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Smart Distributed Embedded Systems for Healthcare Applications (Explainable AI (XAI) for Engineering Applications)
by Jafar A. Alzubi Joel J. P. C. Rodrigues Bhawna Singla Preeti Nagrath A. K. VermaThis book discusses the applications and optimization of emerging smart technologies in the field of healthcare. It further explains different modeling scenarios of the latest technologies in the healthcare system and compares the results to better understand the nature and progress of diseases in the human body, which would ultimately lead to early diagnosis and better treatment and cure of diseases with the help of distributed technology. Covers the implementation models using technologies such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, and deep learning with distributed systems for better diagnosis and treatment of diseases. Gives in-depth review of technological advancements like advanced sensing technologies such as plasmonic sensors, usage of RFIDs, and electronic diagnostic tools in the field of healthcare engineering. Discusses possibilities of augmented reality and virtual reality interventions for providing unique solutions in medical science, clinical research, psychology, and neurological disorders. Highlights the future challenges and risks involved in the application of smart technologies such as cloud computing, fog computing, IOT, and distributed computing in healthcare. Confers to utilize the AI and ML and associated aids in healthcare sectors in the post-Covid 19 period to revitalize the medical setup. Contributions included in the book will motivate technological developers and researchers to develop new algorithms and protocols in the healthcare field. It will serve as a vast platform for gaining knowledge regarding healthcare delivery, health- care management, healthcare in governance, and health monitoring approaches using distributed environments. It will serve as an ideal reference text for graduate students and researchers in diverse engineering fields including electrical, electronics and communication, computer, and biomedical fields.
Ecology of Marine Ports of the Black and Azov Sea Basin
by A. K. Vinogradov Yu. I. Bogatova I. A. SynegubThis work examines the waters of marine ports as unique integrated aquatic ecosystems. It regards marine ports as entities comprising components of natural and anthropogenic origin, including pelagic, periphytal and benthal subsystems. Using selected Black and Azov Sea ports as examples, the book discusses the hydrodynamics and water exchange, which are weakened in ports compared with open coastal zones. It reflects consequences of the presence of hydrobionts and the accumulation of organic matter, which are promoted by the variety of hard substrata and the absence of fishery. The book is divided into five main chapters. The first chapter describes the general characteristics of the marine ports at the northern coast of the Black and Azov Seas and their shipping channels. Chapters 2 to 4 discuss the main abiotic and biotic peculiarities of the pelagial, periphytal and benthal subsystems of those marine ports, and chapter 5 deals with tropho-dynamic processes in their ecosystems. A concluding section reflects recommendations how the ecosystems of ports in non-tidal seas may be ameliorated.
From Different Worlds
by A. K. WilliamsSometimes true love seems to come at warp speed from another planet.Two strangers who seem to be from different worlds learn how opposites attract when a short, skinny nerd meets a big, strong bodybuilder during a costume contest at a science fiction convention. Both are wearing skimpy, revealing costumes, and the sexual tension is palpable. But what happens later when the costumes come off?Steve Morgan is shy, sensitive, and introverted. The quintessential nerd with social anxiety so severe, he often stutters and can sometimes barely even speak at all. Adam Baxter is tall, strong, bold, and exuberant. Everyone wants him, but he only has eyes for one guy in particular. In almost every way, they’re as different as night and day. And yet they’re also like opposite sides of the same coin.Steve finds it hard to believe a big, strong hunk like Adam could actually be interested in a skinny little geek like him. But Adam is a kind, gentle giant who quickly realizes he’ll need to hold back on his naturally flirty, boisterous behavior to keep from scaring away his timid crush.As they get to know each other better, Steve is hesitant to divulge his life-long health problems because it makes him look like bad boyfriend material. But after a severe health crisis strikes, will Adam still care enough to hang around? Or will Steve have to go back to being all alone like always?
Sex and Desire in Hong Kong
by Petula Sik Ying Ho A. Ka Tat TsangThe anthology provides an exemplary methodological model of community-based research through the authors' studies on sexual and erotic attitudes and practices of gay men and middle-aged women in Hong Kong over the last fifteen years. This collection focuses on issues that have major scholastic contribution to the field, namely, the voices of women on issues of sex and desire, and the investigation of multiple sex relationships among Hong Kong men and women. It also addresses clinical psychological issues and sex education topics that serve to enrich the current state of sexuality studies. The book reveals the social changes, trends, movements, and processes in Hong Kong and across China, thereby highlighting the reality of coloniality and how our experience of desire/ sexuality is conditioned by broad, global and socio-political forces.
