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Transforming the IT Services Lifecycle with AI Technologies

By: Kristof Kloeckner,John Davis,Nicholas C. Fuller,Giovanni Lanfranchi,Stefan Pappe,Amit Paradkar,Larisa Shwartz,Maheswaran Surendra,Dorothea Wiesmann

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Transforming the IT Services Lifecycle with AI Technologies

By: Kristof Kloeckner,John Davis,Nicholas C. Fuller,Giovanni Lanfranchi,Stefan Pappe,Amit Paradkar,Larisa Shwartz,Maheswaran Surendra,Dorothea Wiesmann

As more and more industries are experiencing digital disruption, using information technology to enable a competitive advantage becomes a critical success factor for all enterprises. This book covers the authors’ insights on how AI technologies can fundamentally reshape the IT services delivery lifecycle to deliver better business outcomes through a data-driven and knowledge-based approach. Three main challenges and the technologies to address them are discussed in detail: · Gaining actionable insight from operational data for service management automation and improved human decision making · Capturing and enhancing expert knowledge throughout the lifecycle from solution design to ongoing service improvement · Enabling self-service for service requests and problem resolution, through intuitive natural language interfaces The authors are top researchers and practitioners with deep experience in the fields of artificial intelligence and IT service management and are discussing both practical advice for IT teams and advanced research results. The topics appeal to CIOs and CTOs as well as researchers who want to understand the state of the art of applying artificial intelligence to a very complex problem space. Although the book is concise, it comprehensively discuss topics like gaining insight from operational data for automatic problem diagnosis and resolution as well as continuous service optimization, AI for solution design and conversational self-service systems.

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106

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Springer

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3319940481

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British Warships, 1860–1906

A Photographic Record

By: Nicholas Dingle

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British Warships, 1860–1906

A Photographic Record

By: Nicholas Dingle

Illustrated with 200 official admiralty photographs, many of them previously unpublished, this book traces the development of Royal Naval ship design in a period of immense change. Opening with the Crimean War, this period saw the gradual transition from sail to steam and screw propulsion; from wood to steel construction; from fixed broadside armaments of bronze muzzle-loaders to turret-mounted steel breech-loaders and torpedoes. The period covered in this volume closes with the launch of HMS Dreadnought, which overnight rendered all existing ships obsolete and signalled the start in earnest of the Anglo-German naval arms race which contributed to the outbreak of WW1. Each photograph is accompanied by full specifications (where available) and a caption detailing anysignificant design features, while the main text gives an overview of naval developments across the period under discussion, setting the selected ships in context.

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Casemate Publishers

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1783469447

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9781783469444

Transaction Man

Traders, Disrupters, and the Dismantling of Middle-Class America

By: Nicholas Lemann

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Transaction Man

Traders, Disrupters, and the Dismantling of Middle-Class America

By: Nicholas Lemann

An Amazon Best History Book of 2019 "A splendid and beautifully written illustration of the tremendous importance public policy has for the daily lives of ordinary people." —Ryan Cooper, Washington Monthly Over the last generation, the United States has undergone seismic changes. Stable institutions have given way to frictionless transactions, which are celebrated no matter what collateral damage they generate. The concentration of great wealth has coincided with the fraying of social ties and the rise of inequality. How did all this come about? In Transaction Man, Nicholas Lemann explains the United States’—and the world’s—great transformation by examining three remarkable individuals who epitomized and helped create their eras. Adolf Berle, Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s chief theorist of the economy, imagined a society dominated by large corporations, which a newly powerful federal government had forced to become benign and stable institutions, contributing to the public good by offering stable employment and generous pensions. By the 1970s, the corporations’ large stockholders grew restive under this regime, and their chief theoretician, Harvard Business School’s Michael Jensen, insisted that firms should maximize shareholder value, whatever the consequences. Today, Silicon Valley titans such as the LinkedIn cofounder and venture capitalist Reid Hoffman hope “networks” can reknit our social fabric. Lemann interweaves these fresh and vivid profiles with a history of the Morgan Stanley investment bank from the 1930s through the financial crisis of 2008, while also tracking the rise and fall of a working-class Chicago neighborhood and the family-run car dealerships at its heart. Incisive and sweeping, Transaction Man is the definitive account of the reengineering of America and the enormous impact it has had on us all.

