Tag: Frontiers

Free Download Chloé Brière, "Inequality and the European Union: New Frontiers in Political Science and Law "
English | ISBN: 1032821698 | 2024 | 186 pages | EPUB, PDF | 4 MB + 3 MB
This book constitutes a timely and unique interdisciplinary endeavour in law and political science to investigate whether the European Union is living up to its ambitions to tackle inequalities between, across, and within European societies and states.

Free Download Recommender Systems: Frontiers and Practices by Dongsheng Li, Jianxun Lian, Le Zhang
English | March 26, 2024 | ISBN: 9819989639 | 296 pages | MOBI | 17 Mb
This book starts from the classic recommendation algorithms, introduces readers to the basic principles and main concepts of the traditional algorithms, and analyzes their advantages and limitations. Then, it addresses the fundamentals of deep learning, focusing on the deep-learning-based technology used, and analyzes problems arising in the theory and practice of recommender systems, helping readers gain a deeper understanding of the cutting-edge technology used in these systems. Lastly, it shares practical experience with Microsoft ‘s open source project Microsoft Recommenders. Readers can learn the design principles of recommendation algorithms using the source code provided in this book, allowing them to quickly build accurate and efficient recommender systems from scratch.

Free Download Morris Rossabi, "Governing China’s Multiethnic Frontiers "
English | ISBN: 0295984120 | 2004 | 304 pages | EPUB | 1497 KB
Open-access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295804057

Free Download Frontiers in Social Dilemmas Research By Wim B. G. Liebrand, David M. Messick (auth.), Prof. Dr. Wim B. G. Liebrand, Prof. Dr. David M. Messick (eds.)
1996 | 438 Pages | ISBN: 3642852637 | PDF | 32 MB
Social dilemmas are situations in which individuals, groups or nations face a choice between their own short-term interests and the longer-term interests of all parties involved, including themselves. As a consequence, in the end they all regret the way they have acted. Examples of social dilemmas are easy to find: depletion of vital resources, arms races, over-production of hazardous substances and environmental pollutants, information hoarding, and the failure to provide and maintain public goods. Understanding the dynamics of social dilemmas constitutes a major challenge. One prominent feature that distinguishes this book is the focus on computer simulations as a methodology for the exploration of the dynamic interplay of individual level processes and aggregate outcomes.

Free Download A History of Neuropsychology (Frontiers of Neurology and Neuroscience, 44) by Julien Bogousslavsky, Franois Boller, Makoto Iwata
English | May 1, 2019 | ISBN: 3318064629 | 250 pages | PDF | 8.15 Mb
Through 18 essays, this book traces the history of neuropsychology, showing the origin and establishment of present concepts used in practice. Psychologists, neurologists, neuropsychologists, and other specialists from the US, Japan, the United Arab Emirates, and Europe discuss the of discovery of cerebral specialization; the introduction of emotions and behavior in the assessment of neurological patients; Pierre Marie’s "zone lenticulaire"; Gogi aphasia and its relation with semantic dementia; alexia and agraphia; the early history of amnesia; hemineglect and attentional dysfunction; the history of anosognosia, amusia, "frontal" syndromes and executive dysfunction, subcortical cognitive impairment, dementia, and neuropsychological assessment; hallucinations, delusions, and confabulations; early case descriptions of developmental cognitive deficits; the historical path from the description of cognitive recovery to formal neuropsychological rehabilitation; and famous neuropsychologists from the 19th and 20th century. Annotation ©2019 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)

