Spotlight On Artificial Intelligence Ai For Sustainable Plant Production

Author : Aitazaz Ahsan Farooque,Yubin Lan,,Muhammad Naveed Tahir,E. Zhang,Wenjiang Huang
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2024-03-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9782832544075

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Spotlight on Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Sustainable Plant Production by Aitazaz Ahsan Farooque,Yubin Lan,,Muhammad Naveed Tahir,E. Zhang,Wenjiang Huang Pdf

The Agricultural industry is always at risk - crops are affected by weather, diseases and pests. When a global pandemic hits suddenly, it becomes very difficult to manage various processes because most are not digital. In parallel, the rapid increase in the population and urbanization, demands more food production on less land. Farming under the demand pressure by increasing input consumption, leads to increases costs and negative impacts to the environment such as decreasing soil fertility continuously over time. There is therefore the need to move beyond traditional farming. To produce more yield in the agricultural field, there is the need to dig deep into the technological field and apply sensors, Internet of Things (IoT), big data analytics, cloud computing and machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL) techniques. Better decision making, prediction and reliability depend upon high level of knowledge base and perceptions.

Author : Richard Owen,John R. Bessant,Maggy Heintz
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2013-03-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781118551400

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Responsible Innovation by Richard Owen,John R. Bessant,Maggy Heintz Pdf

Science and innovation have the power to transform our lives and the world we live in - for better or worse – in ways that often transcend borders and generations: from the innovation of complex financial products that played such an important role in the recent financial crisis to current proposals to intentionally engineer our Earth’s climate. The promise of science and innovation brings with it ethical dilemmas and impacts which are often uncertain and unpredictable: it is often only once these have emerged that we feel able to control them. How do we undertake science and innovation responsibly under such conditions, towards not only socially acceptable, but socially desirable goals and in a way that is democratic, equitable and sustainable? Responsible innovation challenges us all to think about our responsibilities for the future, as scientists, innovators and citizens, and to act upon these. This book begins with a description of the current landscape of innovation and in subsequent chapters offers perspectives on the emerging concept of responsible innovation and its historical foundations, including key elements of a responsible innovation approach and examples of practical implementation. Written in a constructive and accessible way, Responsible Innovation includes chapters on: Innovation and its management in the 21st century A vision and framework for responsible innovation Concepts of future-oriented responsibility as an underpinning philosophy Values – sensitive design Key themes of anticipation, reflection, deliberation and responsiveness Multi – level governance and regulation Perspectives on responsible innovation in finance, ICT, geoengineering and nanotechnology Essentially multidisciplinary in nature, this landmark text combines research from the fields of science and technology studies, philosophy, innovation governance, business studies and beyond to address the question, “How do we ensure the responsible emergence of science and innovation in society?”

Author : International Centre for Engineering Education,UNESCO
Publisher : UNESCO Publishing
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789231004377

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Engineering for Sustainable Development by International Centre for Engineering Education,UNESCO Pdf

The report highlights the crucial role of engineering in achieving each of the 17 SDGs. It shows how equal opportunities for all is key to ensuring an inclusive and gender balanced profession that can better respond to the shortage of engineers for implementing the SDGs. It provides a snapshot of the engineering innovations that are shaping our world, especially emerging technologies such as big data and AI, which are crucial for addressing the pressing challenges facing humankind and the planet. It analyses the transformation of engineering education and capacity-building at the dawn of the Fourth Industrial Revolution that will enable engineers to tackle the challenges ahead. It highlights the global effort needed to address the specific regional disparities, while summarizing the trends of engineering across the different regions of the world.

Author : Jim Mellon
Publisher : Harriman House Limited
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2020-12-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780993047879

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Moo's Law by Jim Mellon Pdf

Moo’s Law is the latest title from successful investor Jim Mellon, to help readers understand the investment landscape in cultivated and plant-based proteins and materials. Jim has a vision that within the next couple of decades world agriculture will be radically transformed by the advent of cultivated meat technology. This book grounds the reader in why such an advancement is absolutely necessary and informs them of the investments they could make to become part of the New Agricultural Revolution themselves. The harrowing effects on our environment, animal cruelty in food and fashion, and the struggling ability to feed the world's ever-growing population gives us no choice but to grow meat in labs or derive our proteins from plant-based sources. Not only this, he outlines what he sees as the major hurdles to the industry's success in terms of scalability of production and the smart designing of regulatory frameworks to stimulate innovation in this sector. The future of food is being developed in labs across the world - it will be cleaner, safer, more ethical and, importantly soon, cheaper too! Once price parity with conventional meats is reached, there will be no turning back -- this is Moo's Law™.

