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Automatic Question Generation (Synthesis Lectures on Human Language Technologies)
Par Michael Flor. 2025
This book provides an overview of the fundamentals of Automatic Question Generation (AQG) for computational linguistics researchers, test developers, and…
educators. The author presents a variety of AQG system architectures, including generating questions from syntactic analyses, semantic resources, neural architectures, ontologies and knowledge graphs, and large language models. The advantages and pitfalls of a variety of AQG evaluation methods, including multi-aspect ratings by human experts, end-users, as well as crowd-sourcing and automatic evaluation techniques are discussed. The book also provides a roadmap of options for AQG targeted orientation, content selection, and focusing decisions. Machine learning opportunities for training systems to generate questions based on human-generated examples are also explored. This book offers greater depth and breadth than previous surveys of AQG. Readers will gain a comprehensive knowledge of current research, examples of applications of AQG, and inspiration for future directions for innovation and application.
Generative AI in Creative Industries (Studies in Computational Intelligence #1208)
Par Tarek Gaber, Khaled Shaalan, Said Salloum, Amina Al-Marzouqi, Ra'Ed Masa'Deh. 2025
This book compiles a comprehensive collection of pioneering research that addresses the multifaceted challenges and theoretical aspects of Generative AI…
in creative industries. Generative AI, a groundbreaking technological development, has been carving a significant niche within the creative industries. This innovative form of AI, exemplified by models like OpenAI's ChatGPT, is not only transforming the landscape of human-like text generation but is also radically reshaping creative fields such as music, literature, and visual arts. In the realm of creative industries, Generative AI serves as a catalyst for artistic innovation, offering tools for artists to push the boundaries of creativity. It assists in composing music, generating unique artworks, and even writing stories or scripts, thereby democratizing the creative process. The integration of Generative AI in these industries promises a synergy between human creativity and machine intelligence, potentially leading to novel genres and forms of art. Despite its transformative potential, the incorporation of Generative AI in creative fields is not devoid of challenges. Ethical considerations, such as authorship rights, originality, and the impact on traditional creative roles, are pivotal. Moreover, the authenticity and emotional depth of AI-generated content compared to human-created art is a subject of ongoing debate. The book aims to feature original manuscripts encompassing a wide array of topics, from the development of new generative technologies and their practical application in creative fields, to critical analysis of the ethical, legal, and cultural implications of these systems. By gathering the latest advancements in this field and spotlighting emerging avenues for research, this book serves as an invaluable resource and guide for researchers, artists, and practitioners operating at the intersection of Generative AI and creative industries.
Improving Surgical Skills and Outcomes: A Multi-Perspective Approach
Par Stephen Lash. 2024
Drawing on 25 years of experience, Consultant surgeon Mr Stephen Lash offers a fresh approach to the practice of surgery.…
His three perspectives or ‘Boxes’ explore the ‘How’ the ‘What’ and the ‘Why’ of surgery drawing lessons from Elite athletes to Toyota and from pilots to personality. Each box contributes a novel perspective to the surgeon’s learning and practice and offers practical tips to apply in theatre. It is easy to read and designed to be used alongside training and stimulate interesting conversations during the surgical debrief, best served with coffee. “There are endless books about surgical technique, but a woeful lack of information on how to be a surgeon. This book helps fill that gap.” Prof Andrew Luff MA, MBBS, FRCS, FRCOphth Consultant Ophthalmic Surgeon “I am convinced that it will not only appeal to the surgeons for which it was written but to a wider public as well. After all what is an operating theatre if not an open window on the real world?” Giampaolo Gini MD PhD President of the European Vitreo-Retinal Society This book is an ideal companion to surgeons everywhere from Dentists on the high street to Consultants in specialist units, medical students to key opinion leaders and anyone interested in this particular type of person willing to cut into another in pursuit of wholeness.
Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2025 Workshops: Istanbul, Turkey, June 30 – July 3, 2025, Proceedings, Part XIV (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #15899)
Par Osvaldo Gervasi, Beniamino Murgante, Chiara Garau, Yeliz Karaca, Francesco Scorza, Ana Cristina Braga, Maria Noelia Faginas Lago. 2025
The 362 full papers, 37 short papers and 2 PHD showcase included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected…
from 1043 submissions. In addition, the conference consisted of 58 workshops, focusing on very topical issues of importance to science, technology and society: from new mathematical approaches for solving complex computational systems, to information and knowledge in the Internet of Things, new statistical and optimization methods, several Artificial Intelligence approaches, sustainability issues, smart cities and related technologies.
