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Free Download Susanna Søberg, "Winter Swimming: The Nordic Way Towards a Healthier and Happier Life"
English | ISBN: 1529417465 | 2023 | 255 pages | EPUB, PDF | 4 MB + 7 MB
A beautifully illustrated exploration of cold-water traditions in Scandinavia and around the world, and a thorough account of why it provides such a boost to body and soul.

Free Download Kuah-Pearce Khun Eng, "State, Society and Religious Engineering: Towards a Reformist Buddhism in Singapore"
English | 2009 | ISBN: 9812308652 | PDF | pages: 351 | 9.2 mb
The book looks at how religion in Singapore is being subjected to the processes of modernisation and change. The Singapore State has consciously brought religion under its guidance. It has exercised strong bureaucratic and legal control over the functioning of all religions in Singapore. The Chinese community and the Buddhist Sangha have responded to this by restructuring their temple institutions into large multi-functional temple complexes. There has been quite a few books written on the role of the Singapore State but, so far, none has been written on the topic – the relationship between state, society and religion. It will help to fill the missing gap in the scholarly literature on this area. This is also a topic of great significance in many Asian, particularly Southeast Asian, countries and it will serve as an important book for future reference in this area of research and comparative studies.

Free Download Sara Jones, "Towards a Collaborative Memory: German Memory Work in a Transnational Context "
English | ISBN: 1800735952 | 2022 | 276 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Focusing on the memory of the German Democratic Republic, Towards a Collaborative Memory explores the cross-border collaborations of three German institutions. Using an innovative theoretical and methodological framework, drawing on relational sociology, network analysis and narrative, the study highlights the epistemic coloniality that has underpinned global partnerships across European actors and institutions. Sara Jones reconceptualizes transnational memory towards an approach that is collaborative not only in its practices, but also in its ethics, and shows how these institutions position themselves within dominant relationship cultures reflected between East and West, and North and South.

Free Download Advancements in Knowledge Distillation: Towards New Horizons of Intelligent Systems
English | 2023 | ISBN: 3031320948 | 398 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 33 MB
The book provides a timely coverage of the paradigm of knowledge distillation-an efficient way of model compression. Knowledge distillation is positioned in a general setting of transfer learning, which effectively learns a lightweight student model from a large teacher model. The book covers a variety of training schemes, teacher-student architectures, and distillation algorithms. The book covers a wealth of topics including recent developments in vision and language learning, relational architectures, multi-task learning, and representative applications to image processing, computer vision, edge intelligence, and autonomous systems. The book is of relevance to a broad audience including researchers and practitioners active in the area of machine learning and pursuing fundamental and applied research in the area of advanced learning paradigms.

Free Download Electroslag Remelting Towards Clean Steel
English | 2023 | ISBN: 9819932564 | 443 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 95 MB
This book introduces the results that the authors have achieved on the study of functional principle of electroslag remelting for production of high-quality clean steel. The dependence of oxygen, sulfur, and non-metallic inclusions on the processing parameters of electroslag remelting is assessed. The fundamentals and technologies of clean steel production by electroslag remelting have been applied in the round to discuss oxygen, sulfur, and non-metallic inclusions evolution and control. A general concluding remark and a perspective for future work are present. The book is likely to be of interest to university teachers, researchers, R&D engineers, and graduate students in material processing and pyrometallurgy who wish to explore innovative technologies that lead to more energy-efficient and environmentally sustainable clean steel production.

Free Download Advanced Materials Towards Energy Sustainability: Theory and Implementations
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1032434996 | 213 Pages | PDF (True) | 8 MB
Industry 4.0 is revolutionizing the way companies manufacture, improve, and distribute their products. It demands the application of renewable energy using advanced materials. Renewable energy is reshaping the fields of industry, agriculture, and households, providing reliable power supplies and fuel diversification. This enhances energy security, lowers the risk of fuel spills, and reduces the need for imported fuels. Examples of material applications used for renewable energy are photovoltaic, solar cells, which can be used in agriculture. This volume has a diverse audience including students, researchers, and academics engaged in materials and renewable energy.

Free Download Towards Sustainability in the Wine Industry by Valorization of Waste Products: Bioactive Extracts
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1032489499 | 133 Pages | PDF (True) | 14 MB
This volume in our Sustainability: Contributions through Science and Technology series reviews the use of alternative green technologies (pressurized liquid and super-critical fluid extractions) for grape biomass valorization. Environmental sustainability and circular economy are discussed in relation to agro-industrial waste in the winemaking industry. The waste contaminates water and soil and, in large quantities, it has been related to bad odors, a high content of organic matter in water, and greenhouse gas emissions over the entire winemaking industry. Here, the authors illustrate how green extraction of commercially valuable substances can be scaled up at an industrial level.

Free Download Artificial Intelligence and Renewables Towards an Energy Transition by Mustapha Hatti
English | PDF | 2021 | 997 Pages | ISBN : 3030638456 | 149.2 MB
This proceedings book emphasizes adopting artificial intelligence-based and sustainable energy efficiency integrated with clear objectives, to involve researchers, students, and specialists in their development and implementation adequately in achieving objectives.

Free Download Marie-Josèphe Devillers, "Towards the Abolition of Surrogate Motherhood"
English | ISBN: 1925950425 | 2021 | 280 pages | EPUB | 481 KB
In this eloquent and blistering rejection of surrogacy, a range of international activists and experts in the field outline the fundamental human rights abuses that occur when surrogacy is legalised and reject neoliberal notions that the commodification of women’s bodies can ever be about the ‘choices’ women make. They outline a range of harms that follow-to the women who are so-called surrogates, to the children born of surrogacy arrangements, to the ‘intending parents’ who are delivered of a child through forced separation from its mother. Catherine Lynch rails against surrogacy as the creation of babies for the express purpose of removal from their mothers, outlining the tragic outcomes for adopted people. Phyllis Chesler argues that commercial surrogacy is matricidal, "slicing and dicing biological motherhood" into egg donor, ‘gestational’ mother, and adoptive mother. Laura Nuño Gómez describes the surrogacy paradigm as an ethics-free zone, in which "buying whatever is for sale is possible as long as there is an agreement and that it is legal." And Melissa Farley debunks the myth of ‘choice’ in surrogacy. Rich women do not make the choice to become surrogates or prostitutes.

Free Download Gregory Ponthiere, "Allocating Pensions to Younger People: Towards a Social Insurance against a Short Life"
English | ISBN: 3031247477 | 2023 | 143 pages | PDF | 4 MB
This book takes as a starting point that welfare states in developed societies do not provide systems of social insurance against the risk of an early death. In contrast to the way in which economically developed countries provide ways of insuring citizens against other possibilities, such as unemployment and disease, no such social insurance mechanism exists for early death.