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The Sixteenth Century Journal, volume 55 number 3-4 (Fall 2024)
by The Sixteenth Century JournalThis is volume 55 issue 3-4 of The Sixteenth Century Journal. The Sixteenth Century Journal (SCJ) publishes research and inquiry related to the sixteenth century broadly defined (1450-1650) in all fields and all world regions. The international readership and authorship of the SCJ include leaders in their fields as well as early career scholars. As its subtitle, The Journal of Early Modern Studies, indicates, the SCJ is an interdisciplinary journal, with articles in history, art history, literature, religious studies, gender studies, the history of science, music, material culture, and many other fields.
Journal of Labor Economics, volume 43 number 1 (January 2025)
by Journal of Labor EconomicsThis is volume 43 issue 1 of Journal of Labor Economics. Founded in 1983 as the first journal devoted specifically to labor economics, the Journal of Labor Economics (JOLE) presents international research on issues affecting social and private behavior, and the economy. JOLE’s contributors investigate various aspects of labor economics, including supply and demand of labor services, personnel economics, distribution of income, unions and collective bargaining, applied and policy issues in labor economics, and labor markets and demographics.
Critical Historical Studies, volume 11 number 2 (Fall 2024)
by Critical Historical StudiesThis is volume 11 issue 2 of Critical Historical Studies. Critical Historical Studies is an interdisciplinary journal devoted to historical reflections on politics, culture, economy, and social life. CHS features research on the implications of socio-economic transformations for cultural, political, and social change. In the broad tradition of Critical Theory, CHS will explore the complex connections between cultural form and socio-economic context and promote a reflexive awareness of the researcher’s own position in the history of global capitalist society. The journal aims to foster interdisciplinary exchange among scholars across the entire range of the social sciences and humanities, and publishes work on all historical eras and regions of the world.
So You Want to Work in Crypto: Not Law, Not Medicine, But Crypto
by Alexander Rees-EvansGain the necessary technical skills, tools, and insights to succeed in the crypto working environment. Changing market conditions have created new opportunities and working conditions. This book goes beyond just getting a job, as it shares a myriad of hidden tips on how to thrive within this constantly evolving ecosystem. Through examples and detailed typologies, you’ll work out which crypto job is the best fit for you. You’ll begin by reviewing some fun facts and anecdotes illustrating life in a Web3 environment, with a careful examination of the various roles in crypto, blockchain, and digital assets. You’ll then compare roles in the traditional corporate and financial environments with those in the crypto world from a risk and reward perspective. From there you’ll prepare for crypto job interviews with a focus on what to expect and fine-tuning the necessary expertise to excel. Different types of contracts, the onboarding process, communication tools, the intricacies of video conferences, internal storage, and various crypto-specific operational skills will all be clearly explained as well. So You Want to Work in Crypto provides all the strategies you’ll need to stay ahead of the curve in the ever-changing crypto world. What You'll Learn Examine what job positions exist in Web3 and how to obtain the right one for you. Prepare yourself for the Web3 environment and the type of job you will get. See how to strategically evolve your career in the world of crypto. Who This Book Is For Any individual curious about evolving their career, obtaining their first job, or simply looking to find a new, more fulfilling job in an exciting revolutionary industry.
One Last Summer
by Kate SpencerFrom the cohost of the award-winning Forever35 podcast comes a dreamy, laugh-out-loud summer romance that asks: What do you do when the life you've planned isn't what you've dreamed? Clara Millen&’s life is spiraling out of control: her dream job is a nightmare, she&’s resoundingly single, and it&’s been years since she&’s taken some time off. Thankfully, the last problem she can fix—this year she&’ll join her friends on their annual summer vacation to their beloved childhood sleepover camp for a much-needed escape. But when Clara arrives at Pine Lake Camp, she faces yet another unwelcome change: the owners are retiring and selling the property. The news turns her plans for revelry into a night of reminiscing . . . and prompts a surprise heart-to-heart between Clara and Mack, her old camp nemesis and constant competitor, who's still just as annoying (and annoyingly handsome). Soon the campfires aren't all that's throwing off sparks. And when one wildly passionate night turns into two (then too many to count!), Clara begins to wonder if she and Mack could have a future together. But when Clara's boss finally offers her everything she's worked so hard for, Clara will need to decide if the life she's always wanted is the life that makes her feel truly alive.