Political Spirituality in the Face of Climate Collapse: Of Monsters, Megaliths, Mules, and Muck
Par James W. Perkinson. 2024
This book takes its motive force from our contemporary climate crisis. It seeks to reorient human (and especially Christian) understanding,…
towards a more ecologically-focused, indigenously-informed way-of-living. James W. Perkinson argues that our current eco-climatic and socio-political emergency is the culmination of a 5,000-year history of supremacist “settlement,” in which city-states first emergent in Mesopotamia and Egypt not only begin coercively organizing labor into surplus production and ecosystems into inordinate and destructive yields of “goods,” but in the process, also simultaneously “deform” the Spirit-World “haloing” of natural phenomenon into outsized service of imperial reach. Perkinson recognizes globalized humanity as an emerging monstrosity destroying both human culture and the world. How we re-envision and revalue, at our critical juncture, our inescapable interdependence with the more-than-human world as peer and teacher and even “elder,” is the central theme that throbs below the surface of the very disparate topics commanding attention in each chapter.
Geschichte der Intervision: Der transnationale Fernsehprogrammaustausch in Osteuropa 1960–1993 (Film, Fernsehen, Medienkultur)
Par Yulia Yurtaeva-Martens. 2025
Die Immanenz des internationalen Programmaustausches im Medium Fernsehen aufzuzeigen, ist das zentrale Anliegen dieses Bandes. Die Studie legt eine systematische Analyse…
der Entstehung, Entwicklung und Tätigkeit der Intervision vor, einer osteuropäischen – und aus heutiger Sicht transnationalen – Organisation, die 1960 zur Koordinierung des Fernsehprogrammaustausches ins Leben gerufen wurde. Den Schwerpunkt der Arbeit bildet die qualitative und quantitative Auswertung des Programmaustausches innerhalb der Intervision sowie deren Zusammenarbeit mit der westeuropäischen Eurovision unter Berücksichtigung der damaligen politischen und technologischen Rahmenbedingungen und Implikationen. Die analytische Betrachtung erstreckt sich dabei auf den gesamten Zeitraum des Bestehens der Intervision von 1960 bis 1993. Mit dieser umfassenden Untersuchung liefert der Band wertvolle Einblicke in die Mechanismen und Dynamiken des europäischen Fernsehprogrammaustausches in den Zeiten des Kalten Krieges und schließt an die gegenwärtige Forschung zum sozialistischen Fernsehen aus transnationaler Perspektive an.
The Migration-Development Nexus in the European Union (Studien zur Migrations- und Integrationspolitik)
Par Alexandra Berger. 2025
This book researches the migration-development nexus in the foreign policies of the European Union. The author conceptualizes the nexus as…
a public policy framework situated at the intersection of home affairs and foreign affairs and studies it from the perspective of the advocacy coalition framework. Amalgamating two diverse traditional EU policy fields, the nexus brings together two very different kinds of policy actors: Development policy actors and migration policy actors. These actors have different interests and goals and represent fundamentally different policy logics, therefore forming different policy communities. The amalgamation of these two policy logics in the migration-development nexus ultimately explains the inherent inconsistencies, but also the success of the nexus as an EU public policy.
The Palgrave Handbook on Decoloniality in Asia
Par Phoebe Zoe Maria U. Sanchez, Regletto Aldrich D. Imbong, Matthew Ming-tak Chew, Caroline M. Schöpf. 2025
This Handbook brings together a plethora of decolonial perspectives from and about Asian countries beyond Southeast Asia. Complementing existing scholarship…
on decolonisation in Latin America and Africa, emerging and established scholars from the Global North and the Global South cover politically urgent, vital and underexplored topics from the social sciences and humanities. An important compendium, more than 25 original contributions bring debates happening in various parts of the world strongly into conversation with similar debates in the West where there has been little reciprocal exchange. Bringing to the fore the importance of a paradigm shift within academia, this first-of-its-kind Handbook is useful for policy-makers, scholars and students of postcolonial and decolonial studies, sociology, development studies and social movements.