Author : Rahul S. Mor,Dinesh Kumar,Anupama Singh
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2022-03-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781801174985

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Agri-Food 4.0 by Rahul S. Mor,Dinesh Kumar,Anupama Singh Pdf

Agri-Food 4.0: Innovations, Challenges and Strategies addresses new research on digital technologies in the Agri-Food industry, including smart packaging, smart warehousing, effective inventory control, blockchain technology, artificial intelligence, and other Industry 4.0 concepts.

Author : Walter Leal Filho,Daniela Jacob
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 519 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2020-01-17
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783030368753

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Handbook of Climate Services by Walter Leal Filho,Daniela Jacob Pdf

This book explores climate services, including projections, descriptive information, analyses, assessments, and an overview of current trends. Due to the pressures now being put on the world’s climate, it is vital to gather and share reliable climate observation and projection data, which may be tailored for use by different groups. In other words, it is essential to offer climate services. But despite the growth in the use of these services, there are very few specialist publications on this topic. This book addresses that need. Apart from presenting studies and the results of research projects, the book also offers an overview of the wide range of means available for providing and using climate services. In addition, it features case studies that provide illustrative and inspiring examples of how climate services can be optimally deployed.

Author : Linda Weintraub
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2012-09-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780520273610

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To Life! by Linda Weintraub Pdf

This title documents the burgeoning eco art movement from A to Z, presenting a panorama of artistic responses to environmental concerns, from Ant Farms anti-consumer antics in the 1970s to Marina Zurkows 2007 animation that anticipates the havoc wreaked upon the planet by global warming.

Author : Irmi Seidl,Angelika Zahrnt
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2021-09-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000429138

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Post-Growth Work by Irmi Seidl,Angelika Zahrnt Pdf

This book argues that society must rethink the notion of formal employment and instead introduce and spread the notion of "meaningful work" so that societies can become independent of economic growth. The excessive consumption of natural resources and the immense emissions resulting from our growth-oriented economic system surpass the planetary boundaries. Despite this, society and the economy still strive for economic growth in order to generate jobs, to finance the social security system and to assure tax income. However, these expectations are increasingly unrealistic, not least because technological developments such as digitalisation and robotisation will change and limit formal employment opportunities as well. Against this backdrop, the book introduces the notion of meaningful activities that embrace various kinds of work, paid and unpaid, sequential or in parallel, which are meaningful for the worker as well as society as a whole. At the same time, the authors argue in favour of reduced working time in formal employment. Furthermore, the book also describes the necessary transformations in companies and for consumers, for social and tax systems, for social services and agriculture. Innovative and timely, this book will be a key resource for professionals and scholars interested in sustainability, economics, work, transformation and post-growth studies.

Author : Andrzej Stankiewicz,Jacob A. Moulijn
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2018-12-14
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0203913299

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Re-Engineering the Chemical Processing Plant by Andrzej Stankiewicz,Jacob A. Moulijn Pdf

The first guide to compile current research and frontline developments in the science of process intensification (PI), Re-Engineering the Chemical Processing Plant illustrates the design, integration, and application of PI principles and structures for the development and optimization of chemical and industrial plants. This volume updates professionals on emerging PI equipment and methodologies to promote technological advances and operational efficacy in chemical, biochemical, and engineering environments and presents clear examples illustrating the implementation and application of specific process-intensifying equipment and methods in various commercial arenas.

Author : Collett, Clementine,Gomes, Livia Gouvea,Inter-American Development Bank,Neff, Gina,Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development,UNESCO
Publisher : UNESCO Publishing
Page : 81 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2022-03-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789231005138

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The effects of AI on the working lives of women by Collett, Clementine,Gomes, Livia Gouvea,Inter-American Development Bank,Neff, Gina,Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development,UNESCO Pdf

The development and use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) continue to expand opportunities for the achievement of the 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), including gender equality. Taking a closer look at the intersection of gender and technology, this collaboration between UNESCO, the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) examines the effects of AI on the working lives of women. This report describes the challenges and opportunities presented by the use of emerging technology such as AI from a gender perspective. The report highlights the need for more focus and research on the impacts of AI on women and the digital gender gap, in order to ensure that women are not left behind in the future of work.

