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Understanding Your Child Beyond Words: Psychoanalytic Techniques for Parents
by Cayetano García-Castrillón ArmengouUnderstanding Your Child Beyond Words: Psychoanalytic Techniques for Parents will help you unlock a deeper knowledge of your child's feelings, inviting you to explore the deepest questions about parenting and find meaningful answers.In this book, expert psychoanalyst Cayetano García-Castrillón Armengou teaches you how to look beyond your child's spoken and non-verbal behavior to truly listen to them. By adopting the methods explored in the book, you will become open to new ideas on how to talk, act, and guide your child more effectively. This understanding will help your family grow together, avoid common misunderstandings, and create lasting, meaningful relationships. The book uses simple language and offers numerous examples from everyday reality, showing how everyone in the family can get to know each other better.Whether your child is already in therapy, you’re considering it, or you simply want to enhance your parenting approach, this book provides invaluable insights and guidance to help you unlock your family’s full potential.
Circularity of Cementitious Materials: A Practical Approach (Emerging Materials and Technologies)
by Christian PagliaRecycling of materials in building and infrastructure applications are global concerns driven by natural resource preservation needs of modernized countries and sustainable development of emerging countries. This practical book explores the strategies necessary for successful recycling of cement-based materials to achieve sustainable and long service life. It investigates recycled cementitious materials to ensure decisive implementation and meet industry and societal challenges. Presents the state of the art in recycling one of the most used materials in today’s construction sector Covers construction and demolition waste and recycled concrete, UHPC, and road base material Aimed at readers in materials, civil, and construction engineering, this book offers guidance to professionals and researchers developing strategies for sustainable application of cement-based materials.
Humanizing Pedagogies with Multilingual Learners: Transforming Teaching in the Content Areas (Equity and Social Justice in Education Series)
by Kara Mitchell Viesca Nancy L. ComminsHelp ensure your multilingual students have access to equitable, humanizing teaching and learning in all the content areas. This comprehensive resource bridges theory into practice with applicable, easy-to-understand instructional methods for K-12 teachers who may not have a background in TESOL, ESL, or bilingual education. Each chapter uses a three-part learning cycle to help you translate theory into practice: Explore, Make It Work, and Share. In Explore, the authors provide research, ideas, and resources to support your work with multilingual students. In Make It Work, you are given options to take the ideas from Explore and apply them to your practice. And in Share, you’re encouraged to think about the ways to share your knowledge in informal or formal professional learning spaces. As you work through the learning cycle for each module, you’ll gain important takeaways on topics such as the larger social context, a positive orientation to your students, humanizing assessments, grouping students, uncovering and addressing language demand, developing conceptual understandings, developing literacy, and fostering authentic talk. The book’s hands-on approach to pedagogy will leave you feeling ready and empowered to reach each of your multilingual students more effectively as you strive for equity and justice in the classroom and beyond.
Reforming Lessons: Why English Schools Have Improved Since 2010 and How This Was Achieved
by Robert Peal Nick GibbReforming Lessons provides a first-hand account of the ambitious programme of reform that has led to a transformation in English schools since 2010 and seen pupils rise through the ranks of international comparison tests such as PIRLS and PISA.Co-authored by former Schools Minister Nick Gibb and Headteacher Robert Peal, the book explores the key principles behind the reforms and reveals the impact they had on school leadership, accountability, teaching methods, curriculum design, and pupil behaviour. Addressing the long legacy of ‘progressive’ approaches to teaching in English schools, and the development of evidence-led alternatives, the book shows that approaches to education such as 'warm-strict', 'teacher-led instruction', and 'knowledge-rich curriculum' have been simultaneously both controversial and hugely successful. Chapters cover: Reforms to the primary curriculum—phonics and mathematical mastery The return of rigour in the secondary curriculum School structures—academies and free schools Academic standards Grassroot reforms Changes to teacher training and the introduction of the Early Career Framework Providing a fascinating insight into the major reforms that have shaped England’s school system and the drivers behind them, this is essential reading for anyone working in the education sector, policy-makers, and those interested in education reform.
