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  Bits, Bytes, and Barrels: The Digital Transformation of Oil and Gas , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 633min

  The oil and gas industry is at a crossroads. Recent low prices, rapidly growing alternative fuels like renewables, the permanent swing from peak oil to super abundance, shifting consumer preferences, and global pressures to decarbonize suggest a challenged industry for the foreseeable future. Digital advances offer ways to lower costs of production, improve productivity, reduce carbon emissions, and regain public confidence. A wait-and-see attitude to digital innovation has failed many industries already, and the leaders of oil and gas urgently need guidance on how digital both disrupts and enhances their industry. Written by the world’s leading experts on the intersection of digital technologies and the oil and gas industry, Bits, Bytes, and Barrels sets out the reasons why adoption is slow, describes the size and scale of both the opportunity and the threat from digital, identifies the key digital technologies and the role that they play in a digital future, and recommends a set of actions for leaders to take to accelerate the adoption of digital in the business. Providing an independent and expert perspective, Bits, Bytes, and Barrels addresses the impacts of digital across the breadth of the industry - from onshore to offshore, from upstream to midstream to integrated - and outlines a roadmap to help the decision-makers at all levels of the industry take meaningful action toward promising and rewarding digital adoption. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Paul Boucher. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/159221/bk_acx0_159221_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Digital Healing: People, Information, Healthcare , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 662min

  Medical practice and research are inconceivable today without electronic computing and communication tools. Digital machines do many tasks orders-of-magnitude better, faster, and more accurately than humans. Still, there are functions critical to the healthcare endeavor that people do much better than machines, things like: understanding and using natural language; perceiving what is unexpressed; taking into account values, culture, ethics, and human relationships; touching and healing. For the foreseeable future, the "smartest" computers will be no match for human beings when it comes to performing these most anthropic functions. American healthcare is at a critical juncture. Providers and patients are increasingly frustrated by degradation of the human relationships that lie at the core of the medical practice. Technologies, such as the computerized medical record, get much of the blame for intrusion into the patient-provider relationship. However, it is not technology itself that is to blame. The fault lies with how systems are conceived, designed, and deployed. This book analyzes how to organize the work of healthcare in a way that uses machines to do what they do best, thereby freeing humans to do what we do best. Smart use of electronic technology is crucial to the success of any bid to fulfill the Institute for Healthcare Improvement’s triple aim to make healthcare more effective, efficient, and humane. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Marc Ringel. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/052611/bk_adbl_052611_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  China's Second Continent: How a Million Migrants Are Building a New Empire in Africa , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 631min

  An exciting, hugely revealing account of China’s burgeoning presence in Africa - a developing empire already shaping - and reshaping - the future of millions of people. A prizewinning foreign correspondent and former New York Times bureau chief in Shanghai and in West and Central Africa, Howard French is uniquely positioned to tell the story of China in Africa. Through meticulous on-the-ground reporting - conducted in Mandarin, French, and Portuguese, among other languages - French crafts a layered investigation of astonishing depth and breadth as he engages not only with policy-shaping moguls and diplomats, but also with the ordinary men and women navigating the street-level realities of cooperation, prejudice, corruption, and opportunity forged by this seismic geopolitical development. With incisiveness and empathy, French reveals the human face of China’s economic, political, and human presence across the African continent - and in doing so reveals what is at stake for everyone involved. Part intrepid travelogue, part cultural census, part industrial and political exposé, French’s keenly observed account ultimately offers a fresh perspective on the most pressing unknowns of modern Sino-African relations: Why China is making the incursions it is, just how extensive its cultural and economic inroads are, what Africa’s role in the equation is, and just what the ramifications for both parties - and the watching world - will be in the foreseeable future. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Don Hagen. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/gdan/001281/bk_gdan_001281_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Managing Public Construction Projects: Imagine, Design, Manage, Build: From Concept to Concrete , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 338min

