Many of the commonly used methods for modeling and fitting psychophysical data are special cases of statistical procedures of great power and generality, notably the Generalized Linear Model (GLM). Th
"Are you ready to Man Up? According to national statistics, over fifty percent of you working men are unhappy in your jobs. In Star Man, author Gary Combs asks: Is it your work that really bothers you
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International Trade Subsidy Rules and Tax and Financial Export Incentives is an inquiry into the interrelations between international trade subsidy rules and the use of tax and financial export incent
Two renowned investment advisors and authors of the bestseller The Great Reckoning bring to light both currents of disaster and the potential for prosperity and renewal in the face of radical changes
This book is organized into thirteen chapters that range over the relevant approaches and tools in data integration, modeling, analysis and knowledge discovery for signaling pathways. Having in mind t
In the closing months of World War II top secret experiments in stealth were conducted at the Philadelphia Naval Yard using Einstein's Unified Field Theory. When a research vessel mysteriously disappe
In the closing months of World War II top secret experiments in stealth were conducted at the Philadelphia Naval Yard using Einstein's Unified Field Theory. When a research vessel mysteriously disappe
This brief introduces the fundamental theory and development of managing radio resources using a water-filling algorithm that can optimize system performance in wireless communication. Geometric Water
Do you always seem to wake up on the wrong side of the bed? Do your days start off bad and go downhill from there? Daily Dose of Sonshine can help focus your day on the Lord from the time you wake up,
Do you always seem to wake up on the wrong side of the bed? Do your days start off bad and go downhill from there? Daily Dose of Sonshine can help focus your day on the Lord from the time you wake up,
This book is about one woman's journey as she shares her stories through recollected adversities she faced growing up in a dysfunctional home being exposed to the street and drug life at an early age.
This book is about one woman's journey as she shares her stories through recollected adversities she faced growing up in a dysfunctional home being exposed to the street and drug life at an early age.
Churches cannot seem to agree how to get involved in socioeconomic development, a subject certainly bears examination. Using a qualitative approach, religious scholar and researcher Dr. Richard Corker
Churches cannot seem to agree how to get involved in socioeconomic development, a subject certainly bears examination. Using a qualitative approach, religious scholar and researcher Dr. Richard Corker
The molecular cascades that control craniofacial development have until recently been little understood. The paucity of data that exists has in part been due to the complexity of the head, which is a
In the decade of the 1970s, item response theory became the dominant topic for study by measurement specialists. But, the genesis of item response theory (IRT) can be traced back to the mid-thirties a
Based on 30 years of clinical and research experience, backed by a careful assessment of four decades of published data, Dr. Faguet documented inThe War on Cancer (Springer 2005), early advances in ca
The book presents a basic introduction to epidemiology from the perspective of economics, using economic modeling to better understand and describe how infectious disease spreads. Three main elements
DRUG AND ALCOHOL ADDICTIONS are among the most difficult to overcome. While there are treatments that are effective to many, not everyone experiences a positive outcome when using traditional methods.
In this book, internationally recognized experts in philosophy of science, computer science, and modeling and simulation are contributing to the discussion on how ontology, epistemology, and teleology
Bijan was born in 1961 in Tehran, Iran. Although he was a brilliant student in his early and middle school years he lost his interest in academic studies to the degree that he quit college twice and r
The R Quick Syntax Reference is a handy reference book detailing the intricacies of the R language. Not only is R a free, open-source tool, R is powerful, flexible, and has state of the art statistica
This brief provides methods for harnessing Twitter data to discover solutions to complex inquiries. The brief introduces the process of collecting data through Twitter’s APIs and offers strategies for
This SpringerBrief presents a survey of data center network designs and topologies and compares several properties in order to highlight their advantages and disadvantages. The brief also explores sev
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Data Integration in the Life Sciences, DILS 2013, held in Montreal, QC, Canada, in July 2013. The 10 revised paper
The book brings a history of a drug user, and all he made to not accept the drug when offered by his friends in the young age. But he resisted not, and the history goes through the times of suffering,
For who is this book ? This book is for all those wishing to protect their data stored in the RDBMS ORACLE. It assumes that the reader already knows the architecture of the Oracle database (9i Version
Family Drug Courts: An Innovation of Transformation offers a wealth of information about the struggles of real people who have been drawn into the court system and have lost their children due to subs
Creativity in its basic form is a "primoral reaction" associated with the "flight response" of the "instinctive response system" which is used for emergency escape or near death survival situations. T
Creativity in its basic form is a "primoral reaction" associated with the "flight response" of the "instinctive response system" which is used for emergency escape or near death survival situations. T
The growing capabilities in generating and collecting data has risen an urgent need of new techniques and tools in order to analyze, classify and summarize statistical information, as well as to disco
Agents Sydney Bristow and Marcus Dixon are hot on the trail of a drug lord who has created a mind-control drug so potent that in the wrong hands it could be one of the world's most dangerous bioweapon
This book constitutes the proceedings of the second workshop on Business Process Modeling Notation, BPMN 2010, held in Potsdam, Germany, in October 2010. The 6 research papers presented were carefully
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International Conference on Life System Modeling and Simulation, LSMS 2010, and International Conference on Intelligent Computing for Sustainable
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Intelligent Data Analysis, IDA 2010, held in Tucson, AZ, USA in May 2010. The 21 revised papers presented together
This book covers the fundamental concepts of data mining, to demonstrate the potential of gathering large sets of data, and analyzing these data sets to gain useful business understanding. The book is
In their groundbreaking book Revolutionizing Product Development, Steven C. Wheelwright and Kim B. Clark demonstrated how project leaders for product development could apply new innovations to bring p
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 10th International Symposium on Computer Music Modeling and Retrieval, CMMR 2013, held in Marseille, France, in October
Linked Open Data (LOD) is a pragmatic approach for realizing the Semantic Web vision of making the Web a global, distributed, semantics-based information system. This book presents an overview on the
