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Artificial Intelligence-based Internet of Things Systems (Internet of Things)
by Debashis De Rajkumar Buyya Souvik PalThe book discusses the evolution of future generation technologies through Internet of Things (IoT) in the scope of Artificial Intelligence (AI). The main focus of this volume is to bring all the related technologies in a single platform, so that undergraduate and postgraduate students, researchers, academicians, and industry people can easily understand the AI algorithms, machine learning algorithms, and learning analytics in IoT-enabled technologies. This book uses data and network engineering and intelligent decision support system-by-design principles to design a reliable AI-enabled IoT ecosystem and to implement cyber-physical pervasive infrastructure solutions. This book brings together some of the top IoT-enabled AI experts throughout the world who contribute their knowledge regarding different IoT-based technology aspects.
Artificial Intelligence: First International Symposium, ISAI 2022, Haldia, India, February 17-22, 2022, Revised Selected Papers (Communications in Computer and Information Science #1695)
by Arif Ahmed Sk Turki Turki Tarun Kumar Ghosh Subhankar Joardar Subhabrata BarmanThis book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence, ISAI 2022, held in Haldia, India, during February 17-22, 2022. The 30 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 75 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: information systems, mathematics and data analyses; and applied artificial intelligence..
Artists Write to Work: A Practical Guide to Writing about Your Art
by Kate KramerWriting and research strategies for documents every artist must craft: letters, applications, wall text, etc.Welcoming and effective, spells out clear connections between the writing process and creative practiceDestined to become an important addition to the libraries of art students, educators, and artists
Arts of Being Yoruba: Divination, Allegory, Tragedy, Proverb, Panegyric
by Adélékè AdéèkóThere is a culturally significant way of being Yorùbá that is expressed through dress, greetings, and celebrations—no matter where in the world they take place. Adélékè Adék documents Yorùbá patterns of behavior and articulates a philosophy of how to be Yorùbá in this innovative study. As he focuses on historical writings, Ifá divination practices, the use of proverbs in contemporary speech, photography, gendered ideas of dressing well, and the formalities of ceremony and speech at celebratory occasions, Adéékó contends that being Yorùbá is indeed an art and Yorùbá-ness is a dynamic phenomenon that responds to cultural shifts as Yorùbá people inhabit an increasingly globalized world.
ArtsIT, Interactivity and Game Creation: 11th EAI International Conference, ArtsIT 2022, Faro, Portugal, November 21-22, 2022, Proceedings (Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering #479)
by Anthony L. BrooksThis book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings the 11th EAI International Conference on ArtsIT, Interactivity and Game Creation, ArtsIT 2022 which was held in Faro, Portugal, November 21-22, 2022. The 45 revised full papers presented were carefully selected from 118 submissions. The papers are thematically arranged in the following sections: Dialogues Between Geometry, Computer Graphics and the Visual Arts; Games and Gamification; Museums and the Virtual; Animation, AI, Books and Behavior; Fluency, Fashion, Emotion and Play; Movement, Film and Audio.
ArtsIT, Interactivity and Game Creation: 12th EAI International Conference, ArtsIT 2023, São Paulo, Brazil, November 27-29, 2023, Proceedings, Part I (Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering #564)
by Anthony L. BrooksThis book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings the 12th EAI International Conference on ArtsIT, Interactivity and Game Creation, ArtsIT 2023 which was held in São Paulo, Brazil, in November 27-29, 2023. The 40 revised full papers and 1 Short paper presented were carefully selected from 103 submissions. The papers are thematically arranged in the following sections: Part I: exploring new frontiers in music therapy; network dance and technology; computational art and the creative process.Part II: alternative realities, immersion experiences, and arts-based research; games; interactive technologies, multimedia, and musical art; human at centre.
ArtsIT, Interactivity and Game Creation: 12th EAI International Conference, ArtsIT 2023, São Paulo, Brazil, November 27-29, 2023, Proceedings, Part II (Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering #565)
by Anthony L. BrooksThis book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings the 12th EAI International Conference on ArtsIT, Interactivity and Game Creation, ArtsIT 2023 which was held in São Paulo, Brazil, in November 27-29, 2023.The 40 revised full papers and 1 Short paper presented were carefully selected from 103 submissions. The papers are thematically arranged in the following sections: Part I: exploring new frontiers in music therapy; network dance and technology; computational art and the creative process; alternative realities, immersion experiences, and arts-based research.Part II: alternative realities, immersion experiences, and arts-based research; games; interactive technologies, multimedia, and musical art; human at centre.
