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The Data-Driven Blockchain Ecosystem: Fundamentals, Applications, and Emerging Technologies
This book focuses on futuristic approaches and designs for real-time systems and applications, as well as the fundamental concepts of including advanced techniques and tools in models of data-driven blockchain ecosystems. The Data-Driven Blockchain Ecosystem: Fundamentals, Applications, and Emergin... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2023 -
AI-Centric Smart City Ecosystems: Technologies, Design and Implementation
Over the next few years, smart city technologies will be rolled out, and the IoT devices and AI-centric systems will provide even more far-reaching connectivity. This book presents various concepts in the design and development of a smart city and methodologies and solutions involved in designing co... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2023 -
Cloud and Fog Computing Platforms for Internet of Things (Chapman & Hall/CRC Cloud Computing for Society 5.0)
Today, relevant data are typically delivered to cloud-based servers for storing and analysis in order to extract key features and enable enhanced applications beyond the basic transmission of raw data and to realize the possibilities associated with the impending Internet of Things (IoT). To allow f... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2022 -
Reinventing Manufacturing and Business Processes Through Artificial Intelligence (Innovations in Big Data and Machine Learning)
This edited book describes how newly emerging Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies will provide unprecedented opportunities to penetrate technology and automation into everything we do, and at the same time, provide a huge playing field for businesses to develop newer models to capture market s... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2022 -
Social Work and Sustainability in Asia: Facing the Challenges of Global Environmental Changes (Routledge Advances in Asia-Pacific Studies)
by Iris Chi • Alice ChongThe rapid trend of globalization has brought with it a variety of sustainability challenges, including global climate change, biodiversity loss, poverty, and social inequalities, which are problems with unclear boundaries, complicated interrelated components, undefined parameters, contradictory valu... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2019 -
Science Left Behind: Feel-Good Fallacies and the Rise of the Anti-Scientific Left
To listen to most pundits and political writers, evolution, stem cells, and climate change are the only scientific issues worth mentioningand the only people who are anti-science are conservatives. Yet those on the left have numerous fallacies of their own. Aversion to clean energy programs, basi... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2012 -
Overcoming Challenges in the Mental Capacity Act 2005: Practical Guidance for Working with Complex Issues
This book provides mental capacity practitioners with accessible ethical guidance and applicable tools for applying the Mental Capacity Act (MCA) 2005. It shows how clients' relationships can impact their capacity in positive and negative ways, and which communication skills practitioners can use to... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2018 -
Bargaining for Women's Rights: Activism in an Aspiring Muslim Democracy
Gender relations in Muslim-majority countries have been subject to intense debate in recent decades. In some cases, Muslim women have fought for and won new rights to political participation, reproductive health, and education. In others, their agendas have been stymied. Yet missing from this discus... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2015 -
Data Mining and Exploration: From Traditional Statistics to Modern Data Science
This book introduces both conceptual and procedural aspects of cutting-edge data science methods, such as dynamic data visualization, artificial neural networks, ensemble methods, and text mining. There are at least two unique elements that can set the book apart from its rivals. First, most studen... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2022 -
Moonshots in Education: Launching Blended Learning in the Classroom
This book explores blended and project based learning in which online learning is used in conjunction with classroom learning with several models and examples of schools that are already implementing digital learning and what the success rate has been. ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2015 -
Silicon Valley Cybersecurity Conference: Second Conference, SVCC 2021, San Jose, CA, USA, December 2–3, 2021, Revised Selected Papers (Communications in Computer and Information Science #1536)
This book constitutes selected and revised papers from the Second Silicon Valley Cybersecurity Conference, held in San Jose, USA, in December 2021. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic the conference was held in a virtual format. The 9 full papers and one shoprt paper presented in this volume were thoroughl... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2022 -
