Challenges in Computer Control and Automation -- Scientific Foundations for Biomimicry -- For Further Study -- Elements of Decision Making -- Neural Network Substrates for Control Instincts -- Rule-Based Control -- Planning Systems -- Attentional Systems -- For Further Study -- Learning -- Learning and Control -- Linear Least Squares Methods -- Gradient Methods -- Adaptive Control -- For Furthe…
Introduction -- Section I: Foundations of Environmental Health Literacy -- Defining Environmental Health Literacy -- Measuring Environmental Health Literacy -- Communications Research in the Environmental Health Sciences -- Section II: Raising EHL in the Research Context among Diverse Audiences -- Engaging with Ethnically Diverse Community Groups -- Advancing Environmental Health Literacy throu…
Teaching Stephen King critically examines the works of Stephen King and several ways King can be incorporated into the high school and college classroom. The section on Variations on Horror Tropes includes chapters on the vampire, the werewolf, the undead monster, and the ghost. The section on Real Life Horror includes chapters on King's school shooting novella Rage, sexual violence, and coming…
Stochastic Fluid Models For the On-line Control of Communication Networks -- Stability Analysis of Window Flow Control -- H-infinity and LMMSE Based Capacity Predictors for Flow -- Control in Communication Networks -- Models and Methods for Analyzing Congestion Control and Active Management Schemes -- Delay Effects on the Stability of Various Fluid Models Encountered in High-speed Networks -- D…
Preface -- Introduction -- Application of Dense Offshore Tsunami Observations from Ocean Bottom Pressure Gauges (OBPGs) for Tsunami Research and Early Warnings -- Remote Sensing for Natural or Man-made Disasters and Environmental Changes -- Classification of Post-Earthquake High Resolution Images using Adaptive Dynamic Region Merging and Gravitational Self-Organizing Maps -- A Survey on the Rol…
Discrimination and Clustering -- Probability Models and Statistical Methods -- Pattern Recognition and Computational Learning -- Time Series Analysis -- Marketing, Retailing, and Marketing Research -- Finance, Capital Markets, and Risk Management -- Production, Logistics, and Controlling -- Medicine and Health Services.
Data Analysis -- Optimization in Symbolic Data Analysis: Dissimilarities, Class Centers, and Clustering -- An Efficient Branch and Bound Procedure for Restricted Principal Components Analysis -- A Tree Structured Classifier for Symbolic Class Description -- A Diversity Measure for Tree-Based Classifier Ensembles -- Repeated Confidence Intervals in Self-Organizing Studies -- Fuzzy and Crisp Maha…
Queues: The Art of Modelling -- Markov Chains and Queues in Discrete Time -- Homogeneous Markov Processes on Discrete State Spaces -- Markovian Queues in Continuous Time -- Markovian Queueing Networks -- Renewal Theory -- Markov Renewal Theory -- Semi-Markovian Queues -- Phase-Type Distributions -- Markovian Arrival Processes -- The GI/PH/1 Queue -- The BMAP/G/1 Queue -- Discrete Time Approache…
Hybrid Systems -- Polytopic Approximations of Reachable Sets Applied to Linear Dynamic Games and a Class of Nonlinear Systems -- On the Problem of Measurement Feedback Control: Ellipsoidal Techniques -- Stability of Hybrid Systems and Related Questions from Systems Biology -- System Theory and Design -- Martingale Representation and All That -- Engineering Education: A Focus on Systems -- New D…
Chapter 1 Introduction -- Chapter 2 Literature Review -- Chapter 3 Theoretical Framework and Research Methods -- Chapter 4 Heterogeneous Corporate Identities of Banks on Sina Weibo -- Chapter 5 Framing Who We Are: Impression Management Strategies of Corporate Identity Construction on the Sina Weibo -- Chapter 6 Followers' Co-Constructing Banks’ Corporate Identity on Weibo -- Chapter 7 Cross-B…