Cybernetics and systems theory

With over 50,000 iPhone apps to choose from, there's a mind-boggling number of ways to make your favorite device do just about anything you can imagine -- and almost certainly a few things you would never think of.

This book highlights important aspects of nonlinear dynamics of biophysical nanosystems, such as DNA, alpha helix, and microtubules.

With respect to the first edition as Volume 218 in the Lecture Notes in Con- trol and Information Sciences series the basic idea of the second edition has remained the same: to provide a compact presentation of some basic ideas in the classical theory of input-output and closed-loop stability, together with a choice of contributions to the recent theory of nonlinear robust and 1foo control and passivity-based control.

This book integrates research on the causes, responses and protective strategies for vicarious trauma that are recognised in a range of human services and argues their relevance to the legal profession.

This work is aimed at mathematics and engineering graduate students and researchers in the areas of optimization, dynamical systems, control sys- tems, signal processing, and linear algebra.

This book provides a summary of the research conducted at UCLA, Stanford University, and UCSD over the last ?

This monograph is intended to present the fundamentals of the theory of abstract parabolic evolution equations and to show how to apply to various nonlinear dif- sion equations and systems arising in science.

Building on Wilson's renormalization group, the authors have developed a unified approach that not only reproduces known results but also yields new results.

Collaboration in highly distributed organizations of people, robots, and autonomous systems is and must be revolutionized by engineering augmentation.

This is a book about the men and women who police contemporary South Africa.

This book covers every aspect of the informant and cooperating witness dynamic a controversial technique shrouded in secrecy and widely misunderstood.

This textbook for undergraduate and postgraduate students discusses advancements in forensic DNA analysis since early texts were published.

The increasing portrayal of forensic investigative techniques in the popular media CSI, for example, has resulted in criminals becoming "e;forensically aware"e; and more careful about leaving behind physical evidence at a crime scene.

This book serves as a comprehensive guide for legal practitioners, providing a primer on digital forensic evidence and essential technological concepts.

This book focuses on open issues of Society 5.

Forensic engineering is generally defined as the application of engineering principles and methodology to answer questions of fact that may have legal ramifications.

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In the wake of World War II, anatomist and anthropologist Mildred Trotter left the Midwest for a temporary post as the forensic anthropology expert for the Army in the Territory of Hawaii.

This compact monograph is focused on disturbance attenuation in nonsmooth dynamic systems, developing an Hinfinity approach in the nonsmooth setting.

This book includes original, peer-reviewed research papers from the 16th International Conference on Modelling, Identification and Control (ICMIC2024), held in Datong, Shanxi, China on Aug.

Forensic Taphonomy and Ecology of North American Scavengers compiles research on vertebrate scavenging behavior from numerous academic fields, including ecology and forensic anthropology.

This book offers a comprehensive and timely review of planar microwave sensors based on coupled structures.

Based on extensive analysis of real-time, authentic crisis encounters collected in the UK and US, Crisis Talk: Negotiating with Individuals in Crisis sheds light on the relatively hidden world of communication between people in crisis and the professionals whose job it is to help them.

This book demonstrates how mathematical methods and techniques can be used in synergy and create a new way of looking at complex systems.

This book provides a comprehensive platform for learning the state-of-the-art machine learning algorithms for solving several cybersecurity issues.

The threat variables associated with military ordnance are enormous, requiring the application of a structured process to identify unknown munitions.

Volume 7 of this classic collection presents a comprehensive index to the first six volumes, providing quick and easy access to the data in this exhaustive resource, and completing the set.

Minds Alive explores the enduring role and intrinsic value of libraries, archives, and public institutions in the digital age.

The morphology of spatially stuctured materials is a rapidly growing field of research at the interface of statistical physics, applied mathematics and materials science.

This book introduces several state-of-the-art VLSI implementations of artificial neural networks (ANNs).

This treatise is used by attorneys and judges throughout California as a comprehensive resource on evidentiary and constitutional issues.

This book presents the fundamental concepts of modeling and analysis of vibrations in mechanical systems with one or more degrees of freedom.

This book presents Blockchain technology and its various applications in educational environments.

The latest sixth edition of Practical Aspects of Rape Investigation is a fully updated, comprehensive volume on investigative procedures and victim-oriented case management for professionals assisting victims of rape and sexual assault.

Whether you're new to higher education, coming to legal study for the first time or just wondering what Evidence Law is all about, Beginning Evidence is the ideal introduction to help you hit the ground running.

A Guide to Cancer: Origins and Revelations unfolds the complex and fascinating topic of cancer in two ways: firstly, no specialist knowledge is assumed on the part of the reader, and secondly, despite the serious nature of the topics, the book aims to stimulate interest, provoke thought, and paradoxically entertain.

This book examines how the rapid acceleration and interconnection of globalization comes with the need for more flexible and adaptable solutions to complex problems and solutions.

This book contains all refereed papers accepted during the 14th International Conference on Complex Systems Design & Management CSD&M 2023 that took place in Beijing, People's Republic of China by the end October 2023.

This book contains all refereed papers accepted during the ninth edition of the conference that took place at the Cite Internationale Universitaire de Paris on December 18-19, 2018.

This book highlights operation principles for Air Traffic Control Automated Systems (ATCAS), new scientific directions in design and application of dispatching training simulators and parameters of ATCAS radio equipment items for aircraft positioning.

This book provides step-by-step explanations of successful implementations and practical applications of machine learning.

This book concentrates on innovations in research in the areas of Data Science, Computer Science and Computer Engineering Education, Computer and Network Security, Health Informatics and Digital Imaging, Internet of Things, Smart Cities and Smart Energy, and Quantum ComputingThe Fourth International Conference on Innovations in Computing Research (ICR’25), August 25–27, 2025, London, UK, brings together a diverse group of researchers from all over the world with the intent of fostering collaboration and dissemination of the innovations in computing technologies.

In the UK and elsewhere, restorative justice and policing are core components of a range of university programmes; however, currently no such text exists on the intersection of these two areas of study.

Philosophers of science have long used reconstructive reasoning to develop historical explanations covering the origins of natural phenomenon.

This book introduces to 1-dimensional flow arrays and bifurcations in planar polynomial systems.

The focus of this thesis are synchronization phenomena in networks and their intrinsic control through time delay, which is ubiquitous in real-world systems ranging from physics and acoustics to neuroscience and engineering.

This book is a compilation of scientific articles written by recognized researchers participating in the Fourth Conference on the Study of Complex Systems and their Applications (EDIESCA 2023), held in Monterrey, Mexico.