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This volume aims to provide a state-of-the-art and the latest
advancements in the field of intelligent control and smart energy
management. Techniques, combined with technological advances, have
enabled the deployment of new operating systems in many engineering
applications, especially in the domain of transport and renewable
resources. The control and energy management of transportation and
renewable resources are shifting towards autonomous reasoning,
learning, planning and operating. As a result, these techniques,
also referred to as autonomous control and energy management, will
become practically ubiquitous soon. The discussions include
methods, based on neural control (and others) as well as
distributed and intelligent optimization. While the theoretical
concepts are detailed and explained, the techniques presented are
tailored to transport and renewable resources applications, such as
smart grids and automated vehicles. The reader will grasp the most
important theoretical concepts as well as to fathom the challenges
and needs related to timely practical applications. Additional
content includes research perspectives and future direction as well
as insight into the devising of techniques that will meet
tomorrow's scientific needs. This contributed volume is for
researchers, graduate students, engineers and practitioners in the
domains of control, energy, and transportation.
Heavily dominated by the sector of information and communication
technologies, economic organizations pursue digital transformation
as a differentiating factor and source of competitive advantage.
Understanding the challenges of digital transformation is critical
to managers to ensure business sustainability. However, there are
some problems, such as architecture, security, and reliability,
among others, that bring with them the need for studies and
investments in this area to avoid significant financial losses.
Digital transformation encompasses and challenges many areas, such
as business models, organizational structures, human privacy,
management, and more, creating a need to investigate the challenges
associated with it to create a roadmap for this new digital
transformation era. Digital Transformation and Challenges to Data
Security and Privacy presents the main challenges of digital
transformation and the threats it poses to information security and
privacy, as well as models that can contribute to solving these
challenges in economic organizations. While highlighting topics
such as information systems, digital trends, and information
governance, this book is ideally intended for managers, data
analysts, cybersecurity professionals, IT specialists,
practitioners, researchers, academicians, and students working in
fields that include digital transformation, information management,
information security, information system reliability, business
continuity, and data protection.
During the past two decades the progress in neuroendocrine
research, stimulated by the increasing general interest in
neurosciences, has been very impressive. Most of these efforts have
concentrated on peuroendocrine nerve cells and their systems. Even
if some aspects have remained open to discussion, the principal
functional role of the neuroendocrine units capable of elaboration
of biological active peptides (peptidergic neurons) is quite well
understood. The same holds true for the central aminergic neurons
and for such photoreceptor-derived paraneuronal elements as the
pinealocytes. The primordium of the central nervous system
possesses potencies for central sensory and secretory
differentiations. Among the latter, a non-neuronal ependymal
structure - the subcommissural orga- has remained enigmatic in
terms of its biological significance. The sub commissural organ is
a common, very constant, and conservative property of the
vertebrate brain, from cyclostomes to mammals, and its appears
early in ontogeny. The spectacular secretory activity of this brain
gland, located in the diencephalic roof at the entrance to the
mesencephalic aqueduct, results in the formation of an
intraventricular secretory product - Reissner's fiber. This
peculiar structural complex has attracted investigators to use a
wide spectrum of modern cytological and, more recently, also
molecular methods to investigate the secretory process and the
secretory product, primarily glycoproteins, in greater detail. So
far, however, the progress in structural insight has outpaced our
knowledge of the function of the subcommissural organ."
A series of beginner-to-novice birding books, All About Backyard
Birds is based on the Cornell Lab of Ornithology's number one
birding website allaboutbirds.org, which has had more than 14
million unique users to date. All About Backyard Birds delivers
best-in-class content and proven user-friendly formats. Each
regional version-eastern/central North America and western North
America-provides 120 of the most popular species and is filled with
beautiful illustrations by Pedro Fernandes. With charts, maps, and
other bird identification tools, All About Backyard Birds offers
beginner birders the ideal way to start birding. All About Backyard
Birds also includes a tutorial for MERLIN (R), an interactive
GPS-based bird identification multimedia app (available in iTunes
and Android stores and already used by more than 1 million
birders), plus a FREE Bird QR book companion app. The app empowers
users with a tap-to-listen birdsong function and gives more
information about special topics throughout the book. As with all
Cornell Lab Publishing Group books, a portion of the net proceeds
from the sale of All About Backyard Birds goes directly to the
Cornell Lab to support projects, including children's educational
and community programs.
A series of beginner-to-novice birding books, All About Backyard
Birds is based on the Cornell Lab of Ornithology's number one
birding website allaboutbirds.org, which has had more than 14
million unique users to date. All About Backyard Birds delivers
best-in-class content and proven user-friendly formats. Each
regional version-eastern/central North America and western North
America-provides 120 of the most popular species and is filled with
beautiful illustrations by Pedro Fernandes. With charts, maps, and
other bird identification tools, All About Backyard Birds offers
beginner birders the ideal way to start birding. All About Backyard
Birds also includes a tutorial for MERLIN (R), an interactive
GPS-based bird identification multimedia app (available in iTunes
and Android stores and already used by more than 1 million
birders), plus a FREE Bird QR book companion app. The app empowers
users with a tap-to-listen birdsong function and gives more
information about special topics throughout the book. As with all
Cornell Lab Publishing Group books, a portion of the net proceeds
from the sale of All About Backyard Birds goes directly to the
Cornell Lab to support projects, including children's educational
and community programs.
The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly
growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by
advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve
the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own:
digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works
in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these
high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts
are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries,
undergraduate students, and independent scholars.Rich in titles on
English life and social history, this collection spans the world as
it was known to eighteenth-century historians and explorers. Titles
include a wealth of travel accounts and diaries, histories of
nations from throughout the world, and maps and charts of a world
that was still being discovered. Students of the War of American
Independence will find fascinating accounts from the British side
of conflict. ++++The below data was compiled from various
identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title.
This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure
edition identification: ++++British LibraryT090667Half-title: 'An
account of the southern world. By Ferdinand de Quir, a Spanish
captain.' - Drop-head title on p.5: 'The copy of a petition
presented to the King of Spain, by Capt. Peter Ferdinand de Quir.
.. '.London: printed for William Bray, 1720?] 31, 1]p.; 8
This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This
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typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have
occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor
pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original
artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe
this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections,
have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing
commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We
appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the
preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
In Two Volumes. This scarce antiquarian book is included in our
special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more
extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have
chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have
occasional imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing
text, poor pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other
reproduction issues beyond our control. Because this work is
culturally important, we have made it available as a part of our
commitment to protecting, preserving and promoting the world's
literature.
This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for
quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in
an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the
digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books
may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading
experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have
elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing
commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.
In Two Volumes. This scarce antiquarian book is included in our
special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more
extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have
chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have
occasional imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing
text, poor pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other
reproduction issues beyond our control. Because this work is
culturally important, we have made it available as a part of our
commitment to protecting, preserving and promoting the world's
literature.
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