Can a physics major survive the AI era? Why did two students with identical AI-assisted assignments deserve different grades? And when AI gets a body — even one as small as a wristband tag — who decides its limits? These are not quick reads. Each essay is short, but built to be read slowly and returned to.In twenty-nine short essays, public health professor Min Wu, PhD, works through the questions AI is raising for students, educators, practitioners, and anyone who serves communiti...

This book explains how artificial intelligence (AI) works and helps readers adopt, use, and evaluate AI applications in public health. It serves as an introduction to AI literacy for beginners without a prerequisite for a math or information technology background. The conceptual frameworks for AI in public health also serve well for future agentic AI design.With the help of this textbook, instructors will be able to teach students the fundamental concepts and skills to identify unm...

The digital information revolution has brought about profound changes in our society and our life. New devices and powerful software have made it possible for consumers worldwide to create, manipulate, share, and enjoy the multimedia information. Internet and wireless networks offer ubiquitous channels to deliver and to exchange multimedia information for such pur poses as remote collaboration, distant learning, and entertainment. With all these advances in multimedia coding and communicat...

This book discusses the intelligent optimization and control of complex metallurgical processes, including intelligent optimization and control of raw-material proportioning processes, coking process, and reheating furnaces; intelligent control of thermal state parameters in sintering processes; and intelligent decoupling control of gas collection and mixing-and-pressurization processes. The intelligent control and optimization methods presented were originally applied to complex metallurg...

This book provides a thorough exploration of the latest innovations in AI for general time series analysis, distribution shift, and foundation models. It offers an in-depth look at cutting-edge techniques and methodologies, using advanced algorithms that are transforming time series analysis across industries. The authors highlight the use of AI models, particularly those based on deep learning, to study the sequence of data points collected at successive points in time.In the stud...

This book provides a thorough exploration of the latest innovations in AI for general time series analysis, distribution shift and foundation models. It offers an in-depth look at cutting-edge techniques and methodologies, using advance algorithms that are transforming time series analysis across industries. The authors highlight the use AI models, particularly those based on deep learning, to study the sequence of data points collected at successive points in time. In the study of the use...

This four-volume set LNCS 16412-16415 constitutes the proceedings of the 32nd International Conference on Multimedia Modeling, MMM 2026, held in Prague, Czech Republic, during January 29–31, 2026.The 148 full papers and 20 short papers presented in this book were carefully selected and reviewed from 291 valid submissions. These papers have been organized in the following sections:Regular PapersSpecial Session on Human-Centric Multimodal Behavior AnalysisMOMS...

The four novel Dynamic Event-Triggered Mechanisms (DETMs) in this book are for complex networked systems that optimize resource utilization while preserving system performance. These include hybrid dynamic variables-dependent ETMs, hybrid adjusting variables-dependent ETMs, bounded dynamic variable/time-varying threshold-dependent ETMs, and terminal constraint set-dependent mixed time/event-triggered mechanisms. It explores applications across fault diagnosis in networked systems, finite-t...

This book delves into the evolving Southern discourse in Sinophone literature and explores its significance in the global context. Examining the Southern discourse not just within mainland China but also in the geographically and culturally southern regions, including Southeast Asia, Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan, and Australia, this book analyzes various critical themes, including transnational migration, racial dynamics and stereotypes, gender politics, indigenous awareness, cultural hybridit...

This volume brings together a series of review articles that highlight new advances in using the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, to study a wide range of cancer-related topics. Building on the foundation of Volume I, the articles demonstrate how research in Drosophila continues to uncover important developmental, cellular, and molecular mechanisms underlying tumor growth, progression, and systemic interactions.Readers will appreciate how the fly’s simple genet...

This four-volume set LNCS 16412-16415 constitutes the proceedings of the 32nd International Conference on Multimedia Modeling, MMM 2026, held in Prague, Czech Republic, during January 29–31, 2026.The 148 full papers and 20 short papers presented in this book were carefully selected and reviewed from 291 valid submissions. These papers have been organized in the following sections:Regular PapersSpecial Session on Human-Centric Multimodal Behavior AnalysisMOMS...

This four-volume set LNCS 16415-16412 constitutes the proceedings of the 32nd International Conference on Multimedia Modeling, MMM 2026, held in Prague, Czech Republic, during January 29–31, 2026.