Theft of a Tree: A Tale by the Court Poet of the Vijayanagara Empire (Murty Classical Library of India #32)
by Nandi TimmanaThe first English translation of a thousand-year-old story of Krishna and his wife Satyabhama, retold by the most famous court poet of the Vijayanagara Empire.Legend has it that the sixteenth-century Telugu poet Nandi Timmana composed Theft of a Tree, or Pārijātāpaharaṇamu, to help the wife of Krishnadevaraya, king of the south Indian Vijayanagara Empire, win back her husband’s affections. Timmana based his work on a popular millennium-old Krishna tale.Theft of a Tree recounts how Krishna stole the wish-granting pārijāta tree from the garden of Indra, king of the gods. Krishna takes the tree to please his favorite wife, Satyabhama, who is upset when he gifts his chief queen a single divine flower. After battling Indra, he plants the pārijāta for Satyabhama—but she must perform a rite temporarily relinquishing it and her husband to enjoy endless happiness.This is the first English translation of the poem, which prefigures the modern Telugu novel with its unprecedented narrative unity.
Interdisziplinäre Kommunikation im Arzneimittelmanagement: Kommunikationsgütemerkmale und Patientenaktivierung bei multimorbiden Menschen mit Multimedikation
by Nicole Balke-KarrenbauerDie interdisziplinäre Kommunikation, vor allem an den sensiblen Versorgungs- und Informationsschnittstellen des Arzneimittelmanagements bei multimorbiden Menschen mit Multimedikation, erfordern ein hohes Maß an integrierter Interdisziplinarität. Die Berücksichtigung der identifizierten Kommunikationsgütemerkmale kann die Abstimmungsqualität in diversen Teams effektiv unterstützen. Die Patientenaktivierung wird bei multimorbiden Menschen mit Multimedikation untersucht, um die Relevanz dieses Selbstmanagement-Konzeptes hinsichtlich der patientenorientierten Unterstützung des Arzneimittelmanagements einschätzen zu können.
Seitenwege in der Mathematikgeschichte: Potentiale und Grenzen alternativer Zugänge
by Christoph KirfelIn diesem Buch werden Methoden aus der Geschichte der Mathematik dargestellt, die nicht zu Standardmethoden geworden sind oder es gar bis in klassische Schulbücher geschafft haben. Diese alternativen Zugänge waren oftmals zum Zeitpunkt ihrer Entstehung aktuell und im Gespräch, haben dann aber gegenüber den heutigen Standardmethoden an Aufmerksamkeit verloren und sind schließlich in Vergessenheit geraten. Oftmals enthalten diese Methoden noch ein ungenutztes Potential: Es lohnt sich, sie weiterzuentwickeln und zu entdecken, wo genau sich ihre Grenzen befinden. Das Buch möchte insbesondere angehenden Lehrkräften einen Blick über die üblichen Lehrinhalte hinaus ermöglichen und inhaltliche Anregungen für die Arbeit mit interessierten und begabten Schülerinnen und Schülern liefern. Archimedes etwa entwickelte eine Methode zur Berechnung des Flächeninhaltes eines Parabelsegmentes, die gewissermaßen ein Stück der Integralrechnung vorwegnimmt. Archimedes' Methode entwickelte sich aber nicht zur Standardmethode, wie man sie in heutigen Lehrbüchern wiederfindet. Dort findet man stattdessen die Methoden, die von Newton und Leibnitz entworfen wurden. Dieses Buch entwickelt die Archimedische Methode weiter und zeigt ihr „Restpotential“ auf: Andere Kurven, nicht nur Parabeln, lassen sich ähnlich angreifen und es ist interessant und lehrreich zu sehen, wie weit sich Archimedes' Methode entwickeln lässt und wo sie dann letztlich an ihre Grenzen stößt.
