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This book provides a comprehensive overview of reinforcement learning for ridesharing applications. The authors first lay out the fundamentals of the ridesharing system architectures and review the basics of reinforcement learning, including the major...

Foundation Mathematics for Engineers and Scientists with Worked Examples covers fundamental topics in mathematics required for science and engineering disciplines. It is primarily designed to provide a comprehensive, straightforward and step-by-step...

This book challenges the wide use of majority rule in many constitutional courts for declaring statutes unconstitutional, and argues that these courts should rather perform constitutional review by using supermajority rules. Considering that...

Immigrants are less likely to commit crimes. They are eager to learn local languages. Immigration is not a burden on social services. Border walls do not work. There is no unmanageable refugee crisis. Yet many such misinformed assumptions and harmful...

This Element is on new developments in the psychology of reasoning that raise or address philosophical questions. In traditional studies in the psychology of reasoning, the focus was on inference from arbitrary assumptions and not at all from beliefs,...

This monograph explores the participation of women in alchemy, chemical crafts, and the early stages of modern chemistry. By contextualizing their achievements within the broader social, cultural, and scientific landscapes of their time, this book...

New modes of Hope have emerged in the Anthropocene, increasingly grounded in an ethics of attentiveness and responsibility. Through incorporating contemporary approaches to both theory and policy practice, including critical, feminist, black and...

Fritz Schulz once famously described the Roman law of inheritance as "labyrinthine" and is deemed to be the most complex part of the Roman legal system. As Rome evolved from a city-state to an imperial power, the rules of inheritance often changed...

In the late 1990s, the issue of diamonds contributing to conflict began to receive global attention. In response, the Kimberley Process, an international agreement drawn up in 2003, was implemented to reduce the trade of conflict diamonds and provide a...

This book uniquely reverses today’s MAGA conspiratorial concept of the deep state to reveal how a very real “deeper state” is evident throughout history, back to the founding of American democracy.Class and caste-based elites and their political allies...

This textbook covers broad topics within the application of natural language processing (NLP) in biomedicine, and provides in-depth review of the NLP solutions that reveal information embedded in biomedical text. The need for biomedical NLP research and...

Find inspiration for makers in this collection from a year of HackSpace magazineHackSpace magazine is filled with the best projects, tutorials, and articles for makers and hackers. Each year, that amounts to over 1500 pages! The Book of Making 2025...

These small guides to (very) big ideas are an antidote to confusion and conspiracism, bringing clarity to the conversations we have about politics. The world has always had its conspiracy theories. From the Knights Templar to the deep state, the JFK...

This book provides an introduction to machine learning, security and cloud computing, from a conceptual level, along with their usage with underlying infrastructure. The authors emphasize fundamentals and best practices for using AI and ML in a dynamic...

The Hand of Addiction maps out addiction from an innovative and holistic perspective, challenging the pervasive discourses surrounding addiction in many fields. Using the metaphor of a hand, the author examines addiction through five conceptual lenses-...

The book represents a critical update on interactions between the host and its gut microbiome that conditions the socio-biology of the mind and behaviour. Evidence has been scientifically approached and reveals that our conscious behaviour involves a...

This book explores how the United Nations (UN) attempts to stabilise and justify an ambivalent meaning of protection and its socio-political roles in the Protection of Civilians agenda. Negotiating between different notions of translation, the research...

Populist parties in Europe attract many more votes than they did just a few  decades ago and are now much more likely to govern. They have also become key  players in the international sphere. At the same time, the relationship between  democracy and...

This volume 1 of a two-volume work provides an overview of the current state of knowledge on the most common bacterial and fungal diseases in turkeys. Each chapter is dedicated to a specific infectious disease and provides information on pathogenesis,...

Geographical information systems (GIS) are powerful tools for reporting on the environment, natural resources, and social and economic development; modelling the environmental, biophysical, social and economic processes; assessing environmental and...

