Resilient and Responsible Smart Cities
English | 2022 | ISBN: 3030984222 | 170 Pages | PDF (True) | 15 MB
This book gathers current research studies which explore new technologies in architecture and urban practices which ensure the efficient management of cities' infrastructures and provide new solutions to the complex complications that may result in the tackling of challenges of population density, traffic planning, and city planning at the neighborhood scale or rather the scale of buildings and everyday life. It offers a path towards city resilience and sustainable infrastructure with the aim of meeting the demands of mega-cities. The primary audience of this book will be academics and professionals from the fields of architecture, urban planning, civil engineering, computer sciences, and mathematics. The book will aid them in their contributions to the implementation of sustainable development goals.

Religionsphilosophie: Eine Einführung
Deutsch | 2022 | ISBN: 3476057100 | 307 Pages | PDF | 5 MB
Gibt es Gott oder gibt es zumindest plausible Gründe für den Glauben an Gott? Ist religiöser Glaube rational nachvollziehbar oder steht er notwendigerweise im Gegensatz zur Vernunft? Worin unterscheiden sich die religiösen Traditionen der Welt - philosophisch betrachtet? Mit diesen und vielen weiteren Fragen befasst sich die faszinierende Disziplin der Religionsphilosophie. Das Lehrbuch gibt einen Überblick über die zentralen religionsphilosophischen Fragestellungen und Theorien. In fünf Kapiteln werden die wichtigsten Argumente und Kontroversen der Religionsphilosophie vorgestellt und anhand einschlägiger Positionen und Argumente erläutert. Dabei werden nicht nur theistische und atheistische Ansätze diskutiert, sondern auch nicht-theistische Positionen z.B. aus der klassischen indischen und chinesischen Philosophie. Die Einführung ist auf dem neuesten Forschungsstand und berücksichtigt auch aktuelle Debatten zum Verhältnis von Religion und Säkularisierung, zur Rolle von Religion in der politischen Öffentlichkeit, zur interkulturellen und zur feministischen Religionsphilosophie.

Heidi Grant, "Reinforcements: How to Get People to Help You"
English | ISBN: 1633692353 | 2018 | 208 pages | AZW3 | 500 KB
Humans have a natural instinct to help others.

Rassismus an Schulen: Geschichte, Erklärungen, Auswirkungen und Interventionsansätze
Deutsch | 2022 | ISBN: 3658366109 | 396 Pages | PDF EPUB | 4 MB
Rassismus, also Diskriminierung von Menschen aufgrund deren vermeintlicher ethnischer Herkunft, ist an Schulen allgegenwärtig. Neben Schüler*innen, Referendar*innen und Lehrer*innen sind mithin alle Akteur*innen im schulischen Kontext von dieser Thematik betroffen.

Queer Theory and Psychology: Gender, Sexuality, and Transgender Identities
English | 2022 | ISBN: 3030848906 | 268 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 1.39 MB
This timely volume examines the ways in which queer and trans theory are supported by recent findings from psychological science. In it, Ella Ben Hagai and Eileen Zurbriggen explore foundational ideas from queer thought and transgender theory including the instability of gender, variation in sexualities, intersectional theory, and trans writers' rejection of the "born in the wrong body" narrative. These key ideas are juxtaposed with innovative empirical psychological research on the fluidity of gender, the proliferation of sexual identities, and transgender affirming medical and psychological care. This book explains the history and politics of key ideas shaping the study of the psychology of gender and sexuality today. It also describes the ways that the queer and trans* revolutions have changed how psychologists understand gender, sexuality, and transgender identities. It will be especially helpful for readers interested in interdisciplinary scholarship.

Qualitätskriterien für nachhaltige Live-Online-Trainings:
Eine explorative Untersuchung im Rahmen der Entwicklung eines Instruments zur Qualitätssicherung
Deutsch | 2022 | ISBN: 365837389X | 112 Pages | PDF | 1.32 MB

John M. Stewart, "Python for Scientists Ed 2"
English | ISBN: 1316641236 | 2017 | 270 pages | AZW3 | 3 MB
Scientific Python is a significant public domain alternative to expensive proprietary software packages. This book teaches from scratch everything the working scientist needs to know using copious, downloadable, useful and adaptable code snippets. Readers will discover how easy it is to implement and test non-trivial mathematical algorithms and will be guided through the many freely available add-on modules. A range of examples, relevant to many different fields, illustrate the language's capabilities. The author also shows how to use pre-existing legacy code (usually in Fortran77) within the Python environment, thus avoiding the need to master the original code. In this new edition, several chapters have been re-written to reflect the IPython notebook style. With an extended index, an entirely new chapter discussing SymPy and a substantial increase in the number of code snippets, researchers and research students will be able to quickly acquire all the skills needed for using Python effectively.

Jaime Buelta, "Python Automation Cookbook: 75 Python automation ideas for web scraping, data wrangling, and processing Excel, reports, "
English | ISBN: 1800207085 | 2020 | 526 pages | AZW3 | 6 MB
Get a firm grip on the core processes including browser automation, web scraping, Word, Excel, and GUI automation with Python 3.8 and higher

Richard Johannes Boucherie, "Operations Research: Introduction to Models and Methods"
English | ISBN: 9811239347 | 2021 | 499 pages | PDF | 5 MB
This attractive textbook with its easy-to-follow presentation provides a down-to-earth introduction to operations research for students in a wide range of fields such as engineering, business analytics, mathematics and statistics, computer science, and econometrics. It is the result of many years of teaching and collective feedback from students.The book covers the basic models in both deterministic and stochastic operations research and is a springboard to more specialized texts, either practical or theoretical. The emphasis is on useful models and interpreting the solutions in the context of concrete applications.The text is divided into several parts. The first three chapters deal exclusively with deterministic models, including linear programming with sensitivity analysis, integer programming and heuristics, and network analysis. The next three chapters primarily cover basic stochastic models and techniques, including decision trees, dynamic programming, optimal stopping, production planning, and inventory control. The final five chapters contain more advanced material, such as discrete-time and continuous-time Markov chains, Markov decision processes, queueing models, and discrete-event simulation.Each chapter contains numerous exercises, and a large selection of exercises includes solutions.

Obstructions in Security-Aware Business Processes: Analysis, Detection, and Handling
English | 2022 | ISBN: 3658381531 | 362 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 40 MB
This Open Access book explores the dilemma-like stalemate between security and regulatory compliance in business processes on the one hand and business continuity and governance on the other. The growing number of regulations, e.g., on information security, data protection, or privacy, implemented in increasingly digitized businesses can have an obstructive effect on the automated execution of business processes. Such security-related obstructions can particularly occur when an access control-based implementation of regulations blocks the execution of business processes. By handling obstructions, security in business processes is supposed to be improved. For this, the book presents a framework that allows the comprehensive analysis, detection, and handling of obstructions in a security-sensitive way. Thereby, methods based on common organizational security policies, process models, and logs are proposed. The Petri net-based modeling and related semantic and language-based research, as well as the analysis of event data and machine learning methods finally lead to the development of algorithms and experiments that can detect and resolve obstructions and are reproducible with the provided software.