Members, Methods, and Measures: Unlocking the Secrets of IT Leadership (Security, Audit and Leadership Series)
by Thomas E. ArmstrongStepping into an IT leadership role for the first time? Feeling overwhelmed by the transition from technical expert to people manager? You’re not alone.In Members, Methods, and Measures, Thomas E. Armstrong delivers the guide he wishes he had when he was thrust into management—without a roadmap, training, or support. Drawing on years of experience leading high-performing technology teams, Armstrong breaks down the challenges of IT leadership with real-world insights, practical frameworks, and battle-tested strategies.This book is your crash course in mastering IT Management. Learn how to: Build and manage a high-impact IT team—from hiring and onboarding to retention and career development Navigate the shift from doer to leader—avoid the common pitfalls that derail new managers Set priorities, delegate effectively, and drive results without micromanaging or burning out Manage up, down, and across—communicate with executives, gain stakeholder buy-in, and earn your team’s trust Measure what matters—ensure your team’s work is recognized and valued by the business Packed with actionable advice, real-world examples, and insights from industry leaders, Members, Methods, and Measures is the ultimate playbook for IT professionals making the leap to management. Whether stepping into leadership for the first time or looking to refine your skills, this book will equip you with the tools, confidence, and strategies to build a thriving, high-performing team.
Beyond Health Capacity: Spatial Practices in Inclusive Design
by Ulysses Sean VanceBeyond Health Capacity: Spatial Practices in Inclusive Design sheds light on the systemic challenges communities with limited access to medical support and health maintenance have endured. It emphasizes how approaching medical interventions through non-traditional health facilities can positively impact health's social and environmental impact. Health capacity is an emerging consideration for optimizing a building design to meet health criteria based on physical, virtual, historical, or social space. These emerging practices can be focused on by interrogating the role of planning, construction, and urban design in addressing public health needs, alongside considering access and social justice as an agency in design. This book reflects on past and present efforts interrogating the practical application of inclusive design practices in resolving the spatial challenges of health reform.By focusing on examples experienced during the pandemic and after, each chapter offers an overview documenting these experiences as approaches to these new competencies, reimagining urbanism around health, and proposing new criteria for the future of healthcare.This book is essential for students and practitioners working in architecture, community planning, urban design, landscape architecture, and public health.
High-Impact Tutoring in Math and ELA: An Evidence-Based Approach to Help All Students Succeed
by Nicki NewtonHigh-impact tutoring programs are ramping up across the country to address learning recovery post-COVID. But how do you make the most of them? This invaluable book has the answers!You’ll find out the best ways to implement high-dosage tutoring, including what it is and what it is not, how to overcome common challenges, how to establish a program and create a collaborative team, the role of the tutor, relationship building, onboarding and professional development, high-quality curriculum and study skills, assessing students’ needs, incorporating MTSS, and more. In addition, the appendix offers a variety of diagnostic and progress-monitoring tools you can use in your own setting.With this indispensable resource, you’ll have the tools you need to help close the achievement gap so your students can thrive in math and ELA.
Education: The Basics (The Basics)
by Kay WoodEveryone knows that education is important. We are confronted daily by discussion of it in the media and by politicians, but how much do we really know about education? Education: The Basics is a lively and engaging introduction to education as an academic subject, taking into account both theory and practice. Covering the schooling system, the nature of knowledge and methods of teaching, this book analyses the viewpoints of both teachers and pupils.This fully updated second edition considers the many developments in education since the book was first released, brought about by political interventions and the changing social context, including the Covid-19 pandemic, new technologies, gender dysphoria and the deteriorating mental health of children and young people. Key questions are answered, including: What is education and what is it for? Where does education take place? How do we learn? Who are the students? What is being taught in schools and universities and why? What is the state of education across the world? With further reading suggested throughout, Education: The Basics is essential for all those embarking on undergraduate courses in Education and Education Studies, for those with an involvement in teaching at all levels, and for those with a general interest in this vital topic.
