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Artificial Intelligence Trends for Data Analytics Using Machine Learning and Deep Learning Approaches

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Report copyright infringementby K. Gayathri Devi (Editor), Mamata Rath (Editor), Nguyen Thi Dieu Linh (Editor)Artificial Intelligence (AI), when incorporated with machine learning and deep learning algorithms, has a wide variety of applications today. This book focuses on the implementation of various elementary and advanced approaches in AI that can be used in various domains to solve real-time decision-making problems.The book focuses on concepts and techniques used to run tasks in an autom...

Microgrids: Design, Challenges, and Prospects

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Report copyright infringementby Ghous Bakhsh Narejo (Editor), Biswaranjan Acharya (Editor), Ranjit Singh Sarban Singh (Editor)This book addresses the needs of researchers on the fundamental level as well as those with more advanced knowledge of microgrids and their evolution. This book covers newly emerging trends in fields such as computer science, energy, electrical engineering, and electronics and brings the reader current on the newly emerging fields that play an important role in the pow...

Artificial Intelligence in STEM Education: The Paradigmatic Shifts in Research, Education, and Technology

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Report copyright infringementby Fan Ouyang (Editor), Pengcheng Jiao (Editor), Bruce M. McLaren (Editor)Artificial intelligence (AI) opens new opportunities for STEM education in K-12, higher education, and professional education contexts. This book summarizes AI in education (AIED) with a particular focus on the research, practice, and technological paradigmatic shifts of AIED in recent years. The 23 chapters in this edited collection track the paradigmatic shifts of AIED in STEM education, d...

Social Data Analytics in the Cloud with AI

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Report copyright infringementby Xuebin Wei (Author), Xinyue Ye (Author)This textbook helps students and educators prepare for the future by studying and teaching in the cloud and learning how to use modern cloud computing resources to process and analyze data and access the latest technologies with a modern browser. It also helps students and universities reduce costs while accessing the latest technologies.Author BiographyDr Xuebin Wei is an associate professor at James Madison University (J...

Construction Site Planning and Logistical Operations: Site-Focused Management for Builders, Second Edition

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Report copyright infringementby Randy R. Rapp (Editor), Bradley L. Benhart (Editor)Organizing and administering a construction site so that the right resources get to the right place in a timely fashion demands strong leadership and a well-defined, disciplined process. Good logistical operations enable profitability, and this book is the essential, muddy boots guide to such management. Written by experienced educator-practitioners, Construction Site Planning and Logistical Operations is a pop...

HowExpert Guide to Clean Water: The Ultimate Handbook for Providing Clean Water, Improving Sanitation, and Advancing Sustainable Development

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Report copyright infringementby Howexpert (Author)If you want to understand how to provide clean water, improve sanitation, and support sustainable development, then HowExpert Guide to Clean Water is your ultimate resource. This comprehensive guide covers everything you need to know about the global clean water crisis, practical solutions, and how you can play a part in shaping a better, sustainable future.Whether you're an environmental enthusiast, an advocate for global change, or simply cu...

Lean Manufacturing: Fundamentals, Tools, Approaches, and Industry 4.0 Integration

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Report copyright infringementby S. Vinodh (Author)Lean Manufacturing concepts are being applied to a variety of industries. These concepts ensure streamlined processes through a systematic analysis of wastes and elimination, while enhancing value. This book offers fundamentals, theoretical concepts, case studies, and examples, along with insights for lean integration in Industry 4.0.The book offers a comprehensive coverage of topics in Lean Manufacturing which includes lean elements and tools...

All About Work Standards: Creating, Implementing, Maintaining, and Improving Work Standards, Toyota Standard Work, and Leader Standard Work for Contin

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Report copyright infringementby Christoph Roser (Author)All About Work Standards is a practical and utilitarian guide to creating, implementing, maintaining, and improving work standards, the key to continuous improvement. It includes examples from a broad range of industries, and explains the difference between work standards and Toyota Standard Work. The book also explores Leader Standard Work, including its purpose, potential, and limitations. This hands-on resource is essential for practi...

Guide to Filing a Non-Provisional Utility Patent in the U.S.

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Report copyright infringementby Vita Biotech Research (Author)Patents provide inventors and companies with exclusive rights to their inventions for a period of time. This exclusive right encourages research and development by ensuring that innovators can recoup their investments and derive economic benefits from their inventions without the immediate fear of being copied or imitated by others. To obtain a patent, the inventor must file an application with the patent office, describing his inv...

