What are the borders of risk? How is the perception of risk related to new technologies and digital changing? This book discusses these topics, moving from theories to research data, looking for concrete answers now, or taking a picture of reality. The volume is divided into three main sections: Exploring the Edges of Risk, according to sociological, psychological and artificial intelligence perspective; Technological and Digital Risks, exploring social media, cyberbullying, hate speech, social bots on digital platforms; Risk in the Cities, working with risk and deviance, risk communication, environmental and nuclear risks. Inside, research data from Europe, USA and Mexico are discussed.

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The term “cyberspace� that entered into our lives towards the end of the 20th century is defined as: “a global platform that consists of the network containing the infrastructures of information technologies with Internet, communication networks, computer systems, embedded processors and controllers�. When this term is analysed, it is seen that nearly all informatics systems minimize the human control and at many platforms, they are connected to each other. Although the term “cyberspace� is very new, it is like a living organism that is coordinated with scientific disciplines such as finance, defence, health, education, transportation and security, in all manned and unmanned areas. Our interaction with this organism covers almost all our lifespan. When looked closer, it is seen that cyberspace must be researched not only from technology side but also from sociology and psychology sides. So, welcome to the cyberspace journey that we prepared for you in our book What’s Happening in Cyberspace?

Begin your JavaScript journey with this comprehensive, hands-on guide. You’ll learn everything there is to know about professional JavaScript programming, from core language concepts to essential client-side tasks. Build dynamic web applications with step-by-step instructions and expand your knowledge by exploring server-side development and mobile development. Work with advanced language features, write clean and efficient code, and much more! · Your all-in-one guide to JavaScript· Work with objects, reference types, events, forms, and web APIs· Build server-side applications, mobile applications, desktop applications, and more· Consult and download practical code examples Language ReviewRefresh your knowledge or learn JavaScript as a beginner with in-depth coverage of JavaScript basics. Understand how to store values, use data types, control flow, and debug your code. Client-Side ProgrammingBuild dynamic web applications by learning to process events, load content, create images, and use web APIs. Advanced ConceptsExplore server-side application development with Node.js, mobile application development with React Native and Iconic, and desktop programming with Electron and NW.js. Work with advanced language features and more. This book includes: 1) More than 1,000 pages of JavaScript knowledge from a leading expert 2) A compendium of basics and advanced topics for professionals 3) Detailed, numbered code listings 4) Diagrams, charts, tables, note boxes, definitions, and background information 5) Numerous illustrations and screenshots 6) A comprehensive index This book is for you if: 1) You’re a beginner without extensive programming experience who wants to learn the JavaScript language: In addition to JavaScript basics, this book provides you with information about programming concepts and paradigms, as well as the most important APIs and application areas of JavaScript. The best way to work with the book as a beginner is to read it from cover to cover. Prior knowledge of HTML and CSS will make it easier to follow along with this book. 2) You’re a professional programmer looking to add JavaScript to your language repertoire: You can deepen your knowledge and learn from a comprehensive and versatile reference guide. Explore advanced topics and follow along with in-depth exercises. Since the code examples do not build on each other, you can read the chapters in any order you prefer. Highlights: Reference types Objects Events Forms Web APIs Object-oriented programming Functional programming Client-side applications Server-side applications Mobile and desktop applications

* A useful summary of the findings of a project researching the use of information communication technologies (ICTs) for development* Includes a functional best practice framework--who should do what, and when--and suggestions for further research* Features a review of the literature and illustrates lessons learned through the example of a case study of a project in PeruThis paper summarizes the findings from a research project conducted by ITDG and Cranfield School of Management (Bedford, U.K.) into using ICTs (like the Internet or mobile telephony) to share information with people at grassroots level "connecting the first mile."Across the world, development agencies are piloting projects to use ICTs to provide people with improved access to up-to-date information, equip them with new skills, or connect them to an international market. Evidence suggests that many of these projects are not succeeding. "Connecting the First Mile" outlines the challenges involved in sharing information with people who have little experience with ICTs, low levels of literacy, little time or money, and very specific knowledge and language requirements. It provides a best practice framework that embraces many applications of ICT (eg for agriculture, e-governance etc.) and many technologies, and it includes suggestions for further research.Of interest to Development, and ICT for Development: practitioners, students, academics, and donor organizations.

