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Applebee's America
by Douglas B. Sosnik Matthew J. Dowd Ron FournierIn this era of technology, terror, and massive social change, it takes a deft touch to connect with Americans. Applebee's America cracks the twenty-first-century code for political, business, and religious leaders struggling to keep pace with the times. A unique team of authors -- Douglas B. Sosnik, a strategist in the Clinton White House; Matthew J. Dowd, a strategist for President Bush's two campaigns; and award-winning political journalist Ron Fournier -- took their exclusive insiders' knowledge far outside Washington's beltway in search of keys to winning leadership. They discovered that successful leaders, even those from disparate fields, have more in common than not. Their book takes you inside the reelection campaigns of Bush and Clinton, behind the scenes of hyper-successful megachurches, and into the boardrooms of corporations such as Applebee's International, the world's largest casual dining restaurant chain. You'll also see America through the anxious eyes of ordinary people, buffeted by change and struggling to maintain control of their lives. Whether you're promoting a candidate, a product, or the Word of God, the rules are the same in Applebee's America. People make choices about politics, consumer goods, and religion with their hearts, not their heads. Successful leaders touch people at a gut level by projecting basic American values that seem lacking in modern institutions and missing from day-to-day life experiences. The most important Gut Values today are community and authenticity. People are desperate to connect with one another and be part of a cause greater than themselves. They're tired of spin and sloganeering from political, business, and religious institutions that constantly fail them. A person's lifestyle choices can be used to predict how he or she will vote, shop, and practice religion. The authors reveal exclusive new details about the best "LifeTargeting" strategies. In this age of skepticism and media diversification, people are abandoning traditional opinion leaders for "Navigators." These otherwise average Americans help their family, friends, neighbors, and coworkers negotiate the swift currents of change in twenty-first-century America. Winning leaders ignore conventional wisdom and its many myths, including these false assumptions: Voters only act in their self-interests; Republicans rule exurbia; and technology drives people apart. Wrong, wrong, and wrong. Once you squander a Gut Values Connection, you may never get it back. Bush learned that hard lesson within a year of winning reelection. Applebee's America offers numerous practical examples of how leaders -- whether from the worlds of politics, business, or religion -- earn the loyalty and support of people by understanding and sharing their values and goals.
Apples to Apples: A Taxonomy of Networks in Public Management and Policy (Elements in Public and Nonprofit Administration)
by Branda Nowell H. Brinton MilwardInterest in networks in the fields of public management and policy has grown to encompass a wide array of phenomena. However, we lack a stable and empirically verifiable taxonomy for delineating one network class from another. The authors propose all networks and multi-organizational collaborative entities can be sorted into three taxonomic classes: structural-oriented, system-oriented, and purpose-oriented. This Element reviews the intellectual disciplinary histories that have informed our understanding of each of the three classes of networks. It then offers a taxonomic description of each of the three classes of networks. Finally, it provides a field guide for empirically classifying networks. The authors hope is the taxonomy presented will serve as a tool to allow the field to quicken the pace of learning both within and across classes. When we are able to compare apples to apples and avoid inadvertent comparison of apples and oranges, we all get smarter faster.
Application Architecture Patterns for Web 3.0: Design Patterns and Use Cases for Modern and Secure Web3 Applications
by Stefano TempestaOver the past three years, the landscape of blockchain technology has undergone remarkable transformation, extending far beyond its association with cryptocurrencies especially with the emergence of Web3 applications. Web 3.0 is built using artificial intelligence, machine learning, and the semantic web. It uses all this to process and interpret information with human-like intelligence. And for security, Web 3.0 uses the blockchain security system to keep information secure. This book aims to provide an overview of the evolution of blockchain technology, highlighting its expanding use cases and exploring the latest trends and news that have shaped the blockchain landscape in recent years. The timing of this book is ideal. NFTs, DeFi, and in general the emergence of the architectural concept of "Web3" are defining and will define the future of web applications. The book takes the reader on a journey across the innovative use cases of blockchain technology, with a focus on building the technical foundation of such applications, in order to enable entrepreneurs and blockchain architects to create state-of-the-art Web3 solutions.
