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The AI Book : The Artificial Intelligence Handbook for Investors, Entrepreneurs and FinTech Visionaries
The AI Book aggregates diverse expertise into a single, informative volume and explains what artifical intelligence really means and how it can be used across financial services today. Key industry developments are explained in detail, and critical insights from cutting-edge practitioners offer first-hand information and lessons learned.
The ADME encyclopedia : A comprehensive guide on biopharmacy and pharmacokinetics
Covers pharmacokinetic phenomena (Absorption, Distribution, Metabolism and Excretion processes) and their relationship with the design of pharmaceutical carriers and the success of drug therapies. It covers both basic and advanced knowledge, serving as introductory material for students of biomedical careers and also as reference, updated material for graduates and professionals working in any field related to pharmaceutical sciences (medicine, pharmaceutical technology, materials science, medicinal chemistry). Structured as alphabetically ordered entries with cross-references, the Encyclopedia not only provides basic knowledge on ADME processes, but also detailed entries on some advanced subjects such as drug transporters, last generation pharmaceutical carriers, pharmacogenomics, personalized medicine, bioequivalence studies, biowaivers, biopharmaceuticals, gene delivery, pharmacometrics, pharmacokinetic drug interactions or in silico and in vitro assessment of ADME properties
The ABCs of Gene Cloning
The ABCs of Gene Cloning serves as a clear and easy-to-use text that offers the reader an introductory course on the language of gene cloning. It assumes no prior knowledge on the part of the reader, while emphasizing the 'nuts and bolts' of gene cloning. The ABCs of Gene Cloning enables the reader to distinguish between a gene and a DNA, to read and write a gene sequence, to talk intelligently about gene cloning, to attend seminars without getting completely lost, and to comprehend materials in scientific publications.
Textbook of preclinical conservative dentistry
Provides latest information in field of conservative dentistry. Second edition includes many new topics. Self-assessment questions conclude each chapter to assist revision.
Textbook of conservative and restorative dentistry
Presents an updated version of the current concepts of conservative and restorative dentistry. Recent concepts have been highlighted, especially the chapters on dentin hybridization (bonding), composites, lasers, diagnosis and diagnostic aids, and minimal invasive dentistry, keeping in mind their clinical significance in day-to-day practice. Written in a lucid language, the text is replete with self-explanatory photographs and diagrams, well reinforced with clinical photographs for easy understanding of the subject. The keynotes are presented in box format for quick access and easy understanding.
Text, Speech and Dialogue ; 5th International Conference, TSD 2002, Brno, Czech Republic September 9-12, 2002. Proceedings
This volume contains proceedings of the 5th International Conference Speech and Dialogue (TSD) Conference, held in Brno, Czech Republic, September 9–12, 2002. It was international forum about the basic ?elds of NLP. the communication between man and computers has displayed a one-way nature, humans have to know how the - chines work and only then can they “understand” them. The opposite, however, is still quite far from being real, our understanding of how our “user-friendly” computers can understand us humans is not deep enough yet. A lot of work has to be done both in the near and distant future. Let TSD 2002 be a modest contribution to this goal. The conference also serves well in its second purpose: to facilitate researchers meeting in the NLP ?eld from Western and Eastern Europe.
Testing Software and Systems ; 32nd IFIP WG 6.1 International Conference, ICTSS 2020, Naples, Italy, December 9–11, 2020, Proceedings
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 32nd IFIP WG 6.1 International Conference on Testing Software and Systems, ICTSS 2020, which was supposed to be held in Naples, Italy, in December 2020, but was held virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The 17 regular papers and 4 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 43 submissions. ICTSS is a series of international conferences addressing the conceptual, theoretic, and practical problems of testing software systems, including communication protocols, services, distributed platforms, middleware, embedded and cyber-physical systems, and security infrastructures. The papers are organized in the topical sections named: model-based testing; security testing; testing methods and applications; testing methods and automation; and short contributions.
Testing of Materials and Elements in Civil Engineering ; Vol. II
Presents recent developments in the field of testing of materials and elements in civil engineering. For this reason, the articles highlighted in this editorial relate to different aspects of this topic, from building materials to building structures. The current trend in the development of materials testing in civil engineering is mainly concerned with the detection of flaws and defects in elements and structures using destructive, semidestructive, and nondestructive testing
Test and Analysis of Web Services
The service-oriented approach has become more and more popular, now allowing highly integrated and yet heterogeneous applications. Web services are the natural evolution of conventional middleware technologies to support Web-based and enterprise-level integration. The highly dynamic characteristics of service-oriented applications means their validation is a continuous process that often runs in parallel with execution. It is not possible to clearly distinguish between the predeployment validation of a system and its use, nor is it possible to guarantee that the checks passed at a certain time will be passed at a later time and in the actual execution environment as well.
Terrorism Informatics : Knowledge Management and Data Mining for Homeland Security
Terrorism informatics has been defined as the application of advanced methodologies, information fusion and analysis techniques to acquire, integrate process, analyze, and manage the diversity of terrorism-related information for international and homeland security-related applications. The wide variety of methods used in terrorism informatics are derived from Computer Science, Informatics, Statistics, Mathematics, Linguistics, Social Sciences, and Public Policy and these methods are involved in the collection of huge amounts of information from varied and multiple sources and of many types in numerous languages. Information fusion and information technology analysis techniques—which include data mining, data integration, language translation technologies, and image and video processing—play central roles in the prevention, detection, and remediation of terrorism.
