Tabla de Contenidos: “…Choosing a sustainable cloud service provider -- Microsoft Azure -- Google Cloud -- Amazon Web Services -- Alibaba Cloud -- Oracle -- Tencent Cloud -- IBM -- Cloud vendor report cards -- The power of alliances -- Summary -- Further reading -- Bibliography -- Chapter 5: Application and Data -- The world runs on software -- Transforming Enterprise Architecture to help achieve sustainability targets -- Turning a sustainability strategy into action with Enterprise Architecture -- Transforming business architecture with the UN's SDGs -- Optimizing application and data architectures in the cloud using best practice frameworks -- A pragmatic Enterprise Architecture framework for sustainability tracking -- Application portfolio management -- Application rationalization process -- Application assessment criteria -- TIME analysis -- Sustainable software development -- Choosing energy-efficient programming languages -- Sustainable SDLC -- Measuring your CO2 spend in the cloud -- Summary -- Further reading -- Bibliography -- Chapter 6: IT Hardware Management -- Understanding the impact of IT hardware equipment -- Product design and manufacturing -- Product lifetime expansion -- Energy consumption -- Finite resources and hazardous substances -- End-of-life management -- Circular IT hardware management -- Social responsibility - a key unlocking circular transition -- Making a business case for change -- ITAD - the rise of a new circular industry -- Services -- Global footprint and service availability -- Process -- Data sanitization -- Why and how does ITAD fit with the Electrolux sustainability strategy? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Neoliberalism and the Unfolding Patterns of Young People's Political Engagement and Political Participation in Contemporary Britain -- Towards a Conceptualization of Young People's Political Engagement: A Qualitative Focus Group Study -- Young People Engaging in Volunteering: Questioning a Generational Trend in an Individualized Society -- Political Consumerism as a Neoliberal Response to Youth Political Disengagement -- Still Troubled: Tunisia's Youth During and Since the Revolution of 2011 -- A Global Generation? Youth Studies in a Postcolonial World.Application of AI methods for the integration of structural engineering knowledge in early planning phases -- Analysis of the early-design timber models for sound insulation analysis -- Framework proposal for automated generation of production layout scenarios: A parametric design technique to connect production planning and structural industrial building design -- Component-based machine learning for predicting representative time-series of energy performance in building design -- A hybrid-model time-series forecasting approach for reducing the building energy performance gap -- Deep learning approach for predicting pedestrian dynamics for transportation hubs in early design phases -- Implementing Information Container for linked Document Delivery (ICDD) as a micro-service -- An explanatory use case for the implementation of Information Container for linked Document Delivery in Common Data Environments -- Automatic generation of ISO 19650 compliant templates based on standard construction contracts -- Graph-based version control for asynchronous BIM level 3 collaboration -- Image-documentation of existing buildings using a server-based BIM Collaboration Format workflow -- Unlocking the full potential of Building Information Modelling by applying the principles of Industry 4.0 and Data Governance such as COBIT -- Data Quality in Building Productivity Assessment -- the Case of Acute Care Environments -- An Approach for Cross-Data Querying and Spatial Reasoning of Tunnel Alignments -- Ontological reasoning in factory-BIM: An industrial case study for an automotive OEM -- IFCNet: A Benchmark Dataset for IFC Entity Classification -- IFC based Framework for Generating, Modeling and Visualizing Spalling Defect Geometries -- Automatic generation of IFC models from point cloud data of transport infrastructure environments -- A Proposed Ontology for Knowledge Representation in Designing Indoor Inspection Robot Systems -- Bidirectional coupling of Building Information