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Trends in Sustainable Computing and Machine Intelligence: Proceedings of ICTSM 2023 (Algorithms for Intelligent Systems)
by Surekha Lanka Antonio Sarasa-Cabezuelo Alexandru TuguiThe book is a collection of best selected research papers presented at International Conference on Trends in Sustainable Computing and Machine Intelligence (ICTSM 2023) organized by Stamford International University, Bangkok, Thailand, during October 5–6, 2023. The book includes original research by researchers working in the field of machine learning. The book covers important topics like decision support systems, neural networks and applications, machine learning, natural language processing, automated problem solving, AI and evolutionary algorithms, intelligent information systems, computational intelligence, computer vision and image processing, cognitive and biologically inspired vision, soft computing and applications, hybrid intelligent systems, distributed computing, pattern recognition and analysis, ubiquitous and high-performance computing, security, trust and privacy, big data for sustainable computing, and energy-aware machine learning.
Trends in Sustainable Smart Cities and Territories (Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems #732)
by Luis Fernando Castillo Ossa Gustavo Isaza Óscar Cardona Omar Danilo Castrillón Juan Manuel Corchado Rodriguez Fernando De la Prieta PintadoThis book presents the latest scientific and technical advances in the fields of Smart Cities and Smart Territories. It shows outcomes of 2nd Sustainable Smart Cities and Territories International Conference in Manizales (Colombia) on June 21–23, 2023. The concept of smart cities, which emerged in the early 2000s, attempts to solve these challenges by implementing information and communication technologies. The initial concept of smart cities focused on the modernization of megacities.
Trends in the Analysis and Design of Marine Structures: Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Marine Structures (MARSTRUCT 2019, Dubrovnik, Croatia, 6-8 May 2019)
by Carlos Guedes Soares Joško Parunov'Trends in the Analysis and Design of Marine Structures' contains the papers presented at the 7th International Conference on Marine Structures (MARSTRUCT 2019, Dubrovnik, Croatia, 6-8 May 2019). The topics covered in the book include: • Methods and tools for loads and load effects • Methods and tools for strength assessment • Experimental analysis of structures • Materials and fabrication of structures • Methods and tools for structural design and optimization • Structural reliability, safety and environmental protection • Maritime industry 'Trends in the Analysis and Design of Marine Structures' will be of interest to academics and professionals interested in marine and offshore structures.
Trends in the Innovation Ecosystem
by Steve Olson Institute of Medicine National Academy of Engineering National Academy Of Sciences Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy Maria Dahlberg Policy and Global AffairsInnovation has been a major engine of American economic and societal progress. It has increased per capita income more than sevenfold since the 19th century, has added three decades to the average lifespan, has revolutionized the way we communicate and share information, and has made the United States the strongest military power in the world. Without its historical leadership in innovation, the United States would be a very different country than it is today. Trends in the Innovation Ecosystem is the summary of two workshops hosted by the Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy (COSEPUP) of the National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, and Institute of Medicine in February and May, 2013. Experts from industry, academia, and finance met to discuss the challenges involved in innovation pathways. Both workshops focused on the interactions between research universities and industry and the concept of innovation as a "culture" as opposed to an operational method. The goal was to gain a better understanding of what key factors contributed to successful innovations in the past, how today's environment might necessitate changes in strategy, and what changes are likely to occur in the future in the context of a global innovation ecosystem. This report discusses the state of innovation in America, obstacles to both innovation and to reaping the benefits of innovation, and ways of overcoming those obstacles.
Trends in Urban Design: Insights for the Future Urban Professional (Contemporary Urban Design Thinking)
by Rob RoggemaUrban planning practice will undergo significant changes in the upcoming decades, due to major changes and challenges the world has to deal with, such as loss of biodiversity loss, climate change impacts, agricultural transformation, water management issues and health. The way the urban professional has to relate to this new order is explored in this book by collecting a series of conversational chapters with local, regional, national and international experts in the fields of urban planning and design, urban and building development, building and construction industry, architecture, governments and academia. The unification of a desirable future with real world processes such as economic and decision-making practice is key. Moreover, the attitude of the future urban professional will more and more shift from an expert in a specific field to a communicative advisor in complex processes.