Learning to Change Lives
by A. Ka TsangThe Strategies and Skills Learning and Development (SSLD) system is an action-oriented model for enabling clients in social work, health, mental health, and human services settings to address their needs and life goals. In Learning to Change Lives, author A. Ka Tat Tsang introduces SSLD's powerful framework and practice, which has been developed based on three decades of experience in psychotherapy, counselling, education, training, consultation, and community service.Learning to Change Lives provides detailed, step-by-step guidelines for SSLD intervention - starting with engagement with the client, assessment, translating problems into intervention plans, systematic learning and development of appropriate strategies and skills. Key practice procedures are described clearly and illustrated by case examples, specific instructions, and sample worksheets. Aimed at clinical practitioners, mental health professionals, social workers, and other human service professionals, this book can be used as a manual by practitioners and as a textbook for courses and training programs.
Muslim Democratic Parties in the Middle East: Economy and Politics of Islamist Moderation
by A. Kadir YildirimA.Kadir Yildirim and other scholars have used the term "Muslim Democrat" to describe moderate Islamist political parties, suggesting a parallel with Christian Democratic parties in Europe. These parties (MDPs) are marked by their adherence to a secular political regime, normative commitment to the rules of a democratic political system, and the democratic political representation of a religious identity. In this book, Yildirim draws on extensive field research in Turkey, Egypt, and Morocco to examine this phenomenon and assess the interaction of economic and political factors in the development of MDPs. Distinguishing between "competitive [economic] liberalization" and "crony liberalization," he argues that MDPs are more likely to emerge and succeed in the context of the former. He summarizes that the broader implication is that the economic liberalization models adopted by governments in the region in the wake of the Arab Spring have significant implications for the future direction of party systems and democratic reform.
The Politics of Religious Party Change: Islamist and Catholic Parties in Comparative Perspective (Cambridge Studies in Social Theory, Religion and Politics)
by A. Kadir YildirimThe Politics of Religious Party Change examines the ideological change and secularization of religious political parties and asks: when and why do religious parties become less anti-system? In a comparative analysis, the book traces the striking similarities in the historical origins of Islamist and Catholic parties in the Middle East and Western Europe, chronicles their conflicts with existing religious authorities, and analyzes the subsequently divergent trajectories of Islamist and Catholic parties. In examining how religious institutional structures affect the actions of religious parties in electoral politics, the book finds that centralized and hierarchical religious authority structures - such as the Vatican - incentivize religious parties to move in more pro-system, secular, and democratic directions. By contrast, less centralized religious authority structures - such as in Sunni Islam - create more permissive environments for religious parties to be anti-system and more prone to freely-formed parties and hybrid party movements.
Computational Intelligence, Cyber Security and Computational Models. Models and Techniques for Intelligent Systems and Automation: 4th International Conference, ICC3 2019, Coimbatore, India, December 19–21, 2019, Revised Selected Papers (Communications in Computer and Information Science #1213)
by Manuel Graña Suresh Balusamy Alexander N. Dudin A. Kaja Mohideen N. K. Sreelaja B. MalarThis book constitutes the proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Computational Intelligence, Cyber Security, and Computational Models, ICC3 2019, which was held in Coimbatore, India, in December 2019. The 9 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 38 submissions. They were organized in topical sections named: computational intelligence; cyber security; and computational models.
Ornamental Livebearers
by B. Ahilan A. KamaliiThis textbook on Ornamental Livebearers is a comprehensive guide and deals with the culture and breeding of livebearers. The present status of ornamental fish farming and new technologies on the breeding and culture of livebearers have also been aptly dealt with. A wide range of aspects such as, anatomy of livebearers, important livebearers and their breeding, feed and feeding management, water quality management, disease management biosecurity and economics of livebearers fish farm have been described in detail. It is hoped that this publication presented in an easy-to-read style with a number of photographs and illustrations will be of great use to all students who have fisheries in their curriculum and also a standard guide for the researchers, entrepreneurs and ornamental fish farmers.
African American Inequality in the United States
by Janice H. Hammond A. Kamau Massey Mayra GarzaThis note describes how historical and on-going policies and practices that discriminate against African Americans led to present-day inequality. Topics include slavery, segregation, Jim Crow laws, "black codes," and policies and practices relating to criminal justice, housing, and education.
