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This book gathers research and best-practices concerning the achievement of sustainable development goals in both community generation and business growth. It highlights the organizational aspects relating to the realization of green innovation. It covers models for optimizing the use of both natural and human resources. It reports on assessment methods and advanced models to analyze community and business performance in the context of sustainable development. Further, it proposes solutions to reduce the effects of environmental pollution, increase energy efficiency, and managing resources and waste, to foster sustainable development. Gathering the proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Sustainable, Circular Management and Environmental Engineering (ISCMEE 2022), held on October 19-20, 2022, as a hybrid event from ¿zmir, Turkey, this book offers a timely snapshot on circular business management knowledge and methods for both researchers and professionals in the field of engineering management, business and economics, and energy and environment.

1 Physische und kulturelle Mobilität-Die Führungskraft als Europäer.- 2 Freizeitmobilität im Erlebniszeitalter.- 3 Internationaler Tourismus als Wirtschaftsfaktor.- 4 Ich fahr' mal schnell zum Joggen Freizeitverkehr und Lokale Agenda 21.- 5 Freizeitverkehr - Ein Widerspruch in sich?.- 6 Handlungsbedarf im Freizeitverkehr aus der Sicht.- Freizeitmobilität im Alltag.- Die Wiederentdeckung der Nähe im Stadt-Land-Verbund.- Ironbridge-Auf dem Weg zum sozial akzeptierten Freizeitverkehr*.- Ferntourismus-Risiko oder Chance für eine nachhaltige Entwicklung?.- Virtuelles Reisen als kulturelle Erfahrung.- Virtuell um die Welt* Neue Formen der Vergnügungsreise im Cyberspace.- Wie nah, wie fern, wie virtuell? Neue Herausforderungen im Freizeitverkehr.- Die weite Ferne nebenan? Freizeitmobilität und Tourismus im Spannungsfeld zwischen globalem Wachstum und Nachhaltigkeit. Überlegungen für ein neues Forschungs- und Politikfeld.- Physical and Cultural Mobility-The Executive as a European.- Leisure Time Travel-A Contradiction in Terms?.- Ironbridge-Towards Socially Acceptable Leisure Transport.- World Voyaging The New Modalities of Leisure Travel.- Die Autoren.- Die Experten.

In both Islamic and non-Islamic countries many population groups worldwide, such as vegetarians and people of the Jewish faith, consumers do not eat pork. Amongst these groups consumers are concerned about importing processed food which may contain or has been contaminated with pork or swine-derived products. This is especially true of halal foods in Muslim communities where the foods may be prepared or processed utilizing one of more non-halal ingredients. Halal and kosher foodstuff play an incredibly important role in the Muslim and Jewish diet, economy and health. This makes halal and kosher food product quality, safety and shelf life preservation a major topic in these communities and for the manufacturers of halal and kosher food products. Halal and Kosher Food: Integration of Quality and Safety for Global Market Trends covers a wide range of important topics in halal foods including quality, standards, safety of food additives, antimicrobial andveterinary drug residues, aflatoxin in feedstuff, application of Hazards Analysis and critical Control Points (HACCP). Important data regarding halal and kosher food similarities and differences are covered in full. Best practices in halal food product manufacturing are covered, plus the importance of halal food safety for consumer health. Written by elite international halal food experts, this work differs from other books on the subject which focus on history, legislation and certification. Readers can utilize this book as an orientation and practical guidebook to recognize the quality and safety of halal food products.

This open access book gathers original contributions focused on the transition of the European steel industry to Industry 4.0. It not only investigates how Industry 4.0 can enhance productivity, cost-saving, and sustainability in the steel industry but also helps to comprehend its broad consequences on employment, education and training, human resources, economic resilience and decarbonisation. The content engages with the international debate on Industry 4.0 through the lens of the steel industry from a multidisciplinary perspective. It encourages a scientifically grounded critical approach and includes contributions from humanities and technical disciplines, with a focus on the social dimensions of the phenomenon. This book draws strength from up-to-date international research projects and adopts a strong industry-based perspective, providing a thorough description and analysis of the state of the art of the European steel industry. It also analyzes the trends, outcomes, opportunities, and criticalities arising with the transition to the Industry 4.0 paradigm. The book is primarily based on the results of the European Steel Skills Agenda (ESSA) skills alliance project co-funded by the Erasmus+ programme of the European Union and supported by the European Steel Technology Platform (ESTEP). This is an open access book.

This book provides a single-source reference to the state-of-the-art in emerging computer systems. The authors address the technological contributions and developments at various hardware levels of new systems that compute under novel operational paradigms such as stochastic, probabilistic/inexact, neuromorphic, spintronic, bio-inspired and in-memory computing. Coverage includes the entire stack, i.e., from circuit, architecture, up to system level. This book includes tutorials, reviews and surveys of current theoretical/experimental results, design methodologies and a range of applications.

