BOOKS with Alphabet F (Fa, Fb,Fc, Fd, Fe…... )

Overview: Understanding foraging strategies improves search processes.No prior knowledge of natural computing assumed.Valuable for graduate students, academics and practitioners in computer science, informatics.This book is an introduction to relevant aspects of the foraging literature for algorithmic design, and an overview of key families of optimization algorithms that stem from a foraging metaphor. The authors first offer perspectives on foraging and foraging-inspired algorithms for optimization, they then explain the techniques inspired by the behaviors of vertebrates, invertebrates, and

Overview: 100 Jahre Frick/Knöll!Seit einem Jahrhundert gibt der "Frick/Knöll" Generationen von Architekten und Bauingenieuren einen umfassenden Einblick in die Baukonstruktionslehre. Vom Fundament über den Innenausbau bis zum Dach bietet das Standardwerk kompaktes Grundwissen und berücksichtigt aktuelle Neuentwicklungen und die immer stärker anwachsende Zahl von Normen und anderen Baubestimmungen..Der „Frick/Knöll“ ist damit ein unentbehrlicher und zuverlässiger Begleiter für jeden Studierenden und Praktiker. Schwerpunkt der vollständig überarbeiteten und aktualisierten Jubiläumsausgabe ist da

Overview: This original and scholarly work uses three detailed case studies of plays – Shakespeare‘s Antony and Cleopatra , King Lear and Cymbeline – to cast light on the ways in which early modern writers used metaphor to explore how identities emerge from the interaction of competing regional and spiritual topographies.978-1-349-33277-9978-0-230-30779-7Series ISSN 2634-5919 Series E-ISSN 2634-5927

Overview: Includes cutting-edge techniques.Provides step-by-step detail essential for reproducible results.Contains key implementation advice from the expertsThis detailed volume provides a comprehensive collection of methods and protocols in food allergy and food allergens studies. The selected protocols explore the study of food allergens, from recombinant production, purification procedures, IgE and T cell epitopes characterization, to allergen structure description, cellular responses, and tolerance induction, through a variety of techniques and animal models. Written for the highly succes

Overview: This book presents the second part of a two-volume series devoted to a sys­ tematic exposition of some recent developments in the theory of discrete­ time Markov control processes (MCPs). As in the first part, hereafter re­ ferred to as "Volume I" (see Hernandez-Lerma and Lasserre [1]), interest is mainly confined to MCPs with Borel state and control spaces, and possibly unbounded costs. However, an important feature of the present volume is that it is essentially self-contained and can be read independently of Volume I. The reason for this independence is that even though both volum

Overview: Includes supplementary material: This book has evolved from a course on Mechanics of Robots that the author has thought for over a dozen years at the University of Cassino at Cassino, Italy. It is addressed mainly to graduate students in mechanical engineering although the course has also attracted students in electrical engineering. The purpose of the book consists of presenting robots and robotized systems in such a way that they can be used and designed for industrial and innovative non-industrial applications with no great efforts. The content of the book has been kept at a fairl

Overview: zur 1. Auflage In dem Vorwort zu Gottfried Kellers .. Sieben Legenden" heißt es, daß "den Gebilden das Antlitz nach einer anderen Himmelsgegend hingewendet wurde, als nach welcher sie in der überkommenen Gestalt schauen". Diesen Satz kann man auch den vorliegenden Ab­ handlungen als Leitspruch voranstellen. Seitdem der Ausspruch getan wurde, daß der Gewinn als maßstäblich für die Wdrt­ schaftlichkeit zu gelten habe, ist das Antlitz der Bilanz, wenigstens in der neueren lite­ ratur, von der überlieferten Geldseite nach der Leistungsseite gewendet worden. Es unter­ liegt keinem Zweifel

Overview: Serves as a guideline for manufacturers of cosmetic products.Includes theoretical formulation of polymers to be used in designing formulas.Contains methods for designing prescriptions based on the cheToday, young cosmetics researchers who have completed their graduate studies and have entered a cosmetics company are put through several years of training before they become qualified to design cosmetics formulations themselves. They are trained so that they can design formulas not by a process of logic but by heart, like craftsmen, chefs, or carpenters. This kind of training seems a te

Overview: Offers a practical evidence-based approach to diagnosis, treatment, and management of falls in older adults.Includes a trans-disciplinary perspective from geriatric medicine, rehabilitation and physioDespite of the enormous efforts of researchers and clinicians to understand the pathophysiology of falls in older adults and establish preventive treatments, there is still a significant gap in our understanding and treating of this challenging syndrome, particularly when we focus in cognitively impaired older adults. Falls in older adults are a very common yet complex medical event, bei

