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Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) (Arts and Architecture)

DOAB provides a searchable index to the information about these books, with links to the full texts of the publications at the publisher’s website or repository.

Keywords:: Arts Architecture Music Performing arts
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OAPEN Library (Arts)

The OAPEN Library contains freely accessible academic books, mainly in the area of humanities and social sciences.

Keywords:: Arts Humanities Social sciences
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OAPEN Library (Economics, Finance, Business & Management)

The OAPEN Library contains freely accessible academic books, mainly in the area of humanities and social sciences.

Keywords:: Economics Business Finance Industrial management Accounting
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Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) (Business and Economics)

DOAB provides a searchable index to the information about these books, with links to the full texts of the publications at the publisher’s website or repository.

Subjects:: Economics and Management
Keywords:: Business Industrial management
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InTechOpen (Business, Management & Economics)

Open access books in science, technology and medicine.

Keywords:: Economics Business Industrial management
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National Academies Press (Engineering and Technology)

Covers over 5,000 reports published by the National Academies Press for the National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, Institute of Medicine and National Research Council in the US.

Keywords:: Engineering Technology
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National Academies Press (Computers and Information Technology)

Covers over 5,000 reports published by the National Academies Press for the National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, Institute of Medicine and National Research Council in the US.

Subjects:: Computing
Keywords:: Computer science Information technology
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National Academies Press (Transportation and Infrastructure)

Covers over 5,000 reports published by the National Academies Press for the National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, Institute of Medicine and National Research Council in the US.

Subjects:: Transportation
Keywords:: Transportation
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National Academies Press (Energy and Energy Conservation)

Covers over 5,000 reports published by the National Academies Press for the National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, Institute of Medicine and National Research Council in the US.

Keywords:: Energy conservation Power resources
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National Academies Press (Space and Aeronautics)

Covers over 5,000 reports published by the National Academies Press for the National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, Institute of Medicine and National Research Council in the US.

Subjects:: Aeronautical and Aviation Engineering
Keywords:: Aeronautics Space sciences
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Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) (Languages and Literatures)

DOAB provides a searchable index to the information about these books, with links to the full texts of the publications at the publisher’s website or repository.

Subjects:: Language and Languages
Keywords:: Literature Language languages
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Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) (Law and Political Science)

DOAB provides a searchable index to the information about these books, with links to the full texts of the publications at the publisher’s website or repository.

Keywords:: Political science Law
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Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) (Philosophy and Religion)

DOAB provides a searchable index to the information about these books, with links to the full texts of the publications at the publisher’s website or repository.

Keywords:: Religions Philosophy
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OAPEN Library (Humanities)

The OAPEN Library contains freely accessible academic books, mainly in the area of humanities and social sciences.

Keywords:: Religions Philosophy Humanities History Archaeology
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OAPEN Library (Literature & Literary Studies)

The OAPEN Library contains freely accessible academic books, mainly in the area of humanities and social sciences.

Subjects:: Language and Languages and English Literature
Keywords:: Literature
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OAPEN Library (Language)

The OAPEN Library contains freely accessible academic books, mainly in the area of humanities and social sciences.

Subjects:: English Language and Language and Languages
Keywords:: Linguistics Language languages
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Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) (Health Sciences)

DOAB provides a searchable index to the information about these books, with links to the full texts of the publications at the publisher’s website or repository.

Keywords:: Medical sciences Public health Medicine Dentistry Nursing
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National Academies Press (Health and Medicine)

Covers over 5,000 reports published by the National Academies Press for the National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, Institute of Medicine and National Research Council in the US.

Keywords:: Medical sciences Medicine Health
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InTechOpen (Health Sciences)

Open access books in science, technology and medicine.

Keywords:: Medical sciences
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Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) (Social Sciences)

DOAB provides a searchable index to the information about these books, with links to the full texts of the publications at the publisher’s website or repository.

Keywords:: Education Anthropology Psychology Library science Social sciences Sociology
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InTechOpen (Social Sciences and Humanities)

Open access books in science, technology and medicine.