Essay Cinema in the Digital Era
by James SlaymakerThis book explores the impact of digital technology on the essay film in the early 21st century, arguing that the cinematic essay has been associated with technological evolution throughout its history. The author considers the output of four towering figures in essay filmmaking: Harun Farocki, Chris Marker, Chantal Akerman and Jean-Luc Godard, and explores the ways in which these directors utilise aesthetic strategies, editing techniques, and modes of spectatorial address that are rooted in the capabilities of digital technologies. Slaymaker conceptualises the cinematic essay as a self-reflexive mode of nonfiction cinema—one that foregrounds the filmmaking apparatus and the act of its own making, and which thereby launches an inquiry into the ontological nature of the cinematic image, the tools which construct it, and the wider artistic landscape in which it is embedded.
Nucleic Acid Photophysics and Photochemistry (Nucleic Acids and Molecular Biology #36)
by Spiridoula Matsika Andrew H. MarcusThis volume focuses on recent advancements in our current understanding of nucleic acid photochemistry and its relationship to biologically relevant phenomena. Understanding the photophysical properties of nucleic acids is an area of longstanding and active research. Over the years, the field has greatly benefitted from steady advances in spectroscopic techniques and computational methods to study molecular excited states, which have facilitated detailed studies of the behavior of nucleic acids and their components after they absorb light. Experiments performed on ultrafast time scales (femtoseconds - picoseconds) have permitted the accurate determination of excited state lifetimes, while computational studies have provided detailed microscopic information about the mechanisms involved. As our understanding of the fundamental photophysics of nucleic acids has advanced, current studies now focus on systems of higher complexity, and introduce novel optical techniques to investigate the interactions between nucleic acids and proteins. Spectroscopic studies of nucleic acids, particularly nucleic acid constructs labeled with optical probes, can yield richly detailed information important to molecular biology, biochemistry and biophysics. This book is a must-read for anyone interested in the photophysical properties of nucleic acids and their role in biologically relevant phenomena.
Navigating Peace and Sustainability in an Increasingly Complex World (World Sustainability Series)
by Ayyoob Sharifi John Lee Candelaria Dahlia Simangan Shinji KanekoThis book, a sequel to a well-received book titled “Bridging Peace and Sustainability Amidst Global Transformations,” delves deeper into the entwined roots of peace and sustainability and emphasizes their interdependence. How are peace and sustainability interconnected, and what key factors define the relationship between them? These questions were examined at the NERPS 2024 conference in Hiroshima and are central to our narrative. In this book, we explore the synergy of peace and sustainability through theoretical frameworks and real-world examples.We recognize that while the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development has acknowledged the link between peace and sustainability, a significant gap remains. Too often, efforts to promote peace and sustainability run parallel, never intertwining, losing the chance to bolster each other. We argue for merging the peace and sustainability agendas to confront contemporary challenges, calling for action to enhance and take advantage of their mutual reinforcement. Through diverse perspectives, this collection illuminates the social, economic, and environmental dimensions of this nexus, serving as a guide for policymakers, a reference for researchers, and a catalyst for dialogue among sectors committed to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals.
Cognitive Aspects of Virtual Reality (Studies in Big Data #156)
by Ildikó Horváth Borbála Berki Anna Sudár Ádám Csapó Péter BaranyiThis book outlines a range of user experiments, providing comprehensive evaluations that underline the rationale behind implementing collaborative 3D virtual offices in corporate settings and 3D classrooms in educational institutions. In this book, radically new scientific approaches are taken for studying user effectiveness in the realm of 3D graphical interfaces. The emergence of VR is seen in the book as a pivotal moment in the evolution of information technology, marking a shift from the era of DOS and Windows to immersive digital spaces. Through extensive research and experimentation, it is convincingly demonstrated that integrating 2D user interfaces, such as windows, images, and 2D widgets, into 3D digital environments significantly enhances user effectiveness in terms of online collaboration, memory, recall, and comprehension of complex workflows. Moreover, valuable advice and design principles are offered to guide the creation of such working 3D digital environments.
