This open access textbook offers science education researchers a hands-on guide for learning, critically examining, and integrating machine learning (ML) methods into their science education research projects. These methods power many artificial intelligence (AI)-based technologies and are widely adopted in science ...

This book is an open access publication. This book presents innovative strategies and cutting-edge research at the intersection of mechanical engineering and simulation technologies. Aimed at addressing the current challenges and limitations in mechanical design, this book presents an array of advanced methodologies...

Don’t Let the Real Test Be Your First Test! Fully updated for the CEH v11 exam objectives, this practical guide contains more than 550 realistic practice exam questions to prepare you for the EC-Council’s Certified Ethical Hacker exam. To aid in your understanding of the material, in-depth explanations of both the c...

An approachable, hands-on guide to understanding how computers work, from low-level circuits to high-level code. How Computers Really Work is a hands-on guide to the computing ecosystem: everything from circuits to memory and clock signals, machine code, programming languages, operating systems, and the internet. Bu...

“Public sector communication in Southern Africa cannot be understood outside the factors shaped by the region’s historical context, political transitions and, subsequently, the need for transparent and inclusive governance.” In the past decade, digital communication technologies have surged due to the fourth industr...

Since their introduction in 2017, transformers have quickly become the dominant architecture for achieving state-of-the-art results on a variety of natural language processing tasks. If you're a data scientist or coder, this practical book -now revised in full color- shows you how to train and scale these large mode...

Data is at the center of many challenges in system design today. Difficult issues need to be figured out, such as scalability, consistency, reliability, efficiency, and maintainability. In addition, we have an overwhelming variety of tools, including relational databases, NoSQL datastores, stream or batch processors...

An essential resource for anyone preparing for the CIPM certification exam and a career in information privacy As cybersecurity and privacy become ever more important to the long-term viability and sustainability of enterprises in all sectors, employers and professionals are increasingly turning to IAPP’s trusted an...

This book is a complete resource for professionals preparing for the ISA/IEC 62443 Cybersecurity Risk Assessment Specialist certification. It includes 500 study notes covering the key topics required for the certification exam. The content is organized for quick reference and practical learning, focusing on the stan...

"Mastering GraphQL: From Basics to Expert Proficiency" is a comprehensive guide designed for developers seeking to harness the full potential of GraphQL in building modern, efficient APIs. This book meticulously covers every essential aspect of GraphQL, starting from its foundational principles and advancing through...

Enterprises building complex and large-scale applications in the cloud face multiple challenges. From figuring out the right tools to estimating the right provisioning, nearly every solution comes with a complicated set of choices and trade-offs. AWS provides a one-stop shop for building and scaling these applicatio...

This book is your key to preparing for the ISA/IEC 62443 certification, ensuring you approach the exam with confidence and in-depth knowledge. Course Highlights: Comprehensive Practice Exams: Engage with a series of full-length practice exams, each reflecting the structure and rigor of the actual certification tes...

This open access book constitutes revised selected papers from the workshops held at the 25th International Conference on Agile Software Development, XP 2024, which took place in Bozen-Bolzano, Italy, during June 04-07, 2024. XP is the premier agile software development conference combining research and practice. It...

Learn application security from the very start, with this comprehensive and approachable guide! Alice and Bob Learn Application Security is an accessible and thorough resource for anyone seeking to incorporate, from the beginning of the System Development Life Cycle, best security practices in software development. ...

This book introduces readers to “cognitive economics,” a rapidly emerging interdisciplinary science built on economic, psychological, and data scientific foundations. Throughout the book, economist Andrew Caplin provides new approaches to help scholars collaborate and solve problems that can shape economic outcomes ...

Frans Hals is hailed as one of the three greatest painters of the Dutch seventeenth century along with Rembrandt and Vermeer. Of all seventeenth-century Dutch painters, Frans Hals is also the most controversial in as far as the exact scope of his oeuvre is concerned. Hals’s popularity, the lack of technical referenc...