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Overview: Spans all aspects of GRC systems from legislation to concept to content to automation.Shows how to implement a GRC system in the SAP environment.Uniquely combines theoretical and practical issues.Auth.Over the last few years, financial statement scandals, cases of fraud and corruption, data protection violations, and other legal violations have led to numerous liability cases, damages claims, and losses of reputation. As a reaction to these developments, several regulations have been issued: Corporate Governance, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, IFRS, Basel II and III, Solvency II and BilMoG,

Overview: State-of-the-art research.Fast track conference proceedings.Up-to-date results in knowledge discovery and data miningThe two-volume set LNAI 7818 + LNAI 7819 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, PAKDD 2013, held in Gold Coast, Australia, in April 2013. The total of 98 papers presented in these proceedings was carefully reviewed and selected from 363 submissions. They cover the general fields of data mining and KDD extensively, including pattern mining, classification, graph mining, applications, machine learn

Overview: Der Asynchrone Transfer-Modus (ATM) bildet als schnelle Paketvermittlungstechnik die Basis für das Breitband-ISDN. Viele moderne Telekommunikationsdienste mit Daten-, Bild- und Sprachübertragung werden dadurch erst ermöglicht. Die Autoren dieses Buches legen Wert darauf, die vielen technischen Aspekte von ATM gemäß Ihrer Relevanz für Entwickler und Entscheidungsträger darzustellen. Das Auflisten von Standards wird auf das Nötigste eingeschränkt, Firmenspezifika werden vermieden. Dafür richtet sich das Hauptaugenmerk auf grundsätzliche, langfristig gültige Aussagen zu Funktionen und M

Overview: The principal objective of this book is to present the principles of the subject in a way that will be understood by undergraduate and BTEC HND students. The structure of the book is based on analysis, followed by a synthesis in which the general principles of the subject are adumbrated.978-1-349-21311-5

Overview: Discusses new technologies for transdisciplinary research involving functional materials and biomedical imaging.Presents the fundamentals of and cutting-edge advances in micro/nano imaging probes.Clea.This book highlights the latest advances in functional micro/nano imaging probes and their applications for biomedical imaging and therapy. Given the rapid emergence of transdisciplinary research and applications in materials, chemical probes and translational medicine in recent years, scientists in these areas are expected to keep up to date on the latest technologies and advances to p

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Overview: Devoted to problems of adaptation of artificial neural networks to robust fault diagnosis schemes.Details neural networks-based modelling and estimation techniques used for designing robust fault diag.The present book is devoted to problems of adaptation of artificial neural networks to robust fault diagnosis schemes. It presents neural networks-based modelling and estimation techniques used for designing robust fault diagnosis schemes for non-linear dynamic systems..A part of the book focuses on fundamental issues such as architectures of dynamic neural networks, methods for designi

Overview: Wide coverage of Statistical topics and methods.Application to real life data and problems in various fields.Guidance on how to use STATISTICA, SPSS, MATLAB and R in statistical analysis applications..Aimed at students, professionals and research workers who need to apply statistical analysis to a large variety of practical problems using SPSS, MATLAB and STATISTICA, this text provides a comprehensive coverage of the main statistical analysis topics important for practical applications such as data description, statistical inference, classification and regression, factor analysis, su

Overview: Discusses advanced research topics such as connectivity and t-norm fuzzy graphs.Includes a brief introduction to the field of fuzzy sets for newcomers.Describes interesting applications to hot real-wo.This book builds on two recently published books by the same authors on fuzzy graph theory. Continuing in their tradition, it provides readers with an extensive set of tools for applying fuzzy mathematics and graph theory to social problems such as human trafficking and illegal immigration. Further, it especially focuses on advanced concepts such as connectivity and Wiener indices in fu

Overview: This volume contains 71 revised refereed papers, including seven invited surveys, presented during the Third European Conference on Artificial Life, ECAL ‘95, held in Granada, Spain in June 1995. Originally AL was concerned with applying biologically inspired solutions to technology and with examining computational expertise in order to reproduce and understand life processes. Despite its short history, AL now is becoming a mature scientific field. The volume reports the state of the art in this exciting area of research; there are sections on foundations and epistemology, origins of

