BOOKS with Alphabet P (Pa, Pb,Pc, Pd, Pe…... )

Overview: Proposes a multi-objective GA to efficiently manage a stock portfolio.Presents results of Evolutionary Computation applied to Computational Finance.Includes supplementary material: This work presents a new approach to portfolio composition in the stock market. It incorporates a fundamental approach using financial ratios and technical indicators with a Multi-Objective Evolutionary Algorithms to choose the portfolio composition with two objectives the return and the risk. Two different chromosomes are used for representing different investment models with real constraints equivalents

Overview: First to collect the large number of mathematical (polyhedral combinatorics) results on lotsizing and single product planning problems developed over the last twenty years.Authors are world leaders in.This textbook provides a comprehensive modeling, reformulation and optimization approach for solving production planning and related supply chain planning problems, covering topics from a basic introduction to planning systems, mixed integer programming (MIP) models and algorithms through the advanced description of mathematical results in polyhedral combinatorics required to solve thes

Overview: Complete and comprehensive overview of toxinology.Written by a very large team of experts from all around the world.Covers all areas of toxinology, including topics like bioterrorism, toxin evolution This volume, in its over two dozen chapters, constitutes an overview of the current plant toxin research. It covers from general aspects of plant toxicity to in-depth reviews of various classes of toxins, their structures, synthesis, modes of action, and upcoming uses in biotechnology. It provides an encompassing landscape of plant toxinology for both toxinologists and non-toxinologists

Overview: Brings together all the information concerning growth plate injuries into one readily accessible source.Based on the unique resources of the Mayo Clinic regarding patient follow-up.Well structured andThis book documents all the ways a growth plate can be damaged, other than fracture. This damage can be inflicted by a wide variety of insults, most of which are uncommon occurrences. They all, however, have two similar characteristics: normal roentgenographs at the time of insult and premature complete or partial arrest noted weeks, months, or years later. Because of this delay, the arr

Overview: .If we were to say Marilyn to you, what would you be thinking? Monroe? Manson?..Well, you would be thinking about the most inspired use of facial imagery. Anybody in advertising will tell you that the most effective sales tool around is the face. A face can sell you anything. Any product, any idea. And the most striking faces become icons in their own right...With Adobe Photoshop, we can see the possibilities for facial stylization explode. This book looks at how to develop an image to get it right, and how to make these mugshots genuinely memorable...Some of the most exciting design

Overview: One of the first detailed books on WPF for .NET 3.5.Goes deep into the core of the technology in 800 pages of content-rich explanation.Written by Matthew MacDonald, author of two highly successful boo.Microsoft Windows Presentation Foundation provides the foundation for building applications and high–quality user experiences in Windows Vista. WPF blends application user interface, documents, and media content to provide richer control, design, and development of the visual aspects of Windows programs...Author .Matthew MacDonald. shows you how WPF really works. His no–nonsense, practi

Overview: Provides the first comparative study on political representation in France and Germany.Mixes quantitative and qualitative methods to cover MPs‘ attitudes and activities as well as citizens‘ perpsectiv.Notwithstanding its contemporary critics, political representation remains at the core of democratic politics. Based on a comparative research project that gathered data from observations, surveys, experiments and expert interviews, this book examines the process and the quality of political representation in France and Germany from a dual perspective. First, it analyzes MPs’ behavior d

Overview: Provides the definitive 21st century toolkit to rethink redistricting from a new perspective.Approaches redistricting with a unique focus on the connections between math, political science, geography,“Why does my congressional district look like a salamander?” Politically engaged citizens have been asking this question for far too long. This volume collects perspectives from a wide cross-section of disciplines to explain what drives gerrymandering, why it can be hard to stamp out, and how we might go about fixing it. With topics ranging from the Voting Rights Act to Markov chains to

Overview: It seemed appropriate for the First International Symposium on the Psychophysiological Mechanisms of Hypnosis to be held in France, the country where hypnosis was rediscovered with the work of MESMER and where somnambulism was first described by his student, the MARQUIS DE PUYSEGUR. The classic studies of such authorities as CHARCOT, JANET, BERN­ HEIM, BINET, and FERE, as well as many lesser known French scholars, have provided many of the concepts that remain significant to this day. There have been many periods in the history of hypnosis when out­ standing members of the scientific