Trends in Veterinary Sciences
by Alberto Gaiti Cristiano Boiti Antonio Pugliese Adriana FerlazzoVeterinary science is continuously achieving important developments in all its fields as a result of continuous technological advances in diagnostic tools and applied biology. This book contains 33 papers that were selected from those presented at the 65th Congress of the Italian Society for Veterinary Sciences held at Tropea-Drapia in 2011. It provides a timely overview of the current progress being made by Italian researchers and is of great value to anyone interested in all fields of veterinary science, both theoretical and applied, ranging from animal health and care to animal production and food hygiene.
Trends in Wireless Communication and Information Security: Proceedings of EWCIS 2020 (Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering #740)
by Mithun Chakraborty Raman Kr. Jha Valentina Emilia Balas Samarendra Nath Sur Debdatta KandarThis book presents best selected papers presented at the International Conference on Emerging Wireless Communication Technologies and Information Security (EWCIS 2020), held from 8th & 9th October 2020 at Amity University Jharkhand, Ranchi, India. The book includes papers in the research area of wireless communications and intelligent systems, signal and image processing in engineering applications, data communication and information security, IoT and cloud computing. The contribution ranges from scientists, engineers and technologists from academia as well as from industry.
Trends of the Agricultural Sector in Era 4.0 (SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology)
by Vítor João MartinhoThis book describes the impact on the agricultural sector worldwide of Era 4.0, highlighting the relationships between agriculture, food and industry (4.0). The main topics discussed are those associated with IoT in various sectors of the economy and its impacts on farming sustainability. It provides insights for policy makers, students, researchers and economic stakeholders.
Trends on Active Learning Methods and Emerging Learning Technologies (Lecture Notes in Educational Technology)
by Francisco José García-Peñalvo María Luisa Sein-Echaluce Ángel Fidalgo-BlancoThis book uncovers the crucial issues in learning technologies in this digital transformation moment, specifically within the COVID-19 umbrella effects. Remote learning, educational technologies, or distance learning are usually used topics by teachers, students, and researchers because the educational context should be transformed and even reinvented itself drastically. Technologies have been used more intensively in the last year than during the last decade. However, what is the effect of these "new" technologies on the teaching and learning methodologies? Are teachers and students fully digital competent to integrate these technologies in their teaching and learning activities? In this book, the authors claim to go forward that the online teaching conception to replicate the face-to-face teaching through a camera. They propose adapting the active methodologies to the online or hybrid context, which is a challenge that must be corroborated with rigorous educational research.
Trends on Construction in the Digital Era: Proceedings of ISIC 2022 (Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering #306)
by António Gomes Correia Miguel Azenha Paulo J. S. Cruz Paulo Novais Paulo PereiraThese proceedings address the latest developments in the broad area of intelligent construction integrated in the mission of the International Society for Intelligent Construction (ISIC) which aims to promote intelligent construction technologies applications from the survey, design, construction, operation, and maintenance/rehabilitation by adapting to changes of environments and minimizing risks. Its goals are to improve the quality of construction, cost-saving, and safety, exploring fundamental issues related to the application and use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning techniques and technology. ISIC 2022 is the 3rd ISIC international conference, held in Guimarães, Portugal on September 6–9, 2022, and follows the previous successful instalments of the conference series in China (2019) and USA (2017). It took a holistic approach to integrate civil engineering, construction machinery, electronic sensor technology, survey/testing technologies, information technology/computing, and other related fields in the broad area of intelligent construction. The respective contributions cover the following topics: Artificial Intelligence for Design and the Built Environment, Building Information Modelling (BIM) and Construction Automation and Robotics, Intelligent Construction, Sustainable Construction, and Sustainable and Smart Infrastructures. Given its broad range of coverage, the book will benefit students, educators, researchers and professionals practitioners alike, encouraging these readers to help the intelligent construction community into the digital era and with a vision on societal issues.
