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Disarmament, Demobilisation and Reintegration of Ex-Combatants in Africa
by Ibrahim BanguraThis book critically examines the approaches to Disarmament, Demobilisation and Reintegration (DDR) of ex-combatants programming in Africa. Drawing on empirical evidence from across the continent, the book investigates the different theories, contextual realities and approaches that have informed the establishment and implementation of such programmes, the opportunities they have provided for stability, peace and security, and the challenges with which they have contended. The book combines broader theoretical analysis with country-specific case studies, including Nigeria, the Central African Republic, South Sudan, Somalia, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Burundi, Zimbabwe, South Africa, and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Overall, the book asks how DDR programming has evolved in Africa, what factors have contributed to the success or failure of DDR processes, and what we can expect for DDR in Africa in the future. This book will be a useful guide for students and researchers across the fields of Peace and Conflict Studies, Security Studies, History, Political Science, Sociology, and African Studies.
Smart Multimedia
by Stefano Berretti and Anup BasuThis book constitutes the proceedings of the First International Conference on Smart Multimedia, ICSM 2018, which was held in Toulon, France, in August 2018. The 39 papers presented were selected from about 100 submissions and are grouped in sections on social, affective and cognition analysis, person-centered smart multimedia: serving people with disabilities to the general population, haptic and robots for smart multimedia applications, MR, 3D, underwater image processing, smart signal processing meets smart sensing, visual behavior analysis: methods and applications, video analysis, learning, low-level vision, miscellaneous.
Smart Multimedia
by Stefano Berretti and Anup BasuThis book constitutes the proceedings of the First International Conference on Smart Multimedia, ICSM 2018, which was held in Toulon, France, in August 2018. The 39 papers presented were selected from about 100 submissions and are grouped in sections on social, affective and cognition analysis, person-centered smart multimedia: serving people with disabilities to the general population, haptic and robots for smart multimedia applications, MR, 3D, underwater image processing, smart signal processing meets smart sensing, visual behavior analysis: methods and applications, video analysis, learning, low-level vision, miscellaneous.
Smart Multimedia
by Stefano Berretti and Anup Basu and Troy McDaniel and Igor D. D. CurcioThis book constitutes the proceedings of the Second International Conference on Smart Multimedia, ICSM 2019, which was held in San Diego, CA, USA, in December 2019. The 45 papers presented were selected from about 100 submissions and are grouped in sections on 3D mesh and depth image processing; image understanding; miscellaneous; smart multimedia for citizen-centered smart living; 3D perception and applications; video applications; multimedia in medicine; haptics and applications; smart multimedia beyond the visible spectrum; machine learning for multimedia; image segmentation and processing; biometrics; 3D and image processing; and smart social and connected household products.
Smart Multimedia
by Stefano Berretti and Anup Basu and Troy McDaniel and Igor D. D. CurcioThis book constitutes the proceedings of the Second International Conference on Smart Multimedia, ICSM 2019, which was held in San Diego, CA, USA, in December 2019. The 45 papers presented were selected from about 100 submissions and are grouped in sections on 3D mesh and depth image processing; image understanding; miscellaneous; smart multimedia for citizen-centered smart living; 3D perception and applications; video applications; multimedia in medicine; haptics and applications; smart multimedia beyond the visible spectrum; machine learning for multimedia; image segmentation and processing; biometrics; 3D and image processing; and smart social and connected household products.
Smart Multimedia
by Guan-Ming Su and Stefano BerrettiThis book constitutes the proceedings of the Third International Conference on Smart Multimedia, ICSM 2022, which was held in Marseille, France, during August 25–27, 2022.The 30 full papers and 4 short paper presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 68 submissions. The contributions were organized in topical sections as follows: Machine Learning for Multimedia; Image Processing; Multimedia Applications; Multimedia for Medicine and Health-Care; Smart Homes; Multimedia Environments and Metaverse; Deep Learning on Video and Music; Haptic; Industrial.
Smart Multimedia
by Guan-Ming Su and Stefano BerrettiThis book constitutes the proceedings of the Third International Conference on Smart Multimedia, ICSM 2022, which was held in Marseille, France, during August 25–27, 2022.The 30 full papers and 4 short paper presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 68 submissions. The contributions were organized in topical sections as follows: Machine Learning for Multimedia; Image Processing; Multimedia Applications; Multimedia for Medicine and Health-Care; Smart Homes; Multimedia Environments and Metaverse; Deep Learning on Video and Music; Haptic; Industrial.
