Cybernetics and systems theory

The advent of Hinfinity-control was a truly remarkable innovation in multivariable theory.

Apple's iPhone and iPod Touch not only feature the world's most powerful mobile operating system, they also usher in a new standard of human-computer interaction through gestural interfaces and multi-touch navigation.

This multifaceted reference work surveys the history, development, leadership, and priorities of Black Lives Matter (BLM), including the group's efforts to raise public awareness of police violence in communities of color.

"e;Systemic thinking"e; is the process of understanding how systems influence one another within a world of systems and has been defined as an approach to problem solving by viewing "e;problems"e; as parts of an overall system, rather than reacting to a specific part, outcome, or event.

An innovative exploration of China''s modern transformation through the history of homicide investigation and forensic science in Republican Beijing.

This book seeks to bridge the gap between the parlance, the models, and even the notations used by physicists and those used by mathematicians when it comes to the topic of probability and stochastic processes.

This book provides a foundational understanding of polymer dielectrics based on percolative composites.

In keeping with the spirit of the first edition, the second edition of this book displays the autopsy procedure in a step-wise, start-to-finish fashion.

Crime Scene Photography, Second Edition, offers an introduction to the basic concepts of forensic picture-taking.

This book explains the foundations of holomorphic curve theory in contact geometry.

This book highlights cutting-edge research in the field of network science, offering scientists, researchers, students and practitioners a unique update on the latest advances in theory and a multitude of applications.

Accountability of Policing provides a contemporary and wide-ranging examination of the accountability and governance of 'police' and 'policing'.

The demand for medicinal plants is increasing, and this leads to unscrupulous collection from the wild and adulteration of supplies.

The chapter on statistical-physics simulations has been enlarged, mainly by a dis- cussion of multispin coding techniques for the Ising model (bit-by-bit parallel oper- ations).

Leadership for Sergeants and Inspectors offers an easily accessible and practical guide to leadership in routine and complex situations across all areas of police work.

This book is inspired by the development of distributed model predictive control of networked systems to save computation and communication sources.

This book collects the edited and reviewed contribution presented in the 10th iTi conference in Bertinoro, covering fundamental and applied aspects in turbulence.

Tens of thousands of readers have relied on this leading text and practitioner reference--now revised and updated--to understand the issues the legal system most commonly asks mental health professionals to address.

Entropy and entropy generation play essential roles in our understanding of many diverse phenomena ranging from cosmology to biology.

This book offers a comprehensive introduction to technological advances in Internet of Vehicles (IoV), including vehicular communications, vehicular system architectures, data dissemination algorithms, resource allocation schemes, and AI-enabled applications.

This book discusses a broad range of cyber security issues, addressing global concerns regarding cyber security in the modern era.

In the last two decades, fractional (or non integer) differentiation has played a very important role in various fields such as mechanics, electricity, chemistry, biology, economics, control theory and signal and image processing.

The book provides a systematic and in-depth introduction to distributed event-triggered cooperative control for multi-agent systems from a theoretical perspective, which will be of particular interest to the readers.

An explanation of the basic principles of data This book explains the basic principles of data as building blocks of electronic evidential matter, which are used in a cyber forensics investigations.

Analysis, Control and Optimization of Complex Dynamic Systems gathers in a single volume a spectrum of complex dynamic systems related papers written by experts in their fields, and strongly representative of current research trends.

This book comprises select proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Innovative Computing which was held in Bangkok, Thailand, Jan 19-23, 2025 (IC 2025) focusing on cutting-edge research carried out in the areas of information technology, science, and engineering.

Strategic Leadership in Digital Evidence: What Executives Need to Know provides leaders with broad knowledge and understanding of practical concepts in digital evidence, along with its impact on investigations.

Shortlisted for the 2018TWS Wildlife Publication Awards in the edited book categoryDecomposition and recycling of vertebrate remains have been understudied, hampered largely due to these processes being aesthetically challenging (e.

This book shows how smart technology applications to mobile healthcare will be different in the post-pandemic era.

Nanotechnology in biology and medicine: Research advancements & future perspectives is focused to provide an interdisciplinary, integrative overview on the developments made in nanotechnology till date along with the ongoing trends and the future prospects.

This book explores the question of whether and how meme theory or "e;memetics"e; can be fruitfully utilized in evolutionary economics and proposes an approach known as "e;economemetics"e; which is a combination of meme theory and complexity theory that has the potential to combat the fragmentation of evolutionary economics while re-connecting the field with cultural evolutionary theory.

Number theory, spectral geometry, and fractal geometry are interlinked in this in-depth study of the vibrations of fractal strings, that is, one-dimensional drums with fractal boundary.

This book discusses stochastic dynamics of power systems and the related analytical methodology.

The utilization of footwear impression evidence continues to evolve with new materials, equipment and techniques, providing an increased ability to detect, record, enhance, and examine this form of evidence.

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This book is comprised of selected research articles developed from a workshop on Ergodic Theory, Probabilistic Methods and Applications, held in April 2012 at the Banff International Research Station.

Advances in Paleoimaging: Applications for Paleoanthropology, Bioarchaeology, Forensics, and Cultural Artifacts builds on the research and advances in technology since the writing of the authors' first book, Paleoimaging: Field Applications for Cultural Remains and Artifacts (ISBN: 978-1-4200-9071-0).

The Handbook of Forensic Drug Analysis is a comprehensive chemical and analytic reference for the forensic analysis of illicit drugs.

Adopting a case-based approach, Global Financial Investigations introduces the fascinating world of forensic accounting and investigating transnational financial crimes, providing an overview of core concepts and current industry trends, together with practical guidance to equip readers with the knowledge required to combat complex financial crimes.

Correctional officers face considerable stress, risk, and danger that lead to poor physical and mental health outcomes.

Convictions Without Truth sets out to determine whether and to what extent science and law may coexist in an institutional relationship that truthfully generates individualization through application of forensic testimony for charges relating to violations of criminal law.

Forensic Entomology provides undergraduates with a concise introduction to the subject.

Expanding on ideas proposed by leading thinkers throughout the history of forensic science, Principles and Practice of Criminalistics: The Profession of Forensic Science outlines a logical framework for the examination of physical evidence in a criminalistics laboratory.

Contract and procurement fraud, collusion, and corruption are worldwide problems.

This book is meant for an audience of advanced undergraduates and graduate students taking courses on the statistical mechanics approach to turbulent ?

This book deals with the theory of macroscopic systems.

This book provides a nuanced and timely contribution to the question of vulnerability in police custody.

A recent paper on subfactors of von Neumann factors has stimulated much research in von Neumann algebras.