Power Transmission and Control in Power and Vehicle Machineries

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Report copyright infringementby Yunhua Li (Guest Editor), Nariman Sepehri (Guest Editor), Kazuhisa Ito (Guest Editor)The aim of this reprint is to introduce the reader to the latest technological achievements in power transmission and control. Power transmission and control include the conversion, transmission, and distribution of power and motion control; it is a key technology and design theory of vehicle machines, such as automobile and construction machinery, airplanes, and ships. The spe...

Science and Technology Development and Policies in China, 1978-2018

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Report copyright infringementby Xue Lan (Editor)China's rapid development in high-tech innovation, including high-speed rail, mobile internet applications, and artificial intelligence, has attracted worldwide attention and has even become one of the reasons behind trade tensions between China and the United States. The fundamental reason for these achievements is the relentless promotion of China's science and technology innovation system over the past 40 years in the context of reform and op...

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Report copyright infringementby Moreland (Author)Inside the Metal Detector is the definitive book on metal detector technology and design. But it is not just a book for those wanting to understand detector design, it also offers valuable operational insight to the detectorist who wants to know more about how targets respond and how detectors behave.After a high-level overview of detector types, the basics of magnetics and induction are explained, including simple experiments. The physics of m...

Riding the High Wire: Aerial Mine Tramways in the West

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Report copyright infringementby Robert A. Trennert (Author)Riding the High Wire is the first comprehensive history of aerial mine tramways in the American West, describing their place in the evolution of mining after 1870. Robert A. Trennert shows how the mid-nineteenth century development of wire rope manufacturing made it possible for American entrepreneurs such as Andrew S. Hallidie and Charles Huson to begin erecting single-rope tramways in the 1870s and 1880s. Their inventions were follo...

Water Wars: Pollution, Profits And Privatization - Paperback

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by Vandana Shiva (Author)Vandana Shiva, a world-renowned environmentalist and campaigner, examines the water-war of the 21st century: the progressive privatization by the multinationals of communal water rights.Author BiographyMichael Goldman is MacArthur Fellow of Peace and International Cooperation at the University of California at Berkeley. Number of Pages: 176 Dimensions: 0.41 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: March 20, 2002

High Voltage Direct Current Transmission: Converters, Systems and DC Grids - Hardcover

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by Dragan Jovcic (Author), Khaled Ahmed (Author)This comprehensive reference guides the reader through all HVDC technologies, including LCC (Line Commutated Converter), 2-level VSC and VSC HVDC based on modular multilevel converters (MMC) for an in-depth understanding of converters, system level design, operating principles and modeling. Written in a tutorial style, the book also describes the key principles of design, control, protection and operation of DC transmission grids, which will be ...

The Yoga System of Health and Relief From Tension - Paperback

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by Yogi Vithaldas (Author)This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reprod...

Clean Energy for Low-Income Communities: Technology, Deployment and Challenges

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Report copyright infringementby David S-K Ting (Editor), Jacqueline A. Stagner (Editor)Energy provision for low income or remote communities is a difficult challenge, with many still depending on polluting and costly fossil fuels. Transporting energy is a further problem since some communities are only accessible during brief periods of the year. Local energy generation is a key solution, but technical challenges need to be overcome. This hands-on treatise explores technologies and approaches...

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Report copyright infringementby Blaine C. Readler (Author)In learning, nothing substitues for experience, and there's no better experience than compiling FPGA programs and watching them work. This book guides you along increasingly more complex VHDL programs with interactive, visible results when loaded on one of the development boards. Beginning with simply lighting LEDs, the projects advance until you are creating workable games using tbe board's buttons, switches, and displays. Source code...

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Report copyright infringementby Paul Reyneke (Author)Safety practice is undergoing a major shift in thinking but practitioners often struggle to translate its principles into tangible changes in safety practices. In Safety 2.1: The Safety Envelope, author and long-time safety practitioner Dr Paul Reyneke bridges this gap, connecting Safety II theory to the day-to-day realities of practitioners.Through the concept of the 'safety envelope', Safety 2.1 helps practitioners move from today's presc...

Autodesk Fusion 360 CAM Overview (December 2024)

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Report copyright infringementby Tutorial Books (Author)Learn how to use Autodesk Fusion 360 CAM with this easy-to-follow guide. Autodesk Fusion 360 CAM Overview gives step-by-step instructions for 19 tutorials that cover all the important CAM tools. From basic tasks like drilling and contouring to advanced techniques like turning, threading, and 3D machining, this book helps you improve your skills and work more efficiently. Key Highlights Clear Tutorials: Detailed lessons on important operat...

Life Support Systems for Humans in Space - Paperback

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by Erik Seedhouse (Author)Life support systems are an integral part of crewed spacecraft designs and habitation systems. This textbook introduces the LSS capabilities that sustain humans who live and work in space, and it is written at a level appropriate for both undergraduate and postgraduate students.The book begins with the basics of space physiology before detailing the features that make up different kinds of life support systems. It includes concise descriptions of how atmospheric pres...

