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The Craft and Science of Coffee follows the coffee plant from its origins in East Africa to its current role as a global product that influences millions of lives though sustainable development, economics, and consumer desire.For most, coffee is a beloved beverage. However, for some it is also an object of scientifically study, and for others it is approached as a craft, both building on skills and experience. By combining the research and insights of the scientific community and expertise of the crafts people, this unique book brings readers into a sustained and inclusive conversation, one where academic and industrial thought leaders, coffee farmers, and baristas are quoted, each informing...
This book presents the most recent and advanced techniques for creating autonomous AI systems capable of planning and acting effectively.
Like sharks, epidemic diseases always lurk just beneath the surface. This fast-paced history of their effect on mankind prompts questions about the limits of scientific knowledge, the dangers of medical hubris, and how we should prepare as epidemics become ever more frequent. Ever since the 1918 Spanish influenza pandemic, scientists have dreamed of preventing catastrophic outbreaks of infectious disease. Yet, despite a century of medical progress, viral and bacterial disasters continue to take us by surprise, inciting panic and dominating news cycles. From the Spanish flu and the 1924 outbreak of pneumonic plague in Los Angeles to the 1930 'parrot fever' pandemic and the more recent SARS, Ebola, and Zika epidemics, the last 100 years have been marked by a succession of unanticipated pandemic alarms. Like man-eating sharks, predatory pathogens are always present in nature, waiting to strike; when one is seemingly vanquished, others appear in its place. These pandemics remind us of the limits of scientific knowledge, as well as the role that human behaviour and technologies play in the emergence and spread of microbial diseases.
O livro Necessidades Formativas de Professores Iniciantes que Ensinam Matemática nos anos iniciais consiste na publicação da minha tese, produzida ao longo dos quatro anos do doutorado no Programa de Pós-graduação em Educação em Ciências e Matemática (PPGECEM/REAMEC). Espero que a leitura contribua com a formação inicial e continuada de professores iniciantes que ensinam matemática nos anos iniciais, pois, além da explicitação das necessidades formativas, outras relacionadas às condições de trabalho e à valorização profissional são analisadas, para evidenciar que o tripé formação-valorização-condições de trabalho precisa ser o eixo das políticas voltadas para a...
First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Data Mining and Multi agent Integration aims to re?ect state of the art research and development of agent mining interaction and integration (for short, agent min ing). The book was motivated by increasing interest and work in the agents data min ing, and vice versa. The interaction and integration comes about from the intrinsic challenges faced by agent technology and data mining respectively; for instance, multi agent systems face the problem of enhancing agent learning capability, and avoiding the uncertainty of self organization and intelligence emergence. Data min ing, if integrated into agent systems, can greatly enhance the learning skills of agents, and assist agents with predication...
This book constitutes revised papers from the International Workshops held at the 18th International Conference on Business Process Management, BPM 2020, during September 13-18, 2020. The conference was planned to take place in Seville, Spain, but changed to an online format due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Papers from the following workshops are included: Workshop on Security and Privacy-Enhanced Business Process Management (SPBP 2020) Workshop on Social and Human Aspects of Business Process Management (BPMS2 2020) Workshop on Business Processes Meet the Internet-of Things (BP-Meet-IoT 2020) Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Business Process Management (AI4BPM 2020) Workshop BPM in the Era of Digital Innovation and Transformation (BPMinDIT 2020) Workshop on Business Process Intelligence (BPI 2020) Workshop on Declarative, Decision and Hybrid Approaches to Processes (DEC2H 2020) Each of the seven workshops focused on particular aspects of business process management, either from a technical or from a domain perspective. Overall, after a thorough review process there were 28 full and 1 short paper selected from 53 submissions.
This book tackles a number of different perspectives concerning the parasitic helminth Ascaris, both in animals and in humans and the disease known as ascariasis. It seeks to identify interesting, exciting and novel aspects, which will interest readers from a broad range of disciplines.Over a quarter of the world's population are infected with the human roundworm, and the equivalent in pigs is equally ubiquitous. Both contribute to insidious and chronic nutritional morbidity, and this has been quantified, in humans, as disability adjusted life years approximating 10.5 million. Ascaris larvae develop in host parenteral tissues, and the resultant pathology has been condemnation. Ascariasis, de...
This book focuses on changing political thought in twentieth-century Brazil.