“…The quest for social justice is a powerful crusade of our time, with an appeal to many different people, for many different reasons. …”

“…The rapid urbanization that began with industrialization has begun to cause many problems. New approaches are emerging today to minimize these problems and make urban areas more livable. …”

“…There are still many food, medicinal and cosmetic products that are not halal certified. …”

“…This theory is a prerequisite for the study of many current and rapidly developing areas of mathematics including the theory of several and infinitely many complex variables, the theory of groups, hyperbolic geometry and three-manifolds, and number theory. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…6.5 Marine Resources -- 6.6 Ecosystems -- 6.7 Availability of Natural Resources: Scenarios -- 6.8 Broader Context -- 6.9 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 7 - Food Systems, Diets, and Nutrition -- 7.1 The World's Many Nutrition Challenges -- 7.2 India as a Case Study -- 7.3 Pathways from Agriculture to Diets and Nutrition -- 7.3.1 Agricultural diversification -- 7.3.2 Irrigation and water availability -- 7.3.3 Water quality -- 7.3.4 Women's labor use in agriculture -- 7.3.5 Exposure to zoonotic diseases -- 7.3.6 Food safety -- 7.4 Challenges and Opportunities Ahead -- References -- Part III - Technological Innovation and Disruptive Futures -- Chapter 8 - Innovation in Breeding and Biotechnology -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 Background to Genetic Improvement -- 8.3 Sources of Future Genetic Gains -- 8.3.1 Enhancing the efficiency of current breeding technologies -- 8.3.1.1 Expanding the germplasm pool -- 8.3.1.2 Recombination -- 8.3.1.3 Population size -- 8.3.1.4 Heritability -- 8.3.1.5 Breeding cycle -- 8.3.2 Generating major changes in breeding methodologies -- 8.3.2.1 Enhancing photosynthesis -- 8.3.2.2 Transferring nitrogen fixation to non-legume crops -- 8.3.2.3 Hybrid breeding and apomixis -- 8.4 Technology Adoption -- 8.4.1 The production system -- 8.4.2 Technology transfer between species and crops -- 8.4.3 Regulation and acceptance by consumers/governments -- 8.5 Biotechnology in the Improvement of Farm Animals -- 8.5.1 Transgenic animals -- 8.5.2 Genome editing -- 8.5.3 Reproductive technologies -- 8.5.4 Human nutrition, pharmaceutical, and biomedical applications -- 8.5.5 Fish and other seafood -- 8.6 Where to Next? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Preface -- List of Abbreviations -- How to Use the Book -- About the Companion Website -- Prerequisites -- Why are there so many matrixes in this book? -- Chapter 1 Manipulations on Matrixes -- 1.1 Matrix Properties -- 1.1.1 Elementary Operations -- 1.2 Eigen-Decompositions -- 1.3 Eigenvectors in Everyday Life -- 1.3.1 Conversations in a Noisy Restaurant -- 1.3.2 Power Control in a Cellular Communication System -- 1.3.3 Price Equilibrium in the Economy -- 1.4 Derivative Rules -- 1.4.1 Derivative with respect to x∈ Rn -- 1.4.2 Derivative with respect to x∈ Cn -- 1.4.3 Derivative with respect to the Matrix X∈Rm×n -- 1.5 Quadratic Forms -- 1.6 Diagonalization of a Quadratic Form -- 1.7 Rayleigh Quotient -- 1.8 Basics of Optimization -- 1.8.1 Quadratic Function with Simple Linear Constraint (M=1) -- 1.8.2 Quadratic Function with Multiple Linear Constraints -- Appendix A: Arithmetic vs. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Turaga and Mihaela van der Schaar / /10.1 Introduction: Smarter Planet 234 / /10.2 Illustrative Problem: Transportation 237 / /10.3 Stream Processing Characteristics 238 / /10.4 Distributed Stream Processing Systems 239 / /10.4.1 State of the Art 239 / /10.4.2 Stream Processing Systems 240 / /10.5 Distributed Online Learning Frameworks 244 / /10.5.1 State of the Art 244 / /10.5.2 Systematic Framework for Online Distributed Ensemble Learning 247 / /10.5.3 Online Learning of the Aggregation Weights 250 / /10.5.4 Collision Detection Application 254 / /10.6 What Lies Ahead 257 / /Acknowledgment 258 / /References 258 / /11 Securing the Internet of Things: Need for a New Paradigm and Fog Computing 261 /Tao Zhang, Yi Zheng, Raymond Zheng, and Helder Antunes / /11.1 Introduction 261 / /11.2 New IoT Security Challenges That Necessitate Fundamental Changes to the Existing Security /Paradigm 263 / /11.2.1 Many Things Will Have Long Life Spans but Constrained and Difficult-to-Upgrade Resources 264 / /11.2.2 Putting All IoT Devices Inside Firewalled Castles Will Become Infeasible or Impractical 264 / /11.2.3 Mission-Critical Systems Will Demand Minimal-Impact Incident Responses 265 / /11.2.4 The Need to Know the Security Status of a Vast Number of Devices 266 / /11.3 A New Security Paradigm for the Internet of Things 268 / /11.3.1 Help the Less Capable with Fog Computing 269 / /11.3.2 Scale Security Monitoring to Large Number of Devices with Crowd Attestation 272 / /11.3.3 Dynamic Risk / Benefit-Proportional Protection with Adaptive Immune Security 277 / /11.4 Summary 281 / /Acknowledgment 281 / /References 281 / /INDEX 285.…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Architectural flaws -- 2.9.3. Software complexity-many vulnerabilities -- 2.9.4. Complacence, fear, no regulatory pressure to act -- 2.9.5. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…The pronoun "this" -- 7.2.1. The many ways to link the pronoun "this" -- 7.2.2. How to explicitly bind the pronoun? …”