Submerged Floating Tunnel Model Experiment Under Wave-Current Field
by Hao Ding Ke Li Liang ChengThis book conducts research on the overall design of the submerged floating tunnel, structural safety standards, environmental load calculation methods, pipe structure selection, joint structure form, anchoring mode, collision avoidance technology, operation ventilation and disaster prevention, etc., and proposes a preliminary engineering technical plan for the submerged floating tunnel in Qiongzhou Strait. It focuses on the domestic and foreign research status of submerged floating tunnels, model experiment theory and method, experimental system, model design, experimental process, experimental results analysis, and other unique achievements and thoughts. This book is suitable for tunnel engineering scientists, tunnel engineering designers, civil engineers, traffic planning designers, civil engineering students, and teachers. Because submerged floating tunnel is a kind of tunnel structure full of innovation and challenge, research results on suspended tunnels are relatively rare. This book includes the design scheme of submerged floating tunnel, model experiment theory, experimental system, analysis of experimental results, etc., which can provide ideas for the current design of submerged floating tunnel, and also provides useful reference for scholars engaged in the research of basic theory and key technology of submerged floating tunnel and related fields.
Project-Leadership: So entwickeln Sie sich vom Projektmanager zum Project-Leader
by Markus HoferProjekte sind heute komplexer denn je. Reines Projektmanagement ist hier längst nicht mehr ausreichend. Statt Methoden, Checklisten und Tools wird heute durch effektives Leadership in Projekten entschieden, ob diese ein Erfolg sind. Projektmanager müssen sich zu herausragenden Führungskräften entwickeln, um ihre interdisziplinären Teams, meist ohne direkte Führungsverantwortung in der Linie, zu führen. Dieses praxisorientierte Buch zeigt Ihnen den Weg, wie Sie sich vom Projektmanager zu einem echten Project-Leader entwickeln. Lernen Sie, wie Sie Ihre Teams durch Vision, Kultur und emotionale Intelligenz zu Höchstleistungen führen und auch in Krisenzeiten den Überblick behalten. Sie erfahren, wie Sie die richtigen Leadership-Kompetenzen aufbauen, um Projekte nicht nur erfolgreich abzuschließen, sondern zu übertreffen. Durch zahlreiche Praxisbeispiele und sofort umsetzbare Techniken bietet dieses Fachbuch einen klaren Fahrplan zur Transformation vom Projektmanager zum Project-Leader. Werden Sie der Project-Leader, den Ihr Team braucht. Inspirieren Sie andere durch Ihre Projekt-Vision und schaffen Sie eine Kultur des Erfolgs. Der Inhalt Die Rolle von Leadership in Projekten Der Project-Leader: Rollen, Kompetenzen, Projektorganisation, Agilität, Mindset, Lead by Example, Coaching Die 5 Faktoren für herausragendes Leadership: Projekt-Vision, Kultur, High-Perfomance-Teams, Teamführung, Selbstführung Projektorientierte Unternehmen Zahlreiche Praxisbeispiele und Interviews mit Experten Mit Online-Inhalten, Self-Assessment und Vorlagen
Healthcare-Driven Intelligent Computing Paradigms to Secure Futuristic Smart Cities (High-Performance Computing for Smart Healthcare)
by Diptendu Sinha Roy Mir Wajahat Hussain K. Hemant Kumar Reddy Deepak GuptaHealthcare-Driven Intelligent Computing Paradigms to Secure Futuristic Smart Cities presents the applications of the healthcare sector in the context of futuristic smart cities. It explores various applications like the advancements in computational and network models along with the innovative paradigms for an able healthcare model. The book discusses the state-of-the-art intelligent network and computing paradigms and machine learning models for robust healthcare. This book is for academicians, researchers, and entrepreneurs working on healthcare-driven intelligent computing paradigms to secure futuristic smart cities. It includes several aspects of the challenges faced by a futuristic smart city in healthcare, includes challenges emanating from the immense data generated by the wearable sensors, data analysis, and security concerns owing to the patient-related data. It works as a pertinent resource on how cutting-edge technologies can be integrated to aptly provide solutions for the numerous challenges faced by the healthcare industry. Includes several use cases, practical challenges, and solutions for executing smart healthcare.Features Covers a multitude of computing paradigms viz; Cloud computing, Fog Computing, and Mist Computing Healthcare is discussed leveraging smart city, so it can potentially identify the gaps and present some newer use cases to handle future pandemics The network aspect is also covered with an inclusion of the next-generation paradigm which is Software Defined Networking (SDN) Security and privacy issues are considered, which is crucial to handle security-related aspects Machine Learning models are also discussed to provide any entrepreneur develop a business model involving cutting-edge technologies This book is for academicians, researchers, and entrepreneurs working on healthcare-driven intelligent computing paradigms to secure futuristic smart cities.