This groundbreaking book transcends traditional machine learning approaches by introducing information measurement methodologies that revolutionize the field. Stemming from a UC Berkeley seminar on experimental design for machine learning tasks, these techniques aim to overcome the 'black box' approach of machine learning by reducing conjectures such as magic numbers (hyper-parameters) or model-type bias. Information-based machine learning enables data quality measurements, a priori task complexity estimations, and reproducible design of data science experiments. The benefits include significant size reduction, increased explainability, and enhanced resilience of models, all contributing to advancing the discipline's robustness and credibility. While bridging the gap between machine learning and disciplines such as physics, information theory, and computer engineering, this textbook maintains an accessible and comprehensive style, making complex topics digestible fora broad readership. Information-Driven Machine Learning explores the synergistic harmony among these disciplines to enhance our understanding of data science modeling. Instead of solely focusing on the "how," this text provides answers to the "why" questions that permeate the field, shedding light on the underlying principles of machine learning processes and their practical implications. By advocating for systematic methodologies grounded in fundamental principles, this book challenges industry practices that have often evolved from ideologic or profit-driven motivations. It addresses a range of topics, including deep learning, data drift, and MLOps, using fundamental principles such as entropy, capacity, and high dimensionality. Ideal for both academia and industry professionals, this textbook serves as a valuable tool for those seeking to deepen their understanding of data science as an engineering discipline. Its thought-provoking content stimulates intellectual curiosity and caters to readers who desire more than just code or ready-made formulas. The text invites readers to explore beyond conventional viewpoints, offering an alternative perspective that promotes a big-picture view for integrating theory with practice. Suitable for upper undergraduate or graduate-level courses, this book can also benefit practicing engineers and scientists in various disciplines by enhancing their understanding of modeling and improving data measurement effectively.

Aus dem Inhalt: .- Einführung.- Kurze Geschichte von RagTime.- Business Publishing mit RagTime.- Installation.- Grundlagen - Ein Baukasten mit vielen Möglichkeiten.- Die Benutzeroberfläche.- Komponenten von RagTime: .- Text.- Layout.- Rechenblatt.- Infographik.- Zeichnung.- Knopf.- Ton.- Bild.- Film.- RagTime kofigurieren.- Formulardesign.- Dokumente sichern und austauschen.- Daten austauschen.- Projekte mit RagTime: .- Korrespondenz.- Kalkulation.- Automatisierte Dokumente.- Materialsammlung.- Publikationen.- Präsentationen.- Spezialitäten.- Ausgabe: .- Inhouse Publishing.- Schriften.- Farbmanagement. - Drucken.- Desktop publishing mit RagTime.- Index.

1. Der Übergang zur Informationsgesellschaft als sozio-ökonomischer Prozeß.- 1.1 Das Ende der Industriegesellschaft.- 1.2 Die Informationsgesellschaft und der Wandel der Arbeit.- 1.3 Der charakteristische Arbeitsplatz der Informationsgesellschaft.- 1.4 Resümee.- 2. Räumliche Strukturen in der Informationsgesellschaft.- 2.1 Anthropologische Voraussetzungen und Bedürfnisse.- 2.2 Global Cities/Global Village?.- 2.3 Das "ortlose Büro", die vergessene Kommunikation versus "Mediatektur".- 2.4 Resümee.- 3. Der Industriebau - ein Gebäudetyp im Wandel.- 3.1 Begriff, Arten und Funktion der Gebäudetypologie.- 3.2 Die funktionale oder Zwecktypologie.- 3.3 Corporate Process Architecture - von der Fabrik zum Unternehmensgebäude.- 3.4 Industriebau und Konversion.- 3.5 Resümee.- 4. Der Perspektivenwechsel bei der Betrachtung von Gebäuden in der Informationsgesellschaft.- 4.1 Die wirtschaftliche Aufwertung der Gebäude.- 4.2 Corporate Real Estate Management und Facility Management - rein quantitative Instrumente?.- 4.3 Resümee.- 5. Informationstechnologie in der Planung und Bewirtschaftung von Gebäuden.- 5.1 Planung unter den Bedingungen der Ungewißheit - die Beschleunigung der Prozesse.- 5.2 "Digitales" Bauen.- 5.3 Informationstechnologie und Ökologie.- 5.4 Resümee.- 6. Von der isolierten zur holistischen Gebäudekonzeption.- 6.1 Die Synthese von Informationstechnologie und Humanität in Gebäuden.- 6.2 Integrales Infrastrukturmanagement.- 6.3 Kompetenz im Wandel: das künftige Profil des Planers und Architekten.- 6.4 Resümee.- 7. Ergebnis: Zur Programmatik der Corporate Process Architecture.