Explore numerous techniques to improve the way you write CSS as you build 12 tiny projects. For readers who know the basics of HTML and frontend development. No previous experience of CSS is required. In Tiny CSS Projects, you will build twelve exciting and useful web projects with CSS — a must-know tool. This textbook teaches you how to make beautiful websites and applications by gilding you through a dozen fun coding challenges. You will learn important skills through hands-on practice as you tinker with your own coding and will make actual creative decisions about the projects you re building. You will rapidly master the basic features, including A loading screen created by styling SVG graphics A responsive newspaper layout with multi-columns Animating social media buttons with pseudo-elements Designing layouts using CSS grids Summary cards that utilise hover interactions Styling forms to make them more appealing to your users The projects may be tiny, but the CSS skills you will learn are huge! Press on with CSS s exciting layout features, including grid and flexbox, animations, transitions, and media queries. About the technology Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) make the web beautiful. Where HTML structures a page and JavaScript gives it additional functionality, CSS handles colours, layouts, and typography — everything your users love about your site. While CSS is an established tool used in almost all production websites, it s also evolving to include new features.

ITIL 4 is the latest evolution of the leading best-practice framework for ITSM (IT service management). It has been significantly updated from ITIL v3 and addresses new ITSM challenges, includes new technologies and incorporates new ways of working. ITIL Foundation Essentials - ITIL 4 Edition* is the ultimate revision guide for candidates preparing for the ITIL 4 Foundation exam. It is fully aligned with the Foundation course syllabus and gives a clear and concise overview of the facts. You can use it in place of writing revision notes, giving you more time to focus on learning the information you need to pass the exam. Whether you are taking an ITIL 4 Foundation training course or are a self-study candidate, new to the framework or looking to upgrade your ITIL 2011 certification, this guide is the essential companion. It: -Provides definitions of the key terms and concepts used in ITIL 4; -Presents detailed information in clear, user-friendly and easy-to-follow ways through tables, bullet points and diagrams; and -Explains the key figures and diagrams in the ITIL syllabus. New for the ITIL 4 Edition: -Fully updated to reflect the changes introduced in ITIL 4. -New sections on the guiding principles of ITIL and the four dimensions of service management. -Updated overview of the ITIL Foundation exam.

This book offers an original and informative view of the development of fundamental concepts of computability theory. The treatment is put into historical context, emphasizing the motivation for ideas as well as their logical and formal development. In Part I the author introduces computability theory, with chapters on the foundational crisis of mathematics in the early twentieth century, and formalism. In Part II he explains classical computability theory, with chapters on the quest for formalization, the Turing Machine, and early successes such as defining incomputable problems, c.e. (computably enumerable) sets, and developing methods for proving incomputability. In Part III he explains relative computability, with chapters on computation with external help, degrees of unsolvability, the Turing hierarchy of unsolvability, the class of degrees of unsolvability, c.e. degrees and the priority method, and the arithmetical hierarchy. Finally, in the new Part IV the author revisits the computability (Church-Turing) thesis in greater detail. He offers a systematic and detailed account of its origins, evolution, and meaning, he describes more powerful, modern versions of the thesis, and he discusses recent speculative proposals for new computing paradigms such as hypercomputing.  This is a gentle introduction from the origins of computability theory up to current research, and it will be of value as a textbook and guide for advanced undergraduate and graduate students and researchers in the domains of computability theory and theoretical computer science. This new edition is completely revised, with almost one hundred pages of new material. In particular the author applied more up-to-date, more consistent terminology, and he addressed some notational redundancies and minor errors. He developed a glossary relating to computability theory, expanded the bibliographic references with new entries, and added the new part described above and other new sections.

Although the terms "data mining" and "knowledge discovery and data mining" (KDDM) are sometimes used interchangeably, data mining is actually just one step in the KDDM process. Data mining is the process of extracting useful information from data, while KDDM is the coordinated process of understanding the business and mining the data in order to identify previously unknown patterns. Knowledge Discovery Process and Methods to Enhance Organizational Performance explains the knowledge discovery and data mining (KDDM) process in a manner that makes it easy for readers to implement. Sharing the insights of international KDDM experts, it details powerful strategies, models, and techniques for managing the full cycle of knowledge discovery projects. The book supplies a process-centric view of how to implement successful data mining projects through the use of the KDDM process. It discusses the implications of data mining including security, privacy, ethical and legal considerations. Provides an introduction to KDDM, including the various models adopted in academia and industry Details critical success factors for KDDM projects as well as the impact of poor quality data or inaccessibility to data on KDDM projects Proposes the use of hybrid approaches that couple data mining with other analytic techniques (e.g., data envelopment analysis, cluster analysis, and neural networks) to derive greater value and utility Demonstrates the applicability of the KDDM process beyond analytics Shares experiences of implementing and applying various stages of the KDDM process in organizations The book includes case study examples of KDDM applications in business and government. After reading this book, you will understand the critical success factors required to develop robust data mining objectives that are in alignment with your organization’s strategic business objectives.

