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The Breakdown of Civic Virtues and the Problem of Hate Speech: Is There Wisdom in Freedom of Speech?
When certain groups in society are disparaged and derogated verbally, aggression and violence against the groups can follow. When public figures and...
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MongoDB: The Journey from a Relational to a Document-Based Database for FIS Balance Sheet Management
This section describes the practical use of a document-based database (MongoDB). It first provides a brief history of database environment...
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Taxing Twenty-First Century Sins
Paternalists have recently turned their attention toward meat, plastic bags, automation, and carbon. Each one allegedly creates tax-justifying...
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The Two Volumes of the Book of Nature
The Book of Nature has been found. The mathematicalMathematical description of the universe gives the human mindHuman mind the power to manipulate...
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Applications of Artificial Intelligence in Financial Services
Having explored the definition of artificial intelligence, the core capabilities that it offers, and the dynamics of its evolution, we will now turn...
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The Role of the General Manager in the New Economy: Can We Save People from Technology Dysfunctions?
Artificial intelligence may destroy and transform millions of jobs, possibly exacerbating the shift in power from labor to capital. Low birth rates,...
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Introduction
Women in Microelectronics began with the twentieth century, and early women involved in electrical engineering are covered. The author of each...
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EPILOGUE
What will fluid mechanics look like one hundred years from now, in 2118? History has taught us that such predictions are hard to make. Very few in...
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The Battle to Embrace the Trend
This chapter describes as many overseas enterprises as possible which are important, active and representative, and depicts various aspects of global...
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Postface
The orrery has catalysed awareness, learning and appreciation for what is outside and around our world. After more than 8000 years of sky-watching...
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Impact of Age on Performance of the Cricketers
The natural process of getting older has a significant impact on everyone, and so the effects of aging on sportspersons are no exception. Thus, this...
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Clash of Symbols A ride through the riches of glyphs
From the ampersat and amerpsand, via smileys and runes to the ubiquitous presence of mathematical and other symbols in sciences and technology: both...
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The Rise of Bitcoin
Context is critical to understanding the creation of Bitcoin. In 2008, the world was in the midst of the greatest financial crisis since the Great...
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Power and the Potential for the Abuse of Power in Online Gateway Systems: An Analysis of Google
In Chapter 6, we introduced the pattern associated with platforms and platform envelopment. Chapter 7 introduced two additional patterns, Mandatory...
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The Age of Enlightenment (1685–1815): The Business of Invention
The Age of Enlightenment is perhaps the natural consequence of the preceding Age of Exploration. As our forebears began to exert some degree of...
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Spacecraft, Landers, Rovers and Payloads
There are now many activities underway concerning Artemis, including those of NASA Centers and its aerospace contractors, extending from the ground...
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Is There a Decline in Science in the Western World?
What is the state of science in the West? It’s a complex question. It is true that more and more scientific papers are published every day, but it is...
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A Narrative That Works for Both Energy and Economics
This chapter houses the concept behind the title of the book: a coherent combined energy and economic narrative is that the economy operates as a...
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Mathematical Background of Machine Learning
This chapter classifies the different machine learningMachine learning algorithms into domains and provides a formal definition of machine learning....
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Reason on the Ropes
Scientific American is the oldest continuously published monthly in the United States (it became monthly only in 1921), with 171 years of history. It...