This book constitutes the second part of the proceedings of the 15th Asian Conference on Intelligent Information and Database Systems, ACIIDS 2023, held in Phuket, Thailand, during July 24-26, 2023. The 50 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 224 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: Computer Vision, Cybersecurity and Fraud Detection, Data Analysis, Modeling, and Processing, Data Mining and Machine Learning, Forecasting and Optimization Techniques, Healthcare and Medical Applications, Speech and Text Processing.

1. Introduction.- 1.1 Brief Overview of Motion Analysis.- 1.2 Statement of the "Motion from Stereo" Problem.- 1.3 Organization of The Book.- 2. Uncertainty Manipulation and Parameter Estimation.- 2.1 Probability Theory and Geometric Probability.- 2.2 Parameter Estimation.- 2.2.1 Standard Kalman filter.- 2.2.2 Extended Kalman filter.- 2.2.3 Discussion.- 2.2.4 Iterated ExtendKalman Filter.- 2.2.5 Robustness and Confidence Procedure.- 2.3 Summary.- 2.4 Appendix: Least-Squares Techniques.- 3. Reconstruction of 3D Line Segments.- 3.1 Why 3D Line Segments.- 3.2 Stereo Calibration.- 3.2.1 Camera Calibration.- 3.2.2 Epipolar Constraint.- 3.3 Algorithm of the Trinocular Stereovision.- 3.4 Reconstruction of 3D Segments.- 3.5 Summary.- 4. Representations of Geometric Objects.- 4.1 Rigid Motion.- 4.1.1 Definition.- 4.1.2 Representations.- 4.2 3D Line Segments.- 4.2.1 Previous Representations and Deficiencies.- 4.2.2 A New Representation.- 4.3 Summary.- 4.4 Appendix: Visualizing Uncertainty.- 5. A Comparative Study of 3D Motion Estimation.- 5.1 Problem Statement.- 5.1.1 Line Segment Representations.- 5.1.2 3D Line Segment Transformation.- 5.2 Extended Kalman Filter Approaches.- 5.2.1 Linearization of the Equations.- 5.2.2 Derivation of Rotation Matrix.- 5.3 Minimization Techniques.- 5.4 Analytical Solution.- 5.4.1 Determining the Rotation.- 5.4.2 Determining the Translation.- 5.5 Kim and Aggarwal's method.- 5.5.1 Determining the Rotation.- 5.5.2 Determining the Translation.- 5.6 Experimental Results.- 5.6.1 Results with Synthetic Data.- 5.6.2 Results with Real Data.- 5.7 Summary.- 5.8 Appendix: Motion putation Using the New Line Segment Representation.- 6. Matching and Rigidity Constraints.- 6.1 Matching as a Search.- 6.2 Rigidity Constraint.- 6.3 Completeness of the Rigidity Constraints.- 6.4 Error Measurements inn the Constraints.- 6.4.1 Norm Constraint.- 6.4.2 Dot-Product Constraint.- 6.4.3 Triple-Product Constraint.- 6.5 Other Formalisms Rigidity Constraints.- 6.6 Summary.- 7. Hypothesize-and-Verify Method for Two 3D View Motion Analysis.- 7.1 General Presentation.- 7.1.1 Search in the Transformation Space.- 7.1.2 Hypothesize-and-Verify Method.- 7.2 Generating Hypotheses.- 7.2.1 Definition and Primary Algorithm.- 7.2.2 Control Strates in Hypothesis Generation.- 7.2.3 Additional Constraints.- 7.2.4 Algorithm of Hypothesis Generation.- 7.3 Verifying Hypothesis.- 7.3.1 Estimating the Initial Rigid Motion.- 7.3.2 Propagating Hyphoteses.- 7.3.3 Choosing the Best Hypothesis.- 7.3.4 Algorithm of Hypothesis Verification.- 7.4 Matching Noisy Segments.- 7.4.1 Version 1.- 7.4.2 Version 2.- 7.4.3 Version 3.- 7.5 Experimental Results.- 7.5.1 Indoor Scenes with a Large Common Part.- 7.5.2 Indoor Scenes with a Small Common Part.- 7.5.3 Rock Scenes.- 7.6 Summary.- 7.7 Appendix: Transforming a 3D Line Segment.- 8. Further Considerations on Reducing Complexity.- 8.1 Sorting Data Features.- 8.2 "Good-Enough" Method.- 8.3 Speeding Up the Hypothesis Generation Process Through Grouping.- 8.4 Finding Clusters Based on Proximity.- 8.5 Finding Planes.- 8.6 Experimental Results.- 8.6.1 Grouping Results.- 8.6.2 Motion Results.- 8.7 Conclusion.- 9. Multiple Object Motions.- 9.1 Multiple Object Motions.- 9.2 Influence of Egomotion on Observed Object Motion.- 9.3 Experimental Results.- 9.3.1 Real Scene with Synthetic Moving Objects.- 9.3.2 Real Scene with a Real Moving Object.- 9.4 Summary.- 10. Object Recognition and Localization.- 10.1 Model-Based Object Recognition.- 10.2 Adapting the Motion-Determination Algorithm.- 10.3 Experimental Result.- 10.4 Summary.- 11. Calibrating a Mobile Robot and Visual Navigation.- 11.1 The INRIA Mobile Robot.- 11.2 Calibration Problem.- 11.3 Navigation Problem.- 11.4 Experimental Results.- 11.5 Integrating Motion Information from Odometry.- 11.6 Summary.- 12. Fusing Multiple 3D Frames.- 12.1 System Description.- 12.2 Fusing Segments from Multiple Views.- 12.2.1 Fusing General Primitives.- 12.2.2 Fusing Line Segments.- 12.2.3 Ex...