ArtsIT, Interactivity and Game Creation: 13th EAI International Conference, ArtsIT 2024, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, November 13–15, 2024, Proceedings, Part I (Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering #650)
by Anthony L. Brooks Domna Banakou Slavica CeperkovicThis volume constitutes the proceedings of the 13th EAI International Conference on ArtsIT, Interactivity and Game Creation, ArtsIT 2024, in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, during November 13–15, 2024. The 38 full papers and 4 short papers were presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 112 submissions. The papers are thematically arranged in the following sections: Part I: Art & Games; Technical; Education, Co-Creativity in multi-modal interaction with generative AI. Part II: Amplifying Creativity: Exploring Digital Musical Interfaces; Illuminating Realities: Creating immersive spaces to promote mindfulness and wellbeing; Posters.
ArtsIT, Interactivity and Game Creation: 13th EAI International Conference, ArtsIT 2024, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, November 13–15, 2024, Proceedings, Part II (Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering #651)
by Anthony L. Brooks Domna Banakou Slavica CeperkovicThis volume constitutes the proceedings of the 13th EAI International Conference on ArtsIT, Interactivity and Game Creation, ArtsIT 2024, in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, during November 13–15, 2024. The 38 full papers and 4 short papers were presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 112 submissions. The papers are thematically arranged in the following sections: Part I: Art & Games; Technical; Education, Co-Creativity in multi-modal interaction with generative AI. Part II: Amplifying Creativity: Exploring Digital Musical Interfaces; Illuminating Realities: Creating immersive spaces to promote mindfulness and wellbeing; Posters.
ArtsIT, Interactivity and Game Creation: Creative Heritage. New Perspectives from Media Arts and Artificial Intelligence. 10th EAI International Conference, ArtsIT 2021, Virtual Event, December 2-3, 2021, Proceedings (Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering #422)
by Matthias Wölfel Johannes Bernhardt Sonja ThielThis book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 10th EAI International Conference on ArtsIT, Interactivity and Game Creation, ArtsIT 2021 which was held in December 2021. Due to COVID-19 pandemic the conference was held virtually. The 31 revised full papers presented were carefully selected from 57 submissions. The papers are thematically arranged in the following sections: Media Arts and Virtual Reality; Games; Fusions; Collaboration, Inclusion and Participation; Artificial Intelligence in Art and Culture; Approaches and Applications.
As Always
by Howard Scott Madeleine Gagnon Phyllis AronoffOne of Canada's greatest literary figures reflects on life at the centre of Quebec literary arts. Re-examining the influences of her early life in a large, rural Catholic family, Madeleine Gagnon not only explores her rejection of unexamined values as part of her intellectual development but also her refusal to be categorized by her gender.Karl Marx replaced Paul Claudel in Gagnon's intellectual pantheon. Psychoanalysis gave rise to the desire to write, and her first works poured out in a torrent. She describes the friendships that played such a large part in her life and the feminist battles of the time with all their hopes and disappointments. At the same time she casts a sharp eye on contemporary Quebec society, tracing the emergence of a distinct Canadian literature.This is an account of a life well lived, told with candour, wisdom, and an inextinguishable sense of wonder.
As Needed for Pain: A Memoir of Addiction
by Dan PeresIn the vein of Mary Karr’s Lit, Augusten Burroughs’ Dry and Sarah Hepola’s Blackout, As Needed for Pain is a raw and riveting—and often wryly funny—addiction memoir from one of New York media’s most accomplished editors which explores his never-before-told story of opioid addiction and the drastic impact it had on his life and career.Dan Peres wasn’t born to be a media insider. As an awkward, magic-obsessed adolescent, nothing was further from his reality than the catwalks of Paris or the hallways of glossy magazine publishers. A gifted writer and shrewd cultural observer, Peres eventually took the leap—even when it meant he had to fake a sense of belonging in a new world of famed fashion designers, celebrities, and some of media’s biggest names. But he had a secret: opiates.Peres’s career as an editor at W magazine and Details is well known, but little is known about his private life as a high-functioning drug addict. In As Needed for Pain, Peres lays bare for the first time the extent of his drug use—at one point a 60-pill-a-day habit.By turns humorous and gripping, Peres’s story is a cautionary coming-of-age tale filled with unforgettable characters and breathtaking brushes with disaster. But the heart of the book is his journey from outsider to insecure insider, what it took to get him there, and how he found his way back from a killing addiction. As Needed for Pain offers a rare glimpse into New York media’s past—a time when print magazines mattered—and a rarefied world of wealth, power, and influence. It is also a brilliant, shocking dissection of a life teetering on the edge of destruction, and what it took to pull back from the brink.
