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In this probing work, Franks takes an engaging look at the global oil industry and offers tips on how to navigate the price volatility and new policies associated with it.
Susan Herrick's memoir follows the story of her beloved son and only child, Luke, through his struggle with opioid addiction, recovery and sobriety, and untimely and heartbreaking death. Luke suffered a near-fatal car accident that left him partially paralyzed and addicted to Oxycontin, the very drug that helped save his life. Susan turned to the streets to obtain Suboxone, a legal but medically restricted opioid blocker, in an attempt to save her son's life. Remembering this, she writes, "The day I became my son's drug dealer, we both died, in a way." This poignant and compelling memoir exposes the rampant prescribing of Oxycontin, upwards of 600mg daily in cases like Luke's, and the role overprescribing plays in the disease of Substance Use Disorder (SUD). Through Luke's story, the author addresses failed public policies, misguided medical practices, societal stigmas, and enabling tendencies of loved ones that hinder recovery for those afflicted with SUD.
Un retrato del Irán actual y un viaje por la historia de Persia. Irán es y ha sido siempre un enclave fundamental en Oriente Medio. Las revueltas populares del año 2009 fueron el germen de las convulsiones que sacuden hoy al mundo árabe, prueba de que Irán sigue siendo un barómetro para Occidente. El Jardín del Fin es un recorrido por la historia de este país, un libro en el que confluyen las relevantes negociaciones geoestratégicas sobre el armamento nuclear con las anécdotas y la picaresca cotidiana de quienes tratan por todos los medios de sobrevivir a la dictadura. Ángela Rodicio, periodista y escritora, ha viajado desde el mar Caspio, en el norte, hasta el golfo Pérsico, en ...
Both revolutionary and reactionary, the Islamic Republic of Iran has long been a conundrum for Western observers. A theocracy that aspires to a popular mandate; an anti-colonial state with imperial pretensions of its own: modern Iran is in many ways a reflection of its struggle to reconcile its traditions with the challenges of modernity. In this book, Ali Ansari takes readers on a journey through Iran’s turbulent history. Beginning with the country’s fall from grace as a Great Power in the nineteenth century, he explores its repeated attempts to modernize in a series of revolutionary movements from the Constitutional Revolution of 1906 to the Islamic Revolution of 1979 and the civil unrest that is breaking out today. In so doing, he reveals how the experience of history and Iran’s encounter with ‘modernity’ have come to define it – and set it on an authoritarian path in confrontation with the West and, often, its own people.
This book details cutting-edge research into human-like driving technology, utilising game theory to better suit a human and machine hybrid driving environment. Covering feature identification and modelling of human driving behaviours, the book explains how to design an algorithm for decision making and control of autonomous vehicles in complex scenarios. Beginning with a review of current research in the field, the book uses this as a springboard from which to present a new theory of human-like driving framework for autonomous vehicles. Chapters cover system models of decision making and control, driving safety, riding comfort and travel efficiency. Throughout the book, game theory is appli...
The reference text discusses fundamental principles, planning, sourcing, demand forecasting, and supply forecasting in the field of supply chain management. It further highlights the important aspects of supply chain management such as resource planning, inventory management, quality tools, and documentation in logistics. It demonstrates the issues, barriers, emerging trends, and technological advances in supply chain management. This book: Discusses the principles of resource planning and inventory management in supply chain management. Covers aspects of competing strategies and networking management. Presents case studies highlighting ongoing practices and real-time issues in supply chain management. Highlights the importance of demand and supply forecasting in the field of supply chain management. Explains quality tools, emerging trends, challenges, and barriers in supply chain management. It is written primarily for senior undergraduate and graduate students, and academic researchers in the fields of industrial engineering, production engineering, mechanical engineering, management, supply chain management, and manufacturing engineering.
This book constitutes revised selected papers from the third ECML PKDD Workshop on Data Analytics for Renewable Energy Integration, DARE 2015, held in Porto, Portugal, in September 2015. The 10 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in this book.
Scheduling and Operation of Virtual Power Plants: Technical Challenges and Electricity Markets provides a multidisciplinary perspective on recent advances in VPPs, ranging from required infrastructures and planning to operation and control. The work details the required components in a virtual power plant, including smartness of power system, instrument and information and communication technologies (ICTs), measurement units, and distributed energy sources. Contributors assess the proposed benefits of virtual power plant in solving problems of distributed energy sources in integrating the small, distributed and intermittent output of these units. In addition, they investigate the likely tech...
This book consists of selected papers written by the founder of fuzzy set theory, Lotfi A Zadeh. Since Zadeh is not only the founder of this field, but has also been the principal contributor to its development over the last 30 years, the papers contain virtually all the major ideas in fuzzy set theory, fuzzy logic, and fuzzy systems in their historical context. Many of the ideas presented in the papers are still open to further development. The book is thus an important resource for anyone interested in the areas of fuzzy set theory, fuzzy logic, and fuzzy systems, as well as their applications. Moreover, the book is also intended to play a useful role in higher education, as a rich source ...