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Overview: Offers an original contribution in the field of early modern history of crime, violence and religion.Emphasizes the porous boundaries of the early modern self.Investigates the local religious contextsSuicide by Proxy became a major societal problem after 1650. Suicidal people committed capital crimes with the explicit goal of “earning” their executions, as a short-cut to their salvation. Desiring to die repentantly at the hands of divinely-instituted government, perpetrators hoped to escape eternal damnation that befell direct suicides. Kathy Stuart shows how this crime emerged as an

Overview: Presents research works in the field of soft computing and signal processing.Gather the outcomes of the ICSCSP 2022, held in Hyderabad, India.Offers a reference guide for researchers and practitionersThis book presents selected research papers on current developments in the fields of soft computing and signal processing from the Fifth International Conference on Soft Computing and Signal Processing (ICSCSP 2022). The book covers topics such as soft sets, rough sets, fuzzy logic, neural networks, genetic algorithms and machine learning and discusses various aspects of these topics, e.

Overview: Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind. Der Verlag stellt mit diesem Archiv Quellen für die historische wie auch die disziplingeschichtliche Forschung zur Verfügung, die jeweils im historischen Kontext betrachtet werden müssen. Dieser Titel erschien in der Zeit vor 1945 und wird daher in seiner zeittypischen politisch-ideologischen Ausrichtung vom Verlag nicht beworben.978-3-662-35547-3978-3-662-36376-8

Overview: .Storage Networks. will appeal to any systems administrator, architect, or manager with large data resources to manage, rather than being based on a specific vendor offering...This book stresses the application of the technology to non-traditional IT buyers such as video and music production studios and medical diagnostic imaging technicians. With the rapid adoption of digital processing for images and sound, storage networks have a great use outside of the data center. At the same time, the benefits of recoverability, performance, and manageability will benefit any storage network u

Overview: Discusses the most important political-philosophical interpretations of the basic results of social choice.Presents a philosophical view, yet also incorporates historical and empirical material.Offers.This book offers a comprehensive overview and critique of the most important political and philosophical interpretations of the basic results of social choice, assessing their plausibility and seeking to identify the links between the theory of social choice and the more traditional issues of political theory and philosophy. In this regard, the author eschews a strong methodological com

Overview: Analyses rurality and rural imagery from different perspectives.Presents empirical material collected by using different methodologies.Deals with different territorial European contexts.Shaping Rural Areas in Europe. Perceptions and Outcomes on the Present and the Future sets out to investigate the effect of urban perceptions about the rural and consequent demands on rurality on the present and future configurations of rural territories in Europe in the early twenty-first century. This volume presents and discusses a broad range of case studies and theoretical and methodological appr

Overview: 978-3-540-05370-5978-3-540-36455-9Series ISSN 0075-8434 Series E-ISSN 1617-9692

Overview: Presents the basics of monitoring procedures in clinical research with limited reliance on mathematics.Explores the background, correct use, and interpretation of these monitoring procedures at an ele.Statistical Monitoring of Clinical Trials: Fundamentals for Investigators introduces the investigator and statistician to monitoring procedures in clinical research. Clearly presenting the necessary background with limited use of mathematics, this book increases the knowledge, experience, and intuition of investigations in the use of these important procedures now required by the many c

Overview: The Seventh International Visual Field Symposium organized by the Interna­ tional Perimetric Society was held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, September 6-10,1986. In many respects it was an exciting and fruitful meeting. The number of participants was greater than ever. The number of papers was too great to accommodate all of them. The quality of the papers reflects the continuously rising interest in perimetry in general and in automated perimetry in particular. Last but not least the social programme was organized in the, by now, almost classical friendly, enjoyable and humouristic

Overview: This book provides an introduction to the rapidly developing area of speech technology. It covers the entire spectrum of the subjects, ranging from speech analysis and speech synthesis through to automatic speech recognition and speech coding. The emphasis is mainly on the signal processing aspects of speech and the treatment is primarily descriptive and illustrative, with the mathematical content being kept to a minimum.

Overview: Includes supplementary material: .Sepsis is a serious medical condition, resulting from the immune response to a severe infection. Septicaemia is sepsis of the bloodstream caused by bactemeria, which is the presence of bacteria in the bloodstream. The term septecaemia is also used to refer to sepsis in general. In the US, sepsis is the leading cause of death in non-coronary ICU patients, and the tenth most common form of death overall. Sepsis is common and also more dangerous in the elderly, immunocompromised, and critically ill patients. It occurs in 1-2% of all hospitilizations and

Overview: 978-3-531-12217-5978-3-322-87278-4

Overview: The focus of this collection is to present the systems biology of free radicals and anti-oxidants..Free radical induced cellular damage in a variety of tissues and organs are discussed by experts in t.The focus of this collection of illustrated reviews is to discuss the systems biology of free radicals and anti-oxidants. Free radical induced cellular damage in a variety of tissues and organs is reviewed, with detailed discussion of molecular and cellular mechanisms. The collection is aimed at those new to the field, as well as clinicians and scientists with long standing interests in

Overview: Presents a unique view on the origin of religion from disturbed brain function.Studies the influence of cognate neurological disorders on near-death experiences.Details how key aspects of near death e.This book proposes another unique basis for the origins of religion from disturbances in brain function. It proposes the novel idea that near-death and out-of-body experiences (ND/OBE) engendered “a sense of the divine” in ancient man..As the author points out, key aspects of ND/OBE are thematic of all later established religions. These include journeys to heaven, sightings of brightly-

Overview: 978-1-4899-6649-0978-1-4899-6647-6

Overview: Focuses on the use of artificial intelligence (AI) for socially vulnerable populations.Presents methods to evaluate socially vulnerable groups and analyze their information needs during the pandemic.PThis book provides an overview of the impact of the pandemic in China and the USA and presents a research agenda for use, access, and adoption of information and communication technologies (ICT) in the era of COVID-19.  The global COVID-19 pandemic changed lives overnight and exposed socially vulnerable populations to ever-challenging situations. One significant challenge was the use, ac

Overview: With a foreword by T.J.R. Hughes.Represents a step forward in Isogeometric Analysis and its applications.Provides a bridge between Finite Element Methods and Isogeometric Analysis.Using an elegant mixture of geometry, graph theory and linear analysis, this monograph completely solves a problem lying at the interface of Isogeometric Analysis (IgA) and Finite Element Methods (FEM). The recent explosion of IgA, strongly tying Computer Aided Geometry Design to Analysis, does not easily apply to the rich variety of complex shapes that engineers have to design and analyse. Therefore new de

Overview: Successes and Challenges of Emerging Economy Multinationals investigates a broad variety of cases presenting clear evidence of fast successful internationalization of emerging economy multinationals. This in-depth analysis leads to the indication of numerous novel directions for further theoretical expansion and new empirical research.978-1-349-47493-6978-1-137-36941-3

Overview: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Smart City and Informatization, iSCI 2019, held in Guangzhou, China, in November 2019..The volume presents 52 full papers, which were carefully reviewed and selected from 139 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on Internet of Things (IoT) and smart sensing; urban computing and big data; smart society informatization technologies; cloud/edge/fog computing for smart city; applications for smart city informatization; assistive engineering and information technology; cyberspace sec

Overview: 978-1-349-20815-9Series ISSN 2947-2830 Series E-ISSN 2947-2849