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The text provides a comprehensive study of the application of advanced artificial intelligence in next-generation wireless communications with a focus on theory, standardization, and core development. It further highlights artificial intelligence-enabled...

This book intends to initiate a fresh articulation of need-based infrastructure provisions in rural contexts. Departing from the conventional theories and practices of infrastructure planning and development applied in urban settings, the book presents a...

The confusing way in which sustainable agriculture has been defined and measured is clarified in this comprehensive volume, which provides an inventory of the metrics for sustainable agriculture from cradle to the farm gate, organized by media and scale...

Learn everything about the latest machine learning techniques and create search engines that drive more domain-aware and intelligent search. AI-Powered Search teaches you the latest machine-learning techniques to create search engines that continuously...

Researchers, healthcare providers and policy makers working in the fields of HIV prevention. Professional/activist/academic organisations.Book InformationISBN 9781447372493Author Morten SkovdalFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint Policy PressPublisher...

Steel Informatics aims to review the application of data-driven computing techniques related to design of steel including phase transformation, composition-process-property correlation, and different processing techniques, particularly deformation and...

Mark Catesby was an eighteenth-century naturalist and artist whose work on the natural history of North America and the Caribbean still has resonance today. During the course of several perilous trips he collected specimens and made extensive...

This is a final report on the surface surveys carried out in the Kahramanmaraş region of southeastern Turkey between 1993 and 2000 that several thousand years ago was removed from the centers of political power, pulled between Antioch to the south and...

In this compilation of expert articles, internationally recognized homicide investigators, most of them pioneers in developing the science and the art of profiling, share their insights gained from years of experience tracking the perpetrators of some of...

The book Philosophy of Law, Theories, Examples and Human Rights presents relevant theories, puts emphasis on the analysis of the branches of law and of basic human rights, and proposes the holistic analysis of law. In the first part the author analyses...

This book is a socio-historical analysis of rationalism as a worldview — that guides many of our actions in concrete everyday life — and as a philosophy — that guides our epistemological understanding of the reality around us. It explores the...

Um das mechanische Verhalten von Werkstoffen einerseits besser zu verstehen und andererseits gezielt verbessern zu können, müssen die Prozesse und Mechanismen, die bei mechanischer Belastung im Material in Abhängigkeit von den Materialstrukturen ablaufen...

The need for paid care workers to provide professional, good quality care for those needing daily support continues to grow throughout the world. This book explores the recent experiences of diverse paid care workers in four very different national...

Making Research Relevant is the ideal core textbook for master’s-level introduction to research methods courses in any mental health field.Accessible and user friendly, it is designed to help trainees and practitioners understand, connect, and apply...

Diese fünfte Auflage ist aktualisiert worden. Sie entspricht dem Stand des aktuellen Eurocode 5 (Holzbau) für die „kalte“ Bemessung der DIN EN 1995-1-1: 2010-12 einschließlich seinem nationalem Anhang DIN EN 1995-1-1/NA: 2013-08. Des Weiteren beinhaltet...

This book investigates Euro-African cultural relations, considering their connected histories through material and immaterial forms of representation, commemoration, and memorialization. Recent waves of protest around the world have called for...

When you know the cause of an event, you can affect its outcome. This accessible introduction to causal inference shows you how to determine causality and estimate effects using statistics and machine learning.In Causal Inference for Data Science you...

The effects of US secondary sanctions are broad and are often designed to cripple the target country’s economy and currency. Some states have sought to circumvent these sanctions by setting up a special purpose vehicle to facilitate trade and financial...

This book explores the ways in which memory sites contribute to the dynamics of identity-based conflicts, fuelling fears, sharpening divisions, and justifying violence.Through an analysis of the dynamics of identity-based conflicts, the book shows how...

As artificial intelligence (AI) becomes increasingly integrated into the political and security landscape, it is essential to consider the ethical implications of this development. "Ethics in the Age of AI: Navigating Politics and Security" brings...

