Strategic legal writing
Many legal writing texts emphasize how one writes; this book is unique because it also focuses on why one writes
Statistical Network Analysis : Models, Issues, and New Directions; ICML 2006 Workshop on Statistical Network Analysis, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, June 29, 2006, Revised Selected Papers
This volume was prepared to share with a larger audience the exciting ideas and work presented at an ICML 2006 workshop of the same title. Network models have a long history. Sociologists and statisticians made major advances in the 1970s and 1980s, culminating in part with a number of substantial databases and the class of exponential random graph models and related methods in the early 1990s. Physicists and computer scientists came to this domain cons- erably later, but they enriched the array of models and approaches and began to tackle much larger networks and more complex forms of data.
Stanford University
During the almost thousand-year history of universities, campuses have always been physical spaces. As we end the twentieth century, some univ- sity interactions have moved to cyberspace and the level of activity there grows at a breathtaking speed. At this stage of development, however, the university is still localized in time and space.The university as a place has found its most striking expression in the Anglo-Saxon world. Oxford, Cambridge, Harvard,William and Mary,Yale, Princeton,Virginia, and Stanford are all physical places, campuses to which students remove th- selves for a number of years.They are also places students feel connected with for the rest of their lives. For alumni, memories of their colleges or universities clearly include the physical setting and the architecture or architectures that make up the campuses.
Springer Handbook of Experimental Fluid Mechanics
Consolidates authoritative and state-of-the-art information from the large number of disciplines used in experimental fluid mechanics into a readable desk reference book. It comprises four parts covering Experiments in Fluid Mechanics, Measurement of Primary Quantities, Specific Experimental Environments and Techniques, and Analyses and Post-Processing of Data. Prepared for physicists and engineers in research and development in universities, industry and in governmental research institutions or national laboratories. Both experimental methodology and techniques are covered fundamentally and for a wide range of application fields.
Spontaneous preterm labour and birth
Remains the leading cause of neonatal death, and the second leading cause of mortality worldwide in children below five years of age. The causes of preterm birth are multifactorial, likely contributing to why significant progress in reducing the incidence has been slow. This Element contains the most up-to-date evidence regarding the aetiology, epidemiology, and management of pregnancies at risk of, or complicated by, spontaneous preterm birth and preterm pre-labour rupture of membranes. It concentrates largely on those aspects potentially amenable to preventative intervention (i.e. cervical dysfunction and premature uterine contractility), as well as strategies to improve outcomes for infants born prematurely.
Specialised pharmaceutical formulation
An essential, up to date resource and will equip readers with the ability to effectively and reliably produce products intended for less common and novel routes of administration which can be approved, manufactured and made available to administer to patients.
Space Systems Failures : Disasters and Rescues of Satellites, Rocket and Space Probes
The very first book on space systems failures written from an engineering perspective. In the 1960s and 1970s deep space missions were dispatched in pairs in case one was lost in launch or failed during its journey. Following the triumphs of the Viking landings on Mars in 1976 and both Voyagers spacecraft successfully surveying the outer giant planets of the Solar System, it was decided by NASA to cut costs and send out just a single probe. Although Magellan successfully mapped Venus by radar, it suffered from problems during the flight. Then came the loss of Mars Observer, whose engine exploded as it was preparing to enter Mars’ orbit because it was using technology designed for Earth’s satellites and the engine was not suited to spending several months in space. Later came the high-profile losses of Mars Climate Observer and Mars Polar Lander - a consequence of the faster, better, cheaper philosophy introduced by Dan Goldin in 1993. Even the highly successful Galileo mission suffered a major setback when its high-gain antenna (also based on satellite mission suffered a major setback when its high-gain antenna (also based on satellite communication technology) failed to deploy fully, greatly diminishing the craft’s radio transmission capabilities, forcing the ground crew to re-programme the on-board computer to enable it to fulfil its mission and provide stunning images of Jupiter and its moons.
Social media management : Technologies and strategies for creating business value
Adopts the perspective of organizations - not individuals - and clarifies the impact of social media on their different departments or disciplines, While also exploring how organizations use social media to create business value. To do so, The book pursues a uniquely multi-disciplinary approach, embracing IT, marketing, HR and many other fields. Readers will benefit from a comprehensive selection of current topics, including: Tools, tactics and strategies for social media, internal and external communication, viral marketing campaigns, social CRM, employer branding, E-recruiting, search engine optimization, social mining, sentiment analysis, crowdfunding, and legal and ethical issues.
Social marketing in action : Cases from around the world
This textbook provides the tools necessary to understand the effective applica- tion of social marketing, and then offers 24 case studies exemplifying effective social marketing efforts from all around the world. Specifically, Part I clearly and concisely explains the principles of social marketing in five chapters: Upstream vs. downstream social marketing, SWOT, competition - fundamentals of social marketing, ethics - formative and evaluative research - theories applied in social marketing and a historical perspective on social marketing, Also part II features 24 social marketing case studies that demonstrate the application of social marketing principles.
