Pesticides persist as a prevailing tool in global agriculture for the management of pest populations and to increase crop yields. Their extensive application may lead to the dispersion of pesticide compounds into the environment, subsequently resulting in their persistence as residues within food products. Consequently, there exists the potential for adverse consequences for non-target organism…
This book focused on fundamental and applied research on collaborative and intelligent networks and decision systems and services for supporting engineering and production management, along with other kinds of problems and services. The development and application of innovative collaborative approaches and systems are of primer importance currently, in Industry 4.0. Special attention is given t…
explainable post occupancy; humanoid robot; lighting simulation software; BIM; openBIM; IFC; IoT; sensors; cognitive buildings; asset management; digital twin; BEM; simulation modelling; dynamic simulation; Building Information Modelling (BIM); Internet of Things (IoT); facility management; cyber-physical systems; Building Management System; Digital Twin; Post-Occupancy Evaluations; cognitive; …
pharmacokinetics; energy drink; exercise; elite athlete; performance; football; RPE; DOMS; sport performance; supplementation; ergogenic aids; consumer; behavior; perception; coffee; health; consumption motives; coffee/caffeine; systematic review and meta-analysis; prospective studies; epidemiology; cancer prevention; colorectal cancer; individual responses; responders; exercise performance; ca…
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 …
This open access book attends to the co-creation of digital public services for ageing societies. Increasingly public services are provided in digital form; their uptake however remains well below expectations. In particular, amongst older adults the need for public services is high, while at the same time the uptake of digital services is lower than the population average. One of the reasons i…
This open access book describes the results of natural language processing and machine learning methods applied to clinical text from electronic patient records. It is divided into twelve chapters. Chapters 1-4 discuss the history and background of the original paper-based patient records, their purpose, and how they are written and structured. These initial chapters do not require any technica…
Data Mining; Text Mining; Health Informatics; Health Care Information Systems; Medical Terminologies; Natural Language Processing; Text Analysis; Support Vector Machines
This chapter covers the basic concepts of the information systems (IS) field to prepare the reader to quickly approach the book’s other chapters: the Definition of information, the notion of system, and, more particularly, information systems. We also discuss the typology of IS according to the managerial level and decisionmaking in the IS
Embedded systems