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The Equitably Resilient City

The Equitably Resilient City

Twelve global planning and urban design interventions—and what they reveal about equity-centered urban resilience in the face of climate change. Hillside favelas in South America imperiled by landslides. Flood-threatened mobile...

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480 pages
2024-10-01 Published
Aiming for Net Zero

Aiming for Net Zero

How Costa Rican leaders adopted policies to reduce planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions, and what other countries can learn from their actions. As atmospheric greenhouse gases continue their steep ascent, the...

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240 pages
2024-10-01 Published
From Sensing to Sentience

From Sensing to Sentience

A new theory of Neurobiological Emergentism that explains how sentience emerges from the brain. Sentience is the feeling aspect of consciousness. In From Sensing to Sentience, Todd Feinberg develops a new theory called Neurobiological Emergentism (NBE) thatintegrates...

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216 pages
2024-10-01 Published
The Aesthetics of Stealth

The Aesthetics of Stealth

How performances of tactical imperceptibility—or “stealth”—have become a key political practice in digital culture as a means of escaping surveillance and tracking technologies. In The Aesthetics of Stealth, Toni Pape proposes...

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240 pages
2024-10-08 Published
Reimagining the More-Than-Human City

Reimagining the More-Than-Human City

An exploration of the multifaceted urban environmental issues in Singapore through a more-than-human lens, calling for new ways to think of and story cities. As climate change accelerates and urbanization...

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272 pages
2024-10-01 Published
Key enabling technologies for future wireless, wired, optical and satcom applications

Key enabling technologies for future wireless, wired, optical and satcom applications

This book presents the latest research roadmaps and achievements from the European ecosystem (industry, research, and academia) driving the development of future wireless, wired, optical and satcom applications utilising the...

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180 pages
2024-11-25 Published
Industrial Artificial Intelligence Technologies and Applications

Industrial Artificial Intelligence Technologies and Applications

The advances in industrial edge artificial intelligence (AI) are transforming the way industrial equipment and machine interact with the real world, with other machines and humans during manufacturing processes. These...

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211 pages
2023-09-11 Published
Intelligent Edge-Embedded Technologies for Digitising Industry

Intelligent Edge-Embedded Technologies for Digitising Industry

This book explores new developments, ideas, and concepts in intelligent edge-embedded technologies for the digitising industry. The work is based on recent research results and activities in edge industrial computing,...

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338 pages
2023-09-01 Published
Personal Data-Smart Cities

Personal Data-Smart Cities

This book sets out to address some of the issues that a smart city needs to overcome to make use of both the data currently available to them and how...

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358 pages
2023-04-03 Published
Shaping the Future of IoT with Edge Intelligence

Shaping the Future of IoT with Edge Intelligence

This book presents the technologies that empower edge intelligence, along with their use in novel IoT solutions. Specifically, it presents how 5G/6G, Edge AI, and Blockchain solutions enable novel IoT-based...

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413 pages
2024-01-08 Published