Bharat Ki Videsh Niti (Competitive Exam)
by Vijay Kumar Bhatiyaवर्तमान पुस्तक भारतीय विदेश नीति पाठ्यक्रम के लिए दिल्ली विश्वविद्यालय के छात्रों की महसूस की गई जरूरत का परिणाम है। भारतीय विदेश नीति की किताब विशेष रूप से MA और BA (ऑनर्स) पॉलिटिकल साइंस के छात्रों के लिए CBCS सिलेबस और BA (ऑनर्स) पॉलिटिकल साइंस स्कूल ऑफ ओपन लर्निंग दिल्ली विश्वविद्यालय के छात्रों के लिए है। पुस्तक इग्नू के छात्रों के लिए भी उपयोगी है, विशेष रूप से भारत और विश्व के राजनीति विज्ञान के पेपर के लिए और क्षेत्र अध्ययन कार्यक्रम के छात्रों के लिए भी फायदेमंद होगी। पुस्तक घरेलू स्रोतों के बुनियादी मुद्दों और भारत की विदेश नीति की उत्पत्ति, विकास और अभ्यास पर संरचनात्मक विश्लेषण से संबंधित है। पुस्तक के सभी अध्याय अच्छी तरह से लिखा है। पुस्तक में सभी समकालीन मुद्दों को शामिल किया गया है इस पुस्तक में भारत अमेरिका संबंधों, भारत रूस संबंधों, भारत चीन संबंधों आदि जैसे विषयों को शामिल किया गया है। यह पुस्तक अनुसंधान और शिक्षण के बहुत उपयोगी है।
Machine Learning for Data Streams
by Bernhard Pfahringer and Albert Bifet and Ricard Gavalda and Geoff HolmesA hands-on approach to tasks and techniques in data stream mining and real-time analytics, with examples in MOA, a popular freely available open-source software framework. Today many information sources—including sensor networks, financial markets, social networks, and healthcare monitoring—are so-called data streams, arriving sequentially and at high speed. Analysis must take place in real time, with partial data and without the capacity to store the entire data set. This book presents algorithms and techniques used in data stream mining and real-time analytics. Taking a hands-on approach, the book demonstrates the techniques using MOA (Massive Online Analysis), a popular, freely available open-source software framework, allowing readers to try out the techniques after reading the explanations. The book first offers a brief introduction to the topic, covering big data mining, basic methodologies for mining data streams, and a simple example of MOA. More detailed discussions follow, with chapters on sketching techniques, change, classification, ensemble methods, regression, clustering, and frequent pattern mining. Most of these chapters include exercises, an MOA-based lab session, or both. Finally, the book discusses the MOA software, covering the MOA graphical user interface, the command line, use of its API, and the development of new methods within MOA. The book will be an essential reference for readers who want to use data stream mining as a tool, researchers in innovation or data stream mining, and programmers who want to create new algorithms for MOA.
An Introduction to Computational Fluid Mechanics by Example
by Chuen-Yen Chow and Sedat BiringenThis new book builds on the original classic textbook entitled: An Introduction to Computational Fluid Mechanics by C. Y. Chow which was originally published in 1979. In the decades that have passed since this book was published the field of computational fluid dynamics has seen a number of changes in both the sophistication of the algorithms used but also advances in the computer hardware and software available. This new book incorporates the latest algorithms in the solution techniques and supports this by using numerous examples of applications to a broad range of industries from mechanical and aerospace disciplines to civil and the biosciences. The computer programs are developed and available in MATLAB. In addition the core text provides up-to-date solution methods for the Navier-Stokes equations, including fractional step time-advancement, and pseudo-spectral methods. The computer codes at the following website: www.wiley.com/go/biringen
An Introduction to Computational Fluid Mechanics by Example
by Chuen-Yen Chow and Sedat BiringenThis new book builds on the original classic textbook entitled: An Introduction to Computational Fluid Mechanics by C. Y. Chow which was originally published in 1979. In the decades that have passed since this book was published the field of computational fluid dynamics has seen a number of changes in both the sophistication of the algorithms used but also advances in the computer hardware and software available. This new book incorporates the latest algorithms in the solution techniques and supports this by using numerous examples of applications to a broad range of industries from mechanical and aerospace disciplines to civil and the biosciences. The computer programs are developed and available in MATLAB. In addition the core text provides up-to-date solution methods for the Navier-Stokes equations, including fractional step time-advancement, and pseudo-spectral methods. The computer codes at the following website: www.wiley.com/go/biringen
Civil Services Chronicle August 2020 – Competitive Exam
by Chronicle BooksCivil Services Chronicle August 2020 has the following highlights. Readers will find it best for all their Civil Services Competitive Exams and General Knowledge. Issue Analysis 1.Prelims Special Government Schemes 2.Prelims 2020 Mock Test Series 8 3.Indo-China Clash in Eastern Ladakh 4.Indispensability of Media Ethics in the Age of Information Explosion 5.Addressing Drug Abuse in India 6.Task Force to Examine MMR 7.OBC Sub-Categorisation Commission 8.Essential Commodities Act 9.Amended to Boost Farm Sector 10.IN-SPACe: Indian National Space (a)Parliament Promotion and Authorisation Centre 11.New EPR Framework for Plastic Waste Management 12.India-Australia: Comprehensive Strategic Partnership
