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Wearable technology can range anywhere between activity trackers to
prosthetics. These new advancements are continuously progressing
and becoming a part of daily life. Examining Developments and
Applications of Wearable Devices in Modern Society is a pivotal
reference source for the most innovative research on the expansion
of wearable computing and technology. Featuring coverage on a broad
range of topics such as stroke monitoring, augmented reality, and
cancer detection, this publication is ideally designed for
academicians, researchers, and students seeking current research on
the challenges and benefits of the latest wearable devices.
Resources designed to support learners of the new next generation
BTEC First in Information Technology specification*. Covers all
three mandatory units and a wide selection of optional units. Each
unit of the Student Book is presented in topics to ensure the
content is accessible and engaging for learners. Covers of all the
underpinning knowledge and understanding needed at level 2 to
ensure that learners are fully prepared for this course. Activities
in each unit provide support and clear direction for learners and
can be used in the classroom or for independent work. New
Assessment Zone guides learners through both internal and external
assessment. Practice assignments and assessment guidance help
learners to achieve their potential in internally assessed units. *
From 2012, Pearson's BTEC First qualifications have been under
re-development, so schools and colleges could be teaching the
existing 2010 specification or the new next generation 2012-2013
specification. There are different Student Books to support each
specification. If learners are unsure, they should check with their
teacher or tutor.
The world is witnessing the growth of a global movement facilitated
by technology and social media. Fueled by information, this
movement contains enormous potential to create more accountable,
efficient, responsive, and effective governments and businesses, as
well as spurring economic growth. Big Data Governance and
Perspectives in Knowledge Management is a collection of innovative
research on the methods and applications of applying robust
processes around data, and aligning organizations and skillsets
around those processes. Highlighting a range of topics including
data analytics, prediction analysis, and software development, this
book is ideally designed for academicians, researchers, information
science professionals, software developers, computer engineers,
graduate-level computer science students, policymakers, and
managers seeking current research on the convergence of big data
and information governance as two major trends in information
management.
Big Mechanisms in Systems Biology: Big Data Mining, Network
Modeling, and Genome-Wide Data Identification explains big
mechanisms of systems biology by system identification and big data
mining methods using models of biological systems. Systems biology
is currently undergoing revolutionary changes in response to the
integration of powerful technologies. Faced with a large volume of
available literature, complicated mechanisms, small prior
knowledge, few classes on the topics, and causal and mechanistic
language, this is an ideal resource. This book addresses system
immunity, regulation, infection, aging, evolution, and
carcinogenesis, which are complicated biological systems with
inconsistent findings in existing resources. These inconsistencies
may reflect the underlying biology time-varying systems and signal
transduction events that are often context-dependent, which raises
a significant problem for mechanistic modeling since it is not
clear which genes/proteins to include in models or experimental
measurements. The book is a valuable resource for bioinformaticians
and members of several areas of the biomedical field who are
interested in an in-depth understanding on how to process and apply
great amounts of biological data to improve research.
The Physics of Computing gives a foundational view of the physical
principles underlying computers. Performance, power, thermal
behavior, and reliability are all harder and harder to achieve as
transistors shrink to nanometer scales. This book describes the
physics of computing at all levels of abstraction from single gates
to complete computer systems. It can be used as a course for
juniors or seniors in computer engineering and electrical
engineering, and can also be used to teach students in other
scientific disciplines important concepts in computing. For
electrical engineering, the book provides the fundamentals of
computing that link core concepts to computing. For computer
science, it provides foundations of key challenges such as power
consumption, performance, and thermal. The book can also be used as
a technical reference by professionals.
Discussions around the preservation of privacy and confidential
data of patients parallels discussions about innovation,
effectiveness, and quality of care that the use of technology can
provide in health services. The use of technology in the management
of health services and in the provision of care in hospital
establishments can pose ethical issues. An effective solution needs
to be concocted before the use of this technology disturbs the
privacy practices of today's healthcare systems. Emerging Trends
and Innovations in Privacy and Health Information Management is a
collection of innovative research on the methods and applications
of the preservation of privacy and confidential data of patients.
While highlighting topics including privacy laws, ethical issues,
and healthcare security, this book is ideally designed for
professionals and researchers working in the fields of health,
social intervention, and information management.
Demand for integral and sustainable solutions is on the rise. As
new ways of defining reality emerge, this generates the progression
of more humanistic and sustainable construction of operating
systems. Designing for Human-Machine Symbiosis using the URANOS
Model: Emerging Research and Opportunities is a pivotal reference
source for the latest research on human-centered system modeling
and methods to provide a generic system model to describe complex
non-linear systems. Featuring extensive coverage across a range of
relevant topics, such as pervasive computing systems, smart
environments, and smart industrial machines, this book is ideally
designed for researchers, engineers, and professionals seeking
current research on the integration of human beings and their
natural, informational, and socio-cultural environments into system
design.
With the growth and advancement of business and industry, there is
a growing need for the advancement of the strategies that manage
these modernizations. Adaptation to advancement is essential for
the success of these organizations and using the proper methods to
accomplish this essential adaptation is paramount. Organizational
Transformation and Managing Innovation in the Fourth Industrial
Revolution provides innovative insights into the management of
advancements and the implementation of strategies to accommodate
these changes. The content within this publication examines social
engagement, cyber-journalism, and educational innovation. It is
designed for managers, consultants, academicians, researchers, and
professionals, and covers topics centered on the growth of
businesses and how they change alongside the economy and
infrastructure.
