Multiobjective Optimization Methodology

In today’s hospitals, the gap between technology and medicine constantly needs to be bridged, both by physicians and engineers. By taking a unique clinical neuroengineering approach, From Neurology to

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Five refereed articles, a conference report, and four essays reviewing recently published books comprise this volume in the series. Scholars of economics and business examine the poor laws in 19th-cen

A comprehensive treatment of semismooth Newton methods in function spaces: from their foundations to recent progress in the field. This book is appropriate for researchers and practitioners in PDE-con

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From the perspective of mechanical design engineering, but for readers with backgrounds in biotechnology and mechanics and electronics, Mandenius and Bjorkman (engineering biology and assembly technol

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First published in 1983, this book is a review of psychiatric treatment by experts in the field from the member countries of the European Medical Research Councils, organized by the European Science Foundation. The volume starts by enumerating the various methods for evaluating psychiatric treatment or evaluating the results of treating specific syndromes, and continues with a chapter on the aims of psychiatric treatment and three on methods of classification of mental diseases. The rest of the book deals with evaluation of treatment, starting with special problems encountered in the difficult areas of evaluation of psychotherapy and social therapeutic methods. There are five chapters on various rating scales and methods and one chapter each on psychophysiological and biochemical criteria in the evaluation of treatment. The last contribution to the book is on ethical and practical problems in theraputic research.

More and more, businesses are looking at portfolios to provide the organizing structure for implementing strategy. But, as the focus widens from project to portfolio, more factors come into play, addi

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Butt (King Saud U., Riyadh, Saudi Arabia) takes a middle path between the textbooks he considers either too theoretical or too computational, seeking to exploit fully the software's symbolic, numerica

Critical Criminology of Leisure aims to play the role of an introductory essay, of a concise guide for the theoretical study and research on a social field that emerges as the point of intersection of

Written to help auditors jump start their organization's near real-time financial data monitoring and sharing capabilities, Harnessing the Power of Continuous Auditing provides step-by-step instructio

A membrane reactor is a device for simultaneously performing a reaction and a membrane-based separation in the same physical device. Therefore, the membrane not only plays the role of a separator, but

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This collection of eleven well researched articles on enhancing the efficiency and efficacy of polymerase chain reaction (PCR) processes provides information on the latest methodologies for optimizing

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Professor Pandit, working among the admirable group of philosophers at the University of Delhi, has written a fundamental criticism and a constructive re-interpretation of all that has been preserved

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Written by chemists for chemists, this is a comprehensive guide to the important radionuclides as well as techniques for their separation and analysis. It introduces readers to the important laborator

This collection of twenty-two articles on supply chain management showcases current scholarship in efficiency models in acquisition and distribution. Working from a basic premise that contemporary tre

Contributors from various business fields and from several varieties of engineering explain how to improve the movement of materials all the way from when a company first acquires them to when it stop

This two volume work examines every aspect of language change and two centuries of linguistic approaches towards understanding it. The enterprise opens with a consideration of the nature of language

Numerical solutions of electromagnetic field problems is an area of paramount interest in academia, industry and government. This book provides a compendium of solution techniques dealing with integr

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An important scholar in the history of accounting, Geoffrey Whittington's numerous articles cover a broad spectrum of the field and are both sharply insightful and extremely significant. He has made i