Application Servers for E-Business
by Lisa E. LindgrenThe modern application server is a complex platform that is the linchpin of an enterprise environment that includes a very wide range of technologies-web document formatting, web protocols, server-side scripts, servlets, applets, programming languages, distributed object technologies, security capabilities, directory and naming services, load balan
Application Service Providers in Business
by Luisa Focacci Robert Mockler Marc GartenfeldLearn how to use Application Service Providers to enhance the future of your business!Application Service Providers in Business is a comprehensive analysis of the present ASP model and its place in business today. Business success in today&’s information-intensive marketplace depends on a company&’s ability to acquire and fully use the latest advancements in business-critical applications. By having these applications delivered as services over the Internet, businesses can lessen the demands on company IT staff, and increase the ability to get complex software into use immediately. Within this context, a new outsourcing business model called ASP (Application Service Provider) has emerged that is transforming how businesses access and leverage software applications. The book explains the specific contingent ASP models, including business, enterprise, functional-focused, and vertical market ASPs, and ASP aggregators. It demonstrates how different ASP models have fulfilled diverse market/customer expectations and explores future scenarios for current ASP business models. Case studies, tables, and figures illustrate important concepts and make complex information easy to access and understand. Based on a thorough analysis of the ASP market environment, the book provides detailed Best Practices Guidelines that managers of ASPs can use to improve the chances of success of their respective ASPs. It outlines contingency factors such as application offerings, customer selection, operations, and strategic fit. The book also not only assists business managers in deciding on whether to use an ASP, but it presents ways to use ASPs to effectively support their business process. The ability to provide the workforce with access to data whenever and wherever is crucial for positively impacting a company&’s profitability, and ASPs provide the software to make it possible.Topics included in Application Service Providers in Business are: Best Practices Guidelines strategic management management decision making and planning IT management and outsourcing future of the ASP market ASP business models and much more!Application Service Providers in Business is a comprehensive resource for executives, managers, professors, and business students in the US and worldwide. Using the information and guidelines provided, executives and managers can learn how to use ASPs to enhance their business, and managers of ASPs can learn how to increase their chance of success in the competitive ASP market. The material is also appropriate as a textbook for management and computer information/software development classes.
Application of AI in Credit Scoring Modeling (BestMasters)
by Bohdan PopovychThe scope of this study is to investigate the capability of AI methods to accurately detect and predict credit risks based on retail borrowers' features. The comparison of logistic regression, decision tree, and random forest showed that machine learning methods are able to predict credit defaults of individuals more accurately than the logit model. Furthermore, it was demonstrated how random forest and decision tree models were more sensitive in detecting default borrowers.
Application of Advance Techniques in Power and Energy Systems: Select Proceedings of International Conference, CISTEE 2023 (Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering #1305)
by Mohan Lal Kolhe Aashish Kumar Bohre Partha Sarathee Bhowmik Mukesh Kumar Kirar S. SuwarnoThis book features high-quality research papers presented at the International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Smart Technologies in Electrical Engineering (CISTEE 2023). The book offers cutting-edge solutions and applications used for predictive modeling and sustainable development of power and energy systems with the application of computational intelligence and smart technologies. It discusses the use of different practical developments and brings together the experiences of leading experts in power and energy areas and the sustainability of various solutions concerning the technical, social, and economic aspects. This book presents the perfect balance between depth and breadth of knowledge, which makes it ideal for students and researchers.
