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Wireless and satellite systems : 11th EAI international conference, WiSATS 2020, Nanjing, China, September 17-18, 2020 : proceedings. Part I by WiSATS (Conference) Online), SpringerLink (Online service)

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From animals to animats 11 : 11th International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior, SAB 2010, Paris - Clos Luce, France, August 25-28, 2010 : proceedings by International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior Paris, France, SpringerLink (Online service)

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Safety for future transport and mobility by Ross, Hans-Leo

Contents: “…2.1.1 Development of the Context -- 2.1.2 Identification of Risk -- 2.1.3 Assessment of the Risk in the Target Context -- 2.1.4 Development of a Strategy and Treatment of Potential Risk -- 2.1.5 Development and Defining of Activities and Their Objectives -- 2.1.6 Development of an Implementation and Realisation Strategy -- 2.1.7 Review and Evaluation of the Plan -- 2.2 Technical Risk -- 2.3 Risk in Road Traffic -- 2.3.1 Causes of Technical Risk -- 2.3.2 Control of Technical Risk -- 2.4 Standardisation of Safety for Road Vehicles -- 2.4.1 Risk and Integrity Definition from the IEC 61508.…”
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Forest recreation 3rd ed. by Douglass, Robert W.

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Computational logistics : 11th International Conference, ICCL 2020, Enschede, the Netherlands, September 28-30, 2020, Proceedings by ICCL (Conference) Online), SpringerLink (Online service)

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Springer handbook of mechanical engineering by SpringerLink (Online service)

Contents: “…Equilibria -- First Law of Thermodynamics -- Second Law of Thermodynamics -- Exergy and Anergy -- Thermodynamics of Substances -- Changes of State of Gases and Vapors -- Thermodynamic Processes -- Ideal Gas Mixtures -- Heat Transfer -- Tribology -- Tribology -- Design of Machine Elements -- Mechanical Drives -- Gearings -- Cylindrical Gearings -- Bevel Gearings -- Worm Gearings -- Design of Gear Wheels, Worm Wheels, and Worms -- Planetary Gears -- Wave Gears -- Shafts and Axles -- Shaft-Hub Connections -- Rolling Bearings -- Design of Bearing Units -- Appendix A -- Appendix B -- Manufacturing Engineering -- Casting -- Metal Forming -- Machining Processes -- Assembly, Disassembly, Joining Techniques -- Rapid Prototyping and Advanced Manufacturing -- Precision Machinery Using MEMS Technology -- Measuring and Quality Control -- Quality Management -- Manufacturing Measurement Technology -- Measuring Uncertainty and Traceability -- Inspection Planning -- Further Reading -- Engineering Design -- Design Theory -- Basics -- Precisely Defining the Task -- Conceptual Design -- Design -- Design and Manufacturing for the Environment -- Failure Mode and Effect Analysis for Capital Goods -- Piston Machines -- Foundations of Piston Machines -- Positive Displacement Pumps -- Compressors -- Internal Combustion Engines -- Pressure Vessels and Heat Exchangers -- Pressure Vessel -- General Design Concepts -- Design of Tall Towers -- Testing Requirement -- Design Codes for Pressure Vessels -- Heat Exchangers -- Material of Construction -- Turbomachinery -- Theory of Turbomachinery Stages -- Gas Turbine Engines: Design and Dynamic Performance -- Transport Systems -- Overview -- Automotive Engineering -- Railway Systems -- Railway Engineering -- Aerospace Engineering -- Construction Machinery -- Basics -- Earthmoving, Road Construction, and Farming Equipment -- Machinery for Concrete Works -- Site Lifts -- Access Machinery and Equipment -- Cranes -- Equipment for Finishing Work -- Automation and Robotics in Construction -- Enterprise Organization and Operation -- Overview -- Organizational Structures -- Process Organization, Capabilities, and Supply Networks -- Modeling and Data Structures -- Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) -- Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) -- Advanced Organization Concepts -- Interorganizational Structures -- Organization and Communication -- Enterprise Collaboration and Logistics -- Complementary Material for Mechanical Engineers -- Power Generation -- Principles of Energy Supply -- Primary Energies -- Fuels -- Transformation of Primary Energy into Useful Energy -- Various Energy Systems and Their Conversion -- Direct Combustion System -- Internal Combustion Engines -- Fuel Cells -- Nuclear Power Stations -- Combined Power Station -- Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle (IGCC) System -- Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) Power Generation -- Total-Energy Systems for Heat and Power Generation -- Transformation of Regenerative Energies -- Solar Power Stations -- Heat Pump -- Energy Storage and Distribution -- Furnaces -- Fluidized-Bed Combustion System -- Liquid-Fuel Furnace -- Burners -- General Furnace Accessories -- Environmental Control Technology -- Steam Generators -- Parts and Components of Steam Generator -- Energy Balance Analysis of a Furnace/Combustion System -- Performance of Steam Generator -- Furnace Design -- Strength Calculations -- Heat Transfer Calculation -- Nuclear Reactors -- Future Prospects and Conclusion -- Electrical Engineering -- Fundamentals -- Transformers -- Rotating Electrical Machines -- Power Electronics -- Electric Drives -- Electric Power Transmission and Distribution -- Electric Heating.…”
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Beginning backup and restore for SQL Server : data loss management and prevention techniques by Beard, Bradley