Civil Services Chronicle December 2020 - Competitive Exam
by Chronicle BooksCivil Services Chronicle December 2020 has the following highlights. Readers will find it best for all their Civil Services Competitive Exams and General Knowledge. A. Mains 2020 Exclusive Topics With In - Depth Analysis 1)Examining the Utility of Article 142 2)Defence Sector in India 3)Biodiversity Conservation 4)Wildlife Conservation in India 5)Geographical Analysis of Pollution in North India 6)Intellectual Property Rights in India 7)Rights vs Duties 8)Rights and Responsibilities of Civil Servants B. Issue Analysis 1)India's Water Woes 2)Right to Protest in India 3)Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict: A threat to Regional Security & Energy Markets 4)Carbon Tax and India 5)Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation (Adaptation of Central Laws) Third Order, 2020 6)National Authority for Recycling of Ships 7)Commission for Air Quality Management 8)Basic Exchange & Cooperation Agreement 9)Nobel in Physics, Chemistry and Medicine
Civil Services Chronicle July 2020 - Competitive Exam
by Chronicle BooksCivil services chronicle is a premium magazine for preparing for civil services exams in India. July 2020 issue focuses on the all major issues which an aspirant would want it. Recent National and international development and a detailed analysis on these issues win enlighten the aspirant’s ability to deeply observe and dissect various viewpoints.
Civil Services Chronicle November 2020 - Competitive Exam
by Chronicle BooksCivil Services Chronicle November 2020 has the following highlights. Readers will find it best for all their Civil Services Competitive Exams and General Knowledge. A. Mains 2020 Exclusive Topics Mains 2020 With In Depth Analysis i.Social Media and the Need for its Regulation ii.Financial Inclusion Framework of India iii.Liberalisation of Indian Agriculture iv.Banking Sector Reforms v.Prison Reforms in India vi.Judicial Reforms in India vii.Labour Reforms in India viii.Child Labour in India ix.Blue Revolution B. Issue Analysis Gender Equality: Equal is Better i.Electronics Manufacturing in India ii.Transformations in West Asia : amidst Growing US-Israel Engagement iii.Mission Karmayogi: Ushering in the Civil Services Reforms Parliament iv.Vodafone Retrospective: Taxation Case v.A New Push for Namami Gange Programme vi.National Sero Survey 2.0 vii.IBSA Foreign Minister's Meet viii.KV Kamath Committee: Resolution Framework for Covid-19 Related Stress
Civil Services Chronicle October 2020 - Competitive Exam
by Chronicle BooksCivil Services Chronicle October2020 has the following highlights. Readers will find it best for all their Civil Services Competitive Exams and General Knowledge.A. Exclusive Topics SpecialGovt. Initiatives, Impact, Challenges and Way Forward 1.Cyber Security Framework of India 2.Chemical Disaster Management3.Flood Management4.Factoring Diaspora in India’s Growth Story5.Tapping India’s Demographic Dividend6.Gender Discrimination in India7.PRELIMS 2020 Most Probable Current Questions B.ISSUE ANALYSIS1.Militarisation of Space2.National Strategy for Financial Education3.National Digital Health Mission4.Transparent Taxation-Honoring the Honest5.Contempt of Court 6.Harnessing Frontier Technologies for Sustainable Development7.Supply Chain Resilience initiative 8.Microplastic Pollution: An Oceanic Menace9.Impending Threat from Sunspot Activity & Solar Flares10.India’s Smart Power Geostrategy in South Asia
Civil Services Chronicle September 2020- Competitive Exam
by Chronicle BooksCivil Services Chronicle September 2020 has the following highlights. Readers will find it best for all their Civil Services Competitive Exams and General Knowledge. Issue Analysis 1.PRELIMS 2020 Mock Test Series 9 2.2019-2020 General Studies 3.Current Affairs Synopsis 4.Decriminalising Politics 5.Psychosocial and Behavioural Impacts of COVID-19 6.Menace of Electronic Waste: Global and Indian Scenario 7.New Education Policy 2020 8.Pre-Packaged Deals : In Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code 9.Chabahar Rail Project 10.India-UK Free Trade Agreement 11.Covaxin: Indigenous Vaccine for COVID-19 12.India's Second Voluntary National Review.
A Unifying Framework for Formal Theories of Novelty
by Terrance Boult and Walter ScheirerThis book presents the first unified formalization for defining novelty across the span of machine learning, symbolic-reasoning, and control and planning-based systems. Dealing with novelty, things not previously seen by a system, is a critical issue for building vision-systems and general intelligent systems. The book presents examples of using this framework to define and evaluate in multiple domains including image recognition image-based open world learning, hand-writing and author analysis, CartPole Control, Image Captioning, and Monopoly. Chapters are written by well-known contributors to this new and emerging field. In addition, examples are provided from multiple areas, such as machine-learning based control problems, symbolic reasoning, and multi-player games.