Application of Geographical Information Systems and Soft Computation Techniques in Water and Water Based Renewable Energy Problems (Water Resources Development and Management)
by Mrinmoy MajumderThis book highlights the application of Geographical Information System (GIS) and nature based algorithms to solve the problems of water and water based renewable energy resources. The irregularity in availability of resources and inefficiency in utilization of the available resources has reduced the potentiality of water and water based renewable energy resources. In recent years various soft computation methods (SCM) along with GIS were adopted to solve critical problems. The book collects various studies where many SCMs were used along with GIS to provide a solution for optimal utilization of natural resources for satisfying the basic needs of the population as well as fulfilling their burgeoning energy demands. The articles depict innovative application of soft computation techniques to identify the root cause and to mitigate the uncertainty for optimal utilization of the available water resources. The advantage of SCM and GIS were used to maximize the utilization of water resources under cost and time constraints in face of climatic abnormalities and effect of rapid urbanization.
Application of Hydrothermal Reactions to Biomass Conversion (Green Chemistry and Sustainable Technology)
by Fangming JinThis book reviews the recent advances in hydrothermal conversion of biomass into chemicals and fuels, and consists of 15 chapters. It introduces the properties of high-temperature water, the merits of hydrothermal conversion of biomass, and some novel hydrothermal conversion processes, mainly including hydrothermal production of value-added products, hydrothermal gasification, hydrothermal liquefaction and hydrothermal carbonization. This book introduces a new concept for counteracting the imbalance in the carbon cycle, which is caused by the rapid consumption of fossil fuels in anthropogenic activities in combination with the slow formation of fossil fuels. Accordingly, the book is useful in conveying a fundamental understanding of hydrothermal conversion of biomass in the carbon cycle so that a contribution can be made to achieving sustainable energy and environment. It is also interesting to a wide readership in various fields including chemical, geologic and environmental science and engineering. Fangming Jin is a Distinguished Professor at the School of Environmental Science & Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
Application of Machine Learning and Deep Learning Methods to Power System Problems (Power Systems)
by Behnam Mohammadi-Ivatloo Morteza Nazari-Heris Somayeh Asadi Moloud Abdar Houtan Jebelli Milad Sadat-MohammadiThis book evaluates the role of innovative machine learning and deep learning methods in dealing with power system issues, concentrating on recent developments and advances that improve planning, operation, and control of power systems. Cutting-edge case studies from around the world consider prediction, classification, clustering, and fault/event detection in power systems, providing effective and promising solutions for many novel challenges faced by power system operators. Written by leading experts, the book will be an ideal resource for researchers and engineers working in the electrical power engineering and power system planning communities, as well as students in advanced graduate-level courses.
Application of Management Theories for STEM Education: The Case of SWOT Analysis (SpringerBriefs in Education)
by Orit Hazzan Einat Heyd-Metzuyanim Yehudit Judy Dori Anat Even-Zahav Tali TalThis work describes the application of management theories in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) education systems. Two chapters examine STEM education on the K-12 national level and one chapter focuses on the higher education institutional level. All chapters are based on comprehensive research. Thus, it will appeal to teachers, school principals, researchers, graduate students, government policymakers, and all practitioners who care about STEM education in schools, academia and government. In each chapter, SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats) analysis is used as a managerial strategic tool for the examination of factors that focus either on internal circumstances (strengths and weaknesses), or external ones (opportunities and threats).
Application of Project Management Principles to the Management of Pharmaceutical R&D Projects (SpringerBriefs in Pharmaceutical Science & Drug Development)
by Thomas CatalanoDr. Catalano has for the last ten years been doing consulting for the Pharmaceutical Industry. During his consulting he discovered that small businesses such as, generic, startups, and virtual companies do not have the budget or the resources to apply the computer software utilized in project management and therefore do not apply project management principles in their business model. This reduces their effectiveness and increases their operating cost. Application of Project Management Principles to the Management of Pharmaceutical R&D Projects is presented as a paper-based system for completing all the critical activities needed apply the project management system. This will allow these small business to take advantage of the project management principles and gain all the advantages of the system. This book will be beneficial for beginners to understand the concepts of project management and for small pharmaceutical companies to apply the principles of project management to their business model.
