Luka harbored feelings for Leandro, his boss, and it didn't seem that Leandro was indifferent to this. But everything changed when Luka refused to do something that went against his principles, leading Luka to draw a line with his boss—no more flirting; they were just boss and employee. Leandro quickly found a new lover, so everything seemed to work, at least for a while. However, his boss is always after him!What can he do to avoid falling into the mafioso's clutches?

Elio Mancini was just a young man who dreamed of becoming a veterinarian, but due to the difficulties his family faced, he had to abandon his studies and work. Despite this, he led a peaceful life with his family until a chance encounter with Vicenzo Di Marco changed the course of his destiny.Due to the debts his father left behind when he died, Elio is forced to accept the marriage proposal of Vicenzo, the most feared mafia boss in Italy. However, this is not the biggest of his pr...

Adrien Gautier persistently pursued Carlo Mancini, a successful journalist, in the hope that one day he might return his feelings. He didn't care about Carlo's disdain or cold words, nor did he mind losing his dignity; he even bound him with a contract—he wanted him at any cost. But when they grow distant and compromising photos of Carlo with a woman fall into Adrien's hands, Adrien begins to reconsider the nature of his relationship with Carlo, ultimately deciding to set him free. But why...

This series of books focuses on the internal wave hydrodynamic effects on submersibles. As the first book in the series, it specifically studies the patterns and mechanisms of interaction between internal waves and submersibles. Internal waves are widely-present in the stratified ocean and are a type of nonlinear, large-amplitude wave phenomenon. Submersibles are highly likely to encounter internal waves during underwater operations, which can severely affect the stability and hydrodynamic...

With the end of Moore’s Law, domain-specific architecture (DSA) has become a crucial mode of implementing future computing architectures. This book discusses the system-level design methodology of DSAs and their applications, providing a unified design process that guarantees functionality, performance, energy efficiency, and real-time responsiveness for the target application.DSAs often start from domain-specific algorithms or applications, analyzing the characteristics of algorit...

This book systematically illustrates the dynamic mechanical behaviors and discusses the fundamentals of the constitutive modeling of roller-compacted concrete (RCC), influenced by the construction technique and mix design. Four typical problems are analyzed using laboratory tests, numerical simulation and theoretical analysis, i.e., to illustrate the special dynamic mechanical behaviors of RCC, to reveal the dynamic size-dependence of mechanical properties, to discuss the aggregate size ef...

This book systematically establishes the almost periodic theory of dynamic equations and presents applications on time scales in fuzzy mathematics and uncertainty theory. The authors introduce a new division of fuzzy vectors depending on a determinant algorithm and develop a theory of almost periodic fuzzy multidimensional dynamic systems on time scales. Several applications are studied; in particular, a new type of fuzzy dynamic systems called fuzzy q-dynamic systems (i.e. fuzzy quantum d...

Cryogen-free cryogenics is leading a revolution in research and industry by its significant advantages over traditional liquid helium systems. This is the first overview for the field, covering the key technologies, conceptual design, fabrication, operation, performance, and applications of these systems. The contents cover important topics such as the operating principles of 4K cryocoolers, enabling technologies (including vibration reduction) for cryogen free systems, the cryogen- free s...

Reconfigurable computing techniques and adaptive systems are some of the most promising architectures for microprocessors. Reconfigurable and Adaptive Computing: Theory and Applications explores the latest research activities on hardware architecture for reconfigurable and adaptive computing systems.The first section of the book covers reconfigurable systems. The book presents a software and hardware codesign flow for coarse-grained systems-on-chip, a video waterma...

High-Performance Computing for Big Data: Methodologies and Applications exploresemerging high-performance architectures for data-intensive applications, novel efficient analytical strategies to boost data processing, and cutting-edge applications in diverse fields, such as machine learning, life science, neural networks, and neuromorphic engineering.The book is organized into two main sections. The first section covers Big Data architectures, including cloud computing systems, and ...

From Internet of Things to Smart Cities: Enabling Technologies explores the information and communication technologies (ICT) needed to enable real-time responses to current environmental, technological, societal, and economic challenges. ICT technologies can be utilized to help with reducing carbon emissions, improving resource utilization efficiency, promoting active engagement of citizens, and more.This book aims to introduce the latest ICT technologies and to promote internation...

This book introduces computational advertising, and Internet monetization. It provides a macroscopic understanding of how consumer products in the Internet era push user experience and monetization to the limit. Part One of the book focuses on the basic problems and background knowledge of online advertising. Part Two targets the product, operations, and sales staff, as well as high-level decision makers of the Internet products. It explains the market structure, trading models, and the ma...