Counselling Skills and Knowledge for SCoPEd B: Diversity, Self-awareness, Assessment and Research
by Naomi Moller Hayley Ness Tanya Frances Felicitas Rost Claudine McFaul Gina Di MaltaThis text supports you to develop the counselling competencies aligned to the SCoPEd framework professional standards in Column B. It covers key competencies in client assessment, self-awareness, and knowledge and skills, with chapters on topics such as online counselling, working with unconscious and out-of-awareness processes, foundations of psychological assessment and using reflexivity in practice. The book further emphasises the importance of research, with chapters on how to understand and evaluate quantitative and qualitative research and how both can enhance your practice. Throughout, the authors foreground diversity-informed and culturally sensitive ways of working, supporting you to adapt your skills and knowledge to meet your clients’ needs. Each chapter includes learning features such as practice-relevant examples, key definitions and opportunities for reflection, to support you on your learning and professional development journey.
Counselling Skills and Knowledge for SCoPEd B: Diversity, Self-awareness, Assessment and Research
by Naomi Moller Hayley Ness Tanya Frances Felicitas Rost Claudine McFaul Gina Di MaltaThis text supports you to develop the counselling competencies aligned to the SCoPEd framework professional standards in Column B. It covers key competencies in client assessment, self-awareness, and knowledge and skills, with chapters on topics such as online counselling, working with unconscious and out-of-awareness processes, foundations of psychological assessment and using reflexivity in practice. The book further emphasises the importance of research, with chapters on how to understand and evaluate quantitative and qualitative research and how both can enhance your practice. Throughout, the authors foreground diversity-informed and culturally sensitive ways of working, supporting you to adapt your skills and knowledge to meet your clients’ needs. Each chapter includes learning features such as practice-relevant examples, key definitions and opportunities for reflection, to support you on your learning and professional development journey.
Parties and Prejudice: The Normalization of Antiminority Rhetoric in US Politics
by Maneesh AroraAn essential guide to how the interactions between social norms, party politics, and expressions of prejudice are driving contemporary politics. Antiminority rhetoric in American politics has grown more overt. What were once fringe comments on Stormfront have now become typical campaign appeals from many mainstream politicians. If there was ever a doubt, this is a poignant reminder that the boundaries of what is “acceptable” and “unacceptable” to say and do are fluid and socially enforced. In Parties and Prejudice, Maneesh Arora offers a broad framework for understanding this new political terrain. Arora argues that the interaction between social norms and party politics determines what the political consequence of prejudicial speech will be. He illuminates this nuanced relationship by showing that norms vary based on the targeted minority group and the intended audience. Drawing on experiments, survey data, news coverage, and real-world examples, Parties and Prejudice examines the distinctive ways that egalitarian/inegalitarian norms have developed—within each party—for Black, Muslim, and LGBTQ+ Americans. It is essential reading for understanding Donald Trump’s rise to power, the modern conservative agenda (including opposition to critical race theory and transgender rights), and threats to the development of a multiracial democracy.
Translation Theory: மொழிபெயர்ப்பியல்
by Prof. S. Eesvaranமொழிபெயர்ப்பியல் புத்தகம், முனைவர் ச. ஈஸ்வரன் எழுதியது, மொழிபெயர்ப்பு தொடர்பான பல முக்கிய கருத்துகளையும், அதன் விஞ்ஞானமான அடிப்படைகளையும் ஆராய்கிறது. இது மொழி மாற்றத்தின் தத்துவம், தொழில்நுட்பம், மற்றும் மொழி வேறுபாட்டில் ஏற்படும் சவால்களை விளக்குகிறது. மொத்தமாக, மொழிபெயர்ப்பின் அடிப்படைகள், அதன் நடைமுறைகள் மற்றும் அதன் சமூக ரீதியான முக்கியத்துவம் குறித்து விரிவாகப் பேசுகிறது. இப்புத்தகம் தமிழ் மொழி அறிவியலாளர்களுக்கும் மொழிபெயர்ப்பாளர்களுக்கும் ஒரு பயன்பாடான வளமாக இருக்கிறது.
