Take your data engineering skills to the next level by learning how to utilize Scala and functional programming to create continuous and scheduled pipelines that ingest, transform, and aggregate dataKey FeaturesTransform data into a clean and trusted source of information for your organization using ScalaBuild streaming and batch-processing pipelines with step-by-step explanationsImplement and orchestrate your pipelines by following CI/CD best ...

During the Partido dos Trabalhadores (PT) – Workers Party, Governments in Brazil, non-electoral and extra-parliamentary political participation grew significantly. Both Lula and Rousseff used an increasing number of mechanisms of participation, known in Portuguese as órgãos colegiados – "collegiate bodies", for democratizing political decisions. Stefanie Tomé Schmitt's book addresses the impacts of participatory policy-making on business-state relations under the New Developmentalism. Her ...

Conquering Survivor: Something Powerful is a transformative guide to overcoming trauma and reclaiming your life. Drawing from both personal experience and clinical expertise, Deborah Ann Tome introduces a powerful framework that helps readers move beyond victimhood and survival into a mindset of strength, resilience, and purpose.Through real-life stories, psychological insights, and practical exercises, this book teaches you how to reframe pain, build emotional bou...

THE CURSE OF THE TOME: This is not a book; it is a weapon. The Order of Evidence proclaims the end of myth and the brutal dawn of the New God.If your mind is shackled to dogma, this Tome will not simply challenge you-it will rot your certainties, unravel your name, and hollow your beliefs until nothing grows but despair. But if your spirit burns with curiosity, read on. For the brave, the locks on your prison will fall away, and you will carry fire in your hands.

The book presents a comprehensive and original analysis from a Brazilian perspective of both traditional and emerging topics related to the so-called “El Dorados of the 21st century”: Amazonia and Antarctica. By gathering distinguished scholars, the resulting set of high-level findings, stemming from multiple epistemological standpoints, provides important and innovative insights into the wide-ranging geopolitical impacts of issues concerning these unique strategic ecosystems to the contem...

Material Modeling with the Visco-Plastic Self-Consistent (VPSC) Approach: Theory and Practical Applications provides readers with knowledge of material viscoplasticity and robust modeling approaches for predicting plastic deformation of crystal aggregates. Visco-Plastic Self-Consistent (VPSC) is the identifier of a computer code developed for the specific mechanical regime addressed (visco-plastic: VP) and the approach used (self-consistent: SC) meant to simulate large plastic deformation ...

In the United States in 1993 the American Cancer Society estimated that there were about 1,300,000 new cases of invasive cancer diagnosed. At the time of presentation about 70% of those patients represented limited local regional disease without evidences of distant dissemination. About 30% of the patients had demonstrated metastatic disease at the time of initial diagnosis or about 390,000 patients. Of those patients with local regional disease about 56% would be cured by the best treatme...

We are witnessing turbulent times which inspire both anxiety and hope. Many global trends are sweeping across a transforming world. To make these movements and changes more understandable, Trends and Transformations in World Politics introduces the reader to the study of world politics in a period of rapid readjustment. This book also focuses on world-historical transformations as a general phenomenon, showing how the twenty-first century change in world politics fits into broader patterns...

Focusing on comprehensive comparisons of the performance of stochastic optimization algorithms, this book provides an overview of the current approaches used to analyze algorithm performance in a range of common scenarios, while also addressing issues that are often overlooked. In turn, it shows how these issues can be easily avoided by applying the principles that have produced Deep Statistical Comparison and its variants. The focus is on statistical analyses performed using single-object...

With "Vikings in America: And other historical events" we embark on an exciting journey through history:We started in the Upper Paleolithic, accompanying a tribe of Cro-Magnon Man, which penetrates the cave of Lascaux (France), in full glaciation, uniquely and exclusively... to capture animal signs and figures!We moved to Ancient Egypt, towards the 14th century. C., to attend the moment when Tutankhamun, a teenage pharaoh who rules one of the most splendid empires of the Anci...

Propel your life forward with practical challenges designed to get you off your spiritual couch and into a more fulfilling life.In Move Devotional, pastor, husband, and dad Brian Tome gives you 70 devotions designed to help you live a life of greater significance and relevance.Jesus didn’t come to hold class; He came to change the world. He came to move you and me out of the place of apathy and into a place of challenge.If ...

This book presents a system that combines the expertise of four algorithms, namely Gradient Tree Boosting, Logistic Regression, Random Forest and Support Vector Classifier to trade with several cryptocurrencies. A new method for resampling financial data is presented as alternative to the classical time sampled data commonly used in financial market trading. The new resampling method uses a closing value threshold to resample the data creating a signal better suited for financial trading, ...