What do we mean by semiotic perception? Why should the concepts of perception and expressivity be reinterpreted within the encompassing framework of a dynamic theory of semiotic fields and forms? Can we redeploy the concept of form in such a way as to make explicit such a native solidarity ('chiasmatic' would have said Merleau-Ponty) between perception, praxis and expression -- and first and foremost in the activity of language, right to the heart of the life of the social and speaking animal that we are? What then would be the epistemological and ontological consequences, and how might this affect the way we describe semiolinguistic forms? This book aims to provide answers to these questions by opening up avenues of research on how to understand the linguistic and semiotic dimensions at work in the constitution of experience, both individual and collective.

Across three different centuries, the American Jewish Year Book has provided insight into major trends among Jews primarily in North America. Part I of the current volume contains two chapters: One is a critical assessment of the major American Jewish Population Surveys over the past fifty years (1970-2020). The second chapter is an assessment of the media coverage of Israel in the American Press. Subsequent chapters address recent domestic and international events as they affect the American Jewish community, and the demography and geography of the US, Canada, and World Jewish populations. Part II provides lists of Jewish institutions, including federations, community centers, social service agencies, national organizations, camps, museums, and Israeli consulates. The final chapters present lists of Jewish periodicals and broadcast media, Jewish Studies programs, books, journals, articles, websites, research libraries, and academic conferences as well as lists of major events in the past year, Jewish honorees, and obituaries. This volume employs an accessible style, making it of interest to public officials, Jewish professional and lay leaders, as well as the general public and academic researchers.The American Jewish Year Book is a tremendously useful resource for scholars, Jewish community professionals, pundits, clergy, and policy makers. For over a century, it has offered comprehensive insight into North American Jewish demography, sociology, and culture. It remains a vital source for comprehending the complexities of American and Canadian Jewish life. Robin Judd, Associate Professor of History and Director of the Hoffman Program for Leaders and Leadership in History, The Ohio State UniversityThe American Jewish Year Book is the first draft of history, documenting the trends and topics of interest for such an organizedcommunity. Looking through the 100+ volumes, we can track how discussions have changed over time, which concerns have returned, and how we arrived at the current point in time. It is a valuable tool for anyone interested in trends in American Jewish life. David Manchester, Director of the Berman Jewish DataBank and Director of Community Data and Research Development at The Jewish Federations of North America

This book tells the story of the Lebanese Shi¿a and their development from a marginalized, discriminated minority to a highly politicized community that has given birth to Hezbollah, one of the most powerful paramilitary forces in the contemporary Middle East. It explores the Arab-Israeli conflict through the lens of Shi¿a intellectuals and scholars from South Lebanon, and chronologically reflects on trending perceptions of Palestine, the Zionist movement, and the Jewish community in Lebanon.The monograph illustrates how Zionism and the establishment of Israel played a decisive role in the intellectual revival of early Muslim perceptions of Jews. It demonstrates how political conflicts after 1948 have impacted the work of scholars such as Musa as-Sadr and Muhammad Hussein Fadlallah, and have triggered the formation of social and Islamist movements. It also shows how Hezbollah¿s leaders have used religious sources and Western anti-Jewish narratives to construct a deep-rooted ideology to support their struggle for South Lebanon and Palestine. The combination of social needs, religious beliefs and political interests forms the core of the analysis. This text appeals to students and researchers working within the convergence of politics and Middle Eastern religions.

