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Adam Wanner, Robert A. Sandhaus
This book offers a comprehensive overview of alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency, an inherited condition that leads to lung disease in adults and liver disease in adults and children and is associated with chronic obstructive lung disease in adults. While it is …
Gerhard Paaß, Sven Giesselbach
This open access book provides a comprehensive overview of the state of the art in research and applications of Foundation Models and is intended for readers familiar with basic Natural Language Processing (NLP) concepts. Over the recent years, a revolutionary …

View book details for Advances in Mechanical Engineering, Materials and Mechanics

Selected contributions from the 7th International Conference on Advances in Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics, ICAMEM 2019, December 16-18, 2019, Hammamet, Tunisia
Mohamed Kharrat, Mounir Baccar, Fakhreddine Dammak
This book reports on cutting-edge research in the broad fields of mechanical engineering and mechanics. It describes innovative applications and research findings in applied and fluid mechanics, design and manufacturing, thermal science and materials. A number of industrially relevant recent …
Pablo Zavattieri, Majid Minary, Martha Grady, Kathryn Dannemann, Wendy Crone
Mechanics of Biological Systems, Materials and other topics in Experimental and Applied Mechanics, Volume 4 of the Proceedings of the 2017 SEM Annual Conference & Exposition on Experimental and Applied Mechanics, the fourth volume of nine from the Conference, brings …

View book details for Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence

4th Mediterranean Conference, MedPRAI 2020, Hammamet, Tunisia, December 2022, 2020, Proceedings
Chawki Djeddi, Yousri Kessentini, Imran Siddiqi, Mohamed Jmaiel
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th Mediterranean Conference on Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence, MedPRAI 2020, held in Hammamet, Tunisia, in December 2020. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic the conference was held online.The 24 revised papers presented …
Andrew H. Bass, Joseph A. Sisneros, Arthur N. Popper, Richard R Fay
This book reviews the growing literature that is consistent with the hypothesis that hormones can regulate auditory physiology and perception across a broad range of animal taxa, including humans. Understanding how hormones modulate auditory function has far reaching implications for …

View book details for Good Citizenship for the Next Generation

A Global Perspective Using IEA ICCS 2016 Data
Ernesto Treviño, Diego Carrasco, Ellen Claes, Kerry J. Kennedy
This Open Access book presents an international group of scholars seeking to understand how youth from different cultures relate to modern multidimensional concepts of citizenship, and the roles that education and society have in shaping the views of the worlds …
Antonio Baldi, John M. Considine, Simon Quinn, Xavier Balandraud
Residual Stress, Thermomechanics & Infrared Imaging, Hybrid Techniques and Inverse Problems, Volume 8 of the Proceedings of the 2017 SEM Annual Conference & Exposition on Experimental and Applied Mechanics, the eighth volume of nine from the Conference, brings together contributions …
Paramartha Dutta, Satyajit Chakrabarti, Abhishek Bhattacharya, Soumi Dutta, Celia Shahnaz
This book features research papers presented at the International Conference on Emerging Technologies in Data Mining and Information Security (IEMIS 2022) held at Institute of Engineering & Management, Kolkata, India, during 2325 February 2022. The book is organized in three …

View book details for Fatigue of Materials III

Advances and Emergences in Understanding
Raghavan Srinivasan, M. Ashraf Imam, T.S. Srivatsan
This volume contains papers presented in the third international symposium titled Fatigue of Materials: Advances and Emergences in Understanding held during the Materials Science and Technology 2014 meeting. The book contains contributions from engineers, technologists, and scientists from academia, research …

View book details for Recent Developments in the Numerics of Nonlinear Hyperbolic Conservation Laws

Lectures Presented at a Workshop at the Mathematical Research Institute Oberwolfach, Germany, Jan 15 21, 2012
Rainer Ansorge, Hester Bijl, Andreas Meister, Thomas Sonar
In January 2012 an Oberwolfach workshop took place on the topic of recentdevelopments in the numerics of partial differential equations. Focus was laidon methods of high order and on applications in Computational Fluid Dynamics. The book covers most of the …

