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AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER Masterly Utterly compelling A highly readable and engaging tour Sam Freedman The Times From the New York Times bestselling author of The Signal and the Noise the definitive guide to our era of risk and the players raising the stakes In the bestselling The Signal and the Noise Nate Silver showed how forecasting would define the age of Big Data Now in this timely and riveting new book Silver investigates The River or those whose mastery of risk allows them to shape and dominate so much of modern life These professional risk takers poker players and hedge fund managers crypto true believers and blue chip art collectors can teach us much about navigating the uncertainty of the 21st century By embedding within these worlds Silver offers insight into a range of issues that affect us all from the frontiers of finance to the future of AI The River has increasing amounts of wealth and power in our society and understanding their mindset including the flaws in their thinking is key to understanding what drives technology and the global economy today There are certain commonalities in this otherwise diverse group high tolerance for risk appreciation of uncertainty affinity for numbers skill at de coupling self reliance a

This book covers a wide range of advanced techniques and approaches for designing and implementing computationally intelligent methods in different application domains which is of great use to not only researchers but also academicians and industry experts Optimized Computational Intelligence OCI is a new cutting edge and multidisciplinary research area that tackles the fundamental problems shared by modern informatics biologically inspired computation software engineering AI cybernetics cognitive science medical science systems science philosophy linguistics economics management science and life sciences OCI aims to apply modern computationally intelligent methods to generate optimum outcomes in various application domains This book presents the latest technologies driven material to explore optimized various computational intelligence domains includes real life case studies highlighting different advanced technologies in computational intelligence provides a unique compendium of current and emerging hybrid intelligence paradigms for advanced informatics reflects the diversity complexity and depth and breadth of this critical bio inspired domain offers a guided tour of computational intelligence algorithms architecture design and application

Despite occupational diseases in construction contributing to a significant proportion of fatalities and permanent and temporary incapacities they have not gained as much attention as occupational injuries from practitioners and researchers The research in this book aims to discover occupational diseases that cause fatalities and permanent and temporary incapacities in the construction industry along with their epidemiological causal mechanisms Through chapters examining cancers circulatory system diseases respiratory system diseases nervous system and sense organ diseases and musculoskeletal diseases the authors provide new knowledge and insights to help proactively prevent and control these diseases The research underpinning the development of the book applies empirical analyses of real world occupational disease data for the construction industry alongside a detailed review and meta analysis of literature pertinent to risk factors and methods and strategies to prevent and or control occupational diseases in construction Knowing the riskiest diseases and occupations for construction workers along with organisational and personal risk factors is critical to optimising risk management efforts This book should be of interest to students researchers and

En este número de Texturas se pueden encontrar textos de Rudyard Kipling, Hélène Ling & Inès Sol Salas, Íñigo García Ureta, María García, Javier Gutiérrez Vicén, Mariana Eguaras, Paul Luna, Matía

How the history of technological revolutions can help us better understand economic and political polarization in the age of automation From the Industrial Revolution to the age of artificial intelligence The Technology Trap takes a sweeping look at the history of technological progress and how it has radically shifted the distribution of econ

En las bibliotecas nunca pasa nada extraordinario. Casi nadie les atribuye propiedades especiales de seducción ni de diversión. Para la mayoría, son meros depósitos de libros que conservan nuestra memoria cultural; espacios tranquilos, silenciosos y tristes relacionados con el sufrido acto de estudiar. Los bibliotecarios, por su parte, casi siempre son vistos como personas serias, eruditas, distantes... siempre vigilantes de toda esa sabiduria conservada y de mantener el silencio. Seres al margen de cualquier suceso divertido, extravagante o molesto, reservados a otros profesionales de la cultura: musicos, poetas, comicos o danzantes. Con esa finalidad nacio este manual, un poco gamberro, heterodoxo e irreverente, para mostrar que las bibliotecas no son lugares melancolicos ni aburridos ni deprimentes y que, dentro de ellas, suceden hechos normales y cotidianos si, pero que pueden convertirse en extraordinarios y magicos cuando son vistos a traves de la mirada de quien las ama y las vive.