Free Download The Quantum and the Lotus: A Journey to the Frontiers Where Science and Buddhism Meet (Audiobook)
English | September 23, 2020 | ASIN: B08HJQ8W2W | M4B@128 kbps | 10h 2m | 547 MB
Authors: Matthieu Ricard, Trinh Xuan Thuan | Narrator: James Anderson Foster
Matthieu Ricard trained as a molecular biologist, working in the lab of a Nobel prize-winning scientist, but when he read some Buddhist philosophy, he became drawn to Buddhism. Eventually he left his life in science to study with Tibetan teachers, and he is now a Buddhist monk and translator for the Dalai Lama, living in the Shechen monastery near Kathmandu in Nepal. Trinh Thuan was born into a Buddhist family in Vietnam but became intrigued by the explosion of discoveries in astronomy during the 1960s. He made his way to the prestigious California Institute of Technology to study with some of the biggest names in the field and is now an acclaimed astrophysicist and specialist on how the galaxies formed.
When Matthieu Ricard and Trinh Thuan met at an academic conference in the summer of 1997, they began discussing the many remarkable connections between the teachings of Buddhism and the findings of recent science. That conversation grew into an astonishing correspondence exploring a series of fascinating questions. Did the universe have a beginning? Might our perception of time in fact be an illusion, a phenomenon created in our brains that has no ultimate reality? What is consciousness and how did it evolve?

Free Download New Frontiers in Entrepreneurial Fundraising: Going Beyond the Equity or Debt Dilemma (Contributions to Finance and Accounting) by Pau Sendra-Pons, Dolores Garzon, María-Ángeles Revilla-Camacho
English | August 19, 2023 | ISBN: 3031339932 | 177 pages | MOBI | 1.55 Mb
This book on entrepreneurial fundraising combines rigor and applicability to train current and prospective entrepreneurs in the financing processes. Through its diverse set of chapters, it reviews the latest financing tools and dynamics, the most pressing dilemmas as well as practical examples of ideal methods in the economic-financial management of startups. This book analyzes the financing methods available to entrepreneurs from a practical perspective. Expert authors also present insights on topics such as the role of incubators and accelerators in entrepreneurial fundraising; crowd-based entrepreneurial fundraising instruments; factoring, leasing and confirming for entrepreneurs; government grants, subsidies, and tax reliefs; business angels and venture capital firms; access to capital markets through initial public offerings; and financing with crypto-assets. The book concludes with a discussion on emerging issues in the entrepreneurial finance paradigm, namely transparency and legitimacy and corporate governance in startups; and, additionally, provides a practical toolkit for fundraising, with the main mistakes, how to win over investors, success stories, and resounding failures. The editors, with extensive experience in advising entrepreneurs from a professional and academic perspective, have made a considerable effort to draw a learning roadmap that can be especially useful for entrepreneurs. Therefore, the resulting book may be of great interest to entrepreneurs and anyone interested in learning more about the financing process for entrepreneurs.

Free Download New Frontiers in Textual Data Analysis
English | 2024 | ISBN: 3031559169 | 483 Pages | EPUB (True) | 28 MB
This volume presents a selection of articles which explore methodological and applicative aspects of textual data analysis. Divided into four parts, it begins by focusing on statistical methods, and then moves on to problems in quantitative language processing. After discussing the challenging task of text mining in relation to emotional and sentiment analyses, the book concludes with a collection of studies in the social sciences and public health which apply textual data analysis methods.

Free Download The State of the Planet: Frontiers and Challenges in Geophysics By
2004 | 407 Pages | ISBN: 0875904157 | PDF | 80 MB
Published by the American Geophysical Union as part of the Geophysical Monograph Series.Perhaps the most pressing scientific challenge before us concerns our understanding of the Earth and environmental change, which is occurring at a dramatic rate. Humanity can expect serious difficulties on the road ahead as a result, even to the point of threatening civilized progress itself. There is thus an urgent need to understand the state of the planet, to anticipate the effects and consequences of environmental change, and if necessary take preventive action.Our understanding of change and its consequences can only advance, however, if we understand the Earth system well. Geophysics (sensu lato), one of the critical disciplines in the emerging interdisciplinary Earth System Science, forms the basis of the present book?which moves from the deepest parts of the Earth to surface environments, to a final discussion on the interface between science and society. While depicting the frontiers in each of their fields and focusing on present challenges, our contributing authors have also written for wide readership, specialists and non-specialists alike.Content:

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by Giuseppe Giordano and Michelangelo Misuraca
English | 2024 | ISBN: 3031559169 | 396 Pages | True PDF | 17.4 MB