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Free Download Societal Impacts of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (Synthesis Lectures on Computer Science) by Carlo Lipizzi
English | March 14, 2024 | ISBN: 3031537467 | 166 pages | MOBI | 9.67 Mb
This book goes beyond the current hype of expectations generated by the news on artificial intelligence and machine learning by analyzing realistic expectations for society, its limitations, and possible future scenarios for the use of this technology in our current society. Artificial Intelligence is one of the top topics today and is inflating expectations beyond what the technology can do in the foreseeable future. The future cannot be predicted, but the future of some elements of our society, such as technology, can be estimated. This book merges the modeling of human reasoning with the power of AI technology allowing readers to make more informed decisions about their personal or financial decisions or just being more educated on current technologies. This book presents a model that sketches potential future scenarios based on a discussion of the expectations today, the analysis of the current gap in the literature, and a view of possible futures in terms of technology and use cases. Specifically, this book merges literature on the technology aspects, the sociological impacts, and philosophical aspects.

Free Download Techno-Societal 2018: Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Advanced Technologies for Societal Applications – Volume 2 by Prashant M. Pawar
English | EPUB | 2020 | 968 Pages | ISBN : 3030169618 | 143.6 MB
This book, divided in two volumes, originates from Techno-Societal 2018: the 2nd International Conference on Advanced Technologies for Societal Applications, Maharashtra, India, that brings together faculty members of various engineering colleges to solve Indian regional relevant problems under the guidance of eminent researchers from various reputed organizations.

Free Download Debby Chan, "Defying Beijing: Societal Resistance to the Belt and Road in Myanmar"
English | ISBN: 1760466352 | 2024 | 298 pages | EPUB, PDF | 2 MB + 4 MB
The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) aims to construct a Sino-centric transcontinental infrastructure network in Asia, Europe, Africa and beyond. Within this initiative, the China-Myanmar Economic Corridor (CMEC) is a vital strategic component. The shortcut to the Indian Ocean seeks to improve China’s energy security and facilitate trade. Defying Beijing: Societal Resistance to the Belt and Road in Myanmar shows how Myanmar was able to capitalise on Chinese BRI ambitions to achieve its own desired outcomes during the country’s political liberalisation in the 2010s. Belying the asymmetrical relationship between these two nations, the Myitsone hydropower dam was suspended, the Letpadaung copper mine’s contract was renegotiated, and the Kyaukphyu deep seaport project was downsized. China offered concessions to Myanmar instead of pressuring it to honour those signed agreements. Contrasting a common proposition that US-Myanmar rapprochement disrupted the BRI projects in Myanmar,

Free Download Big Science, Innovation, and Societal Contributions
by Edited by Shantha Liyanage, Markus Nordberg, and Marilena Streit-Bianchi
English | 2024 | ISBN: 0198881193 | 449 pages | True PDF | 55.11 MB

Free Download State and Societal Challenges in the Horn of Africa: Conflict and processes of state formation, reconfiguration and disintegration By Alexandra Dias (ed), Manuel João Ramos, Elsa Gonzalez Aimé, Partick Ferras, Ricardo de Sousa, Pedro Bargue Cunha, Alexandra Sousa Carvalho, Aleksi Yonen, Ana Elisa Cascão, Alexandra Dias
2013 | 172 Pages | ISBN: 9728335237 | PDF | 3 MB
This book brings to fruition the research done during the CEA-ISCTE project ”Monitoring Conflicts in the Horn of Africa”, reference PTDC/AFR/100460/2008. The Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) provided funding for this project. The chapters are based on first-hand data collected through fieldwork in the region’s countries between 4 January 2010 and 3 June 2013. The project’s team members and consultants debated their final research findings in a one-day Conference at ISCTE-IUL on 29 April 2013. The following authors contributed to the project’s final publication: Alexandra M. Dias, Alexandre de Sousa Carvalho, Aleksi Ylönen, Ana Elisa Cascão, Elsa González Aimé, Manuel João Ramos, Patrick Ferras, Pedro Barge Cunha and Ricardo Real P. Sousa.

Free Download Techno-Societal 2018: Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Advanced Technologies for Societal Applications – Volume 2 by Prashant M. Pawar
English | EPUB | 2020 | 968 Pages | ISBN : 3030169618 | 143.6 MB
This book, divided in two volumes, originates from Techno-Societal 2018: the 2nd International Conference on Advanced Technologies for Societal Applications, Maharashtra, India, that brings together faculty members of various engineering colleges to solve Indian regional relevant problems under the guidance of eminent researchers from various reputed organizations.

Free Download Financial, Staffing and Societal Sustainability of Dutch Health Care: An Urgent Need for Clear Choices by Gijsbert Werner , Arthur van Riel , Mérove Gijsberts , Marianne de Visser
English | PDF EPUB (True) | 2024 | 301 Pages | ISBN : 3031585631 | 18 MB
This book analyzes how sound choices can be made in Dutch health care policies, and shows why they are necessary, urgent, and even inevitable. Analyzing the current functioning and funding of the Dutch health care system, this book shows how three dimensions of sustainability – financial, staffing and societal – are under increasing pressure. This study explores priority setting in health care and calls for well-informed, clear and sometimes uncompromising choices in the allocation of means and personnel. This is necessary in order to maintain accessible and high-quality care for all, and to improve public health. Making balanced choices in health care is of particular importance to vulnerable groups whose voices may not be heard as readily or effectively in the public debate, and whose interests are more easily crowded out. Prioritizing in the domain of public health care is first and foremost a political responsibility, but also one for health care providers across the system and ultimately also for citizens. While this work focuses on the Netherlands, similar processes are at play across the developed economies, making it broadly relevant to policy makers, health care professionals and health care (policy) researchers grappling with the questions surrounding the sustainability of public health care.

Free Download The Handbook of Organizing Economic, Ecological and Societal Transformation
by Elke Weik, Chris Land, Ronald Hartz
English | 2024 | ISBN: 3110998327 | 328 pages | True PDF EPUB | 5.44 MB

Free Download Peter Kirsch, "Societal Self-empowerment in Germany: A Comparison of Fridays for Future and Corona Skepticism"
English | ISBN: 3658408642 | 2023 | 148 pages | PDF | 1477 KB
Most recently, various groups have drawn attention to their political causes by demonstratively breaking the law, whether it is violating compulsory education in Fridays for Future demonstrations or refusing to abide by pandemic containment measures among critics of the Corona policy. This book explores what lies behind these rule-breaking events: supporters of the Fridays for Future movement, while dissatisfied with climate policy, are well integrated into the political system; people who may not abide by Corona rules, on the other hand, sometimes exhibit considerable alienation from and distrust of the political system.

Free Download Adam Izdebski, "Perspectives on Public Policy in Societal-Environmental Crises: What the Future Needs from History "
English | ISBN: 3030941361 | 2022 | 356 pages | PDF | 7 MB
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