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Macmillan + ORM

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0374713782

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9780374713782

Plum and Posner's Diagnosis and Treatment of Stupor and Coma

By: Jerome B. Posner MD,Clifford B. Saper MD, PhD,Nicholas D. Schiff MD,Jan Claassen MD, PhD

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Plum and Posner's Diagnosis and Treatment of Stupor and Coma

By: Jerome B. Posner MD,Clifford B. Saper MD, PhD,Nicholas D. Schiff MD,Jan Claassen MD, PhD

Plum and Posner's Diagnosis and Treatment of Stupor and Coma, 5th edition, is a major update of the classic work on diagnosing the cause of coma, with the addition of completely new sections on treatment of comatose patients, by Dr. Jan Claassen, the Director of the Neuro-ICU at Columbia New York Presbyterian Hospital. The first chapter of the book provides an up-to-date review on the brain mechanisms that maintain a conscious state in humans, and how lesions that damage these mechanisms cause loss of consciousness or coma. The second chapter reviews the neurological examination of the comatose patient, which provides the basis for determining whether the patient is suffering from a structural brain injury causing the coma, or from a metabolic disorder of consciousness. The third and fourth chapters review the pathophysiology of structural lesions causing coma, and the specific disease states that result in coma. Chapter five is a comprehensive treatment of the many causes of metabolic coma. Chapter 6 review psychiatric causes of unresponsiveness and how to identify and treat them. Chapters 7 and 8 review the overall emergency treatment of comatose patients, followed by the treatment of specific causes of coma. Chapter 9 examines the long term outcomes of coma, including the minimally conscious state and the persistent vegetative state, and how they can be distinguished, and their implications for eventual useful recovery. Chapter 10 reviews the topic of brain death and the standards for examination of a patient that are required to make the determination of brain death. The final chapter 11 is by J.J. Fins, a medical ethicist who was invited by the other authors to write an essay on the ethics of diagnosis and treatment of patients who, by definition, have no way to approve of or communicate about their wishes. While providing detailed background for neurological and neurosurgical specialists, the practical nature of the material in this book has found its greatest use among Internists, Emergency Medicine, and Intensive Care specialists, who deal with comatose patients frequently, but who may not have had extensive neurological training.

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Oxford University Press

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0190208899

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9780190208899

Russian Imperialism and Naval Power

Military Strategy and the Build-up to the Russo-Japanese War

By: Nicholas Papastratigakis

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Russian Imperialism and Naval Power

Military Strategy and the Build-up to the Russo-Japanese War

By: Nicholas Papastratigakis

From 1904-1905, Russia and Japan were locked in conflict arising from rival imperial ambitions in the Far East. Nicholas Papastratigakis offers an integrated analysis of Russian naval strategy in the decade before this Russo-Japanese War, in which the Russians suffered catastrophic defeat. He seeks to determine the extent to which their defeat can be attributed to flawed Tsarist naval strategy in the region. Rooted in rich primary resources from Russian, French and British archives, the book sheds new light on Russia's conduct in international affairs in the pre-World War I era. He places Russian naval strategy in the broader context of Russian military strategy at the turn of the century, and of imperialism and 'navalism' in general. This book will be of enormous interest to scholars and students of naval, military, imperial and Russian history.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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0857720074

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9780857720078

Western Esotericism

A Brief History of Secret Knowledge

By: Nicholas Goodricke-Clarke

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Western Esotericism

A Brief History of Secret Knowledge

By: Nicholas Goodricke-Clarke

Esotericism is the search for an absolute but hidden knowledge accessed through mystical vision, the mediation of higher beings, or personal experience. In Western cultural history esoteric approaches to religion have often been in conflict with - and suffered at the hands of - more established forms of religious belief and practice. 'Western Esotericism' presents a very broad and engaging history of the people and ideas which have shaped occult history from antiquity to today. Throughout the history of esotericism the dynamic of concealment and revelation has characterized the search for secret knowledge. Pursued both publically and privately, esotericism has come to influence more mainstream religious practice and culture and has significantly shaped our understanding of modernity. Today, esotericism continues to be practised by a range of both established and new religious movements. 'Western Esotericism' presents the essential guide to one of the most fascinating, provocative, and sustained of religious traditions.

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306

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Routledge

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1351537156

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9781351537155

An Alternate History of the United States

From The Birth of the First Republic to the Second Civil War Volume I

By: Nicholas Kane

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An Alternate History of the United States

From The Birth of the First Republic to the Second Civil War Volume I

By: Nicholas Kane

What if George Washington had run for a third term? What if political factionalism had taken over the young American republic in its first decade of existence? In this first volume of an alternate version of American history that spans the years from the nation's founding to the advent of a second civil war in the 1850s, President George Washington makes the fateful decision to accept a third term as the nation's president, changing the course of history forever.

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Fulton Books, Inc.

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1638605734

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Transforming the IT Services Lifecycle with AI Technologies

Transforming the IT Services Lifecycle with AI Technologies

British Warships, 1860–1906

British Warships, 1860–1906

Transaction Man

Transaction Man

Plum and Posner's Diagnosis and Treatment of Stupor and Coma

Plum and Posner's Diagnosis and Treatment of Stupor and Coma

Russian Imperialism and Naval Power

Russian Imperialism and Naval Power

Western Esotericism

Western Esotericism

An Alternate History of the United States

An Alternate History of the United States

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