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This new multithematic book in the series Advances and Technical Standards in Neurosurgery offers an update on several basic and…
clinical problems in neurosurgery. The main topics are cerebral tumors, epilepsy and vascular malformations. The first chapter will deal with the burden of childhood cancer across the globe, a particular relevant problem in times where economic restrictions and the increased difficulties to access cure are the direct impact of the Covid19 pandemic. A very detailed chapter will provide new guidelines for neuroimaging investigations for intracerebral pathological conditions of surgical interest in the pediatric population. The technical aspects and technological advances in the surgical management of cerebral midline tumors will be covered by several chapters focusing of the optic pathways’ tumors, third ventricle tumors, mesencephalon and pineal body tumors. An update on Chiari malformations and syringomyelia, on the surgical management of epilepsy and on cerebral aneurysms and pediatric spinal vascular malformations will be provided in the remaining contributions. All chapters contribute to an important advancement in the relevant fields, thus offering a valuable contribution to the management of difficult clinical conditions.Green Machine Learning Protocols for Future Communication Networks
Par Mubashir Husain Rehmani, Saim Ghafoor. 2024
Machine learning has shown tremendous benefits in solving complex network problems and providing situation and parameter prediction. However, heavy resources…
are required to process and analyze the data, which can be done either offline or using edge computing but also requires heavy transmission resources to provide a timely response. The need here is to provide lightweight machine learning protocols that can process and analyze the data at run time and provide a timely and efficient response. These algorithms have grown in terms of computation and memory requirements due to the availability of large data sets. These models/algorithms also require high levels of resources such as computing, memory, communication, and storage. The focus so far was on producing highly accurate models for these communication networks without considering the energy consumption of these machine learning algorithms. For future scalable and sustainable network applications, efforts are required toward designing new machine learning protocols and modifying the existing ones, which consume less energy, i.e., green machine learning protocols. In other words, novel and lightweight green machine learning algorithms/protocols are required to reduce energy consumption which can also reduce the carbon footprint. To realize the green machine learning protocols, this book presents different aspects of green machine learning for future communication networks. This book highlights mainly the green machine learning protocols for cellular communication, federated learning-based models, and protocols for Beyond Fifth Generation networks, approaches for cloud-based communications, and Internet-of-Things. This book also highlights the design considerations and challenges for green machine learning protocols for different future applications.Ghosted: A brand new unmissable and haunting mystery
Par Mark McCrum. 2023
A wealthy man is shocked to discover that he&’s dead—and worse yet, he must find out who it was that…
killed him . . . Adam Albury, a successful architect, finds himself at a funeral in his local church. Scanning the aisles and seeing his family and friends dressed somberly in black, he&’s shocked to learn the service is for him. Adam, now no more than a hovering spirit, is even more astonished to hear his death was ruled a suicide. The ghostly Adam is quite certain he wouldn&’t have harmed himself. As he watches those close to him chuck handfuls of earth on his coffin, he realizes he&’s been murdered. But who is responsible? And why? Adam may be a ghost, but he&’s no angel. As he follows his suspicions round those still living, he has more than a few surprises in store . . .Praise for Mark McCrum&’s Francis Meadowes Mysteries &“A marvellous set of unsavoury suspects . . . good, nasty fun.&” —The Mail on Sunday, Thriller of the Week &“A rollicking read.&” —London Evening Standard &“Ingenious.&” —The IndependentThe book addresses a relevant field of digital processing and measurement of signals in distribution networks. The importance of the…
covered topic is evidenced by extensive foreign and domestic professional literature, in the form of publications in leading international journals, and numerous professional and scientific books. For the past two decades, the author has published a number of papers both in international journals and at leading world conferences, further verifying the results he has achieved in this field. It should be noted that he is also the holder of several national patents, which were created precisely as a result of working on the problems of processing complex signals of voltage and current. Readers of this book will be the students of master and doctoral studies both in the country and abroad and experts in the field of signal processing. It is a valuable source for future authors of professional and scientific papers, as a basis on which to start when developing completely new techniques for processing complex signals not only in the power system, but also in other fields of engineering and everyday life.Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Administrative Science (Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research #776)