Creative Economies of Culture in South Asia: Craftspeople and Performers (Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series)
by Anna Morcom Neelam RainaThis book explores the crafts and performing arts of South Asia through a focus on labour and livelihood. It brings to light little-researched angles of social and political economies of culture and the ways in which they have shifted and changed in different historical eras and different political, economic, and social formations up to the present. In particular, through this focus on labour and livelihood, the contributors analyse the extensive parallels and similarities of arts and crafts on the one hand and music and performing arts on the other, ranging from questions of lineage, transmission, class/caste/community, professional versus amateur performers and artisans, to the impact of globalisation, neoliberal reforms, and mediatisation. Given the role of gender inequalities and differences within caste/community-based cultural production in South Asia across visual, material, and performing arts and crafts, this interdisciplinary perspective is particularly salient and links together broader sociological and historical trends in South Asian cultural or creative economies.Creative economies of culture explores labour and livelihood through a gamut of crafts and performing arts ranging from courtly and classical to commissioned to mass-produced, and in epochs ranging from colonial or feudal to globalised and neoliberal. In the process, it revisits, refines, or revises notions of social and cultural capital; socio-economic mobility; the value, role, and agency of crafts and performing arts; and the status of their artisans and performers. Original chapters written by contributors with an interdisciplinary background look at the survival and adaption of traditional artisanal communities; traditional forms of practice; historical shifts such as colonialism, industrialisation, and nationalism; as well as modern industries and institutions, including technologies of mass production and creative entrepreneurship.This book contextualises current debates within art, craft, music, and dance in South Asia. It develops new theoretical understandings of creative culture through a focus on labour and contributes to a range of social sciences, arts, and humanities disciplines, including South Asian studies, Ethnomusicology, Crafts and Design, Economic Anthropology, (Historical) Sociology and (Historical) Economics, Cultural History, Human Geography, and Creative Industries and Economies.
The Routledge Companion to Music, Autoethnography, and Reflexivity (Routledge Music Companions)
by Peter Gouzouasis Christopher WileyThe Routledge Companion to Music, Autoethnography, and Reflexivity represents a substantial contribution to the field of writing self-reflexively about an individual’s practice within music studies. In seven sections, 22 original chapters by a diverse set of contributors consider writing about personal activities from the points of view of performance, composition, musicology, and pedagogy, drawing on a range of traditions from Western art-music to popular music to ethnomusicology. A robust critical framework is presented, with coverage of: historical and critical perspectives different methodologies and their ascendancy within the academy leading debates, issues, and approaches future directions The Companion cultivates new modes of engagement in music research, enabling scholars and practitioners at all levels to identify and articulate their relationship to the wider sociocultural contexts in which they operate.
Smart Agriculture: Harnessing Machine Learning for Crop Management (Intelligent Data-Driven Systems and Artificial Intelligence)
by Amol Dattatray Dhaygude Suman Kumar Swarnkar Priya Chugh Yogesh Kumar RathoreThis book, Smart Agriculture: Harnessing Machine Learning for Crop Management, is a comprehensive guide designed to explore the various facets of integrating machine learning into agricultural practices. It aims to provide readers with a solid foundation in machine learning concepts while demonstrating their practical applications in real-world farming scenarios. It also examines the role of remote monitoring and precision agriculture, highlighting how technologies such as remote sensing and recurrent neural networks can optimize farming practices.This book:· Emphasizes sustainable agricultural practices and data-driven decision-making for eco-friendly farming. · Highlights the importance of using environmentally friendly practices, and how machine learning can play a pivotal role in achieving sustainability goals. · Discusses topics such as crop optimization, disease detection, pest control, resource management, precision agriculture, and sustainability. · Covers predictive analytics for weather forecasting, Internet of Things applications for precision agriculture, and the role of sensors in data collection. · Illustrates optimizing resource allocation, irrigation with artificial intelligence, and machine learning for soil health assessment. Whether you are a researcher, a student, an agricultural professional, or a technology enthusiast, this book offers valuable insights into the transformative power of machine learning in agriculture. It invites readers to explore the potential of machine learning to transform farming practices, improve food security, and promote environmental sustainability.