The book is about the development of the theory of epistemic fields with the corresponding relational and information fields as a framework for the understanding of strategies and tactics of the theory of knowing as the production of intellectual investment flows and the theory of knowledge accumulation as the production of intellectual capital stocks in systems of factories and departments providing the foundations for the development of open algorithms in the open space of problem-solution dualities. The concepts and the roles of thinking and reasoning with curiosity, creativity, hope, Ill-posed problems, phantom problems, unsolved problems, misinformation, disinformation, fake news, and courage are introduced, defined, and analyzed on the cognitive journeys over the space of ignorance-knowledge dualities, where dualistic-polar conflicts between duals in the space of ignorance-knowledge dualities are resolved with the instruments of fuzzy optimization, the results of which are used to induced the zones of ignorance, the zones of knowledge, and the zones of contentions. A complete development of the set of connecting paths of spaces and sub-spaces is provided, where all varieties, categories, and spaces reside in dualistic-polar structures with knowledge stock viewed as a single tree with the same roots, one trunk, many branches, and a fruit cocktail. The ontological space contains the space of actual-potential dualities as the primary category of knowing, and the epistemological space contains the space of imagination-reality dualities as the derived category of knowing within the space of primary-derived dualities. The space of potentials contains the space of imaginations which contains the sub-spaces of possibility-impossibility, probability-improbability, and possibility-probability dualities with corresponding spaces of necessity-freedom and anticipation-expectation dualities leading to the conception of the possible-world-impossible-world dualities in the space of semantic-non-semantic dualities. This book is also a continuation of the sequence of my works on the theories of paradigms of thought, rationality, info-statics, info-dynamics, entropy, problem-solution dualities in self-contained mathematics and philosophy, and their relational connectivity to information, language, knowing, knowledge, cognitive practices and open maching learning relative to nominalism, and the space of construction-reduction dualities over the spaces of fundamental-applied, production-consumption, input-output, and cost-benefit dualities.

Human Melanoma and Ultraviolet Radiation.- 1 Introduction.- 2 Melanoma and Solar Ultraviolet Radiation.- 3 The Ozone Layer Problem and Melanoma.- 4 Artificial Sources of Ultraviolet Radiation and Melanoma.- 5 Conclusions.- References.- Maintaining Health of Farm Animals in Adverse Environments.- 1 Introduction.- 2 Field Observations.- 3 Experimental Observations.- 4 Survival of Airborne Microorganisms.- 5 Host Defence..- 6 General Discussion and Conclusions.- References.- Thermoelectric Methods for Measurement of Sap Flow in Plants.- 1 Introduction.- 2 Theory.- 3 Calibration or Verification of the Methods.- 4 Application of the Methods in Research Studies.- 5 Conclusions.- References.- Laser Remote Sensing of Vegetation.- 1 Introduction.- 2 Remote Laser Spectrofluorometry of Vegetation.- 3 Laser Remote Sensing of the Geometrical Structure of the Plant Canopy.- 4 Conclusions.- References.- Global Monitoring of Forests with Radar.- 1 Introduction.- 2 Radar Systems.- 3 Forestry Studies.- References.

This book comprises a distinguished collection of cutting-edge scientific contributions. Encompassing a wide range of subjects, it delves into machine learning, data mining, text analysis, data visualization, knowledge management, and more. The included articles are expanded versions of carefully selected top papers that were originally presented at the EGC'2020 conferences held in Paris (France, January 27-31, 2020). It is intended for researchers interested in these fields, including PhD and MSc students, and researchers from public or private laboratories. These extended versions underwent an additional peer-review process, building upon the already accepted long-format papers from the conference. The selection of long and short papers for the conference itself followed a rigorous double-blind peer-review process, evaluating numerous submissions (with a long paper acceptance rate of approximately 25%). For more details about the EGC society, please consult egc.asso.fr."

The International Symposium on Aircraft Technology, MRO, and Operations (ISATECH) is a multi-disciplinary symposium that presents research on current issues in the field of aerospace. The conference provides a platform offering insights on the latest trends in aircraft technology, maintenance, repair, overhaul, and operations that offer innovative solutions to the challenges facing the aviation industry. ISATECH allows researchers, scientists, engineers, practitioners, policymakers, and students to exchange information, present new technologies and developments, and discuss future direction, strategies and priorities.

Ake Nygren, Arne Wittlöv: Preface.- Hans von Holst, Ake Nygren, Ake E. Andersson: Introduction.- Ricardo Martinez: The Status of Traffic Safety in the United States.- A.H. van Zomeren, Frederiec K. Withaar, Wiebo H. Brouwer: Brain Anatomy, Impairments and Driving.- Donald MacGregor, Paul Slovic: Perceived Risk and Driving Behavior: Lessons for Improving Traffic Safety in Emerging Market Countries.- David Shinar: Behavior, Technology and Traffic Safety.- Oliver Carsten: New Technologies and Behavior- Problem or Cure?.- Masaki Koshi: Built-in Social/Administrative Mechanism for Traffic Safety.- Heikki Summala: Behavior and Risk Typology: Disaggregation of Accident Statistics and Behavior.- Peter Makeham: Traffic Education Strategy.- Victor Nell: An Evolutionary Perspective on the Prevention of Youthful Risk-taking: The Case for Classical Conditioning.- Gerald J.S. Wilde: Alcohol, Fatigue, Inattention and Other Causes of Accidents and Their Significance for an Effective Accident Prevention Strategy.- Tohru Aruga, Tetsuya Sakamoto, Katsihiko Sugomoto, Yasufumi Miyake: Brain Injury after Traffic Accidents.- Heru Sutomo: Cultural Lag in Safety in Indonesia: A Case in Yogyakarta Arterial Road Environment.- Hideyuki Kita: Design of Driving Environment, Driving Behavior, and Traffic Safety.- Fred Goldberg: The Electronic Driving License Saves Lifes When Used as an Ignition Key.- Kyungwoo Kang: Ordered Probit Model of the Speed Selection Behavior: Results Based on a Korean Micro Data.- Stephen G. Stradling, Dianne Parker, Timo Lajunen, Michelle L. Meadows, Cheng Qiu Xie: Normal Behavior and Traffic Safety: Violations, Errors, Lapses and Crashes.- Jean-Pascal Assailly: Young People Drunk-driving: Process and Outcome Evaluation of PreventiveActions.- G. Gururaj: Behavior and Road Safety: A Multidimensional Issue - Implications for Road Safety Programmes in Developing Countries.- Tarumi Yamaki, Toshihiro Higuchi, Yoshio Imahori, Yoshihiro Iwamoto, Masahito Fumimoto: Imaging Techniques in the Evaluation of Behavior after Traffic Accidents.- Radin Umar RS: The Effects of Targeted Safety Campaign and Enforcement Programs in Hulu Langat District, Malaysia.- Kiyoshi Kobayashi, Eizo Hideshima: Automobile Safety Devices and Offsetting Behavior: A Japanese Experience.- Tsuneo Matsuura: Driving Attitudes and Skills as a Function of Experience.- Zmarak Shalizi: Motorization in Developing Countries: Implications for Public and Private Sectors.- List of Contributors.-