Trends und Entwicklungstendenzen im Qualitätsmanagement: Bericht zur GQW-Jahrestagung 2021 in Cottbus
by Ralf Woll Christine GoldmannZielsetzung der Gesellschaft für Qualitätswissenschaft e.V. ist es, die Qualitätswissenschaft in Lehre und Forschung zu fördern und den Wissenstransfer in die industrielle Anwendung zu unterstützen. Geschehen soll dies unter anderem durch Pflege des wissenschaftlichen Erfahrungsaustauschs unter den auf diesem Gebiet tätigen Personen und Institutionen und der Verbreitung von Forschungs- und Entwicklungsergebnissen sowie der Unterstützung des Wissenstransfers zwischen Forschung und Praxis. Die Jahrestagung 2021 der Gesellschaft für Qualitätswissenschaft fand gemeinsam mit der Brandenburgischen Technischen Universität Cottbus - Senftenberg unter der Leitung von Prof. Dr.-Ing. Ralf Woll im September 2021 in Cottbus statt. Leitthema der Tagung war "Trends und Entwicklungstendenzen im Qualitätsmanagement". Der Tagungsband beinhaltet die eingereichten und begutachteten Beiträge, die im Rahmen der Tagung präsentiert worden sind. Diese decken ein weites thematisches Spektrum ab, von Potentialen neuronaler Netze zur Fehlervermeidung, automatisierte Maßnahmenempfehlung in Softwareentwicklungsprozessen über die zeitliche Veränderung von Kundenanforderungen bis hin zur Sicherheitskultur in der Agrar- und Ernährungsbranche.
Trepanation (Studies on Neuropsychology, Development, and Cognition)
by Robert Arnott Stanley Finger C.U.M. SmithThis volume will look at the history of trepanation, the identification of skulls, the tools used to make the cranial openings, and theories as to why trepanation might have been performed many thousands of years ago.
Tres Semanas La Ultima Primavera
by Victoria HowardFriday Harbor es un pueblo pequeño y pintoresco en el Noroeste Pacífico, y un paraíso para los pescadores y regatistas. Para Skye Dunbar, es el lugar donde ella superará el dolor de un corazón roto, y donde recuperará su vida. Alquilando una cabaña al lado de la orilla, lo último que espera es ser acusada de hackear computadoras. Jedediah Walker está investigando los seres marinos muertos que son traídos a las playas por la marea. Cuando descubre que los peces contienen una concentración alta de químicos tóxicos, él sospecha que alguien está desechándolos deliberadamente en Puget Sound. Al ser rápido de llegar a conclusiones, sospecha que la mujer con cabello castaño rojizo que está alquilando su cabaña se encuentra involucrada de alguna manera. Skye intenta ignorarlo, pero la necesidad los junta al tener dificultades en encontrar los responsables de la atrocidad ambiental.
Trex
by Christyne MorrellThis middle grade mystery follows the adventures of a boy with an experimental brain implant, and a reclusive girl training to be a spy, as they're pitted against school bullies, their own parents, and an evil, brain-hacking corporation. Perfect for fans of Stranger Things. Trex&’s experimental brain implant saved his life—but it also made his life a lot harder. Now he shocks everything he touches. When his overprotective mother finally agrees to send him to a real school for sixth grade, Trex is determined to fit in.He wasn&’t counting on Mellie the Mouse. She lives in the creepiest house in Hopewell Hill, where she spends her time scowling, lurking, ignoring bullies, and training to be a spy. Mellie is convinced she saw lightning shoot from Trex&’s fingertips, and she is Very Suspicious.And she should be . . . but not of Trex. Someone mysterious is lurking in the shadows . . . someone who knows a dangerous secret.
