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Future data and security engineering ; 7th International conference, FDSE 2020, Quy Nhon, Vietnam, November 25–27, 2020, Proceedings

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Future Data and Security Engineering, FDSE 2020, which was supposed to be held in Quy Nhon, Vietnam, in November 2020, but the conference was held virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The 24 full papers (of 53 accepted full papers) presented together with 2 invited keynotes were carefully reviewed and selected from 161 submissions. The other 29 accepted full and 8 short papers are included in CCIS 1306. The selected papers are organized into the following topical headings: security issues in big data; big data analytics and distributed systems; advances in big data query processing and optimization; blockchain and applications; industry 4.0 and smart city: data analytics and security; advanced studies in machine learning for security; and emerging data management systems and applications.

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Future Center : Youth Skils Development Center = مركز المستقبل لتنيمة مهارات الشباب

الشباب بكافة الفئات العمرية، يجمع بين التعليم والترفيه وتأمين فرص العمل وفرص لإتمام الدراسة. تتمثل الفكرة المعمارية بتشكيل ساحة مركزية تفاعلية رئيسية تتقاطع معها الكتل الثلاث الأساسية والتي تمثل الفعاليات الثقافية الترفيهية والرياضية، حيث ينطلق من هذه الساحة المجمعة محورين أحدهما شمالي باتجاه صالات العرض الخارجية والآخر شمالي غربي باتجاه ساحة المطاعم والسينما الخارجية، مع مراعاة وصول السيارات إلى الموقع من كافة الاتجاهات حيث تم الدخول إلى الموقع من ثلاثة مداخل رئيسية للمشاة تجتمع في الساحة الرئيسية.

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Future approaches for safe and effective pain management

Pain is defined as an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience that is associated with actual or potential tissue damage or described in terms of such damage. It is subjective and considered an important physiological mechanism by which humans prevent themselves from developing tissue injury. However, pain patients do not respond to treatment in the same way, which makes it challenging to issue a consistent treatment for all pain conditions. Excessive pain can markedly increase psychological health problems and decrease health‐related quality of life; therefore, pain should be managed appropriately by analgesics. Analgesics act in various ways on the peripheral and central pain pathways and are regarded as one of the most valuable but equally dangerous groups of medications. Individual variability in pain perception and differences in the efficacy of analgesic drugs are complex phenomena and are partly genetically predetermined. Pain severities as well as responses to analgesics, can also be very variable among sufferer.

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Furnishing - Zoning

Deals with the relationships between building typology and building structure, and between spatial composition and interior design. The relationship between the briefing and the catalogue of requirements, and between shell construction and fit-out, is elucidated. Connections at walls, ceilings and floors are explained in detail and illustrated with case studies of selected projects. In addition, the authors demonstrate how a well-designed sequence of spaces can create added value by means, for example, of the choice of materials and the lighting scheme, or adaptability to accommodate new functions.

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Fungi as an Alternative Source of Anticancer and Antioxidant

Fungi are an " excellent but underexplored source " for new therapeutic compounds. The limited availability of bioactive principles in plant sources could be surpassed by exploiting the chemical entities in the endophytes fungi . fungi represent a rich source of bioactive metabolite that can manipulated to produce desirable novel analogs. In addition to the active substances that can be extracted from the fungi, so that they are useful in several mechanisms. Exploring and exploiting of metabolites from endophytic in terrestrial, mangrove and marine habitats may provide an avenue for discovery of drug candidates against deadly human disease. This review focuses on the production of antioxidant and anticancer from severa fungi habitats.

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Fungal Genomics

Presents an overview on mutualistic and pathogenic interactions between fungi and plants. This book offers reviews on fungal lifestyles, mechanisms of their interactions with their host plants, signal perception and transduction, and plant defense responses directed against attack by fungal pathogens. It is suitable for students in microbiology.

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Funds, Flows and Time : An Alternative Approach to the Microeconomic Analysis of Productive Activities

The subject of this book is production, which is an important and extensive field in economic science. In fact, production, distribution and consump­ tion were long considered the three federated kingdoms which together formed the great empire of the economy. According to other slightly dif­ ferent traditions, production also held pride of place, specifically as a basic link in the long chain of social reproduction. Today, whatever the theoreti­ cal approach, production is a fundamental requirement for human survival. This was not, however, always the case. For much of the history of man­ kind hominids were hunter, scavenger and gatherers, with very little con­ trol over their environment, and extremely little in the way of artefacts with which to work. However, since the Neolithic revolution, productive processes have constituted an essential mechanism, providing human soci­ ety with goods and services to satisfy its needs and cravings.

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Fundamentals of Virtual Colonoscopy

Virtual colonoscopy is a rapidly developing technique that can be performed in an outpatient setting without sedation. It promises to be safer and less intrusive than conventional diagnostic tests for colon cancer and is attractive to patients. Despite the attention that virtual colonoscopy has received among medical professionals, many lack an understanding of the basics of this cutting-edge procedure. Renowned radiologist Abraham Dachman, MD, and a distinguished group of international contributors have prepared a fundamentals book that fills this void. This practical handbook fully explains the essentials of this state-of-the-art technique to radiologists, gastroenterologists, radiology residents, and technologists. Major concepts are reinforced by clear, true-to-life illustrations. Readers will find that the practical design and current content of this guide make it an essential introduction to CT colonography.

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Fundamentals of the Physics of Solids ; Vol. I : Structure and Dynamics

This book aims to deliver a comprehensive and self-contained account of the vast field of solid-state physics. It goes far beyond most classic texts in the presentation of the properties of solids and experimentally observed phenomena, along with the basic concepts and theoretical methods used to understand them and the essential features of various experimental techniques.