Leidraad kindergeneeskunde
by E. J. Griendt A. Kamerbeek N. J. VetVoor veel coassistenten is het coschap kindergeneeskunde de eerste kennismaking met zuigelingen en kinderen als patiënt. Het kindvriendelijke klimaat op de afdeling en de omgang met de patiënt zelf vergen in het begin enige omschakeling. Leidraad kindergeneeskunde biedt daarom ondersteuning bij de vragen en onzekerheden die coassistenten en beginnende arts-assistenten in de kindergeneeskunde tegenkomen. In deze tweede, geheel herziene druk van deze leidraad is alle informatie geactualiseerd en zijn verscheidene nieuwe ziektebeelden toegevoegd. De hoofdstukindeling volgt de verschillende afdelingen waarmee je in een algemeen ziekenhuis te maken krijgt: kraamafdeling, neonatologie, kinderafdeling, polikliniek en eerste hulp. Elk hoofdstuk biedt eerst de belangrijkste begripsomschrijvingen die voor de afdeling in kwestie van belang zijn. Het vaste tekstonderdeel 'Overlevingspakket' bevat praktische rekenregels en richtlijnen (onder meer rondom vochtbeleid en babyvoeding) en scores (onder meer Apgar- en astmascore). Uiteraard komen de belangrijkste en meest voorkomende problemen in het vak kindergeneeskunde aan de orde. Leidraad kindergeneeskunde is samengesteld door twee kinderartsen en een kinderarts in opleiding. Met dit boek vergemakkelijken zij de overstap van de studie naar de praktijk van 'een van de leukste vakken ter wereld'. Dit boek maakt deel uit van de Leidraadreeks, een reeks handzame en praktische boekjes voor coassistenten en artsen in opleiding. Elk deel behandelt één bepaald specialisme of coschap. Leidraad kindergeneeskunde is bedoeld voor coassistenten en artsen in opleiding.
Medisch rekenen
by M. Hoeve A. KammeyerFouten bij de toediening van medicatie komen in de zorg helaas nog steeds het meest voor. Medisch rekenen helpt vaardigheid in het medisch rekenen te ontwikkelen en daarmee juist deze fouten tot een minimum te beperken. Dit boek, helder opgezet en volledig herzien, biedt eigentijdse rekenkundige vraagstukken die geschikt zijn voor zowel onderwijs als zelfstudie. Medisch rekenen is geschreven voor iedereen die in de praktijk te maken krijgt met het uitrekenen van rekenkundige vraagstukken voor het toedienen, verdunnen en oplossen van geneesmiddelen in de patiëntenzorg.
Manufacturing Excellence in Spinning Mills
by A. KanthimathinathanManufacturing towards Excellence in spinning mills aims to help the relevant organization to cut costs, improve throughput, effective utilization of resources and to safeguard the interests of stakeholders. Major aspects discussed includes quality assurance, production management, maintenance management of modern machinery and laboratory equipment towards achieving manufacturing excellence with benchmarking and industry norms. Relevant case studies are provided with dedicated chapters on training and development of employees, energy management and customer focus. Explains industry norms to benchmark any spinning mill against the manufacturing performance parameters. Includes Failure Mode and Effect Analysis and Total Productive Maintenance aspects. Explores training and development standards in spinning mills. Discusses energy management and customer focus through effective techniques. Reviews SPDM, PDM Tools, Contamination index, Spin plan, Customer Satisfaction Index, Co-Creation, and HPT This book is aimed at professionals and researchers in textile engineering and management.
Rethinking Identities in Contemporary Pakistani Fiction: Beyond 9/11
by A. KanwalThis book focuses on the way that notions of home and identity have changed for Muslims as a result of international 'war on terror' rhetoric. It uniquely links the post-9/11 stereotyping of Muslims and Islam in the West to the roots of current jihadism and the resurgence of ethnocentrism within the subcontinent and beyond.
Digital Analytics for Marketing (Mastering Business Analytics)
by Gohar F. Khan Marshall Sponder A. Karim FerozThis second edition of Digital Analytics for Marketing provides students with a comprehensive overview of the tools needed to measure digital activity and implement best practices when using data to inform marketing strategy. It is the first text of its kind to introduce students to analytics platforms from a practical marketing perspective. Demonstrating how to integrate large amounts of data from web, digital, social, and search platforms, this helpful guide offers actionable insights into data analysis, explaining how to "connect the dots" and "humanize" information to make effective marketing decisions. The authors cover timely topics, such as social media, web analytics, marketing analytics challenges, and dashboards, helping students to make sense of business measurement challenges, extract insights, and take effective actions. The book’s experiential approach, combined with chapter objectives, summaries, and review questions, will engage readers, deepening their learning by helping them to think outside the box. Filled with engaging, interactive exercises and interesting insights from industry experts, this book will appeal to undergraduate and postgraduate students of digital marketing, online marketing, and analytics. Online support materials for this book include an instructor’s manual, test bank, and PowerPoint slides.
