Palgrave macmillan jul 2024 (226 risultati)

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -After the brief respite that followed the fall of the USSR, geopolitics and major wars are back, affecting everyone everywhere. In a world transitioning to multipolarity Great Powers jostle for supremacy, regional powers feel emboldened to act on their own ambitions, supply chains are disrupted and instability becomes the norm. America has an empire that it wants to keep, Russia lost an empire that it wants to recover and China doesn't have an empire and wants one - with India the wildcard. But there is more to it than Great Power rivalry. From Ukraine to the South China Sea, from the Middle East to Central Asia, from the Arctic to outer space Bongiovanni lays it bare in this fascinating journey across the geopolitics of our timewith, in the background, de-globalization, the battle against the dollar and the new AI-driven age. 476 pp. Englisch. …

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -After the brief respite that followed the fall of the USSR, geopolitics and major wars are back, affecting everyone everywhere. In a world transitioning to multipolarity Great Powers jostle for supremacy, regional powers feel emboldened to act on their own ambitions, supply chains are disrupted and instability becomes the norm. America has an empire that it wants to keep, Russia lost an empire that it wants to recover and China doesn't have an empire and wants one - with India the wildcard. But there is more to it than Great Power rivalry. From Ukraine to the South China Sea, from the Middle East to Central Asia, from the Arctic to outer space Bongiovanni lays it bare in this fascinating journey across the geopolitics of our time with, in the background, de-globalization, the battle against the dollar and the new AI-driven age. …

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -An Introduction to Statistical Learningprovides an accessible overview of the field of statistical learning, an essential toolset for making sense of the vast and complex data sets that have emerged in fields ranging from biology to finance, marketing, and astrophysics in the past twenty years. This book presents some of the most important modeling and prediction techniques, along with relevant applications. Topics include linear regression, classification, resampling methods, shrinkage approaches, tree-based methods, support vector machines, clustering, deep learning, survival analysis, multiple testing, and more. Color graphics and real-world examples are used to illustrate the methods presented. This book is targeted at statisticians and non-statisticians alike, who wish to use cutting-edge statistical learning techniques to analyze their data. Four of the authors co-wroteAn Introduction to Statistical Learning, With Applications in R(ISLR), which has become a mainstay of undergraduate and graduate classrooms worldwide, as well as an important reference book for data scientists. One of the keys to its success was that each chapter contains a tutorial on implementing the analyses and methods presented in the R scientific computing environment. However, in recent years Python has become a popular language for data science, and there has been increasing demand for a Python-based alternative to ISLR. Hence, this book (ISLP) covers the same materials as ISLR but with labs implemented in Python. These labs will be useful both for Python novices, as well as experienced users. 624 pp. Englisch.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This book covers experimental theory and practice of yoga that have enhanced its neuroscientific understanding. This is an excellent handbook for the researchers in the field of evidence-based integrative health. It encompasses traditional and modern tools used in neuroscience. It also provides information for the modern biologists, physicians and policymakers, of how mind-body complexities in neuroscience, mental health and preventive healthcare can be useful for health and disease. It serves as a guide for integrative health practitioners, patients, educationists, philosophers, graduate students and faculty pursuing research in the field of biology, complimentary medicine, and other alternative therapies.The chapters in this book also serve as a comprehensive resource for clinical trials in Yoga. In addition, flow charts and illustrations have been provided to understand how healthy brain ageing can be achieved.