Reading and writing go hand in hand, as kids match pictures with words, cut and paste, and make their own fun-to-read thematic mini-dictionaries. Words are drawn from favorite themes, from transportation and farm animals to senses and seasons, with 15 interactive learning tools. Illustrations.

This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 12th TPC Technology Conference on Performance Evaluation and Benchmarking, TPCTC 2020, held in August 2020.The 8 papers presented were carefully reviewed and cover the following topics: testing ACID compliance in the LDBC social network benchmark; experimental performance evaluation of stream processing engines made easy; revisiting issues in benchmarking metric selection; performance evaluation for digital transformation; experimental comparison of relational and NoSQL document systems; a framework for supporting repetition and evaluation in the process of cloud-based DBMS performance benchmarking; benchmarking AI inference; a domain independent benchmark evolution model for the transaction processing performance council.

Contains 165,000 entries, more than 225,000 definitions, and over 40,000 usage examples and includes biographical and geographical sections.