Books published by River Publishers

Modern robots have arrived at a mature state both in their mechanical and mental abilities. An Introduction to Robophilosophy explores the philosophical questions that arise in the development, creation, and use of mental, anthropomorphic and zoomorphic robots that are capable of semiautonomous / autonomous operation, decision making and human-like action.

A great deal of aid has been given to poor countries which are suffering from climate change, however donor nations have failed to restrict their own carbon emissions. Many poor countries feel they are being expected to forgo the industrial benefits which came from the industrial revolution powered by fossil fuels. This book outlines the achievements of renewable energy to the end of 2015.

Short computing times are crucial for timely diagnostics in biomedical applications, but lead to a high demand in computing for new and improved imaging techniques. In this book reconfigurable computing with FPGAs is discussed as an alternative to multi-core processing and graphics card accelerators.

Beijing Institute for the Learning Society (BILS) was established in 2011 through the efforts of Beijing Leading Group Office for Construction of Learning City and Beijing Normal University. The Institute is building a platform that integrates intellectual resources of universities in Beijing to serve the learning city's construction. This book summarizes the goals set by BILS.

Presents updated information about inflammatory bowel disease for health-care workers. The theoretical content is based on controlled and randomized clinical studies. Coverage includes all important topics required to understand ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease.

Explores the design and implementation of e-collaboration technology in a workplace setting. Featuring extensive coverage of a range of topics relating to the benefits and challenges of these tools, this book is an essential reference source for students, researchers, and practitioners seeking relevant research on the use of digital spaces within organisational contexts.

Presents recent developments in university-industry-collaborations, using case studies from Japan, and showing the mutual needs from both universities and enterprises in the knowledge-based society. Technical topics discussed include development of university-industry collaboration (UIC); development of UIC in Japan; case studies of UIC in Japan; and the global contribution of UIC from Japan.

The Faculty Awards series recognises outstanding faculty members at colleges and universities across the United States. This year's Volume 2 edition includes almost 1,400 national award winners from over 730 US colleges and universities within the disciplines of Health Sciences and Nursing, Medicine, Law, Public Affairs, Political & Policy Sciences, Business, Fine Arts and Education.

The Faculty Awards series recognises outstanding faculty members at colleges and universities across the United States. This year's Volume 3 edition includes over 1,280 national award winners from over 554 US colleges and universities within the disciplines of Engineering, Computer and Information Sciences and Science.

The Faculty Awards series recognises outstanding faculty members at colleges and universities across the United States. This year's Volume 1 edition includes 1,400 national award winners from over 500 US colleges and universities within the disciplines of Liberal Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities. Photos and winner descriptions are selectively included.

Covers ground-based research instruments and environments for both life and physical sciences research. This book discusses the opportunities and limitations of protocols and instruments to compensate gravity or simulate microgravity, such as clinostats, random positioning machines, levitating magnets, electric fields, vibrations, tail suspension, and centrifuges for hyper-g studies.

Major advances have been reported in Brain-Computer Interface / Brain-Machine Interface (BCI/BMI) applied to rehabilitation. This subject received much attention within the Society on Communication, Navigation, Sensing and Services (CONASENSE). Describing the state of the art on various BCI/BMI activities related to neuro-rehabilitation is the central theme of this book.

The Disputationes Workshop series is an international initiative aimed at disseminating stem cell related cutting edge knowledge among scientists, healthcare workers, students and policy makers. This book gathers together some of the ideas discussed during the third and fourth Disputationes Workshops held in Florence (Italy) and Aalborg (Denmark), respectively.

Provides insights in to the process of identifying user requirements by describing varying case studies in which technologies or software has been developed. A variety of user requirements are provided illustrating the effect of changing the targeted user group with respect to age, to the context and the different technologies or software.

Understanding the molecular mechanisms of cancer is the key for transforming treatment. A substantial proportion of human genes show alternative splicing, and misregulation of Pre-MRNA splicing is seen in several cancers. This book investigates these matters.

It is important to understand the limitations of integrating clinical phenotypes with genomic, transcriptomic, proteomic and metabolomic approaches. This book focuses on some key advances in this field.

Network traffic has fractal properties such as impulsiveness, selfsimilarity, and long-range dependence over several time scales, from milliseconds to minutes. These features have motivated the development of new traffic models and traffic control algorithms. This book presents a new statespace model for Internet traffic, which is based on a finite-dimensional representation of the Autoregressive Fractionally Integrated Moving Average (ARFIMA) random process. The modeling via Autoregressive (AR) processes is also investigated.

Path to Capacity Innovation: An Africa-MNC Strategic Alliance, a policy framework is advanced proposing a strategic alliance between African countries -represented by NEPAD- and the multinational corporation with input from the NGO and couched upon an NEPAD-MNC-NGO cross-fertilizing integrative structure. Capacity innovation is the key to Africa''s transformation: with the appropriate catalysts, innovation and transformation are but a matter of time in gestation. The first of two major catalysts necessary to prompting this change so long sought by Africans came at the adoption of the New Partnership for Africa''s Development. It is one of the most profound collaborations of African Heads of State. The second catalyst is proposed in this work in the form of the multinational corporation as change agent for the innovation process working in alliance with NEPAD as Africa''s spokesperson for innovation. The policy framework for African capacity innovation is the material product along with discourse for redress of corruption and security policy narrative for protecting the assets of multinational corporations.Bringing Forth Prosperity: Capacity Innovation in Africa questions capital theory as a development construct and an appropriate platform upon which sustained capacity innovation in Africa may emerge; explores Africa''s road to modernity in the context of selected development constructs and assesses capacity innovation from a top down-bottom up perspective purposely to serve as backdrop to the Africa-MNC strategic alliance framework; constructs country capacity ID to identify internal resources available to African countries to support capacity innovation; conceptualizes the Africa-MNC strategic alliance to convey a capacity innovation philosophy; articulates an African capacity innovation policy framework to guide the Alliance through a series of actions designed to prompt innovation activity and set the continent on a course to sustained transformation; and articulates a scheme to protect assets -human and physical- derived through the Africa-MNC strategic alliance.

Addresses the issue of cybersecurity and privacy. Technical topics discussed include cybersecurity; encryption; privacy policy; trust; security and the Internet of Things; Botnets; data risks; cloudbased services; and visualization.

Over the past 35 years, a comprehensive gifted education system called the Beijing Model of Gifted Education and Talent Development (BMGETD) has gradually been developed in China. This book presents a summary of the educational practices used in, and the research done on the BMGETD over these decades.

Offers a compendium of emerging smart techniques using artificial intelligence for diagnosis, bio-informatics data analysis and biomedical systems. This book details innovative applications of neural networks, computer vision, panoramic image processing, electroencephalography, electromyography and specialized information delivery based on smart sensors.