The Chemical Reactor from Laboratory to Industrial Plant: A Modern Approach to Chemical Reaction Engineering
by Elio Santacesaria Riccardo TesserThis second edition presents updated key concepts and exercises in chemical reaction engineering. While retaining the foundational structure of the first edition, this graduate textbook offers 2 new chapters devoted to polymerization reactions and reactors, and to bioreactors, and provides a complete and more suitable overview of the field for students and researchers of Chemical Reaction Engineering Sciences. The Preface of this edition has been rewritten to justify the changes conducted since the first edition. The subsequent chapters introduce students to the concepts behind the successful design and operation of chemical reactors, with an emphasis on qualitative arguments, simple design methods, graphical procedures, and frequent comparison of capabilities of the major reactor types. These chapters were updated and/or enriched with new exercises, and particular attention was given to the following topics: Chapter 2: Expanded Vapour-Liquid Equilibria (VLE) in multi-component systems with new exercises, including flash separation with reaction. Chapter 3: Deepened surface acidity distribution of heterogeneous catalysts with a new exercise. Chapters 4 & 5: Enlarged exercises with further calculations, plots, and new solved exercises. Chapter 6: Enriched with a new exercise on effectiveness factor calculation, covering mass, heat, and momentum transport laws and their relationship with chemical kinetics. Chapter 7: Added exercise to determine concentration profiles in the liquid film for gas-liquid reactions at different reaction rates. Chapter 8: New chapter on polymers and polymerization reactors, detailing mechanisms and kinetics with solved examples and exercises for various polymerization types. Chapter 9: New chapter on Bioreactors, covering the evolution of kinetic models for fermentation processes, including metabolic and cybernetic models applied to baker yeast and bioethanol production, with examples and solved exercises. The authors conducted a comprehensive revision of all the MATLAB code exercises to ensure they aligned with current learning objectives and described in detail the mathematical strategy adopted, particularly for the more complex problems. With expanded content, practical exercises, and new chapters, this textbook equips students and professionals alike with the knowledge and tools to excel in chemical and industrial engineering.
Praxisorientiertes Online-Marketing: Konzepte – Instrumente – Checklisten
by Ralf T. Kreutzer Sonja KloseMenschen verbringen inzwischen viel Zeit online. Unternehmen folgen ihnen ins Internet – B-to-B wie B-to-C gleichermaßen. Dieses Buch beantwortet die wichtigsten damit verbundenen Fragen und präsentiert konkrete Lösungskonzepte, Erfolgsstrategien und zahlreiche Checklisten – von der kanalübergreifenden Ausgestaltung der Customer Journey über das Controlling bis zur Berücksichtigung rechtlicher Rahmenbedingungen. Den Unternehmen wird Handwerkszeug präsentiert, mit dem sie den Einsatz von Marketing-Budgets im Online-Bereich effektiv und effizient gestalten können. In der 5. Auflage wurden von Ralf T. Kreutzer gemeinsam mit der neuen Co-Autorin Sonja Klose zentrale Neuerungen in der Online-Welt eingeordnet. Dazu gehören: Integration der aktuellen Entwicklungen im Bereich Künstliche Intelligenz in allen relevanten Bereichen, Überarbeitung und Ergänzung der strategischen Optionen im Online-Marketing, Integration der aktuellen Entwicklungen in der Online-Werbung, Einbindung neuer Konzepte der Suchmaschinenoptimierung, Ausloten weiterer Facetten des E-Mail-Marketings. Die 5. Auflage von Ralf T. Kreutzer und Sonja Klose zeigt eindrucksvoll, wie dynamisch sich das Marketing entwickelt. Neben den neuen rechtlichen Rahmenbedingungen wurde auch der Einsatz von Künstlicher Intelligenz im Online-Marketing umfassend integriert. Damit bietet das Buch sowohl für Marketing-Studierende als auch für Praktiker im Unternehmen unverzichtbare und aktuelle Inhalte. Eine klare Empfehlung! Martin Nitsche, Präsident des DDV Deutscher Dialogmarketing Verband e. V.
