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    • Smart Cities of AI Robots and Autonomous Vehicles

      The Vision for 2030
      • 1st Edition
      • Paras Chawla + 2 more
      • English
      Smart Cities of AI Robots and Autonomous Vehicles: The Vision for 2030 explores the transformative potential and challenges of integrating AI-powered robots and autonomous vehicles in urban landscapes, envisioning a futuristic smart city landscape by 2030. It examines how artificial intelligence (AI) robots and self-driving cars will transform daily life, healthcare, education, industry, agriculture, and transportation.

    • Reinventing Transit for the 21st Century

      • 1st Edition
      • Baruch Feigenbaum
      • English
      Reinventing Transit for the 21st Century addresses the critical state of urban transit systems in the U.S., exacerbated by declining ridership and looming fiscal challenges post-COVID. The book advocates for substantial reforms, including transitioning to contracted services, fostering competition, and redesigning transit boards to emphasize expertise over politics. It also calls for integrating various service modes and adopting new technologies to reduce costs and enhance the rider experience.Spanning 10 chapters, the book begins with an overview of current transit systems and the factors behind their decline. It outlines a vision for modern transit, focusing on customer needs, service redesign, complementary services like bike-sharing, funding mechanisms, and international lessons on contracting. Governance improvements and the role of technology are also discussed, with a concluding chapter presenting a model 21st-century transit system.Accessible to political leaders, transit executives, researchers, planners, and riders, the book includes a glossary for clarity. It emphasizes the importance of serving transit-dependent riders, often from lower-income Communities of Color, to boost ridership and provide essential services. This book is essential for anyone invested in the future of urban transit.

    • Fintech and the Remaking of Financial Institutions

      • 2nd Edition
      • John Hill
      • English
      Fintech and the Remaking of Financial Institutions, Second Edition explores the transformative potential of new entrants and innovations on business models. In its survey and analysis of Fintech, this book addresses current and future states of money and banking. It provides broad contexts for understanding financial services, products, technology, regulations, and social considerations. The second edition expands and updates topics covered in the first edition, with particular emphasis on current and expected impact of AI; maturation of crypto and consequent regulatory issues; international developments; and the continued integration of technology advances in large financial institutions. This book shows how Fintech has evolved and will drive the future of financial services. It sheds new light on disruption, innovation, and opportunity by placing the financial technology revolution in larger contexts.

    • Emotional Security and Conflict in Context

      A Developmental Psychopathology Perspective on Youth Adjustment
      • 1st Edition
      • E. Mark Cummings + 1 more
      • English
      Emotional Security and Conflict in Context: A Developmental Psychopathology Perspective on Youth Adjustment covers the effects of conflict on children. Moving beyond conflict in the family, over 1 billion children are affected by community and political conflict and war, which also has profound and long-lasting implications for development. This book integrates several theoretical models that are central to work in this field, providing a clear review of the literature in a way that systematically and logically flows. In addition, it discusses child development from a developmental psychopathology perspective.Finally, the book integrates perspectives on violence and conflict across the social ecology, as well as several theoretical frameworks that are core to the field.

    • Advances in Experimental Social Psychology

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 73
      • English
      The Advances in Experimental Social Psychology series is the premier outlet for reviews of mature, high-impact research programs in social psychology. Contributions to the series provide defining pieces of established research programs, reviewing and integrating thematically related findings by individual scholars or research groups. Topics discussed in Volume 73 include cultural transmission of bias, conspiracy mentality, social power, authenticity, and collective narcissism.

    • Securing Electric Mobility

      • 1st Edition
      • Aparna Kumari
      • English
      Electric vehicles (EVs) continue to capture a growing share of the smart car market across the globe. Like most new technologies, e-mobility comes with a learning curve. Securing Electric Mobility provides readers with in-demand knowledge relating to the dynamically evolving intersection between information & communication technology and vehicle engineering.The edited volume offers in-depth understanding of the distinct features of EV cybersecurity. It opens with a description of the fundamental elements of EVs, their interconnectedness, their cyber-physical characteristics and resulting vulnerabilities. It then dissects the digital threat landscape to increase awareness of all possible risks posed by cyberattacks on electric vehicles, and from there it systematically covers data management, regulatory frameworks, existing solutions and emerging cybersecurity protocols and methodologies that are enhanced by blockchain, artificial intelligence, Internet-of-Things integration, machine learning, and real-time monitoring systems. The value of this thorough overview is strengthened further through the inclusion of real-word case studies, which prove the effectiveness of the adopted approaches to safeguard vehicle control systems, owners’ personal data, and the broader cyber-physical network and related equipment.This book proves to be a cardinal, state-of-the-art resource for academia and industry alike as it encourages further transformative, interdisciplinary investigations into the security-assurance complexities that guide EVs’ resilience evolution.

    • Performance Attribution Volume 2

      Analysis and Reporting
      • 2nd Edition
      • Brian Singer + 2 more
      • English
      Performance Attribution Volume 2: Analysis and Reporting, Second Edition explains the practical aspects of building or interpreting a top-to-bottom performance attribution system applicable to many asset classes. Requiring a familiarity with the principal concepts of portfolio analysis, it features standard methodologies and alternative approaches to the attribution of diverse assets, including derivatives, fixed income, and hedge funds. Based on the authors’ Performance Evaluation and Attribution of Security Portfolios (2012), its concentration on the ethical standards embodied by GIPS includes a summary of provisions for the presentation of risk in a firm’s investments.

    • A First Course in Model Validation and Model Risk Management

      • 1st Edition
      • Jonathan Schachter + 2 more
      • English
      A First Course in Model Validation and Model Risk Management offers robust coverage for current and future financial engineers. Useful as part of a masters program, for self-study, or as a valuable reference, the textbook explains in step-by-step, practical terms how mathematical models owned by financial institutions are essential to their public activities, including sales, trading, risk management, and internal audits. Like a diverse fleet of cars maintained by a rental car location, a bank must make sure customers can "drive" any of its models for a specific financial product. The book covers both pricing and risk models. Chapters consider modeling basics, marked-to-market and marked-to-model asset classes, market risk, credit risk, portfolio risk, operational risk, capital model risk, and financial crime, along with machine learning/AI.To support course use and practical applications, the text provides examples in Python throughout, as well as an appendix containing homework problems for all chapters, further supported by an ftp site for data and sample code. Additional appendices cover global model risk management, and a refresher in statistics.

    • Culture, Leadership, and Organizations

      Embracing the Complexity of Leadership
      • 1st Edition
      • Adebowale Akande
      • English
      Culture, Leadership, and Organization: Embracing the Complexity of Leadership presents a comprehensive analysis of contemporary issues in leadership, people, and management across organizations. This book explores the critical interplay between diverse perspectives, meaningful relationships, and the ever-evolving landscape of global business, highlighting the essential traits and competencies that distinguish exemplary leaders. Through twenty-eight detailed chapters contributed by scholars and experts unravels the intricate connections between political influence, leadership styles, and organizational performance, providing valuable insights for navigating complex power structures and interpersonal relationships effectively. This book bridges the gap between theoretical frameworks and practical leadership challenges, offering a fresh perspective on transforming organizations and fostering inclusive, transformational leadership styles that drive unity and success.

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