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Dieses Buch greift auf Elemente aus dem Alltag, der Architektur und der Kunst zurück, um dem Leser elementare Begriffe der geometrischen Topologie zu vermitteln. Pac Man, U-Bahn-Pläne und architektonische Entwürfe sind der Ausgangspunkt für die Erkundung, wie sich das Wissen über Geometrie und insbesondere Topologie im Laufe der Zeit gefestigt hat, und bieten eine ebenso unterhaltsame wie spannende Lernreise.Der Text beginnt mit einer Diskussion über mathematische Modelle und geht weiter zu Theorien von Plato und von Kepler zur Erklärung des Kosmos. Anschließend wird die Geometrie aus der Sicht von Felix Klein vorgestellt, die den Weg zu einer Einführung in die Topologie ebnet. n den letzten Kapiteln werden die Konzepte geschlossener, orientierbarer und nicht orientierbarer Flächen sowie Modelle von Hyperflächen vorgestellt. Dieses Buch, das sowohl mathematisch streng als auch zugänglich ist, wird ein breites Publikum ansprechen, von neugierigen Studierenden und Forschern in verschiedenen Wissensgebieten bis hin zu allen, die sich von der Macht der Mathematik bei der Darstellung unserer Welt - und darüber hinaus - angesprochen fühlen.Die Übersetzung wurde mit Hilfe von künstlicher Intelligenz durchgeführt. Eine anschließende menschliche Überarbeitung erfolgte vor allem in Bezug auf den Inhalt.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Dieses Buch befasst sich mit den Herausforderungen bei der Entwicklung einer Point-of-Care-Testplattform. Das Buch beschreibt Assays auf Basis gedruckter Chips (Lab-on-a-Chip, Lab-on-a-PCB) für den schnellen, kostengünstigen Nachweis von Biomarkern in realen Proben. Die größten Herausforderungen bei Point-of-Care-Tests sind die Implementierung komplexer Analysemethoden in kostengünstige Technologien. Dies gilt insbesondere für Länder mit einer weniger entwickelten Gesundheitsinfrastruktur. Waschfreie, Lab-on-Chip- und Lab-on-PCB-Techniken sind sehr einfach und innovativ für die Entwicklung von Point-of-Care-Geräten. Mit der Redox-Cycling-Technologie können mehrere interessante Targets gleichzeitig auf einem gedruckten Chip nachgewiesen werden. Die vorgeschlagenen Bereiche sind von Natur aus disziplinübergreifend und vereinen Fachwissen aus den Bereichen Biosensorik, Elektrochemie, Elektronik und Elektrotechnik, Gesundheitswesen und Fertigung. Dieses Buch befasst sich mit den jüngsten Fortschritten und verschiedenen Forschungsfragen im Bereich der Nanobiotechnologie-gestützten Biosensorik und sucht nach theoretischen, methodischen, etablierten und validierten empirischen Arbeiten, die sich mit diesen verschiedenen Themen befassen. 236 pp. Deutsch. …

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Dieses Buch befasst sich mit den Herausforderungen bei der Entwicklung einer Point-of-Care-Testplattform. Das Buch beschreibt Assays auf Basis gedruckter Chips (Lab-on-a-Chip, Lab-on-a-PCB) für den schnellen, kostengünstigen Nachweis von Biomarkern in realen Proben. Die größten Herausforderungen bei Point-of-Care-Tests sind die Implementierung komplexer Analysemethoden in kostengünstige Technologien. Dies gilt insbesondere für Länder mit einer weniger entwickelten Gesundheitsinfrastruktur. Waschfreie, Lab-on-Chip- und Lab-on-PCB-Techniken sind sehr einfach und innovativ für die Entwicklung von Point-of-Care-Geräten. Mit der Redox-Cycling-Technologie können mehrere interessante Targets gleichzeitig auf einem gedruckten Chip nachgewiesen werden. Die vorgeschlagenen Bereiche sind von Natur aus disziplinübergreifend und vereinen Fachwissen aus den Bereichen Biosensorik, Elektrochemie, Elektronik und Elektrotechnik, Gesundheitswesen und Fertigung. Dieses Buch befasst sich mit den jüngsten Fortschritten und verschiedenen Forschungsfragen im Bereich der Nanobiotechnologie-gestützten Biosensorik und sucht nach theoretischen, methodischen, etablierten und validierten empirischen Arbeiten, die sich mit diesen verschiedenen Themen befassen. 236 pp. Deutsch. …

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Dieses Buch befasst sich mit den Herausforderungen bei der Entwicklung einer Point-of-Care-Testplattform. Das Buch beschreibt Assays auf Basis gedruckter Chips (Lab-on-a-Chip, Lab-on-a-PCB) für den schnellen, kostengünstigen Nachweis von Biomarkern in realen Proben. Die größten Herausforderungen bei Point-of-Care-Tests sind die Implementierung komplexer Analysemethoden in kostengünstige Technologien. Dies gilt insbesondere für Länder mit einer weniger entwickelten Gesundheitsinfrastruktur. Waschfreie, Lab-on-Chip- und Lab-on-PCB-Techniken sind sehr einfach und innovativ für die Entwicklung von Point-of-Care-Geräten. Mit der Redox-Cycling-Technologie können mehrere interessante Targets gleichzeitig auf einem gedruckten Chip nachgewiesen werden. Die vorgeschlagenen Bereiche sind von Natur aus disziplinübergreifend und vereinen Fachwissen aus den Bereichen Biosensorik, Elektrochemie, Elektronik und Elektrotechnik, Gesundheitswesen und Fertigung. Dieses Buch befasst sich mit den jüngsten Fortschritten und verschiedenen Forschungsfragen im Bereich der Nanobiotechnologie-gestützten Biosensorik und sucht nach theoretischen, methodischen, etablierten und validierten empirischen Arbeiten, die sich mit diesen verschiedenen Themen befassen. …

