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Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning with R: Applications in the Field of Business Analytics by Bernd Heesen
English | PDF EPUB (True) | 2024 | 503 Pages | ISBN : 3658453915 | 53.6 MB
In a VUCA world, which is becoming increasingly volatile, uncertain, and complex, companies, organizations, and states must respond promptly and adequately to the respective situations. Making decisions based on past experiences is less successful in these times than having an accurate understanding of current conditions. The importance of empirical sciences, continuous environmental observation, timely analysis of causal relationships, and deriving new insights from them is increasing. From this, it can be deduced which measures are likely to achieve one's goals with predictable probability, such as which price for an offer generates the desired demand or which marketing measure reaches the desired target group.

Where classical statistics were once used for calculations and predictions, today free (open source) tools like R allow data in various formats and from any number of sources to be read in, processed, and analyzed using methods of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. The results can then be perfectly visualized so that decision-makers can benefit quickly and effectively.
The age of Data Science has arrived. Digitalization is more than a buzzword or a promise; it is actionable and usable for everyone.
This book teaches you, based on the latest version of R at the time of publication, how to use Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Industry 4.0.
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Artificial Intelligence Applications in Higher Education: Theories, Ethics, and Case Studies for Universities
by Crompton, Helen, Burke, Diane
English | 2025 | ISBN: 1032576146 | 359 pages | True PDF EPUB | 30.5 MB

Artificial Intelligence Applications in Higher Education offers direct examples of how artificial intelligence systems can be applied in today's higher education contexts. As the use of AI rapidly advances within colleges and universities worldwide, there is a pressing need to showcase the challenges, opportunities, and ethical considerations that are inherent in deploying these advanced computational tools. This book highlights the multifaceted roles of AI across teaching and learning, institutional administration, student data management, and beyond. Its collected case studies furnish actionable insights into enhancing academic institutions and addressing diverse learning priorities, such as motivation, engagement, feedback, and achievement goals. This valuable reference for researchers, designers, administrators, teaching faculty, and graduate students across various university programs offers fresh perspectives on generative AI, adaptive learning, intelligent tutoring systems, chatbots, predictive technologies, remote learning, and more.

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Artificial Intelligence in Prescriptive Analytics: Innovations in Decision Analysis, Intelligent Optimization, and Data-Driven Decisions by Witold Pedrycz, Gilberto Rivera, Eduardo Fernández, Gustavo Javier Meschino
English | PDF EPUB (True) | 2024 | 544 Pages | ISBN : 3031667301 | 102.9 MB
Considering the advances of the different approaches and applications in the last years, and even in the last months, this is a particular moment in history to transform every data-driven decision-making process with the power of Artificial Intelligence (AI). This book reveals, through concrete case studies and original application ideas, how cutting-edge AI techniques are revolutionizing industries such as finance, health care, and manufacturing. It invites us to discover how machine learning, decision analysis, and intelligent optimization are changing, directly or indirectly, almost all aspects of our daily lives. This comprehensive book offers practical insights and real-world applications for professionals, researchers, and students alike. It helps to learn how to apply AI for smarter, data-driven decisions in areas like supply chain management, risk assessment, and even personalized medicine. Be inspired by the chapters of this book and unlock the full potential of AI in your field!

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Artificial Intelligence-Augmented Digital Twins: Transforming Industrial Operations for Innovation and Sustainability (Studies in Systems, Decision and Control, 503) by Abdalmuttaleb M. A. Musleh Al-Sartawi, Anas Ali Al-Qudah, Fadi Shihadeh
English | January 20, 2024 | ISBN: 3031434897 | 696 pages | MOBI | 16 Mb
Presently, we stand on the threshold of a technological revolution that will drastically change the way we live, work, and communicate with each other. By the current rate, scope, and complexity, this transformation will be as fundamental for society as any other technological paradigm change from the past. The industries which are more susceptible to change are technologically oriented industries including banking, finance, accounting, and auditing. One of the technological concepts of the technological revolution is the concept of the digital twin.The application of digital twins and AI as paired with Internet of Things technologies makes it possible to solve ESG problems on a completely different level (Li, 2019) for accounting firms and financial institutions. These include recycling on demand, rational energy consumption, smart surveillance cameras for crime tracking, and smart branch parking solutions, monitoring the wear and tear and conditions of financial technology infrastructures.