Transparent Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems facilitate understanding the decision-making process and provide opportunities in various aspects of explaining of AI models. This book provides up-to-date information on the latest advancements in the...

This book is a socio-historical analysis of rationalism as a worldview — that guides many of our actions in concrete everyday life — and as a philosophy — that guides our epistemological understanding of the reality around us. It explores the...

Society has become more educated on the impacts on human health and environment and there has been a noticeable decrease in the acceptance of this risk by workers and the public. However, to ensure a higher level of worker protection, a revised approach...

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. The different sciences...

Short Blurb This handbook covers the different aspects of the aquatic environment, microbiology, and microbial applications. It highlights the role of microorganisms as pollution indicators and as bio-control agents. The book covers the impact of...

The Doctrine of the State is a major work of political philosophy and philosophy of history by one of the most important authors of German Idealism, Johann Gottlieb Fichte. It represents Fichte's final sustained attempt to provide a synoptic overview of...

How can we have meaningful public conversations in the algorithmic age? This book explores how digital technologies shape our opinions and interactions, often in ways that limit our exposure to diverse perspectives and fuel polarization. Drawing on the...

Das sechsbändige Handbuch ist ein hochwertiges Werk über die Geodäsie unserer Zeit. Neben einer guten Lesbarkeit vermittelt es dennoch den wissenschaftlichen Ansatz und richtet sich an Kollegen in Praxis und Wissenschaft, aus Nachbardisziplinen und...

This innovative textbook is the ideal introduction to cultural psychology. It focuses on a holistic approach to cultural psychology, which emphasises that culture is created and shared by people and society.Organised around short core concept chapters,...

Las Madres is an incredible story of generational resilience and transformation with family and community at its heart. Dennis Raphael Garcia deftly writes the tale of three generations of women in his family, recounting the difficult challenges each of...

Over the course of a decades-long armed conflict, the Colombian state took a variety of approaches toward its insurgent opponent, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). Successive governments swung between pursuing negotiations and responding...

This book examines policies on unpaid care throughout the UK since the 1990 NHS and Community Care Act. It questions why, after decades of policies and strategies, unpaid care remains in a marginal position in the social care system and in society more...

Dieses Buch ist ein Handbuch für alle Gestalter: innen, die mit User Experience (UX) Design mehr zur nachhaltigen Entwicklung von Produkten, Prozessen und Service beitragen möchten. Arbeitskreis "Design for Sustainability" der German UPA wurde im Jahr...

This open access book compiles the groundbreaking research conducted by the Collaborative Research Center (CRC) 871, centered around the "Regeneration of Complex Capital Goods." This comprehensive work unveils an array of innovative methods developed...

'A document of real optimism.' Guardian On Tuesday 13 September 2022, all Mahsa Amini has planned is a day shopping in Tehran. Her birthday is next week. But she is arrested as she comes out of the subway – the Guidance Patrol deem her hijab inadequate...

So You Want to Do Narrative Therapy? is an engaging and accessible introduction to contemporary narrative therapy practice. Each of the ten chapters is written as a series of letters personally addressed to a real student who is learning how to do...

• Provides an up-to-date analysis and exposition of the significant changes in the private rental housing sector that have taken place over the past decade and a half in many advanced economies.Book InformationISBN 9781447362098Author Peter A. KempFormat...

Over the course of a decades-long armed conflict, the Colombian state took a variety of approaches toward its insurgent opponent, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). Successive governments swung between pursuing negotiations and responding...

In The Anger Rule, Antoine J. Banks and Ismail K. White examine how Black politicians are uniquely penalized for expressing anger, especially anger related to race. Drawing on social psychology and philosophy, Banks and White demonstrate how this anger...

Memory is at the center of a diverse array of political conflicts, moral disputes, and power dynamics. This book illustrates how scholars use different interpretive lenses to study and explain profound conflicts rooted in the past. Addressing issues of...