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Dieses Buch hat zum Ziel, die Erfolgsquoten von Startups zu erhöhen, indem es sich auf die Innovation des Wertversprechens konzentriert. Dies wird vorangetrieben durch die Einbindung potenzieller Verbraucher sowie anderer Ressourcen wie Freiberufler und strategischer Partnerschaften mit der Akademie. Der Autor zeigt, wie Startups, die in Bezug auf Ressourcen eingeschränkt sind, Anstrengungen unternehmen können, um das Potenzial ihres Produktmarktes zu erkunden. Dabei wird auch untersucht, wie globale Märkte für den Erfolg eines Startups vorteilhaft sein können, während gleichzeitig Lösungen für schwer zugängliche Märkte aufgezeigt werden. Das Buch untersucht das Gewinnen von Wissen, das von Freiberuflern, Kunden und der Akademie geteilt wird, deren Beteiligung entscheidend sein kann, um Aktivitäten der Wertversprechen-Innovation wie Ideenentwicklung, Umsetzung und Vermarktung zu unterstützen. In Kombination führt der Autor die Leser dazu, ihre Fähigkeit zu entdecken, Wertversprechen-Innovationen zu fördern, die langfristige Wettbewerbsvorteile in einer stark schwankenden Geschäftsumgebung zur Folge haben.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This bookinterrogates the 'end of analysis' in psychoanalytic thought from Freud to Lacan. Itdemonstrates that the notions of mourning, renunciation, liquidation of transference, and traversal of fantasy cannot serve as a settlement for the castration complex (i.e., central to neurosis) but are rather prey to the castration complex itself. It shows how psychoanalysis remains incomplete as long as it has not surpassed them as fantasies sustained by psychoanalytic ideology. In other words, it argues that the analytic procedure must pull psychoanalysis out of this therapeutic tradition for it to be complete and to instigate an attempt of its renewal.The book equally revisits Freud's and Lacan's underpinnings in the Enlightenment project, in order to formulate the problem of transference on proper dialectical foundations-that is, the mechanism of alienation from Descartes to Hegel, Kierkegaard's concept of anxiety, as well as the concepts of authority and value in Durkheim, Mauss, and Marx. In doing so, it provides fresh insights that will appeal to practitioners, as well as to scholars of psychoanalysis and philosophy. 160 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This colorful and concise little book is uniquely tailored for those who write mathematical texts at any level and are eager to improve their English writing skills. The easy-to-read guide focuses on helping the writer avoid common English mistakes in mathematical writing. With just a few minutes of engaging, light reading each day, the reader will learn to create clearer, more readable, math texts.The book covers 23 crucial topics, ranging from correct article and preposition usage to proper usage of dashes, conjunctions, and prepositions. It also addresses the construction of direct sentences, effective introductory phrases for formulas, and more. As a bonus to the reader, 'Practice makes perfect' exercises relating to each topic are freely accessible on this book's Springer website.Appendix A gives a quick tutorial on grammatical terms and constructs. Appendix B looks at ChatGPT and the positive aspects of its powerful capabilities. Additionally, Paul Halmos's article on 'How to write mathematics' is included in Appendix C. It deals with the mathematical aspects of writing. 188 pp. Englisch.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware - In the postwar years, Dutch survivors Eddy de Wind, Louis Micheels, and Elie A. Cohen, who went on to become practicing psychoanalysts, penned accounts of their survival of the Nazi camps. Their sober assessments contrast sharply with those by Bruno Bettelheim and Viktor Frankl, which emphasized decisiveness, 'positive thinking', and resistance, missing the fact that many Holocaust victims with those characteristics or other qualities did not survive. De Wind's, Micheels' and Cohen's accounts are more sober, (self-)critical, and shaped by analytical practice. By analyzing them anew and comparing them with accounts by female doctors who survived Block 10 in Auschwitz, this book argues that their theories of survival accord with contemporary sensibilities in psychoanalysis and Holocaust historiography. Psychoanalytic concepts have changed over time in response to greater understanding of the Holocaust and recent Holocaust historiography makes us more receptive to insights that were unfashionable in the first postwar decades. 128 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This textbook unlocks modern computer organizations' secrets, with real-world examples from RISC-V, ARM, and Intel-based computer systems. The guide provides a comprehensive yet accessible explanation of fundamental principles and components and serves as a gateway to mastering the interplay between hardware and software. It demystifies complex concepts and provides clear explanations and practical insights into their roles in computing systems.Topics and features:Provides comprehensive coverage of computer organization principles across three major architectures (RISC-V, ARM Cortex, and Intel), ensuring a broad understanding of modern computingIncludes numerous practical explanations using real-world examples from each architecture, offering hands-on insights into memory-mapped I/O, interrupts, DMA, and various memory technologiesPresents detailed exploration of diverse components such as interrupts and their usage, interrupt controllers, DMA transfers, and DMA controllersOffers exploration of DDRx SDRAM memory, SDRAM controllers, DIMM modules, caches, and virtual memoryConcise and yet thorough, this useful textbook/guide equips readers with the knowledge and skills needed to navigate the complexities of computer organization, making it essential reading for students and professionals. 