Triadic Game Design
by Casper HarteveldMany designers, policy makers, teachers, and other practitioners are beginning to understand the usefulness of using digital games beyond entertainment. Games have been developed for teaching, recruiting and to collect data to improve search engines. This book examines the fundamentals of designing any game with a serious purpose and provides a way of thinking on how to design one successfully. The reader will be introduced to a design philosophy called "Triadic Game Design."; a theory that all games involve three worlds: the worlds of Reality, Meaning, and Play. Each world is affiliated with aspects. A balance needs to be found within and between the three worlds. Such a balance is difficult to achieve, during the design many tensions will arise, forcing designers to make trade-offs. To deal with these tensions and to ensure that the right decisions are made to create a harmonic game, a frame of reference is needed. This is what Triadic Game Design offers.
Trial by Fire (Ryan Drake)
by Will JordanA CIA agent must go into Ukraine to find a compromised source in this international thriller novella. Tech specialist Keira Frost has just graduated to the big leagues. But despite numerous commendations for outstanding achievement and a tour of duty under her belt, it&’s her reputation for insubordination that precedes her. Tasked with proving she can take orders with Agency field ops, Keira is eager to get started. But her new CO Ryan Drake is not going to make it easy. As the team is sent to the wasteland of Pripyat, the town devastated by the disaster of Chernobyl, radiation is far from the only danger waiting for them . . .
The Trial of Galileo: Aristotelianism, the New Cosmology, and the Catholic Church 1616-1633 (Reacting to the Past Series)
by Michael S. Pettersen; Frederick Purnell; Mark C. CarnesIn The Trial of Galileo the new science, as brilliantly propounded by Galileo Galilei, collides with the elegant cosmology of Aristotle, Aquinas, and medieval Scholasticism. The game is set in Rome in the early decades of the seventeenth century. Most of the debates occur within the Holy Office, the arm of the papacy that supervises the Roman Inquisition. At times action shifts to the palace of Prince Cesi, founder of the Society of the Lynx-Eyed, which promotes the new science, and to the lecture halls of the Jesuit Collegio Romano. Some students assume roles as faculty of the Collegio Romano and the secular University of Rome, the Sapienza. Others are Cardinals who seek to defend the faith from resurgent Protestantism, the imperial ambitions of the Spanish monarch, the schemes of the Medici in Florence, and the crisis of faith throughout Christendom. Some embrace the “new cosmology,” some denounce it, and still others are undecided. The issues range from the nature of faith and the meaning of the Bible to the scientific principles and methods as advanced by Copernicus, Kepler, Tycho Brahe, Giordano Bruno, and Galileo. Central texts include Aristotle’s On the Heavens and Posterior Analytics; Galileo’s Starry Messenger (1610), Letter to Grand Duchess Christina (1615) and Dialogue on the Two Chief World Systems (1632); the declarations of the Council of Trent; and the Bible. <p><p> Reacting to the Past is a series of historical role-playing games that explore important ideas by re-creating the contexts that shaped them. Students are assigned roles, informed by classic texts, set in particular moments of intellectual and social ferment. <p> An award-winning active-learning pedagogy, Reacting to the Past improves speaking, writing, and leadership skills, promotes engagement with classic texts and history, and builds learning communities. Reacting can be used across the curriculum, from the first-year general education class to “capstone” experiences. A Reacting game can also function as the discussion component of lecture classes, or it can be enlisted for intersession courses, honors programs, and other specialized curricular purposes.
The Triangle Fire: A Brief History with Documents
by Jo Ann E. ArgersingerThis book documents the historical Triangle factory fire of 1911 in New York which took the lives of 146 workers--most of them young immigrant women-- and became a powerful symbol of the peril industrial workers faced. Chronology, questions for consideration, a selected bibliography, and an index will enrich students' understanding of this historical moment.
Triaxial Testing of Soils
by Poul V. LadeTriaxial Testing of Soils explains how to carry out triaxial tests to demonstrate the effects of soil behaviour on engineering designs. An authoritative and comprehensive manual, it reflects current best practice and instrumentation.References are made throughout to easily accessible articles in the literature and the book?s focus is on how to obtain high quality experimental results.
