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Aims to shed new light on the past to help you make more sense of the world today. Fascinating stories…
from contributors are the leading experts in their fields, so whether they're exploring Ancient Egypt, Tudor England or the Second World War, you'll be reading the latest, most thought-provoking historical research.Kid Olympians: True Tales of Childhood from Champions and Game Changers (Kid Legends #9)
Par Robin Stevenson. 2024
Triumphant, relatable, and totally true biographies tell the childhood stories of a diverse group of international athletes who have captured…
the world’s attention at the Summer Olympics and Paralympics, like Simone Biles, Jesse Owens, Naomi Osaka, Tatyana McFadden, and 12 other incredible olympians.Athletes throughout history have dreamed of competing in the Olympics—and some were kids themselves when those dreams and plans began! In Kid Olympians: Summer, discover the childhood stories of legends such as: Usain Bolt, who used to skip practices to go to the arcade and play video games.Serena Williams, who sometimes hit her tennis ball over the fence on purpose!Tatyana McFadden, who had to fight to be allowed on her school’s track teamFeaturing kid-friendly text and full-color illustrations, you’ll be inspired to dream bigger, faster, and higher than ever before! The diverse and inspiring group also includes Michael Phelps, Yusra Mardini, Dick Fosbury, Ibtihaj Muhammad, Gertrude Ederle, Nadia Comaneci, Ellie Simmonds, Tommie Smith, Wilma Rudolph, and Megan Rapinoe.Pride and Persistence: Stories of Queer Activism (Do You Know My Name? #4)
Par Mary Fairhurst Breen. 2023
The activists between these pages have stood up for the queer community, whether on their own behalf or in support…
of people they love. Some made a difference by confronting injustice; others dared to be fully themselves.See It, Dream It, Do It: How 25 people just like you found their dream jobs
Par Colleen Nelson, Kathie MacIsaac. 2023
From award-winning author Colleen Nelson, and literacy advocate Kathie MacIsaac, twenty-five profiles present a plethora of jobs, and people, making…
it easier than ever for young people to see their dreams and to live their dreams!Aims to shed new light on the past to help you make more sense of the world today. Fascinating stories…
from contributors are the leading experts in their fields, so whether they're exploring Ancient Egypt, Tudor England or the Second World War, you'll be reading the latest, most thought-provoking historical research.Aims to shed new light on the past to help you make more sense of the world today. Fascinating stories…
from contributors are the leading experts in their fields, so whether they're exploring Ancient Egypt, Tudor England or the Second World War, you'll be reading the latest, most thought-provoking historical research.Beryl: The Making of a Disability Activist
Par Dustin Galer. 2023
The story of a mid-century working-class housewife whose extraordinary physical transformation empowered her to become a dynamic social activist who…
fueled a movement to create a more inclusive future for people with disabilities.The Engineering Executive's Primer
Par Will Larson. 2024
As an engineering manager, you almost always have someone in your company to turn to for advice: a peer on…
another team, your manager, or even the head of engineering. But who do you turn to if you're the head of engineering? Engineering executives have a challenging learning curve, and many folks excitedly start their first executive role only to leave frustrated within the first 18 months.In this book, author Will Larson shows you ways to obtain your first executive job and quickly ramp up to meet the challenges you may not have encountered in non-executive roles: measuring engineering for both engineers and the CEO, company-scoped headcount planning, communicating successfully across a growing organization, and figuring out what people actually mean when they keep asking for a "technology strategy."This book explains how to:Get an engineering executive job, negotiate the contract, and onboard at your new companyRun an engineering planning process and communicate effectively with the organizationDirect the core meetings necessary to operate an effective engineering organizationHire, onboard, and run performance managementManage yourself and remain effective through many challengesLeave the job when the time is rightWill Larson was the chief technology officer at Calm and the author of An Elegant Puzzle and Staff Engineer. He's also a prolific writer on his blog, Irrational Exuberance.Advances in Aerial Sensing and Imaging
Par Sandeep Kumar, Nageswara Rao Moparthi, Abhishek Bhola, Ravinder Kaur, A. Senthil, K.M.V.V. Prasad. 2024
Advances in Aerial Sensing and Imaging This groundbreaking book is a comprehensive guide to the technology found in the complex…