Large-scale interconnected systems have become more prominent in
society due to a higher demand for sustainable development. As
such, it is imperative to create effective methods and techniques
to control such systems. Large-Scale Fuzzy Interconnected Control
Systems Design and Analysis is an innovative source of academic
research that discusses the latest approaches to control
large-scale systems, and the challenges that occur when
implementing them. Highlighting a critical range of topics such as
system stability, system stabilization, and fuzzy rules, this book
is an ideal publication for engineers, researchers, academics,
graduate students, and practitioners interested in the design of
large-scale interconnected systems.
This book is a celebration of Leslie Lamport's work on concurrency,
interwoven in four-and-a-half decades of an evolving industry: from
the introduction of the first personal computer to an era when
parallel and distributed multiprocessors are abundant. His works
lay formal foundations for concurrent computations executed by
interconnected computers. Some of the algorithms have become
standard engineering practice for fault tolerant distributed
computing - distributed systems that continue to function correctly
despite failures of individual components. He also developed a
substantial body of work on the formal specification and
verification of concurrent systems, and has contributed to the
development of automated tools applying these methods. Part I
consists of technical chapters of the book and a biography. The
technical chapters of this book present a retrospective on
Lamport's original ideas from experts in the field. Through this
lens, it portrays their long-lasting impact. The chapters cover
timeless notions Lamport introduced: the Bakery algorithm, atomic
shared registers and sequential consistency; causality and logical
time; Byzantine Agreement; state machine replication and Paxos;
temporal logic of actions (TLA). The professional biography tells
of Lamport's career, providing the context in which his work arose
and broke new grounds, and discusses LaTeX - perhaps Lamport's most
influential contribution outside the field of concurrency. This
chapter gives a voice to the people behind the achievements,
notably Lamport himself, and additionally the colleagues around
him, who inspired, collaborated, and helped him drive worldwide
impact. Part II consists of a selection of Leslie Lamport's most
influential papers. This book touches on a lifetime of
contributions by Leslie Lamport to the field of concurrency and on
the extensive influence he had on people working in the field. It
will be of value to historians of science, and to researchers and
students who work in the area of concurrency and who are interested
to read about the work of one of the most influential researchers
in this field.
Human factors are the scientific discipline concerned with the
understanding of interactions among humans and other elements of a
system, and the profession that applies theory, principles, data,
and other methods to design to optimize human well-being and
overall system performance. Human factor issues and the impact of
technology on society is a topic that is only growing, and it is
essential that it is considered as technology becomes more present
in our daily lives. This not only impacts society now but is
something to be considered for the future. It is also incredibly
important for those in the human factors profession to consider the
impact of technology for their work and for the users they are
helping design for. Therefore, this topic has immense impact and is
important to study from a research perspective to advance the
understanding of how technology works, how we work, and how we as
humans work within the context of the technology we use. Human
Factors Issues and the Impact of Technology on Society examines the
role of technology on society with a specific focus on human
factors issues and how they are associated with and related to
technology use in society. A few highlighted topics within this
book are digital health technologies, learning technologies, ethics
in social technology, ICT use in businesses, and sustainability.
These topics are only a few of examples of how this book analyzes
technology in all different facets of society, making it ideal for
a wide audience including human factors practitioners,
technologists, sociologists, policy makers, teachers, technology
developers and designers, business professionals, ethicists,
researchers, academicians, students, and anyone else seeking more
information on how technology is impacting society through the
viewpoint of human factors.
Due to its versatility and accessibility, individuals all around
the world routinely use various forms of technology to interact
with one another. Over the years, the design and development of
technologies and interfaces have increasingly aimed to improve the
human-computer interactive experience in unimaginable ways. The
Handbook of Research on Human-Computer Interfaces and New Modes of
Interactivity is a collection of innovative research on the methods
and applications of interactive technologies in the modern age.
Highlighting topics including digital environments, sensory
applications, and transmedia applications, this book is ideally
designed for academicians, researchers, HCI developers,
programmers, IT consultants, and media specialists seeking current
research on the design, application, and advancement of different
media technologies and interfaces that can support interaction
across a wide range of users.
Advances in Computers carries on a tradition of excellence,
presenting detailed coverage of innovations in computer hardware,
software, theory, design, and applications. The book provides
contributors with a medium in which they can explore their subjects
in greater depth and breadth than journal articles typically allow.
The articles included in this book will become standard references,
with lasting value in this rapidly expanding field.
Systems Analysis and Synthesis: Bridging Computer Science and
Information Technology presents several new graph-theoretical
methods that relate system design to core computer science
concepts, and enable correct systems to be synthesized from
specifications. Based on material refined in the author's
university courses, the book has immediate applicability for
working system engineers or recent graduates who understand
computer technology, but have the unfamiliar task of applying their
knowledge to a real business problem. Starting with a comparison of
synthesis and analysis, the book explains the fundamental building
blocks of systems-atoms and events-and takes a graph-theoretical
approach to database design to encourage a well-designed schema.
The author explains how database systems work-useful both when
working with a commercial database management system and when
hand-crafting data structures-and how events control the way data
flows through a system. Later chapters deal with system dynamics
and modelling, rule-based systems, user psychology, and project
management, to round out readers' ability to understand and solve
business problems.
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