Is using performance-enhancing substances and methods in sport morally legitimate?Sport governing bodies shape how people talk and think around sport by enacting regulations that establish how to play sport and, most importantly, who can play. Among the regulations and practices that have most significantly shaped sport are those concerning the use of technology to enhance athletic performance, or doping. Debates on whether to embrace or resist the use of technolog...

On Bernard Suits’ Philosophy situates Suits’ work within philosophy, play, and leisure studies, as well as the philosophy of sport. It introduces his core ideas and offers a comprehensive interpretation, presenting Suits as a thinker who explores gameplay to ask how one can live well.This book offers readers a clear and comprehensive introduction to Suits’ philosophy and its significance across philosophy, game and leisure studies, and the philosophy of sport. By s...

This book explores cutting-edge machine learning and clustering techniques to tackle critical challenges in engineering, environmental science, and sustainability. The book provides an in-depth examination of clustering methodologies, covering unsupervised and supervised techniques, data preprocessing, distance metrics, and cluster validation methods such as the elbow and silhouette techniques.Readers will find practical insights into applying these methods to real-world problems, ...

Strategies for an Energy Transition: Planning for a Sustainable Future guides readers through strategic planning for a sustainable energy shift. The book covers optimization of renewable energy systems, sustainable fuel production, and unconventional resources. It also addresses the water-energy nexus, emphasizing an integrated approach that includes technological, economic, environmental, and social sustainability. The book enables a deeper understanding of energy systems interconnections...

Machine Learning Tools for Chemical Engineering: Methodologies and Applications examines how machine learning (ML) techniques are applied in the field, offering precise, fast, and flexible solutions to address specific challenges.ML techniques and methodologies offer significant advantages (such as accuracy, speed of execution, and flexibility) over traditional modeling and optimization techniques. This book integrates ML techniques to solve problems inherent to chemical engineering, provi...

The Gov Geeks Guide toGovernment ResumesDiscover how you can lead a purpose driven career in public serviceAre you interested in working for the Federal Government but find the whole resume and application process to be a bit… exhausting?Are you passionate about helping people and making a difference by doing work worth doing?We've all heard that there's nothing better than doing what you love. But what's even better is getting paid to do what you lo...

In this sequel to Bernard Suits’ timeless classic philosophical work The Grasshopper: Games, Life and Utopia, published in its full and unabridged form for the first time, Suits continues to explore some of our most fundamental philosophical questions, including the value of sport and games, and their relationship to the good life.In Return of the Grasshopper, Suits puts his theoretical cards on the table, exploring the in-depth implications of his definition of u...

This book describes cyber-security issues underpinning several cyber-physical systems and several application domains, proposing a common perspective able to collect similarities as well as depict divergences and specific solution methods. Special attention is given to those approaches and technologies that unleash the power of collaboration among stakeholders, in a field based often developed in isolation and segregation of information.Given the pervasively growing dependency of s...

The two-volume set, LNCS 11098 and LNCS 11099 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 23nd European Symposium on Research in Computer Security, ESORICS 2018, held in Barcelona, Spain, in September 2018.The 56 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 283 submissions. The papers address issues such as software security, blockchain and machine learning, hardware security, attacks, malware and vulnerabilities, protocol security, privacy, CPS and IoT s...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference on EISA--Emerging Information Security and Applications, EISA 2024, held in Changzhou, China, during October 18–19, 2024.The 15 full papers and 3 short papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 52 submissions. The topics covered adversarial techniques, intrusions that may threaten the security of various assets, including information and applications, have become more com...

Defining Sport: Conceptions and Borderlines is not about the variations of usage of the term “sport.” It is about the concept, the range of activities in the world that we unite into one idea—sport. It is through the project of defining sport that we can come to understand these activities better, how they are similar or different, and how they relate to other human endeavors.This definitional inquiry, and the deeper appreciation and apprehension of sport that follows, is the core ...

Today all kinds of ubiquitous systems, led by wireless sensor networks, can be seen as an unprecedented privacy risk given their ability to collect information on quantities and situations so far unsuspected. There is therefore an urgent need to develop mechanisms to ensure privacy in sensor networks.Location Privacy in Wireless Sensor Networks focuses on location privacy, by which an attacker might determine the source and destination of communications with simple techniq...