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Data & AI Imperative: Designing Strategies for Exponential Growth
by Lillian PiersonUnlock predictable bottom line growth through tailored data and AI strategies. In The Data & AI Imperative: Designing Strategies for Exponential Growth, celebrated data-driven growth leader, Lillian Pierson, delivers a masterclass in developing custom strategies to harness the full potential of data and AI within your organization. This book offers a clear, actionable roadmap for leveraging your company's data and technology assets to drive significant, reliable growth. With over two decades of experience, Pierson unveils her proprietary STAR framework through which you'll learn to survey, take stock of, and assess your company's current state. Finally, you'll be guided on how to recommend strategies that drive growth via the execution of optimally positioned data- and AI- intensive projects or products that directly improve your business bottom line. From conception to execution, learn to: Identify high-impact opportunities for data or AI interventions within your business. Assess your organization's readiness and data literacy to ensure successful outcomes. Implement practical, effective tactics for overseeing your data-intensive projects, from strategic plans to profitable realities. Develop and deploy AI and data strategies that exceed your business goals. While ideal for executives, managers, and other leaders of data- or AI-intensive companies, The Data & AI Imperative is also invaluable to data and technical professionals who aspire to elevate their impact by turning technical expertise into strategic leadership success.
Multiphysics and Multiscale Building Physics: Proceedings of the 9th International Building Physics Conference (IBPC 2024) Volume 1: Moisture and Materials (Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering #552)
by Umberto BerardiThis book contains selected papers presented at the 9th edition of the official triennial conference of the International Association of Building Physics (IABP), held in Toronto, Ontario, Canada on 25-27 July, 2024. The contents make valuable contributions to academic researchers and practioners of the building sector. Readers will encounter new ideas for realizing more efficient and resilient buildings and cities. The approach followed in the book aims to explore how building physics can be explored using multi domains and scales.
High Performance Computing. ISC High Performance 2024 International Workshops: Hamburg, Germany, May 12–16, 2024, Revised Selected Papers (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #15058)
by Michèle Weiland Sarah Neuwirth Carola Kruse Tobias WeinzierlThis book constitutes the refereed workshop proceedings from the 39th International conference on High Performance Computing, ISC High Performance 2024, held in Hamburg, Germany, in May 2024. The 34 full papers presented here were carefully reviewed and selected from 50 submissions. These proceedings include papers from the following workshops:- Compiler-Assisted Correctness Checking and Performance Optimization for HPC Workshop (C3PO 2024) HPC on Heterogeneous Hardware Workshop (H3 2024) Third Workshop on Communication, I/O, and Storage at Scale on Next-Generation Platforms – Scalable Infrastructures (ISC 2024 IXPUG) HPC I/O in the Data Center Workshop (HPC-IODC 2024) Third Combined Workshop on Interactive and Urgent Supercomputing (CW-IUS 2024) 5th ISC HPC International Workshop on Monitoring & Operational Data Analytics (MODA24) Fourth International Workshop on RISC-V for HPC 2nd International Workshop on Sustainable Supercomputing Second International Workshop on Converged Computing on Edge, Cloud, and HPC (WOCC’24) 8th International Workshop on In Situ Visualization (WOIV’24)
Super-Resolution for Remote Sensing (Unsupervised and Semi-Supervised Learning)
by Michal Kawulok Jolanta Kawulok Bogdan Smolka M. Emre CelebiThis book provides a comprehensive perspective over the landscape of super-resolution techniques developed for and applied to remotely-sensed images. The chapters tackle the most important problems that professionals face when dealing with super-resolution in the context of remote sensing. These are: evaluation procedures to assess the super-resolution quality; benchmark datasets (simulated and real-life); super-resolution for specific data modalities (e.g., panchromatic, multispectral, and hyperspectral images); single-image super-resolution, including generative adversarial networks; multi-image fusion (temporal and/or spectral); real-world super-resolution; and task-driven super-resolution. The book presents the results of several recent surveys on super-resolution specifically for the remote sensing community.
