This book explores whether the Metaverse - understood here as a persistent, immersive, and widely utilized, virtual world - will be the next chapter in the evolution of cyberspace, and what that means for people, business, and society. The Metaverse. Depending on your perspective, it's the future of the Internet, the next generation of video games, or "a deeply uncomfortable, worse version of Zoom." In many ways, the confusion, overpromising, and hype are reminiscent of ho...

Il volume riunisce alcuni dei testi più brillanti tratti da The Crooked Coronet and Other Misrepresentations of the Real Facts of Life (1937) dell'autore inglese di origini armene Michael Arlen. Ammirato da Francis Scott Fitzgerald e sceneggiatore per Alfred Hitchcock, Arlen è conosciuto principalmente per l'ironia, la misura e l'intelligenza con cui racconta storie magistralmente congegnate, ambientate principalmente nel bel mondo inglese dei primi decenni del xx secolo.

This book explores whether the Metaverse—understood here as a persistent, immersive, and widely utilized, virtual world—will be the next chapter in the evolution of cyberspace, and what that means for people, business, and society.The Metaverse. Depending on your perspective, it's the future of the Internet, the next generation of video games, or "a deeply uncomfortable, worse version of Zoom." In many ways, the confusion, overprom...

Perspectives on the varied challenges posed by big data for health, science, law, commerce, and politics.Big data is ubiquitous but heterogeneous. Big data can be used to tally clicks and traffic on web pages, find patterns in stock trades, track consumer preferences, identify linguistic correlations in large corpuses of texts. This book examines big data not as an undifferentiated whole but contextually, investigating the varied challenges posed by big data for he...

Our natural environment constitutes a complex and dynamic global ecosystem that provides essential resources for well-being and survival. Yet the environment is also subject to unprecedented threats from human activities, such as climate change, pollution, habitat loss, biodiversity decline, and the overexploitation of natural resources. This volume argues that such complex, multidimensional challenges demand equally complex, multi-dimensional solutions and calls for coordinated, multi-sta...

This atlas is designed to offer a comprehensive and step-by-step guidance on Open Partial Horizontal Laryngectomies (OPHLs). Thanks to these surgical procedures, a functional portion of larynx can be preserved, and the patient can maintain voice and swallowing function. Besides the detailed description of the surgical techniques, the book covers the post-operative care, the management of complications and the dysfunctional operated larynx. Enriched with high-definition illustrations, the w...