Moreover, numerous researchers and practitioners emphasize the significance of innovating sustainable business models and operations (Geissdoerfer et al., 2018). The digital twin will allow businesses and financial institutions to minimize costs, boost customer service, and find new ways to generate revenue. DTW is accessible now more than ever, and many reputable and innovative companies such as Tesla, Ericsson, and Siemens have adopted it with varying success.Therefore, this book examines the opportunities, challenges, and risks of artificial intelligence-augmented digital twins for financial operations, innovation, and sustainable development. It focuses on AI and digital twin technologies to furnish solutions for the current industrial revolution including the Metaverse. Henceforth, this book aims to encourage authors to submit multi-disciplinary chapters indicating the current scholarly challenges about the applications and potential of artificial intelligence and digital twins in accounting, finance, and banking.

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Artistic Creativity: A Scientific Journey Through Homospatial, Janusian, and Sep-Con Articulation Processes by Albert Rothenberg
English | PDF EPUB (True) | 2024 | 142 Pages | ISBN : 3031661613 | 24.5 MB
This book presents the creative processes in art throughout history and cultures. A specific cognitive function, the homospatial process, is extensively documented and described, as well as short and long term scientific research in artistic creation and its applications to aesthetic appreciation. Drawing on research in psychology of creativity, creative operations, and relationship of mental health and illness to creativity, the author delves into the psychology of creativity in art and other fields, and presents intensive and experimental studies of Rembrandt's self-portraiture, controlled experimental assessment of prizewinning young artists, descriptions of three key creative processes, and in-depth exploration of the operation of the specific creative homospatial process in works of art throughout history. The book also presents specific controlled experimentation on use of the homospatial process, its application in the creation of clothing design, and two explorations of major artists and the relationship of mental health and creativity, ending with a reflection on the role and function of creativity in society.

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ASP.NET MVC using .NET 8: Getting Started with a Small Project using SQLite and Entity Framework by Ian Preston
English | May 15, 2024 | ISBN: 8325741783 | 131 pages | EPUB | 5.62 Mb
In this book, you'll be taken on a hands-on, pragmatic, enjoyable journey to learn how to program Asp.Net MVC projects using .NET Core 8, SQLite and the Entity Framework. You'll be taking the steps required to start building your first project within minutes. Every chapter is designed to improve your understanding of the MVC framework, so once you've finished the book, you can begin to design and implement your own projects using Microsoft .Net Core MVC, SQLite and the Entity Framework.

In the course of this book, we will cover:Chapter 1: IntroductionChapter 2: A Brief MVC OverviewChapter 3: Setting up The Development EnvironmentChapter 4: Adding a ControllerChapter 5: Working With ViewsChapter 6: Working With ModelsChapter 7: Connecting up to a databaseChapter 8: Retrieving a recipe from the database and viewing itChapter 9: Adding A Search FacilityChapter 10: Extending the ModelChapter 11: Adding The Create Recipe FunctionalityChapter 12: Adding Edit FunctionalityChapter 13: Adding Delete FunctionalityChapter 14: Finishing TouchesChapter 15: Final WordThe goal of this book is to teach you how to program Asp.Net projects in a manageable way without overwhelming you. We will focus only on the essentials and cover the material in a hands-on, practical manner so that you can code along.

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Henryk Jurkowski, "Aspects of Puppet Theatre Ed 2"
English | ISBN: 1137338431 | 2014 | 216 pages | PDF | 4 MB
Henryk Jurkowski's seminal 1988 text, Aspects of Puppet Theatre, was groundbreaking in its analysis of puppetry as a performing art. This new edition of a classic brings the original text back to life, including four additional essays and a new introduction, edited and translated by leading puppetry scholar Penny Francis. Henryk Jurkowski's seminal 1988 text, Aspects of Puppet Theatre, was groundbreaking in its analysis of puppetry as a performing art. This new edition of a classic brings the original text back to life, including four additional essays and a new introduction, edited and translated by leading puppetry scholar Penny Francis.

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At a Loss for Words: Conversation in the Age of Rage by Carol Off
English | Sept. 3 2024 | ISBN: 1039008437 | True EPUB | 368 pages | 0.8 MB
Award-winning author and broadcast journalist Carol Off digs deep into six words whose meanings have been distorted and weaponized in recent years-including democracy, freedom and truth-and asks whether we can reclaim their value.