Kardiologie – Pneumologie – Allergologie – HNO: Reihe: Therapie der Krankheiten im Kindes- und Jugendalter (Therapie der Krankheiten im Kindes- und Jugendalter)
by Brigitte Stiller Antje Schuster Thomas Deitmer Klaus-Peter Zimmer Dietrich ReinhardtKinder- und Jugendärzte erhalten mit diesem verlässlichen Therapie-Begleiter schnelle Orientierung bei der täglichen Arbeit auf Station oder in der Praxis. Der Band aus der Reihe „Therapie der Krankheiten im Kindes- und Jugendalter“ konzentriert sich auf die Behandlung von Erkrankungen des Herzens, der Lunge und von Hals-Nasen-Ohren-Erkrankungen in der Pädiatrie sowie die Therapie von kinderallergologischen Erkrankungen.Die Reihe „Therapie der Krankheiten im Kindes- und Jugendalter“ umfasst alle Bereiche der Kinder- und Jugendmedizin und macht die spezifischen Therapieprinzipien und -ziele, die einzelnen Schritte sowie Informationen zu Verlauf und Qualitätssicherung der Behandlung zugänglich – übersichtlich und an den Leitlinien orientiert.
Dynamic Semiosis (SpringerBriefs in Psychology)
by Jaan ValsinerThis book aims to bring to readers the author’s elaborated focus on the dynamic process of sign emergence, use, fixation and un-fixation, and dismissal. Its uniqueness is in its reliance on the organizing limits of irreversible time that renders the meaning construction by human beings to be constantly open-ended to face the uncertainties of the immediate future. This book emerged from a 9-month series of seminars at the Department of Semiotics at Tartu University in 2021-2022 as a Välis-Eesti Külalisprofessor, during which the linkages between semiotics and cultural psychology were scrutinized. In collaboration with doctoral students from various countries, the present SpringerBrief outlines the theoretical innovations that the author started during the seminars but completed in the two years after their end.
Augmented and Virtual Reality in Mathematics Education: International Symposium on Augmented and Virtual Reality 2022 (MINTUS – Beiträge zur mathematisch-naturwissenschaftlichen Bildung)
by Frederik Dilling Ingo WitzkeAugmented and virtual reality (AR/VR) are technologies of increasing importance in our society. In the field of mathematics education, these innovative technologies may offer a wide range of opportunities to support immersive, individual, and active learning processes. At the same time, many new challenges arise that need to be mastered by teachers and students in the classroom. With this book we want to contribute to the discourse by presenting innovative insights by bringing parties from research and practice together. The papers cover a wide range of relevant topics including cooperation and communication, STEM and modelling, development and application of design criteria, spatial geometry and imagination or teacher-trainings. The contributions include in-depth theoretical considerations, concrete developed applications and learning environments, and findings from empirical studies.
Women in the National Inventors Hall of Fame: The First 50 Years (Women in Engineering and Science)
by Ilene Busch-Vishniac Lauren Busch Jill S. TietjenThis book features all the women inducted in the first fifty years of the US National Inventors Hall of Fame. Each entry first provides a biography of the inductee and then goes on to describe one or more of their major inventions with descriptions that are accessible to those with little or no formal training in science. The evolution of the opportunities available to women in education and the professions becomes evident as the reader moves chronologically through biographies and inventions of the woman. Later inductees have received Nobel Prizes for their work and have become members of academies such as the National Academy of Engineering, the National Academy of Sciences, and the National Academy of Medicine. Others have received the National Medal of Science or the National Medal of Technology and Innovation. As an important part of the Women in Science and Engineering book series, the work highlights the contributions of women inventors, inspiring women and men, and girls and boys, in a variety of scientific fields.
Expert Consensus in Science
by Anthony JormThis Open Access book shows how expert consensus pervades all areas of science. It explores, in particular, the role of consensus in establishing scientific truth, in guiding professional practice and policy and agreeing on what are acceptable scientific methodologies. For some scientific issues, a consensus forms spontaneously among scientists working on a topic, while for others, where the issues are complex, a formal deliberative consensus process is commonly needed. Deliberative consensus processes are becoming more important as scientists increasingly deal with complex multi-disciplinary issues of policy importance such as climate change due to human activity. While deliberative consensus processes are commonly used, they often lead to criticism from consensus skeptics. The book argues that deliberative consensus processes in science can be improved and proposes a number of realistic ways forward, ending with a discussion of whether communicating the scientific consensus on a topic is a good way to persuade the public.
