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Neural Network Modeling
Statistical Mechanics and Cybernetic Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
Neural Network Modeling offers a cohesive approach to the statistical mechanics and principles of cybernetics as a basis for neural network modeling. It brings together neurobiologists and the engineers who design intelligent automata to understand the physics of collective behavior pertinent to neural...
by Nicole S. Blinn
Language: German
Release Date: July 8, 2014
Language: German
Release Date: July 8, 2014
Das System der funktionalen Selbstverwaltung wird am Beispiel der Handwerkskammern in die aktuelle Diskussion einer wirkungsorientierten Verwaltungsführung eingeordnet. Dabei werden die Funktionen der Handwerkskammern und die ihr innewohnenden Steuerungsmöglichkeiten kritisch vor dem Hintergrund...
Happiness
A Revolution in Economics
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2010
A leading economist discusses the potential of happiness research (the quantification of well-being) to answer important questions that standard economics methods are unable to analyze.
Revolutionary developments in economics are rare. The conservative bias of the field and its enshrined knowledge...
Measuring Global Poverty
Toward a Pro-Poor Approach
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
The author examines the moral, methodological, and practical problems that arise from poverty measurement. He establishes a methodological framework for analyzing poverty conceptions and measures, and concludes with concrete recommendations regarding both the procedures for and substance of future global poverty measurement.
Social Cohesion in the Western World
What Holds Societies Together: Insights from the Social Cohesion Radar
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2016
Many people in the Western world are concerned that the social fabric of societies is fraying. This book constitutes the first-of-its-kind systematic account of social cohesion, from theory through methodology to empirical evidence. Readers are introduced to the academically developed Social Cohesion...
by S. M. Ali Abbas, Bernardin Mr. Akitoby, Jochen R. Mr. Andritzky
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2013
task has become particularly challenging in European advanced economies where expectations of low growth and limits to monetary policy support are shifting the burden of adjustment onto fiscal consolidation. The SDN will investigate the main drivers behind successful past debt reversals, focusing...
Choosing a Research Method, Scientific Inquiry:
Complete Process with Qualitative & Quantitative Design Examples
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2018
This book provides the necessary operational understanding of the methods of research with a rare insight using detailed examples. The thirst for education has increased geometrically around the globe. In fact, governments and advocacy groups see the drive for the attainment of formal training as...
by Hebertt Sira-Ramírez, Carlos García Rodríguez, Alberto Luviano Juárez
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2014
Algebraic Identification and Estimation Methods in Feedback Control Systems presents a model-based algebraic approach to online parameter and state estimation in uncertain dynamic feedback control systems. This approach evades the mathematical intricacies of the traditional stochastic approach, proposing...
by Magdi S. Mahmoud, Yuanqing Xia
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2012
Applied Control System Design examines several methods for building up systems models based on real experimental data from typical industrial processes and incorporating system identification techniques. The text takes a comparative approach to the models derived in this way judging their suitability...
Sensorless AC Electric Motor Control
Robust Advanced Design Techniques and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2015
This monograph shows the reader how to avoid the burdens of sensor cost, reduced internal physical space, and system complexity in the control of AC motors. Many applications fields—electric vehicles, wind- and wave-energy converters and robotics, among them—will benefit.
Sensorless AC Electric...
Wave Propagation and Diffraction
Mathematical Methods and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
This book presents two distinct aspects of wave dynamics – wave propagation and diffraction – with a focus on wave diffraction. The authors apply different mathematical methods to the solution of typical problems in the theory of wave propagation and diffraction and analyze the obtained results....
by Sören Bartels
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2015
The description of many interesting phenomena in science and engineering leads to infinite-dimensional minimization or evolution problems that define nonlinear partial differential equations. While the development and analysis of numerical methods for linear partial differential equations is nearly...
From Mediation to Nation-Building
Third Parties and the Management of Communal Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2013
The eruption in the early 1990s of highly visible humanitarian crises and exceedingly bloody civil wars in the Horn of Africa, imploding Yugoslavia, and Rwanda, set in motion a trend towards third party intervention in communal conflict in areas as far apart as the Balkans and East Timor. However...
Customer Experience
Future Trends and Insights
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2010
Customer Experience is now the key differentiator as consumers and businesses alike decide among competing brands. The authors explore growing trends in Experience Psychology, Social Media and Neuroscience and their impact on Customer Experience that businesses need to understand to gain preference, loyalty and market share.