Electrolytes for Lithium and Lithium-Ion Batteries
Electrolytes for Lithium and Lithium-ion Batteries provides a comprehensive overview of the scientific understanding and technological development of electrolyte materials in the last several years. This book covers key electrolytes such as LiPF6 salt in mixed-carbonate solvents with additives for ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2014 -
New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction By People of Color
by Steven Barnes • Nisi Shawl • Karin Lowachee • Alex Jennings • Hiromi Goto • Minsoo Kang • Tobias S. Buckell • Silvia Moreno-Garcia • Kathleen Alcalá • Rebecca Roanhorse • Anil Menon • Indrapramit Das • Andrea Hairston • E. Lily Yu • Darcie Little Badger • Jaymee Goh • LeVar Burton • Chinelo Onwual • Alberto YáñezNew Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color showcases emerging and seasoned writers of many races telling stories filled with shocking delights, powerful visions of the familiar made strange. Between this book’s covers burn tales of science fiction, fantasy, horror, and their indefinab... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2019 -
Digital Communication and Learning: Changes and Challenges (Educational Communications and Technology Yearbook)
by Will W. K. Ma • Wendy Wing Lam Chan • Anna Wing Bo Tso • Alex Chi-keung Chan • Peter Edward SidorkoThis edited book collects papers with perspectives from scholars and practitioners in Asia, Australia, and Europe to reveal the pros and cons, chances and challenges, constraints, and potential risks that educators and learners are facing as the new paradigm for communication and learning takes plac... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2022 -
Proceedings of the Meaning in Life International Conference 2022 - Cultivating, Promoting, and Enhancing Meaning in Life Across Cultures and Life Span (Atlantis Highlights in Social Sciences, Education and Humanities #704)
by Michael F. Steger • Alex Chi-Keung Chan • Raymond Chi-Fai Chui • Nicolson Yat-Fan Siu • Susanna Chung Ping Wong Ip • Bess Yin-Hung LamThis is an open access book. Meaning in Life (MIL) International Conference 2022, “Cultivating, Promoting, and Enhancing Meaning in Life Across Cultures and Life Span” will be held 0n 22-25 June 2022, Onsite & Live Online, at The Hong Kong Shue Yan University, Hong Kong, China.The concept of meaning... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2022 -
Writers of the Future Volume 31
by Rebecca Moesta • Larry Niven • Orson Scott Card • L. Ron Hubbard • David Farland • Tim Napper • Martin L. Shoemaker • Amit Dutta • Choong Nyung Yoon • Krystal Claxton • Quinlan Septer • Samantha Murray • Taylor Payton • Emily Siu • Tung Chi Lee • Alex Brock • Sharon Joss • Daniel J. Davis • Michelle Lockamy • Amy H. Hughes • Kary English • Daniel Tyka • Zach Chapman • Kevin A. Anderson • Megen Nelson • Scott R. Parkin • Michael T. Banker • Auston Habershaw • Megan Kelchner • Shuangjian Liu • Steve PantazisThe future is here...the future is now! Orson Scott Card, Kevin J. Anderson and Larry Niven have seen the future. Now, you can, too. A constellation of the brightest lights in the Science Fiction and Fantasy firmament have judged these authors to be the best, the brightest, the truest emerging star... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2015 -
Encyclopedia of Scale Insect Pests
by Helen Harman • Jan H. Giliomee • Jocelyn A. Berry • Manuela Branco • Lyle Buss • Alejandro Caballero • Juang Horng Chong • Lucía E. Claps • C. De Klerk • Rodrigo Diaz • Imre Foldi • Antonio P. Garonna • Ilya A. Gavrilov-Zimin • Raymond J. Gill • Penny J. Gullan • Disna N. Gunawardana • Sunil Joshi • M. Bora Kaydan • Paris L. Lambdin • Yen-Po Lin • Christopher Malumphy • Zvi Mendel • Vitor Cezar Pacheco da Silva • Giuseppina Pellizzari • Ana Lúcia Peronti • Francesco Porcelli • Alex Protasov • Ting-Kui Qin • Andrea Amalia Ramos Portilla • Dewi Sartiami • Scott A. Schneider • U.G.A.I. Sirisena • Pompeo Suma • Éva Szita • Hirotaka TanakaScale insects feed on plant juices and can easily be transported to new countries on live plants. They sometimes become invasive pests, costing billions of dollars in damage to crops worldwide annually, and farmers try to control them with toxic pesticides, risking environmental damage. Fortunately,... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2022 -
Moonshots en la educación: Nuevas tecnologías y aprendizaje mixto en el aula
Moonshots en la educación es un libro imprescindible sobre la necesaria renovación de los modelos educativos y cómo ayudar a los alumnos a convertirse en ciudadanos digitales responsables e inteligentes.Con introducción de James Franco y colaboraciones de Alicia Chang, Alex Silverman y Elliott Paris... More
Language: SPACopyright: 2015