Privacy-Preserving Techniques with e-Healthcare Applications (Wireless Networks)
by Dan Zhu Dengguo Feng Xuemin (Sherman) ShenThis book investigates novel accurate and efficient privacy-preserving techniques and their applications in e-Healthcare services. The authors first provide an overview and a general architecture of e-Healthcare and delve into discussions on various applications within the e-Healthcare domain. Simultaneously, they analyze the privacy challenges in e-Healthcare services. Then, in Chapter 2, the authors give a comprehensive review of privacy-preserving and machine learning techniques applied in their proposed solutions. Specifically, Chapter 3 presents an efficient and privacy-preserving similar patient query scheme over high-dimensional and non-aligned genomic data; Chapter 4 and Chapter 5 respectively propose an accurate and privacy-preserving similar image retrieval scheme and medical pre-diagnosis scheme over dimension-related medical images and single-label medical records; Chapter 6 presents an efficient and privacy-preserving multi-disease simultaneous diagnosis scheme over medical records with multiple labels. Finally, the authors conclude the monograph and discuss future research directions of privacy-preserving e-Healthcare services in Chapter 7.
Geek Wisdom: The Sacred Teachings of Nerd Culture
by N. K. Jemisin Genevieve Valentine Eric San Juan Zaki HasanThe essential companion for the geek era: a fusion of inspirational quotes, philosophy, and pop culture drawn from the entire cult-classic canon of film, TV, books, comics, and science. Celebrate nerd culture by taking a page out of your all-time favorites, like Star Wars and Star Trek, The Lord of the Rings and Dune—and much more! Computer nerds are our titans of industry; comic-book superheroes are our Hollywood idols; the Internet is our night on the town. Clearly, geeks know something about life in the 21st century that other folks don&’t—something we all can learn from. Geek Wisdom takes as gospel some 200 of the most powerful and oft-cited quotes from movies (&“Where we&’re going, we don&’t need roads&”), television (&“Now we know—and knowing is half the battle&”), literature (&“All that is gold does not glitter&”), games, science, the Internet, and more. Now these beloved pearls of modern-day culture have been painstakingly interpreted by a diverse team of hardcore nerds with their imaginations turned up to 11. Yes, this collection of mini-essays is by, for, and about geeks—but it&’s just so surprisingly profound, the rest of us would have to be dorks not to read it. So say we all.
Plant-Based Proteins: Production, Physicochemical, Functional, and Sensory Properties (Methods and Protocols in Food Science)
by Yonghui LiThis volumes provides a comprehensive guide to the research and development of plant-based proteins. Chapters coversprotocols and guidelines needed for plant-based protein research and development, from sourcing and processing to the analysis of the physical, chemical, functional, and sensory properties of these proteins. Written in the format of the Methods and Protocols in Food Science series, the chapters include an introduction to the respective topic, list necessary materials and reagents, detail well established and validated methods for readily reproducible laboratory protocols and contain notes on how to avoid or solve typical problems. Authoritative and cutting-edge, Plant-based Proteins: Production, Physicochemical, Functional, and Sensory Properties aims to be a valuable resource for researchers, graduate students, product developers, and food industry professionals working in the field.
Turning Point: How IT is Changing Our World
by Jürgen MüllerModern information technology permeates and transforms our world—far more intensely than most of us realize. The book describes its origin, history, and essential drivers. It elaborates on the substantial importance the new world power of IT has gained for our social, economic, and political lives. It provides the reader with interesting, easily understandable, and balanced guidance on a complex topic. It highlights major development lines and explains concepts such as artificial intelligence, algorithms, and blockchains.