Par Abdul Rahman, Septiana Dwiputrianti, Muhamad Nur Afandi. 2024
This is an open access book.Central Themes:“Administrative Reform Toward Collaborative and Digital Governance Era”.The main objective of the international conference…
is to identify and understand the opportunities and challenge of the sustainable development goals in the new normal era.Formulating the knowledge and experiences in regard to the sustainable development goals in the new normal era.Understanding the effect in multiple perspectives such us social, politics, political economy, governance, paradigm shift, economy, business, environmental, security, human resources management etc.Creating innovation in public policy and administration which is adaptive and sensitive to the multiplier effect of decision making and process made by the public sector governance in the pandemic era.Developing networking and partnership with international academicians, expertise and professionals in arrange of filed in business, public policy, administration, political economy, development etc.Proceedings of the 7th Global Conference on Business, Management, and Entrepreneurship (Advances in Economics, Business and Management Research #255)
Par Ade Gafar Abdullah, Ratih Hurriyati, Sulastri, Lisnawati, Lili Adi Wibowo, Yusuf Murtadlo. 2024
This is an open access book.WELCOME THE 7TH GCBME. We would like to invite you to join our The 7th…
Global Conference on Business, Management and Entrepreneurship. The conference will be held online on digital platform live from Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia in Bandung, West Java, Indonesia, on August 8th, 2022 with topic The Utilization of Sustainable Digital Business, Entrepreneurship and management as A Strategic Approach in the New Normal Era.Die Rolle des CDO in der digitalen Transformation: Potenziale und Herausforderungen für Unternehmen (essentials)
Par Markus H. Dahm, Marielena Winter. 2023
Dieses Buch gibt einen Einblick in die Herausforderungen und Chancen, die mit der Rolle des CDO verbunden sind. Es beschäftigt…
sich mit Fragen wie: Welche Kompetenzen sollte ein CDO mitbringen? Wie sieht die Zusammenarbeit mit anderen Führungskräften aus? Welche Rolle spielt der CDO in der Unternehmenskultur und wie kann er diese verändern? Zudem wird die Bedeutung des CDO für die digitale Transformation von Unternehmen aufgezeigt. Wie können Unternehmen von einem CDO profitieren und wie können sie den digitalen Wandel erfolgreich gestalten?This book examines users’ digital content contribution and consumption behavior from a social perspective. Digital content is everywhere—from search results…
on search engines to posts on social media. Incentivizing users to contribute abundant content and motivating users to engage in and pay for digital content are vital for online platforms, especially those relying on digital content generated by users. This book develops a theoretical framework to incorporate social influence, including social presence, social interaction, social comparison, social loafing, and social relationships, in users’ digital content contribution and consumption decisions. Further, using a large volume of data from online platforms, the author empirically studies the role of social interaction in digital content provision and monetization from the supply side. Also, regarding the digital content demand side, this book explores how to boost content consumption via social motives and social norms. The book enriches the understanding of social influence in digital content contribution and consumption and provides practical suggestions for digital platforms’ mechanism design.Controlling digitaler Behördenkommunikation: Wie öffentliche Institutionen ihre digitale Kommunikation steuern und ihre Kommunikationsleistung messen können
Par Bernhard Hirsch, Birgit Grain. 2023
Das Buch zeigt, wie Behörden ihre digitalen Kommunikationsprozesse mit Unterstützung eines umfassenden Kommunikationscontrollings steuern und die Kommunikationsleistung messen können. Digitale…
Behördenkommunikation gilt als zukunftsweisendes Thema, weil sie große Potenziale für die Bürgerzufriedenheit und die Effektivität und Effizienz von Verwaltungsprozessen birgt. Theoretisch fundiert und mit Praxisbeispielen erläutern die Autoren die Grundlagen des Kommunikationscontrollings, die Zielsetzung digitaler Kommunikationsmaßnahmen öffentlicher Institutionen sowie die besonderen Herausforderungen bei der Leistungsmessung digitaler Kommunikationsprozesse. Sie zeigen Lösungsansätze auf, wie Behörden belastbare Leistungskennzahlen für das Controlling ihrer digitalen Kommunikationsmaßnahmen ableiten können. Zudem geben sie Handlungsempfehlungen, um die digitale Transformation voranzutreiben und eine effektive Messung und Steuerung der Kommunikationsleistung weiter zu optimieren – ergänzt um praxisnahe Tipps, wie die Einführung eines Kommunikationscontrollings in Behörden gelingt. Langjährig erfahrene Kommunikationsprofis aus Bundes- und Landesbehörden bereichern dieses Werk zudem mit ihren Erfahrungen aus dem Kommunikationsalltag.Sex in Cetaceans: Morphology, Behavior, and the Evolution of Sexual Strategies
Par Bernd Würsig, Dara N. Orbach. 2023
Sex in Cetaceans provides an up-to-date review of multi-faceted aspects related to mating and reproduction in toothed and baleen whales.…