Application of Smart Technologies in Power System and Smart Grid: Select Proceedings of International Conference, CISTEE 2023 (Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering #1296)
by Sri Niwas Singh Mohan Lal Kolhe Aashish Kumar Bohre Partha Sarathee Bhowmik Manisha DubeyThis book features high-quality research papers presented at the International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Smart Technologies in Electrical Engineering (CISTEE 2023). The book offers cutting-edge solutions and applications for predictive modeling and sustainable development of power and energy systems with the application of computational intelligence and smart technologies. It discusses the use of different practical developments. The book discusses practical developments and consolidates the insights of leading experts in power and energy, focusing on the technical, social, and economic aspects of sustainable solutions. This book is well-suited for students and researchers with its comprehensive knowledge.
Application of Social Media in Crisis Management: Advanced Sciences and Technologies for Security Applications (Transactions on Computational Science and Computational Intelligence)
by David Waddington Babak Akhgar Andrew StaniforthThis book explores how social media and its advances enables citizens to empower themselves during a crisis. The book addresses the key issues related to crises management and social media as the new platform to assist citizens and first responders dealing with multiple forms of crisis, from major terrorist attacks, larger scale public disorder, large-scale movement of people across borders, and natural disasters. The book is based on the results and knowledge gained during the European Commission ATHENA project which has been addressing critical issues in contemporary crisis management and social media and smart mobile communications. This book is authored by a mix of global contributors from across the landscape of academia, emergency response and experts in government policy and private industry. This title explores and explains that during a modern crisis, the public self-organizes into voluntary groups, adapt quickly to changing circumstances, emerge as leaders and experts and perform life-saving actions; and that they are increasingly reliant upon the use of new communications media to do it.
Application of Threshold Concepts in Natural Resource Decision Making
by Glenn R. GuntenspergenNatural resource managers face a complex decision-making environment characterized by the potential occurrence of rapid and abrupt ecological change. These abrupt changes are poorly accommodated by traditional natural resource planning and decision-making processes. As recognition of threshold processes has increased, contemporary models of ecological systems have been modified to better represent a broader range of ecological system dynamics. Key conceptual advances associated with the ideas of non-linear responses, the existence of multiple ecological stable states and critical thresholds are more likely the rule than the exception in ecological systems. Once an ecological threshold is crossed, the ecosystem in question is not likely to return to its previous state. There are many examples and a general consensus that climatic disruptions will drive now stable systems across ecological thresholds. This book provides professional resource managers with a broad general decision framework that illustrates the utility of including ecological threshold concepts in natural resource management. It gives an entry into the literature in this rapidly evolving concept, with descriptions and discussion of the promising statistical approaches for threshold detection and demonstrations of the utility of the threshold framework via a series of case studies.
Application of the BIM Method in Sustainable Construction: Status Quo of Potential Applications in Practice (essentials)
by Niels Bartels Jannick Höper Sebastian Theißen Reinhard WimmerThe integration of sustainability requires a paradigm shift in the lifecycle of buildings. By using the BIM method, aspects of sustainable construction can be increasingly integrated into processes and workflows. Information is captured consistently and in a structured way across the lifecycle and made available to all stakeholders. This Essential presents the current status quo of possible applications of the BIM method in sustainable construction. The aim is to promote a fusion of BIM and sustainability by highlighting essential requirements for BIM processes and models, workflows and their added value.
Applications and Usability of Interactive TV: 5th Iberoamerican Conference, jAUTI 2016, La Habana, Cuba, November 21-25, 2016, Revised Selected Papers (Communications in Computer and Information Science #689)
by María José Abásolo Pedro Almeida Joaquín Pina AmargósThis book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th Iberoamerican Conference on Applications and Usability of Interactive TV , jAUTI 2016, held in conjunction with the III International Congress on Information Engineering and Information Systems, in La Habana, Cuba, in November 2016. The 11 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 30 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on IDTV content production and recommendation; video consumption and preservation; social TV; IDTV interaction techniques; IDTV user experiences.