As We Speak: How to Make Your Point and Have It Stick
by Peter Meyers Shann NixThe world is full of brilliant people whose ideas are never heard. This book is designed to make sure that you’re not one of them. Even for the most self-confident among us, public speaking can be a nerve-racking ordeal. Whether we are speaking to a large audience, within a group, or in a one-on-one conversation, the way in which we communicate ideas, as much as the ideas themselves, can determine success or failure. In this invaluable guide by two of today’s most sought-after communication experts, Peter Meyers and Shann Nix offer a comprehensive approach for tackling the underlying obstacles that almost all of us experience when faced with speaking in public. In As We Speak, you’ll learn to master the three building blocks at the core of their approach: Content: Organize the information you want to convey and construct a clear and lucid architecture of ideas that will lead your listener through a memorable emotional experience. Delivery: Use your body, voice, eyes, and hands in ways that engage your audience and naturally support your message. State: Bring yourself into peak performance condition. Your state is the way you feel when you perform, and it is both the most powerful and most frequently overlooked component of communication. Meyers and Nix show how to apply these principles in a wide variety of situations. You’ll learn how to handle difficult face-to-face conversations with colleagues, friends, and family; how to make the best use of e-mail, phone, video conference, and other technology; and how to communicate in a crisis, when all eyes are on you and emotions are running high. Meyers and Nix also emphasize that effective communication is impossible without first becoming aware of your own true goals and personal beliefs, and they offer helpful tools and exercises that will lead you to greater clarity and self-knowledge. Accessible, inspiring, and laden with useful tips, As We Speak will help you discover your authentic voice and learn to convey your ideas in the most powerful and memorable way possible.
As You Like It: The 30-Minute Shakespeare
by Nick NewlinAs You Like It: The 30-Minute Shakespeare presents seven captivating scenes from this merry play. Rosalind, disguised as a man ("Ganymede"), "teaches" the art of romantic wooing to Orlando.The cutting includes Jaques' timeless "Seven Ages of Man" speech; Touchstone the Fool's courtship of Audrey; and the hilarious love triangle between Silvius, Phebe, and Rosalind (as Ganymede). The entire cast joins in the delightful song "A Lover and His Lass" to bring a rousing end to this charming comedy.The edition includes helpful advice by Nick Newlin on how to put on a Shakespeare production in a high school class with novice actors, as well as tips for performing the specific play and recommendations for further resources.
Ascent of the A-Word: Assholism, the First Sixty Years
by Geoffrey NunbergIt first surfaced in the gripes of GIs during World War II and was captured early on by the typewriter of a young Norman Mailer. Within a generation it had become a basic notion of our everyday moral life, replacing older reproaches like lout and heel with a single inclusive category––a staple of country outlaw songs, Neil Simon plays, and Woody Allen movies. Feminists made it their stock rebuke for male insensitivity, the est movement used it for those who didn’t “getit,” and Dirty Harry applied it evenhandedly to both his officious superiors and the punks he manhandled. The asshole has become a focus of collective fascination for us, just as the phony was for Holden Caulfield and the cad was for Anthony Trollope. From Donald Trump to Ann Coulter, from Mel Gibson to Anthony Weiner, from the reality TV prima donnas to the internet trolls and flamers, assholism has become the characteristic form of modern incivility, which implicitly expresses our deepest values about class, relationships, authenticity, and fairness. We have conflicting attitudes about the A-word––when a presidential candidate unwittingly uttered it on a live mic in 2000, it confirmed to some that he was a man of the people and to others that he was a boor. But considering how much the word does for us, and to us, it hasn’t gotten nearly the attention it deserves––at least until now.
