Regional geological survey of Hanggai, Xianxia and Chuancun, Zhejiang Province in China : 1:50,000 Geological Maps
This book introduces readers to the regional geology of Hanggai, Xianxia and Chuancun, the area between China's northern Zhejiang Province and southern Anhui Province and explores the strata, magmatic rocks and tectonic structures in 1:50,000 scale geological maps.
Recent Challenges in Intelligent Information and Database Systems ; 13th Asian Conference, ACIIDS 2021, Phuket, Thailand, April 7–10, 2021, Proceedings
This volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th Asian Conference on Intelligent Information and Database Systems, ACIIDS 2021, held in Phuket, Thailand, in April 2021. The total of 35 full papers accepted for publication in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 291 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: data mining and machine learning methods; advanced data mining techniques and applications; intelligent and contextual systems; natural language processing; network systems and applications; computational imaging and vision; decision support and control systems; data modelling and processing for Industry 4.0.
Recent Advances in Linear Models and Related Areas : Essays in Honour of Helge Toutenburg
The theory of linear models and regression analysis plays an essential role in the development of methods for the statistical modelling of data. The book presents the most recent developments in the theory and applications of linear models and related areas of active research. The contributions include topics such as boosting, Cox regression models, cluster analysis, design of experiments, feasible generalized least squares, information theory, matrix theory, measurement error models, missing data models, mixture models, panel data models, penalized least squares, prediction, regression calibration, spatial models and time series models. Several contributions illustrate applications in biomedical research, economics, finance, genetic epidemiology and medicine.
Questioning the Entrepreneurial State : Status-quo, Pitfalls, and the Need for Credible Innovation Policy
This edited volume contains contributions from 40 scholars with expertise in economics, innovation, management, and economic history. The chapters offer unique theoretical and empirical contributions discussing topics such as how industrial policies affect risk, incentives, and information for investments. They also address the policy perspectives on new technologies such as AI and its implications for market entry, the role for independent entrepreneurship in increasingly regulated markets, and whether governments should focus on market interventions or institutional capacity-building.
Quantitative Economic Policy : Essays in Honour of Andrew Hughes Hallett
Quantitative economic policy and econometrics were developed along with macroeconomics in the 1930s. Econometric techniques and models are still being used extensively in the business of forecasting and policy advice. In particular, policy simulations with econometric models have become standard tools for evaluating and designing macroeconomic stabilization policies. For instance, such studies provided important arguments for the popularization of the recent steps towards European integration such as the European Single Market, the European Monetary Union, and the Enlargement of the European Union. In this book, some recent advances in the theory and applications of quantitative economic policy are presented, with particular emphasis on fiscal and monetary policies in a European and global context. Andrew Hughes Hallett, a pioneer and major scientist in quantitative economic policy analysis, is being honoured by this volume, whose contributors are among his friends and former students.
Quality of Telephone-Based Spoken Dialogue Systems
Quality of Telephone-Based Spoken Dialogue Systems is a systematic overview of assessment, evaluation, and prediction methods for the quality of services such as travel and touristic information, phone-directory and messaging, or telephone-banking services.
Python lernen in abgeschlossenen Lerneinheiten : Programmieren für Einsteiger mit vielen Beispielen = Learn Python in self-contained learning units : Programming for beginners with many examples.
Teaches beginners how to program with Python using individual, self-contained learning units. It demonstrates the design of efficient data and process structures, thereby enabling readers to understand algorithmic concepts and implement them in program code.
Probabilistic Reasoning and Decision Making in Sensory-Motor Systems
Probabilistic Reasoning and Decision Making in Sensory-Motor Systems by Pierre Bessiere, Christian Laugier and Roland Siegwart provides a unique collection of a sizable segment of the cognitive systems research community in Europe. This fourteen-chapter volume covers important research along two main lines: new probabilistic models and algorithms for perception and action, new probabilistic methodology and techniques for artefact conception and development. The work addresses key issues concerned with Bayesian programming, navigation, filtering, modelling and mapping, with applications in a number of different contexts.
Probabilistic Inductive Logic Programming : Theory and Applications
One of the key open questions within arti?cial intelligence is how to combine probability and logic with learning. This question is getting an increased tentioninseveral disciplines suchas knowledg erepresentation, reasoningabout uncertainty, data mining, and machine learning simulateously,This book providesan introduction to this ?eld with an emphasison those methods based on logic programming principles. The book is also the main result of the successful European ISTFET projectno.FP6-508861on Applition of ProbabilisticInductive Logic Programming (APRILII,2004-2007).It was concerned with theory, implementation sand applications of probabilisticinductivelogic programming.
Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming – CP 2007 ; 13th International Conference, CP 2007, Providence, RI, USA, September 25-29, 2007, Proceedings
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming, CP 2007, held in Providence, RI, USA, in September 2007. The 51 revised full papers and 14 revised short papers presented together with 8 application papers and the abstracts of 2 invited lectures were carefully reviewed and selected from 165 submissions.
Pressure and Temperature Sensitive Paints
This book helps the reader to understand the physics and chemistry and the capabilities of PTP and TSP. It provides an overview of the wide scope of applications and explains the system requirements for using these sensors. The book also includes an extensive table of properties of PTP and TSP.
Positioning techniques in surgical applications: thorax and heart surgery - vascular surgery - visceral and transplantation surgery - urology - surgery to thespinal Cord andextremities - arthroscopy - pediatric surgery - navigation/ISO-C 3D
The success of an operation depends not only on careful dures with direct visualisation techniques. Special inst- clarification of the indications, selection of the right time ments are only used for one specific purpose; a surgical for operating and technically neat operating techniques, needle today has its own anatomy. In addition, these but also on correct preoperative preparation and positio- aspects are joined by stricter safety conditions, increased ning of the patient.
Plant Conservation and Biodiversity
Brings together a selection of original studies submitted to Biodiversity and Conservation addressing aspects of the conservation and biodiversity of plants. Plants are, along with terrestrial vertebrates, the best known organisms on Earth, and so work on them can be a model for that on less known organism groups.
Physiologic Anchorage Control : A New Orthodontic Concept and its Clinical Application
Provides a comprehensive introduction to physiologic anchorage control, explains the implications for clinical practice, and presents an anchorage technique applicable for the treatment of different malocclusions. This book explores the pattern of upper molar growth in depth, highlights the physiologic significance of the curve of Spee, and analyzes the biomechanics of physiologic anchorage control.
Photochemistry and Photophysics of Coordination Compounds II
Photochemistry (a term that broadly speaking includes photophysics) is abranchofmodern science that deal swith the interaction of lightwithmatter and lies at the crossroadsof chemistry, physics, and biology. However, before being a branch of modern science, photochemistry was (and still is today), an extremely important natural phenomenon. When God said: “Let there be light”, photochemistry began to operate, helping God to create the world as wenowknowit.
Photochemistry and Photophysics of Coordination Compounds I
Photochemistry (a term that broadly speaking includes photophysics) is abranchofmodern science that deal swith the interaction of lightwithmatter and lies at the crossroadsof chemistry, physics, and biology. However, before being a branch of modern science, photochemistry was (and still is today), an extremely important natural phenomenon. When God said: “Let there be light”, photochemistry began to operate, helping God to create the world as wenowknowit.
Phenomenology and the non-human animal : at the limits of experience
The question of the relation between human and non-human animals in theoretical, ethical and political regards has become a prominent topic within the philosophical debates of the last two decades. This volume explores in substantial ways how phenomenology can contribute to these debates. It offers specific insights into the description and interpretation of the experience of the non-human animal, the relation between phenomenology and anthropology, the relation between phenomenology and psychology, as well as ethical considerations.
Phase-Separated Interpenetrating Polymer Networks
This series presents critical reviews of the present and future trends in polymer and biopolymer science including chemistry, physical chemistry, physics and materials science. It is addressed to all scientists at universities and in industry who wish to keep abreast of advances in the topics covered. Impact Factor Ranking: Always number one in Polymer Science.
Pentecostalism and Witchcraft : Spiritual Warfare in Africa and Melanesia
Presents fresh ethnographic work from the regions of Africa and Melanesia—where the popularity of charismatic Christianity can be linked to a revival and transformation of witchcraft. The volume demonstrates how the Holy Spirit has become an adversary to the reconfirmed presence of witches, demons, and sorcerers as manifestations of evil. We learn how this is articulated in spiritual warfare, in crusades, and in healing or witch-killing raids. The contributors highlight what happens to phenomena that people address as locally specific witchcraft or sorcery when re-molded within the universalist Pentecostal demonology, vocabulary, and confrontational methodology.
Particle Physics Reference Library ; Vol.2 : Detectors for Particles and Radiation
This second book of the series deals with detectors, large experimental facilities and data handling, both for accelerator and non-accelerator based experiments. It also covers applications in medicine and life sciences.



