Contents, Volume 2.- I: Factory Enhancements.- From the Existing Manufacturing System to CIM.- Flexible Manufacturing System in Manufacture of Precision Engineering Components - Key Issues in Implementation.- A Survey of CIM Strategic Planning in U.S. Industry.- Modelling and Optimization of a Flexible Manufacturing System.- Computer Based Safety System for the FMS - Management Logic.- CIM Repositories.- The Selection and Prospect of CAD/CAM System for Diesel Engine Design and Manufacturing.- A Model for the Factory of the Future for Industrialized Housing.- Enabling Automation Technologies for an Automated Mail Facility of the Future.- Some Optimization Problems of Scheduling in a Flexible Manufacturing System.- Some Methods of Modeling for Computer Integrated Workshop.- Combined Procedures for Simulation of Manufacturing Systems.- Expert Systems in CIM.- II: Production Planning.- A Taxonomy on Event-Driven Production Systems.- An Improved Lot Sizing Policy for Variable Demand.- Simulation for Real-Time Control: Advantages, Potential Pitfalls, Opportunities.- Decomposition Approach for the Job-Shop Scheduling Problem.- Evaluation of the Impact of Plant and Production Management Automation on Job-Shop Manufacturing Performances.- Role of Non-Productive Time in the Evaluation of Computer Generated Process Plans.- III: Process Technology.- Computer Managed Process Planning for Cylindrical Parts.- An Application of Non-Linear Goal Programming in Electrodischarge Machining of Composite Material.- An Expert System for Metalforming.- Optimal Process Planning for Robotic Assembly Operations.- Effect of Angular Errors in Part Registration for PC Board Assembly.- An Evaluation Framework for AGVS Within FMS.- Computer Aided Machine Loading Technique.- An Optimal Parallel Algorithm for Channel-Assignment.- IV: Product Engineering.- Design Using Case-Based Reasoning.- An Interactive Programming System for Design of Mechanical Clutches.- An Expert System for the Design and Selection of Ball Bearing Parameters.- Computer-Aided Optimal Design of Gears.- CAD for Underground Structure.- A Microcomputer Aided Design of Technical Systems.- Solid Modeling With Tension.- Integration of Design Optimization in Finite Element Analysis.- Automatic Generation of Finite Element Modeling for Integrated CAD and CAE.- Three Dimensional Mesh Generation: A New Approach.- Effective Modeling of Elastic Mechanical System Through Objective-Aimed Finite Element Strategies.- Design and Evaluation of Shock Isolation of Trailer Mounted Electronic Equipments.- V: Workcell Operations.- Group Technology: Cell Formation Using Simulated Annealing.- Cost Considerations for Cell Design in Group Technology.- Application of CAD/CAM in the Textile Industry.- CAD/CAM of Cams for Use in Automatic Lathes.- An Objective SIMTOOL in FMS.- A Methodology for Automating the Redressing of the Grinding Wheel.- Experimental Investigations on Tool Vibrations in Turning for On-Line Tool Wear Monitoring.- ?p-Based Industrial Grade Multi-Channel Temperature Controller For Sugar and Allied Industries.- Use of Sensors for Safety of Personnel in Robotic Installations.- VI: Industrial Applications.- Determining the Workspace Design of Robotized Cells in Pre-Determined Environments.- Judicious Selection of a Robot for an Industrial Task - An Expert System Approach.- Fixtureless Robotic Assembly Workcell.- Design of a Wall-Scaling Robot for Inspection and Maintenance.- A Telemanipulator for Hazardous Mining Operations.- Adoption of Robotic System for Inter-Station Handling Operations for Nagpur Milk Scheme, India.- Integration and Realtime Monitoring of Robotic Controllers.- On the Applications of Part Image Reconstruction Systems in Automated Manufacturing.- Kalman Filter Application to Tridimensional Rigid Body Motion Parameter Estimation from a Sequence of Images.- Optimization Techniques for Mathematical Routines Available through High-Level Source Code.- VII: Task Performance.- Sensing and...

