Download or read book An Introduction to International Health written by Michael Seear and published by Canadian Scholars’ Press. This book was released on 2012-11 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At a time when developed world populations are healthier and richer than they have ever been, why is there still so much poverty and disease in the world? Why do rich countries hold so many poor countries in debt and why do millions of children die every year from avoidable diseases? This new edition attempts to answer these pressing questions. An Introduction to International Health, Second Edition is a comprehensive and detailed exploration of international health and the modern aid industry. This provocative new edition is masterfully constructed around four essential themes: What is international health? Why is population health so poor in developing countries? What is the extent of the problem? What can be done about it? The thoroughly updated second edition provides answers to these questions and includes new discussions on war, governance and human rights in developing countries, and the various issues surrounding water, sanitation, and infectious diseases. Solutions are examined via primary health care strategies, poverty alleviation, and developing world debt relief, as well as human rights interventions. Unique to this book is its "how-to" component. The final section discusses how to work safely and effectively in a developing country. This eye-opening text is an essential read for all those interested in international health.
Download or read book Intelligent Audio Analysis written by Björn W. Schuller and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2014-07-08 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides the reader with the knowledge necessary for comprehension of the field of Intelligent Audio Analysis. It firstly introduces standard methods and discusses the typical Intelligent Audio Analysis chain going from audio data to audio features to audio recognition. Further, an introduction to audio source separation, and enhancement and robustness are given. After the introductory parts, the book shows several applications for the three types of audio: speech, music, and general sound. Each task is shortly introduced, followed by a description of the specific data and methods applied, experiments and results, and a conclusion for this specific task. The books provides benchmark results and standardized test-beds for a broader range of audio analysis tasks. The main focus thereby lies on the parallel advancement of realism in audio analysis, as too often today’s results are overly optimistic owing to idealized testing conditions, and it serves to stimulate synergies arising from transfer of methods and leads to a holistic audio analysis.
Download or read book Optical Interconnects for Data Centers written by Tolga Tekin and published by Woodhead Publishing. This book was released on 2016-11-01 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Current data centre networks, based on electronic packet switches, are experiencing an exponential increase in network traffic due to developments such as cloud computing. Optical interconnects have emerged as a promising alternative offering high throughput and reduced power consumption. Optical Interconnects for Data Centers reviews key developments in the use of optical interconnects in data centres and the current state of the art in transforming this technology into a reality. The book discusses developments in optical materials and components (such as single and multi-mode waveguides), circuit boards and ways the technology can be deployed in data centres. Optical Interconnects for Data Centers is a key reference text for electronics designers, optical engineers, communications engineers and R&D managers working in the communications and electronics industries as well as postgraduate researchers. - Summarizes the state-of-the-art in this emerging field - Presents a comprehensive review of all the key aspects of deploying optical interconnects in data centers, from materials and components, to circuit boards and methods for integration - Contains contributions that are drawn from leading international experts on the topic
Download or read book Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods written by Maria De Marsico and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-01-24 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains revised and extended versions of selected papers from the 8th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, ICPRAM 2019, held in Prague, Czech Republic, in February 2019. The 25 full papers presented together 52 short papers and 32 poster sessions were carefully reviewed and selected from 138 initial submissions. Contributions describing applications of Pattern Recognition techniques to real-world problems, interdisciplinary research, experimental and/or theoretical studies yielding new insights that advance Pattern Recognition methods are especially encouraged.
Download or read book The Dark Side of Silicon written by Amir M. Rahmani and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-12-31 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the state-of-the art of one of the main concerns with microprocessors today, a phenomenon known as "dark silicon". Readers will learn how power constraints (both leakage and dynamic power) limit the extent to which large portions of a chip can be powered up at a given time, i.e. how much actual performance and functionality the microprocessor can provide. The authors describe their research toward the future of microprocessor development in the dark silicon era, covering a variety of important aspects of dark silicon-aware architectures including design, management, reliability, and test. Readers will benefit from specific recommendations for mitigating the dark silicon phenomenon, including energy-efficient, dedicated solutions and technologies to maximize the utilization and reliability of microprocessors.