This book studies the social formation of India through the lens of religion, state, ethnicity, and governance. It provides a nuanced understanding of the structural as well as the processual aspects of the Indian social sphere. The volume studies...

The book looks at the impact that the idea and institution of nationhood have had on the constituents of India in the contemporary postcolonial period. It provides a critical analysis through a variety of perspectives––historical, philosophical,...

This book emphasises the importance of difficulties identifying victims of human trafficking. It is often challenging for trafficked victims to be identified, for victims to self-identify, and for victims to be distinguishable from other groups of...

This comprehensive textbook provides students with an accessible overview of both the key concepts and practical skills required to work in the field of health education and promotion.Primarily aligned with the core competencies identified by the...

'Fascinating' Katherine May'Beautifully written, lyrical and unflinching' Charlotte Fox WeberThe day Jessica Hamel-Akré discovered the ideas of George Cheyne - an eighteenth-century polymath and London society figure known as 'Dr Diet' - it sparked an...

Psychoanalysis and Severe Disorders in Young Children presents case material and resources for professionals working with young children in the clinic and in the community.Presented in two main parts, the book explores Nahir Bonifacino’s work with...

Prioritarianism is an ethical theory that gives extra weight to the well-being of the worse off. In contrast, dominant policy-evaluation methodologies, such as benefit-cost analysis, cost-effectiveness analysis, and utilitarianism, ignore or downplay...

In diesem Buch wird die breit angelegte und wissenschaftlich evaluierte ressourcenorientierte Gruppen-Intervention ‚Zufrieden in den Ruhestand‘ zur Vorbereitung auf den Ruhestand vorgestellt. Das Manual enthält eine detaillierte Anleitung zur...

This open access book investigates the gendered violence and vulnerabilities experienced by Rohingya men and women, drawing on qualitative data from refugee camps in Bangladesh. It shows that in Myanmar, men suffered torture and sexual violence, while...

The book provides the latest research results on measuring Credit Rating Migration by mathematical methods. It brings about most popular mathematical models, methods and applications on this area, especially presents the latest development on structure...

This book aims to apply state-of-the-art advanced computational intelligence frameworks in healthcare. It presents recent and real-life applications of computationally intelligent healthcare. It also discusses problems and solutions to remote healthcare...

This volume orients readers to the concept of energy footprints and their implications for sustainability and offers several cases that illustrate this concept. Significantly, a detailed review chapter presents a of models and methods for measurement of...

This book reviews the physiological and therapeutic applications of extracellular vesicles (EV) of different cell types. The initial chapter of the book focuses on their evolution, physiological functions, inter- and intra-cellular communication, and...

This text serves as an exploration of the beautiful topic of mathematical biology through the lens of discrete and differential equations. Intended for students who have completed differential and integral calculus, this book allows students to explore...

Social Justice, Social Discrimination, and Mental Health explores the theory and background of social justice in the context of mental health of individuals, cultures, and communities.This ground-breaking book is a comprehensive text which defines what...

Additive manufacturing (AM) is a manufacturing process that has emerged as a viable technology for the production of engineering components. The aspects associated with additive manufacturing, such as less material wastage, ease of manufacturing, less...

To what extent can an animal constitute a ‘juridical species’? This highly original book considers how animals have been integral to law and to legal thinking.Going beyond the traditional approaches to animal rights and the question of whether non-human...

A how-to-guide on the clinical assessment and investigation of patients presenting with muscle-related symptoms. Featuring a case-based approach, this accessible text is suitable for a wide range of clinical specialists who see patients presenting with...

This Sixth Edition of Writing Philosophy Papers updates and expands one of the most popular guides to philosophical writing assignments for undergraduate students. Written in a clear, straightforward style, the book covers everything from time management...

In this scientific non-fiction book, Rheumatologist and Professor of Experimental Medicine Rainer H. Straub holistically explains a central conflict in the body: why the battle for energy ages us and leads to fatigue, stress, sleep disorders, weight...