll also dive into specific topics, including how to import data into DuckDB, work with tables, perform exploratory data analysis, visualize data, perform spatial analysis, and use DuckDB with JSON files, Polars, and JupySQL.Understand the purpose of DuckDB and its main functionsConduct data analytics tasks using DuckDBIntegrate DuckDB with pandas, Polars, and JupySQLUse DuckDB to query your dataPerform spatial analytics using DuckDB's spatial extensionWork with a diverse range of data including Parquet, CSV, and JSON
Dumb Money
by Gary Wolf Joey AnuffAs you read this, five million Americans are day-trading. Not since gold was discovered in California have more people dropped out of their old lives and come running for the promise of a big score. For a time, Joey Anuff was among them. He has emerged-enriched, enlightened, and exhausted-to share his story. In a marriage of Anuff's own experiences with the brilliant investigative work of his Wired and Suck colleague Gary Wolf, Dumb Money explores and explains the world of day-trading as has never been done before. No strategy is too crackpot to try, no news break too dubious to play off, no so-called guru too shady, no online chat room too pathetic. Using the rhythms of a day trader's typical day as its frame, Dumb Money is a dispatch from the front lines of the stock-market revolution, a brutally Darwinian battleground on which some become wildly rich and more become part of the body count. It is essential reading for online investors, off-line investors, voyeurs, concerned citizens, and adrenaline freaks alike.
Dungeon Hacks: How NetHack, Angband, and Other Rougelikes Changed the Course of Video Games
by David L. CraddockIn 1980, computers were instruments of science and mathematics, military secrets and academia. Stern administrators lorded over sterile university laboratories and stressed one point to the wide-eyed students privileged enough to set foot within them: Computers were not toys. Defying authority, hackers seized control of monolithic mainframes to create a new breed of computer game: the roguelike, cryptic and tough-as-nails adventures drawn from text-based symbols instead of state-of-the-art 3D graphics. Despite their visual simplicity, roguelike games captivate thousands of players around the world. From the author of the bestselling Stay Awhile and Listen series, Dungeon Hacks: How NetHack, Angband, and Other Roguelikes Changed the Course of Video Games introduces you to the visionaries behind some of the most popular roguelikes of all time and shows how their creations paved the way for the blockbuster videogames of today—and beyond.
Dungeons & Dragons Pocket Expert (Pocket Expert)
by Stacy KingBecome an instant expert on all things Dungeons & Dragons with this handy pocket-sized guide! Discover everything you ever needed to know about the world of D&D! What’s the difference between a rogue and a ranger? What exactly are the Forgotten Realms? Can a wizard cast more spells than a sorcerer? How many tentacles does a Mind Flayer have? From mighty dragons to powerful bards, and magical elves to fearsome monsters, this pocket guide is just the beginning of your adventure. Packed with facts, stats, and interesting info about the incredible Dungeons & Dragons universe, the Pocket Expert gives young D&D fans a one-stop source of amazing facts to wow their friends with! © and ™ 2023 Wizards of the Coast
Dungeons and Desktops: The History of Computer Role-Playing Games 2e
by Matt Barton Shane StacksComputer role-playing games (CRPGs) are a special genre of computer games that bring the tabletop role-playing experience of games such as Dungeons & Dragons to the computer screen. Thisnew edition inlcudes two new chapters: The Modern Age, and a chapter on Indies and Mobile CRPGs. The new modern age chapter will cover, among other topics, Kickstarter/FIG crowdfunded projects such as Torment: Tides of Numenera and Pillars of Eternity. It'll also bring the book up to date with major games such as Dragon Age, Witcher, Skyrim. Expanded info in first chapter about educational potential of CRPGs. Color figures will be introduced for the first time. Key Features gives reviews of hundreds of games across many platforms. comprehensive book covering the history of computer RPGs. comprehensive index at the back, letting you quickly look up your favourite titles
Duty of Care: An Executive's Guide for Corporate Boards in the Digital Era
by Alizabeth CalderAn essential guide for board members and executives who need to understand the impact of digital on their thinking and decision making Duty of Care: An Executive's Guide for Corporate Boards in the Digital Era offers a much needed guide for board directors and leaders who need to get up-to-speed and close their digital knowledge gap in order to make the right decisions about digital technology investment and deployments. Written in easy-to-read language, this book targets directors and executives who want to protect themselves from risks ranging from massive cyber security breaches to digital infrastructure investment mistakes. Most board members don’t have the information they need to understand digital information systems, modern high-speed networks, and rapidly evolving software and hardware ecosystems. They also don’t have the time to seek out or filter what they need from the many diverse sources. Their lack of knowledge can lead to disastrous decisions that can cost shareholders billions of dollars in lost income or risk liability. Written by a globally recognized experienced business executive and expert in cyber security, this essential guide and blueprint can serve the strategic and governance needs of every company. Written by an noted expert in cyber security and digital strategy Designed to be accessible for board members unfamiliar with digital technology, with case studies and smart questions to support leaders on every topic Helps board directors, corporate officers, and corporate investors with the digital knowledge needed to make informed decisions Duty of Care is a comprehensive yet accessible book that helps board members close their “digital knowledge gap” in order to better serve their corporations.