This open access book begins with discussions of sexual selection and anatomical traits related to mating and diversity between the sexes. The functions of non-conceptive copulations are reviewed as are different research techniques applied to explore sex in cetaceans. Authors and editors build knowledge of female and male social, mating, and parental strategies and tactics for several specific toothed dolphin/porpoise/whale species and baleen whale species. It concludes with a discussion of potential conservation efforts and ways to help especially beleaguered species and populations the world over. The volume is intended as a major primer of cetacean sex for undergraduate and graduate students, new and established researchers in the field, and the public wishing to learn more.This book offers a solution to one of film history’s major controversies: the long-running dispute over Orson Welles’ and Herman…
J. Mankiewicz’s contributions to the Citizen Kane screenplay. It establishes the vital importance of computing and statistics to solving previously intractable puzzles in the arts and humanities. Citizen Kane (1941) is one of the most acclaimed films in the history of cinema. For 50 years it topped the Sight & Sound film critics’ poll. Orson Welles directed the film and is credited with co-writing the screenplay with Herman J. Mankiewicz. But the co-writer credit generates furious disputes between those who argue Mankiewicz is the sole author of Citizen Kane and those who claim that Welles collaborated fully with its writing. The author employs computing and statistics to answer two questions: What are the distinguishing features of Welles’ and of Mankiewicz’s writing? And What did each contribute to the writing of the Citizen Kane screenplay? To answer these questions, the author bypasses opinions and impressions, and instead subjects the language of the Citizen Kane screenplay to a ‘forensic’ examination. Employing linguistics, basic statistical tests, plus computer technology and software, the author identifies the stylistic signature of each author – the combination of consistent and regular linguistic habits that make each author’s writing distinctive. This book replaces impressionistic discussions of Mankiewicz’s and Welles’ contributions to the Citizen Kane screenplay with a rigorous, experiment-driven statistical analysis. Earlier statistical studies of authorship have discovered that small, unassuming language features (such as punctuation, pronouns, and prepositions) in statistically significant quantities, constitute a screenwriter’s distinctive writing habits. Only with the extensive experimentation carried out in this volume, did the author decide Mankiewicz’s and Welles’ specific habits and their contributions to Citizen Kane.The Stray Shopping Carts of Eastern North America: A Guide to Field Identification
Par Julian Montague. 2023
A taxonomy we didn’t know we needed for identifying and cataloging stray shopping carts by artist and photographer Julian Montague.…
Abandoned shopping carts are everywhere, and yet we know so little about them. Where do they come from? Why are they there? Their complexity and history baffle even the most careful urban explorer. Thankfully, artist Julian Montague has created a comprehensive and well-documented taxonomy with The Stray Shopping Carts of Eastern North America. Spanning thirty-three categories from damaged, fragment, and plow crush to plaza drift and bus stop discard, it is a tonic for times defined increasingly by rhetoric and media and less by the plain objects and facts of the real world. Montague’s incomparable documentation of this common feature of the urban landscape helps us see the natural and man-made worlds—and perhaps even ourselves—anew. First published in 2006 to great perplexity and acclaim alike, Montague’s book now appears in refreshed and expanded form. Told in an exceedingly dry voice, with full-color illustrations and photographs throughout, it is both rigorous and absurd, offering a strangely compelling vision of how we approach, classify, and understand the environments around us. A new afterword sheds light on the origins of the project.Die Lust auf Neues: Ein Essay über Kreativität
Par Peter Rinderle. 2023
Vor dem Hintergrund der Tatsache, dass innovatives Handeln in der Gegenwart eine große Wertschätzung erfährt, unternimmt das Buch eine Untersuchung…
des Begriffs, des Ursprungs, des Werts und der Spielarten der Kreativität. Kreativität ist immer ein bewusstes Menschenwerk, das überraschende Neuigkeiten hervorbringt; dabei können solche Neuigkeiten durchaus unterschiedlich bewertet werden und auch ihre Schattenseiten haben. Zur Anwendung kommt die Lust auf Neues in allen Bereichen des Lebens – in den Künsten und in den Wissenschaften, im Privatleben und in der Politik, bei Beziehungen zu anderen Personen und bei der Beziehung zu uns selbst. Das Buch geht detailliert auf die multiplen Facetten des Phänomens ein. Ob auch künstliche Intelligenzen zu kreativen Leistungen in der Lage sind, ist heute eine wichtige und stark umstrittene Frage, deren Antwort nicht zuletzt vom Begriff der Kreativität abhängen wird. Als besonders förderlich für die Ausbildung und Ausübung einer Lust auf Neues haben sich das Nichtstun, die Langeweile und Tagträumereien erwiesen.Food Politics, Activism and Alternative Consumer Cooperatives
Par Zeynep Özsoy, Beyza Oba. 2023
Following the global financial crisis of 2008, there has been significant interest among scholars and activists in alternative forms of…
