English | 2022 | ISBN: 9811957142 | 195 pages | True PDF EPUB | 15.39 MB This book illustrates the latest developments in literacy and language assessment in the digital context, and subsequently presents a rigorous validation study on a newly proposed form of assessment (scenario-based assessment, SBA) that seeks to respond to the contextual change of literacy activities. It combines theories and innovative practices in both the literacy and language assessment sectors. The empirical validation study on SBA, presented here, can help readers understand how digital scenarios can be realized in assessment practices with the aid of computer technology, and how the scenario settings in the digital context can affect EFL learners' reading-to-writing performance. In this way, it can facilitate the reconceptualization of L2 literacy in the digital context. Moreover, the evidence and critical examination presented here can offer readers more comprehensive insights into the value or validity of a given innovative approach before it is adopted in their contexts. English | 2022 | ISBN: 1032029145 | 314 pages | True PDF | 14.85 MB Lean is about building and improving stable and predictable systems and processes to deliver to customers high-quality products/services on time by engaging everyone in the organization. Combined with this, organizations need to create an environment of respect for people and continuous learning. It's all about people. People create the product or service, drive innovation, and create systems and processes, and with leadership buy-in and accountability to ensure sustainment with this philosophy, employees will be committed to the organization as they learn and grow personally and professionally. Lean is a term that describes a way of thinking about and managing companies as an enterprise. Becoming Lean requires the following: the continual pursuit to identify and eliminate waste; the establishment of efficient flow of both information and process; and an unwavering top-level commitment. The concept of continuous improvement applies to any process in any industry.
English | 2022 | ISBN: 0128207930 | 290 pages | True PDF | 7.74 MB Artificial Neural Networks for Renewable Energy Systems and Real-World Applications presents current trends for the solution of complex engineering problems in the application, modeling, analysis, and optimization of different energy systems and manufacturing processes. With growing research catering to the applications of neural networks in specific industrial applications, this reference provides a single resource catering to a broader perspective of ANN in renewable energy systems and manufacturing processes. ANN-based methods have attracted the attention of scientists and researchers in different engineering and industrial disciplines, making this book a useful reference for all researchers and engineers interested in artificial networks, renewable energy systems, and manufacturing process analysis. English | 2022 | ISBN: 1683922239 | 739 pages | True PDF | 69.35 MB Features +Includes new chapters on deep learning, AI security, and AI programming
English | 2022 | ISBN: 0470647507 | 339 pages | True PDF | 43.43 MB Artificial Intelligence in Digital Holographic Imaging Technical Basis and Biomedical Applications An eye-opening discussion of 3D optical sensing, imaging, analysis, and pattern recognition Artificial intelligence (AI) has made great progress in recent years. Digital holographic imaging has recently emerged as a powerful new technique well suited to explore cell structure and dynamics with a nanometric axial sensitivity and the ability to identify new cellular biomarkers. By combining digital holography with AI technology, including recent deep learning approaches, this system can achieve a record-high accuracy in non-invasive, label-free cellular phenotypic screening. It opens up a new path to data-driven diagnosis. Artificial Intelligence in Digital Holographic Imaging introduces key concepts and algorithms of AI to show how to build intelligent holographic imaging systems drawing on techniques from artificial neural networks, convolutional neural networks, and generative adversarial network. Readers will be able to gain an understanding of the basics for implementing AI in holographic imaging system designs and connecting practical biomedical questions that arise from the use of digital holography with various AI algorithms in intelligence models. What's Inside Introductory background on digital holography Key concepts of digital holographic imaging Deep-learning techniques for holographic imaging AI techniques in holographic image analysis Holographic image-classification models Automated phenotypic analysis of live cells For readers with various backgrounds, this book provides a detailed discussion of the use of intelligent holographic imaging system in biomedical fields with great potential for biomedical application. [center] English | 2022 | ISBN: 9815036114 | 383 pages | True PDF EPUB | 28.12 MB This book informs the reader about applications of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and nature-inspired algorithms in different situations. Each chapter in this book is written by topic experts on AI, nature-inspired algorithms and data science. The basic concepts relevant to these topics are explained, including evolutionary computing (EC), artificial neural networks (ANN), swarm intelligence (SI), and fuzzy systems (FS). Additionally, the book also covers optimization algorithms for data analysis. English | 2023 | ISBN: 978-3110761993 | 298 pages | True PDF EPUB | 98.26 MB THE SERIES: INTELLIGENT BIOMEDICAL DATA ANALYSIS By focusing on the methods and tools for intelligent data analysis, this series aims to narrow the increasing gap between data gathering and data comprehension. Emphasis is also given to the problems resulting from automated data collection in modern hospitals, such as analysis of computer-based patient records, data warehousing tools, intelligent alarming, effective and efficient monitoring. In medicine, overcoming this gap is crucial since medical decision making needs to be supported by arguments based on existing medical knowledge as well as information, regularities and trends extracted from big data sets. English | 2022 | ISBN: 1440858284 | 460 pages | True PDF EPUB | 54.74 MB Artifacts from the Ancient Silk Road covers life along the Silk Road over 5000 years as it can be understood by considering objects. In this first object-based study to consider all of the peoples involved on the Silk Roads, objects provide the vehicles for explorations of different aspects of life for the various peoples of the Silk Roads, including the sedentary peoples who established urban life on the Silk Roads, the steppe nomads who regularly interacted with the settled peoples, and the peoples at either end of the Silk Roads who drove certain kinds of economic exchanges. The book looks at Central Asia as an international zone during ancient times when multiple religious, political, and technological ideas found acceptance in the region and allows for a better understanding of how some ideas and forms developed in Central Asia while others passed through or were modified. English | 2022 | ISBN: 978-1440871863 | 424 pages | True PDF EPUB | 65.82 MB Artifacts from 19th Century America examines a broad array of objects representing various aspects of 19th century American society. The objects have been chosen to illuminate daily life in a number of categories including cooking, entertainment, grooming, clothing and accessories, health, household items, religious life, work, and education. The book's 53 entries include a brief introduction to the background of the object, when and why it was made, and who used it, followed by a detailed description of the object itself. Finally, each entry provides a deep dive into the object's significance and how the object reveals clues about the social, political, economic, and intellectual life of the society in which it was produced and utilized. Students and general readers alike will not only learn about the time period but also learn to use the skills of material culture theory and method, including how to draw meaningful conclusions from each object about their historical context and significance.
English | 2022 | ISBN: 059308649X | 368 pages | True EPUB | 5.6 MB From the Pulitzer Prize winner and bestselling author ofHow to Be an Artist: a deliciously readable survey of the art world in turbulent times Jerry Saltz is one of our most-watched writers about art and artists, and a passionate champion of the importance of art in our shared cultural life. Since the 1990s he has been an indispensable cultural voice: witty and provocative, he has attracted contemporary readers to fine art as few critics have. An early champion of forgotten and overlooked women artists, he has also celebrated the pioneering work of African American, LGBTQ+, and other long-marginalized creators. Sotheby's Institute of Art has called him, simply, "theart critic." |