Download or read book Gentry s Challenge written by Edward Clark and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-07-31 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The third book in the Rod Gentry series by Edward S. Clark. A young businessman is entrusted with the job of restoring a dilapidated, crumbling apartment complex. But he finds the physical problems of the property are the least part of his concerns. Slum tenants present special problems he's never had before. Shakedown artists, crooked city officials, and drug gangs all have their part in breeding misery to the near hopeless unfortunates who live in the complex. Rod Gentry has never experienced anything like this, and before he's through, he'll have an education they don't teach you about in college.
Download or read book Strategic Warning Intelligence written by John A. Gentry and published by Georgetown University Press. This book was released on 2019-03-01 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John A. Gentry and Joseph S. Gordon update our understanding of strategic warning intelligence analysis for the twenty-first century. Strategic warning—the process of long-range analysis to alert senior leaders to trending threats and opportunities that require action—is a critical intelligence function. It also is frequently misunderstood and underappreciated. Gentry and Gordon draw on both their practitioner and academic backgrounds to present a history of the strategic warning function in the US intelligence community. In doing so, they outline the capabilities of analytic methods, explain why strategic warning analysis is so hard, and discuss the special challenges strategic warning encounters from senior decision-makers. They also compare how strategic warning functions in other countries, evaluate why the United States has in recent years emphasized current intelligence instead of strategic warning, and recommend warning-related structural and procedural improvements in the US intelligence community. The authors examine historical case studies, including postmortems of warning failures, to provide examples of the analytic points they make. Strategic Warning Intelligence will interest scholars and practitioners and will be an ideal teaching text for intermediate and advanced students.
Download or read book Advances in Cryptology CRYPTO 2023 written by Helena Handschuh and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-08-08 with total page 808 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The five-volume set, LNCS 14081, 140825, 14083, 14084, and 14085 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 43rd Annual International Cryptology Conference, CRYPTO 2023. The conference took place at Santa Barbara, USA, during August 19-24, 2023. The 124 full papers presented in the proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 479 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: Part I: Consensus, secret sharing, and multi-party computation; Part II: Succinctness; anonymous credentials; new paradigms and foundations; Part III: Cryptanalysis; side channels; symmetric constructions; isogenies; Part IV: Faster fully homomorphic encryption; oblivious RAM; obfuscation; secure messaging; functional encryption; correlated pseudorandomness; proof systems in the discrete-logarithm setting.
Download or read book Handbook of Research on Solving Modern Healthcare Challenges With Gamification written by Alexandre Peixoto de Queirós, Ricardo and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2021-01-22 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While many fields such as e-learning, business, and marketing have taken advantage of the potential of gamification, the healthcare domain has just started to exploit this emerging trend, still in an ad-hoc fashion. Despite the huge potential of applying gamification on several topics of healthcare, there are scarce theoretical studies regarding methodologies, techniques, specifications, and frameworks. These applications must be examined further as they can be used to solve major healthcare-related challenges such as care plan maintenance, medication adherence, phobias treatment, or patient education. Handbook of Research on Solving Modern Healthcare Challenges With Gamification aims to share new approaches and methodologies to build e-health solutions using gamification and identifies new trends on this topic from pedagogical strategies to technological approaches. This book serves as a collection of knowledge that builds the theoretical foundations that can be helpful in creating sustainable e-health solutions in the future. While covering topics such as augmented and virtual reality, ethical issues in gamification, e-learning, telehealth services, and digital applications, this book is essential for research scholars, healthcare/computer science teachers and students pursuing healthcare/computer science-related subjects, enterprise developers, practitioners, researchers, academicians, and students interested in the latest developments and research solving healthcare challenges with modern e-health solutions using gamification.
Download or read book Financial Cryptography and Data Security written by Gene Tsudik and published by Springer. This book was released on 2008-08-17 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Financial Cryptography and Data Security, FC 2008, held in Cozumel, Mexico, in January 2008. The 16 revised full papers and 9 revised short papers presented together with 5 poster papers, 2 panel reports, and 1 invited lecture were carefully reviewed and selected from 86 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on attacks and counter measures, protocols, theory, hardware, chips and tags, signatures and encryption, as well as anonymity and e-cash.
Download or read book Cryptology and Network Security written by Dongdai Lin and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-12-06 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Cryptology and Network Security, CANS 2011, held in Sanya, China, in December 2011. The 18 revised full papers, presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 65 submissions. The book also includes two invited talks. The papers are organized in topical sections on symmetric cryptanalysis, symmetric ciphers, public key cryptography, protocol attacks, and privacy techniques.
