Smart Opedia

An illustrated reference work covers the topics of astronomy, the Earth, plants, animals, the human body, history, today's world, the arts, and science and technology

How hot does it get on the Sun? What really went on aboard a pirate ship? What was life like for kids a hundred years ago? How much did dinosaurs eat? From a tour of the human skeleton and the five senses to modern technology and inventions, from life in the desert to a day at a fire station, readers can expect to be delighted and fascinated at each turn of the page. With subjects so inviting and accessible, kids can open this book anywhere that catches their attention, and learn many valuable and appealing new things. Richly illustrated in a wide variety of exceptional and colorful graphic styles, the comprehensive text delivers stimulating and educational information for young readers as never before. Seven detailed chapters are divided into more than 70 entertaining and thought-provoking subjects. From going to the circus to discovering the world of plants, from soaring over mountain peaks to visiting the city museum, this rich, lively, and clearly organized world-in-a-book is aimed at the children of today. It will entertain them with answers to questions they might not even have known they had, and help them take joy in figuring out the world around them.

Caribbeab-Opedia is a collection of profiles about individuals who contributed or made inputs to the development of our region. It serves as a foundation or starting point suitable for further development that will enhance knowledge about efforts that we as a people invested towards where we are today.

This book explores the fundamentals of smart cities along with issues, controversies, problems and applications concerning security and privacy in smart city development. Future smart cities must incorporate innovations like smart rainwater harvesting, smart street lighting, digital identity management, solar energy, intelligent transport systems and emerging communication applications. The target audience of the book includes professionals, researchers, academics, advanced-level students, technology developers, doctors and biologists working in the field of smart city applications. Professionals will find innovative ideas for marketing and research, while developers can use various technologies like IoTand block chain to develop the applications discussed here. As the book shows, by integrating new technologies, the cities of the future are becoming a reality today.

Ninian Smart came to public prominence as the founding Professor of the first British university Department of Religious Studies in the late 1960s. His pioneering views on education in religion proved hugely influential at all levels, from primary schools to academic teaching and research. An unending string of publications, many of them accessible to the general public, sustained a reputation that became worldwide.Here, for the first time, a selection of Ninian Smart's wide-ranging writings is organised systematically under a set of categories which both comprehend and also illuminate his varied output over a career spanning half a century. The editor, John Shepherd, was Principal Lecturer in Religion and Philosophy at the University of Cumbria. He first met Smart as a postgraduate student, and recently helped establish the Ninian Smart Archive at the University of Lancaster.

The chapters in this volume stress the need for advances in theoretical understanding to go hand-in-hand with the widespread practical application of forecasting in industry. Forecasting and time series prediction have enjoyed considerable attention over the last few decades, fostered by impressive advances in observational capabilities and measurement procedures. On June 5-7, 2013, an international Workshop on Industry Practices for Forecasting was held in Paris, France, organized and supported by the OSIRIS Department of Electricité de France Research and Development Division. In keeping with tradition, both theoretical statistical results and practical contributions on this active field of statistical research and on forecasting issues in a rapidly evolving industrial environment are presented. The volume reflects the broad spectrum of the conference, including 16 articles contributed by specialists in various areas. The material compiled is broad in scope and ranges from new findings on forecasting in industry and in time series, on nonparametric and functional methods and on on-line machine learning for forecasting, to the latest developments in tools for high dimension and complex data analysis.