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Fundamentals of Computational Intelligence
Neural Networks, Fuzzy Systems, and Evolutionary Computation
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2016
Provides an in-depth and even treatment of the three pillars of computational intelligence and how they relate to one another
This book covers the three fundamental topics that form the basis of computational intelligence: neural networks, fuzzy systems, and evolutionary computation. The text...
Growing Up
Pastoral Nurture for the Later Years
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Growing Up: Pastoral Nurture for the Later Years is a sensitive volume devoted to helping older adults retain their status as meaningful members of their congregations and communities. In an honest approach, based on the foundations that old age is supposed to happen, the future belongs to the old,...
Fiscal Federalism and Equalization Policy in Canada
Political and Economic Dimensions
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2017
Fiscal Federalism and Equalization Policy in Canada aims to increase public understanding of equalization and fiscal federalism by providing a comparative and multidisciplinary perspective on the history, politics, and economics of equalization policy in Canada. The authors provide a brief history,...
Your Child's Weight
Helping Without Harming
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
As much about parenting as feeding, this latest release from renowned childhood feeding expert Ellyn Satter considers the overweight child issue in a new way. Combining scientific research with inspiring anecdotes from her decades of clinical practice, Satter challenges the conventional belief that parents...
The Future of Aging
Pathways to Human Life Extension
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2010
Just as the health costs of aging threaten to bankrupt developed countries, this book makes the scientific case that a biological "bailout" could be on the way, and that human aging can be different in the future than it is today. Here 40 authors argue how our improving understanding of...
Embodiment and Epigenesis: Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Understanding the Role of Biology within the Relational Developmental System
Part A, Philosophical, Theoretical, and Biological Dimensions
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2013
Volume 44 of Advances in Child Development and Behavior includes chapters that highlight some the most recent research in the area of embodiment and epigenesis.
A wide array of topics are discussed in detail, including cytoplasmic inheritance redux, emergence, self organization and developmental...
by C. Ruyer-Quil, M. G. Velarde, S. Kalliadasis
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2011
Falling Liquid Films gives a detailed review of state-of-the-art theoretical, analytical and numerical methodologies, for the analysis of dissipative wave dynamics and pattern formation on the surface of a film falling down a planar inclined substrate. This prototype is an open-flow hydrodynamic instability,...
Social Indicators of Well-Being
Americans' Perceptions of Life Quality
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This is a study about perceptions of well-being. Its purpose is to investigate how these perceptions are organized in the minds of different groups of American adults, to find valid and efficient ways of measuring these percep tions, to suggest ways these measurement methods could be implemented...
by Byron B. Oberst, John M. Long
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Designed to assist the physician in the application of computers in private medical practice, this comprehensive guide outlines where, why, and how this valuable tool can best be used. Integrating the mechanisms of computerization with the implications for health care, the authors draw on personal...
Self-adjoint Extensions in Quantum Mechanics
General Theory and Applications to Schrödinger and Dirac Equations with Singular Potentials
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2012
This exposition is devoted to a consistent treatment of quantization problems, based on appealing to some nontrivial items of functional analysis concerning the theory of linear operators in Hilbert spaces. The authors begin by considering quantization problems in general, emphasizing the nontriviality...
by Joop Hermens, Antoon Opperhuizen, Dirk T.H.M. Sijm
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2013
An important purpose of The Handbook of Environmental Chemistry is to aid the understanding of distribution and chemical reaction processes which occur in the environment. Volume 2, Part E of this series is dedicated to ozone photochemistry, nonenzymatic oxydation systems, QSAR in environmental chemistry and biotransformation of chemicals in fish.
by T.M.V. Suryanarayana, P.B. Mistry
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2016
This book highlights the estimation of crop yield in Central Gujarat, especially with regard to the development of Multiple Regression Models and Principal Component Regression (PCR) models using climatological parameters as independent variables and crop yield as a dependent variable. It subsequently...
by James J. Palestro, Per B. Sederberg, Adam F. Osth
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2018
This book explains the foundation of approximate Bayesian computation (ABC), an approach to Bayesian inference that does not require the specification of a likelihood function. As a result, ABC can be used to estimate posterior distributions of parameters for simulation-based models. Simulation-based...
by Agnieszka B. Malinowska, Tatiana Odzijewicz, Delfim F.M. Torres
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2015
This brief presents a general unifying perspective on the fractional calculus. It brings together results of several recent approaches in generalizing the least action principle and the Euler–Lagrange equations to include fractional derivatives.
The dependence of Lagrangians on generalized...