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In this slide, it explains 3 questions: (1) What are the top 20 journals in the subject discipline of business and international management, (2) How can I find the most highly cited articles on a specific strategy, and (3) How can I find the articles from practitioner magazines and newspapers.
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In this video, a team of students now planning a marketing strategy for their business, and require theoretical frameworks and concepts found in the academic literature, that is, academic journal articles. They have so many questions, such as which articles are most influential and should be read first, which are the top journals in the field, and who are the prolific authors on the topic?
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- Information retrieval Information resources -- Evaluation Bibliometrics
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With power searching, you can quickly identify the many freely available, top-quality reports produced by professional bodies such as top investment banks, accounting firms, and management consultancies. In this video, a student, Christina demonstrates three advanced search tips on Google.
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- Google (Firm) Web search engines Internet searching
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In this slide, it explains 3 questions: (1) How do I gather the forecast of key economic indicators in Hong Kong, (2) How can I find the market data and analytics for mobile phones in China, and (3) How can I create a customized table to compare P/F ratios of all constituent stocks in Hang Seng Index.
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- China -- Hong Kong Economic conditions -- Statistics Business -- Databases
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For most of us, research starts with a search engine like Google. Is a search engine always the best tool for getting business information? Have you experienced the frustration of not being able to find what you need online? In this video, the students on the team are about to face some challenges as they begin their information search.
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- Business planning Corporations -- Finance Proposal writing in business
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In this video, a team of students are working together to create a business plan--a formal document that describes the business goals of a start-up company, and provides a strategic map to show how it will attain those goals. What kinds of information do they need to write a business plan? Which information sources will provide them with the critical evidence
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- Business planning Proposal writing in business
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In this video, Prof Klaus Tochtermann, the Director of Leibniz Information Centre for Economics (ZBW) and Professor of Media Informatics of University of Kiel in German shares his view on the importance of becoming information literate.
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- Information literacy
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In this video, Prof. Mark Hampton share his view on how to make a creative video.
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- Statistics and Research Methods
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- Creative ability History -- Research Humanities -- Research
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In this video, a team of students are suggested to digitize the works of the exhibition.
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- Statistics and Research Methods
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- Intellectual property Humanities -- Research Copyright
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In this video, a team of students have been collecting the various type of information that needed for the exhibition. One of them suggested to show some videos during the exhibition to the public and you found the TV programmes about the cinema development of Hong Kong that was broadcasted in television channels found are extremely useful for the exhibition.
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- Statistics and Research Methods
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- Exhibitions -- Planning Intellectual property YouTube (Electronic resource) Humanities -- Research Copyright
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In this video, Prof. Mark Hampton share his view on why we need to care about other historians' ideas? Why don't we just finding facts.
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- Communication in the humanities Humanities -- Research History -- Research
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In this video, Prof. Mark Hampton shares his view on how do historians select relevant information.
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- Statistics and Research Methods
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- History -- Research -- Methodology Information resources -- Evaluation Humanities -- Research History -- Research
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In this video, a team of students arrive the university library and meet the Reference Librarian at a discussion room. The Reference Librarian firstly recaps the concepts of the AAOCC. Then, she mentions the additional criteria for evaluating the primary and secondary sources!
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- Statistics and Research Methods
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- Information resources Information resources -- Evaluation Information literacy
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- Video
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In this video, a team of students meet again with the Prof. Brown after finding various kinds of primary and secondary resources for the exhibition. Prof. Brown had taken a look at the resources that they have collected and commented that some of the primary resources. He reminded them to use a list of criteria to evaluate the resources the plan to use for the exhibition. Let's check out what are the criteria he suggested to use!
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- Statistics and Research Methods
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- Information resources -- Evaluation Humanities -- Research -- Methodology Humanities -- Research
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In this video, a team of students are now discussing where is the best place to find primary sources and search more efficiently.
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- Statistics and Research Methods
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- Information resources Information retrieval Humanities -- Research
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In the exercise, learner need to determine where is the best place to find these primary information.
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- Statistics and Research Methods
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- Information resources Humanities -- Research Information literacy
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In this video, Prof. Mark Hampton share his view on how do professional historians look for information.
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- Statistics and Research Methods
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- History -- Research -- Methodology History -- Archival resources Humanities -- Research History -- Research
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- Video
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In this exercise, learners are require to order the tasks in a way that reflect the research usual practice.
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- Statistics and Research Methods
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- Humanities -- Research -- Methodology Humanities -- Research
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- Others
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In this video, Prof. Christine Bruce explains the seven things you should pay attention to when you plan the information needs of your research. (1) Use information and communication technology to be really up to date with what's happening. (2) Encounter different types of sources and knowing when it's important to use them. Not only academic literature but also people, social media, the environment, visual information, sound, anything that might inform you. (3) Create your processes to tackle problems or make decisions. (4) Connect information of all kinds that you encounter with specific projects, problems, or areas of interest. (5) Build your knowledge base about your fields of study. (6) Use your creativity and intuition to do something new. (7) Seventhly using information wisely for the benefit of others.
