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E-Commerce Agents Marketplace Solutions, Security Issues, and Supply and Demand


Free Download E-Commerce Agents :Marketplace Solutions, Security Issues, and Supply and Demand by Jiming Liu, Yiming Ye
English | PDF | 2001 | 383 Pages | ISBN : 3540419349 | 4.2 MB
Among the many changes brought by the Internet is the emergence of electronic commerce over the Web. E-commerce activities, such as the online exchange of information, services, and products, are opening up completely new opportunities for business, at new levels of productivity and profitability. In parallel with the emergence of e-commerce, intelligent software agents as entities capable of independent action in open, unpredictable environments have matured into a promising new technology. Quite naturally, e-commerce agents hold great promise for exploiting the Internet’s full potential as an electronic marketplace. The 20 coherently written chapters in this book by leading researchers and professionals present the state of the art in agent-mediated e-commerce. Researchers, professionals, and advanced students interested in e-commerce or agent technology will find this book an indispensable source of information and reference.

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Razoxane and Dexrazoxane – Two Multifunctional Agents Experimental and Clinical Results


Free Download Razoxane and Dexrazoxane – Two Multifunctional Agents: Experimental and Clinical Results By Kurt Hellmann (auth.), Kurt Hellmann, Walter Rhomberg (eds.)
2011 | 243 Pages | ISBN: 904819167X | PDF | 4 MB
Razoxane and dexrazoxane are two novel drugs with some uniquely useful features. They block cell division at the G2/M border, but nowhere else, so that they have a low toxicity profile. They suppress tumor metastasis and haemorrhages through normalization of pathological blood vessels. Razoxane potentiates radiotherapy especially in the treatment of soft tissue sarcomas and gastrointestinal neoplasms. They protect normal tissues against toxic chemicals, e.g. the myocardium against anthracyclines or subcutaneous tissue against injuries caused by incidental extravasations of anthracyclines. Dexrazoxane is the only drug approved by the FDA/EMEA for the specific purpose of preventing cardiac damage when giving the widely used and effective antitumor anthracyclines. The reduction of cardiotoxicity is achieved without response reduction or reducing of time to progression of tumors. While the full analysis of their actions at the molecular level is not yet completely understood, it seems most likely that it is via an inhibition on the topoisomerase II a. Moreover, the drugs have the ability to chelate several metals including iron, copper or zinc. The protection of normal tissues is nowhere more important than that of brain, and there are indications that the proteins thought to be responsible for the ravages of Alzheimer´s disease could be stabilized by one or both these drugs.

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Defence Industry Applications of Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems


Free Download Defence Industry Applications of Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems By Alex Healing, Robert Ghanea-Hercock (auth.), Michal Pěchouček, Simon G. Thompson, Holger Voos (eds.)
2008 | 166 Pages | ISBN: 3764385707 | PDF | 7 MB
Defense and security related applications are increasingly being tackled by researchers and practioners using technologies developed in the field of Intelligent Agent research. This book is a collection of recent refereed papers drawn from workshops and other colloquia held in various venues around the world in the last two years. The contributions in this book describe work in the development of command and control systems, military communications systems, information systems, surveillance systems, autonomous vehicles, simulators and Human Computer Interactions. The broad nature of the application domain is matched by the diversity of techniques used in the papers that are included in the collection which provides, for the first time, an overview of the most significant work being performed by the leading workers in this area. It provides a single reference point for the state of the art in the field at the moment and will be of interest to Computer Science professionals working in the defense sector, and academics and students investigating the technology of Intelligent Agents that are curious to see how the technology is applied in practice.

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Brownian Agents and Active Particles Collective Dynamics in the Natural and Social Sciences


Free Download J. D. Farmer, "Brownian Agents and Active Particles: Collective Dynamics in the Natural and Social Sciences"
English | 2007 | ISBN: 3540738444, 3540439382 | PDF | pages: 426 | 10.6 mb
This book lays out a vision for a coherent framework for understanding complex systems. By developing the genuine idea of Brownian agents, the author combines concepts from informatics, such as multiagent systems, with approaches of statistical many-particle physics. It demonstrates that Brownian agent models can be successfully applied in many different contexts, ranging from physicochemical pattern formation to swarming in biological systems.

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Free Agents How Evolution Gave Us Free Will [Audiobook]


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English | ASIN: B0CFRHLHB6 | 2023 | 10 hours and 52 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 310 MB
Author: Kevin J. Mitchell
Narrator: Kevin J. Mitchell

An evolutionary case for the existence of free will. Scientists are learning more and more about how brain activity controls behavior and how neural circuits weigh alternatives and initiate actions. As we probe ever deeper into the mechanics of decision making, many conclude that agency-or free will-is an illusion. In Free Agents, leading neuroscientist Kevin Mitchell presents a wealth of evidence to the contrary, arguing that we are not mere machines responding to physical forces but agents acting with purpose. Traversing billions of years of evolution, Mitchell tells the remarkable story of how living beings capable of choice emerged from lifeless matter. He explains how the emergence of nervous systems provided a means to learn about the world, granting sentient animals the capacity to model, predict, and simulate.

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Agents of Babylon What the Prophecies of Daniel Tell Us about the End of Days


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English | ISBN: 1414380534 | 2016 | 384 pages | AZW3 | 2 MB
In his #1 New York Times bestseller Agents of the Apocalypse, noted prophecy expert Dr. David Jeremiah explored the book of Revelation through the lens of its major players. Now, in the much-anticipated follow-up, Agents of Babylon, Dr. Jeremiah examines prophecy through the eyes of the characters in the book of Daniel, explains what the prophecies mean, and helps us understand how these prophetic visions and dreams apply to our lives today. Written in the same highly engaging half dramatization, half Bible teaching format as Agents of the Apocalypse, Agents of Babylon is not only an in-depth exploration of the characters and prophecies contained in the book of Daniel but also a dramatic retelling of Scripture that is sure to bring ancient prophecy to light like never before.

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macOS Daemonology Communicate with Daemons, Agents, and Helpers Through XPC


Free Download macOS Daemonology: Communicate with Daemons, Agents, and Helpers Through XPC by Volodymyr Vashurkin
English | October 8, 2021 | ISBN: 1484272765 | 167 pages | MOBI | 2.17 Mb
Take advantage of the full power of Swift through XPC. Development for macOS differs from iOS and web-based development because of multicomponent applications. Besides the usual GUI-based applications and app extensions, there are a wide range of daemons―processes that run in the background―to worry about. These include system monitoring, event listening, notification agents, and many-many more.

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Remittances As Social Practices and Agents of Change


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English | 2023 | ISBN: 303081503X | 465 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 23 MB
This open access book explores the transformative effects of remittances. Remittances are conceptualized as flows of money, objects, ideas, traditions, and symbolic capital, mapping out a cross-border space in which people live, work, and communicate with multiple belongings. By doing so, they effect social change both in places of origin and destination. However, their power to improve individual living conditions and community infrastructure mainly results from global inequality. Hence, we challenge the remittance mantra and go beyond the migration-development-nexus by revealing dependencies and frictions in remittance relations. Remittances are thus scrutinized in their effects on both social cohesion and social rupture. By highlighting the transformative effects of remittance in the context of conflict, climate change, and the postcolonial, we shed light on the future of transnational society.

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