The world is not an equal place. There are high- and low-income countries and high- and low-income households. For each group, there are differential educational opportunities, leading to differential educational outcomes and differential labor market opportunities. This pattern often reproduces the privileges and inequalities of groups in a society. This book explores this differentiation in e…
Focusing on nascent firms, established growing firms and established plateaued forms within the northern inland New South Wales regional locations in Australia, this book explores the manifestation of entrepreneurship. In particular, the authors examine the state and status of regional entrepreneurship in the bioregions and investigate how gender plays out in the entrepreneurial space. The auth…
This book constitutes the proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Big Data Analytics, BDA 2022, which took place in Hyderabad, India, in December 2022. The 7 full papers and 7 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 36 submissions. The book also contains 4 keynote talks in full-paper length. The papers are organized in the following topical se…
The three-volume set LNCS 13245, 13246 and 13247 constitutes the proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications, DASFAA 2022, held online, in April 2021. The total of 72 full papers, along with 76 short papers, are presented in this three-volume set was carefully reviewed and selected from 543 submissions. Additionally, 13 industrial papers, 9 de…
This book addresses the topic of humanities education fieldwork using the Singapore context as its primary focus. It explores how the thought processes behind and techniques of various humanities and social sciences subjects can be applied to fieldwork in a variety of school and training settings. In addition, it discusses how humanities students and educators could stand to benefit from utiliz…
This book comprises select proceedings of the International Conference on Innovations in Mechanical Engineering (ICIME 2021). It presents innovative ideas and new findings in the field of mechanical engineering. Various topics covered in this book are aerospace engineering, automobile engineering, thermal engineering, renewable energy sources, bio-mechanics, fluid mechanics, MEMS, mechatronics,…
This book comprises select proceedings of the annual conference of the Indian Geotechnical Society. The conference brings together research and case histories on various aspects of geotechnical and geoenvironmental engineering. The book presents papers on geotechnical applications and case histories, covering topics such as (i) Characterization of Geomaterials and Physical Modelling; (ii) Found…
This book includes selected papers presented at the 4th International Conference on Data Engineering and Communication Technology (ICDECT 2020), held at Kakatiya Institute of Technology & Science, Warangal, India, during 25–26 September 2020. It features advanced, multidisciplinary research towards the design of smart computing, information systems and electronic systems. It also focuses on v…
This book presents selected research papers on current developments in the fields of soft computing and signal processing from the Third International Conference on Soft Computing and Signal Processing (ICSCSP 2020). The book covers topics such as soft sets, rough sets, fuzzy logic, neural networks, genetic algorithms and machine learning and discusses various aspects of these topics, e.g., tec…
This book comprises select proceedings of the Indian Geotechnical Conference 2020 (IGC2020) focusing on emerging opportunities and challenges in the field of transportation geotechnics, scour and erosion, offshore geotechnics, and environmental geotechnology. The contents will be useful to researchers, educators, practitioners and policy makers alike.
This book includes best selected, high-quality research papers presented at the International Conference on Intelligent Manufacturing and Energy Sustainability (ICIMES 2020) held at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Malla Reddy College of Engineering & Technology (MRCET), Maisammaguda, Hyderabad, India, during August 21-22, 2020. It covers topics in the areas of automation, manufacturin…
This book comprises select proceedings of the annual conference of the Indian Geotechnical Society. The conference brings together research and case histories on various aspects of geotechnical and geoenvironmental engineering. The book presents papers on geotechnical applications and case histories, covering topics such as (i) Characterization of Geomaterials and Physical Modelling; (ii) Found…
This book comprises select proceedings of the annual conference of the Indian Geotechnical Society. The conference brings together research and case histories on various aspects of geotechnical and geoenvironmental engineering. The book presents papers on geotechnical applications and case histories, covering topics such as (i) Characterization of Geomaterials and Physical Modelling; (ii) Found…
Way Umpu Sub watershed is one of sub watershed from Tulang Bawang watershed in Way Kanan regency, Lampung. Its has area of 784,71 km2 and has a length of 134,94 km and flows from Banjit district to Bahuga district. This land dominated by forest makes Way Umpu sub watershed used by the community for settlement, farming, agriculture and other land uses. But in practice, poor management cause the …
This book comprises the best deliberations with the theme “Machine Learning Technologies and Applications” in the “International Conference on Advances in Computer Engineering and Communication Systems (ICACECS 2020),” organized by the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, VNR Vignana Jyothi Institute of Engineering and Technology. The book provides insights into the recent tr…