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Taste : a cultural history of the home interior 1800 to the present day
Offers a continuous informal critique of shifting architectural styles (most notably with the advent of Modernism) and the design mainstream. Indeed, it will suggest that the popular increasingly exerts an influence on the professional. Underpinned by academic rigour, but not in thrall to it, above all this book is an engaging attempt to identify the cultural drivers of aesthetic change in the home, extrapolating the wider influence of ‘taste’ to a broad audience – both professional and ‘trade’. In so doing, it will explore enthralling territory – money, class, power and influence. Illustrated with contemporary drawings and cartoons as well as photos, the book will not only be an absorbing read, but an enticing and attractive object in itself.
Systems Modeling and Simulation : Theory and Applications, Asian Simulation Conference 2006
Aimed at exploring challenges in methodologies for modeling, control and computation in simu lation, and their applications in social, economic, and financial fields as well as established scientific and engineering solutions. The conference was held in Tokyo from October 30 to November 1, 2006, and included keynote speeches presented by technology and industry leaders, technical sessions, organized sessions, poster sessions, and vendor exhibits. It was the seventh annual inter national conference on system simulation and scientific computing, which is organized by the Japan Society for Simulation Technology (JSST), the Chi nese Association for System Simulation (CASS), and the Korea Society for Simulation (KSS). For the conference, all submitted papers were refereed by the international technical program committee, each paper receiving at least two independent reviews.
Synthesis, Properties and Applications of Ultrananocrystalline Diamond ; Proceedings of the NATO ARW on Synthesis, Properties and Applications of Ultrananocrystalline Diamond, St. Petersburg, Russia, from 7 to 10 June 2004.
There are two forms of UNCD, dispersed particles and films. The two communities of researchers working on these two forms of UNCD have hitherto lacked a common forum in which to explore areas of scientific and technological overlap. As a consequence, the two fields have up to now developed independently of each other. The time had clearly come to remedy this situation in order to be able to take full advantage of the enormous potential for societal benefits to be derived from exploiting the synergistic relationships between UNCD dispersed particulates and UNCD films. The NATO sponsored ARW therefore occurred in a very timely manner and was successful in beginning the desired dialogue, a precondition for making progress toward the above stated goal. The discovery of UNCD completes a triadof nanostructured carbonswhich includes fullerenes and nanotubes.
Syntax and Semantics of Prepositions
This book is the first to provide an integrated view of preposition from morphology to reasoning, via syntax and semantics. It offers new insights in applied and formal linguistics, and cognitive science. It underlines the importance of prepositions in a number of computational linguistics applications, such as information retrieval and machine translation. The reader will benefit from a wide range of views and applications to various linguistic frameworks, among which, most notably, HPSG. The book is for researchers working in the fields of computational linguistics, linguistics, and artificial intelligence.
Symmetry Theory in Molecular Physics with Mathematica : A new kind of tutorial book
Prof. McClain has indeed produced "a new kind of tutorial book." It is written using the logic engine Mathematica, which permits concrete exploration and development of every concept involved in Symmetry Theory. The book may be read in your hand, or on a computer screen with Mathematica running behind it. It is intended for students of chemistry and molecular physics who need to know mathematical group theory and its applications, either for their own research or for understanding the language and concepts of their field.
Symbolic and quantitative approaches to reasoning with uncertainty ; 9th European Conference, ECSQARU 2007, Hammamet, Tunisia, October 31 - November 2, 2007, Proceedings
Coverage in the 78 revised full papers, presented together with three invited papers, includes Bayesian networks, graphical models, learning causal networks, planning, causality and independence, preference modeling and decision, argumentation systems, inconsistency handling, and uncertainty measures.
Swiss Democracy : Possible Solutions to Conflict in Multicultural Societies
This book provides an updated and fully revised 4th edition of this authoritative analysis of Swiss democracy. It particularly explains the institutions of federalism and consensus government through political power sharing. In this new edition, the authors also address several important changes and challenges that have affected Swiss democracy, including the country's relationship with the EU, fiscal equalisation, direct democracy and the legitimacy of national referendums, territorial conflict, as well as the polarisation of party politics.
Sustainable Civil Engineering : Principles and Applications
Covers several aspects of sustainable applications including clean technologies, climate change and its effects, sustainable buildings (smart cities), sustainability in road construction, sustainable use of geosynthetic, innovative materials, and sustainable construction practices. The book: Discusses clean technologies and sustainable materials in depth / Covers concepts of sustainability in road construction, and water retaining structures / Examines environmental policies and practices / Discusses climate change and its effects in a comprehensive manner / Covers sustainable buildings including smart cities
Suites de Sturm, indice de Maslov et périodicité de Bott = Sturm sequences, Maslov index and Bott periodicity
The classical theory of Sturm sequences provides an algorithm to determine the number of roots of a polynomial with real coefficients contained in a given interval. The main object of this thesis is to show that an adequate generalization of the theory of Sturm sequences provides among other things: a notion of Maslov index for an algebraic loop of Lagrangians defined on a commutative ring ; a proof of the fundamental theorem of Hermitian (algebraic) K-theory, theorem due to M. Karoubi ; a proof of Bott's periodicity theorems (topological), in the spirit of the work of F. Latour ; a symplectic-linear computation of the relative group K2 for all commutative rings, in the spirit of the work of R. Sharpe. The book is as far as possible "self-contained" and elementary: it essentially implements linear or bilinear algebra arguments. It presents a unified approach to the Maslov index in terms of Sturm sequences and quadratic forms.