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Trustworthy software development processes : International Conference on Software Process, ICSP 2009, Vancouver, Canada, May 16-17, 2009 : proceedings by International Conference on the Software Process Vancouver, B.C., SpringerLink (Online service)

Contents: “…for the Process of Re-planning for Product Releases -- Overcoming the First Hurdle: Why Organizations Do Not Adopt CMMI -- Value-Based Multiple Software Projects Scheduling with Genetic Algorithm -- Process Tools -- Meta Model Based Architecture for Software Process Instantiation -- Distributed Orchestration Versus Choreography: The FOCAS Approach -- An Architecture for Modeling and Applying Quality Processes on Evolving Software -- Process Analysis -- Evaluating the Perceived Effect of Software Engineering Practices in the Italian Industry -- Evidence-Based Insights about Issue Management Processes: An Exploratory Study -- Process Aspect: Handling Crosscutting Concerns during Software Process Improvement -- Stochastic Process Algebra Based Software Process Simulation Modeling -- Process Simulation Modeling -- Combining Aspect and Model-Driven Engineering Approaches for Software Process Modeling and Execution -- Dynamic COQUALMO: Defect Profiling over Development Cycles -- A Hybrid Model for Dynamic Simulation of Custom Software Projects in a Multiproject Environment -- On the Relative Merits of Software Reuse -- Investigating the Gap between Quantitative and Qualitative/Semi-quantitative Software Process Simulation Models: An Explorative Study -- Experience Report -- Bridge the Gap between Software Test Process and Business Value: A Case Study -- Subcontracting Processes in Software Service Organisations -- An Experience Report -- On Reducing the Pre-release Failures of Web Plug-In on Social Networking Site -- Technical Software Development Process in the XML Domain -- Process Metrics -- Software Product Quality: Ensuring a Common Goal -- Predicting Upgrade Project Defects Based on Enhancement Requirements: An Empirical Study -- Process Modeling and Representation -- Incremental Process Modeling through Stakeholder-Based Hybrid Process Simulation -- A Process-Oriented Approach for the Optimal Satisficing of Non-Functional Requirements -- A Pattern for Modeling Rework in Software Development Processes -- Achieving On-Time Delivery: A Two-Stage Probabilistic Scheduling Strategy for Software Projects -- Incrementally Introducing Process Model Rationale Support in an Organization -- A Process for Driving Process Improvement in VSEs -- Modeling Software Evolution with Game Theory -- Structural Considerations in Defining Executable Process Models -- Analyzing a Software Process Model Repository for Understanding Model Evolution -- Process Trustworthiness as a Capability Indicator for Measuring and Improving Software Trustworthiness -- A System Dynamics Model That Simulates a Significant Late Life Cycle Manpower Increase Phenomenon.…”
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Cybersecurity incident response : how to contain, eradicate, and recover from incidents by Thompson, Eric C.