field of aerial sensing and imaging, and the real-world challenges that stem from its growing significance and demand. The advent of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), or drones, along with advancements in sensor technology and image processing techniques, has further enhanced the capabilities and applications of aerial sensing and imaging. These developments have opened up new research, innovation, and exploration avenues. Aerial sensing and imaging have rapidly evolved over the past few decades and have revolutionized several fields, including land cover and usage prediction, crop and livestock management, road accident monitoring, poverty estimation, defense, agriculture, forest fire detection, UAV security issues, and open parking management. This book provides a comprehensive understanding and knowledge of the underlying technology and its practical applications in different domains. Audience Computer science and artificial intelligence researchers working in the fields of aerial sensing and imaging, as well as professionals working in industries such as agriculture, geology, surveying, urban planning, disaster response, etc; this book provides them with practical guidance and instruction on how to apply aerial sensing and imaging for various purposes and stay up-to-date with the latest developments in the domain.Optimized Predictive Models in Health Care Using Machine Learning
Par Sandeep Kumar, Anuj Sharma, Navneet Kaur, Lokesh Pawar, Rohit Bajaj. 2024
OPTIMIZED PREDICTIVE MODELS IN HEALTH CARE USING MACHINE LEARNING This book is a comprehensive guide to developing and implementing optimized…
predictive models in healthcare using machine learning and is a required resource for researchers, healthcare professionals, and students who wish to know more about real-time applications. The book focuses on how humans and computers interact to ever-increasing levels of complexity and simplicity and provides content on the theory of optimized predictive model design, evaluation, and user diversity. Predictive modeling, a field of machine learning, has emerged as a powerful tool in healthcare for identifying high-risk patients, predicting disease progression, and optimizing treatment plans. By leveraging data from various sources, predictive models can help healthcare providers make informed decisions, resulting in better patient outcomes and reduced costs. Other essential features of the book include: provides detailed guidance on data collection and preprocessing, emphasizing the importance of collecting accurate and reliable data; explains how to transform raw data into meaningful features that can be used to improve the accuracy of predictive models; gives a detailed overview of machine learning algorithms for predictive modeling in healthcare, discussing the pros and cons of different algorithms and how to choose the best one for a specific application; emphasizes validating and evaluating predictive models; provides a comprehensive overview of validation and evaluation techniques and how to evaluate the performance of predictive models using a range of metrics; discusses the challenges and limitations of predictive modeling in healthcare; highlights the ethical and legal considerations that must be considered when developing predictive models and the potential biases that can arise in those models. Audience The book will be read by a wide range of professionals who are involved in healthcare, data science, and machine learning.Rosa Parks: Civil Rights Leader (Black Americans of Achievement Legacy Edition)
Par Mary Hull, Gloria Blakely, Dale Evva Gelfand. 2008
On December 1, 1955, seamstress Rosa Parks took a stand by refusing to give up her seat on a bus…
to a white man. Her defiance against an unjust system triggered the Montgomery Bus Boycott and helped spark the civil rights movement in the 1960s. Parks demonstrated the effectiveness of unified peaceful protests, and throughout her life she advocated an end to violence, discrimination, and injustice, eventually establishing the Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute for Self-Development. Rosa Parks, Updated Edition, includes fresh insights on the life and legacy of the woman known as the "mother of the civil rights movement."Dinner on Monster Island: Essays
Par Tania De Rozario. 2024
In this unusual, engaging, and intimate collection of personal essays, Lambda Literary Award finalist Tania De Rozario recalls growing up…
