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• Part 1: Preparing for the Future of Work
• Chapter 1: Will Robots Replace You?
• Chapter 2: Technology Definitions
• Part 2: Robots are Working
• Chapter 3: Robotic Process Automation
• Chapter 4: Robots in Teams
• Chapter 5: Robots Without Arms
• Part 3: Making Sense for Robots and Society
• Chapter 6: Robots in a World of Data
• Chapter 7: Robots in Society
• Chapter 8: Work in the Future.

Understand the current and future research into technologies that underpin the increasing capabilities of automation technologies and their impact on the working world of the future. Rapid advances in automation and robotics technologies are often reported in the trade and general media, often relying on scary headlines such as "Jobs Lost to Robots." It is certainly true that work will change with the advent of smarter and faster automated workers; however, the scope and scale of the changes is still unknown. Automation may seem to be here already, but we are only at the early stages. Automation and Collaborative Robotics explores the output of current research projects that are improving the building blocks of an automated world. Research into collaborative robotics (cobotics) is merging digital, audio, and visual data to generate a commonly held view between cobots and their human collaborators. Low-power machine learning at the edge of the network can deliver decision making on cobots or to their manipulations. Topics covered in this book include: Robotic process automation, chatbots, and their impact in the near future The hype of automation and headlines leading to concerns over the future of work Component technologies that are still in the research labs Foundational technologies and collaboration that will enable many tasks to be automated with human workers being re-skilled and displaced rather than replaced What You Will Learn Be aware of the technologies currently being researched to improve or deliver automation Understand the impact of robotics, other automation technologies, and the impact of AI on automation Get an idea of how far we are from implementation of an automated future Know what work will look like in the future with the deployment of these technologies Who This Book Is For Technical and business managers interested in the future of automation and robotics, and the impact it will have on their organizations, customers, and the business world in general.
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SIGNALS INTELLIGENCE, or SIGINT, is the interception and evaluation of coded enemy messages. From Enigma to Ultra, Purple to Lorenz, Room 40 to Bletchley, SIGINT has been instrumental in both victory and defeat during the First and Second World War. In the First World War, a vast network of signals rapidly expanded across the globe, spawning a new breed of spies and intelligence operatives to code, de-code and analyse thousands of messages. As a result, signallers and cryptographers in the Admiralty's famous Room 40 paved the way for the code breakers of Bletchley Park in the Second World War. In the ensuing war years the world battled against a web of signals intelligence that gave birth to Enigma and Ultra, and saw agents from Britain, France, Germany, Russia, America and Japan race to outwit each other through infinitely complex codes. For the first time, Peter Matthews reveals the secret history of global signals intelligence during the world wars through original interviews with German interceptors, British code breakers, and US and Russian cryptographers. "SIGINT is a fascinating account of what Allied investigators learned postwar about the Nazi equivalent of Bletchley Park. Turns out, 60,000 crptographers, analysts and linguists achieved considerable success in solving intercepted traffic, and even broke the Swiss Enigma! Based on recently declassifed NSA document, this is a great contribution to the literature." THE ST ERMIN'S HOTEL INTELLIGENCE BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2014.
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St Ermin's Hotel has been at the centre of British intelligence since the 1930s, when it was known to MI6 as `The Works Canteen'. Intelligence officers such as Ian Fleming and Noel Coward were to be found in the hotel's Caxton Bar, along with other less well-known names. Winston Churchill allegedly conceived the idea of the Special Operations Executive there over a glass (or two) of his favourite champagne in the early days of the Second World War, and the operation was started up in three gloomy rooms on the hotel's second floor, with the traitorous Cambridge Spies among its founders. When Stalin's Russia turned to a peacetime enemy in the Cold War that followed, Kim Philby and Guy Burgess handed over intelligence to their Russian counterparts in the dark corners of the hotel, while MI6 man George Blake operated as a Soviet double agent just across the road in Artillery Mansions. Meanwhile, St Ermin's proximity to government offices ensured its continued use by both domestic and foreign secret agents. In this paperback edition of the first book on St Ermin's, Peter Matthews, a witness to the intelligence battle for supremacy between MI5, MI6 and the KGB, explores this remarkable true history that is more riveting than any spy novel.
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St Ermin's Hotel has been at the centre of British intelligence since the 1930s, when it was known to MI6 as `The Works Canteen'. Intelligence officers such as Ian Fleming and Noel Coward were to be found in the hotel's Caxton Bar, along with other less well-known names. Winston Churchill allegedly conceived the idea of the Special Operations Executive there over a glass (or two) of his favourite champagne in the early days of the Second World War, and the operation was started up in three gloomy rooms on the hotel's second floor, with the traitorous Cambridge Spies among its founders. When Stalin's Russia turned to a peacetime enemy in the Cold War that followed, Kim Philby and Guy Burgess handed over intelligence to their Russian counterparts in the dark corners of the hotel, while MI6 man George Blake operated as a Soviet double agent just across the road in Artillery Mansions. Meanwhile, St Ermin's proximity to government offices ensured its continued use by both domestic and foreign secret agents. In this first book on St Ermin's, Peter Matthews, a witness to the intelligence battle for supremacy between MI5, MI6 and the KGB, explores this remarkable true history that is more riveting than any spy novel.
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• Finding the trail
• Colocasia esculenta in New Zealand : nga taro o aotearoa
• The origins, dispersal, and domestication of taro
• Natural and cultural history.