Applied Health Humanities for the Aging: Activities for Home and Institutional Caregivers
by Trini Stickle Lorna E. SegallThis book provides a collection of interventions from researchers’ and clinicians’ health humanities experiences, and makes their methods available to home and institutional caregivers to aid interactions with the elderly, particularly persons diagnosed with dementia. As a revolutionary perspective connecting medical training and treatment with lessons from the humanities, medical humanities emphasizes the treatment and care of disease, the "science of the human," and offers an integrated approach to health professional education that include lessons from comparative religion, history, literature, philosophy, the visual and performing arts.Highlighting the needs of persons with dementia and their caregivers, this compilation shows how the arts can play a primary role in empowering families and communities to offer creative and meaningful care within their own homes and communities. Each chapter provides an overview of a specific creative application (reading and commonplacing; storytelling; intergenerational musical activities; Bingocize®; haiku making; and animatronic pet activities), the evidence-based support for its benefits, and clear and accessible instructions for the reader. These methods offer insightful approaches to care in which skills such as active listening can provide in-roads to patient experiences as well as an array of creative approaches to ameliorate the physical and mental consequences of isolation and loneliness that too often accompany aging and disease. This text will be of interest to healthcare workers and allied health professionals, healthcare administrators and family members.
The Science of People and Office Design: Planning for Thinking, Discussing and Achieving
by Sally Augustin Nigel OselandThe Science of People and Office Design: Planning for Thinking, Discussing and Achieving has been written for practitioners who would like to apply evidence-based and human-centric design principles to office and workplace design. Practitioner-researcher disconnects often arise due to a lack of meaningful connection between their professional worlds. This book seeks to rectify this disconnect and make it clear that research can significantly affect the likelihood that design projects achieve the objectives outlined in their briefs, and that practitioners need to have a real influence on research conducted.The book consists of 16 chapters,each grouped into three major sections, with an overview chapter and a conclusion drawn together by the editors. Each chapter addresses a real-world workplace design-related issue. The first part of each chapter presents the editors' overview of the problem in practice and the objectives that must be achieved via design solutions. The second portion of each chapter presents peer-reviewed research related to the chapter’s topic, written by a researcher focused on practical issues. The final part of each chapter is written by a workplace design practitioner and details their efforts to resolve the section’s real-world workplace design-related concern by applying relevant peer-reviewed research.The book is aimed at professionals working in business, interior design, architecture, surveying, facilities management, building services engineering, human resources and psychology who are key stakeholders in the design and delivery of modern office spaces. Postgraduates studying design, architecture, engineering, facilities management, environmental psychology and wellbeing will also find the book useful.
Kompendium Öffentliches Wirtschaftsrecht (Springer-Lehrbuch)
by Reiner Schmidt Ferdinand WollenschlägerKompakt, übersichtlich, aktuell und didaktisch auf die spezifischen Lernbedürfnisse der Studierenden zugeschnitten, entfaltet dieses Lehrbuch die vielfältigen und facettenreichen Materien des Öffentlichen Wirtschaftsrechts – ein Rechtsgebiet, das (nicht nur) in der Schwerpunktausbildung an den juristischen Fakultäten von zentraler Bedeutung ist. Auch Wissenschaftlerinnen und Praktikern vermittelt das Kompendium Grundstrukturen und Grundfragen. Das Öffentliche Wirtschaftsrecht regelt das grundsätzliche Verhältnis des Staates zur Wirtschaft, etwa die Modalitäten der Marktteilnahme des Staates auf Anbieter- und Nachfragerseite (Recht öffentlicher Unternehmen bzw. Vergaberecht) oder die Ziele, Instrumente und Grenzen der Regulierung bestimmter Wirtschaftssektoren (z.B. Gaststätten- oder Telekommunikationsrecht). Europäische Integration und Internationalisierung sind insoweit nicht mehr wegzudenken.