Ascent to Glory: How One Hundred Years of Solitude Was Written and Became a Global Classic
by Álvaro Santana-AcuñaGabriel García Márquez’s novel One Hundred Years of Solitude seemed destined for obscurity upon its publication in 1967. The little-known author, small publisher, magical style, and setting in a remote Caribbean village were hardly the usual ingredients for success in the literary marketplace. Yet today it ranks among the best-selling books of all time. Translated into dozens of languages, it continues to enter the lives of new readers around the world. How did One Hundred Years of Solitude achieve this unlikely success? And what does its trajectory tell us about how a work of art becomes a classic?Ascent to Glory is a groundbreaking study of One Hundred Years of Solitude, from the moment García Márquez first had the idea for the novel to its global consecration. Using new documents from the author’s archives, Álvaro Santana-Acuña shows how García Márquez wrote the novel, going beyond the many legends that surround it. He unveils the literary ideas and networks that made possible the book’s creation and initial success. Santana-Acuña then follows this novel’s path in more than seventy countries on five continents and explains how thousands of people and organizations have helped it to become a global classic. Shedding new light on the novel’s imagination, production, and reception, Ascent to Glory is an eye-opening book for cultural sociologists and literary historians as well as for fans of García Márquez and One Hundred Years of Solitude.
Asertivos: 21 claves que transformarán tus relaciones interpersonales con inteligencia emocional.
by Sonia González BoysenSer, o no ser, asertivo, esa es la cuestión.Los seres humanos hemos logrado innovar de manera sorprendente en el ámbito tecnológico y científico, pero nos cuesta trabajo ser asertivos para mantener una conversación fluida, libre, serena, equilibrada, clara, espontánea y armoniosa, capaz de generar una influencia relevante y contundente.En estas páginas recibirás un mentoring completo con las 21 claves de comprobaba aplicación para lograr no solo concientizar la importancia de mantener una comunicación saludable en tu vida, sino también identificar cuáles son los malos hábitos comunicativos más comunes – el negativismo, miedos paralizantes, quejas en tus relaciones interpersonales, las preocupaciones, la envidia, el rencor, la falta de perdón, gente tóxica, personas difíciles, la procrastinación, las peleas y más.Aprenderás a aplicar las claves para saber cómo tratar con esos vicios comunicativos, convertirlos en oportunidades de mejora y cimentar así la plataforma para tu máximo potencial de desarrollo personal.
Asesinos seriales en México: Los monstruos urbanos
by Filiberto Cruz MonroyMatan por gusto; uno de ellos podría ser tu vecino.Son los asesinos seriales.Este personaje macabro se ha popularizado en las series de televisión y las películas, pero es real. Existe y está al acecho. A veces come carne humana. Podría ser tu vecino o alguien a quien conoces y te parece una persona normal, pero que en el fondo profesa un odio inagotable. Su mente está perturbada por viejos rencores y heridas ancestrales que nunca sanaron. Ejere una violencia descomunal e implacable sobre sus víctimas. Es el asesino serial, y en México deambulan muchos por ahí. Más de los que crees.Algunos de estos criminales dicen estar poseídos por entidades sobrenaturales y otros descuatizan personas por entretenimientos. En estas reveladoras páginas, Filiberto Cruz expone su enomre talento como periodísta de investigación, en un libro dedicado a los asesinos seriales mexicanos. Por aquí figuran caníbales que se creínan poetas, expertos en artes marciales que mataban por diversión, vendedores de fierro viejo que alimentaban con carne humana a sus mascotaas, violadores carniceros y otras mentes trastornadas.Aquí se detallan como nunca antes las motivaciones, el modus operandi y la oscura mente de la Matataxistas, el Carnicero de Atizapán, el Comecorazones, el Coqueto, el Caníbal de la Guerrero, la Mataviejitas, los monstruos de Ecatepec y muchos otros espeluznantes asesinos en serie a lo largo de México, desde Ciudad Juárez hasta Mérida, y desde los años ochenta hasta nuestros días dominados por las redes sociales. El impecable ejercicio periodístico de Filiberto Cruz no revictimiza a las infortunadas personas que cayeron en las garras de estos inhumnos criminales, y tampoco hace gala de una pasión oscura. Su intención es arrojar luz para comprender cómo, dónde y por qué han matado los asesinos seriales más conocidos en nuestro país.