• Intro
• Editor's Foreword
• Reader's Note
• Acronyms and Abbreviations
• Chronology
• Introduction
• A
• B
• C
• D
• E
• F
• G
• H
• I
• J
• K
• L
• M
• N
• O
• P
• Q
• R
• S
• T
• U
• V
• W
• Y
• Z
• Appendix A: Presidents of the IAAF
• Appendix B: Olympic Games: Winners
• Appendix C: World Championships: Venues and Winners
• Appendix D: World Indoor Championships: Venues and Winners
• Appendix E: World Cross-Country Championships: Winners
• Appendix F: World Road Racing Championships: Winners
• Appendix G: IAAF World Athletes of the Year
• Appendix H: World Records
• Bibliography
• About the Author.

The Historical Dictionary of Track and Field covers the history of this sport through a chronology, an introductory essay, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 500 cross-referenced entries on key figures, places, competitions, and governing bodies within the sport. This book is an excellent access point for researchers, students, and anyone wanting to know more about the history of track and field.
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• Reports
• Errors
• Safety
• PART I - EQUILIBRIUM: Gases at equilibrium
• Equilibria between phases
• Thermodynamics of chemical reactions
• Ions at equilibrium
• PART II - STRUCTURE: Structure of atoms and simple molecules
• Structure of macromolecules
• PART III - CHANGE: Particles in motion
• Reaction kinetics.
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This book contains fifty-nine carefully chosen experiments which form a comprehensive and up-to-date course covering all the major areas in experimental physical chemistry.
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This book contains 59 carefully chosen experiments which form a comprehensive and up-to-date course in experimental physical chemistry. Each experiment has undergone thorough testing and revision in order to meet the needs of students and their teachers. Some of the simpler experiments can also be used profitably in schools. The text is divided into three parts. Part I deals with equilibria and includes sections on gases at equilibrium, phase equilibria, thermodynamics, and ions at equilibrium. Part II investigates the structure of atoms, simple molecules, and macromolecules, and Part III, on change, involves the study of the effects of molecular and ionic motion and the kinetics of many different types of reaction. The experiments are interrelated, but self-contained. All the major areas of physical chemistry are covered, and many other disciplines are touched upon. A special feature is that specimen results are given, which will greatly assist those who set up the apparatus.
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• Innovation Matters
• Stories from the Trenches
• Innovation Is Not the Only "I"
• Business Innovation vs. IT Innovation
• Pull and Push
• Opportunities to Innovate Today
• Innovating with Consumer-Driven IT
• Opportunities to Innovate Tomorrow
• Making Innovation Intentional
• Connecting IT Innovation with Business Value
• The Dirty Little Secrets of Innovation
• What's Next for Me?
• Summary.

