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Book Synopsis Connections by : Professor Jean Hillier
Download or read book Connections written by Professor Jean Hillier and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2015-04-28 with total page 483 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The title - Connections - symbolises relationality, possibly the most outstanding element linking Patsy’s ideas. The book showcases the wide international influence of Patsy’s work and celebrates the whole trajectory of work to show how many of her ideas on for instance the role of theory in planning, processes of change, networking as a mode of governance, how ideas spread, and ways of thinking planning democratically were ahead of their time and are still of importance.
Book Synopsis The Sociology of Spatial Inequality by : Linda M. Lobao
Download or read book The Sociology of Spatial Inequality written by Linda M. Lobao and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2007 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Sociologists have too often discounted the role of space in inequality. This book showcases a recent generation of inquiry that attends to poverty, prosperity, and power across a range of territories and their populations within the United States, addressing spatial inequality as a thematically distinct body of work that spans sociological research traditions. The contributors' various perspectives offer an agenda for future action to bridge sociology's diverse and often narrowly focused spatial and inequality traditions.
Book Synopsis Networks and Groups by : Bhaskar Dutta
Download or read book Networks and Groups written by Bhaskar Dutta and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-09 with total page 495 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Murat Sertel asked us whether we would be interested in organizing a special issue of the Review of Economic Design on the formation of networks and groups, we were happy to accept because of the growing research on this important topic. We were also pleasantly surprised at the response to our request for submissions to the special issue, receiving a much larger number of sub missions than we had anticipated. In the end we were able to put together two special issues of insightful papers on this topic. Given the growing interest in this topic, we also decided (with encouragement from Murat) to combine the special issues in the form of a book for wider dissemination. However, once we had decided to edit the book, it was natural to move beyond the special issue to include at least some of the papers that have been influential in the literature on the formation of networks. These papers were published in other journals, and we are very grateful to the authors as well as the journals for permission to include these papers in the book.
Book Synopsis Development and Perspectives of Landscape Ecology by : O. Bastian
Download or read book Development and Perspectives of Landscape Ecology written by O. Bastian and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-14 with total page 523 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Development and status of landscape ecology - subject of this book During the last decades, landscape ecology has developed tremendously. It concerns both the theoretical basis and practical application. The roots of landscape ecology are geography and biology. The term "landscape ecology" was first coined by the German scientist Carl Troll in 1939. ünce, the devel opment center of landscape ecology was in Central Europe. Recently, also other parts of the world became powernd centers of landscape ecology, es pecially Northern America. American approaches partly differ essentially from the European, because they are focused esp. on biogeography and population dynamics. In Europe, however, the geographical roots of land scape ecology playamajor role. Landscape is defined as a complex of abiotic, biotic and human components. Mainly due to linguistic barriers, the international discussion does not take notice of approaches and experiences from non-anglophone countries in a sufficient manner. Therefore this book considers more the German and European views on landscape ecology than the books which were published before. It tries to bridge the gaps between theory and practice of landscape ecology, as well between the Ger manlEuropean and American approach es. The book gives a fundamental representation of landscape ecology, which proves to be a young, but an interesting and very important transdisci plinary science for the solution of environmental problems. Both the theo retical basis and practical application of landscape ecology are considered.
Download or read book Origination written by Andy Pike and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2015-06-02 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Origination: The Geographies of Brands and Branding offers innovative theoretical and conceptual frameworks relating to the ways that actors create meaning and value in commodity brands and branding through processes of geographical association. Provides innovative conceptualization and theorization to facilitate an understanding of the geographical dimensions of brands and branding Challenges current interpretations of brands as vehicles of homogenization in globalization Establishes the theoretical and conceptual foundations of a more geographically sensitive approach through rigorous empirical examination of the under-researched geographical differentiation of commodity brands and branding Presents innovative new research and analysis of the socio-spatial biographies of the Newcastle Brown Ale, Burberry and Apple brands Forges strong new connections between political and cultural economy approaches within geography Provides a distinctive and incisive conceptual and theoretical framework capable of engaging other branded commodities and their branding in other times and places
Book Synopsis Advanced Concepts for Intelligent Vision Systems by : Jacques Blanc-Talon
Download or read book Advanced Concepts for Intelligent Vision Systems written by Jacques Blanc-Talon and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-09-15 with total page 1246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Advanced Concepts for Intelligent Vision Systems, ACIVS 2006, held in Antwerp, Belgium in September 2006.The 45 revised full papers and 65 revised poster papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from around 242 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on noise reduction and restoration, segmentation, motion estimation and tracking, video processing and coding, camera calibration, image registration and stereo matching, biometrics and security, medical imaging, image retrieval and image understanding, as well as classification and recognition.