Asexuality in Young Adult Fiction (Elements in Publishing and Book Culture)
by Noah O'ConnorThe Asexual Exile trope positions asexual characters outside of society by portraying them as loners, inhuman, or adjacent to death. This research identifies trends in these portrayals by considering a corpus of 42 traditionally published novels of Young Adult fiction featuring asexual protagonists. A distant reading of this corpus finds that the Asexual Exile trope is employed in approximately two-thirds of cases. The author analyses how this trope permutates across genres, and the frequency of its endorsement and subversion by these narratives. Presenting the first extensive investigation into the Asexual Exile trope in YA fiction, this research investigates how asexual characters are Othered as not truly alive, and how these messages then rebound into necropolitical cultural understandings of asexual people as expendable. The results prompt the questions: how does the Asexual Exile trope influence Young Adult readers in the formation of their ideologies? How can publishers do better?
Asher the Thresher Shark: Targeting the sh Sound (Speech Bubbles 2)
by Melissa PalmerAsher the thresher shark is very shy. Will it stop him from being a hero? This picture book targets the /sh/ sound and is part of Speech Bubbles 2, a series of picture books that target specific speech sounds within the story. The series can be used for children receiving speech therapy, for children who have a speech sound delay/disorder, or simply as an activity for children’s speech sound development and/or phonological awareness. They are ideal for use by parents, teachers or caregivers. Bright pictures and a fun story create an engaging activity perfect for sound awareness. Picture books are sold individually, or in a pack. There are currently two packs available – Speech Bubbles 1 and Speech Bubbles 2. Please see further titles in the series for stories targeting other speech sounds.
Asia's Miracle Economies
by Jon WoronoffAn expanded and updated edition of Woronoff's 1986 study of Asia's emerging economic giants, this book looks back at what has happened in the intervening years, especially as regards the "discovery" of this phenomenon in the Western media and the overreactive hype that has accompanied it. As the author puts it: "My purpose is to show how these countries, which hitherto has been quite unremarkable, began to develop vigorously. What policies and strategies they used. What they did right and, even more importantly, what they did wrong."
Asia-Pacific Film Co-productions: Theory, Industry and Aesthetics (Routledge Studies in Media and Cultural Industries)
by Dal Yong Jin Wendy SuThis book examines cross-regional film collaboration within the Asia-Pacific region. Through a mixed methods approach of political economy and industry, market and textual analysis, the book contributes to the understanding of the global fusion of cultural products and the reconfiguration of geographic, political, economic, and cultural relations. Issues covered include: cultural globalization and Asian regionalization; identity, regionalism, and industry practices and inter-Asian and trans-Pacific co-production practices among the U.S., China, South Korea, Japan, India, Hong Kong, Argentina, Australia, Taiwan, and New Zealand.
Asia-Pacific Film Co-productions: Theory, Industry and Aesthetics (Routledge Studies in Media and Cultural Industries)
by Dal Yong Jin Wendy SuThis book examines cross-regional film collaboration within the Asia-Pacific region. Through a mixed methods approach of political economy, industry and market, as well as textual analysis, the book contributes to the understanding of the global fusion of cultural products and the reconfiguration of geographic, political, economic, and cultural relations. Issues covered include cultural globalization and Asian regionalization; identity, regionalism, and industry practices; and inter-Asian and transpacific co-production practices among the U.S.A., China, South Korea, Japan, India, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Argentina, Australia, and New Zealand.
Asian Face Reading
by Boye Lafayette De MenteImagine how much you could learn if you knew how to evaluate a person's character, health, fortune, social status, sexual charisma, and life expectancy from a careful reading of his or her face. <P><P> In China and Japan, face reading is a respectable analytical tool used to make business decisions, arrange marriages, and evaluate partnerships and friendships. Asian Face Reading offers a quick, practical, easy-to-understand and easy-to-apply introduction to the basic principles of face reading. The book is fully illustrated with dozens of examples readers can use to learn this increasingly popular practice-and to analyze their friends, colleagues, and loved ones.
Asian Perspectives on the Development of Public Relations: Other Voices
by Tom WatsonThe National Perspectives on the Development of Public Relations: Other Voices series is the first to offer an authentic world-wide view of the history of public relations. It will feature six books, five of which will cover continental and regional groups. This first book in the series focuses on Asia and Australasia.