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In this thesis, the first measurement of the running of the top quark mass is presented. This thesis also describes a simultaneous measurement of the inclusive top quark-antiquark production cross section and the top quark mass in the simulation.

This book introduces readers to the key provisions of the URRAN-based technical asset management system - a methodology for managing resources and risks by analyzing and ensuring the required levels of reliability and safety in Russia's railway transport facilities.

This book presents a wide and comprehensive spectrum of issues and problems related to fractional-order dynamical systems.

Based on those experiences, this book provides insights into how to improve the decision making process of your organization, whether it be large or small.For decision makers and those providing market information for making decisions, this book provide guidelines for a framework which includes systems thinking.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed papers of the 4th International Conference on Applied Informatics, ICAI 2021, held in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in October, 2021.The 35 full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 89 submissions. health care information systems; software and systems modeling;

A short discussion of other clinically used antimalarial natural products leads to a detailed treatment of additional natural products with significant antiplasmodial activity, classified by compound type.

This book presents the 2020 Digital Platform Economy Index (DPE Index).

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First Workshop on Monte Carlo Search, MCS 2020, organized in conjunction with IJCAI 2020.

This book reports on the state of the art in the field of aerial-aquatic locomotion, focusing on the main challenges concerning the translation of this important ability from nature to synthetic systems, and describing innovative engineering solutions that have been applied in practice by the authors at the Aerial Robotics Lab of Imperial College London. After a general introduction to aerial-aquatic locomotion in nature, and a summary of the most important engineering achievements, the book introduces readers to important physical and mathematical aspects of the multimodal locomotion problem. Besides the basic physics involved in aerial-aquatic locomotion, the role of different phenomena happening in fluids, or those due to structural mechanics effects or to power provision, are presented in depth, across a large dimension range, from millimeters to hundreds of meters. In turn, a practice-oriented discussion on the obstacles and opportunities of miniaturization, for bothrobots and animals is carried out. This is followed by applied engineering considerations, which describe relevant hardware considerations involved in propulsion, control, communication and fabrication. Different case studies are analyzed in detail, reporting on the latest research carried out by the authors, and covering topics such as propulsive aquatic escape, the challenging mechanics of water impact, and a hybrid sailing and flying aircraft. Offering extensive and timely information on the design, construction and operation of small-scale robots, and on multimodal locomotion, this book provides researchers, students and professionals with a comprehensive and timely reference guide to the topic of aerial-aquatic locomotion, and the relevant bioinspired approaches. It is also expected to inspire future research and foster a stronger multidisciplinary discussion in the field.

This book covers a wide range of advanced analytical tools, from electrochemical to in-situ/ex-situ material characterization techniques, as well as the modeling of corrosion systems to foster understanding and prediction.

This book includes extended and revised selected papers from the 9th International Conference on Smart Cities and Green ICT Systems, SMARTGREENS 2020, and the 6th International Conference on Vehicle Technology and Intelligent Transport Systems, VEHITS 2020, held in Prague, Czech Republic, in May 2020.

This book analyzes the issue of European fiscal State aid in order to provide insights into the related evolution prospects and legal problems. State aid has assumed a central position in the field of taxation, becoming the most important instrument of European legal integration, especially in the area of direct taxes.

This book focuses on complex shaped micro- and nanostructures for future biomedical and sensing applications that were investigated by both theory and experiments. The first part of the book explores rotation-translation coupling of artificial microswimmers at low Reynolds numbers.

This book constitutes the post-conference proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Modern Problems of Robotics, MPoR 2020, held in Moscow, Russia, in March 2020.The 16 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 21 submissions.

This book describes the development of an innovative solution for electrified roadway pavements based on engineered cementitious composites, which are exhibiting an extreme tensile strain capacity that is much higher than conventional concrete.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Information, Communication and Computing Technology, ICICCT 2021, held in New Delhi, India, in May 2021.The 16 full papers and 4 short paper presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 83 qualified submissions.

This book examines how urban agriculture (UA) is valued in the sustainable city. Through a comparative examination of UA projects in four cities across the Americas ¿ Rosario, Argentina; Toronto, Canada; Medellín, Colombia; and Charlotte, USA ¿ the book illustrates local manifestations of the socio-ecological dimensions of the global food system, and traces theoretical and empirical explanations for the impact of global political economic structures (sustainable neoliberalism) on local efforts to promote social and environmental goals through UA. The study contributes to literature on UA, sustainability, and urban geography through examining the ability of marginalized communities to compete for land on which to grow produce in contribution to their food security, livelihoods, communities, and environments, and will be of interest to UA practitioners, students, and scholars of geography, sociology, sustainability studies, environmental studies, and food studies.This project is distinctive for its global - local orientation that uses local cases to shed light on global phenomena relating to sustainability, neoliberalism, and policy mobilities. It is also important for its qualitative approach to understanding the perceived value of UA. Throughout the research, stakeholders emphasized the qualitative values of UA (such as social integration for new immigrants) that are not easily captured in statistical representations of the economic value of a given piece of urban land. As such, this book seeks to contribute to understanding about the contributions UA makes to a city beyond the food produced, and fill gaps in literature regarding the local manifestations of global policy in UA projects seeking to address both sustainability and social justice objectives.

Further, it examines the impacts of risk and risk management on society and the economy.The book improves awareness and advances knowledge on the complex and changeable risk and risk management fields of study.

This book constitutes refereed proceedings of the 13th International Conference on International Conference on Computational Collective Intelligence, ICCCI 2021, held in Kallithea, Rhodes, Greece, in October - November 2021. The papers are organized according to the following topical sections: social networks and recommender systems;

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed papers of the workshops held at the 10th International Conference on New Trends in Model and Data Engineering, MEDI 2021, held in Tallinn, Estonia, in June 2021: Workshop on moDeling, vErification and Testing of dEpendable CriTical systems, DETECT 2021;

This book constitutes selected and extended papers from the Second International Workshop on Deployable Machine Learning for Security Defense, MLHat 2021, held in August 2021. The papers are organized in topical sections on machine learning for security, and malware attack and defense.

The depletion of fossil fuel reserves and concerns for environmental degradation due to the fossil fuel burning have led the scientific community to look for alternative renewable energy sources. The first two chapters provide introduction to the anaerobic digestion (AD) technologies and direct interspecies electron transfer in AD.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th Symposium and Summer School on Service-Oriented Computing, SummerSOC 2021, held in September 2021. The 9 full and 2 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 24 submissions. The papers are organized in topical secions on quantum computing;

This book constitutes the conference proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Network Games, Control and Optimization, NETGCOOP 2020, held in Cargese, Corsica, France, in September 2021*.The 12 full papers and 16 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 44 submissions. game theory in mobile and wireless networks;

As sequel to Aquatic Animal Nutrition - A Mechanistic Perspective from Individuals to Generations, the present treatise on organic macro- and micronutrients continues the unique cross fertilization of aquatic ecology/ecophysiology and aquaculture.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 4th Conference on Creativity in Intellectual Technologies and Data Science, CIT&DS 2021, held in Volgograd, Russia, in September 2021.The 39 full papers, 7 short papers, and 2 keynote papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 182 submissions.

This book focuses on three core knowledge requirements for effective and thorough data analysis for solving business problems. This volume will be useful to business data analysts, data scientists, and market research professionals, as well as aspiring practitioners in business data analytics.