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Overview: Includes supplementary material: The volume LNCS 9377 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12thInternational Symposium on Neural Networks, ISNN 2015, held in Jeju, South Korea in October 2015. The 55 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed andselected from 97 submissions. These papers cover many topics of neural network-related research including intelligent control, neurodynamic analysis, memristive neurodynamics, computer vision, signal processing, machine learning,  and optimization.978-3-319-25392-3978-3-319-25393-0Series ISSN 0302-9743 Series E-ISSN 1611-334

Overview: Explores a wide range of infectious diseases in the ancient world.Demonstrates the critical role disease played in the fall of ancient civilizations.Argues that disease epidemics are a.critical link i.This book shows how bubonic plague and smallpox helpedend the Hittite Empire, the Bronze Age in the Near East and later theCarthaginian Empire. The book will examine all the possible infectious diseasespresent in ancient times and show that life was a daily struggle for survivaleither avoiding or fighting against these infectious disease epidemics. Thebook will argue that infectious dis

Overview: This book offers a detailed and full analysis of the strategy which enabled the Swatch Group to establish itself on the world market. In particular, it tackles the issues of production restructuring, with the opening of subsidiaries in Asia, and the implementation of a new marketing strategy, characterized by the move towards luxury.978-1-349-48222-1978-1-137-38908-4

Overview: Why does the EU deal with some issues but not others? This is the central question of this book dedicated to agenda-setting processes in the EU. Through a comparison of EU and US policy agendas and the analysis of four case studies in environmental and health policy, this book offers a new understanding of how policy issues come onto the EU agenda.978-0-230-23396-6Series ISSN 2662-5873 Series E-ISSN 2662-5881

Overview: Reviews in detail the value of SPECT-CT and PET-CT in the imaging of cardiac innervation.Details the role of imaging in a range of conditions and diseases.Includes important background on pathophysiol.This book explains in detail the potential value of the hybrid modalities, SPECT-CT and PET-CT, in the imaging of cardiac innervation in a wide range of conditions and diseases, including ischemic heart disease, diabetes mellitus, heart failure, amyloidosis, heart transplantation, and ventricular arrhythmias. Imaging of the brain-heart axis in neurodegenerative disease and stress and of

Overview: Africa is changing and it is easy to overlook how decentralization, democratization, and new forms of illiberalism have transformed federalism, political parties, and local politics. Chapters on Kenya, Nigeria, Ethiopia, and South Africa help fill an important gap in comparative institutional research about state and local politics in Africa.978-1-137-52334-1

Overview: Provides information on more than 400 plant species of Hulun Buir.Richly illustrated.Concise and easy to understand.This book includes description of main morphological characteristics of 435 species (including varieties and subspecies) belonging to 57 families and 233 genera of endemic and endangered plants of Hulun Buir Rangeland in China. A brief description of the morphological characteristics of each plant, flowering period, zoning, habitat, and the usage habits of most plants, together with 1 to 4 photographs taken in the field are provided. .This work is designed not only for

Overview: 978-94-010-4790-6978-94-011-1795-1Series ISSN 1570-5811 Series E-ISSN 2214-7977

Overview: On behalf of all of the people involved in the program selection, the program committee members as well as numerous other reviewers, we are both relieved and pleased to present you with the proceedings of the 2006 Asia-Pacific Computer Systems Architecture Conference (ACSAC 2006), which is being hosted in Shanghai on September 6–8, 2006. This is the 11th in a series of conferences, which started life in Australia, as the computer architecture component of the Australian Computer Science Week. In 1999 it ventured away from its roots for the first time, and the fourth Australasian Comp

Overview: The annual meeting of the European Tissue Culture ., Society was held at the Castle of Zinkovy in Czechoslovakia from May 7-10,1969. Included as part of this meeting was a symposium on "Aging in Cell and Tissue Culture." This volume contains the papers presented at that symposium. The use of cell and tissue culture techniques to study the mechanism of aging is not new. For example, it has long been known that age-associated changes which occur in plasma can inhibit cell proliferation in vitro; also that the time lapse prior to cell migration from ex­ planted tissue fragments increase

Overview: Contains both original research articles and well-written informative surveys.Informing the interested reader on latest developments in a number of areas within operator theory.High quality papers dueThis volume comprises the proceedings of the Conference on Operator Theory and its Applications held in Gothenburg, Sweden, April 26-29, 2011. The conference was held in honour of Professor Victor Shulman on the occasion of his 65th birthday. The papers included in the volume cover a large variety of topics, among them the theory of operator ideals, linear preservers, C*-algebras, invari