The third edition of this textbook presents a further updated approach to fuzzy sets and systems that can model uncertainty ¿ i.e., ¿type-2¿ fuzzy sets and systems. The author demonstrates how to overcome the limitations of classical fuzzy sets and systems, enabling a wide range of applications, from time-series forecasting to knowledge mining to classification to control and to explainable AI (XAI). This latest edition again begins by introducing classical (type-1) fuzzy sets and systems, and then explains how they can be modified to handle uncertainty, leading to type-2 fuzzy sets and systems. New material is included about how to obtain fuzzy set word models that are needed for XAI, similarity of fuzzy sets, a quantitative methodology that lets one explain in a simple way why the different kinds of fuzzy systems have the potential for performance improvements over each other, and new parameterizations of membership functions that have the potential for achieving even greater performance for all kinds of fuzzy systems. For hands-on experience, the book provides information on accessing MATLAB, Java, and Python software to complement the content. The book features a full suite of classroom material.

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Specialty crops are defined as fruits and vegetables, tree nuts, dried fruits, horticulture, and nursery crops including floriculture. The value of specialty crop production in the United States accounted for 18.44 % of the $433.569 billion in agriculture cash receipts collected in 2021. In 2020, that ratio was 21.47% of the $363.464 billion. Specialty crops are gaining increasing attention across nation as demonstrated in the 2018 farm bill (Agricultural Act of the 2018 Farm Bill (P.L. 115-334)) with the increased number of provisions addressing specialty crop issues, reflecting their growing role in the global economy. The cultivation of Specialty crops, nevertheless, has its own challenges. Specialty crops are generally more sensitive to climatic stressors and require more comprehensive management compared to traditional row crops. Specialty crops face significant financial risks threatening US$1.6 Trillion global market due to their higher water demand. The mission of the book is to prepare current and future software engineering teams, agriculture students, economists, macroeconomists with the skills and tools to fully utilize advanced data science, artificial intelligence, climate patterns, and economic models to develop software capabilities that help to achieve Specialty crops and economic sustainability, through improved productivity for years to come and ensure enough food for the future of the planet and generations to come!

The book describes the clean coal technology of chemical looping combustion (CLC) for power generation with pure CO2 capture. The focus of the book is on the modeling and simulation of CLC. It includes fundamental concepts behind CLC and considers all categories of fluidized beds and reactors, including a variety of oxygen carriers. The book includes process simulations with Aspen Plus(R) software using coal, natural gas, and biomass and computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations using both the Eulerian and Lagrangian methods. It describes various drag models, turbulence models, and kinetics models required for CFD simulations of CLC and covers single reactor, partial, and full-simulations, single/multi-stage as well as single-particle simulations, and CLC with reverse flow. A large number of examples for both process simulations using Aspen Plus and CFD simulations using a variety of fluidized beds/reactors employing both the two-fluid and Computational Fluid Dynamics / Discrete Element Method (CFD-DEM) model are provided. Modeling and Simulation of Fluidized Bed Reactors for Chemical Looping Combustion will be an invaluable reference for industry practitioners and researchers in academic and industrial R&D currently working on clean energy technologies and power generation with carbon capture.

This book of 21 chapters shares endeavors associated to the human trait of creative expression within, across, and between digital media in wide-ranging contexts making the contents perfect as a course study book uptake within related educations. Globally located chapter authors share their comprehensive artisan perspectives from works associated with regional cultures, diversities of interpretations, and widespread scopes of meanings. Contents illustrate contemporary works reflecting thought-provoking comprehensions, functions, and purposes, posit as contributing toward shifting of boundaries within the field. Original to this approach is the reflective offerings on creating digitally beyond typical psychological analysis/rapportage. The book's general scope and key uses are thus to contribute to scholarly discussions toward informing future projects by having an intended wide readership including from within educations, to artisans, and wider interested public.Chapter 7 is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