How we can get more joy from our machines by telling them what our hearts desire In this informative accessible and very funny book Michael L Littman inspires readers to learn how to tell machines what to do for us Rather than give in to the fear that computers will steal our jobs spy on us and control what we buy and whom we vote for we can improve our relationship with them just by learning basic programming skills Our devices will help us Littman writes if we can say what we want in a way they can understand Each chapter of the book focuses on a particular element of what can be said providing examples of how we use similar communication in our daily interactions with people Littman offers ways readers can experiment with these ideas right away using publicly available systems that might also make us more productive as a welcome side effect Each chapter also reflects on how the use of these programming components can be expedited by machine learning With humor and teacherly guidance Code to Joy brings into view a future where programming is like reading something everyone can learn

An evolutionary case for the existence of free willScientists are learning more and more about how brain activity controls behavior and how neural circuits weigh alternatives and initiate actions As we probe ever deeper into the mechanics of decision making many conclude that agency or free will is an illusion In Free Agents leading neuroscientist Kevin Mitchell presents a wealth of evidence to the contrary arguing that we are not mere machines responding to physical forces but agents acting with purpose Traversing billions of years of evolution Mitchell tells the remarkable story of how living beings capable of choice arose from lifeless matter He explains how the emergence of nervous systems provided a means to learn about the world granting sentient animals the capacity to model predict and simulate Mitchell reveals how these faculties reached their peak in humans with our abilities to imagine and to be introspective to reason in the moment and to shape our possible futures through the exercise of our individual agency Mitchell s argument has important implications for how we understand decision making for how our individual agency can be enhanced or infringed for how we think about collective agency in the face of global crises and for how we cons

This book provides a practical introduction to analyzing ecological data using real data sets The first part gives a largely non mathematical introduction to data exploration univariate methods including GAM and mixed modeling techniques multivariate analysis time series analysis and spatial statistics The second part provides 17 case studies The case studies include topics ranging from terrestrial ecology to marine biology and can be used as a template for a reader s own data analysis Data from all case studies are available from www highstat com Guidance on software is provided in the book

In today s interconnected world healthcare systems are increasingly turning to digital technologies to enhance patient care and optimize operations However this digital transformation presents significant challenges in guaranteeing the security and privacy of sensitive healthcare data Secure Health A Guide to Cybersecurity for Healthcare Managers confronts these challenges head on offering a comprehensive exploration of the latest advancements and best practices in securing digital health systems From examining the convergence of Internet of Things IoT applications with healthcare privacy and security to investigating ethical hacking frameworks and biometric access management each chapter delves into valuable insights for safeguarding healthcare data in an ever more digitized landscape What sets this book apart is its holistic perspective encompassing not only technical aspects but also governance standards the unique cybersecurity challenges of telehealth and the optimization of healthcare supply chain management KEY FEATURES Explores the integration of IoT devices into healthcare and the associated privacy and security risks Examines security frameworks and best practices for e health information governance Introduces a novel framework for eth

During the eighteenth century ladies of high society kept handwritten notes on recipes remedies gardening and household advice in their personal House Books and it became fashionable to exchange their most successful tips with friends and neighbours Very few of these fragile House Books have survived and this compilation celebrates two one from Lady Talbot of Lacock Abbey and the other from Lady Louisa Conolly of Castletown House In this collection you will find their herbal remedies for everything from coughs and colds to rickets consumption and preventing smallpox along with concoctions to ensure soft hands improve the skin and remove inhibitions There are also tips on cleaning and polishing the best ways in which a garden should be laid out and the roles each servant should be expected to perform Finally there is also a selection of their favourite recipes including Cinnamon Spinach Slipcoat Cheese and Pitchcocked Eels This charming compilation is full of fascinating information and useful tips and gives an insight into the lives of those living in the grand houses of the eighteenth century