Overview: Begun as an audacious experiment, for thirty years the Hedgerow Theatre prospered as America‘s most successful repertory company. While known for its famous alumnae (Ann Harding and Richard Basehart), Hedgerow‘s legacy is a living library of over 200 productions created by Jasper Deeter‘s idealistic and determined pursuit of ‘truth and beauty.‘978-1-349-34431-4978-1-137-12185-1Series ISSN 2947-5767 Series E-ISSN 2947-5775

Overview: Fast-track conference proceedings.State-of-the-art research.Up-to-date resultsThis book constitutes the joint refereed proceedings of the 14th International Workshop on Approximation Algorithms for Combinatorial Optimization Problems, APPROX 2011, and the 15th International Workshop on Randomization and Computation, RANDOM 2011, held in Princeton, New Jersey, USA, in August 2011. The volume presents 29 revised full papers of the APPROX 2011 workshop, selected from 66 submissions, and 29 revised full papers of the RANDOM 2011 workshop, selected from 64 submissions. They were carefully

Overview: Examines the position of women in science within national and international labor markets.Surveys female participation in the fields of chemical sciences, computer science, mathematics and statistics..Many countries have implemented policies to increase the number and quality of scientific researchers as a means to foster innovation and spur economic development and progress. To that end, grounded in a view of women as a rich, yet underutilized knowledge and labor resource, a great deal of recent attention has focused on encouraging women to pursue education and careers in science —

Overview: Discusses various existing screening methods for breast cancer.Presents deep information on artificial intelligence-based screening methods.Discusses cancer treatment based on geographical differences.This book provides an introduction to next generation smart screening technology for medical image analysis that combines artificial intelligence (AI) techniques with digital screening to develop innovative methods for detecting breast cancer. The authors begin with a discussion of breast cancer, its characteristics and symptoms, and the importance of early screening.They then provide i

Overview: Sozialwissenschaftliche Studie.Includes supplementary material: .Maria Bertling untersucht die Zielgruppe der All-Age-Leser, also Erwachsene, die Kinder- und Jugendbücher lesen. Anhand einer empirischen Untersuchung, die auf dem Konstrukt der Rezeptionsmodalitäten von Monika Suckfüll aufbaut, zeigt die Autorin, dass es eine Lesegruppe erwachsener Leser gibt, die All-Age-Literatur liest und die sich von anderen Lesegruppen abgrenzt. Außerdem stellt die Arbeit heraus, dass es einen signifikanten Zusammenhang zwischen All-Age-Literatur und einem „emotionalen Zugang“ zu Literatur gibt. D

Overview: Contains enthusiastic prose and exciting and imaginative exercises that will motivate the reader.Covers the fundamental ideas, axioms, definitions, and theorems upon which real analysis is built and fLively prose and imaginative exercises draw the reader into this unique introductory real analysis textbook. Motivating the fundamental ideas and theorems that underpin real analysis with historical remarks and well-chosen quotes, the author shares his enthusiasm for the subject throughout. A student reading this book is invited not only to acquire proficiency in the fundamentals of anal

Overview: Provides excellent examples of several types of agricultural innovation in Asia.Explains different approaches to measuring agricultural innovation in production, economics, and social welfare.Covers c.This book covers the major findings of almost all types of innovation in agriculture that includes product and process innovation, marketing and organizational innovation, and extended to institutional changes and social welfare in agricultural innovation in Asia. Specially, this book provides the measuring of these types of agricultural innovation on production, economics, and social w

Overview: Presents comprehensive IoT and CPS security solutions.Covers access control approaches and architectures for smart and secure systems.Provides several use-cases studies including smart cars, farming, .This book presents cybersecurity aspects of ubiquitous and growing IoT and Cyber Physical Systems. It also introduces a range of conceptual, theoretical, and foundational access control solutions. This was developed by the authors to provide an overall broader perspective and grounded approach to solve access control problems in IoT and CPS..The authors discuss different architectures,

Overview: Based on a comparative analysis of Chinese and Americanstudents,this unique study offers insights into the contemporary viewsand valuesdeveloped in three different socio-politicalsettings-thepost-modern, industrial environment of the UnitedStates; thesocialistic environment of the People‘s Republic ofChina; and thedeveloping free market of Taiwan. Empirical datareveal previouslyuncharted dimensions of cultural similarities,differences, and theeffects of different economic and social systemson people‘sperceptions of their world and major contemporaryproblems.978-0-306-44980-2978-1-475