As co-host of CBC Radio's As It Happens, Carol Off spent a decade and a half talking to people in the news five nights a week. On top of her stellar writing and reporting career, those 25,000 interviews have given her a unique vantage point on the crucial subject at the heart of her new book-how, in these polarizing years, words that used to define civil society and social justice are being put to work for a completely different political agenda. Or they are being bleached of their meaning as the values they represent are mocked and distorted. As Off writes, "If our language doesn't have a means to express an idea, then the idea itself is gone-even the range of thought is diminished." And, as she argues, that's a dangerous loss.
In six, wide-ranging chapters, Off explores the mutating meanings and the changing political impact of her six chosen words-freedom, democracy, truth, woke, choice and taxes-unpacking the forces, from right and left, that have altered them beyond recognition. She also shows what happens when we lose our shared political vocabulary: we stop being able to hear each other, let alone speak with each other in meaningful ways. This means we stop being able to reckon with the complexity of the crises we face, leaving us prey to conspiracy theories, autocrats and the machinations of greed. At a Loss for Words is both an elegy and a call to arms.

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At the Edge of Empire: A Family's Reckoning With China, UK Edition by Edward Wong
English | June 27th, 2024 | ISBN: 178816265X | 464 pages | PDF | 3.77 Mb
The son of Chinese immigrants in Washington, DC, Edward Wong grew up among family secrets. His father toiled in restaurants and rarely spoke of his native land or his years in the People's Liberation Army under Mao. Yook Kearn Wong came of age during the Japanese occupation in World War II and the Communist revolution, when he fell under the spell of Mao's promise of a powerful China. His astonishing journey as a soldier took him from Manchuria during the Korean War to Xinjiang on the Central Asian frontier. In 1962, disillusioned with the Communist Party, he planned a desperate escape to Hong Kong.

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At the Grand Glacier Hotel by Laurence Fearnley
English | January 1, 2024 | ISBN: 1776950631 | True EPUB | 280 pages | 0.7 MB
Following a disastrous family holiday, Libby and Curtis make a promise: If they ever visit the West Coast of the South Island again, it will be to stay at the majestic Grand Glacier Hotel.

Twenty years later, Libby is recovering from cancer and the couple finally return to the resort. Except the glacier has retreated, nothing goes to plan, and after a storm separates her from Curtis, Libby finds herself alone in the isolated hotel.
Disappointed, she tentatively begins to explore her surroundings. Could the inaccessible hotel and its curious collection of staff and guests hold the key to Libby reconnecting with the person she once was?
At the Grand Glacier Hotel is award-winning novelist Laurence Fearnley's third novel responding to the five senses. Drawing on a varied soundscape, this tangible, moving portrait of physical and emotional recovery offers a way forward, one hopeful step at a time.

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Authenticity, Identity, and Being Yourself at Work (HBR Work Smart Series) by Harvard Business Review, Susan David, Talisa Lavarry
English | May 14, 2024 | ISBN: 1647827027 | 192 pages | PDF | 3.76 Mb
Just be yourself, right?

We're complex people. Professionally, we're recent graduates, employees, star performers, and first-time managers. But we're also best friends, devoted family members, sports fans, pet parents, social justice activists, or any other combination of these and other traits. How much of ourselves-from cultural self-expression, to thinking style and beliefs, to gender identity-should we bring to the workplace?
Authenticity, Identity, and Being Yourself at Work is filled with practical advice from HBR experts who can help you answer this and other questions like:What does authenticity really mean at work?How do I disclose personal information without oversharing?In what ways can I overcome feelings of imposter syndrome?What should I do when who I am conflicts with those around me?
This book will help you figure out how much of "you" to bring to work so that you feel more comfortable and confident in who you are and what you're bringing to your career.
Rise faster with quick reads, real-life stories, and expert advice. The HBR Work Smart Series features the topics that matter to you most in your early career, including being yourself at work, collaborating with (sometimes difficult) colleagues and bosses, managing your mental health, and weighing major job decisions. Each title includes chapter recaps and links to video, audio, and more. The HBR Work Smart Series books are your practical guides to stepping into your professional life and moving forward with confidence.

