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Shaping Natural History and Settler Society
This book explores the life and work of Mary Elizabeth Barber, a British-born settler scientist who lived in the Cape during the nineteenth century. It provides a lens into a range of subjects within the history of knowledge and science, gender and social history, postcolonial, critical heritage and archival studies. The book examines the international importance of the life and works of a marg…
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- 978-3-030-22639-8
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- Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies
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- XXIV, 360
Perspectives on Public Policy in Societal-Environmental Crises
Histories we tell never emerge in a vacuum, and history as an academic discipline that studies the past is highly sensitive to the concerns of the present and the heated debates that can divide entire societies. But does the study of the past also have something to teach us about the future? Can history help us in coping with the planetary crisis we are now facing? By analyzing historical s…
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- 978-3-030-94137-6
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- Springer Cham
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- IX, 347
Improving National Education Systems After COVID-19
This open access book compares and analyses the results in twelve countries of the two latest international student assessments: Progress in International Reading Literacy Study 2021 (PIRLS) and the Programme for International Student Assessment 2022 (PISA) and tries to disentangle the effects of the pandemic from the long term trends in education.
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- 978-3-031-69283-3
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- Evaluating Education: Normative Systems and Institutional Practices
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- XII, 203
Managing Risk and Information Security
Examine the evolving enterprise security landscape and discover how to manage and survive risk. While based primarily on the author’s experience and insights at major companies where he has served as CISO and CSPO, the book also includes many examples from other well-known companies and provides guidance for a management-level audience. Managing Risk and Information Security provides thoug…
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- 978-1-4842-1455-8
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- 20 illustrations in colour
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- XXVII, 187
Environmental Humanities in India
This open access book offers an introduction to the field of the environmental humanities in India. The environmental humanities, often referred to as ‘EH’, are a multifaceted, relatively new, and swiftly evolving field of scholarship that integrates the theories and approaches of various disciplines - from anthropology, art, communications, cultural studies, philosophy and ecology to histo…
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- 978-981-97-3932-5
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- Asia in Transition
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- X, 234
Hypergraph Computation
This open access book discusses the theory and methods of hypergraph computation. Many underlying relationships among data can be represented using graphs, for example in the areas including computer vision, molecular chemistry, molecular biology, etc. In the last decade, methods like graph-based learning and neural network methods have been developed to process such data, they are particula…
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- 978-981-99-0185-2
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- Artificial Intelligence: Foundations, Theory, and Algorithms
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- XVI, 244
Artificial Intelligence for a Better Future
This open access book proposes a novel approach to Artificial Intelligence (AI) ethics. AI offers many advantages: better and faster medical diagnoses, improved business processes and efficiency, and the automation of boring work. But undesirable and ethically problematic consequences are possible too: biases and discrimination, breaches of privacy and security, and societal distortions such as…
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- 978-3-030-69978-9
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- SpringerBriefs in Research and Innovation Governance
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- X, 124
xxAI - Beyond Explainable AI: International Workshop, Held in Conjunction wit…
This is an open access book. Statistical machine learning (ML) has triggered a renaissance of artificial intelligence (AI). While the most successful ML models, including Deep Neural Networks (DNN), have developed better predictivity, they have become increasingly complex, at the expense of human interpretability (correlation vs. causality). The field of explainable AI (xAI) has emerged with t…
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- 9783031040832
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- X, 397
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Advances in Wheat Genetics: From Genome to Field
This proceedings is a collection of 46 selected papers that were presented at the 12th International Wheat Genetics Symposium (IWGS). Since the launch of the wheat genome sequencing project in 2005, the arrival of draft genome sequences has marked a new era in wheat genetics and genomics, catalyzing rapid advancement in the field. This book provides a comprehensive review of the forefront of wh…
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- 978-4-431-55675-6
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- XVI, 445
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- 572
Digital Interaction and Machine Intelligence
This book is open access, which means that you have free and unlimited access. This book presents the Proceedings of the 9th Machine Intelligence and Digital Interaction Conference. Significant progress in the development of artificial intelligence (AI) and its wider use in many interactive products are quickly transforming further areas of our life, which results in the emergence of various…
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- 978-3-031-11432-8
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