Michael Kaufmann

Graph drawing is a dynamic and rapidly growing subfield of computer science and mathematics. It comprises all aspects of visualizing structural relations between objects. The range of topics dealt with extends from graph theory, graph algorithms, geometry, and topology to visual languages, visual perception, and information visualization, and to computer-human interaction and graphics design. The automated generation of graph drawings has important consequences for many subfields of computer science as well as for a broad variety of interdisciplinary application fields. This monograph gives a systematic overview of graph drawing and introduces the reader gently to the state of the art in the area. The presentation concentrates on algorithmic aspects, with an emphasis on interesting visualization problems with elegant solutions. Much attention is paid to a uniform style of writing and presentation, consistent terminology, and complementary coverage of the relevant issues throughout the 10 chapters. An overview of existing graph drawing systems, a comprehensive bibliography, and a subject index round off the presentation. This tutorial is ideally suited as an introduction for newcorners to graph drawing. Ambitioned practitioners and researchers active in the area will find it a valuable source of reference and information.

Methods and Models

Drawing Graphs

Donovan Brown

Thomas Dohmke

Take your DevOps and DevSecOps game to the next level by leveraging the power of the GitHub toolset in practice Key Features Release software faster and with confidence Increase your productivity by spending more time on software delivery and less on fixing bugs and administrative tasks Deliver high-quality software that is more stable, scalable, and secure Book Description This practical guide to DevOps uses GitHub as the DevOps platform and shows how you can leverage the power of GitHub for collaboration, lean management, and secure and fast software delivery. The chapters provide simple solutions to common problems, thereby helping teams that are already on their DevOps journey to further advance into DevOps and speed up their software delivery performance. From finding the right metrics to measure your success to learning from other teams' success stories without merely copying what they've done, this book has it all in one place. As you advance, you'll find out how you can leverage the power of GitHub to accelerate your value delivery – by making work visible with GitHub Projects, measuring the right metrics with GitHub Insights, using solid and proven engineering practices with GitHub Actions and Advanced Security, and moving to event-based and loosely coupled software architecture. By the end of this GitHub book, you'll have understood what factors influence software delivery performance and how you can measure your capabilities, thus realizing where you stand in your journey and how you can move forward. What you will learn Effectively measure software delivery performance Adopt DevOps and lean management techniques in your teams Plan, track, and visualize your work using GitHub Issues and Projects Use continuous delivery with GitHub Actions and Packages Scale quality through testing in production and chaos engineering “Shift left” security and secure your entire software supply chain Use DevSecOps practices with GitHub Advanced Security Secure your code with code scanning, secret scanning, and Dependabot Who this book is for This book is for developers, solutions architects, DevOps engineers, and SREs, as well as for engineering or product managers who want to enhance their software delivery performance. Whether you're new to DevOps, already have experience with GitHub Enterprise, or come from a platform such as Azure DevOps, Team Foundation Server, GitLab, Bitbucket, Puppet, Chef, or Jenkins but struggle to achieve maximum performance, you'll find this book beneficial.

Enhance software delivery performance with GitHub Issues, Projects, Actions, and Advanced Security

Accelerate DevOps with GitHub

Andreas Meier

This book offers a comprehensive introduction to relational (SQL) and non-relational (NoSQL) databases. The authors thoroughly review the current state of database tools and techniques, and examine coming innovations. The book opens with a broad look at data management, including an overview of information systems and databases, and an explanation of contemporary database types: SQL and NoSQL databases, and their respective management systems The nature and uses of Big Data A high-level view of the organization of data management Data Modeling and Consistency Chapter-length treatment is afforded Data Modeling in both relational and graph databases, including enterprise-wide data architecture, and formulas for database design. Coverage of languages extends from an overview of operators, to SQL and and QBE (Query by Example), to integrity constraints and more. A full chapter probes the challenges of Ensuring Data Consistency, covering: Multi-User Operation Troubleshooting Consistency in Massive Distributed Data Comparison of the ACID and BASE consistency models, and more System Architecture also gets from its own chapter, which explores Processing of Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Data; Storage and Access Structures; Multi-dimensional Data Structures and Parallel Processing with MapReduce, among other topics. Post-Relational and NoSQL Databases The chapter on post-relational databases discusses the limits of SQL – and what lies beyond, including Multi-Dimensional Databases, Knowledge Bases and and Fuzzy Databases. A final chapter covers NoSQL Databases, along with Development of Non-Relational Technologies, Key-Value, Column-Family and Document Stores XML Databases and Graphic Databases, and more The book includes more than 100 tables, examples and illustrations, and each chapter offers a list of resources for further reading. SQL & NoSQL Databases conveys the strengths and weaknesses of relational and non-relational approaches, and shows how to undertake development for big data applications. The book benefits readers including students and practitioners working across the broad field of applied information technology. This textbook has been recommended and developed for university courses in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