A Unifying Framework for Formal Theories of Novelty
by Terrance Boult and Walter ScheirerThis book presents the first unified formalization for defining novelty across the span of machine learning, symbolic-reasoning, and control and planning-based systems. Dealing with novelty, things not previously seen by a system, is a critical issue for building vision-systems and general intelligent systems. The book presents examples of using this framework to define and evaluate in multiple domains including image recognition image-based open world learning, hand-writing and author analysis, CartPole Control, Image Captioning, and Monopoly. Chapters are written by well-known contributors to this new and emerging field. In addition, examples are provided from multiple areas, such as machine-learning based control problems, symbolic reasoning, and multi-player games.
Ex-Combatants, Religion, and Peace in Northern Ireland
by David Mitchell and John D. Brewer and Gerard LeaveyStudies of Northern Ireland's ex-combatants ignore religion, while advocates of religious interventions in transitional justice exaggerate its influence. Using interview data with ex-combatants, this book explores religious influences upon violence and peace, and develops a model for evaluating the role of religion in transitional justice.
Ex-Combatants’ Voices
by John D. Brewer and Azrini WahidinThis book develops the discourse on the experiences of ex-combatants and their transition from war to peace, from the perspective of scholars across disciplines. Ex-combatants are often overlooked and ignored in the post-conflict search for memory and understanding, resulting in their voice being excluded or distorted. This collection seeks to disclose something of the lived experience of ex-combatants who have made the transition from war to peace to help to understand some of the difficulties they have encountered in social and emotional reintegration in the wake of combat. These include: motivations and mobilizations to participation in military struggle; the material difficulties experienced in social reintegration after the war; the emotional legacies of conflict; the discourses they utilize to reconcile their past in a society moving forward from conflict toward peace; and ex-combatants’ subsequent engagement – or not – in peacebuilding. It also examines the contributions that former combatants have made to post-conflict compromise, reconciliation and peacebuilding. It focusses on male non-state actors, women, child soldiers and, unusually, state veterans, and complements previous volumes which captured the voices of victims in Northern Ireland, South Africa and Sri Lanka. This volume speaks to those working in the areas of sociology, criminology, security studies, politics, and international relations, and professionals working in social justice and human rights NGOs.
Ex-Combatants’ Voices
by John D. Brewer and Azrini WahidinThis book develops the discourse on the experiences of ex-combatants and their transition from war to peace, from the perspective of scholars across disciplines. Ex-combatants are often overlooked and ignored in the post-conflict search for memory and understanding, resulting in their voice being excluded or distorted. This collection seeks to disclose something of the lived experience of ex-combatants who have made the transition from war to peace to help to understand some of the difficulties they have encountered in social and emotional reintegration in the wake of combat. These include: motivations and mobilizations to participation in military struggle; the material difficulties experienced in social reintegration after the war; the emotional legacies of conflict; the discourses they utilize to reconcile their past in a society moving forward from conflict toward peace; and ex-combatants’ subsequent engagement – or not – in peacebuilding. It also examines the contributions that former combatants have made to post-conflict compromise, reconciliation and peacebuilding. It focusses on male non-state actors, women, child soldiers and, unusually, state veterans, and complements previous volumes which captured the voices of victims in Northern Ireland, South Africa and Sri Lanka. This volume speaks to those working in the areas of sociology, criminology, security studies, politics, and international relations, and professionals working in social justice and human rights NGOs.
A Perspective on Agent Systems
by Krzysztof CetnarowiczThis monograph presents the concept of agents and agent systems. It starts with a formal approach and then presents examples of practical applications. In order to form the principles of construction of autonomous agents, a model of the agent is introduced. Subsequent parts of the monograph include several examples of applications of the term agent. Descriptions of different examples of applications of agent systems in such fields as evolution systems, mobile robot systems, artificial intelligence systems are given. The book constitutes an outline of methodology of the design and realization of agent systems based on the M-agent architecture oriented on different areas of applications.
A Perspective on Agent Systems
by Krzysztof CetnarowiczThis monograph presents the concept of agents and agent systems. It starts with a formal approach and then presents examples of practical applications. In order to form the principles of construction of autonomous agents, a model of the agent is introduced. Subsequent parts of the monograph include several examples of applications of the term agent. Descriptions of different examples of applications of agent systems in such fields as evolution systems, mobile robot systems, artificial intelligence systems are given. The book constitutes an outline of methodology of the design and realization of agent systems based on the M-agent architecture oriented on different areas of applications.