Download or read book The Gentrys of Paradise Series written by Holly Bush and published by Holly Bush Books. This book was released on 2019-06-24 with total page 796 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From bestselling author, Holly Bush, The Gentrys of Paradise Series, including prequel novella, Into the Evermore, and complete novels, For the Brave, For This Moment, and For Her Honor. Into the Evermore Prequel Novella – 1842Eleanor McManus, upright daughter of a minister, is rescued from kidnappers by a rough and tumble fur trader, Beauregard Gentry, in the wilderness of northern Virginia. With Beauregard’s help, Eleanor makes her way back to her intended groom who declares her soiled, and she finds herself alone, pressured to make life decisions without benefit of family or others she can trust. Beauregard and Eleanor agree to begin a life together, build their legacy together, and their growing devotion to each other is witnessed one cold, crisp Christmas morning. For the Brave - 1869 Matthew Gentry joined the Confederate Army at eighteen years of age after an argument with his father, leaving Paradise, his Virginia home and famed horse breeding stables, for the fields of Gettysburg. Finally traveling home after learning of a family tragedy, he nearly loses his life in a spring-flooded riverbed. Annie Campbell, lone survivor of her family, lives at a remote farm near the North River, raising pigs and trying to grow enough to survive. Annie’s secrets threaten her safety, even as she rescues and nurses Matthew Gentry. For This Moment - 1871 Born to privilege and duty, Olivia Gentry comes of age as women begin to find their social and political independence. Having been deceived in love as a young woman and unsure of her instincts, she is wary to commit to marriage, but she cannot deny her long-buried feelings for a family friend. Jim Somerset has been in love with Olivia Gentry from the moment she gazed up at him as a young girl. A farrier by trade like his father before him, and Olivia’s brother’s closest friend, he is inexorably entwined with the Gentry family. He has watched her be courted by statesmen and considers her and her goals out of the reach of a common workman. For Her Honor - 1873 – Adam Gentry, heir to the celebrated Paradise Stables in Virginia, is haunted by the visions of his lost love. Feeling cursed by fate, he slips deeper into grief, shrouded in a cloud of liquor and depression, and neglects his duties and responsibilities. But when Adam is forced to accept that there’s nothing he can do to change his past, he knows he must move on. Emmaline Somerset finds herself in the worst possible position any unmarried woman can be in. She will have to abandon all of her plans, hopes, and dreams for an independence using her own talents. The only viable solution is to move to a distant relative’s home and reinvent herself as a widow with an infant, unless an offer from a family friend can save her.
Download or read book Advances in Cryptology ASIACRYPT 2011 written by Dong Hoon Lee and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-11-21 with total page 773 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the proceedings of the 17th International Conference on the Theory and Application of Cryptology and Information Security, ASIACRYPT 2011, held in Seoul, Korea, in December 2011. The 40 revised papers included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 266 submissions. The contributions are organized in topical sections on lattices and quantum cryptography; public key encryption; database privacy; hash function; symmetric key encryption; zero knowledge proof; universal composability; foundation; secure computation and secret sharing; public key signature; and leakage resilient cryptography.
Download or read book The Gentrys Cinco written by Linda Conrad and published by Silhouette. This book was released on 2010-12-27 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rancher, security expert, family man. Cinco Gentry has already had enough excitement for one lifetime. Now all he wants is to run his ranch—and his family—without any complications. Until the arrival of U.S. Air Force Captain Meredith Powell changes everything. Forced to stay at the ranch for her own safety, she resists Cinco at every turn, until danger drives her into his passionate embrace. But will the sexy cowboy be enough to satisfy her thirst for adventure once the danger is gone?
Download or read book Challenges and Opportunities in Orchid Ecology and Conservation written by Pavel Kindlmann and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2023-08-02 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Understanding diversity patterns and the effect of global change on abundance, distribution patterns and species survival are of the most discussed topics in biodiversity research. Species are disappearing worldwide, mostly due to habitat loss, but other factors like climate change are likely to increase in importance during the 21st century. Thus, one of the most worrying issues is that we still do not know the optimal abiotic and biotic requirements for population persistence of many of the still existing species, which makes it very difficult, if not impossible, to make appropriate recommendations for their conservation in terms of proposing an effective management of their sites. Analysis of these requirements is, however, strongly dependent on the taxonomic group considered and on life history strategies of the species that comprise the group. In this Research Topic, we concentrate on this issue applied to orchids, one of the most abundant groups of flowering plants with approximately 30,000 species. They are classified among the most threatened groups worldwide. Of the approximately 1000 species that have been evaluated, almost 60% are threatened, endangered or extinct. For a few orchid species, detailed records from monitoring efforts provide opportunities for comparative analyses of species declines through time. However, for most orchid species we still lack population data and there have been few studies that have focused on the environmental factors and species traits associated with the decline of orchid sites and species numbers.
