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The second edition of this highly successful text focuses on the major changes that have taken place in this field in recent times.

The problems of constructing covering codes and of estimating their parameters are the main concern of this book.

This book focuses on how to improve the collection, analysis and responsible use of data on global migration and international mobility.

In einer Welt, die zunehmend von digitalen Innovationen geprägt ist, gewinnen zwei Technologien besonders an Bedeutung: Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) und Künstliche Intelligenz (KI).

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

In order for wireless devices to function, the signals must be coded in standard ways so that the sender and the receiver can communicate.

The Psychology of Stalking is the first scholarly book on stalking ever published.

Systems Analysis and Modeling presents a fresh, new approach to systems analysis and modeling with a systems science flavor that stimulates systems thinking.

Quantitative methods have revolutionised the area of trading, regulation, risk management, portfolio construction, asset pricing and treasury activities, and governmental activity such as central banking.

The Haifa 2000 Workshop on "e;Inherently Parallel Algorithms for Feasibility and Optimization and their Applications"e; brought together top scientists in this area.

Leading technologists, historians, and journalists reveal the stories behind the computer coding that touches all aspects of life-for better or worseFew of us give much thought to computer code or how it comes to be.

Based on the highly successful 3-volume reference Handbook of Computer Vision and Applications, this concise edition covers in a single volume the entire spectrum of computer vision ranging form the imaging process to high-end algorithms and applications.

In life, time is money, and on the Internet, the size of data is money.

Implementing systematic diversity transformation requires embracing all aspects of diversity-gender, sexual orientation, disability, gender identification, and other salient characteristics of difference-as well as race and ethnicity.

Digital watermarking is a key ingredient to copyright protection.

'To interlace or not to interlace' is a hot issue currently.

Quantum Computation and Quantum Information (QIP) deals with the identification and use of quantum resources for information processing.

The need to understand how to design and set up an investigative experiment is nearly universal to all students in engineering, applied technology and science, as well as many of the social sciences.

Written for professionals in financial services with responsibility for IT and risk management, Dimitris Chorafas surveys the methodology required and IT systems and structures to support it according to Basel II.

Crime Laboratory Management is the first book to address the unique operational, administrative, and political issues involved in managing a forensic laboratory.

Building on the success of their previous book, White and Folkens' The Human Bone Manual is intended for use outside the laboratory and classroom, by professional forensic scientists, anthropologists and researchers.

"e;Shards"e; as Autoethnographic Performance explores the development, creation, and presentation of performed autoethnography.

"e;Shards"e; as Autoethnographic Performance explores the development, creation, and presentation of performed autoethnography.

Understanding the phenomenon of long-lasting vulnerability to addiction is essential to developing successful treatments.

Introduction to Environmental Forensics helps readers unravel the complexities of environmental pollution cases.

Forensic Investigation of Stolen-Recovered and Other Crime-Related Vehicles provides unique and detailed insights into the investigations of one of the most common crime scenes in the world.

This volume contains the proceedings of Analysis and Design of Hybrid Systems 2006: the 2nd IFAC Conference on Analysis and Design of Hybrid Systems, organized in Alghero (Italy) on June 7-9, 2006.

Trace Evidence Analysis continues and builds upon the tradition of its successful companion title Mute Witnesses (2000).

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

An experimenting society is one in which policy-relevant knowledge is created.

Forensic science laboratories' reputations have increasingly come under fire.

This handbook is written for police investigators and forensic personnel who are tasked with developing investigations that require expertise in dentistry.

Expert contributors drawn from the ranks of academia and industry have authored chapters in such areas as third-generation wireless, wireless sensor networks, RF power amplifiers, spread spectrum modulation, signal propagation, antennas, and other key subjects that engineers working in RF and wireless need to be familiar with.

A groundbreaking and comprehensive order of battle for German ground troops in WWII, from the invasion of Poland to the final defeat in Berlin.

The Consultative paper issued by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (Basel II) cites the failure of bankers to adequately stress test exposures as a major reason for bad loans.

Collaborative design in which both teachers and researchers participate can be a powerful context for capacity- and knowledge-building.

The book "e;Computational Error and Complexity in Science and Engineering pervades all the science and engineering disciplines where computation occurs.

- "e;Find it hard to extract and utilise valuable knowledge from the ever-increasing data deluge?

This unique books looks at a cost-efficient, fast and accurate means of facial reconstruction--from segmented, decomposed, or skeletal remains--using computer-graphic and computational means.

The analysis of lunar crescent visibility criterion is vital in providing a comparative insight for predicting the visibility and suitability for Hijri calendar determination.

###BOLD#TEXT[Integrating the role of culture is critical in preventing suicide]###Written by leading suicide researchersExplores suicide in different cultural contextsHighlights how to conduct culturally sensitive studiesBuilding on the seminal work of Colucci and Lester (2013), this volume examines the unique perspective of the role culture plays in suicide research and prevention.

It presented itself as a form of futurism.

A leading philosopher explains how risk-taking can help us live authentic and flourishing livesWe take risks every dayperhaps not the extreme, dangling-off-the-side-of-a-mountain kind of risks, but risks nonetheless, in decisions about careers, marriage, children, moving house, and other matters.

A leading philosopher explains how risk-taking can help us live authentic and flourishing livesWe take risks every dayperhaps not the extreme, dangling-off-the-side-of-a-mountain kind of risks, but risks nonetheless, in decisions about careers, marriage, children, moving house, and other matters.