Overview: Project scheduling problems are, generally speaking, the problems of allocating scarce resources over time to perform a given set of activities. The resources are nothing other than the arbitrary means which activities complete for. Also the activities can have a variety of interpretations. Thus, project scheduling problems appear in a large spectrum of real-world situations, and, in consequence, they have been intensively studied for almost fourty years. Almost a decade has passed since the multi-author monograph: R. Slowinski, 1. W~glarz (eds. ), Advances in Project Scheduling, Els

Overview: Includes supplementary material: .This book constitutes the proceedings of the 18thInternational Conference on Principles and Practice of Multi-Agent Systems,PRIMA 2015, held in Bertinoro, Italy, in October 2015...The 29 full papers and 24 short papers presented in thisvolume were carefully reviewed and selected from 94 submissions. The conferencebrings together active researchers, developers and practitioners from bothacademia and industry to showcase, share and promote research in severaldomains, ranging from foundations of agent theory and engineering aspects ofagent systems, to e

Overview: For future studies of oceanic circulation it is necessary to develop the tritium measurement via 3He ingrowth into a routine procedure with a high capacity for efficient use. This paper attempts to demonstrate that this can be achieved using a commercial helium isotope mass spectrometer and special procedures for sample preparation, storage for 3He ingrowth, and 3He transfer from the ingrowth containers into the mass spectrometer. This method allows for measurement with a much higher precision and lower detection limit than is possible with counting techniques. Additionally, the para

Overview: Nominated as an outstanding Ph.D. thesis by the Chinese Academy of Sciences.Provides a precise phase diagram of BaFe2-xNixAs2 and reveals an avoided quantum critical point.Discusses the nematic spin c.This book studies the structural, magnetic and electronic properties of, as well as magnetic excitations in, high-temperature BaFe2-xNixAs2 superconductors using neutron diffraction and neutron spectroscopic methods. It describes the precise determination of the phase diagram of BaFe2-xNixAs2, which demonstrates strong magnetoelastic coupling and avoided quantum criticality driven by sh

Overview: Provides a bibliography of urban ecology of major cities in Europe.Serves as an atlas and comprehensive database for Urban Ecology researchers.Written practically for a wide readership including studeThe bibliography provides information about the presence and distribution of plants and animals in cities throughout Europe.  It will be of considerable interest to and should be used by a wide range of people including academics, researchers, librarians, school teachers, and people with a general interest in the natural history of cities. The bibliography is an important tool for the pr

Overview: Unlike the conventional research for the general theory of stability, this mono­ graph deals with problems on stability and stabilization of dynamic systems with respect not to all but just to a given part of the variables characterizing these systems. Such problems are often referred to as the problems of partial stability (stabilization). They naturally arise in applications either from the requirement of proper performance of a system or in assessing system capa­ bility. In addition, a lot of actual (or desired) phenomena can be formulated in terms of these problems and be analyze

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Overview: Includes latest developments in minimally invasive surgery (laparoscopy and transanal microsurgery).Perfect tool for surgeons in training specialising in coloproctology.Includes supplementary material.Progress in Colorectal Surgery. covers a variety of topics of current interest to the colorectal specialist. Thirteen areas are covered by internationally renowned experts and include chapters on topics such as referral guidelines for rectal bleeding, difficult intra-operative problems in pelvic surgery, advances in the medical treatment of Crohn‘s disease, adjuvant treatment for colore

Overview: Describes the new deterministic polynomial time primality test (Agrawal/Kayal/Saxena) with complete analysis in a consolidated way.Includes supplementary material: On August 6, 2002,a paper with the title “PRIMES is in P”, by M. Agrawal, N. Kayal, and N. Saxena, appeared on the website of the Indian Institute of Technology at Kanpur, India. In this paper it was shown that the “primality problem”hasa“deterministic algorithm” that runs in “polynomial time”. Finding out whether a given number n is a prime or not is a problem that was formulated in ancient times, and has caught the inter

Overview: A systematic book on the Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) propagation characterization and channel modeling.Provides key approaches for channel modeling on timespace-frequency non-stationary algorithm wi.This book focuses on the propagation characterization and channel modeling of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) communications. Currently, there are no books that cover this specific topic. The authors fill in this void by elaborating accurate yet easy-to-use UAV channel models. The authors also present such topics as propagation characteristics of  UAV communications, a time stationary reg

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