Tabla de Contenidos: “…Taking Care of Nuclear Waste -- Introduction -- From existential risk to global climate action -- The art of forgetting -- Taking a people-centred approach -- Uncertainty as an opportunity for care -- Toxicity of cultural heritage -- Acknowledgements -- References -- 18. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- 19.3 Nanotechnology-Speci c Challenges -- 19.4 Globalization -- 19.5 An Integrated Approach -- References -- Further Reading -- 20 Ethics and Nanotechnology -- 20.1 Risk, Hazard and Uncertainty -- 20.2 Should we Proceed? -- 20.3 What About Nanoethics? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…R2 (or coefficient of determination) -- Specific (or residual) risk -- Treynor ratio (reward to volatility) -- Appraisal ratio (or Treynor‐Black ratio) -- Factor Models -- Fama decomposition -- Selectivity -- Diversification -- Net selectivity -- Fama‐French three‐factor model -- Three‐factor alpha (or Fama‐French alpha) -- Carhart four‐factor model -- Four‐factor alpha (or Carhart's alpha) -- Multi‐factor models -- Drawdown -- Average drawdown -- Maximum drawdown -- Largest individual drawdown -- Recovery time (or drawdown duration) -- Drawdown deviation -- Ulcer index -- Pain index -- Calmar ratio (or drawdown ratio) -- MAR ratio -- Sterling ratio -- Sterling‐Calmar ratio -- Burke ratio -- Modified Burke ratio -- Martin ratio (or ulcer performance index) -- Pain ratio -- Partial Moments -- Downside risk (or semi‐standard deviation) -- Downside potential -- Pure downside risk -- Half variance (or semi‐variance) -- Upside risk (or upside uncertainty) -- Mean absolute moment -- Omega ratio (Ω) -- Bernardo and Ledoit (or gain-loss) ratio -- d ratio -- Omega-Sharpe ratio -- Sortino ratio -- Reward to half‐variance -- Downside‐risk Sharpe ratio -- Sortino-Satchell ratio -- Upside potential ratio -- Volatility skewness -- Variability skewness -- Farinelli-Tibiletti ratio -- Prospect ratio -- Fixed Income Risk -- Pricing fixed income instruments -- Redemption yield (yield to maturity) -- Weighted average cash flow -- Duration (effective mean term, discounted mean term or volatility) -- Macaulay duration -- Macaulay-Weil duration -- Modified duration -- Portfolio duration -- Effective duration (or option‐adjusted duration) -- Duration to worst -- Convexity -- Modified convexity -- Effective convexity -- Portfolio convexity -- Bond returns -- Duration beta -- Reward to duration -- Miscellaneous Risk Measures -- Hurst index (or Hurst exponent) -- Bias ratio…”

“…Accurate forecasts help reduce uncertainty and enable better planning of operations. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Welcome -- Getting the Most out of This Book -- Who Should Read This Book -- How to Read This Book -- Introduction -- What This Update Offers -- Changing the Work of Leaders -- Digitization: Everyone Has the Data -- COVID-19: Everyone Who Can Works from Home -- Employee Leverage: They Tell You What They Want and You Better Listen -- Societal Pressure: More Than Profit Is Expected -- Geopolitical Uncertainty: Look at What Just Happened, What Should Be Done About It? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Defining a strategy to get it to work with a multivariate time series model -- Laying the groundwork for the permutation approximation strategy -- Computing the SHAP values -- Identifying influential features with factor prioritization -- Computing Morris sensitivity indices -- Analyzing the elementary effects -- Quantifying uncertainty and cost sensitivity with factor fixing -- Generating and predicting on Saltelli samples -- Performing Sobol sensitivity analysis -- Incorporating a realistic cost function -- Mission accomplished -- Summary -- Dataset and image sources -- Further reading -- Chapter 10: Feature Selection and Engineering for Interpretability -- Technical requirements -- The mission -- The approach -- The preparations -- Loading the libraries -- Understanding and preparing the data -- Understanding the effect of irrelevant features -- Creating a base model -- Evaluating the model -- Training the base model at different max depths -- Reviewing filter-based feature selection methods -- Basic filter-based methods -- Constant features with a variance threshold -- Quasi-constant features with value_counts -- Duplicating features -- Removing unnecessary features -- Correlation filter-based methods -- Ranking filter-based methods -- Comparing filter-based methods -- Exploring embedded feature selection methods -- Discovering wrapper, hybrid, and advanced feature selection methods -- Wrapper methods -- Sequential forward selection (SFS) -- Hybrid methods -- Recursive Feature Elimination (RFE) -- Advanced methods -- Model-agnostic feature importance -- Genetic algorithms -- Evaluating all feature-selected models -- Considering feature engineering -- Mission accomplished -- Summary -- Dataset sources -- Further reading -- Chapter 11: Bias Mitigation and Causal Inference Methods -- Technical requirements -- The mission -- The approach…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…. -- Governments need to develop planning tools to adapt to uncertainties created by changing patterns of consumption, production and distribution. -- Part I. …”

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Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1 AI in Mechatronics -- 1.1 Introduction to AI Techniques for Mechatronics -- 1.1.1 Overview of Key AI Approaches -- 1.1.2 Benefits of Integrating AI in Mechatronic Systems -- 1.2 Machine Learning for Mechatronic Systems -- 1.2.1 Supervised, Unsupervised, and Reinforcement Learning Techniques -- 1.2.2 Applications in Control, Prediction, Optimization, and Diagnostics -- 1.2.3 Case Studies of Machine Learning in Robotics, Vehicles, and Automation -- 1.3 Computer Vision for Mechatronic Perception -- 1.3.1 Image Processing and Computer Vision Techniques -- 1.3.2 Enabling Environmental Perception and Scene Understanding -- 1.3.3 Vision-Based Control, Inspection, and Monitoring -- 1.4 Soft Computing Techniques -- 1.4.1 Fuzzy Logic Systems for Knowledge Representation and Control -- 1.4.2 Bio-Inspired Algorithms Like Neural Networks and Genetic Algorithms -- 1.4.3 Hybrid Intelligent Systems -- 1.5 AI Planning and Decision-Making -- 1.5.1 Automated Planning Algorithms for Sequencing Actions -- 1.5.2 Decision-Making Under Uncertainty -- 1.5.3 Applications in Navigation, Manufacturing Automation, Etc. -- 1.6 Natural Language Interaction -- 1.6.1 Speech Recognition and Natural Language Processing -- 1.6.2 Enabling Intuitive Human-Machine Interaction -- 1.6.3 Use Cases in Service Robots, Intelligent Agents, Human-Robot Collaboration -- 1.7 AI in Mechatronic System Design -- 1.7.1 Simulation of AI-Based Controllers and Behaviors -- 1.7.2 Tools for Virtual Prototyping of Intelligent Mechatronics -- 1.7.3 AI-Driven Design Optimization -- 1.8 Challenges and Future Outlook -- 1.8.1 Current Limitations in Applying AI to Mechatronics -- 1.8.2 Safety, Security, and Robustness Considerations -- 1.8.3 Emerging Trends and Opportunities -- 1.9 Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Box 5.2 Elasticity and the incidence of tax -- Box 5.3 Adjusting to oil price shocks -- Box 5.4 Bubble, bubble, toil and trouble -- Summary -- Review questions -- Additional Part B case studies on the Economics for Business student website -- Websites relevant to Part B -- Part C BACKGROUND TO DEMAND -- 6 Demand and the consumer -- 6.1 Marginal utility theory -- 6.2 Demand under conditions of risk and uncertainty -- 6.3 The characteristics approach to analysing consumer demand -- Box 6.1 Calculating consumer surplus -- Box 6.2 The marginal utility revolution: Jevons, Menger, Walras -- Box 6.3 Adverse selection in the insurance market -- Box 6.4 Dealing with moral hazard and adverse selection -- Summary -- Review questions -- Web appendix in the case studies section of the Economics for Business student website -- 7 Behavioural economics of the consumer -- 7.1 How does behavioural economics differ from standard theory? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Front Cover -- Handbook of Computational Economics -- Copyright -- Contents -- Contributors -- Introduction to the Series -- Introduction to the Handbook of Computational Economics, Volume 4, Heterogeneous Agent Modeling -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Macroeconomics -- 3 Finance -- 4 Experiments -- 5 Networks -- 6 Other -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Part 1 Macroeconomics -- 1 Heterogeneous Expectations and Micro-Foundations in Macroeconomics -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Expectations Operators and Bounded Rationality -- 2.1 Expectations Operators -- 2.2 The Economic Environment -- 2.3 Bounded Optimality -- 2.3.1 Rational Expectations -- 2.3.2 The Shadow-Price Approach -- 2.3.3 The Shadow-Price Approach in the Linearized Model -- 2.3.4 The Euler Equation Approach in the Linearized Model -- 2.3.5 The Finite Horizon Approach in the Linearized Model -- 2.3.6 The In nite Horizon Approach in the Linearized Model -- 2.3.7 A Nod to Value Functions -- 2.3.8 A Defense of Anticipated Utility -- 2.4 Aggregating Household Decision Rules -- 3 Equilibria with Heterogeneous Expectations -- 3.1 Extrinsic Heterogeneity -- 3.2 Rationally Heterogeneous Expectations -- 3.2.1 Predictor Selection -- 3.2.2 Heterogeneous Beliefs and Economic Dynamics: Stability Reversal -- 3.3 Intrinsic Heterogeneity -- 4 Asset-Pricing Applications -- 4.1 Regime-Switching Returns -- 4.2 Bubbles with Rationally Heterogeneous Expectations -- 4.3 Restricted Perceptions and Endogenous Fluctuations -- 4.4 Related Literature -- 5 Monetary Applications -- 5.1 A Monetary Search Model with Heterogeneous Expectations -- 5.2 Heterogeneous Beliefs and Bargaining -- 5.3 Equilibrium with Heterogeneous Beliefs -- 5.4 Uncertainty and Welfare -- 5.5 Related Literature -- 6 DSGE Applications -- 6.1 Rationally Heterogeneous Expectations and Monetary Policy Rules…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Front Cover -- Multi-Dimensional Summarization in Cyber-Physical Society -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- About the Author -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgment -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Open collaborative human summarization -- 1.2 The necessity of automatic text summarization -- 1.3 Practice in search engines -- 1.4 Practice in e-science: summarizing multiple scientific papers through citation -- 1.5 A multi-dimensional perspective of summarization literature -- 1.6 Characteristics of text summarization -- 1.7 Requirement from enterprise content computing and big data -- 1.7.1 Enterprise content computing -- 1.7.2 Big data -- 1.8 Shifting paradigm -- 2 The emerging structures -- 2.1 Near decomposability -- 2.2 Text as near decomposable system -- 2.3 The near decomposability of memory -- 2.4 The structure emerging through representing and understanding -- 2.5 Principles for emerging sentences within text -- 2.6 Rules for emerging structure within text -- 2.7 Case study: summarizing text with emerging structure -- 2.7.1 Iterative function -- 2.7.2 Experiment -- 2.7.3 Experiment result -- 2.7.4 Discussion -- 2.8 Emerging structure through dimensions -- 2.9 Emerging from psychological dimension -- 2.9.1 Assumptions of reading -- 2.9.2 Interactive environment -- 2.10 The cognitive level of current text summarization -- 2.11 Semantic link -- 2.11.1 Uncertainty on semantic link -- 2.11.2 Bias on semantic link -- 2.11.3 Separation of semantic link networks -- 2.12 Summary -- 3 Patterns in representation and understanding -- 3.1 Patterns in text -- 3.2 Pattern mappings -- 3.3 Pattern-based summarization -- 3.4 Incorporating locations into pattern -- 3.5 From psychological dimension -- 3.6 Implications -- 4 The think lens -- 4.1 The conceptual model -- 4.2 The semantic images of words -- 4.3 The principle of emerging semantic images…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Machine generated contents note: Preface Chapter 1: Introduction What You Will Learn In This Chapter Overview Where We Are Going in This Book Contributions Made By the Financial System Recurring Themes in the Chapters Ahead Resources Chapter 2: Overview of the Financial System What You Will Learn In This Chapter Introduction Features of An Effective Financial System Direct Methods of Finance Indirect Methods of Finance Primary versus Secondary Markets Chapter 3: The Special Role of Commercial Banks What You Will Learn In This Chapter Background Commercial Bank Balance Sheet Payment System and Money Liquidity Provision Dealing with Asymmetric Information Maturity Transformation The Safety Net and Regulatory Policy Chapter 4: The Pricing of Financial Assets