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Marucci, "Authors in Dialogue"
English | ISBN: 1789975980 | 2020 | 232 pages | PDF | 2 MB
This book gathers together essays and papers written over a time span of around fifteen years. Partly retitled and revised, they were selected for the book because they all focus on the dialogic element in a series of literary works produced in the period extending from late Romanticism to early Modernism. By dialogic the author means the sharing of common preoccupations, the recursiveness of motifs, themes and patterns, the emergence of constants, a network of explicit or hidden confrontations. Dialogues may then arise between an author and other contemporaries in the form of an explicit theoretical discussion in letters or critical essays; or implicitly, and allusively, in inventive negotiations that respond to previous works through parody or adaptation. After a concise introduction stating the author's theoretical debt to the insightful theories of the Russian semiotician and typologist Yuri Lotman, single essays discuss Byron, Ruskin, George Eliot, Matthew Arnold, Hopkins, Ouida, Joyce and T. S. Eliot.

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Autism is not a Disease: The Politics of Neurodiversity by Jodie Hare
English | September 10th, 2024 | ISBN: 1804291536 | 160 pages | True EPUB | 0.29 MB
How to build a fairer, more neuro-inclusive society

Neurodiversity is one of the most urgent political issues of our time. As the number of diagnoses of autism, ADHD, and other types of neurodivergence rises, we are starting to understand that there is no such thing as a 'normal' brain. But society is still organised around neuronormativity, and autism is treated as a disease.
Jodie Hare, diagnosed with autism at twenty-three, argues it is time to redefine the politics of who we are. She calls for the recognition of diversity as part of natural variation, rather than a departure from sameness. This will have an impact on the places where we learn, work, and socialise - and Hare shows how these can be adapted to be more inclusive and accessible. She shows how we might commit to building a world where we can all thrive, one that works to combat discrimination based on race, class, gender, and disability.

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Munir Hamad, "AutoCAD 2019 3D Modeling"
English | ISBN: 168392178X | 2018 | 430 pages | MOBI | 25 MB
This book provides new and seasoned users with step-by-step procedures on creating and modifying 3D models, working with cameras and lights, assigning materials to objects, rendering, and printing. Unlike many AutoCAD competitors, it uses both metric and imperial units to illustrate the myriad tools for this popular application. Use the companion CD to set up drawing exercises and projects and see all of the book's figures including color. AutoCAD 2019 3DModeling includes 50 "mini-workshops," that complete small projects from concept through actual Descriptionting. Solving all of the workshops will simulate the creation of full projects (architectural and mechanical) from beginning to end, without overlooking any of the basic commands and functions in AutoCAD 2019.

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Munir Hamad, "Autodesk® Revit® 2025 Architecture"
English | ISBN: 150152318X | 2024 | 588 pages | EPUB | 18 MB
Covering all of the major techniques, this book uses both metric and imperial units to illustrate the myriad drawing and editing tools for this popular application. Use the companion files to set up drawing exercises and projects and to see all of the book's figures. Revit 2025 Architecture includes over 50 "mini-workshops" that complete small projects from concept through actual Descriptionting. Solving all of these workshops will help to master Revit Architecture from beginning to end, without overlooking any of the basic commands and functions. Companion files available for downloading with projects from the book.

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John Chartres - Avro Shackleton (Postwar Military Aircraft 3)
Ian Allan | 1985 | ISBN: 0711015139 | English | 120 pages | PDF | 116.69 MB

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Andy Curtis, "Bad Language: Decoding Donald Trump"
English | ASIN : B0DFPBVRT4 | 2024 | pages | EPUB | 536 KB
You've heard the speeches. Now see how they work-that is, how language can be used to convey information-or misinformation-to persuade, to rouse, to obfuscate. Linguist and researcher Dr. Andy Curtis deconstructs five major speeches by Donald Trump and examines them move by move, line by line, and explains how they function.