  In the course of my more than 15 years of experience as an attorney, I’ve worked on billions of dollars’ worth of public construction projects, and I’ve seen them succeed and fail.The failures have sometimes been from conditions that were not foreseeable, but often have been from predictable issues that recur with shocking frequency. The reason for this is simple: With public projects, the persons that are responsible for the project approvals and outcomes, at the highest levels, are typically elected or appointed officials that have little previous experience with construction, much less with managing a multimillion-dollar project. Elected and appointed officials are often unwilling to acknowledge their lack of expertise, and instead plow forward with projects that have major potential defects - or at the very least, that have not been fully considered and optimized.The general lack of prior experience that many public officials have, when properly acknowledged, can be a great asset, rather than a significant detriment. How is that so? When you come into a project without the burden of prior assumptions based on previous project experience, you can reenvision what a successful project should be, and what your goals should be. Learn from an exploration of projects that were successful and projects that failed, and learn the practical steps to managing a successful public construction project. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Helen D. Gordon. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/232745/bk_acx0_232745_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Toddler Discipline: 3 Books in 1: 7 Proven Strategies to Discipline Your Difficult Toddler and Get Him Diaper Free in 3 Days, Including Practical Tips of Potty Training and Montessori Discipline , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1325min

  Would you like your child to overcome every challenge? Do you want to know strategies to tame tantrums? Is positive parenting the solution to everyday parenting struggles? Are you looking for a step-by-step guide on how to potty-train girls and boys fast with special tips and tricks? Are you looking for a practical guide for parents on how to educate and raise children with the Montessori method and how it benefits children's development? If yes, then keep reading.You are tired, exhausted, and all you want to do is have a peaceful life, so you give in to your little monster. While doing so, you wonder how your quiet bundle of joy suddenly turns into Satan's spawn.First, let me reassure you what you are going through is normal, and things will get better but also a warning! What you do for the foreseeable future will set the tone for what the rest of your family life will be like.Buy this guide and learn:The importance of potty training a toddlerMontessori education and principlesRaising a curious childSocial skillsConflict resolution from tantrums to tranquilityPositive parentingPositive communicationBehaviorSelf-efficacy and self-confidenceAnd much more!This audiobook unravels how to understand how children connect with others. Appreciating your children for who they are will go a long way in building a positive relationship with your child, even if your child doesn't speak. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Harvey Lansbury. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/236785/bk_acx0_236785_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  The Mystery of the Aleph: Mathematics, the Kabbalah, and the Search for Infinity , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 325min

  An engaging, pellucid explanation of the mathematical understanding of infinity, enlivened by a historical gloss on age-old affinities..." - Washington Post Book World Toward the end of the 19th century, one of the most brilliant mathematicians in history languished in an asylum. His greatest accomplishment, the result of a series of extraordinary leaps of insight, was his pioneering understanding of the nature of infinity. From the acclaimed author of God's Equation comes The Mystery of the Aleph, the story of Georg Cantor: how he came to his theories and the reverberations of his pioneering work, the consequences of which will shape our world for the foreseeable future. The mindtwisting, deeply philosophical work of Cantor has its roots in ancient Greek mathematics and Jewish numerology as found in the mystical work known as the Kabbalah. Cantor's theory of the infinite is famous for its many seeming contradictions; for example, we can prove that in all time there are as many years as days, that there are as many points on a one-inch line as on a one-mile line. While the inspiration for Cantor's mind-twisting genius lies in the very origins of mathematics, its meaning is still being interpreted. Only in 1947 did Kurt Gvdel prove that Cantor's Continuum Hypothesis is independent of the rest of mathematics - and that the foundations of mathematics itself are therefore shaky. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Henry Leyva. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rhau/000059/bk_rhau_000059_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Facets of Systems Science

  This book has a rather strange history. It began in spring 1989, thirteen years after our Systems Science Department at SUNY-Binghamton was established, when I was asked by a group of students in our doctoral program to have a meeting with them. The spokesman of the group, Cliff Joslyn, opened our meeting by stating its purpose. I can closely paraphrase what he said: "We called this meeting to discuss with you, as Chairman of the Department, a fundamental problem with our systems science curriculum. In general, we consider it a good curriculum: we learn a lot of concepts, principles, and methodological tools, mathematical, computational, heu ristic, which are fundamental to understanding and dealing with systems. And, yet, we learn virtually nothing about systems science itself. What is systems science? What are its historical roots? What are its aims? Where does it stand and where is it likely to go? These are pressing questions to us. After all, aren't we supposed to carry the systems science flag after we graduate from this program? We feel that a broad introductory course to systems science is urgently needed in the curriculum. Do you agree with this assessment?" The answer was obvious and, yet, not easy to give: "I agree, of course, but I do not see how the situation could be alleviated in the foreseeable future.