Successfully Implementing Microsoft Dynamics™ : By Using the Regatta® Approach for Microsoft Dynamics™
Does the implementation of Microsoft Dynamics™ contribute to the goals of your company? Does your company itself have the capacity to build a bridge between the Business and IT? Can your employees adopt a flexible attitude on all the related changes ? And, probably even more important, is that what they are also willing to do If you are striving for a full-hearted yes to these questions, this is the book for you. In this book, we answer the questions mentioned above and describe pragmatically the full implementation process from A to Z. Emphasis is placed on the organizational component of the implementation process and the cohesion with functional and technical processes.
Structure Formation in Solution: Ionic Polymers and Colloidal Particles
Designed to critically review experimental findings on ionic polymers and colloidal particles and to prove a theoretical framework based on the Poisson-Boltzmann approach. Structure formation in ionic polymer solutions has attracted attention since the days of H. Staudinger and J.D. Bernal. An independent study on ionic colloidal dispersions with microscopy provided a compelling evidence of structure formation. Recent technical developments have made it possible to accumulate relevant information for both ionic polymers and colloidal particles in dilute systems. The outstanding phenomenon experimentally found is microscopic inhomogeneity in the solute distribution in macroscopically homogeneous systems. To account for the observation, the present authors have invoked the existence of the counterion-mediated attraction between similarly charged solute species, in addition to the widely accepted electrostatic repulsion.
Structural Integrity Cases in Mechanical and Civil Engineering
Covers most of the damage mechanism in the scope of mechanical engineering and civil engineering. The failure pattern of various materials and structures is mainly discussed. The sub-topics covers fatigue damage, fatigue crack initiation and propagation, life prediction techniques, computational fracture mechanics, dynamic fracture, damage mechanics and assessment, non-destructive test (NDT), concrete failure assessment, failure on soil structures, structural durability and reliability, structural health monitoring, construction damage recovery, and any relevant topics related to failure analysis.
String Processing and Information Retrieval ; 27th International Symposium, SPIRE 2020, Orlando, FL, USA, October 13–15, 2020, Proceedings
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 27th International Symposium on String Processing and Information Retrieval, SPIRE 2020, held in Orlando, FL, USA, in October 2020. The 17 full papers and 4 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 32 submissions. They cover topics such as: data structures; algorithms; information retrieval; compression; combinatorics on words; and computational biology.
Stochastic Calculus for Fractional Brownian Motion and Related Processes
The theory of fractional Brownian motion and other long-memory processes are addressed in this volume. Interesting topics for PhD students and specialists in probability theory, stochastic analysis and financial mathematics demonstrate the modern level of this field. Among these are results about Levy characterization of fractional Brownian motion, maximal moment inequalities for Wiener integrals including the values 0<H<1/2 of Hurst index, the conditions of existence and uniqueness of solutions to SDE involving additive Wiener integrals, and of solutions of the mixed Brownian—fractional Brownian SDE. The author develops optimal filtering of mixed models including linear case, and studies financial applications and statistical inference with hypotheses testing and parameter estimation.
Stem cells
Stem cells are undifferentiated or partially differentiated cells that can differentiate into many types of cells and proliferate indefinitely to produce more of the same stem cell. They are the oldest cell type in the cell lineage found in both embryonic and adult organisms, but have slightly different properties in each. They are usually distinguished from progenitor cells that cannot divide indefinitely, and primary cells or blastocytes, which usually adhere to differentiation into a single cell type...
Statistics for business and economics : Compendium of essential formulas, 3rd ed.
Includes explanations on the use of so-called dummy variables, which are useful because of their operational relevance in practice, especially in financial statistics. topics covered include: statistical signs and symbols, descriptive statistics, empirical distributions, ratios and indexes, correlation analysis, regression analysis, inferential statistics, probability, probability distributions, theoretical distributions, statistical estimation methods, confidence intervals, statistical testing methods, the peren-clement index, and standard statistical tables.
Statistics Applied to Clinical Trials
This book explains classical statistical analyses of clinical trials,andaddresses relatively novel issues, including equivalence testing, interim analyses, sequential analyses, and meta-analyses, and provides a framework of the best statistical methods currently available for such purposes.
Statistics and Analysis of Shapes
The subject of pattern analysis and recognition pervades many aspects of our daily lives, including user authentication in banking, object retrieval from databases in the consumer sector, and the omnipresent surveillance and security measures around sensitive areas. Shape analysis, a fundamental building block in many approaches to these applications, is also used in statistics, biomedical applications (Magnetic Resonance Imaging), and many other related disciplines.
Statistical Physics for Cosmic Structures
The physics of scale-invariant and complex systems is a novel interdisciplinary field. Its ideas allow us to look at natural phenomena in a radically new and original way, eventually leading to unifying concepts independent of the detailed structure of the systems. The objective is the study of complex, scale-invariant, and more general stochastic structures that appear both in space and time in a vast variety of natural phenomena, which exhibit new types of collective behaviors, and the fostering of their understanding. This book has been conceived as a methodological monograph in which the main methods of modern statistical physics for cosmological structures and density fields (galaxies, Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation, etc.) are presented in detail. The main purpose is to present clearly, to a workable level, these methods, with a certain mathematical accuracy, providing also some paradigmatic examples of applications.
Statistical Models and Methods for Biomedical and Technical Systems
An outgrowth of the "International Conference on Statistical Models for Biomedical and Technical Systems," this book is comprised of contributions from renowned experts, demonstrating the significance of current research on theory, methods, and applications of the field. The contributions, which deal with the mathematical aspects of survival analysis and reliability as well as other topics. The book will be useful to a broad interdisciplinary readership of researchers and practitioners in applied probability and statistics, industrial statistics, biomedicine, biostatistics, and engineering. Practitioners and researchers in academia will gain insight and new ideas for exploring this fertile area of research.