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Climate change and its impacts : risks and inequalities by SpringerLink (Online service)

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Computational methods and models for transport : new challenges for the greening of transport systems by SpringerLink (Online service), CM3 Conference on Computational Multi Physics, Multi Scales and Multi Big Data in Transport Modeling, Simulation and Optimization, European Conferences on Green Challenges in Transport

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Computer supported cooperative work in design. II : 9th International Conference, CSCWD 2005 Coventry, UK, May 24-26, 2005, revised selected papers by International Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design Coventry, England, SpringerLink (Online service)

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Algorithms and architectures for parallel processing : 21st International Conference, ICA3PP 2021, Virtual event, December 3-5, 2021, Proceedings. Part I by International Conference on Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing Online, SpringerLink (Online service)

Contents: “…Deep Learning Models and Applications -- CRFST-GCN :A Deeplearning Spital-Temporal Frame to Predict Traffic Flow -- BFR-RetinaNet: An Improved RetinaNet Model for Vehicle Detection in Aerial Images -- Learning Knowledge Graph Embeddings by Multi-Attention Mechanism for Link Prediction -- GlowImp: Combining GLOW and GAN for Multivariate Time Series Imputation -- Accurate Indoor Localization Using Magnetic Sequence Fingerprints with Deep Learning -- Wasserstein Graph Auto-Encoder -- Fine-grained Activity Recognition Based on Features of Action Subsegments and Incremental Broad Learning -- ADFA-LSTM: An Abnormal Trajectory Prediction Method Based On Bionic Neural Network -- Online Multiple Object Tracking Algorithm based on Heat Map Propagation -- Software Systems and Efficient Algorithms -- Spatio-temporal Topology Routing Algorithm for Opportunistic Network Based on Self-Attention Mechanism -- TSAEns: Ensemble Learning for KPI Anomaly Detection -- Towards Transferable Adversarial Examples using Meta Learning -- Temporal Convolution Network Based on Attention for Intelligent Anomaly Detection of Wind Turbine Blades -- Error Serial Episodes Discovery from Mobile Payment Log in Distributed ETC -- Parallel Cache Prefetching for LSM-Tree based Store: From Algorithm to Evaluation -- A Hybrid TLBO-TS Algorithm based Mobile Service Selection for Composite Services -- UPM-DMA: An Efficient Userspace DMA-Pinned Memory Management Strategy for NVMe SSD -- AHOA: Adaptively Hybrid Optimization Algorithm for Flexible Job-shop Scheduling Problem -- Trace-Navi: A High-Accuracy Indoor Navigation System based on Real-Time Activity Recognition and Discrete Trajectory Calibration -- Iterative Filling Incomplete Fingerprint Map Based on Multi-directional Signal Propagation in Large-scale Scene -- Dynamic Adjustment Policy of Search Driver Matching Distance via Markov Decision Process -- A Multi-Precision Quantized Super-Resolution Model Framework -- An Optimized GPU Implementation of Weakly-compressible SPH using CUDA-based strategies -- A Heterogeneous Multi-Core Network-on-Chip Mapping Optimization Algorithm -- A Novel 3D Intelligent Cluster Method for Malicious Traffic Fine-grained Classification -- Predicting Students Academic Performance Based on Improved PSO-Xgboost: A Campus Behavior Perspective -- Motion-sequence Authentication System: guard for smart phones -- Edge Computing and Edge Intelligence -- Joint Optimization Scheme of Multi-service Replication and Request Offloading in Mobile Edge Computing -- Flying MEC: Online Task Offloading, Trajectory Planning and Charging Scheduling for UAV-assisted MEC -- Multiple Workflows Offloading Based on Deep Reinforcement Learning in Mobile Edge Computing -- An Optimized Greedy-based Task Offloading Method for Mobile Edge Computing -- Location Aware Workflow Migration Based on Deep Reinforcement Learning in Mobile Edge Computing -- Recode-Decode-and-Compare: An Efficient Verification Scheme for Coded Edge Computing against Collusion Attack -- MGFL: Multi-granularity Federated Learning in Edge Computing Systems -- Energy Efficient Priority-Based Task Scheduling for Computation Offloading in Fog Computing -- Space-Heuristic Navigation and Occupancy Map Prediction for Robot Autonomous Exploration -- Service Dependability and Security Algorithms -- Edge DDoS attack detection method based on software defined networks -- GradMFL: Gradient Memory-based Federated Learning for Hierarchical Knowledge Transferring over Non-IID Data -- Linear Coded Federated Learning -- Verifiable Dynamic Searchable Symmetric Encryption with Forward Privacy in Cloud-assisted E-Healthcare Systems -- Security Analysis of Poisoning Attacks Against Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning -- A blockchain-based proxy oriented cloud storage public audit scheme for low-performance terminal devices -- Sunspot: A Decentralized Framework Enabling Privacy for Authorizable Data Sharing on Transparent Public Blockchains -- A Novel Protection method of continuous location sharing based on local differential privacy and conditional random field -- An Intelligent Allocation Mechanism Based on Ethereum Blockchain in Microgrid -- Data Science -- Multi-Layer Adaptive Sampling for Per-Flow Spread Measurement -- Transformer-based Rating-Aware Sequential Recommendation -- An effective single-pass approach for estimating the Z-quantile in data streams -- Fed-Tra: Improving Accuracy of Deep Learning Model on Non-IID Data in Federated Learning.…”
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Oracle high availability, disaster recovery, and cloud services : explore RAC, data guard, and cloud technology by Kumar, Y. V. Ravi, Basha, Nassyam, K. M., Krishna Kumar, Śarmā, Bālamukunda, 1889-1956, Kerekovski, Konstantin