Global Happiness and Humanitarian Assistance: Systemic Solutions (Integrated Science #29)
by Sara SpowartThis book compiles concerning important solutions for current and future global challenges to wellbeing. The purpose of this book is to provide high-level, systems-thinking solutions to many relevant issues. Specifically, the most relevant identified concerns of depression, suicidal ideation, loneliness and isolation as identified by the World Organization are addressed. Other important topics that are addressed are global happiness, humanitarian challenges, physical health innovations, cultural norms and innovative solutions to improve well-being such as mental health literacy and reduced mental health stigma. This book is unique because it addresses health and wellbeing on a systems-based, solution and future-oriented perspective. A systems-based compilation of chapters is needed to improve well-being and address WHO concerns going forward. This systems-based approach should address a convergence of grassroots as well as large-scale concerns.
International Conference on Signal, Machines, Automation, and Algorithm: Proceedings of SIGMAA 2023, Volume 1 (Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing #1460)
by Hasmat Malik Sukumar Mishra Y. R. Sood Fausto Pedro García Márquez Taha Selim UstunThis book is a set of best quality peer-reviewed innovative research papers from the International Conference on Signals, Machines, Automation and Algorithm (SIGMAA 2023), held at Shoolini University, India, during 15–16 December 2023 in hybrid mode. This book has originality of work with the innovative ideas regarding artificial intelligence (AI) and its applications in the field of communication, computing, and power technologies.
The Traitor Queen (The Bridge Kingdom #2)
by Danielle L. JensenIn the second novel of the heart-pounding Bridge Kingdom series, one woman fights to win back her throne, her people, and the love of the man she betrayed—from the New York Times bestselling author of A Fate Inked in Blood.A queen now in exile as a traitor, Lara has watched Ithicana be conquered by her own father, helpless to do anything to stop the destruction. But when she learns her husband, Aren, has been captured in battle, Lara knows there is only one reason her father is keeping him alive: as bait for his traitorous daughter.And it is bait she fully intends to take.Risking her life to the Tempest Seas, Lara returns to Ithicana with a plan not only to free its king, but for liberating the Bridge Kingdom from her father's clutches using his own weapons: the sisters whose lives she spared. But not only is the palace inescapable, there are more players in the game than Lara ever realized, enemies and allies switching sides in the fight for crowns, kingdoms, and bridges. But her greatest adversary of all might be the very man she's trying to free—the husband she betrayed.With everything she loves in jeopardy, Lara must decide who—and what—she is fighting for: her kingdom, her husband, or herself.Don&’t miss any of Danielle L. Jensen's Bridge Kingdom series:THE BRIDGE KINGDOM • THE TRAITOR QUEEN • THE INADEQUATE HEIR • THE ENDLESS WAR • THE TWISTED THRONE (April 8, 2025)
All Good People Here: A Novel
by Ashley Flowers#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In the propulsive debut novel from the host of the #1 true crime podcast Crime Junkie, a journalist uncovers her hometown&’s dark secrets when she becomes obsessed with the unsolved murder of her childhood neighbor—and the disappearance of another girl twenty years later.ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: PopSugar You can&’t ever know for sure what happens behind closed doors.Everyone from Wakarusa, Indiana, remembers the infamous case of January Jacobs, who was discovered in a ditch hours after her family awoke to find her gone. Margot Davies was six at the time, the same age as January—and they were next-door neighbors. In the twenty years since, Margot has grown up, moved away, and become a big-city journalist. But she&’s always been haunted by the feeling that it could&’ve been her. And the worst part is, January&’s killer has never been brought to justice.When Margot returns home to help care for her uncle after he is diagnosed with early-onset dementia, she feels like she&’s walked into a time capsule. Wakarusa is exactly how she remembers—genial, stifled, secretive. Then news breaks about five-year-old Natalie Clark from the next town over, who&’s gone missing under circumstances eerily similar to January&’s. With all the old feelings rushing back, Margot vows to find Natalie and to solve January&’s murder once and for all.But the police, Natalie&’s family, the townspeople—they all seem to be hiding something. And the deeper Margot digs into Natalie&’s disappearance, the more resistance she encounters, and the colder January&’s case feels. Could January&’s killer still be out there? Is it the same person who took Natalie? And what will it cost to finally discover what truly happened that night twenty years ago?Twisty, chilling, and intense, All Good People Here is a searing tale that asks: What are your neighbors capable of when they think no one is watching?