Keywords:: Business Humanities Social sciences
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National Academies Press (Behavioral and Social Sciences)

Covers over 5,000 reports published by the National Academies Press for the National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, Institute of Medicine and National Research Council in the US.

Keywords:: Psychology Social sciences Sociology
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National Academies Press (Education)

Covers over 5,000 reports published by the National Academies Press for the National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, Institute of Medicine and National Research Council in the US.

Keywords:: Education Secondary Higher education Early childhood education Educational technology Education
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OAPEN Library (Society & Social Sciences)

The OAPEN Library contains freely accessible academic books, mainly in the area of humanities and social sciences.

Keywords:: Psychology Social sciences Sociology
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Openstax CNX (Arts)

Offers openly licensed college textbooks.

Keywords:: Arts Music
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Open Textbook Library (Economics)

Open Textbook Library provides free, peer-reviewed and openly-licensed textbooks.

Subjects:: Economics
Keywords:: Economics Microeconomics Macroeconomics
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LibreTexts (Photosciences)

A multi-institutional collaborative venture to develop the next generation of open-access textbooks.

Keywords:: Solar energy
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Openstax CNX (Business)

Offers openly licensed college textbooks.

Keywords:: Economics Business ethics Finance Industrial management Administration Business
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Open Textbook Library (Education)

Open Textbook Library provides free, peer-reviewed and openly-licensed textbooks.

Keywords:: Education Teaching Educational psychology Research
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LibreTexts (Humanities)

A multi-institutional collaborative venture to develop the next generation of open-access textbooks.

Keywords:: English literature Logic Humanities Music History English language -- Composition exercises
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Open Textbook Library (Social Sciences)

Open Textbook Library provides free, peer-reviewed and openly-licensed textbooks.

Keywords:: Psychology Politics government Women
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Open Textbook Library (Student Success)

Open Textbook Library provides free, peer-reviewed and openly-licensed textbooks.

Keywords:: Research -- Methodology Writing Research Job hunting
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Openstax CNX (Humanities)

Offers openly licensed college textbooks.

Keywords:: Linguistics Literature World history Communication History English language
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LibreTexts (Social Science)

A multi-institutional collaborative venture to develop the next generation of open-access textbooks.

Keywords:: Economics Developmental psychology Psychology Social sciences Sociology
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Openstax CNX (Social Sciences)

Offers openly licensed college textbooks.

Keywords:: Social sciences
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Scaling a Software Business | SpringerLink

This book presents the Scaling Management Framework, a model based on collected experiences from companies that have already made the journey to give software a central role within the organization. The model is unique because it suggests a holistic method to analyze and plan your journey. It simply means that you can’t just focus solely on your products or services. You also have to look closely at your processes and your organization, the way you make decisions and get things done. Inevitably, these will have to change. This book comes with a map, a compass, and suggested journeys along with selected travel stories comprising best practices and lessons learned from past digitalization journeys. Use the map to find your way in the digitalization landscape, and use the compass to find the direction of your journey. How do you transform your organization when software is becoming a critical part of your business? Software has changed the rules of the game. The world talks about the digitalization in industry and society – how the focus has shifted from producing tangible things towards software and services. This trend started many years ago, but is now affecting every company, whether it’s a software company or not. There are many companies that have already made a digitalization journey – and many are about to embark on this journey – like you.

Subjects:: Management
Keywords:: Software engineering Management information systems
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New Advances in Machine Learning

The purpose of this book is to provide an up-to-date and systematical introduction to the principles and algorithms of machine learning. The definition of learning is broad enough to include most tasks that we commonly call “learning” tasks, as we use the word in daily life. It is also broad enough to encompass computers that improve from experience in quite straightforward ways. The book will be of interest to industrial engineers and scientists as well as academics who wish to pursue machine learning. The book is intended for both graduate and postgraduate students in fields such as computer science, cybernetics, system sciences, engineering, statistics, and social sciences, and as a reference for software professionals and practitioners. The wide scope of the book provides a good introduction to many approaches of machine learning, and it is also the source of useful bibliographical information.