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Fundamentals of the New Artificial Intelligence: Neural, Evolutionary, Fuzzy and More

The significantly updated second edition of Fundamentals of the New Artificial Intelligence thoroughly covers the most essential and widely employed material pertaining to neural networks, genetic algorithms, fuzzy systems, rough sets, and chaos. In particular, this unique textbook explores the importance of this content for real-world applications.

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Fundamentals of switching theory and logic design : A hands on approach

Switching theory and logic design provide mathematical foundations and tools for digital system design that is an essential part in the research and development in almost all areas of modern technology. The vast complexity of modern digital systems implies that they can only be handled by computer aided design tools that are built on sophisticated mathematical models. Fundamentals of Switching Theory and Logic Design is aimed at providing an accessible introduction to these mathematical techniques that underlie the design tools and that are necessary for understanding their capabilities and limitations.

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Fundamentals of Sustainability in Civil Engineering

Provides a foundation to understand the development of sustainability in civil engineering, and tools to address the three pillars of sustainability: economics, environment, and society. It includes case studies in the five major areas of civil engineering: environmental, structural, geotechnical, transportation, and construction management.

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Fundamentals of Structural Mechanics, Dynamics, and Stability

Presents the material from the general (theory and fundamentals) to the particular (specific applications). Emphasizes the relevant mathematical concepts as related to structural mechanics in each chapter. Presents structural simulations using strucutral analysis software (ANSYS). Explains the Finite Element Method for elastic bodies, trusses, frames, non-linear behavior of materials, and more. Includes numerous worked examples and case studies throughout

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Fundamentals of Structural Dynamics

Explains foundational concepts and principles surrounding the theory of vibrations and gives equations of motion for complex systems. The book presents classical vibration theory in a clear and systematic way, detailing original work on vehicle-bridge interactions and wind effects on bridges. Chapters give an overview of structural vibrations, including how to formulate equations of motion, vibration analysis of a single-degree-of-freedom system, a multi-degree-of-freedom system, and a continuous system, the approximate calculation of natural frequencies and modal shapes, and step-by-step integration methods. Each chapter includes extensive practical examples and problems.

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Fundamentals of statistics with fuzzy data

This research monograph presents basic foundational aspects for a theory of statistics with fuzzy data, together with a set of practical applications. Fuzzy data are modeled as observations from random fuzzy sets. Theories of fuzzy logic and of random closed sets are used as basic ingredients in building statistical concepts and procedures in the context of imprecise data, including coarse data analysis. The monograph also aims at motivating statisticians to look at fuzzy statistics to enlarge the domain of applicability of statistics in general.

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Fundamentals of Space Medicine

Topics discussed in this book include: adaptation of sensory-motor, cardio-vascular, bone, and muscle systems to the microgravity of spaceflight; psychological and sociological issues of living in a confined, isolated, and stressful environment; operational space medicine, such as crew selection, training and in-flight health monitoring, countermeasures and support; results of space biology experiments on individual cells, plants, and animal models; and the impact of long-duration missions such as the human mission to Mars. The author also provides a detailed description of how to fly a space experiment, based on his own experience with research projects conducted onboard Salyut-7, Mir, Spacelab, and the Space Shuttle. Now is the time to look at the future of human spaceflight and what comes next. The future human exploration of Mars captures the imagination of both the public and the scientific community. Many physiological, psychological, operational, and scientific issues need to be solved before the first crew can explore the enigmatic Red Planet. This book also identifies the showstoppers that can be foreseen and what we need to learn to fully understand the implications and risks of such a mission.

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Fundamentals of Semiconductors : Physics and Materials Properties

This third updated edition of Fundamentals of Semiconductors attempts to fill the gap between a general solid-state physics textbook and research articles by providing detailed explanations of the electronic, vibrational, transport, and optical properties of semiconductors. The approach is physical and intuitive rather than formal and pedantic. Theories are presented to explain experimental results. This textbook has been written with both students and researchers in mind. Its emphasis is on understanding the physical properties of Si and similar tetrahedrally coordinated semiconductors. The explanations are based on physical insights. Each chapter is enriched by an extensive collection of tables of material parameters, figures, and problems. Many of these problems "lead the student by the hand" to arrive at the results.

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Fundamentals of Robotic Mechanical Systems : Theory, Methods, and Algorithms

Fundamentals of Robotic Mechanical Systems, Third Edition addresses robots at large - such as multi-fingered hands, walking machines, flight simulators, and machine tools - that rely on mechanical systems to perform their tasks. The author establishes the foundations on which the design, control, and implementation of the underlying mechanical subsystems are based. The treatment assumes familiarity with some calculus, linear algebra, and elementary mechanics; however, the elements of rigid-body mechanics and linear transformations are reviewed in the first chapters, making the presentation self-contained.

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Fundamentals of Renal Pathology

This book will provide the general pathologist, pathology residents and fellows in training, the renal pathologist, and the nephrologist and nephrology resident, with a compact and up-to-date resource on the basics of renal pathology. Beginning with the basic concepts and methods in renal pathology, the text covers renal anatomy, including gross and miscroscopic appearance and pathogenic mechanisms in renal diseases.

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Fundamentals of Protein Structure and Function

This book serves as an introduction to the fundamentals of protein structure and function. Starting with their make up from simple building blocks called amino acids, the 3-dimensional structure of proteins is explained. This is followed by an introduction into enzymology and modern concepts of enzyme kinetics, taking into account the physiological and medical significance of this often neglected topic.

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