Data Processing and Networking: Proceedings of ICDPN 2024, Volume 1 (Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems #1288)
Par Abhishek Swaroop, Sérgio Duarte Correia, Bal Virdee, Jan Valicek. 2025
This book includes selected papers presented at the International Conference on Data Processing and Networking (ICDPN 2024), organized by Institute…
of Technology and Business in České Budějovice, Near Prague, Czech Republic, during 25–26 October 2024. It covers up-to-date cutting-edge research on big data processing and analytics, data mining and machine learning, artificial intelligence and deep learning, wireless, mobile, and ad hoc networks, network security and privacy, internet of things (IOT) and sensor networks, data communication, and computer vision and image processing.
World Atlas of Freshwater Macrophytes: Dicotyledonous species II (Molluginaceae – Tetrachondraceae) - Volume 2 (Wetlands: Ecology, Conservation and Management #11)
Par Kevin Murphy, Tatiana Lobato-de Magalhães, Eugenio Molina-Navarro, Marinus L. Otte. 2025
This book is the second volume of a compendium of the global distribution of some 3500 aquatic macrophyte species occurring…
in inland freshwater and brackish waterbodies worldwide, highlighting aspects of their ecology including endemism, world rarity, ecozone/ macroregional occurrence, ploidy state, species age, uses, and endangered status. This book provides a novel resource on the distribution and ecology of macrophytes around the world. The Atlas fills a gap in scientific knowledge of the global ecology of an important group of aquatic plants. It highlights the expansion of invasive species and describes hotspots of endemism and rarity for freshwater macrophytes across the planet. The data included in this book range from karyological to biogeographical studies on macrophytes, within a general theme of understanding the environmental factors that drive the biodiversity, ecology, landscape genetics, and conservation of aquatic plants in freshwater ecosystems. The second volume of the World Atlas of Freshwater Macrophytes: Dicotyledonous species II (Molluginaceae – Tetrachondraceae) covers 21 botanical families and 824 species of aquatic macrophytes. The authors, based in Mexico, Scotland, Spain, and the USA are members of an informal international research network, set up in 2017 by retired aquatic botanist Kevin Murphy, which is dedicated to advancing macroecological knowledge of freshwater macrophytes in the inland freshwater and brackish waterbodies of worldwide wetland ecosystems. The topic of this book is relevant not only to scholars and academics but also to practitioners in wetland management, decision makers, and aquatic plant hobbyists.
Performance Analysis and Improvement in MIMO Communication Systems
Par Kai Yang, Neng Ye, Ziyi Yang, Xuhui Ding, Dekang Liu, Gaoyang Li. 2025
This book focuses on the modeling and analysis of large-scale array communication systems to solve the computational complexity problems caused…
by high-dimensional arrays. This is achieved by providing an in-depth study on several major topics, such as channel estimation, delay estimation, angle estimation, and joint angle delay estimation. Both principles and engineering practice have been addressed, with more weight placed on engineering practice. The energy efficiency optimization problem of multi-antenna communication system is studied according to the actual situation of imperfect channel information and non-ideal hardware, and the corresponding high energy efficiency signal processing algorithm is proposed. The book benefits researchers, engineers, and graduate students in the fields of wireless communications and signal processing, etc.
Computational Science – ICCS 2025 Workshops: 25th International Conference, Singapore, Singapore, July 7–9, 2025, Proceedings, Part V (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #15911)
Par Yongjie Jessica Zhang, Maciej Paszynski, Amanda S. Barnard. 2025
The 6-volume set constitutes the workshop proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Computational Science, ICCS 2025, which took place…
in Singapore, Singapore, during July 7–9, 2025. The 137 full papers and 32 short papers presented in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 322 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: Volume I: Advances in high-performance computational earth sciences: numerical methods, frameworks & applications; artificial intelligence approaches for network analysis; artificial intelligence and high-performance computing for advanced simulations; and biomedical and bioinformatics challenges for computer science. Volume II: Computational health; computational modeling and artificial intelligence for social systems; and computational optimization, modelling and simulation. Volume III: Computational science and AI for addressing complex and dynamic societal challenges equitably; computer graphics, image processing and artificial intelligence; computing and data science for materials discovery and design; and large language models and intelligent decision-making within the digital economy. Volume IV: Machine learning and data assimilation for dynamical systems; and multi-criteria decision-making: methods, applications, and innovations. Volume V: (Credible) Multiscale modelling and simulation; numerical algorithms and computer arithmetic for computational science; quantum computing; retrieval-augmented generation; and simulations of flow and transport: modeling, algorithms and computation. Volume VI: Smart systems: bringing together computer vision, sensor networks and artificial intelligence; solving problems with uncertainty; and teaching computational science.
