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The climate change crisis presents a multi-dimensional challenge to the development of the built environment. With finite global resources and increasingly unpredictable climate patterns, the need to improve our understanding of sustainable practices and materials for construction has never been more pressing. The Handbook of Research on Corrosion Sciences and Engineering aims to shed light on the recent developments in the usage of sustainable materials to protect metallic materials against corrosion and provides emerging research exploring the theoretical and practical aspects of corrosion engineering science and technology. Covering key topics such as machine learning, smart coating, sustainability, and artificial intelligence, this major reference work is ideal for construction workers, industry professionals, researchers, academicians, scholars, practitioners, instructors, and students.

This book gathers the refereed proceedings of the Artificial Intelligence and Industrial Applications (A2IA'2020), the first installment of an annual international conference organized by the ENSAM-Meknes at Moulay Ismail University, Morocco. The 30 papers presented here were carefully reviewed and selected from 141 submissions by an international scientific committee. They address various aspects of artificial intelligence such as smart manufacturing, smart maintenance, smart supply chain management, supervised learning, unsupervised learning, reinforcement learning, graph-based and semi-supervised learning, neural networks, deep learning, planning and optimization, and other AI applications. The book is intended for AI experts, offering them a valuable overview of the status quo and a global outlook for the future, with many new and innovative ideas and recent important developments in AI applications, both of a foundational and practical nature. It will also appeal to non-experts who are curious about this timely and important subject.

This book gathers papers from the International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Systems for Sustainable Development (AI2SD-2019), held on July 08–11, 2019 in Marrakech, Morocco, which address the environment, industry and economy, and the role of advanced intelligent systems and computing in connection with these three fields. The book includes a host of interesting studies and successful applications regarding the economy and industry, e.g. in Manufacturing, Digital Factories, Smart Supply Chain Management in Industry, Project Management in Industry, Digital Economy, Digital Business, M-commerce, Blockchain and Digital Currencies. In addition, the book highlights work that addresses the environmental aspect, covering topics such as Big Data Analysis & the Internet of Things for Environmental Management, Sensor Networks for Environmental Services, Network Interoperability in Environmental Ecosystems, Wireless Sensors and Cognitive Radio Networks, Environmental Management Computing Systems, Sustainable Mobility Solutions, Remote Sensing Applications, Geo-information & Geophysics. Addressing social, legislative and environmental aspects, the book is intended for all stakeholders in the industrial world. It will be of interest e.g. to customers, helping them improve their profits and economic profitability, and to professionals and fishermen working to evolve and optimize their supply chains, and to improve productivity, in the fiercely competitive I4.0 world. The authors of each chapter report on the state of the art and present the outcomes of their own research, laboratory experiments, and successful applications. The purpose of the book is to combine the idea of advanced intelligent systems with appropriate tools and techniques for modeling, management, and decision support in the fields of the environment, industry and economy.

This book gathers papers presented at the International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Systems for Sustainable Development (AI2SD-2018), which was held in Tangiers, Morocco on 12–14 July 2018. It highlights how advanced intelligent systems have successfully been used to develop tools and techniques for modeling, prediction and decision support in connection with the environment. Though chiefly intended for researchers and practitioners in advanced intelligent systems for sustainable development, the book will also be of interest to those working in environment and the Internet of Things, environment and big data analysis, summarization, prediction, remote sensing & geo-information, geophysics, marine and coastal environments, and sensor networks for environment services.

In January 2003, the British media splashed the news that anti-terror police had disrupted an Al-Qaeda cell, poised to unleash the deadly poison ricin on the capital. Police had reportedly found traces of ricin, as well as a panoply of bomb and poison-making equipment in the cell's'factory of death'- a shabby flat in north London.'This danger is present and real, and with us now'announced prime minister Tony Blair. But, when the'Ricin plot'came to trial at the Old Bailey, a very different story emerged: there was no ricin and no sophisticated plot. Rarely has a legal case been so shamelessly distorted by government, media and security forces to push their own'tough on terror'agendas. In this meticulously researched and compellingly written book, Lawrence Archer, the jury foreman at the trial, and journalist Fiona Bawdon, give the definitive story of the ricin plot, the trial and its aftermath.

The advent of the War on Terror has seen intelligence agencies emerge out of the shadows to become major political players.'Rendition', untrammelled surveillance, torture and detention without trial are now fast becoming the norm. Spies, Lies and the War on Terror traces the transformation of intelligence from a tool for law enforcement to a means of avoiding the law - both national and international.The new culture of victimhood in the US and among partners in the'coalition of the willing'has crushed domestic liberties and formed a global network of extra-legal licence. State and corporate interests are increasingly fused in the new business of privatising fear. Todd & Bloch argue that the bureaucracy and narrow political goals surrounding intelligence actually have the potential to increase the terrorist threat.This lively and shocking account is a must-read for anyone who wants to understand the new power of intelligence.

Mauritania is bordered by Senegal in the south, Mali in the east, Algeria in the far northeast, and the disputed territory of Western Sahara to the north. Comprised mostly of vast stretches of desert, this young country has escaped the ravages of the violent interstate and civil conflicts that have so bedeviled Africa. Mauritanian society possesses ancient antecedents and a universal religious faith that has been practiced over several centuries. These characteristics have given the country a sometimes fragile but relatively resilient sense of national identity, which has survived into the 21st century in the face of powerful political, regional, ethnic/racial, and tribal rivalries since its independence in 1960. An economy largely centered on the export of raw materials, a weak agricultural sector, and a harsh climate in most areas further add to the challenges confronting all Mauritanians. The third edition of the Historical Dictionary of Mauritania_through its chronology, introductory essay, maps, bibliography, and hundreds of cross-referenced dictionary entries on important persons, places, events, institutions, and significant political, economic, social, and cultural aspects_provides an important reference on Mauritania.