This open access book explores machine learning and its impact on how we make sense of the world. It does so by bringing together two ‘revolutions’ in a surprising analogy: the revolution of machine learning, which has placed computing on the path to artificial intelligence, and the revolution in thinking about the law that was spurred by Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr in the last two decades of …
Configuring Masculinity in Theory and Literary Practice combines a critical survey of the most current developments in the emergent field of Masculinity Studies with both a historical overview of how masculinity has been constructed within British Literature from the Middle Ages to the present and a special focus on developments in the 20th and 21st centuries. The volume combines seminal artic…
In Collecting Practices and Opisthographic Collections in Qumran and Herculaneum, Ayhan Aksu offers a new perspective on practices of collection in both the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Herculaneum papyri. This study focuses on the intriguing question how ancient scribes and scholars used manuscripts to bring different texts in conversation with each other. Central to Aksu’s approach are opisthog…
ommon global risk factors for neonatal deaths include preterm births, birth complications, and infections such as tetanus, sepsis, and pneumonia, all of which disproportionately affect low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). These risk factors can be minimised or prevented through the delivery of high-quality antenatal care (ANC) [1]. ANC encompasses health promotion, education, disease…
This book is a must-have for anyone serious about rendering in real time. With the announcement of new ray tracing APIs and hardware to support them, developers can easily create real-time applications with ray tracing as a core component. As ray tracing on the GPU becomes faster, it will play a more central role in real-time rendering. Ray Tracing Gems provides key building blocks for develope…
Buku ini memperkenalkan QPLEX, sebuah kerangka komputasi yang kuat yang dirancang untuk memodelkan dan menganalisis sistem stokastik non-stasioner dengan ruang keadaan yang besar. Metodologi ini unggul dalam menghasilkan distribusi kinerja sistem secara cepat dan akurat seiring waktu, menawarkan alat yang kokoh untuk memahami dinamika sistem tersebut. QPLEX mengatasi kutukan dimensionalitas den…
ndicators to evaluate the progress and effectiveness of building renovation policies prove essential for evidence-based decision-making, accountability, and achieving long-term goals towards the decarbonization of the building sector, while also promoting public awareness and engagement. This chapter studies the efforts over time in European legislation relating to building decarbonizati…
This open access book presents an overview and step-by-step explanation of process management. It starts with the individual participants’ perspectives on their work in a process and its structuring and harmonization, and then moves on to its specification in a model and how it is embedded in the organizational and IT environment of the company. Lastly, the book examines the joint processing …
Biotechnologische Methoden wie die DNA-Analyse gehören seit Jahren zum Standard in der naturwissenschaftlichen Forschung und angrenzenden Disziplinen. Dennoch werden diese an Schulen hauptsächlich theoretisch unterrichtet und nicht experimentell erarbeitet. In diesem Buch werden Konzepte vorgestellt, wie biotechnologische Methoden schülerorientiert an Schulen in Unterrichtsräumen o…
Dalam Buku Pegangan Farmakologi Eksperimental tentang “Lipoprotein Kepadatan Tinggi – dari pemahaman biologis hingga eksploitasi klinis”, para penulis yang berkontribusi (anggota dari COST Action BM0904/HDLnet) merangkum dalam lebih dari 20 bab pengetahuan terkini kami tentang struktur, fungsi, metabolisme dan regulasi HDL dalam kesehatan dan beberapa penyakit serta status upaya terapeuti…