This is the complete course for anybody who wants to get to grips with Talend Open Studio for Data Integration. From the basics of transferring data to complex integration processes, it will give you a head start.Key FeaturesDevelop complex integration jobs without writing codeGo beyond "extract, transform and load"ù by constructing end-to-end integrationsLearn how to package your jobs for production useBook DescriptionTalend...

Alan Turing has long proved a subject of fascination, but following the centenary of his birth in 2012, the code-breaker, computer pioneer, mathematician (and much more) has become even more celebrated with much media coverage, and several meetings, conferences and books raising public awareness of Turing's life and work. This volume will bring together contributions from some of the leading experts on Alan Turing to create a comprehensive guide to Turing that will serve as a useful resour...

"Bellug, spectral knight.""Leander, wizard.""Alyse, battlemage.""Ninet, thief.""Krys, sorcerer.""Cort, conjurer.""Lira, assassin.""Rancar, mechanist.""Beladon, bowmaster.""Shadow, mystic warrior."Of the physical and magical disciplines that defended a kingdom, mystic warriors were rare and sometimes chosen by the nature goddess to be catalysts of destiny. Shadow, a newly trained mystic warrior, and nine students of other disciplines are sent to the kingdom of Leo to prove their mettle and ...

A BBC Radio 4 season exploring the history and future of the United KingdomIn this remarkable collection exploring the state of the United Kingdom and the future of its union, five presenters examine the identities, history and struggles of the nations, and ask what keeps them together as a united country.In the first episode, Jonathan Freedland and a team of historians and BBC correspondents take The Long View of the Union of the United Ki...

The Classic Collection of Dystopias brings together five of the most iconic works in dystopian literature, each offering a powerful critique of society, authority, and human nature. Animal Farm by George Orwell is an allegorical novella that depicts a group of farm animals overthrowing their human owner, only to fall under the tyranny of their own kind, exposing the dangers of totalitarianism and political corruption. 1984, also by Orwell, presents a terrifying vision of a totalitarian sta...

This book LNCS 16481 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International School on Engineering Trustworthy Software Systems, SETSS 2025, held in Beijing, China, in May 17–23, 2025.The 7 full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 8 submissions. The proceedings focuses on lectures given during SETSS covered an ample variety oftechniques to achieve this goal, from model checking to simulation testing, from the use of formal methods and contracts to model-ba...

A Paradigm Shift and Defining Moment in the 21st Century: Fuelled by the convergence of computational culture, artificial intelligence, and machine learning, arts and culture are experiencing a revolutionary moment poised to change human life and society on a global scale. There is the promise of the Metaverse, with extended reality (XR) and immersive virtual worlds. For the first time, reality and virtuality are merging with these new developments. The proposed book is am...

This Festschrift volume, dedicated to Jifeng He on the occasion of his 80th birthday, includes refereed papers by leading researchers, many of them current and former colleagues, presented at a dedicated celebration in the Shanghai Science Hall in September 2023. Jifeng was an important researcher on the European ESPRIT ProCoS project and the Working Group on Provably Correct Systems, subsequently he collaborated with Tony Hoare on Unifying Theories of Programming. Jifeng returned to China...

EPUB and EPDF available open access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), commonly called the New Silk Road, is a huge infrastructure project currently revitalising or creating new trading routes and large developments across the globe. It is estimated to cost up to US$8 trillion and impact more than 65% of the world’s population.This book explores the unequal ways this controversial project is altering livelihoods, places and the environment. Fr...

This volume contains a record of some of the lectures and seminars delivered at the Second International School on Engineering Trustworthy Software Systems (SETSS 2016), held in March/April 2016 at Southwest University in Chongqing, China.The six contributions included in this volume provide an overview of leading-edge research in methods and tools for use in computer system engineering. They have been distilled from six courses and two seminars on topics such as: modelling and ver...

An essential building block of every speech-language pathologist’s professional preparation, the second edition of this bestselling textbook is a comprehensive critical analysis of 21 interventions for highly prevalent speech sound disorders (SSD) in children. Bringing together a powerhouse team of international experts, this new edition has been revised and enhanced with current research, new interventions, more guidance on selecting interventions, and updated video clips that show the ap...

This book PSE 15584 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International School on Engineering Trustworthy Software Systems, SETSS 2024, held in Chongqing, China, in April 14-21, 2024.The 5 full papers and 2 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 7 submissions. The proceedings focuses on-Preparatory Course: Introduction to Mathematical Logic and Logic of Programming;-Introduction to Digital Twins-Theories of Contracts and Their Appli...