as a queer, brown, fat girl in Singapore, blending memoir with elements of history, pop culture, horror films, and current events to explore the nature of monsters and what it means to be different.Tania De Rozario was just twelve years old when she was gay-exorcised. Convinced that her boyish style and demeanor were a sign of something wicked, her mother and a pair of her church friends tried to “banish the evil” from Tania. That day, the young girl realized that monsters weren’t just found in horror tales. They could lurk anywhere—including your own family and community—and look just like you. Dinner on Monster Island is Tania’s memoir of her life and childhood in Singapore—where she discovered how difference is often perceived as deviant, damaged, disobedient, and sometimes, demonic. As she pulls back the veil on life on the small island, she reveals the sometimes kind, sometimes monstrous side of all of us. Intertwined with her experiences is an analysis of the role of women in horror. Tania looks at films and popular culture such as Carrie, The Witch, and The Ring to illuminate the ways in which women are often portrayed as monsters, and how in real life, monsters are not what we think. Moving and lyrical, written with earnest candor, and leavened with moments of humor and optimism, Dinner on Monster Island is a deeply personal examination of one woman’s experience grappling with her identity and a fantastic analysis of monsters, monstrous women and the worlds in which they live.Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant: A Memoir
Par Curtis Chin. 2023
An American Library Association Stonewall Honor BookMost Anticipated This Fall in TIME, San Francisco Chronicle, The Washington Post, Goodreads, Lamba…
Literary Review, Kirkus Reviews, and PinkNewsThis &“vivid, moving, funny, and heartfelt&” memoir tells the story of Curtis Chin&’s time growing up as a gay Chinese American kid in 1980&’s Detroit (Lisa Ko, author of The Leavers). Nineteen eighties Detroit was a volatile place to live, but above the fray stood a safe haven: Chung&’s Cantonese Cuisine, where anyone—from the city&’s first Black mayor to the local drag queens, from a big-time Hollywood star to elderly Jewish couples—could sit down for a warm, home-cooked meal. Here was where, beneath a bright-red awning and surrounded by his multigenerational family, filmmaker and activist Curtis Chin came of age; where he learned to embrace his identity as a gay ABC, or American-born Chinese; where he navigated the divided city&’s spiraling misfortunes; and where—between helpings of almond boneless chicken, sweet-and-sour pork, and some of his own, less-savory culinary concoctions—he realized just how much he had to offer to the world, to his beloved family, and to himself. Served up by the cofounder of the Asian American Writers&’ Workshop and structured around the very menu that graced the tables of Chung&’s, Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant is both a memoir and an invitation: to step inside one boy&’s childhood oasis, scoot into a vinyl booth, and grow up with him—and perhaps even share something off the secret menu.Lifelong and Continual Learning Dialogue Systems (Synthesis Lectures on Human Language Technologies)
Par Sahisnu Mazumder, Bing Liu. 2024
This book introduces the new paradigm of lifelong and continual learning dialogue systems to endow dialogue systems with the ability…
to learn continually by themselves through their own self-initiated interactions with their users and the working environments. The authors present the latest developments and techniques for building such continual learning dialogue systems. The book explains how these developments allow systems to continuously learn new language expressions, lexical and factual knowledge, and conversational skills through interactions and dialogues. Additionally, the book covers techniques to acquire new training examples for learning new tasks during the conversation. The book also reviews existing work on lifelong learning and discusses areas for future research.This book gathers the proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Advancements of Medicine and Health Care through Technology, MEDITECH…
2022, held virtually on 20–22 October 2022, from Cluj-Napoca, Romania. It reports on both theoretical and practical developments in biomedical imaging and image processing, health technology, technologies for education, and biomedical signal processing and medical devices, measurements and instrumentation. Both the conference and the realization of this book were supported by the Romanian National Society for Medical Engineering and Biological Technology (SNIMTB).The 2x2 Matrix: Contingency, Confusion and the Metrics of Binary Classification
Par A. J. Larner. 2024
This book describes, extends, and illustrates the metrics of binary classification through worked examples.Worked examples based on pragmatic test accuracy…
