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Distributed Machine Learning and Gradient Optimization (Big Data Management)
This book presents the state of the art in distributed machine learning algorithms that are based on gradient optimization methods. In the big data era, large-scale datasets pose enormous challenges for the existing machine learning systems. As such, implementing machine learning algorithms in a dis... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2022 -
STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT IN TOURISM, 3rd Edition (Cabi Tourism Texts)
by James Wilson • Larry Dwyer • Noel Scott • Kanes K. Rajah • Yvette Reisinger • Brent Ritchie • Geoff Southern • Luiz Moutinho • Anne-Mette Hjalager • Scott McCabe • Mercedes Melchior-Navarro • María Moral-Moral • Eduardo Parra-López • Shirley Rate • Alfonso Vargas-Sánchez • S. F. Witt • Vanessa Yanes-Estévez • Ronnie Ballantyne • Yawei Jiang • Jithendran Kokkamikal • Dawn Gibson • Kun-Huang Huarng • José Alberto Martínez-González • Rafael Alberto Pérez González • Alejandro P Rez-Ferrant • Tiffany Hui-Kuang YuThis comprehensive textbook has, at its core, the importance of linking strategic thinking with action in the management of tourism. It provides an analytical evaluation of the most important global trends as well as an analysis of the impact of crucial environmental issues and their implications. ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2018 -
Strategic Management in Tourism (CABI Tourism Texts)
by James Wilson • Larry Dwyer • Yvette Reisinger • Brent Ritchie • Geoff Southern • Luiz Moutinho • Anne-Mette Hjalager • Scott McCabe • Mercedes Melchior-Navarro • María Moral-Moral • Eduardo Parra-López • Shirley Rate • S. F. Witt • Vanessa Yanes-Estévez • Ronnie Ballantyne • Yawei Jiang • Jithendran Kokkamikal • Dawn Gibson • Kun-Huang Huarng • José Alberto Martínez-González • Tiffany Hui-Kuang Yu • Professor Noel Scott • Alejandro Pérez-Ferrant • Professor Alfonso Vargas-Sánchez • Kanes Rajah • Rafael Alberto PérezThis comprehensive textbook has, at its core, the importance of linking strategic thinking with action in the management of tourism. It provides an analytical evaluation of the most important global trends, as well as an analysis of the impact of crucial environmental issues and their implications. ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2018 -
Mastering Self-Control
Grounded in nearly a century of scientific research, Mastering Self Control is an academic 'how to' in the mastery of self control. Though most of us have an acute awareness of the goals we want to achieve, we have little insight into how we respond to questions central to successful goal attainment... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2021 -
Services Marketing: An Interactive Approach
Services Marketing: An Interactive Perspective, fourth edition, focuses on the interactive nature of service experiences. Services are special kinds of experiences that occur when service organizations and their customers interact face-to-face or at long distances. This book explores the interactive... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2014 -
Innovative Computing: IC 2020 (Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering #675)
This book gathers peer-reviewed proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Innovative Computing (IC 2020).This book aims to provide an open forum for discussing recent advances and emerging trends in information technology, science, and engineering. Themes within the scope of the conference ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2020 -
Innovative Computing: Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Innovative Computing (IC 2022) (Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering #935)
This book comprises select proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Innovative Computing (IC 2022) focusing on cutting-edge research carried out in the areas of information technology, science, and engineering. Some of the themes covered in this book are cloud communications and networ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2022 -
Proceedings of the 2019 DigitalFUTURES: The 1st International Conference on Computational Design and Robotic Fabrication (CDRF 2019)
The “2019 DigitalFUTURES — The 1st International Conference on Computational Design and Robotic Fabrication (CDRF 2019)” provides an international platform for advanced scientific research papers on the digital technology of architectural design and construction. The themes of the papers include, bu... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2020 -
Proceedings of the 2020 DigitalFUTURES: The 2nd International Conference on Computational Design and Robotic Fabrication (CDRF 2020)
This open access book is a compilation of selected papers from 2020 DigitalFUTURES—The 2nd International Conference on Computational Design and Robotic Fabrication (CDRF 2020). The book focuses on novel techniques for computational design and robotic fabrication. The contents make valuable contribut... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2021 -
Innovative Computing: Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Innovative Computing (IC 2021) (Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering #791)
This book comprises select proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Innovative Computing (IC 2021) focusing on cutting-edge research carried out in the areas of information technology, science, and engineering. Some of the themes covered in this book are cloud communications and networking... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2022 -
Approaches to Heavy Metal Tolerance in Plants
This book summarizes the development of highly tolerant cultivars via plant breeding, genomics, and proteomic approaches. This book could supplement data for budding researchers by providing extensive ongoing measures to improve the detoxification competence of appropriate species via wide range of... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2016 -
