Step into a realm of transformative leadership with "The Visionary Leader." In an era defined by constant evolution, this indispensable guide propels you beyond the conventional, unveiling the secrets of visionary leadership. Navigate the currents of change with adeptness, ignite innovation within your team, and master the art of steering through uncertainty. Delve into the distinctive qualities and proven strategies that distinguish visionary leaders. From fostering collaboration to inspi...

Global Perspectives on Inclusive Education: Future Direction is a timely and insightful edited volume that explores the evolving landscape of inclusive education across diverse cultural and educational contexts. The book brings together international scholars, practitioners, and policymakers to examine innovative practices, policy reforms, and research aimed at promoting equitable learning opportunities for all students, including those with disabilities and marginalized backgroun...

This book provides a state-of-the-art overview of current achievements and future possibilities for the application of epigenetic and epigenomic techniques to the improvement of crops. Creating crops more resilient to the stresses caused by climate change will be an important part of a climate-smart and sustainable agriculture strategy for the future. All critical environmental stressors are explored: temperature, salt, drought, pollutants, pests, fungi, bacteria, and viruses. The exciting...

Assessment of professional competence for project managers and the measure of project success is well-trodden ground in the research and professional project management literature. Whilst standards and certifications like PMBOK and the IPMA competence baseline have been developed as a guide for the development of project managers’ competence, the manifestation of these competencies into good performance is neither guaranteed nor always easily ascertainable.This book presents a bran...

Presents a framework for understanding and managing global water scarcityGlobal Water Scarcity: Causes, Impacts, and Management Strategies explores the factors driving water shortages across the world while presenting actionable strategies for sustainable water management. Bringing together technical, ecological, and socioeconomic perspectives, this edited volume examines both the natural and human-induced causes of scarcity and outlines adaptive approache...

Future-proof your knowledge and expertise in telecommunications with this essential guide, which provides a comprehensive analysis of the critical security and privacy challenges in the transition to 6G communication.The advancement from 5G to 6G communication represents a quantum leap in wireless technology, promising unprecedented speeds, ultra-low latency, and ubiquitous connectivity. As the industry embarks on this journey, it encounters a host of technical cha...

Energy Materials: A Circular Economy Approach emphasizes the engineering scalability of a circular economy approach to development and use of energy materials. It focuses on waste minimization and its valorization, recycling and reuse, and emerging sustainable materials and technologies. It offers a view of the eco-friendly energy materials and state-of-the-art technologies required for production of these materials in the process industry and manufacturing sectors.• Cover...

There are intrinsic vulnerabilities in traditional computer vision systems, such as data tampering and adversarial attacks. This book illustrates how blockchain's decentralized and immutable ledger can mitigate these risks. Further, it examines the role of proxy smart contracts in implementing security protocols and ensuring data integrity within computer vision approaches.Discusses the integration of emerging technologies such as blockchain and generative artificial intellig...

This book discusses the possibilities, reach, challenges, and limitations of agroforestry in new contexts where the security of food, nutrition, and the environment are equally vital. The focus of each chapter in the book is on the potential for agroforestry to address pressing issues such as sustainability, food, fodder, nutrition, and environmental security, as well as to offer, support, regulate, and to provide cultural services to society. Some of the devoted chapters in the book also ...

Plants create a dynamic micro-biosphere in the soil, around the roots, called as ‘rhizosphere’, which harbors diverse number of microorganisms for sustaining their growth and development. A soil with diverse and multi-traits microbial communities is considered healthy to enhance crop productivity. In the last decades, rhizosphere biology has gained attention due to unraveling of new mechanisms, processes and molecules in the rhizosphere that contributes towards the promotion of plant produ...

As the world rapidly advances toward unparalleled connectivity and urbanization, the intersection of state-of-the-art telecommunications, smart city initiatives, and the Internet of Things (IoT) holds the potential for revolutionary changes in our daily lives. This book examines the complex interplay among these dynamic forces, analyzing the security challenges and opportunities that emerge as we venture into this technological frontier.Security Paradigms in 6G Smart Cities and...

A cyber-physical system (CPS) is a computer system in which a mechanism is controlled or monitored by computer-based algorithms and involves transdisciplinary approaches, merging theories of cybernetics, mechatronics, design, and process science. This text mainly concentrates on offering a foundational theoretical underpinning, and a comprehensive and coherent review of intelligent security solutions for cyber-physical systems.Features:Provides an ove...