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All About Clouds (Smithsonian Informational Text)


All About Clouds (Smithsonian Informational Text)
English | 2025 | ASIN: B0D186Z7YN | 36 pages | True PDF | 10.33 MB
White and fluffy or dark and stormy, clouds can tell us a lot about our planet! Learn how to identify and describe clouds like a meteorologist. Discover what clouds are made of, how they form, and how they affect Earth. Created in collaboration with the Smithsonian Institution, this STEAM book will ignite curiosity about clouds and meteorology. It features a hands-on STEAM challenge that is ideal for makerspaces and walks students step-by-step through the engineering design process. Make STEAM career connections with career advice from actual Smithsonian employees working in Earth and space science fields. Explore engaging science topics with older readers with this STEAM book that is perfect for secondary students or ages 10-14.

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Algorithms, Humans, and Interactions How Do Algorithms Interact with People Designing Meaningful AI Experiences


Algorithms, Humans, and Interactions: How Do Algorithms Interact with People? Designing Meaningful AI Experiences
English | 2026 | ISBN: 1032333588 | 257 pages | True EPUB | 1.62 MB
Amidst the rampant use of algorithmization enabled by AI, the common theme of AI systems is the human factor. Humans play an essential role in designing, developing, and operationalizing AI systems. We have a remit to ensure those systems run transparently, perform equitably, value our privacy, and effectively fulfill human needs. This book takes an interdisciplinary approach to contribute to the ongoing development of human-AI interaction with a particular focus on the "human" dimension and provides insights to improve the design of AI that could be genuinely beneficial and effectively used in society. The readers of this book will benefit by gaining insights into various perspectives about how AI has impacted people and society and how it will do so in the future, and understanding how we can design algorithm systems that are beneficial, legitimate, usable by humans, and designed considering and respecting human values. This book provides a horizontal set of guidelines and insight into how humans can be empowered by making choices about AI designs that allow them meaningful control over AI. Designing meaningful AI experiences has garnered great attention to address responsibility gaps and mitigate them by establishing conditions that enable the proper attribution of responsibility to humans. This book helps us understand the possibilities of what AI systems can do and how they can and should be integrated into our society.

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Algorithmic Urbanism for Climate Resilience AI, Green Infrastructure, and Policy Innovation for Heat-Ready Cities


Algorithmic Urbanism for Climate Resilience AI, Green Infrastructure, and Policy Innovation for Heat-Ready Cities
English | 2026 | ISBN: 1041234287 | 411 pages | True PDF,EPUB | 44.06 MB
This book offers a comprehensive exploration of how artificial intelligence (AI), ecological design, and governance reforms can be leveraged to tackle climate-induced urban heat.

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Airport Management Investing in, Operating and Growing the Business


Airport Management: Investing in, Operating and Growing the Business
English | 2026 | ISBN: 1032738464 | 173 pages | True PDF,EPUB | 13.46 MB
Airports are dynamic infrastructure assets and organisations, which are subject to constant change as a result of increasing traffic, ownership changes, environmental, economic, safety and technological changes. Customers (airlines, passengers and freight organisations) and stakeholders (government, community) also put pressure on airports to change.