From Muslim to Christian Granada: Inventing a City's Past in Early Modern Spain (The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science #125)
by A. Katie HarrisHonorable Mention, 2010 Best First Book, Association for Spanish and Portuguese Historical StudiesIn 1492, Granada, the last independent Muslim city on the Iberian Peninsula, fell to the Catholic forces of Ferdinand and Isabella. A century later, in 1595, treasure hunters unearthed some curious lead tablets inscribed in Arabic. The tablets documented the evangelization of Granada in the first century A.D. by St. Cecilio, the city’s first bishop. Granadinos greeted these curious documents, known as the plomos, and the human remains accompanying them as proof that their city—best known as the last outpost of Spanish Islam—was in truth Iberia’s most ancient Christian settlement. Critics, however, pointed to the documents’ questionable doctrinal content and historical anachronisms. In 1682, the pope condemned the plomos as forgeries.From Muslim to Christian Granada explores how the people of Granada created a new civic identity around these famous forgeries. Through an analysis of the sermons, ceremonies, histories, maps, and devotions that developed around the plomos, it examines the symbolic and mythological aspects of a new historical terrain upon which Granadinos located themselves and their city. Discussing the ways in which one local community’s collective identity was constructed and maintained, this work complements ongoing scholarship concerning the development of communal identities in modern Europe. Through its focus on the intersections of local religion and local identity, it offers new perspectives on the impact and implementation of Counter-Reformation Catholicism.
The Stolen Bones of St. John of Matha: Forgery, Theft, and Sainthood in the Seventeenth Century (Iberian Encounter and Exchange, 475–1755)
by A. Katie HarrisOn the night of March 18, 1655, two Spanish friars broke into a church to steal the bones of the founder of their religious institution, the Order of the Most Holy Trinity. This book investigates this little-known incident of relic theft and the lengthy legal case that followed, together with the larger questions that surround the remains of saints in seventeenth-century Catholic Europe.Drawing on a wealth of manuscript and print sources from the era, A. Katie Harris uses the case of St. John of Matha’s stolen remains to explore the roles played by saints’ relics, the anxieties invested in them, their cultural meanings, and the changing modes of thought with which early modern Catholics approached them. While in theory a relic’s authenticity and identity might be proved by supernatural evidence, in practice early modern Church authorities often reached for proofs grounded in the material, human world—preferences that were representative of the standardizing and streamlining of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century saint-making. Harris examines how Matha’s advocates deployed material and documentary proofs, locating them within a framework of Scholastic concepts of individuation, identity, change, and persistence, and applying moral certainty to accommodate the inherent uncertainty of human evidence and relic knowledge.Engaging and accessible, The Stolen Bones of St. John of Matha raises an array of important questions surrounding relic identity and authenticity in seventeenth-century Europe. It will be of interest to students, scholars, and casual readers interested in European history, religious history, material culture, and Renaissance studies.
Flow Perturbation Gas Chromatography
by A. KatsanosThis book discusses flow perturbation method, namely, the stopped-flow technique and the reversed-flow technique. It is directed to those who need an accurate method for the determination of a certain physicochemical quantity and to researchers working on the development of gas chromatography.
Interfacial Transition Zone in Cementitious Composites
by M. Alexander A. Katz, A. Bentur G. ArliguieThis book addresses the need to resolve the ITZ's influence on engineering and durability characteristics of cementious composites, identifies the systems and properties that are affected by it, and quantifies these effects in order to prepare the base for engineering design tools. This volume presents the proceedings of the Second International RI
Advances in Metaheuristic Algorithms for Optimal Design of Structures
by A. KavehThis book presents efficient metaheuristic algorithms for optimal design of structures. Many of these algorithms are developed by the author and his colleagues, consisting of Democratic Particle Swarm Optimization, Charged System Search, Magnetic Charged System Search, Field of Forces Optimization, Dolphin Echolocation Optimization, Colliding Bodies Optimization, Ray Optimization. These are presented together with algorithms which were developed by other authors and have been successfully applied to various optimization problems. These consist of Particle Swarm Optimization, Big Bang-Big Crunch Algorithm, Cuckoo Search Optimization, Imperialist Competitive Algorithm, and Chaos Embedded Metaheuristic Algorithms. Finally a multi-objective optimization method is presented to solve large-scale structural problems based on the Charged System Search algorithm. The concepts and algorithms presented in this book are not only applicable to optimization of skeletal structures and finite element models, but can equally be utilized for optimal design of other systems such as hydraulic and electrical networks.