Overview: Ansichten eines Hirns ist das Resultat einer Informationsreise zu den wichtigsten europäischen Zentren der Hirnforschung. Wir konnten da­ raus die aktuellsten Perspektiven der Spezialisten in Erfahrung bringen. Es galt, die wesentlichen Erkenntnisse der Fachleute aus der Fülle ihrer Arbeiten herauszuschälen, miteinander in Beziehung zu setzen und daraus - so weit wie möglich - ein Netz von Zusammenhängen zu knüpfen. Der Kern dieser Aufgabe bestand darin, den babylonischen Sprachdschungel einander fremd geworden er Einzelwissenschaftler zu entwirren, um Ihnen den Weg zu einem künftige

Overview: Richly illustrated to add clarity to each procedure.Includes pitfalls and complications and how to avoid and treat them.Written by experts in the field.This atlas is the collaborative work of surgeons from Latin America and North America and describes techniques that can aid in the treatment of trauma patients. Trauma surgeons need to perform procedures efficiently and expeditiously for patients that are crashing. The surgeries and exposures are narrated by experts in the field, and include pitfalls and complications, as well as ways to avoid and treat them. Detailed illustrations ad

Overview: Develops alternative methods for estimating the economic costs of civil conflicts.Extends the Lotka-Volterra models to realistically represent civil conflicts.Applies the framework to the case of the .This book provides a quantitative framework for the analysis of conflict dynamics and for estimating the economic costs associated with civil wars. The author develops modified Lotka-Volterra equations to model conflict dynamics, to yield realistic representations of battle processes, and to allow us to assess prolonged conflict traps. The economic costs of civil wars are evaluated with

Overview: Highlights Thailand’s growing demand for clean energy from coal.Discusses how the government, private sector, and the public can collaborate to achieve clean and sustainable solutions to Thailand’s en.This book highlights Thailand’s growing demand for clean energy from coal. The main source of energy for electricity production in Thailand (70%) is currently natural gas. However, natural gas extraction remains limited, resulting in an increasing need to import natural gas from other countries, which in turn leads to rising prices and unstable supplies. As such, coal energy is essentia

Overview: up-to-date results.fast track conference proceedings.state-of-the art report.The five volume set CCIS 224-228 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International conference on Applied Informatics and Communication, ICAIC 2011, held in Xi‘an, China in August 2011..The 446 revised papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The papers cover a broad range of topics in computer science and interdisciplinary applications including control, hardware and software systems, neural computing, wireless networks, information systems, and image processin

Overview: This book explores how memories are used to re-establish a sense of belonging, analyzing the relationships between migrants‘ adjustment, assimilation and re-membering home. It considers memories as social expressions as well as the tensions and conflicts in representing and renegotiating memories in literature and cinema.978-1-349-35330-9978-0-230-59162-2

Overview: Contributions are original and are given by the most qualified scientists of the field.Includes the most recent advances made in the field of the plant ethylene research.Represents an essential tool fThis volume contains the main lectures and poster contributions presented at the 7th International Symposium on the Plant Hormone Ethylene held in Pisa (Italy), June 18-22, 2006. This international scientific event was organized by the University of Padova and the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna of Pisa and took place on the premises of the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna. We would like to thank t

Overview: Focuses on human adipose-derived stem cells with additional coverage of ASCs of small and large animal species.Features detailed protocols accessible to new students and indispensible to experienced rDuring the past decade, a wide range of scientific disciplines have adopted the use of adipose-derived stem/stromal cells (ASCs) as an important tool for research and discovery. In Adipose-Derived Stem Cells: Methods and Protocols, experts from the field, including members of the esteemed International Federation of Adipose Therapeutics and Science (IFATS), provide defined and establishe

Overview: Highlights the importance of AI, technology education, and computer science in achieving sustainable business goals.Discusses educational institutions and training programs‘ role in driving innovation.This book delves into the relationship between artificial intelligence, technology education, and computer science intersect with sustainable business practices. This book discovers the transformative potential of cutting-edge technologies like artificial intelligence, machine learning, and blockchain across diverse sectors such as health care, education, government services, and digita

Overview: Reports on novel systems for automatic control.Covers applications in power engineering and transportation.Describes cutting-edge intelligent control systems.This book reports on innovative research and developments in automation. Spanning a wide range of disciplines, including communication engineering, power engineering, control engineering, instrumentation, signal processing and cybersecurity, it focuses on methods and findings aimed at improving the control and monitoring of industrial and manufacturing processes as well as safety. Based on the 6th International Russian Automatio