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Sequences and Their Applications - SETA 2008 : 5th International Conference Lexington, KY, USA, September 14-18, 2008 Proceedings

The book is organized in topical sections on probabilistic methods and randomness properties of sequences; correlation; combinatorial ...

Serial Murder and the Psychology of Violent Crimes

The phenomena of serial violent crime has long plagued human civilizations. Far from being a contemporary notion unique to ...

Series Approximation Methods in Statistics

This book was originally compiled for a course I taught at the University of Rochester in the fall of 1991, and is intended ...

Service Availability (vol. # 3335)

Service-Oriented Computing: Agents, Semantics, and Engineering : AAMAS 2008 International Workshop, SOCASE 2008, Estoril, Portugal, May 12, 2008 Proceedings

The book address a range of topics at the intersection of service-oriented computing, semantic technology, and intelligent ...

Set-Theoretic Methods in Control

This self-contained monograph describes basic set-theoretic methods for control and provides a discussion of their links ...

Set-Valued Mappings and Enlargements of Monotone Operators

Set-valued analysis is an essential tool for the mathematical formulation of many real-life situations, e.g., equilibrium ...

Sex Work, Health, and Human Rights Global Inequities, Challenges, and Opportunities for Action

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the health inequities and human rights issues faced by sex workers globally ...

Sexual Reproduction in Animals and Plants

This book contains the proceedings of the International Symposium on the Mechanisms of Sexual Reproduction in Animals and ...

Shallow Lakes in a Changing World ; Proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Shallow Lakes, held at Dalfsen, The Netherlands, 5–9 June 2005

This volume comprises the proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Shallow Lakes. It has the theme Shallow Lakes ...

Shape Understanding System : The First Steps toward the Visual Thinking Machines

This book presents the results of the research in one of the most complex and difficult areas of research, such as research ...

Shape from Positional-Contrast

Graphical queries for the purpose of searching for pictorial information are of growing interest in areas where pictures ...

Shaping Natural History and Settler Society

It provides a lens into a range of subjects within the history of knowledge and science, gender and social history, postcolonial, ...

Shaping an Inclusive Energy Transition Editors (view affiliations) Margot P. C. WeijnenZofia LukszoSamira Farahani

This book makes a case for a socially inclusive energy transition and illustrates how engineering and public policy professionals ...

Sharing Data, Information and Knowledge : 25th British National Conference on Databases, BNCOD 25, Cardiff, UK, July 7-10, 2008. Proceedings

The book are organized in topical sections on data mining and privacy, data integration, stream and event data processing, ...

Sharp Real-Part Theorems

This volume contains a coherent point of view on various sharp pointwise inequalities for analytic functions in a disk in ...

Shear Localization in Granular Bodies with Micro-Polar Hypoplasticity

This book presents numerical simulations of shear localization in granular materials using a hypoplastic constitutive model ...

Ship Motion Control

The impact of control system design on ship performance has been significant in different applications of ship motion control: ...

Shipping and Globalization in the Post-War Era

This volume highlights the contribution of the shipping industry to the transformations in business and society of the postwar ...

Shock and Damage Models in Reliability Theory

Shock and Damage Models in Reliability Theory is the first book to describe the reliability properties and maintenance policies ...