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Autonomous Learning Systems is the result of over a decade of focused research and studies in this emerging area which spans a number of well-known and well-established disciplines that include machine learning, system identification, data mining, fuzzy logic, neural networks, neuro-fuzzy systems, control theory and pattern recognition. The evolution of these systems has been both industry-driven with an increasing demand from sectors such as defence...
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Elastic leadership is a framework and philosophy that can help you as you manage day-to-day and long-term challenges and strive to create the elusive self-organizing team. It is about understanding that your leadership needs to change based on which phase you discover that your team is in. This book provides you with a set of values, techniques, and practices to use in your leadership role. About the Technology Your team looks to you for guidance....
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How do you know what works and what doesn't? This book contains case studies highlighting the power of polytope projects for complex problem solving. Any sort of combinational problem characterized by a large variety of possibly complex constructions and deconstructions based on simple building blocks can be studied in a similar way. Although the majority of case studies are related to chemistry, the method is general and equally applicable to other...
4) Self-organizing networks: self-planning, self-optimization and self-healing for GSM, UMTS and LTE
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"The book offers a multi-technology approach as it will consider the implications of the different SON requirements for 2G and 3G networks, as well as 4G wireless technologies"--
5) Americonned
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As politicians on both sides of the aisle have created a protection racket for the rich and impeded unionization in the process, two workers lead a movement to unionize for the first time at one of the world's largest companies.
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"A self-healing network has a network architecture that can withstand a failure in its transmission paths. The biggest issue, to date, in self-healing systems is fault identification and its classification. This book uses the techniques of casual reasoning to classify the candidate faults from the fault identification process. It employs a similarity matrix in order to match the user activity log and its pattern in a transformed space. I then describes...
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After years of anticipation, autonomous vehicles are now tested on public roads all over the world. Dozens of startups have sprung up alongside established auto and tech giants, who are also testing the waters, to form what many hope will be a transformative new industry. As ambitious innovators are rushing to cash in on what they see as high tech's next pot of gold, some experts warn there are still daunting challenges to overcome.
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A bestseller--more than 300,000 copies sold, translated into seventeen languages, and featured in the Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Miami Herald, Harvard Business Review, Fast Company, and Fortune; Shows how discoveries in quantum physics, biology, and chaos theory enable us to deal successfully with change and uncertainty in our organizations and our lives and Includes a new chapter on how the new sciences can help us understand and cope with...
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Maya is an undocumented worker who has crossed the U.S. border from Mexico to search for her sister Rosa, and to begin a new life. After being reunited, Rosa gets Maya a job with a janitorial service in a large office building. While working, Maya happens upon Sam Shapiro, a muckraking lawyer and union agitator whom the service-workers' union has assigned to bring its "justice for janitors" campaign to the building. Appalled at the work conditions...
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"Karl Marlantes's debut novel Matterhorn has been hailed as a modern classic of war literature. In his new novel, Deep River, Marlantes turns to another mode of storytelling--the family epic--to craft a stunningly expansive narrative of human suffering, courage, and reinvention. In the early 1900s, as the oppression of Russia's imperial rule takes its toll on Finland, the three Koski siblings--Ilmari, Matti, and the politicized young Aino--are forced...
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"The story of two dedicated women, a labor organizer and an immigrant laundry worker, coming together to spearhead an audacious campaign to unionize one of the most dangerous industries in one of the most anti-union states--Arizona--and offering a nuanced look at the modern-day labor movement and the future of workers' rights"--
On the Line takes readers inside a bold five-year campaign to bring a union to the dangerous industrial laundry factories...
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Fannie Sellins (1872-1919) lived during the Gilded Age of American Industrialization, when the Carnegies and Morgans wore jewels while their laborers wore rags. Fannie dreamed that America could achieve its ideals of equality and justice for all, and she sacrificed her life to help that dream come true. Fannie became a union activist, helping to create St. Louis, Missouri, Local 67 of the United Garment Workers of America. She traveled the nation...
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Long before the arrival of the twenty-four-hour pharmacy, folk healers took care of aches, pains, and sniffles with home-grown remedies. Hidden in their kitchens, they had their own bag of tricks used for centuries to treat what ailed them. Growing up, Clementine Holmes Bass learned about many of these home cures from her beloved aunt Dollie, a woman whose wits and wisdom profoundly impacted the author's life. Some of her best days were spent in Aunt...
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Bienvenue dans une aventure o nous reprenons le contrle de nos foyers, un flacon à la fois. Je suis Marie Verdon, passionnée de simplicité et convaincue que nous n'avons pas besoin de nous entourer de produits chimiques pour vivre dans un environnement propre et sain. J'ai grandi dans une petite maison de campagne o ma grand-mère fabriquait tout elle-même. Le parfum du savon maison et le crépitement du vinaigre en action font partie de mes souvenirs...
16) Norma Rae
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Norma Rae, the Southern millworker who revolutionizes a small town and discovers a power in herself she never knew she had. Under the guidance of a New York unionizer and with increasing courage and determination, Norma Rae organizes her fellow factory workers to fight for better conditions and wages. Based on a true story.
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Declutter your home without being overworked or overwhelmed.
Have a home 10 times more clean in only 10 minutes a day!
Lorraine Leet looks at why people clutter and makes it easy to unravel the causes. She gives the Clutterbug permission to be authentic while making progress decluttering.
What if your home was picture perfect?
What you will learn in this book:
• That being a Clutterbug is okay.
• How to eliminate procrastination.
• How...
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This book talks about how a cluttered house or space can cause subconscious stress without you even knowing it.Marie talks about how she has developed several techniques for easy and stress free decluttering and organizing ones space.Her step by step instructions will help you find joy in getting things done and help you relax.This book is unique in that it goes into detail of what the most critical and common issues that many homemakers, mothers,spouses...
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Decluttering our homes can be difficult.Letting go of things can be challenging.Living with less seems impossible.With wit and tough love, Stop Buying Bins seeks to break down the obstacles that tether us to our possessions. Why do we hold onto belongings that no longer serve us? How do we change our perspective regarding our things? And once we've tackled those questions, how do we go about actually downsizing our clutter?Told through individual...
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Get the Summary of Dana K. White's ‘How to Manage Your Home Without Losing Your Mind’ in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary and not the original book. Original book introduction: Do you experience heart palpitations at the sound of an unexpected doorbell? Do you stare in bewilderment at your messy home, wondering how in the world it got this way again? You're not alone. But, there is hope for you and your home.
Managing your home isn't...
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