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Aimed primarily at final year undergraduate courses and MSc courses on Information Systems, Management of Information Systems and Design of Information Systems, this textbook aims to provide answers to five questions;What is security?

Since the first edition of C++ for Scientists, Engineers and Mathematicians, many things have changed.

Modern methods of filter design and controller design often yield systems of very high order, posing a problem for their implementation.

In the last decade new artificial intelligence methods for the modelling and control of complex systems, namely neural networks, fuzzy logic and probabilistic reasoning have drawn the interest of researchers and engineers.

Neural networks have a learning capability but analysis of a trained network is difficult.

This book argues for the importance of omega-3 fatty acids in our diet.

This book is a comprehensive exploration of the science and clinical applications of fasting, with a particular focus on its effects on body weight and metabolic disease risk factors.

This book presents a comprehensive forensic analysis of an oil painting depicting a Madonna and Child in a tondo format, previously thought to be a Victorian copy.

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This two-volume set LNCS 15263 and LNCS 15264 constitutes the refereed proceedings of eleven International Workshops which were held in conjunction with the 29th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security, ESORICS 2024, held in Bydgoszcz, Poland, during September 16-20, 2024.

Now in its fourth edition, The World Almanac of Islamism is the first comprehensive reference work to detail the current activities of radical Islamist movements worldwide.

This book constitutes selected papers from the 20th European, Mediterranean, and Middle Eastern Conference, EMCIS 2023, which was held in Dubai, UAE, during December 11-12, 2023.

The book provides a self-contained and complete description of the long time evolution of the solutions to a class of one-dimensional reaction-diffusion equations, in which the diffusion is given by an integral operator.

This book comprehensively explores the foundations of quasiconformal mappings in the complex plane, especially in view of applications to complex dynamics.

The Islamic positioning of Islamophobia is presented in this book.

'What is the Christ-event?

This book serves as a comprehensive introduction to nonlinear complex systems through the application of machine learning methods.

This book explores the ways in which process philosophers extend and strengthen peace scholars' outlines of a paradigm of/for peace.

The global rise of streaming and social media platforms, and the influence of tech giants in increasingly more sectors of the economy including the media industry, have disrupted the status quo of the global media competitive landscape.

What are some of the central connections between narrative, systemic and attachment therapies?

This book explores the need for innovative approaches to administrative digitization, leveraging technologies such as AI, blockchain, and smart processes to meet citizens' expectations, with a particular focus on the role of Chief Digital Officers (CDOs) in driving successful digital transformations within public institutions.

This book explores the need for innovative approaches to administrative digitization, leveraging technologies such as AI, blockchain, and smart processes to meet citizens' expectations, with a particular focus on the role of Chief Digital Officers (CDOs) in driving successful digital transformations within public institutions.

What does it mean to fight for women's rights in the 21st century?

Although the printing giants of John Murray and Karl Baedeker dominated the nineteenth-century travel guidebook market, women were important producers and consumers of guides.

The 9 volume set LNCS 15484-15492 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 30th International Conference on the Theory and Application of Cryptology and Information Security, ASIACRYPT 2024, which took place in Kolkata, India, during December 9-13, 2024.

This book addresses the health status of both mothers and children, highlighting acute malnutrition through anthropometric indices such as weight-for-height, weight-for-age, height-for-age, and BMI.

The five-volume set CCIS 1832-1836 contains the extended abstracts of the posters presented during the 25th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 2023, which was held as a hybrid event in Copenhagen, Denmark, in July 2023.

This book is about how best to respond to existential global threats posed by war and global heating.

This book deals with the planned conservation of modern architecture and proposes a comparative discussion between eight research programs recently completed in Italy and Brazil as part of the "e;Keeping It Modern"e; program by means of which the Getty Foundation supported the drafting of conservation management planning for major architectural masterpieces of the twentieth-century worldwide, between 2014 and 2020.

This book, the third of 15 related monographs, presents systematically a theory of self-independent cubic nonlinear systems.

This book brings together leading scholars and practitioners in organizational behaviour and communication to explore the complex relationship between employees and their organisations and the associated workplace outcomes.

This book focuses on abstract entity anaphora in argumentative texts with Asher's (1993) Segmented Discourse Representation Theory (SDRT) as the theoretical framework, investigating its pragmatic features and exploring its referent interpretation.

This book investigates the language used by protagonists in four major political debates in the early history of the United States.

The five-volume set LNCS 14961, 14962, 14963, 14964 and 14965 constitutes the refereed conference proceedings of the 8th International Joint Conference on Web and Big Data, APWeb-WAIM 2024, held in Jinhua, China, during August 30-September 1, 2024.

The 22nd International Conference on Systems Engineering Research (CSER 2024) pushes the boundaries of systems engineering research and responds to new challenges for systems engineering.

As food safety concerns become increasingly prevalent, understanding the physiological implications of foodborne pathogens, contaminants, and additives is essential for safeguarding public health.

This two-volume set LNCS 15516-15517 contains revised selected papers from the 31st International Conference on Selected Areas in Cryptography, SAC 2024, held in Montreal, QC, Canada, in August 2024.

This book delves into the profound challenges posed by the negative emotions-fear, pity, and disgust-that persons with atypical bodies often evoke in their non-disabled peers.

The 9 volume set LNCS 15484-15492 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 30th International Conference on the Theory and Application of Cryptology and Information Security, ASIACRYPT 2024, which took place in Kolkata, India, during December 9-13, 2024.

The five-volume set LNCS 14961, 14962, 14963, 14964 and 14965 constitutes the refereed conference proceedings of the 8th International Joint Conference on Web and Big Data, APWeb-WAIM 2024, held in Jinhua, China, during August 30-September 1, 2024.