312 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -This book interrogates the ¿end of analysis¿ in psychoanalytic thought from Freud to Lacan. It demonstrates that the notions of mourning, renunciation, liquidation of transference, and traversal of fantasy cannot serve as a settlement for the castration complex (i.e., central to neurosis) but are rather prey to the castration complex itself. It shows how psychoanalysis remains incomplete as long as it has not surpassed them as fantasies sustained by psychoanalytic ideology. In other words, it argues that the analytic procedure must pull psychoanalysis out of this therapeutic tradition for it to be complete and to instigate an attempt of its renewal.The book equally revisits Freud¿s and Lacan¿s underpinnings in the Enlightenment project, in order to formulate the problem of transference on proper dialectical foundations¿that is, the mechanism of alienation from Descartes to Hegel, Kierkegaard¿s concept of anxiety, as well as the concepts of authority and value in Durkheim, Mauss, and Marx. In doing so, it provides fresh insights that will appeal to practitioners, as well as to scholars of psychoanalysis and philosophy.Springer-Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 160 pp. Englisch.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book offers an up-to-date introductory treatment of computational techniques applied to problems in finance, placing issues such as numerical stability, convergence and error analysis in both deterministic and stochastic settings at its core.The first part provides a welcoming but nonetheless rigorous introduction to the fundamental theory of option pricing, including European, American, and exotic options along with their hedge parameters, and combines a clear treatment of the mathematical framework with practical worked examples in Python. The second part explores the main computational methods for valuing options within the Black-Scholes framework: lattice, Monte Carlo, and finite difference methods. The third and final part covers advanced topics for the simulation of financial processes beyond the standard Black-Scholes setting. Techniques for the analysis and simulation of multidimensional financial data, including copulas, are covered and will be of interest to those studying machine learning for finance. There is also an in-depth treatment of exact and approximate sampling methods for stochastic differential equation models of interest rates and volatilities.Written for advanced undergraduate and masters-level courses, the book assumes some exposure to core mathematical topics such as linear algebra, ordinary differential equations, multivariate calculus, probability, and statistics at an undergraduate level. While familiarity with Python is not required, readers should be comfortable with basic programming constructs such as variables, loops, and conditional statements. 348 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -This book presents peer-reviewed papers from 14th International Conference on Learning Factories (CLF 2024) that took place from April 17¿19, 2024, at the University of Twente, the Netherlands. CLF 2024 continued the successful CLF conference series targeting the latest research and development in the field of learning factories. The book is organized into two volumes and covers state-of-the-art research insights towards Learning Factories of the Future including learning factory design, Industry 5.0, digital twinning and VR/AR, 5G/6G in learning factories, AI for manufacturing systems, human-centred work design, human-robot collaboration, sustainability in learning factories, as well as cross-learning factory product/production systems. The book seamlessly integrates theory with real-world practice, empowering learners such as students, qualified engineers, and workers to keep pace with rapidly evolving technologies and methodologies, through enhancing learning factories. It also helps society and industry effectively manage future transitions with addressing current topics around digitalization, sustainability, and lifelong learning in industry.Springer-Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 408 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -An Introduction to Statistical Learningprovides an accessible overview of the field of statistical learning, an essential toolset for making sense of the vast and complex data sets that have emerged in fields ranging from biology to finance, marketing, and astrophysics in the past twenty years. This book presents some of the most important modeling and prediction techniques, along with relevant applications. Topics include linear regression, classification, resampling methods, shrinkage approaches, tree-based methods, support vector