Finding Landscape -- Imagining Landscape -- Drawing Landscape -- Composing Landscape -- Landscape and Matter -- Landscape and Spaces -- Landscape and Resources. .This book explores the relationship between the sciences of representation and the strategy of landscape valorisation. The topic is connected to the theme of the image of the city, which is extended to the territory scale and applied …
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…
Missing data -- Prologue -- Describing incompleteness -- Single imputation and related methods -- Multiple imputation -- Case studies -- Small-area estimation -- Models for small areas -- Using auxiliary information -- Using small-area estimators -- Case studies -- Combining estimators -- Model selection.This book develops methods for two key problems in the analysis of large-scale surveys: dea…
Analog and Mixed-Signal Systems -- Refinement of Mixed-Signal Systems: Between Heaven and Hell -- Mixed Nets, Conversion Models, and VHDL-AMS -- Monte Carlo Simulation Using VHDL-AMS -- Early Prediction of Conducted-Mode Emission of Complex Ic’s -- Practical Case Example of Inertial Mems Modeling with VHDL-AMS -- UML-Based System Specification and Design -- Metamodels and MDA Transformations …
Main Definitions and Notations -- Main Definitions and Notations -- State Inference -- Filtering and Smoothing Recursions -- Advanced Topics in Smoothing -- Applications of Smoothing -- Monte Carlo Methods -- Sequential Monte Carlo Methods -- Advanced Topics in Sequential Monte Carlo -- Analysis of Sequential Monte Carlo Methods -- Parameter Inference -- Maximum Likelihood Inference, Part I: Op…
General Principles, Theories, and Models of Pattern Formation -- and Outline -- On the Origin of Patterns -- Mathematical Modeling of Biological Pattern Formation -- Cellular Automaton Modeling -- Cellular Automata -- Applications -- Random Movement -- Growth Processes -- Adhesive Cell Interaction -- Alignment and Cellular Swarming -- Pigment Cell Pattern Formation -- Tissue and Tumor Developme…
Compression -- Recent Advances in Compression of 3D Meshes -- Shape Compression using Spherical Geometry Images -- Data Structures -- A Survey on Data Structures for Level-of-Detail Models -- An Algorithm for Decomposing Multi-dimensional Non-manifold Objects into Nearly Manifold Components -- Encoding Level-of-Detail Tetrahedral Meshes -- Multi-Scale Geographic Maps -- Modelling -- Constrained…
1.Magneto-gravity Simulation of Cone Penetration Test in Cohesionless Soil under Small Gravity Fields -- 2.The Effect of Several Parameters on the Behavior of Asphalt Mixture in Libya -- 3.Review and Analysis on Using the Analytical Approaches for Predicting the Pavement Performance -- 4.Grouting Material Development and Treatment of Water and Mud Inflow Caused by TBM Tunneling in Fault Zones -…
Introduction -- Total Subsidence Analysis -- Tectonic Subsidence Analysis -- Thermal Subsidence Analysis -- Subsidence Visualization with BasinVis 1.5.This book provides a comprehensive introduction to techniques for quantitative subsidence analysis and visualization with example applications. Subsidence analysis is an essential step to understand basin evolution through geologic time and space…
Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Location and Methods of Investigation -- Chapter 3. Research of Aerosol Optical Depth and Urban Heart Island in Lanzhou City by Means of Earth Remote Sensing -- Chapter 4. Study of Air Pollution in Lanzhou City in 2003-2012 -- Chapter 5. Level of Pollutants Concentration in the Atmosphere of Lanzho -- Chapter 6. Analysis of the Causes of Influencing Factors…