Category: E-Books

Air quality has a direct effect on the health, welfare, and production performance of livestock as the high quantities of noxious gases, dust, and airborne microorganisms are likely to lessen production efficiency and the overall welfare of farm animals. Long-term exposure to particulates in livestock buildings might also impact the

Examining the intersection of music, neuroscience, and psychology Music, Thought, and Feeling, 2e (PDF) surveys the quickly growing field of music cognition and explores its most interesting questions. Supposing minimal background in music or psychology, the ebook begins with an overview of the major theories on how and when music

The Present-day Introduction to Deep Reinforcement Learning that Combines Theory and Practice Deep reinforcement learning (deep RL) integrates deep learning and reinforcement learning, in which artificial agents learn to solve sequential decision-making problems. In the last decade deep RL has attained remarkable results on a range of problems, from single

Value Management is a philosophy, set of principles and a structured management methodology for improving organizational decision-making and value-for-money. The Value Management of Construction Projects 2nd edition, (PDF) builds on the success of the 1st edition by extending the integrated value philosophy, methodology and tool kit to describe the application

John Paul Stevens: Defender of Rights in Criminal Justice, (PDF) explores the judicial opinions and criminal justice policy influence of Justice John Paul Stevens, the U.S. Supreme Court’s most productive opinion author in his 35-year career on the nation’s highest court. Though Justice Stevens, a Republican appointee of President Gerald