Download or read book Speech and Computer written by Alexey Karpov and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-09-01 with total page 845 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Speech and Computer, SPECOM 2017, held in Hatfield, UK, in September 2017. The 80 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 150 submissions. The papers present current research in the area of computer speech processing (recognition, synthesis, understanding etc.) and related domains (including signal processing, language and text processing, computational paralinguistics, multi-modal speech processing, human-computer interaction).
Download or read book Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems written by Silvia Bonomi and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-06-09 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the proceedings of the 18th IFIP International Conference on Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems, DAIS 2018, held in Madrid, Spain, in June 2018. The 10 papers presented together with 2 short papers in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 33 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on application domains, including stream processing, video dissemination, storage, privacy protection, and large-scale orchestration.
Download or read book Fog Computing Deep Learning and Big Data Analytics Research Directions written by C.S.R. Prabhu and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-01-04 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a comprehensive picture of fog computing technology, including of fog architectures, latency aware application management issues with real time requirements, security and privacy issues and fog analytics, in wide ranging application scenarios such as M2M device communication, smart homes, smart vehicles, augmented reality and transportation management. This book explores the research issues involved in the application of traditional shallow machine learning and deep learning techniques to big data analytics. It surveys global research advances in extending the conventional unsupervised or clustering algorithms, extending supervised and semi-supervised algorithms and association rule mining algorithms to big data Scenarios. Further it discusses the deep learning applications of big data analytics to fields of computer vision and speech processing, and describes applications such as semantic indexing and data tagging. Lastly it identifies 25 unsolved research problems and research directions in fog computing, as well as in the context of applying deep learning techniques to big data analytics, such as dimensionality reduction in high-dimensional data and improved formulation of data abstractions along with possible directions for their solutions.
Download or read book Handbook on Data Centers written by Samee U. Khan and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-03-16 with total page 1309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook offers a comprehensive review of the state-of-the-art research achievements in the field of data centers. Contributions from international, leading researchers and scholars offer topics in cloud computing, virtualization in data centers, energy efficient data centers, and next generation data center architecture. It also comprises current research trends in emerging areas, such as data security, data protection management, and network resource management in data centers. Specific attention is devoted to industry needs associated with the challenges faced by data centers, such as various power, cooling, floor space, and associated environmental health and safety issues, while still working to support growth without disrupting quality of service. The contributions cut across various IT data technology domains as a single source to discuss the interdependencies that need to be supported to enable a virtualized, next-generation, energy efficient, economical, and environmentally friendly data center. This book appeals to a broad spectrum of readers, including server, storage, networking, database, and applications analysts, administrators, and architects. It is intended for those seeking to gain a stronger grasp on data center networks: the fundamental protocol used by the applications and the network, the typical network technologies, and their design aspects. The Handbook of Data Centers is a leading reference on design and implementation for planning, implementing, and operating data center networks.
Download or read book Proceedings of the Second International Scientific Conference Intelligent Information Technologies for Industry IITI 17 written by Ajith Abraham and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-09-30 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume of Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing highlights key scientific achievements and innovations in all areas of automation, informatization, computer science, and artificial intelligence. It gathers papers presented at the IITI 2017, the Second International Conference on Intelligent Information Technologies for Industry, which was held in Varna, Bulgaria on September 14–16, 2017. The conference was jointly co-organized by Technical University of Varna (Bulgaria), Technical University of Sofia (Bulgaria), VSB Technical University of Ostrava (Czech Republic) and Rostov State Transport University (Russia). The IITI 2017 brought together international researchers and industrial practitioners interested in the development and implementation of modern technologies for automation, informatization, computer science, artificial intelligence, transport and power electrical engineering. In addition to advancing both fundamental research and innovative applications, the conference is intended to establish a new dissemination platform and an international network of researchers in these fields.
Download or read book Latent Variable Analysis and Signal Separation written by Emmanuel Vincent and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-08-14 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Latent Variable Analysis and Signal Separation, LVA/ICS 2015, held in Liberec, Czech Republic, in August 2015. The 61 revised full papers presented – 29 accepted as oral presentations and 32 accepted as poster presentations – were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. Five special topics are addressed: tensor-based methods for blind signal separation; deep neural networks for supervised speech separation/enhancement; joined analysis of multiple datasets, data fusion, and related topics; advances in nonlinear blind source separation; sparse and low rank modeling for acoustic signal processing.