Tribo-Behaviors of Biomaterials and their Applications: Fundamentals, Recent Advancements, and Future Trends
by Jawahar Paulraj Prasun Chakraborti V. Anandakrishnan S. SathishkumarTribo-Behaviors of Biomaterials and Their Applications enables the reader to make an informed choice in the selection of biomaterials that aid the creation of safe and long-lasting surgical devices. Looking at metals, ceramics, and polymers with craniofacial, cardiovascular, spinal, dentistry, and orthopedic applications, this book is an essential guide to tribology in biomaterials.Handling wear within biodevices is a pressing issue due to the continuous friction and corrosion within the body. It is further complicated by the involvement of body fluids, which can lead to revision surgery to relieve pain. In order to lessen this, engineers can choose a biomaterial better suited to the application. Including detailed discussion of the properties of each biomaterial, this book covers the behaviors of implants, along with the methods and standards applied to devices. It has chapters on metals, ceramics, and polymers. It also covers body fluid lubrication and the physiological effects they have on implants, along with their tribo-corrosion behaviors.This book will be of interest to engineers and researchers in the field of biomechanical engineering, biomedical engineering, materials science, and manufacturing engineering, alongside all those researching tribology and nanocomposites.
Tribo-Informatics: The Systematic Fusion of AI and Tribology
by Zhinan Zhang Nian YinThis book details how artificial intelligence and other informatic methods can be applied to the field of tribology. Using problems often found within tribological condition monitoring, behaviour prediction, system optimization and mechanism analysis, the book covers methods used such as Artificial Neural Networks (ANN).Including case studies throughout, the book offers an accessible introduction to tribological research, beginning with background on the theory behind tribo-informatics, and updates in the latest technology. It describes how to establish a tribo-informatics database, methods through which to express tribo-systems such as Artificial Neural Networks (ANN), Support Vector Machines (SVM), K-Nearest Neighbor (KNN), and Random Forest (RF), and its applications. It can be used in state monitoring, behaviour prediction and system optimization. Through case studies, practical examples of how tribo-informatics can be implemented are shown throughout various industries.This book will be of interest to students and researchers in the field of tribology, friction, wear and artificial intelligence.
Tribocorrosion (SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology)
by Nuria Espallargas Stefano Mischler Anna Igual MunozThis book is a toolbox for identifying and addressing tribocorrosion situations from an engineering point of view. It is an accessible and introductory guideline to the emerging and interdisciplinary field of tribocorrosion covering the main concepts of tribology and corrosion. It describes specific tribocorrosion concepts, models and experimental techniques as well as their application to practical situations in which mechanical and chemical phenomena act simultaneously.
Triboelectric Devices for Power Generation and Self-Powered Sensing Applications
by Lokesh DhakarThis thesis describes the working design principles of triboelectric mechanism-based devices. It presents an extensive study undertaken to explain the effect of surface topographies on the performance of triboelectric nanogenerators. It demonstrates the application of triboelectric mechanisms in the area of physical sensing such as force sensing and pressure sensing. It also discusses the major fabrication methods/techniques that can be used to realize these devices. It is a valuable reference resource for graduate students, researchers and scientists interested in exploring the potential of triboelectric mechanisms for energy harvesting and other applications.
Triboelectric Nanogenerators
by Zhong Lin Wang Long Lin Jun Chen Simiao Niu Yunlong ZiThis book introduces an innovative and high-efficiency technology for mechanical energy harvesting. The book covers the history and development of triboelectric nanogenerators, basic structures, working principles, performance characterization, and potential applications. It is divided into three parts: Part A illustrates the fundamental working modes of triboelectric nanogenerators with their prototype structures and theoretical analysis; Part B and Part C introduce two categories of applications, namely self-powered systems and self-powered active sensors. The book will be an ideal guide to scientists and engineers beginning to study triboelectric nanogenerators or wishing to deepen their knowledge of the field. Readers will be able to place the technical details about this technology in context, and acquire the necessary skills to reproduce the experimental setups for fabrication and measurement.