Primal Mirror (Psy-Changeling Trinity #8)
by Nalini SinghNew York Times bestselling author Nalini Singh takes us into a family dark with shadowy secrets, as the world of the Psy teeters on the edge of a final catastrophic collapse. . . . Daughter of two ruthless high-Gradient telepaths, Auden Scott is not the child her Psy parents wanted or expected, even before her brain injury. Her thoughts are scattered, her memories fuzzy—or just terrifyingly blank. The only thing she knows for certain is that she must protect her unborn baby . . . a baby she has no recollection of conceiving and who draws an unnerving depth of interest from her dead mother&’s closest associates. Leopard alpha Remi Denier is a man driven by the primal instinct to protect. Protect his pack, protect his allies . . . and protect the mysterious woman who has become a most unlikely neighbor. With eerie eyes that see too much and a scent that alters in ways disturbing and impossible, Auden Scott is the enemy . . . but nothing about this strange Psy is what it seems, and Remi&’s feline heart is as fascinated by her as his human half. Then Auden asks Remi to help her shatter the wall of secrets that is the Scott bloodline. What they unearth will reveal a nightmare beyond imagination. This time, the battle is to the death. . . .
The Obstacle is the Way Expanded 10th Anniversary Edition: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph
by Ryan HolidayAn updated and expanded edition of the book that launched a global phenomenon, The Obstacle Is the Way presents an infinitely elastic formula for turning our toughest trials into our greatest triumphs.Since bestselling author Ryan Holiday introduced Stoicism to the world with The Obstacle Is the Way in 2014, this simple but powerful philosophy for life has taken the world by storm. This brilliant and engaging book is an invaluable source of wisdom for anyone who wants to become more successful at what they do, whether you&’re a student, a parent, a professional athlete, or a world leader. Now, Ryan Holiday has updated and expanded this modern classic with a new introduction and new content featuring a diverse set of inspiring characters.Icons of history—from Epictetus and Demosthenes to Amelia Earhart and Richard Wright—followed a simple formula to achieve greatness. They were not exceptionally brilliant, lucky, or gifted. Their success in overcoming extreme obstacles was the result of a timeless set of philosophical principles that the greatest men and women have always pursued.In The Obstacle Is the Way, Ryan Holiday unpacks those lessons and reframes them for today's world, giving us an indispensable formula for turning our toughest trials into triumphs. This new edition is a chance for old fans to revisit a classic and for a new generation to discover the power of Stoicism.
Meeting the Shadow: The Hidden Power Of The Dark Side Of Human Nature (New Consciousness Reader Ser.)
by Connie Zweig Jeremiah AbramsOne does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious. –C.G. Jung Cheating... lying ... jealousy ... blaming ... greed ... shame… These forbidden feelings and behaviors erupt from the dark, denied part of ourselves-the personal shadow. But they erupt with a purpose: They are trying to tell us their secrets. Meeting the Shadow is a landmark collection of 65 wide-ranging essays by thought leaders – including Carl Jung, Joseph Campbell, Ken Wilber, James Hillman, Susan Griffin, Harville Hendrix—on the dark side of human nature as it appears in families, intimate relationships, sexuality, work, spirituality, politics, therapy, and creativity. It presents tools for shadow work that enable us to make a conscious relationship with the shadow, defuse negative emotions, release guilt and shame, achieve a genuine self-acceptance, and heal our relationships. Although we think of the shadow as containing only darkness, as Jung stated, its essence is "pure gold.&”
Space Operations: Invest in Space to Serve Earth and Beyond (Springer Aerospace Technology)
by Young H. Lee Alexander Schmidt Ed TrollopeThis book includes a carefully curated selection of contributions that were presented at the 17th International Conference on Space Operations (SpaceOps) held in Dubai, UAE, from March 6th to 10th, 2023. The selection of chapters was based on their relevance to the current space operations community. The contributions represent a cross-section of three main subject areas: Mission Management—management tasks for designing, preparing and operating a particular mission; Spacecraft Operations—preparation and implementation of all activities to operate a space vehicle (crewed and uncrewed) under all conditions; and Ground Operations—preparation, qualification, and operations of a mission dedicated ground segment and infrastructure, including antennas, control centers, and communication means and interfaces. The book highlights the SpaceOps Committee’s objective to encourage the exchange of technical knowledge regarding space mission operations and ground data systems. Additionally, it emphasizes the significance of establishing and sustaining a global community of experts in space operations.
