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The Grandest Challenge

Author : Abdallah Daar
Publisher : Anchor Canada
ISBN 13 : 0385667191
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (856 download)

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Download or read book The Grandest Challenge written by Abdallah Daar and published by Anchor Canada. This book was released on 2013-01-15 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Grandest Challenge begins with a simple premise: that every person's life is of equal value, regardless of where in the world he or she lives. It also begins with an alarming fact: that in this age of spectacular scientific advances, it is still those who live in the developed world--mainly the west--who overwhelmingly benefit from our enormous new power to combat disease and enhance food, while those in the developing world are far more likely to die for lack of basic health care and inexpensive nutrition. As personalized medicine, designer drugs, and high-quality nutrients become more readily available than ever in the richest parts of the world, distinguished doctors Abdallah Daar and Peter Singer urge us to pause and ask these vital questions: Who will have access to the life-enhancing advances of biotechnology? And who are these advances ultimately meant to help? In this challenging, controversial, thought-provoking, and humane book, Daar and Singer inspire us to look more deeply at our new science, and at the revolution that is already changing all of our lives.

Grand Challenges in the Field of Earth Science

Author : Collaborative
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
ISBN 13 : 2889197115
Total Pages : 65 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (891 download)

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Download or read book Grand Challenges in the Field of Earth Science written by Collaborative and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2015-11-23 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frontiers in Earth Science is an open-access journal that aims to bring together and publish on a single platform the best research dedicated to our planet. This platform hosts all the rapidly growing and continuously expanding domains in Earth Science, involving the lithosphere (including geology, geophysics, geochemistry, and geography), the hydrosphere (including hydrology and cryospheric, marine and ocean sciences, complementing the existing Frontiers journal on Marine Science) and the atmosphere (including meteorology and climatology). As such, Frontiers in Earth Science focuses on the countless processes operating within and among the major spheres constituting our planet. In turn, the understanding of these processes provides the theoretical background to better use the available resources and to face the major environmental challenges (including earthquakes, tsunamis, eruptions, floods, landslides, climate changes, sea level rise, extreme meteorological events): this is where interdependent processes meet, requiring a holistic view to better live on and with our planet. Within this volume are included the Grand Challenge papers for the Earth Science field, authored by the Field Chief Editor, and several of the 16 online specialty sections, authored by the respective Chief Editors. These articles identify and describe the crucial challenges for Earth Science at the dawn of the 21st century.

Understanding Systems: A Grand Challenge For 21st Century Engineering

Author : Insana Michael F
Publisher : #N/A
ISBN 13 : 9813225971
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (132 download)

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Book Synopsis Understanding Systems: A Grand Challenge For 21st Century Engineering by : Insana Michael F

Download or read book Understanding Systems: A Grand Challenge For 21st Century Engineering written by Insana Michael F and published by #N/A. This book was released on 2017-07-19 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our book presents a unique and original viewpoint on natural and engineered systems. The authors' goal is to propose and explain core principles that govern the formation and function of simple and complex systems. Examples are drawn from a broad range of topics from common materials and manufactured structures to the behavior of cells, organisms and socio-economic organizations. We provide a technical discussion of key engineering principles without the use of mathematics so that we may describe for a general audience how the systems of daily life form, operate, and evolve. We use analogy and illustrations to show how the components self-organize and scale to form complex adaptive systems. In this way we hope to understand how those systems come to be, achieve stability, and suddenly transition to new equilibrium states, including the sudden onset of economic recessions, ecosystem collapse, the evolution of species, development of cancer, and other wide-ranging topics. The existential role of component variability in these processes is emphasized. This book targets engineering instructors and undergraduate students curious to explore the grand challenges facing society today so they might build productive and long-lasting careers in science and technology. The six essays can be used to frame classroom discussions on systems from a broad range of disciplines. The essays are designed to appeal to those with a basic science and engineering background as we illustrate many fundamental engineering concepts in our descriptions of system behavior. We also hope our book appeals to curious members of the general public who are interested in understanding foundational ideas.

The Contributions of Health Care Management to Grand Health Care Challenges

Author : Jennifer L. Hefner
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN 13 : 180117802X
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (11 download)

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Book Synopsis The Contributions of Health Care Management to Grand Health Care Challenges by : Jennifer L. Hefner

Download or read book The Contributions of Health Care Management to Grand Health Care Challenges written by Jennifer L. Hefner and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2021-12-06 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 20th volume of Advances in Health Care Management showcases how health care management research helps to further understand grand challenges in health care: what they are, why they exist, the consequences that they have, and what can be done to address them.