Applications for Financial Futures
by Scott P. Mason Sally E. DurdanConsists of a series of four brief descriptions of the use of financial futures as hedging vehicles: a savings and loan hedging the rollover of three-month money market certificates with T-bill futures, a corporate debt issuer hedging the cost of a future debt issue with T-bond futures, an equity investor hedging a decline in the market, and an example of a company with a natural interest rate hedge on its balance sheet. The examples describe the details of T-bill, T-bond, and S&P 500 stock index futures. Issues addressed include variation margin and basis risk (due to differences in the securities underlying the cash and futures positions, changes in the carry, etc.).
Applications in Energy Finance: The Energy Sector, Economic Activity, Financial Markets and the Environment
by Christos Floros Ioannis ChatziantoniouThis textbook investigates the linkages between energy-commodities markets, financial markets and the economy and incorporates different aspects of the energy market, organizing the relevant material in two distinct parts. Part one includes studies that relate to the impact of developments in the various energy-commodities markets (e.g., oil, gas) both on financial markets and economic growth, including studies that consider the impact of energy prices on financial markets or the effect on specific macroeconomic variables, such as interest rates, inflation, GDP. Part two discusses developments in the energy market from a climate change or green financing point of view, further considering issues that relate to climate finance, green investing, as well as policy making relating to GHG Emissions. By introducing a multitude of topics in energy finance, this textbook provides a holistic view of the market and its importance
Applications in Reliability and Statistical Computing (Springer Series in Reliability Engineering)
by Hoang PhamThis book discusses practical applications of reliability and statistical methods and techniques in various disciplines, using machine learning, artificial intelligence, optimization, and other computation methods. Bringing together research from international experts, each chapter aims to cover both methods and practical aspects on reliability or statistical computations with emphasis on applications. 5G and IoT are set to generate an estimated 1 billion terabytes of data by 2025 and companies continue to search for new techniques and tools that can help them practice data collection effectively in promoting their business. This book explores the era of big data through reliability and statistical computing, showcasing how almost all applications in our daily life have experienced a dramatic shift in the past two decades to a truly global industry. Including numerous illustrations and worked examples, the book is of interest to researchers, practicing engineers, and postgraduate students in the fields of reliability engineering, statistical computing, and machine learning.
Applications in Statistical Computing: From Music Data Analysis to Industrial Quality Improvement (Studies in Classification, Data Analysis, and Knowledge Organization)
by Maurizio Vichi Heike Trautmann Karsten Lübke Nadja Bauer Katja Ickstadt Gero SzepannekThis volume presents a selection of research papers on various topics at the interface of statistics and computer science. Emphasis is put on the practical applications of statistical methods in various disciplines, using machine learning and other computational methods. The book covers fields of research including the design of experiments, computational statistics, music data analysis, statistical process control, biometrics, industrial engineering, and econometrics. Gathering innovative, high-quality and scientifically relevant contributions, the volume was published in honor of Claus Weihs, Professor of Computational Statistics at TU Dortmund University, on the occasion of his 66th birthday.
Applications in Ubiquitous Computing (EAI/Springer Innovations in Communication and Computing)
by Raman Kumar Sara PaivaThis book takes a deep dive into ubiquitous computing for applications in health, business, education, tourism, and transportation. The rich interdisciplinary contents of the book appeal to readers from diverse disciplines who aspire to create new and innovative research initiatives and applications in ubiquitous computing. Topics include condition monitoring and diagnostics; multi-objective optimization in design, multi-objective optimization of machining parameters, and more. The book benefits researchers, advanced students, as well as practitioners interested in applications of ubiquitous computing. Features practical, tested applications in ubiquitous computingIncludes applications such as health, business, education, electronics, tourism, and transportationApplicable to researchers, academics, students, and professionals
Applications of Artificial Intelligence in Business, Education and Healthcare (Studies in Computational Intelligence #954)
by Aboul Ella Hassanien Allam Hamdan Anjum Razzaque Bahaaeddin Alareeni Reem Khamis Bahaa AwwadThis book focuses on the implementation of Artificial Intelligence in Business, Education and Healthcare, It includes research articles and expository papers on the applications of Artificial Intelligence on Decision Making, Entrepreneurship, Social Media, Healthcare, Education, Public Sector, FinTech, and RegTech. It also discusses the role of Artificial Intelligence in the current COVID-19 pandemic, in the health sector, education, and others. It also discusses the impact of Artificial Intelligence on decision-making in vital sectors of the economy.