Proceedings of 17th International Conference on Machine Learning and Computing: ICMLC2025, Volume 1 (Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems #1475)
by Lin Huang David GreenhalghThis book comprises original and peer reviewed research papers presented at 2025 17th International Conference on Machine Learning and Computing that was held in Guangzhou, China, from February 14 to 17, 2025. The focus of the conference is to establish an effective platform for institutions and industries to share ideas and to present the works of scientists, engineers, educators and students from all over the world. Topics discussed in this volume include Machine Learning Theory and Algorithms, High-performance Computing Models and Data Processing, Large-scale Language Models and Natural Language Processing, Data-oriented Information System Optimization and Intelligent Computing, AI-based Intelligent Control Systems and System Security, etc. The book will become a valuable resource for academics, industry professionals, and engineers working in the related fields of machine learning and computing.
The Merry Matchmaker: A Novel
by Sheila Roberts&“Sparkles with warmth, wit, and a sweet helping of holiday charm! The perfect stocking stuffer for readers who crave all the holiday feels and a happy ending!&” —Rachel Linden, bestselling author of The Magic of Lemon Drop PieInspired by Jane Austen&’s Emma, this joyful Christmas romp tells the story of a woman who can&’t stop trying to help everyone around her find their happily-ever-after—even when her help leads to disaster. Frankie Lane knows what&’s best for just about everyone but herself. Her divorced sister, Stef, who is too young to give up on love; her shy employee, Elinor; and her daughter, Natalie, who works in Frankie&’s shop, Holiday Happiness, and really needs to start her own business selling the delectable chocolates she makes at home; even her best friend, Viola, who is trying to renovate her old Victorian. Frankie knows she could help all of them, if they&’d just let her—and if all of her help didn&’t end in utter disaster. Then there&’s Mitch Howard, the owner of the local hardware store. They&’ve been friends ever since Frankie opened her store, nine years earlier. He got her through the nightmare when she lost her husband in a freak accident, and he&’s her favorite shoulder to cry on. He&’s been divorced for years, and it&’s such a waste of man! Mitch is the fittest, finest man Frankie knows. He&’s easygoing, wise and kindhearted. Mitch needs someone. And she&’s determined to help him find that someone—whether he likes it or not.
Using GIS to Identify Opportunities for Improved Health in Urban Slums: The Applied Case of Midnapore, India (Global Perspectives on Health Geography)
by Bikash Dutta Manas Das Sutapa Rath Sutapa DasThis book offers geospatial modelling techniques for the analysis of healthcare in poor urban neighborhoods and of the ways that residents of these neighborhoods make healthcare choices and cope with deprivation. The authors use the case of Midnapore, India to explore the overall health infrastructure and the perceptions of residents of urban slums regarding the provision, utilization, and accessibility of the healthcare system through the application of geostatistics and geospatial techniques and modelling, with an eye towards reducing inequalities. The study described here can be used as a model for researchers, planners, NGOs, policymakers and government authorities to conduct similar analysis of other low-income urban neighborhoods. Also, this book may assist students in understanding the basic tools and techniques of applying GIS tools to study social problems.
Production and Biorefining of Biocrude Oil: Current Status and Future Developments (Advances in Sustainability Science and Technology)
by Mohammad Aslam Sanjeev Mishra Jorge Arturo Aburto AnellThis book confers a comprehensive discussion on the production and biorefining of biocrude oil derived from second- and third-generation biomass feedstocks. It discusses about the concept of biorefinery—fundamentals, biorefining raw materials, and feedstocks and its associated challenges. The book emphasizes on the 3rd-generation biorefining feedstock (algae) as an emerging feedstock for the biorefineries. In addition, co-feedstocks employed in biorefinery are also deliberated. It also presents various thermochemical conversion approaches such as hydrothermal liquefaction, pyrolysis, Fischer-Tropsch process and hydroprocessing. It deals with the sustainable production of biocrude oil from algal biomass and its upgradation for enhanced fuel properties. The book also deliberates on current scenario and future developments in the field of biorefining of biocrude oil and catalysts. A comparative assessment of properties and downstream upgradation of biocrude oil through hydrothermal and pyrolysis processes is presented. Moreover, sustainable production of biofuels and value-added products from biorefinery, life cycle and techno-economic assessment of the conversion of biocrude oil from pyrolysis, and biocrude upgrading technology and challenges are also discussed. This book is a good reference for professionals, post-graduate students, researchers, and policymakers working in the areas of biorefineries for sustainable development.