This book presents best selected research papers presented at Innovation in Sustainable Energy and Technology India (ISET 2020), organized by Energy Institute Bangalore (A unit of RGIPT, an Institute of National Importance), India, during 3-4 December 2020. The book covers various topics of sustainable energy and technologies which includes renewable energy (solar photovoltaic, solar thermal and CSP, biomass, wind energy, micro hydro power, hydrogen energy, geothermal energy, energy materials, energy storage, hybrid energy), smart energy systems (electrical vehicle, cybersecurity, charging infrastructures, IOT & AI, waste management, PHEV (CNG/EV) and mobility (smart grids, IOT & AI, energy-efficient buildings, mart agriculture).

Attention to design patterns is unquestionably growing in software engineering because there is a strong belief that using made to measure solutions for solving frequently occurring problems encountered throughout the design phase greatly reduces the total cost and the time of developing software products. Stable Design Patterns for Software and Systems presents a new and fresh approach for creating stable, reusable, and widely applicable design patterns. It deals with the concept of stable design patterns based on software stability as a contemporary approach for building stable and highly reusable and widely applicable design patterns. This book shows that a formation approach to discovering and creating stable design patterns accords with Alexander’s current understanding of architectural patterns. Stable design patterns are a type of knowledge pattern that underline human problem solving methods and appeal to the pattern community. This book examines software design patterns with respect to four central themes: How do we develop a solution for the problem through software stability concepts? This book offers a direct application of using software stability concepts for modeling solutions. How do we achieve software stability over time and design patterns that are effective to use? What are the unique roles of stable design patterns in modeling the accurate solution of the problem at hand and in providing stable and undisputed design for such problems? This book enumerates a complete and domain-less list of stable patterns that are useful for designing and modeling solutions for frequently recurring problems. What is the most efficient way to document the stable design patters to ensure efficient reusability? This book is an extension to the contemporary templates that are used in documenting design patterns. This book gives a pragmatic and a novel approach toward understanding the problem domain and in proposing stable solutions for engineering stable software systems, components, and frameworks.

In order to perform effective analysis of today’s information security systems, numerous components must be taken into consideration. This book presents a well-organized, consistent solution created by the author, which allows for precise multilevel analysis of information security systems and accounts for all of the significant details. Enabling the multilevel modeling of secure systems, the quality of protection modeling language (QoP-ML) approach provides for the abstraction of security systems while maintaining an emphasis on quality protection. This book introduces the basis of the QoP modeling language along with all the advanced analysis modules, syntax, and semantics. It delineates the steps used in cryptographic protocols and introduces a multilevel protocol analysis that expands current understanding. Introduces quality of protection evaluation of IT Systems Covers the financial, economic, and CO2 emission analysis phase Supplies a multilevel analysis of Cloud-based data centers Details the structures for advanced communication modeling and energy analysis Considers security and energy efficiency trade-offs for the protocols of wireless sensor network architectures Includes case studies that illustrate the QoP analysis process using the QoP-ML Examines the robust security metrics of cryptographic primitives Compares and contrasts QoP-ML with the PL/SQL, SecureUML, and UMLsec approaches by means of the SEQUAL framework The book explains the formal logic for representing the relationships between security mechanisms in a manner that offers the possibility to evaluate security attributes. It presents the architecture and API of tools that ensure automatic analysis, including the automatic quality of protection analysis tool (AQoPA), crypto metrics tool (CMTool), and security mechanisms evaluation tool (SMETool). The book includes a number of examples and case studies that illustrate the QoP analysis process by the QoP-ML. Every operation defined by QoP-ML is described within parameters of security metrics to help you better evaluate the impact of each operation on your system's security.

This volume, like those prior to it, features chapters by experts in various fields of computational chemistry. Two chapters focus on molecular docking, one of which relates to drug discovery and cheminformatics and the other to proteomics. In addition, this volume contains tutorials on spin-orbit coupling and cellular automata modeling, as well as an extensive bibliography of computational chemistry books.

