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""The German Commercial Correspondent"" is a book written by Christian Vogel and published in 1872. It is a guidebook for German businessmen who wished to conduct business with foreign partners. The book provides a comprehensive overview of the various...

The Bird and Insects' Post Office is a book written by Robert Bloomfield and first published in 1880. The book is a collection of stories about the lives of birds and insects, with a focus on their communication and social structures. The central theme...

Synopsis Of The Mollusca Of The Cretaceous Formation: Including The Geographical And Stratigraphical Range And Synonymy (1861) is a comprehensive reference book written by William M. Gabb. The book provides an in-depth overview of the mollusks that lived...

This book sheds light on the optimisation methods that form the basis of effective communication between networked devices. It is an excellent resource as it provides readers with a thorough understanding of the methods, ideas, and tactics essential to...

Taking a future-oriented approach, this book addresses students' ways of thinking in STEM-based problem solving. It provides a rich set of chapters that explore how we can advance important thinking skills in STEM education for K-12 students.

In this book, we review both the concepts and mechanics behind the Zero Trust Framework. We also introduce advanced technologies into it as well, including the use of Biometrics, the Public Key Infrastructure, and Quantum Mechanics/Quantum Cryptography.

This book focuses on how to use various data mining techniques to develop real-world applications. It offers practical applications with a clear understanding of data mining concepts. The book also has a special chapter on case studies of data mining in...

This volume provides a comprehensive, up-to-date overview of the latest management and organizational research related to risk, crisis, and emergency management. It is the first volume to present these separate, but related, disciplines together...

First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

This book examines the semiotic effects of protocols and algorithms at work in popular social media systems, bridging philosophical conversations in human-computer interaction (HCI) and information systems (IS) design with contemporary work in critical...

Follow along with five kids as they navigate through their everyday problems. This book's format of multiple outcomes, discussion questions, and a parent/guardian guide allow children to explore their ability to reach out for help from community members...

The Crisis Management Cycle is the first holistic, multidisciplinary introduction to the dynamic field of crisis management theory and practice. By drawing together the different theories and concepts of crisis management literature and practice,...

Whether you are looking to invest in bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies or understand why it will have a massive impact on your life in the near future, this book will clear out everything you need to know about what makes this technology what it...

Using sources from classical to modern that broach the phenomenon of uncertainty and its relation to risk, this book creates a novel approach to the recognized but theoretically often unattended issue of uncertainty.

The story of Blockchain is not just a tale of mathematical experiments. It's primarily a story of the age-old attempt to record human activities and the value that flows from them. This time, however, the goal is to make it accessible to everyone on...

Be on your guard. Swift talkers, seminar spruikers, Bitcoin clones and work-at-home ‘opportunities’ will rob you of your potential to create wealth. Read Creative Ways with Money if you’re tired of the hype and promises and...

First Published in 1986. This book is intended for those people who are interested in how mathematics is learned. It is intended especially for those who are interested in the mental processes involved in becoming mathematically competent and the mental...

Data integrity is a global mandatory requirement for the regulated healthcare industry. It is more than a mere expectation-it's a basic element of good documentation practices, one of the most fundamental pillars of a quality management system...

Prepared in collaboration with the Medical Library Association, this completely updated, revised, and expanded edition lists classic and up-to-the-minute print and electronic resources in the health sciences, helping librarians find the answers that...

Logically Accurate, Emotionally Healthy is ideal for anyone with a sweet-tooth for innovation in the fields of emotional health, mindfulness, performance excellence, stress management, self-development or energy psychology.What is the purpose of human...

“Quran & History” is an academic research studying the historical claims of the Quran, and the dependency of Mohammad on myths and religions present during his time, in formulating his description of the few historical events...

This book provides applications of machine learning in healthcare systems and seeks to close the gap between engineering and medicine. It will combine the design and problem-solving skills of engineering with health sciences, in order to advance...

In a very real sense, Michael Lodato has been working on this handbook for over 45 years - starting in 1968 when, as a new CEO of a small consulting company, he attended a seminar on strategic planning at UCLA. The resulting strategy helped run the...

Spanking Is a Global Phenomenon looks at this traditional method of corporal punishment from a deep perspective, placing it in its historical context, and from a wide point of view, comparing changing attitudes across cultures and generations. The result...

The purpose of this book is to augment a basic reference to define and evaluate the phenomena and events in the world and to perceive them with a system perspective. Nurturing this reference point with the extend of different scientific disciplines would...

This book defines the application of Information Technology's systematic and automated knowledge mapping methodology to collect, analyze and report nanotechnology research on a global basis. The result of these analyses is be a systematic presentation of...