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- Study skills Learning Information literacy
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In this video, a team of four students are now discussing how to kick-start the exhibition and what information sources in needed
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- Statistics and Research Methods
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- Exhibitions -- Planning Humanities -- Research
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In this slide, it explains the reason why the information came from authoritative sources but still not trustworthy. The possible reason could be (1) the way information is produced, (2)carelessness or loaded with secret intentions, (3) in favour of their hidden goal, (4)not spending enough time, (5) limited topic vocabulary, (6) limited by technical barriers, (7)information that fits with your knowledge & beliefs, and (8) from a source that you think is trustworthy.
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- Research -- Methodology Information resources -- Evaluation
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In this slide, it introduces different type of resource was created with a particular kind of purpose: to transmit facts, to interpret the findings, to put forward a viewpoint, to let fellow workers know some important idea, and so on.
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- Information resources Research -- Methodology
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When preparing for research tasks (e.g. articles, essay, projects, reports, thesis,...), you have to go through a series of small tasks. In this slide, it elaborates and expands the research topic before carrying out the actual search.
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- Research -- Methodology
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In this slide, it introduces the six frames for informed learning, suggested by Prof. Christine Bruce, would help learners brainstorm about the research topic in all-rounded, comprehensive way. The six aspects of your research topic that you should brainstorm for are: (1) Content frame, (2) Competency frame, (3) Learning to learn frame, (4) Personal relevance frame, (5) Social impact frame, and (6) Relational frame.
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- Learning Information literacy
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In this slide, it explains the 4-steps-method outlined by the University of Pittsburg and it illustrate the role information and information literacy play in each step to help learners to see the bigger picture.
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- Information retrieval Study skills Information literacy
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The way you put ideas together reflect your level of understanding about the issue you have inquired in your research, which, is what your professor looks for when she/he assess your work. In this slide, it introduces 5 level of research output and note the differences between different sentences, and the depth of idea you could get.
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- Research -- Methodology Report writing Academic writing
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Apart from subject domain knowledge, there are some personal competencies and skills that learner may want to develop in university. The personal competencies and skills include, critical thinking, evaluating definitions, evaluating arguments, evaluating news & media, evaluating scientific studies, evaluating disagreement, and evaluating statistics & graphs.
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- Critical thinking Media literacy Journalism -- Social aspects Information literacy Press criticism
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In this slide, there could be as many as 12 types of biases that information user could fall victim when dealing with information.
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- Fallacies (Logic) Cognition Selectivity (Psychology)
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In this exercise, learners are required to distinguish the information belong to "primary sources" or "secondary sources". Primary information source are anything created at the time when the incident/event happened. They were created with the intention to record the incident/event. It could be a document, manuscript, autobiography, a recording, a diary, an artifact, and so on. Secondary information source is anything (e.g., documents, records, artifacts, objects, and so on) that discuss, relates, or refers another piece of information existing elsewhere.
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- Information resources Research -- Methodology Information literacy
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In this video, Prof. Christine Bruce explains that being able to use information to learn, being an informed learner is about being able to maximize the potential of the information environment you have. It will make it possible for you to be productive, capable, and also innovative and creative.
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- Study skills Learning Information literacy
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In this video, Prof. Christine Bruce explains that being information literate help you find creative and innovative ways of doing things, which is invaluably advantageous to your wider profession.
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- Study skills Learning Information literacy
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In this video, Prof. Christine Bruce explains that being information literate give you critical and strategic approaches to solve problems. It's you who need to decide using which type (e.g. research or non-research based) of information to support ideas, claims, and proposals that you propose in your research task.
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- Study skills Learning Information literacy
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In this video, Prof. Christine Bruce explains that being able to evaluate information in leisure, home, or professional situations is an essential skill. Our information world is always changing, and shelf-life of most information is no more than two years!
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- Study skills Learning Information literacy
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In this video, Prof. Christine Bruce shares her view on "Why InfoLit is vital?" through the search & research they do every day.
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- Study skills Learning Information literacy
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Listening in English at university can be a challenge for many students. Students may find it hard to cope with the speed of lecturers, dealing with technical vocabulary, or being able to concentrate on the lecture for long periods of time. By reading thisguide and completing the activities, you will be able to pinpoint which listening challenges affect you,and how to deal with them. Better academic listening can lead to more understanding in lectures and a more fulfilling learning experience at university.
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- English Language
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- English language Listening comprehension
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- e-book
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A 2-minute video (with transcript) discusses the anatomy and function of the optic nerve, as well as describe what can happen when the nerve is damaged. Additional notes are available at https://www.neuroscientificallychallenged.com/optic-nerve-deficits .