Contents: “…With this knowledge, end users will be able to make better decisions on how to build out their infrastructure in a resilient and fault tolerant way. …”
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Microsoft SharePoint : building Office 2007 solutions in VB 2005 by Hillier, Scot

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Microservices : science and engineering by SpringerLink (Online service)

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Serious games and edutainment applications by SpringerLink (Online service)

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Teacher empowerment toward professional development and practices : perspectives across borders by SpringerLink (Online service)

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Wireless algorithms, systems, and applications : 10th International Conference, WASA 2015, Qufu, China, August 10-12, 2015 : proceedings by WASA (Conference) Qufu Shi, China), SpringerLink (Online service)

Contents: “…Privacy-Preserving Public Auditing Together with Efficient User Revocation in the Mobile Environments -- Multi-proxy Multi-signature Binding Positioning Protocol -- Efficient Network Structure of 5G Mobile Communications -- Optimal Channel Assignment Schemes in Underlay CRNs with Multi-PU and Multi-SU Transmission Pairs -- A Group Bandwidth Reservation Scheme for the Control Channel in IEEE 802.11p/1609 Networks -- k-Perimeter Coverage Evaluation and Deployment in Wireless Sensor Networks -- Modeling Flu Trends with Real-Time Geo-tagged Twitter Data Streams -- Radio Signal Based Device-Free Velocity Recognition -- Minimum-Cost Information Dissemination in Social Networks -- Finding Overlapping Communities with Random Walks on Line Graph and Attraction Intensity -- Computing an Optimal Path with the Minimum Number of Distinct Sensors -- ULRAS: Ultra-Lightweight RFID Authentication Scheme for Mobile Device -- Soft Reservation Based Prioritized Access: Towards Performance Enhancement for VoIP over WLANs -- Impact of a Deterministic Delay in the DCA Protocol -- EBRS: Event Based Reputation System for Defensing Multi-source Sybil Attacks in VANET -- iSound: A Smartphone Based Intelligent Sound Fusion System for the Hearing Impaired -- Estimation Based Adaptive ACB Scheme for M2M Communications -- Optimal Power Allocations for Two-Users Spectrum Sharing Cognitive Radio with Interference Limit -- Adaptive Resource Allocation for Anti-money Laundering Based on SMDP -- Infrastructure Deployment and Optimization for Cloud-Radio Access Networks -- A Cluster Head Rotation Cooperative MIMO Scheme for Wireless Sensor Networks -- A Distributed Game-Theoretic Power Control Mechanism for Device-to-Device Communications Underlaying Cellular Network -- A Low Overhead and Stable Clustering Scheme for Crossroads in VANETs -- Online Channel Assignment, Transmission Scheduling, and Transmission Mode Selection in Multi-channel Full-duplex Wireless LANs -- Optimal Preference Detection Based on Golden Section and Genetic Algorithm for Affinity Propagation Clustering -- DRL: A New Mobility Model in Mobile Social Networks -- SGSA: Secure Group Setup and Anonymous Authentication in Platoon-Based Vehicular Cyber-Physical Systems -- A Bidder-Oriented Privacy-Preserving VCG Auction Scheme -- A Secure Multi-unit Sealed First-Price Auction Mechanism -- Flow-Level Performance of Device-to-Device Overlaid OFDM Cellular Networks -- Bernoulli Sampling Based (epsilon, delta)-Approximate Frequency Query in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks -- Secure and Verifiable Multi-owner Ranked-Keyword Search in Cloud Computing -- A Dynamic Differentiated QoS Based Call Admission Control Service Model for Core Node in Wireless Sensor Network Topology Control -- Secure and Privacy-Preserving Location Proof in Database-Driven Cognitive Radio Networks -- SDP: Separate Design Principle for Multichannel Scheduling in Priority-Aware Packet Collection -- On Computing Multi-agent Itinerary Planning in Distributed Wireless Sensor Networks -- FFDP: A Full-Load File Delivery Protocol in Satellite Network Communication -- Energy-Aware Clustering and Routing Scheme inWireless Sensor Network -- Serial Number Based Encryption and Its Application for Mobile Networks -- Fine-Grained Searchable Encryption over Encrypted Data in Multi-clouds -- Big-Little-Cell Based "Handprint" Positioning System -- Spectrum Sublet Game Among Secondary Users in Cognitive Radio Networks -- Delivering Content with Defined Priorities by Selective Agent and Relay Nodes in Content Centric Mobile Social Networks -- Rogue Access Point Detection in Vehicular Environments -- Information-Centric Resource Management for Air Pollution Monitoring with Multihop Cellular Network Architecture -- A Novel Location Privacy Mining Threat in Vehicular Internet Access Service -- iProtect: Detecting Physical Assault Using Smartphone -- Enhancing Wireless Security Against Reactive Jamming Attacks: A Game-Theoretical Framework -- A Quasi-Dynamic Inter-Satellite Link Reassignment Method for LEO Satellite Networks -- Domatic Partition in Homogeneous Wireless Sensor Networks -- High Performance DDDT-CWT Based Compressed Sensing Recovery of Images via Structured Sparsity -- Influential Spatial Facility Prediction over Dynamic Objects -- A Heuristic Stream Order Scheduling Algorithm for Intra-Superframe Power Management in WPANs -- Minimum-Latency Broadcast and Data Aggregation Scheduling in Secure Wireless Sensor Networks -- Data-Driven Privacy Analytics: A WeChat Case Study in Location-Based Social Networks -- A Double Pulse Control Strategy for Misinformation Propagation in Human Mobile Opportunistic Networks -- Efficient Line K-Coverage Algorithms in Mobile Sensor Network -- A Trust Evolution Mechanism for Mobile Social Networks Based on Wright-Fisher -- A Localized Channel Allocation Approach for Realtime Reliable and High Throughput Communication in Multi-channel Networks -- An Efficient and Secure Delegated Multi-authentication Protocol for Mobile Data Owners in Cloud -- Cooperative Spectrum and Infrastructure Leasing on TV Bands -- Information Security Enhancement with Actual Access Statuses of Users in the Multi-user System -- Joint Secure Beamforming and User Selection for Multi-user MISO Systems with Confidential Messages -- Network Reachability Analysis on Temporally Varying Interaction Networks -- Performance of Target Tracking in Radar Network System Under Deception Attack -- Resource Allocation in Cooperative Cognitive Maritime Wireless Mesh/Ad Hoc Networks: An Game Theory View -- Security and Privacy Issues of Fog Computing: A Survey -- Mobile Data Gathering with Time-Constraints inWireless Sensor Networks -- A Poisson Distribution Based Topology Control Algorithm for Wireless Sensor Networks Under SINR Model -- PPSSER: Privacy-Preserving Based Scheduling Scheme for Emergency Response in Medical Social Networks -- Secrecy-Oriented Adaptive Clustering Scheme in Device-to-Device Communications -- Cooperative Beamforming and Artificial Noise Design for Secure Multi-pair Communications in Wireless Two-Way Relay Networks -- On the Stable Throughput in Wireless LANs -- Antenna Selection in Large-Scale Multiple Antenna Systems -- Energy-Balanced Backpressure Routing for Stochastic Energy Harvesting WSNs -- Motion Recognition by Using a Stacked Autoencoder-Based Deep Learning Algorithm with Smart Phones -- SDN-Based Routing for Efficient Message Propagation in VANET -- Critical Point Aware Data Acquisition Algorithm in Sensor Networks -- Constructing Virtual Backbone with Bounded Diameters in Cognitive Radio Networks -- A Simplified Attack-Defense Game Model for NSSA -- Hadoop-Based Analysis for Large-Scale Click-Through Patterns in 4G Network -- Detecting Targets Based on a Realistic Detection and Decision Model in Wireless Sensor Networks -- Ant Colony-Based Energy Control Routing Protocol for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks.…”
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Pro Python Second edition. by Browning, J. Burton, Alchin, Marty