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This book is the most comprehensive book you will find on AutoCAD 2014 - 2D Drafting. Covering all of the 2D concepts, it uses both metric and imperial units to illustrate the myriad drawing and editing tools for this popular application. Use the DVD to set up drawing exercises and projects and see all of the book's figures in color. AutoCAD 2014 Beginning and Intermediate includes over 100 exercises or "mini-workshops," that complete small projects from concept through actual plotting. Solving all of the workshops will simulate the creation of three projects (architectural and mechanical) from beginning to end, without overlooking any of the basic commands and functions in AutoCAD 2014. FEATURES Designed for novice users of AutoCAD 2014. Most useful for "teach yourself" or instructor-led AutoCAD training in Level 1 or 2. No previous CAD experience is required Accompanied by a DVD featuring drawings, practice and finished plots, 4-color figures, etc. Includes over 100 "mini-workshops" and hundreds of figures that complete small projects Uses both English and metric units in examples, exercises, projects, and descriptions Covers three full projects (metric and imperial) for architectural and mechanical designs Helps you to prepare for the AutoCAD Certified Professional exam Instructor's resources available for use as a textbook

This updated bestseller provides an introduction to programming interactive computer graphics, with an emphasis on game development using DirectX 12. The book is divided into three main parts: basic mathematical tools, fundamental tasks in Direct3D, and techniques and special effects. It shows how to use new Direct12 features such as command lists, pipeline state objects, descriptor heaps and tables, and explicit resource management to reduce CPU overhead and increase scalability across multiple CPU cores. The book covers modern special effects and techniques such as hardware tessellation, writing compute shaders, ambient occlusion, reflections, normal and displacement mapping, shadow rendering, and character animation. Includes a companion DVD with code and figures. eBook Customers: Companion files are available for downloading with order number/proof of purchase by writing to the publisher at [email protected]. Features: Provides an introduction to programming interactive computer graphics, with an emphasis on game development using DirectX 12 Uses new Direct3D 12 features to reduce CPU overhead and take advantage of multiple CPU cores Contains detailed explanations of popular real-time game effects Includes a DVD with source code and all the images (including 4-color) from the book Learn advance rendering techniques such as ambient occlusion, real-time reflections, normal and displacement mapping, shadow rendering, programming the geometry shader, and character animation Covers a mathematics review and 3D rendering fundamentals such as lighting, texturing, blending and stenciling Use the end-of-chapter exercises to test understanding and provide experience with DirectX 12

Master the Fundamentals of Modern Visual Analytics--and Craft Compelling Visual Narratives in Tableau!   Do you need to persuade or inform people? Do you have data? Then you need to master visual analytics and visual storytelling. Today, the #1 tool for telling visual stories with data is Tableau, and demand for Tableau skills is soaring. In Visual Analytics Fundamentals, renowned visual storyteller and analytics professor Lindy Ryan introduces all the fundamental visual analytics knowledge, cognitive and perceptual concepts, and hands-on Tableau techniques you'll need.   Ryan puts core analytics and visual concepts upfront, so you'll always know exactly what you're trying to accomplish and can apply this knowledge with any tool. Building on this foundation, she presents classroom-proven guided exercises for translating ideas into reality with Tableau 2022. You’ll learn how to organize data and structure analysis with stories in mind, embrace exploration and visual discovery, and articulate your findings with rich data, well-curated visualizations, and skillfully crafted narrative frameworks. Ryan's insider tips take you far beyond the basics--and you'll rely on her expert checklists for years to come.   Communicate more powerfully by applying scientific knowledge of the human brain Get started with the Tableau platform and Tableau Desktop 2022 Connect data and quickly prepare it for analysis Ask questions that help you keep data firmly in context Choose the right charts, graphs, and maps for each project--and avoid the wrong ones Craft storyboards that reflect your message and audience Direct attention to what matters most Build data dashboards that guide people towards meaningful outcomes Master advanced visualizations, including timelines, Likert scales, and lollipop charts   This book has only one prerequisite: your desire to communicate insights from data in ways that are memorable and actionable. It's for executives and professionals sharing important results, students writing reports or presentations, teachers cultivating data literacy, journalists making sense of complex trends. . . . practically everyone! Don't even have Tableau? Download your free trial of Tableau Desktop and let's get started!

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