machines, clustering, deep learning, survival analysis, multiple testing, and more. Color graphics and real-world examples are used to illustrate the methods presented. This book is targeted at statisticians and non-statisticians alike, who wish to use cutting-edge statistical learning techniques to analyze their data. Four of the authors co-wroteAn Introduction to Statistical Learning, With Applications in R(ISLR), which has become a mainstay of undergraduate and graduate classrooms worldwide, as well as an important reference book for data scientists. One of the keys to its success was that each chapter contains a tutorial on implementing the analyses and methods presented in the R scientific computing environment. However, in recent years Python has become a popular language for data science, and there has been increasing demand for a Python-based alternative to ISLR. Hence, this book (ISLP) covers the same materials as ISLR but with labs implemented in Python. These labs will be useful both for Python novices, as well as experienced users. 624 pp. Englisch.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -Considering metropolitan and colonial cultural production as a unitary field of analysis, this book shows how tensions in the 1830s between utilitarian and Romantic perspectives on steam power marked meaningful divisions within the pervasive liberal imperialism of the period and generated divergent speculative fantasies, set in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, about the future of Indian nationalism. Poetry and fiction in Britain and Bengal engage with a Romantic strain of thought and sentiment according to which steam technology represents an anti-utilitarian humanization of nature. Within and against that frame and in uneven and different ways, writers in British India map a constellation of liberal values onto their hopes and fears concerning a future powered by steam.Springer-Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 104 pp. Englisch.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -The book empirically investigates various tactics, approaches, and digital communities that play a role in the propagation of online hate on social media. I use a mixed method approach involving manual and automated analysis of social media data mostly taken from Twitter, Instagram, and Telegram. Though no book can be comprehensive enough, this manuscript offers the reader a modest understanding of the important aspects that negatively impact certain communities such as racialized groups and women. The quality of online hate becomes notably different at the intersection of these identities, especially when taking into account religion, ethnicity, gender, and race.Springer-Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 124 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -This book is an essential guide to optimal and safe navigation planning in inland waterways. The book's comprehensive coverage includes:In-depth coverage of optimal planning, safety measures and economic considerations.Practical tools including images, diagrams, and algorithms for actionable solutions.Optimization methods for optimal navigation planning.Algorithms for safe navigation.Instructions for implementing a monitoring system and incident detection algorithms for real-time dynamic re-planning in natural inland waterways.Mitigation strategies for uncertainties and reducing navigation risks through real-time rescheduling.A fresh perspective on the dynamic world of inland waterway transportation.A practical guide for implementing the proposed algorithms in open-source software tools and cloud architectures.The book is essential reading for professionals and academics in logistics and maritime transportation.Springer-Verlag KG, Sachsenplatz 4-6, 1201 Wien 84 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -This book presents a new search paradigm for solving the Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP). The intrinsic difficulty of the TSP is associated with the combinatorial explosion of potential solutions in the solution space. The author introduces the idea of using the attractor concept in dynamical systems theory to reduce the search space for exhaustive search for the TSP. Numerous examples are used to describe how to use this new search algorithm to solve the TSP and its variants including: multi-objective TSP, dynamic TSP, and probabilistic TSP. This book is intended for readers in the field of optimization research and application.Springer-Verlag KG, Sachsenplatz 4-6, 1201 Wien 156 pp. Englisch.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -This book provides a concise introduction to quantum information and quantum science. The author discusses in language accessible to a broad audience, the why and how, as well as implementation technologies. The discussion includes coverage of general computing (e.g., Turing ideas) for comparison, and ideas like entropy and minimum dissipation. Topics such as quantum communications and quantum sensing enhance the discussion of quantum computing. In addition, the manner in which entanglement is used in each of these sub-fields is addressed with applications and, for example, a discussion of the quantum Fourier transform.Springer-Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 208 pp. Englisch.