Text Mining with MATLAB provides a comprehensive introduction to text mining using MATLAB. It's designed to help text mining practitioners, as well as those with little-to-no experience with text mining in general, familiarize themselves with MATLAB and...

Online communities are among the most obvious manifestations of social networks based on new media technology. Facilitating ad-hoc communication and leveraging collective intelligence by matching similar or related users have become important success...

Applied mathematics.- Similarity solutions of an MHD boundary-layer flow of a non-Newtonian fluid past a continuous moving surface.- Computational complexity investigations for?high-dimensional model representation algorithms used in multivariate...

Robert Rosen was not only a biologist, he was also a brilliant mathematician whose extraordinary contributions to theoretical biology were tremendous. Founding, with this book, the area of Anticipatory Systems Theory is a remarkable outcome of his work...

Written by specialists in teaching computer animation, this text addresses key international topics of computer animation, such as: mathematics, modelling, rendering, and compositing. Each chapter discusses a particular topic...

A large-scale system is composed of several interconnected subsystems. For such a system it is often desired to have some form of decentralization in the control structure, since it is typically not realistic to assume that all output measurements can be...

Oversampled Delta-Sigma Modulators: Analysis, Applications, and Novel Topologies presents theorems and their mathematical proofs for the exact analysis of the quantization noise in delta-sigma modulators. Extensive mathematical...

Basic concepts.- Systems.- Verifcation problems.- Control problems.- Finite systems.- Exact system relationships.- Verification.- Control.- Infinite Systems Exact symbolic models.- Exact symbolic models for verification.- Exact symbolic models for...

Themes And Issues.- Emergent Risks In Critical Infrastructures.- Cyberspace Policy For Critical Infrastructures.- Infrastructure Security.- Security Assessment Of A Turbo-Gas Power Plant.- Detecting Cyber Attacks On Nuclear Power Plants.- Control Systems...

Securing Emerging Wireless Systems: Lower-layer Approaches aims to fill a growing need in the research community for a reference that describes the lower-layer approaches as a foundation towards secure and reliable wireless...

Background Materials.- A Flawed BR95 Partnership Function.- On The Key Sharing Requirement.- Comparison of Bellare-Rogaway and Canetti-Krawczyk Models.- An Extension to the Bellare-Rogaway Model.- A Proof of Revised Yahalom Protocol.- Errors in...

Human choice and ICT policy: Introduction to the HCC8 Conference proceedings.- Human choice and ICT policy: Introduction to the HCC8 Conference proceedings.- Communication, information, and ICT policy: Enabling research frameworks.- The shaping of...

"Analytical System Dynamics: Modeling and Simulation" combines results from analytical mechanics and system dynamics to develop an approach to modeling constrained multidiscipline dynamic systems. This combination yields a...

Hierarchical Infrastructure for Internet Mapping Services.- Case Study : Geospatial Processing Services for Web based Hydrological Applications.- An application framework for rapid development for web based GIS : Ginis Web.- Geospatial Web Services :...

Context Extraction Through Audio Signal Analysis.- Extracting Semantics from Multimedia Content: Challenges and Solutions.- Broadcast Video Content Segmentation by Supervised Learning.- Audio Content Discovery: An Unsupervised Approach.- Capturing Text...

System-Theoretical Description of Open Physical Processes.- Control of Bilinear Systems.- Bilinear Systems and Nonlinear Estimation Theory.- Control Of Dynamical Processes And Geometrical Structures.- Superconducting Levitation and Bilinear Systems.-...

Overview.- Matsumoto-Imai Cryptosystems.- Oil-Vinegar Signature Schemes.- Hidden Field Equations.- Internal Perturbation.- Triangular Schemes.- Direct Attacks.- Future Research.

We've Got Problems.- Definitions and Timeline.- Viruses.- Anti-Virus Techniques.- Anti-Anti-Virus Techniques.- Weaknesses Exploited.- Worms.- Deworming.- "Applications".- People and Communities.- What Should we do?.

Graphical Processing Units.- Motivation.- Encryption in GPUs.- Remotely Keyed Cryptographics.- Related Issues.- Extensions.- Conclusions.

to Nonlinear Systems.- Polynomial Models of Nonlinear Systems.- Volterra and Wiener Nonlinear Models.- Nonlinear System Identification Methods.- to Adaptive Signal Processing.- Nonlinear Adaptive System Identification Based on Volterra Models.- Nonlinear...

Privacy and Data Mining.- What is Privacy?.- Solution Approaches / Problems.- Predictive Modeling for Classification.- Predictive Modeling for Regression.- Finding Patterns and Rules (Association Rules).- Descriptive Modeling (Clustering, Outlier...