Book Synopsis Advanced Intelligent Computing Technology and Applications by : De-Shuang Huang
Download or read book Advanced Intelligent Computing Technology and Applications written by De-Shuang Huang and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Proceedings of the 2024 3rd International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Internet and Digital Economy (ICAID 2024) by : Anandakumar Haldorai
Download or read book Proceedings of the 2024 3rd International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Internet and Digital Economy (ICAID 2024) written by Anandakumar Haldorai and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2024 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Handbook of Policy Transfer, Diffusion and Circulation by : Osmany Porto de Oliveira
Download or read book Handbook of Policy Transfer, Diffusion and Circulation written by Osmany Porto de Oliveira and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2021-03-26 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This important Handbook brings together preeminent international scholars, sharing their comparative and international perspectives on the topic. Their original contributions cover the key issues and questions around policy transfer, diffusion and circulation research. Altogether, chapters illuminate how rich and provocative the current debate on the interpretation of how public policies travels is and the vibrancy of the area’s research within the broad planet of public policy analysis.
Book Synopsis BIM and Urban Land Administration by : Abbas Rajabifard
Download or read book BIM and Urban Land Administration written by Abbas Rajabifard and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2019-06-11 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rapid urbanization has created an unprecedented pressure on the use of land in cities around the world, resulting in physical and legal complexities. This book explains the theoretical basis and practicality of connecting urban land administration practices with the 3D digital data environment of Building Information Modelling (BIM). The main focus is to adopt a BIM-based paradigm for enhancing communication and management of complex ownership rights in multi-story buildings, which are prevalent in urban built environments. This book first elaborates on a range of data elements required for managing legal information in current land administration practices pertaining to subdivision of legal interests within multi-story building developments. It then explains how an open data model in the BIM domain – Industry Foundation Classes (IFC) – can be extended with legal data elements to lay the foundation for adopting BIM in urban land administration. The book also highlights benefits and barriers of implementing BIM-enabled urban land administration. Features Explains the theoretical basis and practicality of connecting urban land administration practices with the 3D digital data environment of BIM. Highlights the existing challenges associated with current practice of urban land administration for multi-story buildings. Introduces the potential of 3D digital environment of BIM for the purpose of mapping and registering legal interests. Describes how BIM-based data models can be extended for recording, managing, and representing legal ownership of properties over a building's lifecycle. Includes models of multi-story buildings as case studies to demonstrate the feasibility of extended BIM-based data models.
Book Synopsis Structural, Syntactic, and Statistical Pattern Recognition by : Dit-Yan Yeung
Download or read book Structural, Syntactic, and Statistical Pattern Recognition written by Dit-Yan Yeung and published by Springer. This book was released on 2006-08-09 with total page 959 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the proceedings of the 11th International Workshop on Structural and Syntactic Pattern Recognition, SSPR 2006 and the 6th International Workshop on Statistical Techniques in Pattern Recognition, SPR 2006, held in Hong Kong, August 2006 alongside the Conference on Pattern Recognition, ICPR 2006. 38 revised full papers and 61 revised poster papers are included, together with 4 invited papers covering image analysis, character recognition, bayesian networks, graph-based methods and more.
Book Synopsis Uncertainty and Context in GIScience and Geography by : Yongwan Chun
Download or read book Uncertainty and Context in GIScience and Geography written by Yongwan Chun and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-05-13 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uncertainty and context pose fundamental challenges in GIScience and geographic research. Geospatial data are imbued with errors (e.g., measurement and sampling) and various types of uncertainty that often obfuscate any understanding of the effects of contextual or environmental influences on human behaviors and experiences. These errors or uncertainties include those attributable to geospatial data measurement, model specifications, delineations of geographic context in space and time, and the use of different spatiotemporal scales and zonal schemes when analyzing the effects of environmental influences on human behaviors or experiences. In addition, emerging sources of geospatial big data – including smartphone data, data collected by GPS, and various types of wearable sensors (e.g., accelerometers and air pollutant monitors), volunteered geographic information, and/ or location- based social media data (i.e., crowd- sourced geographic information) – inevitably contain errors, and their quality cannot be fully controlled during their collection or production. Uncertainty and Context in GIScience and Geography: Challenges in the Era of Geospatial Big Data illustrates how cutting- edge research explores recent advances in this area, and will serve as a useful point of departure for GIScientists to conceive new approaches and solutions for addressing these challenges in future research. The seven core chapters in this book highlight many challenges and opportunities in confronting various issues of uncertainty and context in GIScience and geography, tackling different topics and approaches. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the International Journal of Geographical Information Science.
Book Synopsis An Introduction to Geographical and Urban Economics by : Steven Brakman
Download or read book An Introduction to Geographical and Urban Economics written by Steven Brakman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-12-12 with total page 523 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This up-to-date third edition provides an accessible introduction to urban and geographical economics using real world examples and key models.