Thoroughly researched (citing well over 200 sources) and engagingly written, this book pulls back the curtain to show you how this kind of speechifying works. Words matter, whether you're speaking them or hearing them. As a global citizen, you owe it to yourself to understand the deeper meaning of the messages targeted at you. With a better understanding of how language works, you'll be better equipped to make sense of what you hear, and to distinguish fact from fiction.
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Baking for Pleasure: The new sweet and savoury cookbook with recipes from Junior British Bake Off judge by Ravneet Gill
English | January 2, 2024 | ISBN: 0008603855 | 256 pages | MOBI | 35 Mb
"An indulgent pleasure trip of sweet and savoury treats for all to enjoy." - Michel Roux Jr

"Another beauty of a book." - Ruby Bhogal
This book is all about baking for the pure joy of it - classic comfort bakes made with love for friends and family. Join acclaimed pastry chef Ravneet Gill as she reconnects with the simple pleasures that made her fall in love with baking in the first place.
From chocolate-malt baked custard to the ultimate apple pie, Ravneet takes things back to basics, sharing her easiest tips for everything you need to whip up your favourite home bakes to enjoy.
Packed with more than 80 tried-and-tested recipes for brownies, tray bakes, cookies, tarts, puddings and cakes, this book will quickly become your most-used cookbook. With quick batch-bakes, classic crowd-pleasers, impressive dinner-party dishes and wholesome weekend baking ideas, you'll find the perfect bake for every occasion.
For the first time, Ravneet also includes her most sought-after savoury bakes including 'nduja puff pastry sausage rolls, vegetarian samosas and a chicken pie that will have your friends and family coming back for more.
Remind yourself why you love to bake, how it brings people together, and the enjoyment that comes from creating gorgeous, moreish dishes for yourself and your loved ones. Baking for Pleasure shows home baking just as it should be - simple, satisfying and a total joy.

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Balchen's Victory: The Loss and Rediscovery of an Admiral and His Ship by Alan Smith
English | March 15th, 2022 | ISBN: 1399094122 | 256 pages | True EPUB | 29.97 MB
This is the story of Admiral Sir John Balchen, his life and career, and HMS Victory, the largest, finest ship-of-the-line in the Royal Navy at the time, which he commanded when both were lost, along with more than 1,000 crew, in an October storm in the English Channel in 1744. This is not the Victory of Trafalgar fame, however, but the First Rate built some thirty years earlier, the last Royal Navy three-decker to carry bronze cannons, and a ship whose poor design may well have contributed to her loss.

It is also the story of Admiral John Balchen, a courageous, if not heroic, naval officer who saw major engagements and whose legacy in naval development deserves greater recognition. Indeed, the story of both the ship and her commander, their individual and remarkably parallel lives, can now be revealed as fundamental catalysts to the revolutionary reforms in naval shipbuilding, design and dockyard administration that transformed the Royal Navy after 1745. They were indeed major foundation stones for a navy that delivered the glorious achievements of Nelson, Anson, Howe, Hood, Rodney, Boscawen and many more in the great pantheon of British naval history that followed their loss.
The exciting discovery of the wreck of HMS Victory in 2008, the subsequent and continuing public and political wrangling over possible salvage, and the 2019 display at Portsmouth of a mighty 42-pounder bronze gun retrieved from the wreck, have been the catalyst for this history of the admiral and his ship, and anyone with an interest in naval or maritime history, whether academic or popular, will be fascinated by the facts about the hitherto virtually unknown predecessor of Nelson's great flagship. This glorious man-and-ship odyssey, whose intrinsic importance to naval history can now be recognised, is richly and compelling told in this important new book.

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Maria Couroucli, "Balkan Heritages: Negotiating History and Culture "
English | ISBN: 1472467248 | 2015 | 270 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
This volume deals with the relation between heritage, history and politics in the Balkans. Contributions examine diverse ways in which material and immaterial heritage has been articulated, negotiated and manipulated since the nineteenth century. The major question addressed here is how modern Balkan nations have voiced claims about their past by establishing 'proof' of a long historical presence on their territories in order to legitimise national political narratives. Focusing on claims constructed in relation to tangible evidence of past presence, especially architecture and townscape, the contributors reveal the rich relations between material and immaterial conceptions of heritage. This comparative take on Balkan public uses of the past also reveals many common trends in social and political practices, ideas and fixations embedded in public and collective memories. Balkan Heritages revisits some general truths about the Balkans as a region and a category, in scholarship and in politics. Contributions to the volume adopt a transnational and trans-disciplinary perspective of Balkan identities and heritage(s), viewed here as symbolic resources deployed by diverse local actors with special emphasis on scholars and political leaders.

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