This book provides a comprehensive exploration of LangChain, empowering you to effectively harness large language models (LLMs) for Gen AI applications. It focuses on practical implementation and techniques, making it a valuable resource for learning LangChain.The book starts with foundational topics such as environment setup and building basic chains, then delves into key components such as prompt templates, tool integration, and memory management. You will also explore practical ...

This book offers a comprehensive overview of the various concepts and research issues about blogs or weblogs. It introduces techniques and approaches, tools and applications, and evaluation methodologies with examples and case studies. Blogs allow people to express their thoughts, voice their opinions, and share their experiences and ideas. Blogs also facilitate interactions among individuals creating a network with unique characteristics. Through the interactions individuals experience a ...

The one-stop, comprehensive resource for students considering a career in medicineIn recent years, applying to and getting accepted to medical school in the U.S. has become increasingly difficult. In 2020–2021, only 38% of the 53,370 students who applied to U.S. medical schools were accepted. For the most prestigious medical schools, the acceptance rate was just 1.4–2%. Pre-Medicine: The Complete Guide for Aspiring Doctors by Joel Thomas, Phillip Wagner, R...

This book describes the methodologies and tools used to conduct social cyber forensic analysis. By applying these methodologies and tools on various events observed in the case studies contained within, their effectiveness is highlighted. They blend computational social network analysis and cyber forensic concepts and tools in order to identify and study information competitors.Through cyber forensic analysis, metadata associated with propaganda-riddled websites are extracted. This...

High-yield Visual Learning Resource for Medical Students and Neurosurgical ResidentsNeurosurgery Infographics, edited by Nitin Agarwal and David T. Fernandes Cabral, is a compilation of visual abstracts that enables quick review of high-yield neurosurgical topics. The one-stop, reader-friendly guide fills a gap in the literature, sparing learners from navigating dense atlases and sprawling monographs. The unique book distills the vast and intricate complex...

The Go-To Reference for Acquisition of Neurosurgical Operative KnowledgeTraditional learning methods and static didactics are no longer sufficient in an era of rapidly advancing surgical tools and increasingly complex operative approaches. Operative Fundamentals in Neurological Surgery edited by Nitin Agarwal, Hanna N. Algattas, Edward G. Andrews, Kamil W. Nowicki, and Xiaoran Zhang fills a gap in the literature. The book provides a unique compilation of n...

This book addresses the measurement of environmental contaminants in water, air, and soil. It also presents modifications of and improvements to existing control technologies for remediation of environmental contaminants. It covers improved designs of wastewater systems and innovations in designing newer membranes for water treatment. In addition, it includes two separate sections on the modelling and control of different existing and emerging pollutants. It covers major topics such as: ph...

This work addresses the gap in the current collective action literature exposed by the new Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) landscape by bringing together qualitative and quantitative studies from computational and social sciences. The book offers a rigorous and systematic investigation of both methodological and theoretical underpinnings and, thus, collectively promotes a symbiotic and synergistic advancement of the multiple interconnected disciplines in studying online c...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on Modeling and Simulation of Social-Behavioral Phenomena in Creative Societies, MSBC 2024, held in Almaty, Kazakhstan, in September 2024.The 16 full papers presented here were carefully reviewed and selected from 42 submissions. These papers have been categorized under the following topical sections: Computational intelligence and game theory in social sciences; Data analysis and Large language mo...

This book constitutes the joint refereed proceedings of the Second International Conference on Modeling and Simulation of Social-Behavioral Phenomena in Creative Societies, MSBC 2022, held in Vilnius, Lithuania, in September 2022.The 14 full papers and 1 short paper presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 35 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: simulation of behavioral processes; modeling of sustainability; and data science and modeli...

Surviving Neurosurgery: Vignettes of Resilience is a practical guide to the inner workings of the lives of neurosurgeons, healthcare partners, and patients. To this end, this text serves as a first-hand documentary of the unique challenges faced as one progresses through their career. It is a snapshot in time capturing the experiences of both patients and providers. The text is divided into seven parts that run the gamut of a neurosurgeon’s career symbolic of the seven years of ne...

This volume constitutes the proceedings of the First International EURO Mini Conference on Modelling and Simulation of Social-Behavioural Phenomena in Creative Societies, MSBC 2019, held in Vilnius, Lithuania, in September 2019.The 8 full papers and 2 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 26 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: computational intelligence in social sciences; modeling and analysis of social-behavioral pro...