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"Reimagining Alternative Technology for Design in the 21st Century proposes a new approach to design that harnesses still-valuable alternative, traditional and abandoned technologies over the creation of new ones to address contemporary global concerns. It focuses on design concepts that reduce energy and material consumption to tackle issues such as climate change and pollution in industrialised economies. The book takes the reader on a journey surveying different facets of human activity to identify concrete opportunities where underused and discarded technologies could be indispensable today. It critically addresses newer approaches to design and technology by comparing them to existing alternatives, unpacking examples including air-conditioning with smart thermostats, electric lighting, durable reusable products, domestic maintenance tools, and methods of transportation. Written for practicing designers and students in industrial design, architecture, sustainable design, and human-centred design, this book provides new ideas and tools for creating more useful, energy-and-resource-efficient product designs and systems"-- Provided by publisher.

• Introduction
• Nail
• Wheel
• Spring
• Magnet
• Lens
• String
• Pump
• Conclusion.

"An ambitious but accessible book exploring how seven simple engineering inventions from the pump to the spring have shaped our world, by the engineer who designed the Shard"--Publisher's description.

• An Overview of Operations Research / Management Science in Latin America
• Collaborative versus Non-Collaborative Bus School Routing
• Method for Assigning Break Times in Predefined Shifts for Call Center Teleoperators
• Financial Risk Analysis for a Specialized Dairy Farm Project and Impacts of Government Interest Rate Subsidies
• Brand Positioning Analysis for the Automotive Lubricants Industry Using Perceptual Maps
• Comparison of Nawaz-Enscore-Ham Algorithm and Local Search Operator in Flowshop Scheduling with Learning Effects
• Methodology for integrating variables for a transdisciplinary productivity model.-Mathematical Models for Scheduling Electric Vertical Take-off and Landing (eVTOL) Vehicles at Urban Air Mobility Vertiports
• Inter-cities Model Proposal for Potato's Last Mile Logistics: Case study in Bogotá, Colombia and Cochabamba, Bolivia
• Road prioritization for the reconstruction of an area affected by a disaster
• Heuristic Method for the Emergency Water Delivery Problem with Deprivation Costs
• A Simulation Approach to Analyze the Operational Response Plans in an Emergency Department under the COVID-19 Pandemic
• A Simulation Approach to Analyze the Operational Response Plans in an Emergency Department under the COVID-19 Pandemic
• Predicting Medicine Administration Times in the Inpatient Ward Using Data Analytics
• Modeling Vaccine Allocations in Rural Areas in Central Regions from Colombia
• Feasibility Study and Multivariate Analysis of a Sustainable Housing Project
• Perspectives of Operational Research for Modeling and Analysis of Agricultural Production Systems
• Informal Recycling of Venezuelan Migrants in Bogotá.

• References
• Methodology for Integrating Variables for a Transdisciplinary Productivity Model
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Stage 1: Compilation of Transdisciplinary Variables for the Productivity Model
• 3. Stage 2: Instruments for Weighting Variables
• 3.1. Instrument Design a Subsection Sample
• 3.2. Results of the Application of the Instruments
• 3.3. Qualitative Results Questionnaire Social and Human Areas
• 3.4. Qualitative Results of the Questionnaire Applied to Businesspeople and Middle and High-Level Employees of Industrial Companies in the Region

• Part I: some preliminaries
• What is scientific writing?
• Historical perspectives
• Approaching a writing project
• What is a scientific paper?
• Ethics in scientific publishing
• Where to submit your manuscript
• Part II: preparing the text
• How to prepare the title
• How to list the authors and addresses
• How to prepare the abstract
• How to write the introduction
• How to write the materials and methods section
• How to write the results
• How to write the discussion
• How to state the acknowledfments
• How to cite the references
• Part III: preparing the tables and figures
• How to design effective tables
• How to prepare effective graphs
• How to prepare effective photographs
• Part IV: publishing the paper
• Rights and permissions
• How to submit the manuscript
• The review process (how to deal with editors)
• The publishing process (how to deal with proofs) and after publication
• Part V: doing other writing for pulication
• How to write a review paper
• How to write opinion (letters to the editor, editorials, book revews, and essays)
• How to write a book chapter or a book
• How to write for the public
• Part VI: conference communications
• How to present a paper orally
• How to prepare a poster
• How to write a conference report
• Part VII: scientific style
• Use and misuse of English
• Avoiding jargon
• How and when to use abbreviations
• Writing clearly across cultures and media
• How to write science in Enlish as a foreign language
• Part VIII: other topics in scientific communication
• How to write a thesis
• How to prepare a curriculum vitae, cover letter, and personal statement
• How to prepare grant proposals and progress reports
• How to write a recommendation letter and how to ask for one
• How to work with the media
• How to provide peer review
• How to edit your own work
• How to seek a scientific-commmunication career
• Appendix 1: selected journal title word abbreviations
• Appendix 2: words and expressions to avoid
• Appendix 3: (systém international) prefixes and their abbreviations
• Appendix 4: some helpful websites.