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- Optometry
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- Optic nerve Optic nerve -- Diseases Nerves Cranial
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- Video
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This course focuses on the thermal, luminous, and acoustic behavior of buildings, examining the basic scientific principles underlying these phenomena and introducing students to technologies and analysis techniques for designing comfortable indoor environments. Students are challenged to apply these techniques and explore the role light, energy, and sound can play in shaping architecture.
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- Environmental Engineering and Building Services Engineering
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- Buildings -- Environmental engineering Sustainable buildings -- Design construction
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- Courseware
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The book brings together Open Access content from around the web and enhances it with dynamic video lectures about the core areas of theoretical linguistics (phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics), supplemented with discussion of psycholinguistic and neurolinguistic findings.
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- English Language
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- Linguistics
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- e-book
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An hour-long lecture explaining the physics of ultrasound, shared via the Easy Radiology youtube channel.
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- Medical Imaging
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- Diagnostic ultrasonic imaging Medical physics
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- Video
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The MIT Biology Department core Introductory Biology courses, 7.012, 7.013, 7.014, 7.015, and 7.016 all cover the same core material, which includes the fundamental principles of biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and cell biology. The focus of 7.013 is on genomic approaches to human biology, including neuroscience, development, immunology, tissue repair and stem cells, tissue engineering, and infectious and inherited diseases, including cancer.
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- Biology
- Keywords:
- Human biology Biology
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- Courseware
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Videos and related materials for the Strauss-Wisneski Indigenous and Integrative Medicine Lectures.
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- Food and Beverage and Food Science
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- Diet Nutrition Health
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- Video
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This course focuses on men's health with particular attention to sexual and reproductive health and healthcare use among adolescents, extending throughout the lifespan.
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- Health Sciences
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- Men -- Health hygiene Sexual health Masculinity
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- Courseware
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This course covers signals, systems and inference in communication, control and signal processing. Topics include input-output and state-space models of linear systems driven by deterministic and random signals; time- and transform-domain representations in discrete and continuous time; and group delay. State feedback and observers. Probabilistic models; stochastic processes, correlation functions, power spectra, spectral factorization. Least-mean square error estimation; Wiener filtering. Hypothesis testing; detection; matched filters.
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- Electronic and Information Engineering|Electrical Engineering
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- Signal processing Signal theory (Telecommunication) System analysis
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This course explains how electric mobility can work for various businesses, including fleet managers, automobile manufacturers and charging infrastructure providers. The experts of TU Delft, together with other knowledge institutes and companies in the Netherlands, will provide insights into and examples of how innovations have disrupted conventional businesses and created new businesses altogether. This will be explained through various concepts and models, including total cost of ownership models, lean mass production, value chain thinking and business integration.
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- Electrical Engineering
- Keywords:
- Electric vehicles Electric vehicle industry
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This course focuses on the technology behind electric cars. You will explore the working principle of electric vehicles, delve into the key roles played by motors and power electronics, learn about battery technology, EV charging, smart charging and about future trends in the development of electric cars.
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- Electrical Engineering
- Keywords:
- Electric vehicles Electric vehicles -- Batteries
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- Courseware
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This course explores the most important aspects of this new market, including state-of-the-art technology of electric vehicles and charging infrastructure; profitable business models for electric mobility; and effective policies for governmental bodies, which will accelerate the uptake of electric mobility.
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- Electrical Engineering
- Keywords:
- Electric vehicles
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- Courseware
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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.
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- Electrical Engineering
- Keywords:
- Electromagnetism
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- e-book
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Geospatial artificial intelligence sometimes referred to as geoAI is recently receiving so much attention. From large-scale projects to smaller projects. GeoAI can be referred to as using artificial intelligence with Geographical information system to analyse and produce solution-based predictions.
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- Computing and Land Surveying and Geo-Informatics
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- Geospatial data Geographic information systems Artificial intelligence
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- Others
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Nowadays, mobile communication services are penetrating into our society at an explosive growth rate. Applications in mobile devices offer limitations, restriction, and guidelines on how mobile software can be used in order to simplify the mobile usage. As smart phones and tablets are becoming the daily computing device of choice for young ages, it is expected that mobile applications and services should be as flexible, high quality, and secure as the desktop systems. In this book, latest trends in mobile computing will be discussed. In the first section, cloud computing topics will be discussed widely into four chapters to give information to the reader about topics such as challenges, services, edge computing, and distributed clouds needed to integrate this promising issue into the next generation.
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- Mobile Computing
- Keywords:
- Mobile computing
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- e-book
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How to use Bloomberg to search for business and industry reports
- Subjects:
- Finance
- Keywords:
- Business Corporations Corporations -- Finance
- Resource Type:
- Video