Sustainable Agriculture: Biotechniques in Plant Biology
This book will be of immense helpful to the students of plant biotechnology, Agricultural sciences, Microbiology of both undergraduate and postgraduate levels in universities, colleges, and Research institutes. Besides the book will be quite supportive researchers who work in the field of plant biot... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2019 -
Nano-Technological Intervention in Agricultural Productivity
Provides detailed information about the use of nanotechnology in remediating waste and pollution in agriculture Nano-Technological Intervention in Agricultural Productivity explores sustainable, eco-friendly technologies for remediating wastes and contaminated areas in both water and land ecosystem... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2021 -
Blood Papa: Rwanda's New Generation
The continuation of a groundbreaking study of the Rwandan genocide, and the story of the survivor generationIn Rwanda from April to June 1994, 800,000 Tutsis were slaughtered by their Hutu neighbors in the largest and swiftest genocide since World War II. In his previous books, Jean Hatzfeld has doc... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2018 -
Death in the Ardennes: 22nd August 1914: France’s Deadliest Day
27,000 French people were killed on 22nd August 1914, the bloodiest day in French history.This is four times more than at Waterloo, and as many in total as during the eight years of the Algerian War. Even more than the Battle of the Marne, Verdun or the Chemin des Dames. How did these men perish? In... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2021 -
Fast Forward: Time Trap
by Ian Bone • Jobi MurphyKaz’s life hasn’t been going so great since her dad lost his job. Even their DVD player has been repossessed, and Kaz has to watch her assigned films in the library! Then a special DVD comes along—a DVD that Kaz was meant to find. Kaz knows that this is a Vidz, and that as Second Director, she has... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2004 -
Traditional Music in Coastal Louisiana: The 1934 Lomax Recordings
Alan Lomax's prolific sixty-four-year career as a folklorist and musicologist began with a trip across the South and into the heart of Louisiana's Cajun country during the height of the Great Depression. In 1934, his father John, then curator of the Library of Congress's Archive of American Folk Son... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2013 -
The Contribution of Human Capital towards Economic Growth in China
by John JoshuaThis book develops a human capital model to explain transformational growth within different stages of economic development, which will induce technological changes and consequently will require a change in human capital. China is a case study in transition and can provide useful lessons to other e... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2015 -
The Economics of Addictive Behaviours Volume I
by John JoshuaThis title discusses the phenomenon of smoking as a behavioural disease and the associated costs. The author details the consequences of smoking, in addition to the detrimental effects caused by second-hand tobacco smoke exposure as a health risk to children as well as to the general public. The c... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2017 -
The Economics of Addictive Behaviours Volume II
by John JoshuaThis title discusses the phenomenon of alcohol abuse as a behavioural disease and the associated costs. The author details alcohol's status as a psychoactive drug; he notes, however, that in contrast to other psychoactive drugs, alcohol has been widely culturally accepted in Western countries and l... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2017 -
The Economics of Addictive Behaviours Volume III
by John JoshuaThis title offers an in-depth analysis of the causes, consequences and treatments of illicit drug abuse. The author examines the effects of existing drug policies and proposes drug use legalisation within a regulated market as a viable alternative. Joshua assesses the factors that make individuals... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2017 -
The Economics of Addictive Behaviours Volume IV
by John JoshuaThis title offers an in-depth analysis of the psychological causes and consequences of, and proposed interventions for over-eating. The author examines the history of obesity and its distribution by social class and geography, the environmental effects of overconsumption and economic remedies such ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2017 -
China's Economic Growth: Volume I: Domestic and International Economic Policies
by John JoshuaThis two-volume book addresses the economic transformation occurring in China at present. The author investigates China's domestic and international policies, the impact of these policies on economic growth, and their effect on the quality of life for the people of China. In the first volume, the ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2016 -
China's Economic Growth: Volume II: The Impact of Economic Policies on the Quality of Life
by John JoshuaThis two-volume book addresses the economic transformation occurring in China at present. The author investigates China's domestic and international policies, the impact of these policies on economic growth, and their effect on the quality of life for the people of China. In the first volume, the ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2016 -
The Belt and Road Initiative and the Global Economy: Volume I – Trade and Economic Development
by John JoshuaThis two-volume work provides a comprehensive overview of the Belt and Road Initiative, examining its impact on economic growth, trade, financial systems and international relations. Weaving theory with real-world examples, Joshua makes an important contribution to the understanding of how the Globa... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2019