Nothing comes easy. Nothing is given but must always be earned.The problem is I'm too tainted and broken to have anything good. That was a lesson I was taught early. A lesson I carried throughout my life, and into every relationship I had.I did not trust. Trusting meant I was vulnerable, and when you let your guard down, that's when all the dark shit seeps in. That's when the demons attack.Nothing good happens in the dark.Bu...

Collaborative product assembly design and assembly planning presents several newly-developed methodologies and applications for collaborative assembly design and assembly planning, two important steps during the product development life cycle. These benefits include effective and rapid assembly design and assembly planning, thereby reducing the development cost and helping manufacturers enhance profit. With increased development in computer technologies and the Internet, the traditional as...

This six-volume set LNAI 15877-15882 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education, AIED 2025, held in Palermo, Italy, during July 22–26, 2025.The 130 full papers and 129 short papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 711 submissions.The conference program comprises seven thematic tracks:Track 1: AIED Architectures and ToolsTrack 2: Machine Learning and ...

Book 1Esteemed Grandmaster Shen, Shen Ruizhe, was an esteemed peak master at one of the ten greatest sects across the cultivation world, the Seven Sky Pillars Sect, which resided at Tianhe Mountain.Of the few disciples this immortal nurtured was a remarkably talented young man who eventually grew to be the menace of the human realm, the Nightfall Emperor Mo Zhiyuan.The tangled web of hatred between the shizun and disciple pair led to Shen R...

This three-volume set CCIS 2590-2592 constitutes poster papers and late breaking results, workshops and tutorials, practitioners, industry and policy track, doctoral consortium, blue sky and wideAIED papers presented at the 26th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education, AIED 2025, held in Palermo, Italy, during July 22–26, 2025.The 72 full papers and 73 short papers (72 of them presented as posters) presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected...

This six-volume set LNAI 15877-15882 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education, AIED 2025, held in Palermo, Italy, during July 22–26, 2025.The 130 full papers and 129 short papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 711 submissions.The conference program comprises seven thematic tracks:Track 1: AIED Architectures and ToolsTrack 2: Machine Learning and ...

The first state-of-the-art review of this dynamic field in a decade, Modeling Microbial Responses in Foods provides the latest information on techniques in mathematical modeling of microbial growth and survival. The comprehensive coverage includes basic approaches such as improvements in the development of primary and secondary models, statistical

This second edition continues to be the most comprehensive review on the developments in advanced packaging technologies. Experts in the field discuss established techniques, as well as emerging technologies, to provide readers with the most up-to-date developments in advanced packaging. Original chapters on bonding and joining techniques, nanopackaging and biomedical packaging, MEMS and wafer level chip scale packaging, and packaging materials such as lead-free solders, flip chip underfil...

This six-volume set LNAI 15877-15882 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education, AIED 2025, held in Palermo, Italy, during July 22–26, 2025.The 130 full papers and 129 short papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 711 submissions.The conference program comprises seven thematic tracks:Track 1: AIED Architectures and ToolsTrack 2: Machine Learning and ...

ZacI stopped believing in the good a long time ago. My childhood was stripped from me one dark night and I was forever changed. Everywhere I looked I saw evil. Everyone I met, I looked at them as the enemy. It took a long time for me to open up and when I did I found my family. The only people I could count on. I never imagined I'd have a family. Because having a family gave me something to lose and I never wanted to feel that pain again. I never wanted to...

This six-volume set LNAI 15877-15882 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education, AIED 2025, held in Palermo, Italy, during July 22–26, 2025.The 130 full papers and 129 short papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 711 submissions.The conference program comprises seven thematic tracks:Track 1: AIED Architectures and ToolsTrack 2: Machine Learning and ...

This six-volume set LNAI 15877-15882 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education, AIED 2025, held in Palermo, Italy, during July 22–26, 2025.The 130 full papers and 129 short papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 711 submissions.The conference program comprises seven thematic tracks:Track 1: AIED Architectures and ToolsTrack 2: Machine Learning and ...