Applications of Big Data Analytics: Trends, Issues, and Challenges
by Mohammed M. Alani Hissam Tawfik Mohammed Saeed Obinna AnyaThis timely text/reference reviews the state of the art of big data analytics, with a particular focus on practical applications. An authoritative selection of leading international researchers present detailed analyses of existing trends for storing and analyzing big data, together with valuable insights into the challenges inherent in current approaches and systems. This is further supported by real-world examples drawn from a broad range of application areas, including healthcare, education, and disaster management. The text also covers, typically from an application-oriented perspective, advances in data science in such areas as big data collection, searching, analysis, and knowledge discovery.Topics and features:Discusses a model for data traffic aggregation in 5G cellular networks, and a novel scheme for resource allocation in 5G networks with network slicingExplores methods that use big data in the assessment of flood risks, and apply neural networks techniques to monitor the safety of nuclear power plantsDescribes a system which leverages big data analytics and the Internet of Things in the application of drones to aid victims in disaster scenariosProposes a novel deep learning-based health data analytics application for sleep apnea detection, and a novel pathway for diagnostic models of headache disordersReviews techniques for educational data mining and learning analytics, and introduces a scalable MapReduce graph partitioning approach for high degree verticesPresents a multivariate and dynamic data representation model for the visualization of healthcare data, and big data analytics methods for software reliability assessmentThis practically-focused volume is an invaluable resource for all researchers, academics, data scientists and business professionals involved in the planning, designing, and implementation of big data analytics projects.Dr. Mohammed M. Alani is an Associate Professor in Computer Engineering and currently is the Provost at Al Khawarizmi International College, Abu Dhabi, UAE. Dr. Hissam Tawfik is a Professor of Computer Science in the School of Computing, Creative Technologies & Engineering at Leeds Beckett University, UK. Dr. Mohammed Saeed is a Professor in Computing and currently is the Vice President for Academic Affairs and Research at the University of Modern Sciences, Dubai, UAE. Dr. Obinna Anya is a Research Staff Member at IBM Research – Almaden, San Jose, CA, USA.
Applications of Block Chain technology and Artificial Intelligence: Lead-ins in Banking, Finance, and Capital Market (Financial Mathematics and Fintech)
by Mohammad Irfan Khan Muhammad Muhammad Attique Khan Nader NaifarToday, emerging technologies offer a new pathway for advancing the economy in the fields of banking, finance, and capital markets. Blockchain applications play a crucial role in ensuring trust and security within these industries by relying on transparency and visibility through peer-to-peer networks. The banking industry has also witnessed increased operations speed, better transparency, efficiency enhancement, fraud extenuation at less cost while sharing real-time data between various parties. Thus, the adoption of blockchain in the Banking and Insurance industry is developing very fast. It has emerged as the commonly accepted default platform for the banking and insurance industry. This book explores how blockchain technology optimizes and integrates transactions and operations, facilitating easier access to information. This, in turn, has the potential to reduce communication costs and minimize minor data transfer errors. Additionally, the book delves into the current applications of blockchain technology in the financial industry, discusses its limitations, and outlines its future prospects for broader accessibility. This book is aimed at students and researchers in financial engineering and fintech and it can serve as a reference for identifying problem areas and their possible solutions.