Image Processing Using Pulse-Coupled Neural Networks

Aquatic microbial ecology and the processes of biogeochemistry are coupled and synergistic. The aim of this book is to highlight some perspectives, insights, and data in the coupled fields of aquatic

Food processing generally implies the transformation of the perishable raw food into value-added products; however, the procedures may influence food’s nutritional quality attributes, such as increase

Migration is conceived differently in Europe compared with countries like the US, Canada or Australia.International Innovation Networks and Knowledge Migration confronts traditional views on migration

Steamed Breads: Ingredients, Processing, and Quality provides an overview of all aspects of steamed bread and steamed bun technology. A valuable resource for those interested in the practical, technic

Salami: Practical Science and Processing Technology is a one of a kind reference covering all types of salami products from around the world and includes all aspects of salami, such as microbiology, f

Entrepreneurship is undoubtedly a social process and creating a firm requires both the mobilization of social networks and the use of social capital. This book addresses the gap that exists between th

In News Networks 35 scholars from 10 countries give a new account of the history of European news, emphasising its transnational character and the international transmission of forms and modes of news

The book introduces the most relevant interconnection networks, queuing strategies, and routing algorithm. It discusses their properties and how these leverage the performance of the whole interconnec

Traditional approaches to network management can't handle soaring network complexity. In the future, the best way to stay in control of your networks will be to program and automate them.Programming a

Human Fatigue Risk Management: Improving Safety in the Chemical Processing Industry will teach you everything you need to know about mitigating the risk of fatigued workers in a plant or refinery. Hum

This book presents sequential Bayesian filtering as it is used in signal processing.? In addition to covering the basic principles, the text focuses on detection.? Additionally, the book discusses Ens

Neurobiology of Epilepsy: From Genes to Networks is the latest volume in the Progress in Brain Research series that focuses on new trends and developments. This established international series examin

This brief focuses on the use of full-duplex radio in cognitive radio networks, presenting a novel spectrum sharing protocol that allows the secondary users to simultaneously sense and access the vaca

Get ready for academic and workplace success! This robust learning package integrates advanced word processing, document formatting and design, and communication skills within a single text, along wit

Originally published in 1987, this book is the result of a workshop on the processing of complex sounds held in 1986. All of the important contributions that are being made to understanding auditory p

Originally published in 1992, when connectionist natural language processing (CNLP) was a new and burgeoning research area, this book represented a timely assessment of the state of the art in the fie

This book presents and explains the methods utilized to apply techniques from big data to massive structural data sets, especially those relating to the generation and analysis of very large networks

Africa’s Media Image in the 21st Century is the first book in over twenty years to examine the international media’s coverage of Sub-Saharan Africa. It brings together leading researchers and prominen

Get ready for academic and workplace success! This comprehensive learning package integrates keyboarding, essential and advanced word processing, document formatting and design, and communication skil

Originally published in 1978 Volume 5 of this Handbook reflects a single theoretical orientation, that characterized by the term human information processing in the literature at the time, but which r

The third edition of this popular reference covers enabling technologies for building up 5G wireless networks. Due to extensive research and complexity of the incoming solutions for the next generatio

This book introduces wireless traffic steering as a paradigm to realize green communication in multi-tier heterogeneous cellular networks. By matching network resources and dynamic mobile traffic dema

This book provides an integrated picture of the fundamentals of coal processing and utilization along with clean coal technology, while highlighting the presentation of all the basic principles, theor

Agassant and the team write for engineers and technicians in various sectors of the plastic industry, such as processing, manufacture, and formulation of polymers but especially in the design of pl

Science and technology have progressed swiftly over the past two decades. The applications of wireless networks and mobile computing have grown exponentially, especially in the industrial sector. This

Peanuts: Processing Technology and Product Development provides an overall review of the latest peanut and peanut-related research development worldwide, including not only peanut production and proce

Mineral Processing Design and Operations: An Introduction, Second Edition, helps further understanding of the various methods commonly used in mineral beneficiation and concentration processes. Applic

Get ready for academic and workplace success! This robust learning package integrates keyboarding, essential word processing, document formatting basics, and communication skills within a single text,

Advanced Composite Materials for Aerospace Engineering: Processing, Properties and Applications predominately focuses on the use of advanced composite materials in aerospace engineering. It discusses

This book begins with an overview of the principles and history of polymer morphology and is divided into two parts: Principles and Methods, and Properties and Processing. The chapters in Part 1 prese

This unique text provides a comprehensive and systematic introduction to the theory and practice of mobile data networks. Covering basic design principles as well as analytical tools for network performance evaluation, and with a focus on system-level resource management, you will learn how state-of-the-art network design can enable you flexibly and efficiently to manage and trade-off various resources such as spectrum, energy, and infrastructure investments. Topics covered range from traditional elements such as medium access, cell deployment, capacity, handover, and interference management, to more recent cutting-edge topics such as heterogeneous networks, energy and cost-efficient network design, and a detailed introduction to LTE (4G). Numerous worked examples and exercises illustrate the key theoretical concepts and help you put your knowledge into practice, making this an essential resource whether you are a student, researcher, or practicing engineer.

Securing social networks and ensuring the privacy of the participants has become a crucial need. There are no books to date that address both social network analytics as well as security and privacy.

With the proliferation of social network services, more and more social users, such as individuals and organizations, are simultaneously involved in multiple social networks for various purposes. In f

Over 5,000 high-school students of different social, religious, and national backgrounds were studied to show the effects of family experience, neighborhoods, minority groups, etc. on their self-image

This book presents simple, elegant methods for dealing, both in theory and in application, with a variety of problems that have formulations in terms of flows in capacity-constrained networks. Since t

This book explores the activism promoted by organised networks of civil society actors in opening up possibilities for more democratic supranational governance. It examines the positive and negative i

An original reference applying wavelet analysis to power systems engineering‧ Introduces a modern signal processing method called wavelet analysis, and more importantly, its applications to power syst

The modern financial industry has been required to deal with large and diverse portfolios in a variety of asset classes often with limited market data available.Financial Signal Processing and Machine

This is a self-contained book on the foundations and applications of optical and microwave technologies to telecommunication networks application, with an emphasis on access, local, road, indoor and i

This article will convey why it is interesting and useful to study dynamical systems on networks, how one can go about doing so, the potential pitfalls that can arise in such studies, the cu