Dynamic Analysis in Complex Economic Environments: Essays in Honor of Christophe Deissenberg (Dynamic Modeling and Econometrics in Economics and Finance #26)
by Herbert Dawid Jasmina ArifovicThis book analyses decision-making in dynamic economic environments. By applying a wide range of methodological approaches, combining both analytical and computational methods, the contributors examine various aspects of optimal firm behaviour and relevant policy areas. Topics covered include optimal control, dynamic games, economic decision-making, and applications in finance and economics, as well as policy implications in areas such as pollution regulation. This book is dedicated to Christophe Deissenberg, a well-known and distinguished scholar of economic dynamics and computational economics. It appeals to academics in the areas of optimal control, dynamic games and computational economics as well as to decision-makers working in policy domains such as environmental policy.
Dynamic Business Process Formation for Instant Virtual Enterprises
by Nikolay Mehandjiev Paul GrefenDynamic Business Process Formation fuses practical needs with theoretical input to present important research innovations in supporting Instant Virtual Enterprises (IVEs). This new organization type brings a combination of business dynamism and explicit business process structure to domains where on-the-fly formation of well-organized business networks is required to deal with the complexity of new products or services under high time pressure. This book contains the main results of the IST CrossWork project, and, importantly, looks beyond the boundaries of this project and sources input from related projects and general trends in collaborative enterprises and the automotive industry. Both the business and technical aspects of Virtual Enterprise coordination are covered within the modular structure of the book, which enables readers from different backgrounds to benefit from the book according to their interests.
Dynamic Business Process Management in the Knowledge Economy: Creating Value from Intellectual Capital (Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems #71)
by Marek SzelągowskiThis book describes modern dynamic business process management (dynamic BPM), which is considerably different from traditional BPM from 20, 10, or even 5 years ago. It demonstrates why traditional BPM is not sufficient in the knowledge economy (KE), while also highlighting the opportunities provided by dynamic BPM – the form of management that practitioners and academics deal with on a daily basis. This involves mastering and implementing e.g. case management, process mining, and RPA, and integrating them with knowledge management. But more importantly, dynamic BPM makes full use of the dynamism of knowledge workers: the people who actually create innovative products and services tailored to the specific needs of clients. The book was primarily written for those managers who see advantageous opportunities amidst the ongoing changes. Accordingly, it focuses more on innovations emerging from practice than on theoretical, academic reflection. In addition to helping organizations operating in the KE to prepare for and implement process management, the book is intended as a source of inspiration for process management researchers and iBPMS system vendors.
Dynamic Data Driven Application Systems: Third International Conference, DDDAS 2020, Boston, MA, USA, October 2-4, 2020, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #12312)
by Sai Ravela Erik Blasch Alex Aved Frederica DaremaThis book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on Dynamic Data Driven Application Systems, DDDAS 2020, held in Boston, MA, USA, in October 2020. The 21 full papers and 14 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 40 submissions. They cover topics such as: digital twins; environment cognizant adaptive-planning systems; energy systems; materials systems; physics-based systems analysis; imaging methods and systems; and learning systems.
