Along with many practical applications, this book presents an array of Bayesian inference and model selection procedures. It thoroughly explains the concepts, illustrates the derivations of various Bayesian model selection criteria through examples, and provides R code for implementation. The R code is available for download on the book’s website. The text also applies Bayesian model averaging to many problems and compares the different types of simulation-based Bayesian model selection criteria, including the numerical calculation of Bayes factors, the Bayesian predictive information criterion, and the deviance information criterion.
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Statistical Theory & Methods
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Completely revised, this second edition of a bestseller includes a general treatment of multi-terminal transformers and a unified discussion of oil electrical breakdown in various geometries. It also covers the use of 3D finite element calculations in design. This book presents the theory of transformers, beginning with first principles. This way, readers can understand the fundamentals of the formulas and procedures that are later developed for use in the design process, and then adapt the results to new developments as they occur. The book also emphasizes transformer model development to aid in determining performance under a variety of conditions.
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Power Electronics
Power Engineering
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Bringing together techniques from various areas of mathematics, this book presents an introduction to the basic concepts, methods, and results of invariant descriptive set theory. It reviews classical and effective descriptive set theory; studies Polish groups and their actions; and covers Borel reducibility results on Borel, orbit, and general definable equivalence relations. The author also describes infinitary logic, Scott analysis, and the isomorphism relation on natural classes of countable models. The book concludes with applications to classification problems and many benchmark equivalence relations. It also contains a large number of exercises at the end of most sections.
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Set Theory
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Describing efficient transmission schemes for broadband wireless systems, this book examines advances in transmission techniques and receiver designs capable of supporting the emergent wireless needs for multimedia broadcast and multicast service (MBMS) requirements. It summarizes the R&D taking place in wireless communications for multimedia MBMS and addresses the means to improved spectral efficiency to allow for increased user bit rate, as well as increased capacity of the digital cellular radio network. The text highlights essential requirements for new services and supplies the understanding of the corresponding fundamentals and theory needed to fulfill such requirements.
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Digital & Wireless Communication
Telecommunications
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Exploring how to extract knowledge structures from evolving and time-changing data, this book presents a coherent overview of state-of-the-art research in learning from data streams. It covers the fundamentals that are imperative to understanding data streams and describes important applications, such as TCP/IP traffic, GPS data, sensor networks, and customer click streams. It also explores advanced areas, such as ubiquitous data stream mining; addresses several challenges of data mining in the future, when stream mining will be at the core of many applications; and includes pseudo-code of more than 30 streaming-like algorithms.
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Algorithms & Complexity
Data Preparation & Mining
Machine Learning
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Offering a review of the systematic progress of this emerging class, this work provides a broad overview of shape-memory polymers (SMP) and their composites. This text presents detailed information on the wide range of SMP applications, including aeronautics, astronautics, biomedicine, and the automobile industry. Industry experts use each chapter to discuss an important aspect of these novel smart materials, from their properties and fabrication to the actuation approaches that can be used to trigger shape recovery. This comprehensive book also covers topics such as multifunctional SMPs and their composites as well as SMP-based composite materials.
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Polymers & Plastics
Composites
Polymer Science
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An essential resource for anyone serious about detectors and electronics in the healthcare sector, this book addresses the state-of-the-art in the design of semiconductor detectors and integrated circuits in the context of medical imaging using ionizing radiation. It includes new, exciting opportunities in X-ray detection, Computer Tomography (CT), bone dosimetry, and nuclear medicine applications such as PET and SPECT. In addition to medical imaging, the book explores other applications of semiconductor radiation detection systems in areas related to security, such as luggage scanning, dirty bomb detection, and border control.
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Biomedical Engineering
Circuits & Devices
Electronics
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Helping readers avoid common mistakes and build better models, this is one of the first books to apply the popular patterns perspective to database systems and the data models that are used to design state-of-the-art, efficient database systems. Best-selling author and database expert Dr. Michael Blaha provides detailed data model patterns as a basis for expertly building data models. Since most commercial software is built around a database, he focuses on databases rather than programming. He emphasizes how database representation sets the path for the software, determines its flexibility, affects its quality, and influences whether the software succeeds or fails.
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Data Preparation & Mining
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A comprehensive collection of seminal pieces on environmental criminology, this work focuses on the role that the immediate environment plays in the occurrence of a crime. Legendary contributors demonstrate that a careful analysis of environmental factors is key to understanding the causes of crime, solving crimes, and helping to predict and prevent them. Topics covered include routine activity theory, the geometric theory of crime, the rational choice theory, and the pattern theory of crime. The book also explores concepts related to crime prevention. This volume is invaluable as a textbook and as a professional reference.
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One of the most advanced and popular numerical computer models used in the field of soil physics, the HYDRUS series is used for the analysis of water flow and solute transport in variably saturated porous media. Co-authored by the software’s creator, Dr. Jirka Simunek, this volume demonstrates two-and three- dimensional simulations and computer animations of numerical models using the software. Classroom-tested at the University of Georgia, this volume includes numerous examples and homework problems. It provides students with access to the base HYDRUS program as well as the Rosetta Database, which contains large volumes of information on the hydraulic properties of soils.
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Soil Mechanics
Condensed Matter Physics
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