Overview: The business of freight forwarding is examined thoroughly from both a theoretical and empirical point of view in English.Current status and development of multimodal transport chains including a leg bIn this book, the business of international freight forwarding is examined from both a theoretical and empirical point of view with a special emphasis on multimodal transport chains, including sea or air transport operations. In such contexts, the freight forwarder is always considered "The Architect of Transport", but this intermediary role seems to be largely neglected in research to d

Overview: Das Fernsehen hat sich in relativ kurzer Zeit zu einem großen, vielfach verzweigten Gebiet der modernen Nachrichtentechnik entwickelt und es gibt hierüber viele Ver­ öffentlichungen und Bücher. Bei der Fülle des Materials schien es jedoch nützlich, im Sinne einer zusammenfassenden Bestandsaufnahme mit Ausblick auf die Weiter­ entwicklung ein neues Lehrbuch abzufassen, in dem die beständigen Grundlagen systematisch und konzentriert dargestellt werden. Das Buch ist als Einführung ge­ schrieben für die wachsende Zahl von Interessenten, die sich z. B. im Rahmen eines Studiums an Hoch-und

Overview: Includes supplementary material: ETAPS’99 is the second instance of the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software. ETAPS is an annual federated conference that was established in 1998 by combining a number of existing and new conferences. This year it comprises ?ve conferences (FOSSACS, FASE, ESOP, CC, TACAS), four satellite workshops (CMCS, AS, WAGA, CoFI), seven invited lectures, two invited tutorials, and six contributed tutorials. The events that comprise ETAPS address various aspects of the system - velopment process, including speci?cation, design, implement

Overview: .Les Éléments de mathématique de Nicolas Bourbaki ont pour objet une présentation rigoureuse, systématique et sans prérequis des mathématiques depuis leurs fondements....Ce Livre est le quatrième du traité ; il est consacré aux bases de l’analyse réelle. Il comprend les chapitres: 1. Dérivées; 2. Primitives et intégrales; 3. Fonctions élémentaires; 4. Équations différentielles; 5. Étude locale des fonctions; 6. Développements tayloriens généralisés. 7. Formule sommatoire d’Euler-Maclaurin; 8. La function gamma.....Il contient également des notes historiques....Ce volume est une réimp

Overview: Focuses on the three paradigms of programming: imperative, functional, and logic programming.Demonstrates not only how programming language concepts are used in language, but also how these concepts a.This clearly written textbook provides an accessible introduction to the three programming paradigms of object-oriented/imperative, functional, and logic programming. Highly interactive in style, the text encourages learning through practice, offering test exercises for each topic covered. Review questions and programming projects are also presented, to help reinforce the concepts outsi

Overview: 978-94-011-6069-8978-94-011-6067-4

Overview: Examines an old problem (over 50 years) which still lacks an explanation and has never been adequately discussed in detail before now.Provides methods for precise measurements of neutron spectra, meth.Although the fission of heavy nuclei was discovered over 75 years ago, many problems and questions still remain to be addressed and answered. The reader will be presented with an old, but persistent problem of this field: The contradiction between Prompt Fission Neutron (PFN) spectra measured with differential (microscopic) experiments and integral (macroscopic and benchmark) experiment

Overview: Provides up-to-date economic perspective.The only book to assess the how the empirical testing of financial markets has motivated research.Ideal as a graduate textbook, with examples and exercises.Als.Financial Markets Theory. presents classical asset pricing theory, a theory composed of milestones such as portfolio selection, risk aversion, fundamental asset pricing theorem, portfolio frontier, CAPM, CCAPM, APT, the Modigliani-Miller Theorem, no arbitrage/risk neutral evaluation and information in financial markets. Starting from an analysis of the empirical tests of the above theor

Overview: This book utilises the growing phenomenon of British soldier narratives from Iraq and Afghanistan to explore how British soldiers make sense of their role on these complex, multi-dimensional operations. It aims to intervene in the debates within critical feminist scholarship over whether soldiers can ever be agents of peace.978-1-349-32817-8978-1-137-31942-5Series ISSN 1759-3735 Series E-ISSN 2752-857X

Overview: 978-3-531-11103-2978-3-322-85614-2

Overview: Provides up-to-date information on national and collaborative programmes for genetic improvement of ten most important forest tree species across Europe.Illustrates the diversity of breeding strategie.Forest tree breeding has been ongoing for more than 70 years across Europe. It has successfully generated improved varieties for the major economical forest tree species. They are part of the present European forestry landscape and largely contribute to intensive wood production and other forest activities. In this book, we describe the state-of-art of breeding for the main forest tree