Dynamic Data Driven Applications Systems: 4th International Conference, DDDAS 2022, Cambridge, MA, USA, October 6–10, 2022, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #13984)
by Erik Blasch Alex Aved Frederica DaremaThis book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Dynamic Data Driven Applications Systems, DDDAS 2022, which took place in Cambridge, MA, USA, during October 6–10, 2022.The 31 regular papers in the main track and 5 regular papers from the Wildfires panel, as well as one workshop paper, were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the book. They were organized in following topical sections: DDAS2022 Main-Track Plenary Presentations; Keynotes; DDDAS2022 Main-Track: Wildfires Panel; Workshop on Climate, Life, Earth, Planets.
Dynamic Decoupling of Robot Manipulators
by Vigen ArakelianThis book presents the latest results in the field of dynamic decoupling of robot manipulators obtained in France, Russia, China and Austria.Manipulator dynamics can be highly coupled and nonlinear. The complicated dynamics result from varying inertia, interactions between the different joints, and nonlinear forces such as Coriolis and centrifugal forces. The dynamic decoupling of robot manipulators allows one to obtain a linear system, i.e. single-input and single output system with constant parameters. This simplifies the optimal control and accumulation of energy in manipulators. There are two ways to create the dynamically decoupled manipulators: via optimal mechanical design or control.This work emphasises mechatronic solutions. These will certainly improve the known design concepts permitting the dynamic decoupling of serial manipulators with a relatively small increase in total mass of the moving links taking into account the changing payload. For the first time such an approach has been applied on serial manipulators. Also of great interest is the dynamic decoupling control of parallel manipulators. Firstly, the dynamic model of redundant multi-axial vibration table with load has been established, and, secondly, its dynamic coupling characteristics have been analyzed. The discussed methods and applications of dynamic decoupling of robot manipulators are illustrated via CAD simulations and experimental tests.
Dynamic E-Business Implementation Management
by Bennet Lientz Kathryn ReaImplementing e-business requires a dynamic approach that can respond to changes in technology, management direction, customer and supplier behavior, and competition. Many traditional project management methods don't work with e-business. This book presents proven real world management methods that are adaptive, dynamic, and flexible in an e-business environment. It tackles the central issues of e-business: the burgeoning market for "buy-side" extranet/Internet procurement and supply chain management/business-to-business, Web-based transactions.
Dynamic Formal Epistemology
by Olivier Roy Patrick Girard Mathieu MarionThis volume is a collation of original contributions from the key actors of a new trend in the contemporary theory of knowledge and belief, that we call "dynamic epistemology". It brings the works of these researchers under a single umbrella by highlighting the coherence of their current themes, and by establishing connections between topics that, up until now, have been investigated independently. It also illustrates how the new analytical toolbox unveils questions about the theory of knowledge, belief, preference, action, and rationality, in a number of central axes in dynamic epistemology: temporal, social, probabilistic and even deontic dynamics.
Dynamic Games for Network Security (Springerbriefs In Electrical And Computer Engineering)
by Xiaofan He Huaiyu DaiThe goal of this SpringerBrief is to collect and systematically present the state-of-the-art in this research field and the underlying game-theoretic and learning tools to the broader audience with general network security and engineering backgrounds. Particularly, the exposition of this book begins with a brief introduction of relevant background knowledge in Chapter 1, followed by a review of existing applications of SG in addressing various dynamic network security problems in Chapter 2. A detailed treatment of dynamic security games with information asymmetry is given in Chapters 3–5. Specifically, dynamic security games with extra information that concerns security competitions, where the defender has an informational advantage over the adversary are discussed in Chapter 3. The complementary scenarios where the defender lacks information about the adversary is examined in Chapter 4 through the lens of incomplete information SG. Chapter 5 is devoted to the exploration of how to proactively create information asymmetry for the defender’s benefit.The primary audience for this brief includes network engineers interested in security decision-making in dynamic network security problems. Researchers interested in the state-of-the-art research on stochastic game theory and its applications in network security will be interested in this SpringerBrief as well. Also graduate and undergraduate students interested in obtaining comprehensive information on stochastic game theory and applying it to address relevant research problems can use this SpringerBrief as a study guide. Lastly, concluding remarks and our perspective for future works are presented in Chapter 6.