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…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- 11.6 Writing middleware -- 11.6.1 Middleware as lambdas -- 11.6.2 Middleware classes -- 11.7 Testing middleware and pipelines -- Summary -- Part 4 Building applications -- 12 Creating applications over microservices -- 12.1 End user applications for microservice systems: One or many applications? -- 12.1.1 General-purpose applications -- 12.1.2 Specialized applications -- 12.2 Patterns for building applications over microservices -- 12.2.1 Composite applications: Integrating at the frontend -- 12.2.2 API Gateway -- 12.2.3 Backend for frontend (BFF) pattern -- 12.2.4 When to use each pattern -- 12.2.5 Client-side or server-side rendering? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Aggregating transforms -- 5.3.1. Combining many rows into summary rows -- 5.4. Multitable data transforms -- 5.4.1. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…7.3.2 Which Instrument to Use? -- 7.3.3 How Many Contracts to Use? -- 7.3.4 When to Take an Open Position? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…3.2.4 Binary Logistic Regression with Keras on TensorFlow -- 3.3 Support Vector Machine -- 3.3.1 Linearly Separable Data -- 3.3.2 Not Fully Linearly Separable Data -- 3.3.3 Nonlinear SVMs -- 3.3.4 SVMs for Regression -- 3.3.5 Application of SVMs -- 3.3.5.1 SVM Using scikit-learn for Classification -- 3.3.5.2 SVM Using scikit-learn for Regression -- 3.4 Artificial Neural Networks -- 3.4.1 Multilayer Perceptron -- 3.4.2 Estimation of the Parameters -- 3.4.2.1 Loss Functions -- 3.4.2.2 Backpropagation: Binary Classification -- 3.4.2.3 Backpropagation: Multi-class Classification -- 3.4.3 Convolutional Neural Networks -- 3.4.4 Recurrent Neural Network -- 3.4.5 Application of MLP Neural Networks -- 3.4.6 Application of RNNs: LST Memory -- 3.4.7 Building a CNN -- 3.5 Many More Algorithms to Explore -- 3.6 Unsupervised Machine Learning Algorithms -- 3.6.1 Clustering -- 3.6.1.1 K-means -- 3.6.1.2 Mini-batch K-means -- 3.6.1.3 Mean Shift -- 3.6.1.4 Affinity Propagation -- 3.6.1.5 Density-based Spatial Clustering of Applications with Noise -- 3.7 Machine Learning Algorithms with HephAIstos -- References -- Further Reading -- Chapter 4 Natural Language Processing -- 4.1 Classifying Messages as Spam or Ham -- 4.2 Sentiment Analysis -- 4.3 Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers -- 4.4 BERT's Functionality -- 4.5 Installing and Training BERT for Binary Text Classification Using TensorFlow -- 4.6 Utilizing BERT for Text Summarization -- 4.7 Utilizing BERT for Question Answering -- Further Reading -- Chapter 5 Machine Learning Algorithms in Quantum Computing -- 5.1 Quantum Machine Learning -- 5.2 Quantum Kernel Machine Learning -- 5.3 Quantum Kernel Training -- 5.4 Pegasos QSVC: Binary Classification -- 5.5 Quantum Neural Networks -- 5.5.1 Binary Classification with EstimatorQNN -- 5.5.2 Classification with a SamplerQNN…”

“…However, in some cases, there may be advantages in mixing this approach with elements of centralisation, as is the case in many EU Member States. This paper reviews the experience of selected EU countries. …”

“…Plant medicines are the original medicines that humans have always used. Many people continue to use plant medicines today including teas, coffee, chocolate, ginger, and other medicines. …”