Canada and Competing Indo-Pacific Visions of China and the US: Caught in a Foreign Policy Dilemma (Global Foreign Policy Studies)
by Kenneth M. HollandThis book describes and analyzes the choices that Canada, as a Middle Power, has regarding the strategic rivalry between the United States and China. The administrations of Republican Donald Trump and his successor Democrat Joe Biden have taken a hardline stance toward Beijing, which in turn has adopted an increasingly belligerent tone toward Washington. The posture of the United States toward China has put traditional American allies in a difficult position. They must choose whether to join the effort to counter China’s ambitions, support those ambitions or take some intermediate stance. As one of America’s closest and longest-standing allies, Canada must make decisions that will affect its position in the world for the rest of the twenty-first century. The book argues that Canada’s national interests are best served by alignment with the confrontational posture of the United States while at the same time joining the efforts of U.S. allies Japan, India, and South Korea to moderate the thrust of Washington’s Indo-Pacific Strategy in a direction more consistent with multilateralism and the preservation of the rules-based international order. The book has important implications for other U.S. allies, including the member states of the European Union, Organization of American States and Association of Southeast Asian Nations, each of which finds itself caught in the middle between the world’s two greatest powers.
Fetal Origin of Diseases
by Hui Wang Liaobin Chen Dan XuThis book covers two decades of the author’s studies about fetal-originated diseases. It contains researches from the aspects of multiple inducing factors of fetal-originated diseases, including prenatal xenobiotic exposure, nutritional deficiency and other adverse environment during pregnancy. The authors introduce a series of animal models for studying the fetal origin of a variety of metabolic and neuropsychiatric diseases, and propose the mechanisms of developmental toxicity and susceptibility to multiple diseases, such as glucocorticoid programming. Moreover, the extended knowledge are also clearly addressed, like identification of biomarkers of developmental toxicity, and the strategies for early warning, prevention and treatment of fetal-originated diseases. Thus, the book is a systematic and complete reference for the researchers of related areas.
The Palgrave Handbook of Experimental Cinema
by Kim Knowles Jonathan WalleyThis book is a collection of newly commissioned essays by established and emerging scholars that maps out the current landscape of experimental cinema studies and sets agendas for future work in the field. Introducing new critical methodologies and calling overdue attention to neglected artists, regions, and topics, the contributions to this volume reassess and reassert experimental cinema as a site of formal exploration and interrogation as well as resistance to institutional, political, and social norms. This collection articulates what it means for experimental cinema to be these things in the contemporary moment, staking out new directions in thinking about the subject not only as a growing sub-field of cinema studies, but as an artistic and scholarly tradition in dialogue with art history, visual culture, philosophy, and the sciences. The contributions reflect a diversity of voices and perspectives, weaving together theoretical, poetic, and personal modes of writing and traversing questions of form, emotion, materiality, nationality, postcoloniality, the body, and ecology.
Sustainable Wealth Management: Directing Capital Towards Sustainability (Sustainable Finance)
by Karen Wendt Bernd VillhauerThis book explores sustainable wealth management and the challenges that arise for asset managers in times of ecological crises and climate change. It deals with portfolio engineering, combining risk and impact, transitioning from environmental, social, and governance (ESG) concepts to Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) concepts and the different role of the intermediaries and players in the financial markets. It provides researchers, scholars, academics and policy makers an interdisciplinary approach to redirecting capital towards sustainability.