The Agency for International Development and the Millennium Challenge Corporation

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book The Agency for International Development and the Millennium Challenge Corporation written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Soft Computing for Image Processing

Author : Sankar K. Pal
Publisher : Physica
ISBN 13 : 3790818585
Total Pages : 600 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book Soft Computing for Image Processing written by Sankar K. Pal and published by Physica. This book was released on 2013-03-19 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Any task that involves decision-making can benefit from soft computing techniques which allow premature decisions to be deferred. The processing and analysis of images is no exception to this rule. In the classical image analysis paradigm, the first step is nearly always some sort of segmentation process in which the image is divided into (hopefully, meaningful) parts. It was pointed out nearly 30 years ago by Prewitt (1] that the decisions involved in image segmentation could be postponed by regarding the image parts as fuzzy, rather than crisp, subsets of the image. It was also realized very early that many basic properties of and operations on image subsets could be extended to fuzzy subsets; for example, the classic paper on fuzzy sets by Zadeh [2] discussed the "set algebra" of fuzzy sets (using sup for union and inf for intersection), and extended the defmition of convexity to fuzzy sets. These and similar ideas allowed many of the methods of image analysis to be generalized to fuzzy image parts. For are cent review on geometric description of fuzzy sets see, e. g. , [3]. Fuzzy methods are also valuable in image processing and coding, where learning processes can be important in choosing the parameters of filters, quantizers, etc.

Modular Programming Languages

Author : László Böszörményi
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3540452133
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Modular Programming Languages written by László Böszörményi and published by Springer. This book was released on 2003-10-24 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the international Joint Modular Languages Conference, JMLC 2003, held in Klagenfurt, Austria in August 2003. The 17 revised full papers and 10 revised short papers presented together with 5 invited contributions were carefully reviewed and selected from 47 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on architectural concepts and education, component architectures, language concepts, frameworks and design principles, compilers and tools, and formal aspects and reflective programming.

Compiler Construction

Author : Görel Hedin
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3540365796
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Compiler Construction written by Görel Hedin and published by Springer. This book was released on 2003-07-01 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Compiler Construction, CC 2003, held in Warsaw, Poland, in April 2003. The 20 revised full regular papers and one tool demonstration paper presented together with two invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 83 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on register allocation, language constructs and their implementation, type analysis, Java, pot pourri, and optimization.

Perspectives of Systems Informatics

Author : Manfred Broy
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3540208135
Total Pages : 587 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Perspectives of Systems Informatics written by Manfred Broy and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2004-01-13 with total page 587 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed postconference proceedings of the 5th International Andrei Ershov Memorial Conference, PSI 2003, held in Akademgorodok, Novosibirsk, Russia in July 2003. The 55 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 110 submissions during two rounds of evaluation and improvement. The papers are organized in topical sections on programming, software engineering, software education, program synthesis and transformation, graphical interfaces, partial evaluation and supercompilation, verification, logic and types, concurrent and distributed systems, reactive systems, program specification, verification and model checking, constraint programming, documentation and testing, databases, and natural language processing.

Simulation in Engineering and Technology

Author : Ashu Gupta, Abdalla Alameen
Publisher : Notion Press
ISBN 13 : 1948146789
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (481 download)

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Download or read book Simulation in Engineering and Technology written by Ashu Gupta, Abdalla Alameen and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2017-11-21 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Computer simulation modeling is a discipline gaining popularity in both the government and industry. It can assist in the design, creation and evaluation of complex systems. Designers, program managers, analysts and engineers use computer simulation modeling to understand and evaluate ‘what if’ case scenarios. One can model a real or proposed system using computer software, which is useful when changes to the actual system are difficult to implement, involve high costs or are impractical. Some examples of computer simulation modeling familiar to most of us include weather forecasting, flight simulators used for training pilots and car crash modeling. Modeling & Simulation (M&S) has become an important tool in all phases of the acquisition process and can be used within most systems’ lifecycles, including requirement analysis, architectural design, design and development, tests and verifications and operations and maintenance. The science of modeling and simulation strives to showcase the highest possible level of reality to determine the conditions necessary for optimal performance. Modeling and simulation is a multifaceted and complex field due to the numerous applications involved, particularly since M&S applications range from nuclear reactions to supermarket queuing.

The Grandest Bookshop in the World

Author : Amelia Mellor
Publisher : Affirm Press
ISBN 13 : 1922400432
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (224 download)

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Download or read book The Grandest Bookshop in the World written by Amelia Mellor and published by Affirm Press. This book was released on 2020-09-29 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pearl and Vally Cole live in a bookshop. And not just any bookshop. In 1893, Cole's Book Arcade in Melbourne is the grandest bookshop in the world, brimming with every curiosity imaginable. Each day brings fresh delights for the siblings: voice-changing sweets, talking parrots, a new story written just for them by their eccentric father. When Pearl and Vally learn that Pa has risked the Arcade - and himself - in a shocking deal with the mysterious Obscurosmith, the siblings hatch a plan. Soon they are swept into a dangerous game with impossibly high stakes: defeat seven challenges by the stroke of midnight and both the Arcade and their father will be restored. But if they fail Pearl and Vally won't just lose Pa - they'll forget that he and the Arcade ever existed.

