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This volume contains 73 papers presented at CSI 2014: Emerging ICT for Bridging the Future: Proceedings of the 49th Annual Convention of Computer Society of India. The convention was held during 12-14, December, 2014 at Hyderabad, Telangana, India. This volume …
A motivation for structural health monitoring. Structural health monitoring of aircraft structures. Vibration-based damage diagnosis and monitoring of external loads.Statistical time series methods for vibration based structural health monitoring. Fiber optic sensors. Damage localisation using elastic waves propagation methods experimental …
This book presents recent advances in optimization and control methods with applications to industrial engineering and construction management. It consists of 15 chapters authored by recognized experts in a variety of fields including control and operation research, industrial engineering and …
View book details for EU Effectiveness and Unity in Multilateral Negotiations
More than the Sum of its Parts?
Analysing the relationship between EU unity and effectiveness in multilateral negotiations on food standards, climate change and health, this book develops a new model that simplifies earlier work on 'actorness' as well as combining insights from institutionalist, intergovernmentalist and constructivist …
View book details for Advanced Technologies for Sustainable Systems
Selected Contributions from the International Conference on Sustainable Vital Technologies in Engineering and Informatics, BUE ACE1 2016, 7-9 November 2016, Cairo, Egypt
This book reports on cutting-edge technologies that have been fostering sustainable development in a variety of fields, including built and natural environments, structures, energy, advanced mechanical technologies as well as electronics and communication technologies. It reports on the applications of …
View book details for The Book of Moods
How I Turned My Worst Emotions Into My Best Life
The Happiness Project meets So Sad Today in this "hilariously witty, unflinchingly honest" book from Words of Women founder Lauren Martin, as she contemplates the nature of negative emotions -- and the insights that helped her to take control of …
View book details for Multiphysics Modelling and Simulation for Systems Design and Monitoring
Proceedings of the Multiphysics Modelling and Simulation for Systems Design Conference, MMSSD 2014, 17-19 December, Sousse, Tunisia
This book reports on the state of the art in the field of multiphysics systems. It consists of accurately reviewed contributions to the MMSSD2014 conference, which was held from December 17 to 19, 2004 in Hammamet, Tunisia. The different chapters, …
View book details for Ma Vie en Noir
Fifty Years with Melatonin and the Stone of Madness
I wrote this book urged by the overwhelming desire that arises towards the end of life to recapitulate the past. My goal was to summarize my experience of practicing science at the end of the 20th and early 21st centuries …
This book presents different methods for analyzing the body language (movement, position, use of personal space, silences, pauses and tone, the eyes, pupil dilation or constriction, smiles, body temperature and the like) for better understanding peoples needs and actions, including …
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International Joint Conference, IJCCI 2016 Porto, Portugal, November 911, 2016 Revised Selected Papers
This book gathers revised and extended versions of the best papers presented at the 8th International Joint Conference on Computational Intelligence (IJCCI 2016), which was held in Porto, Portugal from 9 to 11 November 2016. The papers address three main …
View book details for Intelligent Computing in Smart Grid and Electrical Vehicles
International Conference on Life System Modeling and Simulation, LSMS 2014 and International Conference on Intelligent Computing for Sustainable Energy and Environment, ICSEE 2014, Shanghai, China, September 2014, Proceedings, Part III
This book constitutes the third part of the refereed proceedings of the International Conference on Life System Modeling and Simulation, LSMS 2014, and of the International Conference on Intelligent Computing for Sustainable Energy and Environment, ICSEE 2014, held in Shanghai, …
This research monograph focuses on the design of arithmetic circuits in Quantum Dot Cellular Automata (QCA). Using the fact that the 3-input majority gate is a primitive in QCA, the book sets out to discover hitherto unknown properties of majority …
View book details for New Challenges in Distributed Information Filtering and Retrieval
DART 2011: Revised and Invited Papers
This volume focuses on new challenges in distributed Information Filtering and Retrieval. It collects invited chapters and extended research contributions from the DART 2011 Workshop, held in Palermo (Italy), on September 2011, and co-located with the XII International Conference of …
View book details for Cultural Due Diligence in Hospitality Ventures
A Methodological Approach for Joint Ventures of Local Communities and Companies
This book introduces readers to a powerful method for cross-cultural due diligence in mergers and organizational collaborations. It employs the context of joint ventures between local communities and companies in the domain of hospitality in emerging tourism destinations. The book …
View book details for Nanotechnology-Based Precision Tools for the Detection and Treatment of Cancer
This book discusses emerging nanotechnology-based tools that have the potential to dramatically impact cancer research, diagnostics, and treatment. Cancer is a complex, devastating, and debilitating disease and, although much progress has been made, novel, more effective diagnostic and treatment options …
This book describes the fundamentals of cryptographic primitives based on quasi-cyclic low-density parity-check (QC-LDPC) codes, with a special focus on the use of these codes in public-key cryptosystems derived from the McEliece and Niederreiter schemes. In the first part of …
View book details for Stochastic Geometric Mechanics
CIB, Lausanne, Switzerland, January-June 2015
Collecting together contributed lectures and mini-courses, this book details the research presented in a special semester titled Geometric mechanics variational and stochastic methods run in the first half of 2015 at the Centre Interfacultaire Bernoulli (CIB) of the Ecole Polytechnique …
This book provides insight into current research topics in finance and banking in the aftermath of the financial crisis. In this volume, authors present empirical research on liquidity risk discussed in the context of Basel III and its implications. Chapters …
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First International Conference, ICRRI 2020, Fushun, China, September 911, 2020, Proceedings, Part I
This 2-volume set constitutes the refereed proceedings of 1st International Conference on Robotics and Rehabilitation Intelligence, ICRRI 2020, held in Fushun, China, in September 2020.The 56 full and 4 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 188 submissions. The …
This contributed volume is written by key specialists working in multidisciplinary fields in electrical engineering, linking control theory, power electronics, artificial neural networks, embedded controllers and signal processing. The authors of each chapter report the state of the art of …
View book details for Image Feature Detectors and Descriptors
Foundations and Applications
This book provides readers with a selection of high-quality chapters that cover both theoretical concepts and practical applications of image feature detectors and descriptors. It serves as reference for researchers and practitioners by featuring survey chapters and research contributions on …
View book details for Prison Inmates Living with HIV in India
Case Studies from Prisons in Maharashtra
This Brief presents preliminary findings from research in three prisons in Maharashtra, India on experiences of prison inmates there living with HIV. The study explores health care services in these prisons, and problems experienced by inmates in India living with …
View book details for Teacher Quality, Instructional Quality and Student Outcomes
Relationships Across Countries, Cohorts and Time
This volume offers insights from modeling relations between teacher quality, instructional quality and student outcomes in mathematics across countries. The relations explored take the educational context, such as school climate, into account. The International Association for the Evaluation of Educational …
View book details for Set Optimization and Applications - The State of the Art
From Set Relations to Set-Valued Risk Measures
This volume presents five surveys with extensive bibliographies and six original contributions on set optimization and its applications in mathematical finance and game theory. The topics range from more conventional approaches that look for minimal/maximal elements with respect to vector …
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46th Annual Conference of the Southern African Computer Lecturers' Association, SACLA 2017, Magaliesburg, South Africa, July 3-5, 2017, Revised Selected Papers
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 46th Annual Conference of the Southern African Computer Lecturers' Association on ICT Education, SACLA 2017, held in Magaliesburg, South Africa, in July 2017.The 22 revised full papers presented together with an extended …
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