Modeling and Building Simulation using ontologies -- Building Ontology for Preventive Fire Safety -- A Framework for Intelligent Building Information Spoken Dialogue System (iBISDS) -- A Design Recommender System: A Rules-based Approach to Exploit Natural Language Imprecision using Belief and Fuzzy Theories -- Towards the Adoption of Vision Intelligence for Construction Safety: Grounded Theory Methodology based Safety Regulations Analysis -- Concept to support the estimation of static load capacity on construction site using in-situ AR-based methods -- Using eye-tracking to compare the experienced safety supervisors and novice in identifying job site hazards under a VR environment -- Virtual Reality Platform for 3D Irregular Packing Problem -- Reference Architectural Model of Buildings for Virtual City Creator -- Data shortage for urban energy simulations? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Il passato dentro l'archivio di Foucault: decifrare la griglia -- 1.4.1 Il 'viaggio' di Parole e Cose fuori dalla Francia: la «decodifica» di Hayden White -- 1.4.2 Pre-figurare la storia e «the fashioning of the common humanity of the future» -- 1.5 L'«energia sociale» e la letteratura nella storia -- 1.5.1 Neostoricismo e materialismo culturale: alcune questioni aperte -- 1.6 Dal sexual character alla critica posizionata: verso le letture femministe -- 1.6.1 Il tratto sessuato della differenza, tra gender e post-gender -- 1.6.2 Corpo, Foucault, attualità, femminismo: un processo globale di de-generizzazione? -- PARTE SECONDA IL 'GENERE' LETTERARIO DELLA BIOFICTION -- 2.0 I personaggi-intertesti delle historiographic metafictions: metanarratività, parodia e ironia nell'indifferenziato canone storico e letterario. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Shrinking lists - deleting, removing, and popping -- Writing list-related type hints -- Reversing a copy of a list -- Building sets - literals, adding, comprehensions, and operators -- Shrinking sets - remove(), pop(), and difference -- Writing set-related type hints -- Chapter 5: Built-In Data Structures Part 2: Dictionaries -- Creating dictionaries - inserting and updating -- Shrinking dictionaries - the pop() method and the del statement -- Writing dictionary-related type hints -- Understanding variables, references, and assignment -- Making shallow and deep copies of objects -- Avoiding mutable default values for function parameters -- Chapter 6: User Inputs and Outputs -- Using the features of the print() function -- Using input() and getpass() for user input -- Debugging with f"{value=}" strings -- Using argparse to get command-line input -- Using invoke to get command-line input -- Using cmd to create command-line applications -- Using the OS environment settings -- Chapter 7: Basics of Classes and Objects -- Using a class to encapsulate data and processing -- Essential type hints for class definitions -- Designing classes with lots of processing -- Using typing.NamedTuple for immutable objects -- Using dataclasses for mutable objects -- Using frozen dataclasses for immutable objects -- Optimizing small objects with __slots__ -- Using more sophisticated collections -- Extending a built-in collection - a list that does statistics -- Using properties for lazy attributes -- Creating contexts and context managers -- Managing multiple contexts with multiple resources -- Chapter 8: More Advanced Class Design -- Choosing between inheritance and composition - the "is-a" question -- Separating concerns via multiple inheritance -- Leveraging Python's duck typing -- Managing global and singleton objects -- Using more complex structures - maps of lists…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Recettes tirées des impôts sur le patrimoine dans les pays de l'OCDE -- Les recettes des impôts sur le patrimoine, qui comprennent un sous-ensemble de taxes sur l'immobilier, ne représentent qu'une faible part des recettes fiscales globales -- Les hausses de valeur des logements ne se sont pas répercutées sur les recettes tirées de l'impôt sur la propriété immobilière…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Dilemas y entrelazamientos: el mercado es global; las instituciones educa-tivas, nacionales 5. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…How to compile old COBOL -- 5.1 Start by validating your software levels -- 5.2 Overview -- 5.2.1 What do the conversion tools need -- 5.2.2 What steps are required -- 5.3 Setting up for convert and compile -- 5.3.1 Define your global options -- 5.3.2 COBOL convert and compile option -- 5.3.3 Convert old 68/74 COBOL to 85 COBOL -- 5.4 Summary -- Chapter 6. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cálculo no lineal geométrico y pandeo global6.12. Las imperfecciones en el cálculo en segundo orden7. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Lyapunov Stability and Stability Regions of Nonlinear Dynamical Systems -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Equilibrium Points and Lyapunov Stability -- 3.3 Lyapunov Function Theory -- 3.4 Stable and Unstable Manifolds -- 3.5 Stability Regions -- 3.6 Local Characterizations of Stability Boundary -- 3.7 Global Characterization of Stability Boundary -- 3.8 Algorithm to Determine the Stability Boundary -- 3.9 Conclusion -- 4. …”

“…Asia and the Pacific have become the growth engine of the world economy with the contribution of two-third of the global growth. The book discusses current issues in economics, business, and accounting in which economic agents, as individuals, entrepreneurs and professionals, as well as countries in the Asia and Pacific regions compete and collaborate with each other and with the rest of the globe. …”

“…Thistitle is a Pearson Global Edition. The Editorial team at Pearson has workedclosely with educators around the world to include content which is especiallyrelevant to students outside the United States. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Ensuring Web site content compliance with company policies -- 8.1 Web content analysis -- 8.2 How content analysis works -- 8.3 Defining the analysis parameters -- 8.3.1 Web Crawler global setting -- 8.3.2 Web Crawler report element setting -- 8.4 Content analysis reports -- 8.4.1 Web Crawler setting -- 8.5 What happens when you run the content analysis? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Le taux des prêts non performants est élevé -- La plupart des banques demeurent fragiles et il faut un cadre global de résolution des défaillances bancaires -- Graphique 4. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Comparaison de l'évolution de l'emploi global -- Graphique 5. Emploi et chômage, par régions -- L'inflation recule après s'être accélérée au début de 2001 -- Graphique 6. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Le chômage de longue durée recule plus lentement que le chômage global -- Évolutions salariales récentes -- Graphique 1.5. …”

“…Indeed, the IEA predicts that by 2050, with sufficient support over ten percent of global electricity could be produced by concentrating solar thermal power plants. …”

“…Whether using oils or fats, it is valued for the particular flavors and textures it can bring, and represents a multibillion-dollar sector of the global economy. Food Frying: Chemistry, Biochemistry and Safety explores this important cooking technique in its scientific dimensions, charting the relationships between the chemical reactions produced during frying, the changes in food quality that these engender, and associated digestive and health-related issues. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…11.8 Updating ICT from Time to Time and Means of Growth in the Field of Education -- 11.9 People Involved to be Trained for ICT -- 11.10 Adapting to Changes -- 11.11 Institutional Changes and ICT in Teaching -- 11.12 Global Changes and ICT in Teaching -- 11.13 Nationwide Changes and ICT in Teaching -- 11.14 Climatic Changes and ICT in Teaching -- 11.15 Types of Teaching Using ICT in Higher Educational Institutions -- 11.15.1 On Campus Teaching -- 11.15.2 Online Teaching -- 11.15.3 Blended or Hybrid Mode Teaching -- 11.15.3.1 Understanding Blended Learning -- 11.15.3.2 Measures to be Followed in Order to Ensure Effective Blended Learning -- 11.16 Analysis of ICT -- 11.17 People that Use ICT in the Field of Education -- 11.17.1 Teachers and their Use of ICT -- 11.17.2 Students and their Use of ICT -- 11.17.3 