In a world where marriage can change more than a man's last name, Steven Gregory has eleven days to decide exactly how much he is willing to give.The newly enacted Household Reassignment Act has rewritten the rules of marriage. A bride now chooses her husband's complete marital name and declares it at the altar. He can refuse—but if he does, the marriage ends before it begins.Stella Berkeley already knows what she will call Steven.What she doesn't know is whether he...

Some secrets are worth killing for. Others are worth risking everything to expose.Scotlyn has spent years building a life that looks perfect from the outside. Behind the camera, she's fearless. Behind closed doors, she's haunted by a past she's worked desperately to bury.Declan never expected one assignment to change everything. Drawn together by chance—and kept together by a mystery neither of them can ignore—their undeniable attraction quickly becomes the...

The Girl Who Became MeA Daughter's Story of Trauma, Hope & HomeSome children dream about who they'll become.Others spend their childhood wondering if they'll survive.Before I learned what love felt like, I learned how to read fear. Before I found a place to call home, I learned how to live without one.The Girl Who Became Me is the raw, unforgettable memoir of a girl raised in instability, shaped by fracture...

The Woman I BecameTrauma, Healing & Building a Life Worth LivingSome people survive their childhood.Others spend the rest of their lives trying to escape it.For years, I thought survival was the same thing as living.I was wrong.The Woman I Became is the deeply personal story of what happens after survival—when the world expects you to move on, but your body still remembers every wound, every silence...

Full ExposureSome truths don't set you free. They destroy everything you've built.Scotlyn thought surviving the past was the hardest part. She was wrong.After exposing the lies that shaped her life, Scotlyn and Declan are finally within reach of the future they've fought for. But healing has a way of uncovering wounds buried even deeper, and the people determined to keep the truth hidden aren't finished with them yet.As old betrayal...

The construction industry is an information-intensive sector and low levels of productivity are often blamed on inadequate integration of information. This book shows how the different types and sources of information can be integrated to benefit individual construction projects, construction companies and in the construction industry at world-wide level.

The issue of data quality is as old as data itself. However, the proliferation of diverse, large-scale and often publically available data on the Web has increased the risk of poor data quality and misleading data interpretations. On the other hand, data is now exposed at a much more strategic level e.g. through business intelligence systems, increasing manifold the stakes involved for individuals, corporations as well as government agencies. There, the lack of knowledge about data accurac...

What is text mining, and how can it be used? What relevance do these methods have to everyday work in information science and the digital humanities? How does one develop competences in text mining? Working with Text provides a series of cross-disciplinary perspectives on text mining and its applications. As text mining raises legal and ethical issues, the legal background of text mining and the responsibilities of the engineer are discussed in this book. Chapters provide an introduction t...

Enterprises, from small to large, evolve continuously. As a result, their structures are transformed and extended continuously. Without some means of control, such changes are bound to lead to an overly complex, uncoordinated and heterogeneous environment that is hard to manage and hard to adapt to future changes. Enterprise architecture principles provide a means to direct transformations of enterprises. As a consequence, architecture principles should be seen as the cornerstones of any a...

Requirements engineering is one of the most complex and at the same time most crucial aspects of software engineering. It typically involves different stakeholders with different backgrounds. Constant changes in both the problem and the solution domain make the work of the stakeholders extremely dynamic. New problems are discovered, additional information is needed, alternative solutions are proposed, several options are evaluated, and new hands-on experience is gained on a daily basis. Th...

Many new technologies – like RFID, GPS, and sensor networks – that dominate innovative developments in logistics are based on the idea of autonomous cooperation and control. This self-organisational concept describes „...processes of decentralized decision-making in heterarchical structures. It presumes interacting elements in non-deterministic systems, which possess the capability and possibility to render decisions. The objective of autonomous cooperation and control is the achievement o...

This volume comprises a collection of papers presented at an Open Data in Education Seminar and the LILE workshops during 2014-2015.In the first part of the book, two chapters give different perspectives on the current use of linked and open data in education, including the use of technology and the topics that are being covered.The second part of the book focuses on the specific, practical applications that are being put in place to exploit open and linked data in educatio...