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1 Abstract.- 2 Introduction.- 3 Study areas and basic data.- 3.1 Study areas.- 3.2 Basic data.- 3.2.1 Digital Elevation Models.- 3.2.2 Primary Forest Layers.- 3.2.2.1 Forest Inventory.- 3.2.2.2 Forest Site Evaluation.- 4 Statistical methods for regionalization of ecological state variables.- 4.1 Ordinary Kriging.- 4.2 Trend surface prediction.- 4.3 Kriging with trend.- 4.4 Crossvalidation.- 5 Spatial prediction of climate, soil, and macrofauna.- 5.1 Geomorphological and topoclimatic predictors derived from a DEM ..- Schulz, Mues, Jansen, Judas, Saborowski.- 5.1.1 Location dependent variables.- 5.1.2 First and second order derivatives of a DEM.- 5.1.3 Lee indices.- 5.1.4 Catchment size and related variables.- 5.1.5 Length of upward slopes.- 5.1.6 Relative exposure.- 5.1.7 Shape-Position Indices.- 5.1.8 Insolation indices.- 5.1.9 Quantification of landuse.- 5.2 Regionalization of climatic elements in Lower Saxony.- Mues, Jansen, Sloboda, Radler, Saborowski.- 5.2.1 Introduction.- 5.2.2 Sites and measurements.- 5.2.2.1 German Meteorological Service (DWD).- 5.2.2.2 Harz Mountains Waterworks (HWW).- 5.2.2.3 TRANSECT data.- 5.2.3 Localization of measurement stations.- 5.2.3.1 Accuracy of position.- 5.2.3.2 Shifting of the measurement stations.- 5.2.4 Models.- 5.2.4.1 Stratified models for Mountainous Region and Plains.- 5.2.4.2 Precipitation.- 5.2.4.2.1 Precipitation Plains.- 5.2.4.2.2 Precipitation Mountainous Region.- 5.2.4.3 Air temperature.- 5.2.4.3.1 Air temperature Plains.- 5.2.4.3.2 Air temperature Mountainous Region.- 5.2.5 Spatial representation of statistical models.- 5.2.6 Summary.- 5.3 Regionalization of soil chemical variables in the Harz mountains.- Jansen, Eberl, Beese.- 5.3.1 Introduction.- 5.3.2 Fundamentals of forest site evaluation: theory and models.- 5.3.3 Materials.- 5.3.4 Statistical analyses.- 5.3.5 Results and discussion.- 5.3.5.1 Geological substrates as a predictor of soil chemical variables.- 5.3.5.2 Nutrient index as a predictor of soil chemical variables.- 5.3.6 Multivariate models.- 5.3.7 Outlook.- 5.3.8 Summary.- 5.4 Regionalization of macrofauna populations.- Judas, Schaefer.- 5.4.1 Introduction.- 5.4.2 Area data.- 5.4.3 Point data.- 5.4.3.1 Sampling.- 5.4.3.2 Local habitat.- 5.4.4 Distribution patterns.- 5.4.4.1 General patterns.- 5.4.4.2 Species - habitat relations.- 5.4.4.3 Sampling stratification.- 5.4.5 Case study - distribution models for Pterostichus madidus.- 5.4.5.1 Initial Anova models.- 5.4.5.2 Multiple regression models.- 5.4.6 Multiple regression models for carabid beetle species.- 5.4.6.1 Optimization.- 5.4.6.2 Prediction.- 5.4.6.3 Habitat factors.- 5.4.6.4 Conclusions.- 5.4.7 Summary.- 6 Spatial models for site evaluation and forest planning.- 6.1 Forecast classification for the mapping of forest site properties.- Schulz, Judas.- 6.1.1 Principles of site mapping.- 6.1.2 Topoclimatic layers as support tools for mapping.- 6.1.2.1 Relative exposure in an unlimited surrounding.- 6.1.2.2 Insolation.- 6.1.2.3 Exposure to wind.- 6.1.3 Statistical approach to the modelling of relief units.- 6.1.3.1 Conceptual framework.- 6.1.3.2 Model quality indices.- 6.1.3.3 Implementation.- 6.1.3.4 Limitations to the modelling approach.- 6.1.3.5 Model selection.- 6.1.4 Statistical classification of moisture variants.- 6.1.4.1 Database.- 6.1.4.2 Modelling.- 6.1.4.3 Classification probabilities.- 6.1.5 Rule-based modelling of relief units.- 6.1.5.1 Shortcomings of the statistical approach.- 6.1.5.2 Implementation of classification rules.- 6.1.6 Conclusions.- 6.2 Modelling of forest growth areas in Lower Saxony.- Jansen, StUber, Wachter, Schulz, Schmidt, Saborowski, Mues, Eberl, Sloboda.- 6.2.1 Introduction.- 6.2.2 Analysis of current growth areas of Lower Saxony.- 6.2.3 Modelling of growth areas.- 6.2.3.1 Atlanticity-Continentality.- 6.2.3.2 Altitude belts.- 6.2.3.2.1 Influence of elevation and catchment size.- 6.2.3.2.2 Solar radiation.- 6.2.3.2.3 Cold air on level planes.- 6.2.3.2.4 Delimitation of altitu...

I. The concept of stability and systems with constant coefficients.- II. General linear systems.- III. Nonlinear systems.- IV. Asymptotic developments.