Models, Languages, Consistency Options and Architectures for Big Data Management

SQL & NoSQL Databases

"Many have commented on the unusual appearance of modernist novels, but few have bothered to examine what part is played by the unusual typography, paginal arrangement, and binding in the works themselves. Examining Faulkner's As I Lay Dying, Stein's Tender Buttons, Joyce's Finnegans Wake, and William Gass's Willie Masters' Lonesome Wife, Michael Kaufmann shows how these writers exposed the printed surface of their works and eventually made the print a part of the fiction itself." "Earlier English novels always presented themselves as printed artifacts - letters, diaries, logs - but by the nineteenth century, writers played down the physical form of the novel, positing the book as a space for tale-telling and not of reading. Print was simply the transparent medium that delivered the tale. In the twentieth century, modernist writers were aware that print had been subtly shaping language and consciousness, so they felt the necessity for exposing the printed page. To make readers aware of the print itself, modernists broke up the conventional arrangements of the page and the book." "Kaufmann shows the gradual opening of the "iconic space" of the novel from Faulkner and Stein to Joyce and Gass. Stein breaks with the conventional arrangement in Tender Buttons to split the husk of "meaning" that words had acquired through use. Her apparent nonsense turned out to be the only way she could find to make sense. Faulkner and Joyce employ a more conventional paginal arrangement, but bring their narratives into the space of the page. As I Lay Dying speaks itself, physically enacting the narrative. The enactment calls attention to the printed surface and shows the composed rows of interchangeable type comprising the narrative. In Finnegans Wake Joyce overuses the conventions of print until they become visible as conventions. Readers see fully the various textual spaces of the book - alphabetic, lexical, paginal, and compositional. More spectacularly, the paginal space becomes narratival space; the printed characters on the page are the fictional characters." "The final novel studied, Gass's Willie Masters' Lonesome Wife, meditates on its fictions, especially the fictions of its physical form, its body. Gass uses the textual space of the novel with a thoroughness similar to Joyce's. The book, the wife, sounds a simultaneous delight and despair at the form that gives her the visible body of language but which also encloses her bodiless voice in a skin of print." "Recognizing the printed body of the modernist text as one of its defining features, argues Kaufmann, helps define high modernism, and identifies the modernist strain of some writers considered postmodernist."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Modernism, Postmodernism, and Print

Textual Bodies

Stefan Piendl

Ein Mann verändert die Welt Mitte der 1970er Jahre hatte der venezolanische Musiker, Ökonom und Politiker José Antonio Abreu eine Vision, die nachhaltig das Leben Hunderttausender Kinder und Jugendlicher in Venezuela verändern sollte. Die Gründung der Orchesterbewegung El Sistema war 1975 der Beginn einer einzigartigen Erfolgsstory, die für viele Länder zum kultur- und sozialpolitischen Vorbild wurde. Mit seiner Organisation der Kinder- und Jugendorchester feiert er heute international Erfolge, wird mit Preisen überhäuft und findet auf der ganzen Welt Nachahmer. In diesem ersten umfassend recherchierten Buch über El Sistema erkunden die Autoren Kaufmann und Piendl, mit welcher Leidenschaft Abreu sein Projekt vorantreibt. Dazu befragten sie alte Weggefährten, international gefeierte Künstler wie Gustavo Dudamel und nicht zuletzt Abreu selbst.

Wie José Antonio Abreu und El Sistema die Welt begeistern

Das Wunder von Caracas

Suzanne Young

Loralee Macpike

Maria Frawley

Dagny Boebel

Kornelia Tancheva

Julie Taddeo

Genevieve Sanchis Mogran

Joseph Aimone

Christine W Sizemore

Arguing for a radical re-evaluation of the modernist aesthetic, the essayists consider how women writers created their own version of modernism through the use of sentimental and domestic subject matter, by writing about maternal concerns, and through experiments with plot, voice, and points of view.

Gendered Re-readings

Unmanning Modernism

Paula Keaveney

The not-for-profit world is huge and continues to grow. The Charity Commission in Britain registers up to 50 new organizations each month. As a result, the environment in which nonprofits operate is becoming ever more competitive, and the need for organizations to make themselves distinct and to stand out from the crowd has become increasingly pressing.

A Guide to Measuring Marketing Performance

Marketing for the Voluntary Sector

Git hat sich als Quellcodeverwaltung durchgesetzt und ist der De-facto-Standard in der Softwareentwicklung. Alle Unternehmen, die noch nicht auf Git sind, werden die nächsten Jahre wechseln. Und nicht nur die Entwicklung - auch Administration, Sicherheit und Dokumentation finden zunehmend auf Git statt. Git ist damit heute das wichtigste Werkzeug für alle digitalen Produkte - quasi die Werkbank. Wenn Sie wissen wollen, wie Sie Git richtig implementieren und welche Regeln Sie für die Zusammenarbeit aufstellen sollten, dann sind Sie hier richtig. Dieses Buch ist eine Einführung in das effektive Arbeiten mit Git - geeignet sowohl für Berufseinsteiger als auch für erfahrene Entwickler, die zu Git wechseln.

Git für Dummies

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the 14th International Symposium on Graph Drawing, GD 2006, held in Karlsruhe, Germany in September 2006. The 33 revised full papers and 5 revised short papers presented together with 2 invited talks, 1 system demo, 2 poster papers and a report on the graph drawing contest were carefully selected during two rounds of reviewing and improvement from 91 submissions. All current aspects in graph drawing are addressed ranging from foundational and methodological issues to applications for various classes of graphs in a variety of fie.

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