Course related:: COMP4432 Machine Learning
Subjects:: Computing
Keywords:: Machine learning
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Evolutionary Algorithms

Evolutionary algorithms are successively applied to wide optimization problems in the engineering, marketing, operations research, and social science, such as include scheduling, genetics, material selection, structural design and so on. Apart from mathematical optimization problems, evolutionary algorithms have also been used as an experimental framework within biological evolution and natural selection in the field of artificial life.

Subjects:: Computing
Keywords:: Mathematical optimization Genetic algorithms Evolutionary programming (Computer science)
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Advances in Security in Computing and Communications

In the era of Internet of Things (IoT) and with the explosive worldwide growth of electronic data volume, and associated need of processing, analysis, and storage of such humongous volume of data, several new challenges are faced in protecting privacy of sensitive data and securing systems by designing novel schemes for secure authentication, integrity protection, encryption, and non-repudiation. Lightweight symmetric key cryptography and adaptive network security algorithms are in demand for mitigating these challenges. This book presents some of the state-of-the-art research work in the field of cryptography and security in computing and communications. It is a valuable source of knowledge for researchers, engineers, practitioners, graduates, and doctoral students who are working in the field of cryptography, network security, and security and privacy issues in the Internet of Things (IoT). It will also be useful for faculty members of graduate schools and universities.

Subjects:: Computing
Keywords:: Data protection Computer security Computer networks -- Security measures Data encryption (Computer science)
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Face Recognition

Pattern recognition has gained significant attention due to the rapid explosion of internet- and mobile-based applications. Among the various pattern recognition applications, face recognition is always being the center of attraction. With so much of unlabeled face images being captured and made available on internet (particularly on social media), conventional supervised means of classifying face images become challenging. This clearly warrants for semi-supervised classification and subspace projection. Another important concern in face recognition system is the proper and stringent evaluation of its capability. This book is edited keeping all these factors in mind. This book is composed of five chapters covering introduction, overview, semi-supervised classification, subspace projection, and evaluation techniques.

Subjects:: Electronic and Information Engineering and Computing
Keywords:: Human face recognition (Computer science)
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Advances and Applications in Mobile Computing

Advances and Applications in Mobile Computing offers guidelines on how mobile software services can be used in order to simplify the mobile users' life. The main contribution of this book is enhancing mobile software application development stages as analysis, design, development and test. Also, recent mobile network technologies such as algorithms, decreasing energy consumption in mobile network, and fault tolerance in distributed mobile computing are the main concern of the first section. In the mobile software life cycle section, the chapter on human computer interaction discusses mobile device handset design strategies, following the chapters on mobile application testing strategies. The last section, mobile applications as service, covers different mobile solutions and different application sectors.

Subjects:: Mobile Computing
Keywords:: Mobile computing
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Advances in Biomaterials Science and Biomedical Applications

This contribution book is a collection of reviews and original articles from eminent experts working in the multi- and interdisciplinary arena of biomaterials, ranging from their design to novel uses. From their personal experience, the readers can obtain a stimulating foresight on the potentialities of different synthetic and engineered biomaterials. 21 chapters have been organized to illustrate different aspects of biomaterials science. From advanced means for the characterization and toxicological assessment of new materials, through ‘classical’ applications in nanotechnology and tissue engineering, toward novel specific uses of these products, the volume wishes to give readers a view of the wide range of disciplines and methodologies that have been exploited to develop biomaterials with the physical and biological features needed for specific clinical and medical applications.

Subjects:: Biomedical Engineering
Keywords:: Biomedical materials Biomedical engineering
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Current Topics in Biochemical Engineering

Genetic and cellular technologies in life science have recently achieved remarkable progress, and thus the roles of biochemical engineers have also been changed to incorporate the use of new technology. Therefore, this book deals with current topics in biochemical engineering. The chapters of this book discuss research that has introduced artificial enzymes, kinetic models in bioprocessing, a small-scale production process, and production of energy with microbial fuel. These chapters offer novel ideas for the production of effective compounds and energy. Moreover, other research has introduced the production technology of stem cells and biomedical processes using nanoshells and extracellular vesicles. These chapters will provide novel ideas to produce effective compounds and develop therapies for various diseases.

