Africa's Right to Development in a Climate-Constrained World
English | 2023 | ISBN: 3031228863 | 472 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 4 MB
"An important contribution to scholarship on International Relations and African Politics, this book offers a solid and well-grounded treatment of how Africa can best achieve sustainable economic development while also taking ambitious action on climate change" - Professor Chukwumerije Okereke, Director of the Center for Climate Change and Development, Alex Ekwueme Federal University Nigeria

Carl Knappett, "Aegean Bronze Age Art: Meaning in the Making"
English | ISBN: 1108429432 | 2020 | 350 pages | PDF | 17 MB
How do we interpret ancient art created before written texts? Scholars usually put ancient art into conversation with ancient texts in order to interpret its meaning. But for earlier periods without texts, such as in the Bronze Age Aegean, this method is redundant. Using cutting-edge theory from art history, archaeology, and anthropology, Carl Knappett offers a new approach to this problem by identifying distinct actions - such as modelling, combining, and imprinting - whereby meaning is scaffolded through the materials themselves. By showing how these actions work in the context of specific bodies of material, Knappett brings to life the fascinating art of Minoan Crete and surrounding areas in novel ways. With a special focus on how creativity manifests itself in these processes, he makes an argument for not just how creativity emerges through specific material engagements but also why creativity might be especially valued at particular moments.

Advances in Efficiency and Productivity by Juan Aparicio, C. A. Knox Lovell, Jesus T. Pastor
English | PDF | 2016 | 411 Pages | ISBN : 3319484591 | 7.8 MB
This book grows from a conference on the state of the art and recent advances in Efficiency and Productivity. Papers were commissioned from leading researchers in the field, and include eight explorations into the analytical foundations of efficiency and productivity analysis. Chapters on modeling advances include reverse directional distance function, a new method for estimating technological production possibilities, a new distance function called a loss distance function, an analysis of productivity and price recovery indices, the relation of technical efficiency measures to productivity measures, the implications for benchmarking and target setting of imposing weight restrictions on DEA models, weight restrictions in a regulatory setting, and the Principle of Least Action.

Advances in Applications of Computational Intelligence and the Internet of Things : Cryptography and Network Security in IoT
by Rajdeep Chowdhury and S. K. Niranjan
English | 2022 | ISBN: 1771889691 | 162 Pages | True ePUB | 11.2 MB

Advanced Optimal Control and Applications Involving Critic Intelligence
English | 2023 | ISBN: 9811972907 | 486 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 55 MB
This book intends to report new optimal control results with critic intelligence for complex discrete-time systems, which covers the novel control theory, advanced control methods, and typical applications for wastewater treatment systems. Therein, combining with artificial intelligence techniques, such as neural networks and reinforcement learning, the novel intelligent critic control theory as well as a series of advanced optimal regulation and trajectory tracking strategies are established for discrete-time nonlinear systems, followed by application verifications to complex wastewater treatment processes. Consequently, developing such kind of critic intelligence approaches is of great significance for nonlinear optimization and wastewater recycling. The book is likely to be of interest to researchers and practitioners as well as graduate students in automation, computer science, and process industry who wish to learn core principles, methods, algorithms, and applications in the field of intelligent optimal control. It is beneficial to promote the development of intelligent optimal control approaches and the construction of high-level intelligent systems.

Advanced Maths for Chemists: Chemistry Maths 3, 2nd edition
English | 2022 | ISBN: 978-87-403-4237-6 | 179 pages | EPUB | 5.93 MB
Advanced Maths for Chemists teaches Maths from a "chemical" perspective and is the third of a three-part series of texts designed for a first-year university course. It is the Maths required by a Chemist, Chemical Engineer, Chemical Physicist, Molecular Biologist, Biochemist or Biologist. Tutorial questions with fully worked solutions are used and structured on a weekly basis to help the students to self-pace themselves. Coloured molecular structures, graphs and diagrams bring the text alive. Navigation between questions and their solutions is by page numbers for use with your PDF reader.

Advanced Intelligent Virtual Reality Technologies
English | 2023 | ISBN: 9811977410 | 404 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 57 MB
This book gathers a collection of selected works and new research results of scholars and graduate students presented at the 6th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Virtual Reality (AIVR 2022) via the Internet, during July 22-24 2022, hosted and organized by Sojo University in conjunction with other three universities and Beijing Huaxia Rongzhi Blockchain Technology Institute. The focus of the book is interdisciplinary in nature and includes research on all aspects of artificial intelligence and virtual reality, from fundamental development to the applied system. The book covers topics such as system techniques, performance, and implementation; content creation and modelling; cognitive aspects, perception, user behaviour; AI technologies; interactions, interactive and responsive environments; AI/VR applications and case studies.

Advanced Data Visualizations: 10 Uncommon Description Types and How to Use Them
.MP4, AVC, 1280x720, 30 fps | English, AAC, 2 Ch | 47m | 84.5 MB
Instructor: Franz Buscha

Advanced API Security: OAuth 2.0 and Beyond by Prabath Siriwardena
English | December 17, 2019 | ISBN: 1484220498 | 468 pages | MOBI | 10 Mb
Prepare for the next wave of challenges in enterprise security. Learn to better protect, monitor, and manage your public and private APIs.

Adapting to EU Multi-Level Governance: Regional and Environmental Policies in Cohesion and CEE Countries By Christos J Paraskevopoulos (editor), Panagiotis Getimis (editor), Nicholas Rees (editor)
2006 | 336 Pages | ISBN: 0754645339 | PDF | 11 MB
The main theme of this book is the adaptation process of the new EU member states from Central-Eastern Europe (Hungary and Poland) to the multi-level system of governance in public policy, particularly in the regional and environmental policy areas. The work conceptualizes policy learning and institutional and policy adaptation within the EU system of governance and draws lessons from the experience of previous waves of enlargement-cohesion-countries (Ireland, Portugal and Greece). In doing so, the book makes an important contribution to the literature on the transformation of domestic policy-making structures, as a result of the increasing Europeanization of public policy, as well as on the conceptual tools, explanatory variables and mechanisms determining this process.