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  • Autonomous Driving and Mixed Traffic Dynamics

    Modeling, Simulation, and Control
    • 1st Edition
    • Michail Makridis + 1 more
    • English
    Autonomous Driving and Mixed Traffic Dynamics: Modeling, Simulation, and Control provides an introduction to autonomous vehicles (AV) in road transport systems, along with discussions on the critical similarities and differences with human drivers. Focusing on key concepts in traffic dynamics and AI-based modeling, the book also offers a comprehensive discussion of the unique dynamics introduced by AVs and their impacts on congestion, safety, energy, and their role in sustainable future intelligent transportation systems. Sections delve into traditional driving behaviors, examining the basics of car-following, driver characteristics, lateral movement, and how well AI models generalize these behaviors.Further sections covers shifts to autonomous driving systems, analyzing their operational principles and providing comparative evidence with human drivers. Assessments on the performance of traditional car-following models against artificial intelligence developments that highlight strengths and weaknesses for each approach are also included. Final sections integrate human drivers and AVs into broader traffic flow theories, presenting findings on how autonomous driving impacts traffic patterns, look at the role of AI and modeling, explore the pros and cons of various methods and data sources, and discuss real-world traffic management applications, combining AI and traditional models for traffic estimation, control, and ensuring fair, disruption-resilient outcomes.

  • Performance Evaluation and Attribution Volume Two

    Analysis and Reporting
    • 2nd Edition
    • Brian Singer + 2 more
    • English
    This Second Edition of Performance Evaluation and Attribution Volume Two: Analysis and Reporting explains the practical aspects of building or interpreting a top-to-bottom performance attribution system applicable to many asset classes, providing a toolkit of attribution techniques for analyzing the performance of portfolio managers. Requiring a familiarity with the principal concepts of portfolio analysis, it features standard methodologies and alternative approaches to the attribution of diverse assets, including derivatives, fixed income, and hedge funds. Based on the authors’ Performance Evaluation and Attribution of Security Portfolios (2012), this volume‘s concentration on the ethical standards embodied by GIPS includes a summary of provisions for the presentation of risk in a firm’s investments.

  • Environmental Meteorology and Climate Manipulation

    Solving Climate-Geoengineering Technology Problems
    • 1st Edition
    • John R. Vacca
    • English
    Environmental Meteorology and Climate Manipulation: Solving Climate-Geoengineeri... Technology Problems serves as a complete and concise view of climate engineering, where geoengineering is an umbrella term for human interventions that change and modify the earth's climate system. The book offers in-depth coverage of how human activity is shaping the earth more than natural forces; where it can be seen as a way of redesigning and modifying the atmosphere of the planet. It offers more viable solutions for climate engineering through theory, technology, and practice, as they relate to established technologies as well as recent and future advancements.

  • Hospital and Healthcare Security

    • 7th Edition
    • Tony W. York
    • English
    Hospital and Healthcare Security, Seventh Edition reflects the current state of healthcare security, particularly in data security and privacy, patient-generated violence, new technologies, and regulatory changes. The book explains the basics and higher expertise concerns, such as the roles of design, emergency management, and policy. Conveying a wide spectrum of topics in an easy-to-comprehend format, it provides a thorough understanding of how the modern healthcare security program should be structured, resourced, and integrated around the principles of people, processes, and technology. This industry-leading resource includes best practices, security master planning, and how to layer in protection philosophies in policies and procedures. Due to rapid changes in violence in healthcare, regulatory requirements, litigation, accreditation standards, advancements in technology, and new healthcare security issues and topics, the new edition contains approximately 25-30% new and updated data and corresponding examples. It is deemed by healthcare executives, accrediting agencies, and industry associations to set the standard of care for healthcare security systems and programs.

  • Smart Cities of AI Robots and Autonomous Vehicles

    The Vision for 2030
    • 1st Edition
    • Paras Chawla + 2 more
    • English
    Smart Cities of AI Robots and Autonomous Vehicles: The Vision for 2030 explores the transformative potential and challenges of integrating AI-powered robots and autonomous vehicles in urban landscapes, envisioning a futuristic smart city landscape by 2030. It examines how artificial intelligence (AI) robots and self-driving cars will transform daily life, healthcare, education, industry, agriculture, and transportation.