Terrestrial Ecosystems in a Changing World
Over 100 authors present 25 contributions on the impacts of global change on terrestrial ecosystems including: key processes of the earth system such as the CO2 fertilization effect, shifts in disturbances and biome distribution, the saturation of the terrestrial carbon sink, and changes in functional iodiversity, ecosystem services such the production of wheat, pest control, and carbon storage in croplands, and sensitive regions in the world threaten by rapid changes in climate and land use such as high latitudes ecosystems, tropical forest in Southeast Asia, and ecosystems dominated by Monsoon climate.The book also explores new research developments on spatial thresholds and nonlinearities, the key role of urban development in global biogeochemical processes, and the integration of natural and social sciences to address complex problems of the human-environment system.
Term Structure Modeling and Estimation in a State Space Framework
It introduces the AMGM models and gives the exact form for the yields and their moment structures. … the book is well-presented with sufficient references, and can serve as a reference for researchers in macroeconomics and financial mathematics.
Term Rewriting and Applications ; 18th International Conference, RTA 2007, Paris, France, June 26-28, 2007, Proceedings
This volume contains the papers presented at the 18th International Conference on Rewriting Techniques and Applications (RTA 2007), which was held during June 26–28, 2007, on the campus of the Conservatoire National des Arts et M´etiers (CNAM) in Paris, France.
Tensors : The Mathematics of Relativity Theory and Continuum Mechanics
Tensors: The Mathematics of Relativity Theory and Continuum Mechanics, by Anadijiban Das, emerged from courses taught over the years at the University College of Dublin, Carnegie-Mellon University and Simon Fraser University. This book will serve readers well as a modern introduction to the theories of tensor algebra and tensor analysis.
Temporal dimensions of landscape ecology : Wildlife responses to variable resources
In Temporal Dimensions of Landscape Ecology: Wildlife Responses to Variable Resources, the authors discuss the effects that temporal changes in resources have on animal populations.
Telecommunications Planning : Innovations in Pricing, Network Design and Management
Focuses on the latest methodological developments in three key areas---pricing of telecommunications services, network design, and resource allocation. These three elements are most relevant to current telecommunications planning. The first five chapters cover global deregulation of the telecommunications industry, effective pricing and revenue management, as well as an understanding of competitive pressures are key factors that will improve revenue in telecommunications companies. These chapters present some novel ideas related to pricing (including auction-based pricing of network bandwidth) and modeling competition in the industry. The next seven chapters outline what successful telecommunications companies of the future will need to do in order to minimize their costs and still meet customer expectations. In this context the optimal design/provisioning of telecommunication networks plays an important role. These chapters focus on network design for a wide range of technologies including SONET, SDH, WDM, and MPLS. They include the latest research developments related to the modeling and solving of network design problems. The final six chapters provide insightful solutions to several resource allocation problems. Day-to-day management/control of telecommunications networks is dependant upon the optimal allocation of resources.
Telecommunications Modeling, Policy, and Technology
With rapid advances in telecommunications technology there are many new innovative applications. These advances in technology spawn new research problems. This volume is motivated by these advances in technology. Topics range from free-space optical networks to vehicular ad-hoc networks. The research contained in these papers cover a broad spectrum of issues. They range from the design of business models, tools for spectrum auctions, Internet charging schemes, Internet routing policies, and network design problems. Together, they address issues dealing both with engineering design and policy, and it is hoped that these papers will foster new ideas and research in their respective domains.
Technology-oriented customer touchpoints in context of services in retailing : A differentiated analysis on social presence and privacy calculus
Addresses the topic of technology use along different touchpoints in context of different services in retailing, both in offline and online retail, with a total of eight essays. In particular, the interaction of technology use and the frontline employee is also considered and a special focus is placed on aspects of data disclosure by customers. In this context, the essays concentrate in varying degrees on the social interaction between customer, frontline employee and a service-technology, as well as on the balancing of benefits and risks for the customer in a possible disclosure of personal information.
Technology and Global Public Health
Explores the pivotal role played by technology over the past decade in advancing global public health and health care. At present, the global community faces unprecedented healthcare challenges fueled by an aging population, rising rates of chronic disease, and persistent health disparities. New technologies and advancements have the potential to extend the reach of health professionals while improving quality and efficiency of service delivery and reducing costs within the public and the private health systems.
Technologies for E-Services ; Vol. 3811 ; 6th International Workshop, TES 2005, Trondheim, Norway, September 2-3, 2005, Revised Selected Papers
Cnstitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Technologies for E-Services held in September 2005.The nine revised full papers presented together with one keynote article were carefully reviewed and selected from forty submissions for inclusion in the book. As e-services become pervasive, e-service management will play a central role. The workshop's objective is to provide a forum for researchers and practitioners to present new developments and experience reports. The goal of the TES workshop is to identify the technical issues, models, and infrastructures that enable enterprises to provide e-services to other businesses and individual customers.
