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Cristian Lai, Alessandro Giuliani, Giovanni Semeraro
This volume focuses on new challenges in distributed Information Filtering and Retrieval. It collects invited chapters and extended research contributions from the special session on Information Filtering and Retrieval: Novel Distributed Systems and Applications (DART) of the 4th International Conference …
Amit Joshi, Mufti Mahmud, Roshan G. Ragel, Nileshsingh V. Thakur
This book contains the best selected research papers presented at ICTCS 2020: Fifth International Conference on Information and Communication Technology for Competitive Strategies. The conference was held at Jaipur, Rajasthan, India, during 1112 December 2020. The book covers state-of-the-art as …
Nik Bessis, Fatos Xhafa, Dora Varvarigou, Richard Hill, Maozhen Li
Over the past two decades, we have witnessed unprecedented innovations in the development of miniaturized electromechanical devices and low-power wireless communication making practical the embedding of networked computational devices into a rapidly widening range of material entities.This trend has enabled …

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Optimization and Piezoelectric Vibration Control
Ranjan Ganguli, Dipali Thakkar, Sathyamangalam Ramanarayanan Viswamurthy
Exploiting the properties of piezoelectric materials to minimize vibration in rotor-blade actuators, this book demonstrates the potential of smart helicopter rotors to achieve the smoothness of ride associated with jet-engined, fixed-wing aircraft. Vibration control is effected using the concepts of …

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The 81st Annual Meeting of the Psychometric Society, Asheville, North Carolina, 2016
L. Andries van der Ark, Marie Wiberg, Steven A. Culpepper, Jeffrey A. Douglas, Wen-Chung Wang
This proceedings volume compiles and expands on selected and peer reviewed presentations given at the 81st Annual Meeting of the Psychometric Society (IMPS), organized by the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, and held in Asheville, North Carolina, July 11th …
Alex Mason, Subhas Chandra Mukhopadhyay, Krishanthi Padmarani Jayasundera
This book contains a collection of selected works stemming from the 2013 International Conference on Sensing Technology (ICST), which was held in Wellington, New Zealand. The purpose of the book is to distill the highlights of the conference, and therefore …
Yongsheng Ding, Lei Chen, Kuangrong Hao
This book presents state-of-the-art research advances in the field of biologically inspired cooperative control theories and their applications. It describes various biologically inspired cooperative control and optimization approaches and highlights real-world examples in complex industrial processes. Multidisciplinary in nature and …
Przemysław Kazienko, Nitesh Chawla
This collection of contributed chapters demonstrates a wide range of applications within two overlapping research domains: social media analysis and social network analysis. Various methodologies were utilized in the twelve individual chapters including static, dynamic and real-time approaches to graph, …
Muhammad Alam, Wael Dghais, Yuanfang Chen
This book presents cutting-edge work on real-time modelling and processing, a highly active research field in both the research and industrial domains. Going beyond conventional real-time systems, major efforts are required to develop accurate and computational efficient real-time modelling algorithms …
Jemal H. Abawajy, Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo, Haruna Chiroma
This book addresses the adoption of intelligent algorithms for resolving challenges in different aspects of the society such as sport, cyber-security, COVID-19 pandemic, advertising, driving, smart environmentsensors, blockchain, cloud computing, and health. In addition, the book also covers machine learning …

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Select Proceedings of the 9th World Congress "Aviation in the XXI Century"
Andrii Bieliatynskyi, Vera Breskich
This book gathers the latest advances, innovations, and applications in the field of aerospace technology and aviation safety, as presented by researchers at the 9th World Congress Aviation in the XXI Century: Safety in Aviation and Space Technologies, held in …
Harlan E. Spotts, H. Lee Meadow
Founded in 1971, the Academy of Marketing Science is an international organization dedicated to promoting timely explorations of phenomena related to the science of marketing in theory, research, and practice. Among its services to members and the community at large, …
Jay B. Lavine
McGraw-Hill Education
The most comprehensive, patient-friendly guide to eye care available The Eye Care Sourcebook offers you the best approach for obtaining quality eye care. It provides an overview of LASIK and other forms of vision correction, as well as in-depth descriptions …
Angelo Dundee, Bert Randolph Sugar
McGraw-Hill Education
Boxing's greatest trainer reveals all "The book is written in a highly conversational tone, and by the end the reader will know precisely what it is like to listen to the Bill Walsh of boxing hold court on the exotic …
Robert F. Reardon, O. John Ma, Andrea Rowland-Fisher
McGraw-Hill Education
Publisher's Note: Products purchased from Third Party sellers are not guaranteed by the publisher for quality, authenticity, or access to any online entitlements included with the product. The acclaimed quick-reference guide to performing and interpreting emergency ultrasound exams More than …
Gary Antonacci
McGraw-Hill Education
The investing strategy that famously generates higher returns with substantially reduced risk--presented by the investor who invented it "A treasure of well researched momentum-driven investing processes." Gregory L. Morris, Chief Technical Analyst and Chairman, Investment Committee of Stadion Money Management, …
EDWARD GILCHRIST WRIGHT
During the Great Depression, Gift and his sister Maggie live in a Pittsburgh tenement with their brutal father and their abused mother. At the connivance of their father they are sent to a "school", in reality a autocratic indoctrination center. …
Jo Ann R. Smith
Unable to have biological children, Dennis and Jean decide to adopt. They first adopt Matthew, who is only six months old. He brings them so much joy. Dennis and Jean adopt a twelve-month-old daughter, Ann. Ann was born in Korea. …
Gary Hunt
The book is a compilation of poems that were inspired by God. To him goes all praise, glory, and honor.
Willa R. Finnegan
Snow has always been the perfect princess or at least the best that she could be. She had done everything correctly for fifteen whole years and had always righted every single wrong that she had ever committed. Though, it still …

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A Reference Guide to the Dark and Curious Crimes of British History
Stephen Wade
A Dictionary of True Crime is a guide to the most compelling cases of extreme and violent crime in the writing files, from the 17th century to present day. Amongst notorious criminals like Jack the Ripper and the Moors Murderers, …

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Eyewitness Accounts from World War II
Klaus G Förg
...a valuable addition to the historical record. The Luftwaffe officer's account for being selected for the May 1945 submarine trip to Japan also proved interesting from a "last gasp" point of view. - Historical Miniatures Gaming SocietyThis fascinating collection of …

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The Memoirs of General Sir Frank Kitson GBE KCB MC and Bar DL
Frank Kitson
As this superb memoir bears out, General Sir Frank Kitsons 41-year career ranks among the most distinguished and eventful of the post-1945 era.Commissioned into the Rifle Brigade at the end of the Second World War, he distinguished himself during the …
John Marsden
Sunk by a U-boat, Attacked by Kamikazes tells the story of one mans experiences during the years 1939 to 1947. Aged sixteen when the war broke out, Joseph Marsden worked casual shiftwork on the Liverpool docks. Lucky to survive an …

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The Memoir of Captain James Stirling of the Black Watch
Gareth Glover
Captain James Stirlings journals offer a firsthand account of the 42nd Regiments actions during the Peninsular War.For such a famous regiment as the 42nd Regiment of Foot (The Black Watch), the number of published memoirs is surprisingly low. The discovery …
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