The US Gulf of Mexico is one of the largest and most prolific offshore hydrocarbon basins in the world with thousands of structures installed in the region and tens of thousands of wells drilled. Over the past decade, a significant number of structures in shallow water have been decommissioned, as operators can no longer "kick the decommissioning can" down the road. This has opened up new markets and additional regulatory oversight with far-reaching implications. This book describes future...

Published continuously since 1972, Agricultural Product Prices has become the standard textbook and reference work for students in agricultural and applied economics, buyers and sellers of commodities, and policymakers, clearly explaining conceptual and empirical models applicable to agricultural product markets. The new fifth edition uses up-to-date information and models to explain the behavior of agricultural product prices. To...

This book contains best-selected research papers presented at ICTCS 2025: Tenth International Conference on Information and Communication Technology for Competitive Strategies. The conference is organized in Jaipur, India during 15–17 December 2025. This book covers state-of-the-art as well as emerging topics pertaining to ICT and effective strategies for its implementation for engineering and managerial applications. This book contains papers mainly focused on ICT for computation, algorit...

This book provides an insightful review and methodological contribution about future healthcare system. It also provides a space for creating and designing techniques for effective sensing, processing, and analysis of patient health situations based on bio-signal processing. Additionally, it discusses novel methods and algorithms which are needed to overcome limitations in current rhythmic bio-signals models. It also discusses solutions and systems needed to efficiently evaluate and proces...

The Ends of Critique re-examines the stakes of critique in the 21st century. In view of increasingly complex socio-political realities and shifts in a fully globalized world, the roles and manners of critique also change. The volume offers an unprecedented re-examination of critique under those conditions of global entanglement and asymmetrical relations from a diversity of scholarly perspectives within the humanities. All contributions move the notion of critique into more divers...

This book contains best selected research papers presented at ICTCS 2023: Eighth International Conference on Information and Communication Technology for Competitive Strategies. The conference was held in Jaipur, India during 8 – 9 December 2023. The book covers state-of-the-art as well as emerging topics pertaining to ICT and effective strategies for its implementation for engineering and managerial applications. This book contains papers mainly focused on ICT for computation, algorithms ...

We are all aware that artificial intelligence (AI) has brought a change in our lives, driven by a new form of interaction between man and machine. We are in the era of the fourth Industrial Revolution (IR) where AI plays vital roles in human development by enabling extraordinary technological advances making fundamental changes to the way we live, work and relate to one another. It is an opportunity to help everyone, including leaders, policymakers and people from all income groups and nat...

This book explores how advanced machine learning techniques are transforming healthcare, highlighting innovative applications in disease diagnosis, treatment, and healthcare management. It shows that adaptation of machine learning can bring significant benefits for the sustainability of healthcare informatics in the era of 4.0 IR.With contributions from researchers and field experts, the book covers key topics such as predictive analytics, medical image processing, and personalized...

This book presents various computational and cognitive modeling approaches in the areas of health, education, finance, environment, engineering, commerce and industry. It is a collection of selected conference papers presented at the 5th International Conference on Trends in Cognitive Computation Engineering (TCCE 2023), organized by Pranveer Singh Institute of Technology, Kanpur Uttar Pradesh, India in collaboration with IIOIR, Shimla, Himachal Pradesh, India, during 24 – 25 November 2023...

This book presents various computational and cognitive modeling approaches in the areas of health, education, finance, environment, engineering, commerce and industry. It is a collection of selected conference papers presented at the 5th International Conference on Trends in Cognitive Computation Engineering (TCCE 2023), organized by Pranveer Singh Institute of Technology, Kanpur Uttar Pradesh, India in collaboration with IIOIR, Shimla, Himachal Pradesh, India, during 24 – 25 November 2023...

This book includes papers in the research area of artificial intelligence, robotics and automation, IoT smart agriculture, data analysis and cloud computing, communication and technology, and signal and natural language processing. The book is a collection of research papers presented at the First International Conference on Fourth Industrial Revolution and Beyond (IC4IR 2021) organized by University Grants Commission of Bangladesh in association with IEEE Computer Society Bangladesh Chapt...

This book focuses on how Chicago actually tried to formulate and implement problem solving as part of a thoroughgoing change in its style of policing. It describes the five-step problem-solving model that the city developed for tackling neighborhood problems ranging from graffiti to gang violence.