Biomedical Engineering for Global Health

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Report copyright infringementby Nirmala Ramanujam (Author), Brian Crouch (Author)Explore the fundamentals of biomedical engineering technologies with this thought-provoking introduction, framed around modern-day global cancer inequities. Connecting engineering principles to real-world global health scenarios, this textbook introduces major technological advances in cancer care through the lens of global health inequity, discusses how promising new technologies can address this inequity, and d...

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Report copyright infringementby Ram K. Gupta (Editor)3D Printing: Fundamentals to Emerging Applications discusses the fundamentals of 3D-printing technologies and their emerging applications in many important sectors such as energy, biomedicals, and sensors. Top international authors in their fields cover the fundamentals of 3D-printing technologies for batteries, supercapacitors, fuel cells, sensors, and biomedical and other emerging applications. They also address current challenges and pos...

The Art of Natural Building-Second Edition-Completely Revised, Expanded and Updated: Design, Construction, Resources

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Report copyright infringementby Joseph F. Kennedy (Editor), Michael G. Smith (Editor), Catherine Wanek (Editor) The original, complete, user-friendly introduction to natural building, now fully revised and updated The popularity of natural building has grown by leaps and bounds, spurred by a grassroots desire for housing that is healthy, affordable, and environmentally responsible. While there are many books available on specific methods such as straw-bale construction, cob, or timber framin...

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Report copyright infringementby Camas Davis (Author)Camas Davis was at an unhappy crossroads. A longtime magazine editor, she had left New York City to pursue a simpler life in her home state of Oregon, with the man she wanted to marry, and taken an appealing job at a Portland magazine. But neither job nor man delivered on her dreams, and in the span of a year, Camas was unemployed, on her own, with nothing to fall back on. Disillusioned by the decade she had spent as a lifestyle journalist, ...

The Amateur Plankton Researcher's Practical Guide: How to Study Plankton at Home

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Report copyright infringementby Albert Calbet (Author)Back JacketExplore the captivating world of plankton with this hands-on guide, perfect for students, educators, hobbyists, and citizen scientists alike. Designed to take you through every step of the process, from collecting samples in local waters to observing them under a microscope and conducting basic experiments, this guide will equip you with the tools and knowledge needed to study plankton at home. You will gain an understanding of ...

Migrants in the Digital Periphery: New Urban Frontiers of Control

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Report copyright infringementby Matt Mahmoudi (Author)As the fortification of Europe's borders and its hostile immigration terrain has taken shape, so too have the biometric and digital surveillance industries. And when US Immigration Customs Enforcement aggressively reinforced its program of raids, detention, and family separation, it was powered by Silicon Valley corporations. In cities of refuge, where communities on the move once lived in anonymity and proximity to familial and diaspora n...

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Unknowable Minds: Philosophical Insights on AI and Autonomous Weapons

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Report copyright infringementby Mark Bailey (Author)Imagine that in the cold heart of a secret military facility, a new form of intelligence awakens. It is a synthetic mind born from intricate algorithms and complex computations, operating in ways unfathomable to its human creators. Charged with safeguarding national security, this intelligence orchestrates strategies that defy human ethics and laws of war, leaving its creators both awed and unnerved.Unknowable Minds delves into the unsettlin...

Philosophical Tools for Technological Culture: Putting Pragmatism to Work - Paperback

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by Larry A. Hickman (Author)"Hickman['s] . . . style of pragmatism provides us with flexible, philosophical 'tools' which can be used to analyze and penetrate various technology and technological cultural problems of the present. He, himself, uses this toolkit to make his analyses and succeeds very well indeed." --Don IhdeA practical and comprehensive appraisal of the value of philosophy in today's technological culture.Philosophical Tools for Technological Culture contends that technology--a...

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Report copyright infringementby Sybil Derrible (Author)A textbook that introduces integrated, sustainable design of urban infrastructures, drawing on civil engineering, environmental engineering, urban planning, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, and computer science. This textbook introduces urban infrastructure from an engineering perspective, with an emphasis on sustainability. Bringing together both fundamental principles and practical knowledge from civil engineering, enviro...

Marine Emergencies: For Masters and Mates - Paperback

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by David House (Author)An influential guide to maritime emergencies and the current strategies that can be employed to cope with the immediate after effects and ramifications of disaster at sea. Many mariners will at some point in their maritime careers become involved in one sort of emergency or another, while in port or at sea, whether it is a fire on board, a collision with another vessel or an engine failure threatening a lee shore. Actions to take in such incidents can be the difference ...