"'The purpose of scientific writing,' according to Barbara Gastel and Robert A. Day, 'is to communicate new scientific findings. Science is simply too important to be communicated in anything other than words of certain meaning.' This clear, beautifully written, and often funny text is a must-have for anyone who needs to communicate scientific information, whether they're writing for a professor, other scientists, or the general public. The thoughtfully revised ninth edition retains the most important material-including preparing text and graphics, publishing papers and other types of writing, and plenty of information on writing style-while adding up-to-date advice on copyright, presenting online, identifying authors, creating visual abstracts, and writing in English as a non-native language.A set of valuable appendixes provide ready reference, including words and expressions to avoid, SI prefixes, a list of helpful websites, and a glossary. Students and working scientists will want to keep How to Write and Publish a Scientific Paper at their desks and refer to it at every stage of writing and publication."-- Back cover.

• Optimization and enhancement of task offloading process for Robot through cloud computing principle / Sampath Boopathi, Muthayammal Engineering College, India
• Enhancing security by detection of fake Twitter users / Govinda K, VIT University, India
• Securing advanced metering infrastructure using Blockchain for energy trade / Subhash Patel, VIT Bhopal University, India.

• Introduction
• Understanding machine bias
• Recognizing bias in facial recognition
• Machine fairness and the justice system
• Real students, imaginary grades
• Ability and technology
• Gender rights and databases
• Diagnosing racism
• An AI told me I had cancer
• Creating public interest technology
• Potential reboot.

"Broussard argues that the structural inequalities reproduced in algorithmic systems are no glitch. They are part of the system design. This book shows how everyday technologies embody racist, sexist, and ableist ideas; how they produce discriminatory and harmful outcomes; and how this can be challenged and changed"-- Provided by publisher.

• Chapter 1. What is the lean canvas for invention (LCI)?
• Chapter 2. First component of the LCI: problem identification
• Chapter 3. Second component of the LCI: literature search
• Chapter 4. Third component of the LCI: existing solutions
• Chapter 5. Fourth component of the LCI: market landscape
• Chapter 6. Fifth component of the LCI: novelty
• Chapter 7. Sixth component of the LCI: research question
• Chapter 8. Seventh component of the LCI: research methodology
• Chapter 9. Eighth component of the LCI: key resources
• Chapter 10. Ninth component of the LCI: funding
• Chapter 11. Tenth component of the LCI: Team capacities
• Chapter 12. Eleventh component of the LCI: research outcome.

In the world of academia, the divide between groundbreaking research and real-world impact has been a persistent challenge. Scholars, researchers, and academic inventors often find themselves grappling with the intricate process of turning their innovative ideas into tangible solutions that can benefit society, and also secure funding. This disconnect not only leads to the underutilization of valuable intellectual resources but also results in missed opportuni.

• Chapter 1. Applications of network optimization
• Chapter 2. Primal simplex algorithms for minimum cost network flows
• Chapter 3. Matching
• Chapter 4. The traveling salesman problem
• Chapter 5. Parallel computing in network optimization
• Chapter 6. Probabilistic networks and network algorithms
• Chapter 7. A survey of computational geometry
• Chapter 8. Algorithmic implications of the graph minor theorem
• Chapter 9. Optimal trees
• Chapter 10. Design of survivable networks
• Chapter 11. Network reliability
• Biographical information.

Includes technical detail about various German locomotives, passenger cars, and loading cars, as well as German-designed engines, power frames, and switching mechanisms.

• Control over technology
• Canal vision
• Power to persuade
• Cultivating misery
• A middling sort of revolution
• Casualties of progress
• The contested path
• Digital damage
• Artificial struggle
• Democracy breaks
• Redirecting technology.

"Artificial intelligence and other innovative technologies won't guarantee a rising standard of living for workers, according to this lucid manifesto. MIT economists Acemoglu and Johnson explore historical instances of new technology failing to pay off for workers: improved agricultural practices and equipment in medieval Europe conferred few benefits on peasants while lords and churchmen expropriated the increased output; the first century of the Industrial Revolution brought no income gain to laborers; recent advances in digital technology have yielded stagnant working-class wages while tech moguls make fortunes. But another path of broadly shared prosperity is possible, the authors contend, citing the post-WWII era when strong unions, government regulations, and relatively enlightened corporate management ensured that workplace automation, rather than de-skilling and discarding workers, improved their marginal productivity and wages and created plenty of higher-skilled jobs. Acemoglu and Johnson give an incisive analysis of the economics of labor and technology, along with a trenchant critique of the "techno-optimism" of corporate visionaries, though their own ideas about what a truly worker-friendly artificial intelligence might look like remain hazy. Still, this is a stimulating call for social and political action to ensure the rising tide of innovation lifts all boats"-- Provided by publisher.