What You Will Learn In This Chapter Background Present Value Maturity and Price Sensitivity Holding Periods versus Maturities Return versus Yield Duration Nominal versus Real Yields Appendix A: Variations Of The Valuation Relationship Appendix B:Solutions Using A Financial Calculator Chapter 5: Factors Affecting Yields What You Will Learn In This Chapter Background The Term Structure of Interest Rates Credit Risk Liquidity Taxation Embedded Options Flights to Safety Chapter 6: Principles of Portfolio Selection and Efficient Markets What You Will Learn In This Chapter Overview Uncertainty, Expected Return, and Risk Selecting a Portfolio Efficient Portfolios And Risk-Return Trade-Offs Efficient Markets Hypothesis Chapter 7: The Money Market What You Will Learn In This Chapter Background and Basic Features of the Money Market Pricing Treasury Bills The Role of Commercial Banks in the Money Market Letters of Credit and Bankers Acceptances Monetary Policy Effects on the Money Market Chapter 8: The Bond Market What You Will Learn In This Chapter Background Treasury Notes and Bonds Corporate Bonds Munis Government-Sponsored Enterprises (GSEs) The Impact of Monetary Policy on the Bond Market Chapter 9: Securitization What You Will Learn In This Chapter Background Obstacles to Overcome Beginnings of Securitization-MBS Other Securitized Loans-Consumer ABS ABS Involving Business Credit-CDOs and Structured Securities Securitization and the Integration of Credit Markets Monetary Policy and Securitization Chapter 10: The Mortgage Market What You Will Learn In This Chapter Background Home Mortgages Commercial Mortgages The Mortgage Market and Monetary Policy Chapter 11: The Equity Market What You Will Learn In This Chapter Background Equities as a Source of Corporate Finance Preferred versus Common Shares Primary and Secondary Markets Valuation of Individual Shares Price-earnings Extending These Principles to the Stock Market Monetary Policy and the Stock Market Indexes of Stock Prices Chapter 12: Central Banking and the Federal Reserve What You Will Learn In This Chapter Background Origins of Central Banks Constitutional Foundations The Century And A Quarter Without A Central Bank Creation of the Federal Reserve Early Years of the Federal Reserve Reforms of the 1930's Fed Independence Central Bank Accountability and Transparency Central Bank Responsibilities Monetary Operations Chapter 13: Monetary Policy: The Basics What You Will Learn In This Chapter Background The Operational Counterparts to Maximum Employment and Price Stability Aggregate Demand and Aggregate Supply The Model Addressing Inflation Addressing a Shortfall in Output Okun's Law Chapter 14: Monetary Policy: Challenges Faced by Policymakers What You Will Learn In This Chapter Background Other Forces Affecting Output and Inflation Lags and Other Complications Policy Rules Expectations and Central Bank Credibility Inflation Targeting The Zero-Bound Constraint and the Slow Recovery from the Great Contraction Chapter 15: Financial Crises What You Will Learn In This Chapter Background Classic Banking Panics The Nightmare of the Great Depression The Financial Crisis Common Threads Chapter 16: The Foreign Exchange Market and Exchange Rate Regimes What You Will Learn In This Chapter Background Features of the Market The Relation Between Spot and Forward Exchange Rates Long Run Exchange Rate Relationships The Real Exchange Rate Exchange Rate Determination in the Shorter Run Floating Exchange Rate Regime Fixed Exchange Rate Regime Chapter 17: Depository Institutions What You Will Learn In This Chapter Background Organization of Commercial Banks and Other Depository Institutions Economic Functions of Depository Institutions The Balance Sheet of the Commercial Banking System The Balance Sheet of Savings Institutions The Balance Sheet of Credit Unions Deposit Insurance Regulation and Supervision of Depository Institutions Depository Institutions and Monetary Policy Chapter 18: Mutual Funds What You Will Learn In This Chapter Background History SEC Regulation Role of Mutual Fund Complexes Types of Funds Open-End Funds Exchange-Traded Funds Closed-End Funds Mutual Funds and Monetary Policy Chapter 19: Hedge, Venture Capital, and Private Equity Funds What You Will Learn In This Chapter Background Commonalities In Structure Hedge Funds Venture Capital Funds Private Equity Funds Alternative Investment Funds and Monetary Policy Chapter 20: Large Institutional Investors What You Will Learn In This Chapter Background Pension Funds Life Insurance Companies Property and Casualty Insurance Companies Large Institutional Investors and Monetary Policy About the Author Index …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Analogies between quantum processes and thought processes -- 2.1. An uncertainty principle for the process of thought -- 2.2. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Ethical Considerations Need for Future Research PART III THE PRACTICE OF TOUCH IN A SPECTRUM OF PRACTICE CHAPTER VIII The Practice of the Laying on of Hands in Islamic Spiritual Care Literature Review A Place for the Laying on of Hands in Islamic Spiritual Care Ethics of the Laying on of Hands in Islamic Spiritual Care Ethics of the Tawhid Principle Ethics of Physical and Spiritual Purification Ethics of Providing Proper Care Conclusion CHAPTER IX An Angel in My Pocket: Touch, Sacred Objects,and Spiritual CopingTouch in Hospital Chaplaincy Spiritual CopingLocus of Control The Spiritual Dimension of Touch Objects of Spiritual Significance The Function of the Sacralized Object Focuses the Mind Tool of Connection Source of Emotional SupportA Beneficial but High-Maintenance Coping Strategy Evolution of the Sacred Object Sacralized Objects in Meaning-Making Challenges with the Research Conclusion CHAPTER X Touch(ed) in Palliative Care Nursing: Moving with/in An Uncertain PracticeTouch in Nursing: An Aesthetic and Embodied Practice(In)visible and (Dis)embodied Practices of Touch in Nursing At the Margins of Care: Personal and Professional Boundaries Affecting Touch To Touch and Be Touched: Cultivating Capacity Mindfulness Attuning Mind, Body, and Emotions Moving with Uncertainty and Vulnerability: Flowing of Frozen Waters? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Skills and capacities -- Leadership -- Employees -- Policy and implementation challenges -- Balancing adaptive innovation and stability/resilience -- Adaptive innovation as a core practice -- Open questions -- Multifaceted approaches and research streams -- Drivers in the public sector -- Support structures -- Tools and methods -- References -- Notes -- 7 Mission-oriented innovation -- General description -- The challenge -- The approach -- Main drivers -- Enabling factors -- Institutional entrepreneurship and mission governance -- Funding missions -- Procurement -- Tools and methods -- New ways of working and knowing -- Portfolio approach to funding -- New approaches to appraisal and evaluation -- Skills and capabilities -- Policy and public service challenges -- Open questions -- Research questions -- Policy questions -- References -- Notes -- 8 Anticipatory innovation -- General description -- The challenge -- The approach -- Definitions in the literature -- Limitations of forecasting and prediction -- Strategic foresight and the discipline of anticipation -- Adaptation vs. anticipation -- Main drivers in the public sector -- Responding to novel societal and technological developments -- Decision-making and planning in conditions of unpredictable uncertainty -- Making sense of complex policy problems -- The cost of doing nothing in the face of rapid change -- Enabling factors -- Foresight ecosystems -- Governance using anticipatory innovation -- Working methods -- Tools and methods -- Forecasting and horizon scanning -- Signals -- Weak signals -- Web content analysis and text mining -- Delphi -- Real-time data monitoring and predictive analytics -- Thick data -- MCDA -- Visioning -- Running anticipatory innovation -- Framing -- Scenarios -- Megatrends -- Causal layered analysis -- Acting -- Stress-testing and wind-tunnelling -- Prototyping…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Another look at origin, history, determination, uncertainty -- F. A logic of the "between" two or more, as production -- G. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Bayesian Linear Regression Model -- THE UNIVARIATE LINEAR REGRESSION MODEL -- Bayesian Estimation of the Univariate Regression Model -- Illustration: The Univariate Linear Regression Model -- THE MULTIVARIATE LINEAR REGRESSION MODEL -- Diffuse Improper Prior -- KEY POINTS -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- Bayesian Estimation of ARCH-Type Volatility Models -- BAYESIAN ESTIMATION OF THE GARCH(1,1) MODEL -- Distributional Setup -- Posterior Distributions -- Posterior Simulations with the Metropolis-Hastings Algorithm -- MARKOV-SWITCHING GARCH MODELS -- Preliminaries -- Prior Distributional Assumptions -- Estimation of the MS GARCH Model -- APPENDIX: THE GRIDDY GIBBS SAMPLER -- Drawing from the Conditional Posterior Distribution of ν -- KEY POINTS -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- Bayesian Techniques and the Black-Litterman Model -- PRACTICAL PROBLEMS ENCOUNTERED IN MEAN-VARIANCE OPTIMIZATION -- Example: The True, Estimated, and Actual Efficient Frontiers -- Sensitivity to Estimation Error -- Incorporating Uncertainty in the Inputs into the Portfolio Allocation Process -- Large Data Requirements -- SHRINKAGE ESTIMATION -- THE BLACK-LITTERMAN MODEL -- Derivation of the Black-Litterman Model -- KEY POINTS -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- Bond Valuation -- Basics of Bond Valuation -- GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF BOND VALUATION -- Estimating Cash Flows -- Determining the Appropriate Interest Rate or Rates -- Discounting the Expected Cash Flows -- Determining a Bond's Value -- The Price/Discount Rate Relationship -- Time Path of Bond -- ARBITRAGE-FREE BOND VALUATION -- Theoretical Spot Rates -- Valuation Using Treasury Spot Rates -- Reason for Using Treasury Spot Rates -- Stripping and Arbitrage-Free Valuation -- Credit Spreads and the Valuation of Non-Treasury Securities -- KEY POINTS -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- Relative Value Analysis of Fixed-Income Products…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover -- Copyright and Credits -- Packt Upsell -- Contributors -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1: The Software Industry and the Agile Manifesto -- Why the software industry needed to change -- Delivery as a software product -- Delivery as a software project -- Product versus project -- Scope was the priority -- Estimates -- Uncertainty buffers -- Estimates became ironic -- Variability in our estimates -- And then there's missing the point entirely -- Where's the business value? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Meeting the quadcopter -- Defining Uses for Drones -- Seeing drones in nonmilitary roles -- Powering up drones using AI -- Understanding regulatory issues -- Chapter 14 Utilizing the AI-Driven Car -- Getting a Short History -- Understanding the Future of Mobility -- Climbing the six levels of autonomy -- Rethinking the role of cars in our lives -- Taking a step back from unmet expectations -- Getting into a Self-Driving Car -- Putting all the tech together -- Letting AI into the scene -- Understanding that it's not just AI -- Overcoming Uncertainty of Perceptions -- Introducing the car's senses -- Putting together what you perceive -- Part 5 Considering the Future of AI -- Chapter 15 Understanding the Nonstarter Application -- Using AI Where It Won't Work -- Defining the limits of AI -- Applying AI incorrectly -- Entering a world of unrealistic expectations -- Considering the Effects of AI Winters -- Understanding the AI winter -- Defining the causes of the AI winter -- Rebuilding expectations with new goals -- Creating Solutions in Search of a Problem -- Defining a gizmo -- Avoiding the infomercial -- Understanding when humans do it better -- Looking for the simple solution -- Chapter 16 Seeing AI in Space -- Observing the Universe -- Seeing clearly for the first time -- Finding new places to go -- Considering the evolution of the universe -- Creating new scientific principles -- Performing Space Mining -- Harvesting water -- Obtaining rare earths and other metals -- Finding new elements -- Enhancing communication -- Exploring New Places -- Starting with the probe -- Relying on robotic missions -- Adding the human element -- Building Structures in Space -- Taking your first space vacation -- Performing scientific investigation -- Industrializing space -- Using space for storage -- Chapter 17 Engaging in Human Endeavors…”