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Is AI the Perfect Doctor?

Artificial Intelligence’s Global Impact on the Legal and Policy Boundaries in Healthcare

This book explores the intersection of artificial intelligence and healthcare, where the adoption of AI is accelerating at an unprecedented pace. It examines the transformative potential of AI in medicine, particularly how advanced technologies are revolutionizing diagnostics, treatment, and patient care. Special attention is devoted to the ethical challenges and considerations of implementing AI ...

The New Nuclear Power

A Journey through the Future of Energy

The book explores the future of nuclear power, presenting it as a critical component in addressing the global climate crisis and achieving sustainable decarbonization. Written by two physicists, the text argues that nuclear power, particularly fourth-generation reactors, offers a safe, clean, and economically viable energy solution.The authors trace the evolution of nuclear technology, highlighting ...

Giorgio Armani

The Man, the Brand, the Company

Armani is a unique case in the history of Italian fashion and entrepreneurship. Founded in 1975, the Armani Group is the first Made in Italy multinational. Giorgio Armani is still the creative soul and sole administrator of a company that closed in 2023 with a growing turnover of 2.45 billion euros. This book starts with two fundamental questions: What is unique about this extraordinary business case? ...

Circular Fashion Management

Ideas, Perspectives and Tools to Catalyze Change

On March 30, 2022, the European Commission published the EU Strategy for Sustainable and Circular Textiles as part of the EU Green Deal, which aims to provide a coherent framework and a vision for the transition of the Textiles Clothing Leather Footwear (TCLF) sector. Following this scenario, the aim of the book is to explain circularity in fashion in simple terms. The author’s goal is to create ...

Production, Operations and Supply Chain Management

Industrial production has always been a propulsion element in any economy, be it from a perspective of value-creation, employment potential, or its impact on sustainability and technological innovation; the ability to manage operations and supply chain is therefore a key skill for a company’s competitiveness.If this has always been true, today as never before, in a world hit hard by a medical emergency ...

Singularity Bank

AI and Runaway Transformation in Financial Services Artificial intelligence is driving the next revolution in banking, with disruptive forces presenting profound challenges to traditional business models. As the adoption of new technologies, and innovation of even newer ones, accelerates, are we fast approaching a future in which banks no longer have a need for assets or, indeed, for humans? Is there ...

Python for non-Pythonians

How to Win over Programming Languages The book uses a very simple and accessible language. All the descriptions of Python functionalities come with intuitive examples to make you learn by doing. This is not a theoretical book and does not cover some of the most internal features of Python. The intention of the authors is to allow business-oriented people to start using Python. The main reason for ...

Probability

A Brief Introduction Today probability turns out to be one of the most pervasive mathematical topics. It actually affects a number of quite different fields, proving particularly relevant to courses ranging from Statistics to Economics, from Finance to Management Science. Recently it has even found significant applications in some sectors of Law. This book contains a short presentation of the most ...

Psycology of the Associated Minds

These lectures are a crucial step in the long maturation of the thought of Carlo Cattaneo (1801-1869). They represent a change of paradigm, from the perspective of the individual, to that of the associated man, who in the course of history builds collective ways of thinking and acting, languages, religions, organizations, social systems and, in doing so, transforms both nature and society. In the ...

Start-up Entrepreneurship

The SMART way Most entrepreneurs do not succeed in their attempt to create a sustainable business from their venture idea. There are several reasons for the very high failure rates in start-up and social entrepreneurship, but most can be traced back to a lack of understanding of how a start-up should be managed in its different phases, from the identification of the opportunity to the management ...