Cybernetics and systems theory

This book covers the latest advancements and applications of nonlinear dynamics in various fields of science and engineering, presenting a curated selection of peer-reviewed contributions at the 2nd International Conference on Nonlinear Dynamics and Applications (ICNDA 2024) at Sikkim Manipal Institute of Technology (SMIT).

Either/or thinking is a major stumbling block to human development and understanding.

This book is about the theory of system representations.

Practical Analysis and Reconstruction of Shooting Incidents, Second Edition presents a holistic approach to shooting incident analysis and reconstruction, covering the entire spectrum of related sub-disciplines of forensic science.

This book provides a series of systematic theoretical results and numerical solution algorithms for dynamic optimization problems of switched systems within infinite-dimensional inequality path constraints.

Physicists firmly believe that the differential equations of nature should be hyperbolic so as to exclude action at a distance; yet the equations of irreversible thermodynamics - those of Navier-Stokes and Fourier - are parabolic.

This intimate book explores the experiences of two psychoanalysts during the COVID-19 pandemic.

This book provides the foundation for a lifelong journey of ethical practice in service for individuals with autism spectrum disorder and other developmental disabilities.

Forensic Gait Analysis examines the inter-section of podiatric medicine with forensic investigation-that which links or dissociates a suspect to a crime through analysis of their gait, that is their movement-how an individual walks, runs, and bends.

Many counselors learn about ethics in graduate school by applying formal, step-by-step ethical decision-making models that require counselors to be aware of their values and refrain from imposing personal values that might harm clients.

The Equality Act 2010 in Mental Health provides a critical guide to the Act: what it means for mental health services and how it should be implemented.

AN INSIDE LOOK INTO INVESTIGATING THE MOST VIOLENT SUB-CULTURE IN THE WORLDOnce an offender is behind bars, many people believe that he is no longer a threat to society.

Philosophy in Reality offers a new vision of the relation between science and philosophy in the framework of a non-propositional logic of real processes, grounded in the physics of the real world.

Special constables are warranted officers retained within British constabularies.

7 Les Houches Number theory, or arithmetic, sometimes referred to as the queen of mathematics, is often considered as the purest branch of mathematics.

Fifteen years have elapsed after the second edition of Practical Bifurcation and Stability Analysis was published.

This book comprises select proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Innovative Computing which was held in Taichung City, Taiwan, Jan 23-26, 2024 (IC 2024) focusing on cutting-edge research carried out in the areas of information technology, science, and engineering.

Forensic psychiatrist Emanuel Tanay has testified in thousands of court cases as an expert witness, including such notorious cases as those of Jack Ruby, Sam Sheppard, and Theodore 'Ted' Bundy.

Information processing in sensor networks is a rapidly emerging area of computer science and electrical engineering research.

Reviewed and recognized as the most authoritative source in the field, this book describes the methods used worldwide to recover and identify footwear impressions from the scene of a crime.

Forensic Ecogenomics: The Application of Microbial Ecology Analyses in Forensic Contexts provides intelligence on important topics, including environmental sample provenance, how to indicate the body decomposition timeline to support postmortem interval (PMI) and postmortem submersion interval (PMSI) estimates, and how to enhance identification of clandestine and transit grave locations.

For courses in Introduction to Psychology, African American Psychology, African American Studies, Multicultural Counseling and Cross Cultural Counseling and Psychotherapy.

This book provides some recent advance in the study of stochastic nonlinear Schrodinger equations and their numerical approximations, including the well-posedness, ergodicity, symplecticity and multi-symplecticity.

The book provides easy interpretable explanations for the key technologies involved in Electric Vehicles and Hybrid Electric Vehicles.

This contributed volume presents some of the latest research related to model order reduction of complex dynamical systems with a focus on time-dependent problems.

This MATLAB exercise book accompanies the textbook Control Engineering, providing a platform for students to practice problem solving in the analysis and design of continuous and discrete control problems reflected in the main textbook.

The Law Officer's Pocket Manual is a handy, pocket-sized, spiral-bound manual that highlights basic legal rules for quick reference and offers examples showing how those rules are applied.

The Mindful Interview Method: Retrieving Cognitive Evidence provides investigators with a proven methodology to gather authentic, reliable information from eyewitnesses to help identify potential suspects.

Forensic science laboratories' reputations have increasingly come under fire.

« Depuis la nuit des temps, l’homme a rêvé de machines, écrit Jean-Paul Laumond.

This is the first book to articulate how to address interlinkages among sustainable development goals (SDGs), which are keys to implementing those goals by 2030.

The field of forensic neuropathology covers such controversial topics as the effects of repeated brain trauma in football players and how babies probably cannot die from being shaken.

H-infinity control theory deals with the minimization of the H-infinity-norm of the transfer matrix from an exogenous disturbance to a pertinent controlled output of a given plant.

Avoid Major Investigative TrapsWhat causes competent and dedicated investigators to make avoidable mistakes, jeopardizing the successful resolution of their cases?

This book presents a comprehensive set of techniques that enhance all key aspects of a modern Virtual Prototype (VP)-based design flow.

This book includes 70 selected papers from the Ninth International Conference on Fuzzy Information and Engineering (ICFIE) Satellite, which was held on December 26-30, 2018; and from the 9th International Conference on Fuzzy Information and Engineering (ICFIAE), which was held on February 13-15, 2019.

This book is motivated largely by a desire to solve shape optimization prob- lems that arise in applications, particularly in structural mechanics and in the optimal control of distributed parameter systems.

The rapidly progressing digital revolution is now touching the foundations of the governance of societal structures.

The Global Practice of Forensic Science presents histories, issues, patterns, and diversity in the applications of international forensic science.

Language plays an essential role both in creating law and in governing its implementation.

This book describes an accurate analysis technique for energy systems based on formal methods-computer-based mathematical logic techniques for the specification, validation, and verification of the systems.

Chemical Analysis of Firearms, Ammunition, and Gunshot Residue, Second Edition continues in the tradition of the popular first edition, filling the void in forensic texts on the subject.

Forensic Chemistry, Third Edition, the new edition of this ground-breaking book, continues to serve as the leading forensic chemistry text on the market.

Hybrid systems describe the interaction of software, described by finite models such as finite-state machines, with the physical world, described by infinite models such as differential equations.

The book presents selected papers from NIELIT's International Conference on Communication, Electronics and Digital Technology (NICEDT-2024) held during 16-17 February 2024 in Guwahati, India.

This book offers the first comprehensive presentation of measure-valued solutions for nonlinear deterministic and stochastic evolution equations on infinite dimensional Banach spaces.

This book deals with the science of science by applying network science methods to citation networks and uniquely presents a physics-inspired model of citation dynamics.

It is often read in the media that AI and Robotics are the primary cause of technology unemployment.