What was medicine like in the time of Shakespeare and Oliver Cromwell How did Charles I cure a headache or Samuel Pepys get rid of kidney stones Katherine Knight opens up the delights of the Stuart medicine cabinet in this fascinating romp through seventeenth century medicine and cosmetics Documenting the all important use of household substances and do it yourself remedies this book looks at the emergence of modern medicine from everyday cures such as herbs oils and foods Offering solutions for all sorts of nasty afflictions from digestive disturbances to sexually transmitted diseases it also describes how our seventeenth century counterparts enjoyed the benefits of soap moisturiser and toothpaste With insights into the lives of those who lived in this remarkable period Secrets of the 17th Century Medicine Cabinet is more than a medical history it is an intimate investigation into the private lives of the spirited Stuarts

This publication is the first volume to appear in the catalogue series devoted to the British Isles and covers Insular and Anglo-Saxon manuscripts produced between c. 700 and c. 1100 AD. This was a period in which Britain witnessed a great blossoming of cultural awareness and artistic craftsmanship. Under the reign of King Alfred towards the end of the ninth century England experienced a renewed impetus for scholarly activity, and as a result the production of books intensified greatly. By the early tenth century, influenced and inspired by new trends and ideas from Continental Europe, English art began to flourish, and manuscript illumination especially made a great impact with the high quality of its figure style and decorated initials, and with its elegance of script and mise-en-page.

This volume contains an impressive range of texts, from Horace (Cat. 17) and Ovid (Cat. 61) to the earliest known copy of the Collectio Lanfranci (Cat. 5) and Gerard of Cremonas translations of Rasis works (Cat. 93). The bulk, however, consists of Bibles of two kinds: imposing glossed books, produced in great numbers in the twelfth-century, and their thirteenth-century successors, the compact pandects. Both categories include some of the most richly illuminated French manuscripts of the period. Among the former are two deluxe sets made for Thomas Becket, the first completed while he was in exile in Pontigny and Sens from 1164 until 1170 (Cat. 27-31), the second edited after his martyrdom by his secretary Herbert of Bosham (Cat. 32-34). The majority of the thirteenth-century Bibles are so-called Paris or pocket Bibles produced from the 1220s onwards, mostly in Paris, and containing the biblical books in a standard order. They are illuminated in a variety of figure and ornamental styles, some comparable to the Bibles moralisees of c.1220-1240 (e.g. Cat. 72), others bearing no resemblance to them (e.g. Cat. 73). There are also notable exceptions of complete Bibles made not in Paris, but in North-Eastern France or Champagne (e.g. Cat. 70), and displaying iconography, figure styles and order of books different from those found in their better-known Parisian contemporaries. We hope that the inclusion of numerous images in full colour representing Bibles illuminated in all of these different styles will inspire and support further research, especially on the ornamental initials which deserve more attention.While this volume contains outstanding examples of illumination, notably the work of the itinerant Simon Master (Cat. 46), it also includes books that are modest in artistic terms, but valuable in other ways. Among them is a glossed Ezekiel which boasts one of the finest Romanesque bindings to survive in Cambridge collections, made almost certainly in Paris c.1160-1170 (Cat. 41). Other aesthetically unassuming volumes form important groups of material, for instance, the books assembled by Master Robert Amiclas during his forty years in France and given or sold by him to the Cistercian Abbey of Buildwas in Shropshire (Cat. 20-26, 37).

Medieval Manuscripts in the Digital Age explores one major manuscript repository's digital presence and poses timely questions about studying books from a temporal and spatial distance via the online environment. Through contributions from a large group of distinguished international scholars, the volume assesses the impact of being able to access and interpret these early manuscripts in new ways. The focus on Parker on the Web, a world-class digital repository of diverse medieval manuscripts, comes as that site made its contents Open Access.Exploring the uses of digital representations of medieval texts and their contexts, contributors consider manuscripts from multiple perspectives including production, materiality, and reception. In addition, the volume explicates new interdisciplinary frameworks of analysis for the study of the relationship between texts and their physical contexts, while centring on an appreciation of the opportunities and challenges effected by the digital representation of a tangible object. Approaches extend from the codicological, palaeographical, linguistic, and cultural to considerations of reader reception, image production, and the implications of new technologies for future discoveries.Medieval Manuscripts in the Digital Age advances the debate in manuscript studies about the role of digital and computational sources and tools. As such, the book will appeal to scholars and students working in the disciplines of Digital Humanities, Medieval Studies, Literary Studies, Library and Information Science, and Book History.