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This self-contained introduction to machine learning, designed from the start with engineers in mind, will equip students with everything they need to start applying machine learning principles and algorithms to real-world engineering problems. With a consistent emphasis on the connections …
View book details for High-Dimensional Data Analysis with Low-Dimensional Models
Principles, Computation, and Applications
Connecting theory with practice, this systematic and rigorous introduction covers the fundamental principles, algorithms and applications of key mathematical models for high-dimensional data analysis. Comprehensive in its approach, it provides unified coverage of many different low-dimensional models and analytical techniques, …
View book details for Shaken Baby Syndrome
Investigating the Abusive Head Trauma Controversy
Since the early 2000s, a growing body of scientific studies in neuropathology, neurology, neurosurgery, biomechanics, statistics, criminology and psychology has cast doubt on the forensic reliability of medical determinations of Shaken Baby Syndrome (SBS), more recently termed Abusive Head Trauma …
View book details for Inequality across State Lines
How Policymakers Have Failed Domestic Violence Victims in the United States
In the United States, one in four women will be victims of domestic violence each year. Despite the passage of federal legislation on violence against women beginning in 1994, differences persist across states in how domestic violence is addressed. Inequality …
The rich, multi-faceted and multi-disciplinary field of matching-based market design is an active and important one due to its highly successful applications with economic and sociological impact. Its home is economics, but with intimate connections to algorithm design and operations …
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A Writer's City
The words of its writers are part of the texture of Dublin, an invisible counterpart to the bricks and pavement we see around us. Beyond the ever-present footsteps of James Joyce's characters, Leopold Bloom or Stephen Dedalus, around the city …
View book details for Promoting Black Women's Mental Health
What Practitioners Should Know and Do
Promoting Black Women's Mental Health celebrates the strengths and complexities of Black women in American life. Many misunderstand and mis-characterize Black women and underappreciate their important contributions to families, communities, and the nation. In this book, a team of Black …
This volume in the LACTOR Sourcebooks in Ancient History series offers a generous selection of primary texts illustrating the social and cultural life of Classical Athens, with a brief Introduction. It provides for the needs of students at schools and …
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The Emperor in the Changing Roman World (c. 50 BC AD 565)
For centuries, Roman emperors ruled a vast empire. Yet, at least officially, the emperor did not exist. No one knew exactly what titles he possessed, how he could be portrayed, what exactly he had to do, or how the succession …
View book details for Confusion in the West
Retrieving Tradition in the Modern and Post-Modern World
In their trenchant panoramic overview ranging from antiquity to the present-day John and Anna Rist write with authority and ennui about nothing less than the loss of the foundational culture of the West. The authors characterize this culture as the …
The concept of the early life developmental origins of health and disease (DOHaD) in adults has stimulated a new approach to understanding disease trajectories, with major public health implications. Indeed, the principle of the 'lifecourse of disease' now influences health …
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Literature, Theory, and Criticism in the Twenty-First Century
Creative storytelling is the beating heart of Darwin's science. All of Darwin's writings drew on information gleaned from a worldwide network of scientific research and correspondence, but they hinge on moments in which Darwin asks his reader to imagine how …
View book details for Foundations of Socio-Environmental Research
Legacy Readings with Commentaries
This anthology convenes 53 foundational readings that showcase the rich history of socio-environmental research from the late 1700s onwards. The introduction orients readers to the topic and how it has evolved and describes how to best use the book. The …
The Cambridge Companion to Seventeenth-Century Opera is a much-needed introduction to one of the most defining areas of Western music history - the birth of opera and its developments during the first century of its existence. From opera's Italian foundations …
An easy-to-understand course book, based on the authentic lectures and detailed research, conducted by the authors themselves, on information optics, holography and MATLAB. This book is the first to highlight the incoherent optical system, provide up-to-date, novel digital holography techniques, …
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A Traibon Family Saga Prequel
Ashton's world is crumbling and he refuses to let anyone come between him and his self-hatred, even his latest fling Lord Raphael Traibon.Ashton Le Denys Thompson is in line to be the next clan chief, but after Grandemere was attacked …
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The action-packed, unputdownable historical adventure from J. C. Duncan
The start of a BRAND NEW series detailing the epic adventures of Harald Hardrada - Prince. Mercenary. Exile.The lost throne of Norway must be won in foreign lands.1030 ADSome men are gifted a crown. Others have to fight to claim …
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Local and Global Perspectives
Public Health: Local and Global Perspectives presents a comprehensive introduction to public health issues and concepts in the Australian and international contexts. It provides students with fundamental knowledge of the public health field, including frameworks, theories, key organisations and contemporary …
In concurrent and distributed systems, processes can complete tasks together by playing their parts in a joint plan. The plan, or protocol, can be written as a choreography: a formal description of overall behaviour that processes should collaborate to implement, …
View book details for The Psychology of Organizational Change
New Insights on the Antecedents and Consequences of Individuals' Responses to Change
This volume brings together recent insights about the psychology of organizational change. The authors are leading scholars in the study of organizational change, taking on a micro-perspective for understanding the process through which responses to change emerge and impact work-related …
Far from being solely an academic enterprise, the practice of theology can pique the interest of anyone who wonders about the meaning of life. This introduction to Christian theology exploring its basic concepts, confessional content, and history emphasizes the relevance …
High time-resolution astrophysics (HTRA) involves measuring and studying astronomical phenomena on timescales of seconds to milliseconds. Although many areas of astronomy, such as X-ray astronomy and pulsar observations, have traditionally required high time-resolution studies, HTRA techniques are now being applied …
Data assimilation is theoretically founded on probability, statistics, control theory, information theory, linear algebra, and functional analysis. At the same time, data assimilation is a very practical subject, given its goal of estimating the posterior probability density function in realistic …
View book details for After Authoritarianism
Transitional Justice and Democratic Stability
Transitional justice the act of reckoning with a former authoritarian regime after it has ceased to exist has direct implications for democratic processes. Mechanisms of transitional justice have the power to influence who decides to go into politics, can shape …
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The Four Factors that Impact How You Age
Aging is a subject of concern to everyone, but is widely misunderstood. If we view it as inevitable, we miss the fact that not everyone is able to grow to an old age. Realization of this reality helps us to …
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