  • Computational and Modeling Approaches to Development

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 70
    • English
    Computational and Modeling Approaches to Development, Volume 70 in the Advances in Child Development and Behavior series, continues the tradition of this longstanding resource as an essential reference for researchers, scholars, and students in developmental psychology and related disciplines. It presents timely updates and fresh perspectives on a broad range of developmental processes, integrating insights from cognitive, social, emotional, and biological domains. Each chapter enhances understanding of the mechanisms underlying children’s growth and adaptation, making this release an indispensable resource for those seeking to remain informed about emerging directions and methodologies in the field.Chapters feature contributions from an international panel of authors, offering comprehensive reviews and theoretical advances that reflect the current state of knowledge in child development and behavior.

  • Contemporary Financial Intermediation

    • 5th Edition
    • Stuart I. Greenbaum + 2 more
    • English
    Contemporary Financial Intermediation, Fifth Edition offers a distinctive approach to the study of financial markets and institutions by presenting an integrated portrait that puts information and economic reasoning at the core. The book explores the implications of the information technology revolution that characterizes the financial services industry with digitization and fintech as important manifestations. Sections explore the subtlety, plasticity, and fragility of financial institutions and credit markets, and the ramifications for risk management (including cyber risk). This textbook demands more in terms of quantitative skills and analysis, but its ability to teach about the forces shaping the financial world is unmatched. For the financial sector, the best preprofessional training explains the reasons why markets, institutions, and regulators evolve the way they do, why we suffer recurring financial crises, how we typically react to them, and how digitization and fintech will affect financial services and the industry at large. This book provides students with a complete foundation on the subject, presenting a strong basis for learning and understanding key challenges surrounding the management and operations of financial institutions and their competitive environment.

  • Neuroscience-Informed Psychoeducation (NIPE) for Brain and Mental Health

    Part B
    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 300
    • English
    Neuroscience-Informe... Psychoeducation (NIPE) for Brain and Mental Health, Part B, Volume 300 in the Progress in Brain Research series, highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters on timely topics such as Neuroscience-informe... Psychoeducation for Functional Neurological Disorder, Neuroscience-informe... Psychoeducation for Multiple Sclerosis, Neuroscience-informe... Psychoeducation for Neurodegenerative Disorders (Alz & PD) / Dementia, Neuroscience-informe... Psychoeducation for Traumatic Brain Injury, Neuroscience-informe... Psychoeducation for Epilepsy, Neuroscience-informe... Psychoeducation for Stroke, Neuroscience-informe... Psychoeducation for Movement Disorders, and much more.Additional chapters cover Neuroscience-informe... Psychoeducation for Therapy, Neuroscience-informe... Psychoeducation for Pharmacotherapy, Neuroscience-informe... Psychoeducation for Brain Stimulation, Neuroscience-informe... Psychoeducation for Cognitive Rehabilitation, Neuroscience-Informe... Psychoeducation as a Digital Neurotechnology Platform, Neuroscience-informe... Psychoeducation for Policy Making (Neurolaw), Neuroscience-informe... Psychoeducation to Promote Community Engagement, and more.

  • Mobility Patterns, Big Data and Transport Analytics

    Tools and Applications for Modeling
    • 2nd Edition
    • Constantinos Antoniou + 2 more
    • English
    Mobility Patterns, Big Data and Transport Analytics: Tools and Applications for Modeling, Second Edition provides a guide to the new analytical framework and its relation to big data, focusing on capturing, predicting, visualizing, and controlling mobility patterns—a key aspect of transportation modeling. The book features prominent international experts who provide overviews on new analytical frameworks, applications, and concepts in mobility analysis and transportation systems. Fields covered are evolving rapidly, and this new edition updates existing material and provides new chapters that reflect recent developments in the field (such as the emergence of active, transfer and reinforcement learning).Users will find a detailed, mobility ‘structural’ analysis and a look at the extensive behavioral characteristics of transport, observability requirements, limitations for realistic transportation applications, and transportation systems analysis that are related to complex processes and phenomena. This book bridges the gap between big data, data science, and transportation systems analysis with a study of big data’s impact on mobility and an introduction to the tools necessary to apply new techniques.

  • New Transportation Modes and ‘Old’ Transportation Modes that are in the Process of Renewing Themselves

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 17
    • English
    New Transportation Modes and ‘Old’ Transportation Modes that are in the Process of Renewing Themselves, Volume 17 highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters written by an international board of authors. Topics in this new release include The environmental impact of high-speed rail, Past, Present and Future States of Research on Autonomous Electric Vehicles, Urban Air mobility, Micromobility, Mobility as a Service, Aviation, Sustainable city logistics, Autonomous vehicles, Light Rail, Bus Rapid Transit, and more.

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