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  Practical AI for Business Leaders, Product Managers, and Entrepreneurs

  Most economists agree that AI is a general purpose technology (GPT) like the steam engine, electricity, and the computer. AI will drive innovation in all sectors of the economy for the foreseeable future. Practical AI for Business Leaders, Product Managers, and Entrepreneurs is a technical guidebook for the business leader or anyone responsible for leading AI-related initiatives in their organization. The book can also be used as a foundation to explore the ethical implications of AI. Authors Alfred Essa and Shirin Mojarad provide a gentle introduction to foundational topics in AI. Each topic is framed as a triad: concept, theory, and practice. The concept chapters develop the intuition, culminating in a practical case study. The theory chapters reveal the underlying technical machinery. The practice chapters provide code in Python to implement the models discussed in the case study. With this book, readers will learn: The technical foundations of machine learning and deep learning How to apply the core technical concepts to solve business problems The different methods used to evaluate AI models How to understand model development as a tradeoff between accuracy and generalization How to represent the computational aspects of AI using vectors and matrices How to express the models in Python by using machine learning libraries such as scikit-learn, statsmodels, and keras

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  Lies My Mother Told Me (eBook, ePUB)

  If you think Joan Rivers said funny, outrageous, and ridiculous things ONSTAGE, wait 'til you read the funny, outrageous, and ridiculous things she said OFFSTAGE…things that will make you laugh out loud…and keep Melissa in therapy for the foreseeable future. The only thing my mother loved more than making people laugh was lying…or as she'd say, "embellishing." Her motto was: "Why let the truth ruin a good story?" This book contains some of those stories. ***************** "When Joan told a story, the truth disappeared faster than I did." - Jimmy Hoffa "If you thought Dante's Inferno was hot, read Lies My Mother Told Me; it's a five-alarmer." - Dante's second wife, Allie "Twelve of my twenty-six personalities loved this book." - Sybil "The words on the page absolutely crackle and spark; I burned my fingers reading it!" - Annie Sullivan "The Bible may be the good book, but Lies My Mother Told Me is way funnier." - Matthew 2:14 The Jets. 7 "Lies My Mother Told Me is the feel-good book of 2022." - Torquemada "All's not well that ends well. I've had massages with happier endings." - Wm. Shakespeare "Melissa, I don't care what your mother said in this book, I LOVE your bangs." - Mamie Eisenhower "Lies My Mother Told Me is so funny even those 'woke' m***********s will laugh." - Lenny Bruce

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  Power Politics, Banking Union and EMU (eBook, PDF)

  This book examines the politics of Banking Union and EMU reform in the EU, and draws lessons for what it means for international politics, both in Europe, and for international relations more broadly. It demonstrates that most of the reforms in Europe to break free of the Eurozone and banking crises in which Europe continues to find itself focus on building up the capacities of national authorities rather than European ones. The result is that national authorities remain largely in control of the decisions and funds that are to be deployed to prevent economic disaster if a single EU bank fails. The likely outcome is an accelerated balkanization of the European market for the foreseeable future. The book also contends that power politics, and realism in particular, is a defining feature of European politics with coercion and enforced national responsibility at the demand of Germany; the dominant form of institution-building that established the responsible sovereignty model, and shut down the possibility of alternatives. In making this case, the book demonstrates that the dominant view in international relations, that power politics best explains the behaviour of states, also apply to the EU. This text will be of key interest to scholars and students of the Eurozone crisis, EU politics, economic policy, and more broadly to political economy, public policy and international relations.

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