organization that operate according to noncapitalist logic, including Alternative Consumer Cooperatives (ACCs). Using the example of Turkey, where neoliberal economics combined with authoritarian politics formed conditions that have profound social and economic consequences, this book investigates ACCs as spaces for prefigurative food politics. Offering a novel perspective on alternative forms of organizing, this book challenges the easy assumptions of what it means to be a scholar working on activism in the global north and shows how, through the foundational values of solidarity, reciprocity and responsibility, it is possible to create new and imaginative forms of politics and activism.Inter-Organizational Relations and World Order: Re-Pluralizing the Debate
Par David Brewster, Ulrich Franke and Martin Koch. 2023
Within international relations scholarship, the nature of international organizations and their relationship with each other and nation-states has been widely…
contested. This edited volume brings together a team of experts to shed new light on inter-organizational relations in world politics. The book covers areas from the rule of law and international security to business and sport. Through its analysis, it demonstrates that, just as inter-organizational relations themselves are diverse and complex, research on this topic should also be pluralistic in order to draw new and valuable results and insights.The NHS at 75: The State of UK Health Policy
Par Mark Exworthy, Russell Mannion and Martin Powell. 2023
In its 75th anniversary year, this book examines the history, evolution and future of the NHS. With contributions from leading…
researchers and experts across a range of fields, such as finance, health policy, primary and secondary care, quality and patient safety, health inequalities and patient and public involvement, it explores the history of the NHS drawing on narrative, evaluative and analytical approaches. The book frames its analysis around the four key axes from which the NHS has evolved: governance, centralisation and decentralisation, public and private, and professional and managerial. It addresses the salient factors which shape the direction and pace of change in the NHS. As such, the book provides a long-term critical review of the NHS and key themes in health policy.ASSAILANT AT LARGE When Hugh and Kate's newborn son is taken to the church to be baptized, they are astounded…
to find that the locked font is completely dry. The possibility of a leak is quickly ruled out, and just as Hugh is beginning to wonder if there may be a sinister explanation for the stolen holy water, Fr Robert is found lying motionless by the rood screen in a pool of blood ... Meanwhile, parliament has passed a poll tax, stipulating that everyone above the age of fourteen is to be treated equally. People are soon scrambling to find the money, while others take the opportunity to exploit their desperation and make some cash... But what connection can there possibly be between this and the events at Bampton? Mel Starr's latest novel is a thoroughly enjoyable medieval crime mystery.Recent welfare reforms, based on austerity narratives and a gender-neutral rationale, have failed to recognise the ways in which women…
and men experience the different demands and rewards of paid employment and unpaid care. This book draws on a wealth of qualitative longitudinal evidence to cast light on women’s lived experiences of welfare and work. Giving voice to social security recipients, this book uncovers the hidden gendered bias of conditional welfare reforms to challenge dominant political discourses, policy design and practice norms. It combines and develops three interdisciplinary perspectives – feminist analysis, lived experience and street-level bureaucracy – to offer a new understanding of British welfare reform policies and practice.Computer, Communication, and Signal Processing. AI, Knowledge Engineering and IoT for Smart Systems: 7th IFIP TC 12 International Conference, ICCCSP 2023, Chennai, India, January 4–6, 2023, Revised Selected Papers (IFIP Advances in Information and Commu
Par Eunika Mercier-Laurent, Xavier Fernando, Aravindan Chandrabose. 2023
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Computer, Communication, and Signal Processing, ICCCSP 2023, held…
in Chennai, India, during January 4–6, 2023, in hybrid mode. The 17 full and 9 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 123 submissions. The papers are categorized into topical sections: artificial intelligence in health care; machine learning and deep learning; signal processing; and Internet of Things for smart systems.Perspectives in Business Informatics Research: 22nd International Conference on Business Informatics Research, BIR 2023, Ascoli Piceno, Italy, September 13–15, 2023, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing #493)
Par Andrea Polini, Knut Hinkelmann, Francisco J. López-Pellicer. 2023
This book constitutes the proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Perspectives in Business Informatics Research, BIR 2023, which took…
place in Ascoli Piceno, Italy, in September 2023. The 20 full and 4 short papers included in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 57 submissions. They cover different aspects of the discipline and are organized in sections on applied business informatics, ICT governance and management, AI applications and use cases in business, business and IS development, and new trends in data governance.