"Does your organization fumble when it comes to innovation? `The Innovative CIO' presents a pragmatic guide to overcoming the 10 `innovation killers' within your company." --Dennis McCafferty "CIO Insight", 1/23/2013 (www.cioinsight.com/it-management/innovation/slideshows/ten-ways -to-kill-innovation/) "Are you unwittingly stifling your employees' entrepreneurial spirit? `The Innovative CIO' discusses `innovation killers' that could be holding back your small business or startup." --Paul Shread "TIME/Business & Money", 1/29/2013 (business.time.com/2013/01/29/removing-barriers-to-innovation/#i xzz2JSrUlD3A) The Chief Information Officer's influence in the business organization has been waning for years. The rest of the C-suite has come to regard Information Technology as slow, costly, error-prone, boring, and unresponsive to business needs. This perception blinds company leaders to the critical value IT can deliver and threatens the competitive health and long-term survival of their enterprise. The modern CIO must reassert the operational and strategic importance of technology to the enterprise and reintegrate it with every department and level of the business from boardroom to mailroom. IT leaders must design, sell, and implement a vigorous culture of IT competence and innovation that pervades the enterprise. The culture must be rooted in bidirectional exchange across organizations and C-level policies that drive technology innovation as the engine of business innovation. The authors, international IT strategists and innovators, quantify the benefits and risks of IT innovation, survey and rank the myriad innovation opportunities from mature, new, and emerging technologies, and identify the organizational structures and processes that have been proven to deliver ongoing innovation. Buttressing their brief with dozens of case studies and specific examples, The Innovative CIO shows you how to: Take advantage of the IT and business innovation opportunities created by new and emerging technologies Shift IT innovation from afterthought to prime mover in strategic business planning Inject IT into the dynamic core of your organization's culture, training, structure, practice, and policy.
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• Innovation Matters
• Stories from the Trenches
• Innovation Is Not the Only "I"
• Business Innovation vs. IT Innovation
• Pull and Push
• Opportunities to Innovate Today
• Innovating with Consumer-Driven IT
• Opportunities to Innovate Tomorrow
• Making Innovation Intentional
• Connecting IT Innovation with Business Value
• The Dirty Little Secrets of Innovation
• What's Next for Me?
• Summary.

"Does your organization fumble when it comes to innovation? `The Innovative CIO' presents a pragmatic guide to overcoming the 10 `innovation killers' within your company." --Dennis McCafferty "CIO Insight", 1/23/2013 (www.cioinsight.com/it-management/innovation/slideshows/ten-ways -to-kill-innovation/) "Are you unwittingly stifling your employees' entrepreneurial spirit? `The Innovative CIO' discusses `innovation killers' that could be holding back your small business or startup." --Paul Shread "TIME/Business & Money", 1/29/2013 (business.time.com/2013/01/29/removing-barriers-to-innovation/#i xzz2JSrUlD3A) The Chief Information Officer's influence in the business organization has been waning for years. The rest of the C-suite has come to regard Information Technology as slow, costly, error-prone, boring, and unresponsive to business needs. This perception blinds company leaders to the critical value IT can deliver and threatens the competitive health and long-term survival of their enterprise. The modern CIO must reassert the operational and strategic importance of technology to the enterprise and reintegrate it with every department and level of the business from boardroom to mailroom. IT leaders must design, sell, and implement a vigorous culture of IT competence and innovation that pervades the enterprise. The culture must be rooted in bidirectional exchange across organizations and C-level policies that drive technology innovation as the engine of business innovation. The authors, international IT strategists and innovators, quantify the benefits and risks of IT innovation, survey and rank the myriad innovation opportunities from mature, new, and emerging technologies, and identify the organizational structures and processes that have been proven to deliver ongoing innovation. Buttressing their brief with dozens of case studies and specific examples, The Innovative CIO shows you how to: Take advantage of the IT and business innovation opportunities created by new and emerging technologies Shift IT innovation from afterthought to prime mover in strategic business planning Inject IT into the dynamic core of your organization's culture, training, structure, practice, and policy.
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• Executive Summary
• Assessment and Conclusions
• List of Acronyms and Abbreviated Terms
• Introduction
• The Context of Evaluation and Assessment in Denmark
• The Evaluation and Assessment Framework
• Student Assessment
• Teacher Appraisal
• School Evaluation
• System Evaluation
• Annexes.

How can student assessment, teacher appraisal, school evaluation and system evaluation bring about real gains in performance across a country’s school system? This book provides, for Denmark,  an independent analysis from an international perspective of major issues facing the evaluation and assessment framework in education, current policy initiatives, and possible future approaches. This series forms part of the OECD Review on Evaluation and Assessment Frameworks for Improving School Outcomes.

• Introduction
• Cloud Service Offer Selection
• The MODAClouds Model-Driven Development
• QoS Assessment and SLA Management
• Monitoring in a Multi-Cloud Environment
• Load Balancing for Multi-Cloud
• Fault-tolerant Off-line Data Migration: The Hegira4Clouds Approach.-Deployment of Cloud Supporting Services
• Models@Runtime for Continuous Design and Deployment
• Cloud Patterns
• Modelio Project Management Server Constellation
• BPM in the Cloud: The BOC Case
• Healthcare Application
• Operation Control Interfaces
• Conclusion and Future Research.

This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.