Advances in Metaheuristic Algorithms for Optimal Design of Structures
by A. KavehThis book presents efficient metaheuristic algorithms for optimal design of structures. Many of these algorithms are developed by the author and his colleagues, consisting of Democratic Particle Swarm Optimization, Charged System Search, Magnetic Charged System Search, Field of Forces Optimization, Dolphin Echolocation Optimization, Colliding Bodies Optimization, Ray Optimization. These are presented together with algorithms which were developed by other authors and have been successfully applied to various optimization problems. These consist of Particle Swarm Optimization, Big Bang-Big Crunch Algorithm, Cuckoo Search Optimization, Imperialist Competitive Algorithm, and Chaos Embedded Metaheuristic Algorithms. Finally a multi-objective optimization method is presented to solve large-scale structural problems based on the Charged System Search algorithm. The concepts and algorithms presented in this book are not only applicable to optimization of skeletal structures and finite element models, but can equally be utilized for optimal design of other systems such as hydraulic and electrical networks. In the second edition seven new chapters are added consisting of the new developments in the field of optimization. These chapters consist of the Enhanced Colliding Bodies Optimization, Global Sensitivity Analysis, Tug of War Optimization, Water Evaporation Optimization, Vibrating Particle System Optimization and Cyclical Parthenogenesis Optimization algorithms. A chapter is also devoted to optimal design of large scale structures.
Applications of Metaheuristic Optimization Algorithms in Civil Engineering
by A. KavehThe book presents recently developed efficient metaheuristic optimization algorithms and their applications for solving various optimization problems in civil engineering. The concepts can also be used for optimizing problems in mechanical and electrical engineering.
Colliding Bodies Optimization: Extensions and Applications
by A. Kaveh V. R. MahdaviThis book presents and applies a novel efficient meta-heuristic optimization algorithm called Colliding Bodies Optimization (CBO) for various optimization problems. The first part of the book introduces the concepts and methods involved, while the second is devoted to the applications. Though optimal design of structures is the main topic, two chapters on optimal analysis and applications in constructional management are also included. This algorithm is based on one-dimensional collisions between bodies, with each agent solution being considered as an object or body with mass. After a collision of two moving bodies with specified masses and velocities, these bodies again separate, with new velocities. This collision causes the agents to move toward better positions in the search space. The main algorithm (CBO) is internally parameter independent, setting it apart from previously developed meta-heuristics. This algorithm is enhanced (ECBO) for more efficient applications in the optimal design of structures. The algorithms are implemented in standard computer programming languages (MATLAB and C++) and two main codes are provided for ease of use.
Computational Structural Analysis and Finite Element Methods
by A. KavehGraph theory gained initial prominence in science and engineering through its strong links with matrix algebra and computer science. Moreover, the structure of the mathematics is well suited to that of engineering problems in analysis and design. The methods of analysis in this book employ matrix algebra, graph theory and meta-heuristic algorithms, which are ideally suited for modern computational mechanics. Efficient methods are presented that lead to highly sparse and banded structural matrices. The main features of the book include: application of graph theory for efficient analysis; extension of the force method to finite element analysis; application of meta-heuristic algorithms to ordering and decomposition (sparse matrix technology); efficient use of symmetry and regularity in the force method; and simultaneous analysis and design of structures.
Labour Law 1: For All Universities
by P. Jaganathan Usha Jaganathan J. P. Arjun A. KavithaThe document Labour Law 1 provides a comprehensive overview of significant labour laws and industrial relations in India. It covers essential acts such as the Trade Unions Act, 1926, and the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947, among others. The text outlines the historical evolution of labour relations, from the master-servant system to modern employer-employee dynamics. Theories like Laissez-Faire and social welfare are discussed in the context of industrial jurisprudence, highlighting the importance of collective bargaining and workers' rights. Additionally, it emphasizes the role of the International Labour Organization (ILO) and legislative reforms in ensuring fair wages, worker safety, and social security. The document serves as a valuable resource for law students and legal professionals studying industrial and labour laws.