Deep learning applications with practical measured results in electronics ind…

This book collects 14 articles from the Special Issue entitled “Deep Learning Applications with Practical Measured Results in Electronics Industries” of Electronics. Topics covered in this Issue include four main parts: (1) environmental information analyses and predictions, (2) unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) and object tracking applications, (3) measurement and denoising techniques, and (4)…

Catastrophes, confrontations, and constraints: how disasters shape the dynami…

Armed conflict and natural disasters have plagued the twenty-first century. Not since the end of World War II has the number of armed conflicts been higher. At the same time, natural disasters have increased in frequency and intensity over the past two decades, their impacts worsened by climate change, urbanization, and persistent social and economic inequalities. Providing the first comprehens…

Phoenix complex: a philosophy of nature

Global crises, from melting Arctic ice to ecosystem collapse and the sixth mass extinction, challenge our age-old belief in nature as a phoenix with an infinite ability to regenerate itself from the ashes of destruction. Moving from antiquity to the present and back, Michael Marder provides an integrated examination of philosophies of nature drawn from traditions around the world to illuminate …

UNESCO Framework for Culture and Arts Education: Implementation guidance

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Effective altruism and the human mind: the clash between impact and intuition

Effective Altruism and the Human Mind explains why people often don’t choose the most effective strategies to help others and shows what can be done to change that. Many people are looking to make the world a better place, for instance, through donations or volunteering. But even though some strategies for doing good (e.g., some charities) are much more effective than the alternatives, most p…

Science of college: Navigating the First Year and Beyond

This book aids entering college students - and the people who support college students - in navigating college successfully. In an environment of information overload, where bad advice abounds, this book offers readers practical tips and guidance. The up-to-date recommendations in this book are based upon real students, sound social science research, and the collective experiences of faculty, l…

Introduction to human-computer interaction

This book goes through the whole cycle of HCI design and implementation and explains the core and basic HCI concepts behind each step.\r\nThe book uses an interface for an actual Android app, designed and evaluated from the ground up, as a concrete example. Understandable to\r\nthose with minimal programming knowledge, the book provides readers with a basic working knowledge of HCI oriented sof…

Cellular: an economic and business history of the international mobile-phone …

The development of the mobile-phone industry into what we know today required remarkable cooperation between companies, governments, and industrial sectors. Companies developing cellular infrastructure, cellular devices, cellular network services, and eventually software and mobile semiconductors had to cooperate, not simply compete, with each other. In this global history of the mobile-phone i…

Beyond the creative species: making machines that make art and music

A multidisciplinary introduction to the field of computational creativity, analyzing the impact of advanced generative technologies on art and music.\r\n\r\nAs algorithms get smarter, what role will computers play in the creation of music, art, and other cultural artifacts? Will they be able to create such things from the ground up, and will such creations be meaningful? In Beyond the Creative …

Coevolution: the entwined futures of humans and machines

Should digital technology be viewed as a new life form, sharing our ecosystem and coevolving with us?\r\n\r\nAre humans defining technology, or is technology defining humans? In this book, Edward Ashford Lee considers the case that we are less in control of the trajectory of technology than we think. It shapes us as much as we shape it, and it may be more defensible to think of technology as th…