This book introduces the students, researchers and practitioners into the subject and enabling technologies and applications pertaining to of technology, entrepreneurship and business development through research articles, case studies etc.

Vegetation, Boden und Klima sind die wichtigsten Komponenten ökologischer Systeme. Das Buch stellt eine kompakte Synthese unseres aktuellen Wissens dar über die Ökologie der Erde und ist damit die Basis für das Verständnis der großen Zusammenhänge in globaler Sicht.

This book gathers the latest advances in the field of history of science and technology, as presented by leading international researchers at the 8th International Symposium on History of Machines and Mechanisms (HMM), held in Ankara, Turkey on April 18-20, 2024. The Symposium, which was promoted by the permanent commission for the History of Machine and Mechanism Science (MMS) of IFToMM, provided an international forum to present and discuss historical developments in the field of MMS. The contents cover all aspects of the development of MMS from antiquity until the present era and its historiography: modern reviews of past works, engineers in history and their works, the development of theories, history of the design of machines and mechanisms, historical developments of mechanical design and automation, historical developments of teaching, the history of schools of engineering, the education of engineers. The contributions, which were selected by means of a rigorous international peer-review process, highlight numerous exciting ideas that will spur novel research directions and foster multidisciplinary collaborations.

This book brings together papers presented at the 2023 International Conference on Communications, Signal Processing, and Systems, which provides a venue to disseminate the latest developments and to discuss the interactions and links between these multidisciplinary fields. Spanning topics ranging from Communications, Signal Processing, and Systems, this book is aimed at undergraduate and graduate students in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science and Mathematics, researchers and engineers from academia and industry as well as government employees (such as NSF, DOD, DOE).

This book includes novel and state-of-the-art research discussions that articulate and report all research aspects, including theoretical and experimental prototypes and applications that incorporate sustainability into emerging applications.

This book comprises the best deliberations with the theme “Smart Innovations in Mezzanine Technologies, Data Analytics, Networks and Communication Systems” in the “International Conference on Advances in Computer Engineering and Communication Systems (ICACECS 2020)”, organized by the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, VNR Vignana Jyothi Institute of Engineering and Technology.
The book provides insights on the recent trends and developments in the field of computer science with a special focus on the mezzanine technologies and creates an arena for collaborative innovation. The book focuses on advanced topics in artificial intelligence, machine learning, data mining and big data computing, cloud computing, Internet on things, distributed computing and smart systems.

This book traces the development of landscapes along the 414-kilometer China–Laos Railway, one of the first infrastructure projects implemented under China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and which is due for completion at the end of 2021.

This Atlas provides a complete set of images of Local Group Galaxies (excluding the three for which identification atlases are already in print) and shows the most important objects, including many thousands of individual stars and interstellar objects.

This two-volume set constitutes the proceedings of the Third International Conference on Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence, ICPRAI 2022, which took place in Paris, France, in June 2022.
The 98 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 192 submissions. The papers present new advances in the field of pattern recognition and artificial intelligence. They are organized in topical sections as follows: pattern recognition; computer vision; artificial intelligence; big data.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Advanced Concepts for Intelligent Vision Systems, ACIVS 2018, held in Poitiers, France, in September 2018.
The 52 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 91 submissions. They were organized in topical sections named: video analysis; segmentation and classification; remote sending; biometrics; deep learning; coding and compression; and image restauration and reconstruction.

Seeking redemption and a shortened prison sentence, young convict Bode Donovan joins a firefighting program that returns him to his small Northern California hometown, where he and other inmates work alongside elite firefighters to extinguish massive blazes across the region.

The aim of this book is to facilitate the identification and description of the different organs as well as pathogens and diseases affecting the most representative species of cephalopods focussed on Sepia officinalis, Loligo vulgaris and Octopus vulgaris. These species are valuable ‘morphotype’ models and belong to the taxonomic groups Sepioidea, Myopsida and Octopoda, which include most of the species with a high market value and aquaculture potential.

In a small Michigan town where the business of incarceration is the only thriving industry, the McClusky family are the power brokers between the police, criminals, inmates, prison guards and politicians in a city completely dependent on prisons and the prisoners they contain.

This book is a collection of the most recent approaches that combine metaheuristics and machine learning. Some of the methods considered in this book are evolutionary, swarm, machine learning, and deep learning. The chapters were classified based on the content; then, the sections are thematic. Different applications and implementations are included; in this sense, the book provides theory and practical content with novel machine learning and metaheuristic algorithms.