Contact and Long-Term Behavior of Current-Carrying Connections in Electrical Power Engineering: Theory and Practice on Behavior, Calculation Approaches, as well as Design and Dimensioning Criteria
by Stephan Schlegel Michael Gatzsche Christian Hildmann Toni IsraelThis book summarizes insights into stationary high-current connections across all voltage levels. These are applied in existing facilities and for new constructions in electrical power engineering, e-mobility, and battery storage technology. Current-carrying stationary connections are indispensable in countless applications. Complex systems often fail due to inadequate or heavily loaded connections. A large number of these connections are assembled and must function reliably over their required lifespan. To ensure this under current demands, correct conductor and coating materials must be chosen, robust design and construction ensured, proper installation guaranteed, and a secured temperature limit for the desired lifespan considering environmental conditions must be known. The book covers theories on contact physics, key conductor and coating materials, factors influencing electrical contact behavior, the relationship between mechanical and electrical contact behavior, aging physics, and long-term behavior under various operating and environmental conditions, along with design criteria for construction. Additionally, it presents approaches to numerically model electrical-mechanical-thermal behavior, introduces evaluation criteria, and outlines qualification testing methods. It serves as a comprehensive reference based on scientific research and practical insights from the past 40 years.
Recent Advancements in Product Design and Manufacturing Systems: Select Proceedings of IPDIMS 2023 (Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering)
by B. B. V. L. Deepak M. V. A. Raju Bahubalendruni D. R. K. Parhi B. B. BiswalThis book presents select proceedings of the 5th Innovative Product Design and Intelligent Manufacturing System (IPDIMS 2023) conference. It covers concepts and recent methods that are implemented in intelligent manufacturing systems along with the product innovation technologies. The broad topics covered include Industry 4.0, Industry 5.0, smart manufacturing, advanced robotics, product innovation, and CAD/CAM/CIM. The contents of this book are useful for academics as well as professionals working in the areas of mechatronics, mechanical, manufacturing, production, and industrial engineering.
PRICAI 2024: 21st Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, PRICAI 2024, Kyoto, Japan, November 18–24, 2024, Proceedings, Part I (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #15281)
by Rafik Hadfi Patricia Anthony Alok Sharma Takayuki Ito Quan BaiThe five-volume proceedings set LNAI 15281-15285, constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 21st Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, PRICAI 2024, held in Kyoto, Japan, in November 18–24, 2024. The 145 full papers and 35 short papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 543 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: Part I: Machine Learning, Deep Learning Part II: Deep Learning, Federated Learning, Generative AI, Natural Language Processing, Large Language Models, Part III: Large Language Models, Computer Vision Part IV: Computer Vision, Autonomous Driving, Agents and Multiagent Systems, Knowledge Graphs, Speech Processing, Optimization Part V: Optimization, General Applications, Medical Applications, Theoretical Foundations of AI
PRICAI 2024: 21st Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, PRICAI 2024, Kyoto, Japan, November 18–24, 2024, Proceedings, Part V (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #15285)
by Rafik Hadfi Patricia Anthony Alok Sharma Takayuki Ito Quan BaiThe five-volume proceedings set LNAI 15281-15285, constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 21st Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, PRICAI 2024, held in Kyoto, Japan, in November 18–24, 2024. The 145 full papers and 35 short papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 543 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: Part I: Machine Learning, Deep Learning Part II: Deep Learning, Federated Learning, Generative AI, Natural Language Processing, Large Language Models, Part III: Large Language Models, Computer Vision Part IV: Computer Vision, Autonomous Driving, Agents and Multiagent Systems, Knowledge Graphs, Speech Processing, Optimization Part V: Optimization, General Applications, Medical Applications, Theoretical Foundations of AI