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Books > Mind, Body & Spirit > Unexplained phenomena / the paranormal > Extraterrestrial beings
This book presents the result of an innovative challenge, to create
a systematic literature overview driven by machine-generated
content. Questions and related keywords were prepared for the
machine to query, discover, collate and structure by Artificial
Intelligence (AI) clustering. The AI-based approach seemed
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sciences. Springer Nature has published much on these topics in its
journals over the years, so the challenge was for the machine to
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to support anyone who needs a fast and effective start in their
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this book can serve as an inspiration, to name a few examples. It
is important to us as a publisher to make the advances in
technology easily accessible to our authors and find new ways of
AI-based author services that allow human-machine interaction to
generate readable, usable, collated, research content.
From the Earth's atmosphere to the edges of our Universe, the
presence of dust is ubiquitous. One of the main challenges in
studying dust in these various environments is thus to harmonize
the diverse research techniques and results, including in-situ
measurement, remote observation, laboratory experiments and
modelling, and analysis of returned samples. For the first time in
over a decade, this volume accomplishes exactly that, providing an
overarching picture of the current state of dust science and
research. Where possible, the papers in this volume emphasize the
interconnections, similarities, and differences in the field,
synthesizing results from several techniques into one cohesive
view. Importantly, astrobiological connections have now been
considered. The dust hazard, future technology and research, and
space mission requirements and scenarios are also addressed. The
outcome of this endeavor is an interdisciplinary compendium with a
unified perspective on cosmic dust science. Originally published in
Space Science Reviews in the Topical Collection "Cosmic Dust from
the Laboratory to the Stars"
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