Computer Systems

Author : Andrew James Herbert
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 0387218211
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (872 download)

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Download or read book Computer Systems written by Andrew James Herbert and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-05-07 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An invited collection of peer-reviewed papers surveying key areas of Roger Needham's distinguished research career at Cambridge University and Microsoft Research. From operating systems to distributed computing, many of the world's leading researchers provide insight into the latest concepts and theoretical insights--many of which are based upon Needham's pioneering research work. A critical collection of edited-survey research papers spanning the entire range of Roger Needham's distinguished scientific career, from operating systems to distributed computing and security. Many of the world's leading researchers survey their topics' latest developments and acknowledge the theoretical foundations of Needham's work. Introduction to book written by Rick Rashid, Director of Microsoft Research Worldwide.

Abundance

Author : Peter H. Diamandis
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 145161683X
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (516 download)

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Download or read book Abundance written by Peter H. Diamandis and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-09-23 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors document how four forces--exponential technologies, the DIY innovator, the Technophilanthropist, and the Rising Billion--are conspiring to solve our biggest problems. "Abundance" establishes hard targets for change and lays out a strategic roadmap for governments, industry and entrepreneurs, giving us plenty of reason for optimism.

The Bloomsbury Handbook to the Digital Humanities

Author : James O’Sullivan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350232122
Total Pages : 513 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book The Bloomsbury Handbook to the Digital Humanities written by James O’Sullivan and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-11-03 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bloomsbury Handbook to the Digital Humanities reconsiders key debates, methods, possibilities, and failings from across the digital humanities, offering a timely interrogation of the present and future of the arts and humanities in the digital age. Comprising 43 essays from some of the field's leading scholars and practitioners, this comprehensive collection examines, among its many subjects, the emergence and ongoing development of DH, postcolonial digital humanities, feminist digital humanities, race and DH, multilingual digital humanities, media studies as DH, the failings of DH, critical digital humanities, the future of text encoding, cultural analytics, natural language processing, open access and digital publishing, digital cultural heritage, archiving and editing, sustainability, DH pedagogy, labour, artificial intelligence, the cultural economy, and the role of the digital humanities in climate change. The Bloomsbury Handbook to the Digital Humanities: Surveys key contemporary debates within DH, focusing on pressing issues of perspective, methodology, access, capacity, and sustainability. Reconsiders and reimagines the past, present, and future of the digital humanities. Features an intuitive structure which divides topics across five sections: “Perspectives & Polemics”, “Methods, Tools & Techniques”, “Public Digital Humanities”, “Institutional Contexts”, and “DH Futures”. Comprehensive in scope and accessibility written, this book is essential reading for students, scholars, and practitioners working across the digital humanities and wider arts and humanities. Featuring contributions from pre-eminent scholars and radical thinkers both established and emerging, The Bloomsbury Handbook to the Digital Humanities should long serve as a roadmap through the myriad formulations, methodologies, opportunities, and limitations of DH. Comprehensive in its scope, pithy in style yet forensic in its scholarship, this book is essential reading for students, scholars, and practitioners working across the digital humanities, whatever DH might be, and whatever DH might become.

Princeton Companion to Applied Mathematics

Author : Nicholas J. Higham
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691150397
Total Pages : 1014 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)

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Download or read book Princeton Companion to Applied Mathematics written by Nicholas J. Higham and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-09-09 with total page 1014 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The must-have compendium on applied mathematics This is the most authoritative and accessible single-volume reference book on applied mathematics. Featuring numerous entries by leading experts and organized thematically, it introduces readers to applied mathematics and its uses; explains key concepts; describes important equations, laws, and functions; looks at exciting areas of research; covers modeling and simulation; explores areas of application; and more. Modeled on the popular Princeton Companion to Mathematics, this volume is an indispensable resource for undergraduate and graduate students, researchers, and practitioners in other disciplines seeking a user-friendly reference book on applied mathematics. Features nearly 200 entries organized thematically and written by an international team of distinguished contributors Presents the major ideas and branches of applied mathematics in a clear and accessible way Explains important mathematical concepts, methods, equations, and applications Introduces the language of applied mathematics and the goals of applied mathematical research Gives a wide range of examples of mathematical modeling Covers continuum mechanics, dynamical systems, numerical analysis, discrete and combinatorial mathematics, mathematical physics, and much more Explores the connections between applied mathematics and other disciplines Includes suggestions for further reading, cross-references, and a comprehensive index

Research Handbook on International Corporate Social Responsibility

Author : Anthony Goerzen
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 180220704X
Total Pages : 531 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Research Handbook on International Corporate Social Responsibility written by Anthony Goerzen and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2023-11-03 with total page 531 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presenting an in-depth look at cutting-edge research, this essential Research Handbook develops the current understanding of corporate social responsibility (CSR) and its implications on an international scale. Including contributions from leading academics, highly-informed practitioners, and non-government organizational managers, it fully conceptualizes the implementation of CSR practices.

Organizing for Societal Grand Challenges

Author : Ali Aslan Gümüsay
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1839098260
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book Organizing for Societal Grand Challenges written by Ali Aslan Gümüsay and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2022-03-29 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online. Organizing for Societal Grand Challenges unpacks how diverse forms of organizing help tackle-or reinforce-grand challenges,while emphasizing the need for researchers to expand their methodological repertoire and reflect upon scholarly practices.