Persuasive Technology. PERSUASIVE 2025 Satellite Events: Limassol, Cyprus, May 5–7, 2025, Proceedings (Communications in Computer and Information Science #2542)
by Jaap Ham Kiemute Oyibo Elena Vlahu-Gjorgievska Isaac Wiafe Areej BabikerThis book constitutes the proceedings of the PERSUASIVE 2025 Satellite Events, held together with the 20th International Conference on Persuasive Technology, in Limassol, Cyprus, during May 5–7, 2025.The 10 full papers and 5 short papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 19 submissions. They are organized in topical sections as follows: Late Breaking Results; Poster Presentations; Demonstrations and Artefacts and Doctoral Consortium Papers.
Values, Pluralism, and Pragmatism: Themes from the Work of Matthew J. Brown (Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science #347)
by Jamie Shaw Jonathan Y. Tsou Carla FehrThis book offers eighteen original historical and philosophical essays focused on values in science, scientific pluralism, and pragmatism. These themes have been central in the work of Matthew J. Brown, and the book frames these topics through an engagement with Brown's broadly ranging work on values in science. The themes of this book are integrated and unified in the pragmatic and value-laden ideal of science defended by Professor Brown in his fascinating 2020 book, Science and Moral Imagination. Brown's ideal of moral imagination prescribes that scientists should recognize the contingencies in their work as unforced choices, examine morally salient aspects of these decisions, recognize the various interests of relevant stakeholders, explore and construct alternative options, and exercise fair and warranted value judgments to guide those decisions. The interdisciplinary essays in this volume engage with different aspects of Brown's philosophical research on scientific values as well as his historical research on figures such as John Dewey and Paul K. Feyerabend. With a fresh focus on topics such as moral imagination, inductive risk, and epistemic priority in various socially salient contexts (e.g., artificial intelligence, psychiatry, segregation research), this book is of great interest to a broad audience of researchers working in philosophy of science, philosophy of medicine, history and philosophy of science, and science and technology studies.
Foundations of Consumer Behavior: Insights from Cross-Cultural Contexts (International Marketing and Management Research)
by Richard P. Bagozzi Attila YaprakThis book delves into the intricate aspects of consumer behavior, exploring constructs such as attitudes, values, and identity through comprehensive literature reviews. It extends this exploration to encompass cross-cultural consumer behavior constructs, including ethnocentrism, cosmopolitanism, affinity, and animosity. The authors argue that consumer behavior often attempts to derive and apply basic knowledge that applies in various senses to all or nearly all cultures, but at the same time must be qualified by introducing specific aspects of cultures to improve the fit and predictions of general theory. This means introducing in existing theories moderating variables and processes that condition the explanations and forecasts that theory makes with cultural knowledge as needed, as well as at times attempting to derive theories that infuse cultural within the basic psychological and social processes that constitute consumer behavior.Moreover, the text investigates howconsumers learn about and adopt new technologies as well as the role of social media and AI in consumer behavior. Bridging consumer behavior and management topics with strategic insights, this work will be of great interest to students and scholars alike who are interested in the role of culture in consumer behavior.
Paediatrics Traumatology: A Comprehensive Guide to Diagnosis and Management
by Matias Sepulveda O.Traumatic injuries of the musculoskeletal system in paediatric patients require a thorough knowledge of biological characteristics and differences with the adult skeleton to provide an accurate early diagnosis and offer the best possible treatment to avoid complications and sequelae that impact the child's life and future. This book provides an up-to-date review of the main topics in paediatric traumatology, from the biology of cell repair, the injuries, classifications, to the diagnosis and prevention. With contributions from experts in the field, it covers the full spectrum of conditions that can affect children, providing detailed information for clinical care as well as discussion of complications and treatment issues related to trauma. Chapters are divided in three main parts: General information, Upper extremity injuries, Lower extremity injuries, and are illustrated by numerous images of clinical cases and diagrams. Paediatrics Traumatology is a comprehensive and invaluable resource for medical professionals and practitioners specializing in paediatric orthopaedics.
