Provides a comprehensive review of best practice in sugarcane cultivation across the value chain from planting through to post-harvest operationsAssesses alternative uses of sugarcane for bioenergy and other applicationsAssesses the environmental impact of sugarcane cultivation

Dieselpunk and decopunk are alternative history re-imaginings of (roughly) the WWI and WWII eras: tales with the grit of roaring bombers and rumbling tanks, of 'We Can Do It' and old time gangsters, or with the glamour of flappers and Hollywood starlets, smoky jazz and speakeasies. The stories in this volume add fairy tales to the mix, transporting classic tales to this rich historical setting.Two young women defy the devil with the power of friendship. The pilot of a talking plane...

Our twenty-sixth issue is haunted, alcohol-soaked, possibly delusional, bathed in moonlight, wandering through forests and caverns, and inflamed by all-manner of approaching catastrophes.Featuring new short fiction, poetry, CNF, and translations from Alberto Ortiz De Zarate (translated by Whitni Battle), Darlene Eliot, Nara Vidal (translated by Emyr Humphreys), Luna Sicat-Cleto (translated by Bernard Capinpin), Suzana Stojanović, Siamak Vossoughi, Marshall Moore, Farhad Pirbal (tra...

The three-volume set LNAI 14195, 14196, and 14197 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th Brazilian Conference on Intelligent Systems, BRACIS 2023, which took place in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, in September 2023.The 90 full papers included in the proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 242 submissions. They have been organized in topical sections as follows:Part I: Best papers; resource allocation and planning; rules and feature extraction; AI and educa...

The three-volume set LNAI 14195, 14196, and 14197 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th Brazilian Conference on Intelligent Systems, BRACIS 2023, which took place in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, in September 2023.The 90 full papers included in the proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 242 submissions. They have been organized in topical sections as follows:Part I: Best papers; resource allocation and planning; rules and feature extraction; AI and educa...

This book focuses on the research and development challenges posed by 3D video systems based on multi-view plus depth (MVD) technology. This technology can produce a realistic immersive experience generating synthetic video views on the decoder side, reducing the amount of information on the encoder side. The discussion presented in this book explores the MVD characteristics to propose high-throughput and energy-efficient architectures/systems, focusing on 3D-HEVC, the state-of-the-art sta...

“Anyone who believes that faeries are wee, golden-haired creatures with dragon-fly wings and sweet intentions has never met a real faerie.” –Suzanne J. Willis, “A Silver Thread Between Worlds”Retellings of familiar favourites from new perspectives, and brand new tales share the pages of this collection of fairy stories. Within these tales you’ll find fairy music and food, contracts (making and breaking them), changelings, circles and curses–these stories deliver all the things you ...

The Unwritten Brazilian Constitution offers an unexplored topic outside Portuguese language: the leading cases on human rights in the Brazilian Supreme Court (Supremo Tribunal Federal – STF). The Brazilian Constitution of 1988 represents an institutional framework able to restructure the relationship between the powers after the military dictatorship. The constituents drafted the Brazilian Constitution in order to set an extensive system of judicial protection for fundamental righ...

Write a haiku is easy. Difficult it's to be true to its rules. In this little book, I present to you, some haiku that he wrote walking the streets of the world, using only a cell phone to record your inspiration. And as the name says, some are hungers, others quite relevant. The cats throughout the book are a tribute to me, Oliver, my black white cat pet. No more, have fun!

Everyone living on the planet today has a front-row seat to the failure of communism, socialism, and immorality. People are sick to death of the fabrications, lies, control, and tyranny. Mario Murillo draws on his recent experiences in California, where his ministry is experiencing souls being saved at a rate that surpasses even what was seen during the Jesus movement of the 1960s and ' 70s. It' s accelerating, and Murillo believes it' s a worldwide trend that has us poised for an unpreced...

The automotive industry is one of the most complex, demanding, and rapidly evolving sectors in the world. Behind every successful vehicle launch lies a network of projects, teams, processes, and leaders working together to transform ideas into reality. In Project Management Principles for the Automotive Industry, Murilo Marson Cerqueira combines nearly two decades of hands-on automotive experience with globally recognized project management practices to create a practical guide for profess...

Better than shopping over the internet and receiving the product at home, is to doing so while saving and spending less.