"Emerging Technologies / Life at the Edge of the Future invites us to think forward from our present moment of planetary, public and everyday crisis, through the prism of emerging technologies. It calls for a new ethical, responsible and equitable path towards possible futures, curated through in-depth engagement with and across experiential, environmental and technological possibilities. It tackles three of the most significant challenges for contemporary society by asking: how emerging technologies are implicated in the sites of everyday lives; what is the place of emerging technologies in an evolving world in crisis; and how might we better imagine and shape ethical, equitable and responsible futures. The book interweaves three narratives, each of which advances three sets of concerns for our societal futures: 'Emergence', which addresses futures and uncertainty, trust and anxiety, hope and desire; 'Worlds', which addresses data, air and energy; and 'Technologies', which addresses future mobilities, future homes, and the future of work. Not simply a critical study of emerging technologies, this book is also an approach to thinking and practice in times of global crisis which plays out a mode of future-focused scholarship and practice for the first half of the twenty first century"-- Provided by publisher.

"We are approaching a critical threshold in the history of our species. Everything is about to change. Soon you will live surrounded by AIs. They will organise your life, operate your business, and run core government services. You will live in a world of DNA printers and quantum computers, engineered pathogens and autonomous weapons, robot assistants and abundant energy. None of us are prepared. As co-founder of the pioneering AI company DeepMind, part of Google, Mustafa Suleyman has been at the centre of this revolution. The coming decade, he argues, will be defined by this wave of powerful, fast-proliferating new technologies. In The Coming Wave, Suleyman shows how these forces will create immense prosperity but also threaten the nation-state, the foundation of global order. As our fragile governments sleepwalk into disaster, we face an existential dilemma: unprecedented harms on one side, the threat of overbearing surveillance on the other. Can we forge a narrow path between catastrophe and dystopia? This groundbreaking book from the ultimate AI insider establishes "the containment problem"-the task of maintaining control over powerful technologies-as the essential challenge of our age"-- Provided by publisher.

• 1. The Fourth Industrial Revolution in Africa an Introduction
• PART ONE
• 2. Making Sense of the Fourth Industrial Revolution: An Overview of the Potential Impact on Africa
• 3. After Being Left Out of The First, Second, And Third Industrial Revolutions, Is Africa Finally Prepared For The Fourth Industrial Revolution?- 4. The Goals of Social Policy in the Fourth Industrial Revolution from a Development Context in Africa
• 5. The Potential of the Fourth Industrial Revolution to Promote Economic Growth and Development in Africa
• PART TWO
• 6. A Machine Learning Approach for Predicting Emissions Based on GDP: A Case of South Africa in Comparison with the United Kingdom
• 7. The Role of Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence in Improving Health Outcomes in Africa During and After the Pandemic: What are we Learning on the attainment of Sustainable Development Goals?- 8. Mobile Money Services, and Sustainable Development Effect in Africa
• 9. The Nexus between Blue Ocean Strategy and Organizational Performance of SMEs in the Fourth Industrial Revolution Era
• 10. Digital Entrepreneurship, Taxation of the Digital Economy, Digital Transformation, and Sustainable Development in Africa
• PART THREE
• 11. New Public Service Reform, Good Governance, And Governance of Digital Innovation in Africa
• 12. Harnessing State Capability In Embracing The Fourth Industrial Revolution: Is Zimbabwe Prepared?- 13. Digital Transformation and Social Change in Africa: Issues in Technology Governance and Social Participation
• 14. A Survey of Central Bank Digital Currency Adoption in African Countries
• PART FOUR
• 15. Smart Technologies, Climate Change, and Smallholder Farmer Production in Zimbabwe
• 16. Blockchain For Food Supply Chain: Trust, Traceability, And Transparency Enhancement, How Can Africa Benefit?- 17. Influence of Green Marketing Strategies on Consumer Purchase Decision: Evidence from Fast-Moving Consumer Goods Industry in Zimbabwe
• 18. The influence of the AfCFTA capital and industrial goods in South Africa: A simulation analysis
• PART FIVE
• 19. Towards an Inclusive Industry 4.0: Social Policy and Economic Growth and Development in Africa
• 20. The Fourth Industrial Revolution in Africa a Conclusion.