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -This open access book is an integrated historical and philosophical investigation of several problematic situations that emerge from diverse areas of medical practice. These include (but are not limited to):Paying less attention to patients who are suffering with symptoms because no identifiable pathological lesion or pathophysiological process can be found.Paying too much attention to patients who are not suffering with symptoms because pathological lesions or pathophysiological processes have been found.The tendency to understand patients at risk of developing pathology as being diseased.The tendency to disregard the importance of wider societal consequences of definitions of disease and health.The book shows that many of these problems are related to what disease and health are considered to be and argues that these problems can be addressed by reconsidering the concepts of health and disease employed in practice. It argues for a pragmatic reconceptualization of health and disease that allows clinicians, researchers, and lay people to understand health and disease in many ways, depending on the specific context in which they find themselves and the problems they are trying to solve. In doing so, authors are careful to show how this pragmatism does not endorse 'silly' forms of relativism, in which knowledge is reduced to belief or to whatever people find expedient to believe. This work is relevant for philosophers and historians a well as for doctors, health policy makers and other health professionals because it addresses problems sourced from medical practice, albeit using philosophical and historical methods.Springer-Verlag KG, Sachsenplatz 4-6, 1201 Wien 344 pp. Englisch.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -This book offers a unique look into the world of policing and the frontline of Brazil¿s war on drugs. It analyzes the tensions produced by attempts to modernize Rio de Janeirös public security policies. Since the return of democracy in 1985, Rio's police forces have waged war against armed drug gangs based in the city¿s favelas, casting the people who live in these communities as internal enemies. In preparation for the Olympics in 2016, the police sought to ¿pacify¿ the favelas and their populations through the establishment of Pacifying Police Units (UPPs) in many of the city¿s favela communities. Drawing on eight months of ethnographic fieldwork with the police, this book follows officers across the institutional hierarchy in their daily activities, on patrol, and during training. Tracing the genealogies of contemporary forms of policing-as-warfare through the notion of ¿colonial war¿ and ¿cultural war¿, it highlights the material and ideational dimensions of war as a cosmological force that shapes Brazilian social relations, subjectivities, landscapes, economies, and politics. It draws on the Deleuzian notion of ¿war machine and state dynamics¿ to show how practices of elimination co-exist with attempts to transform favela territories and their people and analyzes the link between the moral universe of policing and right-wing populism in Brazil. Through rich and nuanced ethnography, it offers a critical perspective on militarized policing and 21st century forms of authoritarianism.Springer-Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 352 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -This book provides an introduction to the key concepts of Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE)-based computing, and discusses the challenges associated with architecting FHE-based computing systems. Readers will see that due to FHE¿s ability to compute on encrypted data, it is a promising solution to address privacy concerns arising from cloud-based services commonly used for a variety of applications including healthcare, financial, transportation, and weather forecasting. This book explains the fundamentals of the FHE operations and then presents an architectural analysis of the FHE-based computing. The authors also highlight challenges associated with accelerating FHE on various commodity platforms and argue that the FPGA platform provides a sweet spot in making privacy-preserving computing plausible.Springer-Verlag KG, Sachsenplatz 4-6, 1201 Wien 88 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -This book aims at an innovative approach within the framework of convex analysis and optimization, based on an in-depth study of the behavior and properties of the supremum of families of convex functions. It presents an original and systematic treatment of convex analysis, covering standard results and improved calculus rules in subdifferential analysis. The tools supplied in the text allow a direct approach to the mathematical foundations of convex optimization, in particular to optimality and duality theory. Other applications in the book concern convexification processes in optimization, non-convex integration of the Fenchel subdifferential, variational characterizations of convexity, and the study of Chebychev sets. At the same time, the underlying geometrical meaning of all the involved concepts and operations is highlighted and duly emphasized. A notable feature of the book is its unifying methodology, as well as the novelty of providing an alternative or complementary viewto the traditional one in which the discipline is presented to students and researchers.Springer-Verlag KG, Sachsenplatz 4-6, 1201 Wien 460 pp. Englisch. …