ESPNIC Children’s Intensive Care Textbook
Par Akash Deep, Joe Brierley, Pierre Tissieres. 2025
This textbook provides the fundamental of children’s critical care from a European perspective. It offers a valuable guide for beginners…
as well as for clinicians working in Intensive Care and allied professionals including the role of an ICU in a modern children’s hospital, specific situations and clinical practice achievements including techniques and the more appropriate therapies to be applied in different conditions. A section is devoted to specific organs – lung, heart and circulation, kidney and RRT, gut, brain, liver and pancreas, inflammation, immunity and sepsis, metabolism and metabolic diseases in ICU – whilst other to Cardiac Critical Care and Neuro Critical Care. Edited and written by renowned key opinion leaders in the field, all chapters use a learning-oriented style, with practical examples, key points and take-home messages, so that readers can easily learn the content and, at the same time, apply what they have learned in the clinical setting. ESPNIC Children’s Intensive Care Textbook is also the prime textbook for the EPIC Diploma, matching the published international consensus curriculum and it is accompanied by an MCQ, in the fashion of the exam style.
This book offers an avenue for understanding the parameters, scope, meanings, and impacts of environmental protest. Focusing on ecodefense, it…
explores the significance of the communiqué (the written explanation of the reasons for an act of ecodefense), comparing the communiqué to written texts in Conceptual art. It presents and seeks to evaluate the following analogy: act of ecodefense : communiqué :: work of conceptual art : written declaration/statement. By considering the communiqué in this light, this book helps us better comprehend the rationales for “radical environmentalism” undertaken for the purposes of reducing environmental harms, natural resource exploitation, and animal abuse.
The Forgotten Ways
Par Alan Hirsch. 2016
This definitive statement of the church as missional movement by a visionary leader, educator, and strategist offers six proven characteristics…
of thriving churches. This bestseller is now updated and revised throughout.
Like Love: Essays And Conversations
Par Maggie Nelson. 2024
One of the Globe and Mail's most anticipated books of 2024A career-spanning collection of inspiring, revelrous essays about art and…
artists.Like Love is a momentous, raucous collection of essays drawn from twenty years of Maggie Nelson&’s brilliant work. These profiles, reviews, remembrances, tributes, and critical essays, as well as several conversations with friends and idols, bring to life Nelson&’s passion for dialogue and dissent. The range of subjects is wide—from Prince to Carolee Schneemann to Matthew Barney to Lhasa de Sela to Kara Walker—but certain themes recur: intergenerational exchange; love and friendship; feminist and queer issues, especially as they shift over time; subversion, transgression, and perversity; the roles of the critic and of language in relation to visual and performance arts; forces that feed or impede certain bodies and creators; and the fruits and follies of a life spent devoted to making.Arranged chronologically, Like Love shows the writing, thinking, feeling, reading, looking, and conversing that occupied Nelson while writing iconic books such as Bluets and The Argonauts. As such, it is a portrait of a time, an anarchic party rich with wild guests, a window into Nelson&’s own development, and a testament to the profound sustenance offered by art and artists.
Come to the Window: A Novel
Par Howard Norman. 2024
A drama of murder, love, and redemption set in Nova Scotia in the final year of World War I.It’s 1918.…
The war in Europe grinds on, and the Spanish flu seems to be on an insatiable killing spree. But in the small fishing village of Parrsboro, Nova Scotia, a more confined drama—harrowing and provocative—slowly unfolds. It begins when Elizabeth Frame murders her husband hours after their wedding and thrusts the revolver into the blowhole of a beached whale.Crime reporter Toby Havenshaw is dispatched by the Halifax Evening Mail to cover the hearing, and his diary subsequently follows the surprising twists and turns of Elizabeth Frame’s flight from the law, accompanied as she is by a love-besotted court stenographer. But Toby’s diary also paints a vivid and deeply affecting portrait of his marriage to Amelia, a surgeon just returned from the front lines in France and Belgium. When a child is born to Elizabeth Frame on the lam, Amelia is drawn into events in ways she could never have imagined. And then everything changes.Come to the Window explores a question both universal and timeless: How does one recover hope in a time of great bewilderment and grief?