Author : Daron Acemoglu
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2021-05-25
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781946511638

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Redesigning AI by Daron Acemoglu Pdf

A look at how new technologies can be put to use in the creation of a more just society. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is not likely to make humans redundant. Nor will it create superintelligence anytime soon. But it will make huge advances in the next two decades, revolutionize medicine, entertainment, and transport, transform jobs and markets, and vastly increase the amount of information that governments and companies have about individuals. AI for Good leads off with economist and best-selling author Daron Acemoglu, who argues that there are reasons to be concerned about these developments. AI research today pays too much attention to the technological hurtles ahead without enough attention to its disruptive effects on the fabric of society: displacing workers while failing to create new opportunities for them and threatening to undermine democratic governance itself. But the direction of AI development is not preordained. Acemoglu argues for its potential to create shared prosperity and bolster democratic freedoms. But directing it to that task will take great effort: It will require new funding and regulation, new norms and priorities for developers themselves, and regulations over new technologies and their applications. At the intersection of technology and economic justice, this book will bring together experts--economists, legal scholars, policy makers, and developers--to debate these challenges and consider what steps tech companies can do take to ensure the advancement of AI does not further diminish economic prospects of the most vulnerable groups of population.

Author : Andreas Sudmann
Publisher : transcript Verlag
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2019-10-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783839447192

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The Democratization of Artificial Intelligence by Andreas Sudmann Pdf

After a long time of neglect, Artificial Intelligence is once again at the center of most of our political, economic, and socio-cultural debates. Recent advances in the field of Artifical Neural Networks have led to a renaissance of dystopian and utopian speculations on an AI-rendered future. Algorithmic technologies are deployed for identifying potential terrorists through vast surveillance networks, for producing sentencing guidelines and recidivism risk profiles in criminal justice systems, for demographic and psychographic targeting of bodies for advertising or propaganda, and more generally for automating the analysis of language, text, and images. Against this background, the aim of this book is to discuss the heterogenous conditions, implications, and effects of modern AI and Internet technologies in terms of their political dimension: What does it mean to critically investigate efforts of net politics in the age of machine learning algorithms?

Author : Siddhartha Bhattacharyya,Hrishikesh Bhaumik,Anirban Mukherjee,Sourav De
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2018-12-17
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783110550771

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Machine Learning for Big Data Analysis by Siddhartha Bhattacharyya,Hrishikesh Bhaumik,Anirban Mukherjee,Sourav De Pdf

This volume comprises six well-versed contributed chapters devoted to report the latest fi ndings on the applications of machine learning for big data analytics. Big data is a term for data sets that are so large or complex that traditional data processing application software is inadequate to deal with them. The possible challenges in this direction include capture, storage, analysis, data curation, search, sharing, transfer, visualization, querying, updating and information privacy. Big data analytics is the process of examining large and varied data sets - i.e., big data - to uncover hidden patterns, unknown correlations, market trends, customer preferences and other useful information that can help organizations make more-informed business decisions. This volume is intended to be used as a reference by undergraduate and post graduate students of the disciplines of computer science, electronics and telecommunication, information science and electrical engineering. THE SERIES: FRONTIERS IN COMPUTATIONAL INTELLIGENCE The series Frontiers In Computational Intelligence is envisioned to provide comprehensive coverage and understanding of cutting edge research in computational intelligence. It intends to augment the scholarly discourse on all topics relating to the advances in artifi cial life and machine learning in the form of metaheuristics, approximate reasoning, and robotics. Latest research fi ndings are coupled with applications to varied domains of engineering and computer sciences. This field is steadily growing especially with the advent of novel machine learning algorithms being applied to different domains of engineering and technology. The series brings together leading researchers that intend to continue to advance the fi eld and create a broad knowledge about the most recent research.

Author : Luis M. Camarinha-Matos,Pedro Ferreira,Guilherme Brito
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2021-06-30
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783030782887

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Technological Innovation for Applied AI Systems by Luis M. Camarinha-Matos,Pedro Ferreira,Guilherme Brito Pdf

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th IFIP WG 5.5/SOCOLNET Advanced Doctoral Conference on Computing, Electrical and Industrial Systems, DoCEIS 2021, held in Costa de Caparica, Portugal, in July 2021.* The 34 papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 92 submissions. The papers present selected results produced in engineering doctoral programs and focus on technological innovation for industry and service systems. Research results and ongoing work are presented, illustrated and discussed in the following areas: collaborative networks; smart manufacturing; cyber-physical systems and digital twins; intelligent decision making; smart energy management; communications and electronics; classification systems; smart healthcare systems; and medical devices. *The conference was held virtually. Chapters “Characteristics of Adaptable Control of Production Systems and the Role of Self-organization Towards Smart Manufacturing” and “Predictive Manufacturing: Enabling Technologies, Frameworks and Applications” are available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

Author : PASCAL. BARKIN BORNET (IAN. WIRTZ, JOCHEN.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 431 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 9789811235849

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INTELLIGENT AUTOMATION by PASCAL. BARKIN BORNET (IAN. WIRTZ, JOCHEN.) Pdf