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -This book is a revised version of the PhD dissertation written by the author at Sapienza - Università di Roma in Italy.Robotic Process Automation (RPA) is an automation technology in the field of BPM that creates software robots to automate rule-based and repetitive tasks performed by human users in their applications' user interfaces (UIs). The research underlying this thesis is targeted to: (i) automatically understand which user actions contribute to which routines inside a UI log and (ii) automatically generate executable RPA scripts directly from the UI logs. To this end, a cross-platform software tool called smartRPA was developed, which is able to generate executable RPA scripts, and then validated on four non-functional requirements to measure the quality of the underlying approach.In 2023, the PhD dissertation won the 'BPM Dissertation Award', granted to outstanding PhD theses in the field of Business Process Management.Springer-Verlag KG, Sachsenplatz 4-6, 1201 Wien 132 pp. Englisch.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -The purpose of this work is to focus mathematical modeling on issues affecting women¿s health. Working in six collaborative teams, researchers developed new mathematical models to address questions in a range of application areas. Topics include HIV, oral contraceptives, blood clotting, breast cancer, neonatal respiration, and outbreak forecasting. The work is the result of newly formed collaborative groups begun during the Collaborative Workshop for Women in Mathematical Biology hosted by the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications and UnitedHealth Group Optum in June 2022.This is an open access book.Springer-Verlag KG, Sachsenplatz 4-6, 1201 Wien 248 pp. Englisch.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -This open access book provides fascinating insights into the incredible changes that Vietnam underwent in the long twentieth century as it transformed from an early modern kingdom to a European colony, to a divided land with opposing ideologies, and to a unified country in a globalized world. At each stage in this long century of changes, there were Vietnamese who sought to mold their society into some vision of ¿modernity.¿ The book looks at multiple, rather than one form of modernity, and links those forms with the different political moments that Vietnam experienced, in tandem with the outside interlocutors that were maintained during those periods. As such, this book provides a holistic view of the many forms of modernity and their global links that can be found in Vietnam over the course of the long twentieth century. These multiple modernities are documented in this book, and the authors do so by bringing together the strengths of ¿traditional¿ language-based area studies scholarship with the insights that an awareness of trans-national and global perspectives provides. Relevant to historians and researchers in the broader arena of Southeast Asian studies with a particular interest in Vietnam¿its journey from past to present¿this book is a must-read engagement with a country that has undergone and continues to experience, rapid transformation.Springer-Verlag KG, Sachsenplatz 4-6, 1201 Wien 216 pp. Englisch.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -This open access book addresses methodological issues related to researching young children's learning and development, teacher education, and professional development. It pays special attention to research conducted in digital contexts in response to the new societal demands of a global pandemic and crisis. It illustrates and discusses new methods and tools, new study designs, new analysis techniques, and new procedures developed in a time of crisis in two different parts of the world, Australia and Norway. The book suggests that, during the global pandemic, a theoretical crisis in researching children's development in different contexts has emerged, which has not only created the need for new methods and methodologies, but has opened the space for the development of theory itself. Following a cultural-historical perspective, this book theorises these new approaches to create new theoretical concepts and new ways of researching, better understanding, and efficiently supporting childhoods in a continually changing world.This book is a great resource for researchers and students in the fields of early childhood education and educational psychology.Springer-Verlag KG, Sachsenplatz 4-6, 1201 Wien 320 pp. Englisch.…