Department Heads and their Use of ICT -- 11.17.4 IT Support and their Use of ICT -- 11.18 Ease of Use of ICT -- 11.19 Problems Encountered During ICT-Based Class -- 11.19.1 Technical Problems -- 11.19.2 Non-Technical Problems -- 11.20 Recommendations -- 11.21 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 12 Digital Tools for Interactive E-Content Development -- 12.1 Introduction -- 12.2 Digital Learning -- 12.3 Theories of Learning -- 12.4 HTML5 Package (H5P) -- 12.4.1 Course Presentation -- 12.4.2 Branching Scenario -- 12.4.3 Interactive Video -- 12.4.4 Slack -- 12.4.5 Camtasia -- 12.4.6 Accordion -- 12.4.7 Agamotto -- 12.4.8 Documentation Tool -- 12.4.9 Image Hotspots -- 12.4.10 Image Juxtaposition -- 12.4.11 Image Sequencing -- 12.4.12 Interactive Book -- 12.5 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 13 Analysis of Changing Landscape of Virtual Learning in India -- 13.1 Introduction -- 13.2 Affecting Elements in Organizations -- 13.3 Dealing with Exceptional Youngsters -- 13.4 ICT Tools in VL for Flipped, Blended Learning and its Pitfalls…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…3.4.2 Google Analytics Testing -- 3.4.3 Structured Data Testing -- 3.4.4 SEO Implementation -- 3.4.5 Google Analytics Implementation -- 3.4.6 Google Data Studio Implementation -- 3.4.7 Tableau Implementation -- 3.5 Result -- 3.6 Conclusion and Future Work -- References -- Chapter 4 The Need for XAI: Challenges and Its Applications -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Literature Review -- 4.3 The Need for Exploring XAI -- 4.3.1 Explain to Justify -- 4.3.2 Explain to Control -- 4.3.3 Explain to Improve -- 4.3.4 Explain to Discover -- 4.3.5 Challenges in XAI -- 4.4 Scope of Explanation -- 4.4.1 Local Explanation -- 4.4.2 Global Explanations -- 4.5 Differences in Research Methodology -- 4.5.1 Perturbation Based -- 4.5.2 Backpropagation- or Gradient-Based -- 4.5.3 XAI Applications -- 4.6 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 5 Why Law Firms Need to Embrace Artificial Intelligence to Transform the Indian Legal Industry -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.1.1 Research Methodology -- 5.1.2 Research Objectives -- 5.2 What Is Artificial Intelligence? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…References -- Chapter 3 Safe and Reliable Smart City Design Based on Blockchain Technology -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.1.1 Blockchain Technology -- 3.1.2 Use of Blockchain in Smart City -- 3.1.3 Objective of Work -- 3.2 Related Work -- 3.2.1 Problem Statement -- 3.3 Blockchain Technology for Smart Cities -- 3.3.1 Application of the System -- 3.3.2 Blockchain Technology's Many Advantages in the Modern Smart City -- 3.4 Methods -- 3.4.1 Blockchain-Based Smart City Infrastructure -- 3.5 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 4 Blockchain and Digital Twin for Enhancing Personal Security in Modern Cities -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Digital Twin -- 4.2.1 Digital Twins in Manufacturing Industry -- 4.2.2 Integration with Emerging Technologies -- 4.2.3 Real-World Reflection Through Sensors -- 4.2.4 Land Management and Global Concerns -- 4.2.5 Increasing Importance of Information Technologies -- 4.2.6 Advancements in IoT and Connectivity -- 4.2.7 Role of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Digital Twins -- 4.2.8 Cloud Computing Empowering Digital Twins -- 4.2.9 Impact of 5G Technology -- 4.2.10 Smart Cities and the Growing Application Field -- 4.2.11 Big Data's Role in Informed Decision Making -- 4.3 Digital Twin and Metaverse -- 4.3.1 Virtual Prototyping and Design Optimization -- 4.3.2 Healthcare Integration for Personalized Medicine -- 4.3.3 The Intersection of Digital Twins and the Metaverse -- 4.3.4 Immersive Collaborative Environments -- 4.3.5 Enhanced Virtual Experiences Through Data Fusion -- 4.3.6 Challenges and Future Developments -- 4.3.7 Data Privacy and Security Concerns -- 4.3.8 Standardization and Interoperability -- 4.4 Blockchain Technology -- 4.4.1 Overview of Blockchain Technology -- 4.4.2 Data Checking and Analysis -- 4.4.3 Immutable History -- 4.4.4 Potential Problem Solving -- 4.4.5 Rapid Adoption by Major Companies…”