Meet CockroachDB! This book is your practical introduction and starts at the beginning, with software installation and foundational concepts. It then teaches you how to create CockroachDB clusters that are ready for production environments. You will master high availability. And you will learn to create, optimize, and operate CockroarchDB clusters in single- and multi-region patterns. You also will encounter anti-patterns to avoid, as well as testing techniques for integration and load testing.
Anemonefishes, one of the most popular and recognizable of fishes in the world, are much more than film characters; they are also emerging model organisms for studying the biology, ecology, and evolution of coral reef fishes. They are a group of 28 species often employed to study patterns and processes of social organization, intra- and inter-specific competition, sex change, mutualism, dispersal and connectivity of fish populations, habitat selection, pigment pattern formation, lifespan and predator-prey interactions. This multi-authored book covers all these areas and provides an update on the research done with this model and the perspective it opens for the future.
The book focuses on problem solving for practitioners and model building for academicians under multivariate situations. This book helps readers in understanding the issues, such as knowing variability, extracting patterns, building relationships, and making objective decisions. A large number of multivariate statistical models are covered in the book. The readers will learn how a practical problem can be converted to a statistical problem and how the statistical solution can be interpreted as a practical solution. Key features:
This comprehensive reference text discusses nature inspired algorithms and their applications. It presents the methodology to write new algorithms with the help of MATLAB programs and instructions for better understanding of concepts. It covers well-known algorithms including evolutionary algorithms, genetic algorithm, particle Swarm optimization and differential evolution, and recent approached including gray wolf optimization. A separate chapter discusses test case generation using techniques such as particle swarm optimization, genetic algorithm, and differential evolution algorithm.
Designers’ homes are often laboratories where they are free to experiment. These spaces are filled with the designer’s most personal and cherished objects, furnishings, and artwork that are concentrated expressions of their style and interests. New York Design at Home profiles 27 homes and looks at how these creative professionals approach design in their personal space. Like most New York City residents, they are decorating with much smaller budgets than their work projects, but they find creative ways to deal with tiny bathrooms, awkward and unusable kitchens, and shared living spaces.
This practical guide covers the steps necessary to sustain quality in a project from start to finish. The book shows how to identify risks at different processes, phases, and stages and offers directions on how to mitigate and reduce risks using analysis, evaluation, and monitoring.
Learn 25 super-easy Christmas sheet music songs for violin! This big book of easy Violin Christmas sheet music includes extra-large music staffs and notes, letters inside every notehead, and easy-to-use violin tab!
No complicated violin sheet music arrangements here! Instead, Super Easy Christmas Violin Sheet Music for Beginners is arranged with beginning violin players of all ages in mind. Yet, even seasoned violinists will find this collection of violin Christmas carols fun to play!
This easy violin Christmas sheet music songbook for beginners is the best way to learn your favorite Xmas songs and carols on the violin or fiddle.
This reference text discusses the potential of efficient R&D management during times of pandemic crisis and how it can provide time-bound real-life deliverables to ward-off the contamination-linked vulnerability aspects of social interaction.
This is a must-have for all boxing fans: the world’s most comprehensive single-volume reference on the sport, now updated to include every major world title fight up to the end of March 2018!
Combining the best celebrity news and gossip with compelling real-life stories, Closer gets close to the heart of the story and brings you the truth behind the headlines. Also includes: TV listings, puzzles, beauty and body advice, destiny and more! Perfect for a coffee-break read, or to download and enjoy on the move… All the latest celebrity news and real-life stories!
Yachts International Magazine brings the pleasure and passion of worldwide luxury yachting home to American yachtsmen interested in purchasing the next yacht of their dreams. Our insider’s view of the world’s most luxurious yachts, the shipyards that build them, the designers that beautify them, the destinations they visit and the lavish living they offer, fuels the desires of our affluent, dedicated readers. With extensive influence in the United States and in other key yacht markets, Yachts International utilizes its superior network of boat shows, marinas, newsstands and luxury events to engage its passionate readers in the exclusive circles where they live, play and travel.
Every page of Woodsmith Magazine will make you a better woodworker, because you get more woodworking plans, more woodworking techniques, more woodworking jigs, and more about woodworking tools — and not a single ad. For more than 30 years, woodworkers have turned to Woodsmith for the most detailed woodworking plans and woodworking tips available anywhere. And now Woodsmith offers woodworking video tips and techniques online. Woodsmith is written by woodworkers for woodworkers, and it shows. Each issue is full of practical, hands-on woodworking information, as well as clear, step-by-step plans for great woodworking projects. Whether you’re new to woodworking or been a woodworker for years, you’re sure to find something in Woodsmith that will help you hone your woodworking skills.