Contents: “…Using __all __ to Customize Imports -- Relative Imports -- The __import__() function -- The importlib module -- Taking It With You -- Chapter 3: Functions -- Arguments -- Planning for Flexibility -- Variable Positional Arguments -- Variable Keyword Arguments -- Combining Different Kinds of Arguments -- Invoking Functions with Variable Arguments -- Preloading Arguments -- Introspection -- Example: Identifying Argument Values -- Example: A More Concise Version -- Example: Validating Arguments -- Decorators -- Closures -- Wrappers -- Decorators with Arguments -- Decorators with-or without-Arguments -- Example: Memoization -- Example: A Decorator to Create Decorators -- Function Annotations -- Example: Type Safety -- Factoring Out the Boilerplate -- Example: Type Coercion -- Annotating with Decorators -- Example: Type Safety as a Decorator -- Generators -- Lambdas -- Introspection -- Identifying Object Types -- Modules and Packages -- Docstrings -- Taking It with You -- Chapter 4: Classes -- Inheritance -- Multiple Inheritance -- Method Resolution Order -- Example: C3 Algorithm -- Using super() to Pass Control to Other Classes -- Introspection -- How Classes Are Created -- Creating Classes at Runtime -- Metaclasses -- Example: Plugin Framework -- Controlling the Namespace -- Attributes -- Properties -- Descriptors -- Methods -- Unbound Methods -- Bound Methods -- Class Methods -- Static Methods -- Assigning Functions to Classes and Instances -- Magic Methods -- Creating Instances -- Example: Automatic Subclasses -- Dealing with Attributes -- String Representations -- Taking It With You -- Chapter 5: Common Protocols -- Basic Operations -- Mathematical Operations -- Bitwise Operations -- Variations -- Numbers -- Sign Operations -- Comparison Operations -- Iterables -- Example: Repeatable Generators -- Sequences -- Mappings -- Callables.…”
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