Download or read book Gentry s Gamble written by Edward S. Clark and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-05-16 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book in the Rod Gentry series. Rod Gentry is known as a 'buyer of last resort'. When nobody else can solve the problems of a real estate deal, they come to him. Now he has a new and personal mission. He'll replace the dilapidated oceanfront apartment house left him by his father and build one of those snazzy new condominium buildings. But there is a problem. Rod is broke. But that never stopped any real estate man worth his salt. He intends to parlay a thousand dollars and two credit cards into the half million he needs to build his condominium. But Rod hasn't reckoned with a duplicitous fellow Realtor and a crooked buyer, nor could he have anticipated his wife's abduction and attempted murder by her ex-husband.
Download or read book Gentry s Intracoastal written by Edward S. Clark and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-04-14 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second book in the Rod Gentry series. Set in the land of sunshine on the sparkling waters of the Indian River of coastal Florida. A clever young real estate operator fights to rehabilitate a small but potentially beautiful marina, the "hurricane hole" sought by boats when wild winds rage. Rod Gentry battles sabotage, arson, and a crooked county commissioner to make a name for the marina and enough money to fulfill his wife's hopes of building a new children's home. The blond-haired orphan waif Rachel, in a wheelchair, inspires him to reach higher than he ever thought of reaching.
Download or read book A Kiss of Shadows written by Laurell K. Hamilton and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2001-01-18 with total page 577 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Meet Merry Gentry, paranormal P.I., and enter a thrilling, sensual world as dangerous as it is beautiful, full of earthly pleasures and dazzling magic, and ruled by the all-consuming passions of immortal beings once worshipped as gods . . . or demons. Merry Gentry, princess of the high court of Faerie, is posing as a human in Los Angeles, working as a private investigator specializing in supernatural crime. But now the queen’s assassin has been dispatched to fetch her—whether she likes it or not. Suddenly Merry finds herself a pawn in her dreaded aunt’s plans. The job that awaits her: enjoy the constant company of the most beautiful immortal men in the world. The reward: the crown—and the opportunity to continue to live. The penalty for failure: death. BONUS: This edition includes an excerpt from Laurell K. Hamilton’s A Shiver of Light. Praise for Laurell K. Hamilton and A Kiss of Shadows “One of the most inventive and exciting writers in the paranormal field.”—Charlaine Harris “Sexy . . . Merry’s adventures are engaging and keep the reader turning the pages.”—St. Louis Post-Dispatch “Stunning . . . steamy . . . an exciting and original world.”—San Jose Mercury News “I’ve never read a writer with a more fertile imagination.”—Diana Gabaldon
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Social History written by Peter N. Stearns and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1993-12-21 with total page 1195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A reference surveying the major concerns, findings, and terms of social history. The coverage includes major categories within social history (family, demographic transition, multiculturalism, industrialization, nationalism); major aspects of life for which social history has provided a crucial per
Download or read book Last Woman Standing written by Amy Gentry and published by Houghton Mifflin. This book was released on 2019-01-15 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In Amy Gentry's follow-up to her acclaimed debut, Good As Gone, two assaulted women make a pact to kill each other's tormentor. But in the fallout, their paranoia grows until neither is sure whom she can trust. At what cost will their vengeance come?"--
Download or read book Homomorphic Encryption for Financial Cryptography written by V. Seethalakshmi and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-08-01 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers insights on efficient utilization of homomorphic encryption (HE) for financial cryptography in confidentiality, phishing, anonymity, object and user identity protection. Homomorphic encryption has the potential to be a game-changer for the industry and cloud industry. HE method in cloud computing is presented in this book as a solution to increase the security of the data. Moreover, this book provides details about the set of fundamentals of cryptography, classical HE systems, properties of HE schemes, challenges and opportunities in HE methods, key infrastructure, problem of key management, key sharing, current algorithmic strategies and its limitation in implementation for solving complex problems in financial cryptography, application in blockchain, multivariate cryptosystems based on quadratic equations to avoid the explosion of the coefficients.
Download or read book American Berkshire Record written by American Berkshire Association and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
