Covers key advances in breeding, including conventional, marker-assisted and transgenic breeding techniquesSummarises key advances in understanding bacterial, fungal and viral diseases of sugarcaneAssesses best practice in integrated disease, pest and weed management

Afro-Asian Connections in Latin America and the Caribbean explores the connections between people of Asian and African descent in Latin America and the Caribbean. Although their journeys started from different points of origin, spanning two separate oceans, their point of contact in this hemisphere brought them together under a hegemonic system that would treat these seemingly disparate continental ancestries as one. Historically, an overwhelming majority of people of African and Asian des...

Leadership. Loyalty. Lessons from four legs.What if your best leadership teacher wasn't a bestselling author or a corporate guru, but a scruffy rescue dog with separation anxiety?In Tails from the Concierge, Malathi Kanagasabapathy, global health leader, entrepreneur, and founder of My Pet Concierge, shares twelve heartfelt, humorous, and deeply insightful stories from her years working with pets and their people.Each chapter is a snapshot of real ...

Georgina Gems returns in this hauntingly atmospheric sequel, Georgina Gems and the Wishing Well. Now in her third year as a rising criminologist based in Canberra, Georgina is tasked with a curious new assignment one that lies far outside her usual purview of data and forensic research. She is sent to the rural town of Windmere in New South Wales, a place whispered about for its mysterious Wishing Well, where locals claim their deepest desires come true… though some never return.

Criminologist Georgina Gems is pulled into her most mind-bending case yet when a mysterious dome hidden beneath a church activates, revealing a system of ancient seals designed to control time itself. As a powerful AI begins rewriting reality, Georgina must decide whether to open the truth… or seal it forever.

Enjoy reading interviews with more than two dozen data professionals to see a picture of what it’s like to work in the industry managing and analyzing data, helping you to know what it takes to move from your current expertise into one of the fastest growing areas of technology today. Data is the hottest word of the century, and data professionals are in high demand. You may already be a data professional such as a database administrator or business intelligence analyst. Or you ma...

Memorializing Violence brings together feminist and queer reflections on the transnational lives of memorialization practices, asking what it means to grapple with loss, mourning, grief, and desires to collectively remember and commemorate–as well as urges to forget–in the face of disparate yet entangled experiences of racialized and gendered colonial, imperial, militarized, and state violence. The volume uses a transnational feminist approach to ask, How do such efforts in seemin...

Cognitive Computing with Intelligent Engineering Platforms is an explorative study anchored in the transformative role of cloud-based artificial intelligence and cognitive computing in advancing smart engineering systems across industrial, urban, energy, and healthcare domains. The volume highlights how AI-driven platforms, Industrial IoT, and cloud infrastructures are reshaping decision-making, control systems and human–machine collaboration.Through focused chapters, the book exam...

Row, Row, Row Your Boat is a tender, lyrical novel about Philipa, a retired hospice worker, who finds healing and meaning in quiet riverbank reflections after the loss of his dearest friend, Mona. Through meditations on each line of the familiar nursery rhyme, the story explores love, grief, presence, and the beauty of impermanence. A gentle invitation to live deeply, row gently, and cherish every ripple of life.

Bridge the critical gap between AI transparency and security with this essential guide to the systematic defense frameworks and ethical strategies needed to protect explainable AI (XAI) systems from sophisticated adversarial attacks.In the artificial intelligence era, explainable AI (XAI) is an essential breakthrough that plays a vital role in unfolding complex AI model decisions and predictions. However, adversarial attacks can break XAI systems and create dangero...

Hototo is a name of Native American origin, meaning "Warrior Spirit who sings." It signifies a robust and resilient nature, often associated with someone who embodies strength and harmony.

The global race to develop and deploy automated vehicles is still hindered by significant challenges, with the related complexities requiring multidisciplinary research approaches. Knowledge Graph-Based Methods for Automated Driving offers sought-after, specialized know-how for a wide range of readers both in academia and industry on the use of graphs as knowledge representation techniques which, compared to other relational models, provide a number of advantages for data-driven applicatio...