study data are used in chapters to illustrate relevance to day-to-day clinical practice. Readers will gain an understanding of sensitivity and specificity and predictive values along with many other parameters.The contents are highly structured, and the use of worked examples facilitates understanding and interpretation.This book is a resource for clinicians in any discipline who are involved in the performance or assessment of test accuracy studies and professionals in the disciplines of machine learning or informatics wishing to gain insight into clinical applications of 2x2 tables.Cambridge International AS Level Information Technology Student's Book Second Edition
Par Graham Brown, Brian Sargent. 2024
Our AS Level student book is endorsed by Cambridge International Education to support the full syllabus for examination from 2025.Develop…
theoretical and practical IT skills with this comprehensive Student's Book written by experienced authors and examiners specially for the updated Cambridge International Education AS Level Information Technology syllabus (9626).- Improve understanding of concepts and terminology with clear explanations, labelled illustrations, photographs, diagrams, plus a glossary of key terms- Develop theoretical and practical skills with a range of exercises (multi choice through to discussion type questions), exam-style questions, step-by-step instructions and example answers that all ensure skills are developed alongside knowledge- Follow a structured route through the course with in-depth coverage of the full syllabusAlso available in the series:Cambridge International AS Level Information Technology Student Book eBook 9781036005597Cambridge International AS Level Information Technology Skills Workbook 9781510483064Blockchain and Machine Learning for IoT Security
Par Mourade Azrour, Jamal Mabrouki, Azidine Guezzaz, and Said Benkirane. 2024
The Internet of Things (IoT) involves physical devices, cars, household appliances, and any other physical appliance equipped with sensors, software,…
and network connections to gather and communicate data. Nowadays, this technology is embedded in everything from simple smart devices, to wearable equipment, to complex industrial machinery and transportation infrastructures. On the other hand, IoT equipment has been designed without considering security issues. Consequently, there are many challenges in terms of protection against IoT threats, which can lead to distressing situations. In fact, unlike other technological solutions, there are few standards and guidelines governing the protection of IoT technology. Moreover, few users are aware of the risks associated with IoT systems. Hence, Blockchain and Machine Learning for IoT Security discusses various recent techniques and solutions related to IoT deployment, especially security and privacy. This book addresses a variety of subjects, including a comprehensive overview of the IoT, and covers in detail the security challenges at each layer by considering how both the architecture and underlying technologies are employed. As acknowledged experts in the field, the authors provide remediation solutions for impaired security, as well as mitigation methods, and offer both prevention and improvement suggestions. Key Features: Offers a unique perspective on IoT security by introducing Machine Learning and Blockchain solutions Presents a well-rounded overview of the most recent advances in IoT security and privacy Discusses practical solutions and real-world cases for IoT solutions in various areas Provides solutions for securing IoT against various threats Discuses Blockchain technology as a solution for IoT This book is designed to provide all the necessary knowledge for young researchers, academics, and industry professionals who want to understand the advantages of artificial intelligence technology, machine learning, data analysis methodology, and Blockchain for securing IoT technologies.Blockchain-based Internet of Things: Opportunities, Challenges and Solutions
Par Iraq Ahmad Reshi, Sahil Sholla. 2024
This book presents an overview of the blockchain-based Internet of Things systems, along with the opportunities, challenges, and solutions in…
diverse fields such as business, education, agriculture, and healthcare. It discusses scalability, security, layers, threats, and countermeasures in blockchain-based Internet of Things network.· Elaborates on the opportunities presented by combining blockchain with artificial intelligence on the Internet of Things systems in the management of food systems, and drug supply chains.· Explains the management of computationally intensive tasks in blockchain-based Internet of Things through the development of lightweight protocols.· Presents various applications in fields including logistics and the supply chain, automobile industry, smart housing, shared economy, and agriculture.· Provides insights into blockchain-based Internet of Things systems, along with their features, vulnerabilities, and architectural flaws.· The text is primarily written for graduate students, and academic researchers working in the fields of computer science and engineering, electrical engineering, and information technology.