Snap: A Novel
Par Susin Nielsen. 2025
A laugh-out-loud novel about the consequences of being pushed to the edge—and plummeting right over itFrances Partridge, fifty-five, is a…
beloved children’s author. Geraint Blevins, forty-one, is an auto mechanic and devoted family man. Parker Poplawski, twenty-three, is just starting her career as a wardrobe assistant on a hit TV show. What do these people have in common? Nothing, that’s what. Until each of them reaches a breaking point and snaps in spectacular fashion. They meet in a court-mandated anger management class: three very different people, forced to spend a lot of time together, who slowly end up bonding and helping one another in unexpected ways, whether it’s to move on or to exact revenge. Lighthearted, timely, and funny, Snap is Nielsen at the top of her storytelling game, delivering flawed but relatable characters whose heartaches, foibles, and choices will make you cringe as you laugh out loud.
Kiss the Boys Goodbye: How the United States Betrayed Its Own POWs in Vietnam
Par William Stevenson, Monika Jensen-Stevenson. 2014
The classic account of the abandonment of American POWs in Vietnam by the US government.For many Americans, the recent conflicts…
in Iraq and Afghanistan bring back painful memories of one issue in particular: American policy on the rescue of and negotiation for American prisoners. One current American POW of the Taliban, Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl, stands as their symbol. Thousands of Vietnam veteran POW activists worry that Bergdahl will suffer the fate of so many of their POW/MIA comrades-abandonment once the US leaves that theater of war.Kiss the Boys Goodbye convincingly shows that a legacy of shame remains from America's ill-fated involvement in Vietnam. Until US government policy on POW/MIAs changes, it remains one of the most crucial issues for any American soldier who fights for home and country, particularly when we are engaged with an enemy that doesn't adhere to the international standards for the treatment of prisoners-or any American hostage-as the graphic video of Daniel Pearl's decapitation on various Jihad websites bears out.In this explosive book, Monika Jensen-Stevenson and William Stevenson provide startling evidence that American troops were left in captivity in Indochina, victims of their government's abuse of secrecy and power. The book not only delves into the world of official obstruction, missing files, censored testimony, and the pressures brought to bear on witnesses ready to tell the truth, but also reveals the trauma on patriotic families torn apart by a policy that, at first, seemed unbelievable to them.First published in 1990, Kiss the Boys Goodbye has become a classic on the subject. This new edition features an afterword, which fills in the news on the latest verifiable scandal produced by the Senate Select Committee on POWs.
Mastering AI: A Survival Guide to Our Superpowered Future
Par Jeremy Kahn. 2024
A Fortune magazine journalist draws on his expertise and extensive contacts among the companies and scientists at the forefront of…
artificial intelligence to offer dramatic predictions of AI&’s impact over the next decade, from reshaping our economy and the way we work, learn, and create to unknitting our social fabric, jeopardizing our democracy, and fundamentally altering the way we think.Within the next five years, Jeremy Kahn predicts, AI will disrupt almost every industry and enterprise, with vastly increased efficiency and productivity. It will restructure the workforce, making AI copilots a must for every knowledge worker. It will revamp education, meaning children around the world can have personal, portable tutors. It will revolutionize health care, making individualized, targeted pharmaceuticals more affordable. It will compel us to reimagine how we make art, compose music, and write and publish books. The potential of generative AI to extend our skills, talents, and creativity as humans is undeniably exciting and promising. But while this new technology has a bright future, it also casts a dark and fearful shadow. AI will provoke pervasive, disruptive, potentially devastating knock-on effects. Leveraging his unrivaled access to the leaders, scientists, futurists, and others who are making AI a reality, Kahn will argue that if not carefully designed and vigilantly regulated AI will deepen income inequality, depressing wages while imposing winner-take-all markets across much of the economy. AI risks undermining democracy, as truth is overtaken by misinformation, racial bias, and harmful stereotypes. Continuing a process begun by the internet, AI will rewire our brains, likely inhibiting our ability to think critically, to remember, and even to get along with one another—unless we all take decisive action to prevent this from happening. Much as Michael Lewis&’s classic The New New Thing offered a prescient, insightful, and eminently readable account of life inside the dot-com bubble, Mastering AI delivers much-needed guidance for anyone eager to understand the AI boom—and what comes next.