Subjects:: Electronic and Information Engineering
Keywords:: Biochemical engineering
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A Brief Introduction to Engineering Computation with MATLAB

A Brief Introduction to Engineering Computation with MATLAB is specifically designed for students with no programming experience. However, students are expected to be proficient in First Year Mathematics and Sciences and access to good reference books are highly recommended. Students are assumed to have a working knowledge of the Mac OS X or Microsoft Windows operating systems. The strategic goal of the course and book is to provide learners with an appreciation for the role computation plays in solving engineering problems. MATLAB specific skills that students are expected to be proficient at are: write scripts to solve engineering problems including interpolation, numerical integration and regression analysis, plot graphs to visualize, analyze and present numerical data, and publish reports.

Subjects:: Mechanical Engineering and Computing
Keywords:: MATLAB Engineering mathematics
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Electromagnetics, Volume 1

This book is a peer-reviewed open educational resource intended for electrical engineering students. The book employs the “transmission lines first” approach in which transmission lines are introduced using a lumped-element equivalent circuit model for a differential length of transmission line, leading to one-dimensional wave equations for voltage and current.

Subjects:: Electrical Engineering
Keywords:: Electromagnetism
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Fundamentals of Electrical Engineering I

The book focuses on the creation, manipulation, transmission, and reception of information by electronic means. Elementary signal theory; time- and frequency-domain analysis; Sampling Theorem. Digital information theory; digital transmission of analog signals; error-correcting codes.

Subjects:: Electrical Engineering
Keywords:: Electrical engineering
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Pattern Recognition

Pattern recognition, despite its relatively short history, has already found practical application in many areas of human activity. Systems of pattern recognition usually support people in performing tasks related to ensuring security, including access to premises and devices, detection of unusual changes (e.g. in medicine, cartography, geology), diagnosing technical conditions of devices, and many others. Nevertheless, pattern recognition is probably the most developing area because of the great demand for such solutions in the different areas of our lives. In this book we have collected the experience of scientists from different parts of the world who have researched diverse areas connected directly or indirectly with pattern recognition. We hope that this book will be a treasure trove of knowledge and inspiration for further research in the field of pattern recognition.

Subjects:: Electronic and Information Engineering and Computing
Keywords:: Pattern recognition systems Pattern perception Image processing
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Aerodynamics for Students

This web textbook contains information, data tables and computer programs for the study of aerodynamics, gas dynamics, propulsion, aircraft performance and flight mechanics. Topics relevant to the undergraduate engineering degree at a university level are covered.

Subjects:: Aeronautical and Aviation Engineering
Keywords:: Aerodynamics
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Automatic Flight Control Systems

This book focuses on a selection of key research areas, such as inertial navigation, control of unmanned aircraft and helicopters, trajectory control of an unmanned space re-entry vehicle, aeroservoelastic control, adaptive flight control, and fault tolerant flight control. This book consists of two major sections. The first section focuses on a literature review and some recent theoretical developments in flight control systems. The second section discusses some concepts of adaptive and fault-tolerant flight control systems. Each technique discussed in this book is illustrated by a relevant example.

Subjects:: Aeronautical and Aviation Engineering
Keywords:: Flight control Automatic pilot (Airplanes)
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Advances in Flight Control Systems

This book brings together reputable researchers from different countries in order to provide a comprehensive coverage of advanced and modern topics in flight control not yet reflected by other books. This product comprises 14 contributions submitted by 38 authors from 11 different countries and areas. It covers most of the currents main streams of flight control researches, ranging from adaptive flight control mechanism, fault tolerant flight control, acceleration based flight control, helicopter flight control, comparison of flight control systems and fundamentals. According to these themes the contributions are grouped in six categories, corresponding to six parts of the book.

Subjects:: Aeronautical and Aviation Engineering
Keywords:: Flight control Automatic pilot (Airplanes)
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