Book Synopsis Neural Networks and Deep Learning by : Charu C. Aggarwal
Download or read book Neural Networks and Deep Learning written by Charu C. Aggarwal and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-08-25 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book covers both classical and modern models in deep learning. The primary focus is on the theory and algorithms of deep learning. The theory and algorithms of neural networks are particularly important for understanding important concepts, so that one can understand the important design concepts of neural architectures in different applications. Why do neural networks work? When do they work better than off-the-shelf machine-learning models? When is depth useful? Why is training neural networks so hard? What are the pitfalls? The book is also rich in discussing different applications in order to give the practitioner a flavor of how neural architectures are designed for different types of problems. Applications associated with many different areas like recommender systems, machine translation, image captioning, image classification, reinforcement-learning based gaming, and text analytics are covered. The chapters of this book span three categories: The basics of neural networks: Many traditional machine learning models can be understood as special cases of neural networks. An emphasis is placed in the first two chapters on understanding the relationship between traditional machine learning and neural networks. Support vector machines, linear/logistic regression, singular value decomposition, matrix factorization, and recommender systems are shown to be special cases of neural networks. These methods are studied together with recent feature engineering methods like word2vec. Fundamentals of neural networks: A detailed discussion of training and regularization is provided in Chapters 3 and 4. Chapters 5 and 6 present radial-basis function (RBF) networks and restricted Boltzmann machines. Advanced topics in neural networks: Chapters 7 and 8 discuss recurrent neural networks and convolutional neural networks. Several advanced topics like deep reinforcement learning, neural Turing machines, Kohonen self-organizing maps, and generative adversarial networks are introduced in Chapters 9 and 10. The book is written for graduate students, researchers, and practitioners. Numerous exercises are available along with a solution manual to aid in classroom teaching. Where possible, an application-centric view is highlighted in order to provide an understanding of the practical uses of each class of techniques.
Book Synopsis Attention Deficit Disorder Misdiagnosis by : Barbara C. Fisher
Download or read book Attention Deficit Disorder Misdiagnosis written by Barbara C. Fisher and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 1997-12-29 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) is one of the least understood medical conditions. With no specific test available, misdiagnosis is common and the results can be devastating for both the parents and the child. Because no one can agree on a single definition for the disorder, confusion is rampant and treatment is only mildly successful at best. Attention Deficit Disorder Misdiagnosis addresses these problems in a systematic and logical fashion. It presents a battery of tests for properly diagnosing ADD, stresses its relationship to brain behavior and proposes practical treatment solutions. Written by an expert in the field who also happens to be the mother of an ADD child, it presents a unique perspective on this complex yet all too pervasive disorder. This is an essential text for doctors, parents and any individual working with an ADD child or adult. It will also help professionals in related disciplines approach ADD as a biochemical medical disorder and understand the reasons for its inherent complexity and frequent misdiagnosis.
Book Synopsis Competence Assessment in Education by : Detlev Leutner
Download or read book Competence Assessment in Education written by Detlev Leutner and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-03-27 with total page 491 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses challenges in the theoretically and empirically adequate assessment of competencies in educational settings. It presents the scientific projects of the priority program “Competence Models for Assessing Individual Learning Outcomes and Evaluating Educational Processes,” which focused on competence assessment across disciplines in Germany. The six-year program coordinated 30 research projects involving experts from the fields of psychology, educational science, and subject-specific didactics. The main reference point for all projects is the concept of “competencies,” which are defined as “context-specific cognitive dispositions that are acquired and needed to successfully cope with certain situations or tasks in specific domains” (Koeppen et al., 2008, p. 62). The projects investigate different aspects of competence assessment: The primary focus lies on the development of cognitive models of competencies, complemented by the construction of psychometric models based on these theoretical models. In turn, the psychometric models constitute the basis for the construction of instruments for effectively measuring competencies. The assessment of competencies plays a key role in optimizing educational processes and improving the effectiveness of educational systems. This book contributes to this challenging endeavor by meeting the need for more integrative, interdisciplinary research on the structure, levels, and development of competencies.
Book Synopsis Deep Learning for Marine Science, volume II by : Haiyong Zheng
Download or read book Deep Learning for Marine Science, volume II written by Haiyong Zheng and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2024-11-07 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Research Topic is the second volume of this collection. You can find the original collection via https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/45485/deep-learning-for-marine-science Deep learning (DL) is a critical research branch in the fields of artificial intelligence and machine learning, encompassing various technologies such as convolutional neural networks (CNNs), recurrent neural networks (RNNs), Transformer networks and Diffusion models, as well as self-supervised learning (SSL) and reinforcement learning (RL). These technologies have been successfully applied to scientific research and numerous aspects of daily life. With the continuous advancements in oceanographic observation equipment and technology, there has been an explosive growth of ocean data, propelling marine science into the era of big data. As effective tools for processing and analyzing large-scale ocean data, DL techniques have great potential and broad application prospects in marine science. Applying DL to intelligent analysis and exploration of research data in marine science can provide crucial support for various domains, including meteorology and climate, environment and ecology, biology, energy, as well as physical and chemical interactions. Despite the significant progress in DL, its application to the aforementioned marine science domains is still in its early stages, necessitating the full utilization and continuous exploration of representative applications and best practices.