Social Choice and Strategic Decisions : Essays in Honor of Jeffrey S. Banks
Social choices, about expenditures on government programs, or about public policy more broadly, or indeed from any conceivable set of alternatives, are determined by politics. This book is a collection of essays that tie together the fields spanned by Jeffrey S. Banks` research on this subject. It examines the strategic aspects of political decision-making, including the choices of voters in committees, the positioning of candidates in electoral campaigns, and the behavior of parties in legislatures. The chapters of this book contribute to the theory of voting with incomplete information, to the literature on Downsian and probabilistic voting models of elections, to the theory of social choice in distributive environments, and to the theory of optimal dynamic decision-making. The essays employ a spectrum of research methods, from game-theoretic analysis, to empirical investigation, to experimental testing. In the manner of Jeffrey S. Banks` research, these pieces focus on fundamental social scientific issues, such as the welfare properties of voting systems, the existence and characterization of electroral equilibria, and the impact of parties on political processes.
Smart watcher for students
Attendance is one of those administrative tasks that must be done at the start of each class. It can take up valuable time at the beginning of class and sometimes be difficult to manage. Even so detecting the activity for every student in the class is hard for teachers because they can’t remember every student in the classroom. We present a system that can take attendance and activity for student with a camera in every classrooms using face recognition and body pose estimation which will help saving time and make the process more efficient.
Smart robot navigation
The project aims at designing an autonomous robot equipped with a camera capable of safe navigation in an outdoor environment by developing a model that predict the steering angle using images obtained from the camera mimics the driver's vision, and then the reaction, control of the vehicle. Based on the images from the cameras gained in the manual mode, the neural network is trained using deep learning. Using this trained deep neural network leads to autonomous driving. The driver behavioral cloning algorithm developed on this project is based on the NVIDIA convolutional neural network model. This project will help people to use their time in more useful way than driving, also this will help people with disabilities, and reduce accidents. Udacity self-driving car simulator is used to test the performance of the model in real time.
Smart micro - and nanomaterials for pharmaceutical applications
Smart drug delivery refers to a targeted drug delivery or precision drug delivery system that allows drugs to be administered to a specific location in the body or at a specific time with enhanced precision and control. This approach has several advantages, including maximizing the therapeutic effects of a drug while minimizing side effects.
Smart medical laboratory
"One of the most popular terms associated with advanced technological development in any field today, is the word ‘smart’. With the great development that has affected neuronal networks and artificial intelligence in recent years and the revolution in computer vision and detection technologies. And advances in modern technologies such as laptop and mobile with most people and its widespread availability and the Internet has become almost everywhere. It became necessary to modernize the medical laboratories and integrate medicine with technology. Therefore, we proposed this project to start developing disease diagnosis techniques through magnetic resonance imaging, cancerous block detection and CBC blood analysis through computer vision algorithms and artificial intelligence techniques, and this leads to reduced human intervention in these tasks and reduces errors that can occur when diagnosing.
Smart Graphics L ; 9th International Symposium, SG 2008, Rennes, France, August 27-29, 2008. Proceedings
This book is organized in topical sections on sketching, navigation and selection, studies and evaluation, camera planning, as well as visualization.
Skin injuries & conservative treatments
Skin is a barrier which protects the whole human body, however it is exposed to many damaging factors. The aim of our study is to describe the structure of the skin and we will focus on the most common causes of skin damage factors from natural sources such as sun exposure, which could harm the skin and there is a correlation in between it and increasing skin cancer. We will also discuss about wounds and burns since they both became a life threatening factors during the war in Syria therefore we will introduce the best and the most recent treatments and technologies including a case report about healing by stem cells, in order to reduce. Malformation of skin like a scar, and more important we will highlight the importance of new devices in early detection of skin cancer and conservative surgery of breast cancer patients. We were also concerned about the lack of knowledge. So we will mention cosmetic creams and procedures. For anti aging since wrinkles is a major factor of depression.
Sixth IUTAM Symposium on Laminar-Turbulent Transition ; Proceedings of the Sixth IUTAM Symposium on Laminar-Turbulent Transition, Bangalore, India, 2004
The sixth IUTAM meeting in the series included seven invited lectures, fifty oral presentations and eight posters. During the course of the symposium, the following became evident. The area of laminar-turbulent transition has progressed considerably since 1999. Better theoretical tools, for handling nonlinearities as well as transient behaviour are now available.
Sirius : Brightest Diamond in the Night Sky
Sirius - A Diamond in the Night will tell two stories. The first and most obvious is why the star known as Sirius has been regarded as an important fixture of the night sky by many civilizations and cultures since the beginnings of history. A second, but related, narrative is the prominent part that Sirius has played in how we came to achieve our current scientific understanding of the nature and fate of the stars.
Sirius Matters
Since very early times Sirius was a point of attraction in the night sky. It served to synchronize calendars in antiquity and was the subject of many myths and legends, including some modern ones. It was perceived as a red star for more than 400 years, but such reports were relegated to the Mediterranean region. Astronomically, Sirius is a very bright star. This, and its present close distance to us, argues in favor of it being the target of detailed studies of stellar structure and evolution. Its binary nature, with a companion that is one of the more massive white dwarfs, is an additional reason for such studies. This book collects the published information on Sirius in an attempt to derive a coherent picture of how this system came to look as it does.
Similarity Search and Applications ; 13th International Conference, SISAP 2020, Copenhagen, Denmark, September 30 – October 2, 2020, Proceedings
Constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Similarity Search and Applications, SISAP 2020, held in Copenhagen, Denmark, in September/October 2020. The conference was held virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The 19 full papers presented together with 12 short and 2 doctoral symposium papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 50 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections named: scalable similarity search; similarity measures, search, and indexing; high-dimensional data and intrinsic dimensionality; clustering; artificial intelligence and similarity;



