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Selected Papers from the International Conference on Water Jet 2019 - Research, Development, Applications, November 20-22, 2019, Celadna, Czech Republic
Dagmar Klichová, Libor Sitek, Sergej Hloch, Joško Valentinčič
This book reports on recent advances in the rapidly growing field of high-speed water jet technology, discussing research, developments and applications related to cutting, machining, repair of structures and buildings, cleaning, removal of coatings and layers, mining, and abrasive materials. …
Katsutoshi Yada
Virtually all nontrivial and modern service related problems and systems involve data volumes and types that clearly fall into what is presently meant as "big data", that is, are huge, heterogeneous, complex, distributed, etc.Data mining is a series of processes …
Lorna Tilley, Alecia A. Schrenk
New Developments in the Bioarchaeology of Care evaluates, refines and expands existing concepts and practices in the developing field of bioarchaeological research into health-related care provision in the past.Evidence in human remains that indicates an individual survived with, or following, …
Shakhbaz A. Yershin
This book, on the general topic of hydroaerodynamics, investigates a number of exciting applications in this field, addressing specifically issues that allow seemingly paradoxical issues to be dealt with. The first part is devoted to the study of channel flows, …
Anis Laouiti, Amir Qayyum, Mohamad Naufal Mohamad Saad
Vehicular communication is a key technology in intelligent transportation systems. For many years now, the academic and industrial research communities have been investigating these communications in order to improve efficiency and safety of future transportation. Vehicular networking offers a wide …

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Mechanical Approaches to Stroke Prevention in Atrial Fibrillation
Jacqueline Saw, Saibal Kar, Matthew J. Price
Percutaneous left atrial appendage (LAA) closure is an emerging technology for thromboembolic prevention in patients with atrial fibrillation (AF). The first human implantation of an LAA device occurred in 2001, and since then four devices have received CE mark approval. …
Miaowen Wen, Xiang Cheng, Liuqing Yang
This book presents a thorough examination of index modulation, an emerging 5G modulation technique. It includes representative transmitter and receiver design, optimization, and performance analysis of index modulation in various domains. First, the basic spatial modulation system for the spatial …
Sukanta Das, Genaro J. Martinez
This book gathers selected research papers presented at the First Asian Symposium on Cellular Automata Technology (ASCAT 2022), organized online by academicians from Kolkata, India, during March 35, 2022. The book presents one of the most emergent areas in natural …
Alexei V. Samsonovich, Ricardo R. Gudwin, Alexandre da Silva Simões
The book focuses on original approaches intended to support the development of biologically inspired cognitive architectures. It bridges together different disciplines, from classical artificial intelligence to linguistics, from neuro- and social sciences to design and creativity, among others. The chapters, …
Srikanta Patnaik, Xin-She Yang, Kazumi Nakamatsu
The book provides readers with a snapshot of the state of the art in the field of nature-inspired computing and its application in optimization. The approach is mainly practice-oriented: each bio-inspired technique or algorithm is introduced together with one of …

View book details for Remaking Transitional Justice in the United States

The Rhetorical Authorization of the Greensboro Truth and Reconciliation Commission
James Edward Beitler III
Remaking Transitional Justice in the United States: The Rhetoric of the Greensboro Truth and Reconciliation Commission explores rhetorical attempts to authorize the Greensboro Truth and Reconciliation Commissiona grassroots, U.S.-based truth commission created in 2004 toredress past injustices in the city. …

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Integrating Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency in Mitigation and Adaptation Responses
Walter Leal Filho, Franziska Mannke, Romeela Mohee, Veronika Schulte, Dinesh Surroop
The book addresses the perceived need for a publication with looks at both, climate smart technologies and the integration of renewable energy and energy efficiency in mitigation and adaptation responses. Based on a set of papers submitted as part of …
Peter Róna, László Zsolnai, Agnieszka Wincewicz-Price
This open access book examines from a variety of perspectives the disappearance of moral content and ethical judgment from the models employed in the formulation of modern economic theory, and some of the papers contain important proposals about how moral …

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DREAMS, DSOGRI, SERENE 2021, Munich, Germany, September 13, 2021, Proceedings
Rasmus Adler, Amel Bennaceur, Simon Burton, Amleto Di Salle, Nicola Nostro, Rasmus Løvenstein Olsen, Selma Saidi, Philipp Schleiss, Daniel Schneider, Hans-Peter Schwefel
This book constitutes refereed proceedings of the Workshops of the 17th European Dependable Computing Conference, EDCC: Second Worskhop on Dynamic Risk Management for Autonomous Systems, DREAMS 2021, Third Workshop on Dependable Solutions for Intelligent Electricity Distribution Grids, DSOGRI 2021, 13th …
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