Advances in Organic Crystal Chemistry: Comprehensive Reviews 2025 on Crystal Functions
by Hidehiro Uekusa Seiya KobatakeThis book summarizes and records the recent notable advances in diverse topics in organic crystal chemistry, which has made substantial progress along with the rapid development of a variety of analysis and measurement techniques for solid organic materials. This volume follows previously published volumes that are prepared periodically, at least every 5 years, with contributions by prominent authors in Japan and from abroad. The first volume was published in 2015, which systematically summarized the remarkable progress in assorted topics of organic crystal chemistry using organic solids and organic–inorganic hybrid materials. The second volume, published in 2020, presented advances in organic solid-state chemistry mainly from 2016 to 2020. The present volume also shows the progress of organic solid-state, especially focusing on crystalline functional materials with mechanical, luminescent, electrical and magnetic properties that have been achieved mainly in the last 5 years or so. The topics that this book dealt with, which have been rapidly developed in the last decade, will be of interest not only to researchers of organic crystals but also to those in photochemistry, materials chemistry molecular science and applied physics.
Agent AI for Finance: From Financial Argument Mining to Agent-Based Modeling (SpringerBriefs in Intelligent Systems)
by Chung-Chi Chen Hiroya TakamuraThis open access book provides an overview of the current state of financial argument mining and financial text generation, and presents the authors&’ thoughts on the blueprint for NLP in finance in the agent AI era. Financial documents contain numerous causal inferences and subjective opinions. In a previous book, &“From Opinion Mining to Financial Argument Mining&” (Springer, 2021), the first author discussed understanding financial documents in a fine-grained manner, particularly those containing opinions. The book highlighted several future directions, such as financial argument mining, multimodal opinion understanding, and analysis generation, and anticipated a lengthy journey for these topics. However, since 2022, ChatGPT and large language models (LLMs) have shown promising advancements, motivating the authors to write this second book on the topic of financial Natural Language Processing (NLP). Agent-based AI systems have been widely discussed since the advent of LLMs. This book aims to equip researchers and practitioners with the latest methodologies, concepts, and frameworks for developing, deploying, and evaluating AI agents with capabilities in multimodal understanding, decision-making, and interaction. It places a special emphasis on human-centered decision-making and multi-agent cooperation in financial applications. The book surveys the current landscape and discuss future research and development directions. Targeting a wide audience, from students to seasoned researchers in AI and finance, this book offers an overview of recent trends in Agent AI for finance. It provides a foundation for students to understand the field and design their research direction, while inviting experienced researchers to engage in discussions on open research questions informed by pilot experimental results. Although this book focuses on financial applications, the discussed concepts and methods can also be applied to other real-world applications by integrating domain-specific characteristics. The authors look forward to seeing new findings and more novel extensions based on the proposed ideas.
Remote Sensing for Environmental Monitoring
by Mohammad Shahid Chaitanya Baliram Pande Raj Singh Vara SarithaThis book introduces remote sensing for environmental monitoring, emphasizing its importance and varied applications in environmental assessment. It delineates core image interpretation and analysis principles, details satellite platforms and sensors, and explores aerial and ground-based remote sensing technologies through case studies. It includes data acquisition, preprocessing, and specialized imaging methods such as multispectral, hyperspectral, and thermal infrared imaging. Discussions extend to microwave and lidar applications and integration with GIS for environmental mapping. Chapters cover applications in water quality monitoring, land cover analysis, vegetation dynamics, atmospheric and climate studies, coastal and marine environments, urban areas, and wildlife habitat assessment. Lastly, the book explores emerging technologies and future trends in remote sensing for environmental monitoring, offering insights into potential applications, challenges, and directions.