Download or read book Networks on Chip written by Sheng Ma and published by Morgan Kaufmann. This book was released on 2014-12-04 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Networks-on-Chip: From Implementations to Programming Paradigms provides a thorough and bottom-up exploration of the whole NoC design space in a coherent and uniform fashion, from low-level router, buffer and topology implementations, to routing and flow control schemes, to co-optimizations of NoC and high-level programming paradigms. This textbook is intended for an advanced course on computer architecture, suitable for graduate students or senior undergrads who want to specialize in the area of computer architecture and Networks-on-Chip. It is also intended for practitioners in the industry in the area of microprocessor design, especially the many-core processor design with a network-on-chip. Graduates can learn many practical and theoretical lessons from this course, and also can be motivated to delve further into the ideas and designs proposed in this book. Industrial engineers can refer to this book to make practical tradeoffs as well. Graduates and engineers who focus on off-chip network design can also refer to this book to achieve deadlock-free routing algorithm designs. Provides thorough and insightful exploration of NoC design space. Description from low-level logic implementations to co-optimizations of high-level program paradigms and NoCs. The coherent and uniform format offers readers a clear, quick and efficient exploration of NoC design space Covers many novel and exciting research ideas, which encourage researchers to further delve into these topics. Presents both engineering and theoretical contributions. The detailed description of the router, buffer and topology implementations, comparisons and analysis are of high engineering value.
Download or read book Beyond CMOS Technologies for Next Generation Computer Design written by Rasit O. Topaloglu and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-08-20 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes the bottleneck faced soon by designers of traditional CMOS devices, due to device scaling, power and energy consumption, and variability limitations. This book aims at bridging the gap between device technology and architecture/system design. Readers will learn about challenges and opportunities presented by “beyond-CMOS devices” and gain insight into how these might be leveraged to build energy-efficient electronic systems.
Download or read book Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing written by Jesus Carretero and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-11-24 with total page 695 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing, ICA3PP 2016, held in Granada, Spain, in December 2016. The 30 full papers and 22 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 117 submissions. They cover many dimensions of parallel algorithms and architectures, encompassing fundamental theoretical approaches, practical experimental projects, and commercial components and systems trying to push beyond the limits of existing technologies, including experimental efforts, innovative systems, and investigations that identify weaknesses in existing parallel processing technology.
Download or read book Computer Engineering and Technology written by Weixia Xu and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-12-08 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 20th CCF Conference on Computer Engineering and Technology, NCCET 2016, held in Xi'an, China, in August 2016. The 21 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 120 submissions. They are organized in topical sections on processor architecture; application specific processors; computer application and software optimization; technology on the horizon.
Download or read book Neural Nets and Surroundings written by Bruno Apolloni and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-25 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume collects a selection of contributions which has been presented at the 22nd Italian Workshop on Neural Networks, the yearly meeting of the Italian Society for Neural Networks (SIREN). The conference was held in Italy, Vietri sul Mare (Salerno), during May 17-19, 2012. The annual meeting of SIREN is sponsored by International Neural Network Society (INNS), European Neural Network Society (ENNS) and IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (CIS). The book – as well as the workshop- is organized in three main components, two special sessions and a group of regular sessions featuring different aspects and point of views of artificial neural networks and natural intelligence, also including applications of present compelling interest.
Download or read book Intelligent Engineering Informatics written by Vikrant Bhateja and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-04-10 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Frontiers of Intelligent Computing: Theory and Applications (FICTA 2017), held in Bhubaneswar, Odisha. The event brought together researchers, scientists, engineers, and practitioners to exchange their new ideas and experiences in the domain of intelligent computing theories with prospective applications to various engineering disciplines. The book is divided into two volumes: Information and Decision Sciences, and Intelligent Engineering Informatics. This volume covers broad areas of Intelligent Engineering Informatics, with papers exploring both the theoretical and practical aspects of various areas like ANN and genetic algorithms, human–computer interaction, intelligent control optimisation, intelligent e-learning systems, machine learning, mobile computing, multi-agent systems, etc. The book also offers a valuable resource for students at the post-graduate level in various engineering disciplines.
